Postscript is a Turing complete language, but it's output can only be a page buffer. Kind of hard to spread a virus that way.
PDF is a parametric page description format similar to (although nothing like) HTML... it's only Turing complete when it includes Javascript (although the percentage of pdfs created with embedded javascript are very small, certainly <1%)
If anything, this means Javascript should be a separate OS library that the user can configure separately (and use different interpreters/engines) since adobe just static-binds a 3rd party javascript interpreter into acrobat anyways.
#1 Find the average tagged keyword of a searched resulted and clicked-thru website
#2 gather enough of these searches and you'll have a composite of the searcher's general interests
#3 cross references their general interest with the average gender, socieconomic, racial, and/or
#4.. Patent!!!
#5... Profit???
So if you want to screw up that system, a person should just search and click thru something completely random, like businessman searching pokeman websites, a musician searching physics research, or a slashdotter searching for ED pills:)
I remember driving to Denver from Las Vegas, going though the rocky mountain interstate. It had been snowing, and they de-iced the roads, yet I still saw no less the 7 cars stuck/spun into the center divider. 5 of them were SUVs.
The robot didn't actively kill him; it just wasn't programmed to know whether a person is there or not. It's like stepping into a giant blender without turning it off. There's isn't much morality to worry about.
is that Hybrids are more efficient then an pure-petro powered car in stop & go driving.
In ordinary cars, hitting the brakes coverts it's kinetic energy directly into heat (on the brake rotors) and is basically lost forever... Hybrids get to 'cheat' this by reclaiming this energy, which is why their city mpg is very similar to highway mpg.
Every object has attributes and methods-- . That's the whole point of OO-based MVC programming. This sounds like the realm of presentation (which IMO shouldn't really be patentable).
Is it me, or should the USPO hire at least one computer scientist/historian to look these things over?
then you get a router that serves DHCP and assigns IP's to everybody... except DHCP isn't going to tell my laptop that there's an shared printer on the network.
Yeah, but the whole concept of RAID is that the probability of both drives failing at the exact same moment (barring any incident that may affect both drives such as physical shock or power supply issues) are pretty low.
It's basic statistics: That's why for the longest time the FAA only allowed large passenger jets (>2 engines) to fly trans-oceanic flights, since the odds of a single engine failing is very slim-- but when you multiplied that probability with 4 engines, it makes for a near-impossibiliy of an airplane plunging into the sea due to engine failure.
It used to be you'd go to McDonalds and order small, medium & large fries... but ever since they made "super-size" fries, they just dropped 'small' fries and switched all the names around (so they can say that every combo meal comes with a serving of 'medium' fries).
That's an easier analogy to dispute: Is the general public more productive on a current PC rather then a 3 yr old one?
I mean, I'd understand it's a tool of the trade-- the cluster computing engineer would have enough reason to use the best/fastest, but my work PC is a 1Ghz PIII, win2k, and I only use Office on it. It works so well that I can't find any incentive to upgrade at all. All my relatives have PC's that aren't much faster-- and feel no need to upgrade either.
Yeah except that Microsoft agreed to let almost ANY government (such as China and Russia) review Windows source code via their "shared source" program.
So we get the best of both worlds; A closed source OS peer-reviewed by our ideological enemies... heck they could study the Windows source and just say they found no exploits.
I've OCR'd some stuff, believe me, Times isn't as easily OCR-able (is that a word?) as one would believe, especially if the source text has been faxed or copied a few generations.
But I'm using consumer grade OCR software (Xerox Textbridge), so I dunno what the.gov uses; TMMV.
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Postscript is a Turing complete language, but it's output can only be a page buffer. Kind of hard to spread a virus that way.
PDF is a parametric page description format similar to (although nothing like) HTML... it's only Turing complete when it includes Javascript (although the percentage of pdfs created with embedded javascript are very small, certainly <1%)
If anything, this means Javascript should be a separate OS library that the user can configure separately (and use different interpreters/engines) since adobe just static-binds a 3rd party javascript interpreter into acrobat anyways.
I'd like to know how much R&D effort is needed to write an email migration tool.
I'm not a programmer... but It doesn't sound like something that would justify $1B in losses.
Who's nobody? Much of the world (such as Europe and Asia) can buy a 600cc class of cars that gets similar mileage as the Honda HE.
The U.S. attitude on such cars will probably have to change as gas approaches (and goes well beyond) $5, $10, or $15 a gallon...
#1 Find the average tagged keyword of a searched resulted and clicked-thru website
:)
#2 gather enough of these searches and you'll have a composite of the searcher's general interests
#3 cross references their general interest with the average gender, socieconomic, racial, and/or
#4.. Patent!!!
#5... Profit???
So if you want to screw up that system, a person should just search and click thru something completely random, like businessman searching pokeman websites, a musician searching physics research, or a slashdotter searching for ED pills
I remember driving to Denver from Las Vegas, going though the rocky mountain interstate. It had been snowing, and they de-iced the roads, yet I still saw no less the 7 cars stuck/spun into the center divider. 5 of them were SUVs.
They just called a geek squad to cover their tracks!
It's strange how there's no outrage over these kinds of things. The need for transparent government is seriously overlooked.
would they have do so even if Apple didn't convince EMI to drop DRM?
I think not.
The robot didn't actively kill him; it just wasn't programmed to know whether a person is there or not. It's like stepping into a giant blender without turning it off. There's isn't much morality to worry about.
I've been using iTunes for years with MP3's only. I don't touch the music store, so my collection is still mp3 format.
But wouldn't those thousands of 'geniuses' try to avoid being broke and unhappy?
is that Hybrids are more efficient then an pure-petro powered car in stop & go driving.
In ordinary cars, hitting the brakes coverts it's kinetic energy directly into heat (on the brake rotors) and is basically lost forever... Hybrids get to 'cheat' this by reclaiming this energy, which is why their city mpg is very similar to highway mpg.
Every object has attributes and methods-- . That's the whole point of OO-based MVC programming. This sounds like the realm of presentation (which IMO shouldn't really be patentable). Is it me, or should the USPO hire at least one computer scientist/historian to look these things over?
then you get a router that serves DHCP and assigns IP's to everybody. .. except DHCP isn't going to tell my laptop that there's an shared printer on the network.
and was on it's 4th revision by the time it was shopped around to Apple.
IIRC, BeOS didn't have printing abilities at that time...
Either way, both OS's were leaps beyond Classic (System 7-based) MacOS. That's all that mattered to Apple at the time..
Because IBM sold the Nazi's some census machines that were eventually used to track down and account for all the Jews in their country.
Technology by itself doesn't have any principals attached to it... It's end usage is up to humanity to figure out.
Yeah, but the whole concept of RAID is that the probability of both drives failing at the exact same moment (barring any incident that may affect both drives such as physical shock or power supply issues) are pretty low.
It's basic statistics: That's why for the longest time the FAA only allowed large passenger jets (>2 engines) to fly trans-oceanic flights, since the odds of a single engine failing is very slim-- but when you multiplied that probability with 4 engines, it makes for a near-impossibiliy of an airplane plunging into the sea due to engine failure.
It used to be you'd go to McDonalds and order small, medium & large fries... but ever since they made "super-size" fries, they just dropped 'small' fries and switched all the names around (so they can say that every combo meal comes with a serving of 'medium' fries).
Ain't marketing wonderful?
That's an easier analogy to dispute: Is the general public more productive on a current PC rather then a 3 yr old one?
I mean, I'd understand it's a tool of the trade-- the cluster computing engineer would have enough reason to use the best/fastest, but my work PC is a 1Ghz PIII, win2k, and I only use Office on it. It works so well that I can't find any incentive to upgrade at all. All my relatives have PC's that aren't much faster-- and feel no need to upgrade either.
whoops, lunch break's over...
Yeah except that Microsoft agreed to let almost ANY government (such as China and Russia) review Windows source code via their "shared source" program.
So we get the best of both worlds; A closed source OS peer-reviewed by our ideological enemies... heck they could study the Windows source and just say they found no exploits.
On my mac my unprotected AAC's outnumber my purchased iTunes songs by 100:1.
How? By ripping my existing CD collection.. duh.
unlike WMA, AAC is an open industry-wide format-- much like MPEG.
Sure-- you'd have to pay a license fee for commercial use, but they can't keep you from accessing documentation and implimenting it on your own.
the news of an OBL capture will conveniently surface in October, right before the election sweep. ;)
...are among other research projects paid for by government money. Don't tell me that those things would be better developed by private industry.
That's like saying we would be better off with 5 different (and incompatible) digital TV standards.
Bunk. There's new reports that dispute that figure, along with the fact that every freaking Apache server DOES NOT necessarily run Linux.
Regardless of it's platform, you can't deny that Apache is an extreamly popular open source webserver.
I've OCR'd some stuff, believe me, Times isn't as easily OCR-able (is that a word?) as one would believe, especially if the source text has been faxed or copied a few generations.
.gov uses; TMMV.
But I'm using consumer grade OCR software (Xerox Textbridge), so I dunno what the