IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany -- beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s.
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The book is a treatise on why we should be concerned with electronic privacy and data retention. You might trust your current government but who's going to be reading *your* census forms in 50 years.
It might not have captured the home market but every edit suite and camera in every tv station everywhere almost certainly had the "Sony Betamax" and later "Sony Betamax SP" logo on it.
Nowadays it is being displaced by digital formats but for at least 15 years it was the leader in it's market.
I'm sure they would be very pleased to undergo such another failure.
the potential uses for long carbon nanotubes are probably limited only by our imagination
If it can't be used as a medium for pornography, it's not a proper invention!
the first animated gifs I ever saw was porn the first avi I ever saw was porn the first mpeg movie I ever saw was porn the first DivX movie I saw was porn
unzips flies waiting for the nanotube in the post....
I hope it says more about porn than it says about me:)
Layering a speech-to-commands layer over the current systems is very problematic. The Star Trek nonsense of 'computer! get me all the data on ship X' [and why does Data talk to the computer, surely he's Wi-Fi enabled ? ] is plainly wrong.
I found using via-voice and friends physically tiring, talking all day instead of typing is quite draining.
Now sit yourself in an office with 20 or so colleagues all trying to work - talking out loud all day.
It's pretty much like touch screens - they sound great until you actually get one and you find out all that investment as pretty much a waste of time except for niche markets.
"the creative" is a useful abstraction that has long been used in media circles for the name of the section of the business that is the video / artwork / sculpture / piece of music.
The people who render these are called "the creatives" not "artistes / musicians / sculptors" or whatever.
okay, it's a bit tricky to have all your pre-edit artwork lying around for someone to edit into their own film but independent film-making is *very* alive and well.
I was at a party last week and a guy is talking to my friend
guy : "... we noticed someone was sucking our bandwidth via the wifi, cut him off, looked outside and saw a red BWM with a laptop on the passenger seat drive away"
friend : "hehe that's him," points at me.
busted !
ah, the perils of wardriving.
I thought wardriving was going to be an interesting hobby, got all the kit - wifi-card, laptop, inverter, usb gps.
I drove 2 miles from my house to my friends and on the way discovered 30 access points along the main road !
Turns out urban wardriving is just too easy here in the UK.
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You can't organise 1,000,000 slave workers around Europe with pencil and paper.
Anyway, read the book - it's interesting.
no dork I've ever met didn't like IBM
You should try some of us history dorks.
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IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany -- beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s.
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The book is a treatise on why we should be concerned with electronic privacy and data retention. You might trust your current government but who's going to be reading *your* census forms in 50 years.
Why use a GUI ... ?
good question
hehe sure mate, I was under the impression you thought it was here ?
I'm still fucking banned btw.
Luckily for me I have a proxy I can use & Firefox's SwitchProxy Exetension makes it painless to swap about
Lets have the BEST of everything in one core repository.
like This one?
that's fine, 100% chance is finite enough for me
It might not have captured the home market but every edit suite and camera in every tv station everywhere almost certainly had the "Sony Betamax" and later "Sony Betamax SP" logo on it.
Nowadays it is being displaced by digital formats but for at least 15 years it was the leader in it's market.
I'm sure they would be very pleased to undergo such another failure.
the potential uses for long carbon nanotubes are probably limited only by our imagination
....
:)
If it can't be used as a medium for pornography, it's not a proper invention!
the first animated gifs I ever saw was porn
the first avi I ever saw was porn
the first mpeg movie I ever saw was porn
the first DivX movie I saw was porn
unzips flies waiting for the nanotube in the post
I hope it says more about porn than it says about me
and if either *in or *out are NULL ?
you, like he, and like I should just not have posted *anything*
every first post post is redundant, just like this response to your FAQ
Layering a speech-to-commands layer over the current systems is very problematic.
The Star Trek nonsense of 'computer! get me all the data on ship X'
[and why does Data talk to the computer, surely he's Wi-Fi enabled ? ] is plainly wrong.
I found using via-voice and friends physically tiring, talking all day instead of typing is quite draining.
Now sit yourself in an office with 20 or so colleagues all trying to work - talking out loud all day.
It's pretty much like touch screens - they sound great until you actually get one and you find out all that investment as pretty much a waste of time except for niche markets.
not quite true
I know what you mean but I do meet "designers" in the course of my work activity. I even comission work from them sometimes.
I often take great delight in showing them the error of their assumptions.
dunno, firefox / moz has one of my favourite features
tools
great for annoying "web site designers" who can't design for shit
independent
"the creative" is a useful abstraction that has long been used in media circles for the name of the section of the business that is the video / artwork / sculpture / piece of music.
The people who render these are called "the creatives" not "artistes / musicians / sculptors" or whatever.
can you show me where I can download IE for Symbian ?
firefox 0.8, freebsd 4.9
just keeps going and going, never crashed once iirc
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
78661 matt 2 0 134M 124M poll 376:45 12.84% 12.84% firefox-bin
yes, for sufficiently large values of 2
1. it wasn't their party
2. they're on the first floor (or second storey as the USians call it)
3. you have no imagination
okay, it's a bit tricky to have all your pre-edit artwork lying around for someone to edit into their own film but independent film-making is *very* alive and well.
Here's just one festival
You can easily find plenty more, even in your local area there's probably a film making scene.
I was at a party last week and a guy is talking to my friend
guy : "... we noticed someone was sucking our bandwidth via the wifi, cut him off, looked outside and saw a red BWM with a laptop on the passenger seat drive away"
friend : "hehe that's him," points at me.
busted !
ah, the perils of wardriving.
I thought wardriving was going to be an interesting hobby, got all the kit - wifi-card, laptop, inverter, usb gps.
I drove 2 miles from my house to my friends and on the way discovered 30 access points along the main road !
Turns out urban wardriving is just too easy here in the UK.
you might want to read this also http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/31/avalon_win fs_decoupled/
you might want to read this also http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/31/avalon_wi