What's great about this patent is not the time dependent transparance. Heck, I wrote a little command shell that fades with time. Its that the window becomes opaque when the underlying information changes. That seems quite useful, and I don't remember seeing that used anywhere.
Considered. Also consider that removing the current administration from office actually may have better results
Maybe, but I have no way of knowing whether Kerry would make things better or worse. However, looking at what happened in Somolia, and much earlier, Vietnam, I don't like the idea of switching administrations, Democratic or Republican, in the middle of a war.
I think you are a idiot. I guess being in Mensa doesn't prevent one from being called an idiot.
I'd rather have the foreign terrorists, thanks.
This is the type of thing I really don't agree with. Terrorists CAUSE tyranny. They don't observe any sort of constitution. They're the enemy, not Bush, Ashcroft, or the Patriot act. If in your train of thought, you conclude that the Constitution prevents us from making laws to protect ourselves from terrorism, can you say that something is wrong with that?
I know I'll be modded down for representing an opposing view... The Patriot act is about PROTECTING ourselves from terrorists. We need it to give us a sliver of hope of finding and apprehending those in this country before they do their thing. We can't catch then after they do their crimes; we have to catch them BEFORE that. It was made IN RESPONSE to the 9/11 attacks. Are you willing to allow that to be repeated? If you don't want to come across as just another left-wing zealot (most of these anti-Patriot act posts come across as exercises in zealotry), please consider the purpose of the Patriot act.
I think the obvious prior art would something like the buttons on a remote control. As an example, take the Squeezebox. The longer you hold down an arrow button, the faster it scrolls through the list.
This article describes the patent as being something very general, when it is really fairly specific. Be sure to carefully read the claims. It doesn't simply patent "having the action of a button determined by how long the button was pressed." It specifies distinct patterns that the user must take, and the applications that are opened aftet each of those steps. This wouldn't apply to mouse clicks, or any sort of remote control device.
Most scientist are atheists and choose that because its the intellectual thing to do. Most try to prove there is no God. It's funny that people don't understand how people can believe stuff in the Bible but they have no trouble believing in theories in a textbook that can't be proven either.
So, you're saying that science and faith contradict each other. Don't creationists believe the same thing? You're helping them!
Much of my family are Catholics, and they could out reason, out free think, and out qualify you any day of the week.
What's your real agenda in saying such a thing pipsqueak?
You took my comment the wrong way. Gosh, I defend Catholicism sometimes before others, even though I'm a Lutheran. The previous poster seemed to reject any concept of leadership or authority, so I expressed a foregone conclusion that he doesn't believe in papal infalliability.
Come on guys, stop looking for what Linus has to say to make up your mind, it's ridiculous. Although I think he is right most of the time, many Linux users and developers seem to take his word for some Sacred Truth and that's annoying ! Striving for an alternative OS while letting yourselves be sheparded by some high-tech guru is quite paradoxal...
The APIs are fairly basic, but there is a lot of theory behind 3d rendering, and that definitely takes time to learn and master. Look at any book on 3d grapics in a bookstore, and you'll see. Without a firm knowledge of the theory, its difficult to use that APIs to make something substantial. I suggest you start learning that asap.
I'm probably not alone in this but the "peeing calvin" stuff is quite an annoyance to most people who have read and enjoyed watterson's work.
I'm in absolute agreement with you there. The "peeing calvin" shows him as a juvenile delinquent, rather than the hyperactive genius of the comic strip.
That's cause the iPod is just a sign for the average person to consume. They have it and for them it signifies: "Hey, look I'm hip."
I agree that much of the iPod's value is in it being a sign. However, its not all in that. Its portability, durability, aesthetics, and its seamless integration with iTunes count for something. It may not be a bargain, but it is still useful.
someday, once the break-even point is reached, and fusion reactors get built, no major h-bomb type accident occurs, turning people away from this energy source, the way 3-Mile Island did for nuclear fission.
Ah Slashdot: Defend patents without stating evidence: Get flamed. Be against patents without stating evidence: +5 insightful. Seeing this post get modded -1 flamebait (and I'll even post logged in w/karma bonus for max effect): Priceless.
There are things money can buy. For everything else, there's Slashdot.
Let's set the hyperbole aside for a minute. I'd be willing to bet that our response to 9/11 would have been identical if Gore'd been President I don't think that its a hyperbole to say that the Taliban would still be in power in Afganistan if Gore were president. I'm sure that some limited military actions would have taken place against Al Queda (i.e. bombing), but I doubt he would have decided to overthrow the Taliban to reach Al Queda. That doesn't seem to fit the mind-set of the Democrats...
There might still have been something *like* the PATRIOT act, although it would probably be less extreme. Yes, I think that there would be something like the Patriot act, but I think it would have actually curtailed the freedom of average citizens and the general public, rather than terror suspects.
We wouldn't be in Iraq, and as a result, we might actually have a stronger presence in Afghanistan at this stage.
I absolutely cannot believe that there would be more soldiers on the ground in Afganistan today if Gore was president, even without the war in Iraq. His focus would have been limited to Al Queda.
Lacking the push to war in Iraq, we wouldn't have pissed the entire world off, and we'd likely be in a better position in the "War on Terror" because of this.I can't deny that some countries (i.e. France and Germany) have had their feelings hurt but they're not seriously angry with America, no more that America is angry with them. They are pissed at George Bush, but who cares?
Also, I doubt there would be a "War on Terror" if Al Gore was president. Would he have really included groups like Hamas and Hezbollah in this?
I think that the fact that you were modded up so high reflects on the character of the Slashdot; a forum dominated by liberals. Every voice expressing a different opinion gets modded down. I'm nearly ready to quit reading it because of this.
I can't see how you can look at Bush and Gore and say there's no difference. For starters, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be in Iraq if Gore were President
To add to that, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't even be in Afganistan if Gore were president. Al Queda would still be operating under the protection of the Taliban. Airline security still would have changed, but nothing else would have.
Capitalism is inherently about competition, and in competition, sombody ultimately looses. The only way to fix that is to devise a system where everyone wins
The problem is, if that system designed to make everyone win fails, everyone looses, due to someone else's mistake.
I'm about to go onto college. I planned on majoring in CompSci, but I don't want to move aboard to get a job.
Are Electrical Engineers having any similar problems with jobs being outsourced?
Yes, outsourcing is very common with the design jobs that electical engineers do. Don't worry about it though, because as long as you do work that is a little bit off the beaten path, your job probably won't be outsourced.
However, Intel rates their chips by clockspeed, and with the less-efficient pipeline, a 3 GHz P4 is not three times as fast as a 1GHz P3
I don't have hard data on this, but doesn't the impact of the pipeline depend on how the software it runs is compiled? If the object code is compiled to reduce branches, the longer pipeline should drastically speed up processing. That would theoretically make a 3GHz P4 MORE than three times as fast as a 1GHz P3.
Lack of games. The odd FPS game crops up, but dual booting isnt an option for mot point and click users
This is a chicken-and-egg problem. Loki showed the world that games run fine in Linux. Once point-and-click users start using Linux, developers will port their games. The question is, what advantage does Linux offer them?
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What's great about this patent is not the time dependent transparance. Heck, I wrote a little command shell that fades with time. Its that the window becomes opaque when the underlying information changes. That seems quite useful, and I don't remember seeing that used anywhere.
I guess. Unfortunately, Kerry is still flying under the radar, so I don't know what he would really do.
Maybe, but I have no way of knowing whether Kerry would make things better or worse. However, looking at what happened in Somolia, and much earlier, Vietnam, I don't like the idea of switching administrations, Democratic or Republican, in the middle of a war.
I guess being in Mensa doesn't prevent one from being called an idiot.
I'd rather have the foreign terrorists, thanks.
This is the type of thing I really don't agree with. Terrorists CAUSE tyranny. They don't observe any sort of constitution. They're the enemy, not Bush, Ashcroft, or the Patriot act. If in your train of thought, you conclude that the Constitution prevents us from making laws to protect ourselves from terrorism, can you say that something is wrong with that?
I know I'll be modded down for representing an opposing view... The Patriot act is about PROTECTING ourselves from terrorists. We need it to give us a sliver of hope of finding and apprehending those in this country before they do their thing. We can't catch then after they do their crimes; we have to catch them BEFORE that. It was made IN RESPONSE to the 9/11 attacks. Are you willing to allow that to be repeated? If you don't want to come across as just another left-wing zealot (most of these anti-Patriot act posts come across as exercises in zealotry), please consider the purpose of the Patriot act.
I found the book Beginning OpenGL Game Programming to be a good for starting out in OpenGL.
Note, it was previously published as OpenGL Game Programming
This article describes the patent as being something very general, when it is really fairly specific. Be sure to carefully read the claims. It doesn't simply patent "having the action of a button determined by how long the button was pressed." It specifies distinct patterns that the user must take, and the applications that are opened aftet each of those steps. This wouldn't apply to mouse clicks, or any sort of remote control device.
How would finding Noah's ark prove Christianity? The story is placed before the start of Christianity, and even Judaism.
So, you're saying that science and faith contradict each other. Don't creationists believe the same thing? You're helping them!
Much of my family are Catholics, and they could out reason, out free think, and out qualify you any day of the week.
What's your real agenda in saying such a thing pipsqueak?
You took my comment the wrong way. Gosh, I defend Catholicism sometimes before others, even though I'm a Lutheran. The previous poster seemed to reject any concept of leadership or authority, so I expressed a foregone conclusion that he doesn't believe in papal infalliability.
I bet you're not Catholic.
The APIs are fairly basic, but there is a lot of theory behind 3d rendering, and that definitely takes time to learn and master. Look at any book on 3d grapics in a bookstore, and you'll see. Without a firm knowledge of the theory, its difficult to use that APIs to make something substantial. I suggest you start learning that asap.
I'm in absolute agreement with you there. The "peeing calvin" shows him as a juvenile delinquent, rather than the hyperactive genius of the comic strip.
I agree that much of the iPod's value is in it being a sign. However, its not all in that. Its portability, durability, aesthetics, and its seamless integration with iTunes count for something. It may not be a bargain, but it is still useful.
someday, once the break-even point is reached, and fusion reactors get built, no major h-bomb type accident occurs, turning people away from this energy source, the way 3-Mile Island did for nuclear fission.
But seriously, Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley would no doubt be hurt not to have their brainchild included in your list of great inventions
That shows how common interest in electronic circuits and components (besides microprocessors) have dropped in the past few years.
What a shame.
Defend patents without stating evidence: Get flamed.
Be against patents without stating evidence: +5 insightful.
Seeing this post get modded -1 flamebait (and I'll even post logged in w/karma bonus for max effect): Priceless.
There are things money can buy. For everything else, there's Slashdot.
Let's set the hyperbole aside for a minute. I'd be willing to bet that our response to 9/11 would have been identical if Gore'd been President ...
I don't think that its a hyperbole to say that the Taliban would still be in power in Afganistan if Gore were president. I'm sure that some limited military actions would have taken place against Al Queda (i.e. bombing), but I doubt he would have decided to overthrow the Taliban to reach Al Queda. That doesn't seem to fit the mind-set of the Democrats
There might still have been something *like* the PATRIOT act, although it would probably be less extreme.
Yes, I think that there would be something like the Patriot act, but I think it would have actually curtailed the freedom of average citizens and the general public, rather than terror suspects.
We wouldn't be in Iraq, and as a result, we might actually have a stronger presence in Afghanistan at this stage.
I absolutely cannot believe that there would be more soldiers on the ground in Afganistan today if Gore was president, even without the war in Iraq. His focus would have been limited to Al Queda.
Lacking the push to war in Iraq, we wouldn't have pissed the entire world off, and we'd likely be in a better position in the "War on Terror" because of this.I can't deny that some countries (i.e. France and Germany) have had their feelings hurt but they're not seriously angry with America, no more that America is angry with them. They are pissed at George Bush, but who cares?
Also, I doubt there would be a "War on Terror" if Al Gore was president. Would he have really included groups like Hamas and Hezbollah in this?
For a different view os Senator McCarthy, read this book.
I think that the fact that you were modded up so high reflects on the character of the Slashdot; a forum dominated by liberals. Every voice expressing a different opinion gets modded down. I'm nearly ready to quit reading it because of this.
I can't see how you can look at Bush and Gore and say there's no difference. For starters, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be in Iraq if Gore were President
To add to that, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't even be in Afganistan if Gore were president. Al Queda would still be operating under the protection of the Taliban. Airline security still would have changed, but nothing else would have.
Capitalism is inherently about competition, and in competition, sombody ultimately looses. The only way to fix that is to devise a system where everyone wins
The problem is, if that system designed to make everyone win fails, everyone looses, due to someone else's mistake.
I'm about to go onto college. I planned on majoring in CompSci, but I don't want to move aboard to get a job.
Are Electrical Engineers having any similar problems with jobs being outsourced?
Yes, outsourcing is very common with the design jobs that electical engineers do. Don't worry about it though, because as long as you do work that is a little bit off the beaten path, your job probably won't be outsourced.
However, Intel rates their chips by clockspeed, and with the less-efficient pipeline, a 3 GHz P4 is not three times as fast as a 1GHz P3
I don't have hard data on this, but doesn't the impact of the pipeline depend on how the software it runs is compiled? If the object code is compiled to reduce branches, the longer pipeline should drastically speed up processing. That would theoretically make a 3GHz P4 MORE than three times as fast as a 1GHz P3.
Lack of games. The odd FPS game crops up, but dual booting isnt an option for mot point and click users
This is a chicken-and-egg problem. Loki showed the world that games run fine in Linux. Once point-and-click users start using Linux, developers will port their games. The question is, what advantage does Linux offer them?