On your line to a for film school- NF would notice a group in a zip code or a short distance from one another all selecting the same films- adding external data sources to this should be able to determine if someone is in school and if so what classes they are taking (see the ability to tie movie reviews to facebook data sets). Further, the longer someone rents from NF the larger the dataset is, so a more complete idea of what the person likes and dislikes should pop out, and something like a film school course rentals would become noise.
Actually, from a movie studio's point of view, I'd want to data mine the NF data set to see what types of movies actually do well, cross broad demographics, and so on, and then make the crappy movies based on that criteria. I'm sure the investors would demand that.
But, now depending on your movie selections a good system will be able to defer those bits of information. Data leakage happens; just computers made it easier to do the grunt work.
Please read the story yourself; It's not Firefox that Vista tries to change but IE8. Google's toolbar caught the action in IE8 and alerted him to the change. He then said that there was no alert option offered in Firefox's Google toolbar.
Try a local gym, take a group class and start off by trying to memorize everyone's name in the class. From there, just start talking with people and making friends, give them your Facebook profile (if you have one), and start going to social gatherings.
I would also suggest a local bar- regardless if you drink or not (and if you do, I strongly suggest joining the gym to burn off the extra calories that you will be consuming). Some bars have a vibe about them that bring out the eccentrics- find one and try it out. (I can think of a few here in Boston where half of the people on a Saturday afternoon are reading books along with their beers; or talking philosophy, glass blowing, and IT security).
My final thoughts are: Library - volunteer your IT skills (plus Library girls are cute & hot); join a museum and see if they have singles night (always great).
Also, don't be afraid to make a few guy friends. They can be great wingmen and people to talk to about bad dates / breakups.
One of my friends from college was a game tester for Sega back in the day (still in the biz). I remember the conversation about the oddest stuff he saw during his tenure and his response was "Barney (for the Megadrive / Genesis) would self play" if there was no input from the user after a minute or so.
Also having grown up in Morgantown, I can say that the student body did use it, specially those who lived at the tower dorms and had classes downtown or who where just to lazy to walk to the Engineering school nearby.
Also, what do you mean by the inflexibility of trains? the PRT would send a car to where you'd want to go directly, where as a train has fixed stops. Yes, the PRT is on a limited track, but it covered the campus well enough, plus down town. On the plus side you didn't have to deal with parking, which as anyone knows who's been to Morgantown, the parking just plain sucks (even worse than Boston or New York).
Actually, the major problem with the US is distance. Japan is the size of California, France is 4/5th the size of Texas (size of France / size of Texas). We've spread out- look at the cities of Asia and Europe- fairly tight; but they too have the same problem of broadband out in the country side.
That said, there still is no excuse for the crappy service that we live with, and the competition should be encouraged by ending excursively.
Is a great writer and artist. He totally sucks when it comes to making movies, IMHO. I think he's too in-love with CGI to be effective in his movies- what he does well on the page of a comic book doesn't translate to the big silver screen.
Everyone of my programs for work has a little easter egg- from different splash screens for April 1st and a few select birthdays to a game of breakout hidden in the the help files.
It my way of saying that I've busted my ass getting the program done, now I want to have a little fun with it.
My prior boss was cool with it, as where the users when they found the easter egg, but I keep it on the low with my new boss.
Pay as you go phone- not tied to anyone. Searches occur, phone not found. Use of drop numbers and 1-800 conference numbers so tracing is difficult to do, etc.
I think you need to watch a few PBS documentaries on prisons to understand how they work and the stresses that the guards are under. Also, the money that it takes to run a prison is rather high, you don't have unlimited manpower, and it's dangerous stuff. So item #2 isn't likely to happen with out about 5 other guards with you, in full gear. #3 isn't really feasible since a guard could sell access to his phone, which potentially wouldn't be closely watched. Your statement about the other dangerous stuff is 100% correct.
Not a good solution- you're basis this on the fact that the guards aren't corruptible. A guard could sell access to his approved cell phone at the start of his shift, and have it returned by the end.
My take is this; I work for an HMO and service diverse departments. I deal with Finance, Claims, Call Center, and even other IS groups. The better the the group can describe their problems and their solutions to the problem the better I can work with them- it gives me a baseline to build my solution from. Even if I agree with their solution, I usually tweak it for the idea that in the future something is going to change.
The worst group that I deal with is sadly the one that does not understand their own processes at all. And sadly I have to deal with them everyday because they need a huge amount of hand holding to get their business done on a timely basis. The most interesting fact of this group is that they've organically grown their solutions to their problems, thus it's a hogepog of intertwined Excel and Access data sets with data going back 14 years. They have no idea on where to even begin to understand their own business or even how to improve their efforts. It's a complete nightmare everytime, and honestly I don't want to deal with it anymore. Well at least the Sr. VPs are involved this time, so perhaps a few heads will roll in that group and some change will happen.
Because you don't pay a tax on that "small refrigerator" in your yard. Utilities do pay tax on their poles and equipment that are on city property (or easement).
First of all, it's not a VW sized box, it's a 4 by 4 by 2 foot box, which is the size of a smaller refrigerator. Second of all, to bury the box you have a whole different set of problems to deal with; access is harder, drainage becomes a problem, and the hole that they dig to bury the box will be the size of a VW. Plus the access cover will be huge. Then you have to either patch the street, or back fill in the yard, which means that $50k is a low end number.
Now, if the city is smart, has the population density, and can make the budget work, the ideal solution is to build an underground utility system. Then everything is out of sight; but most of these problems are happening out west where everyone has their yard and lives 30 minutes to 2 hours from anything.
I have a housemate who is a anthropologist (expert in China and Taiwan), and I asked her the one question which has been rattling my brain for a while- what do the Chinese factory workers think of America based on the things that they make for us to buy?
The letter is from the antitrust files, so it's certified.
The very interesting thing is that there is no single person at Microsoft who has the final say on how all of there stuff interacts together. Not even Bill has that clout (and if he did, he sucked at his job).
When your customers can write their own queries, what's stopping one of them from 1. Copying the entire database for their own? CCBA anyone? 2. Query about their competitors who also use your services. 3. Give your competitors access to your full system. You'd be a fool not to think that one of your customers hasn't given access to your systems to one of your competitors sales people. Now image if the whole system is open.
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Would it be possible to create an emulated disk layer which would handle the request?
Now just wait for a data center to be scheduled to close in some Congressman's home district and see how big of a block is put into place.
Strong correlation between the time window and sequence of films in the queue would ID the students.
Thanks for the correction.
On your line to a for film school- NF would notice a group in a zip code or a short distance from one another all selecting the same films- adding external data sources to this should be able to determine if someone is in school and if so what classes they are taking (see the ability to tie movie reviews to facebook data sets).
Further, the longer someone rents from NF the larger the dataset is, so a more complete idea of what the person likes and dislikes should pop out, and something like a film school course rentals would become noise.
Actually, from a movie studio's point of view, I'd want to data mine the NF data set to see what types of movies actually do well, cross broad demographics, and so on, and then make the crappy movies based on that criteria.
I'm sure the investors would demand that.
But, now depending on your movie selections a good system will be able to defer those bits of information.
Data leakage happens; just computers made it easier to do the grunt work.
Tim,
Please read the story yourself;
It's not Firefox that Vista tries to change but IE8. Google's toolbar caught the action in IE8 and alerted him to the change. He then said that there was no alert option offered in Firefox's Google toolbar.
Try a local gym, take a group class and start off by trying to memorize everyone's name in the class. From there, just start talking with people and making friends, give them your Facebook profile (if you have one), and start going to social gatherings.
I would also suggest a local bar- regardless if you drink or not (and if you do, I strongly suggest joining the gym to burn off the extra calories that you will be consuming). Some bars have a vibe about them that bring out the eccentrics- find one and try it out. (I can think of a few here in Boston where half of the people on a Saturday afternoon are reading books along with their beers; or talking philosophy, glass blowing, and IT security).
My final thoughts are: Library - volunteer your IT skills (plus Library girls are cute & hot); join a museum and see if they have singles night (always great).
Also, don't be afraid to make a few guy friends. They can be great wingmen and people to talk to about bad dates / breakups.
One of my friends from college was a game tester for Sega back in the day (still in the biz). I remember the conversation about the oddest stuff he saw during his tenure and his response was "Barney (for the Megadrive / Genesis) would self play" if there was no input from the user after a minute or so.
I wonder if that prior art is listed?
Fueldump, with two trick jumps, 2m23s.
Now, what I really want is ET to be updated so it can take use of the multi-core CPUs that I have and not bog down with large open spaces.
Also having grown up in Morgantown, I can say that the student body did use it, specially those who lived at the tower dorms and had classes downtown or who where just to lazy to walk to the Engineering school nearby.
Also, what do you mean by the inflexibility of trains? the PRT would send a car to where you'd want to go directly, where as a train has fixed stops. Yes, the PRT is on a limited track, but it covered the campus well enough, plus down town. On the plus side you didn't have to deal with parking, which as anyone knows who's been to Morgantown, the parking just plain sucks (even worse than Boston or New York).
Actually, the major problem with the US is distance.
Japan is the size of California, France is 4/5th the size of Texas (size of France / size of Texas).
We've spread out- look at the cities of Asia and Europe- fairly tight; but they too have the same problem of broadband out in the country side.
That said, there still is no excuse for the crappy service that we live with, and the competition should be encouraged by ending excursively.
Is a great writer and artist.
He totally sucks when it comes to making movies, IMHO.
I think he's too in-love with CGI to be effective in his movies- what he does well on the page of a comic book doesn't translate to the big silver screen.
Everyone of my programs for work has a little easter egg- from different splash screens for April 1st and a few select birthdays to a game of breakout hidden in the the help files.
It my way of saying that I've busted my ass getting the program done, now I want to have a little fun with it.
My prior boss was cool with it, as where the users when they found the easter egg, but I keep it on the low with my new boss.
Pay as you go phone- not tied to anyone. Searches occur, phone not found. Use of drop numbers and 1-800 conference numbers so tracing is difficult to do, etc.
I think you need to watch a few PBS documentaries on prisons to understand how they work and the stresses that the guards are under.
Also, the money that it takes to run a prison is rather high, you don't have unlimited manpower, and it's dangerous stuff. So item #2 isn't likely to happen with out about 5 other guards with you, in full gear. #3 isn't really feasible since a guard could sell access to his phone, which potentially wouldn't be closely watched.
Your statement about the other dangerous stuff is 100% correct.
Not a good solution- you're basis this on the fact that the guards aren't corruptible.
A guard could sell access to his approved cell phone at the start of his shift, and have it returned by the end.
Contact the Boston Globe and Boston Herald
My take is this;
I work for an HMO and service diverse departments. I deal with Finance, Claims, Call Center, and even other IS groups.
The better the the group can describe their problems and their solutions to the problem the better I can work with them- it gives me a baseline to build my solution from. Even if I agree with their solution, I usually tweak it for the idea that in the future something is going to change.
The worst group that I deal with is sadly the one that does not understand their own processes at all. And sadly I have to deal with them everyday because they need a huge amount of hand holding to get their business done on a timely basis. The most interesting fact of this group is that they've organically grown their solutions to their problems, thus it's a hogepog of intertwined Excel and Access data sets with data going back 14 years. They have no idea on where to even begin to understand their own business or even how to improve their efforts. It's a complete nightmare everytime, and honestly I don't want to deal with it anymore. Well at least the Sr. VPs are involved this time, so perhaps a few heads will roll in that group and some change will happen.
Because you don't pay a tax on that "small refrigerator" in your yard.
Utilities do pay tax on their poles and equipment that are on city property (or easement).
First of all, it's not a VW sized box, it's a 4 by 4 by 2 foot box, which is the size of a smaller refrigerator. Second of all, to bury the box you have a whole different set of problems to deal with; access is harder, drainage becomes a problem, and the hole that they dig to bury the box will be the size of a VW. Plus the access cover will be huge. Then you have to either patch the street, or back fill in the yard, which means that $50k is a low end number.
Now, if the city is smart, has the population density, and can make the budget work, the ideal solution is to build an underground utility system. Then everything is out of sight; but most of these problems are happening out west where everyone has their yard and lives 30 minutes to 2 hours from anything.
The word Olympics is a super-trademark.
Basically it means that no-one else can use it.
I have a housemate who is a anthropologist (expert in China and Taiwan), and I asked her the one question which has been rattling my brain for a while- what do the Chinese factory workers think of America based on the things that they make for us to buy?
Believe it or not there is a documentary on this subject called "Marti Gras, Made In China".
Interesting and worth seeing! It does change your mind about a few things, from both sides of the conversation.
The letter is from the antitrust files, so it's certified.
The very interesting thing is that there is no single person at Microsoft who has the final say on how all of there stuff interacts together. Not even Bill has that clout (and if he did, he sucked at his job).
Because we all know that the Communist party knows all about creating Monopolies.
The real question is what do they really want?
When your customers can write their own queries, what's stopping one of them from
1. Copying the entire database for their own? CCBA anyone?
2. Query about their competitors who also use your services.
3. Give your competitors access to your full system. You'd be a fool not to think that one of your customers hasn't given access to your systems to one of your competitors sales people. Now image if the whole system is open.