This could be an issue. Although the fair housing lawsuit against CraigsList was dismissed, Yahoo's technique where the newspaper staff screen all the classified ads could affect any future developments in this area. CraigsList claims it's impossible to have enough staff to screen its ads.
to determine whose fault the accident is. Here in Massachusetts, no one pays any attention to traffic signs, traffic signals, or the painted lane markers anyway. I has to dodge someone driving halfway over in my lane just last night.
That's probably at least as important. I've visited websites that don't have efficient ways of finding what you're looking for. Either you have to drill down through too many submenus or everything is lumped together and you have to tediously browse through about 50 pages of selections. Provantage is a good example of not being very browsing friendly.
When they say skills, they really mean experience. And rather specific experience at that. Even entry level positions want at least 2 years experience in certain skillsets. This industry trade association propaganda gets really tiresome at times.
The hardware vendors do because they want to sell into that market. The problem with Linux is a lot of vendors don't care. If I go and build a new PC with all the latest hardware, Windows will be supported. Linux? Maybe. You'd lose a lot of hair trying to find all the drivers for it if they did exist.
Forget space elevators, I'd use gyroscopes so as to use the earth's angular interia to leverage them and a payload into space. Leverage being the key word here. You'd need some tethers or boons to control the contraption and keep it from precessing in the wrong directions. Of course once it's up there, it might look a lot like a space elevator.
nor are they designed to be. Someone usually spends a lot of money lobbying to get a tax loophole put in for their benefit. For someone else to just take advantage of those loopholes without any investment on their part probably strikes the original lobbying parties as unfair which is irony for you considering tax loopholes are unfair by definition. Not all loopholes can be taken advantage of. So patents make perfect sense as a mechanism for protecting one's lobbying investment. It is funny that lawyers who think patents are perfectly ok as long as as they affect other people, change their minds when the patents affect them.
Preferrably with control on the main panel to disable those sites with annoying float over ads that obstruct the view of the article you are trying to read. This is important since the Shockwave Flash positions itself as a mechanism for advertizers to bypass browser controls. Shockwave needs to be seriously slapped down.
The existing database companies seem to be fairly conservative and not open to new ideas. So the best way to innovate here would be with a new company. As long as they don't staff it up with experienced people.
Considering all the newer algorithms are being patented, this may be a legitimate excuse. You could probably teach the stuff, but programming it for homework would likely be an infringement on the patents.
My impression is that Intel's more worried about the applications keeping up with the cores. If today's apps could utilize all the cores you could throw at them, processors like Sun's T1 and T2 could be a problem for Intel. Intel and Sun need a killer app to promote their multi-cores. To do this, you're going to need to get multi-core machines into the hands of a lot more developers. I think Intel has a better chance of this and consequently the killer app will be more suited to Intel's processors than Sun's processors.
Well, I wasn't getting any feedback so I cut the commentary and links out (I think this is what you're talking about. Correct?). I wanted to avoid any misinterpretation as potential employers visit that site also. There might be a better forum to discuss actual experience and impact of software patents but I haven't found it yet.
being that he and I mess around in the same area, lock-free programming. The problem with the patent office is that it takes a year or more to publish a patent application. On my formerly FOSS webpage atomic-ptr-plus, see the time difference between my usenet postings on RCU for preemptive threads and the patent filing, 20060130061 "Use of rollback RCU with read-side modifications to RCU-protected data structures" by McKenney and some Linux kernel guy named Russell.
This will be interesting since I was wondering how the RCU+SMR stuff will play out and I don't want to wait a year to find out. I'm guessing patent application 20020194436 "Software implementation of synchronous memory Barriers" will get expanded and generalized somewhat. Note, I am not filing patent applications since I'm not under an IP agreement like Paul. Kind of a free agent at this point.
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so we're safe. Hey, these peril sensitive sunglasses really do work.
This could be an issue. Although the fair housing lawsuit against CraigsList was dismissed, Yahoo's technique where the newspaper staff screen all the classified ads could affect any future developments in this area. CraigsList claims it's impossible to have enough staff to screen its ads.
to determine whose fault the accident is. Here in Massachusetts, no one pays any attention to traffic signs, traffic signals, or the painted lane markers anyway. I has to dodge someone driving halfway over in my lane just last night.
50 microseconds is a huge market advantage.
CompSci profs who will be out of work if not enough students elect compsci as a major.
That's probably at least as important. I've visited websites that don't have efficient ways of finding what you're looking for. Either you have to drill down through too many submenus or everything is lumped together and you have to tediously browse through about 50 pages of selections. Provantage is a good example of not being very browsing friendly.
When they say skills, they really mean experience. And rather specific experience at that. Even entry level positions want at least 2 years experience in certain skillsets. This industry trade association propaganda gets really tiresome at times.
The hardware vendors do because they want to sell into that market. The problem with Linux is a lot of vendors don't care. If I go and build a new PC with all the latest hardware, Windows will be supported. Linux? Maybe. You'd lose a lot of hair trying to find all the drivers for it if they did exist.
Of course if you get tire of waiting (they've been announcing this for a while now) you can go look at published patent applications here.
Forget space elevators, I'd use gyroscopes so as to use the earth's angular interia to leverage them and a payload into space. Leverage being the key word here. You'd need some tethers or boons to control the contraption and keep it from precessing in the wrong directions. Of course once it's up there, it might look a lot like a space elevator.
nor are they designed to be. Someone usually spends a lot of money lobbying to get a tax loophole put in for their benefit. For someone else to just take advantage of those loopholes without any investment on their part probably strikes the original lobbying parties as unfair which is irony for you considering tax loopholes are unfair by definition. Not all loopholes can be taken advantage of. So patents make perfect sense as a mechanism for protecting one's lobbying investment. It is funny that lawyers who think patents are perfectly ok as long as as they affect other people, change their minds when the patents affect them.
Preferrably with control on the main panel to disable those sites with annoying float over ads that obstruct the view of the article you are trying to read. This is important since the Shockwave Flash positions itself as a mechanism for advertizers to bypass browser controls. Shockwave needs to be seriously slapped down.
The existing database companies seem to be fairly conservative and not open to new ideas. So the best way to innovate here would be with a new company. As long as they don't staff it up with experienced people.
Considering all the newer algorithms are being patented, this may be a legitimate excuse. You could probably teach the stuff, but programming it for homework would likely be an infringement on the patents.
My impression is that Intel's more worried about the applications keeping up with the cores. If today's apps could utilize all the cores you could throw at them, processors like Sun's T1 and T2 could be a problem for Intel. Intel and Sun need a killer app to promote their multi-cores. To do this, you're going to need to get multi-core machines into the hands of a lot more developers. I think Intel has a better chance of this and consequently the killer app will be more suited to Intel's processors than Sun's processors.
Well, I wasn't getting any feedback so I cut the commentary and links out (I think this is what you're talking about. Correct?). I wanted to avoid any misinterpretation as potential employers visit that site also. There might be a better forum to discuss actual experience and impact of software patents but I haven't found it yet.
This will be interesting since I was wondering how the RCU+SMR stuff will play out and I don't want to wait a year to find out. I'm guessing patent application 20020194436 "Software implementation of synchronous memory Barriers" will get expanded and generalized somewhat. Note, I am not filing patent applications since I'm not under an IP agreement like Paul. Kind of a free agent at this point.