E.g.: A barometer can give more accurate elevation data than GPS, so that when you are in a high-rise building and make an emergency call, first responders know what floor you are on.
Not sure this is why it is included, but it's a possible application.
if the company doesn't care enough to have a replacement hired, or a system in place to store this knowledge... they either don't know or don't care enough to plan for this.
I almost took this attitude the last time I changed jobs, but I realized it wasn't to help the company as a whole or my manager. It was for my immediate colleagues and juniors who would have to fill in. They were the ones who could make the most use and who appreciated the extra transition effort.
I don't know what the information is, or how it could be organized, but maybe you could add a series of PST data files in Outlook to categorize the emails, and then save each PST at appropriate, somewhat permanent network locations.
Yes, price discrimination is probably part of it. Amazon is probably also involved, since Netflix runs on AWS, and a "virtual DVD" would compete directly with Amazon Instant Video.
I would have liked to hear from Ric Weiland but it's not possible since he died in 2006. He was responsible for the BASIC that I learned on: The Microsoft BASIC-in-ROM that came with my family's Ohio Scientific Challenger 4P (a 6502-based system from 1978 that had hardware similarities to Commodore systems). It also featured the first "Easter Egg" I remember: The system's boot prompt was "C/W/M?" (i.e. cold boot, warm boot, monitor). If you selected "A", it responded with "WRITTEN BY RICHARD W. WEILAND."
...cellphones are at least as common as wallets at this point.
For comparison, we should see the statistic for how many robberies involved a wallet, and then perhaps some legislation to require mandatory kill switches on our money.
Some facilities such as the Mahwah, New Jersey, NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) data center have rolls of fiber so that every cage has exactly the same length of fiber running to the exchange cages.
That just seems silly. They should be charging higher rents for the shorter cables.
I had wondered about a steganographic secondary purpose behind the grammatical-but-semantically-empty seemingly-random paragraphs that used to appear at the end of spam messages to confound filters.
Google isn't hiring people to actually look at the code and submit changes if problems were found (either internally patched/unreleased, or publicly available; The license allows for either). That would be the truly responsible thing to do.
Maybe they plan on hiring people, but they're establishing the market wages for that job in advance.
Maybe it's not about killing Vimeo, but rather making it "play nice" the way YouTube has: Pay for sync licensing of the music and support the licensing costs with ads.
The blog post linked from TFS is a brief (~70 word) summary of the recent development with no links to other posts on your blog for the background on the story, only the big PDF of the decision.
I understand the technical challenges of living on the 30th story of a building are much greater than for my house in the middle of no where...
I would have thought the opposite. A 30 story building can get by with a central standby generator (or central battery/inverter) serving all tenants/condo owners, etc., but there's a greater psychological challenge in that extended outages are rare enough that the money spent installing and maintaining the system seems a waste until it's needed.
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You must not live in a part of the world where the weather forecast includes phrases like "Snow and sleet above 3,000 feet tonight."
Nope. Illinois, elev. 600±not a whole hell of a lot unless you're in a tall building.
E.g.: A barometer can give more accurate elevation data than GPS, so that when you are in a high-rise building and make an emergency call, first responders know what floor you are on.
Not sure this is why it is included, but it's a possible application.
A few years later, there was even a bill to establish a 30-hour workweek that made it through Congress: http://www.alternet.org/labor/...
if the company doesn't care enough to have a replacement hired, or a system in place to store this knowledge ... they either don't know or don't care enough to plan for this.
I almost took this attitude the last time I changed jobs, but I realized it wasn't to help the company as a whole or my manager. It was for my immediate colleagues and juniors who would have to fill in. They were the ones who could make the most use and who appreciated the extra transition effort.
BTW, they usually don't call.
And if you check in on them, it's likely to be like This scene from the film About Schmidt .
I don't know what the information is, or how it could be organized, but maybe you could add a series of PST data files in Outlook to categorize the emails, and then save each PST at appropriate, somewhat permanent network locations.
Yes, price discrimination is probably part of it. Amazon is probably also involved, since Netflix runs on AWS, and a "virtual DVD" would compete directly with Amazon Instant Video.
I would have liked to hear from Ric Weiland but it's not possible since he died in 2006. He was responsible for the BASIC that I learned on: The Microsoft BASIC-in-ROM that came with my family's Ohio Scientific Challenger 4P (a 6502-based system from 1978 that had hardware similarities to Commodore systems). It also featured the first "Easter Egg" I remember: The system's boot prompt was "C/W/M?" (i.e. cold boot, warm boot, monitor). If you selected "A", it responded with "WRITTEN BY RICHARD W. WEILAND."
Did the anonymous submitter disclose their ties to Wikipediocracy?
Wait, this is Wikipedia. How could they not be confronted, when anyone can do the confronting, even the writers at Wikipediocracy.
...cellphones are at least as common as wallets at this point.
For comparison, we should see the statistic for how many robberies involved a wallet, and then perhaps some legislation to require mandatory kill switches on our money.
Who else has the money?
Giant corporations?
A few foreign governments?
Some facilities such as the Mahwah, New Jersey, NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) data center have rolls of fiber so that every cage has exactly the same length of fiber running to the exchange cages.
That just seems silly. They should be charging higher rents for the shorter cables.
I had wondered about a steganographic secondary purpose behind the grammatical-but-semantically-empty seemingly-random paragraphs that used to appear at the end of spam messages to confound filters.
Yes, and actually that someone was TFA, which begins:
“Picture yourself in a boat on a river” And make it a river of liquid hydrogen and helium deep within the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn.
Adam and Eve were ashamed of Uranus.
Perhaps, but he certainly put more class into the delivery
Do you mean "class" or "crass"?
Google isn't hiring people to actually look at the code and submit changes if problems were found (either internally patched/unreleased, or publicly available; The license allows for either). That would be the truly responsible thing to do.
Maybe they plan on hiring people, but they're establishing the market wages for that job in advance.
I prefer the nearly equivalent "Sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from malice."
...and they have continued to produce "Star Gazers" episodes with new presenters since Jack Horkheimer's death in 2010.
No... I think people want something in between 70 words and 56 pages.
Maybe it's not about killing Vimeo, but rather making it "play nice" the way YouTube has: Pay for sync licensing of the music and support the licensing costs with ads.
The blog post linked from TFS is a brief (~70 word) summary of the recent development with no links to other posts on your blog for the background on the story, only the big PDF of the decision.
True, but they are highly correlated.
Of course one reason they are correlated is that a previously mentally healthy person can become mentally ill after spending a little time homeless.
I understand the technical challenges of living on the 30th story of a building are much greater than for my house in the middle of no where...
I would have thought the opposite. A 30 story building can get by with a central standby generator (or central battery/inverter) serving all tenants/condo owners, etc., but there's a greater psychological challenge in that extended outages are rare enough that the money spent installing and maintaining the system seems a waste until it's needed.