OpenStack Compute gives you a tool to orchestrate a cloud, including running instances, managing networks, and controlling access to the cloud through users and projects. The underlying open source project's name is Nova, and it provides the software that can control an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. It is similar in scope to Amazon EC2 and Rackspace Cloud Servers. OpenStack Compute does not include any virtualization software; rather it defines drivers that interact with underlying virtualization mechanisms that run on your host operating system, and exposes functionality over a web-based API.
It looks to me like it does what VMware's VirtualCenter does. It is a central management platform for interacting with whatever Hypervisor(s) you want to use.
I am surprised that this guy was ever allowed to be on the jury. The lawyers on both sides must have screwed up royally to allow a person with their own patent to sit on a jury about patent infringement.
The later section about how much they studied the instructions do not invalidate his rather shaky interpretation of what counts as prior art, esp since he did not use the same standard to determine what counted as infringement.
They did not follow the jury instructions completely. I was on a jury once (not at all related to patents) and one of the main instructions was to only allow the evidence shown during the trial influence your decision. Since the foreman used his own personal experiences to influence his (and others') decisions, he was not basing his decision on the trial evidence, but his own experiences.
That's like organizing a speech in a stadium to only fill the seats with stuffed mannequins... then proceeding to do the speech anyway.
And then taking a picture from high above in a blimp and putting it in the paper with the headline about the speech given to a full stadium. The public doesn't know that the audience is fake, but it sure looks good for the speaker.
They could put half those margins into infrastructure and still make huge amounts of money without raising prices.
Do you know what that would do to their stock price? If they dropped their margins in half, Wall Street would slaughter them, and their stock would plummet. Investors don't care about the providers upgrading their infrastructure. They care about profits.
Should they trust your word over the piece of paper another applicant has that says a recognized and trusted organization certifies that he learned that material?
No. That is what a job interview is for. You need to know what the job requirements are, and how to test if the applicant has the knowledge to do that job. If they do, then they should get hired whether they have a college degree, watched a lot of YouTube, or they learned it all from experience. In the tech field, a degree usually doesn't mean much. I have worked with people that had their degree in economics, history, and even aviation. I have worked with more people that have no college degree, or an irrelevant degree than I have that actually went to school for their trade. It is their knowledge and experience that made them qualified for the job
Just file a patent for your version of implementing a hash-sort for arbitrary classes that inherit from 'integer' using Java on an Android phone with a touchscreen and wait 5-7 years for your patent to be granted. Then you're in the club.
You're not talking about looking for evidence of a commited crime, but a violent crime (murder, rape, kidnapping) in progress.
I agree that getting the victim back alive is the number 1 priority, but in order to convict the person responsible for the crime, the police must collect evidence. If the evidence they find was obtained illegally, i.e. found as a result of tracking a cell phone without a warrant, then all of that evidence cannot be used in court, and the kidnapper has a much better chance of getting acquitted.
IANAL, but that is my understanding of how criminal law works.
there are very few businesses where how long somebody is has anything to do with their job performance
He wasn't saying it was directly related to performance. If your company pays raises every year, then the longer you work there, the more and more they have to pay you. Unless you are getting more and more responsibilities to work on, then you are not doing any more work for the increased pay. Therefore, his argument that the longer you work there, the more it costs the company with no productivity benefit.
are you saying that Reddit's business model encourages people to egg others on to cause suicide, because it was in writing?
No, I think he is saying that there is money to be made in suing those posters, as opposed to trying to sue someone who yells "jump" at someone on a building. It is easier to track down the commenters, than it would be to find the one person who egged on a jumper in a huge crowd of people.
On the queue, I'm not quite sure what you mean since streaming was always a separate queue from the DVD queue anyway.
I don't mind the separate queues, as I do the searching. I like to be able to browse the entire collection, and add titles to either the DVD or Instant queue, based on which format the title is offered in. If I have to go to one site to browse and add to the DVD queue, and a separate site to add to the Instant queue, I will probably just drop the DVD queue.
I consume the same data whether on an iPhone or on my computer.
That may be true for you, but I doubt it is true for everyone. Viewing the Internet on the small screen on a phone is rather tedious. Having to scroll the page around, pinch to zoom, and use the on-screen keyboards is more of a hassle than having a laptop screen and keyboard. For me, when I am out and I think of something I want to look up, I will usually make a note of it on my phone, and then look it up later when I am at home on a computer. If it were free and convenient for everyone to tether their laptops, then more people would do it, and it would clog up the already slow wireless data network and make it that much more painful for everyone.
You realise that they make money from tracking people so will do it to the extent allowed by law, right?
If law is written that requires trackers to have an opt-out, then when a user opts-out they have a cookie set for no-tracking, and the server is configured to not record what you do. So yes, technically, they are "tracking" enough to know who is who, but it is the recording of the website history that people want to avoid.
Or, you can do like I do and use No-Script to block google-analytics.com and opt-yourself out.
Anti-virus imbedded into CPU functionality? I'm sure they won't include all the extra crap that causes the "CPU bloat" but the underlying antivirus technology alone could be embedded into the CPU to protect against viruses.
anyone stealing stuff probably uploads it to gmail or dropbox..
This is true. If you are planning on leaving (i.e. not getting fired or laid off) then you will have already copied everything you want to steal long before you ever give your notice, so confiscating their work laptop or restricting access is too late once they have given their notice.
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But in most fields you want to keep your technical staff around, not having to replace it every 3 - 6 years due to visa rules.
From what I have seen, that kind of turnover happens regardless of national status, at least in the high tech industry.
People don't join Facebook because they like the UI design. They join because all of their friends are on, and they want to keep in touch with them.
OpenStack Compute gives you a tool to orchestrate a cloud, including running instances, managing networks, and controlling access to the cloud through users and projects. The underlying open source project's name is Nova, and it provides the software that can control an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. It is similar in scope to Amazon EC2 and Rackspace Cloud Servers. OpenStack Compute does not include any virtualization software; rather it defines drivers that interact with underlying virtualization mechanisms that run on your host operating system, and exposes functionality over a web-based API.
It looks to me like it does what VMware's VirtualCenter does. It is a central management platform for interacting with whatever Hypervisor(s) you want to use.
I am surprised that this guy was ever allowed to be on the jury. The lawyers on both sides must have screwed up royally to allow a person with their own patent to sit on a jury about patent infringement.
The later section about how much they studied the instructions do not invalidate his rather shaky interpretation of what counts as prior art, esp since he did not use the same standard to determine what counted as infringement.
They did not follow the jury instructions completely. I was on a jury once (not at all related to patents) and one of the main instructions was to only allow the evidence shown during the trial influence your decision. Since the foreman used his own personal experiences to influence his (and others') decisions, he was not basing his decision on the trial evidence, but his own experiences.
Once they make a pill to activate this gene, then yes.
I'll wait a couple more years for the Super Ultra High Definition TV (SUHDTV) sets to come out.
That's like organizing a speech in a stadium to only fill the seats with stuffed mannequins... then proceeding to do the speech anyway.
And then taking a picture from high above in a blimp and putting it in the paper with the headline about the speech given to a full stadium. The public doesn't know that the audience is fake, but it sure looks good for the speaker.
They could put half those margins into infrastructure and still make huge amounts of money without raising prices.
Do you know what that would do to their stock price? If they dropped their margins in half, Wall Street would slaughter them, and their stock would plummet. Investors don't care about the providers upgrading their infrastructure. They care about profits.
Should they trust your word over the piece of paper another applicant has that says a recognized and trusted organization certifies that he learned that material?
No. That is what a job interview is for. You need to know what the job requirements are, and how to test if the applicant has the knowledge to do that job. If they do, then they should get hired whether they have a college degree, watched a lot of YouTube, or they learned it all from experience. In the tech field, a degree usually doesn't mean much. I have worked with people that had their degree in economics, history, and even aviation. I have worked with more people that have no college degree, or an irrelevant degree than I have that actually went to school for their trade. It is their knowledge and experience that made them qualified for the job
Just file a patent for your version of implementing a hash-sort for arbitrary classes that inherit from 'integer' using Java on an Android phone with a touchscreen and wait 5-7 years for your patent to be granted. Then you're in the club.
Fixed that for you.
I guess cheer for the lawyers. They seem to be the only ones doing good in these situations.
They seem to be the only ones doing well in these situations.
FTFY. Lawyers never do anything good.
willfully ignorant to believe life is 10,000 years old
They didn't ask if people believe that life was 10,000 years old. They asked if human life was 10,000 years old.
You're not talking about looking for evidence of a commited crime, but a violent crime (murder, rape, kidnapping) in progress.
I agree that getting the victim back alive is the number 1 priority, but in order to convict the person responsible for the crime, the police must collect evidence. If the evidence they find was obtained illegally, i.e. found as a result of tracking a cell phone without a warrant, then all of that evidence cannot be used in court, and the kidnapper has a much better chance of getting acquitted. IANAL, but that is my understanding of how criminal law works.
do you really think law enforcement would ever be expected to wait to get a warrant before rescuing a kidnap victim?
Only if they want to convict the kidnapper. Using warrants and following the law are sort of important when it comes to convicting someone of a crime.
there are very few businesses where how long somebody is has anything to do with their job performance
He wasn't saying it was directly related to performance. If your company pays raises every year, then the longer you work there, the more and more they have to pay you. Unless you are getting more and more responsibilities to work on, then you are not doing any more work for the increased pay. Therefore, his argument that the longer you work there, the more it costs the company with no productivity benefit.
are you saying that Reddit's business model encourages people to egg others on to cause suicide, because it was in writing?
No, I think he is saying that there is money to be made in suing those posters, as opposed to trying to sue someone who yells "jump" at someone on a building. It is easier to track down the commenters, than it would be to find the one person who egged on a jumper in a huge crowd of people.
http://xkcd.com/644/
On the queue, I'm not quite sure what you mean since streaming was always a separate queue from the DVD queue anyway.
I don't mind the separate queues, as I do the searching. I like to be able to browse the entire collection, and add titles to either the DVD or Instant queue, based on which format the title is offered in. If I have to go to one site to browse and add to the DVD queue, and a separate site to add to the Instant queue, I will probably just drop the DVD queue.
I consume the same data whether on an iPhone or on my computer.
That may be true for you, but I doubt it is true for everyone. Viewing the Internet on the small screen on a phone is rather tedious. Having to scroll the page around, pinch to zoom, and use the on-screen keyboards is more of a hassle than having a laptop screen and keyboard. For me, when I am out and I think of something I want to look up, I will usually make a note of it on my phone, and then look it up later when I am at home on a computer. If it were free and convenient for everyone to tether their laptops, then more people would do it, and it would clog up the already slow wireless data network and make it that much more painful for everyone.
What are the chances of Oracle changing the license on something they're giving away and probably would like to make money from?
They already own StarOffice (now Oracle Open Office) which they do charge for.
Oblig xkcd link... http://xkcd.com/802/
You realise that they make money from tracking people so will do it to the extent allowed by law, right?
If law is written that requires trackers to have an opt-out, then when a user opts-out they have a cookie set for no-tracking, and the server is configured to not record what you do. So yes, technically, they are "tracking" enough to know who is who, but it is the recording of the website history that people want to avoid.
Or, you can do like I do and use No-Script to block google-analytics.com and opt-yourself out.
Anti-virus imbedded into CPU functionality? I'm sure they won't include all the extra crap that causes the "CPU bloat" but the underlying antivirus technology alone could be embedded into the CPU to protect against viruses.
anyone stealing stuff probably uploads it to gmail or dropbox..
This is true. If you are planning on leaving (i.e. not getting fired or laid off) then you will have already copied everything you want to steal long before you ever give your notice, so confiscating their work laptop or restricting access is too late once they have given their notice.