Blue Gene has government funding? Err, yes? Blue Gene/L is situated *inside* the Lawrence Livermore national labs. I'm pretty sure the department of energy funds the entire project. IBM is the largest, but not the only technology partner in it.
I'll be generous and allow you to start with a single celled organism, you don't have to go find some primordial soup to start. You're not being generous, only fair. Evolution doesn't claim to explain the origin of life. How many more times does this need to be repeated?
My idea is that a patent should not prevent anyone else from developing the same thing Why should anyone apply for a patent in your system then? Just keep your details secret and you've got the same result. Patents were originally developed specifically to discourage this behavior.
how does that beyond-death structure encourage the dead guy to create additional works? It doesn't. However, it also reduces any incentive for the artist to suffer an "accidental" death.
It took a much more patient teacher to teach us that the derivative of x2 was x/2
The derivative of x^2 is 2x (assuming that's what you meant by x2).
That must have been one mind bending class if you could prove that the derivative of x^2 was x/2 by the end of it!
ease traffic back-ups at lower cost, particularly in rural areas
traffic jams cost the average city almost a billion dollars a year So how much do they cost a rural area?
So if I kill someone (an action), plead guilty to it (a statement in court), then flee and stay out of the court's jurisdiction, it is okay? What sort of a bizarre view of the world is that?
In case you're unaware, this happens fairly routinely among those that actually do the killing. It's the whole point of extradition agreements. If a killer leaves the country, there's nothing the local courts can do about it unless he's brought back via some extradition arrangements.
I don't think we need "public patents". All that we need is a way to make sure that these ideas make it into whatever database the patent office use to search for prior art. Surely that's much easier to do than creating a whole new category of patents?
Of course, if the patent office actually did it's job diligently, even that wouldn't be necessary. All you need to do is publish the result.
Scribe[Technical paper pdf warning!] is a framework to do very similar things. Is this an application developed on top of that? Scribe works by building a multicast tree of the participants too.
One interesting thing to note is that as a participant in scribe, you'll have to pass on notifications of feeds even if you're not interested in them, because you're a part of the tree and pretty much the only path to the guys below you. How does FeedTree deal with cheating/lying nodes that refuse to pass on messages? Also, to be a part of the overlay, you need to keep sending keep-alive messages. Not a big deal, I know, but I always thought Scribe was impractical for general use, but would work great for a restricted audience (like a large geographically distributed company) that can be "trusted".
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IR cameras?
And you mean South Carolina. Yes, that's a South.
That's 83 liters at STP.
Carbon dioxide weighs in at 1.98 grams/L at STP.
1.98*83 = 164.34 grams
They're absorbing 164.34 grams in 1 liter of the crystals. Definitely underwhelming.
The derivative of x^2 is 2x (assuming that's what you meant by x2).
That must have been one mind bending class if you could prove that the derivative of x^2 was x/2 by the end of it!
http://www.ingrimayne.com/econ/Banking/Commodity.h tml
for those who don't get what the parent is talking about. Although banks don't quite "magic" money into existence.
Here you go
http://www.safetype.com/index.asp
Damn, I'm getting too reliant on those <sarcasm> tags.
You fell off the playground?
Into what?
Nope - volatility refers to whether the medium stores data when all power is turned off. SRAM is volatile.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LenbSKbn-U
I don't think we need "public patents". All that we need is a way to make sure that these ideas make it into whatever database the patent office use to search for prior art. Surely that's much easier to do than creating a whole new category of patents?
Of course, if the patent office actually did it's job diligently, even that wouldn't be necessary. All you need to do is publish the result.
Yes. The kernel patch works around a bug in gcc. The patched systems are now *vulnerable*
Context for parent: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/01/09
Scribe[Technical paper pdf warning!] is a framework to do very similar things. Is this an application developed on top of that? Scribe works by building a multicast tree of the participants too.
One interesting thing to note is that as a participant in scribe, you'll have to pass on notifications of feeds even if you're not interested in them, because you're a part of the tree and pretty much the only path to the guys below you. How does FeedTree deal with cheating/lying nodes that refuse to pass on messages? Also, to be a part of the overlay, you need to keep sending keep-alive messages. Not a big deal, I know, but I always thought Scribe was impractical for general use, but would work great for a restricted audience (like a large geographically distributed company) that can be "trusted".