Asking how to improve the process of patenting software is like asking how to improve the process of circumcision. Just because you do it now, and lots of tribal elders say it's a great idea, doesn't mean it's true.
I was going to nominate you for some sort of award, but I am puzzled as to exactly how to proceed. Non sequitur of the month? Most inappropriate Off Topic rant of the week?
Were you trying for anything in specific or was this a toss-it-against a Library of Congress to see if it was saluted?
WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE from one of these damned rocks (if something else doesn't get us first) if we don't do something!
We ARE doing something. Most of us are trying to die from natural or unnatural (depending on your personal persuasions) causes BEFORE the big one strikes.
Either that or waiting for the Yellowstone Caldera to blow up. Or Global Warming. Or turnover of the Gulf Stream. The Zombies. The Republicans. Ron Paul.
If watching your kid get a couple of shots is major league psychic problems for you, I must congratulate you on negotiating the horrors of the modern world with such alacrity and skill.
So far.
Just wait until they get a driver's license. You'll be drooling in a corner.
Various combinations of being slightly behind on the child's immunization schedule and / or some parental choices ('we could do this now or next month') can land you in the six shot category although that's a bit of an edge case - four is more likely.
If you're kids are young adults now, the entire vaccine landscape has changed (aside from the needles).
Honestly, a lot of Hubbard's writing consists of very spot-on observations of human interactions, and a lot of common-sense and decent prescriptions, at battle with the tendencies of a machiavellian sociopath.
OK, how do you get the DC-10's and the volcanoes in the mix? Spot-on and common sense are terms that just don't come to mind.
Just as a sidelight to your comment that might point towards the answer (and I'm no particular fan of the Singularity thingy) - we ARE seeing a good bit of HET in the guise of 'cheating' in the Olympics. Most of these are pretty crude chemical approaches although gene manipulation therapy is probably the next big step.
These sorts of things are very under the radar, clandestine if not outright illegal.
You may need to see something like William Gibson's Chiba City start along before we see much progress.
Hell, in the US, we're still stuck on putting marijuana in the same category as heroin. You can't expect all that much from this sort of society.
Not quite. The battery controller in the Boston fire specced out OK. That's useful but there are hundreds of other bits of electronics connected to the battery and the controller (something controls the controller). It probably isn't going to be a simple case of one thing out of spec - those would be picked up in the pre delivery checks. It's likely something that requires an interaction between a couple (or many) devices to create an edge case that no one has figured out.
Of course, you're going to work the problem from simple to complex - look that battery, then the charging system and work backwards. What I'm surprised we haven't heard is the results of disassembling the other batteries in planes that have not failed. I'm pretty sure that every 787 battery ever made is sitting on workbench in Seattle or Japan.....
I'm not surprised by unforseen issues from the new technology and design (like the fuel leaks that have been reported), I'm quite surprised to see battery problems since they must have already run the batteries and charging system through many thousands of simulated takeoff/landing cycles both in bench tests and while installed in a test airframe.
This. They knew the batteries were problematic. The Boeing engineers and subcontractors aren't idiots. Even if the snarky NYT opinion piece which suggests that Japanese firms were preferentially picked for financial rather than technical reasons is true - those said Japanese firms aren't exactly slouches (GL-Yeasu (sp?) makes Lithium ion batteries for spacecraft.
Sounds like a production issue. But these things are complicated. Look at the F22. That's why it's called the bleeding edge.
Well, I'm actually going to buy one and see if it helps, but I'm afraid it's not going to be as useful as a decent Wacom. (Maybe on par with their low end crap).
Being able to sustain a large population or avoiding hardships of migration are another story, though.
And that's the big issue. If there were one or two billion reasonable, intelligent humans on the planet instead of 6 billion crazy assed members of Homo Industrialis then we'd be OK pretty much anything this side of a giant asteroid strike.
We're pushing the envelope at present. We've had and are having resource wars with just tiny decrements of a couple of major inputs - oil and water as an example.
Squish agriculture. Squish transport. Worsen our silly reliance on constant growth as an economic model and you have trouble.
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You start doing that, putting in all of those fudge factors, and you end up just pulling a number out of your ass. Typically the number agrees with whatever political persuasion you hold dear. Might as well be honest and put the number that you 'want' in it.
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I sure hope their "roundtables" are not rectangles with rounded corners.
Oh, please. Every day I pray to hi Noodliness to toss this bit of rancid Parmesan Cheese in the garbage disposal and give him a big buzz.
Enough with the rounded rectangle meme already.
Asking how to improve the process of patenting software is like asking how to improve the process of circumcision. Just because you do it now, and lots of tribal elders say it's a great idea, doesn't mean it's true.
I was going to nominate you for some sort of award, but I am puzzled as to exactly how to proceed. Non sequitur of the month? Most inappropriate Off Topic rant of the week?
Were you trying for anything in specific or was this a toss-it-against a Library of Congress to see if it was saluted?
WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE from one of these damned rocks (if something else doesn't get us first) if we don't do something!
We ARE doing something. Most of us are trying to die from natural or unnatural (depending on your personal persuasions) causes BEFORE the big one strikes.
Either that or waiting for the Yellowstone Caldera to blow up. Or Global Warming. Or turnover of the Gulf Stream. The Zombies. The Republicans. Ron Paul.
Or something like that.
We're doomed.
What's an 'envelope'?
Trust me, that sentence would have any English teacher in the USA upset.
This entire website, 'editors' and all, would have any self respecting English teacher gibbering in corner wondering what went so horribly wrong.
Yeah.
In the HBP, we're doing something completely different...we will base the technology on what we actually know about the brain and its circuitry.'"
With this approach, they will probably start with nematode brains.
And realize they don't have to go any farther.
And you know what? Tetanus shots hurt like a bastard.
Take the little plastic cap off the needle first.
If watching your kid get a couple of shots is major league psychic problems for you, I must congratulate you on negotiating the horrors of the modern world with such alacrity and skill.
So far.
Just wait until they get a driver's license. You'll be drooling in a corner.
Various combinations of being slightly behind on the child's immunization schedule and / or some parental choices ('we could do this now or next month') can land you in the six shot category although that's a bit of an edge case - four is more likely.
If you're kids are young adults now, the entire vaccine landscape has changed (aside from the needles).
Oh stop. The only reason Scotland was able to punch above it's weight was Whiskey.
Economics is nerd territory.
OK, then we should be running threads on Astrology, Dowsing and Scientology.
Oh, Wait.
Man, will you just look at those UIDs!
I didn't think Slashdot could count that high.
Honestly, a lot of Hubbard's writing consists of very spot-on observations of human interactions, and a lot of common-sense and decent prescriptions, at battle with the tendencies of a machiavellian sociopath.
OK, how do you get the DC-10's and the volcanoes in the mix? Spot-on and common sense are terms that just don't come to mind.
You're hired.
Just as a sidelight to your comment that might point towards the answer (and I'm no particular fan of the Singularity thingy) - we ARE seeing a good bit of HET in the guise of 'cheating' in the Olympics. Most of these are pretty crude chemical approaches although gene manipulation therapy is probably the next big step.
These sorts of things are very under the radar, clandestine if not outright illegal.
You may need to see something like William Gibson's Chiba City start along before we see much progress.
Hell, in the US, we're still stuck on putting marijuana in the same category as heroin. You can't expect all that much from this sort of society.
Not quite. The battery controller in the Boston fire specced out OK. That's useful but there are hundreds of other bits of electronics connected to the battery and the controller (something controls the controller). It probably isn't going to be a simple case of one thing out of spec - those would be picked up in the pre delivery checks. It's likely something that requires an interaction between a couple (or many) devices to create an edge case that no one has figured out.
Of course, you're going to work the problem from simple to complex - look that battery, then the charging system and work backwards. What I'm surprised we haven't heard is the results of disassembling the other batteries in planes that have not failed. I'm pretty sure that every 787 battery ever made is sitting on workbench in Seattle or Japan.....
I'm not surprised by unforseen issues from the new technology and design (like the fuel leaks that have been reported), I'm quite surprised to see battery problems since they must have already run the batteries and charging system through many thousands of simulated takeoff/landing cycles both in bench tests and while installed in a test airframe.
This. They knew the batteries were problematic. The Boeing engineers and subcontractors aren't idiots. Even if the snarky NYT opinion piece which suggests that Japanese firms were preferentially picked for financial rather than technical reasons is true - those said Japanese firms aren't exactly slouches (GL-Yeasu (sp?) makes Lithium ion batteries for spacecraft.
Sounds like a production issue. But these things are complicated. Look at the F22. That's why it's called the bleeding edge.
This is a nice quick review of Lithium nastiness....
I thought they sent their president Ahmadinutjob into space and brought him back alive
Even the Iranians aren't that stupid.
Making children cry? That's what Microsoft is all about!
"You'd make a grown man cry"
Lyrics from the theme song of Windows 95.
It's just Microsoft marketing. They have no shame.
Well, I'm actually going to buy one and see if it helps, but I'm afraid it's not going to be as useful as a decent Wacom. (Maybe on par with their low end crap).
Being able to sustain a large population or avoiding hardships of migration are another story, though.
And that's the big issue. If there were one or two billion reasonable, intelligent humans on the planet instead of 6 billion crazy assed members of Homo Industrialis then we'd be OK pretty much anything this side of a giant asteroid strike.
We're pushing the envelope at present. We've had and are having resource wars with just tiny decrements of a couple of major inputs - oil and water as an example.
Squish agriculture. Squish transport. Worsen our silly reliance on constant growth as an economic model and you have trouble.
We're doomed.
A factory worker in China can make up to as much as a pilot. A unionized pilot in USA for one of the big airlines makes $250k to $500k.
"K" - I do not think that suffix means what you think it means. It does NOT mean renminbi.
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You start doing that, putting in all of those fudge factors, and you end up just pulling a number out of your ass. Typically the number agrees with whatever political persuasion you hold dear. Might as well be honest and put the number that you 'want' in it.