I recently purchased a Nokia 2 from Amazon [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075FLG6MV]. It's a generic android phone, unlocked, and with an unlocked bootloader. It cost $100 bucks. I'm not in love with it, but, it supports 2 sim cards at the same time, which is really cool, and I'm sure I'll find some use for eventually.;)
I'd recommend a subscription to the weekly periodical _Science News_. It contains short yet detailed articles "covering the most important research in all fields of science". Organized for the reader who actually cares about the science (as opposed to the sound bite), it has many "small details" that it gets right, like having an up-to-date and searchable online edition and,*gasp* always citing the source paper(s)! It's very nice to read a captivating article summarizing a recent discovery and then be able to grab a more detailed technical paper, should one fancy. http://www.sciencenews.org/
I have absolutely no proper understanding of patent law, or of even what patents really mean and are used for in modern society.
That being said, arn't patents public? If HP actually got a patent on their spiffy new chip fab process and paradigm can't we just look up the patent at the patent office and look at how it works? Sure, we can't (rather, it would be illegal to) make and sell devices using this knowledge but we could read it over and do a simple sanity check. Better yet, have some brainy and experienced Ph. Ds look over it instead.
So, if this is true (which I suspect it isn't, sadly) how does one get the patent number and look up the patent papers?
I had thought that slashdot was a good, solid, reliable source of news articles, littered with an intelligent comment and a word of wisdom from the editors. Obviously I am dreaming of the slashdot of old, as this dips*** of an editor has shown me otherwise.
Since when have all of my computer using comrads come to the conclusion that copyrights apply when enforced for our purposes, but that they are non-existant and useless when they do not benifit those of the geek world. A trademark is a trademark is a trademark! Domain squatting is never acceptable. Regardless of the content, michael.
Furthermore, peta.org was a purposeless site which aimed to do nothing more than ruffle feathers and spread hateful material. This would be the same as if some sort of white power group had siezed the domain naacp.net and were using it for their hate material.
Yea, an hour is pretty acceptable for an alpha version, its better than some other final versions of software. However i dont think that the MTBF is such a fairly good way to decide between alpha, beta, and final. Mozilla is still HORRIBLY slow, even slower than IE. I dont use IE because its too slow and it crashes too much, but how can we expect to beable to release a product to the world when its slower than molasses (sp?)? I think that instead of concentrating on interplatform operability and standards compliance (both good things, dont get me wrong) we should be focusing on making a lean, slick, fast open source browser that will spit dust in the face of the competition. When we reach that state *then* focus more on standards compliance.
WHY THE HELL did this persons opinion get moderated down??? I didnt post this by the way, but i think that it is a very intelligent comment. (and a nice Arthur C. Clark quote).
The poster is completely right, the more science developes and the more we learn and discover, the more "god-like" we will become. Show someone from ancient roman times what we can do now and they might call us gods. The people, nay the scientists of tomorrow will be called gods by us.
Ok, so *now* they want standards that work... how about writing a browser that reads a standard called HTML properly? or how about one called JavaScript?... And how about some APIs that work the way they are documented to?
Are we going to have to rewrite all the tik programs now?
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I recently purchased a Nokia 2 from Amazon [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075FLG6MV]. It's a generic android phone, unlocked, and with an unlocked bootloader. It cost $100 bucks. I'm not in love with it, but, it supports 2 sim cards at the same time, which is really cool, and I'm sure I'll find some use for eventually. ;)
I'd recommend a subscription to the weekly periodical _Science News_. It contains short yet detailed articles "covering the most important research in all fields of science". Organized for the reader who actually cares about the science (as opposed to the sound bite), it has many "small details" that it gets right, like having an up-to-date and searchable online edition and ,*gasp* always citing the source paper(s)! It's very nice to read a captivating article summarizing a recent discovery and then be able to grab a more detailed technical paper, should one fancy. http://www.sciencenews.org/
That being said, arn't patents public? If HP actually got a patent on their spiffy new chip fab process and paradigm can't we just look up the patent at the patent office and look at how it works? Sure, we can't (rather, it would be illegal to) make and sell devices using this knowledge but we could read it over and do a simple sanity check. Better yet, have some brainy and experienced Ph. Ds look over it instead.
So, if this is true (which I suspect it isn't, sadly) how does one get the patent number and look up the patent papers?
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I had thought that slashdot was a good, solid, reliable source of news articles, littered with an intelligent comment and a word of wisdom from the editors. Obviously I am dreaming of the slashdot of old, as this dips*** of an editor has shown me otherwise.
Since when have all of my computer using comrads come to the conclusion that copyrights apply when enforced for our purposes, but that they are non-existant and useless when they do not benifit those of the geek world. A trademark is a trademark is a trademark! Domain squatting is never acceptable. Regardless of the content, michael.
Furthermore, peta.org was a purposeless site which aimed to do nothing more than ruffle feathers and spread hateful material. This would be the same as if some sort of white power group had siezed the domain naacp.net and were using it for their hate material.
Michael, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Hey! wheres the windows demo? I cant seem to find it.
Yea, an hour is pretty acceptable for an alpha version, its better than some other final versions of software. However i dont think that the MTBF is such a fairly good way to decide between alpha, beta, and final. Mozilla is still HORRIBLY slow, even slower than IE. I dont use IE because its too slow and it crashes too much, but how can we expect to beable to release a product to the world when its slower than molasses (sp?)? I think that instead of concentrating on interplatform operability and standards compliance (both good things, dont get me wrong) we should be focusing on making a lean, slick, fast open source browser that will spit dust in the face of the competition. When we reach that state *then* focus more on standards compliance.
Just my two cents.
WHY THE HELL did this persons opinion get moderated down???
I didnt post this by the way, but i think that it is a very intelligent comment. (and a nice Arthur C. Clark quote).
The poster is completely right, the more science developes and the more we learn and discover, the more "god-like" we will become. Show someone from ancient roman times what we can do now and they might call us gods. The people, nay the scientists of tomorrow will be called gods by us.
hehe, not quite...
i just dont have any lust...
(... for humans that is... ooooh pi, fibanocci...)
Ahh, but I am asexual...
that is a *choice* so why cant homosexality be a choice too?
Ok, so *now* they want standards that work... how about writing a browser that reads a standard called HTML properly? or how about one called JavaScript?... And how about some APIs that work the way they are documented to?
Are we going to have to rewrite all the tik programs now?
no privacy.
(first post!)