The new SoundWave technology was accidentally discovered
I hate to split hairs, but a technology cannot be discovered. A phenomenon can be discovered, and technology can implement that phenomenon, but unless you're discovering a technological implementation made by someone else, it's not discovery.
"Opera Software's R-and-D department today announced the discovery of a new technology dubbed 'Opera SoundWave' - a platform-independent speech solution for short - and medium-range interpersonal communication.
How can someone "discover" a new technology that they actual developed? It's not like discovering a new element or planet.
Based on open standards, Opera's patent-pending P2P speech technology uses analogue signals carried through open air, enabling users to communicate in real- time without the use of computers or mobile phones.
I claim prior art! I've been using analogue signals carried through open air to communicate with users for the past 30 years!
Have you seen a change in the level of respect that you receive?
Thank gosh! I thought I was crazy, and for along time I thought I was the only to whom this has happened.
I used to command a lot of respect when I was a technician in the 80's. Of course back then, I had to wear a suit and shower daily, which is against my religion.
Now, thanks to the ever-increasing tolerance and appreciation for various lifestyles and religions, I am now permitted to wear business casual, and it has been ruled unconstitutional and against my religious rights to force me to shower. So I'm glad I gained a bit of freedom, but I noticed that clients seem to resent me for it and try to show their displeasure by standing as far away from me as possible.
Also, I think there are bad impressions about me because so many of American jobs go to my relatives overseas. They are hard workers, and they deserve the jobs! Just because we cannot speak in an accent that is understood by our customers DOES NOT make us unqualified to represent!
Also personally my boss really seems to hate the fact that I leave work 3 times a day to go pray. I don't understand, it's only 1 hour of prayer every now and then, and it's not like my presence is missed! My only comfort is that he will be sent to the eternal tar trap in the fifth level of Zimboonu when he is finally striken for his transgressions.
I don't know. Over the past few years, it seems as though I have been getting more and more opportunities and freedoms, but now more people resent me. I thought this was the land of "live freely as a free person might, doing freely as you wish!"
That doesn't change the fact that the product is at the price it's at because of Sony's choices on manufacturing quality.
And I would totally agree with you if Sony sold pure laptops for $100 more, laptops with 1 dead pixel for $90 more, laptops with 2 dead pixels for $80 more, etc. But with the current scheme, Sony is attempting to pass itself as selling one product, which varies in quality from item to item, but does not vary in price.
If they say they're selling a unit with an LCD display that may have a dead pixel or two, then that's what your money buys.
But they're not saying that. In fact, that incidental little fact only appears in their disclaimers. I doubt you'd see Sony advertising, "Oh this great laptop is guaranteed to have less than 9 dead pixels, but for the same price your best friend might get a product that's better than yours!"
Wow, it's funny that the first post has totally commandeered the forum, and not one reply thus far has anything to do with the submitted book review.
Anyways, if you're really serious about the game industry, I suggest you try to find some open source games to which to contribute. Look for one with decent project management and development activity.
I was involved with a grass-roots remake of the popular Ultima series, and it was a pretty enlightening experience because the project leader actually did decent project management, and strived to hit deadlines.
Often you'll find that game development, under the constraint of other people's visions, compromises, and sacrifices, can leave a sour taste in your mouth if you're not willing to make those trade-offs.
Once you determine that game development really is for you, actually working for a company with marketing and sales demands (such as hitting an unrealistic holiday deadline) will further test your mettle, especially if the project manager doesn't have excellent qualities.
Man, that's so screwed up! I just bought my mom the Platinum edition Slackware collection so she could use Gnome. Now that it's going to be removed, I'm gonna switch back to Windows 98 ME.
FWIW, the paper this morning was pointing out how this discovery might leave a gaping hole in evolutionary theory.
Probably not. We're still learning all about various aspects of genes, DNA, and evolution.
For example, did you know that plants can activate certain genes in response to stressful conditions?
Did you know that bacteria strains can hypermutate in response to conditions in which that bacteria might otherwise die out?
Here are a few links I've just Googled. None of them are the original research papers that I read a few years ago, but they should provide any interested reader with a good starting point:
I can relate. I have cookbooks for food that have all these recipes that are nothing but flour, butter, eggs, and sugar. Do we need all these recipes for pancakes, cupcakes, cookies, crepes, waffles, popovers, bread, quick bread, bread sticks?
If you think there's only a minor variation between cookies and bread, let me adopt you. You'll be the easiest kid ever to take care of.
Another quibble revolves around some of the coding of the expressions. Nathan has made liberal use of the non-capturing groups (that is, (: expr )) to insure only the items that needed replacement were captured. While a worthy idea, in some cases the expression may have been simplified for understanding.
I'm not sure I understand what your quibble is - do you dislike the fact that he uses non-capturing groups, or the fact that he disposes of them at certain points?
Another issue is a slight error in searching for letters. In a number of expressions, Nathan uses [A-z] to capture all letters. Unfortunately, the special characters [, \, ], ^, _, and ` occur between upper-case Z and lower-case a, making it match too much. Either [[:alpha:]] or [A-Za-z] should have been used.
This seems like a relatively novice mistake, and I'm surprised it would show up in a book on regular expressions.
Despite these quibbles, Regular Expression Recipes does provide a useful compendium of solutions for common problems developers face. Presenting the information in a cookbook fashion, along with ensuring that those using something other than Perl don't have to sweat translating the expressions to their target language, makes this a handy book to have. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.
It's nice that he covers five environments for regular expressions. I'm sure everyone has heard of Mastering Regular Expressions, published by O'Reilly. The Perl Cookbook also does a good job at solving common problems with Regular expressions.
This is just my opinion, but I think what the world needs is a book on Regular Expression Design Patterns.
I think anyone who criticizes global warming at all should be drowned in a sea. Everyone agrees that global warming is a great catastrophe waiting to happen, that will result in most of the world dissolving away like a wet paper towel. Only satanists criticize global warming or people who believe everything they read about global warming.
Sigh. Okay. I've just demonstrated that I've tried to understand the perspective of a group of people with which I disagree. But I still can't bring myself to enjoy their sentiment.
I interviewed with Amazon last year, despite the fact that I hate patents all to hell, and Amazon is a patent whore.
All I can say is that many of their team members spend all day thinking about how to improve customer experience, which is great. But unfortunately for the rest of the world, those ideas turn into patents which then no one else can use.
I agree that Amazon ought to be rewarded for the amount of innovation they produce, but it seems that they already are being rewarded by a high percentage of loyal customers.
Thank God. I'm getting tired of all these numeric-based standards like "802.15.3a". Pretty soon they'll be using IP addresses for standards, and the IP address will lead to the homepage of the standard.
null etc. (524767), you ignorant slut. Have you heard of Balco and Victor Conte? They specifically designed doping products to be undetectable by current tests (as of a couple years back)
That's great. And when someone posts a review of a book regarding Balco and Victor Conte, I'll be the first to read it.
This submission, however, is a review about a user of steroids, and how steroids affects baseball. The only science involved in this book, and its review, is how many times Jose stuck a needle in someone's ass.
I'm surprised that everyone is letting the FCC get away with this. Since when do they have the authority to mandate the business model of cable companies? Pretty soon they'll be telling mobile phone providers that they can't lock their phone or use proprietary technologies.
I, as a consumer, personally like the choice that these decisions are providing to consumers, but I disagree that the FCC should be involved.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree, but this one is actually pretty funny if you read it (and are a programmer).
Yes, but tomorrow I won't be at work, and the hours won't seem to creep by so sloooooooowly...
Slashdot is nice because just like a fresh little breeze once an hour, an interesting story can spark the day up and make work seem more enjoyable.
But on Friday for gosh sakes! We really need it! No one wants to work on Friday! And now we can't even fall back upon slashdot.
shudder
I hate to split hairs, but a technology cannot be discovered. A phenomenon can be discovered, and technology can implement that phenomenon, but unless you're discovering a technological implementation made by someone else, it's not discovery.
How can someone "discover" a new technology that they actual developed? It's not like discovering a new element or planet.
Based on open standards, Opera's patent-pending P2P speech technology uses analogue signals carried through open air, enabling users to communicate in real- time without the use of computers or mobile phones.
I claim prior art! I've been using analogue signals carried through open air to communicate with users for the past 30 years!
Thank gosh! I thought I was crazy, and for along time I thought I was the only to whom this has happened.
I used to command a lot of respect when I was a technician in the 80's. Of course back then, I had to wear a suit and shower daily, which is against my religion.
Now, thanks to the ever-increasing tolerance and appreciation for various lifestyles and religions, I am now permitted to wear business casual, and it has been ruled unconstitutional and against my religious rights to force me to shower. So I'm glad I gained a bit of freedom, but I noticed that clients seem to resent me for it and try to show their displeasure by standing as far away from me as possible.
Also, I think there are bad impressions about me because so many of American jobs go to my relatives overseas. They are hard workers, and they deserve the jobs! Just because we cannot speak in an accent that is understood by our customers DOES NOT make us unqualified to represent!
Also personally my boss really seems to hate the fact that I leave work 3 times a day to go pray. I don't understand, it's only 1 hour of prayer every now and then, and it's not like my presence is missed! My only comfort is that he will be sent to the eternal tar trap in the fifth level of Zimboonu when he is finally striken for his transgressions.
I don't know. Over the past few years, it seems as though I have been getting more and more opportunities and freedoms, but now more people resent me. I thought this was the land of "live freely as a free person might, doing freely as you wish!"
And I would totally agree with you if Sony sold pure laptops for $100 more, laptops with 1 dead pixel for $90 more, laptops with 2 dead pixels for $80 more, etc. But with the current scheme, Sony is attempting to pass itself as selling one product, which varies in quality from item to item, but does not vary in price.
If they say they're selling a unit with an LCD display that may have a dead pixel or two, then that's what your money buys.
But they're not saying that. In fact, that incidental little fact only appears in their disclaimers. I doubt you'd see Sony advertising, "Oh this great laptop is guaranteed to have less than 9 dead pixels, but for the same price your best friend might get a product that's better than yours!"
Anyways, if you're really serious about the game industry, I suggest you try to find some open source games to which to contribute. Look for one with decent project management and development activity.
I was involved with a grass-roots remake of the popular Ultima series, and it was a pretty enlightening experience because the project leader actually did decent project management, and strived to hit deadlines.
Often you'll find that game development, under the constraint of other people's visions, compromises, and sacrifices, can leave a sour taste in your mouth if you're not willing to make those trade-offs.
Once you determine that game development really is for you, actually working for a company with marketing and sales demands (such as hitting an unrealistic holiday deadline) will further test your mettle, especially if the project manager doesn't have excellent qualities.
Michael Crichton is currently writing a book about a handful of these devices that start talking to each other and manage to take over the world.
Man, that's so screwed up! I just bought my mom the Platinum edition Slackware collection so she could use Gnome. Now that it's going to be removed, I'm gonna switch back to Windows 98 ME.
Probably not. We're still learning all about various aspects of genes, DNA, and evolution.
For example, did you know that plants can activate certain genes in response to stressful conditions?
Did you know that bacteria strains can hypermutate in response to conditions in which that bacteria might otherwise die out?
Here are a few links I've just Googled. None of them are the original research papers that I read a few years ago, but they should provide any interested reader with a good starting point:
Plants activate genes
Plants and bacteria strains
What's there to explain? The world's gonna melt away in 100 years, and everyone agrees.
If you think there's only a minor variation between cookies and bread, let me adopt you. You'll be the easiest kid ever to take care of.
Yum, peanut butter and jelly cookies'mich.
I'm not sure I understand what your quibble is - do you dislike the fact that he uses non-capturing groups, or the fact that he disposes of them at certain points?
Another issue is a slight error in searching for letters. In a number of expressions, Nathan uses [A-z] to capture all letters. Unfortunately, the special characters [, \, ], ^, _, and ` occur between upper-case Z and lower-case a, making it match too much. Either [[:alpha:]] or [A-Za-z] should have been used.
This seems like a relatively novice mistake, and I'm surprised it would show up in a book on regular expressions.
Despite these quibbles, Regular Expression Recipes does provide a useful compendium of solutions for common problems developers face. Presenting the information in a cookbook fashion, along with ensuring that those using something other than Perl don't have to sweat translating the expressions to their target language, makes this a handy book to have. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.
It's nice that he covers five environments for regular expressions. I'm sure everyone has heard of Mastering Regular Expressions, published by O'Reilly. The Perl Cookbook also does a good job at solving common problems with Regular expressions.
This is just my opinion, but I think what the world needs is a book on Regular Expression Design Patterns.
Sigh. Okay. I've just demonstrated that I've tried to understand the perspective of a group of people with which I disagree. But I still can't bring myself to enjoy their sentiment.
I know how to fix it, but the longer it remains broken, the longer I can get out of doing work.
All I can say is that many of their team members spend all day thinking about how to improve customer experience, which is great. But unfortunately for the rest of the world, those ideas turn into patents which then no one else can use.
I agree that Amazon ought to be rewarded for the amount of innovation they produce, but it seems that they already are being rewarded by a high percentage of loyal customers.
I sure hope someone figures out how to talk to aliens sometime soon. I keep asking the IT guys to fix my computer, but I've not yet gotten a response.
When can I get my "mofasterbiggerwider-fi?"
That's great. And when someone posts a review of a book regarding Balco and Victor Conte, I'll be the first to read it.
This submission, however, is a review about a user of steroids, and how steroids affects baseball. The only science involved in this book, and its review, is how many times Jose stuck a needle in someone's ass.
Semantic web, baby! That would invalidate ballot stuffing.
Uhm, yeah. Steroids are "biotech". Nice justification for submitting a baseball story review to /.
I, as a consumer, personally like the choice that these decisions are providing to consumers, but I disagree that the FCC should be involved.
What's Hollywood going to do when they've finished making a movie for each super hero?
Java 1.1 = Java
Java 1.2 = Java2
Java 1.3 = Java2 version 1.3
Java 1.4 = Java2 version 1.4
Java 1.5 = Java2 version 5?!?!?!
I mean crykies, I'm almost in fear of what Java 1.6 will be named. And prepare to move into a bomb shelter when Java 2.0 comes out.