Doubtful. Night Mode will most likely only affect application chrome and menus that use Dynamic System Color [1] named colors, not the actual content within the app (i.e. images, webpages, documents, etc)
Websites will be entirely unaffected as they have they're own custom CSS palettes.
Interesting. I imagined that with a name like "Night Mode", it would be more universal (like Night Shift is). I'll be interested to see how this evolves and whether third-party developers adopt it.
How do you interpret an earnings slide? They seem to have a stronger Q4 YoY - presumably due to increased ad spending leading up to the holiday buying season, with a retraction every Q1. There was an 8% decline from Q4'16 to Q1'17 and only a 7% decline from Q4'17 to Q1'18.
I'm honestly curious what the aversion is to reading patents and patent applications. Is it to avoid suspect patent infringement by being able to claim ignorance? i.e. "I have not read any patent that relates to some work that I've created wholly on my own that out of coincidence achieves the same as a patented work." Does that actually hold up if defending IP?
Yes. You are subject to triple damages if you read the patent, so it's foolish to read patents unless you have to. It's impossible to read all patents, and patents in almost all cases are useless, so "I didn't read the patent" is the normal case for software developers.
Patents make no sense for software, and should be abolished for software.
Yeah, as osteele points out, it moves the needle from unknowing infringement to willful infringement. And willful infringement carries triple damages.
When people have asked “how would they even know?”, there are usually two answers: 1) don’t underestimate what can come out in discovery, and 2) no lawyer is going to advise perjuring yourself
Dockless gives gives you closer to end-to-end or "last mile" so much more than docked systems. With docked systems, you have to walk to both the pickup dock and find a drop off dock near your actual destination for a one way ride. So your "last mile" is very nearly always walking. They are limited to n(n-1)/2 routes where n is a docking station. With dockless, it's more like a car but without the hassle of finding a parking space, you can ride right up to your destination wherever that may be, and just get off the bike leaving it there. The only walking is to the nearest available bike at the outset of the trip. Data point of one here, I've visited cities with docked systems and commented on how cool it would be to use it, but I visited Seattle and actually used one of their dockless systems for several days during my stay, from short multi-block rides to a 14 mile round trip ride. It's tremendously useful for the shorter trips that are just too far for walking. The longer trip was for the heck of if it to see a little more of the city by bike with an errand to pick up a laptop charger needed that morning for my wife.
My dentist, a younger generation who took over the practice from a retiring dentist, has installed a Cerec crown milling machine. It was amazing to see the tooth modelled in 3d using a series of photos, then I watched my dentist raise the ridges of the tooth to create what would become the crown. After a few clicks he sent it off to be made - in the next room! In literally 10 minutes he had a crown milled from a block of dental porcelain or some kind of hard ceramic, ready to be fitted in my mouth. See a video of the process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajj4zkXHe6U
Yes! My dentist back in the Netherlands had this technology in 2004 and both of my crowns were made that way. When I came to the US in 2011 and had to go through the ‘old way’ of getting a temp crown, sending mold off to lab, coming back 2 or 3 times over the course of a month I was genuinely amazed it hadn’t caught on here. I finally found a dentist in the Bay Area with new technology.
My wife got a new crown using this new technology but managed to get it chipped in a manner of months. Her dentist reordered a new one using the old method and it is still good so far. Maybe she just got unlucky on the first one. Anyway I've had multiple crowns using the old method and have been pretty durable.
Both of my crowns from 2004-06 or thereabouts are still in very good shape. Your wife may have been unlucky indeed, or maybe they used different/weaker materials.
From what i've read, this tech has a lot of potential for savings: Instead of a few appointments, a long process, you can do the work in a single appointment. And you also don't need the materials for the temporary crown.
So this is a classic disruptive technology, in a market where people pay out-of-pocket(if not in the US , in many other places). so why haven't this disrupted the old way?
I too have an anecdote involving a recent dental grad who took over a local practice; he removed the cerec machine installed by the previous owner, and not long after I experienced two failures due the low quality of the crowns produced by that machine. Replacing them with traditional crowns did take some time but they fit and feel much better.
Hm, maybe exactly because of that? Dentists are reluctant to lose these extra appointments because of extra revenue? :)
Don't know how it would affect total traffic though.
I had a crown put in two years ago, and my periodontist and I were talking about how this would be the next step. He had already done detailed 3D modelling of my jaw, mouth, implant site, and had a 3D model from my existing teeth that were removed. Glad to see it actually happening!
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