One of the first uses of punchcards-- indeed turing's inspirations-- was feeding patterns into looms. Somehow this is satisfyingly full circle in the age of steam punk.
I suspect this is a test of the system. Put somerhing in their that kids want that is not true contraband like cigarettes. Kids will figure out how to defeat the security by, say wearing masks or holding up newsweek magazine covers. Maker of machine then improves software. The war continues till kids can't defeat it. Now you can load it with cigarettes and alcohol.
Our form of government is intentionally set up to display adversarial behaviour. Unlike a monarchy where there is a single voice and perhaps no free press. In the US we set up a system where opposing parties could say whatg was wrong with the other team. Newspapers could shine sunlight and free speech assured no one could supress these opposition messages. It helps keep politicians honest and the people informed when they are not up holding the ideals they promote.
Your implied condemnation is not quite appropriate in this case. It's a good thing to have the opposition offer up the case for why the opponent is weak. Where it goes off track is when it mucks around in things that are salacious and irrelevant or distorts the truth. Pointing out that Gingrich favored freddies mac while being paid to do so, and then condemning when his payments stopped is fair.
Just tried the link http://newtgingrich.com/ and up comes freddiemac.com, which you may recall is the organization that paid newt 50,000 per hour for consulting. Now Newt considers this a feather in his cap and a good example of how his intellectual abilities are well appreciated. So it hardly seems like this is sandbagging him. He'd approve of this recommendation.
I wonder if this is also a clever way to avoid patent infringement claims. An overt reference to a world wide icon like that sort of blames the inspriration and any similarities to siri on unpatented prior art right out of the gate.
I don't watch pro sports because I can't relate to it. It's not interesting. Now college and lower are really interesting. There are huge differences in the athletes and you can see it. Mistakes happen so you can compare perfection to imperfection. Coaches matter too. And everyone is having fun. Pro just kills it. If they are going to go pro I'd like to see them go all the way and allow super modified cyborg humans compete.
I was wondering the same thing. But the article said most of these patents were filed in the 1990s and were products of it's research department. This lends some credibility that these are not rushes to patent the obvious in a new context but rather very early research that perhaps deservedly should be rewarded for pushing technology forward.
But it does remain to be seen. A patent on deciding if you have enough bandwidth to stream or download a file sure doesn't sound like much of an innovation.
Submitted-by: Larry Wall Posting-number: Volume 13, Issue 1 Archive-name: perl/part01
[ Perl is kind of designed to make awk and sed semi-obsolete. This posting
will include the first 10 patches after the main source. The following
description is lifted from Larry's manpage. --r$ ]
Perl is a interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text
files, extracting information from those text files, and printing
reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many
system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical
(easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny,
elegant, minimal). It combines (in the author's opinion, anyway) some
of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh, so people familiar with
those languages should have little difficulty with it. (Language
historians will also note some vestiges of csh, Pascal, and even
BASIC-PLUS.) Expression syntax corresponds quite closely to C
expression syntax. If you have a problem that would ordinarily use sed
or awk or sh, but it exceeds their capabilities or must run a little
faster, and you don't want to write the silly thing in C, then perl may
be for you. There are also translators to turn your sed and awk
scripts into perl scripts.
I think the master point he made was that it's actually the OS he likes. Or rather the lack of an OS to deal with. No real responsibilities to manage. Just a pure application interface. He also liked the long battery life.
It subtly stutters. the playback just looks shakey. I contact Netflix after experiencing this and they told me this a a chrome problem. It is reproducible for me on multiple machines.
At my institution we routinely buy back equipment from salvage yards it was sold to. But this actually makes sense. We clear out lots of old stuff rather than pack ratting it. It's a small price to pay for the convenience of getting stuff we need back.
The obvious remark that someone could make is "spec don't matter, the ipad will prevail". This device is going to be the acid test of that theory. Here, finally, is a device at the same price point with unarguably more processor power and a bigger scree and more ports. It's running the first mature (in my opinion) android OS. Will this compete with the ipad when nothing else has?
What is also instructive is that the benches show that all the processor power is very helpful for graphics and math computing but relatively unimportant for many things people use tablets for like checking e-mail and surfing or watching a video. Other things like touch lag or seemless integration or simplicity of syncing are likely to be concerns. What buyers know is that if they buy an ipad they won't regret it. But they worry about the transformer. Will the processor spec overwhelm in interface concerns?
This will be very interesting to watch. it puts out a marker for both the tegra concept and a technical challenge for the ipad 3
I use safari so I have to post an off topic comment right below the first post. In the 2 years I went from safari to firefox, cause it lacked plugins and compatibility, and then when firefox got slow to chrome which was lightning fast. But Then I noticed that for chrome didn't work well with Netflix streaming (Netflix tech support agrees so it's not me) and I also started getting more and more ads related to websites I visited. To solve the Netflix streaming issues, I went back to safari with Lion 10.7. And Wow, safari is now awesome. It's plenty fast and has plugins like flash block. It works on more sites than even Firefox. I briefly flirted with Opera but liked safari because it was more mac-like in expected behaviors.
So for the next year I'm using safari. Which browser is king varies.
In the late 1980s Apple Computer and VLSI Technology started working with Acorn on the second generation of the ARM core. So once again Apple is there. It's getting like the black obelisk on 2001. Pick anything and apple may not have invented it but they did shape what it became.
I just checked the fuses on the car socket and suprisingly they are intact. The conditioner itself (inductor and caps) did not have a fuse. I can't actually figure out which element exploded: the whole case is town apart and the PC board shattered but all the caps look fine. it's the wires and springs that look cooked. Also it did not sound like a firecracker, it was more of a concussive sound. Our first thought was we had sideswiped an elk or someone had shot the window.
Coincidentally yesterday I was driving while the kids watched movies on DVD players. Then Bang a huge explosions and plastic and metal go flying. The cigarette lighter power adapters conditioning electronics had exploded. I didn't drive off the road but could have. It looks like the culprit was a kink in the cord, perhaps from getting caught in a door at some point, causing a short. The violence of the explosion was surprising both literally and figuratively. You just don't realize how explosive your consumer electronics can be when they go bad.
I would think that the time savings would even be more dramatic on a plane. plus the planes would not have to go through as amny pressure cycles. thus the long-distance planes could be built lighter, while the short haul dock ing craft built heavier.
just prevent someone from creating a smartphone that (to most consumers) looked identical to an iPhone
Well, they need to go find somebody else to sue then because Samsung does not sell a single phone that anybody with more than two brain cells to bang together would mistake for looking "identical to an iPhone".
You do know that in a court room, when asked by a judge, samasung's own lawyers could not pick out the samsung from the apple at ten feet?
Exactly. If some one were patenting location services today from scratch the patent would only be usable if they were inventing a whole new way of knowing where you are and knowing what services apply there.
But at the time Xerox patented this the infrastructure we take for granted in terms of wifi, and location protocols didn't exist. Indeed that's probably exactly what was envisioned in the patent.
So until we know more this might be a very dumb place to stake a stand on patent reform. Better instead to consider bullshit like 1 click or shopping cart patents.
Let's be honest about this. The price of the Kindle Fire may be $200 but people who buy this will also find themselves buying Amazon Prime which is $80. This is relevant because an iPad comes with the iCloud for free. Amazon has unbundled the package and Apple has not. For a few people the unbundling is nice: if you own multiple devices then you only buy Amazon Prime once. But one should recognize the $200 is somewhat illusory.
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It actually predates Turing all the way back to Hollerith taking his inspiration from the Jacquard Loom http://www.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/history.html
One of the first uses of punchcards-- indeed turing's inspirations-- was feeding patterns into looms. Somehow this is satisfyingly full circle in the age of steam punk.
I suspect this is a test of the system. Put somerhing in their that kids want that is not true contraband like cigarettes. Kids will figure out how to defeat the security by, say wearing masks or holding up newsweek magazine covers. Maker of machine then improves software. The war continues till kids can't defeat it. Now you can load it with cigarettes and alcohol.
Then why the fuck should I vote for you?
Our form of government is intentionally set up to display adversarial behaviour. Unlike a monarchy where there is a single voice and perhaps no free press. In the US we set up a system where opposing parties could say whatg was wrong with the other team. Newspapers could shine sunlight and free speech assured no one could supress these opposition messages. It helps keep politicians honest and the people informed when they are not up holding the ideals they promote.
Your implied condemnation is not quite appropriate in this case. It's a good thing to have the opposition offer up the case for why the opponent is weak. Where it goes off track is when it mucks around in things that are salacious and irrelevant or distorts the truth. Pointing out that Gingrich favored freddies mac while being paid to do so, and then condemning when his payments stopped is fair.
Just tried the link http://newtgingrich.com/ and up comes freddiemac.com, which you may recall is the organization that paid newt 50,000 per hour for consulting. Now Newt considers this a feather in his cap and a good example of how his intellectual abilities are well appreciated. So it hardly seems like this is sandbagging him. He'd approve of this recommendation.
I wonder if this is also a clever way to avoid patent infringement claims. An overt reference to a world wide icon like that sort of blames the inspriration and any similarities to siri on unpatented prior art right out of the gate.
I don't watch pro sports because I can't relate to it. It's not interesting. Now college and lower are really interesting. There are huge differences in the athletes and you can see it. Mistakes happen so you can compare perfection to imperfection. Coaches matter too. And everyone is having fun. Pro just kills it. If they are going to go pro I'd like to see them go all the way and allow super modified cyborg humans compete.
I don't think they are patent trolls, somehow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Group
Depends on your point of view. This is the company that sued (and lost) claiming a patent on the hyperlink.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/networking/2000/12/18/bt-sues-over-hyperlink-claim-2083266/
I was wondering the same thing. But the article said most of these patents were filed in the 1990s and were products of it's research department. This lends some credibility that these are not rushes to patent the obvious in a new context but rather very early research that perhaps deservedly should be rewarded for pushing technology forward.
But it does remain to be seen. A patent on deciding if you have enough bandwidth to stream or download a file sure doesn't sound like much of an innovation.
From the header of 1988 perl man page:
Submitted-by: Larry Wall
Posting-number: Volume 13, Issue 1
Archive-name: perl/part01
[ Perl is kind of designed to make awk and sed semi-obsolete. This posting
will include the first 10 patches after the main source. The following
description is lifted from Larry's manpage. --r$ ]
Perl is a interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text
files, extracting information from those text files, and printing
reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many
system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical
(easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny,
elegant, minimal). It combines (in the author's opinion, anyway) some
of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh, so people familiar with
those languages should have little difficulty with it. (Language
historians will also note some vestiges of csh, Pascal, and even
BASIC-PLUS.) Expression syntax corresponds quite closely to C
expression syntax. If you have a problem that would ordinarily use sed
or awk or sh, but it exceeds their capabilities or must run a little
faster, and you don't want to write the silly thing in C, then perl may
be for you. There are also translators to turn your sed and awk
scripts into perl scripts.
perl. Isn't this exactly why perl was invented?
If the current draw is that low then you could just use a solar panel to recharge from room lights. Just like the calculators do. problem solved.
I think the master point he made was that it's actually the OS he likes. Or rather the lack of an OS to deal with. No real responsibilities to manage. Just a pure application interface. He also liked the long battery life.
It subtly stutters. the playback just looks shakey. I contact Netflix after experiencing this and they told me this a a chrome problem. It is reproducible for me on multiple machines.
true, but it is icesream sandwich "ready"
At my institution we routinely buy back equipment from salvage yards it was sold to. But this actually makes sense. We clear out lots of old stuff rather than pack ratting it. It's a small price to pay for the convenience of getting stuff we need back.
The obvious remark that someone could make is "spec don't matter, the ipad will prevail". This device is going to be the acid test of that theory. Here, finally, is a device at the same price point with unarguably more processor power and a bigger scree and more ports. It's running the first mature (in my opinion) android OS. Will this compete with the ipad when nothing else has?
What is also instructive is that the benches show that all the processor power is very helpful for graphics and math computing but relatively unimportant for many things people use tablets for like checking e-mail and surfing or watching a video. Other things like touch lag or seemless integration or simplicity of syncing are likely to be concerns. What buyers know is that if they buy an ipad they won't regret it. But they worry about the transformer. Will the processor spec overwhelm in interface concerns?
This will be very interesting to watch. it puts out a marker for both the tegra concept and a technical challenge for the ipad 3
I use safari so I have to post an off topic comment right below the first post. In the 2 years I went from safari to firefox, cause it lacked plugins and compatibility, and then when firefox got slow to chrome which was lightning fast. But Then I noticed that for chrome didn't work well with Netflix streaming (Netflix tech support agrees so it's not me) and I also started getting more and more ads related to websites I visited. To solve the Netflix streaming issues, I went back to safari with Lion 10.7. And Wow, safari is now awesome. It's plenty fast and has plugins like flash block. It works on more sites than even Firefox. I briefly flirted with Opera but liked safari because it was more mac-like in expected behaviors.
So for the next year I'm using safari. Which browser is king varies.
In the late 1980s Apple Computer and VLSI Technology started working with Acorn on the second generation of the ARM core. So once again Apple is there. It's getting like the black obelisk on 2001. Pick anything and apple may not have invented it but they did shape what it became.
I just checked the fuses on the car socket and suprisingly they are intact. The conditioner itself (inductor and caps) did not have a fuse. I can't actually figure out which element exploded: the whole case is town apart and the PC board shattered but all the caps look fine. it's the wires and springs that look cooked. Also it did not sound like a firecracker, it was more of a concussive sound. Our first thought was we had sideswiped an elk or someone had shot the window.
Coincidentally yesterday I was driving while the kids watched movies on DVD players. Then Bang a huge explosions and plastic and metal go flying. The cigarette lighter power adapters conditioning electronics had exploded. I didn't drive off the road but could have. It looks like the culprit was a kink in the cord, perhaps from getting caught in a door at some point, causing a short. The violence of the explosion was surprising both literally and figuratively. You just don't realize how explosive your consumer electronics can be when they go bad.
I would think that the time savings would even be more dramatic on a plane. plus the planes would not have to go through as amny pressure cycles. thus the long-distance planes could be built lighter, while the short haul dock ing craft built heavier.
In Italy, at least the Tachyon's run on time.
just prevent someone from creating a smartphone that (to most consumers) looked identical to an iPhone
Well, they need to go find somebody else to sue then because Samsung does not sell a single phone that anybody with more than two brain cells to bang together would mistake for looking "identical to an iPhone".
You do know that in a court room, when asked by a judge, samasung's own lawyers could not pick out the samsung from the apple at ten feet?
Exactly. If some one were patenting location services today from scratch the patent would only be usable if they were inventing a whole new way of knowing where you are and knowing what services apply there.
But at the time Xerox patented this the infrastructure we take for granted in terms of wifi, and location protocols didn't exist. Indeed that's probably exactly what was envisioned in the patent.
So until we know more this might be a very dumb place to stake a stand on patent reform. Better instead to consider bullshit like 1 click or shopping cart patents.
Let's be honest about this. The price of the Kindle Fire may be $200 but people who buy this will also find themselves buying Amazon Prime which is $80. This is relevant because an iPad comes with the iCloud for free. Amazon has unbundled the package and Apple has not. For a few people the unbundling is nice: if you own multiple devices then you only buy Amazon Prime once. But one should recognize the $200 is somewhat illusory.