As a researcher who also publishes from time to time, I have to say, it comes hard to believe the originality of your idea (not impossible, but still), if you even confess not to have read relevant research results. For one, it would give you perspective on what's the trend of research and results in the particular area, second, it would give you good reference background (which is good, since without proper bibliography it's nearly impossible to push through a paper, even at conferences is they are good ones), third, it would expose you to solutions in the respective field to which you could compare your idea with, since in many fields there are a lot of proposed solutions to problems and it's generally required to show your originality and/or improvement over existing ones if you wish your results to be accepted.
I'd suggest like some others also have above, to get in touch with someone who has relevant background, and co-author a publication. It would drastically improve your chances.
Patenting could also be a walkable path, but it takes a lot of time, and a more limited exposure. If you want people to get to know your idea, a relevant conference with a knowledgeable audience would be a good way to go. And certainly better than publishing in a blog.
Is it? Or do the old-timers just not get new technology?
Besides, most people over 40 don't want to spend 60hours+/week at work.
Well, I'm well - well - below 40, and even I don't want to spend 60+ hours at work. I'm not an idiot, and I have a life you know. A life not involving work, that is. That doesn't mean I don't sometimes continue working at home - sometimes I do -, but letting employers create an idiot slave out of you is not the only way to go.
Well, we're talking about North Africa, not the Middle East.
Well, if they're [M.E.] close to an electricity power source for a large continent, and they [M.E.] are an unstable region, then that could cause some problems. I mean if protecting a large solar cell grid costs more than the electricity obtained from it, then there's not much reason to do it.
For checking airlines tweets, for deals and stuff - also, used it a lot after the Icelandic ash clouds started popping.
Other than that? Nope, thanks.
Twitter itself is neutral to me. What things like Twitter make people do - report everything from pissing habits to frogs' farts -, that's what I couldn't care less to follow. So I don't.
You should have some expectation of privacy because we need to have SOME privacy in order to function as human beings.
You can have some expectations of privacy, but not in public places. They are called public for a reason: they are public. If you do private things in public, don't be surprised if your actions will become... [surprise] public.
That's 5 "public"s, let's make'em half a dozen: public:P
some traditional PC folks feel like their world is slipping away
I sincerely wish "traditional" (it does seem to have a pejorative meaning, screw you very much) PC world slipping away, just to see Apple employees develop the next OS and their next apps on iPads with touch access only, with crappy processing power, low memory, low resolution, no keyboards, no multiple monitors, and so on.
This "distortion field" is just that what the name suggests, and Jobs is tring to justify their joices by PR and "visionary" (they wish) enlightenment. It's all the same as the good old create-a -problem-for-my-solution issue, it's just getting out of hands this time.
They should just concentrate to create products that people actually want, not create some shiny toys and then spend time and money in convincing people that a). they actually need it, b). there's no other way to do things better.
This whole thing is good entertainment, but in time, too much of anything can reach the enough point. I wish they did already.
I am not along in thinking this whole thing is like riding the horse backwards. Meaning, inability to equip devices with better batteries leads to putting low power and low performance chips in those devices then the makers of those devices start preaching how some software is the devil's creation because their low performing devices are not able to run them.
This is way stupid. I know, creating better perfming software is one way to go, but not the only way to go.
I don't like flash, still, I acknowledge that pretty nice web apps have been built with and around it, and I see the value in that. Those hardware vendors also see those values, they just want to diminish them so their reasons for making and selling under-performing and over-priced devices would seem well grounded.
But they are not. Start creating better chips and better batteries instead of going backwards in performance.
If I know most of my potential buyers are 6 feet tall I won't be making cars - yes the car analogy works here too:):) - for 4 feet talls.
And finally, wake up, crazy ones! It's the apps and the software that sells a hardware and not the other way around! Yes, with Apple it's a mixed picture since a lot of people buy them for the looks - no comment on that - but that doesn't mean much, given their global market share.
Saying that 1024 is a kilo never made any sense to anyone
To anyone except the countless people who actually knew their way around computers and what they were doing. Flexiblity to adapt to situational changes of a field has nothing to do with idiots changing the nomenclature of a well established technical, engineering and scientific field because they can't fathom words can mean different things in different fields and contexts.
We have kibibytes already. They're now using those for the base 2 measurements, instead of kilo.
Who's "they" ? Nobody in the IT and CS fields that I've ever met, that's for sure. And I've been around for longer than kibi came around. I still feel like laughing every time I have to speak that word out loud:]
it's just computer engineering and computer sciences that broke the established standard
Well, it's always good to remember, that most good standards first become de facto, then de jure. The binary size multiples have been around for longer than any other de facto standard. It's not that unique that a specific field has its own conventions and nomenclature, but for some idiotic reason, some people with too much time on their hands have laid their butts on this issue. This whole thing was beyond me when it first popped up - and when all my university friends cried out in loud and uncontrollable laughter, I'm not kidding, nobody believed this kibi/mebi/etc idiotism would last this long - and it's still beyond me. People who can't understand this, or are not willing to, just should turn to another line of work.
Well, if you're in IT or CS and this causes too much trouble, then your choice wan't the right one. Other than that, "a sector" is not 4096. 4096 is just "a" sector size.
The "binary" prefixes have always been problematic and don't help new people entering the field to understand anything
This argument is outrageously ignorant. Everyone entering a field is expected to learn the field's nomenclature, de facto and de jure standards, and everything related.
The ones always having been making a fuss of this issue were the non-professionals, let me put it another way, people who after buying ocmputers became affordable bought them and thought that buying a PC makes them all-knowing.
This whole kibi/kilo mebi/mega etc. stupidity just doesn't seem to stop. There are too many idiots behind its enforcement. So the thing is, we have to live with it, and there's not much we can do.
But, at least, I can choose to use an OS that doesn't rub it in my face. So Ubuntu, burn.
linear algebra is no help when building database driven websites
Oh for [whatever]'s sake, who on this earth started spreading the "wisdom" that all apps are database-driven web applications that do nothing more than displaying user-input two-line texts with images and videos?
I could list dozens of algorithms - even from my day-to-day use - that nobody on this earth would be able to correctly and efficiently implement without proper math skills. And even the term math is too broad, natural language-related stuff, image/video/vision content processing stuff, simulation stuff, overall machine learning stuff plus ai-related fields, control systems - and I could just go on forever - don't come without their associated - sometimes fairly deep - math topics.
The social web will come and go, but apps and algorithms that do something even remotely useful, won't ever be accomplished by math-knowledge-lacking code monkeys.
Well, the Germans, by releasing this warning about the same time the expected Firefox update came out only proves that their eariler recommendation for choosing Firefox was the right one.
Most programmers I talk to have issues trying to understand the interweaving logic of multi-threaded programing.
Well, I wouldn't want to work with those.
Most computationally intensive/expensive stuff I do these days don't have a change of performing well unless being multi-threaded. Times are past now, when you could say well, this is slow, but faster cpu's will come out soon.
I'm all for being able to buy tracks that we like, because a _lot_ of bands make really crappy albums with 1-2 good tracks. In Pink Floyd's case a lot of albums are made to be a whole, songs flowing into each other, by theme, by style, by meaning, and so on, some of their albums are really good, pieces of art in every sense of the word. Picking tracks one by one is still ok, for those who know the albums, even I listen to a lot of PF songs separately, but it's different than taking a random track from a random band, since I almost always can recall the album itself - I can't really put this into words, the best one I can find is that some of their albums truly provide a nice experience. If they ask some "song retailer" - as I like to call the likes of EMI - to keep the integrity of their creations, I'd honor that request, if not for anything else, then out of respect for what they've put on the table. We're not talking about some one-timer pop-group here, who were slapped together for a quick money tour then disappear into oblivion. I know it's all about profit, still, it's stupid.
Some may say that the majority of applications can't truly take advantage of the resources afforded by a six-core chip capable of processing up to 12 threads.
Well, those "some" don't code complex stuff. Give it to me, I can put it to good use. I'd take a motherboard with 4 of these popped in any day as my work desktop (I'm dealing with massively parallel and highly computationally intensive stuff every day).
isolated, self-contained, easily testable pieces of code
And I'd add small and short to that list. There's no way this bubble concept would be useable with code fragments longer than a few lines, and even those need to be short since wrapping would destroy the usability of the whole thing. Also, in the sample video, when they had to scroll the screen because of the many bubbles, well, there it became a lost cause for me. Realistically, from code dealing with more than helloworlds that I've seen and written, this thing would be a real dealbreaker. I can't think how so much fragmentation can help you in the long run. Having self-contained small pieces of code that do one thing - that is useful -, I'd say those are hard to find. Managing tens of thousands of lines of code this way, I'd go crazy very quickly.
I'd say this ruling is just following common sense. If you gather data that is already available, and put them in a database, that in itself should not be copyrightable. If you make some data representation from those, like charts, tables, or draw some conclusions that are not obvious, those should be copyrightable, since those are results of your own work. Nobody should be allowed to retain any rigths over anything that is just another pile of the same heap.
There was also a comment about hey, now we can copy maps, which I is totally flawed. Going along the line of my ideas above, a map is a representation of some data that is freely available, but since it's not a database, but a graphical interpretation and representation of that database, I don't have anything against retaining rights over that representation. The important thing is to keep in mind, that _anyone_ can make a map of hir/her own and sell it and retain rights over it. But one shouldn't be allowed to retain any rigths over the geographical data.
As I began with, I can only say, it's just common sense.
recognises that he must try to delete the images associated with David Lynch's 1984 version of Dune from the public's consciousness
Hell, erase the memories of a fantastic adaptation by a fantastic director and replace it by a freaking 3D toystory?
kind of movie that has the scope to be 3D
Has the scope? Geez, the world is 3D, genius, and everything in it has the scope to be 3D.
I've had my fair share of avatar movies for this decade thankyouverymuch.
Anyway, it seems we just should rest this "movie" thing for a few decades, since it seems they either just make movies that are crap or they think creating new ideas is uncool and just keep remaking worse and worse versions of previous movies.
It is an industry alright. So we should treat it as such: pay, watch, and if it doesn't deliver what was promised take it back and demand the money. Or do you keep a mower if it doesn't cut the freaking grass?
Half the people on this site probably weren't even alive when Windows 3.1 came out... could you guys give the pointless Microsoft bashing a rest? Just once, ever?
Age is not an excuse for ignorance. What's crap it's crap, even time can't change that, also, short memory isn't always a good thing.
Slashdot Mirror
Well yeah, also, my tiger-repellent rock works quite well :P
have not even read a complete one
As a researcher who also publishes from time to time, I have to say, it comes hard to believe the originality of your idea (not impossible, but still), if you even confess not to have read relevant research results. For one, it would give you perspective on what's the trend of research and results in the particular area, second, it would give you good reference background (which is good, since without proper bibliography it's nearly impossible to push through a paper, even at conferences is they are good ones), third, it would expose you to solutions in the respective field to which you could compare your idea with, since in many fields there are a lot of proposed solutions to problems and it's generally required to show your originality and/or improvement over existing ones if you wish your results to be accepted.
I'd suggest like some others also have above, to get in touch with someone who has relevant background, and co-author a publication. It would drastically improve your chances.
Patenting could also be a walkable path, but it takes a lot of time, and a more limited exposure. If you want people to get to know your idea, a relevant conference with a knowledgeable audience would be a good way to go. And certainly better than publishing in a blog.
Is it? Or do the old-timers just not get new technology?
Besides, most people over 40 don't want to spend 60hours+/week at work.
Well, I'm well - well - below 40, and even I don't want to spend 60+ hours at work. I'm not an idiot, and I have a life you know. A life not involving work, that is. That doesn't mean I don't sometimes continue working at home - sometimes I do -, but letting employers create an idiot slave out of you is not the only way to go.
Well, we're talking about North Africa, not the Middle East.
Well, if they're [M.E.] close to an electricity power source for a large continent, and they [M.E.] are an unstable region, then that could cause some problems. I mean if protecting a large solar cell grid costs more than the electricity obtained from it, then there's not much reason to do it.
For what?
For checking airlines tweets, for deals and stuff - also, used it a lot after the Icelandic ash clouds started popping.
Other than that? Nope, thanks.
Twitter itself is neutral to me. What things like Twitter make people do - report everything from pissing habits to frogs' farts -, that's what I couldn't care less to follow. So I don't.
You should have some expectation of privacy because we need to have SOME privacy in order to function as human beings.
... [surprise] public.
:P
You can have some expectations of privacy, but not in public places. They are called public for a reason: they are public. If you do private things in public, don't be surprised if your actions will become
That's 5 "public"s, let's make'em half a dozen: public
some traditional PC folks feel like their world is slipping away
I sincerely wish "traditional" (it does seem to have a pejorative meaning, screw you very much) PC world slipping away, just to see Apple employees develop the next OS and their next apps on iPads with touch access only, with crappy processing power, low memory, low resolution, no keyboards, no multiple monitors, and so on.
This "distortion field" is just that what the name suggests, and Jobs is tring to justify their joices by PR and "visionary" (they wish) enlightenment. It's all the same as the good old create-a -problem-for-my-solution issue, it's just getting out of hands this time.
They should just concentrate to create products that people actually want, not create some shiny toys and then spend time and money in convincing people that a). they actually need it, b). there's no other way to do things better.
This whole thing is good entertainment, but in time, too much of anything can reach the enough point. I wish they did already.
I am not along in thinking this whole thing is like riding the horse backwards. Meaning, inability to equip devices with better batteries leads to putting low power and low performance chips in those devices then the makers of those devices start preaching how some software is the devil's creation because their low performing devices are not able to run them.
:) :) - for 4 feet talls.
This is way stupid. I know, creating better perfming software is one way to go, but not the only way to go.
I don't like flash, still, I acknowledge that pretty nice web apps have been built with and around it, and I see the value in that. Those hardware vendors also see those values, they just want to diminish them so their reasons for making and selling under-performing and over-priced devices would seem well grounded.
But they are not. Start creating better chips and better batteries instead of going backwards in performance.
If I know most of my potential buyers are 6 feet tall I won't be making cars - yes the car analogy works here too
And finally, wake up, crazy ones! It's the apps and the software that sells a hardware and not the other way around! Yes, with Apple it's a mixed picture since a lot of people buy them for the looks - no comment on that - but that doesn't mean much, given their global market share.
Actually, I'd rather do that than use kibi/mebi/bibi/bubu/whatever ididotic names.
Saying that 1024 is a kilo never made any sense to anyone
To anyone except the countless people who actually knew their way around computers and what they were doing. Flexiblity to adapt to situational changes of a field has nothing to do with idiots changing the nomenclature of a well established technical, engineering and scientific field because they can't fathom words can mean different things in different fields and contexts.
a certain Mars probe that might argue you shouldn't screw around with measurement units too much
The units have never the fault. It's the stupid pricks that can't understand their proper use in certain contexts.
We have kibibytes already. They're now using those for the base 2 measurements, instead of kilo.
:]
Who's "they" ? Nobody in the IT and CS fields that I've ever met, that's for sure. And I've been around for longer than kibi came around. I still feel like laughing every time I have to speak that word out loud
it's just computer engineering and computer sciences that broke the established standard
Well, it's always good to remember, that most good standards first become de facto, then de jure. The binary size multiples have been around for longer than any other de facto standard. It's not that unique that a specific field has its own conventions and nomenclature, but for some idiotic reason, some people with too much time on their hands have laid their butts on this issue. This whole thing was beyond me when it first popped up - and when all my university friends cried out in loud and uncontrollable laughter, I'm not kidding, nobody believed this kibi/mebi/etc idiotism would last this long - and it's still beyond me. People who can't understand this, or are not willing to, just should turn to another line of work.
Well, if you're in IT or CS and this causes too much trouble, then your choice wan't the right one. Other than that, "a sector" is not 4096. 4096 is just "a" sector size.
The "binary" prefixes have always been problematic and don't help new people entering the field to understand anything
This argument is outrageously ignorant. Everyone entering a field is expected to learn the field's nomenclature, de facto and de jure standards, and everything related.
The ones always having been making a fuss of this issue were the non-professionals, let me put it another way, people who after buying ocmputers became affordable bought them and thought that buying a PC makes them all-knowing.
This whole kibi/kilo mebi/mega etc. stupidity just doesn't seem to stop. There are too many idiots behind its enforcement. So the thing is, we have to live with it, and there's not much we can do.
But, at least, I can choose to use an OS that doesn't rub it in my face. So Ubuntu, burn.
linear algebra is no help when building database driven websites
Oh for [whatever]'s sake, who on this earth started spreading the "wisdom" that all apps are database-driven web applications that do nothing more than displaying user-input two-line texts with images and videos?
I could list dozens of algorithms - even from my day-to-day use - that nobody on this earth would be able to correctly and efficiently implement without proper math skills. And even the term math is too broad, natural language-related stuff, image/video/vision content processing stuff, simulation stuff, overall machine learning stuff plus ai-related fields, control systems - and I could just go on forever - don't come without their associated - sometimes fairly deep - math topics.
The social web will come and go, but apps and algorithms that do something even remotely useful, won't ever be accomplished by math-knowledge-lacking code monkeys.
Well, the Germans, by releasing this warning about the same time the expected Firefox update came out only proves that their eariler recommendation for choosing Firefox was the right one.
Most programmers I talk to have issues trying to understand the interweaving logic of multi-threaded programing.
Well, I wouldn't want to work with those.
Most computationally intensive/expensive stuff I do these days don't have a change of performing well unless being multi-threaded. Times are past now, when you could say well, this is slow, but faster cpu's will come out soon.
I'm all for being able to buy tracks that we like, because a _lot_ of bands make really crappy albums with 1-2 good tracks. In Pink Floyd's case a lot of albums are made to be a whole, songs flowing into each other, by theme, by style, by meaning, and so on, some of their albums are really good, pieces of art in every sense of the word. Picking tracks one by one is still ok, for those who know the albums, even I listen to a lot of PF songs separately, but it's different than taking a random track from a random band, since I almost always can recall the album itself - I can't really put this into words, the best one I can find is that some of their albums truly provide a nice experience. If they ask some "song retailer" - as I like to call the likes of EMI - to keep the integrity of their creations, I'd honor that request, if not for anything else, then out of respect for what they've put on the table. We're not talking about some one-timer pop-group here, who were slapped together for a quick money tour then disappear into oblivion. I know it's all about profit, still, it's stupid.
Some may say that the majority of applications can't truly take advantage of the resources afforded by a six-core chip capable of processing up to 12 threads.
Well, those "some" don't code complex stuff. Give it to me, I can put it to good use. I'd take a motherboard with 4 of these popped in any day as my work desktop (I'm dealing with massively parallel and highly computationally intensive stuff every day).
isolated, self-contained, easily testable pieces of code
And I'd add small and short to that list. There's no way this bubble concept would be useable with code fragments longer than a few lines, and even those need to be short since wrapping would destroy the usability of the whole thing. Also, in the sample video, when they had to scroll the screen because of the many bubbles, well, there it became a lost cause for me. Realistically, from code dealing with more than helloworlds that I've seen and written, this thing would be a real dealbreaker. I can't think how so much fragmentation can help you in the long run. Having self-contained small pieces of code that do one thing - that is useful -, I'd say those are hard to find. Managing tens of thousands of lines of code this way, I'd go crazy very quickly.
I'd say this ruling is just following common sense. If you gather data that is already available, and put them in a database, that in itself should not be copyrightable. If you make some data representation from those, like charts, tables, or draw some conclusions that are not obvious, those should be copyrightable, since those are results of your own work. Nobody should be allowed to retain any rigths over anything that is just another pile of the same heap.
There was also a comment about hey, now we can copy maps, which I is totally flawed. Going along the line of my ideas above, a map is a representation of some data that is freely available, but since it's not a database, but a graphical interpretation and representation of that database, I don't have anything against retaining rights over that representation. The important thing is to keep in mind, that _anyone_ can make a map of hir/her own and sell it and retain rights over it. But one shouldn't be allowed to retain any rigths over the geographical data.
As I began with, I can only say, it's just common sense.
neither will 3D rescue an abortion of a film
:)
Oh, so you missed out on fashionable movies lately, or so it seems
recognises that he must try to delete the images associated with David Lynch's 1984 version of Dune from the public's consciousness
Hell, erase the memories of a fantastic adaptation by a fantastic director and replace it by a freaking 3D toystory?
kind of movie that has the scope to be 3D
Has the scope? Geez, the world is 3D, genius, and everything in it has the scope to be 3D.
I've had my fair share of avatar movies for this decade thankyouverymuch.
Anyway, it seems we just should rest this "movie" thing for a few decades, since it seems they either just make movies that are crap or they think creating new ideas is uncool and just keep remaking worse and worse versions of previous movies.
It is an industry alright. So we should treat it as such: pay, watch, and if it doesn't deliver what was promised take it back and demand the money. Or do you keep a mower if it doesn't cut the freaking grass?
Half the people on this site probably weren't even alive when Windows 3.1 came out... could you guys give the pointless Microsoft bashing a rest? Just once, ever?
Age is not an excuse for ignorance. What's crap it's crap, even time can't change that, also, short memory isn't always a good thing.