This is a strategy for demonstrating the absurdity of the current patent regime, right?

I think you may have meant this is a tragedy for demonstrating the absurdity of the current patent regime. Just a typo, I'm sure.

Shouldn't it be called: Algorithmic Patent Trolling

I think the disconnect is in expecting evolution to produce optimal solutions. Biology is full of make-do solutions.

On the contrary, for sexually reproducing species it doesn't matter how fit you and your genes are. Without a species, the genes are dead-enders.

It isn't about "a chip". It's about a system that is designed for a specific thermal and electrical load. nvidia probably got flak from notebook makers who were facing dissatisfied customers.

You only have to look at a lot of the nonsense comments throughout, such as yours -- people just contriving how "easy" everything is, and how simple it is. Yeah, and I'll bet all of you design notebooks. No? Then shut up.

Yeah, after thinking about it for a while I did exactly that. Came back to post about it, and found your post.

One map showed the 100th meridian as the divide between who gets 20"/year and who doesn't.

Interesting that they both show a sharp verticle divide right down the center of the country. When I first saw it on the light pollution maps it was so sharp that I wondered whether it was a time-of-photo artifact.

1) Buy movie rights.
2) Make movie.
3) Air in paid informercial time slot.
4) (TBD)
5) Profit!

Makes you wonder it the whole thing was just a scam to get at her estate all along.

In other news, the production companies are merging under the name "Streisand Corp, LLC".

I'm pretty sure it'll be shortly after I figure out how to set people on fire with my mind.

HR wants 10 years experience in something that was invented 5 years ago.

If you have bigger-picture skills, you might be tempted to think for yourself.

No one uses everything we teach them in school, but the only way to find out if you're good at something and enjoy doing it is to give it a try. Not everyone who takes a programming class or two will end up being a programmer, but the approaches we take in programming can be applied usefully to a lot of other problems. Of course, we still seem to have absolutely no idea how to teach people things and it seems like pure luck whether anyone actually learns anything useful in school, so maybe we should try to address that problem first.

Yeah! 200 years from now, all the music of today will be considered classical and be played on future-NPR with the same pretentious tones they play Mozart in today. "That was Dr. Dre's 'All My Bitches' in D-Minor. After the break we'll be playing 'Smell Yo Dick' and 'What What, In The Butt?'"

I've only run across two or three who were atrocious, and I mean to the point where I though they were probably running a scam and collecting a fat paycheck until it seemed likely that they would get caught. I mean, these people knew literally nothing about programming and had to have completely misrepresented themselves to obtain a position.

I've met a lot of "meh" ones, who can kind of get the job done but obviously don't care about or enjoy programming. It was just a high paying career that they could get into.

I've met very few people who do it because they really enjoy doing it and are constantly being driven to learn. They usually get bored at a company within two or three years and move on.

I've met a lot of bad interviewers too, who obviously have no idea how to conduct an interview or what they're looking for in a candidate. They tend to jump on the latest interviewing gimmick bandwagon, whatever that happens to be, without really understanding why that gimmick is supposed to get results that are better than random. Most of the interviews I've seen could have just as easily flipped a coin and had an equal chance of getting a good developer.

You don't really need to be a network guy. An IP(v4) address is just a 32 bit number. Each octet is just 8 bits. The subnet mask is a binary mask that lets you separate your local network portion of the IP address from the public network (Admittedly I've only ever worked with trivial examples.) The /24 indicates how many of the leftmost bits are set to 1. So a /24 would work out to a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.

Funnily enough, most C standard library address resolvers can handle IP addresses as actual 32 bit numbers without the octects, which is an occasionally fun party trick.

If you trust the document's own encryption mechanism, then you are still left with a problem. How do you communicate the password? PKI is a good answer.