I mean, meal late isn't even something that you should reflect in the tip, that's the kitchen's fault and they don't get a share of the tips.
Not when the kitchen had the meal ready 20 minutes ago and it's been sitting under the warmer lamps drying out the whole time because the waiter/tress ignored it. If the kitchen itself is running behind, a good server will let their customers know what's going on.
Whether Oracle and IBM use either of the other's software has nothing to do with a patent war. I think you're confusing patent infringement and copyright infringement.
Besides, you *are* aware that IBM does more than just Websphere, right?
You have perceived something that most miss here: how fucked IBM and a large number of very big companies could be if Oracle really lets loose their patent torpedo salvo
Oracle's not the only company that's sitting on a respectable patent portfolio. I'm quite sure IBM and others could make life uncomfortable for Oracle as well.
Perhaps it's an arrogance thing, where Oracle thinks they're doing us a favour by releasing a freebie version after they build their Enterprise OS, whereas Red Hat sees us as part of process of producing their Enterprise OS. I'll support the latter model, which I believe is more sustainable.
Oracle has almost $114 billion in market cap and made almost $2.4 billion in profit this past *quarter*, which is almost exactly 100 times the profit that Red Hat made during the same time period. Yeah, I'm sure Larry Ellison is really concerned about "the community" and how they contribute to the sustainability of his products.
IPS is also the reason you can't do sparse zones in OpenSolaris. I'd rather have a package manager that doesn't destroy one of the better features of the operating system.
A large number of the H-1B professionals who work for MS and Intel and other tech companies, have come in the same way, by competing against other qualified candidates, including Americans, for the same salary, and proving themselves to be the best candidate.
The mere fact that they're competing against qualified American programmers is indicative of a problem. The H-1B program is predicated on the fiction that there aren't enough qualified Americans to fill the open positions to begin with.
There is basically nothing, aside from publicity, preventing him from being black-bagged by some three-letter-agency and never heard from again.
Aside from a pissed-off US government, I'd also worry about someone acting outside the realm of government direction (pissed-off Taliban sympathizers, etc.) deciding they want to find out what intel Assange is sitting on and just grabbing him off the street without concern for the consequences.
Bad form to reply to oneself, but of course I totally failed to account for the fact that the kids will need them anyway for schoolwork outside of tests. This is what happens when you turn your brain off for the weekend....
On the flip side, that means that only 60 calculators get sold to the school instead of hundreds to the students, so from TI's perspective it's probably not a viable solution.
Whether the users are happy or not doesn't mean squat to Facebook because their users aren't their customers. It's the happiness of their advertisers and those who purchase the data that Facebook continually mines that matters to them.
Plus you get the entertainment value of watching the face of the one kid that *did* hack his calculator as it's taken from him and given to someone else.
Well now in social situations when somebody asks you how many chicken nuggets you want, or how long you have been with the company, you don't look like a retard when you put your hands up and start counting fingers.
The sadistic side of me thinks it would probably enjoy seeing someone do that, but with Chisanbop.
Not to mention it's going to be tough finding someone willing to give up two months of their lives just for a working interview with no guarantee of further employment. Better be ready to pay consultant-level fees to those guys for those two months.
Both came from the mail providers' own SMTP servers.
And best of all, when you attempt to notify Hotmail of this kind of spam, they blow you off. They'll usually tell me "your headers were forged" when I can clearly see it's a genuine Hotmail server connecting to my SMTP box, and any general communication to the abuse address gets bounced because "in order to process your request, Hotmail Support needs a valid MSN/Hotmail hosted account".
As far as I'm concerned, Microsoft is directly contributing to the spam problem with such policies.
FreeBSD does a subset of things very well (networking, documentation, infrastructure design and naming), but ZFS is, unfortunately, not one of them (yet).
Add Xen to that list of "doesn't do well" too. If you're wanting to use FreeBSD as a dom0, you're just SOL. OpenSolaris was great in that you could use Zones for lightweight VMs, but if you needed a couple of Linux partitions on the same physical box you could do that and still be able to keep ZFS because the kernel itself supported all of those options. Being able to just effortlessly pop off another filesystem is great, as is being able to dynamically resize them at will. No such luck now, and it looks like a switch back to Linux will be in my future soon. LVM management is truly painful after you've gotten used to ZFS.
I see Blizzard still chasing this dream of moderation through identity and drastically reducing their moderation.
This is what annoys me. Blizzard *already* is not providing an adequate level of customer service IMO - you gotta love waiting 3 days to have a ticket answered in WoW, only to be given the same "disable your add-ons, and clear your Cache, Interface, and WTF folders" canned response. They've got bugs in the game that have been there for *years*, and often don't appear to put any kind of real QA effort into their releases (witness the fiasco a few months ago for the "Love is in the Air" event that had their servers down for *days*). They're pulling in roughly $150 million *per month* from the damn game, and they're still trying to reduce the level of service even further.
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I mean, meal late isn't even something that you should reflect in the tip, that's the kitchen's fault and they don't get a share of the tips.
Not when the kitchen had the meal ready 20 minutes ago and it's been sitting under the warmer lamps drying out the whole time because the waiter/tress ignored it. If the kitchen itself is running behind, a good server will let their customers know what's going on.
a package management framework
...that broke sparse zones...
It appears based on the jury results that there is at least one other person in the country who wasn't convinced
Or perhaps was "convinced" to not be convinced...
Whether Oracle and IBM use either of the other's software has nothing to do with a patent war. I think you're confusing patent infringement and copyright infringement.
Besides, you *are* aware that IBM does more than just Websphere, right?
You have perceived something that most miss here: how fucked IBM and a large number of very big companies could be if Oracle really lets loose their patent torpedo salvo
Oracle's not the only company that's sitting on a respectable patent portfolio. I'm quite sure IBM and others could make life uncomfortable for Oracle as well.
Perhaps it's an arrogance thing, where Oracle thinks they're doing us a favour by releasing a freebie version after they build their Enterprise OS, whereas Red Hat sees us as part of process of producing their Enterprise OS. I'll support the latter model, which I believe is more sustainable.
Oracle has almost $114 billion in market cap and made almost $2.4 billion in profit this past *quarter*, which is almost exactly 100 times the profit that Red Hat made during the same time period. Yeah, I'm sure Larry Ellison is really concerned about "the community" and how they contribute to the sustainability of his products.
IPS is also the reason you can't do sparse zones in OpenSolaris. I'd rather have a package manager that doesn't destroy one of the better features of the operating system.
A large number of the H-1B professionals who work for MS and Intel and other tech companies, have come in the same way, by competing against other qualified candidates, including Americans, for the same salary, and proving themselves to be the best candidate.
The mere fact that they're competing against qualified American programmers is indicative of a problem. The H-1B program is predicated on the fiction that there aren't enough qualified Americans to fill the open positions to begin with.
No, it's a matter that someone might find the message useful for their own purposes, and thus will do what they need to get their hands on it.
There is basically nothing, aside from publicity, preventing him from being black-bagged by some three-letter-agency and never heard from again.
Aside from a pissed-off US government, I'd also worry about someone acting outside the realm of government direction (pissed-off Taliban sympathizers, etc.) deciding they want to find out what intel Assange is sitting on and just grabbing him off the street without concern for the consequences.
Bad form to reply to oneself, but of course I totally failed to account for the fact that the kids will need them anyway for schoolwork outside of tests. This is what happens when you turn your brain off for the weekend....
On the flip side, that means that only 60 calculators get sold to the school instead of hundreds to the students, so from TI's perspective it's probably not a viable solution.
Whether the users are happy or not doesn't mean squat to Facebook because their users aren't their customers. It's the happiness of their advertisers and those who purchase the data that Facebook continually mines that matters to them.
If you use both sides of the heels of your hands, you can actually get it up to 16,383. :-D
Plus you get the entertainment value of watching the face of the one kid that *did* hack his calculator as it's taken from him and given to someone else.
and the 49's had a better processor, EMULATING the older processor
The 49+ did, but the original blue 49 used a 4 MHz Saturn just like the 48GX.
"Ha, that's nothing! When I was in school we weren't allowed to count using our fingers!"
Meh, when I was in school we hadn't yet evolved fingers.
Slide rules also tend to absorb a bit more abuse. It's very difficult to break the display of a slide rule by dropping it. :-)
Well now in social situations when somebody asks you how many chicken nuggets you want, or how long you have been with the company, you don't look like a retard when you put your hands up and start counting fingers.
The sadistic side of me thinks it would probably enjoy seeing someone do that, but with Chisanbop.
Not to mention it's going to be tough finding someone willing to give up two months of their lives just for a working interview with no guarantee of further employment. Better be ready to pay consultant-level fees to those guys for those two months.
Both came from the mail providers' own SMTP servers.
And best of all, when you attempt to notify Hotmail of this kind of spam, they blow you off. They'll usually tell me "your headers were forged" when I can clearly see it's a genuine Hotmail server connecting to my SMTP box, and any general communication to the abuse address gets bounced because "in order to process your request, Hotmail Support needs a valid MSN/Hotmail hosted account".
As far as I'm concerned, Microsoft is directly contributing to the spam problem with such policies.
FreeBSD does a subset of things very well (networking, documentation, infrastructure design and naming), but ZFS is, unfortunately, not one of them (yet).
Add Xen to that list of "doesn't do well" too. If you're wanting to use FreeBSD as a dom0, you're just SOL. OpenSolaris was great in that you could use Zones for lightweight VMs, but if you needed a couple of Linux partitions on the same physical box you could do that and still be able to keep ZFS because the kernel itself supported all of those options. Being able to just effortlessly pop off another filesystem is great, as is being able to dynamically resize them at will. No such luck now, and it looks like a switch back to Linux will be in my future soon. LVM management is truly painful after you've gotten used to ZFS.
Of course maintenance and salaries aren't cheap, but there is no way it costs anywhere near the amount they pull in.
As if September 2008, when Blizzard last reported WoW expenditures, it averaged about $4-5 million/month ($200 million spent over 46 months).
I see Blizzard still chasing this dream of moderation through identity and drastically reducing their moderation.
This is what annoys me. Blizzard *already* is not providing an adequate level of customer service IMO - you gotta love waiting 3 days to have a ticket answered in WoW, only to be given the same "disable your add-ons, and clear your Cache, Interface, and WTF folders" canned response. They've got bugs in the game that have been there for *years*, and often don't appear to put any kind of real QA effort into their releases (witness the fiasco a few months ago for the "Love is in the Air" event that had their servers down for *days*). They're pulling in roughly $150 million *per month* from the damn game, and they're still trying to reduce the level of service even further.
a gas turbine is over 80% efficient
:-)
I imagine they're also very efficient at annoying the neighbors with the noise.