but that in no way qualifies me to comment. Since this is/. I will fire away in any case. (Yes, I did not read the article either)
This is simply a barrier for the generic manufacturers. The R&D costs that the big companies pay are recovered through their sales of their pills. When a generic company starts flooding the market with cheap alternatives that patent holder is essentially screwed. So the original patent holder renews the patent with a meaningful "upgrade" to the drug. Things like slow release, or reduced side effects, or liquid forms, or combining it with a [pain reliever | antacid | antiinflammatory | etc.]
This new form gets a new patent and it spins for a few more years.
What I'm not certain of is this: Does the original, non-upgraded, patented form of the drug enter the public domain for the generics to copy and sell? I suspect that it does.
It takes 10 years to gain 10 years of experience. No short cuts.
You need to write a mountain of code before you reach the level where you can debate the finer points for or against C# / Java / Python / LISP... You will learn the most from your mistakes, so go forth and screw it up. Do it often. And then fix it. Each iteration will make you better, and remember it takes time.
Kevin Poulsen broke this story wide open by developing the scripts and tools to parse the sex offender registry, and compare the MySpace members. He supplied his work to the cops and the rest is today's news.
The finest Mashup I've seen to date. Worthy of some sort of prize... Is there a "Mashup Awards Banquet"?
What are the tolerances on an audio fingerprint? Will a few passes through the analog hole mess it up enough? what about simple, pitch, or tempo adjustments which are near undetectable to the human ear. (apologies to audiophiles who certainly would be able to detect these things, but in most cases the common masses would accept the slight imperfections)
My point is that there is a will, so somebody will find a way...
What's the difference between pretexting, identity theft, and fraud? My guess is that if you pretext as someone who exists (Hello, my name is Bill Gates...) then identity theft? But if I claim to be Gill Bates (weak attempt at a fictional character, sorry to all Gill Bates' out there) then you enter fraud territory. But now what constitutes fraud? Doesn't there have to be a demonstrable harm for Fraud to exist...
I'm not a lawyer, so please explain this stuff to me.
Also it is perfectly legal to have an alias that you are well known for. You can even sign documents under that alias... (At least in Canada... You don't need to officially change your name to go with your "married name" for example)
So perhaps pretexting law deserved to be killed based on the fact that there is little to no harm in it...
Just once I'd like to see a study that show video games are good for you. We need something like that. In the face of all the studies that decry the violence, we need on to show the counter point. Without it, well, they may be right...
I'm betting on the Wii here. Those people complaining about sore shoulders and the wii exercise, will likely produce a study on the number of calories consumed while playing Zelda or some such thing. Stay Tuned.
Of course they sent an email like that. You need to ensure none of the developers are cutting corners when SCO is breathing down your necks. So what do you do? Well, you remove the ability to access the source code in question. Any code out in the wild must be destroyed, and access to the code in the archive needs to be restricted. Simple.
SCO's claims here a bit funny, why complain when IBM does the thing you most desperately want them to? Or perhaps the problem here is that SCO wants the Linux source pollution, then they might have an actual case...
Anyway, I'm thoroughly bored with this story now. I can't spare any more time griping about those bad people at SCO. They have become irrelevant.
This may help the obesity rate among kids. It has been climbing at an alarming pace, and now that we have a workout program disguised as a video game... Things are bound to get better.
I wonder if there is a parallel to be drawn between accessibility concerns and perhaps multi-language sites? If your country of origin (and of hosting?) has bilingualism laws are they a template to establish the same/similar laws for accessibility?
To my knowledge the PQ in Quebec have not started chasing websites with their language laws, but I would not be surprised to hear that they are thinking about it. How long before the US goes bi-lingual with Spanish as a second language? If you think adding alt tags is a pain, wait until you have to translate your whole site, and maintain two languages.
But then again, it may be just good business. It does expand your market reach if you are able to sell to a more diverse audience.
What we are seeing here is the emerging winner in the knowledge base software category. Wiki's are able to harness the power of being fully distributed in content creation. Anyone can contribute, correct, and read the data. Also they are not shackled with structured meta data requirements so that the content collection/creation is far easier than other systems. They rely on FULL TEXT search to find the knowledge held within, and this suits perfectly well with a user based trained, by Google, in how to construct meaningful keyword based searches.
This is a good first step, but is it too late? Don't they have a new deep space telescope on the books already?
I'm sure the smart folks at NASA know what they are doing, and they actually know what programs are scheduled... If they need to fix Hubble to bridge the gap then let us get it done.
This is simply a recognition that the advantage they have on the battle field is due mainly to the assets flying overhead. Without GPS and satelite comminications the modern force is lost and blind.
The US has discovered that bravery is multiplied if you are out of range. Unmanned forces (air and ground) will prosecute their wars, and do a large share of the killing. If they lost their space based relays then they lose the ability to fight a remote war. And it's not nearly as much fun...
Defend that advantage at all costs. Don't ever give it up! Canada, and other NATO allies must do their share to help too, that means we (Canada) must reverse our stance on Missle Defense.
I'm glad that Microsoft is being more open, and co-operating more. But I believe the real security improvements are from Microsoft, and the McAffees and Nortons of the world are becoming less relevant. I installed the latest McAfee "security center" on my mother in-law's PC and the system performance was cut damn near in half. The experience has cemented in my mind that an up to date version of Windows with the latest security patches is the right way to go, and that these third party tools are bloatware, and resource hogs. And that the protection they provide is an illusion anyway, since Microsoft patches holes much faster these days anyway. By the time the security vendors have a new identity update, Microsoft has patched the hole... So why waste the time, and money on these things anyway?
The short answer is that it makes her "feel" more secure. (I'm not sure that she really is though)
Following your lead I cut the ruling in entirety and pasted into MS Word. Then saves as XML... If you preserve the italicized spaces here's the cipher text:
s mithy codeJaeiextos ?tg psacg reamqwf kadpmqzv
Yes there is an italicized "?" in the text... So there may be a question answer structure here. My dictionary attacks have not been overly successful, but I'm working on it.
The quirks of safety critical programming are easy to understand. All functions must be deterministic. They must behave in a predictable manner and return in a predictable amount of time. Linked lists in the general sense have non-predictable computation times for insert, delete, sort etc. (get out your books on Big "O" notation) So we avoid using them.
Scatter Gather DMA is a more complicated DMA transfer where you program the DMA engine with a pointer to a data structure (often linked list) that points to discontiguous blocks of memory. The engine will gather the blocks of memory, and scatter them in the target memory, all according to the input data structure. It's a real pain in the ass to debug, when it goes wrong. In avionics applications the ARINC 653 standard requires all computation to be completed in the allocated time slice. Using DMA is bad since you give up control of the PCI Bus to the DMA controller and you have no way to ensure that you don't exceed your time slice; don't hog HW if you are expected to release at the end of your slice. If the DMA controller is transfering data in/out of system memory then the next application may not be the bus master, and thus will have to wait to read or write to system memory. You've backdoored into the next time slice, and few 653 systems are able to detect that violation. What ends up happening is the second app fails its time slice due to not having enough time to do what it normally does. Debugging that situation is nasty, since we'll start with the second app as it generated the error, all the while thinking that the first is fine. So we try to avoid it, or during system configuration ensure that there is only one app on the HW and its time slice is infinite. Think video capture and playback. If there is only one app using the bus, then it is free to consume all of the time...
We currently have two offers outstanding that are hinging on the applicants obtaining visas. We will provide supporting documentation as required to assist in the process.
We have two locations in Ontario: Toronto and Waterloo, and have a preference for staffing into the Waterloo office right now. The Toronto building is nearing capacity, and the WL office has space to grow.
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Somebody mod me "Imbecile"
Got lost in my tabbed browser...
This is simply a barrier for the generic manufacturers. The R&D costs that the big companies pay are recovered through their sales of their pills. When a generic company starts flooding the market with cheap alternatives that patent holder is essentially screwed. So the original patent holder renews the patent with a meaningful "upgrade" to the drug. Things like slow release, or reduced side effects, or liquid forms, or combining it with a [pain reliever | antacid | antiinflammatory | etc.]
This new form gets a new patent and it spins for a few more years.
What I'm not certain of is this: Does the original, non-upgraded, patented form of the drug enter the public domain for the generics to copy and sell? I suspect that it does.
I'd suggest a minor change to the theory instead of chucking the whole thing.
You need to write a mountain of code before you reach the level where you can debate the finer points for or against C# / Java / Python / LISP... You will learn the most from your mistakes, so go forth and screw it up. Do it often. And then fix it. Each iteration will make you better, and remember it takes time.
The finest Mashup I've seen to date. Worthy of some sort of prize... Is there a "Mashup Awards Banquet"?
My point is that there is a will, so somebody will find a way...
I'm not a lawyer, so please explain this stuff to me.
Also it is perfectly legal to have an alias that you are well known for. You can even sign documents under that alias... (At least in Canada... You don't need to officially change your name to go with your "married name" for example)
So perhaps pretexting law deserved to be killed based on the fact that there is little to no harm in it...
I'm betting on the Wii here. Those people complaining about sore shoulders and the wii exercise, will likely produce a study on the number of calories consumed while playing Zelda or some such thing. Stay Tuned.
SCO's claims here a bit funny, why complain when IBM does the thing you most desperately want them to? Or perhaps the problem here is that SCO wants the Linux source pollution, then they might have an actual case...
Anyway, I'm thoroughly bored with this story now. I can't spare any more time griping about those bad people at SCO. They have become irrelevant.
This may help the obesity rate among kids. It has been climbing at an alarming pace, and now that we have a workout program disguised as a video game... Things are bound to get better.
Destination: Sun of Kakrafoon
Well played sir!
To my knowledge the PQ in Quebec have not started chasing websites with their language laws, but I would not be surprised to hear that they are thinking about it. How long before the US goes bi-lingual with Spanish as a second language? If you think adding alt tags is a pain, wait until you have to translate your whole site, and maintain two languages.
But then again, it may be just good business. It does expand your market reach if you are able to sell to a more diverse audience.
Until they sort this thing our, I'm going to sit on the sidelines waiting for a format to emerge as the real winner.
What we are seeing here is the emerging winner in the knowledge base software category. Wiki's are able to harness the power of being fully distributed in content creation. Anyone can contribute, correct, and read the data. Also they are not shackled with structured meta data requirements so that the content collection/creation is far easier than other systems. They rely on FULL TEXT search to find the knowledge held within, and this suits perfectly well with a user based trained, by Google, in how to construct meaningful keyword based searches.
I'm sure the smart folks at NASA know what they are doing, and they actually know what programs are scheduled... If they need to fix Hubble to bridge the gap then let us get it done.
After their rootkits on CD's I'm surprised that the DOJ hasn't been chasing these guys more aggresively.
I prefer to see jail time for these guys.
Any monkey able to produce a component of Shakespeare's collective works should qualify.
It seems to me that Google could easily be used to find genius...
The US has discovered that bravery is multiplied if you are out of range. Unmanned forces (air and ground) will prosecute their wars, and do a large share of the killing. If they lost their space based relays then they lose the ability to fight a remote war. And it's not nearly as much fun...
Defend that advantage at all costs. Don't ever give it up! Canada, and other NATO allies must do their share to help too, that means we (Canada) must reverse our stance on Missle Defense.
The short answer is that it makes her "feel" more secure. (I'm not sure that she really is though)
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s mithy codeJaeiextos ?tg psacg reamqwf kadpmqzv
Yes there is an italicized "?" in the text... So there may be a question answer structure here. My dictionary attacks have not been overly successful, but I'm working on it.
Scatter Gather DMA is a more complicated DMA transfer where you program the DMA engine with a pointer to a data structure (often linked list) that points to discontiguous blocks of memory. The engine will gather the blocks of memory, and scatter them in the target memory, all according to the input data structure. It's a real pain in the ass to debug, when it goes wrong. In avionics applications the ARINC 653 standard requires all computation to be completed in the allocated time slice. Using DMA is bad since you give up control of the PCI Bus to the DMA controller and you have no way to ensure that you don't exceed your time slice; don't hog HW if you are expected to release at the end of your slice. If the DMA controller is transfering data in/out of system memory then the next application may not be the bus master, and thus will have to wait to read or write to system memory. You've backdoored into the next time slice, and few 653 systems are able to detect that violation. What ends up happening is the second app fails its time slice due to not having enough time to do what it normally does. Debugging that situation is nasty, since we'll start with the second app as it generated the error, all the while thinking that the first is fine. So we try to avoid it, or during system configuration ensure that there is only one app on the HW and its time slice is infinite. Think video capture and playback. If there is only one app using the bus, then it is free to consume all of the time...
We currently have two offers outstanding that are hinging on the applicants obtaining visas. We will provide supporting documentation as required to assist in the process.
We have two locations in Ontario: Toronto and Waterloo, and have a preference for staffing into the Waterloo office right now. The Toronto building is nearing capacity, and the WL office has space to grow.
Cheers,
Mike