That's great if all development is done in house. Try a large company that needs an enterprise-wide system. You can go for Oracle Applications or SAP (or the recently erstwhile Peoplesoft or J.D. Edwards) with their millions of man-hours of development, or hack together your own homebrew "solution" (and good luck with that...)
When you NEED ERP, Postgres and MySQL just don't cut it.
I'm nearly 100% certain they get royalties for every WMA capable device sold. This happened with gif and/or jpeg patent holders (i forget which, possibly both) and digital cameras.
Every iPod sold is a non-WMA-compatible device that lines Apple's coffers, but does nothing for BillG and SteveB. Naturally, the people in charge of Microsoft won't like this. Of course, the solution is obvious. Build a better device and people will buy it. Well, I won't because I don't intend to let MS have any of my cash, but "people" will.
This video is NOT the infamous 1984 commercial. This is Steve Jobs in a Macworld-like auditorium setting introducing the Macintosh to a cheering audience, then giving a small demo.
Yah, mine too... I've never used my gmail account for anything other than a file drop, and only four trusted friends even know the address. I've started getting 5-10 spams a day there.
You know, I don't condone what these packet monkeys did either, but do you know how hard it is for an intelligent, well-educated person to actually GET a McJob (insert random food-service job here)?
I was out of work for a few months last year after another round of downsizing. I applied to many restaurants, from fast food through formal dining establishments. Guess how many calls back this PhD holder got... Yah, none. I even resorted to just listing my BS on applications, but it didn't help. I was too old to fit in with the typical employee (18-24... I was 30+) and my employment history suggested that food service was NOT my goal in life.
I feel VERY lucky to have landed a great job in my field for a great company (routinely listed in Fortune mags Top 10 companies for whom to work) without having to move cross-country!
You can write PERL that is completely illegible, or you can write PERL that looks just like C++ with extra $, @, and % strewn about. It's all up to who is writing it and what coding standards they have to live up to (if any).
I have PERL scripts written years ago that I haven't touched in quite some time... they're still very legible though (and I rarely comment my own code... only my employers!)
TFA indicates it was most likely an alias used by someone they really don't want flying. However, there's bound to be hundreds of real T. Kennedy's out there. I guess any of the would have had the same problem as the senator from MA, just without the congressional identification cards.
Just wait until a suspected terrorist uses the alias J. Smith in an airport.
If yer gonna quote the Simpsons, at least get it right:
Bart: Kwyjibo. Uh... a big, dumb, balding North American ape. With no chin. Marge: And a short temper. Homer: I'll show you a big, dumb, balding ape! Bart: Uh oh. Kwyjibo on the loose!
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
To wit, the Constitution and its amendments are there to explicitly define some of your rights, not to give you those rights in the first place. Just because it's not in the Constitution doesn't mean you don't have a particular right.
He is no longer in control of any of the stations he founded/bought up. In the end, he was forced to sell out to Time Warner, and in the process lost control. His entire missive points out how he was fortunate to come along in the late 1960s when the environment was very conducive to independent media ownership. He states, rightly so, that no one could follow his path today, due to the oligopoly of media corporations today.
It's obvious you aren't a parent or you would realize children need guidance at all ages until adulthood. It's the primary responsibility of all parents. You don't just let kids run loose and do what ever they like when ever they like. They need to learn responsibility, respect etc.. So the answer to you is a resounding yes, they need not only protection from their own childish behavior, but guidance as well.
I am a parent, and I agree that children need guidance, but I don't want it imposed by the government. Leave it to me to raise my own kids...
Wow... A police officer in the UK in 2002 made around 43,000 GBP? With the current conversion rate of 1.8341 (so claims the US Federal Reserve Bank), that's almost $79,000. Now, I feel underpaid...
A patent is supposedly issued to someone claiming an invention, creation, or, in some limited cases, discovery (in biological circles, but this requires discovery of a means to duplicate the mutation/cross-breeding/etc). Prior art is supposed to invalidate the claim, even overturning previously issued patents. However, once you have a patent, it's yours for, IIRC, 17 years from date of issuance or 20 years from date of application, whichever expires first (assuming it's not overturned).
There is no concept as patent defense. You may be getting this confused with trademark/service mark defense. In the latter case, if you don't defend your sole right to use the TM/SM in the manner in which it was issued, you may end up losing the right. However, you can have a patent for 15 years, do nothing to those who violate your patent, then file a multitude of lawsuits right before the patent expires. In fact, this has gotten common enough to warrant a buzzwordy phrase: submarine patents.
Well known examples of submarine patents include Unisys' gif patent, Forgent's jpeg claims, and the recent Eolas patent lawsuit against MicroSoft regarding patented applications related to browser plugins.
I doubt Google has any one "host" with that many CPUs. As I understand it, they have thousands of machines that work (mostly) independently of each other. Google's goal is to perform a very large number of short tasks very quickly. Weta's goal is to perform one very large task as quickly as possible.
In perl, this means nothing. I can write an entire program of indeterminate length without semicolons. The key is that any code block in { } doesn't need to end with a semi-colon. Thus, any statement (like $i++;) can be re-written as {$i++}. Here's a little sample:
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That's great if all development is done in house. Try a large company that needs an enterprise-wide system. You can go for Oracle Applications or SAP (or the recently erstwhile Peoplesoft or J.D. Edwards) with their millions of man-hours of development, or hack together your own homebrew "solution" (and good luck with that...)
When you NEED ERP, Postgres and MySQL just don't cut it.
I'm nearly 100% certain they get royalties for every WMA capable device sold. This happened with gif and/or jpeg patent holders (i forget which, possibly both) and digital cameras.
Every iPod sold is a non-WMA-compatible device that lines Apple's coffers, but does nothing for BillG and SteveB. Naturally, the people in charge of Microsoft won't like this. Of course, the solution is obvious. Build a better device and people will buy it. Well, I won't because I don't intend to let MS have any of my cash, but "people" will.
Maybe this will give me the kick in the pants I've needed to go learn Python.
This is NOT the superbowl ad. It's a video of the release of the Mac with Steve doing a Macworld-like presentation in front of a cheering audience.
This video is NOT the infamous 1984 commercial. This is Steve Jobs in a Macworld-like auditorium setting introducing the Macintosh to a cheering audience, then giving a small demo.
I have... it's freakish how well this stuff repels mosquitos!
Yah, mine too... I've never used my gmail account for anything other than a file drop, and only four trusted friends even know the address. I've started getting 5-10 spams a day there.
Just you... I read TFA with firefox with no problems.
You know, I don't condone what these packet monkeys did either, but do you know how hard it is for an intelligent, well-educated person to actually GET a McJob (insert random food-service job here)?
I was out of work for a few months last year after another round of downsizing. I applied to many restaurants, from fast food through formal dining establishments. Guess how many calls back this PhD holder got... Yah, none. I even resorted to just listing my BS on applications, but it didn't help. I was too old to fit in with the typical employee (18-24... I was 30+) and my employment history suggested that food service was NOT my goal in life.
I feel VERY lucky to have landed a great job in my field for a great company (routinely listed in Fortune mags Top 10 companies for whom to work) without having to move cross-country!
You can write PERL that is completely illegible, or you can write PERL that looks just like C++ with extra $, @, and % strewn about. It's all up to who is writing it and what coding standards they have to live up to (if any).
I have PERL scripts written years ago that I haven't touched in quite some time... they're still very legible though (and I rarely comment my own code... only my employers!)
TFA indicates it was most likely an alias used by someone they really don't want flying. However, there's bound to be hundreds of real T. Kennedy's out there. I guess any of the would have had the same problem as the senator from MA, just without the congressional identification cards.
Just wait until a suspected terrorist uses the alias J. Smith in an airport.
If yer gonna quote the Simpsons, at least get it right:
Bart: Kwyjibo. Uh... a big, dumb, balding North American ape. With no chin.
Marge: And a short temper.
Homer: I'll show you a big, dumb, balding ape!
Bart: Uh oh. Kwyjibo on the loose!
Try looking at the 9th amendment:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
To wit, the Constitution and its amendments are there to explicitly define some of your rights, not to give you those rights in the first place. Just because it's not in the Constitution doesn't mean you don't have a particular right.
RTFA RTFA RTFA
He is no longer in control of any of the stations he founded/bought up. In the end, he was forced to sell out to Time Warner, and in the process lost control. His entire missive points out how he was fortunate to come along in the late 1960s when the environment was very conducive to independent media ownership. He states, rightly so, that no one could follow his path today, due to the oligopoly of media corporations today.
I am a parent, and I agree that children need guidance, but I don't want it imposed by the government. Leave it to me to raise my own kids...
Dude! Do NOT remove /tmp...
Wow... A police officer in the UK in 2002 made around 43,000 GBP? With the current conversion rate of 1.8341 (so claims the US Federal Reserve Bank), that's almost $79,000. Now, I feel underpaid...
I don't know about you, but I'll probably be dead in 80 years... I'm betting Bush and Cheney will be, too!
Really? And here I thought that he just wrote the Guidebook...
A patent is supposedly issued to someone claiming an invention, creation, or, in some limited cases, discovery (in biological circles, but this requires discovery of a means to duplicate the mutation/cross-breeding/etc). Prior art is supposed to invalidate the claim, even overturning previously issued patents. However, once you have a patent, it's yours for, IIRC, 17 years from date of issuance or 20 years from date of application, whichever expires first (assuming it's not overturned).
There is no concept as patent defense. You may be getting this confused with trademark/service mark defense. In the latter case, if you don't defend your sole right to use the TM/SM in the manner in which it was issued, you may end up losing the right. However, you can have a patent for 15 years, do nothing to those who violate your patent, then file a multitude of lawsuits right before the patent expires. In fact, this has gotten common enough to warrant a buzzwordy phrase: submarine patents.
Well known examples of submarine patents include Unisys' gif patent, Forgent's jpeg claims, and the recent Eolas patent lawsuit against MicroSoft regarding patented applications related to browser plugins.
TFA reads "Novell Corporation is the last company that can demonstrate legal ownership of Unix System V."
I doubt Google has any one "host" with that many CPUs. As I understand it, they have thousands of machines that work (mostly) independently of each other. Google's goal is to perform a very large number of short tasks very quickly. Weta's goal is to perform one very large task as quickly as possible.
In perl, this means nothing. I can write an entire program of indeterminate length without semicolons. The key is that any code block in { } doesn't need to end with a semi-colon. Thus, any statement (like $i++;) can be re-written as {$i++}. Here's a little sample:
!#/usr/bin/perl
{$i=10}
while ($i<20) {$i++}
print $i,$/
What I don't get is how this is all related to the *Fair* Labor Standards Act of 1936. To whom is this fair?
Get Munich back on Windows!