I only commented in Latin and Klingon for that employer
I'm still looking for an appropriate occasion to use mysterium iniquitatis in a comment. But my primary job duties aren't programming anymore. C'est la vie, I suppose.
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"Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return"
This is one of the most effective methods of producing self-commenting code and I wish everyone writing programs would do this.
The "plot twist" on this is essentially the same as the movie "Frequency". I'm sure there are other, even more direct examples--no doubt more than one episode of any of the Star Trek series may apply.
What we may end-up with is case law similar to music copyrights, where a court (in Chicago maybe?) declaired that if, on the average, every third note is different, then a song is sufficiently unique from another to warrent copyright protection. Literature is going to be a bit more involved... simply changing characters' names or genders or settings but essentially leaving their personalities the same doesn't really change the story. Look at all the TV and movie adaptations of various works of Shakespeare where the gender of the characters are switched and the setting is in the 20th (or 21st) century.
Granted, this is 70mph wind stuff we're talking about, so it likely wouldn't apply in a datacenter environment.
You've obviously not been in our data center. Rasied floor, two rows of racks, air blown up from the floor in front of the racks (every pannel immediately in the front of the racks), hot-air-returns in the ceiling behind the racks (center aisle). There's about 10 degree difference between the front and backside of the racks, and more than one person has complained about the "marlyin monroe" effect on the frontside.
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I would say prices have gone down. In the 80's the price of long distance was over 10 cents a minute. Now, you can get plans that run about 2 cents a minute.
And thanks to the magic of Inflation, the cost is about the same, despite the price change.
Of course, if we had government owned lines, maybe we'd have free phone like we have mostly free roads, then again, maybe not.
Compare the amount of tax on your POTS Bill today and one from 20 years ago and then maybe redraw that conclusion.
Those are three different PROVINCES not counties. The PROVINCIAL taxes are different in different PROVINCES
I am well aware of that, thank you, which is part of my point. Taxes are variable by location in Canada as well.
Put it another way... by your logic
Now you're putting words in my mouth.
In Ohio, one of the services that the county tax pays for is the county jail. As you can imagine, the jail in Cuyohoga county (where Cleveland is) is much larger and has more employees working there than many of the county jails in southern Ohio. There are other, similarly scaled sorts of services, like nursing homes (for those counties that have them). And no, I wouldn't want to be paying to house petty criminals in the Cleveland area if I didn't live there.
Sales tax pays for, among other things, infrastructure and services. A rual county in Ohio doesn't have the same level of need for infrastructure and services that a metropolitan county does, which is just one reason why the tax rates vary.
So in Canada, someone living in PEI or Newfoundland pays the same tax as a person in Toronto or Montreal and gets less services for their dollar. How is this better?
Another one is different counties charge different taxes - in New York state, Queens county and Nassau county have slightly different tax rates
I used to live in Ohio, where they have 88 counties and potentially 88 different tax rates. Now I live in New Hampshire. No sales tax. No income tax. 8% "rooms and meals" tax applied at restaraunts and hotels and that's it. Of course they just eliminated the highway tokens for half-price tolls in favor of SpeedPass, but at least they didn't put the gates back up at the toll booths, so it still doesn't look like New Jersey.
Google sporatically and alternately pays attention to and ignores robot.txt files. I just tried their blog search and of course my blog is being indexed by google even though I've the spiders piss-off settings active on it.
"My results suggest that energy separation in the Ranque-Hilsch tube can be accounted for by two phenomena. Firstly, the formation of an approximately forced vortex near the tangential inlets to the tube initially provides a kinetic energy separation, the peripheral gas having a much higher velocity than that near the centre."
However, I wonder how much of this is similar to a river where the water travles faster on the outside of the bends, and it's really the friction of the air against the tube that's creating a significant percentage of the temperature differences being observed.
IBM pSeries servers instead of SUN. Better price/performance, better support, hot-clustering and fail-over available, and they'll be around longer.
I'd also go exclusively with EMC Clariion SANs. With the new 330GB Fiber drives at 15 per shelf and 10 shelves per rack, you'll have approximately 40TB per rack (allowing for 1 hot spare drive per every 2 shelves and using 300GB as the usable drive space to allow for formatting). You can link CX's together or not, depending on how you structure the servers on the front-end. You can also mirror 2 CX's across remote sites for Disaster Recovery, HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley concerns, etc.
One plan is to build a full-scale version of the planned Mars settlement and charge visitors to tour the "Mars Settlement Research and Outreach Center." 4Frontiers hopes to have a site selected for the center by the end of this year, said company co-founder and CEO Mark Homnick.
"We've narrowed the search to New Mexico, Central Florida or Colorado," he said.
Pardon my cynicism, but does anyone really see this going past Central Florida?
I'm 40. I don't smoke and therefore have a potential life-span about 10 years longer than a someone else my age who smokes. And not only do I have the potential to live longer, the 5-10 years preceeding that additional time will very most likely be more healthy, useful, and enjoyable years for me than for my smoking counterpart as I won't have to contend with lung cancer, or emphasemia or any other smoking-related illness.
I'm might be around long enough to not only see and know my grandchildren, but potentially my great-grandchildren as well.
Of course I've been known to have the occasional drink or two, so it's not like I don't have a potential life-ending gotcha to avoid either...
True, knowing how to play the game and having experience playing is needed first. Who was it that said "you have to know the rules in order to intelligently break them"?
Start at zero when the dealer uses a new deck
+1 for a 10 or face card
-1 for every card below 10
When the count is -5 to +5, bet nominal
When the count is below -5 bet higher
When the count is above +5 bet lower, or bet nominal, depending on how much you want to give away
The most difficult part is catching everyone's cards at the end of the hand to get the count for the next hand. There are also doubling down rules that add to the complexity, but I don't have the matrix for that with me.
Caveat Emptor. This is easiest to do when you are playing alone against the dealer, but also the easiest to detect as well.
I understand that there are an abundance of people using devices to circumvent the rules. All I'm saying is find those people, and leave the card counters alone. The ability to do math in one's head isn't cheating.
Catching an employee in the counting room taking his work home with him or a crooked dealer is all well and good, but card counting and varying your bet amount isn't cheating, it's playing shrewdly within the rules. This is where the casinos, IMO, are going over the top with the spying.
The patent date is January 1999, so this could be a very real barrier to many companies. IANAL, caveat emptor.
They've effectively patented server-side scripting. Not only any site using Java, C#, et al is effected, but potentially Sun and Microsoft with regard to their software products that perform server-side scripting. Yes boys and girls, this is huge. Or a tempest in a tea cup if there are overlapping patents, prior art, obviousness, or any of the other usual arguements (famine, plague, dogs and cats sleeping together, etc).
The "Pro X" labels are just marketing crap designed to appeal to the otherwise indifferent masses. Finding the truth requires a search that runs deeper than the labeling.
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I only commented in Latin and Klingon for that employer
I'm still looking for an appropriate occasion to use mysterium iniquitatis in a comment. But my primary job duties aren't programming anymore. C'est la vie, I suppose.
"Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return"
This is one of the most effective methods of producing self-commenting code and I wish everyone writing programs would do this.
So the chances of a DMCA violation are minimal. HTML Version of the ruling here
The "plot twist" on this is essentially the same as the movie "Frequency". I'm sure there are other, even more direct examples--no doubt more than one episode of any of the Star Trek series may apply.
What we may end-up with is case law similar to music copyrights, where a court (in Chicago maybe?) declaired that if, on the average, every third note is different, then a song is sufficiently unique from another to warrent copyright protection. Literature is going to be a bit more involved... simply changing characters' names or genders or settings but essentially leaving their personalities the same doesn't really change the story. Look at all the TV and movie adaptations of various works of Shakespeare where the gender of the characters are switched and the setting is in the 20th (or 21st) century.
Granted, this is 70mph wind stuff we're talking about, so it likely wouldn't apply in a datacenter environment.
You've obviously not been in our data center. Rasied floor, two rows of racks, air blown up from the floor in front of the racks (every pannel immediately in the front of the racks), hot-air-returns in the ceiling behind the racks (center aisle). There's about 10 degree difference between the front and backside of the racks, and more than one person has complained about the "marlyin monroe" effect on the frontside.
I would say prices have gone down. In the 80's the price of long distance was over 10 cents a minute. Now, you can get plans that run about 2 cents a minute.
And thanks to the magic of Inflation, the cost is about the same, despite the price change.
Of course, if we had government owned lines, maybe we'd have free phone like we have mostly free roads, then again, maybe not.
Compare the amount of tax on your POTS Bill today and one from 20 years ago and then maybe redraw that conclusion.
Those are three different PROVINCES not counties. The PROVINCIAL taxes are different in different PROVINCES
I am well aware of that, thank you, which is part of my point. Taxes are variable by location in Canada as well.
Put it another way... by your logic
Now you're putting words in my mouth.
In Ohio, one of the services that the county tax pays for is the county jail. As you can imagine, the jail in Cuyohoga county (where Cleveland is) is much larger and has more employees working there than many of the county jails in southern Ohio. There are other, similarly scaled sorts of services, like nursing homes (for those counties that have them). And no, I wouldn't want to be paying to house petty criminals in the Cleveland area if I didn't live there.
Sales tax pays for, among other things, infrastructure and services. A rual county in Ohio doesn't have the same level of need for infrastructure and services that a metropolitan county does, which is just one reason why the tax rates vary.
So in Canada, someone living in PEI or Newfoundland pays the same tax as a person in Toronto or Montreal and gets less services for their dollar. How is this better?
Another one is different counties charge different taxes - in New York state, Queens county and Nassau county have slightly different tax rates
I used to live in Ohio, where they have 88 counties and potentially 88 different tax rates. Now I live in New Hampshire. No sales tax. No income tax. 8% "rooms and meals" tax applied at restaraunts and hotels and that's it. Of course they just eliminated the highway tokens for half-price tolls in favor of SpeedPass, but at least they didn't put the gates back up at the toll booths, so it still doesn't look like New Jersey.
Now I have a version of Firefox that runs as me instead of running as root, which I'm sure is a lot more secure than the way I had it last time.
Very most likely, but would also depend on if you've added any other groups to your login ID, particularly adm or sys.
He's kidding, right?
Either way, it's bound to be a new entry for buzzword bingo.
(off to make new play sheets...)
Google sporatically and alternately pays attention to and ignores robot.txt files. I just tried their blog search and of course my blog is being indexed by google even though I've the spiders piss-off settings active on it.
ever watch someone with dyslexia type?
Actually, from the off-site link mentioned in the wiki article, that's not one of the postulated methods:
"My results suggest that energy separation in the Ranque-Hilsch tube can be accounted for by two phenomena. Firstly, the formation of an approximately forced vortex near the tangential inlets to the tube initially provides a kinetic energy separation, the peripheral gas having a much higher velocity than that near the centre."
However, I wonder how much of this is similar to a river where the water travles faster on the outside of the bends, and it's really the friction of the air against the tube that's creating a significant percentage of the temperature differences being observed.
This sounds like the solution, but I'd tweak it:
IBM pSeries servers instead of SUN. Better price/performance, better support, hot-clustering and fail-over available, and they'll be around longer.
I'd also go exclusively with EMC Clariion SANs. With the new 330GB Fiber drives at 15 per shelf and 10 shelves per rack, you'll have approximately 40TB per rack (allowing for 1 hot spare drive per every 2 shelves and using 300GB as the usable drive space to allow for formatting). You can link CX's together or not, depending on how you structure the servers on the front-end. You can also mirror 2 CX's across remote sites for Disaster Recovery, HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley concerns, etc.
One plan is to build a full-scale version of the planned Mars settlement and charge visitors to tour the "Mars Settlement Research and Outreach Center." 4Frontiers hopes to have a site selected for the center by the end of this year, said company co-founder and CEO Mark Homnick.
"We've narrowed the search to New Mexico, Central Florida or Colorado," he said.
Pardon my cynicism, but does anyone really see this going past Central Florida?
I'm 40. I don't smoke and therefore have a potential life-span about 10 years longer than a someone else my age who smokes. And not only do I have the potential to live longer, the 5-10 years preceeding that additional time will very most likely be more healthy, useful, and enjoyable years for me than for my smoking counterpart as I won't have to contend with lung cancer, or emphasemia or any other smoking-related illness.
I'm might be around long enough to not only see and know my grandchildren, but potentially my great-grandchildren as well.
Of course I've been known to have the occasional drink or two, so it's not like I don't have a potential life-ending gotcha to avoid either...
True, knowing how to play the game and having experience playing is needed first. Who was it that said "you have to know the rules in order to intelligently break them"?
The simplest card counding method:
Start at zero when the dealer uses a new deck
+1 for a 10 or face card
-1 for every card below 10
When the count is -5 to +5, bet nominal
When the count is below -5 bet higher
When the count is above +5 bet lower, or bet nominal, depending on how much you want to give away
The most difficult part is catching everyone's cards at the end of the hand to get the count for the next hand. There are also doubling down rules that add to the complexity, but I don't have the matrix for that with me.
Caveat Emptor. This is easiest to do when you are playing alone against the dealer, but also the easiest to detect as well.
I understand that there are an abundance of people using devices to circumvent the rules. All I'm saying is find those people, and leave the card counters alone. The ability to do math in one's head isn't cheating.
Catching an employee in the counting room taking his work home with him or a crooked dealer is all well and good, but card counting and varying your bet amount isn't cheating, it's playing shrewdly within the rules. This is where the casinos, IMO, are going over the top with the spying.
or from the future:
The funeral directors convention is held in October in Chicago
Maybe this guy drives Delorean...
Silly me, I looked at the filed date on the abstract. Thanks for the info.
Someone please mod the previous post up as informative.
The patent date is January 1999, so this could be a very real barrier to many companies. IANAL, caveat emptor.
They've effectively patented server-side scripting. Not only any site using Java, C#, et al is effected, but potentially Sun and Microsoft with regard to their software products that perform server-side scripting. Yes boys and girls, this is huge. Or a tempest in a tea cup if there are overlapping patents, prior art, obviousness, or any of the other usual arguements (famine, plague, dogs and cats sleeping together, etc).
The "Pro X" labels are just marketing crap designed to appeal to the otherwise indifferent masses. Finding the truth requires a search that runs deeper than the labeling.