and vice versa. I think it would be pretty difficult to find a scientist who has the specialized knowledge required to pilot a space exploratory vehicle, and unless thïey plan on zero human intervention to guide this thing, then there would have to be at least one person who is a proper astronaut to accompany them. If they do find one whose willing to never come back, then excellent! I love the fact that just because some ancient scientists are willing to leave here forever to further the cause of space exploration, we actually think that this is a feasible option.
it is a free web based service. they are not required to publish anything regarding their algorithm, let alone making it understandable by non CS folk. Google search does not ship with any OS, nor does it insert itself as the default search engine, browsers do that. If people dont like it, use Bing or whatever. The argument of
* most people *choose* to use Google, they need not
* therefore Google must supply all necessary informtion that we ask of them so that we can tune our product to rank higher
makes no sense, and I wonder if any law can uphold this. The "Italian competition authorities" will have a tough time justifying how a free service with no coersion of any sort to force a user to use their product can be anti-competitive
according to the BBC. Apple has denied any legitimate claims about the battery exploding, and has said ""The iPhones with broken glass that we have analysed to date show that in all cases the glass cracked due to an external force that was applied to the iPhone.". And the fact that they used an "s" in "analysed" proves that its the BBC. Move on people, and lets see a post about the kidnapped 11 year old found after 18 years
If you're the manager responsible for the overall system infrastructure, look at this as a big red waving flag. Your company has reached a stage where there is a definite need for an IT specialist, and the networking infrastructure, file server needs etc are already beginning to outgrow the current capability. This would be a good time to have a Systems Administrator in-house, since this position is very often overlooked in the context of a small company, who has a limited budget for "immediate needs" in your domain (biotech, wireless, web, whatever). Assuming that your company intends to grow, not shrink, so will the IT needs and demands upon the infrastructure. Before you know it, adding more people, getting more projects. will spill over into increases storage requirements (SANs etc), failover policies, daily, weekly, monthly backups and tape archival issues, fileserver issues, remote access to employees, etc etc just for starters. This person may or may not become the eventual lead of your Systems team, but they will go a long way towards solving major and minor IT problems, and eventually a team can be built around/over/under that person when you become a 100 person mid-size company. Im working in one now, and a smart move would be to start putting the systems administrator position on your next budget.
And this has nothing to do with IP or looking at proprietary data, though having an in-house person would deal with it for sure. The external company would be bound by NDA/CDAs, and the contract to not divulge any proprietary information, thats a basic line in any contract between 2 companies in a collaboration. This has to do with planning for the IT needs of your company in advance, and not ignoring this need as a "nice to have". It's not, you need to have someone who can support you and the other employees fulltime.
is required to upgrade to 3.0. While its not a big deal for individual computers, in an office environment its not as trivial..another one of Apples (not so) subtle schemes to get you using a particular software version whether you like it or not? And the "new" features are pretty pathetic really, more like they should have been in the 2.0 version of the software.
It takes me for ever to just get their customer service to figure out my iPhone plan, and to walk me through the details of other existing plans so I can make an informed decision, and they expect me to trust them with upto $1000 of my money? And I can only imagine how much more their customer service will suck after we include the complication of handling live money via bank accounts and credit cards, Not to mention that this is certainly not a free service, and Canadian providers have been widely slammed by Canadian consumers for having exorbitantly priced plans to begin with. While this is a cool idea, it will take a LOT of convincing to get decently savvy customers like myself to trust what they say anymore. Maybe my 6 GB plan will include this feature!
I really think this is such bullsh**. What law is this breaking? This "monopoly" law that I keep hearing over and over, what defines a monopoly? Over 50.1% of the overall market share? Im interested to know what happens say 5 years from now if Apple takes over from Microsoft as the "monopoly" holder for desktops, and MS sues Apple over their bundling of Safari. Now does that mean that Apple will have to allow the Windows versions of all Microsoft products to run on their hardware? Or even better, allow MacOSX to be installed on non-Mac hardware? I think the MS bashing, while great fun to watch, is getting a bit ridiculous, and MS should sue the EC for unfair business practices.
I may be well behind on my law knowledge, but what law is this breaking? I mean I understand if MS prevented other browsers from being installed on Windows, but is this not similar to, for example, having a default terminal in Ubuntu that ships with the distribution, and the user has a choice to use their own any time they choose?
applications rather than "gamers and hobbyists" whatever that means, and make significant progress towards manycore architectures. Whether or not they have a Larrabee type x86 architecture in the pipeline, or whether they focus on GPGPU based architectures with FireStream, I think that's where their main focus will lie in the years to come. That, along with improving the programming model for these architectures.
It seems like you can try to get away with anything these days by citing free speech violations. No-one doubts her right to say the things she said, they seemed logical, to the point, and valid. The university is taking issue with the WAY she said them, not WHAT she said. Should all spammers be let off the hook, if they have a right to free speech? The FIRE organization should rethink their defense of the person, instead figure out why she refused to comply with the policies of MSU, and hope to show that the university overreacted with their punitive actions.
for those programmers who try to refactor and reuse existing code to try and reduce the number of LOC while maintaining all the needed functionality. That would truly be something to write about
If one faulty electrical connection (out of several thousands I'm sure), can cause the "largest scientific project on earth" to stall for 6 months, these hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings will probably have to wait for as long as Deep Thought did (7.5 million years I believe) to find out that the world has already ended, and they should've stuck to 42
It may be a drop in the bucket, but its completely wrong of the university to enforce any such policy of paying for a service, which is by all accounts, a luxury. If the university bore the brunt of the cost, it may be a great idea, but it looks like all they're paying for is the hardware, which costs about $299 (you can be sure they have some contract with either Apple or the service provider to get discounted hardware rates). What about the families who will have to pay at least $60 per month for this service? It has got to be a choice, give the family the freedom to choose, but make it easy for them if they want that option!
If its been going on for 2 years, it may well BE the BreezyBadger. Is Ubuntu the most reliable distribution for a high performance server farm? I;d say a stripped down and extremely customizable distribution such as Gentoo might be a more reliable way to go..
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as the article says " the process will take a bit 1220 minutes.", then the entire upgrade will take 2000,000 years for a 1 GB upgrade
and vice versa. I think it would be pretty difficult to find a scientist who has the specialized knowledge required to pilot a space exploratory vehicle, and unless thïey plan on zero human intervention to guide this thing, then there would have to be at least one person who is a proper astronaut to accompany them. If they do find one whose willing to never come back, then excellent! I love the fact that just because some ancient scientists are willing to leave here forever to further the cause of space exploration, we actually think that this is a feasible option.
it is a free web based service. they are not required to publish anything regarding their algorithm, let alone making it understandable by non CS folk. Google search does not ship with any OS, nor does it insert itself as the default search engine, browsers do that. If people dont like it, use Bing or whatever. The argument of * most people *choose* to use Google, they need not * therefore Google must supply all necessary informtion that we ask of them so that we can tune our product to rank higher makes no sense, and I wonder if any law can uphold this. The "Italian competition authorities" will have a tough time justifying how a free service with no coersion of any sort to force a user to use their product can be anti-competitive
according to the BBC. Apple has denied any legitimate claims about the battery exploding, and has said ""The iPhones with broken glass that we have analysed to date show that in all cases the glass cracked due to an external force that was applied to the iPhone.". And the fact that they used an "s" in "analysed" proves that its the BBC. Move on people, and lets see a post about the kidnapped 11 year old found after 18 years
The queues are long enough at the gas station already without having to wait for people to get EVERY LITTLE SEED out before pumping their cars full..
It seems that if we managed this 40 years ago, we should be able to do it again without making it sound so difficult
If you're the manager responsible for the overall system infrastructure, look at this as a big red waving flag. Your company has reached a stage where there is a definite need for an IT specialist, and the networking infrastructure, file server needs etc are already beginning to outgrow the current capability. This would be a good time to have a Systems Administrator in-house, since this position is very often overlooked in the context of a small company, who has a limited budget for "immediate needs" in your domain (biotech, wireless, web, whatever). Assuming that your company intends to grow, not shrink, so will the IT needs and demands upon the infrastructure. Before you know it, adding more people, getting more projects. will spill over into increases storage requirements (SANs etc), failover policies, daily, weekly, monthly backups and tape archival issues, fileserver issues, remote access to employees, etc etc just for starters. This person may or may not become the eventual lead of your Systems team, but they will go a long way towards solving major and minor IT problems, and eventually a team can be built around/over/under that person when you become a 100 person mid-size company. Im working in one now, and a smart move would be to start putting the systems administrator position on your next budget. And this has nothing to do with IP or looking at proprietary data, though having an in-house person would deal with it for sure. The external company would be bound by NDA/CDAs, and the contract to not divulge any proprietary information, thats a basic line in any contract between 2 companies in a collaboration. This has to do with planning for the IT needs of your company in advance, and not ignoring this need as a "nice to have". It's not, you need to have someone who can support you and the other employees fulltime.
is required to upgrade to 3.0. While its not a big deal for individual computers, in an office environment its not as trivial..another one of Apples (not so) subtle schemes to get you using a particular software version whether you like it or not? And the "new" features are pretty pathetic really, more like they should have been in the 2.0 version of the software.
It takes me for ever to just get their customer service to figure out my iPhone plan, and to walk me through the details of other existing plans so I can make an informed decision, and they expect me to trust them with upto $1000 of my money? And I can only imagine how much more their customer service will suck after we include the complication of handling live money via bank accounts and credit cards, Not to mention that this is certainly not a free service, and Canadian providers have been widely slammed by Canadian consumers for having exorbitantly priced plans to begin with. While this is a cool idea, it will take a LOT of convincing to get decently savvy customers like myself to trust what they say anymore. Maybe my 6 GB plan will include this feature!
I really think this is such bullsh**. What law is this breaking? This "monopoly" law that I keep hearing over and over, what defines a monopoly? Over 50.1% of the overall market share? Im interested to know what happens say 5 years from now if Apple takes over from Microsoft as the "monopoly" holder for desktops, and MS sues Apple over their bundling of Safari. Now does that mean that Apple will have to allow the Windows versions of all Microsoft products to run on their hardware? Or even better, allow MacOSX to be installed on non-Mac hardware? I think the MS bashing, while great fun to watch, is getting a bit ridiculous, and MS should sue the EC for unfair business practices.
I may be well behind on my law knowledge, but what law is this breaking? I mean I understand if MS prevented other browsers from being installed on Windows, but is this not similar to, for example, having a default terminal in Ubuntu that ships with the distribution, and the user has a choice to use their own any time they choose?
Theres goes its practicality in Vancouver....
if the plan is to take the news headlines, irrespective of technical content or applicability to /. themes, and paste them in here?
applications rather than "gamers and hobbyists" whatever that means, and make significant progress towards manycore architectures. Whether or not they have a Larrabee type x86 architecture in the pipeline, or whether they focus on GPGPU based architectures with FireStream, I think that's where their main focus will lie in the years to come. That, along with improving the programming model for these architectures.
It seems like you can try to get away with anything these days by citing free speech violations. No-one doubts her right to say the things she said, they seemed logical, to the point, and valid. The university is taking issue with the WAY she said them, not WHAT she said. Should all spammers be let off the hook, if they have a right to free speech? The FIRE organization should rethink their defense of the person, instead figure out why she refused to comply with the policies of MSU, and hope to show that the university overreacted with their punitive actions.
"People have started blurring photos of their credit cards"..wow. If you're that stupid, you deserve to be screwed over.
Its no contest down there as to who looks like the average population..
when you have Craigslist
for those programmers who try to refactor and reuse existing code to try and reduce the number of LOC while maintaining all the needed functionality. That would truly be something to write about
If one faulty electrical connection (out of several thousands I'm sure), can cause the "largest scientific project on earth" to stall for 6 months, these hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings will probably have to wait for as long as Deep Thought did (7.5 million years I believe) to find out that the world has already ended, and they should've stuck to 42
Isn't that what the full Windows does anyway? Oh...they mean without bluescreening.
It may be a drop in the bucket, but its completely wrong of the university to enforce any such policy of paying for a service, which is by all accounts, a luxury. If the university bore the brunt of the cost, it may be a great idea, but it looks like all they're paying for is the hardware, which costs about $299 (you can be sure they have some contract with either Apple or the service provider to get discounted hardware rates). What about the families who will have to pay at least $60 per month for this service? It has got to be a choice, give the family the freedom to choose, but make it easy for them if they want that option!
except for the 3G radio? What about the fact that ONE IS A PHONE!
If its been going on for 2 years, it may well BE the BreezyBadger. Is Ubuntu the most reliable distribution for a high performance server farm? I;d say a stripped down and extremely customizable distribution such as Gentoo might be a more reliable way to go..
and daydream about base-jumping from the tallest building