Seems legit to me. I mean, wasn't that the whole point of patents. To allow companies that cannot compete on the merits of their products to compete on the merits of their legal standing?
Catch up? 64bit build of Konqueror 4.0.2 on my Gentoo box is pulling a score of 61 on the Acid 3. Firefox 2.0.0.12 is only scoring 52. If the anecdotes of others are correct, IE 8 can't even break 20.
The IE team is playing games with site developers. They have the market share and couldn't care less whether or not they follow standards. This is the company that instructs their development teams to come up with ways of ensuring that cross compatibility is not possible. They're forcing web developers to spend all of their time working out the idiosyncrasies of IE so that there's no time/budget left to ensure a quality user experience with other browsers. It isn't by accident nor incompetence that IE refuses standards and is such a problematic pain the in hind end to develop content for.
And I thought the Mafia's "protection" money was a sweet deal. Now we don't even get to be protected for our dime. Maybe the SCO should add this to their business model...
You want to talk energy independence? How about the mother forker Bush pissing the funds of our multi-trillion dollar war on the middle east into a subsidy program that offsets the cost of fuel-cell vehicles with the leftovers going into hydrogen supply infrastructure. And while I'm barking... no the hydrogen doesn't have to be generated from fossil fuel power plants. There are plenty of alternative from biological, to exotic chemical, to geo-thermal, to renewable, to nuclear, etc. etc.. Also while I'm barking... no grid-to-car (battery powered vehicle) solution is going to work. Why? Because for starters it excludes Exxon, Shell, BP, etc. Do you really think we'd get away with an end-run like that? The US is a country where if you believe the polls, some 50% voted for Bush!
Even with out subsidizing the tech, at 2005 pricing (via defunct link to a Ballard press release), under mass-production, a 100kw fuel cell stack--which makes for a comfortably powerful 192hp--is hanging out below the $10K mark with $3K forecasted by 2010 with the new nickel-tin catalyst (as opposed to platinum) coming online. If people will buy the Prius they'll buy into this. We just need some place to fuel the buggers. Piss some cash over here a bit Bush...
If I'm not mistaken this could be used to edit the genetics of say, an egg. This could then in turn be fertilized and reimplanted in the mother. That child would (if the researchers are right) likely be immune to HIV infection and would probably be able to pass on that immunity to its children, particularly if the other parent was likewise edited.
While this wouldn't necessarily help anyone already alive it might well be the salvation of future generation with regards to HIV.
If they try to just "go home" the Afghan and/or US might not chase after them, but the Taliban will. What happens when anyone leaves a gang or similar group, they're branded as traitor and enemy. That's as much of an option as the other two.
There's a problem with the whole "give up" bit. For you see, they can't. There is no scenario available to them that would allow them to retain their life. If they give up, they will be locked up, possibly executed. So while fighting may be ultimately futile for them, they have the possibility to take others with them. It might not be a win, but it's less of a loss. Mean while their ranks are replenished by the disenfranchised youth who also see no future for themselves. While waiting for the inevitable they figure they might as well do something perceived to give their existence meaning.
History demonstrates time and again that violence only begets more violence. This is especially true when those in the recruitment pool have no other opportunities but as fighters. The strongman has no influence over those with better options. It's horrible shame that our leaders don't care and/or aren't paying attention to easily obtained truth.
It costs the United States between $200 and $250 billion/year in lost sales, including 750,000 jobs.
I've got it! The RIAA are such noble geniuses... they're trying to stop the US economic recession and create full employment with a single piece of legislation!
The only planets not aligning properly are the ones between your ears. You are advocating setting break points all through out the code, tracing the execution path, etc. Perhaps you have worked with larger (several hundred KLOC or more) in this manner and I was reaching. I more accurately should have said "worked efficiently and effectively." Unless you have superhuman abilities (perhaps you do) I challenge you to figure out 1 MLOC of code with naught but your debugger. A modeling tool capable of reverse engineering existing source, even one that just spits out text documentation will give you a birds eye view that's all but impossible to fully achieve with execution tracing. It's an ants perspective of a mountain. Should you have any kind of parallel processing, or even event based handling you'll be more likely to come away from things with little more than a lot of frustration and a headache.
It is essential to have that bird's eye perspective, especially if existing documentation is weak, out-of-date, or just plain not there. You need the static structure relationships, and the execution paths documented. From there you can begin to ask educated questions of existing staff (hopefully you have that much) about specific purposes. These answers then allow you document use-cases (user/system goals), textually and/or visually. For each use-case you document, you'll have the collaborating code typically figured out enough to effectively (at least as much possible with the code's quality) use it.
Clearly you don't write (or at least read source for) applications of any substance as that would be mildly described as tedious if not impossible.
One of the best ways to understand code is to do so visually with the software equivalent of blueprints. UML is generally considered a very capable way of modeling/communicating both static structures and dynamic behavior of software. There exist any number of tools that are capable of reverse-engineering existing source into UML. Two tools that I consider to be more capable than others are IBM's Rational Rose, and No Magic's MagicDraw. If commercial products aren't a possibility there are likely a number of open-source/free tools--though likely of lesser ability--available. A Google search on "reverse engineering UML" should point you at some.
Um, this isn't anything special. All a peltier is is a bloody heat pump. In this case they figured out how to selectively locate where the TEC is applied. Back in the day (mid to late 90's) they used to attach a refrigerator to the chip. I thought it was a rather novel idea until I discovered that people playing with medical equipment and/or lasers were using TECs to pump off excessive heat from their devices. I tipped off the folks over at Tom's Hardware and a few months later people playing with these things on their PCs. It was kind of neat how people were able to drop their CPU cores below 0 deg and overclock to mass effect. The problem was and still is that these buggers are lousy when it comes to efficiency. For only a 20deg C differential they nabbed as much power as the bloody CPU they're attached to. So for your 60 watt CPU you end up having to stuff a heatsink (or equivalent) on it sized for 120 watts. While these guys appear to have figured out how to shrink the discrete unit size their documentation suggest they're just as power hungry. The energy recovery when in passive mode doesn't even come close to compensating for their power consumption when actively cooling let alone reclaiming enough waste heat to compensate for the energy consumed by the processor (or whatever they're attached to) itself.
You forgot number three. According to the RIAA ripping CDs and the like is unauthorized. If you can't rip the music from the CD/DVD to put on your iPod or into your home media center then why the f*** would anyone pay for a f***ing CD/DVD that they can't use in the first place. Who the hell wants to carry around a diskman and a backpack full of CDs when you can stuff the equivalent into a device the size of a silver dollar?
Seriously? You seriously aren't comparing Britney Spears and the creators of "Dude Where's My Car?" movie fame to Shakespeare and Newton are you? Perhaps that's how we end up with http://www.verizonmath.com/
I wouldn't be quick with such talk. You seem to not realize that it's the western kids that are so completely jaded (thanks Madison Avenue) and treat things as ten minute novelties. These laptops are going into societies where a box of crayons is coveted as gold.
That's the problem, the resources are NOT significant! The US spends nearly as much in one DAY on Iraq as they do one YEAR on NASA. The 2007 calendar year budget for NASA amounted to 0.6% of the $2.9 trillion dollar budget. It is small wonder NASA hasn't really accomplished many high profile things. A bloody large portion of what NASA does get doesn't even make it to their space programs but to more terrestrial pursuits--like weather science. To those who'd speak of national security, terrorism, blah, blah, blah, in defense of irrational expenditures in Iraq consider this, in all of human history no factor has contributed more to the lack of national security than the way that country treats its neighbors (as in poorly). On the other side intellectual pursuits have had a long history of building bridges between nations, and peace at home as well as abroad. Even the middle-east was once known as a hub of intellectualism, known for its tolerant and peaceful people... Of course that didn't stop the warmongering, imperialist west from changing that.
Give me a break man, you're nothing but a troll looking for your 20 minutes of fame on/. Your arguments couldn't be more sensationalized or forced. The guys down at NASA, their contractors as well as the rest of the international partners are doing one hell of a job for the absolute peanuts they're being funded with. The US spends as much per day on their middle east campaigns as those guys get funded in an entire year.
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Seems legit to me. I mean, wasn't that the whole point of patents. To allow companies that cannot compete on the merits of their products to compete on the merits of their legal standing?
Catch up? 64bit build of Konqueror 4.0.2 on my Gentoo box is pulling a score of 61 on the Acid 3. Firefox 2.0.0.12 is only scoring 52. If the anecdotes of others are correct, IE 8 can't even break 20.
The IE team is playing games with site developers. They have the market share and couldn't care less whether or not they follow standards. This is the company that instructs their development teams to come up with ways of ensuring that cross compatibility is not possible. They're forcing web developers to spend all of their time working out the idiosyncrasies of IE so that there's no time/budget left to ensure a quality user experience with other browsers. It isn't by accident nor incompetence that IE refuses standards and is such a problematic pain the in hind end to develop content for.
I want that domain!
This is great and all but how does this help Vista users? They're the ones needing the RAM not Linux...
And I thought the Mafia's "protection" money was a sweet deal. Now we don't even get to be protected for our dime. Maybe the SCO should add this to their business model...
You want to talk energy independence? How about the mother forker Bush pissing the funds of our multi-trillion dollar war on the middle east into a subsidy program that offsets the cost of fuel-cell vehicles with the leftovers going into hydrogen supply infrastructure. And while I'm barking... no the hydrogen doesn't have to be generated from fossil fuel power plants. There are plenty of alternative from biological, to exotic chemical, to geo-thermal, to renewable, to nuclear, etc. etc.. Also while I'm barking... no grid-to-car (battery powered vehicle) solution is going to work. Why? Because for starters it excludes Exxon, Shell, BP, etc. Do you really think we'd get away with an end-run like that? The US is a country where if you believe the polls, some 50% voted for Bush!
Even with out subsidizing the tech, at 2005 pricing (via defunct link to a Ballard press release), under mass-production, a 100kw fuel cell stack--which makes for a comfortably powerful 192hp--is hanging out below the $10K mark with $3K forecasted by 2010 with the new nickel-tin catalyst (as opposed to platinum) coming online. If people will buy the Prius they'll buy into this. We just need some place to fuel the buggers. Piss some cash over here a bit Bush...
If I'm not mistaken this could be used to edit the genetics of say, an egg. This could then in turn be fertilized and reimplanted in the mother. That child would (if the researchers are right) likely be immune to HIV infection and would probably be able to pass on that immunity to its children, particularly if the other parent was likewise edited.
While this wouldn't necessarily help anyone already alive it might well be the salvation of future generation with regards to HIV.
If they try to just "go home" the Afghan and/or US might not chase after them, but the Taliban will. What happens when anyone leaves a gang or similar group, they're branded as traitor and enemy. That's as much of an option as the other two.
There's a problem with the whole "give up" bit. For you see, they can't. There is no scenario available to them that would allow them to retain their life. If they give up, they will be locked up, possibly executed. So while fighting may be ultimately futile for them, they have the possibility to take others with them. It might not be a win, but it's less of a loss. Mean while their ranks are replenished by the disenfranchised youth who also see no future for themselves. While waiting for the inevitable they figure they might as well do something perceived to give their existence meaning.
History demonstrates time and again that violence only begets more violence. This is especially true when those in the recruitment pool have no other opportunities but as fighters. The strongman has no influence over those with better options. It's horrible shame that our leaders don't care and/or aren't paying attention to easily obtained truth.
How long does it take to water board a person..?
I've got it! The RIAA are such noble geniuses... they're trying to stop the US economic recession and create full employment with a single piece of legislation!
Does this have anything to do with Verizon math?
The only planets not aligning properly are the ones between your ears. You are advocating setting break points all through out the code, tracing the execution path, etc. Perhaps you have worked with larger (several hundred KLOC or more) in this manner and I was reaching. I more accurately should have said "worked efficiently and effectively." Unless you have superhuman abilities (perhaps you do) I challenge you to figure out 1 MLOC of code with naught but your debugger. A modeling tool capable of reverse engineering existing source, even one that just spits out text documentation will give you a birds eye view that's all but impossible to fully achieve with execution tracing. It's an ants perspective of a mountain. Should you have any kind of parallel processing, or even event based handling you'll be more likely to come away from things with little more than a lot of frustration and a headache.
It is essential to have that bird's eye perspective, especially if existing documentation is weak, out-of-date, or just plain not there. You need the static structure relationships, and the execution paths documented. From there you can begin to ask educated questions of existing staff (hopefully you have that much) about specific purposes. These answers then allow you document use-cases (user/system goals), textually and/or visually. For each use-case you document, you'll have the collaborating code typically figured out enough to effectively (at least as much possible with the code's quality) use it.
Clearly you don't write (or at least read source for) applications of any substance as that would be mildly described as tedious if not impossible.
One of the best ways to understand code is to do so visually with the software equivalent of blueprints. UML is generally considered a very capable way of modeling/communicating both static structures and dynamic behavior of software. There exist any number of tools that are capable of reverse-engineering existing source into UML. Two tools that I consider to be more capable than others are IBM's Rational Rose, and No Magic's MagicDraw. If commercial products aren't a possibility there are likely a number of open-source/free tools--though likely of lesser ability--available. A Google search on "reverse engineering UML" should point you at some.
Um, this isn't anything special. All a peltier is is a bloody heat pump. In this case they figured out how to selectively locate where the TEC is applied. Back in the day (mid to late 90's) they used to attach a refrigerator to the chip. I thought it was a rather novel idea until I discovered that people playing with medical equipment and/or lasers were using TECs to pump off excessive heat from their devices. I tipped off the folks over at Tom's Hardware and a few months later people playing with these things on their PCs. It was kind of neat how people were able to drop their CPU cores below 0 deg and overclock to mass effect. The problem was and still is that these buggers are lousy when it comes to efficiency. For only a 20deg C differential they nabbed as much power as the bloody CPU they're attached to. So for your 60 watt CPU you end up having to stuff a heatsink (or equivalent) on it sized for 120 watts. While these guys appear to have figured out how to shrink the discrete unit size their documentation suggest they're just as power hungry. The energy recovery when in passive mode doesn't even come close to compensating for their power consumption when actively cooling let alone reclaiming enough waste heat to compensate for the energy consumed by the processor (or whatever they're attached to) itself.
You forgot number three. According to the RIAA ripping CDs and the like is unauthorized. If you can't rip the music from the CD/DVD to put on your iPod or into your home media center then why the f*** would anyone pay for a f***ing CD/DVD that they can't use in the first place. Who the hell wants to carry around a diskman and a backpack full of CDs when you can stuff the equivalent into a device the size of a silver dollar?
Perhaps because electronic paper is reflective and OLEDs are emissive...
Sounds like the world's getting ready to redraw some political boundaries and justify some defense spending.
Seriously? You seriously aren't comparing Britney Spears and the creators of "Dude Where's My Car?" movie fame to Shakespeare and Newton are you? Perhaps that's how we end up with http://www.verizonmath.com/
I wouldn't be quick with such talk. You seem to not realize that it's the western kids that are so completely jaded (thanks Madison Avenue) and treat things as ten minute novelties. These laptops are going into societies where a box of crayons is coveted as gold.
That's the problem, the resources are NOT significant! The US spends nearly as much in one DAY on Iraq as they do one YEAR on NASA. The 2007 calendar year budget for NASA amounted to 0.6% of the $2.9 trillion dollar budget. It is small wonder NASA hasn't really accomplished many high profile things. A bloody large portion of what NASA does get doesn't even make it to their space programs but to more terrestrial pursuits--like weather science. To those who'd speak of national security, terrorism, blah, blah, blah, in defense of irrational expenditures in Iraq consider this, in all of human history no factor has contributed more to the lack of national security than the way that country treats its neighbors (as in poorly). On the other side intellectual pursuits have had a long history of building bridges between nations, and peace at home as well as abroad. Even the middle-east was once known as a hub of intellectualism, known for its tolerant and peaceful people... Of course that didn't stop the warmongering, imperialist west from changing that.
Give me a break man, you're nothing but a troll looking for your 20 minutes of fame on /. Your arguments couldn't be more sensationalized or forced. The guys down at NASA, their contractors as well as the rest of the international partners are doing one hell of a job for the absolute peanuts they're being funded with. The US spends as much per day on their middle east campaigns as those guys get funded in an entire year.