I don't buy that it will work on non-x86. Or at least not PowerPC, which is the only instruction set I'm familiar with at the machine code level. I only skimmed the article, but I didn't see the authors drawing any such conclusions.
For PPC at least, IIRC most of the useful instructions like stack manipulation involve some byte sequences that are non-ASCII. OTOH, ARM and x86 are the only platforms worth targeting, given their prevalence.
I've been waiting for Moiraine to re-show since I connected the dots between the shiny tower mentioned in book 1 and whatever book she disappeared in. (I didn't have time for a full re-read before book 12 came out). Book 11 had me hoping it would be soon... as long as it's in book 13 and not 14 that we get her back, I'll be happy.
I was wondering if "the three becoming one" with Callandor meant Aviendha, Elayne, and Rand (poor Min, unable to channel). Aviendha is a very strong in the power, and while Elayne isn't the strongest, she's also likely more trusted by Rand than anyone else who would be a part of it, since IIRC in a three-way the women would be in control of the weave. Nynaeve said she won't pair with Rand again after her one effort.
I can't think of anything I've done online (even my shemale midget fetish on youpron) that could be used to blackmail me
Same here. However, the next bit of text is more relevant:
discriminate against, harass, or steal the identity of him or her. I mean more than mere embarrassment or inconvenience; I mean legally cognizable harm.
There's almost certainly something that can be used to discriminate against you, harass you, or steal your identity, causing legally cognizable harm. Blackmail is just for the people ashamed of what they do; the rest affects everyone.
Average high in SFO for July-September is 72 Average high in SEA for July-Aug is 76
Lots of places on the west coast rarely get warm. This is one reason everyone and their kid brother has moved there, which is why real estate is so expensive...
Agreed, I was just thinking the same thing. I thought the SNES controller was pushing my upper limit for buttons (I could manage the directional control plus A/B/X/Y but the L/R buttons were a tough sqeeze), but the NES was a little button-light. Metroid for SNES was a great use of all the options the controller provided since L/R weren't needed too often. Even though I was about 20 at the time, the later Nintendo and other boxes new controllers just had too many buttons and joysticks and stuff for me to want to spend any time learning them.
I got so used to the dropout in my copy of "... and Justice for All" that when I finally got it on CD years later it sounded weird to me for a long time.
What was somewhat neat is LN has a small icon in the password dialog that changes on each keypress, and what it changes to is dependent on the key you push. So by watching the changing icon you can tell if you've mis-keyed, but no one knows much about your password. (Though by counting image changes they can still probably guess how many characters).
Even with a subscription you're not paying for the paper. The nominal cost of the subscription or the news stand price covers approximately the cost of the physical paper (roughly; more or less depending on paper size and price). The reporters, staff, printing press, etc., etc., are all paid for by advertising, which is a much larger cost than $1.00 or so per day.
The only difference with the online version is that no one has managed to get the advertising revenue to match costs yet. And in fact, this is becoming more of a problem with the print version, as the ad revenue falls due to falling circulation.
But the point is, even folks who "pay for the paper" aren't doing so; it's a specious argument.
When it's large damages against a company the Supremes know it's not good. But statutory damages to an individual that lines the pockets of business, that's great! (For 5 of 9 anyways). Summary: businesses good, people bad.
That's not how it works. I should know, I have about 7 patents IBM paid to work through the system and I sat on the patent review board for my group in Austin for over a year.
There's a place to submit ideas online. Most of the ideas have never actually been implemented. The review board decides if we're sure that there's prior art (err on the side of caution), and whether it is implementable. If so, we send it off to someone else to do a real prior art search. If that comes back okay then lawyers get involved drafting claims.
Being on the patent review board was very wearying. Half the things we saw were not related to current products IBM was making, so they were probably not inventive, and we had no great way to tell if it was implementable. A bunch were just... dumb, but they weren't dumb to the inventor. That requires being nice about rejections. Some were like this one: inventive, but we're pretty sure it will never make it into an actual product. But it *is* inventive, and one of the goals the corporate overlord had was a large patent portfolio, so things like this get passed along and eventually become patents.
It is true, though, that at the end of each release cycle we're reminded to think about what stuff we did in the past year or so and submit anything that may be patentable.
The rewards aren't what you listed either. If a invention disclosure is rated Search the inventors got $750, up to a max of $3000 per submission divided N ways. Then, a few years later, if the submission was issued a patent, the inventor got another $500.
I don't see why it matters who implements someone's electronic health records (open source, Joe's Software Shack, Bill's Multi-National Software Emporium, etc.)
But what the Government should work on (and it's their job to do so) is making sure there is a single open standard format for the records, so that they can be used and transfered between providers with different systems. Otherwise electronic documents can easily end up worse than paper.
My father-in-law faced one of the prosecutors in a tax case once. She pulled a lot of the same crap then, harassing witnesses, changing the story she was trying to prosecute, etc.
This is almost certainly like O.J. Simpson, where a guilty man was framed.
The pSeries is basically a mainframe, so there's no hibernate feature. AIX as a whole has no support for that since the laptop-type project was canned back in the 90's; I removed the last of the (dead) code in the VMM back in '04 or so.
A few years ago when I was working at IBM, I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation on the price of one of the pSeries line with 256GB of RAM. Given the commodity price for RAM for that kind of hardware, using 8x32GB cards, the cost for the RAM was about $1M USD. Which was about the price we charged for the box, with storage, CPUs, AIX license, etc. It was kind of like "buy the RAM, get the server free".
If the internets tell me right, uncompressed 1080p uses about 5GB/s of video, so 18TB per hour.
A 3 node Isilon IQ 36NL cluster would therefore have enough storage for 4.8 hours of such video at 80% usage. And that's the smallest cluster you could get; a 144 node cluster of those bad boys would store over 230 hours (at 80% usage). Admittedly, 230 hours probably isn't enough for someone.
(Yeah, I'm pimping my company's products; I just want to point out that there does exist something that can store hours of uncompressed 1080p video).
Though why you'd store it uncompressed, since usually bandwidth is much more limited than CPU time for uncompression...
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I don't even know how many ml there are in a tablespoon.
5ml per teaspoon, or close enough. So 15ml in 1 TBSP.
Once you start doling out liquid medicine for kids, this one's easy.:-)
After 7 years post-high-school I dropped out with an MS and started working. Now I love CS/programming again. I could only take toy projects for so long. I needed to do something that affected someone's life other than my own.
There's a lot of other things I'd like to learn about but I have no more patience for school learning. If only we still had an apprenticeship model; probably 50% of the people who go to college don't need it but really only need a good apprenticeship with a master.
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I don't buy that it will work on non-x86. Or at least not PowerPC, which is the only instruction set I'm familiar with at the machine code level. I only skimmed the article, but I didn't see the authors drawing any such conclusions.
For PPC at least, IIRC most of the useful instructions like stack manipulation involve some byte sequences that are non-ASCII. OTOH, ARM and x86 are the only platforms worth targeting, given their prevalence.
Effing Prada website made my browser window very small. I hated Prada for their shoes before, now I hate them even more.
I've been waiting for Moiraine to re-show since I connected the dots between the shiny tower mentioned in book 1 and whatever book she disappeared in. (I didn't have time for a full re-read before book 12 came out). Book 11 had me hoping it would be soon... as long as it's in book 13 and not 14 that we get her back, I'll be happy.
I was wondering if "the three becoming one" with Callandor meant Aviendha, Elayne, and Rand (poor Min, unable to channel). Aviendha is a very strong in the power, and while Elayne isn't the strongest, she's also likely more trusted by Rand than anyone else who would be a part of it, since IIRC in a three-way the women would be in control of the weave. Nynaeve said she won't pair with Rand again after her one effort.
Why not (0x2B | ~0x2B) == -1
Okay, it's completely off-topic, but:
1) 2's complement is the norm but not guaranteed
2) never do bitwise arithmetic on a signed variable; it's asking for trouble
I can't think of anything I've done online (even my shemale midget fetish on youpron) that could be used to blackmail me
Same here. However, the next bit of text is more relevant:
discriminate against, harass, or steal the identity of him or her. I mean more than mere embarrassment or inconvenience; I mean legally cognizable harm.
There's almost certainly something that can be used to discriminate against you, harass you, or steal your identity, causing legally cognizable harm. Blackmail is just for the people ashamed of what they do; the rest affects everyone.
This is why I type "yout" so quickly when I want to show the family videos on YouTube. :-)
'There are all kinds of things that you would do differently if you are building a browser from scratch,' Mr. Andreessen said.
Yeah, I'd build a browser more like... Chrome. Which addressed this issue less than two years ago. Has the web changed a lot in two years?
What's the profit model for this startup? That's the most interesting question, to me.
Not all of North America is hot in the summer...
Average high in SFO for July-September is 72
Average high in SEA for July-Aug is 76
Lots of places on the west coast rarely get warm. This is one reason everyone and their kid brother has moved there, which is why real estate is so expensive...
Agreed, I was just thinking the same thing. I thought the SNES controller was pushing my upper limit for buttons (I could manage the directional control plus A/B/X/Y but the L/R buttons were a tough sqeeze), but the NES was a little button-light. Metroid for SNES was a great use of all the options the controller provided since L/R weren't needed too often. Even though I was about 20 at the time, the later Nintendo and other boxes new controllers just had too many buttons and joysticks and stuff for me to want to spend any time learning them.
I got so used to the dropout in my copy of "... and Justice for All" that when I finally got it on CD years later it sounded weird to me for a long time.
Actually it seemed to be 3 or 4 X's each time.
What was somewhat neat is LN has a small icon in the password dialog that changes on each keypress, and what it changes to is dependent on the key you push. So by watching the changing icon you can tell if you've mis-keyed, but no one knows much about your password. (Though by counting image changes they can still probably guess how many characters).
Even with a subscription you're not paying for the paper. The nominal cost of the subscription or the news stand price covers approximately the cost of the physical paper (roughly; more or less depending on paper size and price). The reporters, staff, printing press, etc., etc., are all paid for by advertising, which is a much larger cost than $1.00 or so per day.
The only difference with the online version is that no one has managed to get the advertising revenue to match costs yet. And in fact, this is becoming more of a problem with the print version, as the ad revenue falls due to falling circulation.
But the point is, even folks who "pay for the paper" aren't doing so; it's a specious argument.
When it's large damages against a company the Supremes know it's not good. But statutory damages to an individual that lines the pockets of business, that's great! (For 5 of 9 anyways). Summary: businesses good, people bad.
My two and four year olds like Wall-E pretty well (but Bolt more :-)
They sing along to the music from Hello Dolly. In fact, when we rented Hello Dolly they said, "It's the Wall-E music!"
But due to short attention span the four-year-old prefers the Presto! and Burn-E shorts to a full Wall-E showing.
That's not how it works. I should know, I have about 7 patents IBM paid to work through the system and I sat on the patent review board for my group in Austin for over a year.
There's a place to submit ideas online. Most of the ideas have never actually been implemented. The review board decides if we're sure that there's prior art (err on the side of caution), and whether it is implementable. If so, we send it off to someone else to do a real prior art search. If that comes back okay then lawyers get involved drafting claims.
Being on the patent review board was very wearying. Half the things we saw were not related to current products IBM was making, so they were probably not inventive, and we had no great way to tell if it was implementable. A bunch were just... dumb, but they weren't dumb to the inventor. That requires being nice about rejections. Some were like this one: inventive, but we're pretty sure it will never make it into an actual product. But it *is* inventive, and one of the goals the corporate overlord had was a large patent portfolio, so things like this get passed along and eventually become patents.
It is true, though, that at the end of each release cycle we're reminded to think about what stuff we did in the past year or so and submit anything that may be patentable.
The rewards aren't what you listed either. If a invention disclosure is rated Search the inventors got $750, up to a max of $3000 per submission divided N ways. Then, a few years later, if the submission was issued a patent, the inventor got another $500.
I don't see why it matters who implements someone's electronic health records (open source, Joe's Software Shack, Bill's Multi-National Software Emporium, etc.)
But what the Government should work on (and it's their job to do so) is making sure there is a single open standard format for the records, so that they can be used and transfered between providers with different systems. Otherwise electronic documents can easily end up worse than paper.
Why did I move from Austin last winter?!
Oh, yeah, it's because the summer really sucked. :-)
Transformers was awesome.
Pure action excitement. I can't wait to see it yet again.~
FTFY.
The fact of the matter is, this was a railroad job done by a bunch of criminal attorneys, and Holder is trying to protect them.
You're not a lawyer, I take it.
Having the U.S. Attorney General say that you butchered a prosecution so badly that it's not worth retying is a huge black mark on your record.
My father-in-law faced one of the prosecutors in a tax case once. She pulled a lot of the same crap then, harassing witnesses, changing the story she was trying to prosecute, etc.
This is almost certainly like O.J. Simpson, where a guilty man was framed.
The pSeries is basically a mainframe, so there's no hibernate feature. AIX as a whole has no support for that since the laptop-type project was canned back in the 90's; I removed the last of the (dead) code in the VMM back in '04 or so.
A few years ago when I was working at IBM, I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation on the price of one of the pSeries line with 256GB of RAM. Given the commodity price for RAM for that kind of hardware, using 8x32GB cards, the cost for the RAM was about $1M USD. Which was about the price we charged for the box, with storage, CPUs, AIX license, etc. It was kind of like "buy the RAM, get the server free".
If the internets tell me right, uncompressed 1080p uses about 5GB/s of video, so 18TB per hour.
A 3 node Isilon IQ 36NL cluster would therefore have enough storage for 4.8 hours of such video at 80% usage. And that's the smallest cluster you could get; a 144 node cluster of those bad boys would store over 230 hours (at 80% usage). Admittedly, 230 hours probably isn't enough for someone.
(Yeah, I'm pimping my company's products; I just want to point out that there does exist something that can store hours of uncompressed 1080p video).
Though why you'd store it uncompressed, since usually bandwidth is much more limited than CPU time for uncompression...
I don't even know how many ml there are in a tablespoon.
5ml per teaspoon, or close enough. So 15ml in 1 TBSP.
Once you start doling out liquid medicine for kids, this one's easy. :-)
After 7 years post-high-school I dropped out with an MS and started working. Now I love CS/programming again. I could only take toy projects for so long. I needed to do something that affected someone's life other than my own.
There's a lot of other things I'd like to learn about but I have no more patience for school learning. If only we still had an apprenticeship model; probably 50% of the people who go to college don't need it but really only need a good apprenticeship with a master.