Actually, I stole it from a (non-attributed) signature here on/. but I'm glad to hear where it is from. How do you suggest I attribute it? Just a "- MIT Dormline telephone system" below it?
I am aware that the distance to the nearest central might affect the speed that the ADSL modem gets to connect at, and that is fair, I guess. Throttling my connection willfully, though, is a poor excuse for not having an infrastructure to match what they claim to offer.
And no, I have actually never been to the US at all, but what are you trying to tell me?
Isn't that extra payment what is done through paying extra for faster connections? If I pay, as I do, for a 20/2 connection, shouldn't I be able to get exactly 20/2 traffic, provided that the other end is up to the task?
Granted, if there is genetic predisposition for violence, then rehabilitation will be harder, but since you just up and call it impossible without citation, I'm just going to call it possible without citations too. There is, after all, something called the evolving mind...
If it's a matter of pathological psychology, however, an open-ended sentence to a psychiatric ward is in order instead, but definitely not run-off-the-mill prison!
Incidentally, that is my point exactly! Distributing the data across multiple providers would be a no-no to the providers involved, but if they realised that no one provider can prevent catastrophic failures might persuade them to at least think about it...
To my mind, this failure just goes to show that what people call clouds are merely the mainframes of yesterdecades... For the cloud to become "THE" cloud, the providers need to cooperate to replicate data across their different implementations, such that when one provider suffers an unforeseen crash of unforeseen magnitudes, the data is til there in the "real" (in this definition) cloud.
Sure, it would take no small amount of convincing to get the management drones to accept this, but I should think that a cost/benefit analysis that includes catastrophic failure would be somewhat persuasive...
Sounds like it, but just to set the record straight: the fermented sugars come from plants who made them in part from atmospheric CO_2, and hence, the production of ethanol from sugars is CO_2 neutral, at least regarding the fermentation process.
The trouble with increased CO_2 levels comes from burning "fossilized fuels", being the product of photosynthesis ages ago, thus removing it then, and reintroducing it now in vast amounts...
Sounds like what Aarhus University's Innovation Lab has had working for years (without calling it their own idea) - a 2D bar code reader for mobile phones, which they, btw., showed to the public at our annual city festival a few years back, where you could scan such codes and get information on parts of a tour that were made out of those...
The ones I saw here were visually similar to QR Code, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode#2D_barcodes lists a _lot_ of different 2D codes, and even says that QR Code is the standard for Japanese cell phones.
I do hope they try to patent it somewhere outside of the US;-)
I'm not sure about English, except I seem to remember that the often-used "virii" is wrong, but the Danish plural is generally accepted to be "vira", whereas the proper Latin plural would be "vire" (citation needed)...
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Interesting point, but why would an employee willfully subject herself to the possibility of being laid off because the boss has a bad day?
Actually, I stole it from a (non-attributed) signature here on /. but I'm glad to hear where it is from. How do you suggest I attribute it? Just a "- MIT Dormline telephone system" below it?
Agreed! I was mainly replying to his suggestion that people who use what they pay for should pay extra for that :-)
Fortunately, there *are* countries where an employer doesn't have such power :-)
Yes, and it didn't really make sense...
How have I been trolled? If you are suggesting that he was joking, I honestly can't see the point...
My point exactly :-)
I am aware that the distance to the nearest central might affect the speed that the ADSL modem gets to connect at, and that is fair, I guess. Throttling my connection willfully, though, is a poor excuse for not having an infrastructure to match what they claim to offer.
And no, I have actually never been to the US at all, but what are you trying to tell me?
Isn't that extra payment what is done through paying extra for faster connections? If I pay, as I do, for a 20/2 connection, shouldn't I be able to get exactly 20/2 traffic, provided that the other end is up to the task?
And of course, that's why "Computer Science" != "Software Engineering". What was your benchmark again?
And just because the word "engineer" is the key term to you, how would you happen to argue for extrapolating that to us "folks"?
Granted, if there is genetic predisposition for violence, then rehabilitation will be harder, but since you just up and call it impossible without citation, I'm just going to call it possible without citations too. There is, after all, something called the evolving mind...
If it's a matter of pathological psychology, however, an open-ended sentence to a psychiatric ward is in order instead, but definitely not run-off-the-mill prison!
Wow, I sure hope you lose your temper and punch someone in the face someday :-S
Not going to say much more, since people below seem to have pointed out a lot of good sentiments...
Because long prison terms create nicely-behaved perfect citizens after time served? Got any research material to that effect lying around?
Of course they have - including a peripherical friend of mine...
His profile is gone now, and the question then remains - are they just closing the last way to get your profile officially deleted?
Erm, would that be a reference to the differently spelled object "cannon"?
Remember kids, sometimes spelling Nazis *do* have a point...
Incidentally, that is my point exactly! Distributing the data across multiple providers would be a no-no to the providers involved, but if they realised that no one provider can prevent catastrophic failures might persuade them to at least think about it...
To my mind, this failure just goes to show that what people call clouds are merely the mainframes of yesterdecades... For the cloud to become "THE" cloud, the providers need to cooperate to replicate data across their different implementations, such that when one provider suffers an unforeseen crash of unforeseen magnitudes, the data is til there in the "real" (in this definition) cloud.
Sure, it would take no small amount of convincing to get the management drones to accept this, but I should think that a cost/benefit analysis that includes catastrophic failure would be somewhat persuasive...
The two comments immediately preceding this should be modded "6 - as hilarious as the article, but intentionally" :-D
Hey, if we abolish corporate personhood, they really couldn't hold patents in the first place, could they? ;-)
...which is often used in many countries, except for the US, where, I guess, the iPhones were designed?
Remember Jon Lech Johansen's arrest, or the 2006 razzia against TPB?
No, they don't (yet) have any jurisdiction, but they don't seem to know or care, and nobody seems to stop them either...
If I'm carrying a patented gene, should I pay royalties, or should I get the patent invalidated on grounds of prior art?
Sounds like it, but just to set the record straight: the fermented sugars come from plants who made them in part from atmospheric CO_2, and hence, the production of ethanol from sugars is CO_2 neutral, at least regarding the fermentation process.
The trouble with increased CO_2 levels comes from burning "fossilized fuels", being the product of photosynthesis ages ago, thus removing it then, and reintroducing it now in vast amounts...
Sounds like what Aarhus University's Innovation Lab has had working for years (without calling it their own idea) - a 2D bar code reader for mobile phones, which they, btw., showed to the public at our annual city festival a few years back, where you could scan such codes and get information on parts of a tour that were made out of those...
The ones I saw here were visually similar to QR Code, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode#2D_barcodes lists a _lot_ of different 2D codes, and even says that QR Code is the standard for Japanese cell phones.
I do hope they try to patent it somewhere outside of the US ;-)
I'm not sure about English, except I seem to remember that the often-used "virii" is wrong, but the Danish plural is generally accepted to be "vira", whereas the proper Latin plural would be "vire" (citation needed)...
A look that would be obscured by the goggles, right?