Tremendous indeed. A hipster obviously wrote this, went to Flickr, was confused by the lack of "instagram" effects, and therefore couldn't recognize it as actual photography. And just because it hasn't changed much since its acquisition, there's a lot to be said for leaving well enough alone.
Early spears were made of all wood. Wood does not fossilize by itself. Direct evidence is therefore few and far between. Not all early bands and tribes recorded on rock and even amongst those that did, few of those sites are preserved.
You entirely missed the crux of the summary. Each company knew they could not, individually, supersede the established competitive advantage of the most successful player in their industry. However, bandied together in cooperation, they COULD forge a competitive advantage and undermine the player's supremacy. Better to collaborate on an alternative than concede and pay out millions to the player.
It's like Zulu uniting tribes against The British Empire. Or Attila the Hun uniting tribes against Rome. Or Genghis Khan against China.
If your business model needs you to the be the sole owner of a competitive advantage, and you are never able to achieve that advantage alone, then you have no business model.
By the late 70s it was a secret to no one the Soviet Union was going bankrupt. It's why Reagan's policy against Communism changed from Containment to Active Repealment.
Most of human civilization is exactly scabbing off the work of others to make a profit. It's all around you. You wouldn't be transmitting your thoughts to me over the Internet without it. Knowledge is transferred between generations. Get a hold of yourself, man!
If the generation of Bitcoins itself is ALWAYS at a loss, no matter what, it's still a worthy endeavor. People will desire them once generated.You can use them to make remote transactions you don't want to be under scrutiny. If you used conventional money, were tracked, and had undue attention brought on you, that penalty cost could be way more than your loss via Bitcoin generation. Your losing X money today to prevent losing X * Y money tomorrow, where X and Y are greater than 1.
OpenStack. You can start with a hosting provider like Rackspace that has as a faithful implementation of it. I know they were recently pinged for some incompatibility, but they have vowed to fix that. If you still can't stomach it, choose a different OpenStack provider. OpenStack is the key.
When you get really big, then you can work on running your own datacenter or paying someone to host the hardware for you (again, Rackspace, DreamHost, etc.). Then you can put your own implementation of OpenStack on the hardware with all the customization specific to your needs. This will naturally build on top of your years of investment with the vanilla OpenStack when you were smaller. The progression path is laid out for you.
I'm replying to this parent because Heroku is also an excellent choice for scaling where you pay as you grow. I'm just not sure if you can later fork Heroku to suit your needs with the datacenter supplier of your choice.
Drones need to be cheap enough where it won't matter if it's illegal and it gets confiscated or destroyed. The aerial surveillance was transmitted in real time and bounced through a labyrinth of anonymizing routers. The drone was homebrewed, so all identifying serial numbers in parts and values in ROM were defaced. The physical drone cannot be traced back to the operator. Trying to triangulate the flight-operating signal will just add to the amount of time the operator can capture data before abandoning it. If the flight path was pre-programmed and then erased when it reached its destination, there may not even be a signal to triangulate.
That data is the prize, NOT the sustainability or reuse of the drone. It is fodder for the cause. It's cheap enough to just build another one. All the lobbying, regulation, and criminalizing in the world will not deter determined individuals from exposing wrongdoing.
So I'm guessing the other 81% said "Hey! You changed my answers!" No, I did not RTFA. The 19% are too stupid to realize answers they JUST GAVE have been switched. If RTFA shows otherwise, then the summary is pretty s#!++y.
I, too, used to own stock in that Canadian company, Nexia Biotechnologies. The problem wasn't that they couldn't spin the silk proteins. The problem was they couldn't do it cheaply. Meanwhile, technological milestones from other companies weaving nano-fiber strands were coming out on a quarterly basis, each time smashing the price per inch. Many of the same applications for spider silk could also be done by nanotubes. Artificial silk-weaving couldn't keep up with the pace.
The first application of spider silk, to put Nexia on the map, was to be biodegradable medical sutures. They pleaded to the FDA they could bypass expensive multi-year human trial testing since spider silk should be deemed a natural product. At first the FDA agreed, so Nexia ramped up in preparation for a rollout. Later the FDA reversed their decision. This completely screwed Nexia since all their capital went into the rollout. They simply couldn't afford the trials.
Before they went under, they sold IP to a Virgina company. However, that company was much more greatly interested in Nexia's anti-chemical warfare shots (for U.S. soldiers serving in the Middle East) than they were in the spider silk.
We would be living in more interesting times if the weaving process had panned out and the suture rollout been a success. They were planning to completely remove goats from the equation. They wanted to develop a GMO crop that had the silk proteins in the plants' leaves. Instead of milking the goats, they would harvest the crop, grind the leaves, and then sift the proteins out.
I came here to call Baxter a troll, especially considering his "lacking enterprise adoption on large applications" comment, but I've already been beaten to the punch. He is living in the year 2000 if he doesn't understand the impact of JSON, jQuery, and Node.js. Perl never brought to the table anything remotely like these.
Even if something surpasses Javascript, as long as we still use CSS and DOM, jQuery will live on -- just with bindings to this new language. As long as there is demand for a data exchange format that is both human-readable and easy for machines to parse, JSON will not die any more than XML will.
"Your education gives you tools to win. An unwillingness to further self-educate yourself gives you unnecessary roadblocks to fail."
I admit the second sentence sounds more natural if it used "failure" instead of "fail". Netflix was just trying to be too cutesy and took poetic license, but I agree, it is still confusing and clunky.
I agree with jittles here. "Every single land surface in the world" combined with "you’ve never experienced a colder-than-average month" challenges you to find a single patch of local Earth within a single month that can refute the claim. Not the yearly average. Not the global average. One land, one month.
90%+ of freshwater consumption in the US is for agriculture. Your washing machine choices will not affect much. You have to combat a growing total population combined with residency shifting to dry areas.
Total water use in the U.S. in 2005 is lower than it was in 1975.
Per-capita water use in the U.S. in 2005 is lower than it has been since the mid-1950s.
U.S. water use, per person, peaked in 1975 at 1944 gallons per person per day and has now dropped to 1383 g/p/d.
Household water use is growing at the same rate as national population. Improvements in water-use efficiency in homes are being balanced by a shift in population to hotter, drier regions.
The economic productivity of water (dollars of Gross Domestic Product per unit of water used) is higher than it has ever been: it has nearly tripled since the 1970s, to $8.45 of GDP produced per hundred gallons used from only $3.18 in 1975 (in 2005 dollars).
Yep, you pay for an XBox Live subscription on a monthly basis and STILL get ads. It stands to reason a one-time license purchase of Windows would also have ads.
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Tremendous indeed. A hipster obviously wrote this, went to Flickr, was confused by the lack of "instagram" effects, and therefore couldn't recognize it as actual photography. And just because it hasn't changed much since its acquisition, there's a lot to be said for leaving well enough alone.
Hmmm, Dell provides a lot of hardware to Rackspace. Rackspace has an OpenStack implementation offering.
Early spears were made of all wood. Wood does not fossilize by itself. Direct evidence is therefore few and far between. Not all early bands and tribes recorded on rock and even amongst those that did, few of those sites are preserved.
You entirely missed the crux of the summary. Each company knew they could not, individually, supersede the established competitive advantage of the most successful player in their industry. However, bandied together in cooperation, they COULD forge a competitive advantage and undermine the player's supremacy. Better to collaborate on an alternative than concede and pay out millions to the player.
It's like Zulu uniting tribes against The British Empire. Or Attila the Hun uniting tribes against Rome. Or Genghis Khan against China.
If your business model needs you to the be the sole owner of a competitive advantage, and you are never able to achieve that advantage alone, then you have no business model.
By the late 70s it was a secret to no one the Soviet Union was going bankrupt. It's why Reagan's policy against Communism changed from Containment to Active Repealment.
"Time Trails" sounds like the Abyss-like CGI in Donnie Darko.
Making up a single fake woman is still small potatoes compared to Mitt Romney. Or Wilt Chamberlain.
Most of human civilization is exactly scabbing off the work of others to make a profit. It's all around you. You wouldn't be transmitting your thoughts to me over the Internet without it. Knowledge is transferred between generations. Get a hold of yourself, man!
How does this interact with their other cloud offering, OpenShift?
If the generation of Bitcoins itself is ALWAYS at a loss, no matter what, it's still a worthy endeavor. People will desire them once generated.You can use them to make remote transactions you don't want to be under scrutiny. If you used conventional money, were tracked, and had undue attention brought on you, that penalty cost could be way more than your loss via Bitcoin generation. Your losing X money today to prevent losing X * Y money tomorrow, where X and Y are greater than 1.
OpenStack. You can start with a hosting provider like Rackspace that has as a faithful implementation of it. I know they were recently pinged for some incompatibility, but they have vowed to fix that. If you still can't stomach it, choose a different OpenStack provider. OpenStack is the key.
When you get really big, then you can work on running your own datacenter or paying someone to host the hardware for you (again, Rackspace, DreamHost, etc.). Then you can put your own implementation of OpenStack on the hardware with all the customization specific to your needs. This will naturally build on top of your years of investment with the vanilla OpenStack when you were smaller. The progression path is laid out for you.
I'm replying to this parent because Heroku is also an excellent choice for scaling where you pay as you grow. I'm just not sure if you can later fork Heroku to suit your needs with the datacenter supplier of your choice.
Drones need to be cheap enough where it won't matter if it's illegal and it gets confiscated or destroyed. The aerial surveillance was transmitted in real time and bounced through a labyrinth of anonymizing routers. The drone was homebrewed, so all identifying serial numbers in parts and values in ROM were defaced. The physical drone cannot be traced back to the operator. Trying to triangulate the flight-operating signal will just add to the amount of time the operator can capture data before abandoning it. If the flight path was pre-programmed and then erased when it reached its destination, there may not even be a signal to triangulate.
That data is the prize, NOT the sustainability or reuse of the drone. It is fodder for the cause. It's cheap enough to just build another one. All the lobbying, regulation, and criminalizing in the world will not deter determined individuals from exposing wrongdoing.
So I'm guessing the other 81% said "Hey! You changed my answers!" No, I did not RTFA. The 19% are too stupid to realize answers they JUST GAVE have been switched. If RTFA shows otherwise, then the summary is pretty s#!++y.
The outcome of the Korean War is the longest, still-ongoing, cease-fire in military history. No one lost.
I, too, used to own stock in that Canadian company, Nexia Biotechnologies. The problem wasn't that they couldn't spin the silk proteins. The problem was they couldn't do it cheaply. Meanwhile, technological milestones from other companies weaving nano-fiber strands were coming out on a quarterly basis, each time smashing the price per inch. Many of the same applications for spider silk could also be done by nanotubes. Artificial silk-weaving couldn't keep up with the pace.
The first application of spider silk, to put Nexia on the map, was to be biodegradable medical sutures. They pleaded to the FDA they could bypass expensive multi-year human trial testing since spider silk should be deemed a natural product. At first the FDA agreed, so Nexia ramped up in preparation for a rollout. Later the FDA reversed their decision. This completely screwed Nexia since all their capital went into the rollout. They simply couldn't afford the trials.
Before they went under, they sold IP to a Virgina company. However, that company was much more greatly interested in Nexia's anti-chemical warfare shots (for U.S. soldiers serving in the Middle East) than they were in the spider silk.
We would be living in more interesting times if the weaving process had panned out and the suture rollout been a success. They were planning to completely remove goats from the equation. They wanted to develop a GMO crop that had the silk proteins in the plants' leaves. Instead of milking the goats, they would harvest the crop, grind the leaves, and then sift the proteins out.
Koi fish are another counter-argument, even if they never freeze into suspended animation.
First the reddit guy and now this guy. Lesson? Don't Trust Gawker journalists.
If only I had mod points.
How long before we get visitors from the red-dwarf terrestials, flying around and zapping people with their heat vision? Dicks.
I came here to call Baxter a troll, especially considering his "lacking enterprise adoption on large applications" comment, but I've already been beaten to the punch. He is living in the year 2000 if he doesn't understand the impact of JSON, jQuery, and Node.js. Perl never brought to the table anything remotely like these.
Even if something surpasses Javascript, as long as we still use CSS and DOM, jQuery will live on -- just with bindings to this new language. As long as there is demand for a data exchange format that is both human-readable and easy for machines to parse, JSON will not die any more than XML will.
"Your education gives you tools to win. An unwillingness to further self-educate yourself gives you unnecessary roadblocks to fail." I admit the second sentence sounds more natural if it used "failure" instead of "fail". Netflix was just trying to be too cutesy and took poetic license, but I agree, it is still confusing and clunky.
I agree with jittles here. "Every single land surface in the world" combined with "you’ve never experienced a colder-than-average month" challenges you to find a single patch of local Earth within a single month that can refute the claim. Not the yearly average. Not the global average. One land, one month.
90%+ of freshwater consumption in the US is for agriculture. Your washing machine choices will not affect much. You have to combat a growing total population combined with residency shifting to dry areas.
Selected Data Facts from the Pacific Institute analysis of new USGS data:
Andromeda will intersect the Milky Way. So our far removed descendants will see SPECTACULAR night sky way before generations see nothing: http://us.gizmodo.com/5914702/earths-sky-will-look-mindblowingly-crazy-375-billion-years-from-now
Yep, you pay for an XBox Live subscription on a monthly basis and STILL get ads. It stands to reason a one-time license purchase of Windows would also have ads.