I think thiis womans point is that googol is a word used to describe very large numbers in general - perhaps the idea of counting zeros rather than renaming the number for every third zero.
I don't know what "his work" is on the subject. I believe based on recollection that googol was a fancy word that pedestrians borrowed from the ivory tower of geek math to sound cool and win at trivia. The point here is that the word has moved into the common vanacular ABSENT the meaning orginally ascribed to the word - and with the consequence that people will say "googol" and mean something other than what the person who coined the term meant for it to mean.
Her argument is that they must preserve the meaning of language - and ironically they must respect individuals contribution to language.
This is likely not a suit about money as much as it is about legacy.
She has the right to argue for the proper meaning of words and the reservation of that word for the purpose coined.
Google should embrace the word, and its founder as the shoulders of giants upon which they stand - they should be responsible to maintain the orginal meaning at the same level of exposure as thier somewhat derived meaning now carries.
This is not about patents and money - it is about scientists respecting the scientific contributions of other scientists (and yes google is a science)
Google clearly has capitalized on the name Google, and should be happy to share some of its irrational success by benefitting the people from which it has benefitted.
Yes - they could have used a different name - but they chose this man, his work, and his word to christen their enterprize.
Decency recommends that they show some loyal tribute in return.
I don't know for how much she is asking - but the complaint to some extent looks to raise the question of the man's work into - Very large numbers.
Google should provide the world with a sincere understaning of the root of their title and give credit if credit is due to the man who invisioned the concept (perhaps of inordinant scaleability)?.
I don't know - but that's the point - Google should be a place where among other things people can find out the meaning of the word Google.
(Can I respond try google and get the +5 funny mod myself)
If they need to go to court to figure out a way of respecting their namesake - they should.
One benefit of shared IT is the ability to provide smart water conservation and irrigation.
By tying the rain override together you can easily apply the weather forecast to the rain override and avoid unnecessary watering.
Most semi-smart irrigations use a real time rain detector which is better than nothing - but the best that can be done is actuall forecasted weather.
There may be other benefits - such as seriously secure home burglary systems (not the dial up kind that can be so easily cut off from outside the building)
The solution to this ironically - is to give e-bikes slightly MORE Power.
A Bike that gets to 30 Mph can hold a lane without compromise - and fit INTO existing traffic pattermns - reducing the requirement to pave special paths for bikes.
This is a fair observation - in defense nonetheless of bicycles - the consequences of full frontal impact by a bicycle would probably make you late to work.
The same thing by a car and you may never work again.
The Ebike is the way out of the SUV arms (my car would crush your car in a collision) race.
I find it to be a marked improvement on the pedal only model - appropriate for my less energetic mid-life self.
Proper paths in which biking were safe combined with access to mass transportation would i think may transportation a community event (think train station as the quientessential town hall of the industrial revolution)
Details - Good bike in the States will set you back $1100. Giant Lite is (a) leader stateside.
There are two modes (Throttle and Pedal assist)
Throttled is less appropriate for kids and pedestrian places.
Pedal Assist is impossibly easy to control since it only amplifies the pedal movements.
Mine is the latter.
Here's wishing for a little more speed allowance - not for me - butto reduce the impatience of the cars behind me on narrow roads.
At this gas crunch time - we should encourage our local law to embrace this option by:
1. Granting higher speeds (-30 MPH perhaps) -
2. special rights of way -
3. efforts to keep the roadside clear of glass, potholes, manhole covers, and gravel from gravel drives.
I suggest we name them Vbikes as a means of resisting the influence of the middle east crowd.
Someone recently suggested that paying companies overseas doesn't spoil your economy because somehow that money has to come back.
On the other hand - when that money comes back - it will probably come back as a large lump sum to a small number of persons (wealth concentration).
So is the effect of outsourcing - not a negative net effect on the economy per se - but rather a concentrating effect - with good news for a few and bad news for many - leading in essence to a stagnant economic state (because there are fewer consumers for goods).
In the end what happens under worst case scenario outsourcing?
I believe that OPen Source needs to show the real value behind open standards.
Organizing data by font type is a horrible classification system (What happens in word)
Whenever I end up with a complicated document - I tend to want to seperate content from structure.
If Open Source would offer the advantages of open formatting - rather than competing to out-proprietize Microsoft - they might get farther (on the desktop).
Personally - I think would help to bombard public institutions for computer records of things which might be in proprietary formats and then say you don't have that reader - so you need this in a non-proprietary format.
Not to dismiss the degree to which MS is a monopoly - it is and illegally so - by means and market position.
However;
1. Software can also compete with pirated copies of itself - the biggest alternative to buying from MS is _Not Buying_ from MS.
2. I agree with you that exposing certain trade secrets may end up a more powerful sanction against monoplies - I think your post should be modded up for this reason.
What is stupid is failing to realize that computers are just another medium, and that "fading one image into aother image" has been a common practice since the first slide projector was built.
Having experimented with every imaginable transition, I would suggest that none is so natural as the gentle fade. Perhaps because it mimics to some extent the sliding of the sun behind a cloud - thus "fading one scene into another" naturally.
From this shared experience we project "fading" into amorphic examples "Summer fading into fall". "Love fading", fading youth etc.
But the quintessential fade - I believe is caused by the sun passing behind a cloud - that noticible relief - or some times chill and the effect it has on the emotions as a result of frequency of the change relative to the bodies ability to accomodiate change without notice has this marked effect which we cary into our language and seek to replicate in the virtuality of the computer.
The glass and crap is right. We have a lot of gravel driveways in NC and they tend to litter the gravel out onto the road.
plus Manhole covers etc . ..
1/3 is pretty comfortable, however I occassionaly take more in order to prevent unwise passing. If there is room to pass in the other lane - fine - but (in a narrow place) don't invent room at my expense.
I sometimes ride on the left and invite cars to pass in the damn ditch with the broken glass and crap - if they don't want to go there - why the Bl**dy hell should I?
I'm quite happy with my Giant. I get to work and back on a single charge - It takes 30 minutes - so its running for a hour or more per charge. as 20 mph - that's 20 Miles. I'm sure that range estimate are based on flat land smooth roads and properly inflated tires with jockys in the saddle.
But I would like to get higher top speed.
Maybe I can hack it a bit - fool it into reading fewer rpm for example.
I really think electric bikes has a vital place in sustainable transportation. They are very personable - you can talk to people you see - they are portable - you can bring them into a train etc.
It may not happen overnight however; the ongoing cost of fighting monopoly charges gives competitors (back) some cost advantage.
Consumers are not forced to buy MS - and this is more the case every day rather than less - add to that the aditional cost of litigation with no benefit to the product and the effect will accelerate.
So "passing on the cost to the consumer" is not necessarily a panacea.
(As other post express - monopoly positions, addictive products, and bundling can distort the effects of fining a specific vendor in an uncompetative market place. - OS is mostly uncompetative - not completely however - and that is where there will be shifts in market share as a result.)
Drunk driving isn't a problem because on a bicycle - the problem is self regulating.
(Fair point about hospital submissions) - however - you fail to include all the cancer patients. Most cancers are environmentallly related - translation - the result of burning fossil fuels.
There is a parallel highway - people on this road are trying to avoid the traffic on the main highway by screaming through neighborhoods - I say screw 'em.
Nobody ever waited behind me more than your average traffic light - a 2 minute hill etc . ..
The Hill - I commute - i don't surf.
"Don't be sadistic"
That's the hot button. I think I might feell a touch of pleasure when some redneck with a gun rack guns the engine to pass me and shouts - if you're on this road when I come back - I'll run you over!
I admit it is reassuring when stereotypes play out - it justifies my generally dim view of the South - which I contend has answered its lack of education by embracing and romanticing stupidity "I don't know much about too may things . . . " - or Jessica Simpson's (Is it fish or chicken - cause it says chicken of the sea)
I take the safest route - there are no safer roads to get whhere I'm going.
But the south has built its bridges so narrow that pedestrain traffic is all but impossible.
So - I take pleasure in inflicting the obvious result of failing to make room for both peds and cars - the cars have to wait.
AIK
I have a motor - so I'm a bit faster than your average bike.
There are places where passing is quite easy - and places where a bike could pass - even if
Let's not pretend. Biking in the midst of the SUV arms race is definately a form of Darwinianism.
Which is why I 1. do not ride on the side of the road. (If you do you will experience a great number of near misses)
If the road doesn't have a clear safe shoulder - I ride on the left-hand side of middle
This forces the SUV to go all the way in the other lane to pass.
If you don't force the full - lane pass - they wil attempt the partial lane pass - this is where they squeeze through even if there is oncoming traffic.
Generally - you WANT somebody stuck behind you - then you know nobody is going to hit you going 70.
So they get pissed - So what. Its their lungs If saving too. - If they really cared they would vote for bike lanes - and if they don't care - i don't either.
So you have to go out there with the attitude that says you own the whole damn road (unless there is a good shoulder).
Sustainable solutions and "nose bleed lofty morals" are two different things.
I'm not selling the Highlander. - just using it less.
Bicycles are uniquely sustainable. They do not take up 10 times more room for parking and driving than your average family.
They do not require paving over the oxygen generating plants.
They do not send thousands to the hospitals every day.
Drunk driving isn't an issue.
You can drive them to the door of wherever you're going = rather than the parking garage down the block.
They are healthy and enjoyable.
They are friendly to the earth and the neighbors - they are all around - as Bush would say "really good."
And Yes - sustainable transportation should be pushed in people's faces (in the US) the rest of the world is not afflicted with an Oil Lobby pushing for subsidies of the single highest cause of death - after cigs.
I think I have about 10 miles to work and it seems to take me considerably less with the power assist 35 - 45 min - the hill would be less daunting, and I can choose how flushed I am when I get to work.
The Electric means converting to humand powered commut is available to a broader class of commuters. It includes those with lower fitness, longer commutes, and those who want to enjoy getting to work at a leisurely pace - rather than the greg lemonds amung us with showers waiting for them at work.
Also if you amortize the cost of the bike, give your time some value - even with the price of electricity - I suggest it is the cheapest ride to work (absent a subway) for many people - plus, you can take the bike on a bus or train.
This means you don't have to design the town around mass transit - the eBike gives the nodes of mass transit much larger coverage.
Its Giant Lite - the first advertised bike on the site - and I think the current favorite.
I think there's a bit of a legal defiition to electric bikes which capps the power and speed at a certain power and top assisted speed.
It would be a step up in my opinion for an advanced mode with higher torque and speed - available only after licensing or what have you.
But the point is that traffic can get pretty impatient, and a top speed of 19 mph limits available roads. I use some 45 MPH roads on the way to work - but peope get angry - which doesn't bother me - but it might some - and faster speed - maybe 25 for example would cool them down.
however it is made by Giant which is a hugely available brand in independant shops. Your local shop can order it and provide friendly support and deliver an assembled machine.
note this model tops at 250 watts - and the power backs down as you approach top speed.
Its not a motorcycle - it is a very enjoyable Bike.
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I think thiis womans point is that googol is a word used to describe very large numbers in general - perhaps the idea of counting zeros rather than renaming the number for every third zero.
I don't know what "his work" is on the subject. I believe based on recollection that googol was a fancy word that pedestrians borrowed from the ivory tower of geek math to sound cool and win at trivia. The point here is that the word has moved into the common vanacular ABSENT the meaning orginally ascribed to the word - and with the consequence that people will say "googol" and mean something other than what the person who coined the term meant for it to mean.
Her argument is that they must preserve the meaning of language - and ironically they must respect individuals contribution to language.
This is likely not a suit about money as much as it is about legacy.
She has the right to argue for the proper meaning of words and the reservation of that word for the purpose coined.
Google should embrace the word, and its founder as the shoulders of giants upon which they stand - they should be responsible to maintain the orginal meaning at the same level of exposure as thier somewhat derived meaning now carries.
This is not about patents and money - it is about scientists respecting the scientific contributions of other scientists (and yes google is a science)
AIK
Google clearly has capitalized on the name Google, and should be happy to share some of its irrational success by benefitting the people from which it has benefitted.
Yes - they could have used a different name - but they chose this man, his work, and his word to christen their enterprize.
Decency recommends that they show some loyal tribute in return.
I don't know for how much she is asking - but the complaint to some extent looks to raise the question of the man's work into - Very large numbers.
Google should provide the world with a sincere understaning of the root of their title and give credit if credit is due to the man who invisioned the concept (perhaps of inordinant scaleability)?.
I don't know - but that's the point - Google should be a place where among other things people can find out the meaning of the word Google.
(Can I respond try google and get the +5 funny mod myself)
If they need to go to court to figure out a way of respecting their namesake - they should.
AIK
One benefit of shared IT is the ability to provide smart water conservation and irrigation.
By tying the rain override together you can easily apply the weather forecast to the rain override and avoid unnecessary watering.
Most semi-smart irrigations use a real time rain detector which is better than nothing - but the best that can be done is actuall forecasted weather.
There may be other benefits - such as seriously secure home burglary systems (not the dial up kind that can be so easily cut off from outside the building)
AIK
The solution to this ironically - is to give e-bikes slightly MORE Power.
A Bike that gets to 30 Mph can hold a lane without compromise - and fit INTO existing traffic pattermns - reducing the requirement to pave special paths for bikes.
AIK
This is a fair observation - in defense nonetheless of bicycles - the consequences of full frontal impact by a bicycle would probably make you late to work.
The same thing by a car and you may never work again.
The Ebike is the way out of the SUV arms (my car would crush your car in a collision) race.
AIK
You can get such a bike in your town.
If you have an independant dealer of "Giant" Bicycles - they can special order it and hand it to you assembled.
If you live within 10 miles of work - you can get your excerisize and arrive at work less wasted than a standard bicycle. - I do.
Highly recommended.
AIK
I drive an e-bike to work.
I'm quite happy with it.
I find it to be a marked improvement on the pedal only model - appropriate for my less energetic mid-life self.
Proper paths in which biking were safe combined with access to mass transportation would i think may transportation a community event (think train station as the quientessential town hall of the industrial revolution)
Details - Good bike in the States will set you back $1100. Giant Lite is (a) leader stateside.
There are two modes (Throttle and Pedal assist)
Throttled is less appropriate for kids and pedestrian places.
Pedal Assist is impossibly easy to control since it only amplifies the pedal movements.
Mine is the latter.
Here's wishing for a little more speed allowance - not for me - butto reduce the impatience of the cars behind me on narrow roads.
At this gas crunch time - we should encourage our local law to embrace this option by:
1. Granting higher speeds (-30 MPH perhaps) -
2. special rights of way -
3. efforts to keep the roadside clear of glass, potholes, manhole covers, and gravel from gravel drives.
I suggest we name them Vbikes as a means of resisting the influence of the middle east crowd.
AIK
Someone recently suggested that paying companies overseas doesn't spoil your economy because somehow that money has to come back.
On the other hand - when that money comes back - it will probably come back as a large lump sum to a small number of persons (wealth concentration).
So is the effect of outsourcing - not a negative net effect on the economy per se - but rather a concentrating effect - with good news for a few and bad news for many - leading in essence to a stagnant economic state (because there are fewer consumers for goods).
In the end what happens under worst case scenario outsourcing?
AIK
I believe that OPen Source needs to show the real value behind open standards.
Organizing data by font type is a horrible classification system (What happens in word)
Whenever I end up with a complicated document - I tend to want to seperate content from structure.
If Open Source would offer the advantages of open formatting - rather than competing to out-proprietize Microsoft - they might get farther (on the desktop).
Personally - I think would help to bombard public institutions for computer records of things which might be in proprietary formats and then say you don't have that reader - so you need this in a non-proprietary format.
AIK
Two Points.
Not to dismiss the degree to which MS is a monopoly - it is and illegally so - by means and market position.
However;
1. Software can also compete with pirated copies of itself - the biggest alternative to buying from MS is _Not Buying_ from MS.
2. I agree with you that exposing certain trade secrets may end up a more powerful sanction against monoplies - I think your post should be modded up for this reason.
What is stupid is failing to realize that computers are just another medium, and that "fading one image into aother image" has been a common practice since the first slide projector was built.
Having experimented with every imaginable transition, I would suggest that none is so natural as the gentle fade. Perhaps because it mimics to some extent the sliding of the sun behind a cloud - thus "fading one scene into another" naturally.
From this shared experience we project "fading" into amorphic examples "Summer fading into fall".
"Love fading", fading youth etc.
But the quintessential fade - I believe is caused by the sun passing behind a cloud - that noticible relief - or some times chill and the effect it has on the emotions as a result of frequency of the change relative to the bodies ability to accomodiate change without notice has this marked effect which we cary into our language and seek to replicate in the virtuality of the computer.
AIK
The glass and crap is right.
.
We have a lot of gravel driveways in NC and they tend to litter the gravel out onto the road.
plus Manhole covers etc . .
1/3 is pretty comfortable, however I occassionaly take more in order to prevent unwise passing. If there is room to pass in the other lane - fine - but (in a narrow place) don't invent room at my expense.
I sometimes ride on the left and invite cars to pass in the damn ditch with the broken glass and crap - if they don't want to go there - why the Bl**dy hell should I?
AIK
Sorry you're unhappy with lashout.
I'm quite happy with my Giant.
I get to work and back on a single charge - It takes 30 minutes - so its running for a hour or more per charge. as 20 mph - that's 20 Miles. I'm sure that range estimate are based on flat land smooth roads and properly inflated tires with jockys in the saddle.
But I would like to get higher top speed.
Maybe I can hack it a bit - fool it into reading fewer rpm for example.
I really think electric bikes has a vital place in sustainable transportation. They are very personable - you can talk to people you see - they are portable - you can bring them into a train etc.
AIK
AIK
It may not happen overnight however; the ongoing cost of fighting monopoly charges gives competitors (back) some cost advantage.
Consumers are not forced to buy MS - and this is more the case every day rather than less - add to that the aditional cost of litigation with no benefit to the product and the effect will accelerate.
So "passing on the cost to the consumer" is not necessarily a panacea.
(As other post express - monopoly positions, addictive products, and bundling can distort the effects of fining a specific vendor in an uncompetative market place. - OS is mostly uncompetative - not completely however - and that is where there will be shifts in market share as a result.)
AIK
81 percent of doctors believe smog is a contributing cause of lung cancer
Click
As for drunk bicyclists - I suggest they don't hurt anyone other than themselves
AIK
missouri is such a lousy state with regard to its laws - it hardly bears mentioning.
AAIK
Drunk driving isn't a problem because on a bicycle - the problem is self regulating.
(Fair point about hospital submissions) - however - you fail to include all the cancer patients. Most cancers are environmentallly related - translation - the result of burning fossil fuels.
AIK
There is a parallel highway - people on this road are trying to avoid the traffic on the main highway by screaming through neighborhoods - I say screw 'em.
.
Nobody ever waited behind me more than your average traffic light - a 2 minute hill etc . .
The Hill - I commute - i don't surf.
"Don't be sadistic"
That's the hot button. I think I might feell a touch of pleasure when some redneck with a gun rack guns the engine to pass me and shouts - if you're on this road when I come back - I'll run you over!
I admit it is reassuring when stereotypes play out - it justifies my generally dim view of the South - which I contend has answered its lack of education by embracing and romanticing stupidity "I don't know much about too may things . . . " - or Jessica Simpson's (Is it fish or chicken - cause it says chicken of the sea)
I take the safest route - there are no safer roads to get whhere I'm going.
But the south has built its bridges so narrow that pedestrain traffic is all but impossible.
So - I take pleasure in inflicting the obvious result of failing to make room for both peds and cars - the cars have to wait.
AIK
I have a motor - so I'm a bit faster than your average bike.
There are places where passing is quite easy - and places where a bike could pass - even if
Let's not pretend. Biking in the midst of the SUV arms race is definately a form of Darwinianism.
Which is why I 1. do not ride on the side of the road. (If you do you will experience a great number of near misses)
If the road doesn't have a clear safe shoulder - I ride on the left-hand side of middle
This forces the SUV to go all the way in the other lane to pass.
If you don't force the full - lane pass - they wil attempt the partial lane pass - this is where they squeeze through even if there is oncoming traffic.
Generally - you WANT somebody stuck behind you - then you know nobody is going to hit you going 70.
So they get pissed - So what. Its their lungs If saving too. - If they really cared they would vote for bike lanes - and if they don't care - i don't either.
So you have to go out there with the attitude that says you own the whole damn road (unless there is a good shoulder).
AIK
Sustainable solutions and "nose bleed lofty morals" are two different things.
I'm not selling the Highlander. - just using it less.
Bicycles are uniquely sustainable. They do not take up 10 times more room for parking and driving than your average family.
They do not require paving over the oxygen generating plants.
They do not send thousands to the hospitals every day.
Drunk driving isn't an issue.
You can drive them to the door of wherever you're going = rather than the parking garage down the block.
They are healthy and enjoyable.
They are friendly to the earth and the neighbors - they are all around - as Bush would say "really good."
And Yes - sustainable transportation should be pushed in people's faces (in the US) the rest of the world is not afflicted with an Oil Lobby pushing for subsidies of the single highest cause of death - after cigs.
AIK
I believe you can find sound memory boards -
2 .htm
for 30 dollars complete with actual wire terminals etc.
try http://electronickits.com/kit/complete/audi/ck121
link
I think I have about 10 miles to work and it seems to take me considerably less with the power assist 35 - 45 min - the hill would be less daunting, and I can choose how flushed I am when I get to work.
The Electric means converting to humand powered commut is available to a broader class of commuters. It includes those with lower fitness, longer commutes, and those who want to enjoy getting to work at a leisurely pace - rather than the greg lemonds amung us with showers waiting for them at work.
Also if you amortize the cost of the bike, give your time some value - even with the price of electricity - I suggest it is the cheapest ride to work (absent a subway) for many people - plus, you can take the bike on a bus or train.
This means you don't have to design the town around mass transit - the eBike gives the nodes of mass transit much larger coverage.
AIK
AIK
AIK
Its Giant Lite - the first advertised bike on the site - and I think the current favorite.
I think there's a bit of a legal defiition to electric bikes which capps the power and speed at a certain power and top assisted speed.
It would be a step up in my opinion for an advanced mode with higher torque and speed - available only after licensing or what have you.
But the point is that traffic can get pretty impatient, and a top speed of 19 mph limits available roads. I use some 45 MPH roads on the way to work - but peope get angry - which doesn't bother me - but it might some - and faster speed - maybe 25 for example would cool them down.
AIK
Pretty Sure noone read the article - it was slashdotted during the preview period I reckon
I bought it here: Bikes
however it is made by Giant which is a hugely available brand in independant shops. Your local shop can order it and provide friendly support and deliver an assembled machine.
note this model tops at 250 watts - and the power backs down as you approach top speed.
Its not a motorcycle - it is a very enjoyable Bike.
AIK