No, he said that nowhere. He wants farms to be more efficient and provide a better return to the farmers for the same main products they are already producing.
Put your ego away for a minute and read the article again.
You need to pay more attention to the metric system.
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You have to remember that the US Patent Office *NO LONGER CHECKS PATENTS*. Their policy is to accept all valid applications (ie, no perpetual motion machines), and let the courts sort it out.
So now patents are controlled by whoever owns the court, which is usually the body with the deeper pockets.
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I disagree that open source is the best way to run a paid project. Not because the open source model doesn't work, but because it's hard enough to find and retain a core of 10-15 highly motivated, highly talented people; but to keep them interested on payroll to set deadlines is darned near impossible.
Open source developpers don't have the business constraints of hard deadline, make their own hours and release dates and take serious breaks off their projects.
Fundamentally, businesses need to manage their risk, deadlines, and content, in a much tighter way than open source projects allow.
The obvious disk hardware solution, although expensive, is a fob embedded in the disk surface that reads light pulses for a query, and "moves" pits (little micro-mirror sillicon elements can do it) according to some public-key exchange protocol (you can power it off the laser light, I'm sure). Done. Now breaking it is hard: you can't generate keys without the private key. All it costs you is a fancy custom CD that in high enough volume will be cheap.
The reality is that the US patent office no longer sanity checks patents. They are granted automatically, and the courts are expected to sort out infringement and prior art issues.
This means that like so many other institutions in the US the rich benefit, and the little guy is left out - the courts are just too expensive to use.
Although Cg is a nice contribution, I disagree that we can really call it a shading language. It's a nice processor for the snippets of code that wind up in the vertex and fragment shaders, but almost completely neglects the assignment and semantics of streams and constant registers from main memory to the vertex unit: until our shading language compilers address this, and so make it easy and consistent to swap out art and shaders *as data* rather than by changing your code to change shaders, we won't have a shader compiler.
Funny that - the only earthquake injury I've ever had was from an earthquake in Vancouver BC. Mind you the broken elbow was from standing slack-jawed in the middle of an SCA heavy fighting practice trying to figure out why the ground was moving while the other fellow kept pummelling me...
Simple answer then. Write a device driver. Stub it off of the/dev/null code, but return a huge size.
If you're not a kernel hack, this is a great simple way to learn how to build a driver.
While it may be true that the OSS development environment is not management's idea of proving your worth in the work environment it *is* fundamentally useful at getting work.
I work as a technical manager in a large organization. One of our biggest hiring problems is sorting worthy recent graduates from unworthy recent graduates. There is very little that differentiates one resume from the next. In that environment (for new grads only, really) OSS development is a good sign of motivation and ability. It's frequently enough to move your application into the "interview" pile.
The real cookbook for geeks dates back into the deep dark days of the usenet, before the great renaming. Not that I expect anyone on this board to remember.
Alt.gourmand was archived, and various bits of unix software (deceptively close to the man page system) could be used to not only format the cookbook, but also to glom it together, build a permuted index, and drop the lot to your printer.
I have a lovely spiral bound edition from around 1986...
Does anyone know where to get these collections anymore?
Doxygen lets you mark up your source code pretty easily, and generates decent looking documents. You can use the same markup (and cross-reference facilities) in non-code documents processed at the same time.
The right answer is *not* to de-orbit the stuff, but to gather it together, and leave it *in* orbit. We've already paid dearly to put the stuff up there, we should start thinking of it as a mine. We won't be smelting the ore for a while, but it is pretty high grade stuff.
The security problem that people keep trying to address with ID cards cannot be addressed by the card alone. It has to be coupled with measures to force you to carry the card, and measures to force you to show the card. Both of these can be enacted now, with current existing means of identification. I don't want to see it though.
I really feel that the big win of Meccano over Lego is that as a child I could get 90% of the way there with Meccano, and 100% with Lego. Hold on - what's the win? The last 10% with Meccano kept me and my father occupied together for hours. Lego never did.
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I didn't realize George W. Bush was intending to flood the world in this conflict...oops sorry - I forgot about the greenhouse stuff.
Put your ego away for a minute and read the article again.
Vi vs emacs is bad enough. Leave the what you're eating religion on some vegetable site.
Who needs karma anyways.
Get your vassectomy today.
1 in = 2.54 cm
3.8 / 2.54 = 1.5 in
You need to pay more attention to the metric system.
So now patents are controlled by whoever owns the court, which is usually the body with the deeper pockets.
Open source developpers don't have the business constraints of hard deadline, make their own hours and release dates and take serious breaks off their projects.
Fundamentally, businesses need to manage their risk, deadlines, and content, in a much tighter way than open source projects allow.
Yes, but until now it tended to be the game companies that paid the advertisers for the right to use their trademarks...
The obvious disk hardware solution, although expensive, is a fob embedded in the disk surface that reads light pulses for a query, and "moves" pits (little micro-mirror sillicon elements can do it) according to some public-key exchange protocol (you can power it off the laser light, I'm sure). Done. Now breaking it is hard: you can't generate keys without the private key. All it costs you is a fancy custom CD that in high enough volume will be cheap.
This means that like so many other institutions in the US the rich benefit, and the little guy is left out - the courts are just too expensive to use.
I believe of/off high/low would be covered by the doctrine of equivalents :-)
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'cmon - it's the illusion of free will that matters, not free will itself.
Simple answer then. Write a device driver. Stub it off of the /dev/null code, but return a huge size.
If you're not a kernel hack, this is a great simple way to learn how to build a driver.
I work as a technical manager in a large organization. One of our biggest hiring problems is sorting worthy recent graduates from unworthy recent graduates. There is very little that differentiates one resume from the next. In that environment (for new grads only, really) OSS development is a good sign of motivation and ability. It's frequently enough to move your application into the "interview" pile.
Always think of the potential of hiring people with good ideas, rather then buying the ideas outright.
Geese and golden eggs, and all that.
Alt.gourmand was archived, and various bits of unix software (deceptively close to the man page system) could be used to not only format the cookbook, but also to glom it together, build a permuted index, and drop the lot to your printer.
I have a lovely spiral bound edition from around 1986... Does anyone know where to get these collections anymore?
Doxygen lets you mark up your source code pretty easily, and generates decent looking documents. You can use the same markup (and cross-reference facilities) in non-code documents processed at the same time.
The right answer is *not* to de-orbit the stuff, but to gather it together, and leave it *in* orbit. We've already paid dearly to put the stuff up there, we should start thinking of it as a mine. We won't be smelting the ore for a while, but it is pretty high grade stuff.
Final Fantasy didn't die for poor graphics, it died from a poor script.
So much money, so little writing.
The security problem that people keep trying to address with ID cards cannot be addressed by the card alone. It has to be coupled with measures to force you to carry the card, and measures to force you to show the card. Both of these can be enacted now, with current existing means of identification. I don't want to see it though.
I assume they'll glue it together before sending it up. At least that will avoid the self-modifying trojan LEGO monster issue...
I really feel that the big win of Meccano over Lego is that as a child I could get 90% of the way there with Meccano, and 100% with Lego. Hold on - what's the win? The last 10% with Meccano kept me and my father occupied together for hours. Lego never did.