I don't know... maybe a sense of morality, compassion for other human beings, a desire for learning? Those are pretty important values to me. But more importantly, the freedom to choose my own values and believes are among my most cherished "things". So I guess if plastic dolls is your thing, go for it.
Just don't expect the rest of the grown adults to care about it.
It brought suit in the Eastern District in Texas, as many patent trolls do
IANAL but I'm a nerd who've occasionally picked up a law book to read for fun. In the one about patent laws, I remember reading about the court system being restructured and the creation for a Federal circuit for all patent suits precisely to prevent this "forum shopping" that patent trolls do.
One of my former professors told me that's actually one usage of Log structured file systems. Changes are appended to fresh blocks and the pointer is updated.
I've been out of college 3 years and have had two jobs. One was for a major hedge fund ($13 billion) and the current one is for a large software company. Both of them are/was awesome jobs and I was contacted by recruits via Monster.com. I know for a fact that at both companies Monster.com is used heavily and to some extend LinkedIn. We get tons of resumes but a lot of candidates simply do not cut it. A programmer with a MS in Comp. Sci. but has never dealt with multi-threading is hard to believe but they do exist. There's a ton of bad resumes and candidates on there but that doesn't mean that you can't get a job if you're actually good.
"Then everyone and their mother will start laying wire in an effort to undercut the other guy, and eventually the market will settle at a price/performance ratio that's reasonable."
I think you provided the counter argument to this in your own comment. It's the high price of laying lines into rural areas that made the government get involved. There are certain segments of the market that costs more than others to penetrate. If not for government intervention, most of rural America won't have telecommunication services. Not everyone and their mother can start laying lines because of the high infrastructure cost. In markets that have very low entry cost, government intervention is rarely needed but in markets where there are high upfront capital cost, government intervention is needed to ensure that everyone is being served. It is definitely inefficient but so are a lot of things that fall under the category of "fairness" or have to do with "social justice".
"the baiji is a potent chinese symbol to the chinese themselves"
I thought they've replaced that symbol with portraits of George Washington instead long ago -- replaced along with any concern for living in harmony with nature (Taoism) or compassion towards other living beings (Buddhism).
So I actually volunteered at the Dallas shelters for the Katrina victims. Guess who was running them: the American Red Cross. I don't know where you got your data but it is definitely not true for Katrina victims' experience in Dallas. The ARC was accepting everything from water to underwear.
I've been reading "The Myth of Innovations" and "Black Swan". They're two books on different subjects but with a similar underlying theme: there's a great deal more randomness and unpredictability in this world than we like to admit. Things don't progress in a linear fashion but usually in parallel and in the form of a tree. Only in hindsight does it look linear because all the other branches have died out and been eliminated. This quote by Linus really illustrates this point. At that time, no one really knew what was going to happen to Linux. It could have gone in a million directions (forking in computer science terms).
I think of the great advantages the OSS model has over closed source is that when these branches die out their work and whatever grain of usefulness/truth don't die with them. It's precisely the ability to fork and create another branch that allows OSS to really evolve and try out all the million possibilities. With closed source and an overly strict copyright scheme the overhead of trying those possibilities are too expensive. (regurgitating Yochai Benkler's "Wealth of the Network" here)
Well at my last job, I wasn't allowed to install BitTorrent to download Linux ISOs because the more senior admins brought the FUD and said it's the same a Napster and all the other P2P clients. I argued that it was a protocol akin to FTP and it fell on deaf ears. I'm sure they will have no issues with this since it's officially sanctioned by Microsoft. SysAdmins can be just as bad as the PHBs.
"At least in the private sector, the customers of your space ship flight can sue you if they die in a fireball because some dumbass was too eager to push the go stick or ignored the warnings of the low level engineers. But if it is NASA, you just get a weepy eyed president blabbering on and on, a handshake and a wreath of roses. Nobody gets fired. People just try to cover each others asses and save their jobs."
You're the type of dumbass that sprouts "accountability" and other MBA BS that drives company into the ground. Try reading "Fooled by Randomness". There's a great deal more randomness and unpredictability in our lives than we like to admit. For every great man that succeeds that's one hundred equally great men who failed because of circumstances. In space exploration and reaching into the unknown, this is even more true. Can your simple mind comprehend the incredible number of variables in this world?
I'm glad NASA doesn't go around blaming people, scape-goating them, and then burying it under the rug like the private sector. After each accident, NASA asks why and investigates before pointing fingers. Research into group think came out of the Challenger tragedy. Now we're more aware of how we fool ourselves into a sense of false security. Failure can come at all levels ranging from personal to institutional to circumstantial. Short sighted people like you can't see that. You're like those new CEOs that immediate layoff people when you hit a bad quarter, looking to scapegoat other people, without thinking about the long term consequences such as brain drain.
Agreed. This tax is basically helping one segment of the population by hurting another segment of the SAME population, the consumers.
Let's say EU camera company makes a camera with 80 Euros worth of parts and Japanese camera company makes one worth 82 Euros worth of part. So the Japanese camera is better. Camera shopper in EU shops around and is notices the small price difference but the extra 2 Euros worth of features is worth it to him. The EU camera company just lost a sale.
After the tax, the Japanese camera is suddenly approx 86 Euros. Now that extra 2 Euros worth of features is going to cost 6 Euros. Camera shopper can either pay extra for the same feature or forgo the feature. Either way, he's going to be screwed. The EU camera company might make a few extra sales.
So the net of this is EU camera company makes some gain in sales and the government makes a few extra bucks but EU shopper gets screwed no matter which camera he decides to buy.
Their infamous "Great Wall" Internet censoring system can censor contents they don't want going into China, why can't they filter some of the spam coming out?
Well considering that from the game and everything is already rigged in favor of the casino from the start, I would have to say "no". How can anyone enter a casino expecting fairness? It's pretty much an unwritten rule that the casino will be taking your money.
Please allow Jeri Ryan to become an astronaut. She looks good in something skintight.
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To detech VMware, it's almost trivial. VMware can be detected with a built-in backdoor. The backdoor is a configurable setting that's on a lot of times. Programs like VMware Tools use it to enhance KVM operations. An easier check would be to look on the system to see if your network driver is the VMware NIC drivers.
"Piercing the abstraction" as they call it in the business, however, is much more difficult especially on a VM running on top of VMware's ESX, which don't actually interact with the guest OS except via software that uses the backdoor. If it is turned off, VMware doesn't talk to the guest OS so I don't see an easy way of doing this. VMware works by intercepting special system calls and getting out of the way and allowing the VM to execute its code on the CPU itself.
Solutions like paravirtualization would be more susceptible to these attacks than a hypervisor like VMware.
One map to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.
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Source code files aren't flat files! Source code already have structure built into that. That's why they can be parsed and compiled. HTML and XML add structure to otherwise unstructured data. This is definitely not the case with source code. You can set your IDE to display your source code a certain way if you want. In short, marking up source code is redundant and unnecessary.
2. A good software developer writes applications that are meant to be run as binaries. Sorry web folks, you're not software developers. At the very best, you are WEB application developers. At worst, you're still coding static HTML pages and trying to get that six figure job. Yes, web developers are necessary. Yes, web developers are quite talented. But web developers are rarely well versed in C or C++. However, many web developers have a leg up on software developers in the visual department though. Not always, but more often than not.
Been living under a rock for the last few years? I'm sure a good chunk of the talents at Google would disagree with you. I call myself a web developer but I hardly every deal with HTML or CSS. The framework I use deals with that. I have a BS in Comp Sci. I coded an operating system in C++ and wrote a compiler in ML. I code in Python and Ruby for fun. Neither of them are compiled. Python is heavily used by Google. Perl isn't compiled either and that's what Slashdot uses. In fact, most of the new languages are moving away from compiling to binary. I choose to write web applications because they're very scalable, cheap to publish, and easy to update (no patch management for web applications). You have no credibility on this subject.
Which one of you upload the picture of the tank man onto Flickr? Boy, that must have been an embarrassing moment for the party and they don't like to be reminded of it. That and pictures of shooting hundreds and thousands of college students demanding what is promised to them in their constitution.
In an unregulated scenario, it would be whoever has the most powerful transmitter would win. It really doesn't matter what scheme you come up if someone just decides to blast the airwaves. Things like CDMA and TDMA only work because all the participating radios are working off the same agreed upon protocol. CDMA requires all the transmitters use a chirping code such that the resulting transmissions are orthogonal to each other. TDMA requires a centralized management of time slots. Even Bluetooth requires that everyone on the same PAN subscribe to the same pseudorandom number sequence. If someone just decides to blast radio waves, there's nothing anyone or any scheme can do.
It's not that anything that happens within a state could happen among states. It's that given the modern reality of trade and commerce, it is nearly impossible for trade to happen entirely within a state. I believe the Supreme Court used Heinz ketchup as the example when they ruled on that that the Federal government has the power to legislate the end to segregation in public places because of their ability to regulate interstate commerce. Even a restaurant that serves only people within a state must be involved in trade that is done across states. The beef they cook and the ketchup they serve in AL or FL came from another state.
Thanks a lot for the article. Incredible, sad, yet still good in a way. Like his friend, I can't feel sorry for him. That's just the risk he accepted. In the end, he got the job done, which brings the whole story to a good ending.
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I don't know... maybe a sense of morality, compassion for other human beings, a desire for learning? Those are pretty important values to me. But more importantly, the freedom to choose my own values and believes are among my most cherished "things". So I guess if plastic dolls is your thing, go for it.
Just don't expect the rest of the grown adults to care about it.
Hate to break it to you but the Swedish sub, Gottland has managed to "sink" the USS Reagan before in a war game simulation. The US Navy's defense against diesel electric sub is not that perfect.
IANAL but I'm a nerd who've occasionally picked up a law book to read for fun. In the one about patent laws, I remember reading about the court system being restructured and the creation for a Federal circuit for all patent suits precisely to prevent this "forum shopping" that patent trolls do.
One of my former professors told me that's actually one usage of Log structured file systems. Changes are appended to fresh blocks and the pointer is updated.
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I've been out of college 3 years and have had two jobs. One was for a major hedge fund ($13 billion) and the current one is for a large software company. Both of them are/was awesome jobs and I was contacted by recruits via Monster.com. I know for a fact that at both companies Monster.com is used heavily and to some extend LinkedIn. We get tons of resumes but a lot of candidates simply do not cut it. A programmer with a MS in Comp. Sci. but has never dealt with multi-threading is hard to believe but they do exist. There's a ton of bad resumes and candidates on there but that doesn't mean that you can't get a job if you're actually good.
I think you provided the counter argument to this in your own comment. It's the high price of laying lines into rural areas that made the government get involved. There are certain segments of the market that costs more than others to penetrate. If not for government intervention, most of rural America won't have telecommunication services. Not everyone and their mother can start laying lines because of the high infrastructure cost. In markets that have very low entry cost, government intervention is rarely needed but in markets where there are high upfront capital cost, government intervention is needed to ensure that everyone is being served. It is definitely inefficient but so are a lot of things that fall under the category of "fairness" or have to do with "social justice".
I thought they've replaced that symbol with portraits of George Washington instead long ago -- replaced along with any concern for living in harmony with nature (Taoism) or compassion towards other living beings (Buddhism).
So I actually volunteered at the Dallas shelters for the Katrina victims. Guess who was running them: the American Red Cross. I don't know where you got your data but it is definitely not true for Katrina victims' experience in Dallas. The ARC was accepting everything from water to underwear.
I think of the great advantages the OSS model has over closed source is that when these branches die out their work and whatever grain of usefulness/truth don't die with them. It's precisely the ability to fork and create another branch that allows OSS to really evolve and try out all the million possibilities. With closed source and an overly strict copyright scheme the overhead of trying those possibilities are too expensive. (regurgitating Yochai Benkler's "Wealth of the Network" here)
Well at my last job, I wasn't allowed to install BitTorrent to download Linux ISOs because the more senior admins brought the FUD and said it's the same a Napster and all the other P2P clients. I argued that it was a protocol akin to FTP and it fell on deaf ears. I'm sure they will have no issues with this since it's officially sanctioned by Microsoft. SysAdmins can be just as bad as the PHBs.
"At least in the private sector, the customers of your space ship flight can sue you if they die in a fireball because some dumbass was too eager to push the go stick or ignored the warnings of the low level engineers. But if it is NASA, you just get a weepy eyed president blabbering on and on, a handshake and a wreath of roses. Nobody gets fired. People just try to cover each others asses and save their jobs."
You're the type of dumbass that sprouts "accountability" and other MBA BS that drives company into the ground. Try reading "Fooled by Randomness". There's a great deal more randomness and unpredictability in our lives than we like to admit. For every great man that succeeds that's one hundred equally great men who failed because of circumstances. In space exploration and reaching into the unknown, this is even more true. Can your simple mind comprehend the incredible number of variables in this world?
I'm glad NASA doesn't go around blaming people, scape-goating them, and then burying it under the rug like the private sector. After each accident, NASA asks why and investigates before pointing fingers. Research into group think came out of the Challenger tragedy. Now we're more aware of how we fool ourselves into a sense of false security. Failure can come at all levels ranging from personal to institutional to circumstantial. Short sighted people like you can't see that. You're like those new CEOs that immediate layoff people when you hit a bad quarter, looking to scapegoat other people, without thinking about the long term consequences such as brain drain.
Agreed. This tax is basically helping one segment of the population by hurting another segment of the SAME population, the consumers.
Let's say EU camera company makes a camera with 80 Euros worth of parts and Japanese camera company makes one worth 82 Euros worth of part. So the Japanese camera is better. Camera shopper in EU shops around and is notices the small price difference but the extra 2 Euros worth of features is worth it to him. The EU camera company just lost a sale.
After the tax, the Japanese camera is suddenly approx 86 Euros. Now that extra 2 Euros worth of features is going to cost 6 Euros. Camera shopper can either pay extra for the same feature or forgo the feature. Either way, he's going to be screwed. The EU camera company might make a few extra sales.
So the net of this is EU camera company makes some gain in sales and the government makes a few extra bucks but EU shopper gets screwed no matter which camera he decides to buy.
Their infamous "Great Wall" Internet censoring system can censor contents they don't want going into China, why can't they filter some of the spam coming out?
Well considering that from the game and everything is already rigged in favor of the casino from the start, I would have to say "no". How can anyone enter a casino expecting fairness? It's pretty much an unwritten rule that the casino will be taking your money.
Please allow Jeri Ryan to become an astronaut. She looks good in something skintight.
To detech VMware, it's almost trivial. VMware can be detected with a built-in backdoor. The backdoor is a configurable setting that's on a lot of times. Programs like VMware Tools use it to enhance KVM operations. An easier check would be to look on the system to see if your network driver is the VMware NIC drivers.
"Piercing the abstraction" as they call it in the business, however, is much more difficult especially on a VM running on top of VMware's ESX, which don't actually interact with the guest OS except via software that uses the backdoor. If it is turned off, VMware doesn't talk to the guest OS so I don't see an easy way of doing this. VMware works by intercepting special system calls and getting out of the way and allowing the VM to execute its code on the CPU itself.
Solutions like paravirtualization would be more susceptible to these attacks than a hypervisor like VMware.
One map to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.
Source code files aren't flat files! Source code already have structure built into that. That's why they can be parsed and compiled. HTML and XML add structure to otherwise unstructured data. This is definitely not the case with source code. You can set your IDE to display your source code a certain way if you want. In short, marking up source code is redundant and unnecessary.
Been living under a rock for the last few years? I'm sure a good chunk of the talents at Google would disagree with you. I call myself a web developer but I hardly every deal with HTML or CSS. The framework I use deals with that. I have a BS in Comp Sci. I coded an operating system in C++ and wrote a compiler in ML. I code in Python and Ruby for fun. Neither of them are compiled. Python is heavily used by Google. Perl isn't compiled either and that's what Slashdot uses. In fact, most of the new languages are moving away from compiling to binary. I choose to write web applications because they're very scalable, cheap to publish, and easy to update (no patch management for web applications). You have no credibility on this subject.
Which one of you upload the picture of the tank man onto Flickr? Boy, that must have been an embarrassing moment for the party and they don't like to be reminded of it. That and pictures of shooting hundreds and thousands of college students demanding what is promised to them in their constitution.
In an unregulated scenario, it would be whoever has the most powerful transmitter would win. It really doesn't matter what scheme you come up if someone just decides to blast the airwaves. Things like CDMA and TDMA only work because all the participating radios are working off the same agreed upon protocol. CDMA requires all the transmitters use a chirping code such that the resulting transmissions are orthogonal to each other. TDMA requires a centralized management of time slots. Even Bluetooth requires that everyone on the same PAN subscribe to the same pseudorandom number sequence. If someone just decides to blast radio waves, there's nothing anyone or any scheme can do.
My professor almost laughed at me once when I tried to plot some data using Excel. At least in CS, GnuPlot and LaTex are pretty popular.
It's not that anything that happens within a state could happen among states. It's that given the modern reality of trade and commerce, it is nearly impossible for trade to happen entirely within a state. I believe the Supreme Court used Heinz ketchup as the example when they ruled on that that the Federal government has the power to legislate the end to segregation in public places because of their ability to regulate interstate commerce. Even a restaurant that serves only people within a state must be involved in trade that is done across states. The beef they cook and the ketchup they serve in AL or FL came from another state.
Thanks a lot for the article. Incredible, sad, yet still good in a way. Like his friend, I can't feel sorry for him. That's just the risk he accepted. In the end, he got the job done, which brings the whole story to a good ending.