I was involved in a different case with Alsup, and yes, uber should be very worried. He is a very competent judge when it comes to tech. And if I was the lawyers, I'd take him seriously. He will sanction them.
How is this left/right? Jared has already been caught along with a number of other trump people using private email. Get over it. But I totally agree with one of the prior comments. Thanks google for reminding us that once again the rich/political class is special.
This this this!. I saw an ad for a kia something that was 9918 + TTL on TV. I've heard one of the less expensive lidar systems is 8K. The top line velodyne is 80K. So exactly how does one build the rest of a car for 1918 bucks? The valley seems to think everyone is buying a 100K car and they just are not. Worse, if the nirvana is achieved (driverless cars that are not owned by anyone except transit companies) then theoretically the number of cars produced drops to maybe 1/3 of current production so volumes go down. That means all those companies relying on 16m units per year for cost redux falls to about 5m units per year.
I am also very dubious of the public acceptance of taxi only. Do you really want to ride in a self drive taxi that just had a kid throw up in? How about a horny couple that just had sex in the back seat? Mom changed a diaper? Kid peed in the back? Burgers & fries? I think there is a reason people like driving in their own car and not taking public transit.
So given the choice between autonomous taxis and flying taxis, I am guessing you are going with cars. I'm thinking flying taxis. It fixes the primary problem (at least in the US) which is the government failing to build new roads.
I guess you missed where I said the patent examiner keeps the bond if they find prior art, IE the reject the patent. Agreed though my 50K bonus per rejection is probably too high. 5K would be more reasonable.
I think the problem is the application fee is pretty cheap compared to the cost the submitter pays to the lawyers to submit it. The lawyers outgun the patent examiners and the result is the roughly 50% grant rate. The examiners are just not up to the task and as I recall, the patent office actually gives some of the fee to the treasury making the matter worse. If all the money for applications were used to examine it would be a start. Perhaps one approach would be you must file a bond of say 50K with each application and if the examiner finds prior art, the examiner keeps the bond. Now that would incentivize the examiner, probably too much but might be interesting to see what happens with the pendulum swung toward too hard to get a patent. Of course if the examiner does approve the patent you get the 50K back.
I also have solar in Austin, and in the summer pay the utility a couple cents/KWH because the city utility no longer does net metering. The pay me for every KWH generated and I pay them for every KWH I consume as if the panels were in some farm somewhere else. In the summer at the higher consumption tiers (>1000KWH/mo) they pay me less per KWH than I pay them. The whole carrot stick of taxation is crazy. So we are going to tariff incoming panels and then give rebates to install panels. Theoretically people will now buy domestically created panels. Problem is, panels are probably like chips, volume is everything. So since the Chinese are stamping them out like cookies, they have the expertise and are likely profitable and better performing than the low volume US panels. There are times gov should intercede but this schizo approach is not helpful.
When I was a boy we had a guy called a milkman that came a few times a week to deliver dairy. I remember friends had a guy that I think delivered fritos/pretzels etc. If I remember right I think bread got delivered too. But all that changed when these new fangled supermarkets became a thing because they were cheaper. Exactly how Walmart (king of cheap) plans to implement door to door delivery at a reasonable price baffles me. Either the food is literally going to be garbage, like the produce no one else wanted, or the price is not going to fit the walmart profile. Now whole paycheck, they might succeed. But then the delivery guy is going to have to double as a massage therapist so the customer can get what they get in the store.
Me too, remember the Jamie Lee Curtis commercials. Anyway, I've always been quite happy with T-Mo. They have always undercut the majors pricing and weirdly, even lower prices on plans of old customers without asking. I've gone from limited minutes back under voice stream for I think it was 80/mo to unlimited everything for 50. All without threatening to leave. Their CS reps are knowledgeable in store and the 2 times I had to call in over 15 years has been resolved quickly. I pray they don't screw it up with a merger.
Flying autonomous cars will happen in numbers before autonomous cars. I also predict it will happen in China, developers of the inexpensive toy quadcopters. I believe Ehang is testing in Dubai.
I am not sure I would want an EV if I was in FL at the moment. Given the grid is toast, exactly where does one fillup? Its not like you could truck in spare batteries to change out. And those long lines to fillup. Given it take a few minutes to fill a tank vs an hour or more to charge an EV, can you imagine the lines at the charge stations before the hurricane hit? ICE engines/tech has been around for a very long time and we know how to handle problem times, extreme cold, extreme heat conditions. How long before we learn how to do the same with EV's. What happens to a EV battery when it is flooded for example. Gas cars yes, its bad, gas & oil leak out but I don't get fried or they don't explode b/c they are shorted. What does an EV do?
Because this was before the internet. You know batch files. There were no manuals unless you worked for CDC. I am not claiming that the method he used would work today, but I am also sure a clever prof could device a scheme where the student would need to ask the prof to complete the assignment. Particularly if the prof was clear, using the internet for this assignment is cheating. You are to complete this assignment entirely on your own. Flame away people.
I recall one of my CS classes, the prof gave an assignment. You were guaranteed to run into a problem. Way back when, the batch file had a limit on memory usage and the assignment needed more than you had. So you went to the prof and he would put a check by your name and tell you how to up the resource. At the beginning of the assignment he was very clear. Do not cheat and that included asking classmates about anything about this assignment. If you did not go see him, you flunked the class. A clever prof figures out ways to detect cheating.
I just don't get it I guess. So if you have 3/4 shows you want, and the bill is 200/mo, then you are paying 50 bucks for each show you have to have. Is it really worth 50 bucks? I know I am not ever going to "get it". I've never had cable because I've never felt entertainment of cable is worth the money. If I really want a show, I buy it when it comes out on DVD/BD or manage somehow to live without. Its not like watching the show is going to keep you dry and warm like your house. Or keep your belly happy like food. When did cable become essential? I reiterate I just am never going to get it.
/sarcasm... Of course and yes they do give lots of notice. But in many cases the justice system cannot prove the criminal activity, just the spoils. So what has convicted many very hard to convict criminals is taxes. My personal experience with the IRS has been quite good, even when I've made some rather stupid mistakes. But they were not intended mistakes, just typos. If anything I've had friends do things that should have gotten them into much more trouble than it did. I fondly remember one friend telling me her accountant (an old probably senile guy) tell her she did not have to file quarterlies. She did. I told her to dump the guy as he was incompetent but she stuck with him until he died and left her in a world of hurt.
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I was involved in a different case with Alsup, and yes, uber should be very worried. He is a very competent judge when it comes to tech. And if I was the lawyers, I'd take him seriously. He will sanction them.
Any good stuff that happens I did, give me a big bonus. Any bad stuff that happens, blame. The old saying *hit rolls downhill has never been truer.
Apple is a design company. Foxconn is a hardware company.
How is this left/right? Jared has already been caught along with a number of other trump people using private email. Get over it. But I totally agree with one of the prior comments. Thanks google for reminding us that once again the rich/political class is special.
This this this!. I saw an ad for a kia something that was 9918 + TTL on TV. I've heard one of the less expensive lidar systems is 8K. The top line velodyne is 80K. So exactly how does one build the rest of a car for 1918 bucks? The valley seems to think everyone is buying a 100K car and they just are not. Worse, if the nirvana is achieved (driverless cars that are not owned by anyone except transit companies) then theoretically the number of cars produced drops to maybe 1/3 of current production so volumes go down. That means all those companies relying on 16m units per year for cost redux falls to about 5m units per year.
I am also very dubious of the public acceptance of taxi only. Do you really want to ride in a self drive taxi that just had a kid throw up in? How about a horny couple that just had sex in the back seat? Mom changed a diaper? Kid peed in the back? Burgers & fries? I think there is a reason people like driving in their own car and not taking public transit.
So given the choice between autonomous taxis and flying taxis, I am guessing you are going with cars. I'm thinking flying taxis. It fixes the primary problem (at least in the US) which is the government failing to build new roads.
They better hope so. If the hackers got the real dirt, I wonder if the hackers could get the IRS bounty for tax fraud?
I guess you missed where I said the patent examiner keeps the bond if they find prior art, IE the reject the patent. Agreed though my 50K bonus per rejection is probably too high. 5K would be more reasonable.
I think the problem is the application fee is pretty cheap compared to the cost the submitter pays to the lawyers to submit it. The lawyers outgun the patent examiners and the result is the roughly 50% grant rate. The examiners are just not up to the task and as I recall, the patent office actually gives some of the fee to the treasury making the matter worse. If all the money for applications were used to examine it would be a start. Perhaps one approach would be you must file a bond of say 50K with each application and if the examiner finds prior art, the examiner keeps the bond. Now that would incentivize the examiner, probably too much but might be interesting to see what happens with the pendulum swung toward too hard to get a patent. Of course if the examiner does approve the patent you get the 50K back.
I also have solar in Austin, and in the summer pay the utility a couple cents/KWH because the city utility no longer does net metering. The pay me for every KWH generated and I pay them for every KWH I consume as if the panels were in some farm somewhere else. In the summer at the higher consumption tiers (>1000KWH/mo) they pay me less per KWH than I pay them. The whole carrot stick of taxation is crazy. So we are going to tariff incoming panels and then give rebates to install panels. Theoretically people will now buy domestically created panels. Problem is, panels are probably like chips, volume is everything. So since the Chinese are stamping them out like cookies, they have the expertise and are likely profitable and better performing than the low volume US panels. There are times gov should intercede but this schizo approach is not helpful.
When I was a boy we had a guy called a milkman that came a few times a week to deliver dairy. I remember friends had a guy that I think delivered fritos/pretzels etc. If I remember right I think bread got delivered too. But all that changed when these new fangled supermarkets became a thing because they were cheaper. Exactly how Walmart (king of cheap) plans to implement door to door delivery at a reasonable price baffles me. Either the food is literally going to be garbage, like the produce no one else wanted, or the price is not going to fit the walmart profile. Now whole paycheck, they might succeed. But then the delivery guy is going to have to double as a massage therapist so the customer can get what they get in the store.
Me too, remember the Jamie Lee Curtis commercials. Anyway, I've always been quite happy with T-Mo. They have always undercut the majors pricing and weirdly, even lower prices on plans of old customers without asking. I've gone from limited minutes back under voice stream for I think it was 80/mo to unlimited everything for 50. All without threatening to leave. Their CS reps are knowledgeable in store and the 2 times I had to call in over 15 years has been resolved quickly. I pray they don't screw it up with a merger.
Flying autonomous cars will happen in numbers before autonomous cars. I also predict it will happen in China, developers of the inexpensive toy quadcopters. I believe Ehang is testing in Dubai.
Check out www.eurekalert.org. It has lots of real news for nerds. No comments though.
I thought Woody Allen invented that decades ago. It was called the orgasmatron.
I am not sure I would want an EV if I was in FL at the moment. Given the grid is toast, exactly where does one fillup? Its not like you could truck in spare batteries to change out. And those long lines to fillup. Given it take a few minutes to fill a tank vs an hour or more to charge an EV, can you imagine the lines at the charge stations before the hurricane hit? ICE engines/tech has been around for a very long time and we know how to handle problem times, extreme cold, extreme heat conditions. How long before we learn how to do the same with EV's. What happens to a EV battery when it is flooded for example. Gas cars yes, its bad, gas & oil leak out but I don't get fried or they don't explode b/c they are shorted. What does an EV do?
Because this was before the internet. You know batch files. There were no manuals unless you worked for CDC. I am not claiming that the method he used would work today, but I am also sure a clever prof could device a scheme where the student would need to ask the prof to complete the assignment. Particularly if the prof was clear, using the internet for this assignment is cheating. You are to complete this assignment entirely on your own. Flame away people.
I recall one of my CS classes, the prof gave an assignment. You were guaranteed to run into a problem. Way back when, the batch file had a limit on memory usage and the assignment needed more than you had. So you went to the prof and he would put a check by your name and tell you how to up the resource. At the beginning of the assignment he was very clear. Do not cheat and that included asking classmates about anything about this assignment. If you did not go see him, you flunked the class. A clever prof figures out ways to detect cheating.
Or just publish the IP address in a few places. Who needs a name?
I wonder, what can you turn a machine that squeezes small packages? Grape press maybe for making wine? Olive press? I know, peanut butter maker.
Check out the oil change cost of a quatraport. Friend has one. They definitely use unobtainium.
No you should say to Cortana, "Cortana, please talk dirty to Alexa"
Does AMD have an x86 license that is transferrable in the case of a change of control? It could be no one can buy AMD and retain the jewel.
I just don't get it I guess. So if you have 3/4 shows you want, and the bill is 200/mo, then you are paying 50 bucks for each show you have to have. Is it really worth 50 bucks? I know I am not ever going to "get it". I've never had cable because I've never felt entertainment of cable is worth the money. If I really want a show, I buy it when it comes out on DVD/BD or manage somehow to live without. Its not like watching the show is going to keep you dry and warm like your house. Or keep your belly happy like food. When did cable become essential? I reiterate I just am never going to get it.
/sarcasm... Of course and yes they do give lots of notice. But in many cases the justice system cannot prove the criminal activity, just the spoils. So what has convicted many very hard to convict criminals is taxes. My personal experience with the IRS has been quite good, even when I've made some rather stupid mistakes. But they were not intended mistakes, just typos. If anything I've had friends do things that should have gotten them into much more trouble than it did. I fondly remember one friend telling me her accountant (an old probably senile guy) tell her she did not have to file quarterlies. She did. I told her to dump the guy as he was incompetent but she stuck with him until he died and left her in a world of hurt.