jdthomas

HOLY CRAP!! Thank you! ... Wow, I must be retarded or not have looked hard enough as the second google result now shows that. :D Anyway Mucho gracias.

I think this has a lot to do with not having to sell anything to anyone. OSS projects are, in general, less concerned with converting users than commercial software -- you like our project join us and use it else 'meh'. While, it would be nice to have a shinny surface on oss projects, I think it is unnecessary.

As someone who recently (for work) switched from using Linux boxes to a MacBook Pro, I would generally take the less shiny functionality over the pretty pictures any day. (\cough\ keyboard shortcut to lock screen \cough\) :)

Not to sound like a pretensions CS guy ... but how can you have a book on regular expressions without even mentioning DFA/NFA? Maybe its just me, but (back in my day) I found learning about finite automata made regex just click.

Edit: ahh, I see now mentioned in intro that "I'm going to be very practical and straight forward about it. No NFA to DFA conversion. No crazy explanations of push down finite state automata." :) I still argue that thinking of regex as state machines is a very useful tool.

Yes! I also noticed this in Tokyo, I think they are just in the wrong timezone altogether. :)

Uggg, completely agree.

Once, long long ago, servers on the world wide web simply sent me data (text, links, and maybe images) and I could format how I pleased client side. I think we have gotten too far away from that original model. (These days I have to run your client side code to download to insert text in the DOM. On top of some ugly background. With margins unusable on my devices. If you want to serve me some text, just send the damn text).

Yes, it is nice that a web designer can suggest to my client how that text might best be rendered, but when it comes down to it I actually know how I want to read a document; hint: it probably doesn't match your layout.

[ / end rant ]

* Yes, I understand _actual_ applications exist on the web now; rant applies only to "articles"

Any particular disassembler(s) you recommend? How about on other architectures; MIPS or ARM?

Hmmm, I also came away from the article with more questions than answers.

Would this mean that the lyrics are not under copyright, but just the performance combined with the music? And that the music is not under copyright unless combined with those lyrics?

Assuming that the copyright to the combined is valid, is there any other way I could recombine them that would constitute a copyrightable derived work -- simply shifting the key the music is performed in perhaps?

My conclusion; copyright laws suck.

Agreed. Unless I maximize my window, I found the article impossible to read (right side of text is clipped and no horizontal scroll provide -- chrome on linux). This isn't the first page I've found doing this recently; it seems to be a (very annoying) trend.

Cheney has the Heartmate II (the same device the researchers used two of in this project). It is an axial flow as opposed to centrifugal pump. The first back non-pulsating heart assist device I could find is the hemopump: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemopump

There's some good advice elsewhere on this thread so I will not repeat any.

The only thing I would add is that if you enjoy webos development; I think there may actually be many good opportunities there. The reason I say this is that there is a shortage of good apps. So yeah you are in a smaller market, but you have a market that is untapped and not as saturated as iOS/Android. Also, it seems HP finally has some new products out/about to come out (Veer, TouchPad, Pre3, etc.).

Anyway, you are young; do what you enjoy now there is plenty of time to learn the theory side of things in University.

Foxconn (and similar) do design a lot of products already, they just are acting as an ODM and not slapping their own name on them. I suspect, though, they are happy with this arrangement as it allows them to make many more products in any segment than a single brand would get away with.