That's pretty much the only thing you can do with a patent, stop someone else from using it. (Licensing is just an agreement not to exercise that power.)
You can also stop someone else from patenting your idea and stopping you from using it.
Running on the cheapest hardware possible and engineering the software to gracefully deal with hardware failure is exactly how Google runs their datacenters, as well. As long as you've got the talent to pull it off, it's much more cost effective than buying a prefab solution.
148th Ave is a nightmare from like 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. every weekday. I try to avoid going anywhere near it during those times, which means I don't do any shopping at Fred Meyer or the stores around it at those times, which means I'm just chilling at home not stimulating my local economy.
I don't care much for Microsoft products, but I think they've been good citizens in this respect so far. Private companies can't initiate road construction projects independent of the government, but they've worked with the city of Redmond, have thrown money in the pot, and have created a private shuttle service that goes all the way to Seattle and helps take cars off of the road.
I am pimping my own employer's product here, and I'm admittedly biased, but we've got a phenomenal web-based/SaaS solution to this exact problem. We've done work for clients with billions and billions of rows of data (like 50+GB) and we've got a unique database that can generate reports in seconds that could take upwards of fifteen minutes on a SQL-backed solution. You can take any report, drill down arbitrarily into the data below, flip through the datasets, arbitrarily flip axes, filter out unwanted data on the fly, all that.
It's not a FOSS solution, but it is very affordable -- the last time we had a company-wide meeting marketing/sales was going off about how it costs about the same as a daily latte. Being a web solution, we're platform independent.
It is pretty much ready out of its metaphorical box. The only thing you need to setup on your end is the data export. We'll accept most any data format, usually tab-delimited CSVs. After we have your data, all you have to do is create reports, and we've got a team of people that can help you with that.
I think that's about enough self-pimping. There's more on our website, http://pivotlink.com.
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Very few computers that are part of a botnet are known by their owners to be part of a botnet. If people weren't idiots this wouldn't be a problem.
If they didn't push their users through Mionet, Western Digital would have no liability for the illegal file distribution activities of its customers.
Even with Mionet, I doubt that Western Digital would be liable for the illegal activities of users unless it was advertising Mionet as a source of free, copyrighted media.
This is nothing new. sjobs@apple.com, stevejobs@apple.com, and a few other addresses all go to Corporate Executive Relations. This is a group of premier customer service folks that have the power to get things done if the lower tiers are failing.
Please, everyone, don't abuse it. I've had a couple of issues that the regular AppleCare folks weren't taking care of properly, and those issues were promptly resolved by the friendly people in Corporate Executive Relations. I'd hate to see them lose their effectiveness because they're being bombarded with things that ought to be going to regular AppleCare.
I was thinking it was an April Fool's, but then I saw the product names. 360 and 180. Those numbers have nothing to do with what the products do, and are only going to confuse consumers who may think that there is some kind of spinning feature and that one model can't go all the way around.
These nonsensical product names can't be a hoax, they're completely in line with Microsoft's style.
Apple already operates the iTunes Music Store at close to zero profits. It only exists to spur sales of iPods. They're not going to forgo iPod profits to please overly greedy record companies.
Apple has stood up to far less ridiculous demands before, like price increases. They're not going to cave on this one.
If it aggregated all my subscribed RSS feeds on a single page, with full text, I'd probably switch, as those photo and blogging tools look great.
It nearly does, but falls short. I can view full-text articles when viewing a single feed, but there's no way to view whole articles when looking at the complete list of subscribed feeds.
Why have only Safari's developers figured this one out?
How much of this revenue comes from consumers and how much comes from business customers? IBM no longer serves the consumer market, so these new numbers might just be a result of a sizable chunk of IBM's revenues becoming property of Lenovo.
I cringe to think that HP is pulling ahead due to some kind of brand loyalty among consumers. Their consumer line of products is probably the worst you can buy at major retailers. I replaced my PSC 1310 quickly after I found that HP's OS X drivers put a line in/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist that starts up an app at every login that places an HP icon in the Dock. You can't remove this item through System Preferences, you have to go in and delete the entry from the plist. Most users would have no idea how to do this. Poor consumers...
This would get overturned if ever appealed to a sensible court. The interstate commerce clause gives Congress exclusive jurisdiction in regulating matters of interstate trade.
The only reason that doubling the number of nuclear plants wouldn't have an impact on emissions is because there are so few nuclear plants. For the UK, doubling would mean 23 more plants that would cover 20% of the UK's electricity needs.
I couldn't find details, but the study likely also ignores the benefits of nuclear plants in relation to automobiles. Currently, if a person drives an electric car, he'll still be causing emissions at the electric plant. In conjunction with electric car technology, nuclear plants could be a way to significantly reduce emissions that result from vehicles.
The build I'm using doesn't add "http://" for you, which is a bit annoying but might not be a bad security precaution.
How could that be a good thing? It's entirely redundant to have to type in http:/// in a web browser. That's like being required to write MAIL: on every envelope you send out.
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That's pretty much the only thing you can do with a patent, stop someone else from using it. (Licensing is just an agreement not to exercise that power.)
You can also stop someone else from patenting your idea and stopping you from using it.
If my phone got exploited I'd just restore from my latest backup, it might take all of twenty minutes.
Running on the cheapest hardware possible and engineering the software to gracefully deal with hardware failure is exactly how Google runs their datacenters, as well. As long as you've got the talent to pull it off, it's much more cost effective than buying a prefab solution.
This is the lamest April Fools' I've seen all day.
148th Ave is a nightmare from like 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. every weekday. I try to avoid going anywhere near it during those times, which means I don't do any shopping at Fred Meyer or the stores around it at those times, which means I'm just chilling at home not stimulating my local economy.
I don't care much for Microsoft products, but I think they've been good citizens in this respect so far. Private companies can't initiate road construction projects independent of the government, but they've worked with the city of Redmond, have thrown money in the pot, and have created a private shuttle service that goes all the way to Seattle and helps take cars off of the road.
I am pimping my own employer's product here, and I'm admittedly biased, but we've got a phenomenal web-based/SaaS solution to this exact problem. We've done work for clients with billions and billions of rows of data (like 50+GB) and we've got a unique database that can generate reports in seconds that could take upwards of fifteen minutes on a SQL-backed solution. You can take any report, drill down arbitrarily into the data below, flip through the datasets, arbitrarily flip axes, filter out unwanted data on the fly, all that.
It's not a FOSS solution, but it is very affordable -- the last time we had a company-wide meeting marketing/sales was going off about how it costs about the same as a daily latte. Being a web solution, we're platform independent.
It is pretty much ready out of its metaphorical box. The only thing you need to setup on your end is the data export. We'll accept most any data format, usually tab-delimited CSVs. After we have your data, all you have to do is create reports, and we've got a team of people that can help you with that.
I think that's about enough self-pimping. There's more on our website, http://pivotlink.com.
Very few computers that are part of a botnet are known by their owners to be part of a botnet. If people weren't idiots this wouldn't be a problem.
If they didn't push their users through Mionet, Western Digital would have no liability for the illegal file distribution activities of its customers.
Even with Mionet, I doubt that Western Digital would be liable for the illegal activities of users unless it was advertising Mionet as a source of free, copyrighted media.
This guy needs to post his kernel panic log. I'm curious to see what's causing so many panic events.
This is nothing new. sjobs@apple.com, stevejobs@apple.com, and a few other addresses all go to Corporate Executive Relations. This is a group of premier customer service folks that have the power to get things done if the lower tiers are failing.
Please, everyone, don't abuse it. I've had a couple of issues that the regular AppleCare folks weren't taking care of properly, and those issues were promptly resolved by the friendly people in Corporate Executive Relations. I'd hate to see them lose their effectiveness because they're being bombarded with things that ought to be going to regular AppleCare.
I was thinking it was an April Fool's, but then I saw the product names. 360 and 180. Those numbers have nothing to do with what the products do, and are only going to confuse consumers who may think that there is some kind of spinning feature and that one model can't go all the way around.
These nonsensical product names can't be a hoax, they're completely in line with Microsoft's style.
And then there's a sizeable amount of people with obscure corporate keys that aren't legit that can successfully pass the WGA check!
What about the guy that cracked HD-DVD's encryption scheme? That's surely more significant than most of these, and it happened in 2006.
Apple already operates the iTunes Music Store at close to zero profits. It only exists to spur sales of iPods. They're not going to forgo iPod profits to please overly greedy record companies.
Apple has stood up to far less ridiculous demands before, like price increases. They're not going to cave on this one.
It was announced months ago that Apple was partnering with Softbank, a Japanese phone company. I can't believe no one remembers this.
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http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/05/12/1648586.
Wasteful? If it's cheaper to make a good elsewhere and then ship it than to make it locally, it's more wasteful to produce that good locally.
Economics classes should be required to graduate high school.
If it aggregated all my subscribed RSS feeds on a single page, with full text, I'd probably switch, as those photo and blogging tools look great.
It nearly does, but falls short. I can view full-text articles when viewing a single feed, but there's no way to view whole articles when looking at the complete list of subscribed feeds.
Why have only Safari's developers figured this one out?
How much of this revenue comes from consumers and how much comes from business customers? IBM no longer serves the consumer market, so these new numbers might just be a result of a sizable chunk of IBM's revenues becoming property of Lenovo.
/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist that starts up an app at every login that places an HP icon in the Dock. You can't remove this item through System Preferences, you have to go in and delete the entry from the plist. Most users would have no idea how to do this. Poor consumers...
I cringe to think that HP is pulling ahead due to some kind of brand loyalty among consumers. Their consumer line of products is probably the worst you can buy at major retailers. I replaced my PSC 1310 quickly after I found that HP's OS X drivers put a line in
This would get overturned if ever appealed to a sensible court. The interstate commerce clause gives Congress exclusive jurisdiction in regulating matters of interstate trade.
Is this exclusive in the sense of the PS2, where other platforms are only available after the PS2 version has been out for many months?
Or will GTA IV only be available on the 360, when it is originally released and forever?
The only reason that doubling the number of nuclear plants wouldn't have an impact on emissions is because there are so few nuclear plants. For the UK, doubling would mean 23 more plants that would cover 20% of the UK's electricity needs.
I couldn't find details, but the study likely also ignores the benefits of nuclear plants in relation to automobiles. Currently, if a person drives an electric car, he'll still be causing emissions at the electric plant. In conjunction with electric car technology, nuclear plants could be a way to significantly reduce emissions that result from vehicles.
It's functionally equivalent to being bundled with the OS, as you can't buy the computer required to run the OS without getting iLife.
Unless, you're not running Mac hardware at all, that is.
Me too. http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quartzextrem
How could that be a good thing? It's entirely redundant to have to type in http:/// in a web browser. That's like being required to write MAIL: on every envelope you send out.
Even if Russia passes DMCA look-alike laws, they don't have any resources for enforcement.