No, I think I agree with you. It's great to be able to shift the blame, but I was talking about the tone of your post.
Your tone (to me) seemed like 'don't criticize google because you probably couldn't do as good a job'. All I meant was 'well, actually you probably can, but because you're not as big an organization and don't have to deal with as much'
It's quadratic. As a business increases in size, it starts to have too much data to manage with just one server, and backing up becomes a pain. As it grows larger, you need multiple physical connections, clusters, and the synchronizing things that keep it all working.
Google has all that to worry about, while most 2000 person businesses really only need one server. Which keeps the whole thing pretty simple.
Right. Because some nerdy 20-something admin with a copy of "Sendmail for Dummies" can do a much better job than all the engineers at Google.
Well, actually, there's a decent chance. These technologies are extremely mature, and pretty simple. For example, I ran a 25-user email server for well over two years with a 99.8% uptime... between age 15 and 17, and it handled at least 500 emails a day.
The difference is, I was dealing with tens of gigabytes of data and backing that up (external HD + gpg + rsync + my house's firesafe). Google is dealing with thousands of terabytes (including, frankly, a couple of mine - I use their free domain service)
I'm sure as hell not as smart, and I'm NOT criticizing Google here. But when you're dealing with MUCH less data and don't need any load-balancing or fancy DNS tricks, it's pretty easy to get right.
But they are doing load balancing, clustering, immediate failover with synchronization, and all those other fancy tricks, because they need more than one server, have a lot of data to back up, and need to keep it all in sync. That is Fucking Hard to get right. A server in my client's basement on a T1 realistically only needs to worry about fire and trees.
I took APCS AB in my Junior year, but I had an awesome teacher. Basically, the problem is that AB is *about* the concepts. That's the point - you're never going to write a linked list, someone else has. You're never going to write a heapsort, someone else has. You're never going to care about loop invariants, and not really about Big O.
But AB teaches you why they are, and tries to get you thinking in the right way to be a 'computer scientist' instead of a programmer. A great teacher really helps with this, but at some point you just need to have the proper mentality (It sounds like you do).
I got a 5 by the way, and never did get invariants or heapsort. But I'm really glad I took it, because it's what it actually means to be a 'computer scientist', and not just a programmer.
You fucking kidding me? The wireless side is the problem - their other enterprises aren't great, but they're tolerable at least, and unobtrusive at best.
If Verizon-not-counting-wireless had any brains, they'd kick out VZW.
Bullshit. The evidence of vote tampering is well-established. Diebold's even acknowledged that the machines can 'lose votes' which means that - given their background - they're probably losing only the 'wrong' (Democrat) votes.
What, too obvious? Meh. Anywho, I think much of the attention to breast cancer is unwarranted. There are far more common and more dangerous cancers in each sex. I hate to put it this way, but it's fairly easy to isolate breast cancer vs. a brain tumor or liver cancer (mastectomy might not be the favorite choice, but it's pretty easy)
Am I sexist? I don't think so, I just wish that, say, similar attention was being paid to prostate cancer. As far as I know, they're roughly equally prevalent and equally dangerous
If you didn't torrent it, the judge would almost certainly back you. It's called the right of first sale - basically, if you buy a copy of a copyrighted work, the holder loses all say as to who or how you can sell that.
The game companies, of course, are trying to have their cake and eat it. They claim that the 'sale' was in fact a license, but that this license conferrs none of the benefits of a license like the ethereal nature of the purchase making the actual media cheap/free, or re-downloading your 'licensed' game (like Steam).
I bet that whenever it's tested (if it hasn't been already), the game companies will get laughed out on their ass.
Great, and really cool, thought experiment. However, you can hand-assemble fairly easily (I wouldn't, though) and then you don't even need to trust so much as an assembler.
For the paranoid but lazy - check the C source for spies, compile to assembler, check the assembler and make sure it matches the C code, then hand-assemble.
Or write your own quick and dirty C compiler, use it to compile GCC, then compile it with itself so you get the nifty optimizations.
Hand assemble. Not too hard. But then you need to trust there are no 'errata' (that's what they want you to call their super-spy code!) in the processor/bios/assorted hardware.
Social Security is just about the worst example you could have come up with. Social Security in the 1940s had something like nine times more money than they needed, and we still would if people (dems and reps) hadn't dipped into it because there was so much unused money.
Don't criticize the program for having a bunch of fuckwads dip into it, steal all the money, and pretend it didn't happen.
Yes, but there's a pretty good chance that either of them will die (Obama by some racist asshole, McCain by being a hundred and twelve), so the VP is unusually important here.
I thought Biden actually did better than Obama in the first presidential debate... but I digress.
So I'm not the only one who thought she usually couldn't form a coherent sentence when the discussion veered away from one of her scripts?
Listen, Biden didn't do amazingly (he had trouble connecting his good ideas into a coherent thought) but whenever he stopped talking about his canned sentences, he could form a sentence. In fact, when he elaborated on the script, he did his best...
I can't figure out why the MSM was so nice either. She didn't bomb, which is all they were hoping for, but I like my presidents (and by extension vice-presidents) to be at least mostly literate.
That's a huge victory. The license on distribution of things like the GPL is based on copyright. Damages aren't really the issue; people releasing something under GPL probably aren't in it for the money. Yes, damages can have a putative effect, but not explicitly and the offending entity doesn't have to stop.
The goal is to get them to stop breaking the terms of the license and release their source code (and otherwise comply). You can't force that without an injunction, if the offending party is willing to pay.
As far as the summary, it's not incorrect, just not including the details of how the ruling enhances the 'protection of open source developers' (by allowing injunctions and other copyright-infringement remedies)
IANAL, but feel like one in my armchair:). Please correct me if/when I'm wrong, but don't be an ass - I appreciate my understanding being improved, and you don't need to insult my intelligence. Thanks...
1. The login page would be 'fixed' to render properly and life would continue as normal 2. This is pretty obvious, isn't it? The only thing they could reasonably break and have it be called an accident would be some styling thing. You can't break forms for the page without it being obvious, you can't break them globally without it being really obvious, so you can stop serving a stylesheet until you have it fixed. This would be found out and it would be really obvious. 3. Corporate use is perhaps the best thing for Apple. If corps start to use their stuff, then people will use it at home either because 'I want to be used to corp america's stuff' or 'I use it at work, why not at home?'. The same stuff fueling Microsoft at the moment. Killing the possibility of corporate use in such a way would likely destroy Apple. When IT says 'no' to Macs in the workplace because they break stuff to make them money, nobody else is going to use it at home.
I think you need to cut the weed, dude. It's pretty easy to dislike apple, but they aren't incompetent by any stretch of the imagination. And this would be a screw-up of epic proportions and lawsuit-worthy to boot.
Pointless. This is likely a self-hosted webapp (on your corporate Lotus server), which means their list would need to include lotus.jpmorgan.com, etc... that would be a Big Fucking Mistake. They might not care about the enmity of users, but they sure care about their business users who could just as easily go back to Windows Mobile.
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Which means they need to listen to every tracker request and screw around decrypting a lot of linux and other stuff not on their blacklist.
No, I think I agree with you. It's great to be able to shift the blame, but I was talking about the tone of your post.
Your tone (to me) seemed like 'don't criticize google because you probably couldn't do as good a job'. All I meant was 'well, actually you probably can, but because you're not as big an organization and don't have to deal with as much'
It's quadratic. As a business increases in size, it starts to have too much data to manage with just one server, and backing up becomes a pain. As it grows larger, you need multiple physical connections, clusters, and the synchronizing things that keep it all working.
Google has all that to worry about, while most 2000 person businesses really only need one server. Which keeps the whole thing pretty simple.
Same here; I was predisposed to assume that it was Thunderbird...
Right. Because some nerdy 20-something admin with a copy of "Sendmail for Dummies" can do a much better job than all the engineers at Google.
Well, actually, there's a decent chance. These technologies are extremely mature, and pretty simple. For example, I ran a 25-user email server for well over two years with a 99.8% uptime... between age 15 and 17, and it handled at least 500 emails a day.
The difference is, I was dealing with tens of gigabytes of data and backing that up (external HD + gpg + rsync + my house's firesafe). Google is dealing with thousands of terabytes (including, frankly, a couple of mine - I use their free domain service)
I'm sure as hell not as smart, and I'm NOT criticizing Google here. But when you're dealing with MUCH less data and don't need any load-balancing or fancy DNS tricks, it's pretty easy to get right.
But they are doing load balancing, clustering, immediate failover with synchronization, and all those other fancy tricks, because they need more than one server, have a lot of data to back up, and need to keep it all in sync. That is Fucking Hard to get right. A server in my client's basement on a T1 realistically only needs to worry about fire and trees.
That makes sense. Although it might be different if you're sitting in a parking lot for 5 minutes...
Starting a car frequently is worse for economy than leaving it idle. I've heard you're better off idling for up to 5 minutes than restarting
I took APCS AB in my Junior year, but I had an awesome teacher. Basically, the problem is that AB is *about* the concepts. That's the point - you're never going to write a linked list, someone else has. You're never going to write a heapsort, someone else has. You're never going to care about loop invariants, and not really about Big O.
But AB teaches you why they are, and tries to get you thinking in the right way to be a 'computer scientist' instead of a programmer. A great teacher really helps with this, but at some point you just need to have the proper mentality (It sounds like you do).
I got a 5 by the way, and never did get invariants or heapsort. But I'm really glad I took it, because it's what it actually means to be a 'computer scientist', and not just a programmer.
You fucking kidding me? The wireless side is the problem - their other enterprises aren't great, but they're tolerable at least, and unobtrusive at best.
If Verizon-not-counting-wireless had any brains, they'd kick out VZW.
Bullshit. The evidence of vote tampering is well-established. Diebold's even acknowledged that the machines can 'lose votes' which means that - given their background - they're probably losing only the 'wrong' (Democrat) votes.
It's called a TrueCrypt hidden volume :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood mayhaps?
nothing particularly special about the breast
Says you.
What, too obvious? Meh. Anywho, I think much of the attention to breast cancer is unwarranted. There are far more common and more dangerous cancers in each sex. I hate to put it this way, but it's fairly easy to isolate breast cancer vs. a brain tumor or liver cancer (mastectomy might not be the favorite choice, but it's pretty easy)
Am I sexist? I don't think so, I just wish that, say, similar attention was being paid to prostate cancer. As far as I know, they're roughly equally prevalent and equally dangerous
If you didn't torrent it, the judge would almost certainly back you. It's called the right of first sale - basically, if you buy a copy of a copyrighted work, the holder loses all say as to who or how you can sell that.
The game companies, of course, are trying to have their cake and eat it. They claim that the 'sale' was in fact a license, but that this license conferrs none of the benefits of a license like the ethereal nature of the purchase making the actual media cheap/free, or re-downloading your 'licensed' game (like Steam).
I bet that whenever it's tested (if it hasn't been already), the game companies will get laughed out on their ass.
Great, and really cool, thought experiment. However, you can hand-assemble fairly easily (I wouldn't, though) and then you don't even need to trust so much as an assembler.
For the paranoid but lazy - check the C source for spies, compile to assembler, check the assembler and make sure it matches the C code, then hand-assemble.
Or write your own quick and dirty C compiler, use it to compile GCC, then compile it with itself so you get the nifty optimizations.
Hand assemble. Not too hard. But then you need to trust there are no 'errata' (that's what they want you to call their super-spy code!) in the processor/bios/assorted hardware.
Social Security is just about the worst example you could have come up with. Social Security in the 1940s had something like nine times more money than they needed, and we still would if people (dems and reps) hadn't dipped into it because there was so much unused money.
Don't criticize the program for having a bunch of fuckwads dip into it, steal all the money, and pretend it didn't happen.
So don't use Python 3.0. If it's critical, you're not upgrading from a known working base anyways, right? And if it's not, this will hold your hand.
Yes, but there's a pretty good chance that either of them will die (Obama by some racist asshole, McCain by being a hundred and twelve), so the VP is unusually important here.
I thought Biden actually did better than Obama in the first presidential debate... but I digress.
So I'm not the only one who thought she usually couldn't form a coherent sentence when the discussion veered away from one of her scripts?
Listen, Biden didn't do amazingly (he had trouble connecting his good ideas into a coherent thought) but whenever he stopped talking about his canned sentences, he could form a sentence. In fact, when he elaborated on the script, he did his best...
I can't figure out why the MSM was so nice either. She didn't bomb, which is all they were hoping for, but I like my presidents (and by extension vice-presidents) to be at least mostly literate.
In this case, they're alleging that the other party spent about a million on his case. Perhaps a million isn't enough?
How about ... ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS? </pinky>
So you're changing comments and then releasing a binary?
Your compiler is doing it wrong...
He's asserting copyright to shut down a project using stolen code, legally owned by him.
The real thing is he (plantiff) gets to keep his project open, under the GPL. It's more self-preservation than theft or greed.
That's a huge victory. The license on distribution of things like the GPL is based on copyright. Damages aren't really the issue; people releasing something under GPL probably aren't in it for the money. Yes, damages can have a putative effect, but not explicitly and the offending entity doesn't have to stop.
The goal is to get them to stop breaking the terms of the license and release their source code (and otherwise comply). You can't force that without an injunction, if the offending party is willing to pay.
As far as the summary, it's not incorrect, just not including the details of how the ruling enhances the 'protection of open source developers' (by allowing injunctions and other copyright-infringement remedies)
IANAL, but feel like one in my armchair :). Please correct me if/when I'm wrong, but don't be an ass - I appreciate my understanding being improved, and you don't need to insult my intelligence. Thanks...
Then three things would happen:
1. The login page would be 'fixed' to render properly and life would continue as normal
2. This is pretty obvious, isn't it? The only thing they could reasonably break and have it be called an accident would be some styling thing. You can't break forms for the page without it being obvious, you can't break them globally without it being really obvious, so you can stop serving a stylesheet until you have it fixed. This would be found out and it would be really obvious.
3. Corporate use is perhaps the best thing for Apple. If corps start to use their stuff, then people will use it at home either because 'I want to be used to corp america's stuff' or 'I use it at work, why not at home?'. The same stuff fueling Microsoft at the moment. Killing the possibility of corporate use in such a way would likely destroy Apple. When IT says 'no' to Macs in the workplace because they break stuff to make them money, nobody else is going to use it at home.
I think you need to cut the weed, dude. It's pretty easy to dislike apple, but they aren't incompetent by any stretch of the imagination. And this would be a screw-up of epic proportions and lawsuit-worthy to boot.
Pointless. This is likely a self-hosted webapp (on your corporate Lotus server), which means their list would need to include lotus.jpmorgan.com, etc... that would be a Big Fucking Mistake. They might not care about the enmity of users, but they sure care about their business users who could just as easily go back to Windows Mobile.