That will probably happen, but I have an idea, a painful one, but it could work. We could abandon the industry that is held captive by the patent(s). If everyone abandons the industry and boycotts the industry, perhaps the PTO will wake up and listen to the people on patent reform. Mr. President wants the country to have jobs, and the 3D printing industry is a good job stream, but if we let the industry fall on its face because of patent issues, it'll look bad for the administration. Perhaps then the president will push for patent reforms.
Yeah, I don't see the point of going after Kickstarter itself either. Kickstarter is just a middleman for acquiring funds. How would Kickstarter know that Form1 was avoiding patent licensing? 3D Systems is in the wrong for suing Kickstarter, but they have a case as far as Form1's project goes.
First of all, you're not suppose to use the word you're describing in the definition, and here they defined it by using its noun form. Secondly, I believe it's a much larger offense to use the technology you're describing to make your announcement about the word, which they've clearly done by 'GIFing' the WOTY announcement. On top of that, I think I've seen far more clever words coined on the Unwords and Urban dictionaries this year.
If he wants to be an innovator then I'd say avoid selling out to a large corporation. If he doesn't sell out, but makes a deal to service Facebook, then his company could outlive them and he could gain income from servicing other companies. More businesses will benefit from his innovations and the world will be a better place.
If he wants to be a venture capitalist entrepreneur, then sell out to Facebook, take the money and move onto different things. But keep in mind that when Facebook's end comes it will mean that his innovations in the hosting/storage realm will likely die with the company or be absorbed by some other company that is even less likely to share.
It's no wonder the pidgeon was found in a chimney. That pidgeon would have had to fly from Germany all the way across the English Channel and to some place in London. It must have died of a heart attack after such a flight. If such a pidgeon were alive today, we'd have the best IPoAC latency rates ever recorded.
And probably no 3-year-old. I don't have a touch screen and fat chance will you see me buying a touch-screen IPS monitor for the sole purpose of smudging my workspace. Sorry, Microsoft, but my love for you is on its death bed. It was a long ride, but you made a fatal mistake believing touch would unseat they keyboard and mouse. I might have a little wine in celebration of your life.
I'd agree with everyone else here in saying dedicated A/C for telecom/server rooms, but I'd also recommend your server rooms be easy to ventilate when the A/C fails, and have remote environment monitoring.
Every place I've worked has had A/C failures in their server room(s) at least a couple times every year, and the story is always the same: "it was 98 degrees in there this morning when I got into work". And most places had the same temporary cooling solution: Open the one and only door into the room and let the hot air out into the rest of the building.
I'm not too familiar with the solutions, but look at additional ventilation ducts in and out of these rooms and don't rely on the A/C units as the only way to get cool air into them. If you can, put two doorways into the room so you can create airflow if none of the ducts are working. Putting a fan in the single entrance never helps much.
And as I mentioned, have some way of monitoring the environment remotely. Don't rely on system temps either. Last thing you need is to arrive the next morning with burned out servers because the A/C failed shortly after leaving work the night before. Even if you have overnight staffers, you can't expect them to walk into the server room to check the temps every ten minutes, or to know what to do when it unexpectedly fails. It doesn't take long to turn that room into a sauna once that A/C blows out.
Poking around at the contributions that users are expected to submit, this seems like a job that Watson or even a simpler machine could be taught to do without much human intervention. One could easily write an algorithm that chooses the most colorful image in the list of candidates. All I found myself doing was looking at a bunch of white cloudy images next to a couple greener images and an occasional black image. It's quite easy to use some color analysis to eliminate ultra-white and ultra-black images from the groups. Unless there's actual white structures on the surface, I don't see how this job should be tasked to a mechanical turk system. This thing also needs to learn how to prioritize image choices (best/top to worst/bottom) based on nearby approved images, not by date. It seemed like I was always scrolling down for images from a specific zone because the clear satellite image for that zone happened on a later date.
I like shirts that don't explain themselves up front. A shirt that explains the details of the design is rather self-deprecating. You can't have a conversation about the shirt if it already tells any proximal sapiens what it's all about. It's all cool if you get one every year from some charity race to say, "I participated in 1997," but you're generally only going to wear it a few times. If you're seen at the same places with that kind of shirt too often, you're not going to strike up any conversations about the charity race. However, if the shirt didn't fully explain itself, you could talk about it more frequently. Every time you wear the shirt around, people will see/. and you could talk about/. stuff for at least the next five years if not more.
I guess it's how you look at the statistic. Does Canada pirate the music they love the most, or do they pirate the music that's not worth paying for? If it's the former, we can all laugh at Canada's taste in music. If it's the latter, the rest of the world has something to learn from their habits. Unfortunately, I'm assuming the former.
I'm with you on drivers. I retired my windows desktop two years ago and decided that maybe this month I'd throw Linux on it, but the ATI graphics card I have results in a frozen/extremely slow/error-throwing X11 system. The card is in a cross-over line where the same chip can be found in AGP and PCIe, and X11 decides to use PCIe instead. I'd like to see some kind of driver decisioning module that will take a catalog of known hardware and pick a driver out that's absolutely known to work for that hardware, and if none can be found then ask the user before guessing. I'm wondering how many users we've lost because of driver issues that resulted in a dead-after-install system.
God made no mistake in creating males with foreskin. Consider the Adam and Eve scenario. They lived in the nude until the time of the original sin and realization and shame of their naked state of living. Follow the logic a little and you'll realize the foreskin's original purpose was to keep the penis clean when one is living in the nude. That's quite a paradox considering the fact that the world today is bent on believing that the foreskin prevents the penis from staying clean. If the world were sinless, children would have been taught proper hygiene, but instead we have slothfulness, and general embarrassment over talking about our private parts, and so hygiene is not universally taught.
Some indeterminate amount of time down the road, God picks Abraham and his descendents as his chosen people and asks them to be circumcised as a sign of the covenant they made together. Circumcision was around before this covenant, so it's not a practice limited to Israel. Also at that time, illness was attributed to God's wrath, or spirits and demons, so hygiene wasn't considered when determining cause of death. So what happens? God comes along, and teaches his chosen people about good hygiene in terms they (and the rest of the world) would understand. It's like God was saying, "Be circumcised as a sign of my covenant (and so you don't catch the syphilis), and don't eat pork because it is unclean (because you're doing a terrible job of keeping your pigs clean), etc, etc."
At first I was all laughing at your lack of sleep, but then I was all sad because Count Dracula just recently passed away. How are we suppose to count sheep without The Count? He was always there for us when we needed sleep.
This was covered on Slashdot back in May as the Touché which turns any surface into a multi-touch surface. I'm wondering what made the hype return three months later with plants. It's cool that you can use this on plants, but why plants when you can do anything else that exists in an office environment. After all, plants need watering. Why not just use plastic plants? Or, are we all that much more interested in creating a visible emotional bond with our house plants?
Can't wait to see what kind of foolhardy smartphone solution Microsoft cooks up for this. Clearly UAC or some related security measure will be involved: Are you sure you want to allow this device to--CRASH!
You know, you're right! It'd probably take more than 8 seconds to tear into a duck taped cardboard box and acquire whatever is inside. I also wonder why someone would think anything within reach of a 3-year-old is inaccessible, drugs, guns or otherwise.
Why don't we manage these APIs in a manner like version controls? Maintain a 'core' branch that's compatible with the latest browsers and then have additional 'legacy' branches that break off whenever a browser version is deprecated. I know your first instinct is to argue, "Just install multiple versions of the API," but why not make the API a repository in and of itself? And for those people who want every ounce of speed out of their API, you can just offer a 'core' version of the API that only supports the latest browsers and doesn't include the legacy branches.
This might work for smart phones and devices where your thumbs or one hand tend to be the mode of entry, but not for two-handed typing. Take your frequently used articles, pronouns and conjunctions and try typing them with two hands. I think you'd find that much of the effort remains on one hand. Just like our body is coordinated to march with our left and right legs, it's naturally faster to type in a marching order with our left and right hands taking turns pressing keys. And this Dextr layout fails at that. When I read "alphabetical order" I knew it was doomed. Then I read even further to discover other failed logic like designing it to assist those with cerebral palsy, an unfortunate disability that I don't have, and that qwerty was designed to slow you down, when in reality it was designed to speed up typewriters. Dvorak made a good effort in taking some kind of efficiency into consideration. There's no efficiency with alphabetical order. Ease of use is a layman's term. Anything is easy once you're used to it, so it's more important to consider speed and comfort. If you want to make a keyboard for cerebral palsy victims, great! But don't expect me to find it useful.
I'm not one to agree with aborting, but this baby should have been. The trolls will now begin to devolve to a new level. They did not need a new default response.
I and many of my friends send that junk to bob@aol.com. I don't know who he is, but he's got to have the largest database of generic passwords in the world.
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That will probably happen, but I have an idea, a painful one, but it could work. We could abandon the industry that is held captive by the patent(s). If everyone abandons the industry and boycotts the industry, perhaps the PTO will wake up and listen to the people on patent reform. Mr. President wants the country to have jobs, and the 3D printing industry is a good job stream, but if we let the industry fall on its face because of patent issues, it'll look bad for the administration. Perhaps then the president will push for patent reforms.
Yeah, I don't see the point of going after Kickstarter itself either. Kickstarter is just a middleman for acquiring funds. How would Kickstarter know that Form1 was avoiding patent licensing? 3D Systems is in the wrong for suing Kickstarter, but they have a case as far as Form1's project goes.
First of all, you're not suppose to use the word you're describing in the definition, and here they defined it by using its noun form. Secondly, I believe it's a much larger offense to use the technology you're describing to make your announcement about the word, which they've clearly done by 'GIFing' the WOTY announcement. On top of that, I think I've seen far more clever words coined on the Unwords and Urban dictionaries this year.
Certainly less racist than doing an ethnicity-based testing, but wouldn't we start discriminating by hair color in this case?
If he wants to be an innovator then I'd say avoid selling out to a large corporation. If he doesn't sell out, but makes a deal to service Facebook, then his company could outlive them and he could gain income from servicing other companies. More businesses will benefit from his innovations and the world will be a better place. If he wants to be a venture capitalist entrepreneur, then sell out to Facebook, take the money and move onto different things. But keep in mind that when Facebook's end comes it will mean that his innovations in the hosting/storage realm will likely die with the company or be absorbed by some other company that is even less likely to share.
Sounds to me like another cog in the wheels of the zombie apocalypse.
It's no wonder the pidgeon was found in a chimney. That pidgeon would have had to fly from Germany all the way across the English Channel and to some place in London. It must have died of a heart attack after such a flight. If such a pidgeon were alive today, we'd have the best IPoAC latency rates ever recorded.
And probably no 3-year-old. I don't have a touch screen and fat chance will you see me buying a touch-screen IPS monitor for the sole purpose of smudging my workspace. Sorry, Microsoft, but my love for you is on its death bed. It was a long ride, but you made a fatal mistake believing touch would unseat they keyboard and mouse. I might have a little wine in celebration of your life.
I'd agree with everyone else here in saying dedicated A/C for telecom/server rooms, but I'd also recommend your server rooms be easy to ventilate when the A/C fails, and have remote environment monitoring.
Every place I've worked has had A/C failures in their server room(s) at least a couple times every year, and the story is always the same: "it was 98 degrees in there this morning when I got into work". And most places had the same temporary cooling solution: Open the one and only door into the room and let the hot air out into the rest of the building.
I'm not too familiar with the solutions, but look at additional ventilation ducts in and out of these rooms and don't rely on the A/C units as the only way to get cool air into them. If you can, put two doorways into the room so you can create airflow if none of the ducts are working. Putting a fan in the single entrance never helps much.
And as I mentioned, have some way of monitoring the environment remotely. Don't rely on system temps either. Last thing you need is to arrive the next morning with burned out servers because the A/C failed shortly after leaving work the night before. Even if you have overnight staffers, you can't expect them to walk into the server room to check the temps every ten minutes, or to know what to do when it unexpectedly fails. It doesn't take long to turn that room into a sauna once that A/C blows out.
Poking around at the contributions that users are expected to submit, this seems like a job that Watson or even a simpler machine could be taught to do without much human intervention. One could easily write an algorithm that chooses the most colorful image in the list of candidates. All I found myself doing was looking at a bunch of white cloudy images next to a couple greener images and an occasional black image. It's quite easy to use some color analysis to eliminate ultra-white and ultra-black images from the groups. Unless there's actual white structures on the surface, I don't see how this job should be tasked to a mechanical turk system. This thing also needs to learn how to prioritize image choices (best/top to worst/bottom) based on nearby approved images, not by date. It seemed like I was always scrolling down for images from a specific zone because the clear satellite image for that zone happened on a later date.
I knew there was something queer about that acronym. But now the whole thing looks... *sunglasses* lavender.
I like shirts that don't explain themselves up front. A shirt that explains the details of the design is rather self-deprecating. You can't have a conversation about the shirt if it already tells any proximal sapiens what it's all about. It's all cool if you get one every year from some charity race to say, "I participated in 1997," but you're generally only going to wear it a few times. If you're seen at the same places with that kind of shirt too often, you're not going to strike up any conversations about the charity race. However, if the shirt didn't fully explain itself, you could talk about it more frequently. Every time you wear the shirt around, people will see /. and you could talk about /. stuff for at least the next five years if not more.
I guess it's how you look at the statistic. Does Canada pirate the music they love the most, or do they pirate the music that's not worth paying for? If it's the former, we can all laugh at Canada's taste in music. If it's the latter, the rest of the world has something to learn from their habits. Unfortunately, I'm assuming the former.
I'm with you on drivers. I retired my windows desktop two years ago and decided that maybe this month I'd throw Linux on it, but the ATI graphics card I have results in a frozen/extremely slow/error-throwing X11 system. The card is in a cross-over line where the same chip can be found in AGP and PCIe, and X11 decides to use PCIe instead. I'd like to see some kind of driver decisioning module that will take a catalog of known hardware and pick a driver out that's absolutely known to work for that hardware, and if none can be found then ask the user before guessing. I'm wondering how many users we've lost because of driver issues that resulted in a dead-after-install system.
God made no mistake in creating males with foreskin. Consider the Adam and Eve scenario. They lived in the nude until the time of the original sin and realization and shame of their naked state of living. Follow the logic a little and you'll realize the foreskin's original purpose was to keep the penis clean when one is living in the nude. That's quite a paradox considering the fact that the world today is bent on believing that the foreskin prevents the penis from staying clean. If the world were sinless, children would have been taught proper hygiene, but instead we have slothfulness, and general embarrassment over talking about our private parts, and so hygiene is not universally taught.
Some indeterminate amount of time down the road, God picks Abraham and his descendents as his chosen people and asks them to be circumcised as a sign of the covenant they made together. Circumcision was around before this covenant, so it's not a practice limited to Israel. Also at that time, illness was attributed to God's wrath, or spirits and demons, so hygiene wasn't considered when determining cause of death. So what happens? God comes along, and teaches his chosen people about good hygiene in terms they (and the rest of the world) would understand. It's like God was saying, "Be circumcised as a sign of my covenant (and so you don't catch the syphilis), and don't eat pork because it is unclean (because you're doing a terrible job of keeping your pigs clean), etc, etc."
Clearly I need some sleep as well seeing as I've confused Count von Count for Count Dracula.
At first I was all laughing at your lack of sleep, but then I was all sad because Count Dracula just recently passed away. How are we suppose to count sheep without The Count? He was always there for us when we needed sleep.
This was covered on Slashdot back in May as the Touché which turns any surface into a multi-touch surface. I'm wondering what made the hype return three months later with plants. It's cool that you can use this on plants, but why plants when you can do anything else that exists in an office environment. After all, plants need watering. Why not just use plastic plants? Or, are we all that much more interested in creating a visible emotional bond with our house plants?
Can't wait to see what kind of foolhardy smartphone solution Microsoft cooks up for this. Clearly UAC or some related security measure will be involved: Are you sure you want to allow this device to--CRASH!
You know, you're right! It'd probably take more than 8 seconds to tear into a duck taped cardboard box and acquire whatever is inside. I also wonder why someone would think anything within reach of a 3-year-old is inaccessible, drugs, guns or otherwise.
I'm not convinced this research will be proven out until they can simulate the effects of screaming on ice cream.
Why don't we manage these APIs in a manner like version controls? Maintain a 'core' branch that's compatible with the latest browsers and then have additional 'legacy' branches that break off whenever a browser version is deprecated. I know your first instinct is to argue, "Just install multiple versions of the API," but why not make the API a repository in and of itself? And for those people who want every ounce of speed out of their API, you can just offer a 'core' version of the API that only supports the latest browsers and doesn't include the legacy branches.
This might work for smart phones and devices where your thumbs or one hand tend to be the mode of entry, but not for two-handed typing. Take your frequently used articles, pronouns and conjunctions and try typing them with two hands. I think you'd find that much of the effort remains on one hand. Just like our body is coordinated to march with our left and right legs, it's naturally faster to type in a marching order with our left and right hands taking turns pressing keys. And this Dextr layout fails at that. When I read "alphabetical order" I knew it was doomed. Then I read even further to discover other failed logic like designing it to assist those with cerebral palsy, an unfortunate disability that I don't have, and that qwerty was designed to slow you down, when in reality it was designed to speed up typewriters. Dvorak made a good effort in taking some kind of efficiency into consideration. There's no efficiency with alphabetical order. Ease of use is a layman's term. Anything is easy once you're used to it, so it's more important to consider speed and comfort. If you want to make a keyboard for cerebral palsy victims, great! But don't expect me to find it useful.
I'm not one to agree with aborting, but this baby should have been. The trolls will now begin to devolve to a new level. They did not need a new default response.
I and many of my friends send that junk to bob@aol.com. I don't know who he is, but he's got to have the largest database of generic passwords in the world.