Want to screw with the USPTO? Nominate Fanning and Parker for a National Medal of Technology and Innovation, "the highest honor awarded by the president of the United States to America's leading innovators." Funny thing is, they probably deserve it!
Don't see where I used the term 'unskilled immigrants'. Mr. Wadhwa's proposal to unlink the fate of 'highly-skilled immigrants' from that of 'undocumented immigrants' appears to boil down to 'techies-before-Latinos', IMHO. I'd suggest Rep. Gutierrez would agree.
The Late Movies: 10 Screensavers of Yore: 'Here's a roundup of some screensavers I remember from the Good Old Days of computing -- the 90s -- when screensavers were delightfully corny, 3D graphics meant "the future," and flying toasters invaded our dreams.'
TUTOR (also known as PLATO Author Language) is a programming language developed for use on the PLATO system at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign around 1965. TUTOR was initially designed by Paul Tenczar for use in computer assisted instruction (CAI) and computer managed instruction (CMI) (in computer programs called "lessons") and has many features for that purpose. For example, TUTOR has powerful answer-parsing and answer-judging commands, graphics, and features to simplify handling student records and statistics by instructors. TUTOR's flexibility, in combination with PLATO's computational power (running on what was considered a supercomputer in 1972), also made it suitable for the creation of many non-educational lessons - that is, games - including flight simulators, war games, dungeon style multiplayer role-playing games, card games, word games, and Medical lesson games such as Bugs and Drugs (BND).
1994 Message from CS Prof Daniel Sleator to Tim Berners-Lee: It would be possible for one person to write a new game (such as double bughouse chess) without having to write a half dozen graphics interfaces. Many really cool things change from being impossible to being quite feasible. (The PLATO system developed in the 70s at the University of Illinois had some of these properties: simple graphics available to all users, fast interaction among a large pool of users. The result was the development of a number of very popular and engrossing interactive games.)
How to Subscribe: "The Alumni Access participation fee for subscribing institutions is 10% of the institution's total AAF. Subscribing institutions must support the bifurcation of alumni from their main JSTOR account via IP based access methods."
Google-Funded Drones To Hunt Rhino Poachers : Thanks to a five million dollar grant awarded by Google on Tuesday, the organization is expanding its use of unmanned aerial vehicles to track and deter criminals who illegally hunt endangered animal species around the world. WWF spokesman Lee Poston is not calling these vehicles drones, because he doesn't want people to confuse them with the military kind. According to Poston, they are "sophisticated radio-controlled devices like hobbyists use" that can be "controlled from your iPad or other device." But the WWF website does call them "conservation drones."
How are the fees calculated?: "Amazon Mechanical Turk collects a 10% commission on top of the reward amount you set for Workers. For example, if a HIT reward is set to $0.20, Amazon Mechanical Turk collects $0.02 for each assignment." So, the worker gets 91% of the total amount paid ($0.20/($0.20+$0.02).
The other mention was Twitter, but the same applies - if Twitter and Facebook are truly viewed by Google as competitors, it would seem odd to ban employee use of the services while Google corporate finds them too valuable to resist. Another possibility might be that Google is afraid to let even a top exec - the one charged with heading its own social networking initiative - use other social networking services for fear of the consequences. Perhaps Vic or Larry will explain someday.:-)
THE ROLLING STONES GET OFF MY CLOUD Hey, you, get off of my cloud Hey, you, get off of my cloud Hey, you, get off of my cloud Don't hang around, baby two's a crowd On my cloud
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Want to screw with the USPTO? Nominate Fanning and Parker for a National Medal of Technology and Innovation, "the highest honor awarded by the president of the United States to America's leading innovators." Funny thing is, they probably deserve it!
Oops...that'll teach me to try to cite the Book of Genesis off the top of my head. Make that "And, behold, it was very good." :-)
Or will the DOJ indict President Obama, too?
Google sees self-driving cars in 3-5 years; Washington, insurers not so sure:
Don't see where I used the term 'unskilled immigrants'. Mr. Wadhwa's proposal to unlink the fate of 'highly-skilled immigrants' from that of 'undocumented immigrants' appears to boil down to 'techies-before-Latinos', IMHO. I'd suggest Rep. Gutierrez would agree.
So what's the difference between HP's $99 TouchPad Tablet Selling out in Retailer Fire Sale and Google's $99 Chromebook offer for teachers sells out in one day? A. Commenters didn't accuse HP of "a lazy publicity stunt." :-)
Don't want a repeat of confusing Win8 interface. :-)
The Late Movies: 10 Screensavers of Yore: 'Here's a roundup of some screensavers I remember from the Good Old Days of computing -- the 90s -- when screensavers were delightfully corny, 3D graphics meant "the future," and flying toasters invaded our dreams.'
TUTOR (also known as PLATO Author Language) is a programming language developed for use on the PLATO system at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign around 1965. TUTOR was initially designed by Paul Tenczar for use in computer assisted instruction (CAI) and computer managed instruction (CMI) (in computer programs called "lessons") and has many features for that purpose. For example, TUTOR has powerful answer-parsing and answer-judging commands, graphics, and features to simplify handling student records and statistics by instructors. TUTOR's flexibility, in combination with PLATO's computational power (running on what was considered a supercomputer in 1972), also made it suitable for the creation of many non-educational lessons - that is, games - including flight simulators, war games, dungeon style multiplayer role-playing games, card games, word games, and Medical lesson games such as Bugs and Drugs (BND).
1994 Message from CS Prof Daniel Sleator to Tim Berners-Lee: It would be possible for one person to write a new game (such as double bughouse chess) without having to write a half dozen graphics interfaces. Many really cool things change from being impossible to being quite feasible. (The PLATO system developed in the 70s at the University of Illinois had some of these properties: simple graphics available to all users, fast interaction among a large pool of users. The result was the development of a number of very popular and engrossing interactive games.)
How to Subscribe: "The Alumni Access participation fee for subscribing institutions is 10% of the institution's total AAF. Subscribing institutions must support the bifurcation of alumni from their main JSTOR account via IP based access methods."
If, say, six Verizon employees cut-and-paste web images into corporate PowerPoints, will Verizon go by the book and shut itself down?
RMS's Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun.
Take HP Loses in Tax Court to IRS and HP Grabs $14.5B Job Creation Tax Break As It Celebrates Layoffs, for instance. :-)
Google-Funded Drones To Hunt Rhino Poachers : Thanks to a five million dollar grant awarded by Google on Tuesday, the organization is expanding its use of unmanned aerial vehicles to track and deter criminals who illegally hunt endangered animal species around the world. WWF spokesman Lee Poston is not calling these vehicles drones, because he doesn't want people to confuse them with the military kind. According to Poston, they are "sophisticated radio-controlled devices like hobbyists use" that can be "controlled from your iPad or other device." But the WWF website does call them "conservation drones."
How are the fees calculated?: "Amazon Mechanical Turk collects a 10% commission on top of the reward amount you set for Workers. For example, if a HIT reward is set to $0.20, Amazon Mechanical Turk collects $0.02 for each assignment." So, the worker gets 91% of the total amount paid ($0.20/($0.20+$0.02).
and that's just what they'll do...
The other mention was Twitter, but the same applies - if Twitter and Facebook are truly viewed by Google as competitors, it would seem odd to ban employee use of the services while Google corporate finds them too valuable to resist. Another possibility might be that Google is afraid to let even a top exec - the one charged with heading its own social networking initiative - use other social networking services for fear of the consequences. Perhaps Vic or Larry will explain someday. :-)
National Treasure 3 (2014). Here's a still photo from the set. :-)
Google has 11.6 million "Likes" on its corporate Facebook account.
Except Google itself apparently has an official corporate Twitter account that's active and has 5.4+ million followers ("Verified Profile"). BTW, Apple also has an official YouTube Channel despite Steve Jobs' feelings towards Google.
Condition handling and Conditions. Old school, but does the job without too much clutter!
THE ROLLING STONES GET OFF MY CLOUD
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Don't hang around, baby two's a crowd
On my cloud
Jordan vs. Bird was pretty sweet, too!
Bob Mansfield, Apple's Indispensable Man, Gets New Responsibilities
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