I actually did work on something very similar at my last job. Though its somewhat difficult to say it is prior art because the claim is worded very oddly.
I was only considering my post tax income, and only 1/6 of that (about a third of what I am paying on my debts) is going towards school. About 1/12 of my post tax income is paying my car note. The rest is going towards the credit card bills I had accrued during a period of unemployment, late and eventually unpaid paychecks and two moves to relocate for jobs.
I'll be done with my credit card debt in 5 months. If I keep paying 50% of my income into debt, I could be completely out of the hole in 4 years, provided the company I am working for now does not fold/loose its government contracts and I can convince my fiance to go for a cheap wedding.
that is debatable. But the competition is good. RISC isn't a miracle cure, but I like where ARM has been going the last few years. Hopefully the next year will see some Cortex A8 or Cortex A9 chips approach the performance of x86 chips (atom at least).
Qualcoms snapdragon is based on the Cortex A8 with a ton of custom development work, I have not really seen much in high performance Cortex A9 chips yet, but they are supposed to be on the way.
Do I "KNOW"? No I do not, no personal knowledge in this precise case. It is however practically the same problem. Someone screwed up the date format. It has been happening all over the world in a very similar way. I have heard some other cases where the issue has been tracked back to y2k hacked fixes.
I wouldn't know, but the 800 stream processor mobile card looks like it has very similar performance to the desktop 5xxx cards. Even at 75% speed, it should still be playable. Besides, DX11 is brand spanking new, I would expect some time before the drivers mature.
I generally consider that I am living within my means. But I would not by your definition. To me that means that my debts go down every month, even if my savings and investments don't increase.
I spent a lot of money on my education, after school I had to buy furniture to put in an apartment (I was actually a real cheapskate, even bought a few things at goodwill), and buy a car. I also had to deal with being layed off suddenly, and my next employer going under and unable to make the last paycheck.
I am not saving for the future any more. I am slowly saving up a few months pay for emergencies, and I am putting nearly 50% of my income towards paying down my debts. I may be wrong, but right now I get a better return on my money by not having to pay extra interest than I could get out of retirement savings.
What vast tracts of land were returned to the native american people? They currently have tiny tracts of the most desolate and inhospitable land in the US. Every time land was set aside for them in a binding treaty, that treaty was broken. I hear time and time again that in the US, treaty trumps all law, even the constitution. This is a lie, every single treaty with the native people has been broken. They were "given" (aka removed from all land that is not) all land west of the Apalacha's. That was taken and they were given all land west of the Mississippi. Then all land west of the rockies. Then a few large reservations. Then the reservations shrank. etc.
I realize I often harp on its inaccuracies, but wikipedia seems disagrees with you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark
"In the United States the only way to qualify for a federally registered trademark is to first use the trademark in commerce.[5] If trademark owners do not hold registrations for their marks in such jurisdictions, the extent to which they will be able to enforce their rights through trademark infringement proceedings will therefore be limited. In cases of dispute, this disparity of rights is often referred to as "first to file" as opposed to "first to use." Other countries such as Germany offer a limited amount of common law rights for unregistered marks where to gain protection,..."
trademarks in the US are valued by first to file, not first to use.
A trademark can be defended without registering, but in a limited manner. For full protection, you must register.
As google had registered the mark, and the estate of PKD did not, the estate has virtually no defense.
This is of course all completely irrelevant as a smart phone and a science fiction book do not compete in the same market, so any trademark of the estate of PKD is completely irrelevant.
Except that trademarks must be registered, this was not. And trademarks only apply to a particular use, a fiction book vs a smart phone are not sufficiently similar to apply.
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The response for y2k was not planned for, and it was not an over reaction.
Y2k issues were known in the 80's. Had IT been allowed to respond in a timely manner, it would have cost much less, been checked more thoroughly and finished earlier. Instead they waited until the last possible moment and poured much more money into it, hiring as many developers as possible to put in a rushed hackjob and then firing them when the hack worked instead of retaining them to vet, verify and implement permanent solutions where needed. This issue is a result of the failure to react apropriately to y2k. The rushed temporary get-it-done-yesterday hacks are starting to fail.
PV may decay less than I had heard, but its a fundamental decay to the most expensive part of the system. In a solar thermal plant, the only thing that will decay are cheap steel bearings in the turbine.
PV and the "glass" needed for the greenhouse or reflectors needed for a more traditional solar thermal plant probably have about the same survivability in the face of storms.
PV may not require moving parts, if you accept a large trade off in efficiency and thus energy density. However the arguement made was for PV's density.
I personally don't give a damn about energy density, its the cost of PV, and its inability to generate power at night that is an issue for me. This type of solar thermal can theoretically continue to generate power throughout the night because the heated air mass acts as energy storage. Traditional solar thermal concentrator plants require a heat reservoir such as molten salt or dense oil to achieve the same result, and that increases their complexity and cost in comparison. PV has no relatively cheap and easy energy storage system for keeping power up during night and overcast days, battery technology just isn't there yet, thermal storage requires inefficient electric heating and the same power system used by default in a solar reflector plant in addition to the PV, electrolysis of water is also highly inefficient.
We have plenty of desert to pave with whatever solar energy solution we need. I would personally prefer traditional solar thermal reflector plants without a little more information. I suspect they would have less of an impact on the areas environment than a 4 mile wide greenhouse will. PV may have some value, but its significantly higher cost and lack of dark sky energy generation are issues that will keep it from being viable compared to solar thermal unless some miraculous technology reduces its cost by several hundred fold.
This vs Photovoltaics: Photovoltaics cost more per kilowatt Photovoltaics decay over time, halfing their output in a few decades Photovoltaics need electronics and moving parts to keep them pointed at the sun to maintain their efficiency, requiring replacement parts and maintenance.
It may have lower density, but the initial cost and maintenance will be a fraction of what PV would be. Possibly better could be solar reflector thermal, its known to have density near PV, with low cost, though I do believe it would cost more than this.
reinvesting the the old new deal infrastructure that is currently at its end of life would be a better use of stimulus. Put all those out of work construction workers and bankers on road and bridge crews.
I had a pretty decent convertible laptop from 6 years ago with WinXP tablet. Its not a WACOM, but it works fairly well as long as you don't draw to fast with the stylus and unlike the the WACOM it is easily portable. Unfortunately, like all laptops the battery has lost its power and its cooling system has stopped working.
Edit: thankfully I previewed this, must have been a Freudian slip. I originally had "cooking" where "cooling" is.
Tablet supporting open source? Have you looked at the Touch Book by always innovating? It is a hybrid netbook/tablet with a touch screen that docks with a keyboard unit that run an angstrom linux distro. Last news I heard was they shipped a few hundred of the first release and are currently accumulating orders for a second production run.
[joke]But was the party fun enough that you need to install windows 7 as penance?[/joke]
Windows 7 isn't too bad though, especially because it was free for me (it would not be worth the $200+ price tag). I spend a little less than half my computer time in each of win7 and ubuntu at the moment.
Discreet has more practical application to designing software and understanding compilers themselves. Practical applications of graph theory apply to the design of state machines and numerous other programming topics. However, if you have the time, do both. You can never have to many maths.
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I actually did work on something very similar at my last job. Though its somewhat difficult to say it is prior art because the claim is worded very oddly.
I am sure, I just wasn't around to know about them in the 70s.
I was only considering my post tax income, and only 1/6 of that (about a third of what I am paying on my debts) is going towards school. About 1/12 of my post tax income is paying my car note. The rest is going towards the credit card bills I had accrued during a period of unemployment, late and eventually unpaid paychecks and two moves to relocate for jobs.
I'll be done with my credit card debt in 5 months. If I keep paying 50% of my income into debt, I could be completely out of the hole in 4 years, provided the company I am working for now does not fold/loose its government contracts and I can convince my fiance to go for a cheap wedding.
that is debatable. But the competition is good. RISC isn't a miracle cure, but I like where ARM has been going the last few years. Hopefully the next year will see some Cortex A8 or Cortex A9 chips approach the performance of x86 chips (atom at least).
Qualcoms snapdragon is based on the Cortex A8 with a ton of custom development work, I have not really seen much in high performance Cortex A9 chips yet, but they are supposed to be on the way.
Do I "KNOW"? No I do not, no personal knowledge in this precise case. It is however practically the same problem. Someone screwed up the date format. It has been happening all over the world in a very similar way. I have heard some other cases where the issue has been tracked back to y2k hacked fixes.
I wouldn't know, but the 800 stream processor mobile card looks like it has very similar performance to the desktop 5xxx cards. Even at 75% speed, it should still be playable. Besides, DX11 is brand spanking new, I would expect some time before the drivers mature.
At least the higher end models will. They have 800, 400 and 80 stream processors respectively.
I generally consider that I am living within my means. But I would not by your definition. To me that means that my debts go down every month, even if my savings and investments don't increase.
I spent a lot of money on my education, after school I had to buy furniture to put in an apartment (I was actually a real cheapskate, even bought a few things at goodwill), and buy a car. I also had to deal with being layed off suddenly, and my next employer going under and unable to make the last paycheck.
I am not saving for the future any more. I am slowly saving up a few months pay for emergencies, and I am putting nearly 50% of my income towards paying down my debts. I may be wrong, but right now I get a better return on my money by not having to pay extra interest than I could get out of retirement savings.
What vast tracts of land were returned to the native american people? They currently have tiny tracts of the most desolate and inhospitable land in the US. Every time land was set aside for them in a binding treaty, that treaty was broken. I hear time and time again that in the US, treaty trumps all law, even the constitution. This is a lie, every single treaty with the native people has been broken. They were "given" (aka removed from all land that is not) all land west of the Apalacha's. That was taken and they were given all land west of the Mississippi. Then all land west of the rockies. Then a few large reservations. Then the reservations shrank. etc.
I realize I often harp on its inaccuracies, but wikipedia seems disagrees with you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark
"In the United States the only way to qualify for a federally registered trademark is to first use the trademark in commerce.[5] If trademark owners do not hold registrations for their marks in such jurisdictions, the extent to which they will be able to enforce their rights through trademark infringement proceedings will therefore be limited. In cases of dispute, this disparity of rights is often referred to as "first to file" as opposed to "first to use." Other countries such as Germany offer a limited amount of common law rights for unregistered marks where to gain protection,..."
IANAL of course.
trademarks in the US are valued by first to file, not first to use.
A trademark can be defended without registering, but in a limited manner. For full protection, you must register.
As google had registered the mark, and the estate of PKD did not, the estate has virtually no defense.
This is of course all completely irrelevant as a smart phone and a science fiction book do not compete in the same market, so any trademark of the estate of PKD is completely irrelevant.
Except that trademarks must be registered, this was not.
And trademarks only apply to a particular use, a fiction book vs a smart phone are not sufficiently similar to apply.
The response for y2k was not planned for, and it was not an over reaction.
Y2k issues were known in the 80's. Had IT been allowed to respond in a timely manner, it would have cost much less, been checked more thoroughly and finished earlier. Instead they waited until the last possible moment and poured much more money into it, hiring as many developers as possible to put in a rushed hackjob and then firing them when the hack worked instead of retaining them to vet, verify and implement permanent solutions where needed. This issue is a result of the failure to react apropriately to y2k. The rushed temporary get-it-done-yesterday hacks are starting to fail.
PV may decay less than I had heard, but its a fundamental decay to the most expensive part of the system. In a solar thermal plant, the only thing that will decay are cheap steel bearings in the turbine.
PV and the "glass" needed for the greenhouse or reflectors needed for a more traditional solar thermal plant probably have about the same survivability in the face of storms.
PV may not require moving parts, if you accept a large trade off in efficiency and thus energy density. However the arguement made was for PV's density.
I personally don't give a damn about energy density, its the cost of PV, and its inability to generate power at night that is an issue for me. This type of solar thermal can theoretically continue to generate power throughout the night because the heated air mass acts as energy storage. Traditional solar thermal concentrator plants require a heat reservoir such as molten salt or dense oil to achieve the same result, and that increases their complexity and cost in comparison. PV has no relatively cheap and easy energy storage system for keeping power up during night and overcast days, battery technology just isn't there yet, thermal storage requires inefficient electric heating and the same power system used by default in a solar reflector plant in addition to the PV, electrolysis of water is also highly inefficient.
We have plenty of desert to pave with whatever solar energy solution we need. I would personally prefer traditional solar thermal reflector plants without a little more information. I suspect they would have less of an impact on the areas environment than a 4 mile wide greenhouse will. PV may have some value, but its significantly higher cost and lack of dark sky energy generation are issues that will keep it from being viable compared to solar thermal unless some miraculous technology reduces its cost by several hundred fold.
This vs Photovoltaics:
Photovoltaics cost more per kilowatt
Photovoltaics decay over time, halfing their output in a few decades
Photovoltaics need electronics and moving parts to keep them pointed at the sun to maintain their efficiency, requiring replacement parts and maintenance.
It may have lower density, but the initial cost and maintenance will be a fraction of what PV would be.
Possibly better could be solar reflector thermal, its known to have density near PV, with low cost, though I do believe it would cost more than this.
reinvesting the the old new deal infrastructure that is currently at its end of life would be a better use of stimulus. Put all those out of work construction workers and bankers on road and bridge crews.
Sounds like a pretty good use of stimulus money. To bad hookers and blow don't generate any tax revenue.
Ok? Now that I have read about it...
That sounds like a really horrible idea to me. I don't want to switch environments and loose access to data between the two parts of the machine.
snapdragon is based on arm architecture. Windows 7 will never run on it, they probably ship with windows mobile.
I had a pretty decent convertible laptop from 6 years ago with WinXP tablet. Its not a WACOM, but it works fairly well as long as you don't draw to fast with the stylus and unlike the the WACOM it is easily portable. Unfortunately, like all laptops the battery has lost its power and its cooling system has stopped working.
Edit: thankfully I previewed this, must have been a Freudian slip. I originally had "cooking" where "cooling" is.
who the hell makes a car where you can't replace the oil yourself?
Tablet supporting open source? Have you looked at the Touch Book by always innovating? It is a hybrid netbook/tablet with a touch screen that docks with a keyboard unit that run an angstrom linux distro. Last news I heard was they shipped a few hundred of the first release and are currently accumulating orders for a second production run.
I know a lot of programmers that get screwed by management, but thats a little to much to ask for.
[joke]But was the party fun enough that you need to install windows 7 as penance?[/joke]
Windows 7 isn't too bad though, especially because it was free for me (it would not be worth the $200+ price tag). I spend a little less than half my computer time in each of win7 and ubuntu at the moment.
Discreet has more practical application to designing software and understanding compilers themselves. Practical applications of graph theory apply to the design of state machines and numerous other programming topics. However, if you have the time, do both. You can never have to many maths.