What's the mean time between dinosaur-killer-size meteor impacts, 100 million years or so? I don't think we'll have to blow ourselves up, the universe will arrange it for us.
Fully homomorphic encryption is a bit like enabling a layperson to perform flawless neurosurgery while blindfolded, and without later remembering the episode.
The shuttle currently in orbit, Atlantis, has been in service since 1985. The original intent was for about a 10-year lifetime (although they haven't been launched as often as originally intended, by a long shot).
When I first read the title, I thought that "Patents" was the subject and "Crippling" was the verb. Isn't English grand sometimes? Both interpretations are probably true statements.
Does the fact that YouTube was involved make this a computer story somehow? Wouldn't the word have gotten out just the same if it had been televised instead?
They assumed that a third of the 1.5m monthly hits are paid click-throughs from Google that are worth 20 cents each, hence the $100K. Pretty bogus. But even better, that article acknowledges that the Times are in the process of migrating the old stories over, so eventually the links will work again anyway.
Wait a year, buy the five shows on DVD (roughly $40/show).
btw, one thing that will happen when the switchover occurs is an increase in power by many digital stations. This will probably fix your problems (assuming you are using an antenna), so you should be in FAVOR of the analog turnoff happening soon.
Personally, I've found my digital tuner to be great. The picture is nice and clean as a rule, versus general snowiness in the analog stations. I'm hoping that Congress gets out of the way and lets the transition happen already. This is starting to seem a little like the Y2K furor, except that Congress is allowed to change the calendar when they want to.
What they generally don't see is that inserting a good developer into a culture designed to constrain semi-skilled programmers from doing harm is pointless because the rules/culture will constrain the new developer from doing anything significantly new and better.
I almost stood up and cheered when I read this, until I realized that nobody who can change things is reading, and besides I would have disturbed the other cubicle rats.
More important than pieces of code, what matters in a software product are good integration and a good user interface. Neither of which is particularly reusable. In fact, the most important thing that gets reused from most failed projects is the (now more experienced) programmers.
To paraphrase the old saw about decisions:
Writing good software requires experience, and experience comes from writing bad software.
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Officials in Lake Havasu City, Arizona have discovered that the "London Bridge" they purchased back in the 60's is actually made of moon rock.
Seriously, there are no real technical reasons why we can't just run 64bit operating systems. Let's just stop selling 32bit ones.
4G ought to be enough for anybody.
What's the mean time between dinosaur-killer-size meteor impacts, 100 million years or so? I don't think we'll have to blow ourselves up, the universe will arrange it for us.
Fully homomorphic encryption is a bit like enabling a layperson to perform flawless neurosurgery while blindfolded, and without later remembering the episode.
I remember the episode: Spock's Brain.
This wasn't marketing, it was IBM looking for someone to build an OS for them. Their first choice, Digital, rejected them.
That would be Digital Research (maker of CP/M), not Digital Equipment Corp, the minicomputer maker.
In the end, it was Netscape creating a bloated, inefficient browser that killed them.
I thought it was more that Microsoft bundled IE with the OS. Besides, Netscape didn't die, they just became Firefox.
They're trying hard to disguise their Microsoft origins.
The plane was flying in an intense storm, and a flash of light was observed striking it. Occam's Razor says go for the obvious explanation: lightning.
The shuttle currently in orbit, Atlantis, has been in service since 1985. The original intent was for about a 10-year lifetime (although they haven't been launched as often as originally intended, by a long shot).
When I first read the title, I thought that "Patents" was the subject and "Crippling" was the verb. Isn't English grand sometimes? Both interpretations are probably true statements.
Does the fact that YouTube was involved make this a computer story somehow? Wouldn't the word have gotten out just the same if it had been televised instead?
They assumed that a third of the 1.5m monthly hits are paid click-throughs from Google that are worth 20 cents each, hence the $100K. Pretty bogus. But even better, that article acknowledges that the Times are in the process of migrating the old stories over, so eventually the links will work again anyway.
Perfect costs a great deal of money, probably 4X
With free software, it's even more than 4X. Maybe even 10X.
Who the hell is Hyberic?
It's spelled Hyperic. You're probably confusing it with hyperbolic, like this press release.
I guess he didn't wear his ears.
what I keep hearing from people in the field of nuclear physics is that Fusion will be realized by the mid 2020s.
Commercial fusion reactors have been 20 years away for at least the last 40 years. It's good to hear that we're now only 15 years away.
Good think you posted this anonymously, dave@tomservo.
What could possibly go wrong with this plan?
Wait a year, buy the five shows on DVD (roughly $40/show).
btw, one thing that will happen when the switchover occurs is an increase in power by many digital stations. This will probably fix your problems (assuming you are using an antenna), so you should be in FAVOR of the analog turnoff happening soon.
Personally, I've found my digital tuner to be great. The picture is nice and clean as a rule, versus general snowiness in the analog stations. I'm hoping that Congress gets out of the way and lets the transition happen already. This is starting to seem a little like the Y2K furor, except that Congress is allowed to change the calendar when they want to.
The rubberstamp court rubberstamps a government request.
What they generally don't see is that inserting a good developer into a culture designed to constrain semi-skilled programmers from doing harm is pointless because the rules/culture will constrain the new developer from doing anything significantly new and better.
I almost stood up and cheered when I read this, until I realized that nobody who can change things is reading, and besides I would have disturbed the other cubicle rats.
To paraphrase the old saw about decisions:
Writing good software requires experience, and experience comes from writing bad software.
This helps explain Windows Vista.
Correction: there's now one that doesn't -- this one.
If you google "integrated workbench framework" (in quotes), all of the 250-something results seem to refer to this project.
Almost fifty-one years after Sputnik, the private sector catches up, sort of. Woo-hoo, Alpha Centauri here we come.