My first AT&T subsidized iPhone was the 4 I got last summer at launch. Since they'll give me a sub'd phone every 18 or so months (I'm eligible in December), this just means less time for me to be _not_ on the cutting edge of the release cycle.
Really? Everything I see on the web indicates that WebM is a container for VP8 video, not h.264. Now, I'm not intimately aware of the details of the two codecs, and they may likely use similar operations, but for them to be patent independent would require significant differences in their implementation. Purpose built hardware for h.264 would have to be exceptionally flexible to have firmware that could be rewritten to process VP8. Call me skeptical.
On the contrary, I bought a HD sony projector for my new house 10 years ago. It was about $6k, and put out a 120" image with decent brightness in my living room. It didn't have an HDMI input, so HD was limited to component cables (there was probably a VGA port, too, but I don't think it had DVI, and it definitely didn't had HDCP).
It was on the edge of really affordable, big screen HD, but was solidly 5-10 years after the rear projection (big box TVs) got HD.
No, the restart sequence should check a timer to determine if the initial lease has expired, and renegotiate a new IP from the server if necessary. Assuming that when you wake up that the lease still exists without checking would certainly cause problems. It's not a case that would normally get tested as it requires a large down time to accomplish, and yuo won't encounter that with normal sleep-to-wake test cycles.
Doctors are as bad as engineers when it comes to this stuff. I'm guilty of transgressions in the past (I'm an engineer). Now that I'm older, I can see how this kind of stuff an be a real raspberry seed in IT's wisdom tooth. It's usually accompanied by a strong can't-do attitude from IT. *shrug* I wonder how long his flame-proof suit will take to cool down enough for him to open it?
Of course you're going to get lambasted for bringing in your own resources. What you did was both cool and questionable, and I can see how you might want to bounce the idea off of a bunch of geeks.
I'm going to ask you an alternate question - can you set up a Google calendar for this? I know, I know - you went to a bunch of effort to roll your own, but if the department isn't too large, and you don't worry about giving everyone write access to the calendar (they're adults, right?), then a "community" style calendar might work without the need to get IT involved. I use it for two or three small organizations along with my family calendar, and it works seamlessly with the iPhone, iPad, (it better work with Android), and any box that has port 80 access without a block on Google apps.
Go grab a cold beer now - it'll help put out all the flames;-)
Hardly. It was a kind of trick question, but one which is central to the concept - when dealing with random processes, you cannot explicitly determine the outcome of a finite series of trials. Humans are exceptionally bad a judging probability.
It makes sense, but only once you figure it out (aka secret handshake). The combination of keyboard prediction, sensitivity, and poor average keyboarding skills combine to make the prediction more accurate than no prediction. The problem with that supposition is that rather than having a non-word typo which may be a letter or two of (and may even be phonetically correct in the case of mis-spellings), you can get wildly different words. It's also very annoying when working on technical documents for which the flow of writing does not match LOL speak.
Actually, I didn't realize until reading your post that you could click on the corrected word to dismiss autocorrect - I though you had to click the X, which often leads to clicking the area to the _right_ of the autocorrect on very small screens (like my phone) which inserts the *insert expletive here* corrected word anyway.
No, screens like the iPad are capacitance sensitive, and have a second inferred level of sensitivity via vibration/angular rate change. They are not even binary sensitive to pressure like resistive screens (binary being useless for this application)
Probably only if the right was exclusive, and even then it would depend on wording. If the actual transfer was deemed unlawful, then the right would still revert back to the holder.
Happened to a friend - didn't wash well after eating a bunch of (very) hot wings, then went to recycle that pitcher of beer. Couldn't sit still the rest of the evening.
I suspect that his legal bills may or may not be completely covered by donations (don't know how much he actually collected). A full legal battle would have bankrupted him, almost certainly. I consider this a win, of sorts, and - as someone who donated - would be happy if he turned over any remaining funds to the EFF.
I know an architect who would like to do this: an 8 month trip "starting" at the sea floor and ending at the top of Everest. He's looking for sponsors and maybe a reality TV segment to fund it. I think he has an early-20s son who he wants to do it with. The most expensive part is the beginning, as getting a ticket on a research sub is (iirc) in the $250k range. It'd be a cool trip to say the least.
This is actually why I bought my iStuff. Everybody makes a standard interface for it. My first device was an iPod - sure iTunes sucks, and the iPod itself sounds pretty lousy, but there are a whole range of car head units that work with an iPod and have an on-screen interface. For less than the cost of a CD changer, I could buy an iPod to hold all of my music and the adapter. Same thing for the iPhone and Pad - lots of docking stations, covers, cases, accessories - all tailored to the interface.
So, basically, unless you're there the day they review the patent to rub their noses in it like a dog that shit on the carpet while you were out, they'll have no idea your invention ever existed if it's not already in the patent database.
My bad - he's a US rep - they are in session almost 30 weeks a year - that's closer to 150 days a year. Still, whatever you do, don't throw me into that briar patch.
Just as long as it's no more opulant than a typical BOQ (Bachelor Officers Quarters). I can just see them spending a phone number (with the area code) to buy and renovate the JW Marriott, given the chance.
It's called rent. And for $1000/mo ($12k/yr) he can easily rent a studio apt in DC that he'll use less than 30 weeks a year (congress has about 22-24 weeks of recess each year). It may even be deductible as a business expense. So for that $25,000, he's got to shell out $12,000 in rent and $3k in utilities.
Neither. of those 7, only 3 or 4 will grow up to work (less than 50% of the country is employed, btw). The problem right now is that there are TOO MANY HUMANS for our economy (and, arguably, our planet). One of the big problems right now is that we have 10% unemployment, and we have to creat 150,000 jobs every single month just to break even. We really don't need more people in the workforce. Quite honestly, we need less.
I won't argue that a crack whore is a good family. Anyone having a child should be responsible though. Pregnancy is not some magical occurrence we don't understand - there are ways of not having more children. If you can't afford them, don't have them. Personally, I'd like to see the tax deduction for children be eliminated. Why should I pay for you to have more kids? For every dollar you don't pay, it's a dollar extra I have to pay. It's even worse if your kids are inpublic school. Not only do you get a tax break, but you cost the state an extra ten grand a kid? What idiot thought up that logic.
FWIW, I have one child. It happens to be the number that I feel I can afford and raise properly. You're number may be different. Hell, it might be 12. Just don't come and complain about how expensive your kids are, and how you struggle to make ends meet on $175k a year in F'ing WI for having to be at work 60 days a year.
I mean, teachers work 6 hour days for 180 days a year, right? For less than 4x a teacher's salary, the WI legislature is in session for almost 60 days (http://legis.wisconsin.gov/leginfo/session.htm) every single year. I don't know how he ever has a chance to spend time with his family.
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My first AT&T subsidized iPhone was the 4 I got last summer at launch. Since they'll give me a sub'd phone every 18 or so months (I'm eligible in December), this just means less time for me to be _not_ on the cutting edge of the release cycle.
Too bad SpiderOak's synchronization doesn't work most of the time. Otherwise, it would be a great alternative.
Really? Everything I see on the web indicates that WebM is a container for VP8 video, not h.264. Now, I'm not intimately aware of the details of the two codecs, and they may likely use similar operations, but for them to be patent independent would require significant differences in their implementation. Purpose built hardware for h.264 would have to be exceptionally flexible to have firmware that could be rewritten to process VP8. Call me skeptical.
On the contrary, I bought a HD sony projector for my new house 10 years ago. It was about $6k, and put out a 120" image with decent brightness in my living room. It didn't have an HDMI input, so HD was limited to component cables (there was probably a VGA port, too, but I don't think it had DVI, and it definitely didn't had HDCP).
It was on the edge of really affordable, big screen HD, but was solidly 5-10 years after the rear projection (big box TVs) got HD.
No, the restart sequence should check a timer to determine if the initial lease has expired, and renegotiate a new IP from the server if necessary. Assuming that when you wake up that the lease still exists without checking would certainly cause problems. It's not a case that would normally get tested as it requires a large down time to accomplish, and yuo won't encounter that with normal sleep-to-wake test cycles.
Doctors are as bad as engineers when it comes to this stuff. I'm guilty of transgressions in the past (I'm an engineer). Now that I'm older, I can see how this kind of stuff an be a real raspberry seed in IT's wisdom tooth. It's usually accompanied by a strong can't-do attitude from IT. *shrug* I wonder how long his flame-proof suit will take to cool down enough for him to open it?
Of course you're going to get lambasted for bringing in your own resources. What you did was both cool and questionable, and I can see how you might want to bounce the idea off of a bunch of geeks.
I'm going to ask you an alternate question - can you set up a Google calendar for this? I know, I know - you went to a bunch of effort to roll your own, but if the department isn't too large, and you don't worry about giving everyone write access to the calendar (they're adults, right?), then a "community" style calendar might work without the need to get IT involved. I use it for two or three small organizations along with my family calendar, and it works seamlessly with the iPhone, iPad, (it better work with Android), and any box that has port 80 access without a block on Google apps.
Go grab a cold beer now - it'll help put out all the flames ;-)
Okay, but why would you have them play Sorry(R)? I mean, sure it's fun for a while, but it does get a bit tedious.
Hardly. It was a kind of trick question, but one which is central to the concept - when dealing with random processes, you cannot explicitly determine the outcome of a finite series of trials. Humans are exceptionally bad a judging probability.
It makes sense, but only once you figure it out (aka secret handshake). The combination of keyboard prediction, sensitivity, and poor average keyboarding skills combine to make the prediction more accurate than no prediction. The problem with that supposition is that rather than having a non-word typo which may be a letter or two of (and may even be phonetically correct in the case of mis-spellings), you can get wildly different words. It's also very annoying when working on technical documents for which the flow of writing does not match LOL speak.
Actually, I didn't realize until reading your post that you could click on the corrected word to dismiss autocorrect - I though you had to click the X, which often leads to clicking the area to the _right_ of the autocorrect on very small screens (like my phone) which inserts the *insert expletive here* corrected word anyway.
No, screens like the iPad are capacitance sensitive, and have a second inferred level of sensitivity via vibration/angular rate change. They are not even binary sensitive to pressure like resistive screens (binary being useless for this application)
Probably only if the right was exclusive, and even then it would depend on wording. If the actual transfer was deemed unlawful, then the right would still revert back to the holder.
If it weren't for the Bikini Team, I'd have to hate you.
Happened to a friend - didn't wash well after eating a bunch of (very) hot wings, then went to recycle that pitcher of beer. Couldn't sit still the rest of the evening.
I suspect that his legal bills may or may not be completely covered by donations (don't know how much he actually collected). A full legal battle would have bankrupted him, almost certainly. I consider this a win, of sorts, and - as someone who donated - would be happy if he turned over any remaining funds to the EFF.
I know an architect who would like to do this: an 8 month trip "starting" at the sea floor and ending at the top of Everest. He's looking for sponsors and maybe a reality TV segment to fund it. I think he has an early-20s son who he wants to do it with. The most expensive part is the beginning, as getting a ticket on a research sub is (iirc) in the $250k range. It'd be a cool trip to say the least.
Yeah, but that's because there ain't corn planted between those rows.
God help us all if they implement an Italian version of this.
This is actually why I bought my iStuff. Everybody makes a standard interface for it. My first device was an iPod - sure iTunes sucks, and the iPod itself sounds pretty lousy, but there are a whole range of car head units that work with an iPod and have an on-screen interface. For less than the cost of a CD changer, I could buy an iPod to hold all of my music and the adapter. Same thing for the iPhone and Pad - lots of docking stations, covers, cases, accessories - all tailored to the interface.
So, basically, unless you're there the day they review the patent to rub their noses in it like a dog that shit on the carpet while you were out, they'll have no idea your invention ever existed if it's not already in the patent database.
My bad - he's a US rep - they are in session almost 30 weeks a year - that's closer to 150 days a year. Still, whatever you do, don't throw me into that briar patch.
Just as long as it's no more opulant than a typical BOQ (Bachelor Officers Quarters). I can just see them spending a phone number (with the area code) to buy and renovate the JW Marriott, given the chance.
It's called rent. And for $1000/mo ($12k/yr) he can easily rent a studio apt in DC that he'll use less than 30 weeks a year (congress has about 22-24 weeks of recess each year). It may even be deductible as a business expense. So for that $25,000, he's got to shell out $12,000 in rent and $3k in utilities.
Neither. of those 7, only 3 or 4 will grow up to work (less than 50% of the country is employed, btw). The problem right now is that there are TOO MANY HUMANS for our economy (and, arguably, our planet). One of the big problems right now is that we have 10% unemployment, and we have to creat 150,000 jobs every single month just to break even. We really don't need more people in the workforce. Quite honestly, we need less.
I won't argue that a crack whore is a good family. Anyone having a child should be responsible though. Pregnancy is not some magical occurrence we don't understand - there are ways of not having more children. If you can't afford them, don't have them. Personally, I'd like to see the tax deduction for children be eliminated. Why should I pay for you to have more kids? For every dollar you don't pay, it's a dollar extra I have to pay. It's even worse if your kids are inpublic school. Not only do you get a tax break, but you cost the state an extra ten grand a kid? What idiot thought up that logic.
FWIW, I have one child. It happens to be the number that I feel I can afford and raise properly. You're number may be different. Hell, it might be 12. Just don't come and complain about how expensive your kids are, and how you struggle to make ends meet on $175k a year in F'ing WI for having to be at work 60 days a year.
I mean, teachers work 6 hour days for 180 days a year, right? For less than 4x a teacher's salary, the WI legislature is in session for almost 60 days (http://legis.wisconsin.gov/leginfo/session.htm) every single year. I don't know how he ever has a chance to spend time with his family.