Why is this so hard? If they cover scanning and emailing documents then surely the patents are obviously invalid due to prior art:
Could you do this before the first patent was filed (Oct 15, 1997)? Yes of course you bloody could, relatively affordable scanners have existed since the early 90s and anyone on a network would have used some kind of networked method to copy their scanned images to other computers.
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What a load of rubbish, Lego sets have included detailed instructions to make the specific thing on the box for decades! The main difference now is that sets are tied to specific films like Starwars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter and so on rather than just generic themes like space, pirates, castles etc.
Makes sense, analysis when the LTE capable chip was first found was that the chipset could support LTE but the phone lacked the required antennas for it, I guess band 4 is the one band that can be picked up by the 3G antenna?
So the Palestinians launch missiles at Isreal and you are upset that Isreal is pissed off about it and launches counter attacks? If Canada started launching rockets at the US, I would expect us to invade and conquer them in short order. I'm surprised that Palestine has been allowed to exist as long as it has.
I can't help but think that this comic applies in this situation.
That's interesting, the original security press release is quite negative - "Newly launched Window 8 is prone to infection by some 15 per cent of the 100 malware families most used by cyber criminals this year, even with Windows Defender activated, Bitdefender testing revealed." but somehow that's become a positive "Windows 8 protected from 85% of malware detected in the past six months, right out the box"
The original point is that Windows Defender can't detect 15% of this years most popular malware, that's not exactly great for an AV program, or maybe Bitdefender has just written a shill piece with a hand picked sample of unusual malware that trip most AV programs up to flog their own AV solutions?
At any rate the figures useless because they didn't compare it to a fully patched Windows 7 system or alternative AV programs, why did this even make the homepage?
Assuming that both images are to scale and taken from the same "slice" of brain (i.e. the images haven't been cooked for dramatic effect), there is a massive difference in the size of the head between both images. If this is the case then couldn't the shrinkage be due to poor nutrition? The whole article is pretty week and quotes no evidence or studies other than the single image.
You actually do get pretty good reports back about the certification process and what is failing, but if the failure is a generic "the application crashed", Microsoft isn't your QA department. Its not the job of the application verifiers to figure out how you might be logging, or if you crashed and YOU showed the error, or if it dumped back to the OS as an unhandled error. They're not a free QA outsourcing organization.
Not giving any kind of indication of how it crashed, or even what environment it's being run under, doesn't seem like a good report to me. How are you supposed to fix a crash issue when you've never been able to replicate it and have no idea what setup it's being run on?
As MS seem to run the application under some kind of automated test suite it shouldn't be too hard for them to catch the error with an automated debugger, generate a quick stack trace report and send that back to the dev with the spec of the test machine so they can replicate it.
Maybe MS are taking the Apple attitude of "Your app didn't get approved? Too bad for you" rather than actually wanting the app and helping the developer get it approved.
Why the hell aren't Microsoft sending stack traces of crashes back to developers? Are they so incompetent that they've forgotten how software is developed?
Maybe 3 year olds don't mind it because they don't know how UIs are supposed to work. For web testing I've used Windows 8 from our MSDN account and it's hideously annoying, from things hiding in the corners of the screen to no logic in metro apps UI, for example I literally couldn't work out how to get the address bar back in Metro IE, I tried all the standard phone UI ways of doing it (scrolling to the top or bottom), moving the mouse to the screen corners, everything. I only happened upon it by chance, you have to press the right mouse button on an empty part of the screen! Yet right mouse button is still a context menu for links.
Then I tried to shut it down and wasted several moments trying to find the shutdown button, finally found it in settings -> power (no idea where the actual power settings menu is hidden).
Needless to say I will not be using Windows 8 on anything I own, I know you can install a 3rd party start menu replacement, but to be honest (as with jailbreaking iPhones) I'd rather vote with my wallet and not support companies whose products are only usable after hacking them, maybe MS will take a hint and fix it for Win9.
The same organic molecules that Earth life uses have shown to form under a number of conditions and membrane forming lipids are also common so while there's very little chance it would be identical it's likely that extraterrestrial life would still have many things in common biochemically, but yeah you'd need more than just an earth life-tuned DNA sequencer to be able to read and recreate it.
Unless the theory that Earth and Mars seeded each other with life via meteorite ejecta is true, in which case Earth life and theoretical Mars life may have the same common ancestor.
To understand elements and chemical reactions you need to know how many protons an atom has, which requires knowledge of integers. Atoms are also discrete units, again integers. Even from an astronomical point of view planets and stars for distinct countable (integer) units. If we find aliens they may not understand integers, but if aliens find us they would pretty much have to have all the mathematical and scientific knowledge we do (and a lot more) to get here.
Unless of course said aliens are a sentient cloud of energy / Boltzmann brain, but the laws of physics seem to like to combine common elements into the same organic molecules that life on earth uses, so it seems likely that relatively familiar carbon based live would also evolve on other planets.
Plus at least simple counting has been shown in many animals, even those only distantly related to primates, so it's not like humans are even the only species on earth that can count integers.
Spoken language is unique, but mathematical language is universal, for a start every alien capable of space flight will know what integers are. Once you've established symbols for numbers, you can match that to elements' atomic numbers, which aliens would also understand. Once you have elements you can start to show chemical structures and so on.
Don't you remember how they did it in [Contact](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/)?
The Arduino does the temperature control (as that's what microcontrollers are good for) and the Pi is there to add a nice display and web server (as that's what a mini SBC is good for), seems like using the right tools for the right jobs to me. If you don't want a fancy display you could just use the Arduino part and skip the Pi.
I disagree. The government should not be trying to limit or ban or regulate guns. With operations like Fast & Furious, the government is setting it up to take away our gun rights. It is inventions like 3d printing that keep the power back to the people
Serious question, what do you hope would be achieved by having widespread gun ownership?
Ahem, if you actually read the article (yes I know) or even look at the URL you'll find it's a pcpro article that just mentions Daily Mail. A quick google search shows plenty of other sources for the story too.
The fact the message was sent to multiple members of his family seems to vindicate his story that the messages were accidental, after all you wouldn't ask your mother, father and grandparents for skin on skin, would you?
I disagree. If you use a car daily then yes you'd be better off getting a cheap 2nd hand car, but if you use one for just a few weekends a year then owning becomes the insane choice and renting much cheaper (at least in the UK where you have road tax and mandatory annual safety checks to pay).
... of how far we've come is that a £250 graphic card (eg. OpenCL on a Radeon 5870) which can compute at 2.72 TFLOP/s would have been the world's fastest super computer in 1999.
Japan uses QR codes to validate their visa stickers, weird how they haven't been hacked yet. Oh yeah, it's because it just contains a binary string and is not treated as a url, duh.
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Why is this so hard? If they cover scanning and emailing documents then surely the patents are obviously invalid due to prior art:
Could you do this before the first patent was filed (Oct 15, 1997)? Yes of course you bloody could, relatively affordable scanners have existed since the early 90s and anyone on a network would have used some kind of networked method to copy their scanned images to other computers.
For me "space" is always disk space ("I don't have enough space to save that file"), I've never heard RAM referred to as space.
Speaking about minimal bootable OSs, I just had a flashback to this 1.44mb bootable QNX tech demo, which includes a GUI, network stack and javascript capable browser (also check out the vintage slashdot screenshot at the bottom)
What a load of rubbish, Lego sets have included detailed instructions to make the specific thing on the box for decades! The main difference now is that sets are tied to specific films like Starwars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter and so on rather than just generic themes like space, pirates, castles etc.
How is this pirate set from 1989 any worse than this Pirates of the Caribbean set from 2011?
It may be a movie tie-in but you've still got to build the thing yourself and you can take it apart and put it together again any way you like.
Ahem, you do realise the site obviously has nothing to do with Nasa, right?
Did you know that the word "gullible" is the most commonly used word that's not in the dictionary?
(Seriously who posted this article??)
Makes sense, analysis when the LTE capable chip was first found was that the chipset could support LTE but the phone lacked the required antennas for it, I guess band 4 is the one band that can be picked up by the 3G antenna?
So the Palestinians launch missiles at Isreal and you are upset that Isreal is pissed off about it and launches counter attacks? If Canada started launching rockets at the US, I would expect us to invade and conquer them in short order. I'm surprised that Palestine has been allowed to exist as long as it has.
I can't help but think that this comic applies in this situation.
That's interesting, the original security press release is quite negative - "Newly launched Window 8 is prone to infection by some 15 per cent of the 100 malware families most used by cyber criminals this year, even with Windows Defender activated, Bitdefender testing revealed." but somehow that's become a positive "Windows 8 protected from 85% of malware detected in the past six months, right out the box"
The original point is that Windows Defender can't detect 15% of this years most popular malware, that's not exactly great for an AV program, or maybe Bitdefender has just written a shill piece with a hand picked sample of unusual malware that trip most AV programs up to flog their own AV solutions?
At any rate the figures useless because they didn't compare it to a fully patched Windows 7 system or alternative AV programs, why did this even make the homepage?
Assuming that both images are to scale and taken from the same "slice" of brain (i.e. the images haven't been cooked for dramatic effect), there is a massive difference in the size of the head between both images. If this is the case then couldn't the shrinkage be due to poor nutrition? The whole article is pretty week and quotes no evidence or studies other than the single image.
You actually do get pretty good reports back about the certification process and what is failing, but if the failure is a generic "the application crashed", Microsoft isn't your QA department. Its not the job of the application verifiers to figure out how you might be logging, or if you crashed and YOU showed the error, or if it dumped back to the OS as an unhandled error. They're not a free QA outsourcing organization.
Not giving any kind of indication of how it crashed, or even what environment it's being run under, doesn't seem like a good report to me. How are you supposed to fix a crash issue when you've never been able to replicate it and have no idea what setup it's being run on?
As MS seem to run the application under some kind of automated test suite it shouldn't be too hard for them to catch the error with an automated debugger, generate a quick stack trace report and send that back to the dev with the spec of the test machine so they can replicate it.
Maybe MS are taking the Apple attitude of "Your app didn't get approved? Too bad for you" rather than actually wanting the app and helping the developer get it approved.
Why the hell aren't Microsoft sending stack traces of crashes back to developers? Are they so incompetent that they've forgotten how software is developed?
Maybe 3 year olds don't mind it because they don't know how UIs are supposed to work. For web testing I've used Windows 8 from our MSDN account and it's hideously annoying, from things hiding in the corners of the screen to no logic in metro apps UI, for example I literally couldn't work out how to get the address bar back in Metro IE, I tried all the standard phone UI ways of doing it (scrolling to the top or bottom), moving the mouse to the screen corners, everything. I only happened upon it by chance, you have to press the right mouse button on an empty part of the screen! Yet right mouse button is still a context menu for links.
Then I tried to shut it down and wasted several moments trying to find the shutdown button, finally found it in settings -> power (no idea where the actual power settings menu is hidden).
Needless to say I will not be using Windows 8 on anything I own, I know you can install a 3rd party start menu replacement, but to be honest (as with jailbreaking iPhones) I'd rather vote with my wallet and not support companies whose products are only usable after hacking them, maybe MS will take a hint and fix it for Win9.
The same organic molecules that Earth life uses have shown to form under a number of conditions and membrane forming lipids are also common so while there's very little chance it would be identical it's likely that extraterrestrial life would still have many things in common biochemically, but yeah you'd need more than just an earth life-tuned DNA sequencer to be able to read and recreate it.
Unless the theory that Earth and Mars seeded each other with life via meteorite ejecta is true, in which case Earth life and theoretical Mars life may have the same common ancestor.
They've been talking about doing this for years.
To understand elements and chemical reactions you need to know how many protons an atom has, which requires knowledge of integers. Atoms are also discrete units, again integers. Even from an astronomical point of view planets and stars for distinct countable (integer) units. If we find aliens they may not understand integers, but if aliens find us they would pretty much have to have all the mathematical and scientific knowledge we do (and a lot more) to get here.
Unless of course said aliens are a sentient cloud of energy / Boltzmann brain, but the laws of physics seem to like to combine common elements into the same organic molecules that life on earth uses, so it seems likely that relatively familiar carbon based live would also evolve on other planets.
Plus at least simple counting has been shown in many animals, even those only distantly related to primates, so it's not like humans are even the only species on earth that can count integers.
Mathematical/scientific language
Spoken language is unique, but mathematical language is universal, for a start every alien capable of space flight will know what integers are. Once you've established symbols for numbers, you can match that to elements' atomic numbers, which aliens would also understand. Once you have elements you can start to show chemical structures and so on.
Don't you remember how they did it in [Contact](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/)?
The Arduino does the temperature control (as that's what microcontrollers are good for) and the Pi is there to add a nice display and web server (as that's what a mini SBC is good for), seems like using the right tools for the right jobs to me. If you don't want a fancy display you could just use the Arduino part and skip the Pi.
I did, every single one of them was the Daily Mail
You obviously didn't look that far, here it is reported independently in several different UK tabloids.
I disagree. The government should not be trying to limit or ban or regulate guns. With operations like Fast & Furious, the government is setting it up to take away our gun rights. It is inventions like 3d printing that keep the power back to the people
Serious question, what do you hope would be achieved by having widespread gun ownership?
Ahem, if you actually read the article (yes I know) or even look at the URL you'll find it's a pcpro article that just mentions Daily Mail. A quick google search shows plenty of other sources for the story too.
The fact the message was sent to multiple members of his family seems to vindicate his story that the messages were accidental, after all you wouldn't ask your mother, father and grandparents for skin on skin, would you?
Renting cars? You're insane
I disagree. If you use a car daily then yes you'd be better off getting a cheap 2nd hand car, but if you use one for just a few weekends a year then owning becomes the insane choice and renting much cheaper (at least in the UK where you have road tax and mandatory annual safety checks to pay).
... of how far we've come is that a £250 graphic card (eg. OpenCL on a Radeon 5870) which can compute at 2.72 TFLOP/s would have been the world's fastest super computer in 1999.
Japan uses QR codes to validate their visa stickers, weird how they haven't been hacked yet. Oh yeah, it's because it just contains a binary string and is not treated as a url, duh.