Seriously, the article talks about a protein that is the cause of the degeneration of brain cells. That's news to me. When was this protein discovered, and does anyone know of other ways of fixing the problem that people are working on? This is pretty cool. I think we might be on the verge of curing many diseases - alzheimers, thyroid imbalances, diabetes. But probably not the common cold though.
while the American "Conservative" is closer to the classical definition of "Liberal."
Ahhh, I get it. So, the classical definition of Liberal means to be against women's rights, to be for slavery, to be against desegregation, to hold greediness as the highest value, to be in favor of war, to be in favor of any religion as long as it's Christianity, to be concerned about what people do in the privacy of their own bedrooms?
Liberal is not a bad word, and it's a damn shame that psychobitch Ann Coulter and her cronies have slandered it so badly.
You don't seem to have a good handle on what conservative means. You left out the entire conservative South. Yes, THOSE people. The ones you'd rather go away. The ones that count the dildoes and keep you from buying whiskey on Sunday.
Yes, you are right. I had assumed that the Tupolev development followed the path that so many other Russian planes followed: make it look like the Western counterpart to save some trouble. Like what they did with Buran.
The difference between open source and shared source is in the definition of "community".
To ordinary folks, a community is something like a group of people who organize a pot-luck dinner. Everyone brings something to the table, they set it out, and everyone eats from all the dishes.
To Microsoft, a community is something like a regular restaurant where people come in and pay for their food that consists of reheated TV dinners. And if you ask them, they will give you a list of ingredients in the food, if you promise not to tell anyone else.
The TU-144 is a different plane than the Concorde, it looks the same because they used the basic shape. A hard part of getting a plane to work is coming up with the basic plan: delta wing, or tail? One rudder or two? Tupolev just re-used the basic scheme the Europeans had already decided on to save himself a little work.
I've also noticed that most of the Americans who say that liberals are the devil's spawn are also strangely against dictatorships, and think the bill of rights and constitution are wonderful ideas.
Don't watch TV, and don't multitask. When you get up and start working, close the door. That's the commute to work and back. That means that you can't open the door until you go out to get some lunch. Then you've got to close the door until it's time to commute through the door to your home.
And you've got to get a second phone line to your office. When you leave the office for the day, turn the ringer off, and turn the answering machine on. You'll get the messages in the morning. If you train your colleagues right, they'll know that you're not available after you've commuted through the door to your home.
Von Neumann means a processor hooked up to a single memory that contains both the program and the data, executing instructions one at a time in a sequence.
Compare this to the Harvard architecture used on some embedded processors: a processor hooked up to two separate memories, one containing the program, and the other containing the data. This is useful when you have your program in an EEPROM and your data in a little static RAM. Two types of memories naturally fit into a Harvard architecture, though it's simple enough to do the same thing with some memory mapping circuits.
If they give up common carrier status and start controlling and owning everything on their network, does this mean that if terrorist sites or kiddie porn appear on their network, their CEO and board of directors will be habeas corpused off to Cuba? Or whatever the equivalent thing that New Zealand does to people they don't like.
The problem with you quoting a Michael Crighton book instead of a Spielberg movie is that it doesn't set anyone else up to follow with a lame post about the girl who knows UNIX. So, I used artistic license.
Ah yes. Quoting from bad Spielberg movies is a terrific form of argumentation.
Remember kiddies, UNIX is better than Windows, because it's recognizable to 9 out of 10 annoying sidekick child actors badly in need of an artificial plot device!
ISAM is Indexed Sequential Access Method. It's not a format. Lots of people sell ISAM libraries, but the formats are all different and non-compatible. Your best bet is to dump your data from your old ISAM files. Then reengineer the database. Write your Java apps to use the new database.
A VM won't give you any security that you can't get from the OS, because it will still need to have access to things to do its job. That means that a hole in the VM or the program it's running can be just as bad as a hole in a C program.
What you're really looking for is services written in a language that make buffer overflows and the normal security problems more difficult. That means that you're looking for mail servers, web servers, etc. written in languages with built in string types and garbage collection. You should be able to easily find these sorts of things written in Java or Python by doing a search on Sourceforge. Replace all your services with the ones you find, and you're done.
You should be able to patent a silicon chip that implements an algorithm, but not the algorithm itself. Someone else should be free to write a software program that does the same thing.
You should be able to patent a factory that produces a drug through a certain process. You should be able to patent the actual pill that is produced. One should not be able to patent the idea of a factory that makes a drug.
Patents on inventions are good. Patents on meta-inventions are not good.
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Sort of like a brain bypass? har har
Seriously, the article talks about a protein that is the cause of the degeneration of brain cells. That's news to me. When was this protein discovered, and does anyone know of other ways of fixing the problem that people are working on? This is pretty cool. I think we might be on the verge of curing many diseases - alzheimers, thyroid imbalances, diabetes. But probably not the common cold though.
while the American "Conservative" is closer to the classical definition of "Liberal."
Ahhh, I get it. So, the classical definition of Liberal means to be against women's rights, to be for slavery, to be against desegregation, to hold greediness as the highest value, to be in favor of war, to be in favor of any religion as long as it's Christianity, to be concerned about what people do in the privacy of their own bedrooms?
Liberal is not a bad word, and it's a damn shame that psychobitch Ann Coulter and her cronies have slandered it so badly.
You don't seem to have a good handle on what conservative means. You left out the entire conservative South. Yes, THOSE people. The ones you'd rather go away. The ones that count the dildoes and keep you from buying whiskey on Sunday.
Yes, you are right. I had assumed that the Tupolev development followed the path that so many other Russian planes followed: make it look like the Western counterpart to save some trouble. Like what they did with Buran.
The difference between open source and shared source is in the definition of "community".
To ordinary folks, a community is something like a group of people who organize a pot-luck dinner. Everyone brings something to the table, they set it out, and everyone eats from all the dishes.
To Microsoft, a community is something like a regular restaurant where people come in and pay for their food that consists of reheated TV dinners. And if you ask them, they will give you a list of ingredients in the food, if you promise not to tell anyone else.
The TU-144 is a different plane than the Concorde, it looks the same because they used the basic shape. A hard part of getting a plane to work is coming up with the basic plan: delta wing, or tail? One rudder or two? Tupolev just re-used the basic scheme the Europeans had already decided on to save himself a little work.
I've also noticed that most of the Americans who say that liberals are the devil's spawn are also strangely against dictatorships, and think the bill of rights and constitution are wonderful ideas.
If they only knew...
That is a Harvard architecture if the cache is split in this way. It has the side effect of halving the cache size for each type of memory though.
I was mostly talking about the classical definition, which has been confused in recent years by the cache architecture.
For a CPU example, that we all know take a look at the Strong ARM (Intel Xscale) CPU.
Just a couple tips:
Don't watch TV, and don't multitask. When you get up and start working, close the door. That's the commute to work and back. That means that you can't open the door until you go out to get some lunch. Then you've got to close the door until it's time to commute through the door to your home.
And you've got to get a second phone line to your office. When you leave the office for the day, turn the ringer off, and turn the answering machine on. You'll get the messages in the morning. If you train your colleagues right, they'll know that you're not available after you've commuted through the door to your home.
Von Neumann means a processor hooked up to a single memory that contains both the program and the data, executing instructions one at a time in a sequence.
Compare this to the Harvard architecture used on some embedded processors: a processor hooked up to two separate memories, one containing the program, and the other containing the data. This is useful when you have your program in an EEPROM and your data in a little static RAM. Two types of memories naturally fit into a Harvard architecture, though it's simple enough to do the same thing with some memory mapping circuits.
If they give up common carrier status and start controlling and owning everything on their network, does this mean that if terrorist sites or kiddie porn appear on their network, their CEO and board of directors will be habeas corpused off to Cuba? Or whatever the equivalent thing that New Zealand does to people they don't like.
All we need is for GWB to declare China to be the eggroll of evil, then we can invade and establish Google as the search engine for all of China.
I propose that we call this new drug "RADLAX"
The marketing slogan will be "substitute one dirty bomb for another"
you mean double-plus un utopia
it's full of cute lil' Asian girls!
And they are all police. This is what they mean by police state not being fun.
The problem with you quoting a Michael Crighton book instead of a Spielberg movie is that it doesn't set anyone else up to follow with a lame post about the girl who knows UNIX. So, I used artistic license.
Ah yes. Quoting from bad Spielberg movies is a terrific form of argumentation.
Remember kiddies, UNIX is better than Windows, because it's recognizable to 9 out of 10 annoying sidekick child actors badly in need of an artificial plot device!
ISAM is Indexed Sequential Access Method. It's not a format. Lots of people sell ISAM libraries, but the formats are all different and non-compatible. Your best bet is to dump your data from your old ISAM files. Then reengineer the database. Write your Java apps to use the new database.
Not trivial, but not rocket science either.
Much nastier than an ill tempered sea bass.
A VM won't give you any security that you can't get from the OS, because it will still need to have access to things to do its job. That means that a hole in the VM or the program it's running can be just as bad as a hole in a C program.
What you're really looking for is services written in a language that make buffer overflows and the normal security problems more difficult. That means that you're looking for mail servers, web servers, etc. written in languages with built in string types and garbage collection. You should be able to easily find these sorts of things written in Java or Python by doing a search on Sourceforge. Replace all your services with the ones you find, and you're done.
SPAM from Hormel is all uppercase. spam you get in your mailbox is all lowercase.
And Hormel's intelligent handling of their trademark is the reason why I'm eating a bowl of Hormel Chili without beans right now. Yum.
In the movie "The Lost Boys" one of the vampires said "billion Chinese can't be wrong." But, in fact, a billion Chinese CAN be wrong.
put diet coke into your soda fountain.
You should be able to patent a silicon chip that implements an algorithm, but not the algorithm itself. Someone else should be free to write a software program that does the same thing.
You should be able to patent a factory that produces a drug through a certain process. You should be able to patent the actual pill that is produced. One should not be able to patent the idea of a factory that makes a drug.
Patents on inventions are good. Patents on meta-inventions are not good.
I buy a faster computer when I need more speed. Tweaking won't be nearly as effective as doubling your processor speed.
It was named after the Japanese spicy green pasty sushi yummy stuff, which was in turn named after the Budweiser commercials.