Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Nov 2005 01:25 UTC
On Nov. 3, the US Patent & Trademark Office revealed that Apple has filed patent application 20050246554 titled "system and method for creating tamper-resistant code." James D. Batson is listed as the sole inventor for application 837413 originally filed in April 2004. This appears to be related to Apple's forthcoming Tiger-Intel platform. Elsewhere, 10.4.3 for x86 is in sync with the PowerPC version.
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Logic is just a subbranch of mathematics. And what exactly is the point of making the destinction of programs being useless without computers? Any experienced programmer can "run" a program in his head (or at least, parts of it), and computers can quite easily work with the symbolic equations of mathematics. Does:
det(M) = ac - bd
change when I write it as:
(defun det(M)
(- (* a c) (* b d)))
One's meant for a human, the other is meant for the computer, but its still the same underlying mathematical truth.
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"Of course it does. You see, any program is nothing more than a mathematical exprerssion. It's a complicated one, but not one qualitatively different from any other mathematica expression. The very theory underlying computation shows this to be true."
Actually math and logic. Anyway programs however are useless without computers to run them on. Mathmatical expressions however can run on any properly trained human mind.