I love London... don't know why, but it feels like home to me.
That said, I'd never drive in London. Take a cab, sure, but otherwise it is busses, tube and walking for me and the family. Perhaps bike, if I'm alone (not tried that yet), but not take a car.
Mirror an SSD and HDD, with either interleaving-reads or exclusively reading from the SSD - voilá.
Writes are slow (but may look fast, depending on the mirroring-algorithm), but reads are going to be either faster-than-HDD (when interleaving) or alot-faster-than-HDD (when only reading from SSD).
To ensure they remain identical, some reads should be from both drives, so don't expect everything to be SSD-speed, though.
yeah, after posting, I found their 2009 Financial Statement, and saw that they have some quite significant development costs (40M that year).
But my observation about having a fair cash-reserve is also correct. They added 10M to their bank-account in 2009, so they should be able to survive at least a (very) short while without Google's sponsorship:)
Think I need to revisit their product portfolio, see what they've been up to lately.
That's a writing/funding problem, NOT a technical issue.
This.
People will happily watch YouTube clips at 480 x 320 resolution, low frame rate, highly compressed, on their smartphones. Technology is not the answer.
People are strange - I'm getting annoyed, if the quality of my Daily Show online drop even a bit, as I expect to get a clear picture:)
(note: Am parent, but don't watch morning TV/Cartoons, and not an expert on TV/ads)
The kids can easily sit through the commercials: They see them as part of the regular content, with the ads being created to specifically keep them entertained/focused/zombified, using loud noises and fast changes to "pacify" them.
My kids even find ads on YouTube (I know, bad parenting here) and watch that just as gladly as some cartoon or kitten-video.
In 2010, 84% of Mozilla's $123 million in revenue came directly from Google
Uki, Mozilla loosing funding is bad and all, but what the heck have they been spending 100M+ USD a year on? They must have some money stashed away somewhere....
I should think that as year-on-year a new lot of people become available for the Facebook network - those that have passed the minimum age requirement.
Of cause, others leave as they pass away, but if you ignore that (keep the accounts for data-mining and all that), you can get a net-growth-potential.
Also, if world population keeps growing...
(note: timeline considered here is at 10s of years, not millenia - once humanity kills itself off, growth will be very small)
Shite - didn't even think anyone was hitting 500 kph, let alone 500 mph, with any regularity, even with maglev.
From Wikipedia:
The highest recorded speed of a Maglev train is 581 km/h (361 mph), achieved in Japan by the CJR's MLX01 superconducting maglev in 2003,[1] 6 km/h (3.7 mph) faster than the conventional TGV wheel-rail speed record.
The problem is if B&N wins, then everyone else who has had these bandied at them has a countersuit to recover the costs already paid under false pretenses.
Wouldn't MS have had a chance (and incentives) to include a clause against this (counter-suit) in the license-agreement they've made the other companies sign? I.e., "Though the patents are valid and the party is in violation, the party waiver all right to bring suit to reclaim any license-fee, should the patents be proven invalid, or the party shown to, in fact, not be in violation"...
I was reading mails/posts from friends, that would spell poorly or have bad grammar, and my mind would auto-correct so I could read at near full-speed - problem is that it would "auto-correct" words/sentences that are correct, but less-common.
Side-note: a decade ago, in high-school, we were taught that we were recognizing shapes of words, not reading letters, and a few decades ago the same argument was used for changing road signs from all-capital to mixed-case signs for faster reading.
One ST:TNG episode The Chase* pretty much "confirmed" Pan Spermia, which would go towards explaining the ability to interbreed humans with pretty much every other race.
I'm on the Beta, and just got upgraded to v9 today, but on v8 betas (as recently as 2 days ago), I would occasionally see FF freeze (become unresponsive) and then report that a javascript was not responding. These were usually scripts from a google-related domain, but every blue moon it would be some internal script (judging from the names) that would be blamed.
I had already reported some during the early stages of v8 beta, so weren't too diligent with reporting them again, and it certainly seem to have improved, but going to be a bit extra attentive with v9:)
Btw: Please try to use Google+ as testbed for javascript functionality and speed - my mac (dualcore 2.1 ghz) slows down notably when visiting that page in firefox (v8).
Finally: I really appreciate Firefox, I use it on every platform I have, and I'm in awe of the people dedicating their time and effort to develop and maintain it. Where do we send the cupcakes?
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how can you guys be relying on anything less that HP NonStop or similar systems?
I love London ... don't know why, but it feels like home to me.
That said, I'd never drive in London. Take a cab, sure, but otherwise it is busses, tube and walking for me and the family. Perhaps bike, if I'm alone (not tried that yet), but not take a car.
Mirror an SSD and HDD, with either interleaving-reads or exclusively reading from the SSD - voilá.
Writes are slow (but may look fast, depending on the mirroring-algorithm), but reads are going to be either faster-than-HDD (when interleaving) or alot-faster-than-HDD (when only reading from SSD).
To ensure they remain identical, some reads should be from both drives, so don't expect everything to be SSD-speed, though.
Actually shaved recently (we have a gubbermint - yay!), and now I feel like I cannot grep to save my life ...
Mix with current age elephants and unix-gurues - should make for diversity, while keeping the hairyness.
[..]thieves would have to intercept my username/password, then steal the token without my discovering the theft in time to notify the bank.
So, they should steal you as well? Or render you unable to contact your bank in the near future.
yeah, after posting, I found their 2009 Financial Statement, and saw that they have some quite significant development costs (40M that year).
But my observation about having a fair cash-reserve is also correct. They added 10M to their bank-account in 2009, so they should be able to survive at least a (very) short while without Google's sponsorship :)
Think I need to revisit their product portfolio, see what they've been up to lately.
That's a writing/funding problem, NOT a technical issue.
This.
People will happily watch YouTube clips at 480 x 320 resolution, low frame rate, highly compressed, on their smartphones. Technology is not the answer.
People are strange - I'm getting annoyed, if the quality of my Daily Show online drop even a bit, as I expect to get a clear picture :)
(note: Am parent, but don't watch morning TV/Cartoons, and not an expert on TV/ads)
The kids can easily sit through the commercials: They see them as part of the regular content, with the ads being created to specifically keep them entertained/focused/zombified, using loud noises and fast changes to "pacify" them.
My kids even find ads on YouTube (I know, bad parenting here) and watch that just as gladly as some cartoon or kitten-video.
What do we do now? Shoot radio broadcasts in that direction?
Yeah, we could do that.
Send TV Shows - if human-kind manages FTL and sends a crew there, they can pick up the broadcasts for entertainment!
He is probably just religious ...
In 2010, 84% of Mozilla's $123 million in revenue came directly from Google
Uki, Mozilla loosing funding is bad and all, but what the heck have they been spending 100M+ USD a year on? They must have some money stashed away somewhere ....
I should think that as year-on-year a new lot of people become available for the Facebook network - those that have passed the minimum age requirement.
Of cause, others leave as they pass away, but if you ignore that (keep the accounts for data-mining and all that), you can get a net-growth-potential.
Also, if world population keeps growing...
(note: timeline considered here is at 10s of years, not millenia - once humanity kills itself off, growth will be very small)
Plausibly, it is the sudden absence of toads, that cause tectonic stress-levels to change, and cause earthquakes....
no?
We are talking about 500+ mph.
Shite - didn't even think anyone was hitting 500 kph, let alone 500 mph, with any regularity, even with maglev.
From Wikipedia:
The highest recorded speed of a Maglev train is 581 km/h (361 mph), achieved in Japan by the CJR's MLX01 superconducting maglev in 2003,[1] 6 km/h (3.7 mph) faster than the conventional TGV wheel-rail speed record.
The problem is if B&N wins, then everyone else who has had these bandied at them has a countersuit to recover the costs already paid under false pretenses.
Wouldn't MS have had a chance (and incentives) to include a clause against this (counter-suit) in the license-agreement they've made the other companies sign? ...
I.e., "Though the patents are valid and the party is in violation, the party waiver all right to bring suit to reclaim any license-fee, should the patents be proven invalid, or the party shown to, in fact, not be in violation"
I was reading mails/posts from friends, that would spell poorly or have bad grammar, and my mind would auto-correct so I could read at near full-speed - problem is that it would "auto-correct" words/sentences that are correct, but less-common.
Side-note: a decade ago, in high-school, we were taught that we were recognizing shapes of words, not reading letters, and a few decades ago the same argument was used for changing road signs from all-capital to mixed-case signs for faster reading.
Unless we pollute the oceans a lot more, I think hydrophobic materials would suffice for most submarines.
no .. his mom does ...
They tried, but the results came in before they were ready.
I think she'll get no argument there from the Dept of Homeland Security. DHS (literally translated to Russian, the acronym would be "KGB")
(KGB) (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti or Committee for State Security)
One ST:TNG episode The Chase* pretty much "confirmed" Pan Spermia, which would go towards explaining the ability to interbreed humans with pretty much every other race.
*: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
I'm on the Beta, and just got upgraded to v9 today, but on v8 betas (as recently as 2 days ago), I would occasionally see FF freeze (become unresponsive) and then report that a javascript was not responding. These were usually scripts from a google-related domain, but every blue moon it would be some internal script (judging from the names) that would be blamed.
I had already reported some during the early stages of v8 beta, so weren't too diligent with reporting them again, and it certainly seem to have improved, but going to be a bit extra attentive with v9 :)
Btw: Please try to use Google+ as testbed for javascript functionality and speed - my mac (dualcore 2.1 ghz) slows down notably when visiting that page in firefox (v8).
Finally: I really appreciate Firefox, I use it on every platform I have, and I'm in awe of the people dedicating their time and effort to develop and maintain it. Where do we send the cupcakes?
ditto - boss (and IT and HR and ...) got pretty pissed off when I said I was dropping the corporate laptop for a Mac.
You know what else will outsell the iPad? MacDonalds cheeseburgers!
[...]
The cheeseburger is tasty and delicious.
You must shop at a different MacDonalds than any I've tried :)