Apollo Domain hosted BSD, Unix Sys 5 and Unix Sys 7 under the Domain OS-ness... So a great direction Debian is taking but not a first. And in Apollo's case it was a dynamic choice...
Very cool tech at Apollo, and now HP has buried it deeply (Also had a great UI design tool called Dialog that decoupled UI from implementation and was way ahead of its time... Alas it seems gone forever even though an attempt was made to "open it" and Digital (then Compaq then, what for it... HP) had a similar decoupled UI design system, all gone it seems)
Jailbreak has been around for a while to run non-App Store apps. But a lot of the reasons to run non-App store apps is gone as a lot of originally free pre-Apple iPhone SDK apps are now on the App store as "legitimate" apps. And those that were not were often available anyway. Jailbreak to run non-Apple apps was pretty quick. What "unlock" is all about is to use an alternative carrier. The prior 3G choice was buy an overseas (if you're in the US) unlocked iPhone, a hack SIM overlay card which messes with the registration numbers the network sees for your phone and the ones the phone sees, and which is illegal in most places, or wait for the iPhone Dev Team as most other hackers have fled the scene. Geohot seems to have once more been a quiet hero and provided a key exploit to allow the Dev Team the insertion vector.
So just running unapproved apps is not the reason for the unlock. The reason is so one can take their locked phone and use a different carrier. A great example is so I can use Kyivstar in Ukraine while traveling (or any other GSM/GPRS provider) and not pay thousands of dollars to roam from ATT while in Europe. Instead pay 50-60 USD and buy a local prepaid SIM. BTW. They sell at most airports. So if traveling, research first before you pay 75 dollars to have a 10-15 dollar SIM card kit mailed to you in the US.
And as this is BETA software, be patient while the bugs are worked out. Me especially as a Ukraine user reported Kyivstar was not playing nice yet.
I preferred the hack Bubba. Reportedly put together in 1 day by some non-MS VB programmer. Versus a dev team at MSFT for a full dev cycle. Bob is long gone, but Bubba lives on. Apparently even working on Vista. And APPL had there 3D experiment back in the 90's as well. I spaced on the code-name for the public beta but maybe Tabasco. Although that was a internal printer project as well.
And there was "Ark Interface" as well.
Not proposing a solution in the broadest sense, except, I'd love to be able to sell my own apps. Now I depend on the app store. It is different than the desktop environment where you can actually sell your own product. In reality I have one customer. Apple. They sell my app to the rest of the world. I also want to be able to pay Apple their overhead fee (or discounted since I'll collect the money), and sell my own app by having the ability to sell the download codes directly. And for heavens sake. Apple advertises the free and competing paid apps on the receipt for the purchase. Thankfully there is no shopping cart for apps... It comes down to my ability to merchandise my app is severely limited in comparison to desktop software. Fortunately the games we are publishing are minor titles, each meant to enhance or major products (in non-obvious ways each allows us to master a portion of the iPhone UI and APIs in general that differ from the desktop) and I have a "master plan" of games that allows be to develop for reuse the objects for the business app I am developing. The business app has a different revenue stream model and I can actually give it away for free or at drastically lower than would be expected for development effort costs would normally indicate. It really is just a barrier to entry for small developers as 9.99 USD games are out there and sell, but from well known sources; but the new and novel games and apps in general that take significant effort will be in general developed by people that do it for the sheer fun of programming. It doesn't make them lesser in quality as an absolute, but it also limits the creative individuals who do this as their mainline work and drives them to other platforms.
I have 4 programs for the iPhone on the App Store. They are $1.99 for all but one which is $0.99. I paid a graphics artist $1000 (actually a split of the first $5000 of sales, little did either of us guess) and I spent an average of about 3 weeks per app. The two word oriented games have huge dictionaries in Spanish, Russian and English. So far my net payments from Apple are no stellar, well under $1000. The reasons... 10,000 other apps. The jockeying for the current release spots. (we have had issues on 2 of the four that buried them 4 pages in on current releases so no great buzz...) and a whole bunch of imitators that follow on with limited functionality knock-offs for free or 99 cents. Not to mention the competitors who on day one would give a bad review which just kills sales. Even though they didn't buy a copy. That is corrected now. My competitors will at least have to pay all of $2 to say my app crashes on startup. (It won't get through Apple screening if it does that, well, anymore)...
So professional developers will just not be able, as the co-sympathizer over at Icon Factory notes, be able to put the effort into really feature-full apps. And they at least have a decent marketing engine behind them. They can get sales over 100,000 for each app. I am hoping to get something like 3-5000 in sales for each app.
Apple just makes it hard for me to have an independent sales effort as well. I had a major chain store's buyer interested in having my App(s) for sale in their store. I wrote Apple a nice letter pointing out the issues. And they acted on the portion suggesting a promo code so I could get reviews but have so far rejected things like selling me a code for the app at their cut of the purchase price, so I can do things like sell it myself to brick and mortar stores. Create my own storefront online to increase the sales of my App(s) without Apple recommending my competitors products at checkout, and so on. And on. And on.
So yes. Great for the iPhone user. There are a lot of applications that are free or well under $5 most hovering at either 99 cents or $1.99. And before you say anything derogatory about paid software will sell if its good and so on, people buying games will take a free version if it is just for minor diversions and live with the limitations instead of a paid version, and for some of us programming is not an avocation, its the way we pay rent and put food on the table.
The Safari browser on the iPhone does not generate a sister site nor does Apple, so on the face of the claims this seems to be a grab a the deep pockets of Apple when current sentiment is to settle to avoid expenses of trials. It seems to me that the people opposing Apple in this matter are either ignorant of the way safari works on the iPhone or seek to broaden the already broad to the point of absurd claims of the patent to cover some hypothetical mechanism that could possibly be used for a browser for the iPhone. I hope the courts squash this quickly (even though the Texas court leans heavily in the favor of patent holders and seems to have a fairly high level of misunderstanding technology and lacks fair understanding of the state of the art). While some individual claims may in fact cover aspects of Safari's operation, those claims are overly broad and are restricted to appling to the prior claims cases and are subordinate to them. If Safari is held to violate this then almost all mobile phone browsers would be in violation simply because you can manually change the displayed portion of the web page at the broadest interpretation of the patent. So if you allow that Safari does violate this patent then all mobile browsers violate it, and thus those in existence prior to the earliest claimed priority can be shown as prior art. So in short, if this patent describes Mobile Safari, it also describes Prior Art and is invalid.
Just my take on reading through the patent and applicable prior documents. And while I used to be paid for my opinions on such matters I did not do such due dilegence as to make this something I'd go into court with, but it seems Apple will have an easy case here and just have to spend an outrageous amount of money to defend itself since the honorable Texas Court is biased in eyes of most people in the field and thus is almost always the chosen venue for people to press such cases especially marginal ones or ones without technical merit.
Anything. Math is the basis for biology, music, the arts (even if that math looks like chaos theory) and just about everything except (and maybe not except) philosophy.
Actuary... Pay the "dues" for a few years then make big dollars and having been bored to tears the first years, get to figure out interesting problems. Like the likelihood of a death on a space trip to Mars. Useful in telling NASA how much their insurance will cost. Try to avoid being the bean counter set where you have the job of balancing law suit payouts versus thickness and grade of metal in vehicle gas tanks...
But the MBA or PHD in economics from say Wharton combined with a bachelors in compsci, hard sciences, engineering, or even physics would put her a world ahead.
Perhaps this will cause the price of our TVs to drop?
Or maybe the price will remain the same as they now have reduced revenue and an increased cost per unit of the fine divided over the number of LCDs shipped. And I have bought a bunch of LCDs over the years. Think I will see any benefit? Doubtful! But maybe there will be a slight reduction in cost a while out. Current prices have already significantly dropped since this lawsuit was entered into.
use a layer about 1mm thick of 24 caret gold (there is an alloy of gold and 1% titanium so remains 99% pure gold, so quals as 24 caret) this has a unique color and allows for material removal for final fitting, but get it as close as possible first off!. Then a tungsten channel, very dense and durable, used in aerospace (electrical and even rocket nozzles, then the Iridium in the channel. The tungsten will be machined. Then the Iridium would be cast into the channel, then separately cast the inner gold ring, layer it with a brazing material like used on glass to metal brazing in semiconductor fab processes (it has an oxidizer and when touched off reduces to a thin molten layer that with bond the gold to tungsten. Use can use a ring expander to force fit the gold layer before the brazing process (after it is coated with a brazing preform). So 24 caret gold that is as hard as 14 caret gold but has that pure gold look (also easier to engrave a message in!, tungsten on the wear surfaces and Iridium for a final one of a kind top look, flanked by the dual rings of the sides of the tungsten channel it is caste in. Have a favorite odd language in common? Do a laser engraving in the ring surface and fill with a laser welding setup (hey! use the 24K AuTi for that too! though no standard wire in that alloy but conventional inlay process would work!). Also geek factor of using man-made synthetic (not simulated, synthetic so optically and chemically identical) gemstones. 100% flawless is inexpensive. And sapphire and diamond (and hey ruby is just 'sapphire' that is red, sapphire gets the rest of the spectrum... ) all have high tech uses. Last thought. Don't let this be too much of the focus. The pact it represents is more important than the trinket. And a standard ring cutter will cut almost any ring off, except maybe some titanium alloys and tungsten carbide rings (tungsten carbide? whack it with a hammer with increasing force till it shatters) and the electric ring cutters will remove any of them. It will likely cost you a blade for the cutter (but the reality is the blades sell for $5 to $10, though expect to be charges $50-$$$ more). But while durable and dense Tungsten will not be an issue.
In the US at least the patent is "assigned" to the company in most cases. Ownership is more vague. Assignment give all the rights to the patent to the assignee. From there they can license those rights but retain being the assignee. If you work for a small startup as a contractor try to just have the rights licensed to the startup company instead of assigned, with a clause that the rights revert back to you if the company fails. (keeping them from becoming assets of the company to be sold off at its demise.) Give clear title under circumstances you like, like payment of a specified fee if they are acquired for example. Make companies obligated to you!
The patent office won't be able to search fully for prior art because they don't have the knowledge you have about the thing patented.
It depends on the examiners at the patent office. I am one of the inventors on a patent that has been in process since 2001. Sometimes there are many twists and turns in the process and it can take some time to get through completely. In this case the examiner links many things that are only vaguely similar and the filer must address each one. They aren't limited to one round of this. They can open new areas up seemingly at whim. And if you have a lawyer that removes prior art in an application he is made aware of that is a violation of the law. And it is YOU signing the application under penalty of perjury saying it is complete.
They're owned by Microsoft, but (AFAIK) the original inventor is still listed by name.
And the project lead and often the manager even if they did not "invent" the things, especially if one is a contractor, in which case the actual inventor is usually last on the list.
Consider Chinese, Russian, French or German as a second language. If you choose Russian and you get an MBA you are gold at the moment. Latter when geekness rears its ugly head of datelessness (I know this doesn't apply to you but it is a generic answer...) you can find a more than willing female relationship in Russian speaking countries. And knowing is half the battle.
Make more money than CS grads. Do something you're good at and you enjoy.
The combination of CS degree and MBA will put you on the "pointy hair boss" management track, and you can still have interactions with programmers, understand what they are talking about, and be a good worker cog in the machine.... Most importantly you'll understand the issues programmers have, which most management is clueless of.
They are technologically advanced enough for a modern manned space program and to plan lunar exploration. Somehow I think adapting the known works of others for cyber attacks is easily within their grasp given a governments worth of resources. Especially since they send students to the US and to England and elsewhere for technological training. And they make a huge portion of the systems they are allegedly attacking! AND!!! They can crank out a clone of an Apple consumer device between the announcement by Apple and when Apple can actually ship the device. The argument they present rings very very hollow.
Further quick note: Wikipedia notes there are private sector obligations as well, such as ingredient lists for food. So it is not _all_ government as the actor services that require bilingual texts.
It is sort of a joke. I love the dual language signage in British Columbia even though I have hear more German, Russian and Ukrainian than French (I have not heard any french other than US tourists reading signs, often badly) in Vancouver or Victoria. Sort of like the like in "Canadian Bacon" where the hastily written scrawls on the truck in English had them stopped by a policeman who had them add French annotation.
Some people have higher metabolisms and eat much much more than an "average" person and weigh less. A 'rail-thin' friend of mine keeps a later file filled with chips and cookies next to his recliner and does nothing in the way of external fitness activities and works a desk job by day. My brother on the other hand was in law enforcement and ate moderately but ran 5 plus miles a day and alternated heavy aerobics for 2 hours on even days with weight training on odd days and could barely meet department regulations for acceptable weight. (Mind you he ran rings around the other folks in his department in the other fitness tests). His doctor said he had low thyroid function but he wasn't 'sick' so no medications were needed. Some people have such 'unfortunately efficient in this era of plenty' (TM) metabolisms they can eat next to nothing and maintain an obese mass. And stress causes weight gain in some people. Stop stressing the overweight people... you are only making the problem worse!!!!
On a semi-serious note. Then we need to start the OLPS effort. (One laptop per soldier). It is a serious problem that a soldiers computer connected to the military network (for that webcam conversation with home) could be infected by some iSTD(tm) from a bootlegged DVD that potentially could be an attack vector for the network it is connected to and potentially damage critical services. Start with the OLPC machine and run secure Linux instead. And get WINE running "Call of Duty" or select other games or software for diversions. Have to add the DVD player of course.
Redundancy? Buy two. Use OpenBSD and CARP. Dedicate the 10/100 link to the pair. Use the 10/100/1000 ports on each as required by the application.
This is 1/2 the effect rack space at about 1/3 the effective CPU horsepower as some of our network appliances we custom configure.
It might make sense at the very low end for some of our customers. We also host on Mac Mini systems were I lament the lack of a second ethernet port. But OS X supports 1394 w/TCP/IP just fine so not a total train-wreck to set up very low cost redundant systems...
These boxen look quite nice for experimental use and for dedicated processors in harsh environments. Like a data center monitor for when the environmental controls fail.
They rent evaluation units for free to companies, and offer a discounted method to buy the evaluation unit if that is preferred.
It is on their website under the evaluation section.
Don't compare the pump price for gasoline to the $1 hypothetical price for a 100% efficient process (which so far does not exist). After all if we pay at $2.50 a gallon for gas (as a nominal figure) about $0.75 in taxes. And then about 40-50 cents a gallon for the distribution. And then there is recovery of costs also known as profit, of about 18 cents. It varies by state but they go all the way back to minor taxes per gallon at the blending stage to the final additional federal and state taxes at the pump. It is not just the final taxes that are there. You have to dig really deep to find all of them. I will admit I have not looked for a couple years at the whole set of them, but very few taxes are ever reduced or repealed, so I am pretty confident they can be ferreted out with a bit of work. The raw material in this case is one that requires more handling than a liquid does so refining costs are likely higher.
So make sure all the costs are considered when comparing them. Just like sunlight is free, and all those CFLs are mercury laden hazardous waste when spent.
Once you can figure out where the light sources are, it becomes a lot easier to determine if an image has been photoshopped.
So use the new tool, determine the light sources and then add the correct light sources to you well rendered CGI model. Then the tool says it is "OK" and untampered with? Looks like a Photoshop plugin could be developed to check for this, and then maintain consistency. Just what we need. Better photo counterfeits!
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Golden Parachute.
and to keep Slashcode happy on length, a quote from the Python. You bastard. You lucky luck bastard.
Apollo Domain hosted BSD, Unix Sys 5 and Unix Sys 7 under the Domain OS-ness ... So a great direction Debian is taking but not a first. And in Apollo's case it was a dynamic choice ...
Very cool tech at Apollo, and now HP has buried it deeply (Also had a great UI design tool called Dialog that decoupled UI from implementation and was way ahead of its time... Alas it seems gone forever even though an attempt was made to "open it" and Digital (then Compaq then, what for it ... HP) had a similar decoupled UI design system, all gone it seems)
Jailbreak has been around for a while to run non-App Store apps. But a lot of the reasons to run non-App store apps is gone as a lot of originally free pre-Apple iPhone SDK apps are now on the App store as "legitimate" apps. And those that were not were often available anyway. Jailbreak to run non-Apple apps was pretty quick. What "unlock" is all about is to use an alternative carrier. The prior 3G choice was buy an overseas (if you're in the US) unlocked iPhone, a hack SIM overlay card which messes with the registration numbers the network sees for your phone and the ones the phone sees, and which is illegal in most places, or wait for the iPhone Dev Team as most other hackers have fled the scene. Geohot seems to have once more been a quiet hero and provided a key exploit to allow the Dev Team the insertion vector.
So just running unapproved apps is not the reason for the unlock. The reason is so one can take their locked phone and use a different carrier. A great example is so I can use Kyivstar in Ukraine while traveling (or any other GSM/GPRS provider) and not pay thousands of dollars to roam from ATT while in Europe. Instead pay 50-60 USD and buy a local prepaid SIM. BTW. They sell at most airports. So if traveling, research first before you pay 75 dollars to have a 10-15 dollar SIM card kit mailed to you in the US.
And as this is BETA software, be patient while the bugs are worked out. Me especially as a Ukraine user reported Kyivstar was not playing nice yet.
I preferred the hack Bubba. Reportedly put together in 1 day by some non-MS VB programmer. Versus a dev team at MSFT for a full dev cycle. Bob is long gone, but Bubba lives on. Apparently even working on Vista. And APPL had there 3D experiment back in the 90's as well. I spaced on the code-name for the public beta but maybe Tabasco. Although that was a internal printer project as well. And there was "Ark Interface" as well.
Not proposing a solution in the broadest sense, except, I'd love to be able to sell my own apps. Now I depend on the app store. It is different than the desktop environment where you can actually sell your own product. In reality I have one customer. Apple. They sell my app to the rest of the world. I also want to be able to pay Apple their overhead fee (or discounted since I'll collect the money), and sell my own app by having the ability to sell the download codes directly. And for heavens sake. Apple advertises the free and competing paid apps on the receipt for the purchase. Thankfully there is no shopping cart for apps ... It comes down to my ability to merchandise my app is severely limited in comparison to desktop software. Fortunately the games we are publishing are minor titles, each meant to enhance or major products (in non-obvious ways each allows us to master a portion of the iPhone UI and APIs in general that differ from the desktop) and I have a "master plan" of games that allows be to develop for reuse the objects for the business app I am developing. The business app has a different revenue stream model and I can actually give it away for free or at drastically lower than would be expected for development effort costs would normally indicate. It really is just a barrier to entry for small developers as 9.99 USD games are out there and sell, but from well known sources; but the new and novel games and apps in general that take significant effort will be in general developed by people that do it for the sheer fun of programming. It doesn't make them lesser in quality as an absolute, but it also limits the creative individuals who do this as their mainline work and drives them to other platforms.
I have 4 programs for the iPhone on the App Store. They are $1.99 for all but one which is $0.99. I paid a graphics artist $1000 (actually a split of the first $5000 of sales, little did either of us guess) and I spent an average of about 3 weeks per app. The two word oriented games have huge dictionaries in Spanish, Russian and English. So far my net payments from Apple are no stellar, well under $1000. The reasons... 10,000 other apps. The jockeying for the current release spots. (we have had issues on 2 of the four that buried them 4 pages in on current releases so no great buzz...) and a whole bunch of imitators that follow on with limited functionality knock-offs for free or 99 cents. Not to mention the competitors who on day one would give a bad review which just kills sales. Even though they didn't buy a copy. That is corrected now. My competitors will at least have to pay all of $2 to say my app crashes on startup. (It won't get through Apple screening if it does that, well, anymore)...
So professional developers will just not be able, as the co-sympathizer over at Icon Factory notes, be able to put the effort into really feature-full apps. And they at least have a decent marketing engine behind them. They can get sales over 100,000 for each app. I am hoping to get something like 3-5000 in sales for each app.
Apple just makes it hard for me to have an independent sales effort as well. I had a major chain store's buyer interested in having my App(s) for sale in their store. I wrote Apple a nice letter pointing out the issues. And they acted on the portion suggesting a promo code so I could get reviews but have so far rejected things like selling me a code for the app at their cut of the purchase price, so I can do things like sell it myself to brick and mortar stores. Create my own storefront online to increase the sales of my App(s) without Apple recommending my competitors products at checkout, and so on. And on. And on.
So yes. Great for the iPhone user. There are a lot of applications that are free or well under $5 most hovering at either 99 cents or $1.99. And before you say anything derogatory about paid software will sell if its good and so on, people buying games will take a free version if it is just for minor diversions and live with the limitations instead of a paid version, and for some of us programming is not an avocation, its the way we pay rent and put food on the table.
The Safari browser on the iPhone does not generate a sister site nor does Apple, so on the face of the claims this seems to be a grab a the deep pockets of Apple when current sentiment is to settle to avoid expenses of trials. It seems to me that the people opposing Apple in this matter are either ignorant of the way safari works on the iPhone or seek to broaden the already broad to the point of absurd claims of the patent to cover some hypothetical mechanism that could possibly be used for a browser for the iPhone. I hope the courts squash this quickly (even though the Texas court leans heavily in the favor of patent holders and seems to have a fairly high level of misunderstanding technology and lacks fair understanding of the state of the art). While some individual claims may in fact cover aspects of Safari's operation, those claims are overly broad and are restricted to appling to the prior claims cases and are subordinate to them. If Safari is held to violate this then almost all mobile phone browsers would be in violation simply because you can manually change the displayed portion of the web page at the broadest interpretation of the patent. So if you allow that Safari does violate this patent then all mobile browsers violate it, and thus those in existence prior to the earliest claimed priority can be shown as prior art. So in short, if this patent describes Mobile Safari, it also describes Prior Art and is invalid.
Just my take on reading through the patent and applicable prior documents. And while I used to be paid for my opinions on such matters I did not do such due dilegence as to make this something I'd go into court with, but it seems Apple will have an easy case here and just have to spend an outrageous amount of money to defend itself since the honorable Texas Court is biased in eyes of most people in the field and thus is almost always the chosen venue for people to press such cases especially marginal ones or ones without technical merit.
Anything. Math is the basis for biology, music, the arts (even if that math looks like chaos theory) and just about everything except (and maybe not except) philosophy. Actuary... Pay the "dues" for a few years then make big dollars and having been bored to tears the first years, get to figure out interesting problems. Like the likelihood of a death on a space trip to Mars. Useful in telling NASA how much their insurance will cost. Try to avoid being the bean counter set where you have the job of balancing law suit payouts versus thickness and grade of metal in vehicle gas tanks... But the MBA or PHD in economics from say Wharton combined with a bachelors in compsci, hard sciences, engineering, or even physics would put her a world ahead.
Or maybe the price will remain the same as they now have reduced revenue and an increased cost per unit of the fine divided over the number of LCDs shipped. And I have bought a bunch of LCDs over the years. Think I will see any benefit? Doubtful! But maybe there will be a slight reduction in cost a while out. Current prices have already significantly dropped since this lawsuit was entered into.
use a layer about 1mm thick of 24 caret gold (there is an alloy of gold and 1% titanium so remains 99% pure gold, so quals as 24 caret) this has a unique color and allows for material removal for final fitting, but get it as close as possible first off!. Then a tungsten channel, very dense and durable, used in aerospace (electrical and even rocket nozzles, then the Iridium in the channel. The tungsten will be machined. Then the Iridium would be cast into the channel, then separately cast the inner gold ring, layer it with a brazing material like used on glass to metal brazing in semiconductor fab processes (it has an oxidizer and when touched off reduces to a thin molten layer that with bond the gold to tungsten. Use can use a ring expander to force fit the gold layer before the brazing process (after it is coated with a brazing preform). So 24 caret gold that is as hard as 14 caret gold but has that pure gold look (also easier to engrave a message in!, tungsten on the wear surfaces and Iridium for a final one of a kind top look, flanked by the dual rings of the sides of the tungsten channel it is caste in. Have a favorite odd language in common? Do a laser engraving in the ring surface and fill with a laser welding setup (hey! use the 24K AuTi for that too! though no standard wire in that alloy but conventional inlay process would work!). Also geek factor of using man-made synthetic (not simulated, synthetic so optically and chemically identical) gemstones. 100% flawless is inexpensive. And sapphire and diamond (and hey ruby is just 'sapphire' that is red, sapphire gets the rest of the spectrum ... ) all have high tech uses. Last thought. Don't let this be too much of the focus. The pact it represents is more important than the trinket. And a standard ring cutter will cut almost any ring off, except maybe some titanium alloys and tungsten carbide rings (tungsten carbide? whack it with a hammer with increasing force till it shatters) and the electric ring cutters will remove any of them. It will likely cost you a blade for the cutter (but the reality is the blades sell for $5 to $10, though expect to be charges $50-$$$ more). But while durable and dense Tungsten will not be an issue.
In the US at least the patent is "assigned" to the company in most cases. Ownership is more vague. Assignment give all the rights to the patent to the assignee. From there they can license those rights but retain being the assignee. If you work for a small startup as a contractor try to just have the rights licensed to the startup company instead of assigned, with a clause that the rights revert back to you if the company fails. (keeping them from becoming assets of the company to be sold off at its demise.) Give clear title under circumstances you like, like payment of a specified fee if they are acquired for example. Make companies obligated to you!
It depends on the examiners at the patent office. I am one of the inventors on a patent that has been in process since 2001. Sometimes there are many twists and turns in the process and it can take some time to get through completely. In this case the examiner links many things that are only vaguely similar and the filer must address each one. They aren't limited to one round of this. They can open new areas up seemingly at whim. And if you have a lawyer that removes prior art in an application he is made aware of that is a violation of the law. And it is YOU signing the application under penalty of perjury saying it is complete.
And the project lead and often the manager even if they did not "invent" the things, especially if one is a contractor, in which case the actual inventor is usually last on the list.
Consider Chinese, Russian, French or German as a second language. If you choose Russian and you get an MBA you are gold at the moment. Latter when geekness rears its ugly head of datelessness (I know this doesn't apply to you but it is a generic answer...) you can find a more than willing female relationship in Russian speaking countries. And knowing is half the battle.
Make more money than CS grads. Do something you're good at and you enjoy.
... Most importantly you'll understand the issues programmers have, which most management is clueless of.
The combination of CS degree and MBA will put you on the "pointy hair boss" management track, and you can still have interactions with programmers, understand what they are talking about, and be a good worker cog in the machine.
They are technologically advanced enough for a modern manned space program and to plan lunar exploration. Somehow I think adapting the known works of others for cyber attacks is easily within their grasp given a governments worth of resources. Especially since they send students to the US and to England and elsewhere for technological training. And they make a huge portion of the systems they are allegedly attacking! AND!!! They can crank out a clone of an Apple consumer device between the announcement by Apple and when Apple can actually ship the device. The argument they present rings very very hollow.
Further quick note:
Wikipedia notes there are private sector obligations as well, such as ingredient lists for food. So it is not _all_ government as the actor services that require bilingual texts.
It is sort of a joke. I love the dual language signage in British Columbia even though I have hear more German, Russian and Ukrainian than French (I have not heard any french other than US tourists reading signs, often badly) in Vancouver or Victoria. Sort of like the like in "Canadian Bacon" where the hastily written scrawls on the truck in English had them stopped by a policeman who had them add French annotation.
The press release is available in French.
Shouldn't it me available in English as well. Or is it just that English only is disallowed but French only is. (1/2 tongue in cheek)
Obligitory: Free Qubec
Some people have higher metabolisms and eat much much more than an "average" person and weigh less. A 'rail-thin' friend of mine keeps a later file filled with chips and cookies next to his recliner and does nothing in the way of external fitness activities and works a desk job by day. My brother on the other hand was in law enforcement and ate moderately but ran 5 plus miles a day and alternated heavy aerobics for 2 hours on even days with weight training on odd days and could barely meet department regulations for acceptable weight. (Mind you he ran rings around the other folks in his department in the other fitness tests). His doctor said he had low thyroid function but he wasn't 'sick' so no medications were needed. Some people have such 'unfortunately efficient in this era of plenty' (TM) metabolisms they can eat next to nothing and maintain an obese mass. And stress causes weight gain in some people. Stop stressing the overweight people... you are only making the problem worse!!!!
Damn skinny researchers.
On a semi-serious note. Then we need to start the OLPS effort. (One laptop per soldier). It is a serious problem that a soldiers computer connected to the military network (for that webcam conversation with home) could be infected by some iSTD(tm) from a bootlegged DVD that potentially could be an attack vector for the network it is connected to and potentially damage critical services. Start with the OLPC machine and run secure Linux instead. And get WINE running "Call of Duty" or select other games or software for diversions. Have to add the DVD player of course.
Redundancy? Buy two. Use OpenBSD and CARP. Dedicate the 10/100 link to the pair. Use the 10/100/1000 ports on each as required by the application. This is 1/2 the effect rack space at about 1/3 the effective CPU horsepower as some of our network appliances we custom configure. It might make sense at the very low end for some of our customers. We also host on Mac Mini systems were I lament the lack of a second ethernet port. But OS X supports 1394 w/TCP/IP just fine so not a total train-wreck to set up very low cost redundant systems... These boxen look quite nice for experimental use and for dedicated processors in harsh environments. Like a data center monitor for when the environmental controls fail.
They rent evaluation units for free to companies, and offer a discounted method to buy the evaluation unit if that is preferred. It is on their website under the evaluation section.
Don't compare the pump price for gasoline to the $1 hypothetical price for a 100% efficient process (which so far does not exist). After all if we pay at $2.50 a gallon for gas (as a nominal figure) about $0.75 in taxes. And then about 40-50 cents a gallon for the distribution. And then there is recovery of costs also known as profit, of about 18 cents. It varies by state but they go all the way back to minor taxes per gallon at the blending stage to the final additional federal and state taxes at the pump. It is not just the final taxes that are there. You have to dig really deep to find all of them. I will admit I have not looked for a couple years at the whole set of them, but very few taxes are ever reduced or repealed, so I am pretty confident they can be ferreted out with a bit of work. The raw material in this case is one that requires more handling than a liquid does so refining costs are likely higher.
So make sure all the costs are considered when comparing them. Just like sunlight is free, and all those CFLs are mercury laden hazardous waste when spent.
So use the new tool, determine the light sources and then add the correct light sources to you well rendered CGI model. Then the tool says it is "OK" and untampered with? Looks like a Photoshop plugin could be developed to check for this, and then maintain consistency. Just what we need. Better photo counterfeits!