Not exactly, as it's horribly unfair to Microsoft. Think about it, if the contract was released, then all of Microsoft's competitors know just how much they need to undercut Microsoft's price to make the sale on a huge (HUGE) contract. You're putting Microsoft at a competitive disadvantage. This is why most (if not all) government contracts are sealed in this manner.
Signed
Someone who works for a government contractor
First, IT is one of the markets that isn't "poor" right now, it's growing despite the market failures. Second, minimum wage sales and customer service reps aren't the IT sector, despite the fact that it's an IT-based store. Circuit City stores don't employ anyone in the IT sector, unless you count "firedog", which is an installation service more than a IT shop.
Well, I used to do sales/technical support for both Iridium and Inmarsat systems, so I guess I know a little about these. The BGAN/SwiftBroadband solution from Inmarsat can easily handle Remote Desktop sessions to these units. 256Kbps is the top sustained QoS you can get, but the units can get speeds as high as 492Kbps. The network is nowhere near saturation, so speeds of ~350Kbps are not uncommon. Latency is (and will always be) around 1.2s, which sucks for remote desktop, but is workable.
I've seen people watch a slingbox stream over these things with no skipping, in a dense area. In a sparse area like what you've described, no one else will be on your spot beam, so the entire bandwidth of the beam is basically yours to use. It's really not an issue.
Also, if this doesn't work for some reason, easy solution for the CLI that no one wants:
1. Write CLI
2. Write Client-side GUI for CLI so that customers think it's new technology
3. Profit!
It's not a patent of the math, it's showing the math they use to create the effect. You can't patent math in the sense of "you can't use y=mx+b without paying me royalties", but you can patent the effect, saying "I created this affect by using y=mx+b where y m is the slope and b is the y intercept", and no one can create the same effect using the same formula. However, if you create a similar effect using a different formula (that isn't directly derived), that's fair game.
A patent on a robot brain would undoubtedly have some math in its description. You can't use that math to create another robot brain without permission, but that doesn't make the math itself patented.
Yes. Coming from someone who studies computer security academically, having multiple layers is the best way to deter intruders. It works the same way with physical security: you have a deadbolt on your front door, and if that fails, yes, some of your items get stolen, but you have the really valuable things in the safe that's bolted to the floor.
The problem is the players. Check all the reviews, even the high end players suck. I'm not paying over 400 dollars for a player that can't even execute the "eject" command in under a minute.
The school can't do anything to have her right to free speech taken away. Had the judge said she must take down the site, that would be violating free speech. The school can do whatever it wants, as in this case it's a government lawmaking/interpreting/enforcing entity.
The school may try to have the site removed from myspace, may try to impose a fine, may try to cut off both her hands, and while these actions may be illegal, none violate free speech. Why? Because free speech is only an issue in regards to the creation, interpretation, and enforcement of laws. Schools don't make laws, don't interpret laws, don't enforce laws, and therefore nothing they do has anything to do with the first ammendment.
The school has created a policy that takes away much of the free speech from students while attending the school. This is much like joining the armed forces, you don't have your free speech while you're in the military, they have the right to punish you for saying the wrong things. The question in this case is one of jurisdiction. Since school is compulsory rather than voluntary (like the army), the question comes as to when you are in school vs. when you are not, or on a broader scale, when you have your rights as a citizen and when you don't because of your attendance in the school program. In this case, I think it's a clear line: if you're not at a school function (class, football game, whatever), you're not in the schools jurisdiction, you don't have to follow their rules. Unfortunately in this case, the judge disagrees with me. I would appeal, but IANAL (though I should be, god damnit, I love this legal shit).
You realize that free speech is not being taken away in this case, right? In fact, the student can still leave the myspace page up as long as they'd like. The court is not making the student remove the page. The school, which is a separate entity from the government (though it is run by the government, they are only considered psuedo-gov't entities. This is important because schools have their own rules on top of state laws), merely enacted a punishment against the student for what he said. This is the same as if I put up a myspace page of the president of my company with all these things. I would expect to be repremanded, if not fired immediately.
You act like you're being persecuted. Despite what Slashdot groupthink wants to think, our free speech rights are still intact. Yes, we need to defend them, yes there have been attacks as of late, but I can still say whatever the hell I want in this Country, about whomever I want. That doesn't mean there is no consequences outside the law for my actions.
That being said, I think the school is out of line, here, and the judge is incorrect. There should be some some sort of jurisdiction over where the school is in charge and when the parents are in charge, and it should be a solid line. During school hours, on school property, or at school events, the school can make the rules, and if that includes a ban on defamatory comments about administrators, so be it. However, outside of school, I don't see how the school should have any sort of bearing over what a student does. School isn't like an employer, which can do whatever they want, a school has to have a reason to discipline a student based on the current policies of the district. In essence, the school shouldn't have "seen" the myspace page, because the school only "knows" what happens when the student is in the schools jurisdiction.
This case is roughly equivalent to me seeing a teacher at a restaurant, calling him an asshole, and then getting suspended for it the next day.
My codecs were included with my Optical Drives, IIRC. Yes, that was WinDVD, so I'd assume Windows Only, but there has to be a manufacturer out there that has a Linux compatible codec included with their drives.
I don't think I've ever specifically paid for a DVD codec, it's always been included with some hardware. I don't see why it has to be different with Ubuntu.
Sericol sells ink, for what looks like large photoprinting shops. Its a branch of Fujifilm. Could it be that, instead of looking at an advert, you're actually looking at the building where a branch of Sericol is located? "More than ink...solutions" is their company motto or whatever.
So, they never mentioned how they plan on getting the people they send up there back down. I guess when you've got 1.5 billion people it doesn't matter?
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You guys are being creepy. Girls don't like creepy dudes leering at them all the time.
The F22's avionics software was written by Lockheed Martin, the private company that produces the F22.
Not exactly, as it's horribly unfair to Microsoft. Think about it, if the contract was released, then all of Microsoft's competitors know just how much they need to undercut Microsoft's price to make the sale on a huge (HUGE) contract. You're putting Microsoft at a competitive disadvantage. This is why most (if not all) government contracts are sealed in this manner.
Signed
Someone who works for a government contractor
No, that's run by Chase. Chase is completely stable, so far as anyone can tell.
First, IT is one of the markets that isn't "poor" right now, it's growing despite the market failures. Second, minimum wage sales and customer service reps aren't the IT sector, despite the fact that it's an IT-based store. Circuit City stores don't employ anyone in the IT sector, unless you count "firedog", which is an installation service more than a IT shop.
Well, I used to do sales/technical support for both Iridium and Inmarsat systems, so I guess I know a little about these. The BGAN/SwiftBroadband solution from Inmarsat can easily handle Remote Desktop sessions to these units. 256Kbps is the top sustained QoS you can get, but the units can get speeds as high as 492Kbps. The network is nowhere near saturation, so speeds of ~350Kbps are not uncommon. Latency is (and will always be) around 1.2s, which sucks for remote desktop, but is workable.
I've seen people watch a slingbox stream over these things with no skipping, in a dense area. In a sparse area like what you've described, no one else will be on your spot beam, so the entire bandwidth of the beam is basically yours to use. It's really not an issue.
Also, if this doesn't work for some reason, easy solution for the CLI that no one wants:
1. Write CLI
2. Write Client-side GUI for CLI so that customers think it's new technology
3. Profit!
Or you can go to any Amscot and get one for free.
One problem. Right now, I don't have to worry about replacing my mouse juice for the thing to work correctly.
It's not a patent of the math, it's showing the math they use to create the effect. You can't patent math in the sense of "you can't use y=mx+b without paying me royalties", but you can patent the effect, saying "I created this affect by using y=mx+b where y m is the slope and b is the y intercept", and no one can create the same effect using the same formula. However, if you create a similar effect using a different formula (that isn't directly derived), that's fair game. A patent on a robot brain would undoubtedly have some math in its description. You can't use that math to create another robot brain without permission, but that doesn't make the math itself patented.
What captchas are you guys using? I've never had a problem with any captcha on any website.
Because I already have Excel, and Mathematica is another 120 dollars?
Yes. Coming from someone who studies computer security academically, having multiple layers is the best way to deter intruders. It works the same way with physical security: you have a deadbolt on your front door, and if that fails, yes, some of your items get stolen, but you have the really valuable things in the safe that's bolted to the floor.
My mistake, all 3. How did this get modded informative?
Two of the three of those were men when they were great programmers...Don't know if that was your point.
That will be nice, though I don't know how they plan on doing it. As far as I can tell, it's impossible to install Oracle on anything.
...What?
The problem is the players. Check all the reviews, even the high end players suck. I'm not paying over 400 dollars for a player that can't even execute the "eject" command in under a minute.
The school can do whatever it wants, as in this case it's not a government lawmaking/interpreting/enforcing entity.
Fixed that for me...
The school can't do anything to have her right to free speech taken away. Had the judge said she must take down the site, that would be violating free speech. The school can do whatever it wants, as in this case it's a government lawmaking/interpreting/enforcing entity.
The school may try to have the site removed from myspace, may try to impose a fine, may try to cut off both her hands, and while these actions may be illegal, none violate free speech. Why? Because free speech is only an issue in regards to the creation, interpretation, and enforcement of laws. Schools don't make laws, don't interpret laws, don't enforce laws, and therefore nothing they do has anything to do with the first ammendment.
The school has created a policy that takes away much of the free speech from students while attending the school. This is much like joining the armed forces, you don't have your free speech while you're in the military, they have the right to punish you for saying the wrong things. The question in this case is one of jurisdiction. Since school is compulsory rather than voluntary (like the army), the question comes as to when you are in school vs. when you are not, or on a broader scale, when you have your rights as a citizen and when you don't because of your attendance in the school program. In this case, I think it's a clear line: if you're not at a school function (class, football game, whatever), you're not in the schools jurisdiction, you don't have to follow their rules. Unfortunately in this case, the judge disagrees with me. I would appeal, but IANAL (though I should be, god damnit, I love this legal shit).
You realize that free speech is not being taken away in this case, right? In fact, the student can still leave the myspace page up as long as they'd like. The court is not making the student remove the page. The school, which is a separate entity from the government (though it is run by the government, they are only considered psuedo-gov't entities. This is important because schools have their own rules on top of state laws), merely enacted a punishment against the student for what he said. This is the same as if I put up a myspace page of the president of my company with all these things. I would expect to be repremanded, if not fired immediately.
You act like you're being persecuted. Despite what Slashdot groupthink wants to think, our free speech rights are still intact. Yes, we need to defend them, yes there have been attacks as of late, but I can still say whatever the hell I want in this Country, about whomever I want. That doesn't mean there is no consequences outside the law for my actions.
That being said, I think the school is out of line, here, and the judge is incorrect. There should be some some sort of jurisdiction over where the school is in charge and when the parents are in charge, and it should be a solid line. During school hours, on school property, or at school events, the school can make the rules, and if that includes a ban on defamatory comments about administrators, so be it. However, outside of school, I don't see how the school should have any sort of bearing over what a student does. School isn't like an employer, which can do whatever they want, a school has to have a reason to discipline a student based on the current policies of the district. In essence, the school shouldn't have "seen" the myspace page, because the school only "knows" what happens when the student is in the schools jurisdiction.
This case is roughly equivalent to me seeing a teacher at a restaurant, calling him an asshole, and then getting suspended for it the next day.
Because we all know physical mail is impervious to man-in-the-middle attacks.
My codecs were included with my Optical Drives, IIRC. Yes, that was WinDVD, so I'd assume Windows Only, but there has to be a manufacturer out there that has a Linux compatible codec included with their drives.
I don't think I've ever specifically paid for a DVD codec, it's always been included with some hardware. I don't see why it has to be different with Ubuntu.
Someone should probably let them know that they can't do that...
Quick google search, because I'm interested.
Sericol sells ink, for what looks like large photoprinting shops. Its a branch of Fujifilm. Could it be that, instead of looking at an advert, you're actually looking at the building where a branch of Sericol is located? "More than ink...solutions" is their company motto or whatever.
So, they never mentioned how they plan on getting the people they send up there back down. I guess when you've got 1.5 billion people it doesn't matter?