So where is it cast in stone that an author cannot write a lib that uses a count + pointer for strings.
There is no reason that the string managing data engine in an application cannot do it right (better/ differently) and then hand known safe strings to those functions not yet rewritten.
It would be a bit of work but hey if it is important....
It is not necessary to start with exec() and args. It is not necessary to attack text files but like end of line converters it would be a modest task to convert.txt to.ett ( Enhanced TexT) or some such thing....
I'd re-read your employment contract, because unless you're extremely lucky or don't work in... well... any industry involving technology or process invention then I'd suggest there's a very good chance that your contract states that anything you develop (even at home) whilst under their employ is theirs.
Anything you develop at home -- like a family. Do they own the genotype of your first born?
Do they own photographs of your beautiful children if you develop them at home in your own dark room?
One interesting clause to add to contract terms may be interesting and to this point.
Authorship: The authorship of code I write for the company shall contain my name and dates of authorship. The value to me and the company is that I am proud of my work and would like my authorship to be famous in the company and in the context of a company buyout or takeover. I would also like to be visible as an author or inventor when and if the company elects to publish the code under GPL or patent ideas embodied in the code any other transfer.
If so might it hurt his/her feelings if we/I said the prosecution is bogus and bunk? Does this go so far that the defense could hurt the feelings of a public prosecutor. Goodness help us it the appointed PUBLIC attorney was held in contempt for being stupid or inept.
To scan plates and match against a list of wants and warrants does not bother me. That is for all practical purposes the equivalent of a paper lookup list.
To keep the information after a negative match is documentation of the life of citizens involved in normal life. That is unreasonable search and an invasion of privacy that today would NOT be expected -- expectation of privacy.
One positive is that each entry is also a log entry for the location and movement of the squad car and the officers in it. It is also a list of witnesses that can be called to prosecute abuse of power problems. Why yes, the squad car was driving erratically with aggression without its lights and sirens on. These 50000 data points prove that the officers consistently and blatantly drives at speeds well in excess of posted speeds in disregard to posted speeds.
To require retention for periods longer than needed by the ISP is seizure of all our internet history. Clearly to me ALL is unreasonable.
And while the data size is astounding it is yet another liability that the ISP must manage. For example the whitehouse.gov ISP must retain this info for 18 months. This gives hackers 18 months to hack the data and punt it to an iranianwikileaker or perhaps a koreanwikileaker...
Or perhaps this is a conspiracy by archive media companies and data mining companies.
Let's face it, most programming languages are so similar that it shouldn't cost anything to use them. Like you mention, it's all just math. The syntax slightly changes but the core concepts remain the same.
...snip....
A solution may be so simple as a math proof that there is an equivalence that ties them together.
Something akin to 5+3=8 and 3+5=8
The fact that they all run on multiple but different processors may be sufficient. i.e. they all reduce to a sequence of 386, MIPS, ARM, x86_64, MMIX instructions via a translator.
RIM had a near total lock on smart phones. This lock made it hard as heck for any level of management to depart from the proven recipe that has brought them success.
An examination of the financial models in the company most likely will find that all profits had been funneled into the pockets of too small a list of projects and most destructively into internal turf wars full of false starts and schizophrenia in the leardership.
Hardware, software, patents pending.... ? the patents that is most despise are those that involve standards. By implementing and complying to standards one can be abused weeks and years later when a patent surfaces.
The patents I am most likely not going to sit on a jury are those that involve a method to interact with a database in a system with a plurality of parts. These (read common gateway) are the intent and purpose of common gateway protocols, cookies, and yes javascript. As such they are not novel....
I see it now... the top 200 sites is now a tier in the plan.
Lets say that there are 130,825,969 domains active and they want to limit you to 200.
Now the math:
200/130,825,969=~0.0000015287 My current internet service is about $50 USD so after they assign me to the 200 site tier my monthly fee should be about $0.000076 That I might be able to live with.... even if I am off by two orders of magnitude.
It is the content of the web sites that we all so commonly visit. The layers of images, javaScript and add tracking CSS hammer sites.
Cell phone web surfing suffers the same problem. With tiered data plans more and more folk are going to block adds and other data rich Junk/Pooh.
Screen size is also an issue. Web pages have no clue how big the screen is and the interesting bits are often lost at the bottom or off in the edges of a screen.
Well we have paper copies of various documents that are several hundred years old. We have writings that are even older. Dead Sea Scrolls for example, and even older writings on papyrus.
...snip...
Ya know I have yet to see a published translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Any hint of a translation seems to be well hidden behind a DRM veil.
And yes even libraries suffer from "The Filter Bub
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Just finished a good book on my Kindle... I want to share it with some friends... WHOOPS.... now they have to buy a kindle have an Amazon account and must read very very very fast.... the only good part is that I can share as far as Sweden and beyond if I want and do not have to pay postage. I am sure the Germans want to collect VAT...;)
More Bother from the eula or something: Titles that are eligible for lending, as determined by the publisher or rights holder, will have a message on the product detail page. Scroll down to the "Product Details" section and look for "Lending: Enabled" as shown below:
And this interesting book is not eligible. Yet another reason to befriend a library.
Buy at the local bookstore and donate to the local library... And yes even libraries suffer from "The Filter Bubble.... " so support them and widen their view of the world...
Seatbelts were required in all cars sold in the US by 1969.
Required or not a seatbelt is a good idea because it can keep you behind the wheel so you have a chance to control the car when you hit a rut/ bump/ lump/ or hit a slick spot or just need to recover from a loss of attention or are side swiped by an idiot.
This loss of control and the resultant risk to others is what convinced me that seatbelts were a good idea. Since I have libertarian leanings I feel that this maintaining control bit is part of the social contract I enter into when I drive. Also..... In this regard seatbelts differ from helmets that motorcycle folk are required to wear. I think that the absence of a helmet is an implicit organ donor statement and should be a personal choice.
What I find astounding is that five point harnesses are not provisioned for in the law should you want one.
As for VWs it is perhaps a good idea to keep a couple old tires in the boot up front. The crumple zone mostly extends into the passenger compartment and having some old tires to cushion the crumple space can be a good thing.
Auto accidents kill way too many people... S. Cray and now Bob.
In 2009 33,808 fatalities associated with the highways in the US... Ten times the number of some other very serious problems that get much more news and press time.
Do you have any idea how much energy it takes to produce aluminum alone?
......
As for aluminum the average Coke and Pepsi consumer generates enough empty aluminum containers to recycle into a very sturdy frame for a laptop. In addition aluminum can be used to good effect for thermal management. Carbon fiber not so much.
A lot of marketing folk are missing the opportunity to design and sell a sturdy long battery life system as they quest for a "light as air" thin as a children's book computer.
Detachable with a decent length of cable, or a dock you can put your battery in to charge it... I could leave a solar panel on the dashboard of my car all day, but i wouldn't leave a laptop there or its likely to be stolen. Anywhere you could leave a solar panel to charge is by definition out in the open, and would be an attractive target for thieves.
All day on the dash... It would be stolen way too quickly.
Laptop bags and back packs are dark places.
However anything that can increase the apparent battery life and make a demand for low power displays and sane web site design is a good thing. Combine with some of the new ultra capacitor technology and improved thermal and power management and we could see a bit of a resolution.
This is especially so for the tablets and the likes of Kindle and Nooks...
As I said in the other post, I messed up the inflation calculation, so my figures are a bit off, but my old school now charges about $15000 per pupil per year. I suspect the costs are slightly lower than a comprehensive school, since intake is restricted to the top 20%, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could provide a good education for somewhere in the $10-12K ballpark. $17000 sounds excessive.
Of course, the amount of funding is only part of the problem. Making sure that it is well spent is a larger part. It's no use a school spending $100,000 on a well-equipt computer lab, if they don't have anyone competent to teach using it. It's no use employing the best teachers if the class sizes are so large that they have to spend all of their time maintaining order and not teaching.
In the letter: "The State of Michigan spends annually somewhere between $30,000 and $40,000 per prisoner, yet we are struggling to provide schools with $7,000 per student. I guess we need to treat our students like they are prisoners, with equal funding."
There are enough common or natural sources to enable the testing of a geiger counter. Some of them are already posted so I will not add to the list.
A GM tube triggers on an ionizing event and the resulting cascade is counted and/ or integrated and shown on a display. The cascade produces a dead time so the higher the count rate the more the detector is unavailable. This can be quantified with a modest source by placing it measured distances away and using the inverse square rule to predict the count. Departure from recorded to predicted let you calibrate the dead time.
Most GM tubs have a glass envelope that is thick enough to shield from alpha particles. Beta radiation can be shielded by a modest shield. Gamma is much less attenuated. Gamma:Beta ratios can permit some approximation of the material that is being measured.
Sensitivity depends on volume, large tubes can be more sensitive, small tubes are more durable.
The nature of the cascade and quenching effectively makes all counts equal so the energy spectrum is not available for the most part. Scintillation counters can be better for energy spectrum determinations but outside the lab this is rare.
For calibration the critical data involves the volume of the detector and efficiency. Volume is easy, efficiency can be evaluated by source variations often made by changes in distance. However a modest source like vaseline glass can be calibrated and then the unknown detector validated against it.
For the majority of folk changes are more interesting perhaps important than absolute magnitude.
So do "developers" need a second monitor? Probably not.
No, probably not... unless they run a debugger on their code, or read documentation, or want to compare two different source files to one another, etc.
Look, monitors cost ~$200 once. Programmers cost ~$80,000/year. Just buy the second monitor.
If he needs or even wants it it is a bargain at $200+a $200 card to drive it.
Remember the UPS guy gets two mirrors and a big window in a $100,000.00 van with a skylight no less. His transactions are all small $$ per package.
For reasons of productivity the copy room when there is one often has two copiers or more per copy room person and they ain't cheep and eat paper too.
Remember how Patents and Copyrights were established to encourage innovation? Ha!
Err... reward innovation within bounds. If you can find a better way to make "foo" then you can profit from making foo. The abuse from patent holding companies that make nothing was also not considered in the law.
The impact of the strangle hold on software was never considered by those crafting the law because "software" was not a concept at the time of the law.
Because software was not a reality at the time the law was crafted and has not been clearly addressed in any amendment to the law it seems to me that software should be rightly excluded from patent law.
At one time there was a requirement that you demonstrate your invention. Most if not all of these patents were not even prototyped or deployed.
I believe that one way to counter this is to require that patents that apply to software must be disclosed and that terms, conditions and valuations paid be public.
Is the definition of adolescent behavior very far from the definition of disorderly behavior. Me thinks the kids are getting prosecuted for being kids.... but I have not seen the charges.
In most of these discussions it is asserted that a disorderly conduct arrest is very much at the discretion of the officer. i.e. the officer is witness to the conduct. That does not appear to be the case here. Clearly there are multiple actions in time and space that an officer would not be in a position to see and correlate. There must also be a complaint and some unique perspective to justify a warrant or gather the evidence.
I think that stores will have to remove all size markings from clothing because these are the arbitrary anchor of any rating system.
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So where is it cast in stone that an author cannot
write a lib that uses a count + pointer for strings.
There is no reason that the string managing data engine in an application
cannot do it right (better/ differently) and then hand known safe strings to
those functions not yet rewritten.
It would be a bit of work but hey if it is important ....
It is not necessary to start with exec() and args. .txt to .ett ( Enhanced TexT) or some such
It is not necessary to attack text files but like
end of line converters it would be a modest task
to convert
thing....
Edge bounce....
Like the ball in pong 30+ years ago.
Balls bounce,
Books bounce.
Doors bounce,
Windows bounce in real life...
Doth art imitate life validate a patent?
I'd re-read your employment contract, because unless you're extremely lucky or don't work in ... well... any industry involving technology or process invention then I'd suggest there's a very good chance that your contract states that anything you develop (even at home) whilst under their employ is theirs.
Anything you develop at home -- like a family.
Do they own the genotype of your first born?
Do they own photographs of your beautiful children
if you develop them at home in your own dark room?
One interesting clause to add to contract terms
may be interesting and to this point.
Authorship: The authorship of code I write for the company
shall contain my name and dates of authorship.
The value to me and the company is that I am proud of my
work and would like my authorship to be famous in the
company and in the context of a company buyout or takeover.
I would also like to be visible as an author or inventor when and if the
company elects to publish the code under GPL or patent ideas
embodied in the code any other transfer.
If so might it hurt his/her feelings if we/I said the
prosecution is bogus and bunk? Does this go so
far that the defense could hurt the feelings of a
public prosecutor. Goodness help us it the
appointed PUBLIC attorney was held in contempt
for being stupid or inept.
What does Unreasonable mean?
To scan plates and match against a list of
wants and warrants does not bother me. That
is for all practical purposes the equivalent
of a paper lookup list.
To keep the information after a negative match
is documentation of the life of citizens involved in normal life.
That is unreasonable search and an invasion of privacy
that today would NOT be expected -- expectation of
privacy.
One positive is that each entry is also a log entry for
the location and movement of the squad car and the officers in
it. It is also a list of witnesses that can be called
to prosecute abuse of power problems. Why yes,
the squad car was driving erratically with aggression
without its lights and sirens on. These 50000 data
points prove that the officers consistently and blatantly
drives at speeds well in excess of posted speeds
in disregard to posted speeds.
And my two way text pager held me hostage
when, surely longer than 20 years ago.
The boss could send messages to a plurality
of us and we could respond with text.
Go Android young man... go Android.
A cool WiFi Samsung pad, local server, ssh
links all ways (https)... or better a ssh tunnel
and VPN.
The key phrase is custom application.
The entire application environment needs
to be "designed" and "maintained".
This is unreasonable search and seizure by proxy.
To require retention for periods longer than needed
by the ISP is seizure of all our internet history.
Clearly to me ALL is unreasonable.
And while the data size is astounding it
is yet another liability that the ISP must
manage. For example the whitehouse.gov
ISP must retain this info for 18 months.
This gives hackers 18 months to hack the
data and punt it to an iranianwikileaker
or perhaps a koreanwikileaker...
Or perhaps this is a conspiracy by archive
media companies and data mining companies.
...snip...
Let's face it, most programming languages are so similar that it shouldn't cost anything to use them. Like you mention, it's all just math. The syntax slightly changes but the core concepts remain the same.
...snip....
A solution may be so simple as a math proof that
there is an equivalence that ties them together.
Something akin to 5+3=8 and 3+5=8
The fact that they all run on multiple but different processors
may be sufficient. i.e. they all reduce to a sequence of
386, MIPS, ARM, x86_64, MMIX instructions via a translator.
RIM had a near total lock on smart phones.
This lock made it hard as heck for any level
of management to depart from the proven
recipe that has brought them success.
An examination of the financial models in
the company most likely will find that all
profits had been funneled into the pockets
of too small a list of projects and most
destructively into internal turf wars full of
false starts and schizophrenia in the leardership.
But what are the patents?
Hardware, software, patents pending.... ?
the patents that is most despise are those
that involve standards. By implementing
and complying to standards one can be abused
weeks and years later when a patent surfaces.
The patents I am most likely not going to sit on
a jury are those that involve a method to interact
with a database in a system with a plurality
of parts. These (read common gateway) are the
intent and purpose of common gateway protocols,
cookies, and yes javascript. As such they are not
novel....
I see it now... the top 200 sites
is now a tier in the plan.
Lets say that there are 130,825,969 domains
active and they want to limit you to 200.
Now the math: .... even if
200/130,825,969=~0.0000015287
My current internet service is about $50 USD
so after they assign me to the 200 site tier
my monthly fee should be about $0.000076
That I might be able to live with
I am off by two orders of magnitude.
It is the content of the web sites that
we all so commonly visit. The layers
of images, javaScript and add tracking
CSS hammer sites.
Cell phone web surfing suffers the
same problem. With tiered data plans
more and more folk are going to block
adds and other data rich Junk/Pooh.
Screen size is also an issue. Web pages
have no clue how big the screen is
and the interesting bits are often lost
at the bottom or off in the edges of
a screen.
Netbook hardware is just fine....
Well we have paper copies of various documents that are several hundred years old. We have writings that are even older. Dead Sea Scrolls for example, and even older writings on papyrus.
Ya know I have yet to see a published translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Any hint of a translation seems to be well hidden behind a DRM veil.
Just finished a good book on my Kindle ... I want to share it with some friends... WHOOPS.... now they have to buy a kindle have an Amazon account and must read very very very fast.... the only good part is that I can share as far as Sweden and beyond if I want and do not have to pay postage. I am sure the Germans want to collect VAT... ;)
More Bother from the eula or something: Titles that are eligible for lending, as determined by the publisher or rights holder, will have a message on the product detail page. Scroll down to the "Product Details" section and look for "Lending: Enabled" as shown below:
And this interesting book is not eligible. Yet another reason to befriend a library.
Buy at the local bookstore and donate to the local library... And yes even libraries suffer from "The Filter Bubble.... "
so support them and widen their view of the world...
Seatbelts were required in all cars sold in the US by 1969.
Required or not a seatbelt is a good idea because it
can keep you behind the wheel so you have a
chance to control the car when you hit a rut/ bump/
lump/ or hit a slick spot or just need to recover
from a loss of attention or are side swiped by an idiot.
This loss of control and the resultant risk to others
is what convinced me that seatbelts were a good
idea. Since I have libertarian leanings I feel that this
maintaining control bit is part of the social contract I
enter into when I drive. Also.....
In this regard seatbelts differ from helmets that
motorcycle folk are required to wear. I think
that the absence of a helmet is an implicit organ
donor statement and should be a personal choice.
What I find astounding is that five point harnesses are not provisioned
for in the law should you want one.
As for VWs it is perhaps a good idea to keep a couple
old tires in the boot up front. The crumple zone mostly
extends into the passenger compartment and having
some old tires to cushion the crumple space can be
a good thing.
Auto accidents kill way too many people...
S. Cray and now Bob.
In 2009 33,808 fatalities associated with the highways in the US...
Ten times the number of some other very serious problems that get much more news and press time.
Do you have any idea how much energy it takes to produce aluminum alone?
As for aluminum the average Coke and Pepsi consumer generates enough
empty aluminum containers to recycle into a very sturdy frame for
a laptop. In addition aluminum can be used to good effect for thermal
management. Carbon fiber not so much.
A lot of marketing folk are missing the opportunity to design and sell a
sturdy long battery life system as they quest for a "light as
air" thin as a children's book computer.
Detachable with a decent length of cable, or a dock you can put your battery in to charge it...
I could leave a solar panel on the dashboard of my car all day, but i wouldn't leave a laptop there or its likely to be stolen. Anywhere you could leave a solar panel to charge is by definition out in the open, and would be an attractive target for thieves.
All day on the dash...
It would be stolen way too quickly.
Laptop bags and back packs are dark places.
However anything that can increase the apparent battery life
and make a demand for low power displays and sane web
site design is a good thing. Combine with some of the new ultra
capacitor technology and improved thermal and power management
and we could see a bit of a resolution.
This is especially so for the tablets and the likes of Kindle and Nooks...
As I said in the other post, I messed up the inflation calculation, so my figures are a bit off, but my old school now charges about $15000 per pupil per year. I suspect the costs are slightly lower than a comprehensive school, since intake is restricted to the top 20%, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could provide a good education for somewhere in the $10-12K ballpark. $17000 sounds excessive.
Of course, the amount of funding is only part of the problem. Making sure that it is well spent is a larger part. It's no use a school spending $100,000 on a well-equipt computer lab, if they don't have anyone competent to teach using it. It's no use employing the best teachers if the class sizes are so large that they have to spend all of their time maintaining order and not teaching.
In the letter:
"The State of Michigan spends annually somewhere between $30,000 and $40,000 per prisoner,
yet we are struggling to provide schools with $7,000 per student. I guess we need to treat our
students like they are prisoners, with equal funding."
But, but the Sky IS falling.
There are enough common or natural sources to
enable the testing of a geiger counter. Some of them
are already posted so I will not add to the list.
A GM tube triggers on an ionizing event and
the resulting cascade is counted and/ or integrated
and shown on a display. The cascade produces
a dead time so the higher the count rate the more
the detector is unavailable. This can be quantified with
a modest source by placing it measured distances
away and using the inverse square rule to predict the
count. Departure from recorded to predicted let you
calibrate the dead time.
Most GM tubs have a glass envelope that is thick
enough to shield from alpha particles. Beta radiation
can be shielded by a modest shield. Gamma is
much less attenuated. Gamma:Beta ratios can permit
some approximation of the material that is being measured.
Sensitivity depends on volume, large tubes can be
more sensitive, small tubes are more durable.
The nature of the cascade and quenching effectively makes
all counts equal so the energy spectrum is not available
for the most part. Scintillation counters can be better
for energy spectrum determinations but outside the lab
this is rare.
For calibration the critical data involves the volume of the
detector and efficiency. Volume is easy, efficiency
can be evaluated by source variations often made
by changes in distance. However a modest source
like vaseline glass can be calibrated and then the
unknown detector validated against it.
For the majority of folk changes are more interesting
perhaps important than absolute magnitude.
So do "developers" need a second monitor? Probably not.
No, probably not... unless they run a debugger on their code, or read documentation, or want to compare two different source files to one another, etc.
Look, monitors cost ~$200 once. Programmers cost ~$80,000/year. Just buy the second monitor.
If he needs or even wants it it is a bargain at $200+a $200 card to drive it.
Remember the UPS guy gets two mirrors and a big window in a $100,000.00 van with
a skylight no less. His transactions are all small $$ per package.
For reasons of productivity the copy room when there is one often has
two copiers or more per copy room person and they ain't cheep and eat paper too.
.... Amazon's One click....
....snip....
>
Remember how Patents and Copyrights were established to encourage innovation? Ha!
Err... reward innovation within bounds.
If you can find a better way to make "foo" then you
can profit from making foo. The abuse from patent
holding companies that make nothing was also not
considered in the law.
The impact of the strangle hold on software was never
considered by those crafting the law because "software"
was not a concept at the time of the law.
Because software was not a reality at the time the law
was crafted and has not been clearly addressed in
any amendment to the law it seems to me that software
should be rightly excluded from patent law.
At one time there was a requirement that you demonstrate
your invention. Most if not all of these patents were
not even prototyped or deployed.
I believe that one way to counter this is to require that
patents that apply to software must be disclosed and
that terms, conditions and valuations paid be public.
Is the definition of adolescent behavior
very far from the definition of disorderly
behavior. Me thinks the kids are getting
prosecuted for being kids.... but I have
not seen the charges.
In most of these discussions it is asserted that
a disorderly conduct arrest is very much at
the discretion of the officer. i.e. the officer
is witness to the conduct. That does not
appear to be the case here. Clearly there
are multiple actions in time and space that
an officer would not be in a position to see
and correlate. There must also be a complaint
and some unique perspective to justify a warrant
or gather the evidence.
I think that stores will have to remove all size
markings from clothing because these are
the arbitrary anchor of any rating system.