Blizzard's not exactly built themselves the best track record when it comes to arranging their own tournament, the Starcraft II WCS. For example, one year, Blizzard arrogantly decided to have ALL the regional finals during the same weekend, which also happened to be the week that the biggest DotA 2 event in the world took place, The International. I'll let Totalbiscuits, a well-known person from the Starcraft II scene, including as a team owner affected by Blizzard's decision, words illustrate how happy many in the scene were with Blizzard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Add to that that QWERTY is remarkably efficient in several languages, while Dvorak is uncomfortable for languages other than english, For example, there are, as far as I know, at least three modifications of Dvorak to adapt it for swedish, and I find all of them to be uncomfortable to use, since I type in at least 4 languages, and don't want to switch between multiple layouts, sometimes on a daily basis.
There is potentially another way to kill either a CPU or mobo components too, if you do it right, and the OS doesn't watch hard for it, and it doesn't require changes to BIOS/UEFI. If you can trigger the right execution pattern to rapidly cycle between no load, full load on all cores, full load on 1 core and triggering turbo clocking if that's available, you can cause voltage regulators etc to overheat
10% of their global annual revenue isn't just a slap on the wrist. For the fiscal year 2014 it'd be almost $2.7Bn, which would have the net effect of cutting almost a third of their profit, AND have the knock-on effect of their stock taking a dive too.
It depends entirely on the contract. Unless the contract has specific provisions for transfer of copyright, as a freelancer you generally retain copyright of your work and the client receives a license to use and/or distribute, sometimes an exclusive license. So no, it does not have to be illegal.
Actual employment changes things, however, because then you are working as part of the legal entity that hired you, and the work you do is considered the property of the legal entity.
Unless a contract has very specific provisions for transfer of copyright, a freelancer/contractor retains the copyright of the source code. In many cases, what the clients receive as part of the contract is a license for use or distribution, sometimes an exclusive license.
With the current V6 hybrids, the big irony is that one of the reasons Mercedes is so dominant is that they transferred technology the other way: They leveraged their sportscar people, bringing their expertise over to the F1 engine. Ferrari made a bad call in the first iteration, but they've mostly fixed that, now they just need to work on their chassis. Renault ignored the little hybrid experience they had on the road car side and built a new team from scratch. That, and the design demands from Red Bull as their works team, led to a completely screwed design. For 2015, Honda were screwed over by McLaren demanding the same thing that crippled the first iteration of the Ferrari PU, namely a size 0 design, which together with Honda's japanese corporate culture and Ron Dennis's egomanical personality leads to certain... complications...
Page 64 1.9 During the race, on pain of exclusion of the car, it is prohibited to change: - The engine or any of its components, i.e the cylinder head(s), the cylinder head gasket(s), the oil pan and engine block, components that are fixed to one another by means of seals, - The main gearbox and differential housings, - The chassis or the monocoque structure
"An engine needs very advanced designs and lubricants to sustain that for 3-4 hours."
Awwww, how cute... Now go watch the 24 hour races like for example Le Mans 24 hours. No engine repairs or engine swaps allowed during the race, yet the top class averages over 300km/h over the 24h race, including pit stops, yellow flags/code 60's, safety cars(on a 13km+ track no less!), on a track that has much greater wear and tear on engine, gearbox, brakes etc, since it's not an oval.
OR, they could just do like Swedish ISP's, and build out infrastructure properly? Hell, most Swedish ISP's explicitly market standard grade connections as remote work, and the business class for if you need SLA and if you intend to run customer-facing commercial/for-profit servers. When I read through the contract details on my standard connection, it explicitly allows non-commercial/non-profit server hosting with the caveat that mail servers have to relay through their mail server to cut down on spam.
What I'm talking about is the fact that due to the focus on security, other things have been set aside, such that working with the things I mentioned in an interactive fashion is a sluggish and annoying proposition, especially as your scenes grow more and more complex. So what if the program compiles under OpenBSD? If it doesn't work in a satisfactory manner, then there is a problem. On my i5 2500 with 8GiB RAM, Blender running on top of OpenBSD feels as sluggish and clumsy as Blender under Linux back on my single-core Athlon 64 with 2GiB RAM
On the other hand, OpenBSD is perfect proof that Linus is right: The trade-off is that for the increased security, you suffer in terms of the computer being useful for other things. It's useless for anyone wanting to do 3D modelling and animation for example, or working with video editing.
Unfortunately, this interactive map is only available in Swedish, but with a bit of looking up words etc via Google or another search engine, you can browse your way around it, it's a better way to educate yourself than the attempt you've made so far. You can filter by counties, municipalities or even the smallest analytical unit we use, the 250m by 250m square, you can filter by connection type, bandwidth etc
Also, make a note of the fact that Sweden is slightly larger than California, i.e, Sweden would be the third largest state in the US geographically yet would rank in the bottom third in terms of population density. In light of that, the population in Sweden is still far more evenly distributed geographically than in many states in the US.
One massive problem with the SamKnows study linked is the fact that the sample sizes are ridiculously small(less than 200 testers, broken down as 136 Fibre, 23 cable and 34 xDSL in Sweden, for example, which is nowhere near representative of actual distribution etc.). There's also no differentiation between various fibre methods. For example, in Sweden, the most common variant is FTTP+ethernet, while in the UK, FTTC+VDSL is very common, yet in this test they are lumped together, which helps skew the numbers for fibre overall.
No, the 3G and 4G providers are forced to compete with the cable/fibre/DSL providers in many of the remote areas too. Thanks to a favourable loan plan, even many of the most remote villages have fibre access for example. One example I've brought up before is Karesuando in the far north of Sweden: roughly 300 live there, but thanks to the municipal network investment, they have access to 100/100
The ones ONI used consistently wore out at around 10k rounds. One of the suspicions that's never been fully evaluated is that it's the training regime they had contributed to it, training in everything from -45 to +35 celsius, in everything from dry to wet(including out in the archipelagos with brackish water etc) and that the materials used simply weren't up to that duty cycle.
Eh? Good FMJ 9x19 can go through IIIA. One example of that is the old swedish m39/b, of which the US Army bought everything they could a few years ago.
Eh,.45 ACP packs less oomph than 9x19 does in a military setting. Decent 9x19 can at least penetrate class IIIa(basically, the heaviest body armour that doesn't use a steel or ceramic plate), which stops.45 ACP) or a classic steel helmet, and even some modern ballistic protection helmets.
The swedish police national antiterrorism/response team replaced their SIGs with Glocks, their SIGs all wore out too quickly, after merely 10k rounds, while the military Glocks just kept going and going far beyond that
A major reason for why 9x19 Parabellum continues to be used from a military perspective is that many opponents will be wearing light body armour and/or helmets, and 9x19 Parabellum, and 9x19 has far superior penetration than.45 ACP. The US Army bought up as much of old Swedish m39/b ammo that they could for SMG's and handguns for that purpose. Cut-through view of the m39/b bullet: http://www.amkat.se/Images/9x1...
As the joke among military paramedics go: If your patient was hit outside the plate with 9x19, you prepare him for surgery, if the patient was hit outside the plate with.45 ACP, you treat the 2nd degree burns, at worst.
For those who have not been hit/haven't treated those who've been hit: A little known side effect of body armour stopping a bullet is the fact that the kinetic energy is converted to plenty of heat, enough to give even second degree burns through the vest and the clothing underneath if the patient is unlucky.
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Blizzard's not exactly built themselves the best track record when it comes to arranging their own tournament, the Starcraft II WCS. For example, one year, Blizzard arrogantly decided to have ALL the regional finals during the same weekend, which also happened to be the week that the biggest DotA 2 event in the world took place, The International. I'll let Totalbiscuits, a well-known person from the Starcraft II scene, including as a team owner affected by Blizzard's decision, words illustrate how happy many in the scene were with Blizzard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Stealth isn't only about sound, it's also about visual signature, heat output etc.
Add to that that QWERTY is remarkably efficient in several languages, while Dvorak is uncomfortable for languages other than english, For example, there are, as far as I know, at least three modifications of Dvorak to adapt it for swedish, and I find all of them to be uncomfortable to use, since I type in at least 4 languages, and don't want to switch between multiple layouts, sometimes on a daily basis.
There is potentially another way to kill either a CPU or mobo components too, if you do it right, and the OS doesn't watch hard for it, and it doesn't require changes to BIOS/UEFI. If you can trigger the right execution pattern to rapidly cycle between no load, full load on all cores, full load on 1 core and triggering turbo clocking if that's available, you can cause voltage regulators etc to overheat
10% of their global annual revenue isn't just a slap on the wrist. For the fiscal year 2014 it'd be almost $2.7Bn, which would have the net effect of cutting almost a third of their profit, AND have the knock-on effect of their stock taking a dive too.
It depends entirely on the contract. Unless the contract has specific provisions for transfer of copyright, as a freelancer you generally retain copyright of your work and the client receives a license to use and/or distribute, sometimes an exclusive license. So no, it does not have to be illegal.
Actual employment changes things, however, because then you are working as part of the legal entity that hired you, and the work you do is considered the property of the legal entity.
Unless a contract has very specific provisions for transfer of copyright, a freelancer/contractor retains the copyright of the source code. In many cases, what the clients receive as part of the contract is a license for use or distribution, sometimes an exclusive license.
With the current V6 hybrids, the big irony is that one of the reasons Mercedes is so dominant is that they transferred technology the other way: They leveraged their sportscar people, bringing their expertise over to the F1 engine. Ferrari made a bad call in the first iteration, but they've mostly fixed that, now they just need to work on their chassis. Renault ignored the little hybrid experience they had on the road car side and built a new team from scratch. That, and the design demands from Red Bull as their works team, led to a completely screwed design. For 2015, Honda were screwed over by McLaren demanding the same thing that crippled the first iteration of the Ferrari PU, namely a size 0 design, which together with Honda's japanese corporate culture and Ron Dennis's egomanical personality leads to certain... complications...
From the sporting regs:
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1.9 During the race, on pain of exclusion of the car, it is prohibited to change:
- The engine or any of its components, i.e the cylinder head(s), the cylinder head gasket(s), the oil pan and engine block, components that are fixed to one another by means of seals,
- The main gearbox and differential housings,
- The chassis or the monocoque structure
"An engine needs very advanced designs and lubricants to sustain that for 3-4 hours."
Awwww, how cute... Now go watch the 24 hour races like for example Le Mans 24 hours. No engine repairs or engine swaps allowed during the race, yet the top class averages over 300km/h over the 24h race, including pit stops, yellow flags/code 60's, safety cars(on a 13km+ track no less!), on a track that has much greater wear and tear on engine, gearbox, brakes etc, since it's not an oval.
And even AMD were well over a decade late to the party, compared to the Silicon Graphics O2, which used UMA.
OR, they could just do like Swedish ISP's, and build out infrastructure properly? Hell, most Swedish ISP's explicitly market standard grade connections as remote work, and the business class for if you need SLA and if you intend to run customer-facing commercial/for-profit servers. When I read through the contract details on my standard connection, it explicitly allows non-commercial/non-profit server hosting with the caveat that mail servers have to relay through their mail server to cut down on spam.
What I'm talking about is the fact that due to the focus on security, other things have been set aside, such that working with the things I mentioned in an interactive fashion is a sluggish and annoying proposition, especially as your scenes grow more and more complex. So what if the program compiles under OpenBSD? If it doesn't work in a satisfactory manner, then there is a problem. On my i5 2500 with 8GiB RAM, Blender running on top of OpenBSD feels as sluggish and clumsy as Blender under Linux back on my single-core Athlon 64 with 2GiB RAM
On the other hand, OpenBSD is perfect proof that Linus is right: The trade-off is that for the increased security, you suffer in terms of the computer being useful for other things. It's useless for anyone wanting to do 3D modelling and animation for example, or working with video editing.
You use some of the dev tools available for that
Ok, for some reason the link was eaten...
Attempt number 2: http://bredbandskartan.pts.se/...
Unfortunately, this interactive map is only available in Swedish, but with a bit of looking up words etc via Google or another search engine, you can browse your way around it, it's a better way to educate yourself than the attempt you've made so far. You can filter by counties, municipalities or even the smallest analytical unit we use, the 250m by 250m square, you can filter by connection type, bandwidth etc
Also, make a note of the fact that Sweden is slightly larger than California, i.e, Sweden would be the third largest state in the US geographically yet would rank in the bottom third in terms of population density. In light of that, the population in Sweden is still far more evenly distributed geographically than in many states in the US.
One massive problem with the SamKnows study linked is the fact that the sample sizes are ridiculously small(less than 200 testers, broken down as 136 Fibre, 23 cable and 34 xDSL in Sweden, for example, which is nowhere near representative of actual distribution etc.). There's also no differentiation between various fibre methods. For example, in Sweden, the most common variant is FTTP+ethernet, while in the UK, FTTC+VDSL is very common, yet in this test they are lumped together, which helps skew the numbers for fibre overall.
No, the 3G and 4G providers are forced to compete with the cable/fibre/DSL providers in many of the remote areas too. Thanks to a favourable loan plan, even many of the most remote villages have fibre access for example. One example I've brought up before is Karesuando in the far north of Sweden: roughly 300 live there, but thanks to the municipal network investment, they have access to 100/100
The ones ONI used consistently wore out at around 10k rounds. One of the suspicions that's never been fully evaluated is that it's the training regime they had contributed to it, training in everything from -45 to +35 celsius, in everything from dry to wet(including out in the archipelagos with brackish water etc) and that the materials used simply weren't up to that duty cycle.
Eh? Good FMJ 9x19 can go through IIIA. One example of that is the old swedish m39/b, of which the US Army bought everything they could a few years ago.
The US Army figures that there was enough necessity for it to buy up all the old swedish m39/b ammunition they could find.
Eh, .45 ACP packs less oomph than 9x19 does in a military setting. Decent 9x19 can at least penetrate class IIIa(basically, the heaviest body armour that doesn't use a steel or ceramic plate), which stops .45 ACP) or a classic steel helmet, and even some modern ballistic protection helmets.
The swedish police national antiterrorism/response team replaced their SIGs with Glocks, their SIGs all wore out too quickly, after merely 10k rounds, while the military Glocks just kept going and going far beyond that
A major reason for why 9x19 Parabellum continues to be used from a military perspective is that many opponents will be wearing light body armour and/or helmets, and 9x19 Parabellum, and 9x19 has far superior penetration than .45 ACP. The US Army bought up as much of old Swedish m39/b ammo that they could for SMG's and handguns for that purpose. Cut-through view of the m39/b bullet: http://www.amkat.se/Images/9x1...
As the joke among military paramedics go: If your patient was hit outside the plate with 9x19, you prepare him for surgery, if the patient was hit outside the plate with .45 ACP, you treat the 2nd degree burns, at worst.
For those who have not been hit/haven't treated those who've been hit: A little known side effect of body armour stopping a bullet is the fact that the kinetic energy is converted to plenty of heat, enough to give even second degree burns through the vest and the clothing underneath if the patient is unlucky.