Amazon 1-Click Patent has now filed a 0 click patent. The idea behind it is that because of the 1 click patent they become so unpopular clients don't need to click at all. But rest assured, there is still the 1-wipe patent.
Why not run the generated numbers of that algo through the financial news and stock exchange servers. Maybe that would lead to better results than let Ben Bernanky run the dollar down by his frantic freaky evil moneyprinter.
Ipad will not be successful. geeks will tell you Ipad lacks a camera, tethering etc. But the mainstream will not buy it at large: you cannot read books in sunlight, it has a very low browsing experience (no tabbed browsing, no flash plugin support). And in the sunlight you can't use the device. How phenomenal is unusable?
The really cool apps will be on android. Innovation needs open systems, it simple doesn't work in closed software, hardware and distribution systems. For instance notions ink device looks like the Ipad and runs android and has a color screen which is readable in direct sunlight. It has even all the things that geeks miss in the Ipad, camera microphone etc. tabbed browsing, flash support. Check the video at the bottom of the linked page. That's phenomenal!
The jobs which require a really expert skilled programmer to solve really challenging issues are just a few. There are simply way too many programmers to expect some kind of status. The majority are self appointed jesus-developers. And it's that attitude, which is so 90-s, that makes them hard to communicate and collaborate with. This megalomania doesn't make a big impression, it actually looks real stupid. So in one way developers are themselves to blame. If developers would be worth their gold in weight, they wouldn't complain so much about the management, they would be pampered too much by them to complain.
Boskop Man was once thought to be a unique and ancient hominid genus. The term "Boskop Man" is no longer used by anthropologists, and their supposedly unusual characteristics are considered to be a misinterpretation.
Both Lynch and Granger are experts in neuroscience, with a long list of publications on memory, cortical organization, and chemical regulation of brain activity. Neither of them is an anthropologist or archaeologist. Simple research on "Boskop", and you will discover that this has not been a going topic in human evolution for nearly fifty years. Most intellectual effort on the topic of "Boskopoids" happened between 1915 and 1930.
The supposed "Boskop race" was named after a South African skull found on a Transvaal farm in 1913. The skull is a large one, with an estimated endocranial volume of 1800 ml. But it is hardly complete, and arguments about its overall size have ranged from 1700 to 2000 ml. It is large, but well within the range of sizes found in recent males.
This concept of a "Boskop race" did not emerge from any clear understanding of the South African past. What provoked the racial category was a confusion about the relationships of recent and historical southern African remains. Anthropologists had attempted to apply primary racial categories such as "Negroid," "Bushman," etc corresponding to extant or recent tribes or other groups. However the distinctions between these categories did not appear to extend far into the prehistoric past. So anthropologists looked for the origins of these racial types within the sample of prehistoric crania -- constructing a "Boskopoid" type for those with later "Bush" or "Strandloper" resemblances.
This category became untenable as further information about the archaeology of South Africa came to light. Ronald Singer (1958, Singer R. The Boskop "race" problem. Man 58:173-178.) reviewed the "Boskop race" evidence as it existed by the 1950's. He concluded that there was no reason to maintain that any "big-headed, small-faced group" had existed in prehistory, separate from the current biological variability of "Bushman, Hottentot and Negro." But that view is unsupportable. This selection was initially done almost without any regard for archaeological or cultural association. Later, when a more systematic inventory of archaeological associations was entered into evidence, it became clear that the "Boskop race" was entirely a figment of anthropologists' imaginations. Instead, the MSA-to-LSA population of South Africa had a varied array of features, within the last 20,000 years trending toward those present in historic southern African peoples. Singer ends his paper thusly:
"It is now obvious that what was justifiable speculation (because of paucity of data) in 1923, and was apparent as speculation in 1947, is inexcusable to maintain in 1958."
Why would two neuroscientists, after going to all the trouble to write a book about the evolution of the human brain, use completely obsolete anthropological information without doing a simple research to see if the facts have stayed the same as in 1923?
Please Slashdot, file this story under category "science fiction"!
I am not a native American speaker, so I am allowed to mutilate your language like there is no tomorrow.
I texted my message from a very small hightec handheld device made in America, so in some lightly indirect way the blame is on yourself. It's an evil device.
I thought of Linux when trying to type Linus, even Linus himself has that kind of typos. So it's his fault also to give Linux a too similar name.
Device666 isn't my nickname. My parents gave me that name. But I guess Anonymous Coward is not your nickname either??
And yes, you are very funny! Mod +1
I am a programmer, so you don't need to tell me shit like: "A good programmer can sense the smell of bugs, terrible design, or poor implementation a mile away from the pile of computer code". But this has nothing to do with knowledge, it has to do with the style of leadership, meaning communication and using the right tone on the right moment. A good leader can sense the smell of bad leadership a mile away from an organisation... It stinks and where is the leader leading?
I think that's the reason as well. From my own experience I can aknowledge. I was a designer at a software development company. Everyone had a laptop there with a 15 inch screen. As a designer I needed a larger display and a more powerful computer to run heavy processing software. It took a lot of talking to get it happen. When the computer arrived and a big 21 inch screen, problems emerged. The programmers started to complain that they didn't have such a big machine. I tried to explain that it was no special treatment, comparing it to administrators use heavy servers being normal for their profession. But I didn't know that in that organisation the higher up in the hierachy, the bigger the screensize. In each meeting in my office room developers where drooling over my equipment and whining about it. My boss almost started to whine about it also. Saying that it would be better if I didn't use 3d software and imagaging software like photoshop, but start using mspaint.
Richard Stallman is important for the free software movement. However it seems he is losing momentum in inspiring people who are on free software projects. This is a pity. I can partially understand his extremism, because freedom is easily lost. However if freedom has to be defended by dictatorship, there is no freedom either.
Microsoft patented the use of sparklines as a visualization for a single cell in a grid. In the US patent system, that's night and day different. They recognise Edward Tufte on their website for his invention of the sparkline: "For Excel 2010 we've implemented sparklines, "intense, simple, word-sized graphics", as their inventor Edward Tufte describes them in his book Beautiful Evidence."
If they would patent the sparkline they would have no claim because of broadly published prior art, under 35 U.S.C. 301: "Any person at any time may cite to the Office in writing prior art consisting of patents or printed publications which that person believes to have a bearing on the patentability of any claim of a particular patent. If the person explains in writing the pertinency and manner of applying such prior art to at least one claim of the patent, the citation of such prior art and the explanation thereof will become a part of the official file of the patent. At the written request of the person citing the prior art, his or her identity will be excluded from the patent file and kept confidential."
Speaking from an information visualisation perspective Microsoft badly implemented sparklines in excel.
I would be seriously surprised if the music industry didn't see this one coming and isn't busy trying to avoid losing copyright grants. Maybe they even simply can't ovoid losing grants for those cases where the artist is deceased. It's very good that those companies lose copyright grants: material can now be archived and used for personal use or the sake of studying history.
A developer should develop programs in an optimal manner and produce results according to given specifications. No one really cares it is done with academic skills or not, as long given specifications are met. Academics are often specialists. Non-academics are often better generalists, apply where seems fit. Where academics are more profitable there is a higher demand for academics, if supply is smaller than demand: higher paycheck.
Advancement of developer skills don't connote advancement of wealth, political skills do.
Some writers may have an English major, that doesn't mean they with that major can write a good book. In most of these subjective cases it boils down to this: if a majority of readers say it's a good, it is recognized as "good", whatever that might be. Academics are a rare breed, so they often don't have the numbers with them to become a loud crowd in a mixed majority.
Specialism is one quality, generalism another: apply when most appropriate. The same principle seems relevant for formal education and self-education.
Sell what you think you can build, instead of building what you think you can sell. If not you'll get a solution to a non-existing need resulting in zero business.
China's Red Army are now increasing their food supply. This way China creates a shortage of beetles. Now beetles become so expensive, that it's no more efficient too use beetles for espionage.
Sorry about the crappy spell. I bet I spelled a lot of other thing wrong and bad grammar, sorry for that I am dutch.
Schools can not give any guarantees for work. Deal with it form the start and be smart enough to explore beyond the curriculum. Before I could study at a university I had two rounds of interviews. I had to do some projects, explain why I want to study there and what I wanted to learn. From all appliances 1 out of 30 were selected. I came through quite easily. Why? Because I actually informed myself what kind of education they would give me. In the first year one third dropped out. They didn't met the criteria and then the school would tell them to leave. They look how people cooperate, what they contribute to projects, how they developed skills, etc. Then there was also a special graduate class, very limited capacity and highly individual. I worked my ass off to get there, I was actually asked to join that program. For interviews: one out of ten made it to that class. We all had a security pass and individual rooms for our individual projects and several mentors to monitor our progress. Every single day you could hear you had red, meaning "drop out" from the program. I got trough with shining colors: best of the year: GPA A+. And even then I had to do my best to find a job I liked, even this university is the best in its field in Europe.
One of my mentors had a brother who was CEO of a big company. He was interested. I didn't sound like something in my street. I did my freaking best to get a job with a carte blanche and got it. I had to prove myself, working smart and very hard. After a while I started my own business. Again from scratch working my pants off, starting fulltime with nothing: no credit from the bank, no existing customers, nothing. At home I had a pregnant wife. You know what? I managed through hard f...ing work and the right attitude and responsibility"
Schools don't give instant gratification. There is no guarantee for credit. There is no guarantee for running a business well. There is no guarantee there is work for employees. Thinking independant and hard work will get anyone to their American Dream. Whining about your own education is the best guarantee you won't find work. Especially when you have a bachelor business administration and low GPA. She is be far as stupid as they come." If she knew, she wouldn't sue her alma mater in the first place. She will accomplish nothing. I wish her a happy life in the Bronx, as she deserves it.
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Amazon 1-Click Patent has now filed a 0 click patent. The idea behind it is that because of the 1 click patent they become so unpopular clients don't need to click at all. But rest assured, there is still the 1-wipe patent.
pure water.
Why not run the generated numbers of that algo through the financial news and stock exchange servers. Maybe that would lead to better results than let Ben Bernanky run the dollar down by his frantic freaky evil moneyprinter.
Ipad will not be successful. geeks will tell you Ipad lacks a camera, tethering etc. But the mainstream will not buy it at large: you cannot read books in sunlight, it has a very low browsing experience (no tabbed browsing, no flash plugin support). And in the sunlight you can't use the device. How phenomenal is unusable?
The really cool apps will be on android. Innovation needs open systems, it simple doesn't work in closed software, hardware and distribution systems. For instance notions ink device looks like the Ipad and runs android and has a color screen which is readable in direct sunlight. It has even all the things that geeks miss in the Ipad, camera microphone etc. tabbed browsing, flash support. Check the video at the bottom of the linked page. That's phenomenal!
The jobs which require a really expert skilled programmer to solve really challenging issues are just a few. There are simply way too many programmers to expect some kind of status. The majority are self appointed jesus-developers. And it's that attitude, which is so 90-s, that makes them hard to communicate and collaborate with. This megalomania doesn't make a big impression, it actually looks real stupid. So in one way developers are themselves to blame. If developers would be worth their gold in weight, they wouldn't complain so much about the management, they would be pampered too much by them to complain.
Second Life resembles the real world too much, there's a commercial real estate bubble to.
Both Lynch and Granger are experts in neuroscience, with a long list of publications on memory, cortical organization, and chemical regulation of brain activity. Neither of them is an anthropologist or archaeologist. Simple research on "Boskop", and you will discover that this has not been a going topic in human evolution for nearly fifty years. Most intellectual effort on the topic of "Boskopoids" happened between 1915 and 1930.
The supposed "Boskop race" was named after a South African skull found on a Transvaal farm in 1913. The skull is a large one, with an estimated endocranial volume of 1800 ml. But it is hardly complete, and arguments about its overall size have ranged from 1700 to 2000 ml. It is large, but well within the range of sizes found in recent males.
This concept of a "Boskop race" did not emerge from any clear understanding of the South African past. What provoked the racial category was a confusion about the relationships of recent and historical southern African remains. Anthropologists had attempted to apply primary racial categories such as "Negroid," "Bushman," etc corresponding to extant or recent tribes or other groups. However the distinctions between these categories did not appear to extend far into the prehistoric past. So anthropologists looked for the origins of these racial types within the sample of prehistoric crania -- constructing a "Boskopoid" type for those with later "Bush" or "Strandloper" resemblances.
This category became untenable as further information about the archaeology of South Africa came to light. Ronald Singer (1958, Singer R. The Boskop "race" problem. Man 58:173-178.) reviewed the "Boskop race" evidence as it existed by the 1950's. He concluded that there was no reason to maintain that any "big-headed, small-faced group" had existed in prehistory, separate from the current biological variability of "Bushman, Hottentot and Negro." But that view is unsupportable. This selection was initially done almost without any regard for archaeological or cultural association. Later, when a more systematic inventory of archaeological associations was entered into evidence, it became clear that the "Boskop race" was entirely a figment of anthropologists' imaginations. Instead, the MSA-to-LSA population of South Africa had a varied array of features, within the last 20,000 years trending toward those present in historic southern African peoples. Singer ends his paper thusly:
"It is now obvious that what was justifiable speculation (because of paucity of data) in 1923, and was apparent as speculation in 1947, is inexcusable to maintain in 1958."
Why would two neuroscientists, after going to all the trouble to write a book about the evolution of the human brain, use completely obsolete anthropological information without doing a simple research to see if the facts have stayed the same as in 1923?
Please Slashdot, file this story under category "science fiction"!
I am not a native American speaker, so I am allowed to mutilate your language like there is no tomorrow. I texted my message from a very small hightec handheld device made in America, so in some lightly indirect way the blame is on yourself. It's an evil device. I thought of Linux when trying to type Linus, even Linus himself has that kind of typos. So it's his fault also to give Linux a too similar name. Device666 isn't my nickname. My parents gave me that name. But I guess Anonymous Coward is not your nickname either?? And yes, you are very funny! Mod +1
With 90% of the market, Microsoft has never really needed to advertise. Maybe they just wanted to hurt their customers a little bit more?
If linux wouldn't bought a computer, this year would be probably the year GNU\Hurd would be finished. Gnome KDE etc would probably not exist.
Monty from Monty Python?
I am a programmer, so you don't need to tell me shit like: "A good programmer can sense the smell of bugs, terrible design, or poor implementation a mile away from the pile of computer code". But this has nothing to do with knowledge, it has to do with the style of leadership, meaning communication and using the right tone on the right moment. A good leader can sense the smell of bad leadership a mile away from an organisation ... It stinks and where is the leader leading?
I think that's the reason as well. From my own experience I can aknowledge. I was a designer at a software development company. Everyone had a laptop there with a 15 inch screen. As a designer I needed a larger display and a more powerful computer to run heavy processing software. It took a lot of talking to get it happen. When the computer arrived and a big 21 inch screen, problems emerged. The programmers started to complain that they didn't have such a big machine. I tried to explain that it was no special treatment, comparing it to administrators use heavy servers being normal for their profession. But I didn't know that in that organisation the higher up in the hierachy, the bigger the screensize. In each meeting in my office room developers where drooling over my equipment and whining about it. My boss almost started to whine about it also. Saying that it would be better if I didn't use 3d software and imagaging software like photoshop, but start using mspaint.
Richard Stallman is important for the free software movement. However it seems he is losing momentum in inspiring people who are on free software projects. This is a pity. I can partially understand his extremism, because freedom is easily lost. However if freedom has to be defended by dictatorship, there is no freedom either.
The programmable quantum computer is 100% accurate all the time, it always prints 42.
Microsoft patented the use of sparklines as a visualization for a single cell in a grid. In the US patent system, that's night and day different. They recognise Edward Tufte on their website for his invention of the sparkline: "For Excel 2010 we've implemented sparklines, "intense, simple, word-sized graphics", as their inventor Edward Tufte describes them in his book Beautiful Evidence."
If they would patent the sparkline they would have no claim because of broadly published prior art, under 35 U.S.C. 301: "Any person at any time may cite to the Office in writing prior art consisting of patents or printed publications which that person believes to have a bearing on the patentability of any claim of a particular patent. If the person explains in writing the pertinency and manner of applying such prior art to at least one claim of the patent, the citation of such prior art and the explanation thereof will become a part of the official file of the patent. At the written request of the person citing the prior art, his or her identity will be excluded from the patent file and kept confidential."
Speaking from an information visualisation perspective Microsoft badly implemented sparklines in excel.
I would be seriously surprised if the music industry didn't see this one coming and isn't busy trying to avoid losing copyright grants. Maybe they even simply can't ovoid losing grants for those cases where the artist is deceased. It's very good that those companies lose copyright grants: material can now be archived and used for personal use or the sake of studying history.
In the United (bankrupt) States of Amerika capitalization is government buying companies.
A developer should develop programs in an optimal manner and produce results according to given specifications. No one really cares it is done with academic skills or not, as long given specifications are met. Academics are often specialists. Non-academics are often better generalists, apply where seems fit. Where academics are more profitable there is a higher demand for academics, if supply is smaller than demand: higher paycheck. Advancement of developer skills don't connote advancement of wealth, political skills do.
Some writers may have an English major, that doesn't mean they with that major can write a good book. In most of these subjective cases it boils down to this: if a majority of readers say it's a good, it is recognized as "good", whatever that might be. Academics are a rare breed, so they often don't have the numbers with them to become a loud crowd in a mixed majority.
Specialism is one quality, generalism another: apply when most appropriate. The same principle seems relevant for formal education and self-education.
Don't use windows embedded, it will be a major improvement.
It's the new OLPC project with new management and a new brandname...
Sell what you think you can build, instead of building what you think you can sell. If not you'll get a solution to a non-existing need resulting in zero business.
China's Red Army are now increasing their food supply. This way China creates a shortage of beetles. Now beetles become so expensive, that it's no more efficient too use beetles for espionage.
Sorry about the crappy spell. I bet I spelled a lot of other thing wrong and bad grammar, sorry for that I am dutch.
Schools can not give any guarantees for work. Deal with it form the start and be smart enough to explore beyond the curriculum. Before I could study at a university I had two rounds of interviews. I had to do some projects, explain why I want to study there and what I wanted to learn. From all appliances 1 out of 30 were selected. I came through quite easily. Why? Because I actually informed myself what kind of education they would give me. In the first year one third dropped out. They didn't met the criteria and then the school would tell them to leave. They look how people cooperate, what they contribute to projects, how they developed skills, etc. Then there was also a special graduate class, very limited capacity and highly individual. I worked my ass off to get there, I was actually asked to join that program. For interviews: one out of ten made it to that class. We all had a security pass and individual rooms for our individual projects and several mentors to monitor our progress. Every single day you could hear you had red, meaning "drop out" from the program. I got trough with shining colors: best of the year: GPA A+. And even then I had to do my best to find a job I liked, even this university is the best in its field in Europe.
One of my mentors had a brother who was CEO of a big company. He was interested. I didn't sound like something in my street. I did my freaking best to get a job with a carte blanche and got it. I had to prove myself, working smart and very hard. After a while I started my own business. Again from scratch working my pants off, starting fulltime with nothing: no credit from the bank, no existing customers, nothing. At home I had a pregnant wife. You know what? I managed through hard f...ing work and the right attitude and responsibility"
Schools don't give instant gratification. There is no guarantee for credit. There is no guarantee for running a business well. There is no guarantee there is work for employees. Thinking independant and hard work will get anyone to their American Dream. Whining about your own education is the best guarantee you won't find work. Especially when you have a bachelor business administration and low GPA. She is be far as stupid as they come." If she knew, she wouldn't sue her alma mater in the first place. She will accomplish nothing. I wish her a happy life in the Bronx, as she deserves it.