The thing with Amazon is that they have transitioned over the years from being a large online retailer to being an even bigger venue for others to sell their goods. The value they add is mandatory good customer service. If something goes wrong with the order I know that I will get a refund or exchange and won't have to go through hell to do so. I have had enough problems with NewEgg and most every other online retailers that I am more than happy to let Amazon be the middle man for my transactions.
The details of the negotiations between Apple and Motorolla have not been disclosed, however, we do know that Motorolla approached Apple as soon as the iPhone was launched, and offered them terms that they considered to be FRAND. Apple rejected those terms (whatever they were), and offered their own, which Motorolla rejected. Judges in Germany and the ITC apparently both agree that Motorolla's offer was FRAND, otherwise they wouldn't have ruled the way they did. Furthermore, we know these courts are not pushovers on this matter considering how quickly they slapped down Samsung for it's actual abuse of FRAND patents.
When and if more details come out, they may tell a different story, but all the signs so far point to Apple being in the wrong here.
If I draw a picture on a piece of paper, we call that drawing two-dimensional despite the fact that the graphite and pulp that is formed with have thickness. Likewise, if a crystal only grows along a plane (rather than in three dimensions), then that crystalline structure is two-dimensional, even though the crystal itself is a three dimensional object. This is the same thing, the sheet of glass is three-dimensional, but the structure of the amorphous solid is two-dimensional.
Microsoft has been trying to push Hyper-V support into Linux, but their original driver code was complete shit, and it's just barely starting to get better. It's almost stable now, but not fully functional. So, yes it is fair to say that Hyper-V support is being removed from OpenStack because Microsoft's support for Hyper-V on Linux has been very poor.
The Globe and Mail is also running this story and they included a picture of the device, just like every other site that ran the Reuters story. But thank you slashdot for continuing to link to shitty IBT stories, because I had never seen a crab before.
The mentality of those sort of people is that if crimes are still occurring then the law isn't strong enough. Of course that is an insane position - laws can't stop crime just punish it after the fact - but it is one that is held by a huge number of people. Every time an atrocious act is committed, they are right there demanding that we need harsher punishments, more intrusive policing, fewer freedoms, anything to make them think something is done to end <PROBELM>, and the power hungry in politics are happy to oblige.
There is no reasoning with them, the best you can do is try to prevent them from corrupting their children with the same mentality, and make sure that you are just as loud to your congressman as they are.
There have been standardized tests in elementary through high schools for at least 30 years. Back then they were treated as they should be: a useful data point in determining how well students/teachers were performing, but not the end-all-be-all of the education system.
In the last 15 years, the number of standardized tests for kids, paperwork and mandatory training for teachers has increased so much that students are spending almost an additional month of the year away from the classroom because of it. Classes are now being taught for test, rather than making any attempt to put the information in context. All because some stupid MBA-types don't know how to effectively administrate, and want their job boiled down to looking at a few numbers.
Trying to judge a teacher solely on metrics is as stupid as trying to judge a programmer on lines-of-code per day, or bug-fixes per week, or average time to close support tickets. If make everything of value (teacher's salary, student's opportunities) dependent on the formulaic application of metrics then all they will tell you is how good people are at gaming the metrics. The result is a worse education system, just like over-reliance on metrics in business is a great way to have a division that looks good on paper just before it blows up in your face.
Now that they are saying they are willing and able to police every message that goes through their system
They never said that. They said that if they are asked to take material down, they can now do so on a country-by-country basis rather than globally. Does removing content due to a DMCA request cause you to loose "common carrier status"? No, it is necessary to preserve it! Does removing neo-Nazi material in Germany when it is pointed out cause you to loose "common carrier status". No! All this talk about Twitter opening itself up to liability simply by complying with the law is completely unfounded and ignorant of the law.
If you operate in a country you are required to abide by their laws. Google and all the other major search engines have been blocking content for years. Twitter is doing so in a manner that does not affect people outside of that country, which draws attention to the fact that censorship is taking place, and allows for an easy work-around (proxies) to access the information which has been blocked. It is the best possible implementation they could have chosen which still complies with the law.
You signed a contract with AT&T. They can either abide by that contract for the full two years and allow you to keep the same rates, or they can allow you to leave with no penalty.
Separately, Japan's Masato Sagawa, president of Intermetallics Co., was honored with the prize for Environment, Energy and Infrastructure for "developing the world's highest-performing neodymium-iron-boron (Nd-Fe-B) type permanent magnet and contributing to energy conservation."
Its better than "contributes to energy conservation" which is pretty tenuous grasp
I'm not a EE, but wouldn't finding a stronger permanent magnet increase the energy efficiency of any electric motor or generator, thus leading to energy conservation across the board?
By increasing the initial window size from 3 to 10 they add to the bufferbloat effect (at the microscopic level) and increase Jitter from tolerable 38 ms to intolerable 126 ms on a 1 Mbit/s ADSL line. This level of jitter severely affects VoIP sound quality.
I'm being genuine; I would like to read about this more. My initial guess would be that increasing the initial window size will have minimal effect on the jitter for both that stream and others it is sharing bandwidth with. First because any TCP connection that is open for for more than a few round trips will quickly grow to a window size greater than 10 anyway, and secondly because it will be broken into MTU sized chunks at the router level regardless of the window size. If I am wrong about this, I would really like to understand.why so I don't remain ignorant.
In Google's earning call 5 days ago they claimed that 60% of Google+ members "engaged" daily and 80% weekly. After being pressed on the issue they confirmed that they were counting Google+ members who accessed any of their services at least daily/weekly, not just ones who visited Google+ daily/weekly.
The "private market" has already used millions of dollars of federal tax money to build out their networks. So basically what this law is saying is that it was okay for the incumbent operators to take tax money, but bar any new competition from doing the same.
That sounds more like a protection racket than a free market policy.
They are handling this the same way that many other languages which "don't allow null" do.
By default, references are not allowed to hold null pointers, and the compiler enforces this by ensuring that a valid object is assigned when the variable is created. This is nice for the majority of references which should never be null.
When a reference can be null, it has to be defined using special syntax (like adding a question mark to the type). In this case, the compiler forces to always check for null before dereferencing the variable. Which is also nice.
Those who look at the language as it's grammar will say they have been removed. But those who look at the language as what you can do with in realizes the concept still exists, just with different syntax. Either way the language strictly limits the way you use them to eliminate nearly all of their problems.
I looked into these when buying a car several years ago, and was underwhelmed by both their price and their fuel efficiency. Looking at their specs again, they have gotten a little more competitive, but when you can get a much more versatile economy car such as a Toyota Yaris or a Hyundai Accent for similar price and gas mileage why would anyone I want to buy a Smart car?
From what I've read (leaked email exchanges between Universal and Google lawyers that occurred long before this happened), they disagreed over what the terms of the take-down agreement allowed, with UMG interpreting it as including works that they don't have copyright claim to, though that was not YouTube's original intent.
No, it isn't a first amendment violation, but it is censorship. The word and concept has never been limited to the government. Universal Studios used their power to censor what Megaupload had to say, and anytime those with power use it to silence other it is a big problem, not just when the government does so.
Megaupload paid to create a video promoting/defending their site and posted it on YouTube. Universal Music (who had no legal claim to the video) abused the take-down agreement they had with Google (and possibly the DMCA) to pull this video off of YouTube simply because they didn't like it. That is a cut-and-dry case of censorship if I have ever heard it.
If the information in the indictment is true then Megaupload is guilty of copyright infringement and should be held accountable for it. However, Universal Music should also be held accountable for their abuses of the law.
Same happened to me. I created an account a couple months ago to sign a petition, but after verifying the account and signing in, the "sign this petition" button was still grayed out. Tried it again today, and it is still happening. Obviously it isn't a problem for everyone as people use the site all the time, but I haven't figured out what the problem is.
I am running Firefox on Linux, and the only plugin I have installed right now is flashblock.
Even before the ICE seizures began, Hollywood already succeeded in putting innocent websites out of business due the high cost of defending themselves. Rapidshare has to worry about loosing in court. Everyone else has to worry about being shutdown despite being on the right side of the law.
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The thing with Amazon is that they have transitioned over the years from being a large online retailer to being an even bigger venue for others to sell their goods. The value they add is mandatory good customer service. If something goes wrong with the order I know that I will get a refund or exchange and won't have to go through hell to do so. I have had enough problems with NewEgg and most every other online retailers that I am more than happy to let Amazon be the middle man for my transactions.
Yeah, and informed account of that decision by the actual lawyer for ReDigi was
posted on slashdot just this morning.
Adult stem cell are easier to control, but are not nearly as versatile as fetal stem cells. It is wrong to claim one is better than the other.
The details of the negotiations between Apple and Motorolla have not been disclosed, however, we do know that Motorolla approached Apple as soon as the iPhone was launched, and offered them terms that they considered to be FRAND. Apple rejected those terms (whatever they were), and offered their own, which Motorolla rejected. Judges in Germany and the ITC apparently both agree that Motorolla's offer was FRAND, otherwise they wouldn't have ruled the way they did. Furthermore, we know these courts are not pushovers on this matter considering how quickly they slapped down Samsung for it's actual abuse of FRAND patents.
When and if more details come out, they may tell a different story, but all the signs so far point to Apple being in the wrong here.
Do have any references that Motorola refused to license their FRAND patents under FRAND terms? Because they didn't.
The link to the peer reviewed paper is in the NYT article.
If I draw a picture on a piece of paper, we call that drawing two-dimensional despite the fact that the graphite and pulp that is formed with have thickness. Likewise, if a crystal only grows along a plane (rather than in three dimensions), then that crystalline structure is two-dimensional, even though the crystal itself is a three dimensional object. This is the same thing, the sheet of glass is three-dimensional, but the structure of the amorphous solid is two-dimensional.
Microsoft has been trying to push Hyper-V support into Linux, but their original driver code was complete shit, and it's just barely starting to get better. It's almost stable now, but not fully functional. So, yes it is fair to say that Hyper-V support is being removed from OpenStack because Microsoft's support for Hyper-V on Linux has been very poor.
The Globe and Mail is also running this story and they included a picture of the device, just like every other site that ran the Reuters story. But thank you slashdot for continuing to link to shitty IBT stories, because I had never seen a crab before.
The mentality of those sort of people is that if crimes are still occurring then the law isn't strong enough. Of course that is an insane position - laws can't stop crime just punish it after the fact - but it is one that is held by a huge number of people. Every time an atrocious act is committed, they are right there demanding that we need harsher punishments, more intrusive policing, fewer freedoms, anything to make them think something is done to end <PROBELM>, and the power hungry in politics are happy to oblige.
There is no reasoning with them, the best you can do is try to prevent them from corrupting their children with the same mentality, and make sure that you are just as loud to your congressman as they are.
There have been standardized tests in elementary through high schools for at least 30 years. Back then they were treated as they should be: a useful data point in determining how well students/teachers were performing, but not the end-all-be-all of the education system.
In the last 15 years, the number of standardized tests for kids, paperwork and mandatory training for teachers has increased so much that students are spending almost an additional month of the year away from the classroom because of it. Classes are now being taught for test, rather than making any attempt to put the information in context. All because some stupid MBA-types don't know how to effectively administrate, and want their job boiled down to looking at a few numbers.
Trying to judge a teacher solely on metrics is as stupid as trying to judge a programmer on lines-of-code per day, or bug-fixes per week, or average time to close support tickets. If make everything of value (teacher's salary, student's opportunities) dependent on the formulaic application of metrics then all they will tell you is how good people are at gaming the metrics. The result is a worse education system, just like over-reliance on metrics in business is a great way to have a division that looks good on paper just before it blows up in your face.
Now that they are saying they are willing and able to police every message that goes through their system
They never said that. They said that if they are asked to take material down, they can now do so on a country-by-country basis rather than globally. Does removing content due to a DMCA request cause you to loose "common carrier status"? No, it is necessary to preserve it! Does removing neo-Nazi material in Germany when it is pointed out cause you to loose "common carrier status". No! All this talk about Twitter opening itself up to liability simply by complying with the law is completely unfounded and ignorant of the law.
If you operate in a country you are required to abide by their laws. Google and all the other major search engines have been blocking content for years. Twitter is doing so in a manner that does not affect people outside of that country, which draws attention to the fact that censorship is taking place, and allows for an easy work-around (proxies) to access the information which has been blocked. It is the best possible implementation they could have chosen which still complies with the law.
You signed a contract with AT&T. They can either abide by that contract for the full two years and allow you to keep the same rates, or they can allow you to leave with no penalty.
No, the article says that:
Separately, Japan's Masato Sagawa, president of Intermetallics Co., was honored with the prize for Environment, Energy and Infrastructure for "developing the world's highest-performing neodymium-iron-boron (Nd-Fe-B) type permanent magnet and contributing to energy conservation."
Its better than "contributes to energy conservation" which is pretty tenuous grasp
I'm not a EE, but wouldn't finding a stronger permanent magnet increase the energy efficiency of any electric motor or generator, thus leading to energy conservation across the board?
By increasing the initial window size from 3 to 10 they add to the bufferbloat effect (at the microscopic level) and increase Jitter from tolerable 38 ms to intolerable 126 ms on a 1 Mbit/s ADSL line. This level of jitter severely affects VoIP sound quality.
I'm being genuine; I would like to read about this more. My initial guess would be that increasing the initial window size will have minimal effect on the jitter for both that stream and others it is sharing bandwidth with. First because any TCP connection that is open for for more than a few round trips will quickly grow to a window size greater than 10 anyway, and secondly because it will be broken into MTU sized chunks at the router level regardless of the window size. If I am wrong about this, I would really like to understand.why so I don't remain ignorant.
In Google's earning call 5 days ago they claimed that 60% of Google+ members "engaged" daily and 80% weekly. After being pressed on the issue they confirmed that they were counting Google+ members who accessed any of their services at least daily/weekly, not just ones who visited Google+ daily/weekly.
The "private market" has already used millions of dollars of federal tax money to build out their networks. So basically what this law is saying is that it was okay for the incumbent operators to take tax money, but bar any new competition from doing the same.
That sounds more like a protection racket than a free market policy.
They are handling this the same way that many other languages which "don't allow null" do.
By default, references are not allowed to hold null pointers, and the compiler enforces this by ensuring that a valid object is assigned when the variable is created. This is nice for the majority of references which should never be null.
When a reference can be null, it has to be defined using special syntax (like adding a question mark to the type). In this case, the compiler forces to always check for null before dereferencing the variable. Which is also nice.
Those who look at the language as it's grammar will say they have been removed. But those who look at the language as what you can do with in realizes the concept still exists, just with different syntax. Either way the language strictly limits the way you use them to eliminate nearly all of their problems.
I looked into these when buying a car several years ago, and was underwhelmed by both their price and their fuel efficiency. Looking at their specs again, they have gotten a little more competitive, but when you can get a much more versatile economy car such as a Toyota Yaris or a Hyundai Accent for similar price and gas mileage why would anyone I want to buy a Smart car?
From what I've read (leaked email exchanges between Universal and Google lawyers that occurred long before this happened), they disagreed over what the terms of the take-down agreement allowed, with UMG interpreting it as including works that they don't have copyright claim to, though that was not YouTube's original intent.
No, it isn't a first amendment violation, but it is censorship. The word and concept has never been limited to the government. Universal Studios used their power to censor what Megaupload had to say, and anytime those with power use it to silence other it is a big problem, not just when the government does so.
Megaupload paid to create a video promoting/defending their site and posted it on YouTube. Universal Music (who had no legal claim to the video) abused the take-down agreement they had with Google (and possibly the DMCA) to pull this video off of YouTube simply because they didn't like it. That is a cut-and-dry case of censorship if I have ever heard it.
If the information in the indictment is true then Megaupload is guilty of copyright infringement and should be held accountable for it. However, Universal Music should also be held accountable for their abuses of the law.
Same happened to me. I created an account a couple months ago to sign a petition, but after verifying the account and signing in, the "sign this petition" button was still grayed out. Tried it again today, and it is still happening. Obviously it isn't a problem for everyone as people use the site all the time, but I haven't figured out what the problem is.
I am running Firefox on Linux, and the only plugin I have installed right now is flashblock.
Even before the ICE seizures began, Hollywood already succeeded in putting innocent websites out of business due the high cost of defending themselves. Rapidshare has to worry about loosing in court. Everyone else has to worry about being shutdown despite being on the right side of the law.