check the top free apps - none could be made without code it looks like MS wants quantity instead of quality - no wonder the only informative thing TFA has is the number of users and projects.
Think about the crazy volumes of users, bandwidth, data and connections they're dealing with. Throw in global presence, 24/7 availability, exceptional up time, non-stop war against spammers, fake accounts, fake followers etc and you're getting yourself a pretty tough task!
Check the titles of engineers they're seeking. You'll find out that they're going as far as customizing networking devices, Linux kernel and MySQL builds, all that to keep the service up and running with a reasonable response time.
Sure, pleasure. Re commercial products. I found these guys: www.humaneyes.com and www.snapily3d.com. Not sure how successful they are. The app seems to be struggling (probably heavy duty calculations are not ready for mobile yet). I simply looked up what Yael Pritch did in the past, apparently she was the founder of this company. Also check out this: http://www.humaneyes.com/News/detail/130/66/. Apparently Sony have infringed this patent.
I do not criticize Yael, she's super cool. I do criticize the language of TFA that made it look like a new and original work, and not an improvement over a 15 year old invention, whose original inventors are Prof. Shmuel Peleg and Bob Rosenschein (the former CEO of Answers.com). Yael's current paper expands on it in details.
Talk with the IT engineers. They know what's happening. If most of them say the head is incompetent, then kick his sorry ass out of the company. Even if they're wrong, it's his job to make them feel "in safe hands". You can't go wrong.
Otherwise you need to do some serious checking whether: 1. Your goals were feasible, and 2. Your budget was adequate
Like for example... Einstein, who worked has patent examiner!
Let me bother you with some facts. He did it for two years right after the graduation, while seeking for a teaching post. These two years were recorded as a very frustrating period in his life. Furthermore, he wasn't an examiner, he was examiner's assistant and several times he was passed over for a promotion, which also speaks volumes of the Swiss patent office at least back then.
I worked in a restaurant when I was a student. I finished summa cum laude but I wasn't a good cook. So?
First of all the bottom line - patents suck shit. I'll try to explain, although there's so much to tell.
The only positive thing about patents was the original idea that inventors need a tool to protect themselves from copycats. A pretty good idea, but then came other people and turned the idea into a steaming pile of shit, as we often do with everything.
There's a number of complexities that people do not take into account when they file a patent:
1. It's freaking expensive because at some point you have to work with patent attorneys. You can submit provisional yourself, but you must hire patent attorney in PCT or National phases and it's unlikely that you can use proper language that the patent attorney will use, so you risk not having your provisional be considered a priority document (which sets the priority date, when your invention is considered to be created).
2. You'll spend a lot of time on it. Time that could better be spent on building and improving your product.
3. You'd have to reveal all details of your invention to everyone. What if it's hard or even impossible to prove if anyone infringes it later? Patent attorneys will never tell you not to patent it (see #2 above).
4. There's a very good chance that there's something like you invented already, so you won't get a patent despite all the efforts. In other words, unless your invention is abso-fucking-lutely genius, you're doomed to fail on "novelty" or "inventive step" requirements. Almost no doubt about it. Patent examiners are not the sharpest pencils in the box. Read this if you don't believe it: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505124_162-57581797/the-letter-to-the-patent-office-you-have-to-read/
5. Let say you got your patent granted. You think you just skipped to the "profit" bullet? Ha! In order to benefit from your patent you need someone who infringes it and benefits enough from it to pay you damages. Not a small startup, they won't be able to pay you damages so no sane lawyer will take your case. If the infringing party is rich enough they still need to benefit enough from the infringing product or again no sane jury will give you the damages. Take into account that the bigger the infringer is, the stronger they'll fight you. They will bully and starve you.
6. IP cases take a very long time and cost millions of dollars, and their lawyers will drag you all the way through Inter Party Review at USPTO (where they'll reexamine your patent, another year and $500K) and it's quite possible that they will find some freaking conference presentation in Chinese that's close enough to your invention. Nobody will give a shit that you don't understand Chinese and never been to that conference.
7. In the US you could go to ITC (International Trade Commission) instead of a district court, but that only works when the infringing party is a foreign company and they import the infringing products into the US. ITC also doesn't give you damages, they can only stop the import of infringing products.
All the above taken from my very bitter experience in managing about 40 patent apps in different country.
If your company can offer the combination of difficult tasks, aggressive schedule and high benefits, go for it.
Otherwise you don't need the IT recons, deltas and rangers. They would die of boredom in your place. Let them go to cool startups, googles and facebooks, for the challenge they're worth.
In my case, very unfortunately, medical insurances in my country (Israel) do not fund a pump because I'm relatively well balanced. Oh the irony... It would cost me a fortune to buy and maintain one myself:( can't afford it.
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The Windows store is almost empty - less distractions for the users (pilots!).
They might also get a special custom tailored version of Windows that doesn't allow installing apps.
OTOH, it's quite dangerous as well, pilots may fall asleep of boredom ;)
Does the C stand for cheap?
Colorful China Crap
Why not let US have them?
Pleaaaaaaaaase....
naff said
How's that any different to 95% of the crap on the Apple and Google stores?
neither Google nor Apple is so unimaginative and desperate to pursue simpletons
check the top free apps - none could be made without code
it looks like MS wants quantity instead of quality - no wonder the only informative thing TFA has is the number of users and projects.
So little? Really?
Think about the crazy volumes of users, bandwidth, data and connections they're dealing with. Throw in global presence, 24/7 availability, exceptional up time, non-stop war against spammers, fake accounts, fake followers etc and you're getting yourself a pretty tough task!
Check the titles of engineers they're seeking. You'll find out that they're going as far as customizing networking devices, Linux kernel and MySQL builds, all that to keep the service up and running with a reasonable response time.
Sure, pleasure. Re commercial products. I found these guys: www.humaneyes.com and www.snapily3d.com. Not sure how successful they are. The app seems to be struggling (probably heavy duty calculations are not ready for mobile yet). I simply looked up what Yael Pritch did in the past, apparently she was the founder of this company. Also check out this: http://www.humaneyes.com/News/detail/130/66/. Apparently Sony have infringed this patent.
I do not criticize Yael, she's super cool. I do criticize the language of TFA that made it look like a new and original work, and not an improvement over a 15 year old invention, whose original inventors are Prof. Shmuel Peleg and Bob Rosenschein (the former CEO of Answers.com). Yael's current paper expands on it in details.
It's based on this invention: http://www.vision.huji.ac.il/stereo/
Yael Pritch (who was involved in this project in Disney) was also involved in this research in the Hebrew University.
So it's a breakthrough, but a very old one and, more importantly, somebody else's
Talk with the IT engineers. They know what's happening. If most of them say the head is incompetent, then kick his sorry ass out of the company. Even if they're wrong, it's his job to make them feel "in safe hands". You can't go wrong.
Otherwise you need to do some serious checking whether:
1. Your goals were feasible, and
2. Your budget was adequate
Hope that helps
"google-to-buy-waze-for-13-billion"
who needs any dots between 1 and 3 ;)
How would you feel talking to a person wearing this shit?
She might be recording you and posting it to YouTube.
I probably sound like my grandpa, but Google Glass just feels to me creepy and invasive.
There could be some commercial usage of it though, like FedEx finding and signing off a package...
Nope, I say maybe it deserves one comment that doesn't try to make fun of its name
Work hard, release a cool product and all the geeks are talking about is how it sounds in Russian
Stop using her in your demo pics.
I had enough trauma when I was a kid
Nope, I still do the same shit. My kids gotta each something and learn better not to repeat the same mistake that I made.
Like for example... Einstein, who worked has patent examiner!
Let me bother you with some facts. He did it for two years right after the graduation, while seeking for a teaching post. These two years were recorded as a very frustrating period in his life. Furthermore, he wasn't an examiner, he was examiner's assistant and several times he was passed over for a promotion, which also speaks volumes of the Swiss patent office at least back then.
I worked in a restaurant when I was a student. I finished summa cum laude but I wasn't a good cook. So?
First of all the bottom line - patents suck shit. I'll try to explain, although there's so much to tell.
The only positive thing about patents was the original idea that inventors need a tool to protect themselves from copycats. A pretty good idea, but then came other people and turned the idea into a steaming pile of shit, as we often do with everything.
There's a number of complexities that people do not take into account when they file a patent:
1. It's freaking expensive because at some point you have to work with patent attorneys. You can submit provisional yourself, but you must hire patent attorney in PCT or National phases and it's unlikely that you can use proper language that the patent attorney will use, so you risk not having your provisional be considered a priority document (which sets the priority date, when your invention is considered to be created).
2. You'll spend a lot of time on it. Time that could better be spent on building and improving your product.
3. You'd have to reveal all details of your invention to everyone. What if it's hard or even impossible to prove if anyone infringes it later? Patent attorneys will never tell you not to patent it (see #2 above).
4. There's a very good chance that there's something like you invented already, so you won't get a patent despite all the efforts. In other words, unless your invention is abso-fucking-lutely genius, you're doomed to fail on "novelty" or "inventive step" requirements. Almost no doubt about it. Patent examiners are not the sharpest pencils in the box. Read this if you don't believe it: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505124_162-57581797/the-letter-to-the-patent-office-you-have-to-read/
5. Let say you got your patent granted. You think you just skipped to the "profit" bullet? Ha! In order to benefit from your patent you need someone who infringes it and benefits enough from it to pay you damages. Not a small startup, they won't be able to pay you damages so no sane lawyer will take your case. If the infringing party is rich enough they still need to benefit enough from the infringing product or again no sane jury will give you the damages. Take into account that the bigger the infringer is, the stronger they'll fight you. They will bully and starve you.
6. IP cases take a very long time and cost millions of dollars, and their lawyers will drag you all the way through Inter Party Review at USPTO (where they'll reexamine your patent, another year and $500K) and it's quite possible that they will find some freaking conference presentation in Chinese that's close enough to your invention. Nobody will give a shit that you don't understand Chinese and never been to that conference.
7. In the US you could go to ITC (International Trade Commission) instead of a district court, but that only works when the infringing party is a foreign company and they import the infringing products into the US. ITC also doesn't give you damages, they can only stop the import of infringing products.
All the above taken from my very bitter experience in managing about 40 patent apps in different country.
JUST DON'T DO IT
He's not Bowie, but he's pretty good
OMG, you guys are a very tough crowd. To me he sang perfectly well!
I'm gonna go ahead and sort of disagree with you on that ;)
I guess it's subjective anyway
She's kinda Michael Bolton of Israel..
cute clip though
If your company can offer the combination of difficult tasks, aggressive schedule and high benefits, go for it.
Otherwise you don't need the IT recons, deltas and rangers. They would die of boredom in your place. Let them go to cool startups, googles and facebooks, for the challenge they're worth.
Thanks for the tip.
In my case, very unfortunately, medical insurances in my country (Israel) do not fund a pump because I'm relatively well balanced. Oh the irony... :( can't afford it.
It would cost me a fortune to buy and maintain one myself