As a contributor of code to IEEE documents, I always found it necessary to release the code to the public domain before I submitted it to the IEEE, so their unashamed copyright grab would not apply.
Isn't this basically what Linus Torvalds did with Linux? If it can be done with an OS couldn't you do it with a compiler or an interpreter? I'm not a programmer, so the likeliness of this story being true is beyond my ability to judge.
We're talking about an intermediate representation. Both Google and Oracle's virtual machines take their respective bytecode formats and convert them to a register-based machine language prior to execution.
No shit - they run on an intel processor... in fact any processor since the HP 3000 as far as I know.
I've been doing the crypto course with professor Boneh at Stanford.
1) It's not easy. If you aren't up on number theory and discrete probability, you'll be learning it. 2) It's not 'Khan Academy'. This is college level stuff. 3) It's free. 4) It's quite a bit of work to keep up on the homework and grok all the lectures. 5) It's good. I've been doing crypto for a long time. I'm learning new things that are useful to my job.
We tried to put OCB mode in 802.11i. So IBM sent a guy to explain the 'licensing terms' for their patents on OCB mode. The next vote in 802.11i after that presentation was to replace OCB mode with CCM.
Until the patents expire or are freely licensed, OCB mode should be considered off limits for free and open projects.
>So science has immediately disqualified itself from judging alternative medicine
Er.. Science is quite capable of being used to judge the efficacy of alternative medicine. It happens all the time and typically the result is what one would expect.
They should do the same sort of study on frequent travelers. Some take sleep drugs for jetlag, some don't, They tend not to be frequent travelers because of some underlying disorder.
it has been proved that bad sleep is a killer by itself
Citation needed
Totally disagree that a citation is needed. You should already know this. You wouldn't have asked for a citation if the quote was "it has been proved that obesity is a killer by itself".
It most certainly has not. When you control for things like fitness, the association between adiposity and age of death disappears. More fat has been shown to be protective when in recovery from cancer and cardiac events. If you're skinny, those things are more likely to kill you when they happen. I could produce citations, but I won't because I'm too lazy to go digging. But if you want to go and look, you will find these studies have been done and obesity, independent of all the other things that tend to go along with obesity, is not a killer, quite the opposite.
The link between good dental health and surviving cancer is entirely logical. People with good teeth have their odontoblasts depositing as they should, so acidic damage is compensated for and tooth health is better.
The odontoblasts behave well because the vitamin A, D and K2 status is good. If the vitamin status is bad, both tooth health and other things (like cancer survival) go down the toilet.
I used to travel a lot and I know a lot of people who travel a lot. People who travel a lot get jet lag a lot.The standard tool of the trade is Zolpidem Tartrate.
True. I'm obviously not a native speaker. I would spell "tyre", because that's what I learned in school. I would probably say "trunk" instead of "boot", because I've read that more often in other settings, and heard it in movies. It makes perfect sense to me:)
If your boot was big enough, you could keep a trunk in it.
>Installing it to a dumb pc? yes >Developing on it? not a chance. Software development on DOS is a LOT harder than linux.
Booting dos on an as yet unreleased microprocessor is a lot easier than booting linux or any other big OS. I'm not developing applications, I'm testing silicon. Do what's right for your task.
Writing code on dos is no great hardship for an old crusty like me.
>All of these are better served by using a hand rolled linux. You can roll a linux kernel, FS and busybox that is smaller and far more capable.
No. Hand rolling linux is hard. Installing Freedos takes 2 minutes, mostly that 2 minutes is spent rummaging in the draw to find the usb stick with the install image on it.
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As a contributor of code to IEEE documents, I always found it necessary to release the code to the public domain before I submitted it to the IEEE, so their unashamed copyright grab would not apply.
Isn't this basically what Linus Torvalds did with Linux? If it can be done with an OS couldn't you do it with a compiler or an interpreter? I'm not a programmer, so the likeliness of this story being true is beyond my ability to judge.
He had Posix to guide him.
We're talking about an intermediate representation. Both Google and Oracle's virtual machines take their respective bytecode formats and convert them to a register-based machine language prior to execution.
No shit - they run on an intel processor ... in fact any processor since the HP 3000 as far as I know.
Maybe you meant the Transputer.
I've been doing the crypto course with professor Boneh at Stanford.
1) It's not easy. If you aren't up on number theory and discrete probability, you'll be learning it.
2) It's not 'Khan Academy'. This is college level stuff.
3) It's free.
4) It's quite a bit of work to keep up on the homework and grok all the lectures.
5) It's good. I've been doing crypto for a long time. I'm learning new things that are useful to my job.
Have you managed to get it to display an embedded visio object with working smartshapes? Thought not.
They'll sort that out in interop testing.
>It's cause they're cryptographers, not coders
Good cryptographers write extremely simple and clear code.
Those that don't are failing.
>Data type sizes is something we knew about and resolved over 30 years ago, so it makes me sad we still encounter this today.
ASN.1 was supposed to fix that. Yes there is irony in there somewhere.
>DER is a format for the certificate key.
DER is a format for the certificate. The type a server sends to you in a https sesssion setup.
>So what is the alternative?
Specifying the encoding of your information in the specification of whatever it is you are specifying.
E.G. "The length field is encoded as a 4 byte, unsigned integer in big endian byte order in bytes 3 to 6 of the packet"
> where exactly is the monopoly?
In the file format.
And Visio. Visio is actually good and better than the competition.
We tried to put OCB mode in 802.11i. So IBM sent a guy to explain the 'licensing terms' for their patents on OCB mode. The next vote in 802.11i after that presentation was to replace OCB mode with CCM.
Until the patents expire or are freely licensed, OCB mode should be considered off limits for free and open projects.
That's called a serial hybrid (energy flows from engine to battery to wheels). It is not "different" or new, but was invented nearly 100 years ago.
The Diesel electric train is hardly new.
His SSID is "password"
>So science has immediately disqualified itself from judging alternative medicine
Er.. Science is quite capable of being used to judge the efficacy of alternative medicine. It happens all the time and typically the result is what one would expect.
They should do the same sort of study on frequent travelers. Some take sleep drugs for jetlag, some don't, They tend not to be frequent travelers because of some underlying disorder.
it has been proved that bad sleep is a killer by itself
Citation needed
Totally disagree that a citation is needed. You should already know this. You wouldn't have asked for a citation if the quote was "it has been proved that obesity is a killer by itself".
It most certainly has not. When you control for things like fitness, the association between adiposity and age of death disappears. More fat has been shown to be protective when in recovery from cancer and cardiac events. If you're skinny, those things are more likely to kill you when they happen. I could produce citations, but I won't because I'm too lazy to go digging. But if you want to go and look, you will find these studies have been done and obesity, independent of all the other things that tend to go along with obesity, is not a killer, quite the opposite.
Why make the obviously false assertion that correlation does not equal causation?
Correlation does not always indicate causation, but where there's causation, correlation most certainly does equal causation.
The link between good dental health and surviving cancer is entirely logical. People with good teeth have their odontoblasts depositing as they should, so acidic damage is compensated for and tooth health is better.
The odontoblasts behave well because the vitamin A, D and K2 status is good. If the vitamin status is bad, both tooth health and other things (like cancer survival) go down the toilet.
Did they control for travel?
I used to travel a lot and I know a lot of people who travel a lot. People who travel a lot get jet lag a lot.The standard tool of the trade is Zolpidem Tartrate.
Travel could be bad for you in many ways.
>Indeed, I found that opening my eyes and looking at something makes me tired. If I lie there awake with my eyes closed I will stay awake for hours.
If I take 5000 IU of D3 first thing in the morning, chased with 1/2 pint of heavy cream, I never fail to sleep at night.
Each to their own.
>Yeah, same frequency as WiFi, dude
No it isn't.
WiFI 2.4GHz
DECT 1.9GHz
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True. I'm obviously not a native speaker. I would spell "tyre", because that's what I learned in school. I would probably say "trunk" instead of "boot", because I've read that more often in other settings, and heard it in movies. It makes perfect sense to me :)
If your boot was big enough, you could keep a trunk in it.
>Installing it to a dumb pc? yes
>Developing on it? not a chance. Software development on DOS is a LOT harder than linux.
Booting dos on an as yet unreleased microprocessor is a lot easier than booting linux or any other big OS. I'm not developing applications, I'm testing silicon. Do what's right for your task.
Writing code on dos is no great hardship for an old crusty like me.
>All of these are better served by using a hand rolled linux. You can roll a linux kernel, FS and busybox that is smaller and far more capable.
No. Hand rolling linux is hard. Installing Freedos takes 2 minutes, mostly that 2 minutes is spent rummaging in the draw to find the usb stick with the install image on it.