I might be bad at names, but I surely can remember the 5 people seated in front of me. I just met them. Your meetings must have more drinking than mine.
I encourage you to consider that social norms didn't evolve to meet your personal strengths.
Many meetings don't have a unified list of attendees. Handing over a business card is a lot easier than trying to insert names and contact information into devices.
The "local" reporters are now, if you look at their profiles, all over the country and making errors in articles that just make them look like idiots to anyone actually living here. Reviews and articles about places that closed a year or two ago do not make for credibility.
Much of the supposedly local news is just repackaged national stats. "How is unemployment in YourLocalTown compared to the rest of the country?" and the like. Other stuff is somewhat local looking blog stuff that turns out to be identical on all the sites.
This American Life had an interesting story on this. Transcript here - (skip down to "Act Two. Forgive us our Press Passes").
tldr: The local news is being outsourced to places that grab data from public record, and then write canned stories with whatever sparse facts they have.
When Windows reaches RTM, the ownership of support is handed off from the Windows team to the Windows Sustained Engineering (WinSE) team. Two code branches are opened up for creating QFEs, a Limited Distribution Release (LDR) branch, and a General Distribution Release (GDR) branch.
The GDR branch is used for updates that are going wide to all users, which include security updates and high impact updates. Depending on the severity of the QFE, it might be posted to Windows Update as a security update, or alternatively it would be provided to OEMs to preinstall on shipping systems to resolve a specific issue.
The LDR branch is used for updates that aren't going to be distributed to a wide audience. This might be something like a QFE that fixes a bug that some enterprise customer is seeing, but doesn't have much applicabilty to the majority of Winodws users. Microsoft doesn't want to distribute an update like this wide, because there is a risk that it will cause regressions for other users. Every update in the GDR branch is also put into the LDR branch, because ultimately the user is going to be running a single instance of the binary file, and so it better have all of the security updates included if it is going to also fix issues of lesser importance
When you go to Windows Update and install a QFE, the package that you install usually contains at least two versions of the applicable binaries: One from the LDR branch, and one from the GDR branch. The hotfix installer will look at what is currently on system, and if you have the LDR version of the binary already installed, the hotfix installer will update with the corresponding LDR binary. The effect is that once you install an LDR update, you are now on the LDR branch for that binary for all future updates - that is, until the next service pack release.
The service pack is a release that includes all updates from the LDR and GDR branches rolled up into one major release. Pre-release versions of service packs are provided to enterprises for testing, and to see if any of the updates that were put into the LDR branch break anything. This gives the enterprise and Microsoft time to address the issue and fix it for the final service pack release.
Since not all enterprises participate in full testing of the service pack, there may be things that end up in the final version that can break things. This is why Microsoft will continue to support the pre|prior service pack release with security updates for a time, so that these issues can be resolved. At some future time, the pre|prior service pack becomes no longer supported, which is what TFA is all about.
And I am sure that Apple will soon release an Apple TV product that shakes up the market and makes Microsoft look stupid for being there already (media center, xbox), but not actually ever having a product that was compelling.
Home theaters are just begging for simplification – and I don’t expect that Microsoft will be the one to deliver.
This question was asked to me years ago in a Microsoft interview, and has been bugging me since. I am curious as to what other people here on/. would have responded, and more importanly, the 'why' behind the response.
Here is the question:
Say I were to hire you today, and gave you the choice between two compensation packages, which one would you choose (and why)?
1: A standard salary of $100k
2: An hourly wage of 10 cents an hour - but every month that you worked here, we would double your hourly wage
One of the problems that AMD is facing is that OEMs use their CPUs in a value system - where across the board features are cut. This hurts AMD because many of these systems lack TPMs, which pretty much blocks them from many enterprise deployments, as Bitlocker and DirectAccess pretty much require a TPM. By creating a soft TPM, AMD is working around the BOM cost of a hardware TPM.
I used to use GUIDs as passwords, but found that far too many sites had bugs in password handling. Sites would truncate the string before hashing from some passwords prompts but not others (found this out by subtracting characters one by one from the right side of the string until the site accepted the password). Other sites would not validate during password creation, but would throw errors when later logging in using the same password.
One system that seen and liked is to mute a person by default when too many others have muted said person. This helps reduce the number of verbal jackasses a player has to deal with.
Beggars in Spain is a SCI-FI book that covers this pretty well. Starts off with genetic modifications that eliminate the need for sleep, and how changing this is small subset has considerable impact on society.
What we should probably look into is getting a constitutional amendment put into place that explicitly protects rights. Otherwise, it is only a matter of time before laws are put into place that take away our freedom.
Last year, 270,000 organic farmers from around 60 family farms tried to take Monsanto to court over issues pertaining to a genetically-modified seed masterminded by the corporation.
I don't know how many crops these folks can grow on a farm with that many farmers taking up so much room.
Actually, that scheme can work. Disk encryption such as bitlocker stores the actual encryption key in the trusted platform module. On boot, the user enters a PIN that when correct unlocks the key from the TPM. The user PIN itself cannot be used to decrypt the hard drive.
Entering the wrong PIN multiple times causes the TPM to lose the encryption key. There is no Ghost mechanism for the TPM.
You are correct, the value would not simply drop by 8%. In order to sell the money, they will need to convert it to something else (since it is not backed by anything such as gold). The means that China will need to find a buyer for the currency - which they won't be able to do if the buyers see the market flooded with the product.
This does, however, give them a pretty powerful lever to screw with the US dollar.
I understand the dislike many have to Atlas Shrugged, but I am not sure I agree with some of the assessments that have been made against the book. I can relate to the OP regarding the sense of enjoyment when reading the book (minus the John Galt radio broadcast, which was simply painful).
The problem that I have with the book is what netsavior appears to be saying; the book is very much to an extreme side of the equation and does a poor job incorporating any discussion of the need for non-capitalistic components in our society. The most glaring flaw I see in the premise of the book is that the runaway nature of capitalism (convergence toward monopolies, etc) is never addressed.
What I do like about Atlas Shrugged is the concept of fair exchange, where a person is compensated for their contributions. This is also something that is far more complicated than what Rand is willing to discuss; but I like to keep it as the kernel in how I understand what currency is supposed to be.
I found a good follow-up read to Atlas Shrugged is “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World”. This book does a good job explaining what money is, and I believe exposed some of the flaws Atlas Shrugged has in terms of currency.
Slashdot should do something like the Netflix challenge, where they release the dataset of modding information that can be analyzed for these kinds of trends. I would be very curious to see what kinds of information about modding behavior the community can dig up.
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Is this a joke?
I might be bad at names, but I surely can remember the 5 people seated in front of me. I just met them. Your meetings must have more drinking than mine.
I encourage you to consider that social norms didn't evolve to meet your personal strengths.
Many meetings don't have a unified list of attendees. Handing over a business card is a lot easier than trying to insert names and contact information into devices.
The "local" reporters are now, if you look at their profiles, all over the country and making errors in articles that just make them look like idiots to anyone actually living here. Reviews and articles about places that closed a year or two ago do not make for credibility. Much of the supposedly local news is just repackaged national stats. "How is unemployment in YourLocalTown compared to the rest of the country?" and the like. Other stuff is somewhat local looking blog stuff that turns out to be identical on all the sites.
This American Life had an interesting story on this. Transcript here - (skip down to "Act Two. Forgive us our Press Passes").
tldr: The local news is being outsourced to places that grab data from public record, and then write canned stories with whatever sparse facts they have.
I can add some clarity to this.
When Windows reaches RTM, the ownership of support is handed off from the Windows team to the Windows Sustained Engineering (WinSE) team. Two code branches are opened up for creating QFEs, a Limited Distribution Release (LDR) branch, and a General Distribution Release (GDR) branch.
The GDR branch is used for updates that are going wide to all users, which include security updates and high impact updates. Depending on the severity of the QFE, it might be posted to Windows Update as a security update, or alternatively it would be provided to OEMs to preinstall on shipping systems to resolve a specific issue.
The LDR branch is used for updates that aren't going to be distributed to a wide audience. This might be something like a QFE that fixes a bug that some enterprise customer is seeing, but doesn't have much applicabilty to the majority of Winodws users. Microsoft doesn't want to distribute an update like this wide, because there is a risk that it will cause regressions for other users. Every update in the GDR branch is also put into the LDR branch, because ultimately the user is going to be running a single instance of the binary file, and so it better have all of the security updates included if it is going to also fix issues of lesser importance
When you go to Windows Update and install a QFE, the package that you install usually contains at least two versions of the applicable binaries: One from the LDR branch, and one from the GDR branch. The hotfix installer will look at what is currently on system, and if you have the LDR version of the binary already installed, the hotfix installer will update with the corresponding LDR binary. The effect is that once you install an LDR update, you are now on the LDR branch for that binary for all future updates - that is, until the next service pack release.
The service pack is a release that includes all updates from the LDR and GDR branches rolled up into one major release. Pre-release versions of service packs are provided to enterprises for testing, and to see if any of the updates that were put into the LDR branch break anything. This gives the enterprise and Microsoft time to address the issue and fix it for the final service pack release.
Since not all enterprises participate in full testing of the service pack, there may be things that end up in the final version that can break things. This is why Microsoft will continue to support the pre|prior service pack release with security updates for a time, so that these issues can be resolved. At some future time, the pre|prior service pack becomes no longer supported, which is what TFA is all about.
Of course not, it uses the new, patented and exclusively-apple "Global positioning" service to switch the warming feature on and off. Noob.
Unfortunately, this feature was built off the Apple maps application.
Extending and embracing your analogy, it's like bringing your own hooker to a truckstop and they want you to leave because they think you're a pimp.
I don't think GP would appreciate you calling his metaphorical wife/girlfriend a hooker.
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I can't believe that we tricked their accountant into installing the virus.
And I am sure that Apple will soon release an Apple TV product that shakes up the market and makes Microsoft look stupid for being there already (media center, xbox), but not actually ever having a product that was compelling.
Home theaters are just begging for simplification – and I don’t expect that Microsoft will be the one to deliver.
This question was asked to me years ago in a Microsoft interview, and has been bugging me since. I am curious as to what other people here on /. would have responded, and more importanly, the 'why' behind the response.
Here is the question:
Say I were to hire you today, and gave you the choice between two compensation packages, which one would you choose (and why)?
1: A standard salary of $100k
2: An hourly wage of 10 cents an hour - but every month that you worked here, we would double your hourly wage
Which would you prefer?
One of the problems that AMD is facing is that OEMs use their CPUs in a value system - where across the board features are cut. This hurts AMD because many of these systems lack TPMs, which pretty much blocks them from many enterprise deployments, as Bitlocker and DirectAccess pretty much require a TPM. By creating a soft TPM, AMD is working around the BOM cost of a hardware TPM.
I used to use GUIDs as passwords, but found that far too many sites had bugs in password handling. Sites would truncate the string before hashing from some passwords prompts but not others (found this out by subtracting characters one by one from the right side of the string until the site accepted the password). Other sites would not validate during password creation, but would throw errors when later logging in using the same password.
Does this mean that we are close to the diamond age?
One system that seen and liked is to mute a person by default when too many others have muted said person. This helps reduce the number of verbal jackasses a player has to deal with.
Beggars in Spain is a SCI-FI book that covers this pretty well. Starts off with genetic modifications that eliminate the need for sleep, and how changing this is small subset has considerable impact on society.
Isn't data from Netflix cached on Akamai edge servers, co-located with Comcast?
I admit to being ignorant, so please do share where in the U.S. constitution this is covered.
What we should probably look into is getting a constitutional amendment put into place that explicitly protects rights. Otherwise, it is only a matter of time before laws are put into place that take away our freedom.
The babe with the power
FTFA:
Last year, 270,000 organic farmers from around 60 family farms tried to take Monsanto to court over issues pertaining to a genetically-modified seed masterminded by the corporation.
I don't know how many crops these folks can grow on a farm with that many farmers taking up so much room.
Actually, that scheme can work. Disk encryption such as bitlocker stores the actual encryption key in the trusted platform module. On boot, the user enters a PIN that when correct unlocks the key from the TPM. The user PIN itself cannot be used to decrypt the hard drive.
Entering the wrong PIN multiple times causes the TPM to lose the encryption key. There is no Ghost mechanism for the TPM.
I am not able to find any options in the HP custom configurations for FreeDOS. Pointers would be greatly appreciated.
You are correct, the value would not simply drop by 8%. In order to sell the money, they will need to convert it to something else (since it is not backed by anything such as gold). The means that China will need to find a buyer for the currency - which they won't be able to do if the buyers see the market flooded with the product.
This does, however, give them a pretty powerful lever to screw with the US dollar.
I really wish /. would allow you to undo accidental moderations without posting.
I understand the dislike many have to Atlas Shrugged, but I am not sure I agree with some of the assessments that have been made against the book. I can relate to the OP regarding the sense of enjoyment when reading the book (minus the John Galt radio broadcast, which was simply painful).
The problem that I have with the book is what netsavior appears to be saying; the book is very much to an extreme side of the equation and does a poor job incorporating any discussion of the need for non-capitalistic components in our society. The most glaring flaw I see in the premise of the book is that the runaway nature of capitalism (convergence toward monopolies, etc) is never addressed.
What I do like about Atlas Shrugged is the concept of fair exchange, where a person is compensated for their contributions. This is also something that is far more complicated than what Rand is willing to discuss; but I like to keep it as the kernel in how I understand what currency is supposed to be.
I found a good follow-up read to Atlas Shrugged is “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World”. This book does a good job explaining what money is, and I believe exposed some of the flaws Atlas Shrugged has in terms of currency.
Slashdot should do something like the Netflix challenge, where they release the dataset of modding information that can be analyzed for these kinds of trends. I would be very curious to see what kinds of information about modding behavior the community can dig up.