Posts by Eddy Ito 4662 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Apr 2007
"Once again, the great culling begins."
Yup. One more mass extinction and if it includes humans don't think this great big rock we currently occupy will shed even a single tear. I'm pretty well convinced we're but termites on this rock and when we go the only irony in our small opinion will be that the rock won't care and will go about with whatever the grand plan of the rock was because we're only important to and trying to save ourselves. The rock doesn't care.
There's no doubt there is someone out there with a hit list based on contributions for or against whatever cause. Heck it's easy when all they have to do is compare today's headline with the database, both conveniently hosted at the LA Times for simple one stop sniping.
Meanwhile as both sides square off with boycotts at 10 paces everyone else just sees a bunch of extremists with nothing constructive to offer and rightly ignores the whole thing.
I don't get it. Why do people need another limited utility device that has a microphone and barcode scanner? Couldn't this all just be done with a single smartphone app instead of getting a "Dash"? Personally, the Dash looks like something that will accidentally get lost under the sofa, behind the fridge, "Dad! The sink dispose-all is making funny noises again!", etc.
Yep, this is the kind of thing that has everyone pull their hair out. Come up with a new material 'X' that has similar uses material 'U' & 'V' only stronger, faster, lighter, betterer and everyone and their cousin is coming up with crap like 'X' in a computer, 'X' in a phone, 'X' in a mobile device, 'X' enclosure for a pile of camel dung, etc. Can we at least state the obvious things like using new material 'X' as a replacement for materials 'U' & 'V' are in fact obvious and not patentable?
Would it matter to you that since we know it also runs an Adreno 320 that the list of processors is narrowed to a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro (APQ8064), S4 Prime (MPQ8064) or one of the 600 series. We could go into a quite detailed analysis trying to figure out which exactly however most of the fun is lost given that Qualcomm has come out and said it runs a Snapdragon 600.
I must admit that this was also my first thought. I can't imagine a benefit to having a cnc machine such as a lathe connected to the internet even if it is through an XP PC. Another alternative would be connect the XP boxes with serial lines to a central file server (running your favorite *nix or *nix-a-like?) to retrieve the CAM files and let them sit disconnected most of the time.
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Let me sum up. It's true that free speech allows you to say anything, with a few exceptions, that you wish whether they be opinion, fact or fiction. It's equally true that someone else can't be forced to provide you with an income, job, etc. In effect this is what branding is. Coca Cola would probably like it if you didn't buy Pepsi products and only purchased Coke products and the reverse is also likely true. If a driver suddenly realizes they are in the wrong lane and cuts me off which forces me to jack on the binders they shouldn't really be surprised to find me giving them the finger and/or using the horn now should they. OkCupid is basically flipping off Mozilla because they hired Eich - it's Ok,Stupid, but nonetheless ok. In the end, the government really doesn't care and the Constitution doesn't come into play.
Glad to see it's April 1st.
But the linked paper was apparently published March 20. I'm really beginning to wonder about the fun of April 1st. I mean as reality gets stranger than the pranks I'm beginning to wonder if I should actually expect to run into a pokemon on Charleston Rd.
I wonder how much the weight difference is. The chunk they took out looked pretty thick and was probably fairly heavy. I imagine this has relieved quite a bit of stress on her neck as well as her brain. I hope all works out well and that she never has to endure a repeat procedure in another area.
The paradox was artificially created by the losing lawyer (LL) in conflating freedom of speech with freedom of the press. Both are protected by the First Amendment and this ruling neither imparts nor extends any freedom of speech by corporate entities because it doesn't address the topic at all. What LL knows is that the vast majority of folks have never actually read the First Amendment, let alone the Constitution, and recognized that he can score some publicity points and induce a knee jerk response from folks who equate the First Amendment with free speech and nothing else.
What is really going on is the judge correctly understands the difference between positive rights, which don't exist except by fiat, and negative rights, which are what the Bill of Rights guarantees. Simply put, freedom of speech is a negative right in that no one is required to do anything. It becomes a positive right when someone is forced to listen when they would rather watch a football game or provide a medium for the speech. It's not a positive right because that would inevitably infringe the Fourth Amendment rights of another. Note here that I assume that businesses are property and forcibly requiring a business to provide a positive right is no different from forcing its owners and denying them Fourth Amendment protections.
WTF patent office? Not only should they not get a patent, but they should receive a fine for attempting it, and the mouth-breather that gave them the patent should be fired.
Ok, breathe, relax, ...7, 8, 9, 10. Good. This is only a patent application at this time, no patent has been granted, there is no reason to work up your blood pressure. There is a chance, granted very small, that this won't stick when thrown against the wall and it will be just a good laugh at Apple's blatant attempt at ripping off one of their app developers. Don't get me wrong, they'll still rip off the dev by incorporating the functionality into the iPhone and dump the app because it duplicates system functionality or whatever that particular hurdle is.
The founders probably "sold their souls" long ago. Don't forget they previously had two rounds of VC funding after kickstarter; the first for ~$16M and the second for ~$75M. It's likely the founders no longer held a controlling stake in the company and the 8 or so venture firms decided that a 20X return was adequate for them to move on and try their luck at another ground floor investment.
On the FB side, all I can think is 'what the hell?' Either this is the most brilliant move by Zuck and Co. or the worst attempt at trying to stay relevant in the headlines.
Certainly for most folks who run 'the norm', a single 1080p, 60 Hz, 32 bit color monitor, there is a limit to how much "more" is actually used unless good chunks can be handed to the GPU. As you say, "an interactive video/game with more physics..." along with high end solid modelling pretty much defines the current limited realm for desktop hardware since the really high end stuff like FEA/CFD and rendering is increasingly done on clusters.
Method and apparatus for encapsulating services for transportation over metallic physical mediums
How does this shit pass? Seriously, isn't that the literal description of the internet? Maybe I should patent encapsulating services and vioce in packets for transportation over radio interfaces and go after every cell phone company.
Is he collecting statistical data on the vehicles? It may be worth noting which cars are less likely to have texting drivers and whether those cars have bluetooth as standard. Just curious because my wife occasionally uses the bluetooth connection in the car to dictate texts and notes and it does a reasonable job speachifying (it's really not speaking) incoming texts although many are in Chinese and it can make some rather funny mispronunciations.
Can we make it an international effort so the rest of us can sign? I think it would be better to go through the IETF rather than working through they myriad bureaucracies of the UN and member states.
We got along just fine without the various flavors of :), ;(, :P and ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ when I was a kid... rods to the hogshead and all that.
Monopolies and cartels only happen when the entry barriers are too high for new companies. It doesn't matter whether the barriers are because economies of scale favor large entities, government regulations creating legal obstacles, capital equipment cost or any number of other problems including Louie who would "hate for anything to happen to a nice business such as this".
Capitalism, for all its flaws, has nothing to do with it. China's Great Leap Forward in which the state made itself the monopoly in most every aspect of production had little to do with capitalism.
That's why I have my computer to send computer generated tweets at pseudo-random intervals. The next tweet you see from me at midnight saying I'm headed down to Cafe Du Monde for a light lunch know that I could be asleep and it's really 2 am where I am. Oh and that re-tweet everyone thought so timely and interesting, Ha! I was probably gettin' my funk on to some heavy Die Walküre or Die Fledermaus bombin' down die 5, bitches!
Of course the SoCal under location might give it away. Nah! That could easily be short for South Caledonia.
As you keenly point out, it isn't about how many apps especially when you take Sturgeon's law into account. It also comes down to the problem of Apple wanting to only make consumptive mobile devices rather than creative ones. This is where it might make tablets a viable alternative to PCs for designers, artists and engineers in addition to opening new possibilities in collaboration.
Heck, I almost forgot the most creative types of all, sales and marketing personnel. The horror, the horror.
It seems to be a question of definition. Are we talking faces, facets, or planar surfaces? I would include the raised textual detail as well as the raised edge as planar surfaces but as they are merely parallel surfaces slightly raised or depressed they do not define a face or facet. The 12 internal bevels, presumably on each side, as well as the 12 edge surfaces would all be facets. I could go along with 14 faces including the two sides.
On a side note, I've been wishing the US would do a faceted edge on the $1 coin for years. They boned the S.B.A. dollar by dropping the hendecagonal edge and changing it to an internal design element around the standard ribbed circular edge and making it too close to the size of a quarter. I feel a faceted edge would have seen it be much more acceptable to the general public as it could be easily distinguished by feel alone. The latest one isn't bad but it would still benefit from a faceted edge.
I was thinking that folks should give Google what they ask for, something along the lines of 1,000,000 simultaneous small claims suits. To celebrate the googol (10^100), it seems the lawsuits should start at 10 am on the 100th day of the year so what is everyone doing April 10th?
They admitted to lightening the load and according to the drone specs it has a T/O weight between 1.2 and 2.4 kg which is a bit short of the 8+kg for a typical 12 pack but it may have gotten up with 3 bottles or so.
If anyone knows, when I'm at work and transfer an Office file from my work PC to my work phone, a Lumia 620, how do I open said file on the phone without first syncing to the cloud? Don't say, 'just sync to the cloud' because that's shite as I have absolutely no signal in my office building and files I've moved directly via usb to the "Documents" folder on the phone which is really on the phone and not the memory card. Now edit an existing note or create a note in OneNote and try to delete it without syncing. I'd like a tally, down vote this post if you can do either but at least have the human decency to tell me how you did it because it doesn't seem possible on my phone.
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