And not to mention having a real bit of paper can be handy when your PC decided to stop being a useful pile of electronics and become a device for providing frustrating hex dumps on a blue screen;)
Seriously though I prefer real notes as I don't need to login to my desktop and wait for all the networking stuff just to read a note saying "X tried to call... can you call back?"
We'll be reasonable when companies carrying out these kind of performance sutdies compare apples with apples (and ideally with no hint of GM involved):
1. Use identical hardware... 2. Use the default un-optimized settings... 3. Hand tune using experts on the software under test... 4. Rerun the identical tests... 5. Ensure that clients used to test server software are identically configured.
Hm, I'm using the ODBC driver at work to interact with MySQL (Actually to a bugzilla database) for reporting and some custom metrics we need with no problems. Same for the Access tables we use when we need to send copies of our Bugzilla data to our subcontractors.
Then again I'm not really taxing the interactions and so may have missed some the bugs:)
Access == Desktop solution MySQL != Desktop solution
MySQL is designed to act as a database server and reside away from the client(s) accessing data contained in MySQL. Access is really designed for desktop database solutions and not enterprise grade databases.
Apart from that MySQL + ODBC Drivers gives you the ability if you feal the need to use access/vba etc as a front end into a MySQL database. (Though given you've got API's for MySQL available for C,C++,Perl,PHP, Python et al why anyone would choose Access is beyond me;) )
As functional as Access? ? ? ? ?
Try querying a very large number of records via access - then do the same using MySQL and note the performance difference. Try dealing with large number of relational links in Access and your db will grind...
Not only medicine... imagine trying to pay for a meal after a few tall one's.... sorry waiter I can't pay for this meal as my card won't recongize my drunken slurring
(Or will we need two cards, one for sober one for being rat arsed?)
Trouble is you would need to run a program to clear all the temp files then shred them, then do the same to the swap space - which is the tricky bit...:(
What about the local cache(swap space)/temporary files/browser history etc...
My PC at work while everything is stored on the server has more than a few tmp files (I know, one day I will get around to removing them) from bombed out windows sessions etc...
Most military systems have keyboards that can be decontaminated (ie rubber keys and environmentally sealed) - okay they're not the greatest to type on for hours at a time but they do the job...
Why not use those style keyboards so they can be cleaned easily?
If the sail was mounted in a circular frame which was attached to the ship (rather like a shuttle cock with the sail in the open end) then you could rear-mount it...
You're in front of it - you'd be pushed along so it would make sense to put the sail at the back. I'd be more worried though about the effects if the craft turned unexpectedly and dropped your capsule into the microwave beam.
Put two pics up, one a grid (not necessarily uniform sized) with say 9 squares. Randomly number with an ascii art number in each square.
Put another pic up with the same grid with a distored word in each square...
Ask user to pick word from square X.
The bot would have to know which square is which so would have to decode the ascii art to get the cell reference then would have to workout where the grids where in the pic (not too had but another stage in the process) then decode the word correctly...
HP is very reliable... look at their reputation for scientific instruments etc.
As for how HP is LIABLE:> that's another matter. I would guess (INAL) that the arguement goes HP used Intel Pentiums. Intel Pentiums violated the patent. HP should have checked before using the Pentiums if any such violations etc existed - any if they did and intel said no then liability would pass to intel - if they didn't then they're liable for not carrying out due diligence.
Why sue now? As Amazon have being offering recommendations for a long time now....
Maybe one way to stop spurious claims is to rule that in order to claim for infringment you must file your claim within 6 months of becomming aware of a potential infringement or lose all ability to claim damages from the infringing company/organisation/individual....
You can't - I own a patent for a method of extracting oxygen from the air and the circulation of the oxygen via a liquid to all components in a system requiring the oxygen and removal of waste carbon dioxide by the same fluid.
Please pay all your money to me and my evil minions immediately.(Oh and point me in the direction of a spell checker)
Think alot of the more senior military types have forgetten with all their joy over their new toys that there is only thing that can take and hold teritory - and that is the PBI.
Sure the airforce, artilery and technology all have their place in helping take and hold ground but without training in dealing with whatever will be encountered - from conventional warface to counter-terrorism, pacification (ideally by getting locals on your side rather than alienating them) - technology is worth bugger all.
Wonder what the DoD think of this proposal as HF is still widely used by the military / emegerncy services in the US for both long distance and bouncing signals over mountains etc...
Has it occured you to setup it up on another pc with no real valuable data, pass through a hub on the way out of your network and install a sniffer such as Ethereal on the hub and monitor what's going out?
Either that or stick something like zonealarm on your pc set to maximum security and wait for it to generate an outgoing connection request etc...
Google I'll hope learned from the privacy concerns over GMail and would surely realise anyone with an ounce of sense would soon catch it in the act of revealing your secrets (and lets face most of the returns will end up being porn:>)... the risk of the adverse publicity would not be worth the gains.
If they've been in production since 2000 then allowing for an R&D cycle and production rampup then they were probably working on this for a year or so before so the prior art rules might well apply.
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Being pessemistic I don't think we can say Firefox has been until today 100% free of exploits - just none have been discovered or published.
And not to mention having a real bit of paper can be handy when your PC decided to stop being a useful pile of electronics and become a device for providing frustrating hex dumps on a blue screen ;)
Seriously though I prefer real notes as I don't need to login to my desktop and wait for all the networking stuff just to read a note saying "X tried to call... can you call back?"
We'll be reasonable when companies carrying out these kind of performance sutdies compare apples with apples (and ideally with no hint of GM involved):
1. Use identical hardware...
2. Use the default un-optimized settings...
3. Hand tune using experts on the software under test...
4. Rerun the identical tests...
5. Ensure that clients used to test server software are identically configured.
That would be being reasonable...
As SCO don't have access to the server then I'd say its aimed at Wells and the SCO Lawyers....
Hm, I'm using the ODBC driver at work to interact with MySQL (Actually to a bugzilla database) for reporting and some custom metrics we need with no problems. Same for the Access tables we use when we need to send copies of our Bugzilla data to our subcontractors.
:)
Then again I'm not really taxing the interactions and so may have missed some the bugs
Excuse me for saying this but cobblers.
;) )
Access == Desktop solution
MySQL != Desktop solution
MySQL is designed to act as a database server and reside away from the client(s) accessing data contained in MySQL. Access is really designed for desktop database solutions and not enterprise grade databases.
Apart from that MySQL + ODBC Drivers gives you the ability if you feal the need to use access/vba etc as a front end into a MySQL database.
(Though given you've got API's for MySQL available for C,C++,Perl,PHP, Python et al why anyone would choose Access is beyond me
As functional as Access? ? ? ? ?
Try querying a very large number of records via access - then do the same using MySQL and note the performance difference. Try dealing with large number of relational links in Access and your db will grind...
Not only medicine... imagine trying to pay for a meal after a few tall one's.... sorry waiter I can't pay for this meal as my card won't recongize my drunken slurring
(Or will we need two cards, one for sober one for being rat arsed?)
Trouble is you would need to run a program to clear all the temp files then shred them, then do the same to the swap space - which is the tricky bit... :(
Hm, not a stupid question.
What about the local cache(swap space)/temporary files/browser history etc...
My PC at work while everything is stored on the server has more than a few tmp files (I know, one day I will get around to removing them) from bombed out windows sessions etc...
Most military systems have keyboards that can be decontaminated (ie rubber keys and environmentally sealed) - okay they're not the greatest to type on for hours at a time but they do the job...
Why not use those style keyboards so they can be cleaned easily?
If the sail was mounted in a circular frame which was attached to the ship (rather like a shuttle cock with the sail in the open end) then you could rear-mount it...
You're in front of it - you'd be pushed along so it would make sense to put the sail at the back. I'd be more worried though about the effects if the craft turned unexpectedly and dropped your capsule into the microwave beam.
Put two pics up, one a grid (not necessarily uniform sized) with say 9 squares. Randomly number with an ascii art number in each square.
Put another pic up with the same grid with a distored word in each square...
Ask user to pick word from square X.
The bot would have to know which square is which so would have to decode the ascii art to get the cell reference then would have to workout where the grids where in the pic (not too had but another stage in the process) then decode the word correctly...
Hm, the whole point of my OP was that if you check and find issues then you are suposed to sort things out *BEFORE* buying/shipping the product(s)...
I agree though patents are bad...
HP is very reliable... look at their reputation for scientific instruments etc.
:> that's another matter. I would guess (INAL) that the arguement goes HP used Intel Pentiums. Intel Pentiums violated the patent. HP should have checked before using the Pentiums if any such violations etc existed - any if they did and intel said no then liability would pass to intel - if they didn't then they're liable for not carrying out due diligence.
As for how HP is LIABLE
One standard which might gain acceptance is the Biometric XML standard.
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(PCMag news article http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0%2C1759%2C31950%2C
Or better, the inverse - shock headline "99.6% chance of meterior missing earth"
Watch that sell newspapers. Not.
Why sue now? As Amazon have being offering recommendations for a long time now....
Maybe one way to stop spurious claims is to rule that in order to claim for infringment you must file your claim within 6 months of becomming aware of a potential infringement or lose all ability to claim damages from the infringing company/organisation/individual....
You can't - I own a patent for a method of extracting oxygen from the air and the circulation of the oxygen via a liquid to all components in a system requiring the oxygen and removal of waste carbon dioxide by the same fluid.
Please pay all your money to me and my evil minions immediately.(Oh and point me in the direction of a spell checker)
Nope, Poor Bloody Infantry - PBI has been a recognized term for infantry since atleast WWII and probably much much longer.
Think alot of the more senior military types have forgetten with all their joy over their new toys that there is only thing that can take and hold teritory - and that is the PBI.
Sure the airforce, artilery and technology all have their place in helping take and hold ground but without training in dealing with whatever will be encountered - from conventional warface to counter-terrorism, pacification (ideally by getting locals on your side rather than alienating them) - technology is worth bugger all.
Wonder what the DoD think of this proposal as HF is still widely used by the military / emegerncy services in the US for both long distance and bouncing signals over mountains etc...
Has it occured you to setup it up on another pc with no real valuable data, pass through a hub on the way out of your network and install a sniffer such as Ethereal on the hub and monitor what's going out?
:>) ... the risk of the adverse publicity would not be worth the gains.
Either that or stick something like zonealarm on your pc set to maximum security and wait for it to generate an outgoing connection request etc...
Google I'll hope learned from the privacy concerns over GMail and would surely realise anyone with an ounce of sense would soon catch it in the act of revealing your secrets (and lets face most of the returns will end up being porn
Even on an auto all that's needed is to drop the auto box into neutral...
If they've been in production since 2000 then allowing for an R&D cycle and production rampup then they were probably working on this for a year or so before so the prior art rules might well apply.