I think the OP was confused that, having done the google search in the future, he found that his own as-yet-unwritten question was already the top google search result for this. After pausing for a moment to consider the paradox, his head exploded, at which point he returned to the past where his as-yet-unexploded head proceeded to write TFQ.
I think the concept of Opa is neat. Other projects may have tried and failed at this, but maybe the Opa authors could make it work.
However, the choice of license completely precludes me from even trying it. Sure, I release source code for some of the stuff I make (even though nobody looks at it). Here's why:
Let's say I try out Opa, make some side projects with it, fall in love with it, and I get good at it.
Now, either at my day job, or on my own, I come up with super awesome project X that I want to build and release as some sort of money-making venture. We may even want to open-source the code for the site eventually, but we're not sure yet.
If I were to leverage Opa to do this, however, I will have to *pay* to keep my source closed. That's just not acceptable.
I'm sure Boeing, or anyone, could find plenty of volunteers willing to get launched into space... even more so if there's a good chance of making it back alive. A lot of people would (and sometimes do) pay millions for the privilege.
I think Slashdot needs more articles about how the RIAA could still stay in business but really please the tech geek crowd by loosening up a bit. Sure, they won't make nearly as much as they're making right now, but I'm sure they'd like to get invited to some of our l33t geek parties, right?
Unfortunately, if this logic actually held, then software would never have been patentable. An algorithm, if you explain it in a certain way, can sound a whole lot like a machine.
I imagine that AMD has quite a bit to gain from the cross-licensing provision. In fact, they both do. I wouldn't be surprised if they're both worried about competition from mutual rivals such as ARM. This could be a big win for both in that regard.
I work for a company that does.NET development (with a product that doesn't even work outside IE), and yet about 1/4 of the developers use a MacBook (including myself).
They're pricey, but I figure that the cost is really very low considering I use it all day every day. Even if you're just going to run Windows in a VM or Boot Camp most of the time, MacBooks are very high quality machines.
If you don't *have* to run Windows, MacBook wins hands down if you can afford it.
Oddly enough, this is something many Linux distros already do automatically. On Ubuntu, I have one program that updates everything I have installed. And it doesn't even surprise me with an automatic reboot like Windows Update.
I guess Microsoft just doesn't have the manpower to put useful things like this in its 7th/8th generation Windows OS.
Microsoft's lack of innovation in its core OS function is the reason why other companies are building mini-OS functions on top of it.
I imagine that if you saw into the heart of your typical code developed entirely for internal use (i.e. not for distribution without being compiled first), you would find only rot, stink, and generally a very scary place. You don't want your clients seeing that stuff.
I would think this would be a good way to address the issue with your boss. He wants to save some money to get, as he thinks, the same thing for free. But in fact, there are potential downsides to playing that game. He may be disregarding potential legal issues, but he should be less willing to disregard practical issues. If this other company discovers what you're doing, they could make it a little harder to access, or they could ban your company's entire subnet and send a letter indicating that if you'd like to get access again, then you'll have to start paying them for the service you've been stealing.
The key is that, in the meantime, your boss' plan will seem like a dramatic failure that should have been foreseen.
# Availability is averaged over the last 365 days, but you only get credit for the current month's costs. # You only get a service credit for 10% of the current month's costs. If you decide to move your business elsewhere, you may not apply the credit toward any past charges, including for the month in which the outage occurred. # Availability refers to the "region" availability, and makes no guarantees about instance (computer) reliability, storage consistency/reliability. As far as I can imagine, it might be rather hard to figure out what constitutes a region's "availability" independently. The official measure stated in the SLA is basically a measurement made solely by Amazon. # To receive any of this pathetic service credit (again, it is not a refund), you are required to send Amazon an email documenting (dates, times, regions) and providing evidence (heartbeat request logs, etc). *Yes, they want logs.* For almost all of their customers, the time and effort involved in filing a claim would outweigh the benefit of the credit.
This actually happened to me in middle school. I had two good semesters and one bad one. I got a B, B+, and an F, and I barely squeaked by with a D- for the year because the teacher averaged together the grades by their numerical values.
So, maybe I'm an idiot and should have been held back in 8th grade English, but I would support fixing this broken aspect of grading.
Just because you can't give a kid a grade that is phenomenally lower than an F doesn't mean that you can't still choose any grade from A to F.
To me, in middle school when it came out, Warcraft II was absolutely amazing and revolutionary. From the beautiful opening cutscene, to the pre-rendered musical score, to the beautifully-done graphics and interesting gameplay that kept me on the edge of my seat.
Then, a few weeks ago, I started it back up, and was shocked by how klunky the interface was. It was hard to select things, hard to manage the economy, hard to figure out what buildings I had to build to get certain improvements. Peons would stop working when their resource depleted (and they wouldn't even tell me!). You couldn't save and recall groups of units. Worst of all, the beautifully-balanced gameplay seemed to have been almost a figment of my imagination.
The truth is: Warcraft II (Command & Conquer which came out around the same time, also upped the bar) broke a lot of new ground in RTS design. And while newer games can often go astray, nobody will say that they haven't also improved on the genre. Warcraft II was great because it *first* exposed us to many of those great designs, but games that came out afterward often improved on that.
The same could be said of the Civilization series... CivII will always have a fond place in my heart, but whenever I go back to playing that, I really miss the innovations that have been made in the series since then. (I never played CivI, sorry!)
I've tested out putting bugmenot.com in Facebook status messages, and it works just fine... is this a change or has anyone above actually tried it out before posting?
This smells of a fake news story to me. In any case, it's dead now.
$ host -t a www.ratemycop.com
www.ratemycop.com is an alias for ratemycop.com.
ratemycop.com has address 205.234.222.18
$ host -t a ratemycop.com
ratemycop.com has address 205.234.222.18
Seems like they set the DNS up correctly - caching is to blame for different results. Try http://205.234.222.18/ if the domain doesn't work.
Each of the movies and each of the users represented in the test set have some corresponding known ratings. I think the minimum is around 10 known ratings for users and maybe 3 or 4 for movies. And there are examples on the opposite end of the scale... one user has rated nearly every movie in the training set, and most of those ratings were 1 star.
If you have any more questions, feel free to check out my blog - my Slashdot profile links to it, and you can find my email there. I'm Dan Tillberg, currently in seventh place in the contest;). I'd love to help answer any questions you or anybody else might have (or at least help point you to good resources), and I certainly encourage anybody that's interested to try their hand in the contest:).
There are 480,189 customers that rated 17,770 movies. The total number of ratings that you're given is 100,480,507. Each user/movie/rating is accompanied by the date of the rating, as well.
You then have to submit predictions for the ratings of 2,817,131 additional user/movie combos (they tell you the user, the movie, and the date, and you need to predict the rating). You submit these predictions to Netflix, and they tell you the root-mean-square error between your predictions and the actual ratings that those users gave those movies.
+news -slashvertising
I might guess that the same person that posted this on craigslist also posted the story on Slashdot.
The Slashdot fish gets hooked by the bait yet again...
Did I miss the fad transition from double-blind to double-unblind? Sure, the restaurant sounds cool, and maybe some of the research is applicable to the real world, but it sounds like they're tweaking a lot of the variables here at the same time.
This story has been published in the Consumerist and now on Slashdot without either publication checking facts and looking for at least talking points from Best Buy itself. As far as I'm concerned, this story may yet be true, but all I can safely assume is that someone took some pictures of bathroom tiles wrapped in newspaper next to his HDD box in the hopes of scamming Best Buy out of a second drive for free or perhaps just defaming them as revenge for something unrelated. I agree with the columnist in the Consumerist that if this fellow does want to take the issue seriously he should file a complaint for theft and/or a consumer complaint with the Attorney General's office. Up to now, all we're doing by disseminating this story is continuing to feed the anonymous-libel monster.
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I think the OP was confused that, having done the google search in the future, he found that his own as-yet-unwritten question was already the top google search result for this. After pausing for a moment to consider the paradox, his head exploded, at which point he returned to the past where his as-yet-unexploded head proceeded to write TFQ.
I think the concept of Opa is neat. Other projects may have tried and failed at this, but maybe the Opa authors could make it work.
However, the choice of license completely precludes me from even trying it. Sure, I release source code for some of the stuff I make (even though nobody looks at it). Here's why:
Let's say I try out Opa, make some side projects with it, fall in love with it, and I get good at it.
Now, either at my day job, or on my own, I come up with super awesome project X that I want to build and release as some sort of money-making venture. We may even want to open-source the code for the site eventually, but we're not sure yet.
If I were to leverage Opa to do this, however, I will have to *pay* to keep my source closed. That's just not acceptable.
I'm sure Boeing, or anyone, could find plenty of volunteers willing to get launched into space... even more so if there's a good chance of making it back alive. A lot of people would (and sometimes do) pay millions for the privilege.
I think Slashdot needs more articles about how the RIAA could still stay in business but really please the tech geek crowd by loosening up a bit. Sure, they won't make nearly as much as they're making right now, but I'm sure they'd like to get invited to some of our l33t geek parties, right?
Unfortunately, if this logic actually held, then software would never have been patentable. An algorithm, if you explain it in a certain way, can sound a whole lot like a machine.
Look. It's a *jump to conclusions* mat - that's - *solar powered*.
In other news, an online survey shows that Slashdot users are smarter, better looking, and less likely to live in their parents' basements.
I imagine that AMD has quite a bit to gain from the cross-licensing provision. In fact, they both do. I wouldn't be surprised if they're both worried about competition from mutual rivals such as ARM. This could be a big win for both in that regard.
I work for a company that does .NET development (with a product that doesn't even work outside IE), and yet about 1/4 of the developers use a MacBook (including myself).
They're pricey, but I figure that the cost is really very low considering I use it all day every day. Even if you're just going to run Windows in a VM or Boot Camp most of the time, MacBooks are very high quality machines.
If you don't *have* to run Windows, MacBook wins hands down if you can afford it.
Oddly enough, this is something many Linux distros already do automatically. On Ubuntu, I have one program that updates everything I have installed. And it doesn't even surprise me with an automatic reboot like Windows Update.
I guess Microsoft just doesn't have the manpower to put useful things like this in its 7th/8th generation Windows OS.
Microsoft's lack of innovation in its core OS function is the reason why other companies are building mini-OS functions on top of it.
I imagine that if you saw into the heart of your typical code developed entirely for internal use (i.e. not for distribution without being compiled first), you would find only rot, stink, and generally a very scary place. You don't want your clients seeing that stuff.
I would think this would be a good way to address the issue with your boss. He wants to save some money to get, as he thinks, the same thing for free. But in fact, there are potential downsides to playing that game. He may be disregarding potential legal issues, but he should be less willing to disregard practical issues. If this other company discovers what you're doing, they could make it a little harder to access, or they could ban your company's entire subnet and send a letter indicating that if you'd like to get access again, then you'll have to start paying them for the service you've been stealing.
The key is that, in the meantime, your boss' plan will seem like a dramatic failure that should have been foreseen.
After reading the SLA at http://aws.amazon.com/ec2-sla/, I see it as all a big show with no real guts behind it:
# Availability is averaged over the last 365 days, but you only get credit for the current month's costs.
# You only get a service credit for 10% of the current month's costs. If you decide to move your business elsewhere, you may not apply the credit toward any past charges, including for the month in which the outage occurred.
# Availability refers to the "region" availability, and makes no guarantees about instance (computer) reliability, storage consistency/reliability. As far as I can imagine, it might be rather hard to figure out what constitutes a region's "availability" independently. The official measure stated in the SLA is basically a measurement made solely by Amazon.
# To receive any of this pathetic service credit (again, it is not a refund), you are required to send Amazon an email documenting (dates, times, regions) and providing evidence (heartbeat request logs, etc). *Yes, they want logs.* For almost all of their customers, the time and effort involved in filing a claim would outweigh the benefit of the credit.
This actually happened to me in middle school. I had two good semesters and one bad one. I got a B, B+, and an F, and I barely squeaked by with a D- for the year because the teacher averaged together the grades by their numerical values.
So, maybe I'm an idiot and should have been held back in 8th grade English, but I would support fixing this broken aspect of grading.
Just because you can't give a kid a grade that is phenomenally lower than an F doesn't mean that you can't still choose any grade from A to F.
To me, in middle school when it came out, Warcraft II was absolutely amazing and revolutionary. From the beautiful opening cutscene, to the pre-rendered musical score, to the beautifully-done graphics and interesting gameplay that kept me on the edge of my seat.
Then, a few weeks ago, I started it back up, and was shocked by how klunky the interface was. It was hard to select things, hard to manage the economy, hard to figure out what buildings I had to build to get certain improvements. Peons would stop working when their resource depleted (and they wouldn't even tell me!). You couldn't save and recall groups of units. Worst of all, the beautifully-balanced gameplay seemed to have been almost a figment of my imagination.
The truth is: Warcraft II (Command & Conquer which came out around the same time, also upped the bar) broke a lot of new ground in RTS design. And while newer games can often go astray, nobody will say that they haven't also improved on the genre. Warcraft II was great because it *first* exposed us to many of those great designs, but games that came out afterward often improved on that.
The same could be said of the Civilization series... CivII will always have a fond place in my heart, but whenever I go back to playing that, I really miss the innovations that have been made in the series since then. (I never played CivI, sorry!)
I've tested out putting bugmenot.com in Facebook status messages, and it works just fine... is this a change or has anyone above actually tried it out before posting? This smells of a fake news story to me. In any case, it's dead now.
$ host -t a www.ratemycop.com www.ratemycop.com is an alias for ratemycop.com. ratemycop.com has address 205.234.222.18 $ host -t a ratemycop.com ratemycop.com has address 205.234.222.18 Seems like they set the DNS up correctly - caching is to blame for different results. Try http://205.234.222.18/ if the domain doesn't work.
ratemycop.com is back up now... which makes this story pretty uninteresting.
Each of the movies and each of the users represented in the test set have some corresponding known ratings. I think the minimum is around 10 known ratings for users and maybe 3 or 4 for movies. And there are examples on the opposite end of the scale... one user has rated nearly every movie in the training set, and most of those ratings were 1 star. If you have any more questions, feel free to check out my blog - my Slashdot profile links to it, and you can find my email there. I'm Dan Tillberg, currently in seventh place in the contest ;). I'd love to help answer any questions you or anybody else might have (or at least help point you to good resources), and I certainly encourage anybody that's interested to try their hand in the contest :).
There are 480,189 customers that rated 17,770 movies. The total number of ratings that you're given is 100,480,507. Each user/movie/rating is accompanied by the date of the rating, as well. You then have to submit predictions for the ratings of 2,817,131 additional user/movie combos (they tell you the user, the movie, and the date, and you need to predict the rating). You submit these predictions to Netflix, and they tell you the root-mean-square error between your predictions and the actual ratings that those users gave those movies.
The dataset is about 660MB to download. It unpacks to 2GB of about 18,000 text files.
+news -slashvertising I might guess that the same person that posted this on craigslist also posted the story on Slashdot. The Slashdot fish gets hooked by the bait yet again...
Did I miss the fad transition from double-blind to double-unblind? Sure, the restaurant sounds cool, and maybe some of the research is applicable to the real world, but it sounds like they're tweaking a lot of the variables here at the same time.
After all, doesn't Google host more copyrighted content than any other person/company in the world? ;)
This story has been published in the Consumerist and now on Slashdot without either publication checking facts and looking for at least talking points from Best Buy itself. As far as I'm concerned, this story may yet be true, but all I can safely assume is that someone took some pictures of bathroom tiles wrapped in newspaper next to his HDD box in the hopes of scamming Best Buy out of a second drive for free or perhaps just defaming them as revenge for something unrelated. I agree with the columnist in the Consumerist that if this fellow does want to take the issue seriously he should file a complaint for theft and/or a consumer complaint with the Attorney General's office. Up to now, all we're doing by disseminating this story is continuing to feed the anonymous-libel monster.