Food costs more in Australia than the US., just economic reality. Maybe the government should investigate that. Or why real estate costs several times morein Australia.
Why do Australians pay more for everything else than Americans? Food grown in Australia costs Australians more to buy then Food grown in America costs Americans.
The cost of everything is higher in Australia. Locally grown food costs more in Australia then it does in the US. The US government per diem is 2.5x higher in Sydney than New York City. This is not because the US government wants everyone to have more fun in Sydney.
How can they be so out of touch. It costs more to do everything because the cost of living is higher. Learn something about your own economy. Why should Apple be required to explain Australian economics to parliment. It is funny when Internet co mentors make these senseless claims. It is just scary when officials that should know better do it.
They are stopping webs development. Are you confused? HP will still make servers, storage, Service operations tools, et. Nyou know, the stuff that really makes HP, HP.
Nearly perfect machines? Except for 40% of them blowing up and killing the entire crew, I suppose your right. It is dangerous activity, and accidents are inevitable. Using the word perfect in any context (even qualified with nearly) with NASA is absurd.
Maybe you didn't mean machines (even though you said machines). Maybe you meant missions. 2/135 of them ended with the complete obliteration of the crew. Acceptable for a high-risk exploration machine? I certainly think it is. Anywhere near perfect? No not at all. Could it have been lower if NASA was actually perfect? The Rogers report seem to indicate it could have.
So you believe moving from vacuum tubes to transistors was not a step forward? Many people now walk around with more computing power in their pocket then you could fit in a large building 50 years ago. That is at least as much a leap forward as the invention of television.
It is also not the only thing people are working on. Improving the broom did not hinder the development of the vacuum cleaner.
Most people have not cared about new big ideas throughout history.
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Of course they are fresh until they are implemented proven impractical. It is easy to claim there are o big ideas by simply shrugging off the ones people have been thinking about for a while.
You are correct. NYT could have devoted that space to a survey of current theories in quantum mechanics, but they chose to print a piece that denies realit.
TED is maybe not the best example, but the world is still pursuing big ideas. I pointed out two earlier in this discussion as an example. You have to live in a bubble to believe he world is out of big ideas.
These articles are silly. They are nostalgic for a time that never was. They don't understand that history is a highlight reel. The big ideas happen once, maybe twice in a generation and few people actually contribute to them. "Public intellectuals" are no less or more important today then they were 100 years ago. What big ideas does the author think are being ignored?
SETI is still operating, that is about as big as ideas get. Quantum Physic/Mechanicss is still widely researched and very well funded. Neither of these subjects has any immediate commercial value.
My big idea is that TFA was written by a moron that fancies himself an intellectual. Oh shoot, does that make me a pundit?
I believe you are correct. However, It is improper to refer to Android (At least Honeycomb) as an Open Source Operating System. It uses an Open Source Kernel, I am not aware of any other components of the OS that have been released. This is a change from all previous versions of the Android OS.
Seriously? So you are advocating not enforcing the GPL? You want companies to profit without contribution off the hard work of those who contribute to GPL projects. Perhaps you are saying we should reinstate their license if they provide a simple apology.
I am not a big fan of the GPL for a lot of reasons, but not enforcing it or weakening enforcement seems rather pointless.
Well it is clear you did not bother to look at the complaint that has at least 3 pictures of the back of the tab. Far be it from me to suggest anyone on Slashdot try and investigate the facts and make informed comments.
At least Slashdot could have mentioned the other 20 photographs in the complaint. All of which clearly depict the appropriate aspect ratio. Oh well. Independent thought really is dead.
Microsoft, for example, was involved right from the beginning. However, at the moment the machine is only sold in the US. IBM will not say when, if ever, it will come to Britain.
This paragraph is confusing. Did the reviewer believe Microsoft was a British company?
Google has 754 patents filed by them. They filed the first in 2001. It was for refining the results of a search by relevance. They have not changed a bit. You just believed their PR.
A search engine for searching a corpus improves the relevancy of the results by refining a standard relevancy score based on the interconnectivity of the initially returned set of documents. The search engine obtains an initial set of relevant documents by matching a user's search terms to an index of a corpus. A re-ranking component in the search engine then refines the initially returned document rankings so that documents that are frequently cited in the initial set of relevant documents are preferred over documents that are less frequently cited within the initial set.
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Food costs more in Australia than the US., just economic reality. Maybe the government should investigate that. Or why real estate costs several times morein Australia.
Cool. This will not change the prices, but maybe Apple can help the Australian government understand theirneconomy.
Why do Australians pay more for everything else than Americans? Food grown in Australia costs Australians more to buy then Food grown in America costs Americans.
The cost of everything is higher in Australia. Locally grown food costs more in Australia then it does in the US. The US government per diem is 2.5x higher in Sydney than New York City. This is not because the US government wants everyone to have more fun in Sydney.
How can they be so out of touch. It costs more to do everything because the cost of living is higher. Learn something about your own economy. Why should Apple be required to explain Australian economics to parliment. It is funny when Internet co mentors make these senseless claims. It is just scary when officials that should know better do it.
They are stopping webs development. Are you confused? HP will still make servers, storage, Service operations tools, et. Nyou know, the stuff that really makes HP, HP.
Nearly perfect machines? Except for 40% of them blowing up and killing the entire crew, I suppose your right. It is dangerous activity, and accidents are inevitable. Using the word perfect in any context (even qualified with nearly) with NASA is absurd.
Maybe you didn't mean machines (even though you said machines). Maybe you meant missions. 2/135 of them ended with the complete obliteration of the crew. Acceptable for a high-risk exploration machine? I certainly think it is. Anywhere near perfect? No not at all. Could it have been lower if NASA was actually perfect? The Rogers report seem to indicate it could have.
So you believe moving from vacuum tubes to transistors was not a step forward? Many people now walk around with more computing power in their pocket then you could fit in a large building 50 years ago. That is at least as much a leap forward as the invention of television.
It is also not the only thing people are working on. Improving the broom did not hinder the development of the vacuum cleaner.
Most people have not cared about new big ideas throughout history.
Of course they are fresh until they are implemented proven impractical. It is easy to claim there are o big ideas by simply shrugging off the ones people have been thinking about for a while.
Isn't the best example of this the piece itself?
You are correct. NYT could have devoted that space to a survey of current theories in quantum mechanics, but they chose to print a piece that denies realit.
However, we should be concerned tha some people do.
TED is maybe not the best example, but the world is still pursuing big ideas. I pointed out two earlier in this discussion as an example. You have to live in a bubble to believe he world is out of big ideas.
I now respond to my own punditry. I was wrong to expect an intelligent well-reasoned opinion-piece in the New York Times.
These articles are silly. They are nostalgic for a time that never was. They don't understand that history is a highlight reel. The big ideas happen once, maybe twice in a generation and few people actually contribute to them. "Public intellectuals" are no less or more important today then they were 100 years ago. What big ideas does the author think are being ignored?
SETI is still operating, that is about as big as ideas get. Quantum Physic/Mechanicss is still widely researched and very well funded. Neither of these subjects has any immediate commercial value.
My big idea is that TFA was written by a moron that fancies himself an intellectual. Oh shoot, does that make me a pundit?
I believe you are correct. However, It is improper to refer to Android (At least Honeycomb) as an Open Source Operating System. It uses an Open Source Kernel, I am not aware of any other components of the OS that have been released. This is a change from all previous versions of the Android OS.
Seriously? So you are advocating not enforcing the GPL? You want companies to profit without contribution off the hard work of those who contribute to GPL projects. Perhaps you are saying we should reinstate their license if they provide a simple apology.
I am not a big fan of the GPL for a lot of reasons, but not enforcing it or weakening enforcement seems rather pointless.
Well it is clear you did not bother to look at the complaint that has at least 3 pictures of the back of the tab. Far be it from me to suggest anyone on Slashdot try and investigate the facts and make informed comments.
At least Slashdot could have mentioned the other 20 photographs in the complaint. All of which clearly depict the appropriate aspect ratio. Oh well. Independent thought really is dead.
Microsoft, for example, was involved right from the beginning. However, at the moment the machine is only sold in the US. IBM will not say when, if ever, it will come to Britain.
This paragraph is confusing. Did the reviewer believe Microsoft was a British company?
You're to reasonable. GTFO before you ruin /.
Google has 754 patents. They date back to 2001. Most, if not all of them are software and process patents. This patent was filed in 2007.
BTW I am not aware of any Appke suit against google.
Google has 754 patents filed by them. They filed the first in 2001. It was for refining the results of a search by relevance. They have not changed a bit. You just believed their PR.
A search engine for searching a corpus improves the relevancy of the results by refining a standard relevancy score based on the interconnectivity of the initially returned set of documents. The search engine obtains an initial set of relevant documents by matching a user's search terms to an index of a corpus. A re-ranking component in the search engine then refines the initially returned document rankings so that documents that are frequently cited in the initial set of relevant documents are preferred over documents that are less frequently cited within the initial set.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=16&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=754&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=google.ASNM.&OS=AN/google&RS=AN/google
I don't think google is evil. They are just very hypocritical.
I suspect you did not even read the entire summary, let alone the actual patent.
Expecting /. Users to read anything in context is like asking chickens to do calculus.