I mean, what a great mind-fuck to AQ. What if they caught the guy, stuck him in a cell in a friendly country, then decided that they'd do a little psychological warfare and said this guy was a double agent all along. I mean, if there aren't any embedded agents, why not freak them out and have them wondering how many people are working for the other side?
And it seems odd that they out a double agent as intentionally one, not just some poor schmuck that got compromised.
Who you know is still far, far more important than what you know. You merely need to be basically competent (say, top 30-40%) if you have good connections. If you're smart enough to go to college, you can do well in the trades and if you have business sense to go along with that (hint: it's not taught in college), you'll be very successful.
So now, just to spite them, the Republicans are going to let it go up? I have a 9 year old, it this sounds a lot like the schoolyard stuff that went on when she was 7. I was under the impression that you had to be an adult to run for Congress. Clearly I was incorrect.
This is where the lawyers win. There will be law firms who will examine your case and, if it looks 80-90% winnable, will take it on commission - say 60% of the final award. You'll probably be on the hook for fixed percentage of the costs plus expenses in the case of a loss. The lawyers either cover their costs or win big, the little guy comes out even in the best scenario, and the megabucks write it off on the balance sheet and design around your patent.
Because she's 16 and away from home, and probably just wants to get back. Quit expecting everyone to have a vigilate chip on their shoulder.
You know, as adults, we should have already fixed this god damned problem with our government - not expect our children to have to rise up against the man for something as simple and common place as a plane flight.
Yes, but with the revelation that there are more advanced bombs being created, how do we know that your "pacemaker" isn't just a surgically implanted bomb?
I just got a vision of seventeenth century witch trials, where a woman was tied up and weighted down with a stone, then thrown in the river. If she floated, she was a witch and burned. If she sank, she was not a witch (but likely drowned by the time she was fished out).
Now we'll just send you through the scanner, and if you die, it was a real medical device. If you don't, it's a bomb, and you'll be carted off. Either way, dangerous items are prevented from being on planes!
Facebook owes you THEIR ENTIRE BUSINESS MODEL because without you and the millions of others like you they have no product, no customers, no revenue and no business. This article tangentially points that out. Facebook must constantly refresh their interface to keep the new feel that garners more people, while covetously guarding their establish base to competitors sites who would love to poach users.
You're right that it's a symbiotic system, but Facebook will discount the needs of their userbase at their own peril. Are they smart enough to recognize that? It's hard to tell.
It's all fun and games until someone needs to use a package that runs on windows only. Old stuff can probably be emulated (though I've had pretty mixed success with even simple programs in Oracle VMs), but the killers are the commercial packages which run only on windows and are absolute resource hogs. I suspect there are some in many industries, but it mine - structural engineering - AutoCAD is about the only game in town for archtiectural products, and many (if not most) of the analysis programs are Win only. All struggle to run in a native OS on the most modern hardware. Part of it is lazy-ass programming (I'm talking to you, AutoDesk), and part of it is just computational limits. If we're willing to go back to running a model and going out for a 2-3 hours lunch, or prepping models ahead of time to queue up to run after hours, it's an option, but an inefficient one.
There's also the issue of re-training. Never underestimate the inability for (or inefficiency in) people to learn a new OS paradigm. An extra £30 pales in comparison to the personnel cost of a half-day class to get everyone up to speed.
So if I promised an uneducated man $120k a year for monitoring safety on an oil rig, get him used to the lifestyle of that kind of income in Alabama. Then tell him that he needs to ignore an anomaly in a well cap - that it's probably okay anyway. Oh, and if he flags the problem, he might lose his $120k/yr. He know he'll be blackballed and and have to go back to digging ditches for $27k a year.
That well head bursts and sends millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico.
If the enticers are corporations, who's responsible for the failure?
I got the impression that the CobraNet end was fine and operational, but the head end was buggy. Once the audio hits the line out, the job is finished. He needs multiple audio feeds which can be overridden with alternate audio (?) at regular intervals (park tours are beginning at the visitors center), and an option to override with alternate audio, either pre-recorded (boat to the mainland leaves the dock at 1900 hours) or real-time (emergency everybody-run-for-your-life-the-T-Rex-is-loose), on all or a selectable number of channels simultaneously.
Form a corporation, offer the device (or have your senator ask the DOD to RFP the device or technology) and apply for the job. You'll agree on terms, they'll set you all up with TS-SCI, and you'll develop the information as a secret project.
Pretty much all of the people you are worried about acquiring this information have three characteristics which make a patent useless:
(1) They are governments who disagree with your government, and they don't give a shit about using your IP uncompensated
(2) They control the court system in their country, so when they violate your IP, they can do it with impunity
(3) They probably have a significant standing military, against which IP lawyers will do very poorly in actual combat*
As a result, you can either go for it all in government contracting or publish and likely get very little. Your area of innovation provides a fairly narrow path to fulfillment. Are you sure you aren't interested in coding social games targeted at women?
*Though if you get the chance, I would highly recommend this as a way to reduce the surplus population in the profession
It looks just like an AppleTV, but expandable. If they can figure out a cheap way to get a processor and memory on board, it would be an ideal platform for all the XBMC tinkerers out there.
I presume you haven't seen the $20 Navtec app for iOS? You can download and store all the maps you've bought (or coast-to-cost) so that no internet connx is required for use. Not only is it like having the most awesome standalone GPS in the word (a 10" one for those of us with iPads, btw), but it has lane assist, subscription content for map updates, huge POI database, Google Local search integration (for when you're on line), and a whole host of preferences. I'm pretty sure it has real-time traffic when you're in cell data range - I don't live in a big city, so traffic data isn't a feature I use.
The advantage to Apple is that their interfaces are generally very simple - and that's a good thing for a car.
A couple of years ago I got a high end head unit primarily becuase it had the best ipod interface - and I store about 90GB of my music on my iPod as my automotive jukebox. It's true that it was better than anything else out there. It's also true that it still sucks monkey balls. The unit is probably one of the best out there, and yet it has some crazy annoyances that would never fly in the iOS world (i.e. no transport functions while the mp3 cover image is loading, which takes 7-10 second, 30 second boot time, R-L are swapped for the ipod interface, DVD-R can fail/hang the system after 5-10 minutes, title scrolling takes more than second per character, intermittent reboots of system and/or ipod, inability to navigate back in ipod hierarchy if the HU is turned off, etc...)
If someone would make a weatherproof bluetooth cam and a multi-point BT cam interface, you could have backup or curb cameras in several locations and just hit the app before backing up or parking.
There's so much that could be done with the iPad; a dedicated interface with the app store would be simply awesome. Then again, an app store for the AppleTV would be awesome, but we see how dedicated Apple is to that (i.e. not at all).
Navtec via manufacturer - $1200 navigation package plus $100/yr map update for once a year data through a dealership. Navtec via iOS - $20-40 North American Maps and Google local search integration, $20/yr for subscription for quarterly map update subscription, delivered automatically.
Sorry, I'm pretty sure I know which one I'm gonna choose to have lock me in.
Auto manufacturers have very little to gain from good sound in cars, or keeping up with hot stuff in the industry. They're not organized to be able to update and upgrade on a continual basis because you need a car for transporatation, and them putting hundreds of thousands of man hours a year into an constantly updated interface will not sell you another car. In an industry where a small plastic vent costs less than a dollar to make, and retails at $40 - and it only sold at retail - a 99c app or a $20 map add on is not something they feel is valuable.
Apple, OTOH, has a huge infrastructure built up around their iOS platform. With the right tweaks, they can turn your head unit into a combination nav, music, weather, traffic and internet hub. They're learning voice control - very possibly the best interface for a single driver. And, what better way to get you to use their cloud services than to get your car to sync with your library via the cloud.
If (and I say IF) they can figure out the whole "install" part of the picture - and Apple isn't really into the soldering-irons-and-screwdrivers crowd - they could very easily wrap up a large portion of the auto market if they play their cards right.
Why set it as a multiple of profit when there are statutory amounts allowed. $250k per infringing copy. Summary judgement for $75B dollars.
When the MPAA claims they don't want that much, the judge should point to other cases, and the law as they asked for it to be implemented and say, "You should have thought about what you were doing earlier."
It's a darned shame, imho, that copyrights are not like trademarks, where abandoning enforcement can lead to invalidation of future claims.
$70k/yr CS grads don't send multi-million dollar thank you checks to the University Fund, businessmen do.
And most of the MBAs and Finance majors are doing just fine on Wall Street again. The market has almost doubled in 4 years, so big bonuses all around! The smart ones in the back room are trying to figure out how to pop this current bubble to they can take 2 quarters off without the obscene bonuses, and then have another 100% runup to skim another 10% off the top. Stability is not profitable, volatility is!
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I mean, what a great mind-fuck to AQ. What if they caught the guy, stuck him in a cell in a friendly country, then decided that they'd do a little psychological warfare and said this guy was a double agent all along. I mean, if there aren't any embedded agents, why not freak them out and have them wondering how many people are working for the other side?
And it seems odd that they out a double agent as intentionally one, not just some poor schmuck that got compromised.
Who you know is still far, far more important than what you know. You merely need to be basically competent (say, top 30-40%) if you have good connections. If you're smart enough to go to college, you can do well in the trades and if you have business sense to go along with that (hint: it's not taught in college), you'll be very successful.
So now, just to spite them, the Republicans are going to let it go up? I have a 9 year old, it this sounds a lot like the schoolyard stuff that went on when she was 7. I was under the impression that you had to be an adult to run for Congress. Clearly I was incorrect.
This is where the lawyers win. There will be law firms who will examine your case and, if it looks 80-90% winnable, will take it on commission - say 60% of the final award. You'll probably be on the hook for fixed percentage of the costs plus expenses in the case of a loss. The lawyers either cover their costs or win big, the little guy comes out even in the best scenario, and the megabucks write it off on the balance sheet and design around your patent.
Because she's 16 and away from home, and probably just wants to get back. Quit expecting everyone to have a vigilate chip on their shoulder.
You know, as adults, we should have already fixed this god damned problem with our government - not expect our children to have to rise up against the man for something as simple and common place as a plane flight.
Yeah, that will go over well at gate security.
Yes, but with the revelation that there are more advanced bombs being created, how do we know that your "pacemaker" isn't just a surgically implanted bomb?
I just got a vision of seventeenth century witch trials, where a woman was tied up and weighted down with a stone, then thrown in the river. If she floated, she was a witch and burned. If she sank, she was not a witch (but likely drowned by the time she was fished out).
Now we'll just send you through the scanner, and if you die, it was a real medical device. If you don't, it's a bomb, and you'll be carted off. Either way, dangerous items are prevented from being on planes!
Facebook owes you nothing.
And that's where you fail.
Facebook owes you THEIR ENTIRE BUSINESS MODEL because without you and the millions of others like you they have no product, no customers, no revenue and no business. This article tangentially points that out. Facebook must constantly refresh their interface to keep the new feel that garners more people, while covetously guarding their establish base to competitors sites who would love to poach users.
You're right that it's a symbiotic system, but Facebook will discount the needs of their userbase at their own peril. Are they smart enough to recognize that? It's hard to tell.
I was going to be impressed that they elect their bass players, rather than just picking them out of a bar. I wonder if they elect lead singers, too?
It's all fun and games until someone needs to use a package that runs on windows only. Old stuff can probably be emulated (though I've had pretty mixed success with even simple programs in Oracle VMs), but the killers are the commercial packages which run only on windows and are absolute resource hogs. I suspect there are some in many industries, but it mine - structural engineering - AutoCAD is about the only game in town for archtiectural products, and many (if not most) of the analysis programs are Win only. All struggle to run in a native OS on the most modern hardware. Part of it is lazy-ass programming (I'm talking to you, AutoDesk), and part of it is just computational limits. If we're willing to go back to running a model and going out for a 2-3 hours lunch, or prepping models ahead of time to queue up to run after hours, it's an option, but an inefficient one.
There's also the issue of re-training. Never underestimate the inability for (or inefficiency in) people to learn a new OS paradigm. An extra £30 pales in comparison to the personnel cost of a half-day class to get everyone up to speed.
I thought that's what the tag system was for.
I think you've got "Profit" listed about 8 steps late on that list. Everyone knows that profit comes first in the Republican world order.
So if I promised an uneducated man $120k a year for monitoring safety on an oil rig, get him used to the lifestyle of that kind of income in Alabama. Then tell him that he needs to ignore an anomaly in a well cap - that it's probably okay anyway. Oh, and if he flags the problem, he might lose his $120k/yr. He know he'll be blackballed and and have to go back to digging ditches for $27k a year.
That well head bursts and sends millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico.
If the enticers are corporations, who's responsible for the failure?
I got the impression that the CobraNet end was fine and operational, but the head end was buggy. Once the audio hits the line out, the job is finished. He needs multiple audio feeds which can be overridden with alternate audio (?) at regular intervals (park tours are beginning at the visitors center), and an option to override with alternate audio, either pre-recorded (boat to the mainland leaves the dock at 1900 hours) or real-time (emergency everybody-run-for-your-life-the-T-Rex-is-loose), on all or a selectable number of channels simultaneously.
Sounds like a real programming job!
Form a corporation, offer the device (or have your senator ask the DOD to RFP the device or technology) and apply for the job. You'll agree on terms, they'll set you all up with TS-SCI, and you'll develop the information as a secret project.
Pretty much all of the people you are worried about acquiring this information have three characteristics which make a patent useless:
(1) They are governments who disagree with your government, and they don't give a shit about using your IP uncompensated
(2) They control the court system in their country, so when they violate your IP, they can do it with impunity
(3) They probably have a significant standing military, against which IP lawyers will do very poorly in actual combat*
As a result, you can either go for it all in government contracting or publish and likely get very little. Your area of innovation provides a fairly narrow path to fulfillment. Are you sure you aren't interested in coding social games targeted at women?
*Though if you get the chance, I would highly recommend this as a way to reduce the surplus population in the profession
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
It looks just like an AppleTV, but expandable. If they can figure out a cheap way to get a processor and memory on board, it would be an ideal platform for all the XBMC tinkerers out there.
I presume you haven't seen the $20 Navtec app for iOS? You can download and store all the maps you've bought (or coast-to-cost) so that no internet connx is required for use. Not only is it like having the most awesome standalone GPS in the word (a 10" one for those of us with iPads, btw), but it has lane assist, subscription content for map updates, huge POI database, Google Local search integration (for when you're on line), and a whole host of preferences. I'm pretty sure it has real-time traffic when you're in cell data range - I don't live in a big city, so traffic data isn't a feature I use.
The advantage to Apple is that their interfaces are generally very simple - and that's a good thing for a car.
A couple of years ago I got a high end head unit primarily becuase it had the best ipod interface - and I store about 90GB of my music on my iPod as my automotive jukebox. It's true that it was better than anything else out there. It's also true that it still sucks monkey balls. The unit is probably one of the best out there, and yet it has some crazy annoyances that would never fly in the iOS world (i.e. no transport functions while the mp3 cover image is loading, which takes 7-10 second, 30 second boot time, R-L are swapped for the ipod interface, DVD-R can fail/hang the system after 5-10 minutes, title scrolling takes more than second per character, intermittent reboots of system and/or ipod, inability to navigate back in ipod hierarchy if the HU is turned off, etc...)
If someone would make a weatherproof bluetooth cam and a multi-point BT cam interface, you could have backup or curb cameras in several locations and just hit the app before backing up or parking.
There's so much that could be done with the iPad; a dedicated interface with the app store would be simply awesome. Then again, an app store for the AppleTV would be awesome, but we see how dedicated Apple is to that (i.e. not at all).
Navtec via manufacturer - $1200 navigation package plus $100/yr map update for once a year data through a dealership.
Navtec via iOS - $20-40 North American Maps and Google local search integration, $20/yr for subscription for quarterly map update subscription, delivered automatically.
Sorry, I'm pretty sure I know which one I'm gonna choose to have lock me in.
Auto manufacturers have very little to gain from good sound in cars, or keeping up with hot stuff in the industry. They're not organized to be able to update and upgrade on a continual basis because you need a car for transporatation, and them putting hundreds of thousands of man hours a year into an constantly updated interface will not sell you another car. In an industry where a small plastic vent costs less than a dollar to make, and retails at $40 - and it only sold at retail - a 99c app or a $20 map add on is not something they feel is valuable.
Apple, OTOH, has a huge infrastructure built up around their iOS platform. With the right tweaks, they can turn your head unit into a combination nav, music, weather, traffic and internet hub. They're learning voice control - very possibly the best interface for a single driver. And, what better way to get you to use their cloud services than to get your car to sync with your library via the cloud.
If (and I say IF) they can figure out the whole "install" part of the picture - and Apple isn't really into the soldering-irons-and-screwdrivers crowd - they could very easily wrap up a large portion of the auto market if they play their cards right.
Why set it as a multiple of profit when there are statutory amounts allowed. $250k per infringing copy. Summary judgement for $75B dollars.
When the MPAA claims they don't want that much, the judge should point to other cases, and the law as they asked for it to be implemented and say, "You should have thought about what you were doing earlier."
It's a darned shame, imho, that copyrights are not like trademarks, where abandoning enforcement can lead to invalidation of future claims.
In 6 months, the free version will become a viewer.
$70k/yr CS grads don't send multi-million dollar thank you checks to the University Fund, businessmen do.
And most of the MBAs and Finance majors are doing just fine on Wall Street again. The market has almost doubled in 4 years, so big bonuses all around! The smart ones in the back room are trying to figure out how to pop this current bubble to they can take 2 quarters off without the obscene bonuses, and then have another 100% runup to skim another 10% off the top. Stability is not profitable, volatility is!
Not sure there's much else to say about it, really.
I hate when articles can't use standard units. Are petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes not really usable yet?