The patents are known and have been brought up in the basic filing. About half of them are patents for previously created technology, or basic software processes that have been common for decades.
Yes, I telecommute 1500 miles to work, because I prefer to live somewhere of my own choosing, near family and friends, and in an area of the country that I like. Obviously not everyone gets this option, but it sure seems logical to me that more people should have the option.
Unless your folder structure constantly changes, the seed value you use would be the same, which means it's then (relatively) predictable. Will anyone actually crack it? Not likely, but basically you want a non-deterministic function, and if you have a file server with no new files or changes on it, you would have a deterministic seed.
A guy I work with used to work with a lady who wouldn't call him Mexican, because "that would make her sound racist". He's from Mexico.
Why are people so sensitive to this stuff, when it's just not a big deal? Most people don't care if you point out their race, or even use a minor slur (i.e. those damn Mexicans!). It's when you're degrading their character or their race in a way that implies serious inherent inferiority that people can and should get pissed.
I'm pretty sure GP didn't mean "popular" in the beauty pageant sense, and was talking about usage stats. IE6 still has 20-30% penetration in the wild, according to our non-IT distributed website system analytics.
You're talking about 2 different types of boredom, and equating them. Weariness of routine is far different than boredom due to a sedentary lifestyle and lack of stimulation or differentation. Exercising is going to provide at least some break from the rest of the day, enjoyable or not.
Of course riding an elliptical might be boring after 2 hours if you never did anything different, but 1) a lot of people love routine and enjoy the consistency of the same workout, every day (I don't) and 2) in my experience with a variety of people at different gyms, workout locations, and running events, the majority switch workout regimens and types every day or two, which leads me to believe that your example is not valid for a significant number of people.
99/100 people can watch your video if you publish in Flash 9. The other 1 in 100 is probably your headless file server stuffed in the closet for the past 10 years.
I would actually rather rent games, but that's because I consider them disposable except for maybe the super classics. I don't have any need to "own" licenses for music, games, television shows, or software. I pay for some in each category because there's no way to always rent.
I think a lot of the reason we pay for games, movies, and music is because we want them to run on a variety of devices, and the only way to do that is with a physical copy or DRM. But, for me, I think it makes more financial sense to rent instead of own. I can listen to the old songs that I enjoy, along with approximately 750 new songs every month (~8 songs/hour, 6 hours per workday, 4 days a week, 4 weeks a month). If I want to watch a movie, I can rent it and it will be at my house in 2 days, or I can probably rent it online included in my Netflix, find it on Amazon, or worst case just go down to redbox.
I have other things to do, but it's nice to have games when I'm sitting in the doctor's office, waiting to pick up a pizza, or sitting on the crapper. I certainly wouldn't complain about having a game with good graphics either.
Are you really trying to make that your case? We wouldn't tell women "show me your genitals" if it wasn't quite obviously different from looking at wrists or necks.
I promise you I'm not violating any agreement, and it's not in the contract. If you have a business account then the data plan costs $45, if you have a normal account, it's $30. You have no reason to get a business account, since it doesn't provide you any benefit.
I know everyone pretty much has that 5GB limit on the wireless broadband plan (which IS ridiculous if you want to download even 2 large files in a month), but here were my sources on the broadband caps:
If you tether, you definitely have a cap. Otherwise, it's up in the air. Looks like mostly rumors and bull on the internet, so I could be completely wrong. I have anecdotal evidence from friends about them getting a note about using too much bandwidth and to "consider another plan", but there's nothing other than those 2 links that I could find.
Some of my family members in Dallas have AT&T, and friends here outside of Philly/Delaware have AT&T. In both areas they go back and forth between 3G and EDGE all day, whereas the Verizon lads and lasses stay on 3G except in rare circumstances.
Seems like a bit of a red herring to me. I can connect to my company's Exchange server from my Droid just fine without paying an extra $15.
By the way 5GB per month is 2kbps, 24/7. I use my phone many of my waking hours to connect to email servers, read news, watch videos, and listen to internet radio, and I'm barely scratching 2GB.
AT&T does cap at about 5GB, it's just a soft cap and if you keep passing it they'll tell you to cut it out or they'll cut your service.
Also, I enjoy being able to connect to servers over 3G pretty much anywhere, and not dropping calls just because I walked into my house, so I'll stick with good old megacorp VZW.
I suppose you're correct if you look at it as teaching kids how to program video games, but it looks like they're trying to get them to learn critical and creative thinking in a broad range, rather than xor'ing pixels all day.
If you compare it to art class, where students liberally steal ideas and style from Van Gogh and Matisse (and Bob Ross) yet still learn the basics of how to paint, I think that in the same way students will be able to pick up some basics of the thought processes involved in designing something from scratch, in a variety of disciplines. Even with off-the-shelf software, they will still have to think on the surface of how to render out an environment, build characters or puzzles, and create some sort of user interface and menu system. It'll likely be slapped together and a horrible program, but it could definitely build computer skills for those with a penchant for problem-solving and creative thinking.
I think it's a good idea overall, but the implementation will probably completely fail in the US due to lack of capable teachers.
My point was that we have a crude interface to our environment due to our relative lack of specialization. We can't do a whole lot of anything without a tool (or a serious investment in training) to help us do it. No wings to fly up mountains, or claws/padded feet to climb them, but we can build helicopters and wear shoes.
A robot with the ability to adapt at even a much less advanced rate would surely be more complicated and more difficult to maintain than a Roomba. I completely disagree with you in that I think the point at which the number of robots to maintain becomes less manageable than a single many-purpose humanoid robot is much higher than you do. I think it's closer to 500 simultaneous robots, but you'll need to change your mind about what a robot is. Batteries are interchangeable, you can go to a commodity mechanic to fix basic parts, rather than visiting an expensive software technician/robot doctor, and people will find space for everything else in their houses, I'm sure robots will be ok too.
You're over-thinking what a robot has to be. A Roomba can interact with its environment enough to know when something is in the way, and it's dumber than a hamster in a ball. The toilet cleaning robot could be as simple as a mechanical arm that brushes the bowl after you flush (Japanese toilets have these) or even just a chemical rinse dispenser. Dishwashers, doorbells, elevators, and security systems are all examples of relatively stupid, inexpensive robots that are specialized at their job and have no need for intelligence. That's the whole point of robotics: do things humans don't want to do. Who cares how intelligent it is at this point?
We'll never have more advanced, humanoid robots (which I would love to have) until we can get a handle around programming the less advanced ones.
A primary reason that humanity is so successful is because we are general-purpose, but also because we have the ability to use tools. Robots can be designed to cut out the middle man and become the tool itself, or they can be more general use and still require tools or swappable arms/interfaces.
So think about it, do humans REALLY interface with the items we build? If so, why are there eventually 2 versions of these created items: "standard" and "ergonomic"? It's because the standard ones never are actually designed for humans to a T, and ergonomic versions attempt to rectify it. Also, humans are so different from each other in terms of size and agility that most of our interfaces do not exactly match even the average human being. Robots don't have to suffer from this problem, although they surely will have to handle deviation in the environment.
Humanoid robots are potentially successful in certain areas like teaching--although Disney's "Crush" the Turtle exhibit seems to work quite well for a lot of people--but until we get to the point where biomimicry is successful to the point where robots are commonly sexualized (plausable acceptability), we may as well continue creating robots that are fitted to a smaller number of uses in specific niches.
Think of someone in your friends list and search for them, and click through to their profile. Do it a few times, and at some point today or tomorrow you'll see them come up as the first result in a search.
Ok, I don't know where the rest of you guys are coming in, but everyone I know was in awe with how good the graphics for FFVII were at the time. I mean come on, this was 1997, 13 years ago. Of course going back we notice that they have bricks for hands and feet, but that was the first game I remember that had FMV and multiple camera angles during summons.
I enjoyed FFVII and FFX. FFX-2 was too girly and FFXII had a boring plot, although a cool world.
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The patents are known and have been brought up in the basic filing. About half of them are patents for previously created technology, or basic software processes that have been common for decades.
Yes, I telecommute 1500 miles to work, because I prefer to live somewhere of my own choosing, near family and friends, and in an area of the country that I like. Obviously not everyone gets this option, but it sure seems logical to me that more people should have the option.
Unless your folder structure constantly changes, the seed value you use would be the same, which means it's then (relatively) predictable. Will anyone actually crack it? Not likely, but basically you want a non-deterministic function, and if you have a file server with no new files or changes on it, you would have a deterministic seed.
A guy I work with used to work with a lady who wouldn't call him Mexican, because "that would make her sound racist". He's from Mexico.
Why are people so sensitive to this stuff, when it's just not a big deal? Most people don't care if you point out their race, or even use a minor slur (i.e. those damn Mexicans!). It's when you're degrading their character or their race in a way that implies serious inherent inferiority that people can and should get pissed.
You spelled 1337 wrong.
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?uid=1337
I'm pretty sure GP didn't mean "popular" in the beauty pageant sense, and was talking about usage stats. IE6 still has 20-30% penetration in the wild, according to our non-IT distributed website system analytics.
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
"Is it definitely plugged in?"
There was no topic of conversation for him to respond to at the time, other than your vague question.
You're talking about 2 different types of boredom, and equating them. Weariness of routine is far different than boredom due to a sedentary lifestyle and lack of stimulation or differentation. Exercising is going to provide at least some break from the rest of the day, enjoyable or not.
Of course riding an elliptical might be boring after 2 hours if you never did anything different, but 1) a lot of people love routine and enjoy the consistency of the same workout, every day (I don't) and 2) in my experience with a variety of people at different gyms, workout locations, and running events, the majority switch workout regimens and types every day or two, which leads me to believe that your example is not valid for a significant number of people.
Are you running Safari on that iPhone of yours? It's insecure. It's open and free too--well, not exactly.
Why is it OK to bash Flash for not being open or free when it's even more open and even more free than anything Apple's made recently?
99/100 people can watch your video if you publish in Flash 9. The other 1 in 100 is probably your headless file server stuffed in the closet for the past 10 years.
I would actually rather rent games, but that's because I consider them disposable except for maybe the super classics. I don't have any need to "own" licenses for music, games, television shows, or software. I pay for some in each category because there's no way to always rent.
I think a lot of the reason we pay for games, movies, and music is because we want them to run on a variety of devices, and the only way to do that is with a physical copy or DRM. But, for me, I think it makes more financial sense to rent instead of own. I can listen to the old songs that I enjoy, along with approximately 750 new songs every month (~8 songs/hour, 6 hours per workday, 4 days a week, 4 weeks a month). If I want to watch a movie, I can rent it and it will be at my house in 2 days, or I can probably rent it online included in my Netflix, find it on Amazon, or worst case just go down to redbox.
And a witty saying proves nothing. Thanks for sharing your universal truths with us, smithy.
I have other things to do, but it's nice to have games when I'm sitting in the doctor's office, waiting to pick up a pizza, or sitting on the crapper. I certainly wouldn't complain about having a game with good graphics either.
Are you really trying to make that your case? We wouldn't tell women "show me your genitals" if it wasn't quite obviously different from looking at wrists or necks.
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqXi8WmQ_WM
On a related note, I wonder if there are any proxies written in BASIC?
Did you even read the rest of the sentence?
Copying the brush technique from "Starry Night" is stealing it in the case of most art students, but they'll learn something along the way.
I'm not saying it's stealing in the same sense as taking food from the grocery, so don't get all ridiculous on me.
I promise you I'm not violating any agreement, and it's not in the contract. If you have a business account then the data plan costs $45, if you have a normal account, it's $30. You have no reason to get a business account, since it doesn't provide you any benefit.
I know everyone pretty much has that 5GB limit on the wireless broadband plan (which IS ridiculous if you want to download even 2 large files in a month), but here were my sources on the broadband caps:
Everything but personal has a 5GB cap: http://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/popup/dataconnect-comp-table.jsp
5GB soft limit: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9CFS57G0&show_article=1
If you tether, you definitely have a cap. Otherwise, it's up in the air. Looks like mostly rumors and bull on the internet, so I could be completely wrong. I have anecdotal evidence from friends about them getting a note about using too much bandwidth and to "consider another plan", but there's nothing other than those 2 links that I could find.
Some of my family members in Dallas have AT&T, and friends here outside of Philly/Delaware have AT&T. In both areas they go back and forth between 3G and EDGE all day, whereas the Verizon lads and lasses stay on 3G except in rare circumstances.
It's like the difference between eating a really good pizza and being a really good pizza, I think.
Seems like a bit of a red herring to me. I can connect to my company's Exchange server from my Droid just fine without paying an extra $15.
By the way 5GB per month is 2kbps, 24/7. I use my phone many of my waking hours to connect to email servers, read news, watch videos, and listen to internet radio, and I'm barely scratching 2GB.
AT&T does cap at about 5GB, it's just a soft cap and if you keep passing it they'll tell you to cut it out or they'll cut your service.
Also, I enjoy being able to connect to servers over 3G pretty much anywhere, and not dropping calls just because I walked into my house, so I'll stick with good old megacorp VZW.
I suppose you're correct if you look at it as teaching kids how to program video games, but it looks like they're trying to get them to learn critical and creative thinking in a broad range, rather than xor'ing pixels all day.
If you compare it to art class, where students liberally steal ideas and style from Van Gogh and Matisse (and Bob Ross) yet still learn the basics of how to paint, I think that in the same way students will be able to pick up some basics of the thought processes involved in designing something from scratch, in a variety of disciplines. Even with off-the-shelf software, they will still have to think on the surface of how to render out an environment, build characters or puzzles, and create some sort of user interface and menu system. It'll likely be slapped together and a horrible program, but it could definitely build computer skills for those with a penchant for problem-solving and creative thinking.
I think it's a good idea overall, but the implementation will probably completely fail in the US due to lack of capable teachers.
I appreciate your opening cynicism.
My point was that we have a crude interface to our environment due to our relative lack of specialization. We can't do a whole lot of anything without a tool (or a serious investment in training) to help us do it. No wings to fly up mountains, or claws/padded feet to climb them, but we can build helicopters and wear shoes.
A robot with the ability to adapt at even a much less advanced rate would surely be more complicated and more difficult to maintain than a Roomba. I completely disagree with you in that I think the point at which the number of robots to maintain becomes less manageable than a single many-purpose humanoid robot is much higher than you do. I think it's closer to 500 simultaneous robots, but you'll need to change your mind about what a robot is. Batteries are interchangeable, you can go to a commodity mechanic to fix basic parts, rather than visiting an expensive software technician/robot doctor, and people will find space for everything else in their houses, I'm sure robots will be ok too.
You're over-thinking what a robot has to be. A Roomba can interact with its environment enough to know when something is in the way, and it's dumber than a hamster in a ball. The toilet cleaning robot could be as simple as a mechanical arm that brushes the bowl after you flush (Japanese toilets have these) or even just a chemical rinse dispenser. Dishwashers, doorbells, elevators, and security systems are all examples of relatively stupid, inexpensive robots that are specialized at their job and have no need for intelligence. That's the whole point of robotics: do things humans don't want to do. Who cares how intelligent it is at this point?
We'll never have more advanced, humanoid robots (which I would love to have) until we can get a handle around programming the less advanced ones.
A primary reason that humanity is so successful is because we are general-purpose, but also because we have the ability to use tools. Robots can be designed to cut out the middle man and become the tool itself, or they can be more general use and still require tools or swappable arms/interfaces.
So think about it, do humans REALLY interface with the items we build? If so, why are there eventually 2 versions of these created items: "standard" and "ergonomic"? It's because the standard ones never are actually designed for humans to a T, and ergonomic versions attempt to rectify it. Also, humans are so different from each other in terms of size and agility that most of our interfaces do not exactly match even the average human being. Robots don't have to suffer from this problem, although they surely will have to handle deviation in the environment.
Humanoid robots are potentially successful in certain areas like teaching--although Disney's "Crush" the Turtle exhibit seems to work quite well for a lot of people--but until we get to the point where biomimicry is successful to the point where robots are commonly sexualized (plausable acceptability), we may as well continue creating robots that are fitted to a smaller number of uses in specific niches.
Think of someone in your friends list and search for them, and click through to their profile. Do it a few times, and at some point today or tomorrow you'll see them come up as the first result in a search.
Ok, I don't know where the rest of you guys are coming in, but everyone I know was in awe with how good the graphics for FFVII were at the time. I mean come on, this was 1997, 13 years ago. Of course going back we notice that they have bricks for hands and feet, but that was the first game I remember that had FMV and multiple camera angles during summons.
I enjoyed FFVII and FFX. FFX-2 was too girly and FFXII had a boring plot, although a cool world.