Other fretboard materials include maple (which Clapton uses), ebony (common with Gibson guitiars w/mahogany necks) and even graphite or carbon fiber (yuck).
Pairing a guitar neck with a fretboard material can dramatically change the sound of the guitar.
FREX, pure maple sounds quite different than maple/ebony or mahogany/ebony.
Since we rarely upgrade software here until it's officially EoL'd, that MS isn't dropping this means no real chance for IE 7 or 8 for another year.
Which means I have to explain to the using class why their browser at work looks different from the one at home. Somehow, "It's a different version" only sinks in for about a week; after that, it's passed through the other end, and they have to be reminded again.
No, a patent troll is a company that exists solely for the purpose of patenting things and then filing lawsuits.
This company, as they actually have products, is not such a troll; I make no statement as to the validity of their patent, or whether or not it should have been granted.
As they aren't an NPE or NME, the normal defintion of patent troll doesn't apply.
I do think it's rather dumb to sue a company that isn't making any money and has no real prospects for doing so, but that just makes them dumb too; not a patent troll.
USB key drives are banned. There is even software loaded onto the machines, by default, that detects if you've inserted a key drive (and can tell the difference from a USB hard drive) and reports you to the IS guys.
If you do this, you get yelled at, your computer gets scanned and scrubbed, and it can even affect your clearance.
Actually, with IVF, many embryos are normally grown simultaniously, with only the best two or three candidates considered for implantation.
Given the inherant dangers of the egg harvesting procedures, it is unlikely that any ethical doctor would purposefully subject a woman to that, just for the purpose of additional stem cell lines.
Which, for more than a few labs or research centers, was effectively a ban.
While some locations were able to get private funding (and thus get around the relatively useless lines approved by the Bush govt), this sort of blue sky health research has generally seen a lot more money from the government.
Because of that ban, for example, DARPA couldn't effectively spend money on research into experimental treatments for spinal cord injuries involving stem cells. Now they can. And, quite likely, will.
Only half my problem was the uninstall of these items.
The other half was the users (bless their hearts) who would reinstall them. It took threatening to fire the next person who installed HotBar before they stopped.
If I say that my site trusts domain1.com, but domain1.com isn't using this and ends up having all sorts of dodgy scripts they're passing along, would this block them, or would they count as coming from domain1.com?
Take a look at the packet loss on their Augusta, GA servers. Regularly, from 10 PM to 1 AM (or later), 50%+ packet loss.
I know because a buddy's radio show keeps crapping out, and it goes through there. But when I rebroadcast the show as a test (and don't go through that server), the issues don't happen.
But their L1 and L2 techs can't figure out the problem.
when you do government contracting, the government should own what you do.
Please don't speak about things you know nothing about, as is obviously the case here.
Government procurement is a difficult and arduous process (and often quite arcane from the outside). When the government has hardware or software produced (i.e., not COTS items), depending on the nature of the contract, they can acquire various levels of data rights and data access.
Often, industry will have patents, trade secrets or copyrights involved, and it depends on the needs of the program (and their level of funding) as to how much access (or even ownership) the government will have to that data.
In this particular case, which government would you suggest purchase the code? Some state level government? The Federal Government? Neither have any need to; this is a service item, which no level of government needs ownership over.
However, since it is used in law enforcement, I have no issue with independant validation and verification of the code and device.
It's rarely the engineers who screw things up like that.
It's the suits who don't understand something and then write press releases / marketting material on their lack of understanding.
I fondly remember my (then) boss at my first job out of university going, in one day, down to marketting to explain to them how they'd just killed a two million dollar product line because they couldn't be arsed to call first, and then down to HR to explain that they couldn't shorten a job listing to "five years programming experience in [2 year old web technology]" from "five years programming experience and one year in [2 year old web technology]".
Of course, this was the same man who would go fishing in the middle of a lake (and cell dead zone) during every customer live date, so he didn't have to listen to them complain about the fonts or colors.
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Will this expansion be the one that finally makes Engineering something that people actually want to level for something other than toys?
that Ottumwa, Iowa was a real place.
I thought it had been made up for MASH. You know, like Toledo, Ohio.
It can be rosewood.
Other fretboard materials include maple (which Clapton uses), ebony (common with Gibson guitiars w/mahogany necks) and even graphite or carbon fiber (yuck).
Pairing a guitar neck with a fretboard material can dramatically change the sound of the guitar.
FREX, pure maple sounds quite different than maple/ebony or mahogany/ebony.
Since we rarely upgrade software here until it's officially EoL'd, that MS isn't dropping this means no real chance for IE 7 or 8 for another year.
Which means I have to explain to the using class why their browser at work looks different from the one at home. Somehow, "It's a different version" only sinks in for about a week; after that, it's passed through the other end, and they have to be reminded again.
No, a patent troll is a company that exists solely for the purpose of patenting things and then filing lawsuits.
This company, as they actually have products, is not such a troll; I make no statement as to the validity of their patent, or whether or not it should have been granted.
As they aren't an NPE or NME, the normal defintion of patent troll doesn't apply.
I do think it's rather dumb to sue a company that isn't making any money and has no real prospects for doing so, but that just makes them dumb too; not a patent troll.
<Lord Vetinari> I believe the Guild of Town Criers will have something to say about this...</Lord Vetinari>
A Texas based patent lawsuit that doesn't, at first blush, appear to be a patent troll.
TechRadium actually has a website (http://www.techradium.com/) and appears to sell products.
We don't have a compromise where I work.
USB key drives are banned. There is even software loaded onto the machines, by default, that detects if you've inserted a key drive (and can tell the difference from a USB hard drive) and reports you to the IS guys.
If you do this, you get yelled at, your computer gets scanned and scrubbed, and it can even affect your clearance.
Correct.
In many branches, they are currently banned, largely because of the viral vector issue.
If you can't spell it, you can't have it.
That's the law... that I just made up. (Thanks to Eddie Izzard for the line.)
Actually, with IVF, many embryos are normally grown simultaniously, with only the best two or three candidates considered for implantation.
Given the inherant dangers of the egg harvesting procedures, it is unlikely that any ethical doctor would purposefully subject a woman to that, just for the purpose of additional stem cell lines.
Which, for more than a few labs or research centers, was effectively a ban.
While some locations were able to get private funding (and thus get around the relatively useless lines approved by the Bush govt), this sort of blue sky health research has generally seen a lot more money from the government.
Because of that ban, for example, DARPA couldn't effectively spend money on research into experimental treatments for spinal cord injuries involving stem cells. Now they can. And, quite likely, will.
The point is that if the bans were there, then the embryos wouldn't be destroyed in the first place.
This, of course, ignores comepletely that most embryos held by fertility clinics (and other sources) are ultimately destroyed anyway.
My view is simple: Why not recycle? If another use can be found for them, great. If not, that's fine too.
Only half my problem was the uninstall of these items.
The other half was the users (bless their hearts) who would reinstall them. It took threatening to fire the next person who installed HotBar before they stopped.
First thoughts on that:
If I say that my site trusts domain1.com, but domain1.com isn't using this and ends up having all sorts of dodgy scripts they're passing along, would this block them, or would they count as coming from domain1.com?
They are making money.
One billion in profits from 35 million in expenses is money hand over fist.
Of the novella Waldo, by Robert Heinlein.
Take a look at the packet loss on their Augusta, GA servers. Regularly, from 10 PM to 1 AM (or later), 50%+ packet loss.
I know because a buddy's radio show keeps crapping out, and it goes through there. But when I rebroadcast the show as a test (and don't go through that server), the issues don't happen.
But their L1 and L2 techs can't figure out the problem.
Nice try.
It was actually about smores.
No, I missed that one. But the Windows ME crap I had to put with more than made up for it.
"Microsoft, Crippling Operating Systems Since 1995..."
FTFY.
when you do government contracting, the government should own what you do.
Please don't speak about things you know nothing about, as is obviously the case here.
Government procurement is a difficult and arduous process (and often quite arcane from the outside). When the government has hardware or software produced (i.e., not COTS items), depending on the nature of the contract, they can acquire various levels of data rights and data access.
Often, industry will have patents, trade secrets or copyrights involved, and it depends on the needs of the program (and their level of funding) as to how much access (or even ownership) the government will have to that data.
In this particular case, which government would you suggest purchase the code? Some state level government? The Federal Government? Neither have any need to; this is a service item, which no level of government needs ownership over.
However, since it is used in law enforcement, I have no issue with independant validation and verification of the code and device.
I'm sorry. This isn't 'arguement'. This is abuse.
It's rarely the engineers who screw things up like that.
It's the suits who don't understand something and then write press releases / marketting material on their lack of understanding.
I fondly remember my (then) boss at my first job out of university going, in one day, down to marketting to explain to them how they'd just killed a two million dollar product line because they couldn't be arsed to call first, and then down to HR to explain that they couldn't shorten a job listing to "five years programming experience in [2 year old web technology]" from "five years programming experience and one year in [2 year old web technology]".
Of course, this was the same man who would go fishing in the middle of a lake (and cell dead zone) during every customer live date, so he didn't have to listen to them complain about the fonts or colors.
My Word doc becomes porn.