It's not surprising that banks are interested in blockchain technology, if not necessarily Bitcoin itself.
Patenting technology is very common by these companies and it is almost always a protection measure against them being sued for using it.
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Edit: should add that I'm mainly familiar with the Java play framework aspects, not so much the Scala end.
After a few light-hearted suggestions that he be a bit lighter on the keys, I ended up having to point out how much it was putting me off my work. Thankfully he was good enough to change his habits while he remembered, but he would soon idly begin bashing again.
On a similar note personal space invaders are even worse, but I'll contain my vitriol on that subject for now.
For the curious, the sequence follows factorial (!) applied twice, i.e. (0!)!, (1!)! etc. (3!)! is 720, and (4!)! is 6.20448402 × 10^23.
I know this because I own one, and I ran out of space on my 4GB Vita memory card within a day just by downloading games from PSN. The CMA is a life saver because I can use my PC as backup storage, essentially, without being forced to buy a larger, more expensive, memory card.
Of course, this just leaves the matter of convenience, which is why the performance of the media is such an annoying factor.
As for the CMA itself, it simply acts as a daemon once it is set up - there's no GUI and all file transfers are handled on the Vita itself.
As for their right to earn money, I don't think anyone is debating that - Digital Foundary's main criticism is the speed of the media, which is (through empirical testing of course) significantly worse than standard microSD cards that are much cheaper.
The best comparison though is to Nintendo's 3DS which comes bundled with a standard SD card, and it hasn't fallen to piracy yet.
Based on your experience, how do you think learning materials/tutorials could be improved for people learning from scratch?
They might have put the envelope in the recycling, but they never have it emptied and someone just told them it contains a £20 note.
It may be difficult to understand how this is an industry coming from a web development/startup angle (big supposition there) but there are literally thousands of companies with lots of databases varying in age, size and complexity that need integrating, and plenty of companies competing for that work as either implementors or software providers. A perl script might do the job but most products focus on performance, reuse, ease of maintenance and compatability across many different database/file types.
Your second comment is true, however the DW industry has in the last year figured this out and started to embrace the "Big Data" movement. Informatica (the largest player in the DW space according to Gartner) added HDFS connectors to its latest release, for instance.
I don't think it really matters in this case whether it was sincere or not, but I guess people don't like to feel like they've been played.
Also, there's not much point in sending anything to James R. Cantalupo, since he died 7 years ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/20/business/james-r-cantalupo... And Michael Eisner hasn't been Disney Chief Executive since 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Eisner