Don't kid yourself. At least one of the big two has published papers on applications of asynchronous design. In 1997 or 98 at ITSW, Marly Roncken of Intel presented on the testability of asychronous circuits related to cache logic. Clock-less logic turns out to be rather difficult to test, it turns out.
Past experience has shown me that it is usually easier for hardware folks to make the jump to software development than the reverse. Consequently, for anyone who is uncertain, I'd tend to recommend that which offers more future flexibility: an EE degree.
That said, the folks I have worked with in engineering who tend to be most flexible and capable are those with a BS or MS in physics. This came as some surprise to me, but I've seen it over and over.
Re:Still dumb, but I'll answer, anyway.
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That should be "...Hunter S. Thompson would have said,...". Hunter took his own life a few days ago.
This is one of the issues that escapes most debates about the use of nuclear energy. There is no such thing as nuclear waste, there are only byproducts. These byproducts may be used in later processes. In fact, some reactors are specifically built in order to continue using these byproducts for the generation of energy. Unlike CO2, carbon soot, sulpher oxides, nitrogen oxides, etc. the "waste" of nuclear energy is not a pollutant unless allowed to be and has further value. Furthermore, the "waste" is very well contained and manageable, that is to say, it is difficult to lose control of the byproducts of nuclear energy production.
The right to keep and bear arms derives from the second and the ninth amendments to the constitution.
The second lays out the need for a militia to provide for the security of the state. Implied in the language is that the general populace should compose the militia. The unstated reason for that is that the general populace should be able protect itself against the possibility of its leaders becoming tyrranical.
The ninth amendment is where we derive our right to keep arms for the more practical puposes of sports, hunting and self defense. In particular we are endowed with rights not specifically stated by any amendment. The ninth protects those rights from encroachment. Perhaps the most powerful right we have is the right to defend our own persons and to anticipate the need to defend our persons. Firearms are the "great equalizer" that allows a 5' tall, 110 lb woman to have a chance at defending herself against a 6' tall, 210 lb man. Or a chance for my 6' 250 lb out-of-shape self any chance of defending myself against a muscled attacker. Or, for that matter, anyone the chance of defending themselves against anyone else with a gun. All of these are reasonably envisionable scenarios today.
The way the federal govt. gets around these amendments (and others, such as the 10th) is through taking advantage of a contradiction in the constitution and liberal interpretation of the language. Typically, federal code can draw a lot of power from the "inter-state commerce" portion of the main body of the constitution in order to regulate a great many things beyond simple cross-state-border transactions. It accomplishes this by inferring that for the thing/activity to exist a cross-state-border transaction must have taken place. Much of the power of the federal govt. that was obviously inteded to be limited by the 10th amendment has been achieved through this "backdoor".
In fact there is substantial dispute as to the nature and causes of climate change. Those curious might check out these websites:
http://www.co2science.org/
http://geography.asu.edu/balling/
I use VNC to provide me with exactly this capability though through different means. VNC has the added benfit of not having suspended it's activity when you suspend yours so processing continues to take place (a very useful feature for long jobs.)
The phrase is "greatest common denominator". It is the largest number that divides into a set of numbers with no remained in any case. The least common denominator is always 1. The "least" is "least common multiple." I think this is about sixth grade mathematics or less.
"The problem with most/. posts on patents is that rank-and-=file./'ers don't understand patents"
Yeah, including you, apparently. One claim of a patent being found obvious or covered by prior art does not invalidate the dependent claims. Many patents are issued which provide a novel use or application of previously patented items.
OK, I am generally not critical of Slashdot editors, but since this is a news organization, you could try to use the English language correctly. The verb you were looking for was "affect" and the particular form you wanted was "affected". "Effect" is, generally, a noun. When you "affect" something you create an "effect".
Not that I expect you to be English majors, and not that I am by any means perfect in my spelling, diction and grammar, but a very common word processor caught this right off. You might do the simplest of spelling and grammar checks before publishing.
Remember that, as news publishers, you affect the habits and knowledge of your readers, effectively teaching them. Do this poorly and you create an undesirable effect.
For pedantic clarity, the context under which "effect" may be a verb is when you use it to indicate that you took action. For instance, "I effected a plan to address poor grammar in Slashdot posts."
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that the federal law has always forbidden making images of U.S. currency. All publicized images of currency I've seen are partial or modified. I suspect that the letter of the law was broken in the process of making those images.
Here's where a bunch of folks who didn't read the article try to show us how open-minded they are by doing exactly what the article recommends they not do: keep their mouth shut and their minds open.
I once quit caffeine "cold turkey". I was an ass for two weeks with headaches every afternoon until dinner time. Then all was well. The funny thing is, after that, the withdrawal lasts just a couple of days when I feel inclined to quit, now.
The thing is, what happened to the Exxon Vadez was an accident that went outside of the operational parameters of the equipment. Killing birds is what these windmills have done and will be doing until they are decommissioned. Unless, that is, someone thinks up some really effective scare-crows (or scare-red-tailed hawks as the case may be.) But then, you would be depriving these birds of their natural habitat. I've personally always thought these windmill farms to be visually pollutive and a blight on the country-side.
Except that, the last time I checked, Mozilla explicitly does not support Adobe's SVG.
Apparently Adobe used part of the Mozilla's API that the folks developing Mozilla subsequently decided to change. Since then, it has been broken with both sides seemingly stubbornly refusing to accomodate the other. The folks at Mozilla say something to the effect that the part they changed was only preliminarily defined and should not have been counted on for the future and the folks at Adobe, I would guess, are most likely considering cost/benefit issues.
This is all covered in the Mozilla project's bugzilla entry on the subject.
One of the downsides to open source is that it is less easy to entice specific development.
Ah, but when will they add SVG support to the standard build. I suspect we will always be tied to the non-open Flash format until someone steps up and makes SVG support in a browser standard.
XML Limited in at least one regard.
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One of the things that I have found limiting about XML is that it is inheirently hierarchical.
Real "things" can be categorized many ways. Hierarchical classification systems (such as our modern file systems) work poorly to classify a broad scope of information. Thus, some of the new development in the FS in Longhorn and also some I've head about, but can't remember, for Linux.
Of course, the reason Linux and Mac users don't have to use AV software is because Windows presents a much larger and more inviting target. Maybe they deserve thanks?
Actually, they cut Saruman out of the Rankin-Bass animated version of the RotK and unless you'd have read the story and knew what to expect, I don't think you'd have noticed it. Saruman was also marginalized in the Ralph Bakshi version of the LotR which really only went through the Two Towers, quickly summarizing the RotK.
I am not so sure about the stupidity. Internally, software patents may be bad for individuals (but generally good for corporation.) Similarly, patents are good for a country so long as all other countries abide by intellectual property rules. They kind of need to do this in order to ensure trade. Therefore, the only way countries can compete is to enact the same kind of patent legislation and then encourage it's citizens to invent.
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Don't kid yourself. At least one of the big two has published papers on applications of asynchronous design. In 1997 or 98 at ITSW, Marly Roncken of Intel presented on the testability of asychronous circuits related to cache logic. Clock-less logic turns out to be rather difficult to test, it turns out.
So, when one of these plays better than Ritchie Blackmore will it be called "Deep Purple"?
Past experience has shown me that it is usually easier for hardware folks to make the jump to software development than the reverse. Consequently, for anyone who is uncertain, I'd tend to recommend that which offers more future flexibility: an EE degree. That said, the folks I have worked with in engineering who tend to be most flexible and capable are those with a BS or MS in physics. This came as some surprise to me, but I've seen it over and over.
That should be "...Hunter S. Thompson would have said,...". Hunter took his own life a few days ago.
This is one of the issues that escapes most debates about the use of nuclear energy. There is no such thing as nuclear waste, there are only byproducts. These byproducts may be used in later processes. In fact, some reactors are specifically built in order to continue using these byproducts for the generation of energy. Unlike CO2, carbon soot, sulpher oxides, nitrogen oxides, etc. the "waste" of nuclear energy is not a pollutant unless allowed to be and has further value. Furthermore, the "waste" is very well contained and manageable, that is to say, it is difficult to lose control of the byproducts of nuclear energy production.
The right to keep and bear arms derives from the second and the ninth amendments to the constitution.
The second lays out the need for a militia to provide for the security of the state. Implied in the language is that the general populace should compose the militia. The unstated reason for that is that the general populace should be able protect itself against the possibility of its leaders becoming tyrranical.
The ninth amendment is where we derive our right to keep arms for the more practical puposes of sports, hunting and self defense. In particular we are endowed with rights not specifically stated by any amendment. The ninth protects those rights from encroachment. Perhaps the most powerful right we have is the right to defend our own persons and to anticipate the need to defend our persons. Firearms are the "great equalizer" that allows a 5' tall, 110 lb woman to have a chance at defending herself against a 6' tall, 210 lb man. Or a chance for my 6' 250 lb out-of-shape self any chance of defending myself against a muscled attacker. Or, for that matter, anyone the chance of defending themselves against anyone else with a gun. All of these are reasonably envisionable scenarios today.
The way the federal govt. gets around these amendments (and others, such as the 10th) is through taking advantage of a contradiction in the constitution and liberal interpretation of the language. Typically, federal code can draw a lot of power from the "inter-state commerce" portion of the main body of the constitution in order to regulate a great many things beyond simple cross-state-border transactions. It accomplishes this by inferring that for the thing/activity to exist a cross-state-border transaction must have taken place. Much of the power of the federal govt. that was obviously inteded to be limited by the 10th amendment has been achieved through this "backdoor".
In fact there is substantial dispute as to the nature and causes of climate change. Those curious might check out these websites: http://www.co2science.org/ http://geography.asu.edu/balling/
I use VNC to provide me with exactly this capability though through different means. VNC has the added benfit of not having suspended it's activity when you suspend yours so processing continues to take place (a very useful feature for long jobs.)
The phrase is "greatest common denominator". It is the largest number that divides into a set of numbers with no remained in any case. The least common denominator is always 1.
The "least" is "least common multiple." I think this is about sixth grade mathematics or less.
"The problem with most /. posts on patents is that rank-and-=file ./'ers don't understand patents"
Yeah, including you, apparently. One claim of a patent being found obvious or covered by prior art does not invalidate the dependent claims. Many patents are issued which provide a novel use or application of previously patented items.
OK, I am generally not critical of Slashdot editors, but since this is a news organization, you could try to use the English language correctly. The verb you were looking for was "affect" and the particular form you wanted was "affected". "Effect" is, generally, a noun. When you "affect" something you create an "effect". Not that I expect you to be English majors, and not that I am by any means perfect in my spelling, diction and grammar, but a very common word processor caught this right off. You might do the simplest of spelling and grammar checks before publishing. Remember that, as news publishers, you affect the habits and knowledge of your readers, effectively teaching them. Do this poorly and you create an undesirable effect. For pedantic clarity, the context under which "effect" may be a verb is when you use it to indicate that you took action. For instance, "I effected a plan to address poor grammar in Slashdot posts."
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that the federal law has always forbidden making images of U.S. currency. All publicized images of currency I've seen are partial or modified. I suspect that the letter of the law was broken in the process of making those images.
Here's where a bunch of folks who didn't read the article try to show us how open-minded they are by doing exactly what the article recommends they not do: keep their mouth shut and their minds open.
I once quit caffeine "cold turkey". I was an ass for two weeks with headaches every afternoon until dinner time. Then all was well. The funny thing is, after that, the withdrawal lasts just a couple of days when I feel inclined to quit, now.
The thing is, what happened to the Exxon Vadez was an accident that went outside of the operational parameters of the equipment. Killing birds is what these windmills have done and will be doing until they are decommissioned. Unless, that is, someone thinks up some really effective scare-crows (or scare-red-tailed hawks as the case may be.) But then, you would be depriving these birds of their natural habitat. I've personally always thought these windmill farms to be visually pollutive and a blight on the country-side.
Except that, the last time I checked, Mozilla explicitly does not support Adobe's SVG. Apparently Adobe used part of the Mozilla's API that the folks developing Mozilla subsequently decided to change. Since then, it has been broken with both sides seemingly stubbornly refusing to accomodate the other. The folks at Mozilla say something to the effect that the part they changed was only preliminarily defined and should not have been counted on for the future and the folks at Adobe, I would guess, are most likely considering cost/benefit issues. This is all covered in the Mozilla project's bugzilla entry on the subject. One of the downsides to open source is that it is less easy to entice specific development.
Ah, but when will they add SVG support to the standard build. I suspect we will always be tied to the non-open Flash format until someone steps up and makes SVG support in a browser standard.
One of the things that I have found limiting about XML is that it is inheirently hierarchical. Real "things" can be categorized many ways. Hierarchical classification systems (such as our modern file systems) work poorly to classify a broad scope of information. Thus, some of the new development in the FS in Longhorn and also some I've head about, but can't remember, for Linux.
Of course, the reason Linux and Mac users don't have to use AV software is because Windows presents a much larger and more inviting target. Maybe they deserve thanks?
Actually, they cut Saruman out of the Rankin-Bass animated version of the RotK and unless you'd have read the story and knew what to expect, I don't think you'd have noticed it. Saruman was also marginalized in the Ralph Bakshi version of the LotR which really only went through the Two Towers, quickly summarizing the RotK.
I am not so sure about the stupidity. Internally, software patents may be bad for individuals (but generally good for corporation.) Similarly, patents are good for a country so long as all other countries abide by intellectual property rules. They kind of need to do this in order to ensure trade. Therefore, the only way countries can compete is to enact the same kind of patent legislation and then encourage it's citizens to invent.