Elop said he will abandon Microsoft's failed attempt to create a modern operating system and simply bet the whole company on getting in bed with Nokia and use their Symbian operating system. Either that or Meego.
The long term strategy is that after the company craters, Nokia can purchase it for a song, and he can then be tapped to be CEO of Nokia.
He noted that this strategy has worked in the past. "Nokia's cratered stock price doubled after they sold me off of Microsoft, And I can confidently predict that after I crater microsoft, it's price will double when they sell me back to Nokia."
He also pointed out that essentially the same strategy was used by Gil Amelio when Apple abandoned it's OS developement and bought Steve's Jobs and his Next OS, shedding Gil in the process.
"it's proven. Buy another company's OS and bet on it. That's what I know how to do better than anyone."
Google's catch phrase "don't be evil" reminds me of the famous Outerlimits Episode where the aliens come "TO serve Man", and it turns out that's the title of their cook book.
So google walls its garden. The walls seem to be taller than apples. FOr example, try installing linux on a chromebook. Sure you can do it but every single time it falls asleep or boots the screen it says after wake"You are running in an insecure mode, press the space bar". If press the spacebar, it erases the hard drive and re-installs chrome from scratch. Thus it's practically impossible to run Linux in any stable way on a chrome book. Yes it runs, but it's like having a set of rotating knives permanently surrounding the on-off switch. They just don't want you to do this, while they want to take credit for having an "open" platform. ( by comparisons Apples are happy to boot to linux, no rotating knives thrust at you upon wake from sleep.)
Now they crank down on the path you can use to install extensions.
Google has become not only more severe than apple but they also sell all your private info.
Google actually meant "Don't settle for being merely Evil".
What about amazon primes shipping, or free shipping over $35. or all the books that sell for 1 cents plus $3.99 shipping. thar's commerce in that handling.
Considering that the most valuable innovations are ways of doing something complex in a simple way, I think you draw the lines to coarsely. Your definition would eliminate the simplifiers.
Which is so painfully obvious the phonebook is prior art.
You go look under plumber and with the listing you see advertising.
Painfully obvious in hindsight. Why was it patented before google came into existence?
While I tend to agree with you in this case, if you want google to win the lawsuit you have to answer the above question satisfactorily.
Imagine the Hammer was invented after patent laws. obvious in hindsight. simple. But eminently patentable as a method for driving with more force than banging it with a rock.
here one prior art would be the yellow pages. But it lacked the force of a data base search. the search terms in the yellowpages were pre-formed. so less forceful.
the fact that was not an obvious improvement is that at the time Google was formed, Yahoo was not a search engine per se. It was a curated set of pre-formed categories like a yellow pages.
another prior art would be Alta Vista and Overture. They were packing the top of the search results list with advertiser's listings. so here we do have advertising using a data base.
But at that time they were not using a user profile to make the listing adaptive. SO less force.
Early google was simmilar but the ads were shifted to the right column not intermixed. Later on Google became adaptive.
So in 1997 it's not yet obvious since others with the means to do so before google did not do so.
Back when I had an altair 8800 we used to play a teletype game called star trek. We kept a radio tuned off channel on in the room. When you fired a laser the code executed a fast loop that emitted EMI in a ramping frequency. the radio would make a phaser noise.
IN Europe it was discovered that the most common brand of voting machine would emit EMI differently depending on whether the character in the displayed name had an umlat or not (special character set). SO you could tell who people voted for when one candidate had an umlat.
The question is will it be valuable like an Apple I, or just a curiosity like a PalmPilot or a CueCat? Selling an original Apple I will pay for a lot of retirement. Selling a CueCat won't.
Nice try. I have half a dozen CueCats in storage and you are not going to trick me out of them with your clever schemes!
Your last statement is a good starting place for a conversation. I was just laying the cards on the table. Let's not start the discussion with illusions. The problem is not "Stopping the US form spying" but how do we want to deal with the fact that everyone who can spy will spy. Should we all mutually agree not to? should we just accept that it's going to happen anyhow?
More to the point, there's a reasonable argument that spying is a good thing really. It lessens misplaced suspicions and reduces fear between countries. What we need is better spying. We would should have had better intel on Iraq for example. What we want to avoid is not the spying but the improper use of private information. It really shouldn't matter if angela merkel like to wear mens underwear. It might matter knowing if Kim Jong UN is really delusional or just plays that on TV.
But it's not a distraction to point out that the french spy too unless you flatly deny that spying has any value.
And the french DSGE has been doing Economic INtelligence (Industrial secrets) for decades. For example in 1991 they were caught bugging all the seats in Air France jets.
I used to do something similar with unterminated co-ax cables for baseline subtraction. A box car integrator is short pulsewidth sampler. If one's baseline is large and fluctuating the traditional and expensive way to remove this is double pulse correlated subtraction. Which is nothing more that sampling things twice in succession and subtracting. Unfortunately that's not only expensive in terms of fast rececovery integrator hardware, but if you do it digitally it's got a small difference of large numbers problem as well. The clever way to do this is you don't terminate the coax on the integrator but rather extend the coax past it for a few feet, then leave it unterminated. The pulses thus fly past the integrator which can sample as usual, then 6 nanoseconds later an inverted reflection off the unterminated end pass the sampler in the opposite direction. Anything with fluctuation slower than 6 nanoseconds cancels out before the integrator can make the measurement. It's perfect and costs nothing. You dial in the timing with the coax length which is roughly a foot for every 2 nanoseconds.
Here they are doing this relying on the rephasing from the impedance mismatch of the reflecting object types being different. People who do FM lidar do something similar. It's an old old technique. probably dates back to the invention of coax.
I was rooting around in some old papers my parents had kept and found an allergy report on myself that had been done when I was 4. It said I needed to avoid Eggs, Chocolate, and Dairy. I love all those things and know I'm not allergic to them. I'm so glad my parents ignored the report. If they had deprived me of Diary it's very likely I would not be able to eat dairy now. The point was the report is a probability, like gene markers, It says I probably was allergic to these things within the error margin of the allergy tests (which are huge). Acting on that would have had severe and unnecessary consequences.
Do you actually think that a trillion dollar deficit and $17 trillion in current liabilities and over $100 trillion in long term liabilities does not have a devasating economic affect on the US?
yes that's what I think. Read Keynes. Or for that matter buy some google stock, or amazon or Facbook. At a price to earnings ration of 100, it's pretty clear that people think it more reasonable to grow your way out of debt than it is to contract your way out. If that were not true the stock market would not have grown over time.
Do you think the last five years (with five years of trillion dollar deficits) has improved our economic situation?
yes, the deficit has shrunk every year.
Granted, it improves the situation for the banking class that is first in line at the money printing spigot, but I wouldn't think person who has stopped wetting the bed would think that transferring trillions to the Wall Street parasites is a good thing.
unrelated. Or if you think this is related then I understand why you are confused. To begin, whose money do you think the parasites are managing? A good chunk of it is your 401K. And the people borrowing that money are the bussinesses that employ you.
At the end of the day here's the bottom line: 144 congressmen all GOP voted to default the government. 14 senators, all Republican, including Ron Paul, voted No, and one abstained, effectively voting to default the government.
I'm so done with Ron Paul. I wish he would resign. I feel ill that I ever voted for the man.
Los Alamos is a National Laboratory. It's not a "Nuclear Weapons Laboratory". It sequences Genomes, it works on carbon nanotubes, it develops remote sensing, it does particle physics, it works on biofuels, and proteins, and medicine. You might as well say Stanford University is a place where they develop internet search engines, and General electric makes nuclear reactors.
The thing about Java is that despite flaws it was cross platform. that is it was, up until chrome. Right now you can't run the latest java in chrome. (chrome is 32 bit, and java 1.7 is 64 only.) And then there's chromebook which also has no java. And then there's Dalvik. So google seems to be pulling a microsoft on Java. I've switched away from using chrome to boycott google.
YES you can turn them off in the settings in iOS7. By the way the next version of Android will have a screen lock wallpaper of hypnotoad. You can turn it off but strangely you feel compelled not to. Everyone would be talking about this but hypnotoad tells them not to.
my proposal: What one should do I think is fix this by injecting random delays into the trading system itself. That is you would queue up all trades for the last 100 milliseconds into a block. Then randomize their order. then execute the trades in that new order. This would erase any value of a trade that depended on beating another trade by a few millisconds. You'd still have some edge cases to worry about (i.e. racing to be in the block before the next block). But you could fix that too (dither the interval size between 80 and 120 milliseconds at random, so no one would know where the block boundaries were.
Why 100 milliseconds? That is still far faster than anyone who is bothering to read announcements can act.. I'd suggest an interval closer to 5 seconds, which might even let in trades from outside the US. Perhaps more notably, I'd also make it a policy that trades cannot be withdrawn until the next interval.
Well thats exactly why 100msec makes sense.
One problem with this scheme is you could profit from it byt readint the announcment and if the news was bad put in a low bid (or good put in a high bid). then you count on the random re-order schema to accidentally move your bid earlier in time, before the news happened. So you want to pick a time scale that is long by HF standards but fast by human comprehension standards. 1 second might work. 1 hour would not work.
How do you create a CPU from 178 transistors? I'm shocked how low that number is. Is there a template for this? they said it could run MIPS. I've built a CPU out of Nand gates but it took more than 178, so I'm really intrigued.
I also got a laugh about the technique they used to find the metallic nanotubes. they over volted the circuit with the good tubes turned off. In the olden days when we wanted to debug the wiring on a wire wrap board the standard procedure was to take a fillament transformer and try to inject current between every connection that could not be connected. If it was the errant bridging wire burned up and you could find i! And for those of you too young to know, a fillament transformer was a low voltage high current transformer used to power the filaments in the vacuum tubes.
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Elop said he will abandon Microsoft's failed attempt to create a modern operating system and simply bet the whole company on getting in bed with Nokia and use their Symbian operating system. Either that or Meego.
The long term strategy is that after the company craters, Nokia can purchase it for a song, and he can then be tapped to be CEO of Nokia.
He noted that this strategy has worked in the past. "Nokia's cratered stock price doubled after they sold me off of Microsoft, And I can confidently predict that after I crater microsoft, it's price will double when they sell me back to Nokia."
He also pointed out that essentially the same strategy was used by Gil Amelio when Apple abandoned it's OS developement and bought Steve's Jobs and his Next OS, shedding Gil in the process.
"it's proven. Buy another company's OS and bet on it. That's what I know how to do better than anyone."
Google's catch phrase "don't be evil" reminds me of the famous Outerlimits Episode where the aliens come "TO serve Man", and it turns out that's the title of their cook book.
So google walls its garden. The walls seem to be taller than apples. FOr example, try installing linux on a chromebook. Sure you can do it but every single time it falls asleep or boots the screen it says after wake"You are running in an insecure mode, press the space bar". If press the spacebar, it erases the hard drive and re-installs chrome from scratch. Thus it's practically impossible to run Linux in any stable way on a chrome book. Yes it runs, but it's like having a set of rotating knives permanently surrounding the on-off switch. They just don't want you to do this, while they want to take credit for having an "open" platform. ( by comparisons Apples are happy to boot to linux, no rotating knives thrust at you upon wake from sleep.)
Now they crank down on the path you can use to install extensions.
Google has become not only more severe than apple but they also sell all your private info.
Google actually meant "Don't settle for being merely Evil".
I think the boxes could more approriatally called Snowden's Fridge
What about amazon primes shipping, or free shipping over $35. or all the books that sell for 1 cents plus $3.99 shipping. thar's commerce in that handling.
You will like your Galaxy Note even more when it no longer is able to host any advertising.
Considering that the most valuable innovations are ways of doing something complex in a simple way, I think you draw the lines to coarsely. Your definition would eliminate the simplifiers.
Which is so painfully obvious the phonebook is prior art.
You go look under plumber and with the listing you see advertising.
Painfully obvious in hindsight. Why was it patented before google came into existence?
While I tend to agree with you in this case, if you want google to win the lawsuit you have to answer the above question satisfactorily.
Imagine the Hammer was invented after patent laws. obvious in hindsight. simple. But eminently patentable as a method for driving with more force than banging it with a rock.
here one prior art would be the yellow pages. But it lacked the force of a data base search. the search terms in the yellowpages were pre-formed. so less forceful.
the fact that was not an obvious improvement is that at the time Google was formed, Yahoo was not a search engine per se. It was a curated set of pre-formed categories like a yellow pages.
another prior art would be Alta Vista and Overture. They were packing the top of the search results list with advertiser's listings. so here we do have advertising using a data base.
But at that time they were not using a user profile to make the listing adaptive. SO less force.
Early google was simmilar but the ads were shifted to the right column not intermixed. Later on Google became adaptive.
So in 1997 it's not yet obvious since others with the means to do so before google did not do so.
It's not a dupe, it's a ghost. whooooo whoooo BOOO!
Back when I had an altair 8800 we used to play a teletype game called star trek. We kept a radio tuned off channel on in the room. When you fired a laser the code executed a fast loop that emitted EMI in a ramping frequency. the radio would make a phaser noise.
IN Europe it was discovered that the most common brand of voting machine would emit EMI differently depending on whether the character in the displayed name had an umlat or not (special character set). SO you could tell who people voted for when one candidate had an umlat.
or just a pendulum like the regular automatic watches use.
The question is will it be valuable like an Apple I, or just a curiosity like a PalmPilot or a CueCat? Selling an original Apple I will pay for a lot of retirement. Selling a CueCat won't.
Nice try. I have half a dozen CueCats in storage and you are not going to trick me out of them with your clever schemes!
I'll trade you my Samsung Watch for all six.
Your last statement is a good starting place for a conversation. I was just laying the cards on the table. Let's not start the discussion with illusions. The problem is not "Stopping the US form spying" but how do we want to deal with the fact that everyone who can spy will spy. Should we all mutually agree not to? should we just accept that it's going to happen anyhow?
More to the point, there's a reasonable argument that spying is a good thing really. It lessens misplaced suspicions and reduces fear between countries. What we need is better spying. We would should have had better intel on Iraq for example. What we want to avoid is not the spying but the improper use of private information. It really shouldn't matter if angela merkel like to wear mens underwear. It might matter knowing if Kim Jong UN is really delusional or just plays that on TV.
But it's not a distraction to point out that the french spy too unless you flatly deny that spying has any value.
http://www.france24.com/en/20131024-nsa-france-spying-squarcini-dcri-hollande-ayrault-merkel-usa-obama
And the french DSGE has been doing Economic INtelligence (Industrial secrets) for decades. For example in 1991 they were caught bugging all the seats in Air France jets.
Mon Du, Gambling at Ricks!
I used to do something similar with unterminated co-ax cables for baseline subtraction. A box car integrator is short pulsewidth sampler. If one's baseline is large and fluctuating the traditional and expensive way to remove this is double pulse correlated subtraction. Which is nothing more that sampling things twice in succession and subtracting. Unfortunately that's not only expensive in terms of fast rececovery integrator hardware, but if you do it digitally it's got a small difference of large numbers problem as well. The clever way to do this is you don't terminate the coax on the integrator but rather extend the coax past it for a few feet, then leave it unterminated. The pulses thus fly past the integrator which can sample as usual, then 6 nanoseconds later an inverted reflection off the unterminated end pass the sampler in the opposite direction. Anything with fluctuation slower than 6 nanoseconds cancels out before the integrator can make the measurement. It's perfect and costs nothing. You dial in the timing with the coax length which is roughly a foot for every 2 nanoseconds.
Here they are doing this relying on the rephasing from the impedance mismatch of the reflecting object types being different. People who do FM lidar do something similar. It's an old old technique. probably dates back to the invention of coax.
I was rooting around in some old papers my parents had kept and found an allergy report on myself that had been done when I was 4. It said I needed to avoid Eggs, Chocolate, and Dairy. I love all those things and know I'm not allergic to them. I'm so glad my parents ignored the report. If they had deprived me of Diary it's very likely I would not be able to eat dairy now. The point was the report is a probability, like gene markers, It says I probably was allergic to these things within the error margin of the allergy tests (which are huge). Acting on that would have had severe and unnecessary consequences.
Do you actually think that a trillion dollar deficit and $17 trillion in current liabilities and over $100 trillion in long term liabilities does not have a devasating economic affect on the US?
yes that's what I think. Read Keynes. Or for that matter buy some google stock, or amazon or Facbook. At a price to earnings ration of 100, it's pretty clear that people think it more reasonable to grow your way out of debt than it is to contract your way out. If that were not true the stock market would not have grown over time.
Do you think the last five years (with five years of trillion dollar deficits) has improved our economic situation?
yes, the deficit has shrunk every year.
Granted, it improves the situation for the banking class that is first in line at the money printing spigot, but I wouldn't think person who has stopped wetting the bed would think that transferring trillions to the Wall Street parasites is a good thing.
unrelated. Or if you think this is related then I understand why you are confused. To begin, whose money do you think the parasites are managing? A good chunk of it is your 401K. And the people borrowing that money are the bussinesses that employ you.
I feel ill that I ever voted for the man.
I thought you were supposed to vote for policies and platforms, not people (or parties)
That would be a democracy. This is a republic.
At the end of the day here's the bottom line: 144 congressmen all GOP voted to default the government. 14 senators, all Republican, including Ron Paul, voted No, and one abstained, effectively voting to default the government.
I'm so done with Ron Paul. I wish he would resign. I feel ill that I ever voted for the man.
Los Alamos is a National Laboratory. It's not a "Nuclear Weapons Laboratory". It sequences Genomes, it works on carbon nanotubes, it develops remote sensing, it does particle physics, it works on biofuels, and proteins, and medicine. You might as well say Stanford University is a place where they develop internet search engines, and General electric makes nuclear reactors.
The thing about Java is that despite flaws it was cross platform. that is it was, up until chrome. Right now you can't run the latest java in chrome. (chrome is 32 bit, and java 1.7 is 64 only.) And then there's chromebook which also has no java. And then there's Dalvik. So google seems to be pulling a microsoft on Java. I've switched away from using chrome to boycott google.
I think tepco has now become the new 2013 slang word for cluster fuck or a dumbshit move.
Zuckerberg better be watching his back.
YES you can turn them off in the settings in iOS7. By the way the next version of Android will have a screen lock wallpaper of hypnotoad. You can turn it off but strangely you feel compelled not to. Everyone would be talking about this but hypnotoad tells them not to.
my proposal: What one should do I think is fix this by injecting random delays into the trading system itself. That is you would queue up all trades for the last 100 milliseconds into a block. Then randomize their order. then execute the trades in that new order. This would erase any value of a trade that depended on beating another trade by a few millisconds. You'd still have some edge cases to worry about (i.e. racing to be in the block before the next block). But you could fix that too (dither the interval size between 80 and 120 milliseconds at random, so no one would know where the block boundaries were.
Why 100 milliseconds? That is still far faster than anyone who is bothering to read announcements can act.. I'd suggest an interval closer to 5 seconds, which might even let in trades from outside the US. Perhaps more notably, I'd also make it a policy that trades cannot be withdrawn until the next interval.
Well thats exactly why 100msec makes sense.
One problem with this scheme is you could profit from it byt readint the announcment and if the news was bad put in a low bid (or good put in a high bid). then you count on the random re-order schema to accidentally move your bid earlier in time, before the news happened. So you want to pick a time scale that is long by HF standards but fast by human comprehension standards. 1 second might work. 1 hour would not work.
How do you create a CPU from 178 transistors? I'm shocked how low that number is. Is there a template for this? they said it could run MIPS. I've built a CPU out of Nand gates but it took more than 178, so I'm really intrigued.
I also got a laugh about the technique they used to find the metallic nanotubes. they over volted the circuit with the good tubes turned off. In the olden days when we wanted to debug the wiring on a wire wrap board the standard procedure was to take a fillament transformer and try to inject current between every connection that could not be connected. If it was the errant bridging wire burned up and you could find i! And for those of you too young to know, a fillament transformer was a low voltage high current transformer used to power the filaments in the vacuum tubes.