His layout is dumb -- here's why: QWERTY is a designed layout, with common keys in the middle, rare keys on the edges, and each vowel has its own finger. Dvorak layout is supposedly even more efficient.
This layour is just alphabetical. Someone should produce an optimized layout. Yes, you'll have to train but you're gonna have to train to the new layout of his anyway. It's silly to trade off long-term speed for a few days of marginally easier typing before you learn the positions automatically anyway.
Looks like the kibitzing that Microsoft's endless stream of me-too products "isn't the effort of 'I can do it better!' but merely "I can do it, too." finally struck a nerve.
Still, I'll believe it when I see, er, uhh, buy it.
Ok, that rodents are driven to "suicidal" behavior by seeking out a cat isn't the same kind of suicide drive, almost certainly.
The rodent probably isn't being driven to despair, where it makes a calculus to kill itself. It's probably just thinking running up to that cat is a good idea instead of a bad one.
Think it won't happen? Here's the plan, man: Your phone is your PC. When you're home and you wanna surf, you just sit down and the TV or a big monitor is connected, as is a wireless keyboard. It all goes through your USB connection while charging at a lil' docking station.
3D might take a little longer as phones can't carry the big iron yet, and I have my doubts on the "in the cloud" 3D rendering where you are basically playing your game watching a video feed of your 3D instead of locally generating it on your computer (this is both response time and video throughput) will happen quite as soon as some are thinking, but there's no reason it won't happen eventually.
At the far end, your phone goes back to being dumb, being nothing more than a video terminal to sent mouse and keyboard clicks out to The Cloud, which is where the guts of your phone will be, and receiving video feeds back of what's going on.
Did they serve up a web page that says, "You're infected, please go to xyz.fbi.gov to clean up your machine."
When I forget to pay my ISP, they redirect all my web pages to their own saying, "Sorry!" (And as an aside, they are idiots because they don't provide a link to pay from that disabled-page. It seems so obvious there's probably somebody with a patent demanding money to do that.)
I haven't seen a "feature" this idiotic since Microsoft removed normal file name search and replaced it with a poor man's Google. Now I can't search for a file by the name I want, but it searches through all files on the whole god damned computer.
Why is what a kleptocracy and dictatorship does "shocking"?
What do you think people there, or here, seek power for in government? So they can gain economic advantages by putting competition, forcefully, out of business.
"You want me to pay extra? Fair enough. I will go stand in front of the press and declare that, due to the ease of securing a degree, this shall no longer be considered a learned university."
Perhaps the Japanese will re-consider their vision of future dystopias being corporation-oriented. It's people with guns, which means government, government, government.
Dr. Evil:...and we will get them to focus on the evils of our large corporation...so our minion in government can be issued emergency powers. Buhwahahahahah. BUWAHAHAHAHAHAH. BUHWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. BUHWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. BUHWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. BUHWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
That's true. Dislike Microsoft if you like, but they only hire really good people, like Google does.
Eh, that's not entirely true. I once solved a bug in 10 minutes that our resident "masters" engineer and two $1000/day Microsoft rentals couldn't in two days.
Of course, I prefer to think of it as I am to them what they are to most of you.
Why is this stuff patentable? We applied to do an SBIR (which we lost) to provide a glasses-based repair manual reference for fighter plane repair crews in the field to help lead them through repairs. In 1989.
Stuff that projects on the inside of your glasses, or directly into your eyeballs, one eye, two eyes, or two eyes binocular, has been around as an idea since before I was even born, in science fiction.
There is no mysterious thing developed here. People just had to plug together already-existing technology.
The choice isn't between new expensive medicines and new cheap medicines.
It's between new expensive medicines and no new medicines at all.
If you slow technological development by eviscerating the profit motive (imagine the idiocy of applying it to computers, smart phones, and Internet tech 20 years ago), with medicine, people die who otherwise wouldn't.
20 or 50 years go by, and the tech lags further and further behind where it otherwise would be. This causes increased numbers of deaths who wouldn't otherwise die, like compounding interest.
Had the US been like Europe the past 70 years (and I'm not talking just medicine, but general business unfriendliness) then would the US's production (half of all new medicines) been like Europe's instead?
And you'd stand here in 2012. Happy with your 1980-level "free" medical tech?
If your ears burn over this, they should. You could already be killing people like a major war does. Had Europe spit out medicine like the US does during this time, maybe we'd have 2025 or 2035-level medical tech, and more lives would be saved by the millions each year.
You just can't shove these hypothetically saved lives in front of a camera, the way you can with lives lost due to an expensive medicine. But there's no comparison in the numbers, it's not even close.
The problem isn't patents per se. The problem is idiocy in the patent office in collusion with big corporations.
Somebody is going to invent good robots for the house someday. Somebody is going to invent real artificial intelligence. There's a lot of work jamming forward ever more-efficient high speed 3D algorithms and routing algorithms. People are working on robot cars.
These things can and should have protection.
Here's a good rule: If it's just a simulation of something that already exists, and the mechanism is known (note that the I of AI is not yet known) it's not patentable (unless said thing is still under patent, in which case that guy owns it.) This isn't to say that particularly clever implementations couldn't also be patented.
Just thinking, "Hey! We could simulate this -- patent!" just doesn't cut it. And the standard seems much weaker than even that.
And what's the larger point? That a group of technical geniuses used it...therefore it is awesome for the average person? That they found it useful of the power that makes an OS seem broken and difficult to use for the average joe?
I'm sure they relied even more heavily on professional statistical analysis tools, most of which is probably (even more likely) available on WIndows and even Apple, and even more heavily still on custom software, which can go anywhere. And yes, that includes most I/O piping. Unless Windows does away with their command prompt.
The only problem is that is Assange is throwing in with people like Putin and Chavez, who kill their journalist opponents or, if they're lucky, just get railroaded into jail. Chavez just completed the dictator trifecta -- hassled opponents and journalists, silencing them. Got the "emergency" power to pass law by decree (the "dictator" part of "dictatorship"), and, just recently, outlawed sales of guns and ammunition.
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Certificates, what could possibly go wrong?
"I'm Spartacus."
"No, I'm Spartacus!"
"No, I'm Spartacus!!1!1!111!!"
His layout is dumb -- here's why: QWERTY is a designed layout, with common keys in the middle, rare keys on the edges, and each vowel has its own finger. Dvorak layout is supposedly even more efficient.
This layour is just alphabetical. Someone should produce an optimized layout. Yes, you'll have to train but you're gonna have to train to the new layout of his anyway. It's silly to trade off long-term speed for a few days of marginally easier typing before you learn the positions automatically anyway.
"Don't even introduce the tools of tyrrany," he said, knowing nobody was listening.
Looks like the kibitzing that Microsoft's endless stream of me-too products "isn't the effort of 'I can do it better!' but merely "I can do it, too." finally struck a nerve.
Still, I'll believe it when I see, er, uhh, buy it.
It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Or resistance movememt.
> Ubuntu Still Aims For Wayland In Quantal Quetzal
Blort?
Ummm, Apple prognosticated a voice assistant in fuuristic advertising 20 years ago.
Star Trek did 50 years ago.
And let's not even get into "Gort. Klaatu barada nikto."
The real power is in the dancing bear, not someone's use of it.
What jackass puts a soaked phone in the microwave to dry it out?
Probably the same guy desperately in need of a grammar bot for his tweets.
"I's in ur tweets, correctins ur grammers, I mean, I'm in your tweets, correcting your grammar."
(insert picture of Romney)
"Is in my campain, squandering my snafu"
Ok, that rodents are driven to "suicidal" behavior by seeking out a cat isn't the same kind of suicide drive, almost certainly.
The rodent probably isn't being driven to despair, where it makes a calculus to kill itself. It's probably just thinking running up to that cat is a good idea instead of a bad one.
Rhetorical fail in the article.
Or success, I supppose. :(
Think it won't happen? Here's the plan, man: Your phone is your PC. When you're home and you wanna surf, you just sit down and the TV or a big monitor is connected, as is a wireless keyboard. It all goes through your USB connection while charging at a lil' docking station.
3D might take a little longer as phones can't carry the big iron yet, and I have my doubts on the "in the cloud" 3D rendering where you are basically playing your game watching a video feed of your 3D instead of locally generating it on your computer (this is both response time and video throughput) will happen quite as soon as some are thinking, but there's no reason it won't happen eventually.
At the far end, your phone goes back to being dumb, being nothing more than a video terminal to sent mouse and keyboard clicks out to The Cloud, which is where the guts of your phone will be, and receiving video feeds back of what's going on.
Did they serve up a web page that says, "You're infected, please go to xyz.fbi.gov to clean up your machine."
When I forget to pay my ISP, they redirect all my web pages to their own saying, "Sorry!" (And as an aside, they are idiots because they don't provide a link to pay from that disabled-page. It seems so obvious there's probably somebody with a patent demanding money to do that.)
I haven't seen a "feature" this idiotic since Microsoft removed normal file name search and replaced it with a poor man's Google. Now I can't search for a file by the name I want, but it searches through all files on the whole god damned computer.
Why is what a kleptocracy and dictatorship does "shocking"?
What do you think people there, or here, seek power for in government? So they can gain economic advantages by putting competition, forcefully, out of business.
"You want me to pay extra? Fair enough. I will go stand in front of the press and declare that, due to the ease of securing a degree, this shall no longer be considered a learned university."
"Well, hang on a minute..."
Ya, really.
> Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised"
And what's that? They became a studly male suave wit da ladies?
Yikes! A normal political pith gets me a 0.
No touchey da Linux! >:-(
Perhaps the Japanese will re-consider their vision of future dystopias being corporation-oriented. It's people with guns, which means government, government, government.
Dr. Evil: ...and we will get them to focus on the evils of our large corporation...so our minion in government can be issued emergency powers. Buhwahahahahah. BUWAHAHAHAHAHAH. BUHWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. BUHWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. BUHWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. BUHWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Buwah. Buh. Huhehe. Heh. Hmmm. Back to work!
That's true. Dislike Microsoft if you like, but they only hire really good people, like Google does.
Eh, that's not entirely true. I once solved a bug in 10 minutes that our resident "masters" engineer and two $1000/day Microsoft rentals couldn't in two days.
Of course, I prefer to think of it as I am to them what they are to most of you.
Why is this stuff patentable? We applied to do an SBIR (which we lost) to provide a glasses-based repair manual reference for fighter plane repair crews in the field to help lead them through repairs. In 1989.
Stuff that projects on the inside of your glasses, or directly into your eyeballs, one eye, two eyes, or two eyes binocular, has been around as an idea since before I was even born, in science fiction.
There is no mysterious thing developed here. People just had to plug together already-existing technology.
This is exactly right.
The choice isn't between new expensive medicines and new cheap medicines.
It's between new expensive medicines and no new medicines at all.
If you slow technological development by eviscerating the profit motive (imagine the idiocy of applying it to computers, smart phones, and Internet tech 20 years ago), with medicine, people die who otherwise wouldn't.
20 or 50 years go by, and the tech lags further and further behind where it otherwise would be. This causes increased numbers of deaths who wouldn't otherwise die, like compounding interest.
Had the US been like Europe the past 70 years (and I'm not talking just medicine, but general business unfriendliness) then would the US's production (half of all new medicines) been like Europe's instead?
And you'd stand here in 2012. Happy with your 1980-level "free" medical tech?
If your ears burn over this, they should. You could already be killing people like a major war does. Had Europe spit out medicine like the US does during this time, maybe we'd have 2025 or 2035-level medical tech, and more lives would be saved by the millions each year.
You just can't shove these hypothetically saved lives in front of a camera, the way you can with lives lost due to an expensive medicine. But there's no comparison in the numbers, it's not even close.
The problem isn't patents per se. The problem is idiocy in the patent office in collusion with big corporations.
Somebody is going to invent good robots for the house someday. Somebody is going to invent real artificial intelligence. There's a lot of work jamming forward ever more-efficient high speed 3D algorithms and routing algorithms. People are working on robot cars.
These things can and should have protection.
Here's a good rule: If it's just a simulation of something that already exists, and the mechanism is known (note that the I of AI is not yet known) it's not patentable (unless said thing is still under patent, in which case that guy owns it.) This isn't to say that particularly clever implementations couldn't also be patented.
Just thinking, "Hey! We could simulate this -- patent!" just doesn't cut it. And the standard seems much weaker than even that.
And what's the larger point? That a group of technical geniuses used it...therefore it is awesome for the average person? That they found it useful of the power that makes an OS seem broken and difficult to use for the average joe?
I'm sure they relied even more heavily on professional statistical analysis tools, most of which is probably (even more likely) available on WIndows and even Apple, and even more heavily still on custom software, which can go anywhere. And yes, that includes most I/O piping. Unless Windows does away with their command prompt.
The only problem is that is Assange is throwing in with people like Putin and Chavez, who kill their journalist opponents or, if they're lucky, just get railroaded into jail. Chavez just completed the dictator trifecta -- hassled opponents and journalists, silencing them. Got the "emergency" power to pass law by decree (the "dictator" part of "dictatorship"), and, just recently, outlawed sales of guns and ammunition.