Submission + - Trimble buys Sketch from Google (trimble.com)
Chrutil writes: Interesting news in the field of 3d — Trimble, a company known for their surveying equipment is buying SketchUp from Google.
Comment Re:Paramount's definition of "Monetize" (Score 4, Insightful) 288
I suppose Monetize means using "Hollywood accounting" to pretend no money was made from enormous profits.
No question Louis CK made good money of it (rightfully so), and I really hope others that use the same methods will as well.
Jim Gaffigans recent Mr. Universe, for example (and yes - get it and see it - best ever)
No question Louis CK made good money of it (rightfully so), and I really hope others that use the same methods will as well.
Jim Gaffigans recent Mr. Universe, for example (and yes - get it and see it - best ever)
Submission + - Blind Man Drives Car with Help from Google (greencarreports.com)
thecarchik writes: Steve Mahan got into a Toyota Prius hybrid, drove to the dry cleaner's, picked up some clothes he'd left to be cleaned, and drove home. The trip was about a mile and a half. Steve Mahan is legally blind. He's lost 95 percent of his vision. He did it, though, with a little help from Google.
The car he happened to be driving was one of several Google Self-Driving Priuses, outfitting with an array of cameras, sensors, and processing algorithms to ensure it can sense, interpret, and react to its environment in real time--driving as safely as any other driver. Google’s bills him as “Self-Driving Car User #0000000001,” so the distinction of being the first official non-driver driver of a Google self-driving car who doesn’t work for Google falls to him.
The car he happened to be driving was one of several Google Self-Driving Priuses, outfitting with an array of cameras, sensors, and processing algorithms to ensure it can sense, interpret, and react to its environment in real time--driving as safely as any other driver. Google’s bills him as “Self-Driving Car User #0000000001,” so the distinction of being the first official non-driver driver of a Google self-driving car who doesn’t work for Google falls to him.
Submission + - Borat used for Patent prior art (ipwatchdog.com)
Kurofuneparry writes: "Rarely does patent law meet pop culture so hilariously. But it gets to a more important point: An invention cannot be patented if there has been a public disclosure of said invention prior to the date of filing." Not exactly a tech patent, but it does comically display the kind of prior art searches that are often being done so poorly in the tech industry by the over-burdened patent office. After talking about how a "scrotal support garment" patent is invalidated by the Borat movie, the article also mentions a case involving Apple last year as well as a case in which the Bible was used for prior art.
Comment Re:Barney is fucked! (Score 5, Funny) 470
What's 'independant' thought?
I think it's slang for a thought locked inside a necklace.
Comment Doesn't this happen all the time? (Score 5, Funny) 100
Or "It's like deja-vu, all over again. " as iYogi Berra would have said...
Comment Fucking magnets. (Score 5, Funny) 132
How do they work?
Comment Re:What shocks me (Score 2) 309
He filmed and produced the show with money out of his own pocket, that's $170k.
The website setup cost was something like $30k.
Then he had to pay tax on the gain.
That adds up to about $300k leaving $200k in profit.
Comment Re:Trying to do too much (Score 1) 753
In truth, Firefox is a great browser, but the operating system it includes around it is crap.
Too young to remember emacs perhaps? Kids these days. Now get off my lawn.
Comment Re:First self-driving crash - who to blame, or sue (Score 1) 282
Lawsuits and class-action suits are mainly problems here in the US.
The rest of the world is different.
Comment Re:"Impersonate" is probably too strong (Score 1) 233
In this day and age, who is smart enough to pick up a lost phone in a bar and then try to sell it superstitiously and is still to dumb to tell a real cop from a rent-a-cop?
Only someone *dumb enough* to pick up a lost phone and try to sell it, wouldn't be able to tell the difference....
Comment Re:$100 is an impulse buy, $500 is not (Score 4, Insightful) 312
Maybe the ipad makes more sense if you don't have a laptop or have some reason to not carry one around...
Actually my iPad *is* my reason for not carrying my laptop around.
Comment Re:ho hum, personal jet propulsion (Score 1) 90
Do show us the youtubez of that. I'm Ford administration vintage and I never saw this until Rossy started doing it.
Silly. Everybody knows YouTube wasn't invented back then.
Comment Re:Indeed.... (Score 1) 379
Can someone make a fucking goatse blocker firefox plugin please?
This is pissing me off now.
Comment Re:Function re-ordering inside the image? wow (Score 5, Informative) 141
That's actually common practice in profile guided optimization, put commonly used code close together in the image to minimize the number of pages loaded.
