Robert Heinlein's character "Mike" in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" describes pretty elaborately everything Siri or the Xiao iRobot do. But back in 1966. Responses based on partial data input, voice recognition, even learning humor in terms of funny and not funny. Not to mention being part of a global communications network. Most of the patents I see in the lawsuits should've been denied for not being novel, being roughly half a century late in their invention.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Wang
China has been dealing with the trouble of only having 100ish surnames and 1 or 2 character given names for years now, it's not limited to researchers.
Traditional Chinese medicine is metascience, it should properly be grouped with philosophy rather than medicine. Treat it as an enormous collection of hypotheses just waiting to be tested and you discover the true worth. Treat it as a final solution and you'll understand why there are so many quacks out there labeling things "herbal" or "folk" remedies to avoid being charged with outright fraud.
This probably helps explain why so many customers have brought printers to me complaining of the defect where B&W print jobs do not print when the color cartidge gets low.
Alan Parsons thinks the music industry should focus on producing quality music before and during the recording phases, instead of worrying about distribution formats that package music after the fact.
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I've heard there are more Diaspora users than Ron Paul voters.
The last time I heard this joke, it was relating the number of SARS victims to the number of people unhappy with "The Party". And it was in Mandarin.
It's just mentally much easier for people to remember the small number,"
How about 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001?
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Captcha: impudent - is Slashdot trying to tell me something?
Or as we like to call it, Charles.
It's clearly trademark infringement of the "crushing your head" motion. (See most episodes of Kids in the Hall for details)
Sounds about right, it just begs to be lit on fire.
For the sake of the English speakers here, what does "Caught via the H" mean?
The infinite improbability drive seems more and more of a possibility.
Maybe now Chairman Yang will listen to the Gaians about the benefits of a Green society instead of the wasteful Planned system.
Claude Insensible!
Duck, duck, goose!
Robert Heinlein's character "Mike" in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" describes pretty elaborately everything Siri or the Xiao iRobot do. But back in 1966. Responses based on partial data input, voice recognition, even learning humor in terms of funny and not funny. Not to mention being part of a global communications network. Most of the patents I see in the lawsuits should've been denied for not being novel, being roughly half a century late in their invention.
Nope, in the scale of known existence, 7000 years back is still pretty current.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Wang China has been dealing with the trouble of only having 100ish surnames and 1 or 2 character given names for years now, it's not limited to researchers.
will BRB, patenting the same thing "to a mobile device"
Traditional Chinese medicine is metascience, it should properly be grouped with philosophy rather than medicine. Treat it as an enormous collection of hypotheses just waiting to be tested and you discover the true worth. Treat it as a final solution and you'll understand why there are so many quacks out there labeling things "herbal" or "folk" remedies to avoid being charged with outright fraud.
Some people just don't like it when hipsters do the right thing.
This probably helps explain why so many customers have brought printers to me complaining of the defect where B&W print jobs do not print when the color cartidge gets low.
Russia and China also have super pacs.
Alan Parsons thinks the music industry should focus on producing quality music before and during the recording phases, instead of worrying about distribution formats that package music after the fact.
Similarly, there are no mac users on the internet. You're merely being piped AOL.
Nah, everyone's just going to wait until someone rips a copy of the RIAA and download/torrent it via the pirate bay.
I parsed that last bit as "then == ale", and realized it was time to go home. Then does in face equal ale.
This is known as quaffing.
Symantec and FBI attempt to patch security vulnerability with cash.
The cause is also legal downloading. The bills keep occurring when innovation occurs interrupting the comfortable monopoly on distribution.
Don't be Evi?
And that's how you get Windows Millennium Edition.