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I actually only recently got a Facebook account, and it was 100% due to work. My company is using Facebook to share things like pictures, videos, etc. (non-proprietary) with the employees.
Just one anecdotal comment of course, but just trying to point out that Facebook is becoming more than just social networking.
Full disclosure: I've been on LinkedIn for a while, it's only Facebook that is new to me. I have never been on myspace.
A slightly different take, but I had somewhat of a career change at the end of 2006 without throwing away my years of IT experience.
I'm teaching training courses. (Networking is my specialty, so Cisco courses for me.) It's been a very rewarding change of pace, I'm happy to be away from the normal IT grind.
Yeah - it would be much more exciting if they came out with something similar for their 6500 series switches with a big backplane. The ISR routers are intended for branch offices, they aren't big power houses.
TCL is still used in some surprising places. A good example is networking equipment, such as Cisco devices, F5 load balancers, and so on. Many of these have TCL capabilities for one reason or another. A good example for the Cisco case would be their load balancing devices. You can create custom monitoring scripts in TCL and import them into the device.
We had an ED campaign (or 2) back when I was in school (~10 years ago). It was a fun system, especially for those familiar with Shadowrun. However, it was a very unbalanced game in many ways. Characters became VERY powerful VERY quickly. Made it a little hard to handle after a bit - especially when the characters started designing their own magic and what not. We ended up retroactively changing a few things to not be completely unbalanced, which kept the campaign going for a bit.
There is a role playing version of Warhammer (with the ever so original name of Warhammer Fantasy Role Playing or FRP), which is actually not a bad system at all. Brings back memories from many years ago. It is true that when most people refer to 'Warhammer', they are thinking the miniatures battles.
Simple solution: Have a friend write the check for $100, give them the check. Basically the same idea as the cashiers check option/money order mentioned above, minus the fee.
There certainly will be a small CPU latency hit on the server side for encode/decode. The number of raw packets that are being transmitted should be approximately equal, so no additional network latency.
Having said that, it certainly doesn't seem to me that the math involved here (Gaussian elimination) would be very processor intensive, certainly compared to other common protocols such as TLS/SSL. There are SSL acceleration cards, I could see the Gaussian elimination being done in hardware as well.
Think of solving simultaneous equations. Something like:
2x + y - z = 1 x - y + z = 2 x + 2y - 3z = -4
Okay, now instead of x,y & z being numbers, imagine they are blocks of data. Bits. And instead of using addition and subtraction, make your operand xor.
Next step, pretend that your original message is the variables strung together in order, xyz.
His models have evolved over the years, but he tries to simulate actual games using both individual statistics (players batting averages, etc.) as well as team trends (how well does a player do against a specific pitcher). He uses a large Markov chain to predict state transitions (Runner on first, no outs - how often does it go to two outs? That sort of thing.) Very interesting project, it was a lot of fun to work on. (I was an undergrad working with Bruce 15 years ago, when he was first starting this project. He's kept it going for years.)
Bruce is actually a die hard Mets fan. I helped work on this project with him back in my undergrad days 15 years ago or so. I doubt any of my code is still be used though.:-)
Many towns don't even allow that now. They have curfews imposed to keep kids in after it's dark. I agree with you, it defeats the whole purpose of Halloween. But since when has "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!" logic ever been rational?
Alternatively, if you are stuck with just one x86 box go the other way with emulation: install Solaris x86 as your base OS and have windows run in emulation. You'll have your IE for your corporate portals and the like, but most of your 'real' work is inside Solaris.
I remember netcaptor, the tabbed interface was what drew me to it. I used it for a while until it became fairly standard (everything except IE). Real innovation, for sure.
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I actually only recently got a Facebook account, and it was 100% due to work. My company is using Facebook to share things like pictures, videos, etc. (non-proprietary) with the employees.
Just one anecdotal comment of course, but just trying to point out that Facebook is becoming more than just social networking.
Full disclosure: I've been on LinkedIn for a while, it's only Facebook that is new to me. I have never been on myspace.
It's not just a principle of project management, it's also an RFC (1925, 7a):
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1925.html
and while not one of the heralded 4-digit user ID's, an 6-digit id starting '159' would seem to indicate he's been aware of /. for sometime as well...
4 digits are heralded now? Geez, soon my id must be hitting the coveted zone. I must be old.
My $.02, for what it's worth.
A slightly different take, but I had somewhat of a career change at the end of 2006 without throwing away my years of IT experience.
I'm teaching training courses. (Networking is my specialty, so Cisco courses for me.) It's been a very rewarding change of pace, I'm happy to be away from the normal IT grind.
Yeah - it would be much more exciting if they came out with something similar for their 6500 series switches with a big backplane. The ISR routers are intended for branch offices, they aren't big power houses.
Wikipedia has it. 88.80.13.160
Congratulations, you duplicated the link in the article.
TCL is still used in some surprising places. A good example is networking equipment, such as Cisco devices, F5 load balancers, and so on. Many of these have TCL capabilities for one reason or another. A good example for the Cisco case would be their load balancing devices. You can create custom monitoring scripts in TCL and import them into the device.
We had an ED campaign (or 2) back when I was in school (~10 years ago). It was a fun system, especially for those familiar with Shadowrun. However, it was a very unbalanced game in many ways. Characters became VERY powerful VERY quickly. Made it a little hard to handle after a bit - especially when the characters started designing their own magic and what not. We ended up retroactively changing a few things to not be completely unbalanced, which kept the campaign going for a bit.
Very cool system though, it was fun.
There is a role playing version of Warhammer (with the ever so original name of Warhammer Fantasy Role Playing or FRP), which is actually not a bad system at all. Brings back memories from many years ago. It is true that when most people refer to 'Warhammer', they are thinking the miniatures battles.
Simple solution: Have a friend write the check for $100, give them the check. Basically the same idea as the cashiers check option/money order mentioned above, minus the fee.
Companies decide whether or not to participate in these types of surveys. It wouldn't suprise me if Google didn't want to play the games.
There certainly will be a small CPU latency hit on the server side for encode/decode. The number of raw packets that are being transmitted should be approximately equal, so no additional network latency.
Having said that, it certainly doesn't seem to me that the math involved here (Gaussian elimination) would be very processor intensive, certainly compared to other common protocols such as TLS/SSL. There are SSL acceleration cards, I could see the Gaussian elimination being done in hardware as well.
Think of solving simultaneous equations. Something like:
2x + y - z = 1
x - y + z = 2
x + 2y - 3z = -4
Okay, now instead of x,y & z being numbers, imagine they are blocks of data. Bits. And instead of using addition and subtraction, make your operand xor.
Next step, pretend that your original message is the variables strung together in order, xyz.
Easy as 1,2,3.
His models have evolved over the years, but he tries to simulate actual games using both individual statistics (players batting averages, etc.) as well as team trends (how well does a player do against a specific pitcher). He uses a large Markov chain to predict state transitions (Runner on first, no outs - how often does it go to two outs? That sort of thing.) Very interesting project, it was a lot of fun to work on. (I was an undergrad working with Bruce 15 years ago, when he was first starting this project. He's kept it going for years.)
Bruce is actually a die hard Mets fan. I helped work on this project with him back in my undergrad days 15 years ago or so. I doubt any of my code is still be used though. :-)
Many towns don't even allow that now. They have curfews imposed to keep kids in after it's dark. I agree with you, it defeats the whole purpose of Halloween. But since when has "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!" logic ever been rational?
Are you actually trying to post insightful messages on April 1st? What's wrong with you?
In all seriousness, I loved NetCaptor back in the day. Tabbed browsing was ahead of it's time, and just as useful then as it is now.
Alternatively, if you are stuck with just one x86 box go the other way with emulation: install Solaris x86 as your base OS and have windows run in emulation. You'll have your IE for your corporate portals and the like, but most of your 'real' work is inside Solaris.
Try the second to last 2005 event. Bombings in the London subway.
I remember netcaptor, the tabbed interface was what drew me to it. I used it for a while until it became fairly standard (everything except IE). Real innovation, for sure.
Presumably 3000 Australian dollars, given the Mac was priced in those units. Call it 2000 USD.
Picard was Professor X, not Magneto.
Because you posted on usenet, not the web. Yesterday was the birthday of WWW and HTTP.
I opened the PDF using 'grail' and Foxit reader. No issues whatsoever. My foxit is relatively recent install...maybe you need a new version?