Everyone has a price, just pay it and you can own Google, too. Then you can run whatever ads you like. Don't like how the WSJ frames issues, buy it and make it say what you want.
In this case, I think Google has a legitimate beef, and they have the law on their side. They do the same for youtube videos. You prove it's yours, you ask them to take it down, they take it down (not always in that order).
If you don't like it, exempt your business and personal website from Google's searches, and don't use Google to search. Don't let them make make money off of you at all. When enough people vote with their feet, things will change.
Well, you can drive just about anywhere in the states in 2 days, given a driving partner and a bunch of coffee. That's probably not but 12-24 hours slower than a jet, and a full day faster than the 72 hour rule. Then again, you'll probably be mentally trashed for two additional days. On the bright side, crying uncontrollably at funerals is fully acceptable, so you'd probably fit right in. Weddings too for that matter, should you be, um, invited to a sudden wedding on short notice.
"Airlines may have to submit passenger list 72 hours before flight," or perhaps "No airline tickets to be issued within 72 hrs of departure" as better headlines. I'm sure others can come up with better ones. The headline as written just doesn't parse well.
I think this is ridiculous, and the TSA and DHS have gotten way out of hand. What's worse is that I know people who think it's actually making us safer. Sad. Truly sad.
How about publish your findings on your own website, with the backup data, and then reference it to the wiki? Or state your source (weather underground historical data). note: I have never edited at wikipaedia, only some techincal wikis, so I may be just dead wrong on the attribution process.
Actually, you're right. But RAM _is_ cheap, and L1 (or L2) cache isn't exactly expandable.
I suppose it would be nice to put everything into memory and just keep the machine on with enough power to keep the RAM refreshed. But then it would look more like a PDA.
Besides, as bad as the latency is from RAM to Ln, it ain't nothing like disc latency.
which is a whitepaper which shows a 64GB NAND device with a 100MB/s write speed can go for 20 years continuously, with error correction, before hitting the write limit. They didn't use the same numbers, but for a device with a likely lifetime of less than 5-6 years, they certainly seem to be up to practically any task.
If you can buy enough memory not to have to swap, why would you? Swap is for people who can't afford any more memory, and are willing to take a massive performance hit to avoid said expense. If you're running very few apps, most of your memory is going to be data, and if most of your memory is data, then swapping out unused code to disc will not free up much memory (on a percentage basis). I'm with the GP on this one.
It's actually a good place to start a search, if only to determine what the hard sources are. Taking wiki at face value is not a good idea, but if there is real data to be had then you can work your way towards the facts. I would agree, however, that it's probably a bad place to do real-time fact checking...though I'm not aware of any real-time fact source. If you don't know the material, there's no sense in debating real-time about it.
As for your weather query, might I suggest weather underground's history search? It was on the first page of a Google search for weather (below a bunch of basketball links for Miami Heat). The history function will give you the hourly temp and humidity values. You'll have to do it day by day, but a decent script should be able to scrape the data, then you can do the math and get all the information you need.
I don't get it. Modern flash has 1M+ write cycles, and we might presume that there is some rudimentary write balancing in these drives. If you work 1GB of cache (not unlikely, and probably on the low side for Vista), I get 8Gb x 1M writes = 8x10^15 write operations before your 1GB area fails completely. Using load balancing, and dynamic reallocation of a 64GB disc, but taking the "limit" of useability at 50% of the write cycles before you are might start to worry, how long does it take to write 256x10^15 bits (8x10^15 x 64GB x 50%)? Well, TFA didn't give write speeds, so I'm going to presume a ludicrous write speed of 50MB/s (I'm not aware of any consumer-grade flash that writes that fast). 50x8=400Mb/s or 4x10^8 b/s. So if I've got my exponents correct, that put the 50% threshold at an even 64x10^7 seconds, or about 177,777 hours of continuous writes, or only about 20 years. That presumes you actually have your machine (a) never reading the cache, and (b) never writing anything else to the disk, since the entire bandwidth taken up by the cache writing and (c) it's doing this 24/7 (as I presume Vista attempts to do).
And at this point, your drive will be through 50% of it's theoretical write-cycle life. And about 1/1000 the capacity of the drive you would be able to buy for $100 to replace it.
You mean the allowable limit with a full load of fuel. Engineers don't print the allowable limit, for fear that people will "go a little over". 550# is not an absolute limit. The last time I went away for a weekend, we had a 10lb backpack and a 15-20lb bag'o'stuff - including the "camera gear". Oh, plus 10lbs of drinks, ice, and snacks in a small cooler. If there were a 3rd seat, I could have even brought along my 5 year old and still been under the limit (Although I'm a biscuit shy of 200lbs, my wife is only 120#) by 15lbs. I suppose that would have been enough to account for the heavy meal the night before we left and the stuffed animal souvenir we picked up, don't you think? As for bad weather...you can always drive.
Wow, what an appropriate username for your comment.
Actually, I don't care what language you do your science in, but if you're going to release a press release about it in another language you should have at least one native speaker proof your work. Even the best product in the world is bound to fail if you have lousy marketing.
You might be, but if you were a long time, valuable employee with a great deal of corporate knowledge, and it was determined that you were not necessarily given all the tools to carry out your job, you'd probably get something like this to. Especially if you owned up to it and helped to try and get things back on track. People screw stuff up all the time - often to the tune of 6 and 7 figures in total effect on a large (i.e. billion $) organization. The need for retribution is often tempered by the reality of replacing a valuable employee. If you don't understand that, you've never been in management (and probably shouldn't be).
Those two things (flying and driving) tend to be somewhat exclusive.
The whole blind-spot thing can be overcome with inexpensive cameras (people already do this on SUVs and trucks), though. As for passengers and cargo, as a personal conveyance device 80lbs really isn't bad. You're not going to go pick up fertilizer or concrete at the Home Depot in this thing. 80lbs of cargo is more than most people take on a week vacation, and if you're that worried about bringing back souvenirs there's always UPS.
You must have Verizon or US Cellular, or some similar "fuck the customer" phone. I went to Cingular (now AT&T) because I could get an unlocked GSM phone. I got the Cing 8525, 'cause it was cheap and easily unlocked, thanks to a very active HTC hacking community. It's been just about perfect - better than any phone I've ever owned from a controlled source. BT works, Wifi works, GSM/3G/UTMwhatever works, and even with IE I can chose the mobile or standard web pages (though I never use mobile on gprs - to damned slow for anything). Opera works even better.
The one think I really wish I could get is a WM6 that was intended for fingers instead of a stylus. In that way, the iPhone is awesome. Otherwise, I really like the 8525 - I get to use my scheduler, GPS software, and the like, and it works well.
Slashdotters tend to be heavy in the fanboi stuff - which is why TiVo and Apple come up so often. Note that TiVo is linux based and Apple is a computer company...mostly, so they technically fit the nerd mold, but really they're just shiny things now with only a small group of hardcore enthusiasts which are truly nerds. And before you fanboi mods take issue with those statements, let me state that I happen to be a pretty big TiVo fan - I own two, one of which is hacked for more space, and the other is hacked to provide all the things they don't want you to do.
I once had a fellow engineer try to suggest that, at around $200,000 - living in Texas - he was simply "middle class." $60k in most places is a solid living salary. A lot of people live on $20k-$30k (which is still 2x-3x the US minimum wage).
I'll be honest - I don't offer dental insurance at my small business. Heck, I can't even offer health insurance. Well, I _could_, but a group policy would cost me twice what I and my employees currently pay for individual insurance, so I offer a stipend instead. Paying group rates for my small office would cost me an additional 19% on my payroll expenses. Since my business is professional service - i.e. all labor - it would take me from being profitable to not in a single stroke. I'd charge more, but then I'd probably lose enough business that I would have to fire some of my employees, and that's not very good for them - especially since I know most of my competitors, and they don't cover the cost of insurance either.
You're simply finding out what everyone else has done - wheel invention is an expensive, demanding undertaking and requires a good bit of regulatory knowledge to accomplish smoothly. You could easily spend upwards of $100k to get a basic system working smoothly, with some simple testing. It probably won't interoperate well or be very extensible at that point. I'd throw in another $20k/yr for support and maintenance, as long as you don't plan on making any upgrades. Now, these are Bumfuck, Nowhere rates with guys working weekends and evenings, not 9-5 in the bay area.
I know this is not what you wanted to hear, but it needs to be said - this is a poor path to travel if you just want to create a POS system for a business. Now, for a couple million you could try that whole paradigm-shift thing and try to get a robust system out there, provided you really understand what the needs of the typical target system is. Remember, though, if you want to make it a business, you'll have to sell service of the product as your income base. That means setup, configuration, and technical support for a product which will compete in the $2k-5k marketplace. You'd have to be pretty damned efficient to even pretend to hit that mark, and it is probably not possible if your dollar figure was hardware inclusive.
Bite the bullet, get a load, and buy the commercial stuff. Your talents, and effort, will be better served tending the actual business.
RIAA will be lucky if they ever see a dime of this judgment, because the debts this woman incurred to her own lawyers are going to rank ahead of the RIAA judgment in any bankruptcy that she may choose to file.
That was worth a smile this Friday morning. That reminds me - I need to go make sure everything has transferred properly into the trust...
That's not the point. The point is that that much money is more than the average person has saved for retirement in 20 years - essentially more money than will be earned, beyond staple obligations, for the rest of her working life (presuming she has 20-25 years left in the workforce). That seems a little extreme.
I've got bad news for you. Most of the people fingered by the RIAA are actually guilty of file sharing, and most of those are sharing copyrighted works owned by RIAA members. We focus on the few innocent ones here because they are the poster children for abuses of the system.
I think the award is still too high, given the fees she'll also owe her lawyers. If she is a "working" person (i.e. someone in the bottom 80% of income earners in the US), this will ruin her financially. The total, close to $300k, is more than most under-40 people have in their retirement accounts and is more than they owe on their mortgages (you/.ers in SF are _not_ typical - the average house int he US still under 300k). Obviously I'm not on the jury, but I probably would have awarded twice the original settlement amount.
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Its privacy controls are set entirely by the individual, including what information goes in and who gets to see it. Pretty simple, I get to say that nobody sees it.
The HealthVault searches are conducted anonymously and will not be linked to any personal information in a HealthVault personal health record. Whoa, there, I thought that the individual set the permissions, but there can be anonymous access to the data therein? So which is it?
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Everyone has a price, just pay it and you can own Google, too. Then you can run whatever ads you like. Don't like how the WSJ frames issues, buy it and make it say what you want.
In this case, I think Google has a legitimate beef, and they have the law on their side. They do the same for youtube videos. You prove it's yours, you ask them to take it down, they take it down (not always in that order).
If you don't like it, exempt your business and personal website from Google's searches, and don't use Google to search. Don't let them make make money off of you at all. When enough people vote with their feet, things will change.
You want sane? I'm sorry..the TSA/DHS isn't in the business of being sane. I was just trying to compare apples to apples. ;-)
(1) you get to copy stuff, right?
(2) the CAD used to be worth less and it's too much effort to change the printing presses in the US
and, the real reason,
(3) because they can!
Isn't government protected capitalism wonderful!
Well, you can drive just about anywhere in the states in 2 days, given a driving partner and a bunch of coffee. That's probably not but 12-24 hours slower than a jet, and a full day faster than the 72 hour rule. Then again, you'll probably be mentally trashed for two additional days. On the bright side, crying uncontrollably at funerals is fully acceptable, so you'd probably fit right in. Weddings too for that matter, should you be, um, invited to a sudden wedding on short notice.
"Airlines may have to submit passenger list 72 hours before flight," or perhaps "No airline tickets to be issued within 72 hrs of departure" as better headlines. I'm sure others can come up with better ones. The headline as written just doesn't parse well.
I think this is ridiculous, and the TSA and DHS have gotten way out of hand. What's worse is that I know people who think it's actually making us safer. Sad. Truly sad.
How about publish your findings on your own website, with the backup data, and then reference it to the wiki? Or state your source (weather underground historical data). note: I have never edited at wikipaedia, only some techincal wikis, so I may be just dead wrong on the attribution process.
Actually, you're right. But RAM _is_ cheap, and L1 (or L2) cache isn't exactly expandable.
I suppose it would be nice to put everything into memory and just keep the machine on with enough power to keep the RAM refreshed. But then it would look more like a PDA.
Besides, as bad as the latency is from RAM to Ln, it ain't nothing like disc latency.
Well, I googled and came up with this: http://www.baydel.com/images/gallery/NAND%20flash%20resilience.pdf
which is a whitepaper which shows a 64GB NAND device with a 100MB/s write speed can go for 20 years continuously, with error correction, before hitting the write limit. They didn't use the same numbers, but for a device with a likely lifetime of less than 5-6 years, they certainly seem to be up to practically any task.
If you can buy enough memory not to have to swap, why would you? Swap is for people who can't afford any more memory, and are willing to take a massive performance hit to avoid said expense. If you're running very few apps, most of your memory is going to be data, and if most of your memory is data, then swapping out unused code to disc will not free up much memory (on a percentage basis). I'm with the GP on this one.
It's actually a good place to start a search, if only to determine what the hard sources are. Taking wiki at face value is not a good idea, but if there is real data to be had then you can work your way towards the facts. I would agree, however, that it's probably a bad place to do real-time fact checking...though I'm not aware of any real-time fact source. If you don't know the material, there's no sense in debating real-time about it.
As for your weather query, might I suggest weather underground's history search? It was on the first page of a Google search for weather (below a bunch of basketball links for Miami Heat). The history function will give you the hourly temp and humidity values. You'll have to do it day by day, but a decent script should be able to scrape the data, then you can do the math and get all the information you need.
I don't get it. Modern flash has 1M+ write cycles, and we might presume that there is some rudimentary write balancing in these drives. If you work 1GB of cache (not unlikely, and probably on the low side for Vista), I get 8Gb x 1M writes = 8x10^15 write operations before your 1GB area fails completely. Using load balancing, and dynamic reallocation of a 64GB disc, but taking the "limit" of useability at 50% of the write cycles before you are might start to worry, how long does it take to write 256x10^15 bits (8x10^15 x 64GB x 50%)? Well, TFA didn't give write speeds, so I'm going to presume a ludicrous write speed of 50MB/s (I'm not aware of any consumer-grade flash that writes that fast). 50x8=400Mb/s or 4x10^8 b/s. So if I've got my exponents correct, that put the 50% threshold at an even 64x10^7 seconds, or about 177,777 hours of continuous writes, or only about 20 years. That presumes you actually have your machine (a) never reading the cache, and (b) never writing anything else to the disk, since the entire bandwidth taken up by the cache writing and (c) it's doing this 24/7 (as I presume Vista attempts to do).
And at this point, your drive will be through 50% of it's theoretical write-cycle life. And about 1/1000 the capacity of the drive you would be able to buy for $100 to replace it.
You mean the allowable limit with a full load of fuel. Engineers don't print the allowable limit, for fear that people will "go a little over". 550# is not an absolute limit. The last time I went away for a weekend, we had a 10lb backpack and a 15-20lb bag'o'stuff - including the "camera gear". Oh, plus 10lbs of drinks, ice, and snacks in a small cooler. If there were a 3rd seat, I could have even brought along my 5 year old and still been under the limit (Although I'm a biscuit shy of 200lbs, my wife is only 120#) by 15lbs. I suppose that would have been enough to account for the heavy meal the night before we left and the stuffed animal souvenir we picked up, don't you think? As for bad weather...you can always drive.
Wow, what an appropriate username for your comment.
Actually, I don't care what language you do your science in, but if you're going to release a press release about it in another language you should have at least one native speaker proof your work. Even the best product in the world is bound to fail if you have lousy marketing.
You might be, but if you were a long time, valuable employee with a great deal of corporate knowledge, and it was determined that you were not necessarily given all the tools to carry out your job, you'd probably get something like this to. Especially if you owned up to it and helped to try and get things back on track. People screw stuff up all the time - often to the tune of 6 and 7 figures in total effect on a large (i.e. billion $) organization. The need for retribution is often tempered by the reality of replacing a valuable employee. If you don't understand that, you've never been in management (and probably shouldn't be).
Those two things (flying and driving) tend to be somewhat exclusive.
The whole blind-spot thing can be overcome with inexpensive cameras (people already do this on SUVs and trucks), though. As for passengers and cargo, as a personal conveyance device 80lbs really isn't bad. You're not going to go pick up fertilizer or concrete at the Home Depot in this thing. 80lbs of cargo is more than most people take on a week vacation, and if you're that worried about bringing back souvenirs there's always UPS.
Hopefully the stock market will last longer than the 2000 round, too. Or is that what you meant...
You must have Verizon or US Cellular, or some similar "fuck the customer" phone. I went to Cingular (now AT&T) because I could get an unlocked GSM phone. I got the Cing 8525, 'cause it was cheap and easily unlocked, thanks to a very active HTC hacking community. It's been just about perfect - better than any phone I've ever owned from a controlled source. BT works, Wifi works, GSM/3G/UTMwhatever works, and even with IE I can chose the mobile or standard web pages (though I never use mobile on gprs - to damned slow for anything). Opera works even better.
The one think I really wish I could get is a WM6 that was intended for fingers instead of a stylus. In that way, the iPhone is awesome. Otherwise, I really like the 8525 - I get to use my scheduler, GPS software, and the like, and it works well.
It's not about marketing, it's about TiVo.
Slashdotters tend to be heavy in the fanboi stuff - which is why TiVo and Apple come up so often. Note that TiVo is linux based and Apple is a computer company...mostly, so they technically fit the nerd mold, but really they're just shiny things now with only a small group of hardcore enthusiasts which are truly nerds. And before you fanboi mods take issue with those statements, let me state that I happen to be a pretty big TiVo fan - I own two, one of which is hacked for more space, and the other is hacked to provide all the things they don't want you to do.
I once had a fellow engineer try to suggest that, at around $200,000 - living in Texas - he was simply "middle class." $60k in most places is a solid living salary. A lot of people live on $20k-$30k (which is still 2x-3x the US minimum wage).
I'll be honest - I don't offer dental insurance at my small business. Heck, I can't even offer health insurance. Well, I _could_, but a group policy would cost me twice what I and my employees currently pay for individual insurance, so I offer a stipend instead. Paying group rates for my small office would cost me an additional 19% on my payroll expenses. Since my business is professional service - i.e. all labor - it would take me from being profitable to not in a single stroke. I'd charge more, but then I'd probably lose enough business that I would have to fire some of my employees, and that's not very good for them - especially since I know most of my competitors, and they don't cover the cost of insurance either.
You're simply finding out what everyone else has done - wheel invention is an expensive, demanding undertaking and requires a good bit of regulatory knowledge to accomplish smoothly. You could easily spend upwards of $100k to get a basic system working smoothly, with some simple testing. It probably won't interoperate well or be very extensible at that point. I'd throw in another $20k/yr for support and maintenance, as long as you don't plan on making any upgrades. Now, these are Bumfuck, Nowhere rates with guys working weekends and evenings, not 9-5 in the bay area.
I know this is not what you wanted to hear, but it needs to be said - this is a poor path to travel if you just want to create a POS system for a business. Now, for a couple million you could try that whole paradigm-shift thing and try to get a robust system out there, provided you really understand what the needs of the typical target system is. Remember, though, if you want to make it a business, you'll have to sell service of the product as your income base. That means setup, configuration, and technical support for a product which will compete in the $2k-5k marketplace. You'd have to be pretty damned efficient to even pretend to hit that mark, and it is probably not possible if your dollar figure was hardware inclusive.
Bite the bullet, get a load, and buy the commercial stuff. Your talents, and effort, will be better served tending the actual business.
RIAA will be lucky if they ever see a dime of this judgment, because the debts this woman incurred to her own lawyers are going to rank ahead of the RIAA judgment in any bankruptcy that she may choose to file.
That was worth a smile this Friday morning. That reminds me - I need to go make sure everything has transferred properly into the trust...That's not the point. The point is that that much money is more than the average person has saved for retirement in 20 years - essentially more money than will be earned, beyond staple obligations, for the rest of her working life (presuming she has 20-25 years left in the workforce). That seems a little extreme.
I've got bad news for you. Most of the people fingered by the RIAA are actually guilty of file sharing, and most of those are sharing copyrighted works owned by RIAA members. We focus on the few innocent ones here because they are the poster children for abuses of the system.
/.ers in SF are _not_ typical - the average house int he US still under 300k). Obviously I'm not on the jury, but I probably would have awarded twice the original settlement amount.
I think the award is still too high, given the fees she'll also owe her lawyers. If she is a "working" person (i.e. someone in the bottom 80% of income earners in the US), this will ruin her financially. The total, close to $300k, is more than most under-40 people have in their retirement accounts and is more than they owe on their mortgages (you