No man, You have your shower on third floor, tank on second, toilets on first floor. Let gravity do it.
Note: I actually did use a system like this. It was quite terrible to clean the grey water tanks. Right up there with cleaning greese traps and septic.
Ah, Moto! They once convinced our management that Zigbee wireless was going to be the hotest thing on the block! Forget about WiFi or bluetooth, everyone will be using Zigbee!
R&D is a small part of the budgets for *some* big drug companies, like Purdue Pharma. In fact, they're the bastards that invented modern drug marketing. R&D is expensive and difficult requiring really smart people and luck. Marketing is cheaper and more successful. Purdue pretty much just tweaks existing drugs to get a new patent on it, and then takes all the doctors out for daily lunches.
No, Microsoft has the same issue really. Microsoft Research does really cool, impresive things that rarely get translated into new products. They do a lot of really neat stuff with Operating systems and programing languages.
Ah, you would think that the casino sports book odds were the most accurate availibe and only determined by scientific study of the sports.
BZZZT! Wrong. Casinos need to make a profit. So they determine the *initial* odds by studing the sport, but then change the odds in reaction to the bets that are placed. They try to have equal amounts on both sides of a bet. They pay less to the winners than they get from the losers.
What's the point of pointing that out? Well, you have some pro gamblers who actually do make an incredible living off of betting on sports who use the above factlet. They simply move the odds the casino gives by placing money on the other side of the bet. So they want the odds to go up on a team A winning, they place a large bet on the opposite team B, the casion increases the odds of team A winning in order to attract gamblers to help them balence out the bet on team B. So they now place an even larger bet on team A with the odds they really wanted in the first place. If team A wins, it will cover the loss of the first bet on team B. If Team B wins, they obviously lose more money than they win.
Uh, Unix means many things these days, but back in the day one thing it wasn't was closed source. The source was out there. Where did you think BSD came from?
Hmm... It appears that I did. Apparently, I care. I care that Apple doesn't play well with Open Communities. It will influence how well I play with Apple. If there are more that feel the same way as I do, then it becomes a problem for Apple. It would behoove them to work better with communities they don't control. Same goes for Google, Microsoft or any other company. Follow the license and follow the spirit of open collaberation.
No, I'm not. Oracle is expensive as hell aprox 36,000 per standard edition dual cpu socket server. And Facebook has a hell of a lot of database servers aprox 60,000. So thats what 2. 1 Billion? Vs what ever the costs were to do what they've done now, where they have the software experts in house and on call 24/7. I think they chose correctly. Feel free to update me on the real costs of Oracle, its sort of tough to find accurate pricing on the web.
No, its Apple's problem that they don't play well with Open Source Communities that they don't control. This story is about an Open Project which Apple has decided to utilize. Their past history with simular communities is very relavant.
Strangely, that list doesn't have Webkit or LLVM on it. That's by far their two greatest contributions. Webkit, one might note was based off of exsiting project KHTML. The history there wasn't good. They essentially ignored the existing community around KHTML, took the code modified it with all sorts of OSX only hooks, released that to comply with the license (GPL or LGPL). Then a couple years later they did it the correct way and created the webkit open source project. Konqueror now defaults to the Webkit implimentation and all is well. Although, google isn't that much better at working with existing open source communities, if you look at chromium browser.
So, yeah, there is still an uneasy feeling when it comes to Apple and open source projects.
Yes, they are too cheap for Oracle. Who the hell on their scale isn't? Also, They're the ones who manage Facebook's data. What is the largest size of database on Postgres? What minute fraction of Facebook's data is it?
The reality is they're on mysql, because they started with mysql. Mark Calligan ( the author of the post) has said in the past, that it was just what people picked up due to its easy setup and easy built in replication. Oracle was/is expensive, and Postgres was more difficult to setup.
Its better to be easy, understandable and quirky, than difficult and correct.
FYI, they invented Cassandra, but don't really use it anymore. I think they migrated to Hadoop for facebook messages.
No, they noticed Takai's posts, because they liked his page. They apparently either ignore your page, or openly hate it. Either way, they don't read what they don't read.
I don't know but they are hipsters, I'm sure they'll come up with something. Mega douching up the place is their forte. But starbucks... rolls eyes and sigh... they're hipsters, they get their beverage you haven't heard of at a place you wouldn't be familiar with. Only the most post modern retro Ironic hispters would drink a...late at starbuks.
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If you have a non zero population growth, there is no such thing as a constant value for any thing.
If the worst part of the design, is that an astronaut has to rest their arm on another astronaut's body, its a pretty good design.
No man, You have your shower on third floor, tank on second, toilets on first floor. Let gravity do it.
Note: I actually did use a system like this. It was quite terrible to clean the grey water tanks. Right up there with cleaning greese traps and septic.
Ironically, they all do.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/irony
High five?
Well, if you cycle it through google translator english=> chinese (traditional or simplified) => english: you get "Satire".
Ironically, Irony doesn't translate.
Ah, Moto! They once convinced our management that Zigbee wireless was going to be the hotest thing on the block! Forget about WiFi or bluetooth, everyone will be using Zigbee!
No. Win NT 4 ran on Alpha, PowerPC and Mips.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_4.0
I did run it on Alpha and PowerPc, and it worked well. Especially so on Alpha.
R&D is a small part of the budgets for *some* big drug companies, like Purdue Pharma. In fact, they're the bastards that invented modern drug marketing. R&D is expensive and difficult requiring really smart people and luck. Marketing is cheaper and more successful. Purdue pretty much just tweaks existing drugs to get a new patent on it, and then takes all the doctors out for daily lunches.
No, Microsoft has the same issue really. Microsoft Research does really cool, impresive things that rarely get translated into new products. They do a lot of really neat stuff with Operating systems and programing languages.
Ah, you would think that the casino sports book odds were the most accurate availibe and only determined by scientific study of the sports.
BZZZT! Wrong. Casinos need to make a profit. So they determine the *initial* odds by studing the sport, but then change the odds in reaction to the bets that are placed. They try to have equal amounts on both sides of a bet. They pay less to the winners than they get from the losers.
What's the point of pointing that out? Well, you have some pro gamblers who actually do make an incredible living off of betting on sports who use the above factlet. They simply move the odds the casino gives by placing money on the other side of the bet. So they want the odds to go up on a team A winning, they place a large bet on the opposite team B, the casion increases the odds of team A winning in order to attract gamblers to help them balence out the bet on team B. So they now place an even larger bet on team A with the odds they really wanted in the first place. If team A wins, it will cover the loss of the first bet on team B. If Team B wins, they obviously lose more money than they win.
You mean like penciling in Butler for the championship two years in a row? Or the final four matchup of Butler vs VCU?
I thought they changed their policies on newer devices. In any case, all you need is superoneclick to change that.
Uh, Unix means many things these days, but back in the day one thing it wasn't was closed source. The source was out there. Where did you think BSD came from?
MichaelKristopeit? Is that you?
Well, who posted that ....
Hmm... It appears that I did. Apparently, I care. I care that Apple doesn't play well with Open Communities. It will influence how well I play with Apple. If there are more that feel the same way as I do, then it becomes a problem for Apple. It would behoove them to work better with communities they don't control. Same goes for Google, Microsoft or any other company. Follow the license and follow the spirit of open collaberation.
Just found this nice summary:
http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/situation-around-khtml-and-webkit-finally-settled/
No, I'm not. Oracle is expensive as hell aprox 36,000 per standard edition dual cpu socket server. And Facebook has a hell of a lot of database servers aprox 60,000. So thats what 2. 1 Billion? Vs what ever the costs were to do what they've done now, where they have the software experts in house and on call 24/7. I think they chose correctly. Feel free to update me on the real costs of Oracle, its sort of tough to find accurate pricing on the web.
No, its Apple's problem that they don't play well with Open Source Communities that they don't control. This story is about an Open Project which Apple has decided to utilize. Their past history with simular communities is very relavant.
Strangely, that list doesn't have Webkit or LLVM on it. That's by far their two greatest contributions. Webkit, one might note was based off of exsiting project KHTML. The history there wasn't good. They essentially ignored the existing community around KHTML, took the code modified it with all sorts of OSX only hooks, released that to comply with the license (GPL or LGPL). Then a couple years later they did it the correct way and created the webkit open source project. Konqueror now defaults to the Webkit implimentation and all is well. Although, google isn't that much better at working with existing open source communities, if you look at chromium browser.
So, yeah, there is still an uneasy feeling when it comes to Apple and open source projects.
My helicopter seems to fly just fine without wheels. Just sayin'
Yes, they are too cheap for Oracle. Who the hell on their scale isn't? Also, They're the ones who manage Facebook's data. What is the largest size of database on Postgres? What minute fraction of Facebook's data is it?
The reality is they're on mysql, because they started with mysql. Mark Calligan ( the author of the post) has said in the past, that it was just what people picked up due to its easy setup and easy built in replication. Oracle was/is expensive, and Postgres was more difficult to setup.
Its better to be easy, understandable and quirky, than difficult and correct.
FYI, they invented Cassandra, but don't really use it anymore. I think they migrated to Hadoop for facebook messages.
No, they noticed Takai's posts, because they liked his page. They apparently either ignore your page, or openly hate it. Either way, they don't read what they don't read.
I don't know but they are hipsters, I'm sure they'll come up with something. Mega douching up the place is their forte. But starbucks... rolls eyes and sigh... they're hipsters, they get their beverage you haven't heard of at a place you wouldn't be familiar with. Only the most post modern retro Ironic hispters would drink a. ..late at starbuks.
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While, I agree you should play safe, I have to also call BS on the ability of the BIOS to keylog a linux distro that isn't preprogrammed to allow it.
Take a look at the system requirements:
http://www.absolute.com/products/endpoint-security/computrace
Notice it doesn't support any distro of linux. I imagine you'd be quite safe using a live cd of any OS not on that list.