For what it's worth, the majority of the money in VC funds comes not from super-wealthy individuals (although family offices are in there), but from institutional investors like pension funds and endowments which make money for a much broader group of people.
Keep in mind that a big reasons we managed to wire up the whole country with electric, phone, and cable is that we gave those companies local monopolies on delivery of power, telecom, and TV.
If you were to offer Google a monopoly on Internet access in an area, it would appear profitable VERY quickly.
The real isn't isn't who owns the car or the software, it's the always-connected online services that will be required for autonomous operation. The ride sharing limitations will almost certainly be covered under the TOS for those services. If you don't agree, the car is still yours but they can cut your services access at any time. The good news is that competition will eventually solve this problem. Tesla is far from having a monopoly on self driving cars.
Stanford had a good approach to this, at least when I went there (probably still do).
The intro-CS courses were offered in two parts (CS106A/B) or a single accelerated course (CS106X), with the requirement that students taking the accelerated course have previous programming experience.
All students end up covering the same material (which is important, since high school instruction varies greatly in quality), but you don't have half the class getting bored and the other half lost at the same time.
They spent several hours doing "test deployments"... while it's great to make sure you aren't going to make something worse, updating an SSL cert isn't exactly rocket science. I'd had to see how long it took to recover from a more serious service issue triggered by a software bug.
Looking at the first picture in the article, I thought they did an amazing job - even the geography was a match to what I remembered. Then I realized that was just a stock photo of the real Hallstatt.
The other pictures tell the real story. It's about as authentic as their Loius Wuitton purses or iFone knockoffs. The scenery around the location is also a poor imitation of the original.
The only real way to learn a programming language is to use it in a real project. Come up with something you've always wanted but can't find and make it happen. That's the great thing about programming. You'll learn more doing that than you ever will from a book.
Since you're already a Jungle Disk customer, the upgrade is free. Jungle Disk 3.0 also has a new backup engine that does block-level de-duplication and compression, making it by far the most efficient method for doing online backup.
Seems like most gopher sites are just lists of... other gopher sites. Kind like the web in 1993 (when there were 100 web sites and all the content was in Gopher). Guess they finally swapped places.
Should have been this article.
That said, I don't think anyone claims SSD is better than HDD if your bottleneck is capacity or sequential read speed. However if you do lots of random reads/writes, this line from the comparison says it all:
OCZ's drive had a random access time of.2 milliseconds; Seagate's 16.9 milliseconds.
That's an 84X difference.
All they needed to do to prevent this was to ensure that the cited references pre-dated the original edit. If you can't find a reference that pre-dates the edit, then you have to assume it's possible that the reference came from Wikipedia itself.
Arming the "Golden Shield" project with comprehensive IT technology
With the rapid development of the Internet, the public security information construction has become an important component of national information construction. Dawning made contributions in improving information technology level within all of the public security departments, arming the "Golden Shield" project with information technology, equipping the "police" force with digitalization, intensifying the police by technology and comprehensively raising China public security's law enforcement and administrative capacity.
They never show the shutdown process - my guess is that when you shutdown, it actually reboots, then right after Windows boots it puts it to sleep or hibernate (S3/S4). When you turn it back on, it wakes it and looks like you "just" booted up. Not really a bad idea I suppose - moves the boot time from boot to shutdown, when you are less likely to care. Of course you can get the same effect yourself by rebooting then just putting your machine to sleep when you want to shutdown. Someone could probably even write a simple software solution for this rather than requiring a whole new motherboard.
From a privacy perspective, Jungle Disk encrypts your data with a key you control prior to upload - no one else can read it. From a security perspective, you can read their Security Whitepaper here, but suffice it to say they take security really seriously.
As far as redundancy goes, your data gets stored in multiple Amazon datacenters around the country, which provides redundancy and high availability. At the end of the day, it's a far superior solution to anything you can cook up at home.
Of course there is a small cost involved, but at $0.15/GB it's quite inexpensive for what you are getting.
I heard this guy speak a the recent Structure08 conference. The way his solution works isn't throttling and doesn't rely on protocol inspection, nor does it target P2P directly. Instead, it ensures fair bandwidth between users, rather than between flows. Basically his argument is that the problem isn't P2P, it's just that P2P happens to make it hard to share bandwidth because of the huge number of connections it uses. His box makes sure bandwidth is shared fairly between users, regardless of the number of connections they are using. So if you have 10mbit, and 10 users, and all are trying to download something, each will get 1mbit, even if one user is using 10 connections and the others are using 1. It's certainly an interesting approach to dealing with the problem.
Microsoft has dropped the ball in a number of areas, particularly with regard to user-interface APIs which this article focuses mostly on, but in other ways it is far and away the easiest platform to develop for - mainly because of the quality of their development tools. Having done lots of development across Windows, Mac, and Linux with all kinds of editors, IDEs and debuggers, nothing comes close to Visual Studio in terms of functionality, quality, and just being solid. It's not perfect, but it's way better than anything else out there. For that reason alone Microsoft deserves some kudos from developers.
Use an Amazon S3 backup tool with built-in encryption like Jungle Disk and you won't need to worry. The fact that you can even use 3rd party tools says a lot more about Amazon's approach compared to other "cloud" storage providers.
Working in the oil exploration industry you should know that "bbl" is just "barrels", not billion barrels. The world uses ~83 million barrels a day, not 83 quadrillion. That doesn't change your overall point, but still...
That's what makes a solution like Amazon S3 with Jungle Disk appealing - your data is encrypted transparently before it leaves your machine with a personal, private key, and no one (Amazon included) can access it.
It's doubtful that Google or most other online storage provides will offer that however - they want to tie your data to their applications (e.g. edit your documents online, share your files through their web site) - and that just doesn't work if they can't read your encryption.
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For what it's worth, the majority of the money in VC funds comes not from super-wealthy individuals (although family offices are in there), but from institutional investors like pension funds and endowments which make money for a much broader group of people.
Keep in mind that a big reasons we managed to wire up the whole country with electric, phone, and cable is that we gave those companies local monopolies on delivery of power, telecom, and TV.
If you were to offer Google a monopoly on Internet access in an area, it would appear profitable VERY quickly.
The real isn't isn't who owns the car or the software, it's the always-connected online services that will be required for autonomous operation.
The ride sharing limitations will almost certainly be covered under the TOS for those services. If you don't agree, the car is still yours but they can cut your services access at any time.
The good news is that competition will eventually solve this problem. Tesla is far from having a monopoly on self driving cars.
It's a tar file. Instructions for downloading the logs manually here:
https://upload.teslamotors.com/
Did anyone else read that head line and think "hey, I didn't realize that Tesla had a Factory Racing team, those races would be fun to watch"....
Stanford had a good approach to this, at least when I went there (probably still do).
The intro-CS courses were offered in two parts (CS106A/B) or a single accelerated course (CS106X), with the requirement that students taking the accelerated course have previous programming experience.
All students end up covering the same material (which is important, since high school instruction varies greatly in quality), but you don't have half the class getting bored and the other half lost at the same time.
The really amazing thing is that if you look at their service dashboard, it took them 12 hours to update the certificates on their site:
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/service-dashboard/
They spent several hours doing "test deployments" ... while it's great to make sure you aren't going to make something worse, updating an SSL cert isn't exactly rocket science. I'd had to see how long it took to recover from a more serious service issue triggered by a software bug.
Looking at the first picture in the article, I thought they did an amazing job - even the geography was a match to what I remembered. Then I realized that was just a stock photo of the real Hallstatt.
The other pictures tell the real story. It's about as authentic as their Loius Wuitton purses or iFone knockoffs. The scenery around the location is also a poor imitation of the original.
If all other things get their mass from the Higgs Boson, where does the Higgs boson get its mass from?
You mean this one?
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2012-March/000156.html
The only real way to learn a programming language is to use it in a real project. Come up with something you've always wanted but can't find and make it happen. That's the great thing about programming. You'll learn more doing that than you ever will from a book.
On the original article:
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100129/NEWS02/1290397/
You're in luck! Jungle Disk 3.0 was released this week, with Sync support (for Windows, Mac, and Linux).
http://blog.jungledisk.com/2009/11/17/jungle-disk-launches-an-all-new-product-lineup/
Since you're already a Jungle Disk customer, the upgrade is free. Jungle Disk 3.0 also has a new backup engine that does block-level de-duplication and compression, making it by far the most efficient method for doing online backup.
Seems like most gopher sites are just lists of... other gopher sites. Kind like the web in 1993 (when there were 100 web sites and all the content was in Gopher). Guess they finally swapped places.
Should have been this article. .2 milliseconds; Seagate's 16.9 milliseconds.
That said, I don't think anyone claims SSD is better than HDD if your bottleneck is capacity or sequential read speed. However if you do lots of random reads/writes, this line from the comparison says it all:
OCZ's drive had a random access time of
That's an 84X difference.
All they needed to do to prevent this was to ensure that the cited references pre-dated the original edit. If you can't find a reference that pre-dates the edit, then you have to assume it's possible that the reference came from Wikipedia itself.
Arming the "Golden Shield" project with comprehensive IT technology
With the rapid development of the Internet, the public security information construction has become an important component of national information construction. Dawning made contributions in improving information technology level within all of the public security departments, arming the "Golden Shield" project with information technology, equipping the "police" force with digitalization, intensifying the police by technology and comprehensively raising China public security's law enforcement and administrative capacity.
I like how they quote "police" force.
They never show the shutdown process - my guess is that when you shutdown, it actually reboots, then right after Windows boots it puts it to sleep or hibernate (S3/S4). When you turn it back on, it wakes it and looks like you "just" booted up.
Not really a bad idea I suppose - moves the boot time from boot to shutdown, when you are less likely to care.
Of course you can get the same effect yourself by rebooting then just putting your machine to sleep when you want to shutdown. Someone could probably even write a simple software solution for this rather than requiring a whole new motherboard.
As far as redundancy goes, your data gets stored in multiple Amazon datacenters around the country, which provides redundancy and high availability. At the end of the day, it's a far superior solution to anything you can cook up at home.
Of course there is a small cost involved, but at $0.15/GB it's quite inexpensive for what you are getting.
I heard this guy speak a the recent Structure08 conference.
The way his solution works isn't throttling and doesn't rely on protocol inspection, nor does it target P2P directly.
Instead, it ensures fair bandwidth between users, rather than between flows. Basically his argument is that the problem isn't P2P, it's just that P2P happens to make it hard to share bandwidth because of the huge number of connections it uses. His box makes sure bandwidth is shared fairly between users, regardless of the number of connections they are using. So if you have 10mbit, and 10 users, and all are trying to download something, each will get 1mbit, even if one user is using 10 connections and the others are using 1.
It's certainly an interesting approach to dealing with the problem.
Microsoft has dropped the ball in a number of areas, particularly with regard to user-interface APIs which this article focuses mostly on, but in other ways it is far and away the easiest platform to develop for - mainly because of the quality of their development tools. Having done lots of development across Windows, Mac, and Linux with all kinds of editors, IDEs and debuggers, nothing comes close to Visual Studio in terms of functionality, quality, and just being solid. It's not perfect, but it's way better than anything else out there. For that reason alone Microsoft deserves some kudos from developers.
Step 1: Install Safari on millions of unsuspecting Windows PCs
Step 2: Sue non-Mac owning PC users for violating EULA
Step 3: ???
Use an Amazon S3 backup tool with built-in encryption like Jungle Disk and you won't need to worry. The fact that you can even use 3rd party tools says a lot more about Amazon's approach compared to other "cloud" storage providers.
Working in the oil exploration industry you should know that "bbl" is just "barrels", not billion barrels. The world uses ~83 million barrels a day, not 83 quadrillion.
That doesn't change your overall point, but still...
It's doubtful that Google or most other online storage provides will offer that however - they want to tie your data to their applications (e.g. edit your documents online, share your files through their web site) - and that just doesn't work if they can't read your encryption.