Actually it may. The "average dumb schmuck" otherwise and hereto referred to as the "ingenious idiot" has an amazing ability to stumble upon and corrupt facets of any system. In order to protect the ingenious idiot from their natural proclivity to screw things up it is necessary make it impossible for them to do so. Indeed the mere possibility that an ingenious idiot could screw something up will often lower their confidence and by extension their comfort in using a device. If the ingenious idiot is not comfortable using a device they are less likely to buy it given alternatives they feel more comfortable using even if the technical capabilities are inferior.
Of course not. To come to that conclusion you would be required to throw away the knowledge that the overwhelming majority of consumers are not technologically savvy enough to appropriate these devices for their own purposes. Ultimately the winner(s) will be those that are able to provide to the most users a preferable experience inside the walled garden.
Venture capitalism does not support "for the public good" causes unless it is a side-benefit to something that has a clear path to rapid profitability. Incremental change is the domain of business, paradigm shifts, especially those requiring substantial investment and/or long term incubation are the domain of governments. Regardless of all of your pie in the sky capitalistic, libertarian idealism you cannot provide evidence to contrary.
With respect to employers, to my understanding they cannot legally monitor you absent consent. Typically you would agree to this activity as a part of your terms of employment.
The trouble was that the court found that the woman in possession of the laptop believed herself to the the legal owner. Evidently that finding affords her the legal protections afforded a legitimate owner.
I also see anatomy and biology generally are no longer acceptable in the curriculum. When will people "grow up" (not talking about the kids)? Childhood is all about probing boundaries. Give a 5th grader 5 minutes with this list and they'll have a whole new list of words they'll poke the adults with. Stop being petty and start teaching our kids you analprobing, cockwhores before some cockripper rips your brown-packing rods off.
Practice is often the faster means of accomplishing a goal. However, the reliability/efficiency of accomplishment when repeat performance is demanded must be yielded to theory.
Not a heck of a lot actually. It's just an application of fuzzy logic that only succeeds after much practice. This is why the basement dwelling folks can tell you precisely the trajectory of said ball thrown by the jock but couldn't catch it themselves. That is, unless they've put together a mechanical device which has been properly programmed to utilize their mathematical understanding of the problem. In which case the device will be able to catch it 100% of the time for every ball thrown within the parameters of its programming. This is something that a human can never do and why nearly all modern manufacturing processes are based on robotics.
This isn't how the universe was meant to work! Keyboard and mouse on a console will only lead less disappointing PC ports. When will people get it through their thick skulls that the universe meant for all console to PC ports to suck most awesomely.
This may be true in many cases. However, most people would call 6 years in college a master's degree or completely unacceptable. Being "part-time" status at a university can also sometimes come with a few disadvantages both on the academics but mostly and especially the financial side. Since your tuition isn't usually calculated on a "per-credit" basis and financial aid all but evaporates you could well end up paying a larger bill even if you managed to pay as you go. If you are pursuing a reasonable paying career, those missed two years may well end up costing you considerably. If I'd maintained the starvation budget I was on during college for just a single year after graduating I'd have been able to pay off all my student loans.
There are plenty of lossless image compression techniques. There are even standardized file formats that could be used. For instance JPEG2000 can use CDF 5/3 wavelet compression (lossless) and supports user defined XML metadata boxes. In other words 100% reversible image compression plus whatever metadata payload they wanted to include.
If you're required to put your parents on your FAFSA and they make a middle-class income you the student are as good as screwed out of any grant money regardless. If by some miracle your parents are paupers that qualify for the maximum grant allowance (never going to happen for 99.99% of the population) it tops out around $5000/year. The rest comes down to government guaranteed loans and work-study sponsorship. The amount of which doesn't vary too much thanks to some absurdly low caps regardless of financials, and is never even close to enough. You either get parental sponsorship through loans taken out against their credit or you work to cover the gap. So like I said don't sabotage your kid, save money for their college. You've got 18 years to sock away the equivalent of an entry-level luxury sedan which is a hell of a lot better than trying force your kid to work for that during their time at college.
The last time I went into a Radio Shack and found the shelves meaningfully stocked with supplies for intellectual hobbies was the early 1990's. I've never in my lifetime (32 years) found them to be staffed by anyone other than incompetents that couldn't hack their way through a liberal arts degree much less a computer science or electrical engineering one. As far as I can tell they tend to be the types that think electronics are cool but spend all their time as consumers of video games and electronic gadgets while knowing nothing of their workings. I've found Best Buy staff to be more knowledgeable. They at least tend to memorize the talking points for the products they sell.
"working your way through college" any more means:
your parents didn't have the sense to establish a meaningful college fund for you
your parents didn't provide meaningful support while in college
your student loans covered tuition and directly associated expenses (maybe) but not enough to cover general living expenses
to cover the deficit you took up part-time jobs
In the GP's definition it likely means all the same but with the exception that there is no such thing as a "student loan" and therefore all expenses are covered by your part-time job. Which is very much impossible unless you happen to be a female with a body proportioned for use as a sex toy and leverage it for same.
On a related note... for those of you that are parents out there here's a bit of advice. If you care at all about your kid being academically successful and thereby having an easier time finding a good job when they get out start putting aside a college fund for them. If they have to sacrifice essential homework/study time in order to work to support their a** you are as good as sabotaging them.
It'd be nice if it were in the US. However there is some benefit in not displaying the all inclusive price. As a college student on a non-existent budget I got rather good at the mental calculation of the real price so that I knew I had enough before I got to the checkout.
I wonder why Samsung stopped at that movie. ST:TOS had them well before the 2001 A Space Odyssey came out. How the **** did this patent get approved and why isn't the judge laughing them out of the courtroom with punitive damages for wasting the court's time?
An algorithm is no different than a mechanism. An algorithm is required to obtain a result, a mechanism is required to obtain a result. The objective of an algorithm is the result, the objective of a mechanism is the result. Your argument does not follow logic. Rebranding an algorithm as "mathematics" does not change the argument. Let's take dividing an item into two equal parts. You can take a hydraulic press with a knife attached to the end that when actuated can divide an object by two or you can move the object by conveyor through a rotating saw. Or, let the object be represented by symbol "x" and express the division as: f(x) = y ; this function may be implemented as (x / 2 = y) or ((x - 3) >> 1) + 1) . There is no intellectual difference between a hydraulic press with a knife and (x / 2 = y), nor is there one between a conveyor and circular saw and ((x - 3) >> 1) + 1). You're still dividing something by two. One set of solutions applies to the physical world, the other the virtual. Each with their pros and cons, as well as ideal applications. Each an expression of intellectual innovation.
This would be a major issue for the medical field where it is often IT policy is to block external communication. There's also another major problem that I am truly dumbfounded why no one is really seeing (or at least caring about) and that is the notion of resilient capability. Dependency on the "cloud" for compute resources be they general applications, or now perhaps even the OS itself creates a beautifully vulnerable target for deliberate attack or natural disaster. Just as was evidenced with the 1965, 1996, 2003 blackouts, or any of a long list of other widespread power blackouts. To put all your eggs in a very small number of baskets, with vulnerable lifelines running from consumer to source like this, whatever it is for is most incredibly stupid.
Further, do you people think for a moment that foreign powers, business, or even a nation's own government won't try to exploit this? "We don't like your activities (ideology,...) we're shutting you down." "We need to protect our intellectual property so lets inject some surveillance code into the start up download."
There is nothing intellectually different between a physical item and virtual item (hardware vs. software). A difference is trying to be manufactured for the sake of legal leverage against laws written back in the time when everything was "physical". The exact same bullsh*t is taking place in the physical world with regards to patents as there is in the virtual one. It is a grave societal injustice that we have to waste our resources inventing new solutions to old and solved prerequisites before we can get down to the business of original innovation. It is a grave societal injustice that we have to waste our resources conquering legal hurdles and defending against legal invasion instead of devoting it to original innovation. It is a grave societal injustice that brilliant minds are squandered because they cannot surmount the financial roadblocks of intellectual property law necessary to being original innovation. The shackling of technological innovation has long been one of humanity's greatest sins and it is a stain that must be cleansed utterly.
You're right, how stupid of the kid to not understand the practicals of electrical engineering. Shame on him, how dare he try to pawn this shoddy work off as real research. A**.
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Actually it may. The "average dumb schmuck" otherwise and hereto referred to as the "ingenious idiot" has an amazing ability to stumble upon and corrupt facets of any system. In order to protect the ingenious idiot from their natural proclivity to screw things up it is necessary make it impossible for them to do so. Indeed the mere possibility that an ingenious idiot could screw something up will often lower their confidence and by extension their comfort in using a device. If the ingenious idiot is not comfortable using a device they are less likely to buy it given alternatives they feel more comfortable using even if the technical capabilities are inferior.
Of course not. To come to that conclusion you would be required to throw away the knowledge that the overwhelming majority of consumers are not technologically savvy enough to appropriate these devices for their own purposes. Ultimately the winner(s) will be those that are able to provide to the most users a preferable experience inside the walled garden.
Venture capitalism does not support "for the public good" causes unless it is a side-benefit to something that has a clear path to rapid profitability. Incremental change is the domain of business, paradigm shifts, especially those requiring substantial investment and/or long term incubation are the domain of governments. Regardless of all of your pie in the sky capitalistic, libertarian idealism you cannot provide evidence to contrary.
An experimental business in an emergent technology fails to establish itself in a collapsing economy. Read all about it...
Give me a break folks, them and a whole bunch of other companies both old and new... Stop trying to make.
With respect to employers, to my understanding they cannot legally monitor you absent consent. Typically you would agree to this activity as a part of your terms of employment.
Stop sense, the legal system is no place for rational though.
The thief doesn't have the kind of money that the software manufacturer does.
The trouble was that the court found that the woman in possession of the laptop believed herself to the the legal owner. Evidently that finding affords her the legal protections afforded a legitimate owner.
I also see anatomy and biology generally are no longer acceptable in the curriculum. When will people "grow up" (not talking about the kids)? Childhood is all about probing boundaries. Give a 5th grader 5 minutes with this list and they'll have a whole new list of words they'll poke the adults with. Stop being petty and start teaching our kids you analprobing, cockwhores before some cockripper rips your brown-packing rods off.
Practice is often the faster means of accomplishing a goal. However, the reliability/efficiency of accomplishment when repeat performance is demanded must be yielded to theory.
Not a heck of a lot actually. It's just an application of fuzzy logic that only succeeds after much practice. This is why the basement dwelling folks can tell you precisely the trajectory of said ball thrown by the jock but couldn't catch it themselves. That is, unless they've put together a mechanical device which has been properly programmed to utilize their mathematical understanding of the problem. In which case the device will be able to catch it 100% of the time for every ball thrown within the parameters of its programming. This is something that a human can never do and why nearly all modern manufacturing processes are based on robotics.
This isn't how the universe was meant to work! Keyboard and mouse on a console will only lead less disappointing PC ports. When will people get it through their thick skulls that the universe meant for all console to PC ports to suck most awesomely.
Oil dammit! Not diamond, oil!
Fits my definition. Play for pay.
This may be true in many cases. However, most people would call 6 years in college a master's degree or completely unacceptable. Being "part-time" status at a university can also sometimes come with a few disadvantages both on the academics but mostly and especially the financial side. Since your tuition isn't usually calculated on a "per-credit" basis and financial aid all but evaporates you could well end up paying a larger bill even if you managed to pay as you go. If you are pursuing a reasonable paying career, those missed two years may well end up costing you considerably. If I'd maintained the starvation budget I was on during college for just a single year after graduating I'd have been able to pay off all my student loans.
There are plenty of lossless image compression techniques. There are even standardized file formats that could be used. For instance JPEG2000 can use CDF 5/3 wavelet compression (lossless) and supports user defined XML metadata boxes. In other words 100% reversible image compression plus whatever metadata payload they wanted to include.
If you're required to put your parents on your FAFSA and they make a middle-class income you the student are as good as screwed out of any grant money regardless. If by some miracle your parents are paupers that qualify for the maximum grant allowance (never going to happen for 99.99% of the population) it tops out around $5000/year. The rest comes down to government guaranteed loans and work-study sponsorship. The amount of which doesn't vary too much thanks to some absurdly low caps regardless of financials, and is never even close to enough. You either get parental sponsorship through loans taken out against their credit or you work to cover the gap. So like I said don't sabotage your kid, save money for their college. You've got 18 years to sock away the equivalent of an entry-level luxury sedan which is a hell of a lot better than trying force your kid to work for that during their time at college.
The last time I went into a Radio Shack and found the shelves meaningfully stocked with supplies for intellectual hobbies was the early 1990's. I've never in my lifetime (32 years) found them to be staffed by anyone other than incompetents that couldn't hack their way through a liberal arts degree much less a computer science or electrical engineering one. As far as I can tell they tend to be the types that think electronics are cool but spend all their time as consumers of video games and electronic gadgets while knowing nothing of their workings. I've found Best Buy staff to be more knowledgeable. They at least tend to memorize the talking points for the products they sell.
"working your way through college" any more means:
In the GP's definition it likely means all the same but with the exception that there is no such thing as a "student loan" and therefore all expenses are covered by your part-time job. Which is very much impossible unless you happen to be a female with a body proportioned for use as a sex toy and leverage it for same.
On a related note... for those of you that are parents out there here's a bit of advice. If you care at all about your kid being academically successful and thereby having an easier time finding a good job when they get out start putting aside a college fund for them. If they have to sacrifice essential homework/study time in order to work to support their a** you are as good as sabotaging them.
It'd be nice if it were in the US. However there is some benefit in not displaying the all inclusive price. As a college student on a non-existent budget I got rather good at the mental calculation of the real price so that I knew I had enough before I got to the checkout.
I wonder why Samsung stopped at that movie. ST:TOS had them well before the 2001 A Space Odyssey came out. How the **** did this patent get approved and why isn't the judge laughing them out of the courtroom with punitive damages for wasting the court's time?
An algorithm is no different than a mechanism. An algorithm is required to obtain a result, a mechanism is required to obtain a result. The objective of an algorithm is the result, the objective of a mechanism is the result. Your argument does not follow logic. Rebranding an algorithm as "mathematics" does not change the argument. Let's take dividing an item into two equal parts. You can take a hydraulic press with a knife attached to the end that when actuated can divide an object by two or you can move the object by conveyor through a rotating saw. Or, let the object be represented by symbol "x" and express the division as: f(x) = y ; this function may be implemented as (x / 2 = y) or ((x - 3) >> 1) + 1) . There is no intellectual difference between a hydraulic press with a knife and (x / 2 = y), nor is there one between a conveyor and circular saw and ((x - 3) >> 1) + 1). You're still dividing something by two. One set of solutions applies to the physical world, the other the virtual. Each with their pros and cons, as well as ideal applications. Each an expression of intellectual innovation.
This would be a major issue for the medical field where it is often IT policy is to block external communication. There's also another major problem that I am truly dumbfounded why no one is really seeing (or at least caring about) and that is the notion of resilient capability. Dependency on the "cloud" for compute resources be they general applications, or now perhaps even the OS itself creates a beautifully vulnerable target for deliberate attack or natural disaster. Just as was evidenced with the 1965, 1996, 2003 blackouts, or any of a long list of other widespread power blackouts. To put all your eggs in a very small number of baskets, with vulnerable lifelines running from consumer to source like this, whatever it is for is most incredibly stupid.
Further, do you people think for a moment that foreign powers, business, or even a nation's own government won't try to exploit this? "We don't like your activities (ideology, ...) we're shutting you down." "We need to protect our intellectual property so lets inject some surveillance code into the start up download."
There is nothing intellectually different between a physical item and virtual item (hardware vs. software). A difference is trying to be manufactured for the sake of legal leverage against laws written back in the time when everything was "physical". The exact same bullsh*t is taking place in the physical world with regards to patents as there is in the virtual one. It is a grave societal injustice that we have to waste our resources inventing new solutions to old and solved prerequisites before we can get down to the business of original innovation. It is a grave societal injustice that we have to waste our resources conquering legal hurdles and defending against legal invasion instead of devoting it to original innovation. It is a grave societal injustice that brilliant minds are squandered because they cannot surmount the financial roadblocks of intellectual property law necessary to being original innovation. The shackling of technological innovation has long been one of humanity's greatest sins and it is a stain that must be cleansed utterly.
You're right, how stupid of the kid to not understand the practicals of electrical engineering. Shame on him, how dare he try to pawn this shoddy work off as real research. A**.