Comment Re:Fibonacci number (Score 1) 303
The fib. projection for 34-virginity assumes he's been on a date by 21. If not then date at 34, virginity at 55.
Comment Neural Networks were a distraction (Score 2) 24
In Speech Recognition and Text-To-Speech neural networks were the diregeur fashion, a long with lisp. But in the end it was Hidden Markov Models, and even Baysean modelling that ended up solving these AI-ish ventures.
Neural Networks influenced a great deal of collateral and tangential research, the the Neural Networks themselves really went no where. They just weren't usable, not even for machine learning -- at least not in the "pure form".
Submission + - TiVo wishlist for patent finally recorded.
zapatero writes: TiVo's now 5 year patent dispute with E*Star/Dish has finally reached a near final point. Today the long awaited ruling from Judge Folsom on whether Echo Star's self-described patch to their DVR made their device compliant under the October 2008 verdict came in. Judge Folsom ruled in favor of TiVo again. He awarded TiVo yet another $100 Million. This ruling puts a serious bite in TiVo's DVR patent. The case has already been appealed and dismissed by the US Supreme Court. It appears that TiVo's Patent is now the real deal. Industry beware. Who will TiVo go after now? AT&T's Uverse? Time Warner?
Comment Let them eat source code (Score 0, Offtopic) 488
This is
To bring this topic back home; much better would be 3 strikes and you're assigned to a write man pages for the opensource X.org projects.
Comment The answer. (Score 4, Funny) 517
Q: does this pass the 'significant technical content' test?
First the long answer: Nope.
Now the short answer: No.
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