Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal, has stated that PayPal is not a bank because it does not engage in fractional-reserve banking.
In the United States, PayPal is licensed as a money transmitter on a state-by-state basis.[47] PayPal is not classified as a bank in the United States...
Commencing 2 July 2007,... PayPal moved its European operations from the UK to Luxembourg. As a Luxembourg entity, it is since regulated as a bank by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) and provides PayPal service throughout the European Union.
As the leader in global online payments for the last twelve years, PayPal has unmatched advantages that we believe put us ahead of the competition...
For example. Since we're not regulated like a bank or real credit merchant, we can do things like freeze or disable your account simply because we feel like it or someone complained about you, or whatever. Don't worry though, customer support will explain everything and get you sorted out in a jiffy.
jurassic park: the little girl going "it's a Unix system, i know this"... and then she's flying over computer files, or something. huh?... disclosure: that 3D file system that seemed to suggest that in the future every time someone wanted to open a file...
Actually, that was a real SGI system running the FSN (File System Navigator) also from SGI:
Frankly I find all CSI and all its knockoffs/ripoffs to be just atrocious on all technical levels.
Furthermore, I read that doing all the tests they do for even one case, would take weeks even *if* they could afford it. One tech mentioned that to even rent some of the equipment required for a few of the tests would exceed their annual budget.
Sarah Chalke's (Elliot's) German is actually better than theirs.
Yup. From her Wikipedia article and I heard mentioned on the Scrubs DVD commentary:
Her mother is originally from Rostock, Germany. According to a Scrubs commentary track, she used to attend the German school in her hometown twice a week. Her first language is English, although she speaks French fairly well and German fluently.
The ""WHOIS PRAETORIAN" search that shows, if I recall, several invalid IP addresses like "23.75.345.200" and eventually traces back to show the guy's driver's license. Oh ya, and any other time anywhere in the movie someone's sitting at a terminal.
Yes, it does apply. Laser light is subject to the inverse square law like any other light.
Not according to posts (below), summarizing:
The inverse square law applies to light radiated in all directions. The reduction in intensity is because the same amount of light is covering an ever expanding area. With a laser, you're sending the light in a straight line (theoretically, at least). The light beam covers the same amount of area 10 miles from its source as it did when it first left the laser.
The inverse square law applies only to isotropic light sources. A laser is highly directional and thus does not obey the inverse square law.
John Crichton tried to teach Ka D'Argo the game, but D'Argo had problems because he felt that rock should tear through the paper. He finished by telling Crichton that "coma was more entertaining." ("Mind the Baby")
SNL skit where William Shatner plays William Shatner hamming it up
That reminds me of the SNL skit where Eddie Murphy teaches Stevie Wonder to do a Stevie Wonder impression... Can't get to the YouTube link from here, but here's an excerpt from the skit transcript:
Richie (Murphy): That’s the worst Stevie Wonder impression I’ve ever seen in my life.
Alan (Wonder): [grinning] What’s the matter with it?
[The crowd roars with laughter as Stevie grins at Eddie, who breaks down and laughs helplessly for several seconds along with the audience.]
Alan: I can funk! I can funk! I can funk...
Richie: Yeah, yeah, but this, what’s you’re doing is ridiculous. It’s nothing like, I know Stevie Wonder, man, and he’s like, you have to mellow out, you see, you’re too tense. Loosen up. You have to see me do a Stevie Wonder impression...
[Eddie Murphy takes a pair of sunglasses out of his breast pocket. Crowd roars as Eddie puts them on.]
Richie: You gotta smile a lot, like this, you see, you gotta smile. [grins]
Alan: [grins with his mouth wide open] You mean like this?
I could never figure out how suspending a kid was a punishment.
In my school district, miss more than a certain number of days on a year, and you automatically fail a class. I believe there are some workarounds for kids with long-term illnesses, but they're pretty strict otherwise.
NHGRI's research shows that not only are sequencing costs plummeting, they are outstripping the exponential curves of Moore's Law. By a big margin.
Moore's Law is about the number of transistors on a wafer and other directly-related hardware density issues, not about cost - and certainly not the cost of gene sequencing.
In the quest to cut down on shipping waste... What if the shipping container became the PC case?
I looked at the sample photo. So. To cut down on shipping waste, they made the box way bigger than it needs to be, to ship a motherboard, to make it useful as a PC case. Smooth.
The unusually shaped box measures 4.7-inches on a side... It was designed by Astro Studios, which counts among its past accomplishments Microsoft’s stylish Xbox 360+.
Ya, thanks for making it un-stackable - horiz or vert. (sigh)
Would you say, considering job positions in IT overall, most of them are in situations like yours, or most of them are on shops where the solution for performance is hardware upgrades?
Sorry. I thought you were asking me to support my position, not asking for my opinion.:-) I think, especially given the current economic climate, that solutions requiring capital expenditures are in disfavor. Money is tight. For example, I read a recent decree from our client that there will be NO new server hardware purchases for the foreseeable future. I think solutions that give the customer more bang for the bucks they've already spent will garner you some favor with them.
I know that when I started, computer time was expensive and programmer time cheap and that over the years the opposite has come to be seen as truth - and in certain situations that may still hold, especially in the desktop area - but servers are big ticket items that run 24/7 for years. Getting more work out of them each business day *and* making them useful longer helps the customer's bottom line. Obviously, the dollar can only be stretched so far, and clients will want justification for exactly how much more new iron will get them for the money and, more importantly, if and why they actually need it. Making something run in 6 hours instead of 8 doesn't matter if the operational/business requirement is 8 hours.
New isn't always better. Older iron may be slower, but it's often better built. Years ago, when I was at the NYT, we had several HP T-600 and several N-Class systems (as well as other systems). The N class were much, much faster and used less power, but the Ts were tanks that ran and ran and ran - like the freaking Energizer Bunny - and were easier to work on hardware wise due to their larger size.
In my case, the customer picked the hardware and we have to live with it. Sorry, I should have been more clear and stated something more general in addition to my example. The general case is that not all performance issues can be solved with faster/better hardware and hardware replacement is often not an option. I would argue that these conditions are more the rule than exception. As a 25+ year sysadmin and system/application programmer on almost every type of Unix system known in both production and research environments, I would also say that longer-running non-compute bound applications are more the rule as well and frequent hardware upgrades are uncommon. For example, at the NYT, we only replaced our big-iron HP systems every 3-5 years and at NASA we ran our Cray-2 and YMP for many years - after all, the C2 cost 22 million dollars in 1988.:-)
Solution for performance problems these days is hardware upgrade...
Well... True for short-lived applications, but not so much for longer lived ones where a small improvement compounds over time. Case in point, I work on automated system/application installation software for a contractor that can perform unattend installs of Solaris, Windows and about 200 COTS/GOTS applications - including Oracle database and application server (formerly BEA). Certain phases must complete in under an hour, others only as fast as they can. A simple recent change dropped 2 hours off some of those later phases. The update was initiated for maintainability reasons, though prototyping showed a little performance increase. It turned out to be a little in a lot of places. The actual speed increase was unexpected, but welcome. We're looking into why it helped so much and applying the logic elsewhere.
I think even the students now tend to think "If I would be taught OOP with Smalltalk instead of Java, I would be helpless in the real world."
Smalltalk is used quite a lot in certain fields, like financial and research. Perhaps not as wide-spread as Java, but the average Smalltalk job probably pay more than the average Java job, if simply because there are fewer of them than Java. "Helpless" is a matter of perspective. My college (course and research) LISP and PROLOG experience helped get me my first job doing work in C back in '87.
Dude, seriously. No one in management cares. If you get the job done, they don't care if you used a vector, a list, a table or a lookup. (etc...)
Perhaps a valid point, but not really a universal one. Many (most?) real-world projects have performance and reliability requirements that the customer and, hence, management cares about. Perhaps many managers won't care about low-level implementation - probably because they, themselves, are not current with the tech - but you have to be able to justify your work and time. Yes, they care about getting it done on time, but if it's not done t the customer's satisfaction, they will go elsewhere. This is really important if your customer is the government/military...
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Well... perhaps in Luxembourg. From PayPal Bank Status:
So *that* clears things up. :-)
For example. Since we're not regulated like a bank or real credit merchant, we can do things like freeze or disable your account simply because we feel like it or someone complained about you, or whatever. Don't worry though, customer support will explain everything and get you sorted out in a jiffy.
Actually, that was a real SGI system running the FSN (File System Navigator) also from SGI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics#Entertainment_industry
http://www.siliconbunny.com/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool-from-jurassic-park/
Furthermore, I read that doing all the tests they do for even one case, would take weeks even *if* they could afford it. One tech mentioned that to even rent some of the equipment required for a few of the tests would exceed their annual budget.
Yup. From her Wikipedia article and I heard mentioned on the Scrubs DVD commentary:
In addition, she's adorable.
The ""WHOIS PRAETORIAN" search that shows, if I recall, several invalid IP addresses like "23.75.345.200" and eventually traces back to show the guy's driver's license. Oh ya, and any other time anywhere in the movie someone's sitting at a terminal.
I googled harder and I think this sums things up rather well and corresponds to the gist of most of the articles and papers I found:
In addition, the inverse square law applies directly to "point sources" of which lasers certainly are not.
Not according to posts (below), summarizing:
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=37462
http://www.diyphotography.net/the-inverse-square-law-cheat-sheet-myth-basted
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/ket08.sci.phys.mfw.ketinverse/
http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/9586-laser-and-inverse-square-law/
Basically Google "+laser" +"inverse square"...
Providing comfort isn't practical? Obviously, the patient hasn't met Vibrator-bot...
And the Uncharted Territories. From The Farscape Encyclopedia Project:
They actually used RPS a lot to settle things...
That reminds me of the SNL skit where Eddie Murphy teaches Stevie Wonder to do a Stevie Wonder impression... Can't get to the YouTube link from here, but here's an excerpt from the skit transcript:
Hard disk sector consolation simply makes it easier to read all the companies in a single pass...
Jesus! I hope the last thing I see isn't the Blue Screen of Death.
In my school district, miss more than a certain number of days on a year, and you automatically fail a class. I believe there are some workarounds for kids with long-term illnesses, but they're pretty strict otherwise.
Moore's Law is about the number of transistors on a wafer and other directly-related hardware density issues, not about cost - and certainly not the cost of gene sequencing.
I want a pony.
I looked at the sample photo. So. To cut down on shipping waste, they made the box way bigger than it needs to be, to ship a motherboard, to make it useful as a PC case. Smooth.
This eventually goes back to cave drawings.
Ya, thanks for making it un-stackable - horiz or vert. (sigh)
... Interior decorator for Steve Ballmer ?
Picking chairs with the right mix of weight, sturdiness and frangibility isn't easy.
Sorry. I thought you were asking me to support my position, not asking for my opinion. :-) I think, especially given the current economic climate, that solutions requiring capital expenditures are in disfavor. Money is tight. For example, I read a recent decree from our client that there will be NO new server hardware purchases for the foreseeable future. I think solutions that give the customer more bang for the bucks they've already spent will garner you some favor with them.
I know that when I started, computer time was expensive and programmer time cheap and that over the years the opposite has come to be seen as truth - and in certain situations that may still hold, especially in the desktop area - but servers are big ticket items that run 24/7 for years. Getting more work out of them each business day *and* making them useful longer helps the customer's bottom line. Obviously, the dollar can only be stretched so far, and clients will want justification for exactly how much more new iron will get them for the money and, more importantly, if and why they actually need it. Making something run in 6 hours instead of 8 doesn't matter if the operational/business requirement is 8 hours.
New isn't always better. Older iron may be slower, but it's often better built. Years ago, when I was at the NYT, we had several HP T-600 and several N-Class systems (as well as other systems). The N class were much, much faster and used less power, but the Ts were tanks that ran and ran and ran - like the freaking Energizer Bunny - and were easier to work on hardware wise due to their larger size.
In my case, the customer picked the hardware and we have to live with it. Sorry, I should have been more clear and stated something more general in addition to my example. The general case is that not all performance issues can be solved with faster/better hardware and hardware replacement is often not an option. I would argue that these conditions are more the rule than exception. As a 25+ year sysadmin and system/application programmer on almost every type of Unix system known in both production and research environments, I would also say that longer-running non-compute bound applications are more the rule as well and frequent hardware upgrades are uncommon. For example, at the NYT, we only replaced our big-iron HP systems every 3-5 years and at NASA we ran our Cray-2 and YMP for many years - after all, the C2 cost 22 million dollars in 1988. :-)
Well... True for short-lived applications, but not so much for longer lived ones where a small improvement compounds over time. Case in point, I work on automated system/application installation software for a contractor that can perform unattend installs of Solaris, Windows and about 200 COTS/GOTS applications - including Oracle database and application server (formerly BEA). Certain phases must complete in under an hour, others only as fast as they can. A simple recent change dropped 2 hours off some of those later phases. The update was initiated for maintainability reasons, though prototyping showed a little performance increase. It turned out to be a little in a lot of places. The actual speed increase was unexpected, but welcome. We're looking into why it helped so much and applying the logic elsewhere.
Smalltalk is used quite a lot in certain fields, like financial and research. Perhaps not as wide-spread as Java, but the average Smalltalk job probably pay more than the average Java job, if simply because there are fewer of them than Java. "Helpless" is a matter of perspective. My college (course and research) LISP and PROLOG experience helped get me my first job doing work in C back in '87.
Perhaps a valid point, but not really a universal one. Many (most?) real-world projects have performance and reliability requirements that the customer and, hence, management cares about. Perhaps many managers won't care about low-level implementation - probably because they, themselves, are not current with the tech - but you have to be able to justify your work and time. Yes, they care about getting it done on time, but if it's not done t the customer's satisfaction, they will go elsewhere. This is really important if your customer is the government/military...