Hey, it's got "hyper-" in it, it should count as "hypermedia." I doubt the patent defines the phrase very specifically. Most troll patents tend to be, um, broadly defined.
Why are you mixing physical locations around the globe and those that subscribe to beliefs of the jewish cult? Jews are not a race, they can come from everywhere, they can even change and practice other religions. Does that mean they can change race?
Jews can be a race, apparently, according to friends, Jewish friends-of-friends, and all of Israel. I try to avoid confusion by saying "ethnic or religious Jew?," but the usual answer is "same thing."
Doesn't the pulse get dampened with distance anyway?
I think you are correct. And I would be surprised if pulse didn't play a role in shaping a body's pre-natal development. It would be an automatic way to do capillaries instead of veins/arteries, for example, or to grow blood vessels in the proper directions.
Luckily Mme is well past that stage of her life, so there shouldn't be much problem until she loses an arm and they try to regenerate it.
What I'd love is a simple app (in the app store, dammit) which lets you define profiles. When I'm driving, I don't need wi-fi on, I probably don't need 3G on. When I'm at the office, I don't need location services on, I don't need 3G on, but I do need wi-fi on. And so on.
That's a good idea. A better idea would be a hardware "feature switch," something like a three-position slider switch where each position turns features off or on according to the preferences you set in software.
Oh, and definitely don't pop them on your own! That will just clog/infect surrounding pores and permanently damage the pore that's clogged, resulting in more cysts overall. A dermatologist can remove the cystic fluids easily and carefully in ways you cannot on your own. I did not heed that advice when I was a teenager, I wish I had.
Really? Who can afford to go to go to a dermatologist twice a week for zit clearing?
Yeah, based on what the article said about the signal at the trailing end of the wave guide getting shifted differently from the leading end, it sounds like this sort of stacks a signal "vertically." Like, say the input signal is green and lasts 7 microseconds. The output signal is multi-frequency (white) and lasts 1 microsecond. The input signal's first microsecond is shifted to red, the second microsecond is shifted to orange, the third is yellow, etc.
What's a person with a liberal-arts major doing on Slashdot?
Just wandered in by accident.
"A matter of opinion" is not a theory, it's conjecture, an admission of ignorance. With some evidence it becomes a hypothesis. If it can be made both complete and consistent, explains everything we know, survives rigourous testing, has its predictions validated and survives the passage of years without effective contradiction, it may be elevated to the status of theory.
Conjectures, hypotheses, and theories are different names for opinions in increasing order of plausibility and acceptance, reached via scientific inquiry. If an argument can be made against an idea, which, quite properly, happens all the time with theories as they get overturned (or not) by new information, that idea is an opinion. Some people believe it, and some don't. It may a very good opinion, and anyone arguing against it may be an idiot, but it's still an opinion.
A "fact" is a repeatable observation. It's input, not output.
Observation can be a process, which yields a fact as output like "that apple is 2.3 meters from the ground" and "this apple is now on the ground." An observation can also yield an idea like "this apple fell," which is an opinion, as someone else might sensibly point out "someone could have picked it and put it here," to which one might reply, "but I saw it fall," and the other person can say "I didn't, and I think you're wrong, because it's too early in the season for apples to fall naturally." And seeing an apple fall isn't repeatable. The second person only has the first person's word for it. That may be what happened, or may not, and who can say for sure? Thus it is an opinion. But if they look at the evidence and the one convinces the other, then they now share the same opinion of events, and a hypothesis is born.
What's wrong with "photon ejaculator"? Make love, not war.
Hey, baby, wanna light up your life? Let me shoot my rays into your black hole! My light bulb goes in your socket, you cute thing, you, my lamp in your room, you dig?
Yeah, the innuendo is transparent, better to let my intentions shine through.
The one thing that I have noticed in the last 10 years is new cars now have REALLY great brakes when compared to mine and most drivers have adapted their driving habits (i.e. braking later) to them.
Might want to get your brakes looked at, maybe replace the pads. I expect it's possible to replace the brakes altogether with more modern brake actuators and materials, but I don't know if you can get the latest in ABS if your car doesn't have the capability to begin with.
Yeah, yeah. There are very, very few things out there that are facts. Basically, only numerical measurements, axioms by definition, and other definitions by definition. Everything else is a matter of opinion, i.e., a theory.
Cause-and-effect relationships, for example, are never facts. Not even "gravity made that apple fall," since others might say that the Earth-mother drew that apple towards it, or that it was caused by a weak stem. Even measurements can be iffy given percent error and incorrect calibrations. Mostly, what people call "facts" are actually almost-universally-held opinions.
So, "widely accepted theory" = "fact", and "widely accepted fact" is redundant.
Bullshit. Intelligence comes with a cost. It consumes significant amounts of energy and needs a good cooling. These draw backs can easily outweight the benefits.
In fact the only benefit of intellect is that you can adopt to unknown or changing environment. You don't need intellect to hunt in groups, wolves and lions do this too. You don't need intellect to crack nuts, there are lots of mamals and birds capable of that. But you need intellect to start hunting in groups when your favorite nut goes extinct due to climate change.
You are considering intelligence to be unique to humans. We do have a unique set of skills — that is a difference of kind, not degree, between us and animals — but animals can also adapt their behavior for unknown and changing environments. Those adaptation skills are part of a large set of skills that we share with animals. With those skills, it is a difference of degree, not kind. And for many of those shared skills, we are on the weaker end compared to various animals.
My point is that intelligence isn't a choice between a) you have it and your brain is expensive or b) you don't and your brain is cheap. Instead, all animals have varying degrees of intelligence or "skill levels" and brains will need energy and cooling in proportion.
But I don't deny that we do have special brains and skills to match. Somewhere along the way, we either accidentally grew a bigger brain which enabled our unique skills, or slowly developed unique skills that need disproportionate brains. More likely both, in an entangled mess.
I didn't see any APIs that would let Palm extend iTunes' built-in recognition of non-Apple devices. That would be the traditional "plug-in" that everyone's talking about. I've looked but I can't find one for iTunes, though I think Sync Services uses plug-ins like that. And maybe iTunes' UI for Sync Services configuration could apply to other devices, though I don't know if it actually does.
Otherwise, Palm would have to write a simple little application or control panel that selects how music/contacts/etc. syncing is done, and a driver or background service that pops up a "Syncing now" message or something when you plug in the Pre, and makes the AppleScript calls as needed to deal with music syncing. The non-music syncing would happen automatically.
I don't think a separate application is a bad thing, mind you. What Apple should have done in the first place was to stick with a separate syncing app. Combining all that stuff in one app (iTunes) was a bad idea.
There are only a limited number of product and device IDs. If vendor IDs were not used in the matching, the industry wouldn't be able to do matching without collisions. There are just too many USB devices out there.
Mod up. A device ID (technically called a product ID) only seems valid within the scope of a specific vendor ID. Two different vendors could both have devices with a product ID of 3, for example. As I understand it, Palm devices had the Palm vendor ID ('til they changed it to Apple's and got slapped) but gave the Pre a product ID that — hey, what a coincidence — was the same as an iPod.
If iTunes was only looking at the product ID to determine if something was an iPhone or whatever, and not the vendor ID and product ID, it was buggy. Apple just fixed the bug. Palm was depending on that bug. Not Apple's problem.
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Hey, it's got "hyper-" in it, it should count as "hypermedia." I doubt the patent defines the phrase very specifically. Most troll patents tend to be, um, broadly defined.
Hey now, this one is actually useful information! You now know which bottle to pick, based on how much (or little) damage you actually want to do.
I agree! I just wish they said what his results are.
Are full bottles better, or empty bottles? The suspense is killing me!
Jews can be a race, apparently, according to friends, Jewish friends-of-friends, and all of Israel. I try to avoid confusion by saying "ethnic or religious Jew?," but the usual answer is "same thing."
I couldn't find the kinkyness factor in "I can't hear your heartbeat" ...
That's because you left out "...in bed."
And cupholders!
Couldn't really tell from the photo, but she might have one of those on her chassis already.
Doesn't the pulse get dampened with distance anyway?
I think you are correct. And I would be surprised if pulse didn't play a role in shaping a body's pre-natal development. It would be an automatic way to do capillaries instead of veins/arteries, for example, or to grow blood vessels in the proper directions.
Luckily Mme is well past that stage of her life, so there shouldn't be much problem until she loses an arm and they try to regenerate it.
What I'd love is a simple app (in the app store, dammit) which lets you define profiles. When I'm driving, I don't need wi-fi on, I probably don't need 3G on. When I'm at the office, I don't need location services on, I don't need 3G on, but I do need wi-fi on. And so on.
That's a good idea. A better idea would be a hardware "feature switch," something like a three-position slider switch where each position turns features off or on according to the preferences you set in software.
Oh, and definitely don't pop them on your own! That will just clog/infect surrounding pores and permanently damage the pore that's clogged, resulting in more cysts overall. A dermatologist can remove the cystic fluids easily and carefully in ways you cannot on your own. I did not heed that advice when I was a teenager, I wish I had.
Really? Who can afford to go to go to a dermatologist twice a week for zit clearing?
Yeah, based on what the article said about the signal at the trailing end of the wave guide getting shifted differently from the leading end, it sounds like this sort of stacks a signal "vertically." Like, say the input signal is green and lasts 7 microseconds. The output signal is multi-frequency (white) and lasts 1 microsecond. The input signal's first microsecond is shifted to red, the second microsecond is shifted to orange, the third is yellow, etc.
Yeah, it's not very practical. Fair enough. :)
Just wandered in by accident.
Conjectures, hypotheses, and theories are different names for opinions in increasing order of plausibility and acceptance, reached via scientific inquiry. If an argument can be made against an idea, which, quite properly, happens all the time with theories as they get overturned (or not) by new information, that idea is an opinion. Some people believe it, and some don't. It may a very good opinion, and anyone arguing against it may be an idiot, but it's still an opinion.
Observation can be a process, which yields a fact as output like "that apple is 2.3 meters from the ground" and "this apple is now on the ground." An observation can also yield an idea like "this apple fell," which is an opinion, as someone else might sensibly point out "someone could have picked it and put it here," to which one might reply, "but I saw it fall," and the other person can say "I didn't, and I think you're wrong, because it's too early in the season for apples to fall naturally." And seeing an apple fall isn't repeatable. The second person only has the first person's word for it. That may be what happened, or may not, and who can say for sure? Thus it is an opinion. But if they look at the evidence and the one convinces the other, then they now share the same opinion of events, and a hypothesis is born.
Hey, baby, wanna light up your life? Let me shoot my rays into your black hole!
My light bulb goes in your socket, you cute thing, you, my lamp in your room, you dig?
Yeah, the innuendo is transparent, better to let my intentions shine through.
But there's nothing cool about biting the heads off chickens.
What!? How can you say that? Do you not understand what "biting the heads off chickens" entails?
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We bite the heads off chickens! It's pure awesome!
Actually, the rules say you have to do it the other way or it does'nt count, so doing it by falling only solves half the problem.
You do the other half in China.
Hey, you ride a missile, you don't pilot one. Didn't you ever see Dr. Strangelove?
The one thing that I have noticed in the last 10 years is new cars now have REALLY great brakes when compared to mine and most drivers have adapted their driving habits (i.e. braking later) to them.
Might want to get your brakes looked at, maybe replace the pads. I expect it's possible to replace the brakes altogether with more modern brake actuators and materials, but I don't know if you can get the latest in ABS if your car doesn't have the capability to begin with.
You mean "theory"
Yeah, yeah. There are very, very few things out there that are facts. Basically, only numerical measurements, axioms by definition, and other definitions by definition. Everything else is a matter of opinion, i.e., a theory.
Cause-and-effect relationships, for example, are never facts. Not even "gravity made that apple fall," since others might say that the Earth-mother drew that apple towards it, or that it was caused by a weak stem. Even measurements can be iffy given percent error and incorrect calibrations. Mostly, what people call "facts" are actually almost-universally-held opinions.
So, "widely accepted theory" = "fact", and "widely accepted fact" is redundant.
Eureka!
You are considering intelligence to be unique to humans. We do have a unique set of skills — that is a difference of kind, not degree, between us and animals — but animals can also adapt their behavior for unknown and changing environments. Those adaptation skills are part of a large set of skills that we share with animals. With those skills, it is a difference of degree, not kind. And for many of those shared skills, we are on the weaker end compared to various animals.
My point is that intelligence isn't a choice between a) you have it and your brain is expensive or b) you don't and your brain is cheap. Instead, all animals have varying degrees of intelligence or "skill levels" and brains will need energy and cooling in proportion.
But I don't deny that we do have special brains and skills to match. Somewhere along the way, we either accidentally grew a bigger brain which enabled our unique skills, or slowly developed unique skills that need disproportionate brains. More likely both, in an entangled mess.
Yeah. I am not willing to play that game. But, based on the review, I wish I was.
Actually, if true, I see people using knot codes instead of those ubiquitous paper flags to identify cables.
I didn't see any APIs that would let Palm extend iTunes' built-in recognition of non-Apple devices. That would be the traditional "plug-in" that everyone's talking about. I've looked but I can't find one for iTunes, though I think Sync Services uses plug-ins like that. And maybe iTunes' UI for Sync Services configuration could apply to other devices, though I don't know if it actually does.
Otherwise, Palm would have to write a simple little application or control panel that selects how music/contacts/etc. syncing is done, and a driver or background service that pops up a "Syncing now" message or something when you plug in the Pre, and makes the AppleScript calls as needed to deal with music syncing. The non-music syncing would happen automatically.
I don't think a separate application is a bad thing, mind you. What Apple should have done in the first place was to stick with a separate syncing app. Combining all that stuff in one app (iTunes) was a bad idea.
All this talk about his goats, and not a single goatse comment... are we losing our touch?
Eh, too easy.
Mod up. A device ID (technically called a product ID) only seems valid within the scope of a specific vendor ID. Two different vendors could both have devices with a product ID of 3, for example. As I understand it, Palm devices had the Palm vendor ID ('til they changed it to Apple's and got slapped) but gave the Pre a product ID that — hey, what a coincidence — was the same as an iPod.
If iTunes was only looking at the product ID to determine if something was an iPhone or whatever, and not the vendor ID and product ID, it was buggy. Apple just fixed the bug. Palm was depending on that bug. Not Apple's problem.
For non-music items, Sync Services API.
For music, the AppleScript or COM interface to iTunes.