The fee does not apply to either ACH or AutoPay transactions. This leaves credit card payment as the only mechanism which does incur the fee. Verizon can't come out and say that the fee is because you're using a credit card, because the terms between credit card processors (e.g. MasterCard, VISA) and merchants (in this case, Verizon) specifically forbid altering the price if a credit card is used. When you pay a merchant with a credit card, the merchant only gets 97-99% of the price you pay with the card. 1-3% goes to the credit card company. Verizon can accept payment in any of three ways, but one of them costs Verizon more than the other two ways, and they consequently charge a fee. It's not exactly in-line with their costs, but considering what a monthly phone bill for a smart phone costs, it's not grossly far off, either.
Ron Paul is still in the race, but has very few delegates. Barring unprecedented performance on Super Duper Tuesday he's got less of a shot than Romney, McCain, or Huckabee.
That doesn't mean that he doesn't warrant discussion, though.
There's nothing rational here.
McVoy revoked Linus' license for something that Tridge did. That's like the cops arresting you because your neighbor stole money from a bank. (Sure, IF you should have ratted out your neighbor for some reason, this can be plausible...)
McVoy is claiming he had to do so to maintain the integrity of the source trees he hosts. If his tool cannot maintain sanity checks on what is being hosted from an arbitrary client, it is not, practicly speaking, the best SCM tool on the market, is it?
Never trust the client. The client is in the hands of the enemy.
...is like complaining about General Electric's light bulbs when they show you the termites which are eating your house from the foundation up.
Google Desktop Search is highlighting problems in Windows' Security, which is that there is none. This is good for Google in the long run on two fronts. It puts Microsoft on the defensive, as this is another issue that Microsoft will ultimately need to solve in security ahead of implementing new features. This gives Google the time to go on the offensive implementing new products for customers that are technically excellent and do not have the cooked in problems of Microsoft Software.
Rob,
When you were engineering UNIX, processors weren't as beefy, memory was grotesquely expensive, and storage was a premium.
These days all of these resources have largely become commodities and can be frittered away wastefully by neglectful programmers. Do you think that in an alternate world where UNIX hadn't been conceived as early in the progression of hardware as 1970, rather had come along at this stage in the timeline where hardware vastly outpaces all but the most glaringly negligent software, it would have been as compact, fast and efficient?
Thanks!
-Alex R.
I'm quizzical about the $250 loss figure reported in the article. Is that the cost, or the loss?
If it costs $250/month to run an ATM, I'd like the bank to find a human teller who works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for $250 a month.
If the ATM costs $250/month more than a human teller's salary, consider that a teller is operating 160 hours a month vs. an atm operating $744.
Either way the ATM is saving the bank money. The $250/month figure to me just seems like their excuse to keep the $2 service fees.
Last time I checked, J2ME is Java 2, Micro Edition, not Java 2 Media Edition. The point being that it is a very small virtual machine (as far as memory footprint and storage required)
Any time you start writing about Macintosh perform a little mental substitution.
Replace all occurances of Mac with BMW, and replace all occurances of Windows/Intel with Chevrolet.
For example:
Now, you would be hard-pressed to find someone that doesn't know a BMW owner.
I have to disagree here. I don't know any BMW owners, and nobody I know has a friend with a BMW either.
You are correct that BMW does have a "test drive" program though, the shiny BMW Stores in malls around the country. People play around with the display models, and that increases public awareness. Now it's not as good as bringing it home to try out, but it's a start. They just need to get better at convincing Average Joes WHY they should pay a premium for a BMW.
This shows a profound ignorance on the part of the court and the part of the former customer of NAC. While IP addresses can be portable, they are not under any circumstances like telephone numbers, land line or cell. There is functional routing information embedded in every single IP address, which is part of why the internet works in the first place.
Doing this will cause routing tables to grow exponentially if it continues unchecked, as it greatly reduces the hierarchical, logical nature of IP addresses and how they correspond to geographic providers of bandwidth.
This is bad, this is VERY BAD for the internet. I appreciate the person's concerns, but there is already a solution out there for portable addressing. It is known as DNS. They need to update their DNS records to point to new IPs from their new ISP, not strong arm their old ISP through the legal system into breaking the internet.
This is a failure of the legal system which will cause lasting damage to the internet, in my humble opinion.
There is a reason that every single desktop environment (barring GNOME 2.6) has dropped the "spatial desktop".
There is a reason that people now write code languages that are not Smalltalk, no matter how much you try and make them so.
There is a reason that people get cable modems/dsls, instead of dialing up an ISP on their phone.
Let the old technologies die. They served their purpose, and trying to ressurect them is not only painful to those around you, but to the poor, severely beaten corpses of these once proud horses.
FYI Bayesian Filtering isn't quite the same as a Neural network, a notable difference being that with bayes a much greater portion of the behavior learned by the system is easily available for analysis.
As there are so many different ways to represent the geometric structure of a 3D object that tie to the engine rendering that object. The fact of the matter is that 3D graphics rendering is still a non-trivial problem which requires optimizations for the use in question. Just about any piece of hardware still in use can handle JPEG and MP3 without a notable performance hit.
3D applications still push the limits of the hardware they run on and are keyed for specific intents; 3D games sacrifice detail and accuracy of modeling the interaction of light on surfaces for speed, while povray and RenderMan go for full hardcore ray tracing to make sure each pixel on the screen is accurately representing a reflective light model to the capacity of their respective engines.
Sadly, I don't think this arena has trivialized to a one size fits all format yet.
Ideally what Linux needs to do for game developers is offer them something more than what Windows gives them.
What could this possibly be? Imagine putting a game you just bought in your computer and it booting up with an OS which is minimalistic with regards to the game in question. Everything it needs and nothing more. Whatever overhead there might be in Windows is irrelevant, this OS is there and just does exactly what you as a game developer needs.
The system boots from the CD (ie knoppix), mounts your windows Hard Disk read/write for game saving, and loads the game. If it's a network game, it brings up your network interfaces too. Everything is detected, and the OS is configured the way the game needs it.
TO BOOT (no pun intended), you can also install the game as a normal windows game and run it from the windows environment if that's what you want, as a user.
Where could one obtain an operating system where they could build this bootable CD from and redistribute free of licensing fees??
What the OSS community who is interested should be focusing on is providing this technology for game developers, giving them a clean and robust migration path out of Windows. Then, miraculously, this framework can be put on top of your existing Linux install with no effort.
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The fee does not apply to either ACH or AutoPay transactions. This leaves credit card payment as the only mechanism which does incur the fee. Verizon can't come out and say that the fee is because you're using a credit card, because the terms between credit card processors (e.g. MasterCard, VISA) and merchants (in this case, Verizon) specifically forbid altering the price if a credit card is used. When you pay a merchant with a credit card, the merchant only gets 97-99% of the price you pay with the card. 1-3% goes to the credit card company. Verizon can accept payment in any of three ways, but one of them costs Verizon more than the other two ways, and they consequently charge a fee. It's not exactly in-line with their costs, but considering what a monthly phone bill for a smart phone costs, it's not grossly far off, either.
Ron Paul is still in the race, but has very few delegates. Barring unprecedented performance on Super Duper Tuesday he's got less of a shot than Romney, McCain, or Huckabee. That doesn't mean that he doesn't warrant discussion, though.
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But I'm glad to see Roland Piquepaille didn't make the list.
There's nothing rational here. McVoy revoked Linus' license for something that Tridge did. That's like the cops arresting you because your neighbor stole money from a bank. (Sure, IF you should have ratted out your neighbor for some reason, this can be plausible...) McVoy is claiming he had to do so to maintain the integrity of the source trees he hosts. If his tool cannot maintain sanity checks on what is being hosted from an arbitrary client, it is not, practicly speaking, the best SCM tool on the market, is it? Never trust the client. The client is in the hands of the enemy.
I wonder if the choicepoint execs are included in information you purchase from choicepoint?
Might want to check your math:
2^2 = 4
4 - 1 = 3
2^3 = 8
8 - 1 = 7
2^4 = 16
16-1 = 15
...is like complaining about General Electric's light bulbs when they show you the termites which are eating your house from the foundation up.
Google Desktop Search is highlighting problems in Windows' Security, which is that there is none. This is good for Google in the long run on two fronts. It puts Microsoft on the defensive, as this is another issue that Microsoft will ultimately need to solve in security ahead of implementing new features. This gives Google the time to go on the offensive implementing new products for customers that are technically excellent and do not have the cooked in problems of Microsoft Software.
Rob, When you were engineering UNIX, processors weren't as beefy, memory was grotesquely expensive, and storage was a premium. These days all of these resources have largely become commodities and can be frittered away wastefully by neglectful programmers. Do you think that in an alternate world where UNIX hadn't been conceived as early in the progression of hardware as 1970, rather had come along at this stage in the timeline where hardware vastly outpaces all but the most glaringly negligent software, it would have been as compact, fast and efficient? Thanks! -Alex R.
Software is a service, not a product.
The French and the Germans both had really crappy roads.
The French tried to solve this by giving their cars really springy suspensions that could handle the awful roads without a problem.
The germans made really well engineered roads and high test maintenance methods.
Looking at the resultant cars, who do you think had a better approach?
I'm quizzical about the $250 loss figure reported in the article. Is that the cost, or the loss? If it costs $250/month to run an ATM, I'd like the bank to find a human teller who works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for $250 a month. If the ATM costs $250/month more than a human teller's salary, consider that a teller is operating 160 hours a month vs. an atm operating $744. Either way the ATM is saving the bank money. The $250/month figure to me just seems like their excuse to keep the $2 service fees.
Caught the stock price when it was $4.19/share, and couldn't help but remember the Darl 419 scam email.
The derivative work? Right here
Last time I checked, J2ME is Java 2, Micro Edition, not Java 2 Media Edition. The point being that it is a very small virtual machine (as far as memory footprint and storage required)
Replace all occurances of Mac with BMW, and replace all occurances of Windows/Intel with Chevrolet.
For example:
Doing this will cause routing tables to grow exponentially if it continues unchecked, as it greatly reduces the hierarchical, logical nature of IP addresses and how they correspond to geographic providers of bandwidth.
This is bad, this is VERY BAD for the internet. I appreciate the person's concerns, but there is already a solution out there for portable addressing. It is known as DNS. They need to update their DNS records to point to new IPs from their new ISP, not strong arm their old ISP through the legal system into breaking the internet.
This is a failure of the legal system which will cause lasting damage to the internet, in my humble opinion.
There is a reason that every single desktop environment (barring GNOME 2.6) has dropped the "spatial desktop". There is a reason that people now write code languages that are not Smalltalk, no matter how much you try and make them so. There is a reason that people get cable modems/dsls, instead of dialing up an ISP on their phone. Let the old technologies die. They served their purpose, and trying to ressurect them is not only painful to those around you, but to the poor, severely beaten corpses of these once proud horses.
Just out of curiosity, how many Graphical User Interfaces have you written?
FYI Bayesian Filtering isn't quite the same as a Neural network, a notable difference being that with bayes a much greater portion of the behavior learned by the system is easily available for analysis.
Given that the ASF has wider industry support and several members of Sun, it may even get certified. This would be potentially bad news for JBoss.
As there are so many different ways to represent the geometric structure of a 3D object that tie to the engine rendering that object. The fact of the matter is that 3D graphics rendering is still a non-trivial problem which requires optimizations for the use in question. Just about any piece of hardware still in use can handle JPEG and MP3 without a notable performance hit.
3D applications still push the limits of the hardware they run on and are keyed for specific intents; 3D games sacrifice detail and accuracy of modeling the interaction of light on surfaces for speed, while povray and RenderMan go for full hardcore ray tracing to make sure each pixel on the screen is accurately representing a reflective light model to the capacity of their respective engines.
Sadly, I don't think this arena has trivialized to a one size fits all format yet.
... can't hear about it because he's dead, you insensitive clod!
Microsoft is looking to hire!
Ideally what Linux needs to do for game developers is offer them something more than what Windows gives them.
What could this possibly be? Imagine putting a game you just bought in your computer and it booting up with an OS which is minimalistic with regards to the game in question. Everything it needs and nothing more. Whatever overhead there might be in Windows is irrelevant, this OS is there and just does exactly what you as a game developer needs.
The system boots from the CD (ie knoppix), mounts your windows Hard Disk read/write for game saving, and loads the game. If it's a network game, it brings up your network interfaces too. Everything is detected, and the OS is configured the way the game needs it.
TO BOOT (no pun intended), you can also install the game as a normal windows game and run it from the windows environment if that's what you want, as a user.
Where could one obtain an operating system where they could build this bootable CD from and redistribute free of licensing fees??
What the OSS community who is interested should be focusing on is providing this technology for game developers, giving them a clean and robust migration path out of Windows. Then, miraculously, this framework can be put on top of your existing Linux install with no effort.
Call me crazy. ;)
I wish there was a -1: Luddite.