not even. you can post shit of facebook and twitter without google knowing where you are right now. You can even have the phone ask you each instance it wants to get your location.
as mentioned above, google is not a carrier and need not know anything about my whereabouts, EVER. Actual carriers can track me without putting a program on my phone to do it - they just check to see what towers I've checked in on.
carriers aren't the issue. google isn't a carrier, its not even a phone manufacturer. They wrote the OS, they're collecting data. The carrier probably doesn't need your consent to track your location, they don't monetize that information.
many cell phone stores do the setup for the customer, and the customer never sees the "start up" screen and the box. they cell phone salesperson just click ok ok next until they can set up the email etc for them.
there are lots of ifs in math and physics. They're just, you know, in your head.
If you're calculating the axial deformation of a block of metal under load, you calculate the stress. IF the stress is greater than proportional limit, you have to use a stress-strain curve to find strain. If it's under the proportional limit, then you can use the load and modulus of elasticity to find it.
but of course, if someone had made a program to do that hundreds of years ago, there would have been an entire generation of people who would have had to pay him not because he made up the math, but because his program meant he 'owned' the concept of the 'if', even though it was self evident to anyone who knows anything about it.
the question is:
1) specific implementation - because with the current system you don't have to have one, you own the concept of it.
2) were you using 'old' formulas to do something overall 'new'.
In this case, the suing company didn't write the specific implementation, and didn't do anything 'new'. they just copyrighted a concept that was self evident, and done before many many times. It's only the broken patent system that allows something like that to exist.
The question is more->
if you have a patent that is a formula derived from "open-source" mathematics that anyone can use, how valid can any patent on it be? It's not a technique, per se. It's not new. It's a mathematical manipulation that a million people before you have thought of, learned, and used.
Could engineers have patented the formulas used to create objects like engines, etc? How many automakers would we have now if the formulas used in the design of cars were patented by those making the cars? They're pure math, we know, but hey - they're being applied.
well, the a data center run by amazon certainly has more rigorous backup and maintenance schedules than anything I could personally come up with, offhand. It took something pretty catastrophic to bring it down and cause data lass.
the problem is if someone decided to only have one copy, at amazon. If they had 2 at 2 different servers, success!
if you get a cheque, you go to an ATM at the bank and deposit it, or to the teller and do the same thing. I'm not really sure where you're getting this 7-11 thing. I live in canada and the only reason to go to 7-11 is slurpees.
it reflects huge amounts of radiant energy transfer from your envelope materials away from the interior of your home, making it that much more efficient to cool, and during winter it helps keep the heat inside the house. The wifi 'issue' just doesn't seem to be that much of an issue when you're talking about one of the core efficiencies in your house, and one of the biggest loads on the nation's energy usage.
except this article is talking not about rare cases, but the overall case of GUIs vs CLIs. For the people who edit images, GUI driven programs are the best. For those who live by the command line and only once in a while have to resize a batch of images, playing the command line would work for them. That doesn't mean the GUI isn't superior, because in this case it obviously is. It's simply that you don't have it.
If I were to make a case about the condition of transportation, and use you and having no car as the typical or even standard case, I'd be wrong. If I did the same with photo editing, I'd be wrong again.
Most people who have to resize 400 pictures work with images normally, and have some sort of image editing program, and almost all of them have some sort of batch command. Photoshop elements will do it too, and it's a lot less than full on photoshop. You don't NEED the $600 program to do it, and claiming that the cost of photoshop is the downfall of the GUI here is not really an issue, since there are alternatives.
guess what...people who do serious work with CAD and images use autoCAD and photoshop. Not talking about the gold standard for those activities is like ignoring reality. You'll notice the freeware photoshop, GIMP, doesn't have action macros. you have to learn to script. Guess why people who make images and not people who program prefer photoshop?
I mean...why talk about cars when you're talking about transportation? Who has thousands of dollars to waste on them? Instead we should talk about bikes and buses only. Let's ignore everything else on the road, amirite?
I just checked and ps cs5 opens in about 2.5 seconds on my laptop (p9550, 8gb ram, intel 80gb SSD, ati 3650m). I suppose if you don't have a machine built for image editing, the programs running slowly is something you're going to have to deal with.
right. the advantage of GUIs is that they are more accessible. anyone can use the file>image processor dialog box without worrying about syntax, and logical operators. I know I don't want to deal with them, if I can avoid it.
or you could have made a photoshop action while applying the first one, then told it to do the action to every image in the folder. done in less than five minutes. probably only about 1, if you know what you're doing. There's a lot to be said for knowing how to use the tools!
...and I'm sure the long term effects of overloading your sensitive, incredibly difficult and costly to regrow optic nerves to this degree are well known, and this represents no long term danger. right?
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not even. you can post shit of facebook and twitter without google knowing where you are right now. You can even have the phone ask you each instance it wants to get your location.
as mentioned above, google is not a carrier and need not know anything about my whereabouts, EVER. Actual carriers can track me without putting a program on my phone to do it - they just check to see what towers I've checked in on.
carriers aren't the issue. google isn't a carrier, its not even a phone manufacturer. They wrote the OS, they're collecting data. The carrier probably doesn't need your consent to track your location, they don't monetize that information.
many cell phone stores do the setup for the customer, and the customer never sees the "start up" screen and the box. they cell phone salesperson just click ok ok next until they can set up the email etc for them.
this mandatory "give phone makers your location all the time" thing has got to be put down.
there are lots of ifs in math and physics. They're just, you know, in your head. If you're calculating the axial deformation of a block of metal under load, you calculate the stress. IF the stress is greater than proportional limit, you have to use a stress-strain curve to find strain. If it's under the proportional limit, then you can use the load and modulus of elasticity to find it. but of course, if someone had made a program to do that hundreds of years ago, there would have been an entire generation of people who would have had to pay him not because he made up the math, but because his program meant he 'owned' the concept of the 'if', even though it was self evident to anyone who knows anything about it.
the question is: 1) specific implementation - because with the current system you don't have to have one, you own the concept of it. 2) were you using 'old' formulas to do something overall 'new'. In this case, the suing company didn't write the specific implementation, and didn't do anything 'new'. they just copyrighted a concept that was self evident, and done before many many times. It's only the broken patent system that allows something like that to exist.
The question is more-> if you have a patent that is a formula derived from "open-source" mathematics that anyone can use, how valid can any patent on it be? It's not a technique, per se. It's not new. It's a mathematical manipulation that a million people before you have thought of, learned, and used. Could engineers have patented the formulas used to create objects like engines, etc? How many automakers would we have now if the formulas used in the design of cars were patented by those making the cars? They're pure math, we know, but hey - they're being applied.
well, the a data center run by amazon certainly has more rigorous backup and maintenance schedules than anything I could personally come up with, offhand. It took something pretty catastrophic to bring it down and cause data lass. the problem is if someone decided to only have one copy, at amazon. If they had 2 at 2 different servers, success!
yes...this is what I said, except less ranty.
responsive to the public, not responsive to his opposition. harper cares about getting re-elected.
obviously, netflix is the far superior value to what most cable companies offer.
most of the apps are on the marketplace. just go search for "myFiringSolutions" and "myCovertOps"
if you get a cheque, you go to an ATM at the bank and deposit it, or to the teller and do the same thing. I'm not really sure where you're getting this 7-11 thing. I live in canada and the only reason to go to 7-11 is slurpees.
possible, surely. financially prohibitive? no demand? perhaps.
it reflects huge amounts of radiant energy transfer from your envelope materials away from the interior of your home, making it that much more efficient to cool, and during winter it helps keep the heat inside the house. The wifi 'issue' just doesn't seem to be that much of an issue when you're talking about one of the core efficiencies in your house, and one of the biggest loads on the nation's energy usage.
even worse, how dare they take those perverted copyright laws and lobbying and be better at it than the old media!
except this article is talking not about rare cases, but the overall case of GUIs vs CLIs. For the people who edit images, GUI driven programs are the best. For those who live by the command line and only once in a while have to resize a batch of images, playing the command line would work for them. That doesn't mean the GUI isn't superior, because in this case it obviously is. It's simply that you don't have it. If I were to make a case about the condition of transportation, and use you and having no car as the typical or even standard case, I'd be wrong. If I did the same with photo editing, I'd be wrong again. Most people who have to resize 400 pictures work with images normally, and have some sort of image editing program, and almost all of them have some sort of batch command. Photoshop elements will do it too, and it's a lot less than full on photoshop. You don't NEED the $600 program to do it, and claiming that the cost of photoshop is the downfall of the GUI here is not really an issue, since there are alternatives.
guess what...people who do serious work with CAD and images use autoCAD and photoshop. Not talking about the gold standard for those activities is like ignoring reality. You'll notice the freeware photoshop, GIMP, doesn't have action macros. you have to learn to script. Guess why people who make images and not people who program prefer photoshop? I mean...why talk about cars when you're talking about transportation? Who has thousands of dollars to waste on them? Instead we should talk about bikes and buses only. Let's ignore everything else on the road, amirite?
I just checked and ps cs5 opens in about 2.5 seconds on my laptop (p9550, 8gb ram, intel 80gb SSD, ati 3650m). I suppose if you don't have a machine built for image editing, the programs running slowly is something you're going to have to deal with.
right. the advantage of GUIs is that they are more accessible. anyone can use the file>image processor dialog box without worrying about syntax, and logical operators. I know I don't want to deal with them, if I can avoid it.
or you could have made a photoshop action while applying the first one, then told it to do the action to every image in the folder. done in less than five minutes. probably only about 1, if you know what you're doing. There's a lot to be said for knowing how to use the tools!
it's about 6 clicks in photoshop using the image processor.
...and I'm sure the long term effects of overloading your sensitive, incredibly difficult and costly to regrow optic nerves to this degree are well known, and this represents no long term danger. right?
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