Microsoft, he says, makes a large amount of source code available under a so-called shared-source licence, which grants users downstream a limited set of rights to modify and use the code.
If it passes muster there, the next stage will be to modify it for use on the public Internet (which works at between a tenth and a hundredth of that speed), so that participants will be able to take part wherever they are.
Protei is unmanned, autonomous, relatively inexpensive and open hardware (anybody can use, modify and distribute its designs), making it a potentially powerful weapon in the battle to clean up the Gulf of Mexico while preserving the safety of the workers who would otherwise be exposed to the toxic mess.
Or even use algorithms to modify vocal features to convey emotion or age a character.
It will be a cinch to use software to modify scanning images so that they show contraband but nothing more.
Users are encouraged to share and download the resources provided, and to modify and customize them for local use.
Those countries recording large falls in birth rates have governments that have decided to promote the use of contraceptives to modify fertility levels.
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Now the World Health Organization wants to weigh in on the issue, but the Bush Administration is reportedly sitting on the United Nations agency's report which calls on individuals to modify their diets, but also wants governments to use taxes and subsidies to urge them to do so, and suggests restrictions on advertising of certain foods.
As Turner Investments points out, in an era when a farmer can take his iPhone into the fields and use the data it generates to customize and modify his decisions to fertilize a particular corner of a specific field, and produce crops more efficiently and profitably, the companies that enable him to do so are likely to remain out-performers.
Several publishing outfits raised the alarm about a clause in Google's terms of service that states Google reserves the right to "use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute" content uploaded to their services.
Dr Medarov said it might be possible to use relaxation techniques and other types of therapy to modify lung function circadian rhythms.
He also saw the functional and commercial vernacular of Liverpool as a source for a more familiar and time-tested kind of design, and he began to use local materials, like red brick, to modify the structural glass and steel of the university buildings at Cambridge and Leicester done in the late '50s and early '60s, without sacrificing the radical rethinking of program and space that modernism encouraged.
The machine does not allow modifications to its ROM (because it has an O in the middle), but the team was able to use a technique called return-oriented programming to modify how the machine executes existing code, taking the bits they want and, ultimately, devising a way to re-program its behavior by simply inserting a cartridge into a slot -- presumably after blowing on it for good luck.
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"This means that drug developers have had to modify toxins to retain their potency and make them safe for drug use, " said Dr Casewell.
The key to implementing OODA is making sure everyone in the organization understands the mission--schwerpunkt, to use Boyd's favorite Prussian military term--and is given authority to modify tactics on the fly.
This will be made possible through the use of fingerprint scanners which will identify individual visitors and enable them to call up and modify their own data at any terminal.
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