What matters is the actual creation of the thing. Anyone can have an "idea".
That's not true. In a patent dispute, the important act is invention, not making a product. I believe TV patents were granted prior to it actually working (but I could be wrong on that). AOL would have to show that someone came up with the idea (though dated notebooks and designs) prior to someone who worked on Zephry. OTOH, I'm sure Zephyr didn't just appear from the ether -- there are probably papers / presentations which predate the release of the product.
This one is pretty embarassing for the PTO in my opinion.
Hmmm. I read it more as "We couldn't find anyone interested in buying this -- why don't you try!" but you have a valid point. They DID try exactly the same tactic with the ASP Version of Office -- resellers set up their own Office servers and leased apps to people (or rather they would have if anyone had signed up for it).
It seems that corporate Web services are (despite all the hype) an inside the firewall experience and Microsoft is trying to play to that.
Microsoft announced that they were scrapping / postponing this due to a lack of interest from customers. Basically, people thought (correctly) that it was a stupid idea. A few years back, Microsoft tried selling Office as an online ASP Service over the web. It was a stupid idea and no one used it. Clearly they saw this was going to be the same thing.
None of this is exactly a Red Herring -- Microsoft follows a pattern of announcing some far reaching plan, then seeing who responds / complains and then adjusting / cancelling before they actually make any concrete plans (or most likely write a line of code).
* Handing out laptops to everyone is not the answer -- most of those countries that beat US schools don't have access to current books, let alone laptops.
* The internet will not teach your children -- while it's true there is a fountain of knowledge at your fingertips, there's a ocean full of crap to sift though.
* Stop focussing so much money on organized sports when your school is graduating illiterates.
* Kids using Powerpoint is not the answer. Unless the question is -- How do we raise a nation of Marketing drones!
This didn't work for Palm and it won't work for apple because it's a stupid idea. I'm just waiting for the clip on colored face plates -- that managed to eek a few extra years out of the Gameboy franchise that way.
Sklarov doesn't have to care -- it's when Elcomsoft decided to start selling it in the US that they were obliged to know about US Copyright laws. US Software companies have to care if they are violating EU privacy restrictions or they will be sued. I don't think anyone finds that unreasonable.
Yes, that is correct. It was kind of a recumbent scooter. It didn't really matter since you couldn't turn the front wheel very far to the left or the right.
It also came with a little flag that stuck up so that other motorists wouldn't kill you... quite so fast!
As opposed to a trollfuck for technowackos? Personally, I saw "Carbon releases in asia" and though -- "You mean OS X hasn't come out in asia yet?"... but I digress...
OCR Engines are not email programs. You can't just add a line of code and all of a sudden it works better. Usually you have to spend time developing a complicated algorithm. Usually this is more than a line of code. Then you have to test it against known text (ground truth) to make sure it's a benefit, rather than a problem over a broad selection of pages. It's quite often the case that something that improves one page makes another worse.
Actually, having people make verifications against the OCR results establishes the ground truth which someone could use to improve the OCR engine so by doing a Page a Day, you are helping to make future Open Source OCR engines better.
With OS X came a bundling of MySQL, and CTOs (Chief Technology Officers) across the country thought to themselves that "Hey, if a big profitable company puts this package of OpenSource software into their flagship OS, it must be OK to use.
Yes, the mindset of the fortune 500 lives or dies by what Apple does. "Hey I wouldn't buy any of their overpriced computers but if they think MySQL is great, it must be".
Record companies provide valuable services to musicians: distribution, promotion, sending CDs to radio stations, booking, etc. To discount all these just because there are some greedy record companies is foolish and immature. The Internet is not the final answer for musicians.
These were once valuable services but they are decreasingly so... Distribution is (obviously) no longer a problem -- this is traditionally where the music companies have had a stranglehold. Promotion is really the only value add they have but the value here is highly debatable. Sure someone has to sift through a bunch of crap but how good a job do they do? If you never hear any of the ones they reject, what makes you think they aren't good (ok, probably a bunch of them are crap...). Wouldn't a moderation system where music listeners (who don't have a vested interest in an artist) rate music work just as well, if not better?
Excellent! Maybe we will get them in the US. The British ones were always better anyway -- the eccentric personalities and boffins are alot more fun to watch than the Hot Rodders they have on the US version.
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But do we really need to be notified everytime a part of this story comes out?
What matters is the actual creation of the thing. Anyone can have an "idea".
That's not true. In a patent dispute, the important act is invention, not making a product. I believe TV patents were granted prior to it actually working (but I could be wrong on that). AOL would have to show that someone came up with the idea (though dated notebooks and designs) prior to someone who worked on Zephry. OTOH, I'm sure Zephyr didn't just appear from the ether -- there are probably papers / presentations which predate the release of the product.
This one is pretty embarassing for the PTO in my opinion.
Hmmm. I read it more as "We couldn't find anyone interested in buying this -- why don't you try!" but you have a valid point. They DID try exactly the same tactic with the ASP Version of Office -- resellers set up their own Office servers and leased apps to people (or rather they would have if anyone had signed up for it).
It seems that corporate Web services are (despite all the hype) an inside the firewall experience and Microsoft is trying to play to that.
Microsoft announced that they were scrapping / postponing this due to a lack of interest from customers. Basically, people thought (correctly) that it was a stupid idea. A few years back, Microsoft tried selling Office as an online ASP Service over the web. It was a stupid idea and no one used it. Clearly they saw this was going to be the same thing.
None of this is exactly a Red Herring -- Microsoft follows a pattern of announcing some far reaching plan, then seeing who responds / complains and then adjusting / cancelling before they actually make any concrete plans (or most likely write a line of code).
* Handing out laptops to everyone is not the answer -- most of those countries that beat US schools don't have access to current books, let alone laptops.
* The internet will not teach your children -- while it's true there is a fountain of knowledge at your fingertips, there's a ocean full of crap to sift though.
* Stop focussing so much money on organized sports when your school is graduating illiterates.
* Kids using Powerpoint is not the answer. Unless the question is -- How do we raise a nation of Marketing drones!
This didn't work for Palm and it won't work for apple because it's a stupid idea. I'm just waiting for the clip on colored face plates -- that managed to eek a few extra years out of the Gameboy franchise that way.
Sklarov doesn't have to care -- it's when Elcomsoft decided to start selling it in the US that they were obliged to know about US Copyright laws. US Software companies have to care if they are violating EU privacy restrictions or they will be sued. I don't think anyone finds that unreasonable.
In soviet russia JOKE explains YOU!
Clear?
In Soviet Russia CANCER cures YOU
Can you attach it to a train?
Just don't show posts from Timothy (like we all do with John Katz). Don't worry! If it's important, it will get posted as a dupe!
You don't expect the people who "edit" this site to actually read it do you?
Instead he is going to prison and meet Bubba; the A$$ Plow.
Federal "pound me in the ass" prison!
Acknowlege it and move on.
In Windows, the command line almost seems like an optional afterthought. In Unix, it's the other way around.
Au contraire. The whole thing is built around that 16 bit 8-3 filename DOS shell. It's the GUI part that's an "afterthought".
Since probably a million people submitted this, maybe we could pick the post that actually doesn't read like an entry from the Yoda diaries?
brain hurt make!
Apologies if the poster suffers from dysphasia.
Make sure hat the conductors have passed the MCATS (Monorail Conductors Aptitude Test):
Q: True or false? You can get mono from riding the monorail.
And make sure the trains aren't from the 1969 Worlds Fair...
Yes, that is correct. It was kind of a recumbent scooter. It didn't really matter since you couldn't turn the front wheel very far to the left or the right.
... quite so fast!
It also came with a little flag that stuck up so that other motorists wouldn't kill you
So you can keep your number... big deal.
Or as Phoney McRingRing said: "Well, scientists have discovered that even monkeys can memorize ten numbers. Are you stupider than a monkey?".
Having 4 crappy choices isn't competition.
Keep at it though! Practice makes perfect.
It's a Trollfuck for envirowackos.
... but I digress...
As opposed to a trollfuck for technowackos? Personally, I saw "Carbon releases in asia" and though -- "You mean OS X hasn't come out in asia yet?"
OCR Engines are not email programs. You can't just add a line of code and all of a sudden it works better. Usually you have to spend time developing a complicated algorithm. Usually this is more than a line of code. Then you have to test it against known text (ground truth) to make sure it's a benefit, rather than a problem over a broad selection of pages. It's quite often the case that something that improves one page makes another worse.
Actually, having people make verifications against the OCR results establishes the ground truth which someone could use to improve the OCR engine so by doing a Page a Day, you are helping to make future Open Source OCR engines better.
With OS X came a bundling of MySQL, and CTOs (Chief Technology Officers) across the country thought to themselves that "Hey, if a big profitable company puts this package of OpenSource software into their flagship OS, it must be OK to use.
Yes, the mindset of the fortune 500 lives or dies by what Apple does. "Hey I wouldn't buy any of their overpriced computers but if they think MySQL is great, it must be".
MySQL is pretty good though. Ah hee ah hee hee
Record companies provide valuable services to musicians: distribution, promotion, sending CDs to radio stations, booking, etc. To discount all these just because there are some greedy record companies is foolish and immature. The Internet is not the final answer for musicians.
These were once valuable services but they are decreasingly so... Distribution is (obviously) no longer a problem -- this is traditionally where the music companies have had a stranglehold. Promotion is really the only value add they have but the value here is highly debatable. Sure someone has to sift through a bunch of crap but how good a job do they do? If you never hear any of the ones they reject, what makes you think they aren't good (ok, probably a bunch of them are crap...). Wouldn't a moderation system where music listeners (who don't have a vested interest in an artist) rate music work just as well, if not better?
Excellent! Maybe we will get them in the US. The British ones were always better anyway -- the eccentric personalities and boffins are alot more fun to watch than the Hot Rodders they have on the US version.