There is at least one Android GPS app, CoPilot, which offers turn-by-turn directions and which store its maps on the SD card. No cell connection required at all.
That was my thought as well. Well, as a RedHat/Fedorda user, I thought you should be able to do this with RPM. But same idea. This is a problem best solved by a package manager and not a binary format.
However, after thinking about this further, it's a problem that doesn't need solving. I get all my binaries from repos that support all the architectures I use.
I'm using the term in the same fashion this/. article uses it. The linked article uses the term "Least Developed Countries" or "LDCs". That's where my comment is intended to apply to.
This is news? Basic transport is a more important aspect to everyday life in these places. They are not going to have well-planned highway systems or electrical grids. And you want broadband? Build roads, water pipelines, sewer systems and power lines first. Then you can focus on broadband.
I wasn't actually speaking about "around here" (at least near where I live). I was speaking about third world areas where most "feed the poor" programs focus. Nations with adequate public education programs don't have significant starving populations.
I actually think we should try to prevent starvation. But we need to eliminate corruption and educate, not just shove food down people's throats. It just seems to me that it is like playing "whack a mole". Every time you think you've fixed a problem in one area, a new problem pops up. Who would have thought a decade ago that Zimbabwe would be facing starvation and relying on food aid?
It is a complex problem. Starvation has rarely been about too little food in the world.
The poor will *always* starve. People, especially poor, uneducated people, appear to have a propensity for producing more offspring than there are resources available to feed them. It's just nature (human or otherwise).
Check this out: http://www.astropix.com/HTML/SHOW_DIG/027.HTM
All the details of how this was done with a standard DSLR & telephoto lens are right there. They did use an auto-guided equatorial mount for this.
I just started playing around with CardioTrainer on my new Android phone. It would be really cool if it would eventually work with a bluetooth heart rate monitor like the Spurty Chest Strap.
They should have gone weekly, focusing on Denver, Colorado, and Western US interests in the same way that Time/Newsweek/et al focus on US national interests. No one owns that market (yet) and there are enough folks that would pay for it. They could have been a mainstream Westword and people would have continued to pay for it. It would not succeed as a daily. A daily just isn't needed. I doubt the Denver Post is going to last more than a few more years.
The distinction is not between mathematical and non-mathematical algorithms, but rather between an algorithm in the abstract and an algorithm as applied to a real world problem. An algorithm, in and of itself, lacks the utility required for patentability. Once applied to solve a problem, however, the invention is no longer the algorithm per se but rather its useful application, which should be patentable.
So you are saying that the "Use of a sort algorithm in the display of user selectable menu items" should be patentable, but sorting algorithms themselves should not be?
The problem with that is that a new sorting algorithm would be novel. The application of that algorithm: not so much. Because you'll end up with "Use of bubble sort algorithm in the display of user selectable menu items", "Use of quick sort algorithm in the display of user selectable menu items", "Use of merge sort algorithm in the display of user selectable menu items". Software patents will remain as stupid as they already are.
Software engineering is the application of algorithms to solve real world problems. It is not "invention". Software engineers are inventors in the same way that architects are inventors: they aren't. Algorithms themselves are the invention, just as the products that an architect may incorporate into his buildings are the inventions. But algorithms are not and should not be patentable.
My point with them was that, while I can't say as I don't live there, that perhaps they don't have such poorly-designed and dysfunctional social welfare systems as we do.
They also do not have a political party with any power bent on proving that social welfare systems are dysfunctional, and then poorly managing them to make the point. The response to Katrina was a fulfilment of the belief that "Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem." If that is one's attitude, it's self-fulfilling.
No, they did not. The Soviet Union was not a liberal social democracy. It was a communist oligarchy.
where people would all just live in government-owned apartments no matter what kind of job they had or how hard they worked
If this is your impression of life in Canada and Europe, you really need to get out more.
Maintaining a civil society has a certain cost. The higher the cost (the more the citizens are willing to pay), the more civil the society -- up to a point. And the US is no where close to that point.
Actually, it seems like both the things you outline above, and more traditional "liberal politics" have the same end effect: no one bothers to work hard and do anything difficult or risky in order to create more wealth.
I know it may seem that way to some people, but if that were actually true, no wealth would be created by the Europeans or Canadians with their liberal socialist democracies. And that is just not the case.
Instead, we in the US have the great conservative value of debasing the currency (through massive debt during even the best economic conditions) to contend with because no one wants to pay the cost of maintaining a civil society.
The word is "represented" -- past tense. Sun marketing started hyping these "computing miracles" over 4 year ago (or is it longer?). It was a nice enhancement then, it's run-of-the-mill today.
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All we need is The Glorious Meept!! to show up and we've got ourselves a party.
It's OK, a democracy will keep you safe. The voters always make intelligent & informed decisions!
No cell connection, no map data.
...for Google Maps on Android.
There is at least one Android GPS app, CoPilot, which offers turn-by-turn directions and which store its maps on the SD card. No cell connection required at all.
That was my thought as well. Well, as a RedHat/Fedorda user, I thought you should be able to do this with RPM. But same idea. This is a problem best solved by a package manager and not a binary format.
However, after thinking about this further, it's a problem that doesn't need solving. I get all my binaries from repos that support all the architectures I use.
I'm using the term in the same fashion this /. article uses it. The linked article uses the term "Least Developed Countries" or "LDCs". That's where my comment is intended to apply to.
This is news? Basic transport is a more important aspect to everyday life in these places. They are not going to have well-planned highway systems or electrical grids. And you want broadband? Build roads, water pipelines, sewer systems and power lines first. Then you can focus on broadband.
The market has proven itself wholly incapable of regulating itself. What now?
Gah! You've just ruined the whole thread! How does this fit in with the whole "gub'mint is bad" world view on display here?
It doesn't!
And you should be ashamed.
I wasn't actually speaking about "around here" (at least near where I live). I was speaking about third world areas where most "feed the poor" programs focus. Nations with adequate public education programs don't have significant starving populations.
I actually think we should try to prevent starvation. But we need to eliminate corruption and educate, not just shove food down people's throats. It just seems to me that it is like playing "whack a mole". Every time you think you've fixed a problem in one area, a new problem pops up. Who would have thought a decade ago that Zimbabwe would be facing starvation and relying on food aid?
It is a complex problem. Starvation has rarely been about too little food in the world.
The poor will *always* starve. People, especially poor, uneducated people, appear to have a propensity for producing more offspring than there are resources available to feed them. It's just nature (human or otherwise).
data had been permanently lost due to a problem with a server run by Microsoft-owned company Danger.
Is that like saying "The pedestrian was injured by Mr. Smith's car, a Mercedes?"
Check this out: http://www.astropix.com/HTML/SHOW_DIG/027.HTM All the details of how this was done with a standard DSLR & telephoto lens are right there. They did use an auto-guided equatorial mount for this.
I just started playing around with CardioTrainer on my new Android phone. It would be really cool if it would eventually work with a bluetooth heart rate monitor like the Spurty Chest Strap.
Algorithm : Recipe
Google PageRank : Coca Cola
Trade Secret.
They should have gone weekly, focusing on Denver, Colorado, and Western US interests in the same way that Time/Newsweek/et al focus on US national interests. No one owns that market (yet) and there are enough folks that would pay for it. They could have been a mainstream Westword and people would have continued to pay for it. It would not succeed as a daily. A daily just isn't needed. I doubt the Denver Post is going to last more than a few more years.
The distinction is not between mathematical and non-mathematical algorithms, but rather between an algorithm in the abstract and an algorithm as applied to a real world problem. An algorithm, in and of itself, lacks the utility required for patentability. Once applied to solve a problem, however, the invention is no longer the algorithm per se but rather its useful application, which should be patentable.
So you are saying that the "Use of a sort algorithm in the display of user selectable menu items" should be patentable, but sorting algorithms themselves should not be?
The problem with that is that a new sorting algorithm would be novel. The application of that algorithm: not so much. Because you'll end up with "Use of bubble sort algorithm in the display of user selectable menu items", "Use of quick sort algorithm in the display of user selectable menu items", "Use of merge sort algorithm in the display of user selectable menu items". Software patents will remain as stupid as they already are.
Software engineering is the application of algorithms to solve real world problems. It is not "invention". Software engineers are inventors in the same way that architects are inventors: they aren't. Algorithms themselves are the invention, just as the products that an architect may incorporate into his buildings are the inventions. But algorithms are not and should not be patentable.
Lightweight!
Just whiz on your phone when you need more power: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/08/urine-power.html
Too late. This is from 2005: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/15/0352255
Bio-mod this thing and you have what you are after: http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/200708/07-074E/index.html
They also do not have a political party with any power bent on proving that social welfare systems are dysfunctional, and then poorly managing them to make the point. The response to Katrina was a fulfilment of the belief that "Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem." If that is one's attitude, it's self-fulfilling.
No, they did not. The Soviet Union was not a liberal social democracy. It was a communist oligarchy.
If this is your impression of life in Canada and Europe, you really need to get out more.
Maintaining a civil society has a certain cost. The higher the cost (the more the citizens are willing to pay), the more civil the society -- up to a point. And the US is no where close to that point.
I know it may seem that way to some people, but if that were actually true, no wealth would be created by the Europeans or Canadians with their liberal socialist democracies. And that is just not the case.
Instead, we in the US have the great conservative value of debasing the currency (through massive debt during even the best economic conditions) to contend with because no one wants to pay the cost of maintaining a civil society.
The word is "represented" -- past tense. Sun marketing started hyping these "computing miracles" over 4 year ago (or is it longer?). It was a nice enhancement then, it's run-of-the-mill today.
Do I get a representative vote in WIPO?