It wouldn't be particularly hard to add a random skew to your timestamp data.
My first idea would be just adding a random number, but if the number were truly random then over a long enough interval the skew would remain the same.
Maybe you need some sort of slowly moving skew vector so that your timestamp clock really does skew but in a fashion which is random.
Oddly enough i've already worked for one company through two different employers, though neither are my primary employer.
I'm not sure quite what situation i'd be employed in yet, but the limited amount of work i've done (on the side) for this firm suggests that it's 1099-misc income.. so i'd be on my own for benifits & taxes.
I'm contemplating quitting my corporate job for a consulting position with a very small company.
They've assured me that they have enough work lined up at this point to keep me busy for five or six months, but after that it's anyones guess if the work will keep coming (although for the few years they've been operating it seems like it always has).
Typically how much higher should my hourly rate be?
I'm thinking if i could double my total hourly compensation then it'd probably make up for the sporadic nature of the work... any experiences here?
Doing something at layer2 neatly avoids the network becoming too big since you won't be able to route the packets over the public internet without having vendors update all their routers.
The biggest problem i see with software patents is that companies patent the most trivial things.
Unfortunately many companies who would otherwise only patent solid ideas, get pushed into trying to patent everything.. why? because their competitors are doing it.
If company A has thousands of patents and company B has thousands of patents then you hit something like mutually-assured-destruction. Where it's generally impractical to sue each other since it's a virtual certainty that each is infringing on the others patents.
But this also happens in the hardware industry. The big few hard drive manufacturers have patented just about every conceivable way of making and running hard disks. They have cross-licensing agreements which make it very hard for any new players to break into the market.
There's no expectation that Microsoft will work to put effort into keeping Office Wine compatible. However if it can be shown that they are specifically breaking it then it strikes me as an abuse of their monopoly.
You should still be entitled to updates of any faulty software you've purchsed.
This would be like ford voiding my warranty for putting non-ford sparkplugs in my car.
I agree it's definitely better than burning oil, but i'm not convinced that it's quite as clean as making fuel from sugar cane or soy.
The other big upside to this approach is it should minimize bio-matter going into landfills. Which will of course minimize leechate and methane production.
If so then it's only going to allow power to flow out of the battery 3 times faster, allowing a whole new generation of power-hungry athalon laptops (at 1/3rd of the current battery life)
However if it were 3 times the ENERGY then it'd make existing laptops run for 3 times longer.
Well if the "normal" process is to breed turkeys, take the meat off them and landfill the guts, then those guts represent carbon which has been removed from the atmosphere.
If we reconvert those guts to oil and burn them again, then we'll release that carbon back into the atmosphere. While it's true that this carbon did originally come from the atmosphere, our existing process would have been to sequester it rather than release it.
Bear in mind that these turkey guts would probably have been landfilled.
In effect the turkeys serve as a carbon sequestering system... they absorb airborne carbon through the grain they eat, and their guts get buried and will (eventually) turn into oil.
Now if we were to start breeding turkeys specifically for this process... then it'd be zero net.
I think the effort should be to digitize older material first.
Firstly there's a lot of very valuable information which is in the public domain, which makes the legal issues go away.
Secondly, a lot of said information is in danger of being lost. The national libraries of our various countries hold one-of-a-kind books. One fire and they could be lost forever.
Publishers will probably have to start supplying the text of their books to google/amazon to keep their sales up.... some are doing it already.
My fave wifi coffee shop usually has a half dozen people taking up tables with laptops. It's obviously not entirely bad for business, but i know i'll buy a $1.20 double espresso and sit and use their wifi for an hour.
I've never done that when it's really busy, but i'm sure people do.
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I can't even download the s60 binary from their site?
It sounds like it needs about 22kbps so it should be well within the realm of gprs (no need for 3g).
Does anyone know what port they use for streaming?
It wouldn't be particularly hard to add a random skew to your timestamp data.
My first idea would be just adding a random number, but if the number were truly random then over a long enough interval the skew would remain the same.
Maybe you need some sort of slowly moving skew vector so that your timestamp clock really does skew but in a fashion which is random.
Trying to find non-commercial sites with information about a product you wish to purchase. It can be virtually impossible sometimes.
Oddly enough i've already worked for one company through two different employers, though neither are my primary employer.
I'm not sure quite what situation i'd be employed in yet, but the limited amount of work i've done (on the side) for this firm suggests that it's 1099-misc income.. so i'd be on my own for benifits & taxes.
Those numbers are very close to where i'm at.
:)
of course with bonuses, benifits, vacation and the additional ss that my employer pays it almost adds 50% to my 'normal' hourly rate.
So triple works out about right
I'm contemplating quitting my corporate job for a consulting position with a very small company.
They've assured me that they have enough work lined up at this point to keep me busy for five or six months, but after that it's anyones guess if the work will keep coming (although for the few years they've been operating it seems like it always has).
Typically how much higher should my hourly rate be?
I'm thinking if i could double my total hourly compensation then it'd probably make up for the sporadic nature of the work... any experiences here?
Doing something at layer2 neatly avoids the network becoming too big since you won't be able to route the packets over the public internet without having vendors update all their routers.
You can still do this at a high level.
Check out mute. It's incredibly slow, but provides a pretty solid level of anonimity.
The biggest problem i see with software patents is that companies patent the most trivial things.
Unfortunately many companies who would otherwise only patent solid ideas, get pushed into trying to patent everything.. why? because their competitors are doing it.
If company A has thousands of patents and company B has thousands of patents then you hit something like mutually-assured-destruction. Where it's generally impractical to sue each other since it's a virtual certainty that each is infringing on the others patents.
But this also happens in the hardware industry. The big few hard drive manufacturers have patented just about every conceivable way of making and running hard disks. They have cross-licensing agreements which make it very hard for any new players to break into the market.
Anyone else remember doing this with the old 3dfx voodoo cards... seems so long ago.
No it'd be like Honda saying that they would replace defective sparkplugs in your engine because you put it in a ford car.
I'm not convinced.
There's no expectation that Microsoft will work to put effort into keeping Office Wine compatible. However if it can be shown that they are specifically breaking it then it strikes me as an abuse of their monopoly.
You should still be entitled to updates of any faulty software you've purchsed.
This would be like ford voiding my warranty for putting non-ford sparkplugs in my car.
People install legally purchased microsoft software on top of Wine.
Some corporate environments require that you run MS Office, and wine lets users do that.
Microsoft are using their windows monopoly to stop users of Office on Wine from getting updates.
One of microsofts biggest assets is that fact that people are familiar with their UI and reluctant to change.
If a user run MS-Linux and liked it, then they could make sure their next system had hardware that could run gpl-linux.
And I really doubt microsoft would move down a pathway of familiarizing people with linux.
Fair point.
I agree it's definitely better than burning oil, but i'm not convinced that it's quite as clean as making fuel from sugar cane or soy.
The other big upside to this approach is it should minimize bio-matter going into landfills. Which will of course minimize leechate and methane production.
but it'll look cool as hell :)
If so then it's only going to allow power to flow out of the battery 3 times faster, allowing a whole new generation of power-hungry athalon laptops (at 1/3rd of the current battery life)
However if it were 3 times the ENERGY then it'd make existing laptops run for 3 times longer.
Well if the "normal" process is to breed turkeys, take the meat off them and landfill the guts, then those guts represent carbon which has been removed from the atmosphere.
If we reconvert those guts to oil and burn them again, then we'll release that carbon back into the atmosphere. While it's true that this carbon did originally come from the atmosphere, our existing process would have been to sequester it rather than release it.
So in some ways this does introduce more carbon.
Fortunately most of the world doesn't allow you to feed animals to themselves...
Bear in mind that these turkey guts would probably have been landfilled.
In effect the turkeys serve as a carbon sequestering system... they absorb airborne carbon through the grain they eat, and their guts get buried and will (eventually) turn into oil.
Now if we were to start breeding turkeys specifically for this process... then it'd be zero net.
I think the effort should be to digitize older material first.
Firstly there's a lot of very valuable information which is in the public domain, which makes the legal issues go away.
Secondly, a lot of said information is in danger of being lost. The national libraries of our various countries hold one-of-a-kind books. One fire and they could be lost forever.
Publishers will probably have to start supplying the text of their books to google/amazon to keep their sales up.... some are doing it already.
It seems like it would be massively in the public interest for libraries to set about digitizing their catalogs.
Much as I like google, i feel that this starts down the path of allowing a corporate entity to be guardian of our cultural heritage.
Hopefully google's move will show that large scale digitization is possible and will pave the way to libraries doing this themselves.
You can buy visa prepaid cards in lots of other countries :)
My fave wifi coffee shop usually has a half dozen people taking up tables with laptops. It's obviously not entirely bad for business, but i know i'll buy a $1.20 double espresso and sit and use their wifi for an hour.
I've never done that when it's really busy, but i'm sure people do.
But WLAN is Wireless Local
The Metropolitan equivilent would surely be WMAN, and i propose we pronounce it WeeMan