The whole ribbon concept still needs to be revisited. It looks like random chaotic shit. Lots of random buttons loosely grouped and unsorted with no easy way to find all potential uses. There is no consistency in size, position or layout. It is a design abortion only brought to term by the level of disfunction at Microsoft.
Redoing the menu bar isn't a horrible idea, but the ribbon was not a good implementation of the idea.
I would be highly curious to see this scalled by years of US residency among latinos. I know a number had not been in the US for their whole schooling carreer and while they were catching up (I know a number took AP spanish for example), there were not many in the AP tracks for most classes. It also assumes that the availability of AP classes is constant across all schools. My high school didn't have AP computer science for example. We had classes for almost every other AP class, but not CS (or BC calc until the year after I graduated).
Part of the issue is that people on the AP track started in 9th grade, as we generally did two years in the subjects. So honors bio -> AP Bio, honors chem -> AP chem, etc.
Has she ever posted about your upcoming vacation? And has she posted pictures of her garden exploits? Between the two of those, I am guessing that miscreants can find you when you least want them to.
Chances are that there are no providers that offer a true 99.999% uptime. If you demand that, you need to be building your code to run in a HA cluster with nationwide dispersion. (For reference, you get 5.25 minutes of downtime across a whole year).
99.999% uptime is also completely unnecessary, but sounds really good to management until you talk cost.
What are some of the examples of the businesses in the town centers? As most of those not already killed by Walmart may be mostly immune. Clothing stores are going to survive until we all join our Robot Overlords and everybody is the same size. Most other places exist because of a social reason.
I must also say that it isn't like Amazon will manage to do this in anything other than huge metropolitan areas, and I think the biggest losers will be the big box stores that killed the interesting shops already.
Sure, it might manage to do what only a union managed: kill a Walmart. This is a good thing.
If I were using the technology for non-personal use? I would probably have to chat with a lawyer, as this is the kind of thing with teeth.
Apple and Samsung do actually make things, and they import, and they sell. Your analogy is quite off-base in asserting that a person would be hit under this for the same reason that the Apple vs. Samsung judgement didn't include 10million John Does who had purchased the device.
It is also significantly more expensive, and (like mainframes) suffers from gray-hair syndrome: there are very few opportunities for someone fresh out of college to have any experience with the platform and a lot of the people who currently support the systems are starting to look at retirement. I wish I had firm numbers, as this anacdotal as it is just personal experience and reports from the mainframe guys I work with, but everywhere I have worked is actively getting rid of Solaris in part because it isn't part of their standard build due to cost.
It isn't the end of the platform, but it will get increasingly expensive and esoteric.
Ironically, the military does spend money on the development of alternative energy, as it reduces their dependence on supply lines or sources that can easily be cut. I don't think the military has a doubt about what would happen if OPEC shut down production in protest over something. While we would eventually take over their countries (to help the rebels fighting against a tryannical rule), it could come at a very painful time.
The only healthcare system that is that affordable is what happens in Africa: you let people die. Oh, you got appendicitus? Do you have ten-thousand dollars on you? Oh, sorry I guess you will have to use our dying room out front by the grate.
Someone has to be able to pick up for when something unexpected occurs. The hospitals can't magically start charging the same for a flu-shot and a 10 hour operation to save a car-accident victim. Almost anyone can afford the latter, while less than ten percent of the population could afford the latter (real costs, you have 3 nurses, 2 doctors, the support staff, the person who cleans the OR, and all the supplies needed). The only way this works out for society is that someone has to calculate the risk, calculate the bet, and be there when something unexpected happens.
I would put a giant bowl of allegedly in front of that %0.1. Given that all the studies I have seen couldn't even agree on duration and intensity, nor are there ANY inspections of the machines.
Find a study of the actual machines in use before quoting those numbers.
The difference in this case is the use of stem cells to replace known bad cells. The Atala group used differentiated cells, which is of more limited use when dealing with potentially cancerous organ tissues.
I will admit that I have not tried it on Linux, but zfs is the best of the next gen filesystems. It does cryptographically assured reads and writes (remember that transitory undetected disk malfunctions occur at a rate of ~1/TB of data), it can snapshot changes, it fricken slices bread. If it had a gender, I would probably marry it (well, I guess I can date it for a while and see how things work out). http://zfs-fuse.net/
That actually flies in the face of two centuries of constitutional law. Just because Bush decided to scribble with crayon on a fine historical document doesn't mean that what was written in ink and blood was changed.
I can see this style of device being accepted if it comes with magazine subscriptions (free reader with your newsweek subscription, reader copies only), but otherwise I would anticipate it flopping. People don't like cash outlay for products to use other products, leading to the razor/razorblade phenomenon.
Well, this at least confirms that Amazon does have absolute power over the Kindle and relegates it to the land of Zune for me. That, and that iRiver's mp3 player has a text reader as well.
Illinois state law requires that disks be overwritten ten times before they may be scrapped (see Here for the law). Last year the Governor entered into a no-bid contract with a firm to scrub drives (also refurbish and sell) used electronics after a report found that almost no drives were being overwritten by many state agencies. See this pdf for more details.
That section of the TOS seems to be about comments (communications), not papers. There still is significant questions as to the validity of that style of copyright assignments. I would also wonder what problems this being a mandated program will be. It will be more interesting as details come out (think if the teacher had submitted without a written assignment of copyright).
Going though their terms of use, it would seem they do not try to claim copyright (which is surprising, as many others try to landgrab user copyright). This really could land them in hot water, as they then don't even have a contract to rest on. Does anyone have their clickthrough for students?
I am curious what the legal ramifications of being used in a public school are, as it would be a legally enforced (you have to go to school) theft of copyright. I am also curious what their storage was like, as if they didn't respect a request not to archive a paper they are in hotter water then if they never asked.
It would be interesting to have tried sending DMCA notices, as this would force them into a even more sticky situation.
The biggest problems with the AT&T types is the entry level service people/webpages. I have had no problems when dealing with the upper tiers of support, but try registering for service on and IE only (because it is EXTREMELY broken) website. Now that I am in they were responsive and not incompetent (to get the outbound port 25 block lifted was a single phone call).
The claims would seem to cover something like a skiplist.
Although in application and detail, I cannot see ever using this, as multiple orderings of a list sound painful and expensive to update and maintain. I suspect this is spaghetti code in the form of a patent, as I can construct the example out of three lists, and the additional headache would only be worth it if the reduction of half the total space used (approximately) would be significant (this is based on the assumption that the list items are pointers to the real objects elsewhere.) It should also be noted that that is just a reduction in the list size which does not include data (which I would expect to be far larger). It also would reduce the constant factors in item deletion (delete and (while increasing them for item creation), both netting zero change. I suppose it would allow for some features such as dynamic ordering changes (changing sequence while reading back the list (abcde read as abcba or something)).
I have to say that I feel a great deal of sympathy for the examiner who was responsible for dealing with this patent, as it was horrible (the horror...)
Also, how would you describe ENOSTR? The IBM argument (which is valid) is that you would most likely describe it exactly that way. Also remember that Linus stated that some of the file was copied, but some was written. Even if the comments match, if the numbers are different then it is highly unlikely that it was a pure copy, as it would be far better not to change the numbers. (For example, if you redifined SIGKILL to 1, think of the annoyance you would cause to someone who accidentally hardcoded the number, or wanted to use kill -9)
As a sidenote: there isn't a whole lot of creativity in the comment, in fact it is probably uncopyrightable. Just the same way that "Jill sits on a chair" would be. There is creativity in code, but comments are not by themselves creative (this is why 2+2=4 cannot be copyrighted).
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The whole ribbon concept still needs to be revisited. It looks like random chaotic shit. Lots of random buttons loosely grouped and unsorted with no easy way to find all potential uses. There is no consistency in size, position or layout. It is a design abortion only brought to term by the level of disfunction at Microsoft.
Redoing the menu bar isn't a horrible idea, but the ribbon was not a good implementation of the idea.
I would be highly curious to see this scalled by years of US residency among latinos. I know a number had not been in the US for their whole schooling carreer and while they were catching up (I know a number took AP spanish for example), there were not many in the AP tracks for most classes. It also assumes that the availability of AP classes is constant across all schools. My high school didn't have AP computer science for example. We had classes for almost every other AP class, but not CS (or BC calc until the year after I graduated).
Part of the issue is that people on the AP track started in 9th grade, as we generally did two years in the subjects. So honors bio -> AP Bio, honors chem -> AP chem, etc.
I have heard of widespread deployment of the base technology in IHC hospitals in Salt Lake City already. The glasses part is just a new adaptation.
Has she ever posted about your upcoming vacation? And has she posted pictures of her garden exploits? Between the two of those, I am guessing that miscreants can find you when you least want them to.
Chances are that there are no providers that offer a true 99.999% uptime. If you demand that, you need to be building your code to run in a HA cluster with nationwide dispersion. (For reference, you get 5.25 minutes of downtime across a whole year).
99.999% uptime is also completely unnecessary, but sounds really good to management until you talk cost.
What are some of the examples of the businesses in the town centers? As most of those not already killed by Walmart may be mostly immune. Clothing stores are going to survive until we all join our Robot Overlords and everybody is the same size. Most other places exist because of a social reason.
I must also say that it isn't like Amazon will manage to do this in anything other than huge metropolitan areas, and I think the biggest losers will be the big box stores that killed the interesting shops already.
Sure, it might manage to do what only a union managed: kill a Walmart. This is a good thing.
Have you never noticed that the top CEOs are not "good" people? Those who take the most do the best.
If I were using the technology for non-personal use? I would probably have to chat with a lawyer, as this is the kind of thing with teeth.
Apple and Samsung do actually make things, and they import, and they sell. Your analogy is quite off-base in asserting that a person would be hit under this for the same reason that the Apple vs. Samsung judgement didn't include 10million John Does who had purchased the device.
It is also significantly more expensive, and (like mainframes) suffers from gray-hair syndrome: there are very few opportunities for someone fresh out of college to have any experience with the platform and a lot of the people who currently support the systems are starting to look at retirement. I wish I had firm numbers, as this anacdotal as it is just personal experience and reports from the mainframe guys I work with, but everywhere I have worked is actively getting rid of Solaris in part because it isn't part of their standard build due to cost.
It isn't the end of the platform, but it will get increasingly expensive and esoteric.
Ironically, the military does spend money on the development of alternative energy, as it reduces their dependence on supply lines or sources that can easily be cut. I don't think the military has a doubt about what would happen if OPEC shut down production in protest over something. While we would eventually take over their countries (to help the rebels fighting against a tryannical rule), it could come at a very painful time.
Technically a international airport is considered part of the border. So yes, almost all out the continental US is a "Border".
I dare you to find a sewing machine without nuts somewhere, sir. Otherwise they end up being a screwed up mess.
The only healthcare system that is that affordable is what happens in Africa: you let people die. Oh, you got appendicitus? Do you have ten-thousand dollars on you? Oh, sorry I guess you will have to use our dying room out front by the grate.
Someone has to be able to pick up for when something unexpected occurs. The hospitals can't magically start charging the same for a flu-shot and a 10 hour operation to save a car-accident victim. Almost anyone can afford the latter, while less than ten percent of the population could afford the latter (real costs, you have 3 nurses, 2 doctors, the support staff, the person who cleans the OR, and all the supplies needed). The only way this works out for society is that someone has to calculate the risk, calculate the bet, and be there when something unexpected happens.
I would put a giant bowl of allegedly in front of that %0.1. Given that all the studies I have seen couldn't even agree on duration and intensity, nor are there ANY inspections of the machines.
Find a study of the actual machines in use before quoting those numbers.
The difference in this case is the use of stem cells to replace known bad cells. The Atala group used differentiated cells, which is of more limited use when dealing with potentially cancerous organ tissues.
I will admit that I have not tried it on Linux, but zfs is the best of the next gen filesystems. It does cryptographically assured reads and writes (remember that transitory undetected disk malfunctions occur at a rate of ~1/TB of data), it can snapshot changes, it fricken slices bread. If it had a gender, I would probably marry it (well, I guess I can date it for a while and see how things work out). http://zfs-fuse.net/
That actually flies in the face of two centuries of constitutional law. Just because Bush decided to scribble with crayon on a fine historical document doesn't mean that what was written in ink and blood was changed.
I can see this style of device being accepted if it comes with magazine subscriptions (free reader with your newsweek subscription, reader copies only), but otherwise I would anticipate it flopping. People don't like cash outlay for products to use other products, leading to the razor/razorblade phenomenon.
Well, this at least confirms that Amazon does have absolute power over the Kindle and relegates it to the land of Zune for me. That, and that iRiver's mp3 player has a text reader as well.
Illinois state law requires that disks be overwritten ten times before they may be scrapped (see Here for the law). Last year the Governor entered into a no-bid contract with a firm to scrub drives (also refurbish and sell) used electronics after a report found that almost no drives were being overwritten by many state agencies. See this pdf for more details.
That section of the TOS seems to be about comments (communications), not papers. There still is significant questions as to the validity of that style of copyright assignments. I would also wonder what problems this being a mandated program will be. It will be more interesting as details come out (think if the teacher had submitted without a written assignment of copyright).
Going though their terms of use, it would seem they do not try to claim copyright (which is surprising, as many others try to landgrab user copyright). This really could land them in hot water, as they then don't even have a contract to rest on. Does anyone have their clickthrough for students? I am curious what the legal ramifications of being used in a public school are, as it would be a legally enforced (you have to go to school) theft of copyright. I am also curious what their storage was like, as if they didn't respect a request not to archive a paper they are in hotter water then if they never asked. It would be interesting to have tried sending DMCA notices, as this would force them into a even more sticky situation.
The biggest problems with the AT&T types is the entry level service people/webpages. I have had no problems when dealing with the upper tiers of support, but try registering for service on and IE only (because it is EXTREMELY broken) website. Now that I am in they were responsive and not incompetent (to get the outbound port 25 block lifted was a single phone call).
The claims would seem to cover something like a skiplist.
Although in application and detail, I cannot see ever using this, as multiple orderings of a list sound painful and expensive to update and maintain. I suspect this is spaghetti code in the form of a patent, as I can construct the example out of three lists, and the additional headache would only be worth it if the reduction of half the total space used (approximately) would be significant (this is based on the assumption that the list items are pointers to the real objects elsewhere.) It should also be noted that that is just a reduction in the list size which does not include data (which I would expect to be far larger). It also would reduce the constant factors in item deletion (delete and (while increasing them for item creation), both netting zero change. I suppose it would allow for some features such as dynamic ordering changes (changing sequence while reading back the list (abcde read as abcba or something)).
I have to say that I feel a great deal of sympathy for the examiner who was responsible for dealing with this patent, as it was horrible (the horror...)
Not exactly, an example from errno.h:
/* Device not a stream */
#define ENOSTR 60
Also, how would you describe ENOSTR? The IBM argument (which is valid) is that you would most likely describe it exactly that way. Also remember that Linus stated that some of the file was copied, but some was written. Even if the comments match, if the numbers are different then it is highly unlikely that it was a pure copy, as it would be far better not to change the numbers. (For example, if you redifined SIGKILL to 1, think of the annoyance you would cause to someone who accidentally hardcoded the number, or wanted to use kill -9)
As a sidenote: there isn't a whole lot of creativity in the comment, in fact it is probably uncopyrightable. Just the same way that "Jill sits on a chair" would be. There is creativity in code, but comments are not by themselves creative (this is why 2+2=4 cannot be copyrighted).