There is a strong industry interest in AI and universal translators and they are companies willing to fund research for 5 years for a potential of a big payoff. I am thinking of Japanese companies - look at mostly useless Sony pet robots that are getting increasingly sophisticated.
Perhaps the agency should move to completely undeveloped areas of technology like useable quantum computers. Management will then automatically have more respect for lack of immediate results as there is no commercial competition to compare your progress against.
A price drop does not harm you, it only benefits other people. I don't understand why Woz, a generally great guy, sympathizes so much with other people's simple jealousy. You thought the price was right when you bought it. What changes now? And you always can choose to only buy from stores with 30 day price guarantee.
When large companies find that their IT departments can not stage ISOs for enterprise-wide deployment, they are going to fight this law much more effectively than any music enthusiasts could.
Keep the hardware as it is, release an SDK integrated with XCode. It's really a shame to pay so much for hardware and not be able to play an occasional chess game.
GPLv2 itself is incompatible with all licenses existing before it was introduced - typical commercial license, BSD, public domain. Personally I would prefer return to founder's copyright and obligation for the author to release the work in a form conductive to creating derivatives (which would be source code for software, digital negative for photos...) after those 7 years or 14 after getting a renewal for a nominal fee.
But other than that, I don't see why Microsoft should be held to higher standard than FSF.
Did you notice that these events get publicly reported, there are mass protests, police officers responsible get fired and republicans are getting kicked out of the government?
The student recently tasered was white. Jena 6 teenagers were beating a white student after he already passed out, an action that may well kill.
Used this way, Google mining would just flag everyone and overwhelm DHS with useless intelligence. That is, unless US government goes on Stalin -like purge and send tens of millions to forced labor. Minimally useful intelligence would look for long lasting patterns of accessing the same kinds of material or for active correspondence with other persons of interest. Your data would then be put under surveillance by a human to rule out benign explanations such as scholar research or interest in popular literature. Only then are you likely to see any questioning by law enforcement in real life.
Yes, I am aware of Gitmo, no fly lists, wiretaps without subpoena. But so are other americans, people are ballistic and some of those things are getting curtailed. There is every reason to think this was a temporary fear-induced mistake and not a long term direction of our society. Even then, the article talking about government going evil, not Google.
The problem would be kremlin.su passing itself as the official government site. I guess having.prav.su (==.gov in russian) subdomain would avoid the problem, but this has not historically been done with.su,
Well, the purpose of the system is to allow different policies for registration of domains under different TLDs. It wouldn't be so cool if someone registered screw.gov or worse whiethouse.gov. The solution is to simply register a secondary-level domain under.com. Most browsers already try bondage.xxx.com if someone types inbondage.xxx.
Now, if the controlling entity becomes defunct, it would be a good choice to leave existing sites alone but disallow new registrations. Otherwise sites might imply legitimacy that they do not have.
Let's say a guy finds a killer algorithm to speed up data mining. Big corp selling data mining software can gobble it up. Guy can't sell any data mining competing software because I'm infringing 800 silly patents (double linked lists and stuff).
Let's say a guy finds a killer algorithm to speed up data mining. Big corp selling data mining software can gobble it up. Guy can't sell any data mining competing software because I'm infringing 800 silly patents (double linked lists and stuff). Those two issues are not mutually exclusive and must be both addresses in law. Make it easy to challenge a patent and do not award damages with no rational basis.
Given that it's impossible to ship a product without infringing on dozens of patents from big companies, at least one of which will refuse to negotiate reasonable licensing due to competitive considerations. What's not too like about the new rules? You get compensated for the fair value of your patent if someone uses your invention without license. If a BMW shop uses 1-click on their online website, do you really expect to get all the proceeds from their car sales as a reward?
Doing so can disrupt hundreds of thousands of businesses and personal domains. Let both.su and.yu remain. Most new sites will probably register under names of present day countries to highlight their local ties anyway.
So how does that work? Say I am a company selling cell phones and I need to buy some expensive office equipment to do business. I also have to pay higher salary to my employees because most of the things they buy will be subject to VAT. Can I really reclaim both of these expenses on account that my own product is subject to VAT?
Then you can expect similar iTunes store or iPhone pricing as in US. Long-established british companies have probably learned on how not too pay the tax as many times on the same item as a foreigner new to the area would.
Neither MPAA nor ISPs should be able to see the content we are exchanging and be in the position to filter it. Even with SSL, where the server can theoretically be accessed by anyone, the computational requirements of establishing a session will choke the filters. Add some captchas and you are gold.
I am sure similar comparisons can be drawn between KDE vs blackbox as desktops. My point was that it's unfair to criticize "Open Source community" when commercial software has the same problems.
As an aside, out of the products you mentioned, only Photoshop Elements runs on Mac. It is not really suitable for even casual work such as creating an icon or personal web site logo. Rather, it's only useful for retouching photos.
The commercial "community" doesn't exactly have the best track record developing complex GUI intensive applications. There is Photoshop, which is not affordable for 99% of potential market. Internet Explorer isn't exactly doing much as far as web pages appearance, standard compliance or security. Windows and MacOSX both have... issues... in particular the fact that there are two desktops in the first place fragmenting application development and massively duplicating effort.
Once you have 10 variables to #ifdef on, the function will either become inefficient by handling all the cases in runtime if statements or unmaintainable by having a complex and deeply nested tree of #ifdefs. After a while, it becomes impossible to understand if a particular configuration will work or what exactly it is going to do. It starts making more sense to just fork the program and optimize it for a particular case you are interested in. Once you have done that in real life, you will understand the difference between hypothetical compiler efficiency and work of real programmers.
There is much more to code efficiency than a freshman C class. The remaining code doesn't magically stop checking for conditions that the #if 0'd block would cause. Think:
You tell me. Is there no place where an array or a bitmap could be used instead of a linked list or tree to keep track of processes, network interfaces, locks and so on? You may think it's a small potato. But repeated over thousands of data structures, overhead becomes very noticeable in the code that happens to hit the kernel heavily. See this link. Do you think you can just "reconfigure" Apache to beat thttpd?
Putting a bunch of #if 0's into complex, bloated code doesn't make it slim and efficient. Statements elsewhere still make assumptions about one of 1000 things happening rather than one in 10. Slow, scalable algorithms are used rather than lean but limited ones. make config is not going to turn your Linux into FreeDOS.
Actually, you can not per se. Anyone with normal health will not even die of thirst that soon at indoor air temperatures. If you are doing anything physically strenuous, you will eventually pass out and remain resuscitable with basic first aid for at least a day. Long before that, it will be obvious to bystanders that you need medical help.
Sure, many medical conditions change this equation. For example, a diabetic may die from hypoglycemia, or constantly sitting in one position for months can cause deep-vein thrombosis. However such cases are better described as a patient not following his treatment regiment than a death from gaming or a death for exhaustion.
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There is a strong industry interest in AI and universal translators and they are companies willing to fund research for 5 years for a potential of a big payoff. I am thinking of Japanese companies - look at mostly useless Sony pet robots that are getting increasingly sophisticated.
Perhaps the agency should move to completely undeveloped areas of technology like useable quantum computers. Management will then automatically have more respect for lack of immediate results as there is no commercial competition to compare your progress against.
A price drop does not harm you, it only benefits other people. I don't understand why Woz, a generally great guy, sympathizes so much with other people's simple jealousy. You thought the price was right when you bought it. What changes now? And you always can choose to only buy from stores with 30 day price guarantee.
When large companies find that their IT departments can not stage ISOs for enterprise-wide deployment, they are going to fight this law much more effectively than any music enthusiasts could.
Keep the hardware as it is, release an SDK integrated with XCode. It's really a shame to pay so much for hardware and not be able to play an occasional chess game.
GPLv2 itself is incompatible with all licenses existing before it was introduced - typical commercial license, BSD, public domain. Personally I would prefer return to founder's copyright and obligation for the author to release the work in a form conductive to creating derivatives (which would be source code for software, digital negative for photos...) after those 7 years or 14 after getting a renewal for a nominal fee.
But other than that, I don't see why Microsoft should be held to higher standard than FSF.
Did you notice that these events get publicly reported, there are mass protests, police officers responsible get fired and republicans are getting kicked out of the government?
The student recently tasered was white. Jena 6 teenagers were beating a white student after he already passed out, an action that may well kill.
Used this way, Google mining would just flag everyone and overwhelm DHS with useless intelligence. That is, unless US government goes on Stalin -like purge and send tens of millions to forced labor. Minimally useful intelligence would look for long lasting patterns of accessing the same kinds of material or for active correspondence with other persons of interest. Your data would then be put under surveillance by a human to rule out benign explanations such as scholar research or interest in popular literature. Only then are you likely to see any questioning by law enforcement in real life.
Yes, I am aware of Gitmo, no fly lists, wiretaps without subpoena. But so are other americans, people are ballistic and some of those things are getting curtailed. There is every reason to think this was a temporary fear-induced mistake and not a long term direction of our society. Even then, the article talking about government going evil, not Google.
The problem would be kremlin.su passing itself as the official government site. I guess having .prav.su (== .gov in russian) subdomain would avoid the problem, but this has not historically been done with .su,
Not from Google's point of view. You can not have vaporware if you don't announce the product. "Preliminary discussions" would be a better term.
Well, the purpose of the system is to allow different policies for registration of domains under different TLDs. It wouldn't be so cool if someone registered screw.gov or worse whiethouse.gov. The solution is to simply register a secondary-level domain under .com. Most browsers already try bondage.xxx.com if someone types inbondage.xxx.
Now, if the controlling entity becomes defunct, it would be a good choice to leave existing sites alone but disallow new registrations. Otherwise sites might imply legitimacy that they do not have.
Let's say a guy finds a killer algorithm to speed up data mining. Big corp selling data mining software can gobble it up. Guy can't sell any data mining competing software because I'm infringing 800 silly patents (double linked lists and stuff).
Let's say a guy finds a killer algorithm to speed up data mining. Big corp selling data mining software can gobble it up. Guy can't sell any data mining competing software because I'm infringing 800 silly patents (double linked lists and stuff). Those two issues are not mutually exclusive and must be both addresses in law. Make it easy to challenge a patent and do not award damages with no rational basis.
Given that it's impossible to ship a product without infringing on dozens of patents from big companies, at least one of which will refuse to negotiate reasonable licensing due to competitive considerations. What's not too like about the new rules? You get compensated for the fair value of your patent if someone uses your invention without license. If a BMW shop uses 1-click on their online website, do you really expect to get all the proceeds from their car sales as a reward?
Doing so can disrupt hundreds of thousands of businesses and personal domains. Let both .su and .yu remain. Most new sites will probably register under names of present day countries to highlight their local ties anyway.
So how does that work? Say I am a company selling cell phones and I need to buy some expensive office equipment to do business. I also have to pay higher salary to my employees because most of the things they buy will be subject to VAT. Can I really reclaim both of these expenses on account that my own product is subject to VAT?
Then you can expect similar iTunes store or iPhone pricing as in US. Long-established british companies have probably learned on how not too pay the tax as many times on the same item as a foreigner new to the area would.
Neither MPAA nor ISPs should be able to see the content we are exchanging and be in the position to filter it. Even with SSL, where the server can theoretically be accessed by anyone, the computational requirements of establishing a session will choke the filters. Add some captchas and you are gold.
A device that fully and instantly incapacitates people, without doing any physical damage to them.
Aka "rape gun".
Actually males will be probably more sensitive to this weapon.
I am sure similar comparisons can be drawn between KDE vs blackbox as desktops. My point was that it's unfair to criticize "Open Source community" when commercial software has the same problems.
As an aside, out of the products you mentioned, only Photoshop Elements runs on Mac. It is not really suitable for even casual work such as creating an icon or personal web site logo. Rather, it's only useful for retouching photos.
The commercial "community" doesn't exactly have the best track record developing complex GUI intensive applications. There is Photoshop, which is not affordable for 99% of potential market. Internet Explorer isn't exactly doing much as far as web pages appearance, standard compliance or security. Windows and MacOSX both have ... issues ... in particular the fact that there are two desktops in the first place fragmenting application development and massively duplicating effort.
Once you have 10 variables to #ifdef on, the function will either become inefficient by handling all the cases in runtime if statements or unmaintainable by having a complex and deeply nested tree of #ifdefs. After a while, it becomes impossible to understand if a particular configuration will work or what exactly it is going to do. It starts making more sense to just fork the program and optimize it for a particular case you are interested in. Once you have done that in real life, you will understand the difference between hypothetical compiler efficiency and work of real programmers.
There is much more to code efficiency than a freshman C class. The remaining code doesn't magically stop checking for conditions that the #if 0'd block would cause. Think:
createCivilization();
#if 0
fightNuclearWar();
#endif
survive();
You would pretty much have to fork the survive function to handle both configurations reasonably.
You tell me. Is there no place where an array or a bitmap could be used instead of a linked list or tree to keep track of processes, network interfaces, locks and so on? You may think it's a small potato. But repeated over thousands of data structures, overhead becomes very noticeable in the code that happens to hit the kernel heavily. See this link. Do you think you can just "reconfigure" Apache to beat thttpd?
Putting a bunch of #if 0's into complex, bloated code doesn't make it slim and efficient. Statements elsewhere still make assumptions about one of 1000 things happening rather than one in 10. Slow, scalable algorithms are used rather than lean but limited ones. make config is not going to turn your Linux into FreeDOS.
Actually, you can not per se. Anyone with normal health will not even die of thirst that soon at indoor air temperatures. If you are doing anything physically strenuous, you will eventually pass out and remain resuscitable with basic first aid for at least a day. Long before that, it will be obvious to bystanders that you need medical help.
Sure, many medical conditions change this equation. For example, a diabetic may die from hypoglycemia, or constantly sitting in one position for months can cause deep-vein thrombosis. However such cases are better described as a patient not following his treatment regiment than a death from gaming or a death for exhaustion.