Even losing a child is not punishment enough for,
1. buying such a realistic toy gun (I've seen idiots remove the orange thingy from other toys cause "it aint realistic enough")
2. Leaving it where a 3 year old could put a hand on it. In the wild west days the parent of a child who got the gun was punished as if he had committed the crime regardless of how the kid got the gun because "Gun control" was very important when it was a valuable tool of every day life.
I'm a staunch advocate of the second amendment but I also believe you need to be responsible for your actions and those of the children you are teaching to cope with the world. Hopefully you can keep them from harm until you give them the full set of tools to deal with life. Tragedy will still happen but if you deal with things right it will be a true tragedy out of your control rather than a stupid action on your part. People will make mistakes but this was not a mistake it was a criminal action the proportions of which few of you seem to realize.
Sorry they used the word "Translate" this is also within the capability of a display device. Translation is yet another mathematical term applied to matrices.
You are confused. People are complaining about an obvious injustice
Excuse me, no they were expressing ignorance. You appear to be complaining about an injustice that YOU feel is obvious. A "transform" when applied to a graphics device is an algorithm applied to a graphics buffer within the device that can alter the way it is displayed. A transform is also a mathematical expression of matrix manipulation. I plead ignorance of the details on this specific occasion myself. But a display can indeed include hardware and software to "transform" the display. While the PTO may not be perfect it certainly remains the law of the land.
Actually it was even simpler than that. It used a contact in the connector in the rotation assembly to tell which way the display was oriented. Mercury switches are not actually the most obvious by the way as this was not a tilt switch like used in your home temperature adjusting device it had to be certain when the rotation had been completely accomplished.
Why do people who are ignorant of the specifics of the patent process and in fact of the technology that they claim was there first always say that. Please relieve your ignorance first then try to make intelligent statements about these things. Just because a technology similar to the one being patented existed in one form or another does not make it un-patentable in this form and implementation. It just makes you sound stupid when you spout this kind of crap. I once thought as you do but then I got a patent on network printer drivers with specialized hardware and even though network printer drivers with specialized hardware had existed before, ours was indeed unique and patentable. So do some research please.
"lying scumbag executive"
I looked this term up and found that the top executives of most major corporations (Intel, Microsoft,HP etc.) were listed there with special notations for a "G.W. Bush" and a few other high government officials from the 60's and 70's. Sounds like he's in good company to me.
Actually Apple did offer to license the patents from Nokia but Nokia tried to get Apple to give them all of the family jewels instead of the reasonable licensing they offered the other smart phone makers. Apple offered to give them access to the patents that Nokia is being sued for violating but that wasn't enough for Nokia. Apple was sitting there taking it for a while but now that they are the target of all the other smart phone makers it's time to take off the gloves and get back in the game!
And during my training for nuclear, biological and chemical warfare defense I was shown films as well. Perhaps that is the perfect venue. Not on a blog. Why should we who have no real reason to look at this morbid piece of goreporn bother to take your advice?
And your feelings about this are irrelevant because you failed to post your name. Your feelings are irrelevant anyway as you have no decision making authority nor ability to punish these people beyond not giving them ratings.
There is a difference between reporting and exploiting. Repeated showing of something that you admit presents a morbid draw is mere exploitation it does not require that you present graphic aids to report this.
And maybe next we can put those marshmallows and pillows next to all the freeways and all the sidewalks and on the front of all cars and strollers and then we can make sure that there are no sharp objects that anybody can get hold of to maybe accidentally cut themselves. This post isn't insightful it's pathetic. If you want your children to think twice about doing anything dangerous then maybe education rather than voyeurism is in order. Personally I don't care if you show your fetus this footage but please don't try to sanitize the world from dangerous things simply because they are dangerous. It's a dangerous sport and there are construction details that we are perhaps not privy to that made it necessary to put that beam there.
That's because your livelyhood doesn't depend upon the reactions of viewers to negative content. I see their point and remember that someone's cash cow is giving a lot of people their milk and bread.
Yes I agree, but he could offer to take it down out of concern for the families privacy rather than because the IOC has asked him to. Take the Moral high road and keep your freedom of speech at the same time. why not, you lose little. Blog about it by all means but the goreporn value is pretty nil anyway.
Even in Image analysis, you really only need the basics of calculus. If you know how to construct a problem you are well on your way to solving the basics of the problem. There you do need to know how to apply an FFT or construct a series of transforms, and matrix manipulations but not that intense really.
Have you ever tried teaching college level programming to recent American high school graduates?
Yes, yes I have.
They need the better part of a decade's worth of intensive mathematics training to get to the point that they could really grok the difference between what goes into a "slow" O(n^2) algorithm and its "fast" O(nlog[n]) counterpart.
To quote another poster "most people don't deal with logs in everyday life." and in everyday programming, even intense DB and Graphics programming you don't need to "Grok" it.
Yeah I pretty much got this stuff across in less than a semester. Didn't require an IQ higher than 110 to handle it either.
Oh by the way I'm self taught too and don't have a degree in anything. But I do have a good deal of practical experience in programming at most levels. That I believe is what is required to teach others. It sounds to me like you may be locked into academia rather than practical applications.
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And usually you are held responsible for it. This was not a tragic mistake it was a murder and should be treated as such.
Even losing a child is not punishment enough for,
1. buying such a realistic toy gun (I've seen idiots remove the orange thingy from other toys cause "it aint realistic enough")
2. Leaving it where a 3 year old could put a hand on it. In the wild west days the parent of a child who got the gun was punished as if he had committed the crime regardless of how the kid got the gun because "Gun control" was very important when it was a valuable tool of every day life.
I'm a staunch advocate of the second amendment but I also believe you need to be responsible for your actions and those of the children you are teaching to cope with the world. Hopefully you can keep them from harm until you give them the full set of tools to deal with life. Tragedy will still happen but if you deal with things right it will be a true tragedy out of your control rather than a stupid action on your part. People will make mistakes but this was not a mistake it was a criminal action the proportions of which few of you seem to realize.
I don't see how this is funny. It is true at worst, a sad statement at best.
As a software developer that owns an iPhone 3GS owner
Wow, how do I get one of those. I've always wanted a 3GS owner.
Sorry they used the word "Translate" this is also within the capability of a display device. Translation is yet another mathematical term applied to matrices.
You are confused.
People are complaining about an obvious injustice
Excuse me, no they were expressing ignorance. You appear to be complaining about an injustice that YOU feel is obvious. A "transform" when applied to a graphics device is an algorithm applied to a graphics buffer within the device that can alter the way it is displayed. A transform is also a mathematical expression of matrix manipulation. I plead ignorance of the details on this specific occasion myself. But a display can indeed include hardware and software to "transform" the display. While the PTO may not be perfect it certainly remains the law of the land.
They have been ganging up with a new iPhone killer coming out every month now...maybe one will actually do it someday but not today.
Ya know that stutter can be cured....
Actually a Dell running Windows XP, why?
But that is exactly what slashdot is! A place of massive expressed ignorance!
Actually it was even simpler than that. It used a contact in the connector in the rotation assembly to tell which way the display was oriented. Mercury switches are not actually the most obvious by the way as this was not a tilt switch like used in your home temperature adjusting device it had to be certain when the rotation had been completely accomplished.
Why do people who are ignorant of the specifics of the patent process and in fact of the technology that they claim was there first always say that. Please relieve your ignorance first then try to make intelligent statements about these things. Just because a technology similar to the one being patented existed in one form or another does not make it un-patentable in this form and implementation. It just makes you sound stupid when you spout this kind of crap. I once thought as you do but then I got a patent on network printer drivers with specialized hardware and even though network printer drivers with specialized hardware had existed before, ours was indeed unique and patentable. So do some research please.
"lying scumbag executive"
I looked this term up and found that the top executives of most major corporations (Intel, Microsoft,HP etc.) were listed there with special notations for a "G.W. Bush" and a few other high government officials from the 60's and 70's. Sounds like he's in good company to me.
Actually Apple did offer to license the patents from Nokia but Nokia tried to get Apple to give them all of the family jewels instead of the reasonable licensing they offered the other smart phone makers. Apple offered to give them access to the patents that Nokia is being sued for violating but that wasn't enough for Nokia. Apple was sitting there taking it for a while but now that they are the target of all the other smart phone makers it's time to take off the gloves and get back in the game!
The "Court of Public Opinion" Is a vigilante and needs to be clubbed into submission frequently.
And during my training for nuclear, biological and chemical warfare defense I was shown films as well. Perhaps that is the perfect venue. Not on a blog. Why should we who have no real reason to look at this morbid piece of goreporn bother to take your advice?
And your feelings about this are irrelevant because you failed to post your name. Your feelings are irrelevant anyway as you have no decision making authority nor ability to punish these people beyond not giving them ratings.
There is a difference between reporting and exploiting. Repeated showing of something that you admit presents a morbid draw is mere exploitation it does not require that you present graphic aids to report this.
Not evil, just sick and twisted. I have a concern about death and a curiosity, but a fascination would be a little creepy thank you very much.
I grant you that. But having put it up the moral high ground moves slightly to a reason to remove it. Thank you.
And maybe next we can put those marshmallows and pillows next to all the freeways and all the sidewalks and on the front of all cars and strollers and then we can make sure that there are no sharp objects that anybody can get hold of to maybe accidentally cut themselves. This post isn't insightful it's pathetic. If you want your children to think twice about doing anything dangerous then maybe education rather than voyeurism is in order. Personally I don't care if you show your fetus this footage but please don't try to sanitize the world from dangerous things simply because they are dangerous. It's a dangerous sport and there are construction details that we are perhaps not privy to that made it necessary to put that beam there.
That's because your livelyhood doesn't depend upon the reactions of viewers to negative content. I see their point and remember that someone's cash cow is giving a lot of people their milk and bread.
Yes I agree, but he could offer to take it down out of concern for the families privacy rather than because the IOC has asked him to. Take the Moral high road and keep your freedom of speech at the same time. why not, you lose little. Blog about it by all means but the goreporn value is pretty nil anyway.
Even in Image analysis, you really only need the basics of calculus. If you know how to construct a problem you are well on your way to solving the basics of the problem. There you do need to know how to apply an FFT or construct a series of transforms, and matrix manipulations but not that intense really.
Have you ever tried teaching college level programming to recent American high school graduates?
Yes, yes I have.
They need the better part of a decade's worth of intensive mathematics training to get to the point that they could really grok the difference between what goes into a "slow" O(n^2) algorithm and its "fast" O(nlog[n]) counterpart.
To quote another poster "most people don't deal with logs in everyday life." and in everyday programming, even intense DB and Graphics programming you don't need to "Grok" it.
Yeah I pretty much got this stuff across in less than a semester. Didn't require an IQ higher than 110 to handle it either.
Oh by the way I'm self taught too and don't have a degree in anything. But I do have a good deal of practical experience in programming at most levels. That I believe is what is required to teach others. It sounds to me like you may be locked into academia rather than practical applications.