The storage space is accessed by standard SOAP and REST interfaces, and networking is handled by HTTP and BitTorrent protocols. The data streams are encrypted with customer-specific keys, and access rights are supposed to be granular enough to provide private or public storage object by object, and user by user. Apart from the storage fee, you pay $0.20 per gigabyte transferred, but there are no minimum fees and no setup costs, so you pay as you go.
BitTorrent is a strange protocol to use to deliver personal storage, is that just a fallback in the event that you choose public storage and multiple people are accessing at once?
i can't find a lot of strong numbers on this categorized by continent, but here are some that i did find of types (1992 data apparently from the World Almanac by way of
an AOL user) :
South America: 25%
Europe: 23%
Africa: 18%
Russia: 6%
Asia: 14%
North America: 13%
Oceania: 1%
taking it further, lots of North American Christians are latino (from Newsweek) :
[Catholics] then grew into the largest denomination in the United States, now numbering 52 million, nearly one-fourth of the country's population. Most recently the American church has even begun to wear a Third World face: Hispanics now comprise 25 to 30 percent of American Catholics.
if a large portion of the North American christians are latino (25% of american catholics + whatever American non-catholics + large portion of Mexico) and South America is the leading continent, the grandparent poster isn't so far off to deserve such a scathing reply.
the only way to do this would be for the designer to include a tag in the code detailing what browser draws the page the way that they wanted it to look and then your browser would launch that other browser when you hit the page. if someone is coding their page so that it looks right under a bad implementation of CSS, then the only way you can work in that situation is to also implement CSS badly (but only for that page!)
if that were the definition, than nothing is a loophole. surely the people that are taking advantage of tax loopholes don't want them to be closed, so those aren't loopholes either? a better definition of loophole is something that the creator of the license didn't mean to be open.
if so, the President played into it with a State of the Union making so many promises to fund science :
First, I propose to double the federal commitment to the most critical basic research programs in the physical sciences over the next 10 years. This funding will support the work of America's most creative minds as they explore promising areas such as nanotechnology, supercomputing, and alternative energy sources.
despite that, i imagine that this will all turn out well for Bush and his big-oil friends. if nothing else, a shortage of funding for earth sciences will allow them to say that there are fewer and fewer studies linking pollution from humans to climate change.
Republicans are backing big business and the upper, upper class, while the Democrats are backing big business and the lower class. sure, they both talk like they're also aiming at the middle class, but the actual benefit of most legislation is cutoff at the knees before it hits the middle class. "tax cuts for everyone" get undercut by the Alternative Minimum Tax, inheritance tax changes are spun as saviors for "middle class farmers" but they're really being done to make sure that daddy Hilton can hand all his baubles down to li'l Paris. i can't wait for the middle class to wake up and realize that they're not being really represented in our government, because they sure as hell could make waves at the polls if they voted as a block.
i've used that method and it will never be as popular as AJAX, because AJAX leverages everyone's love for XML. really it seems to work just the same, with the server sending javascript code and data structures instead of XML. be sure to add a random querystring value to the script call, or else you're going to get some monstrous caching issues:)
Hitachi's multipurpose supercomputer with a peak performance of 2.15 terra flops and IBM Japan's Blue Gene Solution with a peak performance of 57.3 terra flops -- is capable of making about 59 trillion calculations per second, the Mainichi Shimbun reported Wednesday.
i wonder how many nanoseconds it took this new supercomputer to add 2.15 to 57.3 and round that off to 59
it gets harder! CS404: Intro to Slashdotting a Server and CS500: Slashdotting for Advanced Users are really ruthless courses and the professor, BeatlesBeatles, refuses to grade on a curve
genius! call it a "social networking puzzle game" and it's gone from spam to the latest internet buzzword
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ok, I thought again, this is actually retarded.
virtually everything about golf is retarded, they're keeping with the theme. i'm just wondering where they're going to obtain a plaid space suit, that's probably the most expensive part of the project.
he still may have needed a defence lawyer (and a new job). they're not charging him with revealing information to the public, but with how he got the information. he got it the same way regardless of where he took it.
the difference between taking it public and taking it to the government is that when you take it public it's more difficult for the story to get covered up. and if there are repurcussions for you it's more difficult for you to make your case to the public or to the superiors of those you took it to if your evidence "got lost somewhere"
.NET's ORM system is nowhere near as complete or useful as the one in Rails... You're kidding yourself if you think otherwise (and yes, I have tried development in both systems and Rails beats.NET hands down)
dude, read closer, it's Bill Gates that's kidding himself
I just started a new job at a college of art and design (the last guy ran screaming from the building), and we're going to start switching next year from a labs-with-desktops approach to computers, to a students-with-laptops approach...
specifically he had this to say about Sarbanes-Oxley :
Next, there was a presentation from Hutch Fishman who has served as CFO for a number of Paul Graham's operations along with providing CFO-type support for a number of other firms. He described the various steps in the standard funding cycle for a startup along with what a company should expect in terms of transitions in equity, the Board of Advisors, and ranges. He talked a bit about Sarbanes-Oxley and explicitly stated he would not be willing to serve as CFO for a publicly traded company due to the law. I think this is huge and a very bad sign of things that are happening in the markets. Here we have a well-seasoned and experienced CFO who is being driven away from great firms because of the malfeasance of a limited number of individuals. If a company exec raids a retirement fund or cooks the books, we send them to jail. If a Senator does the same, we re-elect them. Something is wrong here.
he used a really bad analogy at the end, because IMO if a senator "cooks the books" they should go to jail too. i'm not sure how straightening that out affects Fishman's hesitance to be a CFO for a public company, unless the analogy was given with the thought that cooking the books should be ok for both sets of people.
anything related to math or science is much less obscure to the group of people that is using Wikipedia than it would be to the world at-large, it's a technical crowd. perhaps there is some obscure example from butter-churning history or cross-stitching theory that would be a better test case.
that PDF link appears to be dead. here's a counter link that says that GPL licenses aren't as novel as you're saying they are. anyway, it doesn't seem like no-burden licensing is a new thing, the ability for something to be placed in the public domain has existed for a while and that's the ultimate no-burden license. these aren't even no-burden licenses because open source licensing puts more of a burden on the user of the item than putting something in the public domain would; the user of the software is usually obligated in some way, whether that's inclusion of the license/credit clause in the final product or the requirement to license derived software under an equally open license.
anyway, what the parent poster seemed to be implying is that Oracle could change the terms of the purchased license and have the change work retroactively on people who have already taken the code and were complying with the terms of the license that existed at the time that they took the code. surely that should be covered by some settled case law, setting open-source licenses aside i can't imagine that this hasn't come up before with some sort of license dispute.
let me add an IANAL here, but this sure seems like basic stuff
i'm pretty sure that you can't revoke the license that the code was distributed with in the past, you can only change the license for new distributions (and your license can include terms that say that it can't be redistributed so that technically any new users would have to come to you under whatever your current license is at the time)
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i can't find a lot of strong numbers on this categorized by continent, but here are some that i did find of types (1992 data apparently from the World Almanac by way of an AOL user) : taking it further, lots of North American Christians are latino (from Newsweek) : if a large portion of the North American christians are latino (25% of american catholics + whatever American non-catholics + large portion of Mexico) and South America is the leading continent, the grandparent poster isn't so far off to deserve such a scathing reply.
the only way to do this would be for the designer to include a tag in the code detailing what browser draws the page the way that they wanted it to look and then your browser would launch that other browser when you hit the page. if someone is coding their page so that it looks right under a bad implementation of CSS, then the only way you can work in that situation is to also implement CSS badly (but only for that page!)
if that were the definition, than nothing is a loophole. surely the people that are taking advantage of tax loopholes don't want them to be closed, so those aren't loopholes either? a better definition of loophole is something that the creator of the license didn't mean to be open.
if they repeated it they must have some idea of how they did it
one more for the mix:
what is the use of newspaper movie reviewers that cut and paste complimentary statements fed to them by the movie makers?
i've always wondered how any newspaper that considers itself serious would employ someone like that
they sell hardware, and it's patented. they'll gain sales because more people can use their solution, it's win-win.
Republicans are backing big business and the upper, upper class, while the Democrats are backing big business and the lower class. sure, they both talk like they're also aiming at the middle class, but the actual benefit of most legislation is cutoff at the knees before it hits the middle class. "tax cuts for everyone" get undercut by the Alternative Minimum Tax, inheritance tax changes are spun as saviors for "middle class farmers" but they're really being done to make sure that daddy Hilton can hand all his baubles down to li'l Paris. i can't wait for the middle class to wake up and realize that they're not being really represented in our government, because they sure as hell could make waves at the polls if they voted as a block.
i've used that method and it will never be as popular as AJAX, because AJAX leverages everyone's love for XML. really it seems to work just the same, with the server sending javascript code and data structures instead of XML. be sure to add a random querystring value to the script call, or else you're going to get some monstrous caching issues :)
i'm writing this from my Earth Simulator laptop that will be commercially available next year
it gets harder! CS404: Intro to Slashdotting a Server and CS500: Slashdotting for Advanced Users are really ruthless courses and the professor, BeatlesBeatles, refuses to grade on a curve
genius! call it a "social networking puzzle game" and it's gone from spam to the latest internet buzzword
that may be true, but how the hell would i find them?
he still may have needed a defence lawyer (and a new job). they're not charging him with revealing information to the public, but with how he got the information. he got it the same way regardless of where he took it.
the difference between taking it public and taking it to the government is that when you take it public it's more difficult for the story to get covered up. and if there are repurcussions for you it's more difficult for you to make your case to the public or to the superiors of those you took it to if your evidence "got lost somewhere"
i can't understand the attraction to AJAX, it tasted pretty gritty the last time i tried it
anything related to math or science is much less obscure to the group of people that is using Wikipedia than it would be to the world at-large, it's a technical crowd. perhaps there is some obscure example from butter-churning history or cross-stitching theory that would be a better test case.
that PDF link appears to be dead. here's a counter link that says that GPL licenses aren't as novel as you're saying they are. anyway, it doesn't seem like no-burden licensing is a new thing, the ability for something to be placed in the public domain has existed for a while and that's the ultimate no-burden license. these aren't even no-burden licenses because open source licensing puts more of a burden on the user of the item than putting something in the public domain would; the user of the software is usually obligated in some way, whether that's inclusion of the license/credit clause in the final product or the requirement to license derived software under an equally open license.
anyway, what the parent poster seemed to be implying is that Oracle could change the terms of the purchased license and have the change work retroactively on people who have already taken the code and were complying with the terms of the license that existed at the time that they took the code. surely that should be covered by some settled case law, setting open-source licenses aside i can't imagine that this hasn't come up before with some sort of license dispute.
let me add an IANAL here, but this sure seems like basic stuff
i'm pretty sure that you can't revoke the license that the code was distributed with in the past, you can only change the license for new distributions (and your license can include terms that say that it can't be redistributed so that technically any new users would have to come to you under whatever your current license is at the time)