The bottleneck in your scenario is the network, so I/O speed isn't an issue. I have an old, full tower sitting in the garage doing your job with a multi-disk software RAID.
? The Fed's books are already open and reviewed by accountants regularly.
Really? Then please direct me to the assets in Maiden Lanes 1,2,3. Now, I don't mean the 'extend and pretend' valuations they report. Any external reporting is sent over with a topline valuation. Period. They do not provide enough information for any external party to establish values.
Please direct me to FRB NY's communications, oh let's go back 5 years. I don't want it all, just the stuff where it was decided AIG's creditors were paid 1:1 for debt obligations where a haircut (pennies on the dollar) is the norm. And... what about all those side bets that were made good?
Finally, it's not an either 'Business As Usual' or 'Politicize the Fed.' choice. That kind of rhetoric, by design, goes nowhere. Discarding the whole notion of greater transparency for the Fed has already cost us a trillion or so dollars. I'd like to use that money for other things.
I think Microsoft's goal is/was to pollute the term 'open source' to mean things friendly to Microsoft's practices like this read-only license.
The license cites the code available as "read only."
"Reference use" means use of the software within your company as a reference, in read only form, for the sole purposes of debugging your products, maintaining your products, or enhancing the interoperability of your products....
I think this is more about the big player(s) in gaming "ready" to control this segment of the gambling market. The Class-1 gaming industry is as ossified as most mature industries in the U.S. with vaguely inappropriate relationships with various gaming commissions and IP litigation that effectively captures a gaming innovater.
If this were to ever get any momentum, the regulations would encourage the biggest companies in gaming and discourage any dev shops that get big ideas about entering the gaming market.
I wonder how the States would react to this? Most of them are doing gaming through Native American reservations anyway and probably see this as the first step to losing control of the tax revenue.
Even if you are a fan of loud white noise and cold breezes, bringing a girl home would be uh, problematic. The physical access control might not turn her off, but getting comfy on a bench next to a 42u won't impress her.
No meaningful earthquake threat out there. Sure, you'll get the occasional roller from Cali, but that's it. The weather isn't a big issue either. The data center's going to go up in smoke if the cooling quit regardless of where the data center is located.
Only the deal makers know what the details of the $100 million deal. Chances are excellent it's a bad deal. Some ways the deal can be bad follow....
Often times, there is a top line PR number, that if *every* option played to the start up's benefit, then they'd have earned the number. But most of the deals are completed leave the start-up members meaningfully smaller pay outs.
Let's say the deal flies and the people selling meet the conditions of the purchase, there's the matter of actually getting paid. You think "Investors XYZ are buying my company and they have *plenty* of money." What they have are plenty of lawyers whose task is to generate as many billable hours as possible for the start up members leaving the start up members largely broke. Once the resources are exhausted, then the acquirer pays pennies on the price that was agreed upon years earlier. Yes, you read that right, years....
The deal is far from complete once the acquisition is executed. Chances are excellent there's only heartache for the start up members with a sale.
Today's lesson: making money is only one part of the process. You need to get paid.
It's as open as you can possibly get. I understand coding at the OS level is some C++ weirdness or something. But it's all there. Media freedom, OS freedom, works great, lots of apps.
we need a DNA database too Already happening to those dastardly criminals in our luxurious jails.
hey we need to start monitoring your internet usage Already happening. NSA/AT&T whistleblower ring a bell? It turns out they are just one telco of many that got the same request. The others were compliant too.
There are thousands of bits of data about you being collected for sale by law-abiding private companies. There's no law that says the government can't use the services of the data provider.
Seriously, they GOT your number. The horse left the barn on this one at least a decade ago.
The only thing this card will do is make an identifications system contractor a bit richer and my wallet slightly fatter.
The ability to download albums and films in a matter of seconds
I can do that now.... from a datacenter.
The point being Cisco's new routing equipment is so far up the food chain consumers won't *ever* know the difference.
Given Cisco can bribe their way into any deal with a viable customer, I'm still interested to hear about the chances this device has in the marketplace and its competitors.
Meaning Microsoft controls the kinds of video IE can stream?
This is a big opportunity for Microsoft to force the Internet media standards AND generate some meaningful license fees. Those fees would be paid to Microsoft to enable streaming your hot-new-VC-backed media format. Microsoft would never have to deal with those pesky media streaming competitors they used to call partners.
If I made decisions at Microsoft, that's how I'd do it.
putting the vehicle in neutral won't stop the vehicle.
I put our Prius in *full* acceleration for 5 seconds then put the car in neutral. Transmission does, in fact, shift into neutral. Meanwhile, with my foot on the accelerator, 'floored' the engine drops to idle. Brake assist works because the motor is providing vacuum.
So, it seems that the CV transmission is independent from throttle control.
I did this at a ridiculously early hour with no one in sight on the nice, straight, highway.
1. Wide format scanner. These are usually at more specialized digitization shops. Find someone who scans blueprints in your area. http://www.amazon.com/Designjet-Large-format-Scanning-Software-Intergrate/dp/B000E8Z0XU Only you can judge if the documents will be okay through the feeder. The feeders aren't hard on documents. I'd give your best one a shot. Naturally, you want to be there. So, not every service provider will be okay with that.
2. You most certainly can use a flatbed scanner. The key will be stitching software and memory/cpu resources and refining the scan/stitch method. Make them big-ish files, maybe 300ppi. After 300ppi, any information is useless for a 1:1 reproduction.
Lastly, overlaying geocoordinates info won't quite work as elegantly as you think. Ignore my doubts and go for it. I think the end result would be more art than science if done well. If done well, there will probably be a couple of false starts.
why wouldn't you release it in someway for the general public to digest in their homes?
1. The currency of hollywood is revenue. Art has nothing to do with it. I know, I know, tons will differ. But the artists are employed because of the revenue created, not the other way around. Showing things for free is a universally bad thing if he wants to stay in the industry. 2. Getting distribution is not simple or cheap. It would be a great deal of money to get started. Probably his own. 3. The executive side of the industry would stop hiring the poor fellow for not pushing it through their distribution channel. Youtube is fine for your home videos, but not something with enough production values to qualify as a movie. 4. He may not have distribution rights, or other rights necessary to get distribution.
While your goal of identifying the biologic source of the fat sensors is worthy, human behavior dictates something *must* detect fat content separately from texture. Food scientists have long been able to replicate the texture and mouth feel of fats.
A simple experiment, have three anonymous samples of cow's milk, one each full-fat, 2% and 1%. The vast majority of humans enjoy the 1% the least. You can vary the beverage or food to take into account cultural tendencies and the results are the same. The lowest fat content is the least popular.
1. It eliminates competition by feature/functionality. 2. It meaningfully constrains innovation. A novel product without capitalization to participate is shut out. (That's the goal anyway)
That said, this kind of incentivizing is everywhere. (game consoles, mega-retailers, mobile phones) No one seems to care about the increased costs consumers assume or constraint on innovation.
There's a difference between making money and taking money. Governments do all that awful taking for roads, and those useless public safety functions like courts and fire departments. We don't need any of that silly waste management either. All that taking is just evil I tell you!! Pure evil!!
As for the rest of your rationalizations, you've been duped by 'free markets' newspeak.
I have no doubt that Microsoft's R&D is staffed with talented people.
I have my doubts that the Product Marketing and Sales side would turn any of it into anything of value though. In the history of innovative companies, they all tend to develop such powerful resistance to risk taking that all of the market potential in their R&D will just waste away.
it would probably take a few months Your government contractor will give you an entirely different time line stretching to infinity and beyond.
Every hundred-million-dollar slice I tear from the beast would help me rest easier at night.
After the first $100,000 the contractor will complain many levels above you and have you reassigned.
You have no idea what a pit of vipers working the way below-average gov't software contract is like. Much less the headline fodder a project this size becomes. End of story.
1. I hardly doubt this guy just fired off this screed on his own. 2. So, Vivek, how much would a new Patent Administration cost? How long would it take? You wouldn't have your job long enough to see the project complete, successfully or otherwise. 3. How about that VA system huh? Let's stake your entire career on changing it. Ohhh now that YOUR skin is in the game, suddenly the status-quo looks pretty good.
For every system that can be selectively discredited, there are 10 or more that are cost effective and relatively efficient with competent government employees in them.
In a normal company, if you're inefficient, you make less money.
You could not be more wrong. In most large companies, what passes for efficiency is neither faster nor cheaper. Success is based mostly on being the loudest with the deepest pockets.
In small companies, it is merely the persuasive abilities of the customer facing people and the rare pragmatic customer.
Seriously, it it time for this doublethink to die.
The government never makes money Yes, they do. Fees? Penalties? Taxes? It's time for the "Government is the root of all inefficiency" to die.
No distro is well capitalized. Litigating a distro would *clearly* set off a hue and cry about monopoly practices thereby waking a sleeping giant.
Microsoft uses some millions annually to fund their protection racket process. They target companies marketing products in the U.S. that have valuations such that they can extract meaningful sums of money. Same forms and process for each litigation target. It's the equivalent of a sweatshop operation.
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The bottleneck in your scenario is the network, so I/O speed isn't an issue. I have an old, full tower sitting in the garage doing your job with a multi-disk software RAID.
I actually think an LVM might work out better.
? The Fed's books are already open and reviewed by accountants regularly.
Really? Then please direct me to the assets in Maiden Lanes 1,2,3. Now, I don't mean the 'extend and pretend' valuations they report. Any external reporting is sent over with a topline valuation. Period. They do not provide enough information for any external party to establish values.
Please direct me to FRB NY's communications, oh let's go back 5 years. I don't want it all, just the stuff where it was decided AIG's creditors were paid 1:1 for debt obligations where a haircut (pennies on the dollar) is the norm. And... what about all those side bets that were made good?
Finally, it's not an either 'Business As Usual' or 'Politicize the Fed.' choice. That kind of rhetoric, by design, goes nowhere. Discarding the whole notion of greater transparency for the Fed has already cost us a trillion or so dollars. I'd like to use that money for other things.
I think Microsoft's goal is/was to pollute the term 'open source' to mean things friendly to Microsoft's practices like this read-only license.
The license cites the code available as "read only."
"Reference use" means use of the software within your company as a reference, in read only form, for the sole purposes of debugging your products, maintaining your products, or enhancing the interoperability of your products....
http://referencesource.microsoft.com/referencesourcelicense.aspx
Oh, and yes, Microsoft still sucks. In this case it's because their brand of misinformation is particularly toxic to innovation.
I think this is more about the big player(s) in gaming "ready" to control this segment of the gambling market. The Class-1 gaming industry is as ossified as most mature industries in the U.S. with vaguely inappropriate relationships with various gaming commissions and IP litigation that effectively captures a gaming innovater.
If this were to ever get any momentum, the regulations would encourage the biggest companies in gaming and discourage any dev shops that get big ideas about entering the gaming market.
I wonder how the States would react to this? Most of them are doing gaming through Native American reservations anyway and probably see this as the first step to losing control of the tax revenue.
Even if you are a fan of loud white noise and cold breezes, bringing a girl home would be uh, problematic. The physical access control might not turn her off, but getting comfy on a bench next to a 42u won't impress her.
Vegas has **huge** internet-tubes. Hoover dam huge. http://www.cogentco.com/img/other/networkmap_large.jpg I would assume there are other carriers going through Vegas too.
No meaningful earthquake threat out there. Sure, you'll get the occasional roller from Cali, but that's it. The weather isn't a big issue either. The data center's going to go up in smoke if the cooling quit regardless of where the data center is located.
Only the deal makers know what the details of the $100 million deal. Chances are excellent it's a bad deal. Some ways the deal can be bad follow....
Often times, there is a top line PR number, that if *every* option played to the start up's benefit, then they'd have earned the number. But most of the deals are completed leave the start-up members meaningfully smaller pay outs.
Let's say the deal flies and the people selling meet the conditions of the purchase, there's the matter of actually getting paid. You think "Investors XYZ are buying my company and they have *plenty* of money." What they have are plenty of lawyers whose task is to generate as many billable hours as possible for the start up members leaving the start up members largely broke. Once the resources are exhausted, then the acquirer pays pennies on the price that was agreed upon years earlier. Yes, you read that right, years....
The deal is far from complete once the acquisition is executed. Chances are excellent there's only heartache for the start up members with a sale.
Today's lesson: making money is only one part of the process. You need to get paid.
http://www.symbian.org/
http://www.symbian.org/
It's as open as you can possibly get. I understand coding at the OS level is some C++ weirdness or something. But it's all there. Media freedom, OS freedom, works great, lots of apps.
we need a DNA database too
Already happening to those dastardly criminals in our luxurious jails.
hey we need to start monitoring your internet usage
Already happening. NSA/AT&T whistleblower ring a bell? It turns out they are just one telco of many that got the same request. The others were compliant too.
There are thousands of bits of data about you being collected for sale by law-abiding private companies. There's no law that says the government can't use the services of the data provider.
Seriously, they GOT your number. The horse left the barn on this one at least a decade ago.
The only thing this card will do is make an identifications system contractor a bit richer and my wallet slightly fatter.
The ability to download albums and films in a matter of seconds
I can do that now.... from a datacenter.
The point being Cisco's new routing equipment is so far up the food chain consumers won't *ever* know the difference.
Given Cisco can bribe their way into any deal with a viable customer, I'm still interested to hear about the chances this device has in the marketplace and its competitors.
Meaning Microsoft controls the kinds of video IE can stream?
This is a big opportunity for Microsoft to force the Internet media standards AND generate some meaningful license fees. Those fees would be paid to Microsoft to enable streaming your hot-new-VC-backed media format. Microsoft would never have to deal with those pesky media streaming competitors they used to call partners.
If I made decisions at Microsoft, that's how I'd do it.
The transmission shifts to neutral just fine under full acceleration. I tested this scenario early one morning. (very early)
putting the vehicle in neutral won't stop the vehicle.
I put our Prius in *full* acceleration for 5 seconds then put the car in neutral. Transmission does, in fact, shift into neutral. Meanwhile, with my foot on the accelerator, 'floored' the engine drops to idle. Brake assist works because the motor is providing vacuum.
So, it seems that the CV transmission is independent from throttle control.
I did this at a ridiculously early hour with no one in sight on the nice, straight, highway.
Yowza, that would be a royal pain to get results.
Two ways to go.
1. Wide format scanner. These are usually at more specialized digitization shops. Find someone who scans blueprints in your area. http://www.amazon.com/Designjet-Large-format-Scanning-Software-Intergrate/dp/B000E8Z0XU
Only you can judge if the documents will be okay through the feeder. The feeders aren't hard on documents. I'd give your best one a shot. Naturally, you want to be there. So, not every service provider will be okay with that.
2. You most certainly can use a flatbed scanner. The key will be stitching software and memory/cpu resources and refining the scan/stitch method. Make them big-ish files, maybe 300ppi. After 300ppi, any information is useless for a 1:1 reproduction.
Lastly, overlaying geocoordinates info won't quite work as elegantly as you think. Ignore my doubts and go for it. I think the end result would be more art than science if done well. If done well, there will probably be a couple of false starts.
why wouldn't you release it in someway for the general public to digest in their homes?
1. The currency of hollywood is revenue. Art has nothing to do with it. I know, I know, tons will differ. But the artists are employed because of the revenue created, not the other way around. Showing things for free is a universally bad thing if he wants to stay in the industry.
2. Getting distribution is not simple or cheap. It would be a great deal of money to get started. Probably his own.
3. The executive side of the industry would stop hiring the poor fellow for not pushing it through their distribution channel. Youtube is fine for your home videos, but not something with enough production values to qualify as a movie.
4. He may not have distribution rights, or other rights necessary to get distribution.
While your goal of identifying the biologic source of the fat sensors is worthy, human behavior dictates something *must* detect fat content separately from texture. Food scientists have long been able to replicate the texture and mouth feel of fats.
A simple experiment, have three anonymous samples of cow's milk, one each full-fat, 2% and 1%. The vast majority of humans enjoy the 1% the least.
You can vary the beverage or food to take into account cultural tendencies and the results are the same. The lowest fat content is the least popular.
This kind of incentive is anti-competitive.
1. It eliminates competition by feature/functionality.
2. It meaningfully constrains innovation. A novel product without capitalization to participate is shut out. (That's the goal anyway)
That said, this kind of incentivizing is everywhere. (game consoles, mega-retailers, mobile phones) No one seems to care about the increased costs consumers assume or constraint on innovation.
I have my bias, what is yours?
that's taking money
All that evil taking. You know it just disappears!
We don't need building inspectors to ensure our buildings don't suddenly collapse.
We don't need public safety either.
Public Schools are no damn good anyway. Just put those kids who can't afford a private education to work.
Power? Who needs regulated power providers? Check out the history of California's power supply deregulation efforts some time.
Yeah, all that evil taking is just not necessary.
There's a difference between making money and taking money.
Governments do all that awful taking for roads, and those useless public safety functions like courts and fire departments. We don't need any of that silly waste management either. All that taking is just evil I tell you!! Pure evil!!
As for the rest of your rationalizations, you've been duped by 'free markets' newspeak.
I have no doubt that Microsoft's R&D is staffed with talented people.
I have my doubts that the Product Marketing and Sales side would turn any of it into anything of value though. In the history of innovative companies, they all tend to develop such powerful resistance to risk taking that all of the market potential in their R&D will just waste away.
it would probably take a few months
Your government contractor will give you an entirely different time line stretching to infinity and beyond.
Every hundred-million-dollar slice I tear from the beast would help me rest easier at night.
After the first $100,000 the contractor will complain many levels above you and have you reassigned.
You have no idea what a pit of vipers working the way below-average gov't software contract is like. Much less the headline fodder a project this size becomes. End of story.
1. I hardly doubt this guy just fired off this screed on his own.
2. So, Vivek, how much would a new Patent Administration cost? How long would it take? You wouldn't have your job long enough to see the project complete, successfully or otherwise.
3. How about that VA system huh? Let's stake your entire career on changing it. Ohhh now that YOUR skin is in the game, suddenly the status-quo looks pretty good.
For every system that can be selectively discredited, there are 10 or more that are cost effective and relatively efficient with competent government employees in them.
In a normal company, if you're inefficient, you make less money.
You could not be more wrong. In most large companies, what passes for efficiency is neither faster nor cheaper. Success is based mostly on being the loudest with the deepest pockets.
In small companies, it is merely the persuasive abilities of the customer facing people and the rare pragmatic customer.
Seriously, it it time for this doublethink to die.
The government never makes money
Yes, they do. Fees? Penalties? Taxes? It's time for the "Government is the root of all inefficiency" to die.
Look at it like a business process.
No distro is well capitalized.
Litigating a distro would *clearly* set off a hue and cry about monopoly practices thereby waking a sleeping giant.
Microsoft uses some millions annually to fund their protection racket process. They target companies marketing products in the U.S. that have valuations such that they can extract meaningful sums of money. Same forms and process for each litigation target. It's the equivalent of a sweatshop operation.