One tip is if it's for something minor like cannabis possession demand a trial by jury. These are expensive, have lots of paperwork and 99% of the time they'll drop the case as 'not in the public interest' - it's just not worth it for them to spend thousands getting a minimal fine out of you.
During September 2007, her parents were named suspects in her disappearance, because traces of Madeleines DNA was found in the car the McCanns hired 25 days after her disappearance.
That turned out to be a false report, dreamt up by the media (the spanish authorities do not release details like that - it's illegal for them to do so) and they have since been completely cleared of any suspicion (in fact one newspaper had to settle out of court for £500,000 and a public apology on their front page, after repeatedly making up stories about them).
Also, they were suspects *before* that report came out - it's just a fact that most of these cases turn out to be something to do with the parents/family, so it's reasonable to treat them as suspect number 1.
btw. don't count out other players like Motorolla and LG. LG especially have come from nowhere in the last year to some of the nicest phones I've ever played with. Which reminds me I meed to have a play with the viewty some day...
What they probably said was they'd consider trialling it, which is only fair. Give one or two employees them for a few days and if they come back to your office begging for their blackberries back you end the trial right there.
I'm surprised the figure is so low - it means that 2/3rds of fortune 500 companies wouldn't even consider a trial.. and that's gotta hurt.
It's been said that if Nokia never sold a phone in the US ever again they'd *still* be the largest phone manufacturer in the world.
I've never seen a RIM phone close up and even iphone doesn't seem to be that popular.. I've obviously seen one (I have one, and I sent 3 to australia for my boss and his friends), but it's telling when you're in the pub doing the very blokish thing of comparing phones (bluetoothing ringtones and pictures to each other.. alas I couldn't participate as I had an iphone, which of course started another conversation) and of the 8 people around the table only 2 had even heard of the iphone, and one of those called it 'the one that does the flip thing'.
It can be rather telling hanging around non-geeks sometimes...
Security, ability to install bespoke applications, secure VPN, secure wireless, exchange integration, ability to dial out on multiple numbers...
Apple is trying to address some of these with firmware 2.0 but there's one key that businesses look for - the ability to negotiate very competative deals with the providers because they can play them off one another and get much lower than the published prices (one place I was at the mere threat of going elsewhere usually got them insanely good deals - that was a big contract). Apple has yet to address this, as there is currently nowhere else to go, and iphone is a monoculture.. if you port your apps to it you're stuck with it.
Regardless, to get that privileged process running to 'circumvent UAC', don't you have to be privileged to begin with?
No, because MSI runs privileged and is able to install such processes at the command of normal users - that's the hole. You get one prompt, at installation time.. but I've never seen a windows installer that *didn't* prompt for elevation. Contrast with Unix based systems where installing apps as a normal user is the norm and installing as root is an exception (indeed with OSX each user has a full set of directories for this by default, and it's rare for something to require elevation.. when it does you definately think because it's unusual).
Except nearly all installers use admin privileges, because the Program Files directory (to name just one) isn't per-user. Windows really isn't structurally designed for per-user installation, although MS have tried it's still half finished. Users know this, and always click yes on installers when prompted.
Any installer can stick a service in there that does privileged tasks, and that means UAC is a thin layer that's easy to work around.
They co-financed it, and they didn't have a lot to do with the production itself.
The discworld stuff was horrible.. basically an excuse to stick the name David Jason on the promo material (no idea why, he didn't even have a major role). They just tried to put the book on the screen, but half the jokes don't work and it really needed a good writer to write a proper screenplay for it.
I would agree with you about BSG if it wasn't for the second and third seasons (I hated the first season too)... the third particularly has developed to the point that you're not even sure who the bad guys are any more... it's more like everybody/nobody.. you even get sympathetic to the plight of the cylons. It's also not about the threat of the week any more - there's a pretty strong story arc.
Bionic woman isn't bad in itself.. it's still corny but I don't think it aims for anything else. What I do hate is the flash gordon remake - can't see what they were trying to do there at all... their 'ming the merciless' is now 'ming the slightly upset but not very evil actually'.
There's a lot of scope for ruining blakes 7, but might just turn out OK. I'd be more confident if it wasn't Sky doing it, whose only solo productions so far have been terrible renditions of terry pratchet books (they contributed to BSG but it was mainly a US produciton).
It was an inverted star trek - even the federation logo is a star trek federation logo on its side.
Of course star trek themselves have done basically the same concept in the DS9 parallel universe, so I'm not sure how well it'll work this time around.
It's not exactly secret - the RC has been available for months and the final release has been on MSDN for ages.. and we're geeks right? We either have MSDN or know someone that does.
I mean, it's a bit like asking wether a tree falling really makes a sound if nobody's there to hear it. Of course it bloody well does!
Prove it.
You believe it does.. that's fine, and entirely consistent with your worldview. Without personally proving it (which is of course logically impossible) you can't dismiss the idea out of hand though.
It's a rare manager who won't ship a working, but crufty version over waiting another 3 months for a 'pretty' version. Next year be damned.... the manager will be manager of someone else by then.
Personally I do the iterative thing but it's over a longer period than a release cycle - it tends to go mockup/demo (show the poss I'm not making it up and I can write this stuff.. he invariably then goes off with that and tells all the customers it's the finished product but 'needs a few bugs working out'). Second iteration is the first release and has to be done to a deadline (boss sells something, he's happy). Then I continue to refactor parts of the code as time allows until over time eventually I have something I'm happy with.
Of course for the third stage to work I have to write in a highly modular fashion... typically I can rip entire layers out of the code without disturbing the operation of the rest of it. I'd hate to try that on anything even slightly monolithic.
It's been some time, but it seems to me the notion of literate programming is that anyone who knows the language can read the code and understand what's going on.
Surely thats the goal of *all* programming. If you're writing code without thinking about whether it'll be understandable in a month or two (or in 5 years) then you're not doing your job properly... hence rules like if you've made a nonobvious choice, write a comment why.. don't just assume the next guy will know your reasons (and don't comment obvious stuff because it'll get on everyone's tits).
If that's an example then it's put me off right away... the mix of code and documentation makes the code a lot harder to read (and for any experienced programmer the code itself forms part of the documentation and should be readable.. that isn't).
More annoying are the kind of people who think that there's some kind of famine of carriage returns.. so they write entire functions sometimes on one line, and *never* leave blank lines.
They're also often the people who have the 'functions must be x lines or less' mantra drummed into them. They respond by compressing it into less lines:p
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Getting arrested is fine.
One tip is if it's for something minor like cannabis possession demand a trial by jury. These are expensive, have lots of paperwork and 99% of the time they'll drop the case as 'not in the public interest' - it's just not worth it for them to spend thousands getting a minimal fine out of you.
Given that waterboarding is now entirely legal in the US it wouldn't surprise me if they tried it.
The key part is the "when questioned". You have a right to a lawyer present when under questioning.
It does *not* mean that keeping quiet is a bad thing - the original advice still stands.
You must have fun at breakfast..
You: Have we got any OJ?
Other guy: You mean that whackjob weirdo who killed his wife and made some pathetic lie about it? What kind of freak are you?
During September 2007, her parents were named suspects in her disappearance, because traces of Madeleines DNA was found in the car the McCanns hired 25 days after her disappearance.
That turned out to be a false report, dreamt up by the media (the spanish authorities do not release details like that - it's illegal for them to do so) and they have since been completely cleared of any suspicion (in fact one newspaper had to settle out of court for £500,000 and a public apology on their front page, after repeatedly making up stories about them).
Also, they were suspects *before* that report came out - it's just a fact that most of these cases turn out to be something to do with the parents/family, so it's reasonable to treat them as suspect number 1.
Nobody installs OSs.. that's a technician level task.
A newbie couldn't install windows, either.
It's driver specific. My laptop won't let me go below 1600x1200
On another box I can happily go to 640x480... You can do registry tweaks to go way below that.
btw. don't count out other players like Motorolla and LG. LG especially have come from nowhere in the last year to some of the nicest phones I've ever played with. Which reminds me I meed to have a play with the viewty some day...
What they probably said was they'd consider trialling it, which is only fair. Give one or two employees them for a few days and if they come back to your office begging for their blackberries back you end the trial right there.
I'm surprised the figure is so low - it means that 2/3rds of fortune 500 companies wouldn't even consider a trial.. and that's gotta hurt.
It's been said that if Nokia never sold a phone in the US ever again they'd *still* be the largest phone manufacturer in the world.
I've never seen a RIM phone close up and even iphone doesn't seem to be that popular.. I've obviously seen one (I have one, and I sent 3 to australia for my boss and his friends), but it's telling when you're in the pub doing the very blokish thing of comparing phones (bluetoothing ringtones and pictures to each other.. alas I couldn't participate as I had an iphone, which of course started another conversation) and of the 8 people around the table only 2 had even heard of the iphone, and one of those called it 'the one that does the flip thing'.
It can be rather telling hanging around non-geeks sometimes...
Security, ability to install bespoke applications, secure VPN, secure wireless, exchange integration, ability to dial out on multiple numbers...
Apple is trying to address some of these with firmware 2.0 but there's one key that businesses look for - the ability to negotiate very competative deals with the providers because they can play them off one another and get much lower than the published prices (one place I was at the mere threat of going elsewhere usually got them insanely good deals - that was a big contract). Apple has yet to address this, as there is currently nowhere else to go, and iphone is a monoculture.. if you port your apps to it you're stuck with it.
Except that on Vista *anyone* can install that application. On Unix you would need the root password to do such a thing.
Regardless, to get that privileged process running to 'circumvent UAC', don't you have to be privileged to begin with?
No, because MSI runs privileged and is able to install such processes at the command of normal users - that's the hole. You get one prompt, at installation time.. but I've never seen a windows installer that *didn't* prompt for elevation. Contrast with Unix based systems where installing apps as a normal user is the norm and installing as root is an exception (indeed with OSX each user has a full set of directories for this by default, and it's rare for something to require elevation.. when it does you definately think because it's unusual).
Except nearly all installers use admin privileges, because the Program Files directory (to name just one) isn't per-user. Windows really isn't structurally designed for per-user installation, although MS have tried it's still half finished. Users know this, and always click yes on installers when prompted.
Any installer can stick a service in there that does privileged tasks, and that means UAC is a thin layer that's easy to work around.
They co-financed it, and they didn't have a lot to do with the production itself.
The discworld stuff was horrible.. basically an excuse to stick the name David Jason on the promo material (no idea why, he didn't even have a major role). They just tried to put the book on the screen, but half the jokes don't work and it really needed a good writer to write a proper screenplay for it.
I would agree with you about BSG if it wasn't for the second and third seasons (I hated the first season too)... the third particularly has developed to the point that you're not even sure who the bad guys are any more... it's more like everybody/nobody.. you even get sympathetic to the plight of the cylons. It's also not about the threat of the week any more - there's a pretty strong story arc.
Bionic woman isn't bad in itself.. it's still corny but I don't think it aims for anything else. What I do hate is the flash gordon remake - can't see what they were trying to do there at all... their 'ming the merciless' is now 'ming the slightly upset but not very evil actually'.
There's a lot of scope for ruining blakes 7, but might just turn out OK. I'd be more confident if it wasn't Sky doing it, whose only solo productions so far have been terrible renditions of terry pratchet books (they contributed to BSG but it was mainly a US produciton).
It was an inverted star trek - even the federation logo is a star trek federation logo on its side.
Of course star trek themselves have done basically the same concept in the DS9 parallel universe, so I'm not sure how well it'll work this time around.
B7 did a fair bit of shooting in nuclear power stations and oil refineries.
:p
Obviously there's only so far you can go with the explosion effects in such places though
It's not exactly secret - the RC has been available for months and the final release has been on MSDN for ages.. and we're geeks right? We either have MSDN or know someone that does.
I mean, it's a bit like asking wether a tree falling really makes a sound if nobody's there to hear it. Of course it bloody well does!
Prove it.
You believe it does.. that's fine, and entirely consistent with your worldview. Without personally proving it (which is of course logically impossible) you can't dismiss the idea out of hand though.
Breaking into functions is the equivalent of breaking it into 3 comments.
Code *should* contain paragraphs, otherwise it's just a mass of text.
It's a rare manager who won't ship a working, but crufty version over waiting another 3 months for a 'pretty' version. Next year be damned.... the manager will be manager of someone else by then.
Personally I do the iterative thing but it's over a longer period than a release cycle - it tends to go mockup/demo (show the poss I'm not making it up and I can write this stuff.. he invariably then goes off with that and tells all the customers it's the finished product but 'needs a few bugs working out'). Second iteration is the first release and has to be done to a deadline (boss sells something, he's happy). Then I continue to refactor parts of the code as time allows until over time eventually I have something I'm happy with.
Of course for the third stage to work I have to write in a highly modular fashion... typically I can rip entire layers out of the code without disturbing the operation of the rest of it. I'd hate to try that on anything even slightly monolithic.
It's been some time, but it seems to me the notion of literate programming is that anyone who knows the language can read the code and understand what's going on.
Surely thats the goal of *all* programming. If you're writing code without thinking about whether it'll be understandable in a month or two (or in 5 years) then you're not doing your job properly... hence rules like if you've made a nonobvious choice, write a comment why.. don't just assume the next guy will know your reasons (and don't comment obvious stuff because it'll get on everyone's tits).
If that's an example then it's put me off right away... the mix of code and documentation makes the code a lot harder to read (and for any experienced programmer the code itself forms part of the documentation and should be readable.. that isn't).
More annoying are the kind of people who think that there's some kind of famine of carriage returns.. so they write entire functions sometimes on one line, and *never* leave blank lines.
:p
They're also often the people who have the 'functions must be x lines or less' mantra drummed into them. They respond by compressing it into less lines