I have to admit that I doubted you. How naive I was... but I did the research and you're right! As far back as 1994 it seems, the US Patent Office granted rights to R. Schlafly for not one but two prime numbers.
If anyone can find out why such a thing happened I'd like to know. But maybe not until tomorrow. That much absurdity would be too much for my brain to take all in one day.
Sometimes I wonder what kind of visionaries the early "cyberspace" authors like William Gibson must have been since quite a lot of things (besides AI and brain-to-wire interface, so far:) did come true
Yeah, but nobody notices. Wasn't it Bruce Sterling that said sf writers were the court jesters of the literary world: they could prance around and scratch themselves in public and no-one would look twice. Which is a shame cos there's a lot that could be learned. Starting with George Orwell.
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away." - Tom Waits
Is there any current technology that would relate to this - with reflected instead of projected light. I just can't imagine what a video on paper would look like, without any backlighting.
There's something very disturbing about the whole idea, although I still think it's the first real advance in ultra-low power static displays for electronic newspapers, books, maps and things that can be read outdoors. Exciting. After that comes the ability to fold them up, update the contents like a real PDA.
It's not a book about programming and hence it received one star on Amazon from people who bought it trying to learn Java from scratch while they would have been better served by Deitel&Deitel or Lewis&Loftus.
I'm not familiar with L&L, but we were recommended Deitel&Deitel when I started undergrad CS 2 years ago. I thought it was an awful book and rely almost entirely on the API docs (published and online).
If you are intending to teach Java face to face, rather than just OOP and associated techniques, then please get them to avoid this book like the plague! They won't need it, and IMHO it was an utter waste of nearly 40UKP.
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The actual patent is number 5373560. I have to admit that I don't fully understand the content of the patent. Does anyone else know?
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I have to admit that I doubted you. How naive I was... but I did the research and you're right! As far back as 1994 it seems, the US Patent Office granted rights to R. Schlafly for not one but two prime numbers.
If anyone can find out why such a thing happened I'd like to know. But maybe not until tomorrow. That much absurdity would be too much for my brain to take all in one day.
"mogwai: are tremendous" - Mogwai
Yeah, but nobody notices. Wasn't it Bruce Sterling that said sf writers were the court jesters of the literary world: they could prance around and scratch themselves in public and no-one would look twice. Which is a shame cos there's a lot that could be learned. Starting with George Orwell.
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away." - Tom Waits
Liberal:
Lazy:
I know, so easy to confuse the two...
Well, he could also be of the Scottish persuasion, as I am not totally averse to using the word eejit when the occasion merits. Ciao...
Is there any current technology that would relate to this - with reflected instead of projected light. I just can't imagine what a video on paper would look like, without any backlighting.
There's something very disturbing about the whole idea, although I still think it's the first real advance in ultra-low power static displays for electronic newspapers, books, maps and things that can be read outdoors. Exciting. After that comes the ability to fold them up, update the contents like a real PDA.
I can't wait.
Sun-Earther Dougal Ithika Stanton of Dunbar.
If you are intending to teach Java face to face, rather than just OOP and associated techniques, then please get them to avoid this book like the plague! They won't need it, and IMHO it was an utter waste of nearly 40UKP.
Ithika.