MrCopilot

Welcome to 2026 You can complain or You can help. Software Development is hard. Really hard. You just won't believe how vastely hugely mind bogglingly hard it is. I mean, you think molecular chemical biology is complex, but that's just peanuts to Software Development. My apologies to sir Douglas Adams. "Space," [the Hitchhiker's Guide] says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. This sustained level of difficulty and complexity is mentally exhausting. every original line of code I've ever written has been weighed and tested and considered and tortured before the first letter was typed, and the "work" has just begun. In many scenarios some entity is paying you to exhaust yourself to design, run, support and maintain a fictional rube goldberg machine in your head for anywhere from a mo...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS The good folks over at Canonical have released the newest Long Term Support version of their Free Linux operating system Ubuntu codename Trusty Tahr. After waiting for the update to show up on a previous LTS 12.04, impatience won out and a fresh install of Trusty Tahr was inaugurated on a 64bit AMD box's spare drive. Desktop Despite it's name, Unity has a pretty vocal community of detractors. With past versions, Unity quickly got under my skin and ends up as a spare session rarely, if ever, used, instead opting for a lighter more traditional desktop experience. LXDE worked well and stayed out of my way and was the first post installation package. To render a fair judgement for this review, Unity has been the primarily used session since installation, but it is comforting having the old standby ready and a re-login away. Many users complain about Unity's rearrangement of applications menus to the top of the screen for the currently focused window ...

The Congress shall have Power…To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. United States Constitution , Article I, Section 8 The subject matter sought to be patented must be sufficiently different from what has been used or described before that it may be said to be nonobvious to a person having ordinary skill in the area of technology related to the invention. USPTO Hi there, I'm MrCopilot. I develop solutions, usually involving a general purpose computer and some clever arrangements of words and numbers. I am a product of the digital age, I grew up with technology in an era when it was just peeking its head into homes and business. I recall the brief flirtations with red LED watches, laser discs, the advent of the home computing, networking, email, 300 baud BBS ..., and on through to the present day where everyone is interconnected by multiple de...

OnLive Desktop is an Android or iOS App that gives OnLive users their own Windows 7 machine in the cloud. For free users have touch enabled desktop access, Microsoft Office, and some cloud storage. Why? Full versions of Microsoft Office that will render and edit your documents with perfect fidelity, if you are in to that sort of thing. Also you'll be running a fresh clean Windows install, remember what that was like? If you want access to speedy flash enabled browsing on your tablet, or customized desktop, be prepared  to shell out $5 a month. Might be worth it to you if your tablet has a fruit on it. Upon loading, the os syncs your Documents folder to your user account. You can upload files and documents at files.onlive.com . Which would seem a fairly painless way to test cross platform websites during development on the go. IE will let you browse local html files. It certainly less stressful than trying to run a vm on your hardware. Unfortunately running foreign exes is a no- no...

Abstraction is a prime mover of technology. Innovation gets all the press, but more often than not, that innovation is actually just abstracting away of existing technology. So it is with OnLive. In a sentence, OnLive is an instant on subscription service for streaming PC Gaming. The key abstraction here was to pull the hardware requirements away from the customer. The client has the requisite screen, input and sound hardware,  and OnLive has the hardware that runs the  game, and the software to stream the game video and audio to your screen and speakers as well as carry your inputs back to your game. Similar to the way various remote desktop and vnc software works, but If you have used a vnc client,  your first thought was probably "graphical performance will be hit or miss, laggy and highly unpredictable." That is where OnLive has spent its R&D dollars over the last few years. Compression and optimization, to allow multitudes of gamers access to a fairly sizable and...