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8y ago
Yes indeed. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R... .
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8y ago
Problem here is you assume that every client honors the TTL. That is a very bad assumption to make.
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8y ago
And, never, ever forget OS/2
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8y ago
Lotus Sametime still exists.
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8y ago
I've got to think bandwidth is their largest expenditure... even with all the CDN infrastructure they have in place. AWS bandwidth is extremely expensive - regardless of the negotiated discounts they probably get.
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8y ago
My experience can be summarized by this: Me: "Alexa, tell Harmony to tune to CNN" Alexa: turns on the TV, and tunes it to CNN. Me: "Alexa, what alarms do I have set?" Alexa: tells me I have a weekday alarm set for 5:3
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8y ago
How are they making money?
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blantonl
9y ago
..and then start backing all that in to existing long standing customer business processes which aren't going to budge. And then you end up with the OP.
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9y ago
The software platform itself, a heavily modified version of Oracle’s PeopleSoft program ... What implementation of Peoplesoft isn't heavily modified? Adapting business processes to COTS software packages is extremely challenging.
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9y ago
Their insurance risk pool is far more favorable - those in the military are generally more healthy than the general population, and they have pretty much guaranteed income.
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9y ago
USAA would be a classic example
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9y ago
What impact did this changeover actually have on you?
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9y ago
In cloud development environments, you need to account for multi-AZ deployments and the challenges associated with such.
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9y ago
You could also buy magazines with 1000's of lines of Basic code that required you to simply type it in and get it working. So, programming learning methods were different. First, you had to type in all that code, and inquiring minds wo
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9y ago
A lot of people are calling for the person who did this to be instantly fired, but I've always been of the opinion that the guy that pushed that button would be an outstanding hire - because he'll never, ever do something like tha
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9y ago
Again, that is incorrect. Error correction is applied after encryption via 2.8kbs /sec of forward error correction paired with 2.4kbs /sec of data signaling. And the IMBE vocoder also provides it's own error correction. The
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9y ago
Because it is entertainment for a lot of folks. See how many are listening on Broadcastify as we speak: http://www.broadcastify.com
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9y ago
Because of the design of P25, commonly used in America, if you enable encryption, a tiny bit of noise in the signal makes it unusable. That is incorrect. There is no difference in voice quality or degradation in quality of service betwee
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9y ago
Today’s rule is, “when in Rome”
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9y ago
should remain quick and responsive even under heavy load with hundreds of tabs. What is the use case where someone would require hundreds of tabs to be open?
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9y ago
They actually swarm first without biting and then once they get a critical mass covered they chemically send a command to all bite at once. I’m not kidding.
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9y ago
That doesn’t make any sense, considering the use of mobile device boarding passes. My guess is there is a bridge developed to translate those boarding passes to PECTAB format for submission to common systems?
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9y ago
Tim Cook runs a multi-national corporation. His obligation is to a shareholders as CEO. It is a simple as that. A lot of us don’t agree with these policy decisions by these companies, but there they are.
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9y ago
Exactly. Take for example the Sendmail book. Probably one of the most important (and feared) sysadmin books of our time. If you had a well worn dog eared copy on your desk, you commanded respect.
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9y ago
This second paragraph resonates with me and how I run my business. I was prospected for years that I should use a “said” managed DNS provider because my business would be doomed if DNS lookups for my web properties were under a certain ms t
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9y ago
* distribution network * store stock * employees * high end real estate Sounds like a great deal for Amazon
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9y ago
As I started reading this article, I thought for sure this soldier had used his camera and the long exposures to identify the location of the sniper.
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10y ago
But there is no market risk, because the project says so.
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10y ago
And it's really ambiguous because either meaning could really be what the Legislature intended. Initially, I was going to say that they should evaluate the merits of the law based on the spirit of the law. But you are right, it real
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10y ago
I have a component in my business that writes about 9 million objects a month to Amazon S3. But, to leverage efficiencies in dropping storage costs for those objects I created an identical archiving architecture on Google Cloud. It took me
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