I'd hate it if companies were constantly recording conversations without telling me. Of course, they all still record, but at least they have to tell me.
It also forces police to get a warrant instead of nicely asking someone I'm about to call to record it.
So they're a group of black-hat hackers? I assume this since, well, what they did qualifies as black hat hacking.
So that would mean they WANT a less secure world, right? They don't want vulnerabilities fixed. They don't want people to know about them. They want less competition from script kiddies.
But they're arguing against full disclosure in a way that makes it sound like they want a more secure world.
Actually, that's Brilliant!
It's almost like saying "I want more republicans in office, so go vote democrat!", but their subject matter is such that most people won't understand and actually agree with them.
Most sites are developed for IE6 compatibility nowadays. With that in mind, I can't imagine the industry widely accepting this within the next 5 years.
So to find out if a gene is responsible for something you take a whole bunch of normal people, and a whole bunch of people with a condition.
You extract genes, and see where they are equal or not. Likely with some algorithm that's a lot better than a linear search.
Then you find a gene that differs between groups with a highly reasonable amount of confidence.
You call that gene something, say "BCR1" and you point out it's location, say chromosome 17, sub part 172. (I have no idea how you actually specify that)
Then, you patent it.
Now, nobody else can do a Genenome.extractGene(17, 172) without violating your patent. That makes research on the gene REALLY HARD to do. It essentially makes it so you can't study or develop cures for the condition.
I'm not a laywer, patent expert, nor a geneticist, so I might be way off. But that's how I tend to think of it.
They're deploying containers of servers. Maybe when a container gets a to a certain age or a certain failure rate, they replace/refurbish the entire container.
I doubt they care if some of their nodes go down in a power outage as long as some percentage of them stay up.
What exactly are we losing by having this? If you're loading anything from youtube, then youtube could certainly log that fact permanently on their end.
Doing work for pay that doesn't go to the original project is a reasonable request and warrants reasonable pay.
But this non compete agreement that would force you to stop is not a reasonable request, so it warrants unreasonable pay. Tell 'em, $50,000, $100,000, or whatever your price is, and then you'll sign it.
Wouldn't it suck if they got you in there for 1 day, paid you for it, and then let you go. They just eliminated a significant amount of competition for a day's pay.
I have relatives / friends / acquaintances come to me several times a year with "the next great idea in software" and "all they need is someone to build it."
It's
a) Rarely a brand new idea.
b) Never fully thought out
c) Never has a business plan behind it
d) Not really funded.
e) not something I'm interested in.
Software is really hard to get right. Writing code is only a small part of it. If you partner up with a great coder, the project is probably still a failure.
Alzheimer's is one of my worse fears in life, both for me and for loved ones.
Slowly losing your mind and not being able to do anything about it is terrifying. I guess the only solace one might have is after a certain point, you don't realize it's happening.
We did a QA interface to one of our projects so we could test the backend without going through the rich client. It was a great experience and really easy to get working. The javascript/java backend communication was ultra-simple to get working.
But...
If we want to really easily create something that looks great we'll be sticking with more traditional approaches either using Flash/Flex or AJax with a standard JS library. Having a designer skin a GWT app is harder than those approaches.
I've been reading a lot about DWR and that plus a UI library will probably give you most of the benefits of GWT. Have to give it a try soon.
The "spinning reserve" relates to keeping some plants available to produce power within 10 minutes to deal with unexpected loads or other generators failing.
While a plant is in this state, it's generally burning far less fuel than if it were actually operating at capacity.
So imagine an oil plant.
Maybe it burns 1000 gallons / hour at max output. But maybe it only burns 300 gallons/hour at it's spinning-reserve rate.
So if you replaced the power that plant burned by wind, but still had to operate the oil plant in it's spinning-reserve mode in case the wind died, you'd replace 700 gallons/hour.
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Who wants to bet that someone figures out how to use that "remotely disable" feature and disable every single laptop they're giving out within a year?
Nationwide wireless internet sucks.
Stay at campgrounds that offer Wifi, problem solved.
KOA has tons.
http://koa.com/
It's not all that odd. Privacy is kind of nice.
I'd hate it if companies were constantly recording conversations without telling me. Of course, they all still record, but at least they have to tell me.
It also forces police to get a warrant instead of nicely asking someone I'm about to call to record it.
I'm confused.
So they're a group of black-hat hackers? I assume this since, well, what they did qualifies as black hat hacking.
So that would mean they WANT a less secure world, right? They don't want vulnerabilities fixed. They don't want people to know about them. They want less competition from script kiddies.
But they're arguing against full disclosure in a way that makes it sound like they want a more secure world.
Actually, that's Brilliant!
It's almost like saying "I want more republicans in office, so go vote democrat!", but their subject matter is such that most people won't understand and actually agree with them.
Most sites are developed for IE6 compatibility nowadays. With that in mind, I can't imagine the industry widely accepting this within the next 5 years.
If it's sucking in O2, what's the output?
Considering there's carbon in there my guess will be something along the lines of CO2 or CO.
Will this be better than burning fuel?
Then again, maybe it's not meant to be an environmental friendly solution, but more of an awesome-battery solution.
Describing the symptoms over declaring the problem.
Whenever I hear a "X is broken", I'll ask them to step back and ask them to tell me why they think that.
From what I understand, there's a few common methods that everyone uses to deal with genes.
Translating to code.
Genenome.extractGene(chromosome, subPart) : Gene ... ) : Boolean
Gene.getEncoding() : GeneEncoding
GeneEncoding.equals(
Those are standard things that everyone can do.
So to find out if a gene is responsible for something you take a whole bunch of normal people, and a whole bunch of people with a condition.
You extract genes, and see where they are equal or not. Likely with some algorithm that's a lot better than a linear search.
Then you find a gene that differs between groups with a highly reasonable amount of confidence.
You call that gene something, say "BCR1" and you point out it's location, say chromosome 17, sub part 172. (I have no idea how you actually specify that)
Then, you patent it.
Now, nobody else can do a Genenome.extractGene(17, 172) without violating your patent. That makes research on the gene REALLY HARD to do. It essentially makes it so you can't study or develop cures for the condition.
I'm not a laywer, patent expert, nor a geneticist, so I might be way off. But that's how I tend to think of it.
Read the document.
http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/inresearchBC/EXHIBIT-A.pdf
There's probable-cause in there unrelated to linux and gay mailings.
Or maybe they think bigger...
They're deploying containers of servers. Maybe when a container gets a to a certain age or a certain failure rate, they replace/refurbish the entire container.
I doubt they care if some of their nodes go down in a power outage as long as some percentage of them stay up.
The way government is run, it'll cost a minimum of $500,000 a year to run it's own.
Or... $0 a year.
A cookie to the youtube.com domain? Who cares.
What exactly are we losing by having this? If you're loading anything from youtube, then youtube could certainly log that fact permanently on their end.
Why is this news?
~500ms Latency.
At big sizes the holes make it look horrible. At small sizes it's not all that readable as far as fonts go.
You might as well print at 80% grey instead of black to get the same savings and have it look better.
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html
There you go, the SLA for Google Apps. It's listed at 99.9%
But... the remedies for them failing that suck, only up to 15 days worth of service per month will be credited.
Also, it costs $50 per user per year
By using BSD he now has this option, which he could choose to refuse.
By using something like GPL, he would never have even had the choice.
Lets face it, everyone has a price.
Doing work for pay that doesn't go to the original project is a reasonable request and warrants reasonable pay.
But this non compete agreement that would force you to stop is not a reasonable request, so it warrants unreasonable pay. Tell 'em, $50,000, $100,000, or whatever your price is, and then you'll sign it.
Wouldn't it suck if they got you in there for 1 day, paid you for it, and then let you go. They just eliminated a significant amount of competition for a day's pay.
I have relatives / friends / acquaintances come to me several times a year with "the next great idea in software" and "all they need is someone to build it."
It's
a) Rarely a brand new idea.
b) Never fully thought out
c) Never has a business plan behind it
d) Not really funded.
e) not something I'm interested in.
Software is really hard to get right. Writing code is only a small part of it. If you partner up with a great coder, the project is probably still a failure.
Wasn't American Idol a knockoff of a British show?
Isn't scaring away inexperienced users from sites with questionable security the whole point of those warnings?
I mean a user friendly message that lets someone get past it really easily wouldn't exactly get the job done.
Alzheimer's is one of my worse fears in life, both for me and for loved ones.
Slowly losing your mind and not being able to do anything about it is terrifying. I guess the only solace one might have is after a certain point, you don't realize it's happening.
Clearly this is the fault of the speculators and not the underlying business models!
We should boycott this speculating blogger and refuse to visit his site!
We did a QA interface to one of our projects so we could test the backend without going through the rich client. It was a great experience and really easy to get working. The javascript/java backend communication was ultra-simple to get working.
But...
If we want to really easily create something that looks great we'll be sticking with more traditional approaches either using Flash/Flex or AJax with a standard JS library. Having a designer skin a GWT app is harder than those approaches.
I've been reading a lot about DWR and that plus a UI library will probably give you most of the benefits of GWT. Have to give it a try soon.
Thank you for not using the overused "E3 has jumped the shark" type title for the article!
The "spinning reserve" relates to keeping some plants available to produce power within 10 minutes to deal with unexpected loads or other generators failing.
While a plant is in this state, it's generally burning far less fuel than if it were actually operating at capacity.
So imagine an oil plant.
Maybe it burns 1000 gallons / hour at max output.
But maybe it only burns 300 gallons/hour at it's spinning-reserve rate.
So if you replaced the power that plant burned by wind, but still had to operate the oil plant in it's spinning-reserve mode in case the wind died, you'd replace 700 gallons/hour.