But meeting the person in real life can be a disaster. "I don't care if you have a speech impediment. There's no way Bubba can be mispronounced as Betty."
You're kidding right? We're no longer in the days when people develop their own codecs and players from scratch. Start with any number of open source programs that are already cross-platform and tailor it to suit their needs. VLC, for example, already runs on Windows, OS X, BeOS, all kinds of Linux, WinCE, all kinds of BSD, Solaris, QNX, etc. Perhaps they also need some kind of server component, but they could standardize on the server platform as that doesn't need to be cross-platform. How long would the modifications take? Reporting every six weeks means that in the course of development you've updated management about 10 times per year. With a reporting period of every six months, it sounds like they expect this to be a five-year project. Ten years ago, that would have been a more appropriate timeframe.
live code updates are an up-front requirement for the domain Erlang addresses. Google "nine nines" if you don't understand why. The supposed 35 milliseconds of downtime per year is largely anecdotal according to Armstrong's 2003 thesis:
"Evidence for the long-term operational stability of the system had also not been collected in any systematic way. For the Ericsson AXD301 the only information on the long-term stability of the system came from a power-point presentation showing some figures claiming that a major customer had run an 11 node system with a 99.9999999% reliability, though how these figure had been obtained was not documented."
Regardless of how such an uptime can possibly be measured to any degree of accuracy, I think the point is still valid that it can produce quite reliable systems.
Thanks for writing that -- I've not dabbled much with functional programming, but your explanation is quite clear and concise and makes me want to give it a shot!
The Emotion chip plays PS2 games primarily through hardware, whereas the 80GB and later models emulate the PS2 through software. Sony has admitted that software emulation will reduce backwards compatibility. So for those who want to play the broadest range of PS2 games with the highest possibility of compatibility, the 60GB model is the way to go.
That would also prevent proprietary use of BSD code without alternate licensing. Not sure what you're smoking. What part of what I said would prevent proprietary use?
What we're going to end up with is an additional clause for the BSD license: redistribution of this code is allowed permitted that additions to the code are distributed under an identical license.
Holy shit. In Canada, all consumers have to do is demand lower prices and they get them?? As long as you say "sorry" and also ask in French, it's all good.
Use LaTeX for research papers. Thank me later. Interestingly enough, I just ran into a program called OcTeX which looking for a movie trailer on the Apple site. I haven't used it, but thought it relevant... and it's freeware.
When I use Open Source apps, I do so knowing that there are many developers and hobbyists that have looked over the code, so I know that there aren't any glaring security flaws. That must be why sendmail has such a stellar security record.
Not only do they fail to pay their content creators reasonable amounts of money for their intellectual property... What you're missing is that it is those content creators who agreed to be paid the amounts they are. If enough of them don't like their current arrangement and up-and-comers want nothing to do with the RIAA, then why don't you start up ARIA (Alternate Recording Industry Association) and offer them a better deal? As a bonus, you can be a nice guy in court too!
I think this is the "let's make use of free labor" step. The Mono guys, assuming they're happy not getting paid, would be smart to ensure that Microsoft grants them full immunity from any legal claims as a result of their development. Otherwise, if they decide to pull out they can simply say "Silverlight on Mono violates a number of our patents, sorry we forgot to tell you".
A thousand dealerships, each exchanging 100 batteries a day, in five day work weeks, for 86 consecutive weeks? I don't know where you live, but in my city alone there's easily more than 1000 retail stores you could go to buy a Nokia phone. And let's say there's 1000 such cities around the world. 86 weeks is 14,448 hours. With 1000 dealers in 1000 cities they could have this entire thing done in 14.5 hours or one to two working days. Or half an hour a day for a month.
Oh, crap. I always wondered why I couldn't walk more than three feet from the wall while I'm charging my phone.
You think you have it bad? If the lid of a toilet I'm standing in front of accidentally slams down, I can't walk more *two* feet from it until I put the lid back up. Then there's the pain.
Luxury. Why, in my day we didn't have seats or toilets. We used to have to lay it along the ground, six feet from where we were sitting, and hope nobody tripped over it while we went.
Why go to all the trouble of doing it yourself? Develop a site where businesses can go to submit their own information for inclusion in Google Maps -- it should take a few days to build if you do it right. Or if you make it quick and dirty, a few hours. The shop owner goes to the site, enters their zip code, and it prepopulates the city/state as well as locates the general area on an inline Google Maps control. They fill in their details, place their marker at the exact location in Google Maps (if required), upload a few pictures, and you bundle the information and forward it on to Google. Unless a physical signature is required this is the best way to go about this. Register the domain name local-searching.org (it's still available) and promote this as a free community service for businesses to get listed in Google maps and drive local traffic to their doors. Throw in an additional free service on top of it as your gift to their continued business. Heck, do some subtle affiliate marketing for stuff like web hosting, site design, etc. for added bonus. Again, if you do it right you'll have some kind of user registration where you capture their email address and have an opt-in checkbox where they can choose to receive further information on free offers to help their business. Now you have a database of opt-in email addresses to market to. (Don't forget the clearly worded privacy policy, and respect it!)
Then all that's needed is to send out press releases to newspapers, radio and TV stations, etc. so that they can inform their readers/listeners/viewers about a free and helpful way to not only get their business included on Google Maps but to also get that freebie you threw in along with it plus continued business advice and so on.
If you really want to go nuts, make it an affiliate program where other wanna-be pavement pounders can refer their business. You handle all the submissions, give them a unique URL (eg: http://affname.local-searching.org/), and cut them 50% of whatever you make from it -- this, of course, hinges upon Google providing you a list of what is accepted and what isn't. Automate the whole thing to send them PayPal payments when Google sends you the XML file of the accepted listings, for example.
And if I met the program requirements, I sure as hell wouldn't be posting this.:)
It's only $2 bucks for all the legwork. $2 bucks, and that only once Google is happy with your hard work. The remaining $8 bucks comes once a business "Confirms" the info is accurate. What are these two dollars bucks and eight dollars bucks you speak of?
Thanks for the explanation. So if I'm understanding what you're saying correctly, if we assume that the universe is shaped like a torus, for example, then there's no geometric center to a torus which exists inside the torus. Thus, it's outside of its frame of reference to all the people living in it.
This whole > 3 dimensional thinking messes with my brain. I've always pictured the universe as just empty space unlimited in X, Y, and Z dimensions, where the boundaries of the universe is simply defined by the furthest objects and if those objects keep traveling outwards relative to the rest, the universe gets bigger.
I've repeatedly heard it said that you would have to run for an insane amount of time to burn off the extra calories from just one cookie, so it isn't in that fashion that exercise helps with weight problems. One 12oz McFlurry at 560 calories would take just over an hour of jogging to burn off -- the site shows that's for a 35 year old 144 lb female, adjust as appropriate for weight/gender. On the elliptical machines in the gym, I can sustain about 20 calories per minute so this would be a 28 minute intense sweat-soaked workout just to break even after eating one of those!
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Wouldn't every six weeks be more appropriate? How long does it take to make a player cross-platform?
"Evidence for the long-term operational stability of the system had also not been collected in any systematic way. For the Ericsson AXD301 the only information on the long-term stability of the system came from a power-point presentation showing some figures claiming that a major customer had run an 11 node system with a 99.9999999% reliability, though how these figure had been obtained was not documented."
Regardless of how such an uptime can possibly be measured to any degree of accuracy, I think the point is still valid that it can produce quite reliable systems.
Thanks for writing that -- I've not dabbled much with functional programming, but your explanation is quite clear and concise and makes me want to give it a shot!
The Emotion chip plays PS2 games primarily through hardware, whereas the 80GB and later models emulate the PS2 through software. Sony has admitted that software emulation will reduce backwards compatibility. So for those who want to play the broadest range of PS2 games with the highest possibility of compatibility, the 60GB model is the way to go.
What we're going to end up with is an additional clause for the BSD license: redistribution of this code is allowed permitted that additions to the code are distributed under an identical license.
... a median income greater than $####,1) Food recipies would have sufficient original expression in them to qualify as copyrightable. Your Google-fu needs work, grasshopper:
http://www.google.com/search?q=recipe+copyright
The equivalent would be to graffiti a wall using a few Post-It notes as those are easy to remove.
In Soviet Korea, only old ultrafast computer overlord quantum functions wave at you!
I think this is the "let's make use of free labor" step. The Mono guys, assuming they're happy not getting paid, would be smart to ensure that Microsoft grants them full immunity from any legal claims as a result of their development. Otherwise, if they decide to pull out they can simply say "Silverlight on Mono violates a number of our patents, sorry we forgot to tell you".
Luxury. Why, in my day we didn't have seats or toilets. We used to have to lay it along the ground, six feet from where we were sitting, and hope nobody tripped over it while we went.You think you have it bad? If the lid of a toilet I'm standing in front of accidentally slams down, I can't walk more *two* feet from it until I put the lid back up. Then there's the pain.
Why go to all the trouble of doing it yourself? Develop a site where businesses can go to submit their own information for inclusion in Google Maps -- it should take a few days to build if you do it right. Or if you make it quick and dirty, a few hours. The shop owner goes to the site, enters their zip code, and it prepopulates the city/state as well as locates the general area on an inline Google Maps control. They fill in their details, place their marker at the exact location in Google Maps (if required), upload a few pictures, and you bundle the information and forward it on to Google. Unless a physical signature is required this is the best way to go about this. Register the domain name local-searching.org (it's still available) and promote this as a free community service for businesses to get listed in Google maps and drive local traffic to their doors. Throw in an additional free service on top of it as your gift to their continued business. Heck, do some subtle affiliate marketing for stuff like web hosting, site design, etc. for added bonus. Again, if you do it right you'll have some kind of user registration where you capture their email address and have an opt-in checkbox where they can choose to receive further information on free offers to help their business. Now you have a database of opt-in email addresses to market to. (Don't forget the clearly worded privacy policy, and respect it!)
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Then all that's needed is to send out press releases to newspapers, radio and TV stations, etc. so that they can inform their readers/listeners/viewers about a free and helpful way to not only get their business included on Google Maps but to also get that freebie you threw in along with it plus continued business advice and so on.
If you really want to go nuts, make it an affiliate program where other wanna-be pavement pounders can refer their business. You handle all the submissions, give them a unique URL (eg: http://affname.local-searching.org/), and cut them 50% of whatever you make from it -- this, of course, hinges upon Google providing you a list of what is accepted and what isn't. Automate the whole thing to send them PayPal payments when Google sends you the XML file of the accepted listings, for example.
And if I met the program requirements, I sure as hell wouldn't be posting this.
Thanks for the explanation. So if I'm understanding what you're saying correctly, if we assume that the universe is shaped like a torus, for example, then there's no geometric center to a torus which exists inside the torus. Thus, it's outside of its frame of reference to all the people living in it.
This whole > 3 dimensional thinking messes with my brain. I've always pictured the universe as just empty space unlimited in X, Y, and Z dimensions, where the boundaries of the universe is simply defined by the furthest objects and if those objects keep traveling outwards relative to the rest, the universe gets bigger.