"When you consider that Australia (the city of Melbourne, Australia strictly speaking), has the highest population of Greek folks of any city in the world outside of Greece (and Sydney isn't too far behind) then you can bet your bottom dollar that there's going to be a fair swag of small "Mom-and-Pop" businesses, corner stores, etc with some form of 'Olypic' in the name."
The US has the largest greek population outside of Greece. Although if you go by city, Melbourne, Australia is the largest, followed by New York City.
Sydney is kinda far down that list:
Population - City 600,000 - Australia / Melbourne, Australia 450,000 - North America / New York, NY, USA 300,000 - North America / Chicago, IL, USA 210,000 - Europe / London, United Kingdom 210,000 - Europe / Paris, France 190,000 - North America / Toronto, Canada 150,000 - Europe / Marioupolis, Ukraine 107,500 - Europe / Dusseldorf, Germany 100,000 - Australia / Sydney, Australia 85,000 - North America / Montreal, Canada 70,000 - North America / Los Angeles, CA, USA 60,000 - North America / Boston, MA, USA 50,000 - North America / San Francisco, CA, USA 40,000 - Europe / Johannesburg, South Africa 20,000 - North America / Atlanta, GA, USA 16,000 - North America / Vancouver, Canada 15,000 - North America / Houston, Texas, USA 12,000 - Europe / Brussels, Belgium 7,000 - Europe / Stockholm, Sweden 6,000 - Europe / Odessa, Ukraine 5,000 - Europe / Moscow, Russia 5,000 - North America / Ottawa, Canada
It probably is. If you got a few grand to spend on it, then I'd say patent it. You'd probably make a great deal of money selling it to a big company like Microsoft.
I wouldn't exactly call it a small program... more a collection of small programs to handle a larger task. Either way, it involved alot of concepts that go beyond the basics.
I guess you consider programming properly to mean a large program?
I'm a firm believer in the "if you know how to program properly, you can use any language" theory, and it seems to work fine for me.
I don't really have a language preference. I pick what is useful for the situation.
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"However, everyone I know who's actually tried it, including myself, is surprised at how often what they write does what they expect the first time."
How does this have anything to do with the language?
I don't find very many instances where the code I write does something unexpected, or am I mistaken and you are talking about buying pythons that write code?
What do you think this is?!? Some sort of common grounds where people can openly share their experiences and have logical discussions on various topics!?!?
This is/.!
How dare you say something where your words could get misinterpreted and twisted in an anti-mac way!
Apparantly you don't understand the workings of NASA
1. NASA gets MP3. 2. NASA calls it a podcast. 3. NASA forms committies to manage the development and implementation of aforementioned podcast. 4. NASA develops several deriviate commercial products based on the podcast. 5. NASA mismanages the entire organization into chaos. 6. DEBT!!!
If you click on the "Help & Info" tab at the top of newegg it'll take you to a page loaded with some partial and some impartial sites for reviewing products.
Anandtech has an awesome forum that'll help you figure out if something is good and if it's right for you.
Maybe they're trying to cut down on redundancy and save a little bandwidth. Who knows.
When I buy from newegg (or hardware purchse), I usually have already researched my buy, but I always scan the reviews for the negative ones. Especially to find those little gotchas like you mentioned.
I'd hate to blindly buy something that won't work, only to go check the reviews and see 10 people saying that it wouldn't work with the same hardware that I have.
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"When you consider that Australia (the city of Melbourne, Australia strictly speaking), has the highest population of Greek folks of any city in the world outside of Greece (and Sydney isn't too far behind) then you can bet your bottom dollar that there's going to be a fair swag of small "Mom-and-Pop" businesses, corner stores, etc with some form of 'Olypic' in the name."
The US has the largest greek population outside of Greece. Although if you go by city, Melbourne, Australia is the largest, followed by New York City.
Sydney is kinda far down that list:
Population - City
600,000 - Australia / Melbourne, Australia
450,000 - North America / New York, NY, USA
300,000 - North America / Chicago, IL, USA
210,000 - Europe / London, United Kingdom
210,000 - Europe / Paris, France
190,000 - North America / Toronto, Canada
150,000 - Europe / Marioupolis, Ukraine
107,500 - Europe / Dusseldorf, Germany
100,000 - Australia / Sydney, Australia
85,000 - North America / Montreal, Canada
70,000 - North America / Los Angeles, CA, USA
60,000 - North America / Boston, MA, USA
50,000 - North America / San Francisco, CA, USA
40,000 - Europe / Johannesburg, South Africa
20,000 - North America / Atlanta, GA, USA
16,000 - North America / Vancouver, Canada
15,000 - North America / Houston, Texas, USA
12,000 - Europe / Brussels, Belgium
7,000 - Europe / Stockholm, Sweden
6,000 - Europe / Odessa, Ukraine
5,000 - Europe / Moscow, Russia
5,000 - North America / Ottawa, Canada
insignificant?
It is definately Invented First in the US.
That's assuming that MS hadn't also created a similar looking mp3 player around the same time as apple invented the iPod.
MS may win on the prior art.
I'm guessing it will all come down to developer documentation somewhere.
I dunno.... isn't herpes the cost?
Another bungle of the USPTO.
That's what loans and a lifes worth of debt are for!
Hey, my 486dx computer had a turbo button on it!
I'm sure it would've smoked this P4 thing...
Besides... 486 is 121.5 times bigger than 4!
It probably is. If you got a few grand to spend on it, then I'd say patent it. You'd probably make a great deal of money selling it to a big company like Microsoft.
I'm sure they'd love to have something like that.
No, that doesn't match the patent.
They mentioned in the FAQ on their site that they will make the API available. So I assume yes.
Oh come on mods!
It's not redundant... it's duplicate!
I wouldn't exactly call it a small program... more a collection of small programs to handle a larger task. Either way, it involved alot of concepts that go beyond the basics.
I guess you consider programming properly to mean a large program?
I'm a firm believer in the "if you know how to program properly, you can use any language" theory, and it seems to work fine for me.
I don't really have a language preference. I pick what is useful for the situation.
"However, everyone I know who's actually tried it, including myself, is surprised at how often what they write does what they expect the first time."
How does this have anything to do with the language?
I don't find very many instances where the code I write does something unexpected, or am I mistaken and you are talking about buying pythons that write code?
"Perl is a different story, and I guess that's why I make the big(ger) bucks."
It took me a day to install a Perl interpreter and start writing programs to parse several hundred text files.
When did Perl become hard to learn?
What do you think this is?!? Some sort of common grounds where people can openly share their experiences and have logical discussions on various topics!?!?
/.!
This is
How dare you say something where your words could get misinterpreted and twisted in an anti-mac way!
SHAME ON YOU HEATHEN!
"we see the enthusiasm that Apple puts forth, and we want to be a part of it. We just can't afford the commodity hardware."
No we all don't. Speak for yourself.
Actually it has to do with the Earths rotation and orbit around the sun.
There wouldn't be only 1.5 hours a day if it didn't matter on the rotation of the Earth. It would then be anytime within these dates.
1 Earth rotation = 1 Day.
1 Earth revolution around the sun = 1 Year
Anything to get more beer money.
Frequency of recording has nothing to do with being a podcast. A podcast is just an MP3 enclosed in an RSS feed.
This isn't a podcast because it isn't in an RSS feed.
You can, indeed, have a podcast that is a one shot deal.
Apparantly I don't understand the basics of spelling.
Apparantly you don't understand the workings of NASA
1. NASA gets MP3.
2. NASA calls it a podcast.
3. NASA forms committies to manage the development and implementation of aforementioned podcast.
4. NASA develops several deriviate commercial products based on the podcast.
5. NASA mismanages the entire organization into chaos.
6. DEBT!!!
Very true, but do your outside research also.
If you click on the "Help & Info" tab at the top of newegg it'll take you to a page loaded with some partial and some impartial sites for reviewing products.
Anandtech has an awesome forum that'll help you figure out if something is good and if it's right for you.
He never said you were smart...
Only an idiot would trust a salesman for a product review.
I love newegg and I buy alot of stuff from them, but I sure won't ask them what to buy.
Maybe they're trying to cut down on redundancy and save a little bandwidth. Who knows.
When I buy from newegg (or hardware purchse), I usually have already researched my buy, but I always scan the reviews for the negative ones. Especially to find those little gotchas like you mentioned.
I'd hate to blindly buy something that won't work, only to go check the reviews and see 10 people saying that it wouldn't work with the same hardware that I have.