The dolphin is one of many past and even more future extinctions caused by China. I'd start buying stock in environmental clean up technology now -- in a few decades their entire country will resemble the Love Canal disaster.
The thing is, where exactly is the red cross J+J mark used? I don't see it on their website, www.jnj.com. I don't see it on a few J+J products I looked at in my bathroom cabinet, either. Their primary mark is Johnson + Johnson in a cursive script. The only thing remotely close to a block letter 'cross' (or 'plus') symbol is the '+' between 'Johnson' and 'Johnson', and it doesn't resemble the Red Cross mark at all and I have never seen the J+J '+' by itself.
One of the problems is that each search by itself likely isn't personally identifiable, nor is a single search harmful.
The problem lies when any company can start connecting you typing in "John Smith" (searching yourself), "webmail.myemployer.com" (accidental search vs. address bar), and "my little pony porn".
You may also want to take a look at some of the high-risk HSA accounts. The deductibles can be quite high, but they tend to insure riskier individuals because the out of pocket expense is a huge limiting factor to insurance abuse.
If they are truly interested in making the patents "available", they would simply surrender the patents into the public domain. Since they have not done this, assume they will not always make the patents "available" to everyone or will have special cases where it is not available (for example, to extend the specification, or to set up a company that certifies HD Photo implementations, or "no government use without paying us", etc).
I'd recommended work lights with LED bulbs. They don't require as much power, are very bright and "clean" light, and don't kick off extra heat (something you never need when dealing with power issues).
But you SHOULD blame the network along with the affiliate. If a CBS affiliate does something completely asinine, the station managers DO get a letter from the network. It is not in the network's best interest to have their brand tainted with obviously bad reporting. The networks make money from local news stations. If the local station loses viewers, it reduces the network's overall viewer population and will decrease ad revenues. You can't blame the network for the content, but you can blame the network for allowing the content to go unpunished -- e.g., no on-air correction of admission that the reporting was at fault.
It depends on the headers (server), browser, and method, actually. Under some circumstances, for instance under SSL, full copies of all files will be downloaded for every request. As HTTP headers get more complex (some browsers with toolbars, etc, plus a plethora of cookies), the HTTP request/response cycle expands. It may not seem like a lot, but a.5kb request header multiplied by dozens of elements and you can quickly use up a lot of bandwidth. Firefox does a much better job than Internet Explorer under SSL, but not by much unless you enable disk-based caching.
Something I would love to see are some of the headers condensed by the browser and server. For instance, on first request the browser sends the full headers. In the reply headers, the server would set a X-SLIM-REQUEST header with a unique ID that represents that browser configuration's set of optional headers (Accept, Accept-language, Accept-encoding, Accept-charset, User-agent, and other static headers). Further requests from that browser would then simply send the X-SLIM-REQUEST header and unique ID and the server would handle unpacking it -- if the headers are even needed. Servers that don't supply the header would continue to receive full requests, preserving full backward and forward compatibility.
There are a few things to reduce request sizes for web applications. MOD_ASIS is one of the best ones. We use it as one of the last steps of our deployment process. All images are read in via script, compressed if they are over a certain threshold, and minimal headers are added. Apache then delivers them as-is -- reducing load on Apache as well as the network (the only thing Apache adds is the Server: and Date: lines). ETags and last-modified dates are calculated in advance. Also certain responses such as simple HTTP Moved (Location:) responses, GZip isn't used -- GZiping the response actually *adds* to the size due to their very small document size.
I already shudder at any group in my company hiring anyone under 25, and I'm under 25! I can't imagine relying on teenagers as a labor source (grocery stores, restaurants, etc). Even the interns we get from a very well-to-do private school are, in terms of professionalism, socially retarded. I've had to filter and lock down their e-mail and other communications from them to our clients because their messages are full of misspellings, wrong words, "u" instead of "you", and bad structure altogether. How do you misspell "their" with Outlook? I have to TRY to misspell it and even then it isn't easy.
How do we even know the threats are legitimate? I'm not saying death threats are something to be fooled around with, but for someone already pulling stunts, it isn't a leap of logic to assume they will pull further shenanigans to get even more publicity.
I would take everything this man says with a large grain of salt.
Hemp, while good, isn't the best. It'd work in most climates, at least, and is certainly better than a lot of choices for yield per acre.
Switchgrass is one of the better ones. It grows everywhere and is very disease, drought, etc resistant. You can't kill the shit even if you try and it requires very little, if any, maintenance. For longer term crops, depending on the environment type, poppler and willow are good choices. The nice thing about fast-growing trees is that if your refining process gets tied up, your crop won't die. You can store the wood for a long time or just leave the trees planted. You don't have that option with switchgrass or hemp -- you can't store the stuff or it will start decomposing.
Besides, as with any type of farming, the best yields will come from a variety of crops rotated to preserve the land as much as possible.
Depends on the kind of blog. A personal feelings blog, akin to most Live Journals/My Space/etc? I agree. Technical blogs, e.g., programming techniques/tips? Those are better, but aren't really blogs. They just allow someone to easily post information without organizing it into website.
I like to think MS's code is neat for the most part. When you, a lone programmer, have 17 managers that review your code, you WANT it to be neat if only to shut them the hell up. I would go crazy having to explain why I have two spaces instead of one in my code to 17 different people.
There's a plus side to that: Everyone and their mother can run a CPanel-based "host" that runs PHP. Not everyone can run a good Python or Ruby host, so most Python or Ruby hosts you find are not only knowledgeable, but passionate about Py/Rb support.
I bought more music from Pandora in the past year than I bought in the previous decade. I know I'm not alone. Granted, much of what I purchase isn't backed by the big labels, but some of it is.
If they take away low-cost net radio, I *will* get my music elsewhere. And those other places are far less likely to give any money whatsoever back to the record labels.
1,000 webcasters paying small royalties >> 0 webcasters paying huge royalties 10,000 listeners generating small royalties and sales from legit stations >> 10,000 listeners generating no royalties and stealing music
Why would Google care if their Nielson rating drops? A very low time-on-page, in my view, as both a user and AdWords advertiser, is good. I want a search engine that gives me what I want and lets me get to the content. I want advertisements that are concise and to the point -- and only catch the right person. The more time a person spends on a search results page, the more likely they are to click my ads for no real purpose other than to "see the result" -- driving up my advertising costs needlessly.
The only ones that benefit from a lot of clicks are websites that advertise themselves and get paid on impression rates. I don't do either (no advertising at all in fact, only our own product pages).
That's exactly why we have them shut down vs. hibernate/power save options. Several of our desktops will spike to 100% CPU and constant disk activity when going into power save mode. That's not efficient or good for the hardware at all, and certainly not good for our power and cooling bills.
Much like other interaction with the sea floor, the tethers could actually create habitats. The tether points would probably provide a little shelter for smaller wildlife. You could attach small platforms along the submerged tube to encourage small plants, fish, etc to attach themselves.
And environmentalists that oppose everything cannot speak for everyone. Opposing greener energy sources just hurts everyone, nature included. If we can't build greener sources, we're going to burn more coal. When comparing a few dead birds vs. a coal plant, I'll take the few dead birds any day, and so should any reasonable environmentalist.
We still tell our employees to shut down. But we also have the machines set to automatically start up at 7:30 AM (an option in most newer BIOSes). Updates are applied at 7:40 AM, rebooting in time for any 8:00 AM early birds (office opens at 8:30).
Why shut down vs. other power saving options? I don't like dealing with the power save options in XP. Most of them suck and aren't worth the trouble. And people still shut down even if we ask them not to.
When we finally upgrade to a suitable operating system that can handle true hibernation, I'll change the policy.
I'm the first one into the office. I get in around 7:00. Our office opens at 8:30, our earliest clinic (medical offices) opens at 9:00. This gives me 2 hour window of few interruptions to not only fix problems, but get a lot of work done. I make more progress on major projects in those 2 hours than any other time during the day. Much of the rest of the day is fielding phone calls and working with coworkers to determine the direction/features of the products I'm working on.
The first 5-10 minutes entails checking the local servers, ensuring Exchange, Windows, etc are running OK. Then I check that our local failover web server is running fine. Then I check our remote web and database servers. I check the backup logs to make sure all offsite backups are up to date and that storage usage is OK across the board. I have small Python scripts that monitor most of the stuff for me and generate an XML report piped through PrinceXML into PDF. The scripts gather usage, load levels, etc of all remote servers as well as database growth (mostly row counts) over the past day, week, month, and quarter. They are PDFs because they are (a) easy to read and (b) look good when potential clients come in -- I can present a book of extremely detailed statistics on our uptime, downtime, server locations, average latencies, etc.
The reports also contain the volume of e-mail handled, bounced, rejected, and sent for all servers.
I then check all webmaster, abuse, and postmaster accounts for our domains, which are generally empty, thankfully. This also entails checking to see if any security alerts have come through Secunia. I have Outlook filters set up to flag incoming alerts for the products and operating systems we use, so I don't have to read all 300 message subjects each day. If there are any alerts, I still have almost 2 hours to handle them if needed, or at the least draft a memo to alert of downtime that evening or weekend.
All in all, it takes about 10-15 minutes of my time to check all of that. Follow that up with a nice glass of water, tending my plants and tending to my schedule for the day, and I still have an hour and a half before the office starts getting busy.
I don't think the parent point stands. The bitching point comes from the disconnect of competitors and public land and funds usage. If Verizon or the regulation system had a plan in place to decouple Verizon's lines and open them to competitors after so many years (to "recoup" their investment), it would be different. There is no such plan in place.
And no, most Slashdotters don't like Verizon. Verizon targeted Vonage with a malicious software patent lawsuit. Even if the infringement were real, Verizon waited until Vonage was a big enough target to act -- they have not targeted other VOIP outfits. If the infringement were real, Verizon should have acted much sooner.
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The dolphin is one of many past and even more future extinctions caused by China. I'd start buying stock in environmental clean up technology now -- in a few decades their entire country will resemble the Love Canal disaster.
The thing is, where exactly is the red cross J+J mark used? I don't see it on their website, www.jnj.com. I don't see it on a few J+J products I looked at in my bathroom cabinet, either. Their primary mark is Johnson + Johnson in a cursive script. The only thing remotely close to a block letter 'cross' (or 'plus') symbol is the '+' between 'Johnson' and 'Johnson', and it doesn't resemble the Red Cross mark at all and I have never seen the J+J '+' by itself.
One of the problems is that each search by itself likely isn't personally identifiable, nor is a single search harmful.
The problem lies when any company can start connecting you typing in "John Smith" (searching yourself), "webmail.myemployer.com" (accidental search vs. address bar), and "my little pony porn".
You may also want to take a look at some of the high-risk HSA accounts. The deductibles can be quite high, but they tend to insure riskier individuals because the out of pocket expense is a huge limiting factor to insurance abuse.
"Apophis-sized" implying that the plans would be equally valid for similarly sized bodies even with Apophis missing us in a few decades.
But if we're talking things involving the quantum level, he can simply observe the car approaching him and it will change the outcome.
If they are truly interested in making the patents "available", they would simply surrender the patents into the public domain. Since they have not done this, assume they will not always make the patents "available" to everyone or will have special cases where it is not available (for example, to extend the specification, or to set up a company that certifies HD Photo implementations, or "no government use without paying us", etc).
I'd recommended work lights with LED bulbs. They don't require as much power, are very bright and "clean" light, and don't kick off extra heat (something you never need when dealing with power issues).
But you SHOULD blame the network along with the affiliate. If a CBS affiliate does something completely asinine, the station managers DO get a letter from the network. It is not in the network's best interest to have their brand tainted with obviously bad reporting. The networks make money from local news stations. If the local station loses viewers, it reduces the network's overall viewer population and will decrease ad revenues. You can't blame the network for the content, but you can blame the network for allowing the content to go unpunished -- e.g., no on-air correction of admission that the reporting was at fault.
It depends on the headers (server), browser, and method, actually. Under some circumstances, for instance under SSL, full copies of all files will be downloaded for every request. As HTTP headers get more complex (some browsers with toolbars, etc, plus a plethora of cookies), the HTTP request/response cycle expands. It may not seem like a lot, but a .5kb request header multiplied by dozens of elements and you can quickly use up a lot of bandwidth. Firefox does a much better job than Internet Explorer under SSL, but not by much unless you enable disk-based caching.
Something I would love to see are some of the headers condensed by the browser and server. For instance, on first request the browser sends the full headers. In the reply headers, the server would set a X-SLIM-REQUEST header with a unique ID that represents that browser configuration's set of optional headers (Accept, Accept-language, Accept-encoding, Accept-charset, User-agent, and other static headers). Further requests from that browser would then simply send the X-SLIM-REQUEST header and unique ID and the server would handle unpacking it -- if the headers are even needed. Servers that don't supply the header would continue to receive full requests, preserving full backward and forward compatibility.
There are a few things to reduce request sizes for web applications. MOD_ASIS is one of the best ones. We use it as one of the last steps of our deployment process. All images are read in via script, compressed if they are over a certain threshold, and minimal headers are added. Apache then delivers them as-is -- reducing load on Apache as well as the network (the only thing Apache adds is the Server: and Date: lines). ETags and last-modified dates are calculated in advance. Also certain responses such as simple HTTP Moved (Location:) responses, GZip isn't used -- GZiping the response actually *adds* to the size due to their very small document size.
I already shudder at any group in my company hiring anyone under 25, and I'm under 25! I can't imagine relying on teenagers as a labor source (grocery stores, restaurants, etc). Even the interns we get from a very well-to-do private school are, in terms of professionalism, socially retarded. I've had to filter and lock down their e-mail and other communications from them to our clients because their messages are full of misspellings, wrong words, "u" instead of "you", and bad structure altogether. How do you misspell "their" with Outlook? I have to TRY to misspell it and even then it isn't easy.
Outside of exclusive, blockbuster-style releases that have significant backing by Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo, what game ISN'T delayed these days?
How do we even know the threats are legitimate? I'm not saying death threats are something to be fooled around with, but for someone already pulling stunts, it isn't a leap of logic to assume they will pull further shenanigans to get even more publicity.
I would take everything this man says with a large grain of salt.
Hemp, while good, isn't the best. It'd work in most climates, at least, and is certainly better than a lot of choices for yield per acre.
Switchgrass is one of the better ones. It grows everywhere and is very disease, drought, etc resistant. You can't kill the shit even if you try and it requires very little, if any, maintenance. For longer term crops, depending on the environment type, poppler and willow are good choices. The nice thing about fast-growing trees is that if your refining process gets tied up, your crop won't die. You can store the wood for a long time or just leave the trees planted. You don't have that option with switchgrass or hemp -- you can't store the stuff or it will start decomposing.
Besides, as with any type of farming, the best yields will come from a variety of crops rotated to preserve the land as much as possible.
Depends on the kind of blog. A personal feelings blog, akin to most Live Journals/My Space/etc? I agree. Technical blogs, e.g., programming techniques/tips? Those are better, but aren't really blogs. They just allow someone to easily post information without organizing it into website.
I like to think MS's code is neat for the most part. When you, a lone programmer, have 17 managers that review your code, you WANT it to be neat if only to shut them the hell up. I would go crazy having to explain why I have two spaces instead of one in my code to 17 different people.
There's a plus side to that: Everyone and their mother can run a CPanel-based "host" that runs PHP. Not everyone can run a good Python or Ruby host, so most Python or Ruby hosts you find are not only knowledgeable, but passionate about Py/Rb support.
I bought more music from Pandora in the past year than I bought in the previous decade. I know I'm not alone. Granted, much of what I purchase isn't backed by the big labels, but some of it is.
If they take away low-cost net radio, I *will* get my music elsewhere. And those other places are far less likely to give any money whatsoever back to the record labels.
1,000 webcasters paying small royalties >> 0 webcasters paying huge royalties
10,000 listeners generating small royalties and sales from legit stations >> 10,000 listeners generating no royalties and stealing music
As stated by others, contributors do not retain copyright of code contributed to CUPS.
Why would Google care if their Nielson rating drops? A very low time-on-page, in my view, as both a user and AdWords advertiser, is good. I want a search engine that gives me what I want and lets me get to the content. I want advertisements that are concise and to the point -- and only catch the right person. The more time a person spends on a search results page, the more likely they are to click my ads for no real purpose other than to "see the result" -- driving up my advertising costs needlessly.
The only ones that benefit from a lot of clicks are websites that advertise themselves and get paid on impression rates. I don't do either (no advertising at all in fact, only our own product pages).
That's exactly why we have them shut down vs. hibernate/power save options. Several of our desktops will spike to 100% CPU and constant disk activity when going into power save mode. That's not efficient or good for the hardware at all, and certainly not good for our power and cooling bills.
Much like other interaction with the sea floor, the tethers could actually create habitats. The tether points would probably provide a little shelter for smaller wildlife. You could attach small platforms along the submerged tube to encourage small plants, fish, etc to attach themselves.
And environmentalists that oppose everything cannot speak for everyone. Opposing greener energy sources just hurts everyone, nature included. If we can't build greener sources, we're going to burn more coal. When comparing a few dead birds vs. a coal plant, I'll take the few dead birds any day, and so should any reasonable environmentalist.
We still tell our employees to shut down. But we also have the machines set to automatically start up at 7:30 AM (an option in most newer BIOSes). Updates are applied at 7:40 AM, rebooting in time for any 8:00 AM early birds (office opens at 8:30).
Why shut down vs. other power saving options? I don't like dealing with the power save options in XP. Most of them suck and aren't worth the trouble. And people still shut down even if we ask them not to.
When we finally upgrade to a suitable operating system that can handle true hibernation, I'll change the policy.
I'm the first one into the office. I get in around 7:00. Our office opens at 8:30, our earliest clinic (medical offices) opens at 9:00. This gives me 2 hour window of few interruptions to not only fix problems, but get a lot of work done. I make more progress on major projects in those 2 hours than any other time during the day. Much of the rest of the day is fielding phone calls and working with coworkers to determine the direction/features of the products I'm working on.
The first 5-10 minutes entails checking the local servers, ensuring Exchange, Windows, etc are running OK. Then I check that our local failover web server is running fine. Then I check our remote web and database servers. I check the backup logs to make sure all offsite backups are up to date and that storage usage is OK across the board. I have small Python scripts that monitor most of the stuff for me and generate an XML report piped through PrinceXML into PDF. The scripts gather usage, load levels, etc of all remote servers as well as database growth (mostly row counts) over the past day, week, month, and quarter. They are PDFs because they are (a) easy to read and (b) look good when potential clients come in -- I can present a book of extremely detailed statistics on our uptime, downtime, server locations, average latencies, etc.
The reports also contain the volume of e-mail handled, bounced, rejected, and sent for all servers.
I then check all webmaster, abuse, and postmaster accounts for our domains, which are generally empty, thankfully. This also entails checking to see if any security alerts have come through Secunia. I have Outlook filters set up to flag incoming alerts for the products and operating systems we use, so I don't have to read all 300 message subjects each day. If there are any alerts, I still have almost 2 hours to handle them if needed, or at the least draft a memo to alert of downtime that evening or weekend.
All in all, it takes about 10-15 minutes of my time to check all of that. Follow that up with a nice glass of water, tending my plants and tending to my schedule for the day, and I still have an hour and a half before the office starts getting busy.
I don't think the parent point stands. The bitching point comes from the disconnect of competitors and public land and funds usage. If Verizon or the regulation system had a plan in place to decouple Verizon's lines and open them to competitors after so many years (to "recoup" their investment), it would be different. There is no such plan in place.
And no, most Slashdotters don't like Verizon. Verizon targeted Vonage with a malicious software patent lawsuit. Even if the infringement were real, Verizon waited until Vonage was a big enough target to act -- they have not targeted other VOIP outfits. If the infringement were real, Verizon should have acted much sooner.