Indeed, go big or go home. Impressing the likes of Amazon would mean millions of dollars in contracts (even just for the IP surrounding advanced robotic processes) so if the reward isn't big enough to counter the risk (i.e. you think you won't do well) then by all means move along.

Given the increasing visibility of the negative externalities of human pickers at Amazon's third party fulfillment locations, they are going to be increasingly eager to do anything they can to reduce the number of humans involved in order fulfillment.

It doesn't mention anything about intellectual property, patents, etc except this bland remark: "Participants will be encouraged to share and disseminate their approach to improve future challenge results and industrial implementations."

So, it is doubtful that entry into the contest or acceptance of the prize would compromise intellectual property (trade secrets, patents, copyrights, etc) of the creators. Much as the X prize, Grand Challenge, etc did not require contestants or winners to forfeit any IP. From the look of it, Amazon is staging a contest, paying travel expenses, and offering a prize, all in lieu of executing a RFP and performing testing themselves. Still probably a win for them in the end, if one or more of the contestants is in fact a commercial robotics vendor.

Torrenting over SSH? That's all kinds of wrong. Why not just run a bt client on the host you are SSHing to and then download it via scp once it's done?

Can you recommend one? I have to get the latest season of game of thrones before my buddies find out I am only caught up on true blood. I mean, i have to check my email. That's right, check my email. List please?

Whoops! Where/when did Tor get into this discussion? Tor and Bittorrent are so far from the same thing that you are going to need to hand in your geek card.

One man's "Best way to get data to many computers. Yay!" is another man's "Best way to get data to many computers. Oh fuck its another DDoS!"

Doublepost...

One does not simply measure bandwidth

Without starting five or six torrents and leaving u/l and d/l limits turned off

The obvious issue with that thesis is that you can't prove that the cloud storage site itself is performing slowly due to a bottleneck where it peers with your provider (or many other possible reasons) and while some providers are generally better than others about managing internal bandwidth, none can be said to have ALL uncongested peering points to ALL local customers and this obviously will have the same negative impact on user experience as a locally congested network.

The Office functions might be known to C#, but Office admins (those creating/maintaining the scripts) definitely do not know C#.

When you buy keystones for wall jacks, they come with 568A and 568B coloring on them. Telling the difference on the tiny little lable might elude some novices. The point of saying this is that it doesn't actually matter (but given the choice just use 568B on all ends to keep it simple). He even mentions that you should use wall jack kits, not just dangle a cable with a RJ45 on the end of it out of a hole in the wall. Jeez.

Holy hell...

"what's the point of it all/ when you're building a wall/ and in front of your eyes/ it disappears?"
"pointless work for pointless pay/ this is one game I won't play"

I just realized how Tetris is really just an analog for communism... Childhood Ruined.

Maybe you can answer this then: What is a "Telecom workload" except perhaps a domestic spying node? Isn't the point of being a Telecom to just move the fucking packets? Why are we virtualizing that when at present, big dedicated routers are needed to do it properly? Are they seriously saying they want to get an even bigger machine, put a bunch of software in the middle that might increase reliability (but most likely just create a new, unknown single point of failure), and call it "improved"? Or, are they just trying to carve out new markets for virtualization now that all the easy ones have been bled dry?

Your first Hello World didn't go so well, did it?

I was thinking the same thing. They basically came up with a "great" reason for a whole new standard. To hell with the old standard! Whoever invented that was obviously dumb!