Of course more grazing animals is the cure for desertification.. and in order to achieve that we need either more predatory animals, or more people eating meat to reduce aging populations in a controlled manner... and curing desertification could well be the key to reversing man's influence on global warming.. so... eating meat is entirely ethical, and in fact, it's probably the right thing to do for the sanctity of saving the planet.
Like, surprise the Google development community leaders weren't given the opportunity to buy advanced tickets to I/O this year, and essentially left in the cold. Being the types that typically attend and echo things back into their local community in terms of demos and hackathons... but hey, it's not like companies like Google need a community behind them... get social, without the social.
Back when I had cable/satellite tv, I would have loved a box that let me "hide" the channels I don't watch, don't have or are otherwise not interested in. Would have made going through the guide so much better... you don't get that typically, and it is annoying. My last experience was a networked cable-card setup... only to find out that the HD package was separate (for a cable-card setup in 2012, they should have at least tried to sell me it), and that half the channels that were available locally were "locked" because the cable-card device wasn't directly attached to the display... I returned the cable-card about a half an hour later, and haven't had a non-internet based tv service connected since.
I'm pretty sure most banks have a larger quarterly offset from rounding errors (one system rounds 0.5 up, another 0.5 down, per business rules this is random)
Interesting.. though I'm unlikely to buy a winphone or ithingy, I know a few people that really do like them, and wrote a test app for winphone, which was probably the nicest mobile dev experience I've had (would still rather to web apps). MS knows how to make development as friendly as possible (sometimes so friendly that small tasks outside their 90% case become incredibly hard).
I've worked for/with a couple of small businesses that switched to MS's hosted plan for exchange + office licenses, and couldn't be happier... Difference between MS and google there, is that they actually, and easily got a live person to talk to the one time one of them was having issues. That, and imho Google killing of the CalDav access to calendar was a big bad.
They tend to be... very few consoles are ground breaking hardware compared to desktop pc tech when they are released.. I think an OC'd tegra 3 should be sufficient. My biggest hope was that this would offer a fairly common platform for emulators to target, I have plenty of roms for older games, and older game consoles, but I don't like switching around hardware, and analog connections are a pain... I just wanted an interface at least as easy as netflix for switching games... the memory is pretty limited, and hopefully a large-ish thumb drive will work without issue... for me it's a $99 gamble, worst case, it's another XBMC box for the bedroom, best case I get some decent UIs for emulators.. if OnLive and their own apps are successful, cool... if not it's not too bad. With the Wii, my biggest disappointments are when they killed homebrew, and how much of a pain it was to connect with friends on the platform. I would love to see this be a good hackable platform, I do hope that the cheaters don't abuse it, so that it can stay open. I can imagine a v2 in a couple years with whatever Tegra after v4 is, or something equivalent as a really competitive system. It's also probably worth noting that the console is probably only 1/2-2/3 of production cost, as the controller is pretty interesting on its' own. With the rumor mill on the next xbox and ps units, also with the likes of nVidia and Valve getting in on the action, who knows how things will shake down in the next 2-3 years.
I really wanted to like PC-BSD.. and would have loved it for my primary system, but I need windows and linux at the very least in VM form, and there weren't good solutions when I tried for that. I see that there now seems to be a VirtualBox PBI so may give it another try.
If only I had mod points for you... could/should be able to have several kickstarter projects.. one for adding 16bit color channel support, as well as adjust CMYK.. and another to work on the UI elements... perhaps supporting 3 UI preset modes.. a Classic mode, for those that like it.. a Photoshop mode for pros, and a Paint.Net (or Paint Shop Pro before Corel) mode. For that matter, make the UI layer modifyable via an xml+script system...
I don't think that OSX will ever be the standard for desktops.. I use Windows, Mac and Linux on the desktop... OSX can be a bit frustrating at times, the latest most of the bunch, and if the next release is any more nanny state, I'll probably put linux on my MBP. The dock is a decent enough interface for common apps, but the Win7 task bar does most of that being able to dock certain apps... I remember liking the OS/2 PM dock back in the day, and even ran PM for windows 3.x... The unified menu is nice in theory, and it is nice having most common settings between apps in the same place, with multiple monitors it gets a bit cumbersome to have to move the mouse to an entirely different screen to access the menu for my browser (usually edit on the left/main screen, and view on the right).
Win7 is hands down my favorite desktop UI to date, it has its' own flaws though. OSX tends to have very consistent interfaces between apps, MS can't even get a consistent UI between it's own apps in the same release year, let alone 3rd party apps that do even worse implementations of whatever the MS trend of the day is. I find Linux apps to be even more schizophrenic than those on windows. IMNSHO The Gimp has the single worst UI I've ever tried to get comfortable with, and every year and a half a new initiative is started that fragments users even more.
I like OSX for it's unix underpinnings and very consistent UI between even 3rd party apps, but it's far from the best imho. Now get off my lawn.
I see them a lot more on my phone and tablet than I ever do on my desktop... guess they consider mobile users a more captive audience... still don't like a 15-30 second commercial for a 1-2 minute clip.
+1 for Firebird.. you can start embedded, and grow into rdbms... it's great for small/mid sized projects... I wish more people knew about it. I once built a distributed system with each node running an embedded copy of FB and a network service to periodically sync new/changed records up/down the nodes.. worked fairly well... that said, if you're on a close/closed network in physical proximity, there are other practicalities of a centralized rdbms.
You are aware that when the 2nd amendment was written that "militia" (at least according to the first militia act) meant every able bodied man between the ages of 18 and 45 years of age to be properly armed (with their own purchase) of what at the time was a common firearm?
The trouble is driving habits for different people are different. I just left a job that was about half highway commute (50-75 depending on traffic) and half stop and go street traffic. Now I'm a few miles away, all street. My last car (2009 Hyundai Sonata v6) actually did better than it's rated mpg. My current car (2012 Dodge Challenger R/T v8) is right around the rated mpg. On my recent road trip (about 2k miles) mostly highway, averaging about 70, I did about 40% better than rated.. in fact both of those cars seemed to get their best fuel economy around 70-80 mph.
Someone else may have a completely different daily drive, more traffic/lights or a less congested highway. It's not an absolute value, but a matter of being able to compare different cars on the same test.
Chase could have a CNAME of foo.chase.com that points to chase.foo-provider.com, then foo-provider.com can manage their DNS and infrastructure however they want... this is how most CDNs work.
The problem is that cross-domain cookie setting, and resource requests are a core functionality in web browsers... Not just for advertising, but simply a working site that loads remote resources.
As to when an idea is obvious, that would be a car by case basis... However, stimulating a real world activity an a computer is always an obvious idea... As is doing something that one device does on another device... As to trivial to someone... If it has been implemented before, in this case the pieces of page turn animation and responding to touch input, then yes it is trivial. For the most part, anything that is written as a program is both obvious and trivial to implement, and as such not deserving of a patent.
IMNSHO anything that is an obvious idea, and can be trivially implemented by one skilled in said craft should not be patentable... This includes any [simulation of real-world activity] on a [generic computing interface]. I really with the US-PTO would get a clue already.
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Of course more grazing animals is the cure for desertification.. and in order to achieve that we need either more predatory animals, or more people eating meat to reduce aging populations in a controlled manner... and curing desertification could well be the key to reversing man's influence on global warming.. so... eating meat is entirely ethical, and in fact, it's probably the right thing to do for the sanctity of saving the planet.
Like, surprise the Google development community leaders weren't given the opportunity to buy advanced tickets to I/O this year, and essentially left in the cold. Being the types that typically attend and echo things back into their local community in terms of demos and hackathons... but hey, it's not like companies like Google need a community behind them... get social, without the social.
Funny, but I've known quite a few black racists who I am sure were more than fine with Obama.
Perhaps you could name a few of these "Big Causes" that aren't meant to "lead (or intend) to be mostly legislative lobbying" ?
Back when I had cable/satellite tv, I would have loved a box that let me "hide" the channels I don't watch, don't have or are otherwise not interested in. Would have made going through the guide so much better... you don't get that typically, and it is annoying. My last experience was a networked cable-card setup... only to find out that the HD package was separate (for a cable-card setup in 2012, they should have at least tried to sell me it), and that half the channels that were available locally were "locked" because the cable-card device wasn't directly attached to the display... I returned the cable-card about a half an hour later, and haven't had a non-internet based tv service connected since.
Now, who's been president for 5 years, and promised to close Guantanamo within his first few months in office?
Sure it will... unless there is a restriction on pricing... That'll be $10 per channel, per month please.
I'm pretty sure most banks have a larger quarterly offset from rounding errors (one system rounds 0.5 up, another 0.5 down, per business rules this is random)
That was my first thought too... rifling the barrel is probably the most "challenging" part.
Interesting.. though I'm unlikely to buy a winphone or ithingy, I know a few people that really do like them, and wrote a test app for winphone, which was probably the nicest mobile dev experience I've had (would still rather to web apps). MS knows how to make development as friendly as possible (sometimes so friendly that small tasks outside their 90% case become incredibly hard).
I've worked for/with a couple of small businesses that switched to MS's hosted plan for exchange + office licenses, and couldn't be happier... Difference between MS and google there, is that they actually, and easily got a live person to talk to the one time one of them was having issues. That, and imho Google killing of the CalDav access to calendar was a big bad.
They tend to be... very few consoles are ground breaking hardware compared to desktop pc tech when they are released.. I think an OC'd tegra 3 should be sufficient. My biggest hope was that this would offer a fairly common platform for emulators to target, I have plenty of roms for older games, and older game consoles, but I don't like switching around hardware, and analog connections are a pain... I just wanted an interface at least as easy as netflix for switching games... the memory is pretty limited, and hopefully a large-ish thumb drive will work without issue... for me it's a $99 gamble, worst case, it's another XBMC box for the bedroom, best case I get some decent UIs for emulators.. if OnLive and their own apps are successful, cool... if not it's not too bad. With the Wii, my biggest disappointments are when they killed homebrew, and how much of a pain it was to connect with friends on the platform. I would love to see this be a good hackable platform, I do hope that the cheaters don't abuse it, so that it can stay open. I can imagine a v2 in a couple years with whatever Tegra after v4 is, or something equivalent as a really competitive system. It's also probably worth noting that the console is probably only 1/2-2/3 of production cost, as the controller is pretty interesting on its' own. With the rumor mill on the next xbox and ps units, also with the likes of nVidia and Valve getting in on the action, who knows how things will shake down in the next 2-3 years.
I really wanted to like PC-BSD.. and would have loved it for my primary system, but I need windows and linux at the very least in VM form, and there weren't good solutions when I tried for that. I see that there now seems to be a VirtualBox PBI so may give it another try.
If only I had mod points for you... could/should be able to have several kickstarter projects.. one for adding 16bit color channel support, as well as adjust CMYK .. and another to work on the UI elements... perhaps supporting 3 UI preset modes.. a Classic mode, for those that like it.. a Photoshop mode for pros, and a Paint.Net (or Paint Shop Pro before Corel) mode. For that matter, make the UI layer modifyable via an xml+script system...
I don't think that OSX will ever be the standard for desktops.. I use Windows, Mac and Linux on the desktop... OSX can be a bit frustrating at times, the latest most of the bunch, and if the next release is any more nanny state, I'll probably put linux on my MBP. The dock is a decent enough interface for common apps, but the Win7 task bar does most of that being able to dock certain apps... I remember liking the OS/2 PM dock back in the day, and even ran PM for windows 3.x... The unified menu is nice in theory, and it is nice having most common settings between apps in the same place, with multiple monitors it gets a bit cumbersome to have to move the mouse to an entirely different screen to access the menu for my browser (usually edit on the left/main screen, and view on the right).
Win7 is hands down my favorite desktop UI to date, it has its' own flaws though. OSX tends to have very consistent interfaces between apps, MS can't even get a consistent UI between it's own apps in the same release year, let alone 3rd party apps that do even worse implementations of whatever the MS trend of the day is. I find Linux apps to be even more schizophrenic than those on windows. IMNSHO The Gimp has the single worst UI I've ever tried to get comfortable with, and every year and a half a new initiative is started that fragments users even more.
I like OSX for it's unix underpinnings and very consistent UI between even 3rd party apps, but it's far from the best imho. Now get off my lawn.
I see them a lot more on my phone and tablet than I ever do on my desktop... guess they consider mobile users a more captive audience... still don't like a 15-30 second commercial for a 1-2 minute clip.
+1 for Firebird.. you can start embedded, and grow into rdbms... it's great for small/mid sized projects... I wish more people knew about it. I once built a distributed system with each node running an embedded copy of FB and a network service to periodically sync new/changed records up/down the nodes.. worked fairly well... that said, if you're on a close/closed network in physical proximity, there are other practicalities of a centralized rdbms.
You are aware that when the 2nd amendment was written that "militia" (at least according to the first militia act) meant every able bodied man between the ages of 18 and 45 years of age to be properly armed (with their own purchase) of what at the time was a common firearm?
I would add in an average of 5 miles, stopping every quarter mile and accelerating to 25mph within 100 yards of said stop, to simulate city traffic.
The trouble is driving habits for different people are different. I just left a job that was about half highway commute (50-75 depending on traffic) and half stop and go street traffic. Now I'm a few miles away, all street. My last car (2009 Hyundai Sonata v6) actually did better than it's rated mpg. My current car (2012 Dodge Challenger R/T v8) is right around the rated mpg. On my recent road trip (about 2k miles) mostly highway, averaging about 70, I did about 40% better than rated.. in fact both of those cars seemed to get their best fuel economy around 70-80 mph.
Someone else may have a completely different daily drive, more traffic/lights or a less congested highway. It's not an absolute value, but a matter of being able to compare different cars on the same test.
Chase could have a CNAME of foo.chase.com that points to chase.foo-provider.com, then foo-provider.com can manage their DNS and infrastructure however they want... this is how most CDNs work.
The problem is that cross-domain cookie setting, and resource requests are a core functionality in web browsers... Not just for advertising, but simply a working site that loads remote resources.
As to when an idea is obvious, that would be a car by case basis... However, stimulating a real world activity an a computer is always an obvious idea... As is doing something that one device does on another device... As to trivial to someone... If it has been implemented before, in this case the pieces of page turn animation and responding to touch input, then yes it is trivial. For the most part, anything that is written as a program is both obvious and trivial to implement, and as such not deserving of a patent.
IMNSHO anything that is an obvious idea, and can be trivially implemented by one skilled in said craft should not be patentable... This includes any [simulation of real-world activity] on a [generic computing interface]. I really with the US-PTO would get a clue already.
Still won't buy a sony product...