To measure the pollution coming from the Bay Area, planes should take air samples above Fresno because the Central Valley is the Bay Area's meteorological tailpipe.
Given the content of the patent, near-term expiration, and the fact that you were specifically targeted as a small business unlikely to have significant resources, the entire business model of this "law firm" revolves around extorting "license fees" from scared small businesses like yours. If you voluntarily agree to pay them, they win. If you tell them to buzz off, they move on to find the next sucker.
What _doesn't_ fit in to their business model is taking even one person to court. The cost of a single suit would negate the free money "licensing fees" from potentially hundreds of suckers who just went ahead and wrote a check out of fear.
"Hey, lets move to Microsoft's Live.EDU" and then the problem is somebody else's."
Google and Microsoft only create accounts with the names you feed them from your own identity management system - so this is a relevant policy/programming question regardless of who runs the server.
There is a little lever on the side that makes it what it is. That little lever switches the piece from semi-automatic to full automatic. That is the one determining characteristic of an "assault weapon".
According to who?
I see this particular bit of rhetoric bandied about quite a bit recently but find zero supporting evidence for the claim that the defining characteristic of an "assault weapon" is the capability for fully-automatic fire. Neither the technical or colloquial definitions I've come across seem to suggest this. It is most certainly not the case when referring to legal definitions.
Last night they announced that they hit the 3,000 subscriber mark they were shooting for and will make a go at opening.
I wish them the best, though I think there are still some very big questions to be answered about the viability of the business model. Will the studios go along with it? Will subscriptions _remain_ high enough after the buzz fades away to be a viable business? I hope so, but only time will tell. The local economy is almost entirely tourism based, and their model effectively shuts out tourists who I think will be reluctant to shell out $16 for a day pass - so long-term local support is essential.
One explanation I heard for the typical RAM limitation is that the Intel Ultrabook spec requires the machine to wake up from hibernation in a specified period of time - and it's short enough that even fast SSDs have trouble loading much more than 4GB of data back into memory within the allotted time - So most manufacturers are limiting their systems to 4GB to keep the free marketing and awareness that comes with being an "Intel Ultrabook (tm)".
I just happened to be on US 50 in the Sacramento area when it flew overhead. Traffic slowed to a crawl to get a peek, some people just stopped. Very cool that these things can cause that type of reaction - even as they're being mothballed.
Unfortunately the spectacle caused more than a few fender benders.
The future of ZFS and the product that was OpenSolaris has really started to take shape over the last few months and there is a lot of good work going on around it. Illumos has set up a proper foundation that will be shepherding the development of their OS and ZFS fork. They've got some good commercial backing (Nexenta, Joyent, and others), and many of the original ZFS engineers from Sun are actively involved in the development. A lot of work is going on right now in terms of revamping the versioning scheme to ensure some level of feature interoperability between "open" ZFS and "Oracle" ZFS (assuming Oracle chooses not to play ball in the long run).
If you're looking for an inbetween solution, Nexenta is at an interesting place in the market. They are an order of magnitude cheaper than the tier 1 providers, but you're not completely on your own if you still have interest in some sort of commercial support contract. For the record I'm not affiliated with them in any way other than being a satisfied customer.
I'll also echo the previous comments about ZFS dedup and RAM - you need enough memory for the entire dedup table to fit in RAM (or a fast L2ARC SSD) or performance will tank. There is a formula buried in the documentation somewhere for determining requirements based on the size of your pool.
While ZFS at v28 has proven to be both a lot of fun and very useful for many of us, the updates since (first available for general use with Solaris 11 Express last year I believe) add a few really nice features
Careful, they've also abruptly removed a few really nice features in later versions that have caused major headaches for me and many others. For example the "aclmode" property was completely removed from version 31 - completely breaking a lot of deployments that made extensive use of ACLs. Version 33 released today with Solaris 11 thankfully restores that feature after significant outcry from affected customers (I believe Illumos went forward and restored it on their own as well) - but the damage has been done in a lot of cases.
Just a word of warning to be very careful before running "zpool upgrade" as Oracle's philosophy on backward compatibility and stability of existing features seems to be quite different than that of Sun.
Last I checked the most recent ZFS on-disk version available for FreeBSD was quite old. ZFS development has been picked up in earnest by Illumos as of late with a lot of backing from companies like Nexenta and Joyent.
I'm not disputing the fact that they should return the money if they can't make good on their promise - but pointing to a bunch of other low volume US manufactured cars made by huge global automakers isn't really a fair or relevant comparison.
There are factories in the US building small volume high quality sports cars, Viper, Corvette, CTS, CTS-V (coupe, sports wagon, sedan), BMW, Audi, plus lower volume companies and aftermarket makers like Panoz
Every example cited there has the resources and capital of a large multi-national corporation from which to source parts and spread development/production costs of low-volume models over. Except for Panoz, which sources complete drivetrains and many other bits wholesale from Ford. Not an apples/apples comparison IMO.
Truth. Any extra resources in the public school system - which let's face it, there are no "extra" resources in our current public school system - are devoted to bringing those on the opposite end of the spectrum up to grade level. There are very few programs and opportunities to advance a gifted child within the system.
Public schooling in the US is not for gifted children. Your only viable options are home or private schooling. The child's opportunities for learning and enrichment are only going to be as good as the resources and involvement the parent can provide.
Yup, and we as a society should have zero tolerance for drunk drivers, just as we should have zero tolerance for public smoking (which even by conservative estimates contributes to twice as many premature deaths per year in the US).
Your right to enjoy your vice stops where it impacts the health or life of another individual.
My "CS" University experience was quite different from yours, with four different emphasis tracks students could choose from - software engineering, computational theory, operating systems/hardware, and databases.
Yes, "programming" is a major component of all of those, but a proper computer science foundation will teach underlying fundamentals that a student could then apply equally well to most any skilled job in IT, from software engineering to systems administration. My computer science education was far from just "programming", and I'm thankful for it every day.
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To measure the pollution coming from the Bay Area, planes should take air samples above Fresno because the Central Valley is the Bay Area's meteorological tailpipe.
They did, last week.
Given the content of the patent, near-term expiration, and the fact that you were specifically targeted as a small business unlikely to have significant resources, the entire business model of this "law firm" revolves around extorting "license fees" from scared small businesses like yours. If you voluntarily agree to pay them, they win. If you tell them to buzz off, they move on to find the next sucker.
What _doesn't_ fit in to their business model is taking even one person to court. The cost of a single suit would negate the free money "licensing fees" from potentially hundreds of suckers who just went ahead and wrote a check out of fear.
"Hey, lets move to Microsoft's Live.EDU" and then the problem is somebody else's."
Google and Microsoft only create accounts with the names you feed them from your own identity management system - so this is a relevant policy/programming question regardless of who runs the server.
There is a little lever on the side that makes it what it is. That little lever switches the piece from semi-automatic to full automatic. That is the one determining characteristic of an "assault weapon".
According to who?
I see this particular bit of rhetoric bandied about quite a bit recently but find zero supporting evidence for the claim that the defining characteristic of an "assault weapon" is the capability for fully-automatic fire. Neither the technical or colloquial definitions I've come across seem to suggest this. It is most certainly not the case when referring to legal definitions.
The theater serves a mountain area of many small communities. Total area population is in the 40k range.
This is my local theater.
Last night they announced that they hit the 3,000 subscriber mark they were shooting for and will make a go at opening.
I wish them the best, though I think there are still some very big questions to be answered about the viability of the business model. Will the studios go along with it? Will subscriptions _remain_ high enough after the buzz fades away to be a viable business? I hope so, but only time will tell. The local economy is almost entirely tourism based, and their model effectively shuts out tourists who I think will be reluctant to shell out $16 for a day pass - so long-term local support is essential.
People still run their own email servers?
One explanation I heard for the typical RAM limitation is that the Intel Ultrabook spec requires the machine to wake up from hibernation in a specified period of time - and it's short enough that even fast SSDs have trouble loading much more than 4GB of data back into memory within the allotted time - So most manufacturers are limiting their systems to 4GB to keep the free marketing and awareness that comes with being an "Intel Ultrabook (tm)".
I just happened to be on US 50 in the Sacramento area when it flew overhead. Traffic slowed to a crawl to get a peek, some people just stopped. Very cool that these things can cause that type of reaction - even as they're being mothballed.
Unfortunately the spectacle caused more than a few fender benders.
If the TSA doesn't get you in there, Larry Craig will...
You're welcome.
The remaining 2% is owned by the state... maybe he can convince them to put it up for a year's worth of maintenance on their DB servers.
... "cold" is not a flavor.
The future of ZFS and the product that was OpenSolaris has really started to take shape over the last few months and there is a lot of good work going on around it. Illumos has set up a proper foundation that will be shepherding the development of their OS and ZFS fork. They've got some good commercial backing (Nexenta, Joyent, and others), and many of the original ZFS engineers from Sun are actively involved in the development. A lot of work is going on right now in terms of revamping the versioning scheme to ensure some level of feature interoperability between "open" ZFS and "Oracle" ZFS (assuming Oracle chooses not to play ball in the long run).
If you're looking for an inbetween solution, Nexenta is at an interesting place in the market. They are an order of magnitude cheaper than the tier 1 providers, but you're not completely on your own if you still have interest in some sort of commercial support contract. For the record I'm not affiliated with them in any way other than being a satisfied customer.
I'll also echo the previous comments about ZFS dedup and RAM - you need enough memory for the entire dedup table to fit in RAM (or a fast L2ARC SSD) or performance will tank. There is a formula buried in the documentation somewhere for determining requirements based on the size of your pool.
While ZFS at v28 has proven to be both a lot of fun and very useful for many of us, the updates since (first available for general use with Solaris 11 Express last year I believe) add a few really nice features
Careful, they've also abruptly removed a few really nice features in later versions that have caused major headaches for me and many others. For example the "aclmode" property was completely removed from version 31 - completely breaking a lot of deployments that made extensive use of ACLs. Version 33 released today with Solaris 11 thankfully restores that feature after significant outcry from affected customers (I believe Illumos went forward and restored it on their own as well) - but the damage has been done in a lot of cases.
Just a word of warning to be very careful before running "zpool upgrade" as Oracle's philosophy on backward compatibility and stability of existing features seems to be quite different than that of Sun.
ZFS development has moved to FreeBSD.
Last I checked the most recent ZFS on-disk version available for FreeBSD was quite old. ZFS development has been picked up in earnest by Illumos as of late with a lot of backing from companies like Nexenta and Joyent.
I'm not disputing the fact that they should return the money if they can't make good on their promise - but pointing to a bunch of other low volume US manufactured cars made by huge global automakers isn't really a fair or relevant comparison.
There are factories in the US building small volume high quality sports cars, Viper, Corvette, CTS, CTS-V (coupe, sports wagon, sedan), BMW, Audi, plus lower volume companies and aftermarket makers like Panoz
Every example cited there has the resources and capital of a large multi-national corporation from which to source parts and spread development/production costs of low-volume models over. Except for Panoz, which sources complete drivetrains and many other bits wholesale from Ford. Not an apples/apples comparison IMO.
is there ever a good answer to distracting kids so you can do laundry, make food, take a shower or other necessary tasks?
Playpens with TVs?
The real question here is: why do people need so badly to take pictures and upload them to Facebook all the time?
Yes, I for one am completely perplexed by this new found fascination with photographing your own kids. It's so strange.
Truth. Any extra resources in the public school system - which let's face it, there are no "extra" resources in our current public school system - are devoted to bringing those on the opposite end of the spectrum up to grade level. There are very few programs and opportunities to advance a gifted child within the system.
Public schooling in the US is not for gifted children. Your only viable options are home or private schooling. The child's opportunities for learning and enrichment are only going to be as good as the resources and involvement the parent can provide.
And here I thought we were talking about a Jimmy Buffett concert.
But drunk drivers kill over 10,000 people a year.
Yup, and we as a society should have zero tolerance for drunk drivers, just as we should have zero tolerance for public smoking (which even by conservative estimates contributes to twice as many premature deaths per year in the US).
Your right to enjoy your vice stops where it impacts the health or life of another individual.
So, what are your vices?
Booze, of course. That said, nobody ever got cirrhosis of the liver by sitting next to me at the bar.
CS is programming.
Where did you go to school?
My "CS" University experience was quite different from yours, with four different emphasis tracks students could choose from - software engineering, computational theory, operating systems/hardware, and databases.
Yes, "programming" is a major component of all of those, but a proper computer science foundation will teach underlying fundamentals that a student could then apply equally well to most any skilled job in IT, from software engineering to systems administration. My computer science education was far from just "programming", and I'm thankful for it every day.