Actaully, I think the best way to get companies to commit is not cash up front, but pre-buying the first X flights.. as in, were going to pay you $100 Million per launch. Here is money up front for our first 10 launches: $1Billion. our first flight starts in 4 years, and then every 6 months afterwards. Every missed flight, you owe us back the money, or a credit on the next launch (can only add a credit once, and you have to pay us interest on that credit)
Wow.. 50% of your solutions involve shooting people.. Have you considered counselling for your anger management? Or could I perhaps interest you in a career at the local library?
What? I always scroll down to the bottom, way past all the crap about paying, and find it waaaay down below. Try scrolling further next time, or just use google's Cached page.
This is a back country county in Wisconsin man.. I mean Wisconsin just made your 4th DUI in 5 years a felony. Your first DUI is a citation, like a speeding ticket. WI is also one of the states that helmets are not required for motorcyclists.
But bring up the subject of sex, and damn your harming families...
Or, instead of committing fraud, and hurting your local retailer in the process for something that is not their fault, you could, you know.. Take Sony to Small claims court. This is exactly the kind of stuff that Small Claims court is made for. Sue them for the cost of a new device, plus filing fees.
Claiming that many decades of foreign policy are suddenly completely outdated and changed forever because of some events over the last 10 years is pretty damn bold man. Do you also think 30 year mortgages are old fashioned, since nobody lives in their same homes that long anymore? Do you put all your retirement into high performing stocks cause the last 10 years have been really good, or into real-estate?
Just cause you are in a bubble does not mean you should throw away common sense and chase the bubble.
Your looking at this from the point of view of a consumer.. From a media companies point of view, a single disk that can hold 100GB of HD disney movies, that your child will utterly destroy the first time you turn around, is a new revenue generator. You have to buy another disk, unless someone can finally will a lawsuit saying they should replace broken disks if they are really just a "license to use"
Its okay, I am counting on FOX news to be headlining with this soon. They keep stressing that they are not part of the MSM (yes, they abbreviate it, to show how alternative they are)
More importantly, do you have to have a license to be a relative to a child? or a friend of the family? most sex abuse (I have read anywhere from 85-95%) is from close family members, and close family friends. Sure, the stuff with the catholic church sounds horrible, but it statistically very, very uncommon.
Not true. In many places, gaming machines have to be regularly audited, mainly to ensure that they aren't working the opposite way, but either way, it would be noticed.
I would be more worried about "If I'm Dutch, and doing something at a research lab at my university" whether its corporate funded, military, or maybe medical research with client data included... Would a nosy sheriff of a county with a large, competing university in the US be able to subpoena my emails, since it might be stored in the US servers?
They need to call in the guys at IGT. They make the majority of the slot machines and video poker machines in the world. If anyone knows about ensuring data integrity, and error checking, etc in embedded systems, it is them.
Its amazing how much detail and error checking go into any system dealing with money, but not with human lives.
Course my Zipcode has 10MB charter available in it. Of course, thats the homes right around the golf course. And the only ones that have cable. The rest of us get either Satellite, 3G, or Wisp coverage that is spotty, and drops alot. But according to the FCC, I have high speed available, since those houses on the golf course have it, and were all in the same zip code.
And I live a few miles from a very large town. So if the majority of the EU is at 7.8Mb/s and they have access to that, I think its awesome. I have 600k\s. I pay $50/month for that, and feel lucky.
You can ensure that you are really talking to your bank. If they wanted to (and if the browser was okay with it) they could then publish their public key into their signed DNS, and not only would you know they were them, but that their self signed key was okay. Of course, it takes those poor little certificate authorties out of the picture in many cases, which is why they (verisign does both root DNS servers, and certificates) seem to have been so darn slow to implement it. You could literally "walk the tree" from the root DNS zone to your address you are looking at, and make sure they are all valid.
If you cut up a large file into lots of chunks of whatever size, lets say 64KB each. Then, you look at the chunks. If you have two chunks that are the same, you remove the second one, and just place a pointer to the first one. Data Deduplication is much more complicated than that in real life, but basically, the more data you have, or the smaller the chunks you look at, the more likely you are to have duplication, or collisions. (how many word documents have a few words in a row? remove every repeat of the phrase "and then the" and replace it with a pointer, if you will).
This is also similar to WAN acceleration, which at a high enough level, is just deduplicating traffic that the network would have to transmit.
It is amazing how much space you can free up, when your not just looking at the file level. This has become very big in recent years, cause storage has exploded, and processors are finally fast enough to do this in real-time.
You have obviously never, ever worked on a ERP implementation. Or really, any large, very complex project at a corporation. You write your check to IBM for $400 an hour, they hired a programmer off Craigslist that knew how to spell Java.
the government would NEVER shut off your power if you were using too much. What kind of world do you think this is? they would simply charge/tax you more for your consumption.
The only reason there are "rolling blackouts" in some places in California is they don't yet have the 2 way meters in place to properly measure peak load, and tax, errr, encourage you.
Don't attribute to Absolute Power what is really just a new revenue opportunity for the states!
It would also give you almost instant feedback of what is consuming the most power in your home. You could get a Kill-A-Watt meter, but how are you going to plug your furnace blower into it? Just cut the power to the blower, and see how much your power drops over the next 5 min. Same with other things that are difficult to measure or reach, like lighting, and ceiling fans. As you turn on/off items, you will see how it affects your power bill.
Along with the fact that if you can download at over 8Mb/s (I've seen 4G sprint wimax equipment do that) then why the heck not watch hulu on your big tv, using your phone...
Because Ubuntu is not an operating system. Ubuntu is a distribution, a collection of Operating system and user tools! Linux (plus the GNU tools, some would scream) are an operating system.
Gwibber actually is kind of addictive. I do like it..
I love how several of my family members (who have never been north) scream about how they don't want us to get anything like that HORRIBLE SOCIALIST healthcare like canada has, which kills people, and keeps you on waiting lists for years to see a doctor. They think I'm ignorant, and listen to MSM (they love that abbreviation) and just don't understand what they know.
Meanwhile, several of my coworkers, who are actually FROM Canada and here for college/work, tell me how much they miss canada, and can't wait to get back to its health system, cause ours is the most seriously fucked up thing ever.. One had a good point.. We spend hundreds of billions educating the next generation, but hardly anything to bother keeping those kids alive to use that education...
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Actaully, I think the best way to get companies to commit is not cash up front, but pre-buying the first X flights.. as in, were going to pay you $100 Million per launch. Here is money up front for our first 10 launches: $1Billion. our first flight starts in 4 years, and then every 6 months afterwards. Every missed flight, you owe us back the money, or a credit on the next launch (can only add a credit once, and you have to pay us interest on that credit)
Wow.. 50% of your solutions involve shooting people.. Have you considered counselling for your anger management? Or could I perhaps interest you in a career at the local library?
What? I always scroll down to the bottom, way past all the crap about paying, and find it waaaay down below. Try scrolling further next time, or just use google's Cached page.
But outside of criminal cases, you ARE guilty until proven innocent.
They do that already, but they charge for it. Why would they want to ruin a perfectly good revenue opportunity?
However, you can put a freeze on your credit report, and people can't pull it unless you are contacted and approve.
I can't wait to see how many annoying (but non-flash) ads full of animation and video can do to get me right up to my 5GB data limit every month.
This is a back country county in Wisconsin man.. I mean Wisconsin just made your 4th DUI in 5 years a felony. Your first DUI is a citation, like a speeding ticket. WI is also one of the states that helmets are not required for motorcyclists.
But bring up the subject of sex, and damn your harming families...
Or, instead of committing fraud, and hurting your local retailer in the process for something that is not their fault,
you could, you know.. Take Sony to Small claims court. This is exactly the kind of stuff that Small Claims court is made for. Sue them for the cost of a new device, plus filing fees.
Claiming that many decades of foreign policy are suddenly completely outdated and changed forever because of some events over the last 10 years is pretty damn bold man. Do you also think 30 year mortgages are old fashioned, since nobody lives in their same homes that long anymore? Do you put all your retirement into high performing stocks cause the last 10 years have been really good, or into real-estate?
Just cause you are in a bubble does not mean you should throw away common sense and chase the bubble.
Your looking at this from the point of view of a consumer.. From a media companies point of view, a single disk that can hold 100GB of HD disney movies, that your child will utterly destroy the first time you turn around, is a new revenue generator. You have to buy another disk, unless someone can finally will a lawsuit saying they should replace broken disks if they are really just a "license to use"
Its okay, I am counting on FOX news to be headlining with this soon. They keep stressing that they are not part of the MSM (yes, they abbreviate it, to show how alternative they are)
More importantly, do you have to have a license to be a relative to a child? or a friend of the family? most sex abuse (I have read anywhere from 85-95%) is from close family members, and close family friends. Sure, the stuff with the catholic church sounds horrible, but it statistically very, very uncommon.
Not true. In many places, gaming machines have to be regularly audited, mainly to ensure that they aren't working the opposite way, but either way, it would be noticed.
I would be more worried about "If I'm Dutch, and doing something at a research lab at my university" whether its corporate funded, military, or maybe medical research with client data included... Would a nosy sheriff of a county with a large, competing university in the US be able to subpoena my emails, since it might be stored in the US servers?
In all seriousness, no, its not.
They need to call in the guys at IGT. They make the majority of the slot machines and video poker machines in the world. If anyone knows about ensuring data integrity, and error checking, etc in embedded systems, it is them.
Its amazing how much detail and error checking go into any system dealing with money, but not with human lives.
Course my Zipcode has 10MB charter available in it. Of course, thats the homes right around the golf course. And the only ones that have cable. The rest of us get either Satellite, 3G, or Wisp coverage that is spotty, and drops alot. But according to the FCC, I have high speed available, since those houses on the golf course have it, and were all in the same zip code.
And I live a few miles from a very large town. So if the majority of the EU is at 7.8Mb/s and they have access to that, I think its awesome. I have 600k\s. I pay $50/month for that, and feel lucky.
You mean like DNSSEC?
You can ensure that you are really talking to your bank. If they wanted to (and if the browser was okay with it) they could then publish their public key into their signed DNS, and not only would you know they were them, but that their self signed key was okay. Of course, it takes those poor little certificate authorties out of the picture in many cases, which is why they (verisign does both root DNS servers, and certificates) seem to have been so darn slow to implement it. You could literally "walk the tree" from the root DNS zone to your address you are looking at, and make sure they are all valid.
I would have preferred Mangy Cores..
Seems a bit more "dirty" like its a scrappy street fighter..
If you cut up a large file into lots of chunks of whatever size, lets say 64KB each. Then, you look at the chunks. If you have two chunks that are the same, you remove the second one, and just place a pointer to the first one. Data Deduplication is much more complicated than that in real life, but basically, the more data you have, or the smaller the chunks you look at, the more likely you are to have duplication, or collisions. (how many word documents have a few words in a row? remove every repeat of the phrase "and then the" and replace it with a pointer, if you will).
This is also similar to WAN acceleration, which at a high enough level, is just deduplicating traffic that the network would have to transmit.
It is amazing how much space you can free up, when your not just looking at the file level. This has become very big in recent years, cause storage has exploded, and processors are finally fast enough to do this in real-time.
You have obviously never, ever worked on a ERP implementation. Or really, any large, very complex project at a corporation. You write your check to IBM for $400 an hour, they hired a programmer off Craigslist that knew how to spell Java.
the government would NEVER shut off your power if you were using too much. What kind of world do you think this is? they would simply charge/tax you more for your consumption.
The only reason there are "rolling blackouts" in some places in California is they don't yet have the 2 way meters in place to properly measure peak load, and tax, errr, encourage you.
Don't attribute to Absolute Power what is really just a new revenue opportunity for the states!
It would also give you almost instant feedback of what is consuming the most power in your home. You could get a Kill-A-Watt meter, but how are you going to plug your furnace blower into it? Just cut the power to the blower, and see how much your power drops over the next 5 min. Same with other things that are difficult to measure or reach, like lighting, and ceiling fans. As you turn on/off items, you will see how it affects your power bill.
Along with the fact that if you can download at over 8Mb/s (I've seen 4G sprint wimax equipment do that) then why the heck not watch hulu on your big tv, using your phone...
Because Ubuntu is not an operating system. Ubuntu is a distribution, a collection of Operating system and user tools! Linux (plus the GNU tools, some would scream) are an operating system.
Gwibber actually is kind of addictive. I do like it..
I love how several of my family members (who have never been north) scream about how they don't want us to get anything like that HORRIBLE SOCIALIST healthcare like canada has, which kills people, and keeps you on waiting lists for years to see a doctor. They think I'm ignorant, and listen to MSM (they love that abbreviation) and just don't understand what they know.
Meanwhile, several of my coworkers, who are actually FROM Canada and here for college/work, tell me how much they miss canada, and can't wait to get back to its health system, cause ours is the most seriously fucked up thing ever.. One had a good point.. We spend hundreds of billions educating the next generation, but hardly anything to bother keeping those kids alive to use that education...