captaincaveman

Yeah this is a common problem that pops up all the time, typically a tree, or taxonomy etc aren't sufficient and you need an ontology. But they aren't so easy to grasp intuitionally so we try to dumb it down and then hit problems, imho.

Ye Olde Yew Tree is oldest near me 1348, not a bad pub too!

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g8521445-d2037...

Has some random relationship with Dick Turpin!

‘man in a box’ sorely missed :(

Sounds like a nightmare cluster-duck, a whole city without water!

Benefit of the JVM without the bloat of the Java language. I suspect particularly for resource constraint systems, RAM in particular. Not particularly convinced myself!

Downvoted, I suspect because people don't believe Java was originally invented for STB aka Interactive TV https://www.javatpoint.com/history-of-java there are other references to this on the web too.

I am possibly conflating JVM with Java, however I was under the impression they was designed as one to begin with.

JVM was originally designed for set top boxes (STB) I believe, the problem there being a variety of architectures, thus a Virtual Machine solved the problem of write code to the virtual machine and not the physical machine and applications could run on various STB's.

OpenTV provided such a 'middleware' where the main language was C on such a VM, and was (possibly still is) widely used.

Used this at Uni, on Sparc machines, cool you can get it on x86 now, shame I just got an m1.

It's not so much that their own people, i.e. the actual doers are incompetent, its thats the management structure is, so they are set up for failure. And yes it might take longer, and cost more, as they need to hire etc opex, get more scrutiny, can't try and fix the problem by throwing more devs at it at a drop of a hat etc.

Well its not a cheap product, I suspect its just a massive knot of complexity and thus massively expensive to maintain and manage.

I very much doubt the price of the product is coming from this company, everything else sure, trolley.co.uk should explicitly ask them if they data aggregator provides the price to the website.

It doesn't matter if they also store that information, (might be scraping that themselves), if they don't provide that to the website, its not infringing their database rights, it is infringing the supermarkets.

The images are obviously going to be copyrighted, I suspect the product information is also likely sourced from third party, and thus you would be infringing database rights by scraping.

I find it very unlikely that the price of the products is provided by thirdparty data provider, and think the actual price is not covered by them despite them suggesting it might be.

A company of size of one or two, is not an enterprise (in any meaningful sense related to EA), so that would be logically flawed.

Used that at the time, I've never seen other platforms use that approach.

ohh it goes back much further than that!

Why is this in the nypost, getting clicks out of someone's mental health problems, shame on you!

Yeah but which thousand ...

I'd argue the position of software engineers/ programmers being those that implement the thinking of the business/science thinkers isn't unique to academia.

Used to listen to these guys years ago, lost track of them, glad to see they are still going.

They are also required to commission content from small UK producers, so privatising them will likely have a knock on affect.

> So far it has sold 1,534 copies and has made over $124,000.

So $80 per copy sold?

There is https://www.hydra-cg.com in this space, which I've not even quite understood!

Also https://comunica.dev

I think the goals of these go beyond basic API specification and client generation.

RDF and similar tech does suffer from documentation that is hard to digest, and hard to see how they combine.

The semantic stack is fundamentally about how you share data, integrate it etc Taxi seems to try and differentiate itself by describing data better (I've not looked at it deeply just some of the comments here describing it) for interchange. Also the restrictions on data, i.e. its shape (mush have property x) is what Shacl supports, which is also declarative in RDF.

There are a bunch of tools, extensions and what not out there for all this, most of which isn't grasped by average devs (don't mean that in a bad way).

Most small companies don't have patents, or ones that matter.

There is a lot of good content on Complexity Explorer!

As a thought experiment, how about if some new fancy feature/AI could take your book/text and generate a movie from it. The technology/publishing platform only licensed the right to publish the text/book, but they now have a way that you can watch a movie (in the past they had to get actors, director, sometimes multiple, pay people, studios etc)...

As a follow up it would be cool, TTS did use different voices for Narrator and characters in a book ... if someone patents that your welcome!

> convey the correct emotion for each line and will be capable of delivering a solid performance

Yeah ... so you might be getting into performance rights then ;P

Whats the difference between Audiobook and realtime text to audio translation, isn't the outcome/experience the same?

The difference between you reading and the software is one is 'mechanical', whether you want to constrain someone doing that in the rights you grant is debatable.

Copyright enables you (gives the creator the 'freedom' to choose) to make such choices, its what people choose to limit is the problem, as they tend to be very stingy.

Looks like a really good book, coming from someone who once bought many such books all of which sucked!

Or publisher could license the audio right from the content creators, so they get compensated for the increase in profits that the tech/publisher is making?