Greg Hewgill created "Copilot" by reverse-engineering the original Palm Pilot, and released it under the GPL. It was so useful as a development and debugging tool, Palm Inc. took over development and renamed it POSE, the Palm OS Emulator. Still, of course, available under the GPL.
Admittedly, the ROM images are copyrighted, but that's not the same thing as the emulator itself. Same thing for the game machine emulators like MAME and such.
Viruses that attack bacteria could be very effective, and harder for bacteria to evolve around. But they're not without downsides; while it's unlikely such a virus could evolve to attack human cells, weird recombinations could happen in a cell that happened to be infected with two viruses at once, one human, one bacteriophage. And more likely, they could wind up attacking 'good' bacteria that our bodies need to have around.
Hopefully our biotech is starting to get to the point where we can tailor viruses to specific targets, at least some of the time. Things like this give me some hope. If we can do that, we can do at least some of that kind of tailoring.
They don't stop everybody, they stop, say, every third car. And they use high-pressure sales techniques to try to get "biological samples". But they actually don't arrest people they find impaired; they try to arrange transportation for them. I don't think that makes it right, but let's at least be accurate about what they're doing.
More information and links to past examples of these "studies":
If it's not a casual purchase, the audience is sharply limited. Someone will come out with something at least 80% as good for less than a twentieth the price.
You mean the app interrupting its flow to ask the user to update, not just making an update available in the market. I agree, that's rather different, and highly annoying. I didn't understand your wording of "asking to update themselves".
An app that needs to update every week is not from a reliable developer.
That's putting it a bit too strongly. I just put out my first app a few days ago, and I've already gotten useful user feedback and requests for new features. Plus, small developers don't have the equipment budget to test the way larger companies do. (12 to 50 devices on a regular basis, with periodic tests on more.) Especially on a new app, there's going to be a period where things have to shake out.
Or do you simply avoid any app that hasn't been around a while?
Android has the "what's new" section, where developers can specify what's changed in the new version. A lot of apps seem to just use "Bug fixes.", but others are more transparent. Does that have any effect on your willingness to deal with updates?
I just came out with a new app - a Palm emulator. I couldn't think of everything, and there have already, just in the first few days, been requests for legitimate features that make sense to provide to users. Plus, apparently a couple devices might have problems, too. I'm going to have to put out at least a few more updates. Heck, a lot of the "getting your app noticed" advice say you should update regularly, to indicate an actively-maintained and healthy app.
So, how to strike a balance there? I guess I can't please everybody, sure, but there ought to be some maneuvering room...
Implementation of the strategy centers on a "mobile device management" system to track handhelds that touch military networks so that they do not compromise military information or corrupt Defense systems.'"
Why would you even allow handhelds to "touch military networks", unless they were military-supplied handhelds?
The phone rings when they're outside seeking shelter. They can even keep the existing dialogue, but you get two or three quick shots of them triangulating based on signal bars. Maybe even show Thor isn't a total doofus and has more than three brain cells, by having him notice that they lose signal when they are aren't in line with that cave up on a ridge.
In the book, a trainee asks why they are learning to throw knives when they have nukes. The instructor stops the drill, and points out that you don't housetrain a puppy by decapitating it. The military is supposed to used controlled force to achieve policy objectives, not wanton destruction. He tells the recruit who to talk to if he still doesn't understand.
In the movie, the instructor throws a knife through the recruit's hand, and says, "Hard to push a button now, eh?"
I get that the movie is satire. I even get that there's a lot in the book that can be fairly satirized. The problem is, the movie is lazy, unfair, incompetent satire.
I see peak sustained downloads of about 800KB/sec on my cable. Sure, it sucks, but we're well away from the central drop.
So, that's 10,000 seconds, or about 2 hours and 45 minutes, to download 8,000 MB.
Of course, that's peak. If anyone else in the house is using Netflix, or if I'm downloading anything else, it'll be slower. And 8GB is about the average of games on Blu-Ray today, for the PS3. For the PS4, they're liable to be substantially larger. Especially since the XBone will also be using Blu-Ray to distribute games, finally, so multiplatform games can be larger than 8GB.
I have that on my Firefox browser, and I have a Chrome browser that clears everything on exit. Between them, I can surf anywhere and keep tracking to a minimum. Won't stop the NSA, of course, but...
I work on a product that supports Itanium, and we have a few customer that are still using Itanium servers, who knows why. We just discovered that unless you get the top-tier developer subscription to Microsoft Visual Studio, you don't get Itanium compilers.
From TFA: "The samples were weakened by radiation and then frozen."
It was five years ago I read about this, where they weakened a virus by actually re-coding in with the 'most pessimal' version of its genome. Same proteins, but reproduces three orders of magnitude slower.
And I haven't heard anything since. Does anyone know what's been going on with that? I suppose re-coding a whole single-celled organism might be more difficult/expensive than a virus, but still... the problem with point-mutations weaking a disease is that point-mutations can be reversed. Eventually someone's going to get sick from the vaccine itself. (Still, if the vaccine's effective it's a better bet, but if you can eliminate that chance...)
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(Because of all that, I was able to port POSE to Android.)
Admittedly, the ROM images are copyrighted, but that's not the same thing as the emulator itself. Same thing for the game machine emulators like MAME and such.
But I'd give you a bump if I could.
Hopefully our biotech is starting to get to the point where we can tailor viruses to specific targets, at least some of the time. Things like this give me some hope. If we can do that, we can do at least some of that kind of tailoring.
But off-duty police officers can?
http://www.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/research/pub/HS810704/pages/ExecSummary.html
http://www.pire.org/topiclist2.asp?cms=63
They don't stop everybody, they stop, say, every third car. And they use high-pressure sales techniques to try to get "biological samples". But they actually don't arrest people they find impaired; they try to arrange transportation for them. I don't think that makes it right, but let's at least be accurate about what they're doing.
More information and links to past examples of these "studies":
http://www.politechbot.com/2007/09/21/colorado-sheriff-creates/
...is still better than most comedy troupes can manage at full effort. So yeah.
That's what I did when an app came out with an insulting pricetag.
You mean the app interrupting its flow to ask the user to update, not just making an update available in the market. I agree, that's rather different, and highly annoying. I didn't understand your wording of "asking to update themselves".
That's putting it a bit too strongly. I just put out my first app a few days ago, and I've already gotten useful user feedback and requests for new features. Plus, small developers don't have the equipment budget to test the way larger companies do. (12 to 50 devices on a regular basis, with periodic tests on more.) Especially on a new app, there's going to be a period where things have to shake out.
Or do you simply avoid any app that hasn't been around a while?
Android has the "what's new" section, where developers can specify what's changed in the new version. A lot of apps seem to just use "Bug fixes.", but others are more transparent. Does that have any effect on your willingness to deal with updates?
I just came out with a new app - a Palm emulator. I couldn't think of everything, and there have already, just in the first few days, been requests for legitimate features that make sense to provide to users. Plus, apparently a couple devices might have problems, too. I'm going to have to put out at least a few more updates. Heck, a lot of the "getting your app noticed" advice say you should update regularly, to indicate an actively-maintained and healthy app.
So, how to strike a balance there? I guess I can't please everybody, sure, but there ought to be some maneuvering room...
Why would you even allow handhelds to "touch military networks", unless they were military-supplied handhelds?
...than they were in the old days .
The phone rings when they're outside seeking shelter. They can even keep the existing dialogue, but you get two or three quick shots of them triangulating based on signal bars. Maybe even show Thor isn't a total doofus and has more than three brain cells, by having him notice that they lose signal when they are aren't in line with that cave up on a ridge.
In the movie, the instructor throws a knife through the recruit's hand, and says, "Hard to push a button now, eh?"
I get that the movie is satire. I even get that there's a lot in the book that can be fairly satirized. The problem is, the movie is lazy, unfair, incompetent satire.
I see peak sustained downloads of about 800KB/sec on my cable. Sure, it sucks, but we're well away from the central drop.
So, that's 10,000 seconds, or about 2 hours and 45 minutes, to download 8,000 MB.
Of course, that's peak. If anyone else in the house is using Netflix, or if I'm downloading anything else, it'll be slower. And 8GB is about the average of games on Blu-Ray today, for the PS3. For the PS4, they're liable to be substantially larger. Especially since the XBone will also be using Blu-Ray to distribute games, finally, so multiplatform games can be larger than 8GB.
So... yeah.
People who don't want to wait several hours to download an 8+ GB game?
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I have that on my Firefox browser, and I have a Chrome browser that clears everything on exit. Between them, I can surf anywhere and keep tracking to a minimum. Won't stop the NSA, of course, but...
I work on a product that supports Itanium, and we have a few customer that are still using Itanium servers, who knows why. We just discovered that unless you get the top-tier developer subscription to Microsoft Visual Studio, you don't get Itanium compilers.
How hard is it to rig up a camera adapter? That'd help demonstrate exactly how powerful it is...
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131019/02322924936/accidentally-revealed-document-shows-tsa-doesnt-think-terrorists-are-plotting-to-attack-airplanes.shtml
Thanks! Just the kind of info I was hoping for.
...until you change the batteries in your sarcasm detector.
It was five years ago I read about this, where they weakened a virus by actually re-coding in with the 'most pessimal' version of its genome. Same proteins, but reproduces three orders of magnitude slower.
And I haven't heard anything since. Does anyone know what's been going on with that? I suppose re-coding a whole single-celled organism might be more difficult/expensive than a virus, but still... the problem with point-mutations weaking a disease is that point-mutations can be reversed. Eventually someone's going to get sick from the vaccine itself. (Still, if the vaccine's effective it's a better bet, but if you can eliminate that chance...)