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Initially, Stallman made a living selling GNU tapes, and pre-Internet, linux was often installed by a "friend" who made the stack of 40 floppies and charged a few bucks to cover his time and media expenses.
1. We know that they can. If you were designing a mass survaillance system, you would store all incoming information into unique bins now, then later select on the bins of interest.
2. Three years ago I asked an ex-govt employee who would know. When I got to that exact question, he got visibly upset and abruptly ended the conversation.
2) It looks like mgmt. did not want to do a public information campaign because then you're telling people, who may not all know yet, that there's a problem. In other words, 1960's-style crisis mgmt. to "protect" their brand.
3) Also, the executives of Chipotle simply refuse to make top mgmt. changes and in fact are among the highest-paid executives in human history (according to the article.)
4) One store had serious "HR issues" with managers preying on underage part-time staff, resulting in a multi-million dollar payout. I'll leave it at that.
Newmark made the same case as the parent commend, but that was the last thing the last thing the law wanted to hear since they are prosecutors, not social workers.
What this is saying:
1) If you don't have a yaw damper, then you'll have a rough ride
2) because the autopilot will induce oscillation (dutch roll) after loss of GPS
Today, meaning right now, Atherton's city attorney is engaged in a battle with High Speed Rail (HSR.)
He informed the transit planning commission that Atherton would not accept planning funds if it meant losing the legal right to sue to stop HSR.)
2) FCC prefers SDN radios be blackboxes
3) costs more money to document and support
Having travelled in Asia, for example, they have the skill and parts to repair eyeglasses and cut lenses to old frames. (In fact, I get my glasses repaired in Manila since the eyeglass cartel in the USA refuses to do major repairs. I've certainly tried in Silicon Valley multiple times.)
Also, eyeglass cases are considered to be valuable and resold for $1 - $5 each.
And finally, somebody with a suitcase could haul 100 - 200 frames on their next trip at no cost.
I think if they were willing to do minor repairs and record the measurements in a database, donations could be a much more efficient charity.
Other computer scientists have either modified or narrowed it to be more useful.
So it's fun to read the original CAP paper, but it's less useful than you would expect. When somebody asks me about CP vs. CA, I realize they in fact don't anything at all about distributed databases.
1) The purpose of HN posts on Lisp is to fellate pg, nothing more.
2) One of the big reasons Lisp has failed commercially is that expert programmers create their own personal libraries, which cannot be taken to the next employer for legal reasons. So all that effort is wasted.
In Taiwan and China, it's common to use Linux in university and to work on Open Source projects (see OpenWebmail and Linux Virtual Server projects, for impressive successes.)
The Chinese government was pushing their Red Flag linux, but I'm not sure where that is now. Certainly Linux would be used in their home-grown CPU and superconductor efforts.
However, once students graduate, their employers are less likely to understand making Open Source contributions at the business level.
I think it's great that you've lived in a bubble all your life.
But you should make a conscious decision whether to remain in that bubble, or find out the truth about the world around you.
Because the truth is an ugly thing these days.
Why am I expected to believe something when you don't include a link to actual data?
The reason most intelligent, scientific people that I talk to are skeptical is that scientists have done such a bad job of communicating the data/evidence. It's not up to the person in the street to prove anything or believe anything without data.
It's:
1. aviate (physically fly the plane, or more fundamentally, fly the wing) 2. navigate (know where you're going/situational awareness) 3. communicate (tell whoever needs to know)
No, that's not how it works.
En route airways are 3d, but approaches are 2d and landings are 1d. Large US airports are already at capacity, and above capacity in poor visibility conditions (like fog at SFO.)
Also, trains can just add more engines and cars.
In the short-term, if buses left and arrived on time, that would be a helpful improvement. Longer-term, ride analysis from Clipper data could optimize routes and frequencies.
When looking at farebox recovery numbers, remember that the bloated bureaucracy, driver salaries and pensions have to be paid from that.
Doubling the speed of the light rail would make it much more usable.
After problems with a node, often the management tools cause additional problems.
I suggest anybody follow the cassandra-users list for a while before committing to it.
And superconducting would change our world, yet it's still early days for both the science and engineering of efficient applications.
Maybe a follow-up is needed in 2110.
4 GB per program absolutely destroys VM consolidation. I love the look on managers' faces when they ask for a 1 GB VM and I ask them, "Is this for a Java program?" :)
As a working DBA, it's breathless drivel.
Unless you're an academic trying to get a grant or tenure, of course.
The only thing that improved under Meyer was that Yahoo mail is a fairly good product now, as it was improved a few years ago, then they started using it internally (dogfooding.)
I personally think the variable name length should match the scope size, bu then I'm reasonable like that.
Fremont has been Indian-ized, so it's fine to live and work there if you're Indian, otherwise it's just a long commute to nowhere.