Thanks for the pointer. This really brought home to me the 'baud rate' issue of interplanetary communication.
Right now, I'm so used to streaming movies at home that I forget the challenges of communications across such vast distances .
Perhaps our children/grand-children will be using the faster interplanetary internet and will recall these days with the same whimsy as we do now our twisted-pair modem days.
You could, but then you may as well just run the game on a tablet.
For playing games, especially action games you really want tactile feedback (so that it's easy to judge the angle you are holding the joystick at without looking at it etc). It also helps that good controllers fit well into your hands for long playing sessions.
TV is a better fit for same-room multiplayer. Could even do multi screen games like with the Wii U. Trouble is the GPU is a bit on the weak side, it's fine for the 4" Nexus but probably won't scale up to 1080p
So is the Galaxy Nexus (which this shares a SoC with), and it's considered weak on there. It's unlikely blowing the output up from 4.7" to 47" will be very pretty.
It certainly seems to be the focus of their long term R&D spending. The ML part, of course, has always been a central part of their business due to its importance for search and ad targeting.
Except the nicest feature of Mosh is it makes the remote session feel more responsive. Is there anything out there (not just local echo) that does this?
What is up with all the startups using .ly domain or "ly" in their name? I can understand using a foreign top level domain in order to find available domain names, but that does not explain why we don't see ones from all the other international TLDs.
The sheer amount of obvious non-innovations that the patent office accepts is staggering.
Anecdotal personal experience being part of patent applications has showed me that almost any idea, as long as there are no mainstream examples of prior art, can be patented given time (will take 4-5 years these days) and money. Most decently smart people will come up with patentable ideas all the time, just doing their job, but won't file because they don't have the desire or resources (and don't understand why their only somewhat-novel obvious-to-them idea is patentable).
"The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying." - John Carmack
"The sheer amount of obvious non-innovations that the patent office accepts is staggering."
You'd almost think that they were getting money for accepting patent applications...
<Edit>This is a perfect example of mismatched incentives. The patent office has a lot of incentive (in the form of attracting user fees) for issuing dubious patents, and no real disincentive for doing the same.
Well, an incentives discussion which leaves out the other party is not quite valid.
Although, if I were to take your implication correctly - there should be no incentive to take a patent or reject a patent other than its merit.
Which would in turn imply no cost on applying for a patent, except its applicability after review.
But that would also create a perverse incentive for firms to submit patents all the time - there is no cost involved, no barrier of entry and hence no loss in making the effort.
Alternatively, we could have a very quick review system, which would mean that soon after patent submission you get rejection or acceptance. Which would mean that the patent office would need significantly more funding - considering the number of patents it receives vs people who have to review.
If there was a solution which could automate the search for prior art, that would be cool, and a way to reduce the size of the work load.
I wonder though if perhaps fixing the patent office is a dead end, and that instead the patent office should be treated merely as a record holder, were you pay a fee for a shallow review and a time stamped filing, and then you need to use the court system to uphold them. Upholding patents should be much costlier than it is today. That is to say, it should be costlier if you file a claim that has no merit. That way it would be up to these assholes to determine wether or not they have patented something that is of actual value.
Thing is with all such suggestions, they inevitability are of the type: Fix complex system X by removing system X.
Its do-able, but I am certain that the law of unintended consequences was written to describe situations like these.
For example, in your suggestion, the part where we move the onus onto the courts, will gum up the courts. I live in India, where courts are constantly arbiting cases, and people know that if your case gets into court, it could be there for ever. Thats not a side effect we want to induce.
Now you could build in redundancy for that eventuality by expanding the number of people in court, justices and areas, but then in essence, you are moving the burden from department X to department N, with the added problem that those new people will be from law, and not a technical background.
I really do think that this is a case where people should just get someone whos a technocrat in charge, give him authority and funds, and then forget about it while the patent office is built back up into an institution that people respect.
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Very impressive! The only issue I've run into is it having trouble discerning lower-case and upper-case letters. Training with my own writing style should be able to correct this however.
Is there a plan to offer this as a non-web-browser service? I would love to be able to write math out on paper, or a resistive screen tablet, and then import it into a LaTeX document.
I am faster writing equations by hand than typing LaTeX (and definitely faster compared to using a WYSIWYG equation program).
Edit: By the way, this is the perfect example of a problem I've always wished a start-up would come along and solve for me.
You can see the frames that are down here: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=0