Well to be fair I'm sure there are a lot of non-famous people that show up to an event like this: i.e. production crew, makeup and costume people, etc.
I think you had the option of both subscribing and buying songs. I became a subscriber when they had a deal of $79 for 2 years unlimited. At that price I don't mind renting my music. Since I'm only 1 year into that 2 year deal, I'm slightly annoyed by this.
You are exactly correct Sir. There is so much money (read: lobbyists) involved, that even if the Patent office has good intentions, I won't believe this until it actually happens.
I can't speak to the science fields, but my wife is an engineer, and she often complains that she should have went into teaching. Why? Because engineering companies are largely crusty, male driven organizations that are detrimental to raising a family. She could easily work 75% of the time from home, but engineering managers want there little money making machines where they can find them. Working extra is the norm, not the exception. Engineering managers need to make the workplace more family friendly, that is what will attract female engineers.
My idea: require overtime pay for work done away from home. When management is forced to pay overtime, they all of a sudden learn how to do there job and schedule properly.
The entire point of the Special Forces is to cause chaos behind the lines. That is what they do and have always done. Every major armed service has this. They are not "Rambos" that run and gun and shoot explosive arrows. They go behind the scenes and cause chaos by using whatever means necessary.
Besides what others have said about the advantages of offloading tasks to separate hardware, encryption is a task that is well suited to custom hardware. AES in particular can be implemented in a highly parallel manner, which allows relatively low-cost FPGAs or ASICs to perform the encryption at speeds that only a relatively fast CPU could achieve. From an efficiency standpoint, hardware-based encryption is simply better due to the nature of the algorithms.
Russia and Europe will be pleased when they get to hire the cream of the crop from NASA also.
(Aside: It is humorous to watch all of the obvious pro-Obama supporters try and justify something that if Hilary or McCain supported they will be completely against it.)
In the US you need a federal background check to buy a handgun. But as long as you don't have a criminal record you are fine. However, you don't need any federal background check to buy a rifle. Some states have stricter laws than others, but in my state (PA) I have bought AK-47s (semi-auto) for $300 cash and a handshake. No papers, no background checks, nothing. If you buy the gun from a licensed dealer, you have to fill out a 1 page piece of paper where you swear that you are not crazy and have no criminal record. That is to cover the dealer's butt more than anything. But if you buy from a non-licensed person there is no paper. Also, there is no "registering" of the gun... not for pistols, rifles, or machine guns. The government has no record that you own it. The only way to trace it would be if you bought it from a licensed dealer.
In order to carry concealed you usually need a permit. In my state, you just fill out an application and they mail you back the permit. Not really a big deal. You can carry non-concealed with no permit.
As far as these students go, if they live in the dorms they probably signed a contract saying that they would not have any guns in there room. Also, maybe the students signed something upon enrollment saying that they would not bring guns on campus. Probably most likely is that there may be a State or local law that prohibits guns on University campuses... my state bans guns in courthouses, schools, airports, and probably some others. But there is no federal law that I am aware of for Universities.
The thing is, assuming that you can produce reliable sensors, there's only two rules you have to follow when dealing with other cars for freeway travel, neither of which require any kind of communication with an external controller:
1) Do not drive faster than the vehicle in front of you
2) Do not change lanes if there is a vehicle beside you Umm... Sure, if the roads were perfectly straight, with no exits, and every car has the exact same control rules. But that would be a train then.
From TFA:
Those that qualify will race their vehicles in cross-country races in 2009 and 2010 that will combine speed, distance, urban driving and overall performance.
You could abuse the rules, but will you still win the race?
"The Light of Other Days" was one of his newer books (published in 2000). It is well worth checking out, especially since it is a commentary on privacy concerns in an information age. It is one of his best novels, I highly recommend it, even if you are not into his older works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days
Evolution *is* fact, but the exact process of it is just a theory. IANAB (I am not a biologist), but I am pretty sure you can buy some fruit-flies, screw with them, and observe how the future generations have changed. But I am not sure that there exists a law that says, "Given a set of [x] stimuli, organism y will evolve into z after n generations."
The issue that humans are on Earth because, and only because, the evolution of single celled organisms is clearly just a theory. And it is not a theory because of religious arguments, it is a theory because there is absolutely no way to prove it in a scientifically rigorous manner. It is too complex of a chaotic system to ever prove that given a set of conditions, a single cell organism will evolve into humans.
MS is no where near the most abusive of monopolies. In fact, they are not even in the top 10. I suggest that you learn actual history instead of learning history from rabid anti-MS/.ers.
For starters, look up the steel and railroad barons of the 19th century. How many foundations and libraries around the US have names like Carnegie, Frick, Morgan, etc. on them?
I'm not the president of the Michael J. Fox fan club or anything.
Well I *am* the president of the Michael J. Fox fan club and I forgive Rush. He is a great American just like Reagan.
Yes. I had my 4th overall failure on Friday (first failure on replacement console). Although the 360 has the without a doubt the best catalog of games, when my 360 comes back I am going to trade it in for a PS3. I just don't trust the 360 when my warranty runs out.
I write HDL for FPGAs for a living, and I think HDL design is much more closely analogous to designing circuits by schematic than it is to writing software or even firmware.
I think the reason that "code" is even used is because tools 20 years ago could not support a full schematic design. Modern powerful tools such as Mentor Graphics' HDL Designer make design easier by limiting the amount of actual HDL that needs to be written. In my experience, the less code that is used in the design entry, the less error prone the design. Modern tools are also getting much better at generating readable VHDL code from the schematic entry tools.
Meanwhile all the women are watching American Idle and all of the other "reality" TV crap. So are there brains more predisposed to like mindless force-fed entertainment?
I have "downgraded" my Leopard back to Tiger due to constant crashing issues (the computer completely locks up and I am given a message to hold down the power button). I have never had that kind of lockup in Vista. Sure programs have crashed, but I can always kill them with Task Manager, much like you can Force Quit everything in Tiger without the entire computer locking up. So in my personal sample size of 2 computers, Vista was much better than Leopard for stability.
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Well to be fair I'm sure there are a lot of non-famous people that show up to an event like this: i.e. production crew, makeup and costume people, etc.
I think you had the option of both subscribing and buying songs. I became a subscriber when they had a deal of $79 for 2 years unlimited. At that price I don't mind renting my music. Since I'm only 1 year into that 2 year deal, I'm slightly annoyed by this.
You are exactly correct Sir. There is so much money (read: lobbyists) involved, that even if the Patent office has good intentions, I won't believe this until it actually happens.
I can't speak to the science fields, but my wife is an engineer, and she often complains that she should have went into teaching. Why? Because engineering companies are largely crusty, male driven organizations that are detrimental to raising a family. She could easily work 75% of the time from home, but engineering managers want there little money making machines where they can find them. Working extra is the norm, not the exception. Engineering managers need to make the workplace more family friendly, that is what will attract female engineers. My idea: require overtime pay for work done away from home. When management is forced to pay overtime, they all of a sudden learn how to do there job and schedule properly.
Also in the USA, the standards are completely different when the supposed slander is against a politician such as in TFA.
The entire point of the Special Forces is to cause chaos behind the lines. That is what they do and have always done. Every major armed service has this. They are not "Rambos" that run and gun and shoot explosive arrows. They go behind the scenes and cause chaos by using whatever means necessary.
That way you CSers won't take over my turf as a FPGA designer.
AES encryption using an FPGA was a grad school project for me, so hardware based without a soft-core CPU is fairly easy.
Besides what others have said about the advantages of offloading tasks to separate hardware, encryption is a task that is well suited to custom hardware. AES in particular can be implemented in a highly parallel manner, which allows relatively low-cost FPGAs or ASICs to perform the encryption at speeds that only a relatively fast CPU could achieve. From an efficiency standpoint, hardware-based encryption is simply better due to the nature of the algorithms.
As someone who actually had a smoking hot female sergeant, I would mod you insightful if I had mod points.
Russia and Europe will be pleased when they get to hire the cream of the crop from NASA also.
(Aside: It is humorous to watch all of the obvious pro-Obama supporters try and justify something that if Hilary or McCain supported they will be completely against it.)
In the US you need a federal background check to buy a handgun. But as long as you don't have a criminal record you are fine. However, you don't need any federal background check to buy a rifle. Some states have stricter laws than others, but in my state (PA) I have bought AK-47s (semi-auto) for $300 cash and a handshake. No papers, no background checks, nothing. If you buy the gun from a licensed dealer, you have to fill out a 1 page piece of paper where you swear that you are not crazy and have no criminal record. That is to cover the dealer's butt more than anything. But if you buy from a non-licensed person there is no paper. Also, there is no "registering" of the gun... not for pistols, rifles, or machine guns. The government has no record that you own it. The only way to trace it would be if you bought it from a licensed dealer.
In order to carry concealed you usually need a permit. In my state, you just fill out an application and they mail you back the permit. Not really a big deal. You can carry non-concealed with no permit.
As far as these students go, if they live in the dorms they probably signed a contract saying that they would not have any guns in there room. Also, maybe the students signed something upon enrollment saying that they would not bring guns on campus. Probably most likely is that there may be a State or local law that prohibits guns on University campuses... my state bans guns in courthouses, schools, airports, and probably some others. But there is no federal law that I am aware of for Universities.
Those that qualify will race their vehicles in cross-country races in 2009 and 2010 that will combine speed, distance, urban driving and overall performance.
You could abuse the rules, but will you still win the race?
"The Light of Other Days" was one of his newer books (published in 2000). It is well worth checking out, especially since it is a commentary on privacy concerns in an information age. It is one of his best novels, I highly recommend it, even if you are not into his older works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days
Well, consider the cost of losing the tech to our "rivals". If it costs $300 million for the R&D, a $60 million missile makes a lot of sense.
Evolution *is* fact, but the exact process of it is just a theory. IANAB (I am not a biologist), but I am pretty sure you can buy some fruit-flies, screw with them, and observe how the future generations have changed. But I am not sure that there exists a law that says, "Given a set of [x] stimuli, organism y will evolve into z after n generations."
The issue that humans are on Earth because, and only because, the evolution of single celled organisms is clearly just a theory. And it is not a theory because of religious arguments, it is a theory because there is absolutely no way to prove it in a scientifically rigorous manner. It is too complex of a chaotic system to ever prove that given a set of conditions, a single cell organism will evolve into humans.
MS is no where near the most abusive of monopolies. In fact, they are not even in the top 10. I suggest that you learn actual history instead of learning history from rabid anti-MS /.ers.
For starters, look up the steel and railroad barons of the 19th century. How many foundations and libraries around the US have names like Carnegie, Frick, Morgan, etc. on them?
Mod the Parent up. He is exactly correct. This entire situation reeks of a poor engineer, not intentional misconduct.
So if it can't solve NP complete problems can it at least play Crysis?
Well I *am* the president of the Michael J. Fox fan club and I forgive Rush. He is a great American just like Reagan.
Yes. I had my 4th overall failure on Friday (first failure on replacement console). Although the 360 has the without a doubt the best catalog of games, when my 360 comes back I am going to trade it in for a PS3. I just don't trust the 360 when my warranty runs out.
I write HDL for FPGAs for a living, and I think HDL design is much more closely analogous to designing circuits by schematic than it is to writing software or even firmware.
I think the reason that "code" is even used is because tools 20 years ago could not support a full schematic design. Modern powerful tools such as Mentor Graphics' HDL Designer make design easier by limiting the amount of actual HDL that needs to be written. In my experience, the less code that is used in the design entry, the less error prone the design. Modern tools are also getting much better at generating readable VHDL code from the schematic entry tools.
Meanwhile all the women are watching American Idle and all of the other "reality" TV crap. So are there brains more predisposed to like mindless force-fed entertainment?
I have "downgraded" my Leopard back to Tiger due to constant crashing issues (the computer completely locks up and I am given a message to hold down the power button). I have never had that kind of lockup in Vista. Sure programs have crashed, but I can always kill them with Task Manager, much like you can Force Quit everything in Tiger without the entire computer locking up. So in my personal sample size of 2 computers, Vista was much better than Leopard for stability.