Well, ihe station wagon is sort of a joke, but they could reword it as "throughput" and have it be accurate. The point is to compare one delivery mechanism with another. If you have 25 TB to send and your upstream connection only allows you to average 1Mbps then delivery time will be measured in years; same amount of data could likely be walked faster between almost any two walkable points on Earth.
I've got your metaphor analysis system *right here*!
Personally, I think such a system should be called the "Innuendo Engine" as sexual references would end up being the underlying context for the vast majority of decyphered metaphors.
Joking aside, I've heard--but cannot cite at the moment--that studies have shown that within just a few years of introducing water purification systems to a community, allergies become markedly more common. Of course, the flip side of this is that before the clean water (and allergies) people were getting sick or dying from the dirty water.
Add an unlimited plan that applies to 4g only. That'll give Android users some bragging rights for at least a few months. Then, when the iPhone gets 4g, Verizon won't need the plan and can drop it, and that'll allow Android users to blame the iPhone for ruining the party.
I did not know that Tivo had moved beyond recording. Thanks for the info. That being said, the NBC iPad app is not Netflix or Hulu. It's a free app that allows me to stream the video to my iPad (or iPhone or iPod touch for that matter). The shows have commercials, but I don't need to pay $X to Hulu or wait 3.5 years for Netflix to get access to it so that I can pay them for the same show.
But my original point was that it's a fine and easy solution, and better than a recording-only option. If Tivo supports additional features, that's great. Out of curiosity, are Netflix and Hulu included with the Tivo fees, or how much does one pay for Tivo + everything each month?
Finally, I wasn't bitching. I simply said I had no interest in purchasing a time-shift-only device. My iPad does other things as well.
I have a son and I will not let him play football on an official team when he's older. If he wants to play the occasional round of touch football with his friends, I've got no problem with that. But there's no way that I'm going to sanction him bruising his brain that way.
+1 on the AC comment. One of my guilty pleasures is watching Grimm on NBC, but it's rare that I'm available to watch it on Friday night. So if I've got a free hour some time later in the weekend, I fire up the NBC app, switch the AirPlay setting to play through my aTV, and I can watch it all on my big screen TV whenever I want.
Of course, if the majors would work with Apple to provide aTV-native apps, it would be even easier. It's going to happen eventually, I think. I can live with commercials; I will sometimes buy shows that I can't get via streaming. But if I'm going to watch a show, it's got to be time-shiftable, and I have NO interest in buying a device whose only purpose is time shifting broadcast TV, a-la Tivo.
You clearly didn't work in the cooling business. To them, they sky WAS falling, and it was falling on them. Until they found a replacement (which was more expensive and less efficient, but legal). Dismantling is a very harsh word.
And I'm sure if the cooling business had its way, we'd still be arguing about CFCs and have a massive, inexplicable hole.
Actually, the cooling industry for many enterprise systems was very happy they got to retool entire cooling systems as it made them tons of money.
It's funny, isn't it? A lot of change works that way. Big money fights it and fights it, and then profits significantly when they finally concede. Think safety regulations in cars. The big auto makers fight every new regulation that comes their way, and then when they're forced to do it, they immediately work to make a selling feature out of it over their competition who don't rate nearly as well in the rating system that they didn't want in the first place.
A few years ago, the IIHS celebrated their 50th birthday by doing a head-on collision between a 1959 Chevy BelAir and a 2009 Malibu. Chevrolet has certainly had their lean years, but in general, it's a multi-billion dollar corporation which has managed to turn nearly every regulation to their advantage. There's no reason to think that stricter fuel standards and alternative fuel requirements couldn't see the same level of success over the next 50 years.
Nobody is talking about dismantling civilization; using the government as an agent of incentive to change from fossil fuels to other options is not the dismantling of civilization. Calling it that immediately turns your argument into a strawman.
We don't need to be frying for there to be significant consequences for the human-habitability of this planet. If overall temperatures rise high enough that the polar caps melt, the consequences, while not known to excrutiating detail, will likely be significant.
Warming is happening. The questions are, is it dangerous to people, and is there anything we can do about it? Think about it: it's possible that the environmental laws put into place 20 years ago--like the ones that helped return the Los Angeles skyline's color from brown to blue--may be the reason that this guy is able to change his tune. Things do change over time, and it's possible that he was as right then as he is now.
Do you have an iPhone? Try dragging slowly and releasing. Works just fine. Doesn't appear to have any relation a "threshold velocity". I'm not saying you're wrong; there might be another place where Apple infringes, but if their case is built on the same assertion you've put above, Apple can easily win.
There's enough wiggle room there for a court to work.
Clearly, someone thinks so. However, if the claim is really due to velocity, then the example you cite likely does not infringe: the act of replacing the current screen contents with a different page is based on the current screen's position at the end of the pan (drag). No matter how slowly you drag, if you release after a threshold point (probably half-way off, but it may be 51 or 52%, for all I know), it'll continue the movement and throw the old content away.
Doesn't mean that there aren't any velocity-based discarding interactions built into iOS. I've definitely seen some in some games; while I'm not going to comment on the validity of this patent, it would be a shame if something like this shut down innovation by any number of small shops.
The more I see of this stuff, the more I believe that software and UI patents should not be awarded. Things move too quickly; an idea that's brilliant and innovative today is totally obvious based on changes to the technological landscape tomorrow. I don't know; maybe reduce them to five years instead? The sad thing is that whatever is put in place, someone will try to game the system, and of course, the person with the biggest legal budget wins.
True, but there may even be some value in that: it may be that those ~30M users have social connections in Instagram which they haven't created in Facebook. That is to say, maybe now Facebook has even more data about how their existing user base is connected.
Even if that's not true, buying that user base ensures nobody else buys it. Basically, I see this as a defensive maneuver, helping put off the day that Facebook becomes the next MySpace.
I don't know about books, but if you go to http://bluej.org/, you'll find a nice, simple IDE, and some documentation and exercises that I know have been used successfully in high-school level classes. I know there are some other languages and associated programs that are specifically targeted at teaching younger kids, but I figure it's nice to get them into real, modern practices quickly.
I also like scripting languages, like Python, Javascript, Perl and Ruby. The advantage with Ruby is that there's an intro text that's a comic book. Something like "The Poignant Guide to Ruby". Check it out.
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You say 1-2 cases, and the article, in two different places, says 7 cases per year and 10-15 cases per year. I don't know whom to believe!
Uh, do you know who the guardian of MySQL is now? Hint: it was Sun for a while.
Well, ihe station wagon is sort of a joke, but they could reword it as "throughput" and have it be accurate. The point is to compare one delivery mechanism with another. If you have 25 TB to send and your upstream connection only allows you to average 1Mbps then delivery time will be measured in years; same amount of data could likely be walked faster between almost any two walkable points on Earth.
I thought a "Lewinsky" involved a cigar, which most definitions of "BJ" do not.
I've got your metaphor analysis system *right here*!
Personally, I think such a system should be called the "Innuendo Engine" as sexual references would end up being the underlying context for the vast majority of decyphered metaphors.
Joking aside, I've heard--but cannot cite at the moment--that studies have shown that within just a few years of introducing water purification systems to a community, allergies become markedly more common. Of course, the flip side of this is that before the clean water (and allergies) people were getting sick or dying from the dirty water.
I'm not sure that's true. Rural areas include things like mines and oil wells and the like, which could easily leak poisons into the groundwater.
Thank you. I'll be here all week.
Stupid scientists. All they can come up with are theories. I've got your theory RIGHT HERE!
Add an unlimited plan that applies to 4g only. That'll give Android users some bragging rights for at least a few months. Then, when the iPhone gets 4g, Verizon won't need the plan and can drop it, and that'll allow Android users to blame the iPhone for ruining the party.
I did not know that Tivo had moved beyond recording. Thanks for the info. That being said, the NBC iPad app is not Netflix or Hulu. It's a free app that allows me to stream the video to my iPad (or iPhone or iPod touch for that matter). The shows have commercials, but I don't need to pay $X to Hulu or wait 3.5 years for Netflix to get access to it so that I can pay them for the same show.
But my original point was that it's a fine and easy solution, and better than a recording-only option. If Tivo supports additional features, that's great. Out of curiosity, are Netflix and Hulu included with the Tivo fees, or how much does one pay for Tivo + everything each month?
Finally, I wasn't bitching. I simply said I had no interest in purchasing a time-shift-only device. My iPad does other things as well.
I have a son and I will not let him play football on an official team when he's older. If he wants to play the occasional round of touch football with his friends, I've got no problem with that. But there's no way that I'm going to sanction him bruising his brain that way.
obligatory xkcd
+1 on the AC comment. One of my guilty pleasures is watching Grimm on NBC, but it's rare that I'm available to watch it on Friday night. So if I've got a free hour some time later in the weekend, I fire up the NBC app, switch the AirPlay setting to play through my aTV, and I can watch it all on my big screen TV whenever I want.
Of course, if the majors would work with Apple to provide aTV-native apps, it would be even easier. It's going to happen eventually, I think. I can live with commercials; I will sometimes buy shows that I can't get via streaming. But if I'm going to watch a show, it's got to be time-shiftable, and I have NO interest in buying a device whose only purpose is time shifting broadcast TV, a-la Tivo.
"Don't drive it that way."
You clearly didn't work in the cooling business. To them, they sky WAS falling, and it was falling on them. Until they found a replacement (which was more expensive and less efficient, but legal). Dismantling is a very harsh word.
And I'm sure if the cooling business had its way, we'd still be arguing about CFCs and have a massive, inexplicable hole.
Actually, the cooling industry for many enterprise systems was very happy they got to retool entire cooling systems as it made them tons of money.
It's funny, isn't it? A lot of change works that way. Big money fights it and fights it, and then profits significantly when they finally concede. Think safety regulations in cars. The big auto makers fight every new regulation that comes their way, and then when they're forced to do it, they immediately work to make a selling feature out of it over their competition who don't rate nearly as well in the rating system that they didn't want in the first place.
A few years ago, the IIHS celebrated their 50th birthday by doing a head-on collision between a 1959 Chevy BelAir and a 2009 Malibu. Chevrolet has certainly had their lean years, but in general, it's a multi-billion dollar corporation which has managed to turn nearly every regulation to their advantage. There's no reason to think that stricter fuel standards and alternative fuel requirements couldn't see the same level of success over the next 50 years.
Warming is happening. The questions are, is it dangerous to people, and is there anything we can do about it? Think about it: it's possible that the environmental laws put into place 20 years ago--like the ones that helped return the Los Angeles skyline's color from brown to blue--may be the reason that this guy is able to change his tune. Things do change over time, and it's possible that he was as right then as he is now.
Do you have an iPhone? Try dragging slowly and releasing. Works just fine. Doesn't appear to have any relation a "threshold velocity". I'm not saying you're wrong; there might be another place where Apple infringes, but if their case is built on the same assertion you've put above, Apple can easily win.
There's enough wiggle room there for a court to work.
Clearly, someone thinks so. However, if the claim is really due to velocity, then the example you cite likely does not infringe: the act of replacing the current screen contents with a different page is based on the current screen's position at the end of the pan (drag). No matter how slowly you drag, if you release after a threshold point (probably half-way off, but it may be 51 or 52%, for all I know), it'll continue the movement and throw the old content away.
Doesn't mean that there aren't any velocity-based discarding interactions built into iOS. I've definitely seen some in some games; while I'm not going to comment on the validity of this patent, it would be a shame if something like this shut down innovation by any number of small shops.
The more I see of this stuff, the more I believe that software and UI patents should not be awarded. Things move too quickly; an idea that's brilliant and innovative today is totally obvious based on changes to the technological landscape tomorrow. I don't know; maybe reduce them to five years instead? The sad thing is that whatever is put in place, someone will try to game the system, and of course, the person with the biggest legal budget wins.
True, but there may even be some value in that: it may be that those ~30M users have social connections in Instagram which they haven't created in Facebook. That is to say, maybe now Facebook has even more data about how their existing user base is connected.
Even if that's not true, buying that user base ensures nobody else buys it. Basically, I see this as a defensive maneuver, helping put off the day that Facebook becomes the next MySpace.
How can I be the first to post that likely name for the scent?
OK, I think you won the Internet, at least for the day. I am going to log off now.
Oh, and if you want him to work in a large Microsoft-centric enterprise, have him learn C#.
And if he's got an iDevice, push him towards either Javascript for mobile web development or Objective C for native iOS programming.
I don't know about books, but if you go to http://bluej.org/, you'll find a nice, simple IDE, and some documentation and exercises that I know have been used successfully in high-school level classes. I know there are some other languages and associated programs that are specifically targeted at teaching younger kids, but I figure it's nice to get them into real, modern practices quickly.
I also like scripting languages, like Python, Javascript, Perl and Ruby. The advantage with Ruby is that there's an intro text that's a comic book. Something like "The Poignant Guide to Ruby". Check it out.
I think what you meant to say was: "Fr1$t Ps0t!!!!11!1!!!!!"