The two attempts thus far have been failures to my mind. Lynch's movie had the "feel" of Dune, but as far as the script goes, it sucked really bad (which is strange, considering Herbert had substantial influence over the final product). The miniseries stuck more closely to the story, but the acting was bloody wooden. If you could have mixed Lynch's visuals and actors with the miniseries script, I think you would have had Dune down pat.
I'm what you would call a Sci-Fi geek, at the Lynch movie was bad. It looked great, and, like I said, felt like Dune, but a lot of the elements, like the Weirding Modules, were so moronic that to anyone who enjoyed the book, the movie was like a sick joke.
No, and any company should be doing just that. The company's auditors should be detecting if it's not required, and reporting such weakness to management. Failing to implement such basic controls will cost the company, whether or not there is fraud. The auditor will face much greater audit risk and hence have to increase his workload (and hence fee) to compensate. On the other hand, such a control probably would not be very effective against this. For example Person A gets tricked and then gets Person B who probably does not go through the detailed mechanics - if anything he'd go check out the official website and approve it on that basis. A more relevant control would be authorised supplier lists combined with set procedures. For example, a company would only allow emissions trading through a specific broker and the payments would always be made to that broker's escrow account. That way you can get fiddled and all you get is a call from your broker wondering why they have your money.For what it's worth transactions were a lot better controlled when everything was paid by cheque. Cheques required two signatories. Banks were very good at ensuring authorised signatories were authorised. Now for smaller businesses with internet banking you have a bookkeeper who needs access to print statements and the same login can complete transactions from start to finish - half the time they're using the managing director's login. Well, you can't have the MD's time being used up doing silly things like printing statements can you? And bookkeepers, it's not like they're in a high-risk position and able to hide fraud....
After all that registration and setup work, turns out my wife likes Win7 but "hates" the new ribbon interface of Office2007 and wanted Office97 back. I can't find my Office97 CD, so I installed the latest Open Office hoping they didn't do the ribbon interface thing. OOO-Calc still offers a more familiar drop-down interface to my veteran Excel user than the new Excel. Hopefully OOO-Calc will leave the interface fairly stable as it moves forward.
The inflatable structures are able to handle projectiles better than the stiff walled structures since they have some give to them and can disperse the energy across a larger area. The fact that they pack well is just bonus.
Maybe there's more to this story, but it'll end up being something rather mundane.I worked for a time at a chip fab in Allentown PA and they were slavish about the use of only sand to lay down over icy walkways in the winter. The least amount of urea or sand was said to 'poison' the chips despite the mammoth water filtration system in the basement.The contamination they're worried about is not from process water, I would wager.
I used my Visa instead of my usual MC on Newegg for a Christmas gift and it came up for the first time ever. I closed the widow intending to buy it on my MC instead, but the payment still went through. 2 days later I got a call from the Visa fraud department...haha. I told the lady the verified thing was a bull**** pain in the ass and she let me on my way. Haven't used my Visa since.
I used my Visa instead of my usual MC on Newegg for a Christmas gift and it came up for the first time ever. I closed the widow intending to buy it on my MC instead, but the payment still went through. 2 days later I got a call from the Visa fraud department...haha. I told the lady the verified thing was a bull**** pain in the ass and she let me on my way. Haven't used my Visa since.
All that needs to happen is to make it so people can't SPECIFICALLY claim property just for the sake of passive income. Reform the laws so that people can't cash in on something they did not contribute to, no more random lawsuits aimed at people who did all their own work to bring things into existence.
After billions of taxpayer dollars spent, what do we have with NASA? Nothing but a crappy robot stuck in the sand. Typical government incompetence. The *billions* spend on this mars rover fiasco could easily have been better spent by the private sector, who would have run this project with great speed, cost effectiveness and no doubt better results in every way. When will we ever learn that the private sector is better at space exploration (and everything else, really) than the bloated inefficient union-run government?
In Finland you get a pre-filled tax sheet in the mail, you only have to return it if there are any changes you need to make. I'm currently living in the US, I find the amount of crap you need to go through to get your affairs in order absolutely stunning.Yeah, but we don't have to eat pickled herring, so it comes out even, really. And our movies are actually fun to watch.:)
I never planned on using the corporate justice system anyway.I used the consumer justice system... I pirated some of their software and then switched to Linux.
I used someones firefox with these persona things already installed...it was awful, I couldn't see which tab was what.
It was like giving myspace page designers control over your browser
I'm no expert, but what definitely looks wrong to me there is the use of the word "Dollar." If I sell you a lump of silver for $20, fine. But if I sell you something that says "$20 dollars" on it, with the explicit (or clearly implied) promise that it will always be worth $20 USD, that is not fine. That is forgery, because it implies the faith & credit of the US govt for my made-up currency.
Similar experience in a non-tech role, I interviewed a guy with an MBA but no experience, I explained that he was welcome to apply but would find it challenging to get the role when experience was absolutely necessary for this position. We didn't have the time to hand hold someone along. Anyway he immediately turned on me, started whining and getting angry "well how am I supposed to get into your field if everyone needs experience" etc.
Very different from the young man without the MBA who came to me and
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I'm what you would call a Sci-Fi geek, at the Lynch movie was bad. It looked great, and, like I said, felt like Dune, but a lot of the elements, like the Weirding Modules, were so moronic that to anyone who enjoyed the book, the movie was like a sick joke.
After all that registration and setup work, turns out my wife likes Win7 but "hates" the new ribbon interface of Office2007 and wanted Office97 back. I can't find my Office97 CD, so I installed the latest Open Office hoping they didn't do the ribbon interface thing. OOO-Calc still offers a more familiar drop-down interface to my veteran Excel user than the new Excel. Hopefully OOO-Calc will leave the interface fairly stable as it moves forward.
The inflatable structures are able to handle projectiles better than the stiff walled structures since they have some give to them and can disperse the energy across a larger area. The fact that they pack well is just bonus.
Maybe there's more to this story, but it'll end up being something rather mundane.I worked for a time at a chip fab in Allentown PA and they were slavish about the use of only sand to lay down over icy walkways in the winter. The least amount of urea or sand was said to 'poison' the chips despite the mammoth water filtration system in the basement.The contamination they're worried about is not from process water, I would wager.
It doesn't work due to aziotropism. For example, if you have ethanol and water mixed, no amount of distilation can ever completely separate them.
I used my Visa instead of my usual MC on Newegg for a Christmas gift and it came up for the first time ever. I closed the widow intending to buy it on my MC instead, but the payment still went through. 2 days later I got a call from the Visa fraud department...haha. I told the lady the verified thing was a bull**** pain in the ass and she let me on my way. Haven't used my Visa since.
Last time I got "friendlier" with one of my users I got into a law suit.
If they give them all TV sets that should be enough to pacify enough of them so that revolts don't happen.It works great in developed countries.
In Finland you get a pre-filled tax sheet in the mail, you only have to return it if there are any changes you need to make. I'm currently living in the US, I find the amount of crap you need to go through to get your affairs in order absolutely stunning.Yeah, but we don't have to eat pickled herring, so it comes out even, really. And our movies are actually fun to watch. :)
Unless of course they raise the cap on SS by like 10%. In which case it's fine.Social Security isn't in any great risk.
I never planned on using the corporate justice system anyway.I used the consumer justice system... I pirated some of their software and then switched to Linux.
Hopefully the lower-contrast, prettier ones will become the most popular and easier to find.
If a computer is secure - as you claim - it shouldn't matter what most people try to hack.
I'm no expert, but what definitely looks wrong to me there is the use of the word "Dollar." If I sell you a lump of silver for $20, fine. But if I sell you something that says "$20 dollars" on it, with the explicit (or clearly implied) promise that it will always be worth $20 USD, that is not fine. That is forgery, because it implies the faith & credit of the US govt for my made-up currency.
I'm sorry, Jack but no amount of money will get Dennis Quaid inside me.
If you want to talk about those updates, then you have to also acknowledge that h264 is supported out of the box, too
In most cases, "Don't make Admin look stupid, especially if they are." is implied policy #0..
Similar experience in a non-tech role, I interviewed a guy with an MBA but no experience, I explained that he was welcome to apply but would find it challenging to get the role when experience was absolutely necessary for this position. We didn't have the time to hand hold someone along. Anyway he immediately turned on me, started whining and getting angry "well how am I supposed to get into your field if everyone needs experience" etc. Very different from the young man without the MBA who came to me and