Well if you shoot one down with your bb gun and some asshole runs after it before you do, what do they expect you to do? I'm not gonna let the bastard get away with it!
> Most sports fans will have been frustrated with...shot > selection at one time or another, but a new panoramic > camera would put such decisions in the viewer’s hands
ensuring frustration with shot selection most of the time.
> boom and bust cycles and > It explains why a single-celled, fat cat investor or Darwinian demon (a hypothetical organism) didn’t win out long ago.
We know why already -- these, along with predator-prey relationships, are all subsets of supply and demand. Differential equation modelling of predator-prey showed stability was, in fact, not possible. Like a breeze across the water, the relative ratios distort a bit, say, the prey become more numerous. The predators increase because the supply of food increases, and they overshoot, causing it to crash. This in turn causes predator populations to crash, allowing the prey to rebound.
The important thing was this cyclic up and down was the norm, not the exception. Any steady state immediately begins destabilizing.
The same for economic cycles, as born out by people putting housing or car purchases on hold.
And now the observation that investors getting the crap scared out of them by talk of huge tax increases doesn't seem so unlikely anymore, does it?
(Insert picture of Morhpeus here) What if I told you this outweighed government investment to spend out of a recession by an order of magnitude?
I assume the ungodly ridiculous amounts of verbiage is not to be legally clear, but be legally obfuscating, wearing down patent examiners and causing days of study just to begin to get a handle on what they are claiming.
The one or two cool little tricks being patented, if any, are deliberately obfuscated.
Does anybody even know what little bit is supposedly infringed?
One of the "claims":
6. The computing device of claim 1, wherein, in one heuristic of the one or more heuristics, a contact comprising a finger swipe gesture that initially moves within a predetermined angle of being perfectly horizontal with respect to the touch screen display corresponds to a one-dimensional horizontal screen scrolling command rather than the two-dimensional screen translation command.
So if you drag left or right witihin some predefined angle, it shall be considered a horizontal swipe rather than a 2D arbitrary angle swipe. And nobody ever did this before?
> "What you're not seeing is peopleactually abusingthese programs."
Given alarm bells don't go off if someone listens to content without a warrant, i.e. no physical mechanism to prevent, much less track this, how would he know?
Any one of a hundred senators or other powerful people know people in the NSA and could have an otherwise seemingly honest agent actually spying for them -- on business dealings, or opposing candidates. This doesn't even begin to address the supposedly "lesser-protected" metadata on who calls whom, which would have been more than enough to figure out who all the founding fathers were and round them up.
And even if every agent and powerful person were honest today, what about 10 or 50 years from now? I keep bringing this up, but a G. Gordon Liddy type wouldn't think twice about listening in on the opposition.
If the people in 1913 slowed their economy 20% in an attempt to "help" us with global warmiing problems in 2013, we'd be at 1992 level technology. Some "help", millions-of-deaths-wise.
Similarly we'd be idiots to force 2092-level technology on 2113 in an attempt to "help" them, when the difference between then and now is far greater than between now and 1913.
20% is probably a gross underestimate. We have ample long-term examples of shifting and slowing rates of advancement and patents as economic climates change.
They already know and record every damned site you go to already, and thus also that Persona goes to, and they could, I supposed, trivially correlate that.
They could also gin up one of those unconstitutional blanket orders and force Persona to give them all your other info, and password, though that would largely just be correlating what they know about you already.
In specific cases with warrants, that's normal. But all this warrantless stuff, or idiotic mass blanket warrants, that's all illegal, and thus gag orders are derivatively illegal.
Why is it ironic? Much of the outrage comes from within dictatorships, where it's the only valid, and indeed encouraged, opinion. Or from Europe, where people sit safe and sound well away from dictatorships. When you get to the actual people, they know what's going on, and still line up to get the hell out of those murderous hellholes.
Ok, whoever transcends first, I want a technomagic ring that keeps me alive, fit, and young, with control panel so I can change my body. And, ummm, I guess a hundred mile wide orgy arena with McDonald's and Starbuck's all around it.
It isn't just the convenience and speed of solid-state. It's that it's more than enough space for most people. Unless you have hundred of movies, you have plenty for your needs.
If it wasn't in that range, it would still be just a novelty for bleeding edge users or some server applications.
> (The 1977 Field Manual has many blank pages)...with a note at the beginning of the > book on how to construct an effective, simple balance scale, and the info that each > page of the book weighed one gram!
I can download and print those blank pages but how do I know they still weigh 1 gram after all these years?
I wonder if he realized all the people "on his side" pushing trains would turn around once it got started and put tens to hundreds of millions in lawsuits in the way about environmental studies, hiring union people, and anything else they can think up, not coincidentally buying time for people to throw up apartments in the way, or cram warehouses in the way full of old machinery, all of which must be bought at vastly overinflated government condemnation appraisals.
More stories from Washington, and bankrupting Detroit in this month's issue of Actual Tales From Actual Freakin' Reality.
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> 20 People Shot With BB Guns
Well if you shoot one down with your bb gun and some asshole runs after it before you do, what do they expect you to do? I'm not gonna let the bastard get away with it!
A foamed cake filled with a foamed vanilla aerogel.
Morpheus: You're buying...air.
I'd rather this kind of effort be devoted to the magical autodocs that can cure everything and keep you alive a long time.
Then we can do the rest at our leisure.
This WWII emergency wartime subsidy that's still going on isn't about enriching the 4,700 farmers who grow 90% of the food!
It's about helping poor people not starve by subsidizing them so they can afford the inflated prices caused by direct price supports.
Why do you want poor people to starve? Let's hold the vote! (It passes.)
(Quietly Congress slinks away and accepts donations from those farmers.)
He used Lisp, nice. Granted it was just for analysis and not to generate self-modifying, evolving code.
> AquaTop Immersive Display
I hate that show. I wanna punch that french fry guy in the face.
> Most sports fans will have been frustrated with...shot
> selection at one time or another, but a new panoramic
> camera would put such decisions in the viewer’s hands
ensuring frustration with shot selection most of the time.
> boom and bust cycles
and
> It explains why a single-celled, fat cat investor or Darwinian demon (a hypothetical organism) didn’t win out long ago.
We know why already -- these, along with predator-prey relationships, are all subsets of supply and demand. Differential equation modelling of predator-prey showed stability was, in fact, not possible. Like a breeze across the water, the relative ratios distort a bit, say, the prey become more numerous. The predators increase because the supply of food increases, and they overshoot, causing it to crash. This in turn causes predator populations to crash, allowing the prey to rebound.
The important thing was this cyclic up and down was the norm, not the exception. Any steady state immediately begins destabilizing .
The same for economic cycles, as born out by people putting housing or car purchases on hold.
And now the observation that investors getting the crap scared out of them by talk of huge tax increases doesn't seem so unlikely anymore, does it?
(Insert picture of Morhpeus here) What if I told you this outweighed government investment to spend out of a recession by an order of magnitude?
I assume the ungodly ridiculous amounts of verbiage is not to be legally clear, but be legally obfuscating, wearing down patent examiners and causing days of study just to begin to get a handle on what they are claiming.
The one or two cool little tricks being patented, if any, are deliberately obfuscated.
Does anybody even know what little bit is supposedly infringed?
One of the "claims":
6. The computing device of claim 1, wherein, in one heuristic of the one or more heuristics, a contact comprising a finger swipe gesture that initially moves within a predetermined angle of being perfectly horizontal with respect to the touch screen display corresponds to a one-dimensional horizontal screen scrolling command rather than the two-dimensional screen translation command.
So if you drag left or right witihin some predefined angle, it shall be considered a horizontal swipe rather than a 2D arbitrary angle swipe. And nobody ever did this before?
As prices have risen, quite frankly, I might as well order a paperback. Much nicer to hold and read.
CNN: Is Jodi Arias a sexual deviant?
Answer: Yes
But more importantly, QUIT TRYING TO MAKE ME LIKE HER, CNN!
> "What you're not seeing is peopleactually abusingthese programs."
Given alarm bells don't go off if someone listens to content without a warrant, i.e. no physical mechanism to prevent, much less track this, how would he know?
Any one of a hundred senators or other powerful people know people in the NSA and could have an otherwise seemingly honest agent actually spying for them -- on business dealings, or opposing candidates. This doesn't even begin to address the supposedly "lesser-protected" metadata on who calls whom, which would have been more than enough to figure out who all the founding fathers were and round them up.
And even if every agent and powerful person were honest today, what about 10 or 50 years from now? I keep bringing this up, but a G. Gordon Liddy type wouldn't think twice about listening in on the opposition.
If the people in 1913 slowed their economy 20% in an attempt to "help" us with global warmiing problems in 2013, we'd be at 1992 level technology. Some "help", millions-of-deaths-wise.
Similarly we'd be idiots to force 2092-level technology on 2113 in an attempt to "help" them, when the difference between then and now is far greater than between now and 1913.
20% is probably a gross underestimate. We have ample long-term examples of shifting and slowing rates of advancement and patents as economic climates change.
Went to Venus too
Goddess of beauty and love
Burnt our nuts (and bolts)
Anal-retentive
Reurgitates copy-paste
Faps to Swift later
They already know and record every damned site you go to already, and thus also that Persona goes to, and they could, I supposed, trivially correlate that.
They could also gin up one of those unconstitutional blanket orders and force Persona to give them all your other info, and password, though that would largely just be correlating what they know about you already.
In specific cases with warrants, that's normal. But all this warrantless stuff, or idiotic mass blanket warrants, that's all illegal, and thus gag orders are derivatively illegal.
Why is it ironic? Much of the outrage comes from within dictatorships, where it's the only valid, and indeed encouraged, opinion. Or from Europe, where people sit safe and sound well away from dictatorships. When you get to the actual people, they know what's going on, and still line up to get the hell out of those murderous hellholes.
Ok, whoever transcends first, I want a technomagic ring that keeps me alive, fit, and young, with control panel so I can change my body. And, ummm, I guess a hundred mile wide orgy arena with McDonald's and Starbuck's all around it.
> "Omni always had a distressing new agey tinge to it"
Created by a guy in the 1970s who had a half-unbuttoned polyester print shirt exposing a hairy chest with gold chains? No way!
It isn't just the convenience and speed of solid-state. It's that it's more than enough space for most people. Unless you have hundred of movies, you have plenty for your needs.
If it wasn't in that range, it would still be just a novelty for bleeding edge users or some server applications.
> (The 1977 Field Manual has many blank pages)...with a note at the beginning of the
> book on how to construct an effective, simple balance scale, and the info that each
> page of the book weighed one gram!
I can download and print those blank pages but how do I know they still weigh 1 gram after all these years?
I wonder if he realized all the people "on his side" pushing trains would turn around once it got started and put tens to hundreds of millions in lawsuits in the way about environmental studies, hiring union people, and anything else they can think up, not coincidentally buying time for people to throw up apartments in the way, or cram warehouses in the way full of old machinery, all of which must be bought at vastly overinflated government condemnation appraisals.
More stories from Washington, and bankrupting Detroit in this month's issue of Actual Tales From Actual Freakin' Reality.
Eh, I'd use an Otter Box around it anyway, with a rubber around that, and an old truck tire around that.
So it doesn't fit in my pocket anymore, big deal.
Apparently Slashdot doesn't like pi. No, they like it. It just scares them and they're afraid to talk to it.