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Is Hyperchip Hype?
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Maybe the Top Secret REAL Business Plan(tm) says "Be aquired by Cisco."
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Star Ballz Trumps Lucas
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You've never seen THE LIST?
"Star Wars IV: A New Hope"
1. "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid."
2. "Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!"
3. "Look at the size of that thing!"
4. "Sorry about the mess..."
5. "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought."
6. "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"
7. "You've got something jammed in here real good."
8. "Put that thing away before you get us all killed!"
9. "Luke, at that speed do you think you'll be able to pull out in time?"
10. "Get in there you big furry oaf, I don't care *what* you smell!"
"Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back"
1. "And I thought they smelled bad...on the *outside*!"
2. "Possible he came in through the south entrance."
3. "I must've hit it pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that, huh, kid?"
4. "Hurry up, golden-rod..."
5. "That's okay, I'd like to keep it on manual control for a while."
6. "But now we must eat. Cum, good food, cummm..."
7. "Control, control! You must learn control!"
8. "There's an awful lot of moisture in here."
9. "Size matters not. Judge me by my size, do you?"
10. "I thought that hairy beast would be the end of me!"
"Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi"
1. "Rise, my friend."
2. "Open the back door!"
3. "Hey, point that thing somewhere else!"
4. "It's just a dead animal..."
5. "Not bad for a little furball."
6. "How can they be jamming us if they don't know we're coming?"
7. "Come here, I won't hurt you. You want something to eat?"
8. "Keep on that one, I'll take these two."
9. "I want you to take her. I mean it, take her!"
10. "I don't think the Empire had wookies in mind when they designed her, Chewie."
Top ten sexually tilted lines from the trilogy
10. "What could possibly have come over Master Luke?"
9. "Hey, point that thing someplace else."
8. "You're a jittery little thing, aren't you?"
7. "I never knew I had it in me."
6. "Someone must've told them about my little maneuver at the battle of Taanab."
5. "There is good in him, I've felt it."
4. "Grab me, Chewie. I'm slipping -- hold on. Grab it, almost...you almost got it. Gently now, all right, easy, easy, hold me, Chewie. Chewie!" (Han) with "A little higher, just a little higher."
3. "Short help's better than no help at all."
2. "Hey, Luke, thanks for coming after me -- now I owe you one."
1. "Back door, huh? Good idea!"
Boeing sells to the Chinese gov't. Boeing would love to have insider information on trade decisions.
Industrial espionage is much more cutthroat than international espionage; no company (yet) has nukes.
It's a steriotype of Canadians that we pronounce "about" like "a boot".
A similar stereotype about Americans would claim that, for example, every American says 'y'all;' regardless of where they grew up; Texans, Bostonians, New Yawk'ahs, LA surfer dudes.
The satellite TV bit is that they are illegally transmitting it to Canada, ergo their IP laws do not apply in that case.
Yup. That silly company doesn't sell it's services in Canada, but all those nasty emissions keep falling on our beautiful country. If we just HAPPEN to have a satellite dish running, well, if they wanted us to be paying them, they'd sell the service here. If they otherwise didn't want us to have it, they WOULDN'T BE BEAMING IT AT US!
I know C-T-L is an interrupt. But DOS and Win9x will lock, often, to the point of not responding to it. I've never seen NT do so, however.
As to the bluescreen stuff, the point I'm trying to make is that a BSOD isn't a 'crash,' it's a very obtuse error screen. It's a state that NT throws itself into voluntarily when something goes very very wrong, and that something is almost always a hardware driver. Where screens used to have a "C:\>" burned into the upper left corner, now it's more like "ati.sys";-)
Ah, but if they can get Asia to adopt something slightly different, then they gain an automatic foothold with any company that DEALS with Asian countries.
It's not completely cut and dried; otherwise, Adobe would have just said 'kiss off' and left.
NT kernal is; at pretty much any time you can give the three finger salute and get the 'stuff to do' dialog. When you see a blue screen, that's NT having caught an exception that worries it enough to *voluntarily* halt itself, because it can no longer guarentee that it's working with valid data. It also spews out a large amount of debug data. Most such bluescreen occur due to hardware drivers.
This is similar to a UNIX kernal spewing a bunch of kernal panic messages and the like to the syscon, then halting.
Very rarely will you see an NT derived kernal simply 'freeze.'
Replace any set of spaces greater than 1 with a single space. You'll cut, by a fair bit, your average XML document.:-)
In other words, you can have it concise and efficent, or you can have it human-readable and pleasant to look at.:-)
A CRM is the thing that ties into your phone system, and brings up the customer info as soon as you pick up.
A CRM is the thing that brings up 'similar problems' as you type in whatever your customer's problem is, as you do it.
A CRM, out of the box, is something like 30 to 50 percent complete; the rest you need customized.
You might be looking for a server-side address book, you might be looking for an incident tracker, you might even be looking for bugzilla. But if you're looking for a CRM, you're talking heavy duty shit.
Let's apply this elsewhere. If a company says you will, at a minimum, receive a 20% raise after 1 year of employment, and then gives you a 5% raise and no chance to negoiate, you'd be mad, no?
No, I'd either pull out the *written contract* that states that and say "I'm sorry, I think you must be thinking of somebody else?" or I wouldn't think twice about it, as I'd KNOW BETTER.
So how is when Microsoft says it's OS will do 20% of the job any other OS should on the same hardware, and then does 5% of that 20%, people aren't allowed to get mad?:)
No. Once again, I'd either pull out the piece of paper I have from MS/Dell/Compaq/whoever Professional Services, or I'd say 'hmmm. Guess I should stop using SMEARS OF INK IN A ZDNET MAGAZINE as SOME SORT OF INDICATOR OF WHAT UNIQUE HARDWARE IN MY UNIQUE SETUP will perform.
Or, put another way, who the fuck cares how many triangles Sony says the PS2 will do?
Digitally rip the entire CD raw. Use a more recent ripper, that does sanity checking on the TOC. Open resulting file in cooledit or some such as a 16 bit 44.1 khz wave file. Split at the appropriate spots.
So I'm told, at least.
I caught my first episode in a while a few days ago, the one where Doggett has his memory stolen by the Cartel. At the end, Scully writes an email to Mulder, and all I can think of is "Doogie Howser! Doogie Howser!"
Every time I see 'Space:AAB, I have to run out and play X-Com: UFO Defense/Enemy Unknown. I really do wish they'd do an X-Com that is alike in gameplay, but with modern gfx and the like. Apocalypse was no hell. Interceptor was a blast, though. I wish they hadn't cancelled Alliance.
It's been ten bloody years. They should kill it while the killing is good. Sure, start a new series in the same universe. Preferably one like Delta Green.
I remember the same sentiment a few years back, when, after saying the Internet wasn't even a consideration, that they were turning their company around and focusing on the Internet. Everybody laughed, and didn't think it meant anything.
They aren't laughing now.
They all laughed when Microsoft said they were 'betting the company' on NT5/2K technology. Well, they did. 2K. XP. Xbox. It's all NT5 tech now.
And now they're saying that they're going to turn around and focus on security. Well, a while ago they put out Internet Security and Acceleration Server, aka Proxy Server 3. And it was NICE.
The idea here, my friend, is that stability on the desktop means something different than stability on the server. Different requirements, different end results.
It's kinda the difference between sprinting and distance running; they're different disciplines with different training regimines and different requirements, but both involve running.
Professor: "I'm afraid I'm going to have to fail this assignment, my boy. Your variable names are not clear, and that's poor programming."
Student: "But if I called this variable "InterestRate_float" you'd claim I was cheating because other people have used it too!"
Professor: "Good day to you sir."
Student: "But...."
Professor: "I SAID GOOD DAY!"
D3D is clunky, etc
Not really true anymore. MS made large strides with each release, and DX8 can't be called a lousy API anymore. One can argue various points, but they are minor points.
Anti-Microsoft forces have a bad habit of focusing on early problems, and not tracking the improvements that have been made in current versions. My rant of five years ago doesn't apply to the world of today.
"Playstation" is openly acknowledged to be the answer to the question 'If one uses a workstation to do computer work, what would one use to do computer games?'
No, YOU'RE playing at 640x480x60 at best. Me, I'm playing either on a computer monitor or a HDTV, and like the idea of increased resolution.
The simple addition of a VGA adaptor let me take me DreamCast to work, plug it into the awesome digital projector, and have some real fun.
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Maybe the Top Secret REAL Business Plan(tm) says "Be aquired by Cisco."
You've never seen THE LIST?
"Star Wars IV: A New Hope"
1. "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid."
2. "Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!"
3. "Look at the size of that thing!"
4. "Sorry about the mess..."
5. "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought."
6. "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"
7. "You've got something jammed in here real good."
8. "Put that thing away before you get us all killed!"
9. "Luke, at that speed do you think you'll be able to pull out in time?"
10. "Get in there you big furry oaf, I don't care *what* you smell!"
"Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back"
1. "And I thought they smelled bad...on the *outside*!"
2. "Possible he came in through the south entrance."
3. "I must've hit it pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that, huh, kid?"
4. "Hurry up, golden-rod..."
5. "That's okay, I'd like to keep it on manual control for a while."
6. "But now we must eat. Cum, good food, cummm..."
7. "Control, control! You must learn control!"
8. "There's an awful lot of moisture in here."
9. "Size matters not. Judge me by my size, do you?"
10. "I thought that hairy beast would be the end of me!"
"Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi"
1. "Rise, my friend."
2. "Open the back door!"
3. "Hey, point that thing somewhere else!"
4. "It's just a dead animal..."
5. "Not bad for a little furball."
6. "How can they be jamming us if they don't know we're coming?"
7. "Come here, I won't hurt you. You want something to eat?"
8. "Keep on that one, I'll take these two."
9. "I want you to take her. I mean it, take her!"
10. "I don't think the Empire had wookies in mind when they designed her, Chewie."
Top ten sexually tilted lines from the trilogy
10. "What could possibly have come over Master Luke?"
9. "Hey, point that thing someplace else."
8. "You're a jittery little thing, aren't you?"
7. "I never knew I had it in me."
6. "Someone must've told them about my little maneuver at the battle of Taanab."
5. "There is good in him, I've felt it."
4. "Grab me, Chewie. I'm slipping -- hold on. Grab it, almost...you almost got it. Gently now, all right, easy, easy, hold me, Chewie. Chewie!" (Han) with "A little higher, just a little higher."
3. "Short help's better than no help at all."
2. "Hey, Luke, thanks for coming after me -- now I owe you one."
1. "Back door, huh? Good idea!"
In other words, the population of Canada.
Boeing sells to the Chinese gov't. Boeing would love to have insider information on trade decisions. Industrial espionage is much more cutthroat than international espionage; no company (yet) has nukes.
I know C-T-L is an interrupt. But DOS and Win9x will lock, often, to the point of not responding to it. I've never seen NT do so, however. As to the bluescreen stuff, the point I'm trying to make is that a BSOD isn't a 'crash,' it's a very obtuse error screen. It's a state that NT throws itself into voluntarily when something goes very very wrong, and that something is almost always a hardware driver. Where screens used to have a "C:\>" burned into the upper left corner, now it's more like "ati.sys" ;-)
Ah, but if they can get Asia to adopt something slightly different, then they gain an automatic foothold with any company that DEALS with Asian countries. It's not completely cut and dried; otherwise, Adobe would have just said 'kiss off' and left.
Take your ball home; might open some eyes. But I'm sure that somebody else would step in to produce the right software, and Asia can be a BIG market.
NT kernal is; at pretty much any time you can give the three finger salute and get the 'stuff to do' dialog. When you see a blue screen, that's NT having caught an exception that worries it enough to *voluntarily* halt itself, because it can no longer guarentee that it's working with valid data. It also spews out a large amount of debug data. Most such bluescreen occur due to hardware drivers. This is similar to a UNIX kernal spewing a bunch of kernal panic messages and the like to the syscon, then halting. Very rarely will you see an NT derived kernal simply 'freeze.'
There's also stuff like this which are hardware XML accelerators.
Replace any set of spaces greater than 1 with a single space. You'll cut, by a fair bit, your average XML document. :-)
In other words, you can have it concise and efficent, or you can have it human-readable and pleasant to look at. :-)
A CRM is the thing that ties into your phone system, and brings up the customer info as soon as you pick up. A CRM is the thing that brings up 'similar problems' as you type in whatever your customer's problem is, as you do it. A CRM, out of the box, is something like 30 to 50 percent complete; the rest you need customized. You might be looking for a server-side address book, you might be looking for an incident tracker, you might even be looking for bugzilla. But if you're looking for a CRM, you're talking heavy duty shit.
Digitally rip the entire CD raw. Use a more recent ripper, that does sanity checking on the TOC. Open resulting file in cooledit or some such as a 16 bit 44.1 khz wave file. Split at the appropriate spots. So I'm told, at least.
That's why they're not SELLING it to you. They're LICENSING it. If that works or not, however, is open to debate. But that is their reasoning.
I caught my first episode in a while a few days ago, the one where Doggett has his memory stolen by the Cartel. At the end, Scully writes an email to Mulder, and all I can think of is "Doogie Howser! Doogie Howser!"
Every time I see 'Space:AAB, I have to run out and play X-Com: UFO Defense/Enemy Unknown. I really do wish they'd do an X-Com that is alike in gameplay, but with modern gfx and the like. Apocalypse was no hell. Interceptor was a blast, though. I wish they hadn't cancelled Alliance.
Which, the other sleeve that he got 'Harsh Realm' from?
It's been ten bloody years. They should kill it while the killing is good. Sure, start a new series in the same universe. Preferably one like Delta Green.
I remember the same sentiment a few years back, when, after saying the Internet wasn't even a consideration, that they were turning their company around and focusing on the Internet. Everybody laughed, and didn't think it meant anything. They aren't laughing now. They all laughed when Microsoft said they were 'betting the company' on NT5/2K technology. Well, they did. 2K. XP. Xbox. It's all NT5 tech now. And now they're saying that they're going to turn around and focus on security. Well, a while ago they put out Internet Security and Acceleration Server, aka Proxy Server 3. And it was NICE.
The idea here, my friend, is that stability on the desktop means something different than stability on the server. Different requirements, different end results. It's kinda the difference between sprinting and distance running; they're different disciplines with different training regimines and different requirements, but both involve running.
Professor: "I'm afraid I'm going to have to fail this assignment, my boy. Your variable names are not clear, and that's poor programming."
Student: "But if I called this variable "InterestRate_float" you'd claim I was cheating because other people have used it too!"
Professor: "Good day to you sir."
Student: "But...."
Professor: "I SAID GOOD DAY!"
"Playstation" is openly acknowledged to be the answer to the question 'If one uses a workstation to do computer work, what would one use to do computer games?'