I was wondering if it had - I *almost *posted a question asking, but in the end was lazy.
I discovered this unexpected song. It seemed appropriate for this thread.
I’ve played a theremin, or tried to. Anyone who can wrangle a recognizable melody out of it is doing very well.
It was an OK episode.
I also find Sheldon written as totally annoying to be less than funny. Once again you have Penny turning into the straightman. It’s funny when you have a fault and struggle with it. For instance when Felix tries to be sloppy or Oscar tries to be neat and just cannot do it. Both realize they have faults, but can’t overcome them. Sheldon just comes off as self-righteous and smug.
Too often the guys are written as stupid, which they are not. They are unfamiliar with social things but not uninformed. Sheldon would know enough that Penny isn’t going to be able to understand anything the guys talk about, much less steal their idea.
Sheldon isn’t stupid, he’s just unfamilair with socialization. I agree that it would have been funnier to show Sheldon/Penny suffering with each other to build an “app” that would have beaten out the guys.
Of course seeing that Howard recognizes that they only will sell about 70 of their apps, and they’ll wind up at best, “hundred-aires” this wouldn’t be so hard to do.
I would think that Raj would be the front yard though 
I noticed the limp, too, and pointed it out to my wife. I also saw some awkwardness later in the show. During the scene where she enters the building to find Sheldon sitting on the steps playing his Theremin, she sits next to him and they talk. When she gets up and begins ascending the stairs, there was something funny about the way she took that first step up. It was small, and my wife didn’t really see it, but it was clear to me that she’s still not 100%.
There’s very, very little reason for a practicing engineer to get a doctorate. Even being involved in research like Howard is, a Master’s is all the credentials he would ordinarily need.
haha, I signed up just to tell you yes, i did think of that nasty picture of human centipede.
This. As an Engineer with a Masters married to an Engineer with a PhD, those moments are hilarious around our house.
And it even had the correct references to the Cocoa API – NSOBjects galore!
A couple of other points:
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Howard is almost certainly more likely to use differential equations and Fourier transforms in his work than, say, Raj is in his.
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Was I the only one who thought that Penny’s app idea would actually sell like gangbusters on iPhone app store?
Yes, but, remember, it was Sheldon who said he wouldn’t. Unless it has to do with theoretical physics, comic books, or science fiction (or football), Sheldon doesn’t actually know anything about it. Although, being Sheldon, he’ll generally act like he does.
Nope. Sheldon was probably the only person around who didn’t.
This xkcd comic seems reasonably appropriate at this point. 
I wonder how many people have begun one since that episode.
Trouble is, it’s kind of insanely difficult to make it work. It’s hard enough for a computer vision program to distinguish between a shoe and dog, let alone different types of shoes, at any arbitrary angle, in any lighting condition.
To get a good picture of a shoe someone is wearing, you’d probably want to ask them if you can take the picture, and then you just may as well ask them where they bought them.
What’s more, the requisite software would probably exceed the memory and processing capabilities of any smartphone.
It doesn’t work very well yet, but an app called Google Goggles may eventually be able to do just this.
Not really, because you’re just taking the picture and sending it to a land-based server farm. It’s all back-end stuff.
Ah, good point. Yes, if the smartphone simply serves as a front-end (as it should), then that makes it more feasible. Still not easy, and I wouldn’t count on the application working in most situations. However, this approach would circumvent the problems of processing power and memory limitations.
It seemed to me Google Goggles was pretty close to what she described but works for everything, not just shoes.
Wow… most impressive. Google impresses as usual…