I think most people think of IBM as a computer hardware, software or services company like they think of Google as a search engine. Well, Google is really an advertising company and IBM is really in intellectual property company. I suspect that if you roll back the cover, you'll find that employees have to invent, patent, publish, in order to advance their careers. The cultural need to do this is why they'll never succeed at rolling back the number of patents being filed.
So now I'll go back to working on my process patent for "improving software developer productivity through the application of mild organic stimulants in a solution of elevated temperature". Coffee anyone?
Long live RDP, GotoMeeting, and other fine tools that allow me to (mostly) work from a home office.
The down side the wife expects me to clean the house and do all the laundry, cook, walk the dog and pick up kids from school; kinda cuts into billable hours at times.
Ya, I've thought about this. The SPAM I get seems to come mostly to my main email address which makes it impossible route.
I had an idea to build some kind of simple web service tied to a Mozilla or IE add-on/plug-in that lets me allocate a unique email alias. Then we just need a mail service that supports temporary or permanent registered aliases set up via a web service.
I was going to build something like this but just don't have time right now. Anyone go for it!
Further to this, I use the aliases to filter/sort email into a number of folders depending if its for a project, different customer, family, neighbors, scouting, whatever. Just about everything that ends up in my main mailbox as unidentified mail is spam so its easy to get rid of.
I use a special domain name which maps all aliases (*) to my mail box. Nearly every email I use for online purchases or registrations is custom for that site so when I receive email from an unexpected source I can trace it back to where I originally used it. I also always opt out of companies sharing info. I recently caught out SCE having passed my email to a government energy program and called them out on it. If I get spammed on one 'channel', I can reroute it to the/dev/null mailbox.
For our servers, I've installed a 4GB GC RamDisk i-RAM from http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/ along with a SATA drive controller to access it. It even has a battery backup so RAM is preserved across short (up to a few days) power outages.
I've been using an 8 GB SD chip ($46 SanDisk Ultra II) in my Toshiba laptops SD reader drive for TEMP and TMP space. Just plug one in and update the user and system environment variables. You can also move the browser cache there and limit the cache size to about 15MB.
Its rated for 15 MB/s - not exactly a screamer, but it sure makes my AV run faster on ZIP files, and minimized disk fragmentation on C:
I vote for paper, pencil, and flowchart templates. That way beginning users don't get confused by all the tech stuff and learn how to think. Nothing makes you think and plan ahead like drawing flowcharts by hand.
Beyond IT uses for the computers, I recommend the following rather than their computer simulations:
Real wood and clay for art classes - get dirty
Real books to curl up with by the fireplace for literature
Real test tubes, worms & fish, and magnets for sciences
Real slide rule, pencils and rulers for math.
Real track, field, balls, and gym for physical education
Wow, where can I get a job at 80 hrs in 9 days. Seems like I've been working 60-80 hrs in 5 or 6 days of late. Unless I'm between consulting projects in which case its more like 9/10 and then the pay is terrible.
Most companies I've work in secure production systems ok, but I often find unobfuscated subsets of production data in test or dev. IMHO this is laziness on the part of QA in data preparation.
Data to obfuscate should include at least:
Date of Birth
SSN
Credit Card numbers
Policy or Account numbers
(HIPAA has a list of PHI data)
The challenge is where a protected value is used as a key into other systems and records have to agree in order to test systems.
Store your critial documents in a Content Management System like FileNet or Documentum. A basic system should cost as little as $30K. For smaller shops, there are also more affordable systems. These systems include the ability to audit documents.
As an alternative, you'd have to publish docs in a ebook type format that includes a contact back to a server to log who and where a document was opened. Standard OOTB functionality of Office or even PDF is too easily defeated.
We had gen 1 of this which was great and are planning to get the NxT version. For schools and clubs there is also a challenge competition at local, state and national levels.
http://firstlegoleague.org/community/HomePage.aspx
Little kids are curious about all kinds of stuff in the world and computers are no exception. We used a laptop and 'bookie stories' on the computer as form of interactive reading/story telling along with regular books and outdoor play time.
Some of our kid's favorite interactive story titles include:
Amanada Stories (very simple adventure, about a little black cat)
The Escape of Marvin the Ape
The Bernstain Bears
Dr Seuss ABC (***** Five stars for this one)
Winnie the Pooh
The important element here was not the fact it was a computer, it was Daddy Time.
To keep things IN BALANCE we also planted a little veg garden with beans, peas, sunflowers and strawberries. The kids would check and water the plants every day and then eat the pods and berries right off the bush. Sunflowers were a gift to mom for the kitchen table.
Every morning before I left for work, we had a bag of simple wood blocks. I'd set up some kind of house with it and my son would check each morning what I built with an impressive 'OOOOHHHHH', knock it down, then build his own.
Physical activity is very important at this stage. We took our kids to a kind of indoor/outdoor early development club called Gymboree that had soft stuff to climb on, slide down, stuff to crawl through, jumping, balance and all that for the gross motor skills.
Is baby screaming in the stroller? Let 'em walk. Next to the stroller and tucker out in no time, then sleep happily.
When they're 5 or 6, sign them up for scouts, sports to start to see where their talents lie. Keep the competition of the sports in perspective. Until they're at least 8 or 9, sports are for fun and sportsmanship, not about winning. Scouts gives a broad variety of experience and development from citizenship, outdoors, crafts, etc. After school, its a required part of our kid's routine.
Before I got married I was a hot-shot developer, worked 60+ hours a week no problem.
After I got married the world got more complicated. I had to remember to be home on time, remember I had a wife at home when at the pub after work with my colleagues, remember to pick up some groceries on the way home, remember that she was pregnant (actually she'd remind me often), remember to burp the baby, remember to pick kids up from school, remember soccer practice, campouts, and sleep overs, remember...
I've determined that I still work 60+ hours week and still have to remember just as much if not more. It's just diversified from programming. Now I manage hot-shot developers with my eye of experience and get paid twice as much:)
Oh, and marriage does not cause memory loss; you just learn to focus on what's important.
Because he is born of a Muslim father, the Islamic world community will claim him as a Muslim. If he denies his Islam roots, they will denounce him as a traitor of the worst kind - a deserter of Islam - an apostate; Sharia Law proscribes severe penalties for this. http://www.peacefaq.com/apostacy.html#hatist
Find out more about his Muslim roots http://www.danielpipes.org/article/5544
All this should not make a difference as to whether or not he is qualified to be the President of the US, but it does feed the phobia Americans have toward a different culture and religion, especially in the light of those who abuse and twist it to their own ends. Would it make a difference if he were Hindi or Buddist or Catholic or Jewish?
Vote your conscience and make an informed decision based on your candidates voting history. What kind of decisions does he make? Can he make a decision? Can you live with this? Would you trust the 'football' with him.
I'd looked into this for another charity (Boy/Girl Scouts) I help out with a lot and found that I can't deduct value for my time. In order to take a tax deduction I have to donate things like: cash with a receipt, goods (fair market value), or mileage documented in a diary or expense report.
In short, your time is worth nothing to the IRS unless you first convert it into cash, thereby establishing it's fair market value. Then you donate the cash.
If you'd like some kudo's, there is always the Presidential Service Awards. They have a section for Computers and Technology. When you hit your bronze/silver/gold levels you can get it vetted and send your $6 to get a certificate. You'll probably also get letters from your local politicians who are plugged into the recognition process.
If genetic mutations is all that is required for evolution, there is more than age that can cause this.
Nearly every month there seems to be a new discovery that some virus or environmental factor causes genetic mutations that result in cancer. Those are just the ones that kill us.
Perhaps there are also some benign or beneficial mutations occurring because of disease or dirty environment. I, for one, believe kids (and adults) should play outdoors and get dirty to help boost their immune systems and reduce the likelihood of allergies.
This math should then also work to analyze candidates and propositions or measures on the ballot according to which issues and positions an individual feels is a priority.
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Looks like there is no free trial and you can no longer purchase a subscription. Ah-well.
The Download game button the Matrix game website seems to be disabled, but you can still download the game here: http://pdl.warnerbros.com/thematrixonline/game_client/MxO.exe
So now I'll go back to working on my process patent for "improving software developer productivity through the application of mild organic stimulants in a solution of elevated temperature". Coffee anyone?
The down side the wife expects me to clean the house and do all the laundry, cook, walk the dog and pick up kids from school; kinda cuts into billable hours at times.
I had an idea to build some kind of simple web service tied to a Mozilla or IE add-on/plug-in that lets me allocate a unique email alias. Then we just need a mail service that supports temporary or permanent registered aliases set up via a web service.
I was going to build something like this but just don't have time right now. Anyone go for it!
Further to this, I use the aliases to filter/sort email into a number of folders depending if its for a project, different customer, family, neighbors, scouting, whatever. Just about everything that ends up in my main mailbox as unidentified mail is spam so its easy to get rid of.
I use a special domain name which maps all aliases (*) to my mail box. Nearly every email I use for online purchases or registrations is custom for that site so when I receive email from an unexpected source I can trace it back to where I originally used it. I also always opt out of companies sharing info. I recently caught out SCE having passed my email to a government energy program and called them out on it. If I get spammed on one 'channel', I can reroute it to the /dev/null mailbox.
So Jagex's Runescape MMORPG has had this for a couple of years in random events to defeat macros.
http://www.runescape.com/
It hosts 2GB of swap space, TMP and TEMP.
Its rated for 15 MB/s - not exactly a screamer, but it sure makes my AV run faster on ZIP files, and minimized disk fragmentation on C:
Beyond IT uses for the computers, I recommend the following rather than their computer simulations:
Wow, where can I get a job at 80 hrs in 9 days. Seems like I've been working 60-80 hrs in 5 or 6 days of late. Unless I'm between consulting projects in which case its more like 9/10 and then the pay is terrible.
How much does a SATphone cost? Could you set up a private enterprise cafe on board? Would students pay for extra time?
Actually, have fun and meet people in person.
Data to obfuscate should include at least:
The challenge is where a protected value is used as a key into other systems and records have to agree in order to test systems.
Solution? Don't use protected data as keys?
Any other ideas?
As an alternative, you'd have to publish docs in a ebook type format that includes a contact back to a server to log who and where a document was opened. Standard OOTB functionality of Office or even PDF is too easily defeated.
How to Break Web Software
Functional and Security Testing of Web Applications and Web Services
Programming Pearls
The Art of Computer Programming (3 vols)
Donald E. Knuth
So should I water my lawn and wash my car or not? I'm so confused!
We had gen 1 of this which was great and are planning to get the NxT version. For schools and clubs there is also a challenge competition at local, state and national levels. http://firstlegoleague.org/community/HomePage.aspx
Little kids are curious about all kinds of stuff in the world and computers are no exception. We used a laptop and 'bookie stories' on the computer as form of interactive reading/story telling along with regular books and outdoor play time.
Some of our kid's favorite interactive story titles include:
The important element here was not the fact it was a computer, it was Daddy Time.
To keep things IN BALANCE we also planted a little veg garden with beans, peas, sunflowers and strawberries. The kids would check and water the plants every day and then eat the pods and berries right off the bush. Sunflowers were a gift to mom for the kitchen table.
Every morning before I left for work, we had a bag of simple wood blocks. I'd set up some kind of house with it and my son would check each morning what I built with an impressive 'OOOOHHHHH', knock it down, then build his own.
Physical activity is very important at this stage. We took our kids to a kind of indoor/outdoor early development club called Gymboree that had soft stuff to climb on, slide down, stuff to crawl through, jumping, balance and all that for the gross motor skills.
Is baby screaming in the stroller? Let 'em walk. Next to the stroller and tucker out in no time, then sleep happily.
When they're 5 or 6, sign them up for scouts, sports to start to see where their talents lie. Keep the competition of the sports in perspective. Until they're at least 8 or 9, sports are for fun and sportsmanship, not about winning. Scouts gives a broad variety of experience and development from citizenship, outdoors, crafts, etc. After school, its a required part of our kid's routine.
Before I got married I was a hot-shot developer, worked 60+ hours a week no problem.
After I got married the world got more complicated. I had to remember to be home on time, remember I had a wife at home when at the pub after work with my colleagues, remember to pick up some groceries on the way home, remember that she was pregnant (actually she'd remind me often), remember to burp the baby, remember to pick kids up from school, remember soccer practice, campouts, and sleep overs, remember...
I've determined that I still work 60+ hours week and still have to remember just as much if not more. It's just diversified from programming. Now I manage hot-shot developers with my eye of experience and get paid twice as much :)
Oh, and marriage does not cause memory loss; you just learn to focus on what's important.
Because he is born of a Muslim father, the Islamic world community will claim him as a Muslim. If he denies his Islam roots, they will denounce him as a traitor of the worst kind - a deserter of Islam - an apostate; Sharia Law proscribes severe penalties for this. http://www.peacefaq.com/apostacy.html#hatist Find out more about his Muslim roots http://www.danielpipes.org/article/5544
All this should not make a difference as to whether or not he is qualified to be the President of the US, but it does feed the phobia Americans have toward a different culture and religion, especially in the light of those who abuse and twist it to their own ends. Would it make a difference if he were Hindi or Buddist or Catholic or Jewish?
Vote your conscience and make an informed decision based on your candidates voting history. What kind of decisions does he make? Can he make a decision? Can you live with this? Would you trust the 'football' with him.
I'd looked into this for another charity (Boy/Girl Scouts) I help out with a lot and found that I can't deduct value for my time. In order to take a tax deduction I have to donate things like: cash with a receipt, goods (fair market value), or mileage documented in a diary or expense report.
In short, your time is worth nothing to the IRS unless you first convert it into cash, thereby establishing it's fair market value. Then you donate the cash.
If you'd like some kudo's, there is always the Presidential Service Awards. They have a section for Computers and Technology. When you hit your bronze/silver/gold levels you can get it vetted and send your $6 to get a certificate. You'll probably also get letters from your local politicians who are plugged into the recognition process.
If genetic mutations is all that is required for evolution, there is more than age that can cause this.
Nearly every month there seems to be a new discovery that some virus or environmental factor causes genetic mutations that result in cancer. Those are just the ones that kill us.
Perhaps there are also some benign or beneficial mutations occurring because of disease or dirty environment. I, for one, believe kids (and adults) should play outdoors and get dirty to help boost their immune systems and reduce the likelihood of allergies.
Eat more dirt
This math should then also work to analyze candidates and propositions or measures on the ballot according to which issues and positions an individual feels is a priority.