I would suggest you to read Einstein's "Relativity: The Special and General Theory". He explains it pretty well. It's available for free from a number of sources as part of Project Gutenberg (free on iTunes Book Store, 0.99 for the Kindle,...).
Kinect? Actually, no, they bought the idea for the dual camera from a college kid - they were originally thinking about some type of table-display-control thing which was very unwieldy.
Another thing is.NET, a knock-off of Java and ObjC.
Actually, they haven't innovated according to the dictionary definition (http://www.dwheeler.com/innovation/microsoft.html) but they have been able to commercialize some other people's ideas and called it innovation.
They also have a good custom software division if you could ever afford their services. Some governments and really large businesses have Microsoft-developed custom software that looks like it has some really great ideas but they can't seem to break through the red tape to apply those ideas to their core business.
Turk: So, dude, you don't understand. When I operate, I don't see a person, I see a machine with parts that need to be replaced and circuits that need to be rewired. J.D.: So you think you're a robot mechanic? Turk: As a surgeon, the more detached I am, the more focused I am. And it's pretty impossible to feel focused or detached when this guy's family's watching every move I make. J.D.: Well, I wouldn't worry about that. Mr. Milligan only has a son and Elliot lost him. Turk: Awesome!... For me.
Dr. Cox: It's actually a pretty sweet deal for them. After their loved ones are stripped for parts like a 1998 Mitsubishi Mirage, we treat them to some free cold cuts and a chance to hear you regurgitate some trite quotes about their family members sacrifice that you found on the Internet.
Water actually goes 'bad' over long terms of time, it just starts tasting funky (I say that out of experience). Also it could be that the plastic breaks down over time (if placed in hostile environments like direct sunlight, heat or physical abuse of the container) and leaks into the water making it unsafe.
Medicines have short expiration dates because people think it's safe to take medicine when it's just 'a little bit' expired while it might not have it's full strength anymore (which could be dangerous) and some medicine do break down over time. Also, I believe there is a law that requires drug manufacturers to put expiration dates on all their products.
Not really, all you need is a certificate that the data cannot be recovered. DBAN it and resell it on e-bay. Even if they physically destroyed the disks, they're probably getting the whole set of computers, laptops, network equipment etc. from those offices - remove the hard drive, plug a new one in, sell on e-bay. There are services out there that do physical data destruction for free if you donate the computers.
You can still hand-build computers and have a system that passes FCC Class A tests (even Class B). Barebone computers are all FCC certified and can be modified without issues. Same goes for UL certification, as long as your components are UL certified (which I believe is necessary for them to be sold in the US) you can build just about anything you want.
It also doesn't make them illegal if they're not being certified. It's only an FCC regulation that you'll overstep in the very rare case they do not meet specifications and you sell them.
if it was just an old sysadmin's personal download machine. Given that most computers do not have serial numbers but the ones procurement gives them, it could have been a system that was decommissioned and the sticker peeled off. I've got a couple of those myself although they're not hooked up to my companies' gigabit internet service.
1) There are already cars (concept) that can take themselves out of traffic when they notice the driver falling asleep. They just go automatically into the emergency lane and slow down. I believe Mercedes or Volkswagen/Audi did it.
2) There are a LOT of sensors in modern cars. Cars these days can detect a blowout or dangerous tire conditions that would lead to a blowout. Low fuel, mechanical failure and other conditions are easily communicated over a wireless link and would just result in an early disconnect from the 'train'. Cars also detect bumps in the road and continue going straight (ESC).
And that should be normal, a system that gives control over a lot of lives at one time should be scrutinized but it's not like train operators go out of business because trains crash once in a while. Same goes for planes. However if you get in an accident with a car, nobody is calling out for improvement.
When you're with AT&T you have the choice between 300MB and 1GB. A lot of providers won't allow you to eat up more than 2GB before hitting some type of FUP.
12Gbps per satellite system. It would cost you roughly $8k/gigabit/month without any profit margins and given that they have enough backhaul here on earth.
It's called the Magic Box trick and high-level SC2 players use it as well. It's basically spreading your muta's far enough out that they can all attack without taking splash damage. If you just move-hold the muta's can take care of plenty of Thors.
I know it's supposed to be funny but that is exactly what happens in a large organization. I work in a place where central IT swears that if they buy from a vendor they will be able to get much better support and they can blame somebody. But then when you go to the meetings or get status reports usually this is the response to a disaster or a technical issue: We talked to the vendor and they told us we need to upgrade to the latest version. We talked to the vendor and they gave us this patch they wrote for us. We talked to the vendor and they gave us their internal beta release to see if it fixes the problem.
What is the big difference between having a vendor do it or hiring a programmer working on an open source solution? Absolutely none. Except that the vendor charges you for each instance of support and gives you the privilege of paying for the licensing on top. They spend roughly $10M/year on Microsoft software alone, $100M/year total in licensing costs (last years financial report).
Given that they have only roughly 2000 servers and 5,000 workstations to take care of and that many departments also have their own licensing to take care of I would say that would pay for a heck of a lot of programmers, they could even fund their own development company for that price.
What it is is a scheme to get our taxpayer money which we bailed them out with last years out of the country. They invest in a big bubble once more, this time with their bailout money, invest in it from outside the country using shills (so it can't get scrutinized by the local authorities) and then bust the bubble after transferring out all the cash.
I guess as long as you don't mind eventually paying for the licenses or battling the patent trolls. Even though currently H.264 is available for 'free' (as in you don't have to pay for it), the current owners are not obligated to keep it that way. H.264 is not really free in the rms sense of the word.
Yes, there were job-related e-mails in there that according to the law have to go into a government repository and for some reason she didn't want those messages to go on record. She was not punished for this.
Likewise she will not get punished for inciting violence and shootings, for being just plain dumb or for the air time she squandered with her show.
Both Firefox and Safari have taken a huge chunk of the market. IE is down to 44% market share, Firefox now takes up nearly 30% and Safari takes up 5% + 20% of the mobile share.
The International Public Prosecution Office in Gothenburg that wants him extradited even after at least 2 prosecutors have stopped their investigation is accidentally also near a certain business called Boeing Jeppesen which hosts the Boeing Jeppesen international trip planning aka Illegal/Extraordinary Rendition Airlines right there. Do you really think that's coincidence?
Of course, they could just as well pick him up in the UK but the current political environment might not be as cooperative to that sort of action as the Blair/Brown government was.
First of all, the grunt pirate is not making millions of dollars. He's lucky if he can come home with enough money to feed his family without getting maimed or killed. As always, the warlords are making lots of money without getting in harms way.
It's not like the poor chaps can't fish, the fact of the matter is that it is not profitable enough anymore for them to fish thanks to some of OUR companies depleting all THEIR fish reserves so we can get a $1 can of tuna at our local Wal-Mart.
Sadly, this is the scientific community we have shaped. When you see the abysmal money they get for these types of studies, you wouldn't blame them.
I work in the field of scientific research, more interestingly related to brain research and some of it is autism. All they usually CAN afford is 10-20 subjects which they have to divide in a control group and a test group. They have roughly 1 year to complete it with a couple of $10,000 grants after which they have to publish something. Then if the findings are correlated strong enough, they can go on to NIH with this and maybe get an audience to petition a grant which takes forever and seemingly nobody gets.
Many of these pilot studies however do get published and sometimes they even gain traction in the media after which they most likely get funded, so you have to publish something earth-shattering to make sure you get funded.
There is more money going into research from the VA, DoD and even the NFL though which gets some real money but usually it's related to finding trauma.
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I would suggest you to read Einstein's "Relativity: The Special and General Theory". He explains it pretty well. It's available for free from a number of sources as part of Project Gutenberg (free on iTunes Book Store, 0.99 for the Kindle, ...).
Kinect? Actually, no, they bought the idea for the dual camera from a college kid - they were originally thinking about some type of table-display-control thing which was very unwieldy.
Another thing is .NET, a knock-off of Java and ObjC.
Actually, they haven't innovated according to the dictionary definition (http://www.dwheeler.com/innovation/microsoft.html) but they have been able to commercialize some other people's ideas and called it innovation.
They also have a good custom software division if you could ever afford their services. Some governments and really large businesses have Microsoft-developed custom software that looks like it has some really great ideas but they can't seem to break through the red tape to apply those ideas to their core business.
Turk: So, dude, you don't understand. When I operate, I don't see a person, I see a machine with parts that need to be replaced and circuits that need to be rewired.
J.D.: So you think you're a robot mechanic?
Turk: As a surgeon, the more detached I am, the more focused I am. And it's pretty impossible to feel focused or detached when this guy's family's watching every move I make.
J.D.: Well, I wouldn't worry about that. Mr. Milligan only has a son and Elliot lost him.
Turk: Awesome!... For me.
Dr. Cox: It's actually a pretty sweet deal for them. After their loved ones are stripped for parts like a 1998 Mitsubishi Mirage, we treat them to some free cold cuts and a chance to hear you regurgitate some trite quotes about their family members sacrifice that you found on the Internet.
He is referring to racetrack memory or memristors which respectively exist in the lab and are a theoretical construct.
Water actually goes 'bad' over long terms of time, it just starts tasting funky (I say that out of experience). Also it could be that the plastic breaks down over time (if placed in hostile environments like direct sunlight, heat or physical abuse of the container) and leaks into the water making it unsafe.
Medicines have short expiration dates because people think it's safe to take medicine when it's just 'a little bit' expired while it might not have it's full strength anymore (which could be dangerous) and some medicine do break down over time. Also, I believe there is a law that requires drug manufacturers to put expiration dates on all their products.
Not really, all you need is a certificate that the data cannot be recovered. DBAN it and resell it on e-bay. Even if they physically destroyed the disks, they're probably getting the whole set of computers, laptops, network equipment etc. from those offices - remove the hard drive, plug a new one in, sell on e-bay. There are services out there that do physical data destruction for free if you donate the computers.
You can still hand-build computers and have a system that passes FCC Class A tests (even Class B). Barebone computers are all FCC certified and can be modified without issues. Same goes for UL certification, as long as your components are UL certified (which I believe is necessary for them to be sold in the US) you can build just about anything you want.
It also doesn't make them illegal if they're not being certified. It's only an FCC regulation that you'll overstep in the very rare case they do not meet specifications and you sell them.
Also, not everybody lives in the US.
if it was just an old sysadmin's personal download machine. Given that most computers do not have serial numbers but the ones procurement gives them, it could have been a system that was decommissioned and the sticker peeled off. I've got a couple of those myself although they're not hooked up to my companies' gigabit internet service.
Those are very easy questions to solve.
1) There are already cars (concept) that can take themselves out of traffic when they notice the driver falling asleep. They just go automatically into the emergency lane and slow down. I believe Mercedes or Volkswagen/Audi did it.
2) There are a LOT of sensors in modern cars. Cars these days can detect a blowout or dangerous tire conditions that would lead to a blowout. Low fuel, mechanical failure and other conditions are easily communicated over a wireless link and would just result in an early disconnect from the 'train'. Cars also detect bumps in the road and continue going straight (ESC).
And that should be normal, a system that gives control over a lot of lives at one time should be scrutinized but it's not like train operators go out of business because trains crash once in a while. Same goes for planes. However if you get in an accident with a car, nobody is calling out for improvement.
When you're with AT&T you have the choice between 300MB and 1GB. A lot of providers won't allow you to eat up more than 2GB before hitting some type of FUP.
12Gbps per satellite system. It would cost you roughly $8k/gigabit/month without any profit margins and given that they have enough backhaul here on earth.
Probably closer to 7ms + equipment would be roughly 10ms. Still better than Comcast or Time Warner though.
It's called the Magic Box trick and high-level SC2 players use it as well. It's basically spreading your muta's far enough out that they can all attack without taking splash damage. If you just move-hold the muta's can take care of plenty of Thors.
I know it's supposed to be funny but that is exactly what happens in a large organization. I work in a place where central IT swears that if they buy from a vendor they will be able to get much better support and they can blame somebody. But then when you go to the meetings or get status reports usually this is the response to a disaster or a technical issue: We talked to the vendor and they told us we need to upgrade to the latest version. We talked to the vendor and they gave us this patch they wrote for us. We talked to the vendor and they gave us their internal beta release to see if it fixes the problem.
What is the big difference between having a vendor do it or hiring a programmer working on an open source solution? Absolutely none. Except that the vendor charges you for each instance of support and gives you the privilege of paying for the licensing on top. They spend roughly $10M/year on Microsoft software alone, $100M/year total in licensing costs (last years financial report).
Given that they have only roughly 2000 servers and 5,000 workstations to take care of and that many departments also have their own licensing to take care of I would say that would pay for a heck of a lot of programmers, they could even fund their own development company for that price.
But if you knew the username and password, couldn't you claim you were an authorized user - after all, you have a valid username and password.
What it is is a scheme to get our taxpayer money which we bailed them out with last years out of the country. They invest in a big bubble once more, this time with their bailout money, invest in it from outside the country using shills (so it can't get scrutinized by the local authorities) and then bust the bubble after transferring out all the cash.
I guess as long as you don't mind eventually paying for the licenses or battling the patent trolls. Even though currently H.264 is available for 'free' (as in you don't have to pay for it), the current owners are not obligated to keep it that way. H.264 is not really free in the rms sense of the word.
Yes, there were job-related e-mails in there that according to the law have to go into a government repository and for some reason she didn't want those messages to go on record. She was not punished for this.
Likewise she will not get punished for inciting violence and shootings, for being just plain dumb or for the air time she squandered with her show.
Everybody knows it's nucular, our last president said so. And he was white so he must have gone to school.
(this is a joke, don't take offense)
Both Firefox and Safari have taken a huge chunk of the market. IE is down to 44% market share, Firefox now takes up nearly 30% and Safari takes up 5% + 20% of the mobile share.
The International Public Prosecution Office in Gothenburg that wants him extradited even after at least 2 prosecutors have stopped their investigation is accidentally also near a certain business called Boeing Jeppesen which hosts the Boeing Jeppesen international trip planning aka Illegal/Extraordinary Rendition Airlines right there. Do you really think that's coincidence?
Of course, they could just as well pick him up in the UK but the current political environment might not be as cooperative to that sort of action as the Blair/Brown government was.
First of all, the grunt pirate is not making millions of dollars. He's lucky if he can come home with enough money to feed his family without getting maimed or killed. As always, the warlords are making lots of money without getting in harms way.
It's not like the poor chaps can't fish, the fact of the matter is that it is not profitable enough anymore for them to fish thanks to some of OUR companies depleting all THEIR fish reserves so we can get a $1 can of tuna at our local Wal-Mart.
It would be cool if there was an ancient temple down there where Aliens and Predators are fighting each other to the death.
Sadly, this is the scientific community we have shaped. When you see the abysmal money they get for these types of studies, you wouldn't blame them.
I work in the field of scientific research, more interestingly related to brain research and some of it is autism. All they usually CAN afford is 10-20 subjects which they have to divide in a control group and a test group. They have roughly 1 year to complete it with a couple of $10,000 grants after which they have to publish something. Then if the findings are correlated strong enough, they can go on to NIH with this and maybe get an audience to petition a grant which takes forever and seemingly nobody gets.
Many of these pilot studies however do get published and sometimes they even gain traction in the media after which they most likely get funded, so you have to publish something earth-shattering to make sure you get funded.
There is more money going into research from the VA, DoD and even the NFL though which gets some real money but usually it's related to finding trauma.