Where patent law is concerned, the context of a claim, applicable prior art, obviousness, and so on is much more important than most people understand. I doubt that you'd be able to figure out by yourself the relevance of what appears to be - but for the purpose of the patent really isn't - prior art. Nor would I - IANAPL. So if you care about such things, get professional advice.
You don't have the foggiest clue what you are talking about.
Class rewriting is cool, and can be done on a live JVM, even multiple times for the same class if desired. The result runs just like the original unmodified class. It's like *func = sub { print "new sub" } in Perl, but with much greater control and granularity.
We have a product that requires that profiling be done on a per-object basis. I'm not using the Java class transformer interface, but I am rewriting classfiles in a manner similar to hprof's bytecode instrumentation option (as opposed to the stack sampling option), using JVMTI.
JVMTI + JNI is pretty slick stuff. The source code to hprof comes with the JDK 1.5 release and is very informative, if overwhelming at first. If I instrument methods very selectively, the effect on runtime speed is minimal.
OTOH, trying to implement something like this for Perl (my favorite language) would be an exploration of pain the likes of which hasn't been experienced since people were broken on the wheel.
I also wonder: If you take $revenue[$year], divide it by $average_cost_of_ticket[$year], and multiply that by ($us_population[$year] / $us_population[2005]), do you get a steady downward curve as $year increases?
I watched 50-100 movies a year in theaters in the early-mid 90s. It seemed like there was something watchable almost every week. Not "good" but watchable.
Now, if I can watch CSI reruns, Modern Marvels, and Mythbusters, why would I drive 30 minutes to hunt for a parking space and then go wait in line to:
Pay $10 to get in
To a tiny theater
To watch Ultraviolet
After watching 15 minutes of trailers and commercials and reminders to put the cellphones away
While listening to someone on a cellphone
And someone's baby
While eating a $3.00 hot dog
And drinking a $3.50 soda
Thanks, but I'll wait for V for Vendetta and Thank You for Smoking and hope for the best. And watch L&O and CSI in the meanwhile.
And to put a finer point on it, the fact that I see about 5 movies a year nowadays has nothing to do with pirated video and almost nothing to do with DVDs. The stuff I watch on DVDs is generally not something that shows up in a theater.
Drove me nuts back in my Mac programming days. But at least now developers can fork the open source code, should the creator decide it shouldn't be so open any more.
True, the J-2 is older and less-efficient, but it's a much simpler, more reliable design than the SSME.
The SSME is much more intricate, tempermental, expensive and operates at much, much higher pressures than the J-2. The reliability of the SSME in the Shuttle is more a tribute to the army of inspectors employed by NASA than to its inherent design.
Personally, if I were trusting my life to a new rocket , I'd prefer to sacrifice a little ultimate efficiency for an engine that has reliabilty designed in, not inspected in.
Not true - the SSME is more reliable than the J-2 and is in fact the most reliable booster engine ever built. There have never been any SSME in-flight failures and the SSME system has logged around 1 million seconds of hot fire time, the equivalent of over 600 3-engine missions.
Laws governing non-compete clauses vary from state to state. In California, non-compete clauses are not lawful. In Walia v. Aetna a California employee won one million dollars in punitive damages when she was fired for refusing to sign an illegal non-complete agreement, even though the agreement was unenforceable anyway. That award was upheld on appeal. You can't be prevented from pursuing your livelihood in California. Most states give non-compete agreements slightly more weight, but not much as a rule. Employment lawyers keep writing more and more elaborate non-compete agreements while courts continue to decrease their enforceability. Makes you wonder when the lawyers will get a clue.
However, language that narrowly restricts a former employee's ability to steal employees or clients, use confidential information, and so forth, is generally acceptable.
"Thereafter, the applet 359 in step 1325 acts as the I/O interface with the communications interface 340 of the global server 115. If the global server 115 in step 1330 determines that it is unauthorized to perform a remote terminal 105 user's request, then the global server 115 in step 1345 determines whether the method 1050b ends, e.g., whether the user has quit. If so, then method 1050b ends. Otherwise, method 1050b returns to step 1325 to obtain another request. If the global server 115 in step 1330 determines that it is authorized to perform the remote terminal 105 user's request, then the global server 115 in step 1340 acts as the proxy for the remote terminal 105 to the service 615. As proxy, the global server 115 forwards the service request to the selected service 615 and forwards responses to the requesting applet 359 currently executing on the remote terminal 105. Method 1050b then jumps to step 1345."
Coffee People used to sell this lightly carbonated coffee soda. This was back a number of years ago before the Gloria Jean's / Coffee Plantation / whatever thing. It was pretty sweet and pretty strong, and GOOD. It had a head like a dark porter. It was based on their high-caffeine coffee blend.
I'm sure someone here will remember it and fill in the details. I used to bring a six back from Hillsborough whenever I visited Randal.
So I spend most of my Skype time "on the road" (as in, coffeeshops). How's a 911 dispatcher ever going to find me? Why would I expect one to without providing additional information? There's no infrastructure for tracing the location of IPs/MACs (and thank God for that).
If your IP phone is nailed to a wall, sure, this makes sense.
Otherwise, what, I have to have a GPS card plugged into my laptop and make all my calls outdoors?
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Where patent law is concerned, the context of a claim, applicable prior art, obviousness, and so on is much more important than most people understand. I doubt that you'd be able to figure out by yourself the relevance of what appears to be - but for the purpose of the patent really isn't - prior art. Nor would I - IANAPL. So if you care about such things, get professional advice.
ugly sites that look like they were created by a colour blind five year old are bad.
I gather you're not looking for a date then?
If Quirksmode weren't pretty, no one would read it.
People should read quirksmode.
So it should be pretty.
Q.E.D.
Thank you Slashdot!
It would be kind of pointless too, with JVMPI being deprecated and soon going away.
You don't have the foggiest clue what you are talking about.
Class rewriting is cool, and can be done on a live JVM, even multiple times for the same class if desired. The result runs just like the original unmodified class. It's like *func = sub { print "new sub" } in Perl, but with much greater control and granularity.
Anyway, don't be such a tard in public.
We have a product that requires that profiling be done on a per-object basis. I'm not using the Java class transformer interface, but I am rewriting classfiles in a manner similar to hprof's bytecode instrumentation option (as opposed to the stack sampling option), using JVMTI.
JVMTI + JNI is pretty slick stuff. The source code to hprof comes with the JDK 1.5 release and is very informative, if overwhelming at first. If I instrument methods very selectively, the effect on runtime speed is minimal.
OTOH, trying to implement something like this for Perl (my favorite language) would be an exploration of pain the likes of which hasn't been experienced since people were broken on the wheel.
I also wonder: If you take $revenue[$year], divide it by $average_cost_of_ticket[$year], and multiply that by ($us_population[$year] / $us_population[2005]), do you get a steady downward curve as $year increases?
Jinx! :-/
I don't even have my own television at the moment, and I have no desire to go to a theater 48 weeks out of 52 weeks.
A fellow known in the trade as merlyn used to employ his laser pointer in Oregon theaters all the time.
Just a bit of trivia. Yes I am a (multiple times) first hand witness.
Did you see those movies to have fun? That's why I go, anyway.
I generally get my edification and deep thoughts from books, or computer games (*cough*).
I suspect that Superman Returns is going to be almost as good as Ultraviolet and Daredevil, but not quite.
I watched 50-100 movies a year in theaters in the early-mid 90s. It seemed like there was something watchable almost every week. Not "good" but watchable.
Now, if I can watch CSI reruns, Modern Marvels, and Mythbusters, why would I drive 30 minutes to hunt for a parking space and then go wait in line to:
Thanks, but I'll wait for V for Vendetta and Thank You for Smoking and hope for the best. And watch L&O and CSI in the meanwhile.
And to put a finer point on it, the fact that I see about 5 movies a year nowadays has nothing to do with pirated video and almost nothing to do with DVDs. The stuff I watch on DVDs is generally not something that shows up in a theater.
Buy good product. Stop selling product.
Drove me nuts back in my Mac programming days. But at least now developers can fork the open source code, should the creator decide it shouldn't be so open any more.
.. o O o ..
Can Oracle's acquisitions be predicted based upon the database backends used with MySQL? What other backends work with MySQL?
True, the J-2 is older and less-efficient, but it's a much simpler, more reliable design than the SSME.
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The SSME is much more intricate, tempermental, expensive and operates at much, much higher pressures than the J-2. The reliability of the SSME in the Shuttle is more a tribute to the army of inspectors employed by NASA than to its inherent design.
Personally, if I were trusting my life to a new rocket , I'd prefer to sacrifice a little ultimate efficiency for an engine that has reliabilty designed in, not inspected in.
Not true - the SSME is more reliable than the J-2 and is in fact the most reliable booster engine ever built. There have never been any SSME in-flight failures and the SSME system has logged around 1 million seconds of hot fire time, the equivalent of over 600 3-engine missions.
But for a dose of reality, see: http://www.fotuva.org/feynman/challenger-appendix
Mainly, the SSME is incredibly complex and expensive ($40m). Even though it has vastly higher power density than the J-2, sometimes less is more.
I wish I could find parts counts for both the J-2 and SSME, but the good old days when I had all this info in Dead Tree Edition are long gone.
Laws governing non-compete clauses vary from state to state. In California, non-compete clauses are not lawful. In Walia v. Aetna a California employee won one million dollars in punitive damages when she was fired for refusing to sign an illegal non-complete agreement, even though the agreement was unenforceable anyway. That award was upheld on appeal. You can't be prevented from pursuing your livelihood in California. Most states give non-compete agreements slightly more weight, but not much as a rule. Employment lawyers keep writing more and more elaborate non-compete agreements while courts continue to decrease their enforceability. Makes you wonder when the lawyers will get a clue.
However, language that narrowly restricts a former employee's ability to steal employees or clients, use confidential information, and so forth, is generally acceptable.
"Thereafter, the applet 359 in step 1325 acts as the I/O interface with the communications interface 340 of the global server 115. If the global server 115 in step 1330 determines that it is unauthorized to perform a remote terminal 105 user's request, then the global server 115 in step 1345 determines whether the method 1050b ends, e.g., whether the user has quit. If so, then method 1050b ends. Otherwise, method 1050b returns to step 1325 to obtain another request. If the global server 115 in step 1330 determines that it is authorized to perform the remote terminal 105 user's request, then the global server 115 in step 1340 acts as the proxy for the remote terminal 105 to the service 615. As proxy, the global server 115 forwards the service request to the selected service 615 and forwards responses to the requesting applet 359 currently executing on the remote terminal 105. Method 1050b then jumps to step 1345."
Coffee People used to sell this lightly carbonated coffee soda. This was back a number of years ago before the Gloria Jean's / Coffee Plantation / whatever thing. It was pretty sweet and pretty strong, and GOOD. It had a head like a dark porter. It was based on their high-caffeine coffee blend.
I'm sure someone here will remember it and fill in the details. I used to bring a six back from Hillsborough whenever I visited Randal.
So what's my current street address?
And then there's E911 for walkie-talkies.
And cups on strings.
So I spend most of my Skype time "on the road" (as in, coffeeshops). How's a 911 dispatcher ever going to find me? Why would I expect one to without providing additional information? There's no infrastructure for tracing the location of IPs/MACs (and thank God for that).
If your IP phone is nailed to a wall, sure, this makes sense.
Otherwise, what, I have to have a GPS card plugged into my laptop and make all my calls outdoors?
Damn, both of you were just too quick on the draw. I didn't even *see* it ....
*sigh*