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From my 34 years of constructing, coding and maintaining applications on computers I learned by the hard way the 4 most important points:
1. Backup.
2. Backup.
3. Backup.
4. The rest.
From my 34 years of constructing, coding and maintaining applications on computers I learned by the hard way the 4 most important points:
1. Backup.
2. Backup.
3. Backup.
4. The rest.
1. I live in Sweden at 60 degr latitude (60 crosses the northern tip of Labrador). We have very long summer daylight that compensates the lower lying sun.
2. Using a greenhouse with heater is extremely expensive wintertime here. Too expensive even for hobbyists.
3. No one here is growing in greenhouses at winter for commercial purposes. And no one of the rest is *growing" at winter, they maybe heat the greenhouses just so the sensitive plants don't die.
OTOH, in Iceland they probably grows at winter in greenhouses as they have free heat from the hot springs.
Not the best keyboard, the keyboard was problematic with its height and relively long front distance.
But the keys were wonderful! It was like they automatically removed typing errors!! Their spring was perfect and the action point was at the exactly right place.
The perfect keyboard world be something like model M with IBM-3279s keys.
The victim is responsible for what happened to him. Yes, the criminals played hard and dirty, but they didn't invent those tactics with the victim. When you taunt a rattlesnake, you don't blame the rattlesnake for doing what a rattlesnake does when it bites you.
..before I use them for real. That means I test many different inputs and contexts so I have decent knowledge of their behaviour before construction of the application.
This means that I know in time of its (unexpected) idiosyncracies and also possibilites that is not immediately recognized.
Yes; maybe; and the whole summary is stupid. From claim one of the patent; the very first paragraph:
having a path name in a distributed file system, wherein the file is divided into a plurality of chunks that are distributed among a plurality of servers
So; where the mainframes of the 70s had single consolidated disks stores this is talking about doing this on a distributed filesystem. The area of application is indeed new completely opposite to the claim of the summary.
Patents are not supposed to control what you do; instead they control how you do it. Since the way that Google is claiming to do this is by going around comparing the timestamps on a bunch of different distributed chunks of a file, this is something that no mainframe of the 70s is likely to have had to to so it may even be a new way to automatically delete temporary files. I wish people would begin to understand this and commenters would point it out every time. I wonder if this isn't a bunch of patent lawyers trying to make us look silly.
I can't see a significant difference. In both cases they are using a metadata *expire* date. The only difference is that the files in question are distributed and the format of the metadata. In both cases they are comparing the metadata date with current date for files.
Do you have sources for that ? Links ?
You are wrong. And it seems that you are a friend of security through obscurity. And prioritize economical interests of companies before security interests of the society.
Well, there could be seen as an important difference if did it 10 years ago or 1000 years ago...
You say " a decent microkernel needs a lot of development time". I thought the point of a microkernel architecture was the opposite ?
No. South-Ossetia and Abkhazia was/is a part of Georgia. They are still only recognised by Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Nauru, Tuvalu and Vanuatu (and by partially recognized Transnistria and unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh. And each other).
Georgia tried to use army forces to retake the control of South-Ossetia but was met with Russian forces which entered Georgia proper in fighting.
Separatist forces in Abkhazia have with the help of Russian weapons and forces more or less complete control of Abkhazia.
Regarding Kosovo, as something like 90% of the people was/is Albanians and more or less a war started 1998 between the Serbian army and Albanian rebel forces, a potential risk for homicide was lingering. 2008 declared Kosovo independence. Today is Kosovo recognized by most of the EU country's, USA, Canada, Australia and Japan. Plus a couple of minor country's.
As the former republic of Yugoslavia disintegrated, a war started 1991 between a couple of the former provinces/autonomous regions of Yugoslavia. At this point there were no commonly or at all recognized country in this area.
Lets put it this way: Why would the Chinese *NOT* do as the article implies ? Assuming competence, there is in their own interest to do just his.
Law and reason are not the same.
It's rather that you have to *design* the application on a high level to get the most of the parallelism gains.
I can imagine that you felt like that.
But people that routinely points loaded and unsecured guns at people - and you, will sometimes proceed in the automatic "drill" and fire.
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
