Patents are a payment made in exchange for destroying a trade secret
Only if it were a worthy trade secret in the first place.
in exchange for publishing your idea and telling everyone how to do it
Right, how to do it. Pardon me for failing to see how making an invention which was "almost impossible to do at the time" is worthy of a patent...
Bullshit. Tell me when they release an open source implementation of MapReduce, Chubby, BigTable, their version of OpenStack, and the Linux variant they use on their own servers.
Google just uses open source technologies developed by others to build their products on. The ones they actually develop themselves and release under an OSS license are the software they wish to popularize to push their own agenda. Not something evil per se, but everyone else on the planet does the same thing and they don't deserve the halo you're giving them.
Annual cost of a [human] friend: $0 (well, real friends anyway)
I'll believe it when "most of you" Americans get your act together and vote surveillance out of your Free and Democratic country.
Duh. This is what you get when you adopt unproven technology.
*Real* old people use the stuff that were brought to market 10+ years ago.
Damn.
1000000000 / (7*24*60*60) * 20*10
= 330687
Damn...
who has mod points to mod me to oblivion?
1. Because those sites get a crap ton of users. You don't just build a site, you have to adjust for number of users which is difficult.
A billion registered users.
Suppose each of them visit the site once every week (come on it's not Facebook)
Each time visiting 20 pages, perhaps each page has ~10 images
1000000000 / (7*24*60*60*20*10)
~= 8.27 requests per second.
Unless you're doing really expensive operations, most modern servers can handle that kind of load and more.
Sure, it doesn't say anything about spikes, which is a harder problem. But usually the claims about server load of having so damn many users is really exaggerated.
(Of course, once you even *attempt* to *scale* beyond the single server - single point of failure model, you'd need somebody who's experienced enough not to shoot themselves in the foot trying.)
I'm pretty sure I remember US military personnel detonating bombs among civilians including inncen women and children, to "protect" the United States and the Constitution...
As others have mentioned, the US has enough resources that they don't have to resort to suicide bombing tactics. But, personally, I'd ask for what cause the ground troops in Iraq died for. It may upset you Americans, but honestly IMHO they were "patriotic nutcases that think dying for their country is glorious and expected", AND they killed innocent women and children.
I don't expect you to understand though. I wouldn't call you names based on your intellect and ability to understand alternative viewpoints, but I do concur with the other replies on this subject.
But she has offered to implement her ideas herself. So let her. If she is wrong, her lack of capability will be revealed. However, if she is right, management looks like morons.
This argument is just lame. When a company pays you a salary, you work for them. So "offering to implement her ideas" is almost like "offering to work during office hours". Worse, it's "offering to do something really risky instead of your assigned task during office hours".
If she is wrong, of course her lack of capability will be revealed -- but will she be able to fix the mess if it goes wrong? What about the cost of the mistake?
We're talking religious zealot nut cases that think dying for their deity is glorious and expected.
ooohh... Sounds scary, until you realize it is basically the same thing as patriotic nutcases that think dying for their country is glorious and expected.
I believe that what you actually mean is, you can remember a time when you were completely unaware of civil rights violations all around you. I also remember such a time. Life was wonderful when I was five years old, and my greatest achievements included learning to ride a two-wheeled bike, and passing the test to get into first grade.
This makes North Korea.sound like utopia!
Get a life dude.
Yeah, automatically accuse people of lying when their anecdotal experience does not match your ideological beliefs.
Look, I've installed Linux on dozens of machines. The newer the hardware, the more cumbersome it is to get it working, unless you're using bleeding edge distros. I don't use bleeding edge distros, for my own sanity.
If I'm a fanboy at all, I'd be a fanboy of Debian stable. Any time saved by using another disto would eventually be evened out by the "cost of maintenance" of using things like *Unity*, *GNOME 3*.
In 1998 you spent two weeks to get it half working if there's actually a driver for your hardware -- or two months to write the damn driver yourself. These days you spend 2-3 days to find, install and config the latest kernel and drivers, because your 6 month old distro release (using a year old kernel) probably won't have the drivers for your newer hardware.
You know, bourgeoisie capitalism and all that shit.
Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
