Not only will we lose enjoyment of driving, you can bet it will be monitored and controlled through the internet (eg: NSA Prism) using technology that appears useful and harmless on the surface.
Will there ever be a point in the evolution of the Internet where we say we don't want to connect nodes A and B?
They didn't steal accounts from each other. They shared. What is this world coming to? A place for fascist corporations and governments who clearly support them.
Companies build products/services for profits, above all else, otherwise it would be a hobby. The cost to the company to provide the service in this case is tens of thousands than what is paid by a single subscriber. If everyone thought it was okay to share and it's not theft, guess what, the service is now unprofitable because 10-30% of service users are non-paying customers. The loss of paying customers would result in a cumulative marginal profit or substantial loss depending on the margin.
So, in summary, yes, sharers are stealing because the service has been priced for use by one person or family.
All photography and recording is disallowed. So, no shit glass is banned.
Are you implying it is legal for a bunch of strangers in public areas to record other strangers without necessity or permission? (hint: recorders are breaking 4th amendment)
Because they are above the law... they would like to rape your privacy but don't want you to do the same to them. People are too stupid to notice or complain that glass breaks many privacy laws (4th amendment)
When a phone is stolen, another phone gets purchased. Reducing phone thefts will cut into new phone sales!
Stolen phones yield tiny profits for manufacturers. How about installing 1984esque kill-switch in your phone? It's phones today, cars tomorrow and god knows anything that is electronics. This solution is a terrible and illegal idea.
It should put more power in the hands on developers, not less. If it's used as an excuse for micromanagement, it's definitely not Agile.
Nice try, but the reality is quite different. Managers love agile because of daily standup meetings. That is the height of micromanagement (constant status reports) and puts pressure on the devs to accomplish something everyday.
You seem to fail to understand that there is no difference between designing a car and designing a software product.
I beg to differ. Cars have a fixed design: body, chassis, steering wheel, gears, seats, engine, tranny, suspension, fuel tank, exhaust, etc. Car manufacturers only change the spec of each of these components. Once you've manufactured cars for a few years, you know how much time and effort is required to make small changes for the next version.
The same does not apply for designing new software. Software design's scope is several orders of magnitude bigger than car design's because the former can do much more than the latter. Sure you may know how to write the GUI and program the database. But there are still many other pieces of the software you have not built before. These new components are brand new. So they can't be planned like you can plan a car component or a construction building. That's because you are building it for the first time whereas these car components and building structures have been built and perfected for decades or hundreds of years.
Do you remember the movie where Batman uses cellphone signals of unsuspecting users to locate Joker? He tells Morgan Freeman that using these signals as sonar/radar is a grave intrusion on privacy of cellphone users.
Well, GG is just like that except it's orders of magnitudes more invasive of that. This is isn't spying, it's mass-spying without consent of the person being spied upon.
Fourth amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated...
Well GG breaks 4th amendment. This is not a toy/gimmick, it's a weapon.
Do you know that you have to literally stop and read the little one, as the big one is distracting you?
The current speedometer design prefers only one unit (mph in US). Suppose metric road signs were adopted by some states but not others. In this case, the car manufacturers have to redesign the speedometer such that you can switch between mph and kph by flipping a switch on the dash and restarting the car. In kph mode, "km/h" is displayed under the speedometer needle. Similarly, "mph" is displayed in mph mode. Note that there's no big and small scale: only one scale that shows kph or mph.
Since mph range is 0-140 and kph range in 0-230, the dials have to be more circular than the current semi-circle design to accommodate both units in the same scale. Only when all cars have such unit switching capability can the road signs be switched to metric.
Here's the test: Can I run the algorithm myself given a pencil and some graph paper? If No, then it's not implementable in a general purpose computer. If yes, then it shouldn't be patentable
This whole "algorithm == math => therefore not patentable" argument misses the case where just about any invention can be modelled by math. So nothing should be patentable? That's the end of most innovation. Algorithm == description of operations or parts of a machine that performs a function -- just like a car.
The judges seem to echo what I posted on another slashdot post that software instructions and data structures create a machine -- very similar to an equivalent machine that could be created with off-the-shelf hardware, custom ASICs or FPGAs. Therefore software patents should enjoy same protection that hardware patents enjoy.
They are both the same in functionality and somewhat in implementation, only hardware is faster, more parallel but limited in functionality. Whereas software is slower, less parallel but has vastly more functionality than hardware.
GP solved the problem. In this case, ChangeGoldBy(int increment) method handles both underflow and overflow. This is the only place to handle corner cases (good OO programming -- encapsulation). The rest of the app can simply call this method any time it wants to change the gold and assume things will be handled correctly.
OP is a troll or passive aggressive against his coworker. Most in-house software I've seen is sub-par but it gets the job done. You're only going to see elegant in code in popular commercial software (and even some of that is not quite elegant).
Elegance has long term benefits but high upfront costs in quality of programmer, time and effort... things most managers don't seem to value beyond a certain threshold.
When I looked at them, I felt the pain of having to learn something new. They gave the impression of unnecessary and non-useful crapware.
It may seem like crapware, but Microsoft has done a good job of copying many iPhone UI features into Win8. For eg: the grid of program icons that are used to launch apps -- copied by win8. When you swipe with your finger or mouse, a new page of program icons scroll into view -- again copied by Win8.
I'm not sure why everyone is complaining about Win8 UI? It took me a few minutes to get used to it, and is very similar to iPhone UI
Much of the process is to make sure the paperwork is correct, not the content.
Neither the patent filer (Apple) nor the patent examiner is psychic and could not have known (reasonably) about the prior art of "slide to unlock" in Neonode N1m.
Even without the Neonode prior art, this patent should be considered invalid as the mechanism is in widespread use: laptops, windows, doors, suitcases etc. employ slide to unlock in the physical world. Just because you show that mechanism graphically does not make it a patent worthy.
By that logic, just looking at people is sexual harassment.
Absolutely, looking at them the wrong way is considered sexual harassment (ask your HR rep, judge or lawyer if you don't believe me). But that's common knowledge unless you were born yesterday.
And what's up with the troll rating? 99.9% of all businesses will not permit their employees from wearing these glasses on the job. This is dangerous technology. If you like it, use it by all means. But don't invade the privacy of strangers unless you have their permission.
How exactly can you be upset about being recorded in public? Do you understand what "public" means?
Right, why don't you stick a camera (or google glass) under a girl's skirt and then tell her she's in public and has no expectation of privacy.
Glass violates someone's privacy in the same way, just a much lesser degree. Just because you are okay with being recorded by strangers does not mean everyone is, and nor is it legal.
Google glasses are blatantly illegal. They violate the privacy of people who did not even sign up or know about this technology. If just 1% or of the population started using glasses, that would be enough to record lives of the vast majority of the population. You can bet a secret govt agency is sponsoring Google glasses.
So when nerd inventions blast away other people's jobs, most of the people around here start screaming about buggy whip manufacturers and the need for a rapidly adjusting workforce.
If you've worked in a nerd environment, you would have realized, the nerds are not intentionally doing this -- obsoleting human jobs. They are skilled in computers and are simply following instructions given by their bosses, without fully understanding their actions' consequences on a macro scale. The PHBs, big business, governments, etc. designing these computer job requirements and goals are the ones obsoleting many human jobs.
Ever wonder why no software exists to replace many job functions performed by politicians or business? For example, why should big decisions be made by just a few dozen politicians when computer networks would allow millions to vote on such an issue?
The sooner we stop treating ideas like real physical property, the better off we will as a society will be. Punish people for stealing actual things instead of hypothetical customers (lost sales)
You have it backwards. Physical property is worth less than good ideas (not common ones). What you call actual things are simply = good ideas (design etc) + cheap raw materials + manufacturing machines. As you can see, the most valuable factor in the above equation is "good ideas."
Why is Google becoming like Facebook and asking for your real-world name while using a Google account? They are becoming more and more intrusive. Google also tracks your activities because Google AdSense and Analytics is widely embedded in most web pages. Who gave these websites permission to track us? They know more about web users than their parents. Why is the government doing nothing about it?
Slashdot Mirror
Will there ever be a point in the evolution of the Internet where we say we don't want to connect nodes A and B?
They didn't steal accounts from each other. They shared. What is this world coming to? A place for fascist corporations and governments who clearly support them.
Companies build products/services for profits, above all else, otherwise it would be a hobby. The cost to the company to provide the service in this case is tens of thousands than what is paid by a single subscriber. If everyone thought it was okay to share and it's not theft, guess what, the service is now unprofitable because 10-30% of service users are non-paying customers. The loss of paying customers would result in a cumulative marginal profit or substantial loss depending on the margin.
So, in summary, yes, sharers are stealing because the service has been priced for use by one person or family.
You mean if I improve the design of a battery, let's say by using rounded corners on it, I can patent that design?
Read GP's post: new and useful improvement -- rounded corners are cosmetic, not that useful.
All photography and recording is disallowed. So, no shit glass is banned.
Are you implying it is legal for a bunch of strangers in public areas to record other strangers without necessity or permission? (hint: recorders are breaking 4th amendment)
Because they are above the law... they would like to rape your privacy but don't want you to do the same to them. People are too stupid to notice or complain that glass breaks many privacy laws (4th amendment)
When a phone is stolen, another phone gets purchased. Reducing phone thefts will cut into new phone sales!
Stolen phones yield tiny profits for manufacturers. How about installing 1984esque kill-switch in your phone? It's phones today, cars tomorrow and god knows anything that is electronics. This solution is a terrible and illegal idea.
It should put more power in the hands on developers, not less. If it's used as an excuse for micromanagement, it's definitely not Agile.
Nice try, but the reality is quite different. Managers love agile because of daily standup meetings. That is the height of micromanagement (constant status reports) and puts pressure on the devs to accomplish something everyday.
You seem to fail to understand that there is no difference between designing a car and designing a software product.
I beg to differ. Cars have a fixed design: body, chassis, steering wheel, gears, seats, engine, tranny, suspension, fuel tank, exhaust, etc. Car manufacturers only change the spec of each of these components. Once you've manufactured cars for a few years, you know how much time and effort is required to make small changes for the next version.
The same does not apply for designing new software. Software design's scope is several orders of magnitude bigger than car design's because the former can do much more than the latter. Sure you may know how to write the GUI and program the database. But there are still many other pieces of the software you have not built before. These new components are brand new. So they can't be planned like you can plan a car component or a construction building. That's because you are building it for the first time whereas these car components and building structures have been built and perfected for decades or hundreds of years.
Well, GG is just like that except it's orders of magnitudes more invasive of that. This is isn't spying, it's mass-spying without consent of the person being spied upon.
Fourth amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated...
Well GG breaks 4th amendment. This is not a toy/gimmick, it's a weapon.
Do you know that you have to literally stop and read the little one, as the big one is distracting you?
The current speedometer design prefers only one unit (mph in US). Suppose metric road signs were adopted by some states but not others. In this case, the car manufacturers have to redesign the speedometer such that you can switch between mph and kph by flipping a switch on the dash and restarting the car. In kph mode, "km/h" is displayed under the speedometer needle. Similarly, "mph" is displayed in mph mode. Note that there's no big and small scale: only one scale that shows kph or mph.
Since mph range is 0-140 and kph range in 0-230, the dials have to be more circular than the current semi-circle design to accommodate both units in the same scale. Only when all cars have such unit switching capability can the road signs be switched to metric.
This whole "algorithm == math => therefore not patentable" argument misses the case where just about any invention can be modelled by math. So nothing should be patentable? That's the end of most innovation. Algorithm == description of operations or parts of a machine that performs a function -- just like a car.
They are both the same in functionality and somewhat in implementation, only hardware is faster, more parallel but limited in functionality. Whereas software is slower, less parallel but has vastly more functionality than hardware.
GP solved the problem. In this case, ChangeGoldBy(int increment) method handles both underflow and overflow. This is the only place to handle corner cases (good OO programming -- encapsulation). The rest of the app can simply call this method any time it wants to change the gold and assume things will be handled correctly.
Elegance has long term benefits but high upfront costs in quality of programmer, time and effort... things most managers don't seem to value beyond a certain threshold.
When I looked at them, I felt the pain of having to learn something new. They gave the impression of unnecessary and non-useful crapware.
It may seem like crapware, but Microsoft has done a good job of copying many iPhone UI features into Win8. For eg: the grid of program icons that are used to launch apps -- copied by win8. When you swipe with your finger or mouse, a new page of program icons scroll into view -- again copied by Win8.
I'm not sure why everyone is complaining about Win8 UI? It took me a few minutes to get used to it, and is very similar to iPhone UI
Much of the process is to make sure the paperwork is correct, not the content.
Neither the patent filer (Apple) nor the patent examiner is psychic and could not have known (reasonably) about the prior art of "slide to unlock" in Neonode N1m.
Even without the Neonode prior art, this patent should be considered invalid as the mechanism is in widespread use: laptops, windows, doors, suitcases etc. employ slide to unlock in the physical world. Just because you show that mechanism graphically does not make it a patent worthy.
Ever heard of venture capital? That pays the bills before any sales are made.
By that logic, just looking at people is sexual harassment.
Absolutely, looking at them the wrong way is considered sexual harassment (ask your HR rep, judge or lawyer if you don't believe me). But that's common knowledge unless you were born yesterday.
And what's up with the troll rating? 99.9% of all businesses will not permit their employees from wearing these glasses on the job. This is dangerous technology. If you like it, use it by all means. But don't invade the privacy of strangers unless you have their permission.
How exactly can you be upset about being recorded in public? Do you understand what "public" means?
Right, why don't you stick a camera (or google glass) under a girl's skirt and then tell her she's in public and has no expectation of privacy.
Glass violates someone's privacy in the same way, just a much lesser degree. Just because you are okay with being recorded by strangers does not mean everyone is, and nor is it legal.
Google glasses are blatantly illegal. They violate the privacy of people who did not even sign up or know about this technology. If just 1% or of the population started using glasses, that would be enough to record lives of the vast majority of the population. You can bet a secret govt agency is sponsoring Google glasses.
So when nerd inventions blast away other people's jobs, most of the people around here start screaming about buggy whip manufacturers and the need for a rapidly adjusting workforce.
If you've worked in a nerd environment, you would have realized, the nerds are not intentionally doing this -- obsoleting human jobs. They are skilled in computers and are simply following instructions given by their bosses, without fully understanding their actions' consequences on a macro scale. The PHBs, big business, governments, etc. designing these computer job requirements and goals are the ones obsoleting many human jobs.
Ever wonder why no software exists to replace many job functions performed by politicians or business? For example, why should big decisions be made by just a few dozen politicians when computer networks would allow millions to vote on such an issue?
The sooner we stop treating ideas like real physical property, the better off we will as a society will be. Punish people for stealing actual things instead of hypothetical customers (lost sales)
You have it backwards. Physical property is worth less than good ideas (not common ones). What you call actual things are simply = good ideas (design etc) + cheap raw materials + manufacturing machines. As you can see, the most valuable factor in the above equation is "good ideas."
Why is Google becoming like Facebook and asking for your real-world name while using a Google account? They are becoming more and more intrusive. Google also tracks your activities because Google AdSense and Analytics is widely embedded in most web pages. Who gave these websites permission to track us? They know more about web users than their parents. Why is the government doing nothing about it?
Basically any computer-based set-top box with a back channel and software that you don't control.
How does a Satellite set-top box communicate with the mothership (protocols and medium) without access to a phone line or internet router?
... and yes, Pluto is a planet, coz it has moons.