Universities start teaching their students languages AFTER they become popular. Java was well established in industry and universities were still teaching Pascal as a first language (an excellent choice), then C. THEN they switched to teaching Java as an intro language. The students who first learned it wouldn't have had an effect on industry for another two to four years after that.
Languages get adopted by individuals, then get used in industry, THEN get taught to students.
It depends on your definition of "average" AND on the underlying distribution. If the distribution of software quality is symmetric then 50% of values are below the mean, median and mode (the three most common measures of central tendency or "average").
There seems to be a lot of basic automation that can be done in biology. This is an example - an electron microscope with a computer controlled stage and image stitching.
I know people who do 3D microscopy of various kinds as well, and generally they have to acquire each image by hand. It's tedious and error prone, and automating it is basically a matter of figuring out how the microscope manufacturer's communication protocol works.
The problem comes in when a document gets introduced into evidence that records your designers saying "the iPhone's icons look prettier than ours. Let's make ours look more like theirs."
"Because Apple makes only one style of device, they naturally assume that Samsung must have ripped them off when, in fact, it's just not true."
The very piece of evidence described in the article suggests that they did exactly that. Samsung made a lot of different devices but, after the iPhone was released, they modified their new phone, in many different ways, to be more like the iPhone.
Have you lived on a farm? My grandfather could spend 4 to 5 months doing whatever he wanted too... repairing machinery, maintaining his trap line, mending fences, looking after livestock and working for a forester to make some extra cash. When my sister and I showed up we got put to work weeding, picking berries, pulling carrots, picking rocks, mending socks, mucking out the barn, etc. During "peak seasonal work" there would be lots of accidents because farmers would essentially try to work around the clock. My grandfather lost his right index finger to a piece of farm equipment before I was born.
Going back further, most people essentially worked all the time simply to feed themselves. Sure, there were a few at the top who didn't have to, but almost everybody did.
Today you can live a life of comparative luxury working an unskilled job forty hours a week, or a more skilled job twenty. No, the luxury won't measure up to the people pulling eighty hours, but it's a lot more than all but the richest people had even a generation ago, never mind ten. And studies have shown that those people working eighty hours a week are actually getting LESS done than the people doing forty anyway.
And those taxes you're complaining about? They go towards things like a sewer system, so you don't have to go out periodically and either pump your outhouse or dig a new one. Also social security so that if you fall on hard times you won't starve to death.
Sssh. MBAs aren't all that great at math and they've discovered a SINGLE NUMBER that lets them assess the worth of a company. So much simpler than having to know about revenue, profit, growth, market characteristics, etc. Why do you think high frequency trading is so popular?
Except that Instagram posts on Facebook, and so can any other app. Nobody cares if my chic artificially aged photo was posted with Instagram or Fastergram or AAAAFastestGram. I don't know any Instagram users, but Facebook itself must be weakening the community lock in of it.
Instagram is another example of something that is so absolutely trivial to code that the second they try to monetize it users will abandon it in droves for it's ad free replacement.
Facebook itself is kind of like that, except there's actually a network effect to keep people on it.
It WOULD be nice if Apple included various versions of OpenGL the way they do with their various drivers, so the latest one compatible with your hardware gets used. Then you could use the new features without the extension prefixes. Also, the update in 4.3 to make OpenGL a superset of ES would be very handy.
We work much less now than we used to, and we do meaningful work MUCH less than we used to. The hordes of retail clerks, marketers, etc. are all repurposed farmers. And probably the make-workish profession of all? The people who play games with numbers on stock markets.
In summary, we DO pay people to have fun, enjoy themselves and frolic. Except not in the park... people like to think they're useful.
Have you got a reference for that? I did misread their volume graph - looks like their monthly graph has three volume values per day, not one, so my numbers are low by a factor of three. But there seems to be an order of magnitude between what their volume graph shows and what you're claiming.
There are lots of arguments for all in one computers. People rarely upgrade their machines, almost never maintain them themselves, and usually replace the monitor at the same time as the computer. Just because you don't see the point doesn't mean that everyone who does use them is a rich hipster.
There have been several all-in-ones made by various PC manufacturers. My friend had an HP with a touchscreen that he hung on the wall in the kitchen.
None of them have really been successful. They tend to either cost as much as an iMac or be compromised in some way. Intel releasing a new form factor isn't going to do much to change anything, except to let individuals and mom and pop shops build them.
Mt. Gox, which purports to handle 80% of the entire bit coin exchange business, reported about 2000 bit coins exchanged per day last month. That's 60,000 coins, at a generous valuation of $10 apiece, which is $600,000 US Dollars. The article claims the Silk Road is doing $2 million / month business. So either a lot of people buying are generating their own bit coins, and the sellers mostly aren't exchanging them, or the numbers in the article don't add up.
Counting the number of feedback posts in the forum seems like a particularly bad way to measure number of sales. Particularly when the forum is anonymous and both the site operators and the dealers have a vested interest in there being lots of positive feedback.
Looks at friend's CDMA phone... nope, can't switch carriers. Rather, you CAN switch to another carrier, who will promptly not offer your phone anything but 911 service.
SIM cards are useful because they are the device that is registered with the network, NOT your phone. I can take a SIM from anywhere, put it in any GSM phone, and it works. And no, you don't have to power down or reboot to do it. No need to contact either carrier, bring in your phone, let them see your phone (and claim that it won't work on their network), etc. You just do it.
I've had phones that use both systems. Switching a CDMA phone to another carrier is a theoretical possibility that I've never heard of anyone actually realizing. Doing the same with a GSM phone is something that's done millions of times a day.
You have it backwards. By increasing the complexity, namely by making the pattern of tiles non-repeating, it was believed things like gliders were impossible. That turns out not to be the case.
The existence of the glider has nothing to do with whether the universe is non-repeating or not. Penrose universes are mathematical constructs that are proven to be non-repeating.
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Universities start teaching their students languages AFTER they become popular. Java was well established in industry and universities were still teaching Pascal as a first language (an excellent choice), then C. THEN they switched to teaching Java as an intro language. The students who first learned it wouldn't have had an effect on industry for another two to four years after that.
Languages get adopted by individuals, then get used in industry, THEN get taught to students.
It depends on your definition of "average" AND on the underlying distribution. If the distribution of software quality is symmetric then 50% of values are below the mean, median and mode (the three most common measures of central tendency or "average").
There seems to be a lot of basic automation that can be done in biology. This is an example - an electron microscope with a computer controlled stage and image stitching.
I know people who do 3D microscopy of various kinds as well, and generally they have to acquire each image by hand. It's tedious and error prone, and automating it is basically a matter of figuring out how the microscope manufacturer's communication protocol works.
I'm pretty sure both sides are introducing one or two other documents to support their cases as well.
The phone case looks fairly similar, but the software looks entirely different.
You're making the mistake so many Slashdotters are... you're confusing utility and design patents.
The problem comes in when a document gets introduced into evidence that records your designers saying "the iPhone's icons look prettier than ours. Let's make ours look more like theirs."
Oopsie.
Sure. The problem is when you look at many, many aspects of someone else's product and say "hey, that's a good idea, let's implement that too!"
"Because Apple makes only one style of device, they naturally assume that Samsung must have ripped them off when, in fact, it's just not true."
The very piece of evidence described in the article suggests that they did exactly that. Samsung made a lot of different devices but, after the iPhone was released, they modified their new phone, in many different ways, to be more like the iPhone.
Yes, I am. My point is that Instagram's community is weakened because you can see people's pictures on Facebook. You don't HAVE to use Instagram.
Have you lived on a farm? My grandfather could spend 4 to 5 months doing whatever he wanted too... repairing machinery, maintaining his trap line, mending fences, looking after livestock and working for a forester to make some extra cash. When my sister and I showed up we got put to work weeding, picking berries, pulling carrots, picking rocks, mending socks, mucking out the barn, etc. During "peak seasonal work" there would be lots of accidents because farmers would essentially try to work around the clock. My grandfather lost his right index finger to a piece of farm equipment before I was born.
Going back further, most people essentially worked all the time simply to feed themselves. Sure, there were a few at the top who didn't have to, but almost everybody did.
Today you can live a life of comparative luxury working an unskilled job forty hours a week, or a more skilled job twenty. No, the luxury won't measure up to the people pulling eighty hours, but it's a lot more than all but the richest people had even a generation ago, never mind ten. And studies have shown that those people working eighty hours a week are actually getting LESS done than the people doing forty anyway.
And those taxes you're complaining about? They go towards things like a sewer system, so you don't have to go out periodically and either pump your outhouse or dig a new one. Also social security so that if you fall on hard times you won't starve to death.
Sssh. MBAs aren't all that great at math and they've discovered a SINGLE NUMBER that lets them assess the worth of a company. So much simpler than having to know about revenue, profit, growth, market characteristics, etc. Why do you think high frequency trading is so popular?
Except that Instagram posts on Facebook, and so can any other app. Nobody cares if my chic artificially aged photo was posted with Instagram or Fastergram or AAAAFastestGram. I don't know any Instagram users, but Facebook itself must be weakening the community lock in of it.
Instagram is another example of something that is so absolutely trivial to code that the second they try to monetize it users will abandon it in droves for it's ad free replacement.
Facebook itself is kind of like that, except there's actually a network effect to keep people on it.
It WOULD be nice if Apple included various versions of OpenGL the way they do with their various drivers, so the latest one compatible with your hardware gets used. Then you could use the new features without the extension prefixes. Also, the update in 4.3 to make OpenGL a superset of ES would be very handy.
The chart at Mt Gox itself disagrees. I guess more of the bitcoin world is fishy than just the drug markets.
We work much less now than we used to, and we do meaningful work MUCH less than we used to. The hordes of retail clerks, marketers, etc. are all repurposed farmers. And probably the make-workish profession of all? The people who play games with numbers on stock markets.
In summary, we DO pay people to have fun, enjoy themselves and frolic. Except not in the park... people like to think they're useful.
Have you got a reference for that? I did misread their volume graph - looks like their monthly graph has three volume values per day, not one, so my numbers are low by a factor of three. But there seems to be an order of magnitude between what their volume graph shows and what you're claiming.
Or people who value desk space.
There are lots of arguments for all in one computers. People rarely upgrade their machines, almost never maintain them themselves, and usually replace the monitor at the same time as the computer. Just because you don't see the point doesn't mean that everyone who does use them is a rich hipster.
I think it was an older model TouchSmart:
http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/touchsmart/index.html
There have been several all-in-ones made by various PC manufacturers. My friend had an HP with a touchscreen that he hung on the wall in the kitchen.
None of them have really been successful. They tend to either cost as much as an iMac or be compromised in some way. Intel releasing a new form factor isn't going to do much to change anything, except to let individuals and mom and pop shops build them.
Mt. Gox, which purports to handle 80% of the entire bit coin exchange business, reported about 2000 bit coins exchanged per day last month. That's 60,000 coins, at a generous valuation of $10 apiece, which is $600,000 US Dollars. The article claims the Silk Road is doing $2 million / month business. So either a lot of people buying are generating their own bit coins, and the sellers mostly aren't exchanging them, or the numbers in the article don't add up.
Counting the number of feedback posts in the forum seems like a particularly bad way to measure number of sales. Particularly when the forum is anonymous and both the site operators and the dealers have a vested interest in there being lots of positive feedback.
"You can't really confiscate bit coin easily"
Why not? It's stored in a text file, isn't it? I suppose encryption might slow them down a bit.
Looks at friend's CDMA phone... nope, can't switch carriers. Rather, you CAN switch to another carrier, who will promptly not offer your phone anything but 911 service.
SIM cards are useful because they are the device that is registered with the network, NOT your phone. I can take a SIM from anywhere, put it in any GSM phone, and it works. And no, you don't have to power down or reboot to do it. No need to contact either carrier, bring in your phone, let them see your phone (and claim that it won't work on their network), etc. You just do it.
I've had phones that use both systems. Switching a CDMA phone to another carrier is a theoretical possibility that I've never heard of anyone actually realizing. Doing the same with a GSM phone is something that's done millions of times a day.
You have it backwards. By increasing the complexity, namely by making the pattern of tiles non-repeating, it was believed things like gliders were impossible. That turns out not to be the case.
The existence of the glider has nothing to do with whether the universe is non-repeating or not. Penrose universes are mathematical constructs that are proven to be non-repeating.