"Back in my days as a video game white-hat tester I wrote a python script. After much refactoring, it now logs in to every box through a client listener socket I have open on each workstation, and checks to make sure everything is patched."
So you have homegrown python code listening on a custom socket and that has the ability to do administrative things on the computer?
I see... tell me more about this setup, please... in the interest of "science."
"It was in the 80s when everyone started wetting the bed about kidnappings and child safety."
Satanists. Don't forget that Satanists were everywhere and were grabbing kids for ritualistic torture and sacrifice. Strangely, they disappeared around the time the Teletubbies became popular...
When he's asymptomatic he's not a transmission or infection risk. Given that he self-reported at the earliest onset of symptoms, I fail to see any recklessness.
I'd expect no better from an AC, but according to all the press I've read, he was self-monitoring multiple times a day and self-reported at the earliest onset of symptoms. "Attempted to murder" is a little more than extreme, IMO, considering he did everything right.
How does one determine which specific Bitcoin (or fraction) was spent from one's owned pool to determine whether any appreciation is long-term or short-term? Is it a record-keeping thing only, much like tossing pennies in a jar every day and recording it in a ledger, then taking random pennies back out to pay and noting that they're the oldest, whether or not they are (or can be proven to be)?
I foresee IRS challenges around long-term vs. short-term in audits, especially for folks with lots of transactions.
And here's why we'll spend some of our money at whole foods: freshness. The produce and meet at the local supermarket (HEB) is safe, (often) locally sourced and tasty, but there's a marked degree of improvement for SOME THINGS at Whole Foods. For the parent post, it's the meat. For me, it's vegetables, particularly root vegetables. It's muck akin to grades of meat - the vegetables are a "grade higher" in freshness, presentation and taste.
If I'm making sauce? HEB tomatoes and mozzarella are fine. If I'm making a Caprese salad? Whole Foods FTW.
I also really enjoy their salad bar variety for lunch - it trumps almost every other available option near me, is reasonably priced and offers me a place to sit and eat nearby. Again, easy win.
Bulk and/or standard items? HEB is the place... unless we're headed to Costco for the 55 gallon drum of something.
Yep. Look at http://tabbedout.com/ - that's a whole company dedicated to just this one thing, with their software already in use by several large restaurant chains for embedding the in the restaurant's app...
You learn to turn emotion off when you have no control over the outcome beyond what you've been able to do. I do this quite well as a paramedic. I see horrific things, encounter situations that would leave others crying in the fetal position for days... but I get through it through a sense of personal accomplishment and team camaraderie. Am I stoic? To a degree. But I also know when to ask for help, and there's a communication style among my peers that allows for expression through humor, anger, etc. that's not frowned upon. Some of the best therapy I've ever had was sitting on the bumper of the ambulance at the hospital after a particularly bad call, scene, patient, etc.
I don't *like* what I see, but I like being able to affect it. And being trusted to affect it. That doesn't make me a sociopath... just someone who WOULD be a sociopath if you locked me up in a windowless office for eight hours a day with Excel and actuarial tables.
Fancy words like 'hire,' and grammatical structures like "Which would have been thrown out." expressed as a sentence rather than a question?
I'm not defending patents for broad swaths of technology - not in the least. At the same time, requiring very specific patent applications requires the use of very detailed, technical language as part of the description. The patent suit problem is that patent approvals hinge on interpretation of descriptive language. It's the classic elephant problem - you and I describing the same thing but in completely different vocabularies.
Why does Ms develop IE when there is Firefox? IE is a product that is not sold. No one buys Windows because of IE.
If I had mod points I'd mod you insightful. Why indeed?
Some could/would argue that Microsoft develops and releases IE because they have to refine their own networking and shell (explorer) code, and IE is just a UI on top of those that happens to hit http:/// links. They'd say that if they depended on Firefox, and Firefox "understood" that as a developer community, that Firefox could influence the direction of Windows development because it would be a core component - and one that Microsoft doesn't control.
I tend to agree with that. Microsoft doesn't want to spend cycles on a "free" product that's become ubiquitous... but they don't have a choice - they can't give up control to an outside developer pool and cede control over the direction of Windows in re WWW access. So, given that they have to maintain control, and maintaining control requires maintaining, to a degree, market share, they can burn just enough cycles to a) make it work enough for 90% of people out there and b) add enough new things / change enough things to generate PR about "why IE is teh bomb!"
You do remember that IE was, at one point, sold on store shelves and had a SKU, right?
How can they patent the interface they copied from Apple?
This is how the industry works.
Xerox PARC --> Microsoft/Apple --> Gnome/KDE
Ever notice how it's ALL the same? It's ALL built on what came before?
Gnome/KDE is obviously based on the Win9x GUI, which carries through to this day. That was based on the Apple GUI, which was based on earlier Win3x GUI's, what was "stolen" from PARC in the first place.
The same plays out in ANY tech market. Someone comes up with a product, and someone else modifies it and sells that. Hopefully, the modification is enough to actually be different from the original, not just spit-polished and spray-painted. Now that it's cheaper all-around to make gizmos, and because you can profit faster, then just go out of business with your lump of cash when you get sued, why NOT copy, resell and fold?
Who cares if it's "right" or not, and who cares about intellectual property rights - except of course the guy who DESERVES the credit for the original invention - but why care about him - he got enough to not be considered as "gotten screwed," right?
Gah... I'm gonna have a stroke now!/me runs off screaming, looking for a straightjacket
why is creative bothering, other than to abuse the legal system in an attempt to get an injunction against iPod sales during a crucial retail season...
Two reasons:
1) Press. Apple still dominates the press, and Creative has no ads on TV that I've seen anywhere, while even my daughter, who hates Eminem, catches herself singing along with the iPod commercials. Apple also has bands ready, willing and able to release songs for their commercials - and those songs become hits. Apple his mindshare, and Creative doesn't. This lawsuit gets Creative some press, press that they're not paying for with marketing dollars, although it wouldn't be hard to qualify this entire lawsuit as marketing expense.
2) The off-chance that it might work. I think Creative fails to recognize, though, that their shareholders are likely to be less than impressed if Creative's main source of income in the DAP market is from iPod royalties on an interface patent. If you were a Creative stockholder, would you want to invest in a company that gets a very, very small percentage of profits from a competitor's product sale through an interface patent royalty; or would you rather invest in the competitor making the better product as a whole, and the larger overall profit from it? Oh, yeah, and are you willing to risk the time, expense and uncertainty of a legal battle?
It's sad, really. Creative makes some fantastic audio products, but they're primarily oriented around input/output for PC's. I can understand why they entered the DAP market, I really can, but to compete on patent assertions instead of product niche? Disappointing.
Have you looked at the configuration screens of your digital cable box lately? You have video-over-IP already. Your cable box has an IP address, and gets a compressed digital video stream from the local cable node/hub/provider, which it decodes into a picture and pushes out an output on your box (s-video, component, HDMI, etc.).
For digital services like video on demand, the box uses shared-key security and the MAC address to authenticate and "unlock", then the node just pushes the content down like data, letting the box handle the reassembly and decoding of picture/audio data.
My Scientific-Atlanta DVR has two tuners and gets two IP-addresses - one for each tuner.
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This depends on locale and purpose. Texas has a standardized form for Out of Hospital DNR that is officially recognized.
They can't. Anything like this would just help the "employees, not independent contractors" argument. Independent = independent.
"Back in my days as a video game white-hat tester I wrote a python script. After much refactoring, it now logs in to every box through a client listener socket I have open on each workstation, and checks to make sure everything is patched." So you have homegrown python code listening on a custom socket and that has the ability to do administrative things on the computer? I see... tell me more about this setup, please... in the interest of "science."
How does Apple know he's driving and not a passenger, on a bus, etc.?
Satanists. Don't forget that Satanists were everywhere and were grabbing kids for ritualistic torture and sacrifice. Strangely, they disappeared around the time the Teletubbies became popular...
Fair, or equal? I think you're confusing the two. http://blogs.birmingham.k12.mi...
I have an employer that requires visible tattoos be covered. If this means wearing a turtleneck undershirt when it's 105F in the summer, so be it.
When he's asymptomatic he's not a transmission or infection risk. Given that he self-reported at the earliest onset of symptoms, I fail to see any recklessness.
I'd expect no better from an AC, but according to all the press I've read, he was self-monitoring multiple times a day and self-reported at the earliest onset of symptoms. "Attempted to murder" is a little more than extreme, IMO, considering he did everything right.
No, each attempt has a longer pause between it after a certain point to prevent exactly this.
How does one determine which specific Bitcoin (or fraction) was spent from one's owned pool to determine whether any appreciation is long-term or short-term? Is it a record-keeping thing only, much like tossing pennies in a jar every day and recording it in a ledger, then taking random pennies back out to pay and noting that they're the oldest, whether or not they are (or can be proven to be)? I foresee IRS challenges around long-term vs. short-term in audits, especially for folks with lots of transactions.
And here's why we'll spend some of our money at whole foods: freshness. The produce and meet at the local supermarket (HEB) is safe, (often) locally sourced and tasty, but there's a marked degree of improvement for SOME THINGS at Whole Foods. For the parent post, it's the meat. For me, it's vegetables, particularly root vegetables. It's muck akin to grades of meat - the vegetables are a "grade higher" in freshness, presentation and taste. If I'm making sauce? HEB tomatoes and mozzarella are fine. If I'm making a Caprese salad? Whole Foods FTW. I also really enjoy their salad bar variety for lunch - it trumps almost every other available option near me, is reasonably priced and offers me a place to sit and eat nearby. Again, easy win. Bulk and/or standard items? HEB is the place... unless we're headed to Costco for the 55 gallon drum of something.
That $2bn/yr is coming from lots of different sources, or is at least being funded by many different players in the Android market in some form or fashion. Besides, Samsung is make 95% of the profits on Android, not Google: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-16/google-makes-android-but-samsung-makes-all-the-money
Yep. Look at http://tabbedout.com/ - that's a whole company dedicated to just this one thing, with their software already in use by several large restaurant chains for embedding the in the restaurant's app...
This assumes that the 200 redundancies are the types able to pioneer new technologies, which isn't likely the case given the nature of the merger.
You learn to turn emotion off when you have no control over the outcome beyond what you've been able to do. I do this quite well as a paramedic. I see horrific things, encounter situations that would leave others crying in the fetal position for days... but I get through it through a sense of personal accomplishment and team camaraderie. Am I stoic? To a degree. But I also know when to ask for help, and there's a communication style among my peers that allows for expression through humor, anger, etc. that's not frowned upon. Some of the best therapy I've ever had was sitting on the bumper of the ambulance at the hospital after a particularly bad call, scene, patient, etc. I don't *like* what I see, but I like being able to affect it. And being trusted to affect it. That doesn't make me a sociopath... just someone who WOULD be a sociopath if you locked me up in a windowless office for eight hours a day with Excel and actuarial tables.
Fancy words like 'hire,' and grammatical structures like "Which would have been thrown out." expressed as a sentence rather than a question?
I'm not defending patents for broad swaths of technology - not in the least. At the same time, requiring very specific patent applications requires the use of very detailed, technical language as part of the description. The patent suit problem is that patent approvals hinge on interpretation of descriptive language. It's the classic elephant problem - you and I describing the same thing but in completely different vocabularies.
Can you say "Dance Dance Wiivolution"? I thought you could...
Wouldn't that have the opposite effect?
No, a McDonald's hamburger generally makes me splunk very soon after eating it.
If I had mod points I'd mod you insightful. Why indeed?
Some could/would argue that Microsoft develops and releases IE because they have to refine their own networking and shell (explorer) code, and IE is just a UI on top of those that happens to hit http:/// links. They'd say that if they depended on Firefox, and Firefox "understood" that as a developer community, that Firefox could influence the direction of Windows development because it would be a core component - and one that Microsoft doesn't control.
I tend to agree with that. Microsoft doesn't want to spend cycles on a "free" product that's become ubiquitous... but they don't have a choice - they can't give up control to an outside developer pool and cede control over the direction of Windows in re WWW access. So, given that they have to maintain control, and maintaining control requires maintaining, to a degree, market share, they can burn just enough cycles to a) make it work enough for 90% of people out there and b) add enough new things / change enough things to generate PR about "why IE is teh bomb!"
You do remember that IE was, at one point, sold on store shelves and had a SKU, right?
This is how the industry works.
Xerox PARC --> Microsoft/Apple --> Gnome/KDE
Ever notice how it's ALL the same? It's ALL built on what came before?
Gnome/KDE is obviously based on the Win9x GUI, which carries through to this day. That was based on the Apple GUI, which was based on earlier Win3x GUI's, what was "stolen" from PARC in the first place.
The same plays out in ANY tech market. Someone comes up with a product, and someone else modifies it and sells that. Hopefully, the modification is enough to actually be different from the original, not just spit-polished and spray-painted. Now that it's cheaper all-around to make gizmos, and because you can profit faster, then just go out of business with your lump of cash when you get sued, why NOT copy, resell and fold?
Who cares if it's "right" or not, and who cares about intellectual property rights - except of course the guy who DESERVES the credit for the original invention - but why care about him - he got enough to not be considered as "gotten screwed," right?
Gah... I'm gonna have a stroke now! /me runs off screaming, looking for a straightjacket
Its too bad the iPod's form factor has pretty much been the same since coming out in 2001.
A search of ThinkSecret's archives puts a start date on rumors of the video iPod around the time of MacWord Expo 2003.
Two reasons:
1) Press. Apple still dominates the press, and Creative has no ads on TV that I've seen anywhere, while even my daughter, who hates Eminem, catches herself singing along with the iPod commercials. Apple also has bands ready, willing and able to release songs for their commercials - and those songs become hits. Apple his mindshare, and Creative doesn't. This lawsuit gets Creative some press, press that they're not paying for with marketing dollars, although it wouldn't be hard to qualify this entire lawsuit as marketing expense.
2) The off-chance that it might work. I think Creative fails to recognize, though, that their shareholders are likely to be less than impressed if Creative's main source of income in the DAP market is from iPod royalties on an interface patent. If you were a Creative stockholder, would you want to invest in a company that gets a very, very small percentage of profits from a competitor's product sale through an interface patent royalty; or would you rather invest in the competitor making the better product as a whole, and the larger overall profit from it? Oh, yeah, and are you willing to risk the time, expense and uncertainty of a legal battle?
It's sad, really. Creative makes some fantastic audio products, but they're primarily oriented around input/output for PC's. I can understand why they entered the DAP market, I really can, but to compete on patent assertions instead of product niche? Disappointing.
These are not the links you are looking for. Move along.
For digital services like video on demand, the box uses shared-key security and the MAC address to authenticate and "unlock", then the node just pushes the content down like data, letting the box handle the reassembly and decoding of picture/audio data.
My Scientific-Atlanta DVR has two tuners and gets two IP-addresses - one for each tuner.