All the iPhone will need to do is: Connect to a POP / IMAP Email system (it does). Read PDF files. The image zoom functionality will work fine for reading PDFs.
Then on the backend, the iPhone uses will get a special email account where all Office attachments are automatically converted to a PDF file before being sent to the phone.
Back in the days, when the Japanese where trying to break into the American automotive market, they used to send groups over to measure the rust on the rail tracks. Why? Because it would then be simple to know how often the trains where running, how much wear on the tracks (thus how big and heavy the trains are), and a whole host of other tidbits which would be useful in competition.
So now, you know that Google's newest complex needs X amount of power, and using some IP tools, you can see what traffic is going on in and out of the data center- thus a measurement can be made of the power usage per user, and from that you can determine if the data center is being efficient, and how well it scales.
I'm sure smarter people than me can go on even more...
We're all trapped in entropy, but as long as we're going down the drain, we should just be as efficient about it as possible.
That said (and sorry for the downer message so early in the morning), the articles (follow the links) are correct- that it should be up to the markets to pick the winner, and not by politicians seeking favor and higher office.
As far as resumes go, who cares, fluff it out. Drop off the the job who'll give you the worst references/referee & extend the other jobs in a month, with a two month 'sabbatical'* in the middle.
No one will risk the slander lawsuit and give a bad reference, and fibbing on your resume is a bad way to start a career. Any company that is asked about your employment will simply say, "Yes, Joe worked here from ___ to ___, and had a salary in the range of $xxxxx.", and that's it.
Now on job switching, it's always good to have a bit of a track record somewhere, 3 to 5 years is about average, but 2 years is acceptable.
Other advice? Find a boss that will let you learn and grow, some good mentoring, and even *gasp* management skills of other people and projects- because sooner or later you will need to think about your future, so start thinking now.
Okay- I see you have missed my point. Where have I allowed my imagination to go wild? I believe that is what most people would call scarasm.
So, I'll write this nice a slow you can follow: When the lite-brite adverts where found, they where unknown object in a public place, on or near mass transportation, and I feel that the police's reaction to them was correct- locate the device and treat it as a weapon until otherwise proven not to be.
When the media reports that the police are moving to secure these unknown objects, and that they are treating the objects as potentially dangerous, that of course gets my attention, and the attention of the nation.
Did I say I was afraid? No. Did I worry? Not really. I know that we have professional people who are on hand to assess the problem and take care of it. At worst I was worried that my commute would be extended.
Back to my original point here- when dealing with an unknown object in a city rich with potential targets, those who placed the guerrilla marketing gizmos should expect a great deal of attention from the local authorities.
There are things you DO NOT DO, and this is one of them.
I hope you can understand that- if not, well then, there is no use in continuing this conversation.
Because until it turned out to be nothing, it was unknown, in locations that could be consider ideal terror targets.
It's junk until something happens, eh? A plane just crashed. - Junk
A plane just crashed into the WTC. Maybe News The President's plane just crashed into the WTC as nuns and kindergardeners where visiting. Oh, okay, maybe I should pay attention.
A cute kitten stuck in a tree. Oh my god, why aren't people doing things about this?!?!?!?!?!?
I've got a lovely idea Mr. Anonymous Coward- I'll stop by your house and place a bunch of guerrilla marketing stuff on your walls and roof and see how you react. Public defacement is a no-no. Strike one.
Now, if you had a brain cell or two here, you'd think that perhaps Boston, like any city would have something called Zoning Laws, which among other things says where one can and can not place adverts. Strike two.
Now for bombs, and the reaction of the police- great you work with electronics, but I doubt that you work with explosives on a daily basis, because your statement of hooked into a brick or tub of fluids right right out of the movies. What a bomb is and is not is not always so obvious. Strike three.
I said normal channels, NOT normal trains of thoughts. Sheesh. If Cartoon Network wanted to buy space on buildings or work out a deal with the city then fine- but as I said, don't put up weird shit with batteries and electronics in odd places and think that you'd not get the wrong attention.
I live in Boston, and I can say that the day was very tense. There are plenty of lovely targets around the town, which can explain the reaction (which you'd expect no matter what when dealing with batteries and unknown electronics in a sneaky location in a heavy traffic area).
Also, I'd say that since guerrilla marketing by definition is outside of the normal channels for marketing, Cartoon Network should not be surprised when the book of law is tossed at them.
Basically, it's like joking about bombs on an airplane- don't bitch about it when you find yourself in jail.
Since flash does have a limited number of writes, using one of these in a PC for daily use would be limited at best, so I'm wondering what types of applications would this media be ideal for?
The only answer that I could think of is anything that is 'write once, read many times'. Movies - build a huge RAID array of flash drives an let them go to town on the lastest blockbuster. TV - PPV system / VOD. New shows come on their own stack, plug them into the PPV system and be done with it. Databases - certain tables that hold nonchanging data / lookup values.
Each week we hold a meeting (call CCB - Change Control Board) where the people who do the development talk about what their projects that need to go in production in the upcoming week. All software & hardware changes will be discussed; what the original problem was, what the solution is to do, what changes to make, what effects to expect, what the rollback plan is, emgency support, and who's all signed off on the changes & tested them. It's then approved or denied (for lack of planning, support, user sign off, etc.)
You appose building a web site tool that can display text and pictures on the basis that the text and or the pictures can be nudes? Would you have invented the internet with the same believes? Television? Telephone? Photography? Printing Press? Alphabet? Art? Speach?
Look, man has been painting about naked women (and more) since the dawn of man, and writing about sex since the invention of writing. Any technology can be used to do things that we disagree with, and that is just something that we all have to live with as creators and inventors of the technology- but we feel that the good outweights the bad.
If it helps, develop the program with photos of kittens and puppies, and givea donation to the local women's shelter.
Point of the problem is that this goes deeper than just "managing a security breach"- there are questions that need to asked and those questions have very little to do with the data potentially stolen.
For instance, if the company is publicly traded, the data breach should be part of the the SEC filings, yes? Lawyers will be involved, and perhaps lawyers who's interests are NOT alligned with yours- lawyers who are thinking of minority share holders for example, or seeking to place blame away from those who aught to be held responible, and as a contractor you are expendiable. It was the contractor's fault. Well shit, your career is now ruined. Don't think for a minute that any company would seek that as an easy out.
So, yes, Cover Your Ass first, get copies of everything in writing off site ASAP, and then work long and hard to fix the problem.
Document everything. If there where conversations and meetings, send out a follow up email with the notes of what was talked about. Keep copies of everything, make backups and place them in a bank.
The second part comes if the company is publicly traded or not. If so, and these Windows 98 machines hold trade secrets or the accounts logged in had access to trade secrets stored elsewhere on the network, then the company is in some deep doo-doo, otherwise tell him to buckup and carry on.
Have the phone companies, or any other company that deals with customer's sensitive data is to mail the report to the person's mailing address along with a letter saying that you asked for this data to be sent, from a phone call on this date, from such-n-such phone number. They should then refuse, 100% to fax or email the information out. Change of address? Certainly, after we send out a letter confirming your address change.
Just like when I change my address (or do anything else) with my 401(k), IRAs, and banking.
I'm a little suprised that no-one else here has picked up on the fact that the high end chips (which are the ones reviewed mostly), have 4MB of level 2 cache. The entire Doom game engine can fit in that and have room left over.
Now, I wonder how well the lesser chips (Duo E6400 and lower) fair?
To use your logic, a child who claims sexual abuse and has a man put in jail for 40 years should only get a wagging of a finger for his fib.
It's wrong no matter who lies and for what reason; the millions that Ken and company got for their "stellar stewardship" is reason enough to lie, and keep on lieing.
I certainly agree that people do need to accept their own responiblity for their actions, which appears to be your second point here- so Ken & company should as well.
.tel provides nothing that currently isn't available right now- Companies have contact pages with the information that you need to fax, phone, or email them your enquiries, people have their email and myspace pages, and all that I can see a.tel page doing is a refer URL forwarding.
I see this as another $35 per year revenue for the domain registers.
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All the iPhone will need to do is:
Connect to a POP / IMAP Email system (it does).
Read PDF files. The image zoom functionality will work fine for reading PDFs.
Then on the backend, the iPhone uses will get a special email account where all Office attachments are automatically converted to a PDF file before being sent to the phone.
Fairly trivial thing to do.
Well,
Back in the days, when the Japanese where trying to break into the American automotive market, they used to send groups over to measure the rust on the rail tracks.
Why?
Because it would then be simple to know how often the trains where running, how much wear on the tracks (thus how big and heavy the trains are), and a whole host of other tidbits which would be useful in competition.
So now, you know that Google's newest complex needs X amount of power, and using some IP tools, you can see what traffic is going on in and out of the data center- thus a measurement can be made of the power usage per user, and from that you can determine if the data center is being efficient, and how well it scales.
I'm sure smarter people than me can go on even more...
What effect the L2 cache on the Intel chips have on the numbers.
We're all trapped in entropy, but as long as we're going down the drain, we should just be as efficient about it as possible.
That said (and sorry for the downer message so early in the morning), the articles (follow the links) are correct- that it should be up to the markets to pick the winner, and not by politicians seeking favor and higher office.
No one will risk the slander lawsuit and give a bad reference, and fibbing on your resume is a bad way to start a career. Any company that is asked about your employment will simply say, "Yes, Joe worked here from ___ to ___, and had a salary in the range of $xxxxx.", and that's it.
Now on job switching, it's always good to have a bit of a track record somewhere, 3 to 5 years is about average, but 2 years is acceptable.
Other advice? Find a boss that will let you learn and grow, some good mentoring, and even *gasp* management skills of other people and projects- because sooner or later you will need to think about your future, so start thinking now.
Good luck!
Okay- I see you have missed my point.
Where have I allowed my imagination to go wild?
I believe that is what most people would call scarasm.
So, I'll write this nice a slow you can follow:
When the lite-brite adverts where found, they where unknown object in a public place, on or near mass transportation, and I feel that the police's reaction to them was correct- locate the device and treat it as a weapon until otherwise proven not to be.
When the media reports that the police are moving to secure these unknown objects, and that they are treating the objects as potentially dangerous, that of course gets my attention, and the attention of the nation.
Did I say I was afraid? No. Did I worry? Not really. I know that we have professional people who are on hand to assess the problem and take care of it. At worst I was worried that my commute would be extended.
Back to my original point here- when dealing with an unknown object in a city rich with potential targets, those who placed the guerrilla marketing gizmos should expect a great deal of attention from the local authorities.
There are things you DO NOT DO, and this is one of them.
I hope you can understand that- if not, well then, there is no use in continuing this conversation.
Because until it turned out to be nothing, it was unknown, in locations that could be consider ideal terror targets.
It's junk until something happens, eh?
A plane just crashed. - Junk
A plane just crashed into the WTC. Maybe News
The President's plane just crashed into the WTC as nuns and kindergardeners where visiting. Oh, okay, maybe I should pay attention.
A cute kitten stuck in a tree. Oh my god, why aren't people doing things about this?!?!?!?!?!?
I've got a lovely idea Mr. Anonymous Coward- I'll stop by your house and place a bunch of guerrilla marketing stuff on your walls and roof and see how you react. Public defacement is a no-no. Strike one.
Now, if you had a brain cell or two here, you'd think that perhaps Boston, like any city would have something called Zoning Laws, which among other things says where one can and can not place adverts. Strike two.
Now for bombs, and the reaction of the police- great you work with electronics, but I doubt that you work with explosives on a daily basis, because your statement of hooked into a brick or tub of fluids right right out of the movies. What a bomb is and is not is not always so obvious. Strike three.
Yar're out.
I said normal channels, NOT normal trains of thoughts.
Sheesh.
If Cartoon Network wanted to buy space on buildings or work out a deal with the city then fine- but as I said, don't put up weird shit with batteries and electronics in odd places and think that you'd not get the wrong attention.
I would not expect Ted Turner to foot the bill at all- Ted was tossed out a long time ago.
I would expect an interesting time at the next shareholder's meeting though (and hopefully a huge fine to spur the conversation along).
I live in Boston, and I can say that the day was very tense.
There are plenty of lovely targets around the town, which can explain the reaction (which you'd expect no matter what when dealing with batteries and unknown electronics in a sneaky location in a heavy traffic area).
Also, I'd say that since guerrilla marketing by definition is outside of the normal channels for marketing, Cartoon Network should not be surprised when the book of law is tossed at them.
Basically, it's like joking about bombs on an airplane- don't bitch about it when you find yourself in jail.
Which was completely with in their rights to do so- protecting their copyrights is their job.
This blog is completely different case, please learn to identify the differences.
Just because I can do it, should I do it.
No.
But...
No.
Go look up the story on Disney's patent on using air cannons for lauching fireworks- believe that they made it free for anyone to use.
Since flash does have a limited number of writes, using one of these in a PC for daily use would be limited at best, so I'm wondering what types of applications would this media be ideal for?
The only answer that I could think of is anything that is 'write once, read many times'.
Movies - build a huge RAID array of flash drives an let them go to town on the lastest blockbuster.
TV - PPV system / VOD. New shows come on their own stack, plug them into the PPV system and be done with it.
Databases - certain tables that hold nonchanging data / lookup values.
That's about it. Anyone else?
Each week we hold a meeting (call CCB - Change Control Board) where the people who do the development talk about what their projects that need to go in production in the upcoming week.
All software & hardware changes will be discussed; what the original problem was, what the solution is to do, what changes to make, what effects to expect, what the rollback plan is, emgency support, and who's all signed off on the changes & tested them. It's then approved or denied (for lack of planning, support, user sign off, etc.)
Works really well, even if it's bureaucratic.
You appose building a web site tool that can display text and pictures on the basis that the text and or the pictures can be nudes?
Would you have invented the internet with the same believes? Television? Telephone? Photography? Printing Press? Alphabet? Art? Speach?
Look, man has been painting about naked women (and more) since the dawn of man, and writing about sex since the invention of writing.
Any technology can be used to do things that we disagree with, and that is just something that we all have to live with as creators and inventors of the technology- but we feel that the good outweights the bad.
If it helps, develop the program with photos of kittens and puppies, and givea donation to the local women's shelter.
Point of the problem is that this goes deeper than just "managing a security breach"- there are questions that need to asked and those questions have very little to do with the data potentially stolen.
For instance, if the company is publicly traded, the data breach should be part of the the SEC filings, yes?
Lawyers will be involved, and perhaps lawyers who's interests are NOT alligned with yours- lawyers who are thinking of minority share holders for example, or seeking to place blame away from those who aught to be held responible, and as a contractor you are expendiable.
It was the contractor's fault. Well shit, your career is now ruined. Don't think for a minute that any company would seek that as an easy out.
So, yes, Cover Your Ass first, get copies of everything in writing off site ASAP, and then work long and hard to fix the problem.
Cover Your Ass.
Document everything. If there where conversations and meetings, send out a follow up email with the notes of what was talked about. Keep copies of everything, make backups and place them in a bank.
The second part comes if the company is publicly traded or not. If so, and these Windows 98 machines hold trade secrets or the accounts logged in had access to trade secrets stored elsewhere on the network, then the company is in some deep doo-doo, otherwise tell him to buckup and carry on.
Have the phone companies, or any other company that deals with customer's sensitive data is to mail the report to the person's mailing address along with a letter saying that you asked for this data to be sent, from a phone call on this date, from such-n-such phone number.
They should then refuse, 100% to fax or email the information out.
Change of address? Certainly, after we send out a letter confirming your address change.
Just like when I change my address (or do anything else) with my 401(k), IRAs, and banking.
3/14 of course
1. So internet gambling is illegal in the USA, great, so that no effect on this guy's company that's based in Costa Rica, and incorporated in England.
2. One more law in the book so when they do toss the book at someone, but the avg Joe will not even factor this in when it comes time to place a bet.
3. For a day or two.
4. For every road block in place, there will be a way around it. Maybe not Paypal, but eGold
So all of this does, outside of keeping all Gambling Web site owners out of the country, is?
I'm a little suprised that no-one else here has picked up on the fact that the high end chips (which are the ones reviewed mostly), have 4MB of level 2 cache.
The entire Doom game engine can fit in that and have room left over.
Now, I wonder how well the lesser chips (Duo E6400 and lower) fair?
To use your logic, a child who claims sexual abuse and has a man put in jail for 40 years should only get a wagging of a finger for his fib.
It's wrong no matter who lies and for what reason; the millions that Ken and company got for their "stellar stewardship" is reason enough to lie, and keep on lieing.
I certainly agree that people do need to accept their own responiblity for their actions, which appears to be your second point here- so Ken & company should as well.
.tel provides nothing that currently isn't available right now- Companies have contact pages with the information that you need to fax, phone, or email them your enquiries, people have their email and myspace pages, and all that I can see a .tel page doing is a refer URL forwarding.
I see this as another $35 per year revenue for the domain registers.