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I tried a few drawings just for fun. Success seemed to correlate with how photo-real the artist's style happened to be. But is this recognition? (Other than for male/female.)

I've got a early 2009 17" MBP just extensively serviced by Apple (new logic board, display, etc.), and I've noticed that when closed and I pick it up and put it down on a table, the apple logo glows for a moment and goes out. I'm convinced that this has something to do with the built in Sudden Motion Sensor that wakes up the computer. It seems to have started with Lion on my particular MBP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_Motion_Sensor

I suspect that the author of that blog may be seeing the same thing and it has nothing to do with keyboard problems.

It is fascinating that none of the major news outlets seems to have reported this as of yet.

Use Google No Country Redirect.

I struggled with this at length both for my computers and those of my children until I found the obscure google switch:

google.com/ncr

That tells google not to attempt to redirect to local language. You will have to set this in your search preferences as the google search URL.

Hope this helps,

John

They claim: "Design and functional elements are additionally protected by patents, including European patent No 001742719, Russian Federation patent RU2010501345, and US patent (pending)." I did a few minutes searching at the WIPO website because this really does seem like old art, and I was wondering if they simply did design patents. I could not find public documents on either the EP or Russian patents.

I find it interesting that WWII and the Korean War do not show as spikes in his graph.

No, I don't believe so. I could (or can and do) use my real name. I simply don't -want- to use my real name.

I dislike giving incorrect answers to questions. I did use that box when testing the new requirements for lack of a better fit. By so doing, I am allowing Youtube (Google) to misrepresent my reasons for declining to use my real name. I don't care for that.

As I said in my video response, Youtube (Google) can either acknowledge my desire for a certain level of anonymity when I interact with youtube, or I simply will move to Vimeo or another provider.

Like a lot of people, I'm kind of stuck on the gmail tar baby. It will be hard for me to step away from gmail. Youtube, on the other hand, is not something where I have built up a lot of utility. It could be that they simply have decided that Youtube will now focus on the 'professional' posters, and not worry so much about casual posters and users like myself. I believe that is a mistake because the people that make a buck (or think they might) on youtube start as casual users.

I have noticed that youtube seems to be paying a lot more attention to the commercial users than to the casual users. That is their choice, but I'd bet that there will be other folks that would be only too happy to focus on the hoi pilloy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoi_polloi)

The point is that they don't -want- you to use pseudonyms. I don't know about the rest of you but I segregate the various presences in the aether. What I found most offensive is that they omitted the option of saying that you did not want to use your real name solely because you didn't -want- to use your real name.

I posted a short reaction at http://youtu.be/Imhqt1vr3T8 Hopefully their search engine will pick it up.

How about the Middle East?

After looking at the screenshots of the carrier-side it seemed to me that the Carrier IQ system allows much more interaction/control from the carrier side. Pending patent applications sometimes can tell you a lot about where a company is heading.

Here are a couple of quotes from Carrier IQ's pending U.S. 20090207749 USER-INITIATED REPORTING OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ERRORS:

"...This configuration enables the system 200 to dynamically generate and download to a population of wireless devices rule-based data collection profiles. Data collection profiles may be generated manually by a network administrator, a software developer or other personnel involved in the operation of the network (hereinafter referred to as "network administrators"), created offline as a portion of a data analysis solution, or automatically generated based on network parameters or other events. Profiles define what information is to be collected on the devices in response to which conditions and events, as well as the conditions and events that cause the device to upload the collected information.

[0038] Conditions or events include any occurrence in the network or on the device that the device can sense, such as a call dropping or a user pressing a button on the device. Conditions and events also include the passage of time, or a request from a network administrator that the device report information back to the server. Conditions and events which cause a device to collect information or upload the collected information may generally be referred to as "triggers." "

and:

"[0080] In the exemplary embodiment, triggers may be included in the data collection directives of a data collection profile, and their inclusion causes the client to initiate, abort, and terminate data collection activity as appropriate when the associated trigger condition is invoked by the wireless device 400. A trigger invocation that matches the initiating trigger causes data collection activity to begin. A match of the terminating trigger causes the data collection activity to end, and a metrics package is then prepared for uploading. An abort trigger causes data collection activity to cease, and a metrics package is not prepared or is not uploaded. In the example used earlier, launching an application caused the client to be invoked with an "application launched" trigger event, which is matched against triggers in downloaded profiles and causes data collection activity to begin on a user's device. The user's entering of a particular key sequence, pressing of a dedicated button, or selection of a particular menu option while the application is running would cause another trigger to be activated, and the SQC would match the event to a terminating trigger in the profile, cause data collection to stop and a metrics package to be prepared and uploaded. As can be seen, the inclusion of a trigger in a profile effectively selects the condition under which a specific action associated with that profile is to be executed. The trigger is not strictly within the profile, rather it associates specific profile actions (start, stop, abort) with a specific event on the device. "

And the claims from their pending "USING MOBILE DEVICE TO CREATE ACTIVITY RECORD" application No. 20090210516 is quite interesting to browse:

1. In a communication system, a method for creating an activity record, the method comprising: recording data at a device, the data including one or more events and event-related data that describe activities of a user; uploading the data to a server, wherein the server organizes the data based the event related data; and generating an activity record using the data that can be presented to a user, wherein the activity record represents at least a partial log of the activities of the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein event-related data comprise one or more of: a time an event occurs; a date the event occurs; a location of the device when the event occurs; a filename of an event object associated with the event; a mobile device number (MDN); and a contact name.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein generating an activity record using the data comprises creating an entry for each of the one or more events describing where and when an event occurred.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising presenting the activity record on a website, wherein the website is accessed by the device or using another device.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the one or more events comprise at least one of: making or receiving a phone call; sending or receiving a message; taking a photograph; recording a device location; receiving and playing a broadcast; connecting to an 802.11 or Bluetooth access point; and using a device application.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the location of the mobile device is recorded periodically and independently of other events. ....

I's suggest that Siri really is something new under the sun: it is the first large-scale, distributed AI system interacting with the 'real world' in an uncontrolled manner. It would not surprise me if somewhere in the back end queries are being looked at and humans are fine-tuning or making suggestions of possible responses. There is a scale here that's never been seen before. And Apple can afford a legion of unseen human beings helping in the background if it wants to experiment with this.

I'm the son of an immigrant and married one as well, so I'm quite sympathetic....but....he has not explained why his status changed from being legally in the U.S. to some other status....

Hi there.... I went ahead and downloaded and installed the app. Really had trouble with the popup agree to terms and conditions thing. Had to force quit several times before I succeeded in registering.

Tried the wizard selecting technology news but when the ticker started, it was filled with stuff from Fox News and other stuff that is irritating more than informing.

What I was looking for, and hoping for, was a simple ticker for sites that I am interested in, such as this site, slashdot, NYtimes and WSJ technology SECTIONS, etc.

Even when I deleted my playlist, stories from 'The Beast' flowed across the screen. In sum, I had no sense that I was in control of your application. I could see myself using such a feed--if it did what I wanted--while relaxing, but in it's current form.....

Best of luck with this! I do hope you persevere. I'd suggest completely rethinking how the USER can drive this thing.

...and you might want to add a direct download for those of us who don't always want to log into apple's app store just to try something like this. Almost quit at that point.

Patents are territorial. That is, unless someone has filed an application (or designated Australia as part of a national phase of a Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patent application, nothing will issue in Australia. Generally, companies try to figure out where their likely markets are, and where the expense can be justified. Australia is becoming more and more relevant, but it was not nearly as common to file there a few years ago. (Full disclosure, I'm a U.S. patent attorney (but I'm actually a good guy!).)

The employer should be sorting this out for you. It is not simple, and the leaving and reentry on a tourist visa is by no means certain. They do catch on.

I'd like to suggest that you consider creative commons licensing the designs with right of modification to multiple parties. There are locality-related aspects to tutoring, and success may depend on factors difficult to assess. I mentor startups in Singapore and there are multiple founders looking at this area. Why not let a bunch of people try out the templates and see what happens? Thank you for your very generous offer regardless, John Young alkimie.com