All books have an isbn bar code on the inside flap (plus the isbn can be generated from the upc12+5, but many cheap scan guns won't see the last 5). I scan in all my books with a $20 scan gun and the database is populated from look up to google. Really handy to be able to see if I have a book while at B&N.
That was the old IBM. Today's IBM is more: "work quickly, like a scared little bunny! You don't want to be the one with your head on the chopping block tomorrow."
This sounds just like IBM eReview (internal project). I was on the development team in 2001 and the architect from 2003-6. It's still used internally to review many of the external products' documentation. Amazon's patent goes beyond what we did, but many of their dependent and independent claims would have been covered.
While we never did follow through on making it an external product, it was shown to Adobe and others.
The problem there is that you generally need to euthanize the animal after the experiment. With lawyers it'll be too much fun and the researches will too often do it before the experiment is over.
As an independent I can vote in the Democrat primaries. I voted against her. Jim Neal was much better, but had no chance because openly gay in NC == unelectable.
Honeycomb does not have this behavior. It takes me back so I can take more pictures. Obviously I disagree about the back button being a bad design, but I certainly wouldn't be happy if I came across an app that overrode the default behavior of that button. Overriding the expected behavior of that button is not something I would put into one of my apps.
Gave it a day. It takes me back to my app as expected. In fact the previous apps button (or whatever they're calling that) shows me and takes me back to the apps I was using 3 days ago, in the state I left them. Checked task killer and they weren't backgrounded.
Double clicking on the home button is not intuitive. I would never have thought to try it, but a back button is pretty obvious. The gestures in a Pre weren't obvious, but the video that came up when you bought it taught them to you in under 5 minutes.
I still stack them up best to worse as: WebOS Android iOS Blackberry
It's about user experience. And Apple's got that all wrapped up in a pretty little bow. Whereas none of their competitors do (HP came close, and we'll see about Ice Cream Sandwich but my educated guess is "probably not good enough for the average person").
I keep trying to figure out what people mean by iOS's user experience. I've got a transformer with the dock. Absolutely love it. Notifications are simple and unobtrusive. There is a back button that works.
I borrowed an iPad for a week and had to keep reminding myself NOT to throw it against the wall since it wasn't mine. At any point the damned thing needed to open a browser or map from one app the way back was not apparent and I ended up hitting the home button and needing to navigate back to where I was in the original app. In Honeycomb, I just hit the back button and I'm back. I guess if all you do is play Angry Birds it would seem pretty simple.
Don't take this as a flame. I'm really interested in why someone who uses both iOS and Android on a regular basis would say that iOS has a better user experience. I develop on and use both, but my personal iPod Touch is used for nothing more than a source of music on my alarm clock and in my Jeep. I dread using it for anything else.
And as an owner of the original Palm Pre I can certainly say that WebOS beats them both by a mile. Too bad the hardware was such shite and the limitations in the API were woeful.
It is really nice that on my Asus Transformer, every website I've used just works. Compare that to my iPod touch and the iPad where I just get a big lego piece.
Except single player is not what this older player or any of my older friends were looking for. None of us have played it, nor do we intend to. As far as we are concerned EA/Dice should have used that time to do more with the multiplayer. More maps, fewer bugs, squad speak, etc.
As you have found out, multiplayer is what the Battlefield series is all about. The team that does not work together has always lost in every match I've ever played and I've played quite a few. Started with BF1942 and the Desert Combat mod, BF2, BF2142, and now BF3.
I know it's shocking. There's got to be a few cells in there to keep the heart pumping, lungs breathing, and the doughnuts finding their way to the mouth.
Do we even care if he was right? As noted in other comments the fault would have already been under strain. If it was left up to its own devices, it would continue to build up until it let loose on its own. More stress released means bigger earthquake.
This might be the start of a good research project into figuring out how to get faults to trigger in a series of small, non-damaging quakes instead of one big one.
It's been 20 years since frosh year, but it definitely never went into my hands. The closest was going to the Pittsburgh Bldg at RPI to sign the check and promptly hand it back to the very watchful lady.
So what. My small company attempts to defend itself with one or a few little patents. The big boys crush me under dozens to hundreds, but hey I got a discount.
As a former ChemE, I can attest to this. Senior year the books were betwen $300 and $500 each. The difference is that they are cloth bound and you keep them for your career since they are filled with reference tables you will need. Not at all surprised to CDCR on that list.
Granted that was '94 and most of that is probably available online now.
Besides, buying from Amazon doesn't negate that taxes need to be paid on goods sold. Amazon is just arguing that they shouldn't be required to collect them.
And Amazon is 100% correct in this argument. Sales/Use Tax is a responsibility of the buyer. States require businesses to collect and remit this tax on behalf of the buyer.
But the catch is that businesses, like people are only beholden to the laws of the state in which they reside. If I as a business owner ship an order from NC to VA, why should I be legally obligated to follow the laws of VA when I have no presence there. If the person from VA walks into the NC store, then sure they're going to get charged sales tax and it will be remitted to NC state.
Businesses and states can whine about it all they want, but until the US Congress passes a law saying businesses have to collect and remit sales taxes for other states there is no way that these laws can affect non-resident businesses.
And calling referral bonuses/affiliates a business presence is ridiculous. NC state is one of the ones that passed that non-sense and now we don't get sales tax AND we don't get the income tax on the referrals since Amazon won't accept us into the referral program.
I had the same thing said to me by an IBM patent lawyer. I then asked her how much we spend in defending ourselves against the same. *Cough*, *SCO*, *Cough*. Software group brings in $7B/yr by actually making and selling software. IGS brings in over $6B/yr in selling services. These are profit numbers, not the revenue numbers that sr. execs like to talk about.
Plus that $1B number includes all of the real patents that IBM has on real physical machines.
Slashdot Mirror
rel="nofollow" is what you use with a link to indicate that it should not be considered for page rank. Slashdot already uses that as you note.
It will still show up as a hit in a search.
All books have an isbn bar code on the inside flap (plus the isbn can be generated from the upc12+5, but many cheap scan guns won't see the last 5). I scan in all my books with a $20 scan gun and the database is populated from look up to google. Really handy to be able to see if I have a book while at B&N.
That was the old IBM. Today's IBM is more: "work quickly, like a scared little bunny! You don't want to be the one with your head on the chopping block tomorrow."
My wife does fine art photography. I wish you could see the three canvases currently up in the DAC gallery in Manteo, NC. They are quite stunning.
The same images also look amazing on Kodak metallic paper.
This sounds just like IBM eReview (internal project). I was on the development team in 2001 and the architect from 2003-6. It's still used internally to review many of the external products' documentation. Amazon's patent goes beyond what we did, but many of their dependent and independent claims would have been covered.
While we never did follow through on making it an external product, it was shown to Adobe and others.
The problem there is that you generally need to euthanize the animal after the experiment. With lawyers it'll be too much fun and the researches will too often do it before the experiment is over.
It's only funny because at this point the polls show her as having no chance.
As an independent I can vote in the Democrat primaries. I voted against her. Jim Neal was much better, but had no chance because openly gay in NC == unelectable.
Honeycomb does not have this behavior. It takes me back so I can take more pictures. Obviously I disagree about the back button being a bad design, but I certainly wouldn't be happy if I came across an app that overrode the default behavior of that button. Overriding the expected behavior of that button is not something I would put into one of my apps.
Gave it a day. It takes me back to my app as expected. In fact the previous apps button (or whatever they're calling that) shows me and takes me back to the apps I was using 3 days ago, in the state I left them. Checked task killer and they weren't backgrounded.
Double clicking on the home button is not intuitive. I would never have thought to try it, but a back button is pretty obvious. The gestures in a Pre weren't obvious, but the video that came up when you bought it taught them to you in under 5 minutes.
I still stack them up best to worse as:
WebOS
Android
iOS
Blackberry
It's about user experience. And Apple's got that all wrapped up in a pretty little bow. Whereas none of their competitors do (HP came close, and we'll see about Ice Cream Sandwich but my educated guess is "probably not good enough for the average person").
I keep trying to figure out what people mean by iOS's user experience. I've got a transformer with the dock. Absolutely love it. Notifications are simple and unobtrusive. There is a back button that works.
I borrowed an iPad for a week and had to keep reminding myself NOT to throw it against the wall since it wasn't mine. At any point the damned thing needed to open a browser or map from one app the way back was not apparent and I ended up hitting the home button and needing to navigate back to where I was in the original app. In Honeycomb, I just hit the back button and I'm back. I guess if all you do is play Angry Birds it would seem pretty simple.
Don't take this as a flame. I'm really interested in why someone who uses both iOS and Android on a regular basis would say that iOS has a better user experience. I develop on and use both, but my personal iPod Touch is used for nothing more than a source of music on my alarm clock and in my Jeep. I dread using it for anything else.
And as an owner of the original Palm Pre I can certainly say that WebOS beats them both by a mile. Too bad the hardware was such shite and the limitations in the API were woeful.
Because it was the cheapest option for doing full iOS development. It never gets used beyond that because MacOS sucks.
My laptop that was only $100 more dual boots to Windows for .Net development and Linux for everything else and yes, it does run circles around the Mac.
It is really nice that on my Asus Transformer, every website I've used just works. Compare that to my iPod touch and the iPad where I just get a big lego piece.
Until all websites stop using Flash, this sucks.
Except single player is not what this older player or any of my older friends were looking for. None of us have played it, nor do we intend to. As far as we are concerned EA/Dice should have used that time to do more with the multiplayer. More maps, fewer bugs, squad speak, etc.
As you have found out, multiplayer is what the Battlefield series is all about. The team that does not work together has always lost in every match I've ever played and I've played quite a few. Started with BF1942 and the Desert Combat mod, BF2, BF2142, and now BF3.
Google does not own Motorola Mobility yet. That is purely Motorola's fight.
police brains
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I know it's shocking. There's got to be a few cells in there to keep the heart pumping, lungs breathing, and the doughnuts finding their way to the mouth.
Do we even care if he was right? As noted in other comments the fault would have already been under strain. If it was left up to its own devices, it would continue to build up until it let loose on its own. More stress released means bigger earthquake.
From Scientific American, there are parts of the San Andreas fault that seem to just move along slowly instead of building up to a big quake.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=auto-lube-keeps-parts-of-san-andrea-10-06-25
This might be the start of a good research project into figuring out how to get faults to trigger in a series of small, non-damaging quakes instead of one big one.
It's been 20 years since frosh year, but it definitely never went into my hands. The closest was going to the Pittsburgh Bldg at RPI to sign the check and promptly hand it back to the very watchful lady.
And as any student of history and the world today can tell you, Star Trek is complete fantasy. Star Wars by comparison is a documentary.
So what. My small company attempts to defend itself with one or a few little patents. The big boys crush me under dozens to hundreds, but hey I got a discount.
A broken system just got more broken.
As a former ChemE, I can attest to this. Senior year the books were betwen $300 and $500 each. The difference is that they are cloth bound and you keep them for your career since they are filled with reference tables you will need. Not at all surprised to CDCR on that list. Granted that was '94 and most of that is probably available online now.
You use SDL to access the screen, sound, keyboard, etc, so you write completely in C or C++.
Besides, buying from Amazon doesn't negate that taxes need to be paid on goods sold. Amazon is just arguing that they shouldn't be required to collect them.
And Amazon is 100% correct in this argument. Sales/Use Tax is a responsibility of the buyer. States require businesses to collect and remit this tax on behalf of the buyer.
But the catch is that businesses, like people are only beholden to the laws of the state in which they reside. If I as a business owner ship an order from NC to VA, why should I be legally obligated to follow the laws of VA when I have no presence there. If the person from VA walks into the NC store, then sure they're going to get charged sales tax and it will be remitted to NC state.
Businesses and states can whine about it all they want, but until the US Congress passes a law saying businesses have to collect and remit sales taxes for other states there is no way that these laws can affect non-resident businesses.
And calling referral bonuses/affiliates a business presence is ridiculous. NC state is one of the ones that passed that non-sense and now we don't get sales tax AND we don't get the income tax on the referrals since Amazon won't accept us into the referral program.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtUkphb_Pbg
I had the same thing said to me by an IBM patent lawyer. I then asked her how much we spend in defending ourselves against the same. *Cough*, *SCO*, *Cough*. Software group brings in $7B/yr by actually making and selling software. IGS brings in over $6B/yr in selling services. These are profit numbers, not the revenue numbers that sr. execs like to talk about.
Plus that $1B number includes all of the real patents that IBM has on real physical machines.