If you look for bias you'll find bias. The editors of Car and Driver/Autoweek/etc. all have to drive some car to and from work, maybe that means they're biased when they drive a Hyundai.
The point is, if you keep looking for an excuse, you'll find one.
Caveat emptor.
The danger with the reference license is it then let's Microsoft say that an alleged copyright infringer had the access to see their code and copy it. As far as my knowledege of copyright goes, it seems that the alleged need only have a similar product and access to the original, whether they copied it or not, to prove infringement. Infringement does not have to be line for line copying either, even if you change lines here and there, copyright ownership assigns the copyright on the original as well as any derivatives.
Where I a code monkey on an OSS project, I would definitely stay away from any code that Microsoft might throw out there to avoid any issue.
If the budget is a little shy for a large whiteboard, you can swing by a hardware store(Home Depot, etc.) and pick up white foam boards. They come in 4x8 sheets and are less than $5. They have a glossy finish to them that works great with dry erase markers. I have a wall that is 20' x 10' and it's covered in them. A couple of screws through the corners or even tape them from the backside with duct tape and pin them with small nails along the edges and voila. It's much better than the giant holes I've had drill in the wall to hang my white board.
Well even if they did make the mirror "perfect" how long would it be "perfect" travelling at 300+ miles per hour?
I know I can't drive 9 miles at 60 mph without having a bug splatter a 2 inch streak across my windshield...
Anytime stories like this pop-up, everyone always discusses how neat it would be to overlay information about a city and the like.
Forget contacts the zoom, forget contacts that shoot freakin' laser beams. How about contacts that make my vision 20/20? My corrected vision is 20/35 and my contacts can only be worn for 7-8 hours a day then I have to wear coke bottle glasses because there isn't anything better.
My brother-in-law has Retinitis-Pigmentosa which is a degenerative disease of the retina. He was diagnosed 7 years ago and is down to 10% of his vision which is stricly peripheral. Imagine a spoon in front of your eye and you can only see off to the sides.
A better use of this technology would be contacts that can adjust his line of sight to the best position on his eye.
Or to assist the vision of the elderly who often times can be helped with glasses or contacts.
Instead of coming up with "new" "cool" ways to use this, why don't we use the technology to help the people that need it? The people that surround us everyday?
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If you look for bias you'll find bias. The editors of Car and Driver/Autoweek/etc. all have to drive some car to and from work, maybe that means they're biased when they drive a Hyundai. The point is, if you keep looking for an excuse, you'll find one. Caveat emptor.
The danger with the reference license is it then let's Microsoft say that an alleged copyright infringer had the access to see their code and copy it. As far as my knowledege of copyright goes, it seems that the alleged need only have a similar product and access to the original, whether they copied it or not, to prove infringement. Infringement does not have to be line for line copying either, even if you change lines here and there, copyright ownership assigns the copyright on the original as well as any derivatives. Where I a code monkey on an OSS project, I would definitely stay away from any code that Microsoft might throw out there to avoid any issue.
If the budget is a little shy for a large whiteboard, you can swing by a hardware store(Home Depot, etc.) and pick up white foam boards. They come in 4x8 sheets and are less than $5. They have a glossy finish to them that works great with dry erase markers. I have a wall that is 20' x 10' and it's covered in them. A couple of screws through the corners or even tape them from the backside with duct tape and pin them with small nails along the edges and voila. It's much better than the giant holes I've had drill in the wall to hang my white board.
Well even if they did make the mirror "perfect" how long would it be "perfect" travelling at 300+ miles per hour? I know I can't drive 9 miles at 60 mph without having a bug splatter a 2 inch streak across my windshield ...
Anytime stories like this pop-up, everyone always discusses how neat it would be to overlay information about a city and the like.
Forget contacts the zoom, forget contacts that shoot freakin' laser beams. How about contacts that make my vision 20/20? My corrected vision is 20/35 and my contacts can only be worn for 7-8 hours a day then I have to wear coke bottle glasses because there isn't anything better.
My brother-in-law has Retinitis-Pigmentosa which is a degenerative disease of the retina. He was diagnosed 7 years ago and is down to 10% of his vision which is stricly peripheral. Imagine a spoon in front of your eye and you can only see off to the sides.
A better use of this technology would be contacts that can adjust his line of sight to the best position on his eye.
Or to assist the vision of the elderly who often times can be helped with glasses or contacts.
Instead of coming up with "new" "cool" ways to use this, why don't we use the technology to help the people that need it? The people that surround us everyday?