And not just how the military factors, but also how the number is derived. Are US dollars expended on an outsourced project still counted as US dollars? I gotta believe that Indian corporations are only a tiny fraction of the revenue into those outsourced jobs. I RTFA but (typically) it didn't describe its sources, nor did I see that reference about the US R&D budget being bigger than the next 5.
sociological I'll agree with but metaphysical? Maybe he's a dreamer, but aren't all SF writers? But I was talking about the excriating detail of things like where the shorelines of the oceans would be, what a terrorist-snipped space elevator impact would be, etc. I really enjoyed a short story he wrote once about some rock climbers tackling Mons Olympus. His research is meticulous. But yeah, he did get progressively sentimental. Hence the comment on "purple". Maybe I should have said "violet paisley".
Both IBM and the analyst mentioned in the article say this is about competition; undermine MS SQL Server while boosting Websphere. If some small-scale apps are developed in Cloudscape/Java instead of.NET then when/if those apps grow up the natural evolution would be to migrate to DB/2 & Websphere. And maybe it isn't even about making more profit on Websphere but just slowing the penetration of MS into the back office.
Wouldn't a Pentagon contract be enough? And is 2nd place a contract with the Russians? Somewhere down around 40th place is a contract with the Korean military...
Cool link, but it's the "old" Time Domain brand, not the newer Camero brand. The newer brand has better res according to the article. Here's a couple other news sites that popped out of Google:
Isreali press and an investor announcement.
In binary I can express anything that can reduce to something over a power of 2, and.5 is 1/2. Of course you can't express many decimal numbers in binary. In decimal you can express 3/10 , but neither binary nor decimal can express 1/3. If you CARE about the base 10 decimal places (e.g. a financial application) then floating point is inappropriate.
But you can't say floating point is inaccurate. It is highly accurate in binary. If your application is doing pure math and is using the result of a floating point calculation to some purpose other than human eyes it's quite applicable.
And for many math functions in many languages (e.g. root exponentiation) decimal is simply not available. The Java math class is the only function in the Java libs that can extract the 12th root of an interest yield to determine the nominal interest rate. It accepts a float or a double, but not a BigDecimal. But so what. If you use floating point you'll still get a number out to many more decimal places than is needed for accurate rounding of the interest. I suppose if you're applying that interest to something like the national debt you might need to use double precision floating point...
P.S. if anybody has an open source bean that can do root exponentiation on the BigDecimal class please let me know
I think it's hillariously ironic that a gigantic company named "Microsoft" is doing so little on the leading edge of the current standard of micro technology and yet is battleing so ruthlesslessy against a 17 year old kid over a phonetic similarity. I mean, the current top-of-the-line IBM mainframes fit in a box smaller than the Altair 8800 where Micro-Soft started, and Windows is so bloated it has no hope of being involved in any of the nanotech going on now.
I want to play Civ IV with 18 million terrabytes of addressable memory. Paris is is researching Creme Brulee, Liverpool is building the mod haircut, and there is a coppertone shortage in Pismo Beach.
It seems someone writing a check to Western Union back in 1880 to wire money across the continent on a telegraph line was "process(ing) payments over a communications system"
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9
according to the article If Netflix Fanatic's developer showed that he developed the application independently from his work and resources at Apple, and that the application does not relate to Apple's R&D efforts, he may have a case under that section of the California Labor Code.
If the developer has to "show" the independence then he has to prove a negative. Seems winning with this law is impossible.
OK, I'll go with you on that. I looked up the thickness of typical copier paper: 75 gram is about.1 mm thick. That means you need about 100 sq cm, which makes this only slightly smaller than a CD ROM (about 113 sq cm). But the article said it was fingertip sized. Maybe there's a stack of the material in a cube. Now I'm curious.
Oh, I agree. I just find it sadly amusing that in an 84 page documenbt that describes details like how to order office supplies there are no standards for ensuring the invention is truly new.
I doubt everything will be reviewed, but if there is a single review of a software patent then there is precedent for more reviews, and hopefully a message to all that patents aren't to be handed out like candy. Unfortunately the General Powers and Duties of the USPTO according to law are 1) to follow the policy of the secretary of commerce, 2) to issue patents, and 3) to disseminate patent information to the public. There is nothing in the general duties about ensuring the patent is "first art".
If the physical device was stolen how the hell do they know the software wasn't copied? Clearly the physical security was inadequate. Of course if this IS a ploy to attract investors nothing would turn off investors more than knowing you can buy the software on Canal street for $5.
A separate control device attached to the rifle lets the shooter manipulate the system without taking his hands off of the gun. One button, for example, activates voice communications, or calls up maps on the helmet-mounted display. Another button captures images, saves them and transmits them to a commander
The Windows OS is wedded to the Windows User Interface; there is no abstraction (as with X Windows) of the user interface from the OS. This makes so much sense.
But that's already the case. Having a Harvard MBA won't land you a job as an accountant without the CPA designation.
The certifications are useful for the uneducated to know the person they are hiring is sufficiently competent to pass a test developed by industry experts. I wish there was a certification; it would give me specific goals to learn and distinguish me from those who've only dropped a SuSE distro onto an old box in stand-alone mode.
Of course to be useful it would need an organization similar to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to create the test and keep it current. This is no small undertaking (follow the link and see all the stuff AICPA does). If it were as rigourous and respected as a CPA the dues needed t osupport the organization would be well worth the higher salary the certified could command.
The regulations have 9 exemptions, and yes, the first is "classified national defense and foreign relations information". Of course the suit will probably attempt to question the merits of the classification.
The harm is that right now we don't have a way to contain the waste that we're sure will last as long as the waste remains radioactive. Maybe something will be found but until then I'd rather not generate tons of waste without a good plan to handle it. Not just storage, but also transportation to the storage site and security from would-be thieves. And as much as I support the space program I have a hard time with the idea of loading the waste into a launch vehicle that could life it into the stratosphere before blowing up. I'm not being a luddite, just cautious. Brakes were just as necessary an invention as the engine.
This is a great step forward in reactor design. But let's get the waste solved, THEN implement.
Unlike switching a brand of car or ketchup any switch in OS will require converting all the users tools and data/documents to the new OS. There are, of course, dozens of solutions, but what we really need is a turn-key alternative that is both cheap and well publicized.
Is there margin for profit on a low-cost alternative that can both overcome the legacy compatibility AND pay for the publicity? I think so, but we need someone with the capital and the willingness to risk it to step up.
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So Sweden paid to provide a valuable learning experience to Indian undergrads?
And not just how the military factors, but also how the number is derived. Are US dollars expended on an outsourced project still counted as US dollars? I gotta believe that Indian corporations are only a tiny fraction of the revenue into those outsourced jobs. I RTFA but (typically) it didn't describe its sources, nor did I see that reference about the US R&D budget being bigger than the next 5.
How about "instant global news"? Is that amorphous enough.
CNN inherits from abstract InstantGlobalNews
sociological I'll agree with but metaphysical? Maybe he's a dreamer, but aren't all SF writers? But I was talking about the excriating detail of things like where the shorelines of the oceans would be, what a terrorist-snipped space elevator impact would be, etc. I really enjoyed a short story he wrote once about some rock climbers tackling Mons Olympus. His research is meticulous. But yeah, he did get progressively sentimental. Hence the comment on "purple". Maybe I should have said "violet paisley".
The best hard SF these days is Ben Bova - at least until Kim Stanely Robinson comes out with Purple Mars.
Both IBM and the analyst mentioned in the article say this is about competition; undermine MS SQL Server while boosting Websphere. If some small-scale apps are developed in Cloudscape/Java instead of .NET then when/if those apps grow up the natural evolution would be to migrate to DB/2 & Websphere. And maybe it isn't even about making more profit on Websphere but just slowing the penetration of MS into the back office.
Wouldn't a Pentagon contract be enough? And is 2nd place a contract with the Russians? Somewhere down around 40th place is a contract with the Korean military...
Cool link, but it's the "old" Time Domain brand, not the newer Camero brand. The newer brand has better res according to the article. Here's a couple other news sites that popped out of Google:
Isreali press and an investor announcement.
Ummm... Isn't (in binary) 10.1 = decimal 2.5?
.5 is 1/2. Of course you can't express many decimal numbers in binary. In decimal you can express 3/10 , but neither binary nor decimal can express 1/3. If you CARE about the base 10 decimal places (e.g. a financial application) then floating point is inappropriate.
In binary I can express anything that can reduce to something over a power of 2, and
But you can't say floating point is inaccurate. It is highly accurate in binary. If your application is doing pure math and is using the result of a floating point calculation to some purpose other than human eyes it's quite applicable.
And for many math functions in many languages (e.g. root exponentiation) decimal is simply not available. The Java math class is the only function in the Java libs that can extract the 12th root of an interest yield to determine the nominal interest rate. It accepts a float or a double, but not a BigDecimal. But so what. If you use floating point you'll still get a number out to many more decimal places than is needed for accurate rounding of the interest. I suppose if you're applying that interest to something like the national debt you might need to use double precision floating point...
P.S. if anybody has an open source bean that can do root exponentiation on the BigDecimal class please let me know
I think it's hillariously ironic that a gigantic company named "Microsoft" is doing so little on the leading edge of the current standard of micro technology and yet is battleing so ruthlesslessy against a 17 year old kid over a phonetic similarity. I mean, the current top-of-the-line IBM mainframes fit in a box smaller than the Altair 8800 where Micro-Soft started, and Windows is so bloated it has no hope of being involved in any of the nanotech going on now.
I want to play Civ IV with 18 million terrabytes of addressable memory. Paris is is researching Creme Brulee, Liverpool is building the mod haircut, and there is a coppertone shortage in Pismo Beach.
Is there a word for a mega-terrabyte?
It seems someone writing a check to Western Union back in 1880 to wire money across the continent on a telegraph line was "process(ing) payments over a communications system"
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
according to the article If Netflix Fanatic's developer showed that he developed the application independently from his work and resources at Apple, and that the application does not relate to Apple's R&D efforts, he may have a case under that section of the California Labor Code.
If the developer has to "show" the independence then he has to prove a negative. Seems winning with this law is impossible.
OK, I'll go with you on that. I looked up the thickness of typical copier paper: 75 gram is about .1 mm thick. That means you need about 100 sq cm, which makes this only slightly smaller than a CD ROM (about 113 sq cm). But the article said it was fingertip sized. Maybe there's a stack of the material in a cube. Now I'm curious.
"each paper-thin device could store more than a gigabyte ... in one cubic centimetre of space.
How is something paper-thin a cubic centimeter?
It hasn't been updatd since October. There's a patent on FTP mput...
Oh, I agree. I just find it sadly amusing that in an 84 page documenbt that describes details like how to order office supplies there are no standards for ensuring the invention is truly new.
I doubt everything will be reviewed, but if there is a single review of a software patent then there is precedent for more reviews, and hopefully a message to all that patents aren't to be handed out like candy. Unfortunately the General Powers and Duties of the USPTO according to law are 1) to follow the policy of the secretary of commerce, 2) to issue patents, and 3) to disseminate patent information to the public. There is nothing in the general duties about ensuring the patent is "first art".
If the physical device was stolen how the hell do they know the software wasn't copied? Clearly the physical security was inadequate. Of course if this IS a ploy to attract investors nothing would turn off investors more than knowing you can buy the software on Canal street for $5.
It was 1m units, not $.
/. useful.
But thanks for the heads-up about Prius. It's pretty cool that it's any-kind-of-wireless enabled. That alone made today's
A separate control device attached to the rifle lets the shooter manipulate the system without taking his hands off of the gun. One button, for example, activates voice communications, or calls up maps on the helmet-mounted display. Another button captures images, saves them and transmits them to a commander
The Windows OS is wedded to the Windows User Interface; there is no abstraction (as with X Windows) of the user interface from the OS. This makes so much sense.
But that's already the case. Having a Harvard MBA won't land you a job as an accountant without the CPA designation.
The certifications are useful for the uneducated to know the person they are hiring is sufficiently competent to pass a test developed by industry experts. I wish there was a certification; it would give me specific goals to learn and distinguish me from those who've only dropped a SuSE distro onto an old box in stand-alone mode.
Of course to be useful it would need an organization similar to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to create the test and keep it current. This is no small undertaking (follow the link and see all the stuff AICPA does). If it were as rigourous and respected as a CPA the dues needed t osupport the organization would be well worth the higher salary the certified could command.
The regulations have 9 exemptions, and yes, the first is "classified national defense and foreign relations information". Of course the suit will probably attempt to question the merits of the classification.
The harm is that right now we don't have a way to contain the waste that we're sure will last as long as the waste remains radioactive. Maybe something will be found but until then I'd rather not generate tons of waste without a good plan to handle it. Not just storage, but also transportation to the storage site and security from would-be thieves. And as much as I support the space program I have a hard time with the idea of loading the waste into a launch vehicle that could life it into the stratosphere before blowing up. I'm not being a luddite, just cautious. Brakes were just as necessary an invention as the engine.
This is a great step forward in reactor design. But let's get the waste solved, THEN implement.
Unlike switching a brand of car or ketchup any switch in OS will require converting all the users tools and data/documents to the new OS. There are, of course, dozens of solutions, but what we really need is a turn-key alternative that is both cheap and well publicized.
Is there margin for profit on a low-cost alternative that can both overcome the legacy compatibility AND pay for the publicity? I think so, but we need someone with the capital and the willingness to risk it to step up.