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by danbmil99 15y ago
been beta testing this thing for a few months (at least something very similar). There are issues. And no webGL
992.
by danbmil99 16y ago
right -- so a proper black hat would make autochk.exe do its bad stuff and then go ahead and do a proper checkdisk, so the user doesn't notice anything amiss.
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by danbmil99 16y ago
My black-hat days are behind me, but isn't it SOP to copy a version of the uncorrupted file under another name, and run it when you're done with your cruftiness? Or incorporate the old code into the .exe along with your insertion?
994.
by danbmil99 16y ago
Let us know when they stop hating on gays and atheists.
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by danbmil99 16y ago
> Imagine how algorithms can be used to implement real-time, direct democracy. It's like you have never read a single dystopian sci-fi classic. What you're describing sounds like GOogle writ large. Count me out! (of course opt-out is
996.
by danbmil99 16y ago
Allow autonomy to product groups. They should be run like little startups: choose whatever tech stack they want, hire their own PM's, do their own hiring (Google recruiting is a complete wasteland), and live or die by their scucess/failure
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by danbmil99 16y ago
It's about time, these idiot troll publishers are on the level of thugs charging store owners for "protection" against same thugs. Who needs a paper journal anymore?
998.
by danbmil99 16y ago
the reward for successful skunkworks at a large co is typically promotion (serious promotion to very high-paying, visible roles). That can be very rewarding for certain personality types.
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by danbmil99 16y ago
Microsoft was using this model in the mid/late 90's. Teams like DirectX, Netshow (became Messenger) and Xbox were given wide latitude, and run more or less like startups, with appropriate rewards and consequences. Not sure to what extent
1000.
by danbmil99 16y ago
And there's gambling in Casablanca!
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by danbmil99 16y ago
Funny -- I'm more or less anti-social, and I LOVE LinkedIn precisely because it has a narrow, well-defined use case. I don't have to update my status, or comment on your comment on your wife's update. I just have a place to go to find the
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by danbmil99 16y ago
Does the Pope shit in the woods?
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by danbmil99 16y ago
It's a win/win for Google. The long game is this: either they win the fight outright and webM becomes the video standard, or they use webM and the specter of long, drawn-out (and expensive) litigation to force MPEG-LA to rethink their ro
1004.
by danbmil99 16y ago
While patents do confer a form of monopoly protection to an inventor and their assignees, that does not give anyone the right to form a cartel of multiple patent holders who work in concert to fix the price for the combined product. MPEG-LA
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by danbmil99 16y ago
I'm not an MPEG-LA booster by any means (was involved with VP8) but for the sake of clarity, they can't and don't charge arbitrary royalties. The agreement for being involved in H.264 was to provide a license under "RAND" terms, meaning Re
1006.
by danbmil99 16y ago
-- Charlie Sheen
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by danbmil99 16y ago
I think at the upper levels of intelligence, you are talking about the engineering limits of the brain as a physical thinking machine. Everything is working as well as it can; in this case, I suspect the difference between the top 100th pe
1008.
by danbmil99 16y ago
TL; DR: "I spent close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold. And the gratitude I get... I'm tired of pretending I'm not special. You can't process me with a normal brain!"
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by danbmil99 16y ago
Can anyone shed some light on the oft-repeated "let them compete across state lines" conservative argument? Is there any chance that less regulation could actually foster some healthy competition?
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by danbmil99 16y ago
Blaming the state of affairs in NYC in the 70's on rent control is simplistic in the extreme. Rent control (and rent stabilization) are questionable policies for sure, but they were around since WWII, and every tenement owner was aware of
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by danbmil99 16y ago
I lived in NYC during the entire period these pictures cover. Obviously not every block was like this, but the presence of 'urban decay' was undeniable. The incidence of street crime was much higher, and the general sense of potential dan
1012.
by danbmil99 16y ago
Being gay no longer automatically avoids the married with kids & big expensive house problem, at least not in Silicon Valley.
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by danbmil99 16y ago
good argument for a real marketplace, instead of anti-capitalist net neutrality zealots on the one hand, and robber-baron monopolists on the other.
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by danbmil99 16y ago
I would assume the conversion is calculated at the value of the acquisition or IPO (which is really just a type of investment round). [edit: as it says, no discount so forget this part] Typically there's a conversion percentage kicker, so
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by danbmil99 16y ago
What's happening is pretty self evident, esp with the knowledge that Schmidt is selling as much stock as he possibly can. He's cashing out big time. He obviously has strong disagreements with the founders, and believes that their direction
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by danbmil99 16y ago
As for non-discriminatory: I believe the MPEG-LA patent-holders are free to make side deals that bypass the supposedly non-discriminatory licensing fees. So if you are a major patent holder, you can in theory go to each of the other patent
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by danbmil99 16y ago
It's definitely putting pressure on them to provide a royalty-free version, which might include some of the less performant profiles. This was in the mix originally when H.264 was being developed, but major patent holders refused to go alo
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by danbmil99 16y ago
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avc-att1.p... Microsoft: US patents: US 6,563,953 US 6,735,345 US 7,289,673 and a number of foreign filings, likely of the same IP. Apple: US 7,292,636 US 7,548,584 US 7,551,674 US 7,
1019.
by danbmil99 16y ago
This. Look who are major patent holders at MPEG-LA: Microsoft and Apple. Do you trust your blood enemies to a gentleman's agreement? MPEG-LA has been decidedly vague and "don't worry, be happy" about their long-term royalty plans. One m
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by danbmil99 16y ago
sounds familiar. I was involved around '03, when Polycom and about 25 companies were up against the 4 or 5 biggies over the patent issue. It was like watching a bunch of school kids get beat up by teenage bullies. Very ugly. MPEG-LA are

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