Mostly I expect that today the CPU has enough power to do much better hand writing recognition. I suspect that they had to make some short cuts to keep it from taking too long and not being responsive. Purely an educated guess on my part.
I have wondered for a long time if the Newton would resurface. I don't think it was a bad product idea, I just think it arrived before its time. Today it might succeed for 2 reasons:
1) Much greater technology penetration of main stream markets. (Not just for nerds anymore. Or perhaps "its hip to be square.")
2) CPU speeds are fast enough today to allow for a more advanced GUI in a portable device.
Thats what I like. I would prefer that we make this approach as expensive as possible for the RIAA. Its all a question of money. If the money the Companies are pouring into the RIAA don't buy them much, then this approach will stop.
Other than a microphone anyone got ideas for ways to convert sound into electricity? This device seems like it would hit the mark. I had an idea once that I figured would made a good back ground for a SCI-FI novel. Generators that produced power while assorbing annoying background noise. For example line highways with them to produce power while cutting down on noise polution.
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Yes. I'm not going to go out an buy one day one, but for YEARS I have wanted Apple to get into the cell phone market. The reason is simple, each generation of new cell phones just prove that user interfaces can get worse .
Every new phone I have gotten has been harder and harder to use. Apple knows how to make a simple user interface. I want that in a phone. And even if I never buy and Apple, because they are in the market others will be forced to think about the user interface. That is a huge win for me.
"They would be less likely to invest the time and effort to develop innovations if they knew their competitor would just immediately copy it." I think could eaily be rewritten to "They would be less likely to invest the time and effort to develop innovations when they could just copy them from their competitors."
How much do games like GTA cost to develop? Seems like you could produce a full blown game, and then for $50M sell a stripped down version on the 360- with future episodic downloads....
Some would say generating the hype is their goal. The only defense is if enough counter claims result in damage awards to make a financially painful impact to the companies backing the agencies.
While asking Face to Face is definately better, these are politicians. And Politicians always have a finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing. So if you can clearly tell them which way you feel and enough like minded people do to, then that will have some influence.
I guess the catch is I got out of college in 1992. But at that time I would not consider a job where I didn't have always on internet connection. I wanted to have e-mail, access to net-news, and the ability to telnet into computers on campus where I still had accounts.
The internet is a buzz for months with people making jokes about how stupid this movie is going to be, and they are suprised its not the next Titanic?!
I given what people expected $13M isn't too bad. It did get first spot, if barely. It will probably still gross more than "A Prairie Home Companion".
I haven't seen it, but I have heard it is better than expected!
I wonder if this is a sign of things to come after the management shake up of sorts at Microsoft?
Mozilla has a enough hype around it that it would be a benefit to Microsoft to say vista supports it. Helping OSS also takes a little of the anti-trust preasure off of them around the world.
So yes people are talking about using markets to predict terrorist attacks, or major weather events, etc. (Markets are reasonably good attractors of information.)
And since the dawn of computers people have been searching for the magical program that could predict stock growth with enough accuracy that you give it a little money and retired to a tropical island.
While a computer program might be able to match or beat the average investor in the stock market, that is only because publicly traded companies have to report audited data. And even so I don't expect computers to beat someone like Warren Buffet in the near future.
Computers will not beable to predict terrorist reports nearly as well. If terrorists produced annual reports and quarterly statements listing their plans, then we wouldn't even need predictive markets.
I once receive 5 double boxed packages where the inner box could hold a laptop, the out box could hold a small desktop, and the contents were 1 sheet of paper each where I had ordered 5 software licenses. The could have atleast packed the 5 sheets of paper in one over sized over packaged box.
These boxes were delivered over 2 days by FedEx. Wish I still had the pictures I took of the boxes and their contents.
I think that at engineering schools, at least half the PC's would be running Linux or other x86 Unix varient. At my old school that was the case the last time I walked through a lab.
When I was in school there was near 0 support for anything PC related. Everything was Unix or Mac. Last time I went back (2 years ago) it was pretty much all Linux as far as I could see.
"One day a terrorist is going to smuggle explosives in, not in his shoe, but up his ass. What kind of security measures will we see in airports then?" I was thinking just the same thing a couple of days ago. Is there some reason that plastic explosives couldn't be molded into suppositories? Drug smuglers have been doing similar things for years. Heck they are suicide bombers after all, they could swallow a time bomb detonator and all.
The (non-)security measures we take are baffeling to me. I would prefer to hand out daggers to each passenger, then who cares if a terrorist smuggles a box cutter on the plane. The majority of people on the plane don't want to die and will eventually prevail in a knife fight.
Passengers swip their passport into the machine. First off, I seem to remember that all of the 9/11 planes were on domestic flights and therefore people wouldn't have their passports.
Secondly there was just recent concern about ease of duplication of RFID passport data. I hope no one decides to put this technology in use until alot of problems are worked out.
Just how accurate is "role acting" terrorists? An 8% false positive rate is almost 1 of every 12 people. Perhaps a role of a twelve sided die would work as well.
The odd thing about WOW is they still charge for the software. I was discussing this with a friend. WOW software should be free with a free 2 week trial period. This really came about because I was trying to convince him to try WOW on a Mac, and he thought it was just too expensive to buy to try on his mac. Once you have a WOW subscription you should be able to get the software for free or near free for all supported platforms.
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Mostly I expect that today the CPU has enough power to do much better hand writing recognition. I suspect that they had to make some short cuts to keep it from taking too long and not being responsive. Purely an educated guess on my part.
I have wondered for a long time if the Newton would resurface. I don't think it was a bad product idea, I just think it arrived before its time. Today it might succeed for 2 reasons:
1) Much greater technology penetration of main stream markets. (Not just for nerds anymore. Or perhaps "its hip to be square.")
2) CPU speeds are fast enough today to allow for a more advanced GUI in a portable device.
Thats what I like. I would prefer that we make this approach as expensive as possible for the RIAA. Its all a question of money. If the money the Companies are pouring into the RIAA don't buy them much, then this approach will stop.
Other than a microphone anyone got ideas for ways to convert sound into electricity? This device seems like it would hit the mark. I had an idea once that I figured would made a good back ground for a SCI-FI novel. Generators that produced power while assorbing annoying background noise. For example line highways with them to produce power while cutting down on noise polution.
Yes. I'm not going to go out an buy one day one, but for YEARS I have wanted Apple to get into the cell phone market. The reason is simple, each generation of new cell phones just prove that user interfaces can get worse .
Every new phone I have gotten has been harder and harder to use. Apple knows how to make a simple user interface. I want that in a phone. And even if I never buy and Apple, because they are in the market others will be forced to think about the user interface. That is a huge win for me.
Well I know two people for whom iPod compatibility was the driving force behind they selection of potential cars. One bought a Scion, the other a BMW.
So it might not make you get ride of your car, but it might make someone else.
Anyway, it is supposed to support bluetooth headsets, or so I heard.
"They would be less likely to invest the time and effort to develop innovations if they knew their competitor would just immediately copy it." I think could eaily be rewritten to
"They would be less likely to invest the time and effort to develop innovations when they could just copy them from their competitors."
Companies are lazy and risk adverse.
How much do games like GTA cost to develop? Seems like you could produce a full blown game, and then for $50M sell a stripped down version on the 360- with future episodic downloads....
What did I miss?
Some would say generating the hype is their goal. The only defense is if enough counter claims result in damage awards to make a financially painful impact to the companies backing the agencies.
Isn't it more like extortion?
Is it time to buy more stock?
This might be the most exciting change I have heard about the iPhone in months of Hype!
While asking Face to Face is definately better, these are politicians. And Politicians always have a finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing. So if you can clearly tell them which way you feel and enough like minded people do to, then that will have some influence.
The Movie Sizes post is about the most useful one I have seen. People Mod that up!
The moral (if a true story) is that this is all very stupid.
I guess the catch is I got out of college in 1992. But at that time I would not consider a job where I didn't have always on internet connection. I wanted to have e-mail, access to net-news, and the ability to telnet into computers on campus where I still had accounts.
The internet is a buzz for months with people making jokes about how stupid this movie is going to be, and they are suprised its not the next Titanic?!
I given what people expected $13M isn't too bad. It did get first spot, if barely. It will probably still gross more than "A Prairie Home Companion".
I haven't seen it, but I have heard it is better than expected!
Patents, Trademarks, and Lawyers might all be a form of legal cancer. Worse its a cancer you can only defend against by getting cancer yourself.
They are all cancerous growths on society.
I wonder if this is a sign of things to come after the management shake up of sorts at Microsoft?
Mozilla has a enough hype around it that it would be a benefit to Microsoft to say vista supports it. Helping OSS also takes a little of the anti-trust preasure off of them around the world.
So yes people are talking about using markets to predict terrorist attacks, or major weather events, etc. (Markets are reasonably good attractors of information.)
And since the dawn of computers people have been searching for the magical program that could predict stock growth with enough accuracy that you give it a little money and retired to a tropical island.
While a computer program might be able to match or beat the average investor in the stock market, that is only because publicly traded companies have to report audited data. And even so I don't expect computers to beat someone like Warren Buffet in the near future.
Computers will not beable to predict terrorist reports nearly as well. If terrorists produced annual reports and quarterly statements listing their plans, then we wouldn't even need predictive markets.
I once receive 5 double boxed packages where the inner box could hold a laptop, the out box could hold a small desktop, and the contents were 1 sheet of paper each where I had ordered 5 software licenses. The could have atleast packed the 5 sheets of paper in one over sized over packaged box.
These boxes were delivered over 2 days by FedEx. Wish I still had the pictures I took of the boxes and their contents.
Do I win?
I think that at engineering schools, at least half the PC's would be running Linux or other x86 Unix varient. At my old school that was the case the last time I walked through a lab.
When I was in school there was near 0 support for anything PC related. Everything was Unix or Mac. Last time I went back (2 years ago) it was pretty much all Linux as far as I could see.
"One day a terrorist is going to smuggle explosives in, not in his shoe, but up his ass. What kind of security measures will we see in airports then?" I was thinking just the same thing a couple of days ago. Is there some reason that plastic explosives couldn't be molded into suppositories? Drug smuglers have been doing similar things for years. Heck they are suicide bombers after all, they could swallow a time bomb detonator and all.
The (non-)security measures we take are baffeling to me. I would prefer to hand out daggers to each passenger, then who cares if a terrorist smuggles a box cutter on the plane. The majority of people on the plane don't want to die and will eventually prevail in a knife fight.
Passengers swip their passport into the machine. First off, I seem to remember that all of the 9/11 planes were on domestic flights and therefore people wouldn't have their passports.
Secondly there was just recent concern about ease of duplication of RFID passport data. I hope no one decides to put this technology in use until alot of problems are worked out.
Just how accurate is "role acting" terrorists? An 8% false positive rate is almost 1 of every 12 people. Perhaps a role of a twelve sided die would work as well.
Your comments beg the following question. Excuse me, but have you worked in corporate america?
The odd thing about WOW is they still charge for the software. I was discussing this with a friend. WOW software should be free with a free 2 week trial period. This really came about because I was trying to convince him to try WOW on a Mac, and he thought it was just too expensive to buy to try on his mac. Once you have a WOW subscription you should be able to get the software for free or near free for all supported platforms.