If ever there was an app to be cracked, it must be this. Think of the possibilities --
Mitt selects Kim Jong Il
Mitt selects Vladimir Putin
Mitt selects Sarah Palin
Mitt selects Daffy Dick
Wish I had the chops to try. Anyway, Let the Games Begin!
Given the mixed results of Bluetooth-enabled hearing aids, this seems like talking about sending a man to mars. Given that warning, it would be nice if hearing aids worked together to deliver the best audio from the best vantage. The most obvious example would be two hearing-impaired people speaking at a party, Each could use the other's mic to pick-up their partner's voice, then cancel everything else out with their own device's mic. Obviously, this requires some kind of standard, which will never happen in the medical device business. Heaven forbid that such equipment becomes commoditized.
. . . until it does. Think: 9.4 on the Richter Scale down the San Andreas Fault. Who will ever be ready for that, too? There is almost no reason to bring up such dire straits during an election campaign, unless he knows it's coming soon.
What ever happened to processors designed to keep data and code execution spaces separate? It was done in the 1980s on processors with far far fewer gates. While it made application design a bit more 'thoughtful', I don't remember any designers complaining about it. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but aren't buffer/stack overruns/underruns a hardware architectural issue? If so, then why don't they fix the hardware?
Seventy-five percent of GM's sales are overseas, and their fastest growing market is China, where they are beating Toyota. GM American autoworks export almost nothing. This multinational company, like many other US multinationals, will not be bringing its foreign income back to Uncle Sam. Therefore, bringing IT 'in house' means hiring where their sales growth is -- China & the rest of Asia. Who knows, they might buy Wipro. Remember, they once bought and sold EDS.
I have written apps in C++, Objective-C, and others such as C#. I have always wound up using C in those apps, too. All of them make provisions for its use. The reason I used the other languages was the tools associated with the development environments such as Xcode and Visual Studio. For example, getting to the iOS APIs is not as easy for me just using C, but some things are easier for me to write in C, and the wrappers are straightforward.
Therefore, the survey might include usage such as mine, which could tag every app I ever wrote as a 'C' app. FWIW
Like most geeks, you do not know how to approach a problem that involves others. Your death is not your problem, it is your family's problem. Give it to them to figure out. Your problem is about their deaths. What are you going to do if your wife dies, besides grieve? Hard to face and hard to solve, eh?
After the billionaires mine asteroids for gold, they are going to stick giant datacenters in them. All this happens when Scotty gets the transporter back online.
In a world where circuit speeds have made timing issues out of the lengths of traces, having a signal line that stretches adds a new dimension to design.
Science fiction, a popular genre, always needs an element to suspend disbelief. Lying that is is real science seems as good as any, literarily speaking.
The recent U.S. Open reminded me of the previous event at the Olympic Club, held near the end of the last millennium -- 1998. I was working for a company that was a big customer of Cadence. And Cadence put on the dog by inviting us and others to party in San Francisco to celebrate the Open (tickets, too). There were limos, a long pitch from Scott McNealy (2 minutes about Java and 20 minutes about Bill Gate's evil empire), and a performance by Stomp, but the final act was the clincher. It was a renown reporter, whose name escapes me, that was part of the White House press corp during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. He told stories about how the press did not talk about the personal lives of Presidents back then, about how Lyndon Johnson made Bill Clinton, who was being impeached, look like a choir boy, and then the big finish. He told us about a private interview with JFK where he mentioned rumors of a nuke built inside the Russian Embassy, just blocks from the Capitol. Apparently, it was smuggled in pieces using diplomatic exemptions and assembled in a lead-lined room in the top floor. Big enough to wipe out the entire metropolitan area, Kennedy responded, "You know about that, too, eh?"
I may be showing my age, but when movies were shown by film projectors, they showed them at 48fps. However, the movie was produced at 24fps, and the projector showed each frame twice. The reason not to produce at 48fps was that it doubled the film length, which at 24fps is usually two reels. 48fps reduces the peripheral flicker, which are more perceived by the cones in the outer regions of the retina. Rods don't seem to notice much flicker over about 24fps (unless you are a native of New Guinea, but now I digress).
Once a federation of fairly independent product units (i.e., gmail, maps, blogger, docs etc.), Google+ now threatens to subsume each into a monolithic service. While this offers some synergies, it stratifies the organization and reduces the independence of once autonomous leaders. Google will survive the internal blowback but may never again operate as flexibly or rapidly. Ironically, most of the technical changes relate to unified authentication using OAuth. The one who controls permissions is the one who controls society.
Long ago, someone once said, "Man cannot fly." And in the sense he meant it, it is still true today.. You can't flap your arms and propel yourself like a bird. However, mankind has learned to fly to the moon, something no bird could every do. In the same sense, man will not live on the moon or any other planet. Our physiology is too delicate for alien environments, even if we find one with nearly identical atmosphere and climate. We would be as welcomed as any foreign body (think 'War of the Worlds'). To get a very faint sense of the challenge, move to Mumbai or Bangkok and start drinking the tap water and eating their fresh food. Of course, the challenge will not stop us from trying.
However, as technology advances, it will become so much cheaper to send a machine, which can be built for space, that humans will always be a prohibitively costly payload. Sure, there will be a colony on the moon, but people will not thrive in a pressurized can at 1/6th our gravity. Mars, too. However, machines can be built for those environments. As they become more sophisticated, they can adapt, too. At some point, they may evolve to become indigenous.
Humans may evolve, too. However, our inherent advantage, created by billions of years of evolution, may tether us to this planet forever. Not a bad thing, either. At the point when what we create evolves beyond what we are, it may not make a difference.
Slackers all! With no draft, manual labor out of fashion, Ritalin, and most physical activities in decline, young men have turned into slackers. I've seen it coming ever since 1985. For those of you who don't know -- http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slacker and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ndJNXCkNxg . Hell, most are not even getting laid! Women are taking over. When they do, they will have to deal with a nation half-full of slackers. Be careful what you wish for.
As part of that $40k you're also getting contacts and connections.
You hit upon the true value of college, the social network. College offers everyone an opportunity to leave their socioeconomic environment behind and move into a new and, hopefully, better one. That is one reason fraternities and sororities continue to thrive as they process these people into their alumni systems. The college social system is far from perfect, but it is probably more efficient than its education system. Ask Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, or Mark Zuckerberg, three famous dropouts.
Anything is possible. The truth is that no one can be certain about our existence, and that does not set well with most people. Many people throughout history have lived on the edge of death with little hope of most things we now take for granted. Religion has offered hope and spurred trust which brought fellowship and collective progress. It reduced the infinite number of possibilities to a common vision. If it is completely wrong, then only the dead know. So far, I've heard no complaints from them.
Of course, religion has brought with it a lot of ugly. However, power tends to get abused, no matter the source. You take the good with the bad. One thing is undeniable, religion has staying power. Hate it or love it, but it is not going away.
Given the enormity of reality, it might be possible that no one could comprehend it if given the opportunity, and any recognizable abstraction might be too limited to accurately represent its truth.
Here is one possibility -- you are a simulation running in some future version of what we now call a computer. Long ago, when you died, you were frozen. Later, your brain was non-invasively scanned (read CIty of Bits) and mapped into a system that simulated all your neural activity. Now, you are running in a system that models all your sensory inputs like a virtual holodeck. Since you are no more than the simulation (a Matrix or TRON without the real humans), you cannot be aware of anything outside the simulation. Therefore, it would be as real as you are. Here's the kick -- they thawed your body out and reanimated it to run your simulation, making you the SysOp. Or another way of saying it - you are your god. Be sure to say your prayers, because you might answer them.
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If ever there was an app to be cracked, it must be this. Think of the possibilities --
Mitt selects Kim Jong Il
Mitt selects Vladimir Putin
Mitt selects Sarah Palin
Mitt selects Daffy Dick
Wish I had the chops to try. Anyway, Let the Games Begin!
Given the mixed results of Bluetooth-enabled hearing aids, this seems like talking about sending a man to mars. Given that warning, it would be nice if hearing aids worked together to deliver the best audio from the best vantage. The most obvious example would be two hearing-impaired people speaking at a party, Each could use the other's mic to pick-up their partner's voice, then cancel everything else out with their own device's mic. Obviously, this requires some kind of standard, which will never happen in the medical device business. Heaven forbid that such equipment becomes commoditized.
. . . until it does. Think: 9.4 on the Richter Scale down the San Andreas Fault. Who will ever be ready for that, too? There is almost no reason to bring up such dire straits during an election campaign, unless he knows it's coming soon.
What ever happened to processors designed to keep data and code execution spaces separate? It was done in the 1980s on processors with far far fewer gates. While it made application design a bit more 'thoughtful', I don't remember any designers complaining about it. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but aren't buffer/stack overruns/underruns a hardware architectural issue? If so, then why don't they fix the hardware?
Seventy-five percent of GM's sales are overseas, and their fastest growing market is China, where they are beating Toyota. GM American autoworks export almost nothing. This multinational company, like many other US multinationals, will not be bringing its foreign income back to Uncle Sam. Therefore, bringing IT 'in house' means hiring where their sales growth is -- China & the rest of Asia. Who knows, they might buy Wipro. Remember, they once bought and sold EDS.
I have written apps in C++, Objective-C, and others such as C#. I have always wound up using C in those apps, too. All of them make provisions for its use. The reason I used the other languages was the tools associated with the development environments such as Xcode and Visual Studio. For example, getting to the iOS APIs is not as easy for me just using C, but some things are easier for me to write in C, and the wrappers are straightforward.
Therefore, the survey might include usage such as mine, which could tag every app I ever wrote as a 'C' app. FWIW
Like most geeks, you do not know how to approach a problem that involves others. Your death is not your problem, it is your family's problem. Give it to them to figure out. Your problem is about their deaths. What are you going to do if your wife dies, besides grieve? Hard to face and hard to solve, eh?
After the billionaires mine asteroids for gold, they are going to stick giant datacenters in them. All this happens when Scotty gets the transporter back online.
In a world where circuit speeds have made timing issues out of the lengths of traces, having a signal line that stretches adds a new dimension to design.
. . . if you remove them while they are running.
Science fiction, a popular genre, always needs an element to suspend disbelief. Lying that is is real science seems as good as any, literarily speaking.
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Not
My
Benjamin
Button, Who's Got the . .
The
Help
Push
Really Big
Burning with Desire
Need
Gotta-Have-It
Die Trying
Don't Push This (my favorite)
Spoken by someone who is not up for re-election this year.
The recent U.S. Open reminded me of the previous event at the Olympic Club, held near the end of the last millennium -- 1998. I was working for a company that was a big customer of Cadence. And Cadence put on the dog by inviting us and others to party in San Francisco to celebrate the Open (tickets, too). There were limos, a long pitch from Scott McNealy (2 minutes about Java and 20 minutes about Bill Gate's evil empire), and a performance by Stomp, but the final act was the clincher. It was a renown reporter, whose name escapes me, that was part of the White House press corp during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. He told stories about how the press did not talk about the personal lives of Presidents back then, about how Lyndon Johnson made Bill Clinton, who was being impeached, look like a choir boy, and then the big finish. He told us about a private interview with JFK where he mentioned rumors of a nuke built inside the Russian Embassy, just blocks from the Capitol. Apparently, it was smuggled in pieces using diplomatic exemptions and assembled in a lead-lined room in the top floor. Big enough to wipe out the entire metropolitan area, Kennedy responded, "You know about that, too, eh?"
OLD ------ NEW(???)
AT&T ------ Google
POSIX/C2 ------ SE Android
IBM AIX, SunOS, DEC Ultrix, et al ------ Samsung Galaxy, LG Optimus, HTC EVO, et al
BSD ------ BSDroid (no shit: http://bsdroid.org/
I may be showing my age, but when movies were shown by film projectors, they showed them at 48fps. However, the movie was produced at 24fps, and the projector showed each frame twice. The reason not to produce at 48fps was that it doubled the film length, which at 24fps is usually two reels. 48fps reduces the peripheral flicker, which are more perceived by the cones in the outer regions of the retina. Rods don't seem to notice much flicker over about 24fps (unless you are a native of New Guinea, but now I digress).
Once a federation of fairly independent product units (i.e., gmail, maps, blogger, docs etc.), Google+ now threatens to subsume each into a monolithic service. While this offers some synergies, it stratifies the organization and reduces the independence of once autonomous leaders. Google will survive the internal blowback but may never again operate as flexibly or rapidly. Ironically, most of the technical changes relate to unified authentication using OAuth. The one who controls permissions is the one who controls society.
They could have used a diamond-tipped drill.
Long ago, someone once said, "Man cannot fly." And in the sense he meant it, it is still true today.. You can't flap your arms and propel yourself like a bird. However, mankind has learned to fly to the moon, something no bird could every do. In the same sense, man will not live on the moon or any other planet. Our physiology is too delicate for alien environments, even if we find one with nearly identical atmosphere and climate. We would be as welcomed as any foreign body (think 'War of the Worlds'). To get a very faint sense of the challenge, move to Mumbai or Bangkok and start drinking the tap water and eating their fresh food. Of course, the challenge will not stop us from trying.
However, as technology advances, it will become so much cheaper to send a machine, which can be built for space, that humans will always be a prohibitively costly payload. Sure, there will be a colony on the moon, but people will not thrive in a pressurized can at 1/6th our gravity. Mars, too. However, machines can be built for those environments. As they become more sophisticated, they can adapt, too. At some point, they may evolve to become indigenous.
Humans may evolve, too. However, our inherent advantage, created by billions of years of evolution, may tether us to this planet forever. Not a bad thing, either. At the point when what we create evolves beyond what we are, it may not make a difference.
Slackers all! With no draft, manual labor out of fashion, Ritalin, and most physical activities in decline, young men have turned into slackers. I've seen it coming ever since 1985. For those of you who don't know -- http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slacker and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ndJNXCkNxg . Hell, most are not even getting laid! Women are taking over. When they do, they will have to deal with a nation half-full of slackers. Be careful what you wish for.
As part of that $40k you're also getting contacts and connections.
You hit upon the true value of college, the social network. College offers everyone an opportunity to leave their socioeconomic environment behind and move into a new and, hopefully, better one. That is one reason fraternities and sororities continue to thrive as they process these people into their alumni systems. The college social system is far from perfect, but it is probably more efficient than its education system. Ask Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, or Mark Zuckerberg, three famous dropouts.
. . . . so any kids will, too. Pity that I never saw this when I was their age.
Anything is possible. The truth is that no one can be certain about our existence, and that does not set well with most people. Many people throughout history have lived on the edge of death with little hope of most things we now take for granted. Religion has offered hope and spurred trust which brought fellowship and collective progress. It reduced the infinite number of possibilities to a common vision. If it is completely wrong, then only the dead know. So far, I've heard no complaints from them.
Of course, religion has brought with it a lot of ugly. However, power tends to get abused, no matter the source. You take the good with the bad. One thing is undeniable, religion has staying power. Hate it or love it, but it is not going away.
Given the enormity of reality, it might be possible that no one could comprehend it if given the opportunity, and any recognizable abstraction might be too limited to accurately represent its truth.
Here is one possibility -- you are a simulation running in some future version of what we now call a computer. Long ago, when you died, you were frozen. Later, your brain was non-invasively scanned (read CIty of Bits) and mapped into a system that simulated all your neural activity. Now, you are running in a system that models all your sensory inputs like a virtual holodeck. Since you are no more than the simulation (a Matrix or TRON without the real humans), you cannot be aware of anything outside the simulation. Therefore, it would be as real as you are. Here's the kick -- they thawed your body out and reanimated it to run your simulation, making you the SysOp. Or another way of saying it - you are your god. Be sure to say your prayers, because you might answer them.
Unlikely? Yes. Impossible? Hardly.
Accuse me of bad humor, but I think somebody confused satire with legal analysis.
In the spirit of competition, these chemists will patent the process, which will trump the trademark. Touché