Microsoft deceptively compares Open Source to failed dot-com
business models. Perhaps they misunderstand the term Free Software. Remember
that Free refers to liberty, not price.
Gooly gee whiz, why can't you guys EXPAND* the english language?
Why don't you simply add a distinctive word, different from "FREE",
to specify what LIBRE SOFTWARE really is, instead of senselessly
encountering the wrath of bean counters???
This sounds just like HP: from what I've read, they exclusively use Windows/Outlook for all their
corporate stuff, including their website! They also use Exchange for their mail. This is instead of
using their own HP-UX systems for their website and other infrastructure, and their OpenMail
product (which is fully Exchange-compatible, including the calendaring). So apparently HP
doesn't even think much of HP-UX; so why do I and so many other people in my company have
to use HP-UX workstations?
It clearly is a case of bean counters not wanting to pay salaries for people who are competent to use HP-UX, but rather would want to pay MCSEs to mickey-mouse around with their servers...
This is an obvious hoax, maybe just the astronauts winding
up the journalists. What the heck use would a table be in zero/micro gravity?
Psycho-social comfort. Skylab astro-nuts had a table, too, installed after
great insistence by astro-nuts and shrinks.
Ditto for the big 50 cm diameter
porthole next to the table. Remember that, originally, Von Braun didn't
want portholes in the Mercury space capsule, and the astro-nuts had to
go on strike to have the window put on the spam-can...
--
Re:What else can these guys hack?
on
Home Improvement
·
· Score: 2
Smoking anything would be problematic in space, first of
all, there is no convection, so smoke doesnt rise, it would just kind of
cluster in a ball around the lit tip of your cigarette until it goes out
I have heard of one guy who, in addition of being a SCUBA-diving addict,
is also an heavy smoker. So, to ease out the pain on waiting on the last
decompression stop for hours, sometimes, he had fashioned a smoking box
out of an old waterproof battery container. In it, is a cigarette connected
to a tube, and on the other end, is a normal SCUBA regulator second stage
to supply air to the burning cigarette...
The [Vogon] captain was delighted: when a Dentrassi went along smiling like that, there was something going about the ship he would be very angry about.
Rubbish! Motorola remained a force in the microcomputer
market by developing initially the 6502 which competed with Zilog's Z80
processors in the home computer boom of the early 80s, and then releasing
the 68000 series which were used in the Apple Macintosh, Commodore Amiga,
Atari ST etc.
Er... Motorola didn't make the 6502, MOS TECHNOLOGY
did. The 6502 was a cheap & performing knock-off of the 6800,
the latter chip being Motorola's.
Hey, on our Northern Telecom system you can remotely adjust any phone's LCD display contrast from another phone, once you get into the system programming menu.
No wonder Northern Telecom stock is going through the floor!!!! (Just saw a friend of mine today who works in HR for NT. He's dead tired: he laid off 700 people last week! LOL!)
The last few years, we've seen all sorts of crews buring plastic tubing along railroad right-of-ways.
By chance, yesterday, I saw a crew busy working at a railroad crossing. They had a hi-rail truck and a hi-rail crane, with a portable compressor.
A strange contraption connected to the compressor was sucking cable from a big spool (very fast, at about 1m/s). What was surprising was the nearly silent operation of the thingamajig along with the compressor (they usually make a lot of racket).
I suppose that the thing blows air in the tube, and the fiber cable is sucked along with a venturi effect.
If you look at the pole, which is not shiny, the artifact that an earlier poster pointed to has color fringing. Since the
pole is not shiny, your explanation doesn't explain that behavior. Since other nearby objects are not fringed, it
can't be a parallax thing or poor registration of the color layers.
It's polarization. The method uses colour filters in front of each colour camera; they probably don't polarize the incoming light at the same angle, hence the fringing on the water.
It's not movement, since the grass blades in the foreground are blurred without any coulour fringe whatsoever.
That said, the method used is just like Technicolor, except that it doesn't use dichroid mirrors.
And one will also recall Polaroid'spolavision (official dope), which used a film striped with RGB filters. But videocams made that obsolete overnight.
This article has more information about how the waterworking
would work.
Yup, indeed. Waterworking. What else could better describe
that UNsanitary plumbing that waterMARKing DVD would be. But in any case, it will be LEAKY plumbing...
So, whenever we pop a movie in the player, after the DREAMWORKS
PICTURES logo, we'll see the "PROTECTED BY WATERWORKS
PICTURE PROTECTION"???
I always wonder what people did to goof off before the internet.
Anyone have any insights/stories? Did people goof off just as much, but
in different ways? Or did we get more work done back then?
One one job I had, we (me and my boss) would goof around simply by working
on our respective projects. And very often in front of the company big-shots
who were too clueless to notice. We'd also buy gadgets to play with, like
a $80,000 laser printer (that was back when a 180 dpi laser printer did
cost $80,000), or a $50,000 minicomputer to play blackjack or horserace
simulations.
At another, I had a quite interesting work schedule:
10:30 Get in. Boot machines, fetch gossip.
11:00 Boss gets in. Listen to all the problems of other
cow-orkers.
11:30 Help boss fix cow-orkers problems.
12:00 Leave for lunch.
13:00 Look around technical bookstores, or go sneak out/xerox
books from the university library
14:00 Look at an historical building or at gadgets in
stores
14:30 Get back to work. Listen to all the problems of
other cow-orkers.
15:00 With boss, fix cow-orkers problems.
16:00 Cow-orkers leave. Start working
20:00 Wrap-up things and go home.
In the last 4 hours, we worked uninterrupted. That's how 2 guys
were able to support 18 people in the whole company... (But my boss quit
after I was there for a year. Wonder why...).
Sec. 105. Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works
Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.
Let's face it, on one hand, most of us love the idea of
a company being able to screw the TV companies over, no matter
how they manage to do it exactly. It certainly sounds good to
me, taken on its own. However, the fact that the company has
to put in place regional barriers means that this is a Bad Thing.
Think about it for a minute. The Internet is (or at least,
was meant to be) all about inclusion of peoples, freedom to access
content wherever it is located, and sharing. Instead, we're now
looking at situations where, for instance, I can get a service
that others cannot.
Extrapolate that a little further now. Based on region,
Big Company Inc is able to charge different amounts of money
for their virtually-delivered (i.e. online) service, and for
no other reason than the fact that they can.
JumpTV's service, even if free, manages to have enough
parallels with the DVD regioning system that it's not funny.
If Jump TV's service is illegal in the US, that's the yankees'
problem. Not Jump TV's. So there is no reason why Jump TV should
jump backwards through hoops to make sure it's "content"
doesn't ends up in the US.
"Police today pulled over Jane Deaux on I-75. She was charged with copyright infringement when she could not prove she had not received proper authoriation from the music industry to sing along with the radio. Music Industry spokeman I. P. Freely was quoted as saying that sing-along piracy was costing the music industry 'billions of dollars daily.'"
"RIAA crushes scientific research in Ivy League academia"
The best part is, the USA _does_ have a sort of class system- ask any preppie, ask Dubya's dad. You don't mess with the Ivy League colleges that have produced a disproportionate number of Washington bigshots. You'd have to mess with USC to make deadlier, more-organised enemies- and frankly, the Ivy League plays better in Peoria. Say the names 'Princeton-Harvard-Yale-etc' and an awful lot of people will just kowtow automatically- and say 'RIAA is doing damage to Princeton's academic freedom!' and the same people will bristle, even if they don't fully understand the details.
Look at it like what is really like: it's
institutions based on proven science and knowledge - versus - a bullshit-producing industry. Now, which of those deserves to run the show?
Or you could have a little hand generator as remote radio
operatiors did in Vietnam. Picture: buisnessmen in a restaurant
imortantly spinning a little wheel as they talk to whomever.
This old wireless phone talk reminds me of the forgotten
classic movie The Plot Against Harry (1969) (not Hitchcock's
The Trouble with Harry), where Harry was a small time gangster
with a phone in his car. Great classic funny movie, check it
out.
When I was a kid, there was this
clown on TV named "Sol" (ground) who went around
with a phone handset in his pocket. He was a precursor of cellular
phone-toting people... Now, we have grown up, and
so did his act, 30+ years later... (Can you imagine if Captain
Kangaroo's act had grown up with him?)
Sigh - Aaah, the good old times of mobile car phones...
When we got bored listening to railroad radio traffic while hanging
near busy junctions, (this was in my roaming FRN days), we'd tune
into the mobile phones. Once we heard a slut calling her pimp
and telling him how she was about to rob her client while he was
in the shower...
Speaking of suppressed technology, if big-mouth Kennedy hadn't
had his stupid race-to-the-moon speech, there would have been
an operational space
shuttle by the late 60's. After that, space station AND going
to the moon would have been a breeze, instead of being a technological
dead-end.
Slashdot Mirror
* Note that I didn't say EMBRACE and EXTEND...
--
--
Ditto for the big 50 cm diameter porthole next to the table. Remember that, originally, Von Braun didn't want portholes in the Mercury space capsule, and the astro-nuts had to go on strike to have the window put on the spam-can...
--
--
--
--
--
--
(Just saw a friend of mine today who works in HR for NT. He's dead tired: he laid off 700 people last week! LOL!)
--
--
By chance, yesterday, I saw a crew busy working at a railroad crossing. They had a hi-rail truck and a hi-rail crane, with a portable compressor.
A strange contraption connected to the compressor was sucking cable from a big spool (very fast, at about 1m/s). What was surprising was the nearly silent operation of the thingamajig along with the compressor (they usually make a lot of racket).
I suppose that the thing blows air in the tube, and the fiber cable is sucked along with a venturi effect.
--
--
It's not movement, since the grass blades in the foreground are blurred without any coulour fringe whatsoever.
That said, the method used is just like Technicolor, except that it doesn't use dichroid mirrors.
And one will also recall Polaroid's polavision (official dope), which used a film striped with RGB filters. But videocams made that obsolete overnight.
--
Yup, indeed. Waterworking. What else could better describe that UNsanitary plumbing that waterMARKing DVD would be. But in any case, it will be LEAKY plumbing...
So, whenever we pop a movie in the player, after the DREAMWORKS PICTURES logo, we'll see the "PROTECTED BY WATERWORKS PICTURE PROTECTION"???
--
At another, I had a quite interesting work schedule:
10:30 Get in. Boot machines, fetch gossip.
11:00 Boss gets in. Listen to all the problems of other cow-orkers.
11:30 Help boss fix cow-orkers problems.
12:00 Leave for lunch.
13:00 Look around technical bookstores, or go sneak out/xerox books from the university library
14:00 Look at an historical building or at gadgets in stores
14:30 Get back to work. Listen to all the problems of other cow-orkers.
15:00 With boss, fix cow-orkers problems.
16:00 Cow-orkers leave. Start working
20:00 Wrap-up things and go home.
In the last 4 hours, we worked uninterrupted. That's how 2 guys were able to support 18 people in the whole company... (But my boss quit after I was there for a year. Wonder why...).
--
--
If Jump TV's service is illegal in the US, that's the yankees' problem. Not Jump TV's. So there is no reason why Jump TV should jump backwards through hoops to make sure it's "content" doesn't ends up in the US.
--
--
--
Probably paper filters; 'cause that gives a best coffee brew besides Espresso, of course...
--
No comment...
--
--
Just like 100 years ago...
--
When I was a kid, there was this clown on TV named "Sol" (ground) who went around with a phone handset in his pocket. He was a precursor of cellular phone-toting people... Now, we have grown up, and so did his act, 30+ years later... (Can you imagine if Captain Kangaroo's act had grown up with him?)
--
Sigh - Aaah, the good old times of mobile car phones... When we got bored listening to railroad radio traffic while hanging near busy junctions, (this was in my roaming FRN days), we'd tune into the mobile phones. Once we heard a slut calling her pimp and telling him how she was about to rob her client while he was in the shower...
Speaking of suppressed technology, if big-mouth Kennedy hadn't had his stupid race-to-the-moon speech, there would have been an operational space shuttle by the late 60's. After that, space station AND going to the moon would have been a breeze, instead of being a technological dead-end.
--