you'd better aim to patent the "bit", that'll give you:
- control over electronic information (obvious)
- control over human communications (a bit of this, bits and pieces,...)
- control over life (heartbits, well this was a bit (!) streched...)
that a large proportion of documents are in HTML format I agree, that most of them are returned by SOAP calls I'm not so sure... can't we just use ORB instead ?
in the early 90s a professor at the University where I was studying asked his class to write an essay on whether 1TB would be enough to store the entire collection of written publications for the foreseeable future...
granted: the w.w.web had not been invented yet and neither was the DVD so if "publications" would have stuck to plain text that could have been acceptable... but the advent of digital cameras, music and film collections (Netflix, LoveFilm,...) and He knows what the future has for us, I guess data storage needs are quickly approaching infinity-bytes (shall I hereby coin the unit IB ?)
as far as I remember from my geography lessons, Spain uses the Euro as currency... why on Earth is the cost of these "fish" indicated only in British and US currency ?
riiiight, and you liked cabbage as a kid...
if some of your colleagues regularly create a spreadsheet with that many rows, then they are doing it wrong... they need a different tool called Database...
they can't be possibly scrolling through that amount of data and another simpler alternative is to use a Linux JDBC/ODBC driver on the Excel spreadsheet:
- check this
- or someone suggested to write a control file and put it in oracle using sqlldr
yep, me too... as apparently there are already a couple of "plug-in" options to read EXT filesystems on a Windows computer. it might seem new or unusual to you but a filesystem is just an interface to the physical data on the disk, so it can be easily implemented as an add-on to the operating system (regardless what Microsoft thinks you are allowed or not to do with your licence of the software) and installed with a click of the mouse...
if you want to call it device driver, well, it's still true if you define the partition as the device...
you said "into a card reader on any computer from the last 10 years..." which obviously it's not true, and that was my answer...
it's not like one can find "new" politicians overnight to fill these positions, and given that the amount of "customers" that a government has changes very little over the years, it's not like there is going be either too much shortage or excess of these guys...
also, graduates need not apply, except as shoeshiners until they learn the real.gov business...
(yes, I'm being sarcastic because my health insurance company can access all of my medical records while I myself can't...)
well, go public and tell that to all the Mergers & Acquisitions people that are making a fortune right now...
in the modern financial ecosystem you don't stand a chance in the market below a certain critical mass, and after that you're either taken over or overtaken (BeOS a few years back is a good example...)
using a spin-off to create smaller entities are only credible when they are money-makers... who wants the burden of toxic debts anyway... oh wait, I forgot the taxpayers via the government...
that's cool man, I was simply reciting the code of PHB proclaimed "experts"...
on the other (lighter) hand I came across an advert for a language expert recently who offered to "have your resume personally reviewed" at which I first blinked a couple of times trying to think why I should prefer that over a professional service and then I realised the true meaning as being "not just spell-checked by that other guy using its text processing software"...:-)
that would be contrary to the company's goal, which is to maximise profit.
if you let the users keep an eye on their bytes or alert them in some way, then you simply pass on free money...
(yes, I'm being sarcastic, because I see this reply often on slashdot and I wonder if there is any company out there still interested in providing a good product/service - good for the buyer - instead of short-selling because they are not competitive anymore... we all know where customer loyalty comes from)
and how many of those radiowaves are going to fry our brains ? let me see:
- 10 thousands satellites beaming down their TV programmes and GPS coordinates
- 1 thousand TV stations beaming up their programmes (that's very high power)
- 500 millions of cordless phone handsets (frequencies anyone ?)
- 100 millions cordless keyboards and mice (ranging from 40MHz to 2.4GHz)
- 2 billions cellphones and millions of related cellular-comms-towers
- billions of wi-fi connections from portable phones, laptops, VoIP,...
- billions of bluetooth-enabled devices
- brand new wireless video devices...
bar the obvious tinfoil jokes, we are going to use a new excuse for calling sick, like "my brain is upset this morning, it must be the new access point that I installed yesterday... sorry, you'll have to cover for me until I finish restoring my brain backup from yest#%@ - what is this email that I sent to myself with a password for a new access point ?"
I'm glad that you "quoted" the word professional...
these days, after a couple of years one is already "senior" and after 4 becomes "architect"... you tell me why we do retire at 65 and not 30...
he learned it fast indeed: dropped out of Harward (or whatever it was he was going), started using the $1 million fund set aside by his grandpa, and made a fortune by rewriting a BASIC interpreter using a computer he was supposed not to...
especially who you work for...
companies are already outsourcing local jobs... why should they send someone abroad when a remote contractor can do the same job for less ?
in other words, the contracting economy will make the graduates' expectations fall back to "normal" levels for a while, I guess...
and on the "further studies" = "better entry pay", I think it's just offer versus demand once again: if the median level of studies of your colleagues with the same age is the the same as yours, then stop whining... things change and the fact that you have been able to learn degree-level knowledge probably also depends on your parents who have contributed with their "teaching" in life... (I wonder if in a couple of generations everyone will have a PhD ?)
isn't that the same as humming a song in the shower ? - (the fMRI in the other slashdot article + the "remote" fingerprinting could just make it easier to pinpoint the "criminal")
the way I see it is that the IE team managed to develop (almost released) a good product, but their bosses missed the cue so they jumped in at the last minute and demanded to keep the same level of product quality as usual for the next version... that is, a c*apload of s*it
hasn't that been their purpose all along ? leverage those 50% of Internet Explorer users on version 7 to "upgrade" to version 8, while at the same time making sure they confuse those PHB...
they are losing terrain and it can be noticed !
repeat after me:
stealing a CD from a shelf is not the same as infringing a law about its content
stealing a CD from a shelf is not the same as infringing a law about its content
stealing a CD from a shelf is not the same as infringing a law about its content
stealing a CD from a shelf is not the same as infringing a law about its content
how about a range of high-raising balloons sent up after consulting the weather experts ? I bet that even 50 of these ballons are cheaper than the dirigible to make and you still have 50 chances of hitting it (just make sure that they have a spire on the top...)
Slashdot Mirror
so as long as I don't use .NET languages then I'm safe ?
(ironic, watch out for those acronyms...)
you'd better aim to patent the "bit", that'll give you: ...)
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- control over electronic information (obvious)
- control over human communications (a bit of this, bits and pieces,
- control over life (heartbits, well this was a bit (!) streched...)
anyway, it was funny
that a large proportion of documents are in HTML format I agree, that most of them are returned by SOAP calls I'm not so sure...
can't we just use ORB instead ?
unless a patent troll(er) comes and sniffs the idea as its own... maybe in Texas ?
in the early 90s a professor at the University where I was studying asked his class to write an essay on whether 1TB would be enough to store the entire collection of written publications for the foreseeable future... ...) and He knows what the future has for us, I guess data storage needs are quickly approaching infinity-bytes (shall I hereby coin the unit IB ?)
granted: the w.w.web had not been invented yet and neither was the DVD so if "publications" would have stuck to plain text that could have been acceptable... but the advent of digital cameras, music and film collections (Netflix, LoveFilm,
as far as I remember from my geography lessons, Spain uses the Euro as currency... why on Earth is the cost of these "fish" indicated only in British and US currency ?
riiiight, and you liked cabbage as a kid...
if some of your colleagues regularly create a spreadsheet with that many rows, then they are doing it wrong... they need a different tool called Database...
they can't be possibly scrolling through that amount of data and another simpler alternative is to use a Linux JDBC/ODBC driver on the Excel spreadsheet:
- check this
- or someone suggested to write a control file and put it in oracle using sqlldr
yep, me too... as apparently there are already a couple of "plug-in" options to read EXT filesystems on a Windows computer. it might seem new or unusual to you but a filesystem is just an interface to the physical data on the disk, so it can be easily implemented as an add-on to the operating system (regardless what Microsoft thinks you are allowed or not to do with your licence of the software) and installed with a click of the mouse...
if you want to call it device driver, well, it's still true if you define the partition as the device...
you said "into a card reader on any computer from the last 10 years..." which obviously it's not true, and that was my answer...
it's not like one can find "new" politicians overnight to fill these positions, and given that the amount of "customers" that a government has changes very little over the years, it's not like there is going be either too much shortage or excess of these guys... .gov business...
also, graduates need not apply, except as shoeshiners until they learn the real
(yes, I'm being sarcastic because my health insurance company can access all of my medical records while I myself can't...)
well, go public and tell that to all the Mergers & Acquisitions people that are making a fortune right now...
in the modern financial ecosystem you don't stand a chance in the market below a certain critical mass, and after that you're either taken over or overtaken (BeOS a few years back is a good example...)
using a spin-off to create smaller entities are only credible when they are money-makers... who wants the burden of toxic debts anyway... oh wait, I forgot the taxpayers via the government...
that's cool man, I was simply reciting the code of PHB proclaimed "experts"... :-)
on the other (lighter) hand I came across an advert for a language expert recently who offered to "have your resume personally reviewed" at which I first blinked a couple of times trying to think why I should prefer that over a professional service and then I realised the true meaning as being "not just spell-checked by that other guy using its text processing software"...
that would be contrary to the company's goal, which is to maximise profit.
if you let the users keep an eye on their bytes or alert them in some way, then you simply pass on free money...
(yes, I'm being sarcastic, because I see this reply often on slashdot and I wonder if there is any company out there still interested in providing a good product/service - good for the buyer - instead of short-selling because they are not competitive anymore... we all know where customer loyalty comes from)
and how many of those radiowaves are going to fry our brains ? let me see: ...
- 10 thousands satellites beaming down their TV programmes and GPS coordinates
- 1 thousand TV stations beaming up their programmes (that's very high power)
- 500 millions of cordless phone handsets (frequencies anyone ?)
- 100 millions cordless keyboards and mice (ranging from 40MHz to 2.4GHz)
- 2 billions cellphones and millions of related cellular-comms-towers
- billions of wi-fi connections from portable phones, laptops, VoIP,
- billions of bluetooth-enabled devices
- brand new wireless video devices...
bar the obvious tinfoil jokes, we are going to use a new excuse for calling sick, like "my brain is upset this morning, it must be the new access point that I installed yesterday... sorry, you'll have to cover for me until I finish restoring my brain backup from yest#%@ - what is this email that I sent to myself with a password for a new access point ?"
I'm glad that you "quoted" the word professional...
these days, after a couple of years one is already "senior" and after 4 becomes "architect"... you tell me why we do retire at 65 and not 30...
he learned it fast indeed: dropped out of Harward (or whatever it was he was going), started using the $1 million fund set aside by his grandpa, and made a fortune by rewriting a BASIC interpreter using a computer he was supposed not to...
especially who you work for...
companies are already outsourcing local jobs... why should they send someone abroad when a remote contractor can do the same job for less ?
in other words, the contracting economy will make the graduates' expectations fall back to "normal" levels for a while, I guess...
and on the "further studies" = "better entry pay", I think it's just offer versus demand once again: if the median level of studies of your colleagues with the same age is the the same as yours, then stop whining... things change and the fact that you have been able to learn degree-level knowledge probably also depends on your parents who have contributed with their "teaching" in life... (I wonder if in a couple of generations everyone will have a PhD ?)
isn't that the same as humming a song in the shower ? - (the fMRI in the other slashdot article + the "remote" fingerprinting could just make it easier to pinpoint the "criminal")
for that someone is more "either you're standards compliant or you buy your way into it"...
the way I see it is that the IE team managed to develop (almost released) a good product, but their bosses missed the cue so they jumped in at the last minute and demanded to keep the same level of product quality as usual for the next version... that is, a c*apload of s*it
hasn't that been their purpose all along ? leverage those 50% of Internet Explorer users on version 7 to "upgrade" to version 8, while at the same time making sure they confuse those PHB...
they are losing terrain and it can be noticed !
a bit offtopic, but let me be the first to reorder the names those 4 browsers and group them under the acronym "fantastic FOCS" !
well, if maxing to 100% a faster CPU means just that...
repeat after me:
stealing a CD from a shelf is not the same as infringing a law about its content
stealing a CD from a shelf is not the same as infringing a law about its content
stealing a CD from a shelf is not the same as infringing a law about its content
stealing a CD from a shelf is not the same as infringing a law about its content
West of Hawaaii there is Japan, and West of Japan there is China, which direction are you looking ?
how about a range of high-raising balloons sent up after consulting the weather experts ? I bet that even 50 of these ballons are cheaper than the dirigible to make and you still have 50 chances of hitting it (just make sure that they have a spire on the top...)