actually there are plenty of illegal immigrants with a valid driver's licence. It is regulated by states: California allows it. Jeb Bush in Florida is in favour of it. Why? because illegal immigrants work for a lower wage and drives businesses' bottom line up. And who lobbies? Joe Citizen or Joe Business?
These kind of techniques are very popular in memories. As a matter of fact, the "virgin yield" of a memory is close to zero. Because memories contain so many million devices that the chance of having a broken one is high. To overcome this problem, redundancy is added, i.e. some more rows and colums are fabricated. Then, the defective rows/colums can be disabled and the redundant ones are swapped in. The yield after this operation is called "repaired yield". There is a delicate trade-off with redundancy: if there is too much, the chip is too big and starts consuming unecessary area on the wafer. If it is too low, then your yield is low as well.
prevention also applies to that criminal not committing the crime in the first place. In general, because of fear or because the root causes of crime are addressed.
To deter means make people not do something because of fear. There are plenty of data that show that the death penalty does not deter crimes for which it applies. Hence, it is not very useful. On the other hand, education, and other types of positive prevention have proved to be far more effective.
This was to straighten the facts
Also, in the US the death penalty is administered in a way that is far from just. There are plenty of cases in which innocent people were given the death penalty. Also, there is a dramatic gap across races for death penalty rates. And I am not saying absolute numbers, I am saying that the probability of getting the death penalty for a convicted person is a function of race and other social factors. It shouldn't be. Hence, you can not even call it justice.
Lastly, on the subject of death penalty and torture (both of which the new Attorney General is a great fun of), they are unjust under the principle point of view. More civilized countries have recognized this since the 1700's.
sorry, you don't live in a free market. Barriers to entry are high. Once you are with a carrier you are locked-in for a while. I can't go anywhere without a contract. The few choices for pay-as-you-go have impossible requirements: high prices, set-up fees, you don't use them for 3 months and it is gone. The plans have all two years requirements, they have the same conditions and the big companies battled the number portability to death.
The free market works when there are many companies who do not coordinate their efforts. This is not the case in the US, where they have virtually identical plans and they lobby together. They are nominally competitors.
Good luck with your illusions.
In my opinion, there are a few inaccuracies in your analysis:
1) sharing a file is not theft (at least in the US). It is copyright infringment.
2) Downloading a file IS NOT an offense (yet). However, this has not been tested in court
3) Sharing a file IS an offense (you are distributing the file with no authorization from the copyright holder, hence you are infringing its rights)
4) Walmart has already paid for the material. Hence, if you steal from walmart, walmart loses money, the copyright holder does not. Since walmart loses directly money, this is theft. If you then share, you also commit copyright infringment.
they all come with some setup CDs. All You need is a wizard that will guide you through. No need to RTFM. Of course, this would work for windows only. There could also be a big label on your router that says: go to the address http://, your password is . Not too hard, still secure.
I agree with that. I do my tax returns by hand, and then fill in the PDF forms. I used a CPA for two years and figured out that (in my case) I don't need one.I went through all the instructions and learnt a lot of stuff that way. However, if you have stock options, very diversified investments, etc. you may want to consider the advice of a CPA, well before you do your taxes, as it will allow you to save a lot by simply doing the right thing.
Yes, you are right. Cadence originated from the merger of ECAD and and SDA in '89. However, SDA's (Silicon/Solomon Design Associated) was founded (in '85?), among others, by Richard Newton and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (both UC Berkeley faculties), Solomon from National(who brought Jo Costello in) and another guy as a reaction to Mentor and other closed-source companies and their point was exactly to use more open source software (I have first and 1/2 hand knowledge on this). Also ECAD comes from UC Berkeley, as it was founded by Ernest Kuh (another faculty at UC Berkeley). So, to keep a long story short, it was not founded by a PhD student, but plenty of advisors did and that was the point I was trying to make.
As a cynical EDA user/creator I agree with you on the fact that Cadence buys a lot of companies. However, they also do a lot of research, as the large number of papers in major conferences and journals prove
Just few comments to clarify what we are talking about here
First of all, EDA (Electronic Design Automation) is a 30+ years old industry (maybe even 40+, but I wasn't born then). It spans tools whose cost goes from hundreds dollars to few hundred thousands dollars per license. It also spans several fields, from computer science, to systems theory, to physics, to micro-electronics, to chemistry, etc. etc.
The typical flows for a successfull tools are:
a PhD student or his advisor has an idea, writes papers about it and maybe even implements it. Then he starts a company and they make milions with it. Synopsys and Cadence (the two biggest players of the market) were started like that.
The same people have an idea and actually have a full implementation and they sustain the basic research. The tool is put in open source fashion (rarely is GPL'd) and every company can modify it. The shiniest example is SPICE . The first version was written more than 30 years ago. Berkeley still owns it and everybody implements variants that are more or less compatible. Either Commercial eda tools (HSPICE, spectre, eldo, adssim) or proprietary implementations that are used within a company (TI spice, ST spice, motorola own spice, etc.). Analog design wouldn't exist without spice.
Companies try to dominate the market. They figure out that they need to develop and control a platform. They make it open source (of course all its products work on it, more or less). An example is Cadence with open access. The idea of course is opposed by competitors who try to pass their own platform. Eventually they will reach an agreement
Of course, there are plenty of others, like
magma's case and also plenty of unsuccessfull
ventures, but in general EDA has benefitted a lot
from open source, and some of the biggest
names in the university are still open source
fans.
ok, so I read your link. I don't see how the chinese claims to tibet are related to chinese nationals being a threat to US security.
So, you have a problem with torture. I have too. A big one. If I follow your logic, americans are a threat to american security as they torture people in prison, they do not follow the geneva convention, they want immunity from the high court for war crimes, they wage illegal wars, their new attorney general de facto advocates torture, etc.Hence, americans should be excluded from federally funded research. The indians (which I am sure you hate as well) will be very happy.
Remember two things:
- only 280 milion people out of more than 6 bilion people are americans: stop being so american-centric and start thinking about the rest of the world
- if chinese and middle-eastern (why not russians too) had been excluded from all the federally funded research technology would be well behind where it is now
PS: I am not chinese, taiwanese, from hong-kong, middle-eastern or russian
forgot to mention that I do the same with my iPod and that I have used it so far on windows because I have not been able to work the ssh permissions correctly when I try to mount it in a linux box that I do not manage
It liberated me from taking my laptop with me when I visit geek friends (there is always a free laptop I can use). Also, if I am in an emergency and need to read email etc. I use my usb drive that I always carry. Webmail and simply using somebody's else computer are not an option with me as I need to use ssh to forward ports, both for my private email (that I host at home) and my work email/intranet.
Having said that, it is a little bit slow, although it may be because it is reading from a flash drive, but I can wait.
They should be documented a little bit better. For instance, they tell you that you can only install it in the main directory of the drive, but if you simply change the.ini file you can really put it everywhere.
I have not figured out how to handle multiple profiles though.
All in all, I am very happy with it.THANKS!
not really....
This is a world where selfish people are rewarded. Hence, if you download music but then do not share it (i.e. you keep it for yourself) you are not doing anything illegal. It is illegal you (for now) to share, because essentially you are giving the right to somebody to listen to the music, but you are not paying the owner of the copyright. Essentially, you are doing what iTune does, but without authorization.
Napster got burned not because they were supplying the program, but because they were supplying the servers, hence they were helping the infringment. Same difference between supplying a gun and helping somebody to shoot.
You didn't get it at all. Besides the fact that your numbers are entirely wrong and the USA today article is copyright of the christian science monitor (an organization that has an agenda), I would like to remind you that the business executives that are hiring indians, chinese, etc. are mostly american and so are those who are lobbying. So blame the boards of directors if you want, not people whose only fault is to work hard and seek a better life.
As for what indians (and other foreigners) invent I would like to point out the fact that most of the scientific literature (che the "IEEE transactions" on whatever and the conference proceedings) is coming from non-american researchers.
By the way, I am not indian
The article doesn't say the margin. It is important because if it is 9-0 we can be confident that in the future cases like this won't be appealed. If it is 5-4 RIAA will just have to wait until a Justice changes his opinion or one more Scalia is appointed.
Also, this decision doesn't shut down a part of DMCA. They just did not decide upon it. It would be interesting to see the motivation (which the article does not mention either)
for instance, if you insure $10,000 for an event whose risk is 10%, the insurance will break even at $1000 + expenses. Also, if the average damage is $500 and you have $1,000 deductible insurance is most of the times useless (unless you still have a considerable chance of going beyond $1,000 damage)
sorry for the late reply...according to my understanding (correct me if I am wrong) in order to be a German citizen both your parents must be of German citizenship. If I am not wrong, this law also got blamed by the EU. Other countries have different laws: you can become citizen after a long enough residency, wedding, for being born on their soil (or boat, embassy, plane, etc.). Hope this answers your question.
if you restrict racist to the traditional biologic concept of race, you may be right. If you extend the concept to culture or to anything that makes people feel to be part of the same unit, you have racism again (I don't like the southerners, I don't like asians, I don't like women, I don't like people who are shorter than 6 feet, etc.)
hahaha... my comment was to refute the previous comment...KKK was just an example of right, racism was not being pointed out in my post. However, I guess I gave this impression. My bad.
However, since we are talking about it, let me point out that:
- the fact that I basically say that the US is not perfect is not anti-american, although some "patriots" may think so;
- patriotism, which is a form of racism, has been used a lot in the states lately to put forward the Bush' agenda and a lot of other extreme right ideas;
- Europe is not perfect either, but that does not make the US better (it is always easy to find something wrong in every argument);
- French law bans religious symbols (including the christian cross) from French schools: I do not agree with this law, but it is not a racist one, it may be anti-religious maybe;
- You are right about the German citizenship laws;
let's see....the greek migrated to southern italy, mixed there and you got archimedes, the valley of temples, a lot of art, advances in philosophy, etc. the arabs went to spain and you got wonderful art and culture... you are using the arabic numbers, too. I could go on and on and on... but the gist is that immigration enriches the local culture...makes it better.. thinking that a piece of land belongs to those who have been born of it is ridicolous..
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actually there are plenty of illegal immigrants with a valid driver's licence. It is regulated by states: California allows it. Jeb Bush in Florida is in favour of it. Why? because illegal immigrants work for a lower wage and drives businesses' bottom line up. And who lobbies? Joe Citizen or Joe Business?
These kind of techniques are very popular in memories. As a matter of fact, the "virgin yield" of a memory is close to zero. Because memories contain so many million devices that the chance of having a broken one is high. To overcome this problem, redundancy is added, i.e. some more rows and colums are fabricated. Then, the defective rows/colums can be disabled and the redundant ones are swapped in. The yield after this operation is called "repaired yield". There is a delicate trade-off with redundancy: if there is too much, the chip is too big and starts consuming unecessary area on the wafer. If it is too low, then your yield is low as well.
prevention also applies to that criminal not committing the crime in the first place. In general, because of fear or because the root causes of crime are addressed.
To deter means make people not do something because of fear. There are plenty of data that show that the death penalty does not deter crimes for which it applies. Hence, it is not very useful. On the other hand, education, and other types of positive prevention have proved to be far more effective.
This was to straighten the facts
Also, in the US the death penalty is administered in a way that is far from just. There are plenty of cases in which innocent people were given the death penalty. Also, there is a dramatic gap across races for death penalty rates. And I am not saying absolute numbers, I am saying that the probability of getting the death penalty for a convicted person is a function of race and other social factors. It shouldn't be. Hence, you can not even call it justice.
Lastly, on the subject of death penalty and torture (both of which the new Attorney General is a great fun of), they are unjust under the principle point of view. More civilized countries have recognized this since the 1700's.
sorry, you don't live in a free market. Barriers to entry are high. Once you are with a carrier you are locked-in for a while. I can't go anywhere without a contract. The few choices for pay-as-you-go have impossible requirements: high prices, set-up fees, you don't use them for 3 months and it is gone. The plans have all two years requirements, they have the same conditions and the big companies battled the number portability to death.
The free market works when there are many companies who do not coordinate their efforts. This is not the case in the US, where they have virtually identical plans and they lobby together. They are nominally competitors.
Good luck with your illusions.
for the same resons people are interested in rumors about stars. Some people like Britney Spears, some people like the Mac...
In my opinion, there are a few inaccuracies in your analysis:
1) sharing a file is not theft (at least in the US). It is copyright infringment.
2) Downloading a file IS NOT an offense (yet). However, this has not been tested in court
3) Sharing a file IS an offense (you are distributing the file with no authorization from the copyright holder, hence you are infringing its rights)
4) Walmart has already paid for the material. Hence, if you steal from walmart, walmart loses money, the copyright holder does not. Since walmart loses directly money, this is theft. If you then share, you also commit copyright infringment.
they all come with some setup CDs. All You need is a wizard that will guide you through. No need to RTFM. Of course, this would work for windows only. There could also be a big label on your router that says: go to the address http://, your password is . Not too hard, still secure.
I agree with that. I do my tax returns by hand, and then fill in the PDF forms. I used a CPA for two years and figured out that (in my case) I don't need one.I went through all the instructions and learnt a lot of stuff that way.
However, if you have stock options, very diversified investments, etc. you may want to consider the advice of a CPA, well before you do your taxes, as it will allow you to save a lot by simply doing the right thing.
the movie industry is very close to being a cartel (or maybe it is)
Yes, you are right. Cadence originated from the merger of ECAD and and SDA in '89. However, SDA's (Silicon/Solomon Design Associated) was founded (in '85?), among others, by Richard Newton and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (both UC Berkeley faculties), Solomon from National(who brought Jo Costello in) and another guy as a reaction to Mentor and other closed-source companies and their point was exactly to use more open source software (I have first and 1/2 hand knowledge on this). Also ECAD comes from UC Berkeley, as it was founded by Ernest Kuh (another faculty at UC Berkeley). So, to keep a long story short, it was not founded by a PhD student, but plenty of advisors did and that was the point I was trying to make.
As a cynical EDA user/creator I agree with you on the fact that Cadence buys a lot of companies. However, they also do a lot of research, as the large number of papers in major conferences and journals prove
I should have known.. went to dac too many times... lost track I guess... see you there? :)
First of all, EDA (Electronic Design Automation) is a 30+ years old industry (maybe even 40+, but I wasn't born then). It spans tools whose cost goes from hundreds dollars to few hundred thousands dollars per license. It also spans several fields, from computer science, to systems theory, to physics, to micro-electronics, to chemistry, etc. etc.
The typical flows for a successfull tools are:
Of course, there are plenty of others, like magma's case and also plenty of unsuccessfull ventures, but in general EDA has benefitted a lot from open source, and some of the biggest names in the university are still open source fans.
ok, so I read your link. I don't see how the chinese claims to tibet are related to chinese nationals being a threat to US security.
So, you have a problem with torture. I have too. A big one. If I follow your logic, americans are a threat to american security as they torture people in prison, they do not follow the geneva convention, they want immunity from the high court for war crimes, they wage illegal wars, their new attorney general de facto advocates torture, etc.Hence, americans should be excluded from federally funded research. The indians (which I am sure you hate as well) will be very happy.
Remember two things:
- only 280 milion people out of more than 6 bilion people are americans: stop being so american-centric and start thinking about the rest of the world
- if chinese and middle-eastern (why not russians too) had been excluded from all the federally funded research technology would be well behind where it is now
PS: I am not chinese, taiwanese, from hong-kong, middle-eastern or russian
forgot to mention that I do the same with my iPod and that I have used it so far on windows because I have not been able to work the ssh permissions correctly when I try to mount it in a linux box that I do not manage
Hi, I use it every once in a while.
.ini file you can really put it everywhere.
It liberated me from taking my laptop with me when I visit geek friends (there is always a free laptop I can use).
Also, if I am in an emergency and need to read email etc. I use my usb drive that I always carry. Webmail and simply using somebody's else computer are not an option with me as I need to use ssh to forward ports, both for my private email (that I host at home) and my work email/intranet.
Having said that, it is a little bit slow, although it may be because it is reading from a flash drive, but I can wait.
They should be documented a little bit better. For instance, they tell you that you can only install it in the main directory of the drive, but if you simply change the
I have not figured out how to handle multiple profiles though.
All in all, I am very happy with it.THANKS!
not really....
This is a world where selfish people are rewarded. Hence, if you download music but then do not share it (i.e. you keep it for yourself) you are not doing anything illegal. It is illegal you (for now) to share, because essentially you are giving the right to somebody to listen to the music, but you are not paying the owner of the copyright. Essentially, you are doing what iTune does, but without authorization.
Napster got burned not because they were supplying the program, but because they were supplying the servers, hence they were helping the infringment. Same difference between supplying a gun and helping somebody to shoot.
Do I need to sign one to vote?
You didn't get it at all. Besides the fact that your numbers are entirely wrong and the USA today article is copyright of the christian science monitor (an organization that has an agenda), I would like to remind you that the business executives that are hiring indians, chinese, etc. are mostly american and so are those who are lobbying. So blame the boards of directors if you want, not people whose only fault is to work hard and seek a better life.
As for what indians (and other foreigners) invent I would like to point out the fact that most of the scientific literature (che the "IEEE transactions" on whatever and the conference proceedings) is coming from non-american researchers.
By the way, I am not indian
The article doesn't say the margin. It is important because if it is 9-0 we can be confident that in the future cases like this won't be appealed. If it is 5-4 RIAA will just have to wait until a Justice changes his opinion or one more Scalia is appointed.
Also, this decision doesn't shut down a part of DMCA. They just did not decide upon it. It would be interesting to see the motivation (which the article does not mention either)
insurance is expensive when
payment >> risk * insured amount
and/or
deductible > average damage
for instance, if you insure $10,000 for an event whose risk is 10%, the insurance will break even at $1000 + expenses. Also, if the average damage is $500 and you have $1,000 deductible insurance is most of the times useless (unless you still have a considerable chance of going beyond $1,000 damage)
sorry for the late reply...according to my understanding (correct me if I am wrong) in order to be a German citizen both your parents must be of German citizenship. If I am not wrong, this law also got blamed by the EU. Other countries have different laws: you can become citizen after a long enough residency, wedding, for being born on their soil (or boat, embassy, plane, etc.).
Hope this answers your question.
if you restrict racist to the traditional biologic concept of race, you may be right. If you extend the concept to culture or to anything that makes people feel to be part of the same unit, you have racism again (I don't like the southerners, I don't like asians, I don't like women, I don't like people who are shorter than 6 feet, etc.)
hahaha... my comment was to refute the previous comment...KKK was just an example of right, racism was not being pointed out in my post. However, I guess I gave this impression. My bad.
However, since we are talking about it, let me point out that:
- the fact that I basically say that the US is not perfect is not anti-american, although some "patriots" may think so;
- patriotism, which is a form of racism, has been used a lot in the states lately to put forward the Bush' agenda and a lot of other extreme right ideas;
- Europe is not perfect either, but that does not make the US better (it is always easy to find something wrong in every argument);
- French law bans religious symbols (including the christian cross) from French schools: I do not agree with this law, but it is not a racist one, it may be anti-religious maybe; - You are right about the German citizenship laws;
although I agree with you, I would like to remind you of the holocaust... seems bigger than 9/11, altough the latter probably impressed you more
let's see....the greek migrated to southern italy, mixed there and you got archimedes, the valley of temples, a lot of art, advances in philosophy, etc. the arabs went to spain and you got wonderful art and culture... you are using the arabic numbers, too. I could go on and on and on... but the gist is that immigration enriches the local culture...makes it better.. thinking that a piece of land belongs to those who have been born of it is ridicolous..