Why? Because the jurors are not examined. An "expert juror" could decide the case based on a prejudice that is never heard in court, and neither of the sides get the opportunity to challenge. A jury with few preconceptions is good for transparency.
but just what an API is. That can be taught adequately in about two hours.
This is wrong, and provably so. 30% to 60% of CS students never make it pass the first class. Literally, 30-60% of the population can't program. To quote the linked paper "It is as if there are two populations: those who can [program], and those who cannot [program], each with its own independent bell curve."
Statistically speaking your try to teach someone in two weeks which some where around 60% of people literally can't be taught. The authors posit as to why this is, but the important fact is your asking a population to judge something 30 to 60 percent of them will never understand.
Think about that for a moment. The x86 instruction set used in your computer today is an api. If copyright of an API is upheld, AMD disappears. Every ISA ever is now copyrighted. Competition is dead in a single fell swoop.
Google wanted the [i]actual virtual machine[/i] to be open source. Java the [i]language[/i] was open sourced. This trial resides around whether or not that open source license extended to the api's of the language.
1) Environments with a good mix of men and women are more productive
2) 20% of all long term relationships start at work. I am all for improving my odds and so should you be. Its not sexist or objectifying to actually want to interact with the opposite sex daily.
This is acceptable to me because, its not necessarily "affirmative action", but rather it is attempting to attract another demographic. Lets be clear here, this program is:
While it is true he makes more money the bigger the frenzy, keep in mind that doesn't necessarily mean he is incorrect or acting immorally. If he believes there is a problem, thinks there is a market for fixing it, and is attempting to raise awareness of the problem he may way be acting in a correct manner. In short conflict of interest is not proof of incorrectness.
So yes by all means take him him with a grain of salt, but also actually look at the evidence he presents.
While I generally agree with you that the war terrorism is a vast waste of money, smoking and drinking are terrible examples. You can't, and shouldn't really try, save people from there own choices. The only time society has a right to intervene in my personal life is when it harms others.
Document management on iOS is a mess. Every application implements its own scheme.
This is probably one of the best notes he makes. While hiding document management from the user initially may simplify things, the reality is that every single user needs sophisticated document management in the long run. iOS's biggest mistake was here; simpler document management should equate to more elegant, more usable document management, not more naieve management.
Its saddening to me today that Windows 7 search / OSX's Spotlight still don't meet the level of sophistication that zsh's globbing syntax does. Where are the document systems that automatically cross reference, sort by category etc? The filesystem on my PC is less sophisticated than google search by orders of magnitude, and slower too. Whats worse is that the iOS act of simply removing it from the users view is trying to creep back into the PC world.
Browsers and servers almost all use persistent connections these days and have since at least the early 2000's. SPDY doesn't claim to do anything with this (the summary above is incorrect). Speedy does however implement several features of "pipelining" but in a more elegant manner. There are a host of issues with pipelining on the server side (it is a security risk, a description of why is here). SPDY effectively implements pipelining but without the associated security risks. It also implements more advanced features that allow the server to push data to the client without the client requesting it.
By default, a web browser opens an individual connection for each and every page request, which can lead to tremendous inefficiencies
HTTP1.1 which is supported by everything newer than IE5 (at least) utilizes persistent connections. You can verify this yourself with Wireshark in seconds. SPDYs optimizations largely revolve around "pipelining", but without some of the issues that it causes.
When multiple circuit courts result in differing opinons on the matter its generally a good indication that the Supreme Court will hear the matter at some point. The aforementioned GPS tracking case is a good example of this.
that we need a constitutional amendment enforcing the removal of money from politics. Until this occurs I do not believe that democracy or capitalism can proceed as intended. Large inefficient companies will continue to legislate themselves niches and utilize the government to pad there losses, effectively removing themselves from natural market forces. This is the opposite of capitalism in many ways. Indeed it is something like a twisted socialism, where the means of production control the government (in soviet america...). Democracy will in turn continue to be polluted, where donations force lawmakers to pay more attention to there corporate constituents than there human ones or fail to be re-elected. This is as unhealthy, and unholy a marriage as a police state. That which regulates and controls should never be beholden to that which needs to be controlled.
No pun intended. But it really is freaking awesome. The child in me who built hot wheels race tracks that ran the whole house just ran in circles of joy.
Your speed arguments are essentially ones which boil down to python being an interpreted language. PyPy is a JIT compiler for python thats is on average 5 timers faster than normal CPython. Shed Skin is a python to C++ compiler which works decently as well.
I was going to mod the parent down, but instead I will reply.
Nascar intentionally limits the data that may be sent to the announcers, as much of the data coming from the cars is considered proprietary information for each team, this is mostly done in the interest of perserving competition. The actual teams put sensors on the cars that collect a simply amazing amount of data, from tire forces, suspension forces, engine sensors, frame torque, and etc. Last I talked to the software companies that do this high end race teams in NASCAR and Forumla 1 collect over 1000 data points once every microsecond or so. It is common place practice now for teams to "tune in" there cars by doing an actual test run in the car and then placing the data into a CVD (computation vehicle dynamics) program like Optimum-G and perform tweaks to the car several times and simulate the actual test run as its much cheaper and quicker to do it that way.
Hell, a few years ago Formula 1 placed limitations on transmissions as there was a serious concern that the engineers where automating the transmissions for the drivers based on test runs around the track. If you think that the engineers and people involved in racing in a multi-billion dollar business where winning can mean tens of millions of dollars for the team are "meatheads" you are at such a level of ignorance its astounding.
I am a developer who loves gnome-shell like mad. I am the.1%. Actually come to think of it, almost everyone I know who works with linux these days does so in a virtual machine or over ssh, from a mac. Where they all use the very gnome 3 like features of lion including full screen programs, applications expose and easy access to spaces. Now if only gnome 3 supported multi-touch mouses properly...
SEVP? Jesus christ why not either just call him a "president" or something. The tech industries titles today are extremely out of hand. VP, SVP, EVP, SEVP, President, Cxx...
The buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH meets all of these requirements and ships with DD-WRT. However, as the last, very recent thread mentioned DD-WRT is not well maintained anymore. Your best bets are either TomatoUSB or straightforward OpenWRT. I prefer openwrt because it allows simple configuration of hardware taged vlans.
10 GbE is currently used broadly by large data movers as outputs from there servers. Many "cache nodes" in todays large CDN's (akamai, level 3) run multiple 10GbE interfaces. 40GbE and 100GbE are only currently used on backbone routers to upgrade capacity.
Others have cited the first two, with gaming being a definite driver for me. Why spend 1000+$ for a gaming computer with a top of the line graphics card to not get the most out of the experience? Also while Office 2011 (mac office) is decent, the windows version is still far better, especially excel.
The biggest reason without a doubt for me though is virtual machines. I do use linux desktop (Fedora 15 + Gnome 3) every day. I develop in Linux, I even web brow and post in linux. But I do this from my Virtual Box VM. That way I can test my kernel modules without rebooting, setup a multi-server environment and get all those great things that come with linux while maintaining Office, Outlook, and games. This is the same reason I use OSX at work (well that and my working having MB pros be standard issue). Virtual machines no longer mean I need to install linux to use linux.
[quote]But generally, scalable cloud hosting really is good for hosting big traffic sites.[/quote]
No really big traffic site gets hosted "in the cloud" except for netflix... who doesn't actually use as much EC2 as they say they do. Its great for modestly small startups though.
Extinction from habitat loss is the signature conservation problem of the twenty-first century. Despite its importance, estimating extinction rates is still highly uncertain because no proven direct methods or reliable data exist for verifying extinctions. The most widely used indirect method is to estimate extinction rates by reversing the species–area accumulation curve, extrapolating backwards to smaller areas to calculate expected species loss. Estimates of extinction rates based on this method are almost always much higher than those actually observed. This discrepancy gave rise to the concept of an ‘extinction debt’, referring to species ‘committed to extinction’ owing to habitat loss and reduced population size but not yet extinct during a non-equilibrium period. Here we show that the extinction debt as currently defined is largely a sampling artefact due to an unrecognized difference between the underlying sampling problems when constructing a species–area relationship (SAR) and when extrapolating species extinction from habitat loss..
This is a complete misunderstanding of what the canfield ocean was, or what the paper describing it was about. A more complete description of the paper can be found here. This is one of those things taken completely, completely out of context by a bunch of panic mongers. The actual paper is here.
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Why? Because the jurors are not examined. An "expert juror" could decide the case based on a prejudice that is never heard in court, and neither of the sides get the opportunity to challenge. A jury with few preconceptions is good for transparency.
but just what an API is. That can be taught adequately in about two hours.
This is wrong, and provably so. 30% to 60% of CS students never make it pass the first class. Literally, 30-60% of the population can't program. To quote the linked paper "It is as if there are two populations: those who can [program], and those who cannot [program], each with its own independent bell curve."
Statistically speaking your try to teach someone in two weeks which some where around 60% of people literally can't be taught. The authors posit as to why this is, but the important fact is your asking a population to judge something 30 to 60 percent of them will never understand.
Think about that for a moment. The x86 instruction set used in your computer today is an api. If copyright of an API is upheld, AMD disappears. Every ISA ever is now copyrighted. Competition is dead in a single fell swoop.
Google wanted the [i]actual virtual machine[/i] to be open source. Java the [i]language[/i] was open sourced. This trial resides around whether or not that open source license extended to the api's of the language.
1) Environments with a good mix of men and women are more productive
2) 20% of all long term relationships start at work. I am all for improving my odds and so should you be. Its not sexist or objectifying to actually want to interact with the opposite sex daily.
This is acceptable to me because, its not necessarily "affirmative action", but rather it is attempting to attract another demographic. Lets be clear here, this program is:
a) Free.
b) Not terribly competitive.
While it is true he makes more money the bigger the frenzy, keep in mind that doesn't necessarily mean he is incorrect or acting immorally. If he believes there is a problem, thinks there is a market for fixing it, and is attempting to raise awareness of the problem he may way be acting in a correct manner. In short conflict of interest is not proof of incorrectness.
So yes by all means take him him with a grain of salt, but also actually look at the evidence he presents.
While I generally agree with you that the war terrorism is a vast waste of money, smoking and drinking are terrible examples. You can't, and shouldn't really try, save people from there own choices. The only time society has a right to intervene in my personal life is when it harms others.
Document management on iOS is a mess. Every application implements its own scheme.
This is probably one of the best notes he makes. While hiding document management from the user initially may simplify things, the reality is that every single user needs sophisticated document management in the long run. iOS's biggest mistake was here; simpler document management should equate to more elegant, more usable document management, not more naieve management.
Its saddening to me today that Windows 7 search / OSX's Spotlight still don't meet the level of sophistication that zsh's globbing syntax does. Where are the document systems that automatically cross reference, sort by category etc? The filesystem on my PC is less sophisticated than google search by orders of magnitude, and slower too. Whats worse is that the iOS act of simply removing it from the users view is trying to creep back into the PC world.
Than I would be interested.
To reiterate my reply below no, pipelining offers very little gain vs true "multiplexing" and it represents a security risk.
Browsers and servers almost all use persistent connections these days and have since at least the early 2000's. SPDY doesn't claim to do anything with this (the summary above is incorrect). Speedy does however implement several features of "pipelining" but in a more elegant manner. There are a host of issues with pipelining on the server side (it is a security risk, a description of why is here). SPDY effectively implements pipelining but without the associated security risks. It also implements more advanced features that allow the server to push data to the client without the client requesting it.
By default, a web browser opens an individual connection for each and every page request, which can lead to tremendous inefficiencies
HTTP1.1 which is supported by everything newer than IE5 (at least) utilizes persistent connections. You can verify this yourself with Wireshark in seconds. SPDYs optimizations largely revolve around "pipelining", but without some of the issues that it causes.
When multiple circuit courts result in differing opinons on the matter its generally a good indication that the Supreme Court will hear the matter at some point. The aforementioned GPS tracking case is a good example of this.
that we need a constitutional amendment enforcing the removal of money from politics. Until this occurs I do not believe that democracy or capitalism can proceed as intended. Large inefficient companies will continue to legislate themselves niches and utilize the government to pad there losses, effectively removing themselves from natural market forces. This is the opposite of capitalism in many ways. Indeed it is something like a twisted socialism, where the means of production control the government (in soviet america...). Democracy will in turn continue to be polluted, where donations force lawmakers to pay more attention to there corporate constituents than there human ones or fail to be re-elected. This is as unhealthy, and unholy a marriage as a police state. That which regulates and controls should never be beholden to that which needs to be controlled.
No pun intended. But it really is freaking awesome. The child in me who built hot wheels race tracks that ran the whole house just ran in circles of joy.
Your speed arguments are essentially ones which boil down to python being an interpreted language. PyPy is a JIT compiler for python thats is on average 5 timers faster than normal CPython. Shed Skin is a python to C++ compiler which works decently as well.
I was going to mod the parent down, but instead I will reply.
Nascar intentionally limits the data that may be sent to the announcers, as much of the data coming from the cars is considered proprietary information for each team, this is mostly done in the interest of perserving competition. The actual teams put sensors on the cars that collect a simply amazing amount of data, from tire forces, suspension forces, engine sensors, frame torque, and etc. Last I talked to the software companies that do this high end race teams in NASCAR and Forumla 1 collect over 1000 data points once every microsecond or so. It is common place practice now for teams to "tune in" there cars by doing an actual test run in the car and then placing the data into a CVD (computation vehicle dynamics) program like Optimum-G and perform tweaks to the car several times and simulate the actual test run as its much cheaper and quicker to do it that way.
Hell, a few years ago Formula 1 placed limitations on transmissions as there was a serious concern that the engineers where automating the transmissions for the drivers based on test runs around the track. If you think that the engineers and people involved in racing in a multi-billion dollar business where winning can mean tens of millions of dollars for the team are "meatheads" you are at such a level of ignorance its astounding.
I am a developer who loves gnome-shell like mad. I am the .1%. Actually come to think of it, almost everyone I know who works with linux these days does so in a virtual machine or over ssh, from a mac. Where they all use the very gnome 3 like features of lion including full screen programs, applications expose and easy access to spaces. Now if only gnome 3 supported multi-touch mouses properly...
SEVP? Jesus christ why not either just call him a "president" or something. The tech industries titles today are extremely out of hand. VP, SVP, EVP, SEVP, President, Cxx...
The buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH meets all of these requirements and ships with DD-WRT. However, as the last, very recent thread mentioned DD-WRT is not well maintained anymore. Your best bets are either TomatoUSB or straightforward OpenWRT. I prefer openwrt because it allows simple configuration of hardware taged vlans.
10 GbE is currently used broadly by large data movers as outputs from there servers. Many "cache nodes" in todays large CDN's (akamai, level 3) run multiple 10GbE interfaces. 40GbE and 100GbE are only currently used on backbone routers to upgrade capacity.
The other, much cheaper solution to this is to place a router that has ACL's allowing unidirectional udp traffic...
Others have cited the first two, with gaming being a definite driver for me. Why spend 1000+$ for a gaming computer with a top of the line graphics card to not get the most out of the experience? Also while Office 2011 (mac office) is decent, the windows version is still far better, especially excel.
The biggest reason without a doubt for me though is virtual machines. I do use linux desktop (Fedora 15 + Gnome 3) every day. I develop in Linux, I even web brow and post in linux. But I do this from my Virtual Box VM. That way I can test my kernel modules without rebooting, setup a multi-server environment and get all those great things that come with linux while maintaining Office, Outlook, and games. This is the same reason I use OSX at work (well that and my working having MB pros be standard issue). Virtual machines no longer mean I need to install linux to use linux.
[quote]But generally, scalable cloud hosting really is good for hosting big traffic sites.[/quote] No really big traffic site gets hosted "in the cloud" except for netflix... who doesn't actually use as much EC2 as they say they do. Its great for modestly small startups though.
Extinction from habitat loss is the signature conservation problem of the twenty-first century. Despite its importance, estimating extinction rates is still highly uncertain because no proven direct methods or reliable data exist for verifying extinctions. The most widely used indirect method is to estimate extinction rates by reversing the species–area accumulation curve, extrapolating backwards to smaller areas to calculate expected species loss. Estimates of extinction rates based on this method are almost always much higher than those actually observed. This discrepancy gave rise to the concept of an ‘extinction debt’, referring to species ‘committed to extinction’ owing to habitat loss and reduced population size but not yet extinct during a non-equilibrium period. Here we show that the extinction debt as currently defined is largely a sampling artefact due to an unrecognized difference between the underlying sampling problems when constructing a species–area relationship (SAR) and when extrapolating species extinction from habitat loss..
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v473/n7347/full/nature09985.html
This is a complete misunderstanding of what the canfield ocean was, or what the paper describing it was about. A more complete description of the paper can be found here. This is one of those things taken completely, completely out of context by a bunch of panic mongers. The actual paper is here.