Uh Bucky, you can have an unstable processor very easily. It can be heat sensitive, it can age poorly, it can have a number of issues go wrong. Just because yours worked doesn't mean they all do.
Considering that Replay and TiVo came out at approximately the same time, TiVo will have a hard time proving prior art. Patents are issued with regards to time of first disclosure.
Seriously, if you're coming out of college, you're probably only 21 or 22. You have a whole life in front of you. You're probably not going to do one thing for your entire life, don't worry that being a "great geek" isn't everything it's chalked up to be.
It played just about everything. All the reviews I read pretty much put the Pocket Concert as the best memory based MP3 player out there. Lame name, boring package, but works like a charm (I like mine).
Remember, there's a big difference between what the mafia says, and what the RIAA says. The Mafia threatens physical violence, a CRIMINAL act, if you don't use their service. The RIAA threatens a lawsuit, a perfectly legal CIVIL action, if Dr. Felten violates their interpretation of a standing law and a contract. It's a very different situation. It's the difference between threatening to kill (illegal, criminal) if he doesn't stop his dog from crapping on your yard, or threatening to sue him for a gazillion dollars (perfectly legal).
I sent email to my representative (David Wu, D. OR) requesting that he support AMT reform. I included my name, email address, and my home address. A couple of weeks later I received a form letter via US Mail from Mr. Wu thanking me for my opinions.
Well reasoned, intelligent emails do get processed, especially when you include full information about who you are so that they can actually see that you are one of their constituents. Incoherent flames get filed where they're most useful.
Does PostgreSQL actually support stored procedures? I took a look at PostgreSQL a couple of months back, and it appeared to have no such thing. It has something called a stored function, that is a very different beast.
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One problem is that some people don't even know they're susceptable. I just spent 2 hours removing Code Red xxx from NT Server, because I didn't know that I even had IIS on there. I put SQL Server on the box, and guess what, it installed IIS for me.
Seriously, as others have noted, correctness checking usually involves checking against a spec. Now, instead of writing bug free software, you have to write a bug free spec. You've really just moved the problem, and I've never seen any evidence that writing a bug free spec is any easier than writing a bug free program. If it was, we'd have developed spec->program translators already.
To really get this right, I think you have to solve the halting problem, which is, of course, provably unsolvable.
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Uh Bucky, you can have an unstable processor very easily. It can be heat sensitive, it can age poorly, it can have a number of issues go wrong. Just because yours worked doesn't mean they all do.
Considering that Replay and TiVo came out at approximately the same time, TiVo will have a hard time proving prior art. Patents are issued with regards to time of first disclosure.
Replace Cobol with C++. Yuck. That's like jumping from pig sh*t to cow sh*t.
Because, at present, there is no consumer software or OS for IA-64 (or any other 64-bit arcitecture, for that matter), and hence, no demand.
- Go to Grad School.
- Join the Peace Corps or AmeriCorps.
- Become a hermit.
- Join the Army.
- Get a second bachelors degree.
- Hitchhike across europe for a summer.
- Become an intern for a congressman.
- Apply to Business School or Law School.
- Work the fishing boats in Alaska.
- Get a second major in music.
- Write the Great American Novel(tm)
Seriously, if you're coming out of college, you're probably only 21 or 22. You have a whole life in front of you. You're probably not going to do one thing for your entire life, don't worry that being a "great geek" isn't everything it's chalked up to be.It played just about everything. All the reviews I read pretty much put the Pocket Concert as the best memory based MP3 player out there. Lame name, boring package, but works like a charm (I like mine).
Remember, there's a big difference between what the mafia says, and what the RIAA says. The Mafia threatens physical violence, a CRIMINAL act, if you don't use their service. The RIAA threatens a lawsuit, a perfectly legal CIVIL action, if Dr. Felten violates their interpretation of a standing law and a contract. It's a very different situation. It's the difference between threatening to kill (illegal, criminal) if he doesn't stop his dog from crapping on your yard, or threatening to sue him for a gazillion dollars (perfectly legal).
Well reasoned, intelligent emails do get processed, especially when you include full information about who you are so that they can actually see that you are one of their constituents. Incoherent flames get filed where they're most useful.
Does PostgreSQL actually support stored procedures? I took a look at PostgreSQL a couple of months back, and it appeared to have no such thing. It has something called a stored function, that is a very different beast.
One problem is that some people don't even know they're susceptable. I just spent 2 hours removing Code Red xxx from NT Server, because I didn't know that I even had IIS on there. I put SQL Server on the box, and guess what, it installed IIS for me.
Seriously, as others have noted, correctness checking usually involves checking against a spec. Now, instead of writing bug free software, you have to write a bug free spec. You've really just moved the problem, and I've never seen any evidence that writing a bug free spec is any easier than writing a bug free program. If it was, we'd have developed spec->program translators already.
To really get this right, I think you have to solve the halting problem, which is, of course, provably unsolvable.