In the mobile market, apps may become custom web browsers. A fully featured web browser is a burden to the mobile device. Otherwise, Google Chrome is somewhat interesting because of its multitreaded feature but to me the hidden GoogleUpdater is annoying so I uninstalled Chrome.
The original culture in hight-tech Silicon Valley in the early 80s did not include patents and IP protection. A company needed to get their product on the marker ahead of their competitors and, given the learning curve, even two weeks mattered a lot. No money and time were wated on patents and no information was disclosed to the public. But then the lawyers came and took over.
Genetic design != patching up a genome using DNA fragments of known function. It is not possible at this time to design a gene that can perform a given biological function. So basically, what they have done is, they have engineered a 3 Mbp plasmid using genes that exist in nature. That in itself is an accomplisment but I would not call the result a "synthetic genome". The concept of genome implies a consistent and complete biological function set and that, nobody has managed to "synthesize" yet.
Bytecode (CLR, JVM) can be easily decompiled using commercial tools. I a world where the battleground of the IT industry is IP this is a major issue unless you only develop for servers, not desktops and mobile.
Tz-tz-tz.... This is what happens when you hit Submit too soon. I meant it exactly the other way, and it should be obvious: ObjectPascal/Delphi is "the car with automatic transmission"; C++ is "the car with manual transmission".
The difference between ObjectPascal/Delphi and C++ is similar to the difference between cars with manual and automatic transmission. If you want to live more dangerously then you choose the former -- and of course, you might gain a few milliseconds in a tight loop; if you want to drive and not fret the small things then you choose the latter.
The only reason why languages (or implementations thereof) matter is the availability of library bindings. If your favorite programming environment does not come with bindings for the libraries you might need on your development platform then you are at a serious disadvantage. In the M$ world C++ and.Net are supposedly the universal solution for every programmer. I think Delphi for.Net was Borland's way to awknowledge this fact and the switch to Oxygene/Delphi Prism (Object Pascal-like language for.Net) is probably "the better approach". Too bad it creates managed code instead of native code. Anyway, I guess C++/Java programmers have no idea how powerful Delphi is simply because they have been educated differently (=conditioned) and because Visual Studio Express is available for free to hobbyists. It's about time university curricula were given a face lift.
>>Delphi on Linux? DVDFab? DVDLabPro? Camtasia? The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. videogames? Vector NTI?
>I don't use them, so who cares. If your going to ask lame questions about some program written for a DIFFERENT OS, whats the point.
Most people chose an OS for the software they can run on it; so yes, I do care what software I can run. Besides, the question in the main posting is about AV for Windows.
Really! And how do you run Delphi on Linux? DVDFab? DVDLabPro? Camtasia? The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. videogames? Vector NTI? There is no support for my Logitech webcams in the Linux kernel, at least not on Ubuntu 9.10 (i.e., the Linux distro that I run on one computer and two Windows machines in VirtualBox). How do I hook-up my Sony HD videocamera and my canon camera to a GNU/Linux machine? I know, it's sad.
It is unlikely that a process so complex as mammalian tissue regeneration be controlled by a single gene. Moreover, p21 mutations have been associated with cancers. Which brings forth another question: why is it that only "lower" organisms (and mammalian fetuses) are capable of scar-less tissue regeneration? The answer is yet to be discovered but it is very likely that evolution had to stroke a balance between cancer control and tissue regeneration. It won't be easy to figure out "the way back" to regeneration, or even to avoid the risks of such a path.
"insufficient cyber-crime legislation" -- Money was obviously stoled from people's bank accounts, shouldn't that be sufficient to prosecute the thiefs?
The climate change theory is "unscientific" for the same reasons why claiming that HIV causes AIDS, or the theories of dinosaur extinction are "unscientific": science requires reproducibility of the experiment and none of the above can be reproduced by different teams.
That being said, let's keep in mind that Earth underwent major upheavels in the past, including several ice ages, when there was no human-generated polution. The presumed current climate changes are slow, therefore humans and animals should have enough time to slowly adapt to them; Sahara was a fertile land a few thousand years ago.
Perhaps rather that sweat climate change scientists and politicians should focus on how to deal with the risk of a large meteorite impact, which happened in the past, is very likely to happen again, and could wipe out the human species in a blink.
Antibodies are only one and not the most important component of the immune reaction against viruses. T-cells are more important and less easy to... engineer, in this sense.
Guys, if ethidium bromide and polymerized acrylamide were not hazardous then you wouldn't manipulate them wearing rubber gloves, a lab coat, and a protective mask. If bacteria didn't mutate spontaneously then selection wouldn't happen; remember how strains commonly used in the research lab were obtained in the first place. Don't forget that most B cells, primary or cell lines, carry the Ebstein-Barr virus, and that bacteria used for cloning were transformed with vectors carrying antibiotic-resistance genes. IMO at least some of the people posting here should not be allowed to get their hands on biological materials. I still keep a few dozen DNA vectors in TBS in my home fridge, for old times' sake, but they can't do any damage there. This discussion reminds my of a joke: A guy asks a surgeon how difficult it is to learn to do an appendicectomy. The surgeon replies: "Oh, that would be easy. It would take me about fifteen minutes to teach you how to do an appendicectomy. But it would take me four years to teach you what to do should anything go wrong."
"many DIYers knowledge of these fields is so complete that the best among them design and conduct their own experiments at stunningly low costs. With adequate knowledge and ingenuity, DIYbiologists can build equipment and run experiments on a hobbyist's budget."
That must be a (bad) joke. Forget the open-source/custom-made software and discount price hardware acquired on eBay, biology is first and foremost about wet lab. And not only it costs *a lot* but one needs licenses to purchase certain products. I have worked in biomedical research for almost ten years and I know that if you're in academia then you can purchase, say, enzymes and genetic vectors at their catalog price; but if you're industry then you get hit with 5-6 digit licensing fees. The only way to do at home what they claim to be doing is by using stuff from their academic research labs. Besides the risks involved (those cell line are actually cancer cells and engineered bacteria are mutant germs, not to mention the radioactively labeled nucleic acid probes that might end up in the toilet) the logistics are a nightmare. Storing liquid nitrogen in your basement? Discarding ethidium-bromide and acrylamide gels? Biological experiments are different from software development, they need follow up and supervision through the end, which may take 2-4 days. Drosophilla flys can't be frozen like bacteria. How do you discard biohazardous materials and mutagen/teratogen substances at home? There are many reasons why DIY biology is a very bad idea; it's a disaster waiting to happen.
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Can you provide more info on the design of your .Net4 multi-core application? Thanks.
In the mobile market, apps may become custom web browsers. A fully featured web browser is a burden to the mobile device. Otherwise, Google Chrome is somewhat interesting because of its multitreaded feature but to me the hidden GoogleUpdater is annoying so I uninstalled Chrome.
Careful, you might end up working for one of them.
The original culture in hight-tech Silicon Valley in the early 80s did not include patents and IP protection. A company needed to get their product on the marker ahead of their competitors and, given the learning curve, even two weeks mattered a lot. No money and time were wated on patents and no information was disclosed to the public. But then the lawyers came and took over.
Genetic design != patching up a genome using DNA fragments of known function. It is not possible at this time to design a gene that can perform a given biological function. So basically, what they have done is, they have engineered a 3 Mbp plasmid using genes that exist in nature. That in itself is an accomplisment but I would not call the result a "synthetic genome". The concept of genome implies a consistent and complete biological function set and that, nobody has managed to "synthesize" yet.
Bytecode (CLR, JVM) can be easily decompiled using commercial tools. I a world where the battleground of the IT industry is IP this is a major issue unless you only develop for servers, not desktops and mobile.
Tz-tz-tz.... This is what happens when you hit Submit too soon. I meant it exactly the other way, and it should be obvious: ObjectPascal/Delphi is "the car with automatic transmission"; C++ is "the car with manual transmission".
The difference between ObjectPascal/Delphi and C++ is similar to the difference between cars with manual and automatic transmission. If you want to live more dangerously then you choose the former -- and of course, you might gain a few milliseconds in a tight loop; if you want to drive and not fret the small things then you choose the latter.
The only reason why languages (or implementations thereof) matter is the availability of library bindings. If your favorite programming environment does not come with bindings for the libraries you might need on your development platform then you are at a serious disadvantage. In the M$ world C++ and .Net are supposedly the universal solution for every programmer. I think Delphi for .Net was Borland's way to awknowledge this fact and the switch to Oxygene/Delphi Prism (Object Pascal-like language for .Net) is probably "the better approach". Too bad it creates managed code instead of native code. Anyway, I guess C++/Java programmers have no idea how powerful Delphi is simply because they have been educated differently (=conditioned) and because Visual Studio Express is available for free to hobbyists. It's about time university curricula were given a face lift.
My mistake, thanks! ;)
To the left of the screen? No, no, no... it's called "the wharf" and it sits at the right of the screen: http://xwinman.org/screenshots/bowman-matt.gif
"what business there was went to European and Russian rockets that were cheaper" -- that's the idea. be competitive, b. and l.-m.!
I have been a Lazarus and FPC fan for several years now. Believe me, it doesn't come close to Delphi.
>I don't use them, so who cares. If your going to ask lame questions about some program written for a DIFFERENT OS, whats the point.
Most people chose an OS for the software they can run on it; so yes, I do care what software I can run. Besides, the question in the main posting is about AV for Windows.
Really! And how do you run Delphi on Linux? DVDFab? DVDLabPro? Camtasia? The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. videogames? Vector NTI? There is no support for my Logitech webcams in the Linux kernel, at least not on Ubuntu 9.10 (i.e., the Linux distro that I run on one computer and two Windows machines in VirtualBox). How do I hook-up my Sony HD videocamera and my canon camera to a GNU/Linux machine? I know, it's sad.
It is unlikely that a process so complex as mammalian tissue regeneration be controlled by a single gene. Moreover, p21 mutations have been associated with cancers. Which brings forth another question: why is it that only "lower" organisms (and mammalian fetuses) are capable of scar-less tissue regeneration? The answer is yet to be discovered but it is very likely that evolution had to stroke a balance between cancer control and tissue regeneration. It won't be easy to figure out "the way back" to regeneration, or even to avoid the risks of such a path.
"Compatable" is a misspelled word. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/compatibility
"insufficient cyber-crime legislation" -- Money was obviously stoled from people's bank accounts, shouldn't that be sufficient to prosecute the thiefs?
DVDfab - thumbs up!
"You must have a constant internet connection, and, if your connection breaks, the game exits." -- Yes, Assassin's Greed, indeed!
The climate change theory is "unscientific" for the same reasons why claiming that HIV causes AIDS, or the theories of dinosaur extinction are "unscientific": science requires reproducibility of the experiment and none of the above can be reproduced by different teams.
That being said, let's keep in mind that Earth underwent major upheavels in the past, including several ice ages, when there was no human-generated polution. The presumed current climate changes are slow, therefore humans and animals should have enough time to slowly adapt to them; Sahara was a fertile land a few thousand years ago.
Perhaps rather that sweat climate change scientists and politicians should focus on how to deal with the risk of a large meteorite impact, which happened in the past, is very likely to happen again, and could wipe out the human species in a blink.
"Mature" games? As in, games where the player must kill or rape other otherwise torture other people? Strange definition of maturity...
Antibodies are only one and not the most important component of the immune reaction against viruses. T-cells are more important and less easy to... engineer, in this sense.
Guys, if ethidium bromide and polymerized acrylamide were not hazardous then you wouldn't manipulate them wearing rubber gloves, a lab coat, and a protective mask. If bacteria didn't mutate spontaneously then selection wouldn't happen; remember how strains commonly used in the research lab were obtained in the first place. Don't forget that most B cells, primary or cell lines, carry the Ebstein-Barr virus, and that bacteria used for cloning were transformed with vectors carrying antibiotic-resistance genes. IMO at least some of the people posting here should not be allowed to get their hands on biological materials. I still keep a few dozen DNA vectors in TBS in my home fridge, for old times' sake, but they can't do any damage there. This discussion reminds my of a joke: A guy asks a surgeon how difficult it is to learn to do an appendicectomy. The surgeon replies: "Oh, that would be easy. It would take me about fifteen minutes to teach you how to do an appendicectomy. But it would take me four years to teach you what to do should anything go wrong."
"many DIYers knowledge of these fields is so complete that the best among them design and conduct their own experiments at stunningly low costs. With adequate knowledge and ingenuity, DIYbiologists can build equipment and run experiments on a hobbyist's budget." That must be a (bad) joke. Forget the open-source/custom-made software and discount price hardware acquired on eBay, biology is first and foremost about wet lab. And not only it costs *a lot* but one needs licenses to purchase certain products. I have worked in biomedical research for almost ten years and I know that if you're in academia then you can purchase, say, enzymes and genetic vectors at their catalog price; but if you're industry then you get hit with 5-6 digit licensing fees. The only way to do at home what they claim to be doing is by using stuff from their academic research labs. Besides the risks involved (those cell line are actually cancer cells and engineered bacteria are mutant germs, not to mention the radioactively labeled nucleic acid probes that might end up in the toilet) the logistics are a nightmare. Storing liquid nitrogen in your basement? Discarding ethidium-bromide and acrylamide gels? Biological experiments are different from software development, they need follow up and supervision through the end, which may take 2-4 days. Drosophilla flys can't be frozen like bacteria. How do you discard biohazardous materials and mutagen/teratogen substances at home? There are many reasons why DIY biology is a very bad idea; it's a disaster waiting to happen.