I don't think morse code practical in this case, unless the "speaker" wants to communicate in short words and sentences. Verbal English can consume 2-3 letters at a time, whereas morse code can require up to 3-5 dots/dashes per letter. It's a very slow medium. For example, just saying "No" requires 4 dashes and 1 dot; "yes" requires 3 dashes and 5 dots.
I rent an apartment and they fix EVERYTHING and I don't get billed for it.
Because it's included in the rent. Since you already pay $700-$2000/mo., such repair does not hurt their bottom line much. If you spend less than $10/mo., comcast spending $100 to fix your problem does cause a big problem.
The difference between car rental and modem rental is... price. Comcast charges $8/mo. whereas a car rental costs $30-100/day (or $900-3000/mo), excluding insurance. At that rate, the free service you receive is already included in the car rental fee. As you can see, it's an apple to orange comparison.
Another point is, Comcast is not in the modem rental business (although $8/mo seems steep), so it's a secondary or tertiary part of their business. A rental company's primary business is renting out cars, so they are going to provide possible service.
It's wrong if it turns out the modem THEY own is defective.
Perhaps they should not rent out modems that are too old and scrap them instead. But what else can they do? Ultimately, it's a business and all expenses are passed down to the customer, one way or another. So either pay up the occasional service/repair fee or pay a monthly fee for defect insurance.
Suppose it was not rented out, and you owned the modem, wouldn't you spend at least $20-30 to fix any issue with the modem? The renting of the modem from Comcast does not imply a free repair service.
Imagine the eye strain (and face strain) from wearing the goggles every day. There isn't much educational value in content being displayed in 3D. You get a few ooh-aahs initially but the wow factor will soon wear off.
All MOOC courses largely resemble university courses. You are supposed spend 1-2 hours per week on the videos, do extra reading from the textbook and do the assigned homework. After all this effort, you might get an online certificate that's useless for job purposes. This is too much work for casual students. We want courses designed for casual learning and that means flexible hours, fewer homework assignments.
Also some of the science and tech courses are very demanding but the teachers don't simplify it leading to many whooshing sounds for the student throughout the courses. Such courses could benefit from a simplified overview of the course material.
Taxi unions pressure legislatures to enact the laws. The purpose is to limit competition, to make more money.
Yes, taxis can't survive if uber charges 1/2 or 1/3rd, via ride-sharing, for the same route traveled by a regular taxi. Although with ride-sharing, some passengers waste time waiting for other passengers to get on or off.
Who cares about performance anymore. Fast enough is fast enough.
If you upgrade your phone frequently, it doesn't matter. But if you want to use it as long as possible, high performance is a must. Let's say iphone 7 or 8 is 2x-4x faster than iphone 6. Apps developed for iphone7/8 will lag heavily on the iphone 6 forcing you to upgrade your phone. That's what's happening today -- latest apps don't work on iphone two generations behind.
Abstract ideas are concepts like pure mathematics and algorithms.
There are many types of abstractions. Patents in general (not just software patents) are an abstraction of multiple implementations that competitors might create to forgo not paying licensing fees or break the patent owner's monopoly. Just because something is abstract does not mean it's non-patentable.
Microsoft (and others I imagine) gave the courts a bull shit argument that since running software affects the physical state of the machine it is running on, software is more like a physical object and less like an idea or algorithm.
Machines that control other machines are called control machines because the control machine decides what the lower level machine must do or not do. Your CPU has a considerable number of control machines controlling what lower level, grunt hardware like adders/multipliers are doing. Such CPU control hardware is patentable.
Software is yet another control machine controlling the hardware control machines and sometimes the grunt hardware. Why should one control machine (hardware) be patent eligible and the other control machine (software) be patent ineligible? It's a nonsensical discrimination. Note that the functionality of these machines is identical whether it's done in hardware or software. The only difference is the hardware machine is likely orders of magnitude faster than the software control machine.
Therefore Microsoft is right in claiming that software is in fact like a physical machine (since the 1s and 0s of software are real whereas your abstract ideas can't be clearly represented like that) that controls another physical machine (the CPU).
The intellectually hard work of software isn't the idea. It's almost entirely within the coding.
That would be true if you could come up with good ideas (not bad or average ones) easily and cheaply, but you can't. You can work as hard as you want, but there's no guarantee you will come up with a good idea.
With coding, you (and a million other programmers) can work hard to come up with the code. Therefore original ideas are more valuable than the code implementing it. The software world is absolutely saturated multiple implementations of a few valuable ideas, with additional, secondary ideas added to improve the product from pre-existing products.
Any idiot can come up with an idea for a kickstarter, not everyone can make it actually happen.
And even if they manage to complete the game, there is still the possibility the payer won't like the final product. A preview/prototype helps you decide whether you will like the game or not.
The library already paid the piublisher for the book. They got their cut, game over.
Yes, they paid for the book. But for how many copies to be used in parallel or simultaneously? If the library buys 1 copy, it can serve only one library patron at any given time. You can't go into a grocery store and buy unlimited potatoes for a fixed sum. The price varies depending on the weight you buy.
Does the judge's ruling imply the library can give all its patrons access to a book simultaneously while only paying for one? If it does, it's breaking copyright rules.
Yeah, if you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.
Think I've heard that before...
Exactly, what if the reviewer is an enemy trying to ruin his business or a prankster looking for some fun? There must be recourse for the owner to deal with malicious/invalid reviews.
You are as much dangerous to pedestrians as car to you.
Perhaps true. But except for downtowns and crowded cities, most ordinary cities have no pedestrians on their sidewalks. So why should bicyclists risk their lives driving on the same road as cars when the sidewalks are empty? It would be nice to have sidewalks with a barrier to separate pedestrians from cyclists.
They are so reclinable you can see the top of their heads, and sometimes the top of their noses too.
Now you want a "programmable" seat? One more thing to go wrong that requires power. Bad idea.
Why not? It's not the 1950s anymore... electronics is cheap. There could be some manual override controllable by airlines crew if there is some power problem.
There are at least 18 on every 737+ size jet. If you have extra long legs you can also purchase a premium seat that gives you more room.
That's ridiculous. The space above my knees is my personal space and the passenger one row ahead has no right to intrude on that space with his head and torso. Why doesn't the over reclining passenger purchase those expensive tickets instead? He/she's the one that wants luxury while paying economy class fares.
The recliners are uncaring assholes. "Who cares if someone's knees are injured as long as I'm comfortable in my seat using a feature I paid for?"
It's also the fault of the airlines/plane manufacturers for not preventing over-reclining. The airlines should make the seats programmable: if no one is in the back seat, make this seat fully reclinable. Otherwise, limit reclining angle to 1 or 2 degrees (locked vertically).
Okay, but we're dealing with C and even in C++ you have to deal with null-terminated strings. Here's a case that is not extreme at all: copying a 100-byte string to another. Read below how inefficient the null char makes this very common and very basic operation.
One example is FreeBSD's libc, where the bcopy(3)/memcpy(3) implementation will move as much data as possible in chunks of "unsigned long," typically 32 or 64 bits, and then "mop up any trailing bytes" as the comment describes it, with byte-wide operations.
If the source string is NUL terminated, however, attempting to access it in units larger than bytes risks attempting to read characters after the NUL. If the NUL character is the last byte of a VM (virtual memory) page and the next VM page is not defined, this would cause the process to die from an unwarranted "page not present" fault.
They're intelligent at coding, not dirty business tricks.
they should have known better than to let themselves get treated like that.
Right, as if tech jobs are easily available that are not being manipulated in a dishonest way.
They should have looked out for themselves by voting against the elected officials who support the laws that facilitated the export of American industry.
This voting coulda-shoulda would take decades to have an effect, if at all. What about righting the wrong that has already occurred instead of blaming some other issue? If X is the amount robbed from each plaintiff, he/she should get paid X + punitive damages. It's that simple. Why are the judges and lawyers acting intentionally dumb? Let's say, each person lost an average $10,000/year. Then they are owed about $10,000 x 7 = 70,000 minimum, not $5,000. But these companies refuse to pay the fair amount. It's like a common man getting a $200 speeding ticket, but he says he's willing to pay only $10.
W[h]ere is the incentive to actually do anything other then promote the success stories?
The 50-50 chance you mention is not guaranteed.
He has two incentives for their success:
(a) The greater the number of students that get accepted, the greater his profit. Conversely, the greater the number of students that are rejected, the greater his loss (of time and effort preparing their apps and coaching them).
(b) As you said, the other thing is the success stories, word of mouth or reputation. His services need a high reputation for people to invest in his services in the future.
But as someone mentioned in a different post, this is a clever scam, because at least of small chunk of his students will get accepted and he will profit handsomely from this.
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I don't think morse code practical in this case, unless the "speaker" wants to communicate in short words and sentences. Verbal English can consume 2-3 letters at a time, whereas morse code can require up to 3-5 dots/dashes per letter. It's a very slow medium. For example, just saying "No" requires 4 dashes and 1 dot; "yes" requires 3 dashes and 5 dots.
Because it's included in the rent. Since you already pay $700-$2000/mo., such repair does not hurt their bottom line much. If you spend less than $10/mo., comcast spending $100 to fix your problem does cause a big problem.
The difference between car rental and modem rental is ... price . Comcast charges $8/mo. whereas a car rental costs $30-100/day (or $900-3000/mo), excluding insurance. At that rate, the free service you receive is already included in the car rental fee. As you can see, it's an apple to orange comparison.
Another point is, Comcast is not in the modem rental business (although $8/mo seems steep), so it's a secondary or tertiary part of their business. A rental company's primary business is renting out cars, so they are going to provide possible service.
Perhaps they should not rent out modems that are too old and scrap them instead. But what else can they do? Ultimately, it's a business and all expenses are passed down to the customer, one way or another. So either pay up the occasional service/repair fee or pay a monthly fee for defect insurance.
Suppose it was not rented out, and you owned the modem, wouldn't you spend at least $20-30 to fix any issue with the modem? The renting of the modem from Comcast does not imply a free repair service.
And what's wrong with that? They incur employee, vehicle and gas costs which they have to recover somehow.
Here's a video of a iphone 6 prototype (with sapphire glass) drop test from 3 feet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Imagine the eye strain (and face strain) from wearing the goggles every day. There isn't much educational value in content being displayed in 3D. You get a few ooh-aahs initially but the wow factor will soon wear off.
All MOOC courses largely resemble university courses. You are supposed spend 1-2 hours per week on the videos, do extra reading from the textbook and do the assigned homework. After all this effort, you might get an online certificate that's useless for job purposes. This is too much work for casual students. We want courses designed for casual learning and that means flexible hours, fewer homework assignments.
Also some of the science and tech courses are very demanding but the teachers don't simplify it leading to many whooshing sounds for the student throughout the courses. Such courses could benefit from a simplified overview of the course material.
Yes, taxis can't survive if uber charges 1/2 or 1/3rd, via ride-sharing, for the same route traveled by a regular taxi. Although with ride-sharing, some passengers waste time waiting for other passengers to get on or off.
If you upgrade your phone frequently, it doesn't matter. But if you want to use it as long as possible, high performance is a must. Let's say iphone 7 or 8 is 2x-4x faster than iphone 6. Apps developed for iphone7/8 will lag heavily on the iphone 6 forcing you to upgrade your phone. That's what's happening today -- latest apps don't work on iphone two generations behind.
There are many types of abstractions. Patents in general (not just software patents) are an abstraction of multiple implementations that competitors might create to forgo not paying licensing fees or break the patent owner's monopoly. Just because something is abstract does not mean it's non-patentable.
Machines that control other machines are called control machines because the control machine decides what the lower level machine must do or not do. Your CPU has a considerable number of control machines controlling what lower level, grunt hardware like adders/multipliers are doing. Such CPU control hardware is patentable.
Software is yet another control machine controlling the hardware control machines and sometimes the grunt hardware. Why should one control machine (hardware) be patent eligible and the other control machine (software) be patent ineligible? It's a nonsensical discrimination. Note that the functionality of these machines is identical whether it's done in hardware or software. The only difference is the hardware machine is likely orders of magnitude faster than the software control machine.
Therefore Microsoft is right in claiming that software is in fact like a physical machine (since the 1s and 0s of software are real whereas your abstract ideas can't be clearly represented like that) that controls another physical machine (the CPU).
Isn't gnome simply a visual clone of windows/os x windows managers. Where's the innovation?
That would be true if you could come up with good ideas (not bad or average ones) easily and cheaply, but you can't. You can work as hard as you want, but there's no guarantee you will come up with a good idea.
With coding, you (and a million other programmers) can work hard to come up with the code. Therefore original ideas are more valuable than the code implementing it. The software world is absolutely saturated multiple implementations of a few valuable ideas, with additional, secondary ideas added to improve the product from pre-existing products.
And even if they manage to complete the game, there is still the possibility the payer won't like the final product. A preview/prototype helps you decide whether you will like the game or not.
Yes, they paid for the book. But for how many copies to be used in parallel or simultaneously? If the library buys 1 copy, it can serve only one library patron at any given time. You can't go into a grocery store and buy unlimited potatoes for a fixed sum. The price varies depending on the weight you buy.
Does the judge's ruling imply the library can give all its patrons access to a book simultaneously while only paying for one? If it does, it's breaking copyright rules.
What about wolves? Aren't they social and predators too? Why are they nowhere near the apex?
Especially funny because digital hardware is just like software except all your code statements execute in parallel
Exactly, what if the reviewer is an enemy trying to ruin his business or a prankster looking for some fun? There must be recourse for the owner to deal with malicious/invalid reviews.
Perhaps true. But except for downtowns and crowded cities, most ordinary cities have no pedestrians on their sidewalks. So why should bicyclists risk their lives driving on the same road as cars when the sidewalks are empty? It would be nice to have sidewalks with a barrier to separate pedestrians from cyclists.
Is Facebook huge enough? See haxl
They are so reclinable you can see the top of their heads, and sometimes the top of their noses too.
Why not? It's not the 1950s anymore... electronics is cheap. There could be some manual override controllable by airlines crew if there is some power problem.
That's ridiculous. The space above my knees is my personal space and the passenger one row ahead has no right to intrude on that space with his head and torso. Why doesn't the over reclining passenger purchase those expensive tickets instead? He/she's the one that wants luxury while paying economy class fares.
The recliners are uncaring assholes. "Who cares if someone's knees are injured as long as I'm comfortable in my seat using a feature I paid for?"
It's also the fault of the airlines/plane manufacturers for not preventing over-reclining. The airlines should make the seats programmable: if no one is in the back seat, make this seat fully reclinable. Otherwise, limit reclining angle to 1 or 2 degrees (locked vertically).
Okay, but we're dealing with C and even in C++ you have to deal with null-terminated strings. Here's a case that is not extreme at all: copying a 100-byte string to another. Read below how inefficient the null char makes this very common and very basic operation.
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cf...
They're intelligent at coding, not dirty business tricks.
Right, as if tech jobs are easily available that are not being manipulated in a dishonest way.
This voting coulda-shoulda would take decades to have an effect, if at all. What about righting the wrong that has already occurred instead of blaming some other issue? If X is the amount robbed from each plaintiff, he/she should get paid X + punitive damages. It's that simple. Why are the judges and lawyers acting intentionally dumb? Let's say, each person lost an average $10,000/year. Then they are owed about $10,000 x 7 = 70,000 minimum, not $5,000. But these companies refuse to pay the fair amount. It's like a common man getting a $200 speeding ticket, but he says he's willing to pay only $10.
The 50-50 chance you mention is not guaranteed.
He has two incentives for their success:
(a) The greater the number of students that get accepted, the greater his profit. Conversely, the greater the number of students that are rejected, the greater his loss (of time and effort preparing their apps and coaching them).
(b) As you said, the other thing is the success stories, word of mouth or reputation. His services need a high reputation for people to invest in his services in the future.
But as someone mentioned in a different post, this is a clever scam, because at least of small chunk of his students will get accepted and he will profit handsomely from this.