made for some interesting star gazing the other night.
Friend of mine has a boat on a little lake in northern Illinois (Bangs lake in Waconda), we were out Thursday night and had a good time throwing back some beers and watching the sky.
Just after sunset, I mentioned that I thought it was supposed to be a full moon but it was strange that it hadn't risen yet. I had my bearings turned around and was looking west and couldn't figure out if I was looking at a helicopter light or what -- it must have been Venus, but I've never seen it look that bright.
Over the next 20 minutes or so we watched the moon rise. I don't think I've ever seen it look that big and orange.
I grew up with the transporter on the original series being the 'beam'.
It was the shit. With it, you could instantaneously deploy up to seven redshits on the planet's surface from orbit. You could span parallel universes is you happened to try to use it during an ion storm.
The best use of course being to transport all the fuzzy vermin infesting your ship over to the enemy's ship. I bet they hated that.
Followed the link to the perl search results and found the Account Manager position. The job doesn't require perl, just lots of cold-calling:
Based in the Denver Tech Center, ITCourseware provides high-quality, instructor-led courseware materials targeted at professional software developers needing to broaden and/or update their skills. Our customers are typically IT training companies and corporations with internal IT training departments. Our products are the educational materials (student workbooks, instructor notes etc) that instructors use when delivering courses in such advanced topics as XML, Java, Linux, UNIX, Perl, Oracle, SQL, and Object-Oriented programming. We have an immediate opportunity for an experienced IT sales person to join our company as an Account Manager.
The Account Manager's primary responsibility is to generate new business through extensive cold calling.
It's about reducing costs to improve margin. When your business' growth slows and revenue plateaus, the next step to improve your stock's perceived worth is to cut expenses and improve your net.
well, my experience directly contradicts that and my anecdotal evidence suggests that 100% of people I know using paypal had problems.
I opened an account using a card I got specifically for online purchases. I was a first time bidder on eBay and saw that the seller only took paypal. I opened the account, but never used it (didn't win the auction, never had occasion to use it).
Months later I got a cc bill with all kinds of charges from $50-$500 all to paypal over a couple weeks for a total of around $2,600. I called up the cc company and reported the fraud. They did not seem surprised/skeptical in the least and immediately canceled the card, credited the charges and issued a new card. They sent out a form for me to fill out and sign -- that was it.
Since then I've gotten all kinds of email from paypal telling me that my card is expired. I tried once or twice to contact them to have them cancel my account with no response. Eventually I got a new email address when Comcast took over ATTBI and I've obviously never heard from them again.
I still have no idea how someone was able to use my account, but they apparently bought a bunch of stuff online and the cc company must have ended up eating it.
My brother-in-law also had bad charges show up through paypal. He is the only other person I know who used paypal and in both cases we had problems.
This makes me doubt the stories of people who claim that they have used paypal and never had a problem, or even heard of anyone they know having a problem.
REDMOND, WA -- In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors," the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.
With the patent, Microsoft's rivals are prohibited from manufacturing or selling products containing zeroes and ones--the mathematical building blocks of all computer languages and programs--unless a royalty fee of 10 cents per digit used is paid to the software giant.
"Microsoft has been using the binary system of ones and zeroes ever since its inception in 1975," Gates told reporters. "For years, in the interest of the overall health of the computer industry, we permitted the free and unfettered use of our proprietary numeric systems. However, changing marketplace conditions and the increasingly predatory practices of certain competitors now leave us with no choice but to seek compensation for the use of our numerals."
A number of major Silicon Valley players, including Apple Computer, Netscape and Sun Microsystems, said they will challenge the Microsoft patent as monopolistic and anti-competitive, claiming that the 10-cent-per-digit licensing fee would bankrupt them instantly.
"While, technically, Java is a complex system of algorithms used to create a platform-independent programming environment, it is, at its core, just a string of trillions of ones and zeroes," said Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, whose company created the Java programming environment used in many Internet applications. "The licensing fees we'd have to pay Microsoft every day would be approximately 327,000 times the total net worth of this company."
"If this patent holds up in federal court, Apple will have no choice but to convert to analog," said Apple interim CEO Steve Jobs, "and I have serious doubts whether this company would be able to remain competitive selling pedal-operated computers running software off vinyl LPs."
As a result of the Microsoft patent, many other companies have begun radically revising their product lines: Database manufacturer Oracle has embarked on a crash program to develop "an abacus for the next millennium." Novell, whose communications and networking systems are also subject to Microsoft licensing fees, is working with top animal trainers on a chimpanzee-based message-transmission system. Hewlett-Packard is developing a revolutionary new steam-powered printer.
Despite the swarm of protest, Gates is standing his ground, maintaining that ones and zeroes are the undisputed property of Microsoft.
"We will vigorously enforce our patents of these numbers, as they are legally ours," Gates said. "Among Microsoft's vast historical archives are Sanskrit cuneiform tablets from 1800 B.C. clearly showing ones and a symbol known as 'sunya,' or nothing. We also own: papyrus scrolls written by Pythagoras himself in which he explains the idea of singular notation, or 'one'; early tracts by Mohammed ibn Musa al Kwarizimi explaining the concept of al-sifr, or 'the cipher'; original mathematical manuscripts by Heisenberg, Einstein and Planck; and a signed first-edition copy of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being And Nothingness. Should the need arise, Microsoft will have no difficulty proving to the Justice Department or anyone else that we own the rights to these numbers."
Added Gates: "My salary also has lots of zeroes. I'm the richest man in the world."
According to experts, the full ramifications of Microsoft's patenting of one and zero have yet to be realized.
"Because all integers and natural numbers derive from one and zero, Microsoft may, by extension, lay claim to ownership of all mathematics and logic systems, including Euclidean geometry, pulleys and levers, gravity, and the basic Newtonian principles of motion, as well as the concepts of existence and nonexistence," Yale University theoretical mathematics professor J. Edmund Lattimore said. "In other words, pretty much everything."
yeah, the article actually makes this distinction:
However, the real potty-mouths appeared to be open-source developers whose software made it into the OpenSolaris release in the form of the Perl and GRUB projects.
The summary does not go out of its way to make this clear.
>Disney isn't about animation anymore, its about...
You forgot a number of important LOBs
The Walt Disney Company is a diversified worldwide entertainment company with operations in four business segments: Media Networks, Parks and Resorts, Studio Entertainment and Consumer Products. The Media Networks segment is comprised of the Company's television and radio networks and includes cable/satellite and international broadcast operations. It operates the Walt Disney World Resort and Disney Cruise Line in Florida, the Disneyland Resort in California, ESPN Zone facilities in several states and Anaheim Sports in California. It also licenses the operations of the Tokyo Disneyland Resort in Japan and licenses and manages the Disneyland Resort Paris in France. The Studio Entertainment segment produces live-action and animated motion pictures, television animation programs, musical recordings and live-stage plays. The Consumer Products segment licenses the Company's characters and other intellectual property to manufacturers, retailers, show promoters and publishers worldwide.
didn't he say "unless you are gay"? That implies to me that it is ok to wear earrings if you are gay, right?
Personally, I don't think males wearing earrings in the IT (professional) workplace is inappropriate. Multiple piercings (nose, tongue, etc) might be pushing it.
We had a guy with a stud in his tongue, nobody seemed to really care or even notice. I do remember one of the female managers asking about it, though --
"does that mean he's gay or something?"
"don't really know, why don't you ask him?"
"oh no, I couldn't do thaaat!"
no, but it's ok to speculate and ask others about it. That's probably why it isn't sunch a good idea, it gives the nosy, intolerant assholes too much to think about and it distracts them from their important work of scheduling team-building exercises and writing diversity action plans.
uh, he's a fairly significant memeber of the community*
"I was one of the folks who created and ran the Mozilla Organization during the first year of its life: mozilla.org was the division of Netscape responsible for releasing the Navigator source code and coordinating the open source development of the browser. I resigned from both mozilla.org and from (what came to be known as) the Netscape division of America Online just before AOL took over."
*not that I knew who he was either, but I figured he must be _somebody_ other than some random blogger who switched. Difference was I took the time to find out before posting 'never hear of him, who cares'
I mean, doesn't the GPL allow you to do whatever you want up until you release your modified version -- then you must release the source and all that?
So, if the Chinese govt were to develop their own linux-derived OS and use it internally without releasing binary/source to the public, is this really a problem? Of course, if they sold it (or gave it away) to their own citizens as a windows replacement without releasing source, that would be different.
I'm asking, not telling, because that's my (admittedly basic) understanding.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I remember that from Blues Bros, and that swim area they show, IIRC, is Phils beach right next to the place where my friend has his boat slip.
Don't remember the ghost busters reference though.
made for some interesting star gazing the other night.
Friend of mine has a boat on a little lake in northern Illinois (Bangs lake in Waconda), we were out Thursday night and had a good time throwing back some beers and watching the sky.
Just after sunset, I mentioned that I thought it was supposed to be a full moon but it was strange that it hadn't risen yet. I had my bearings turned around and was looking west and couldn't figure out if I was looking at a helicopter light or what -- it must have been Venus, but I've never seen it look that bright.
Over the next 20 minutes or so we watched the moon rise. I don't think I've ever seen it look that big and orange.
now beam down my pants!
I grew up with the transporter on the original series being the 'beam'.
It was the shit. With it, you could instantaneously deploy up to seven redshits on the planet's surface from orbit. You could span parallel universes is you happened to try to use it during an ion storm.
The best use of course being to transport all the fuzzy vermin infesting your ship over to the enemy's ship. I bet they hated that.
hey, a girl's gotta have her standards
Interesting.
Followed the link to the perl search results and found the Account Manager position. The job doesn't require perl, just lots of cold-calling:
Based in the Denver Tech Center, ITCourseware provides high-quality, instructor-led courseware materials targeted at professional software developers needing to broaden and/or update their skills. Our customers are typically IT training companies and corporations with internal IT training departments. Our products are the educational materials (student workbooks, instructor notes etc) that instructors use when delivering courses in such advanced topics as XML, Java, Linux, UNIX, Perl, Oracle, SQL, and Object-Oriented programming. We have an immediate opportunity for an experienced IT sales person to join our company as an Account Manager.
The Account Manager's primary responsibility is to generate new business through extensive cold calling.
well, exactly.
It's about reducing costs to improve margin. When your business' growth slows and revenue plateaus, the next step to improve your stock's perceived worth is to cut expenses and improve your net.
You might as well CTL-ALT-DEL to the tasklist and just kill every browser instance.
I find pulling the power cord is just as effective. ;-)
well, my experience directly contradicts that and my anecdotal evidence suggests that 100% of people I know using paypal had problems.
I opened an account using a card I got specifically for online purchases. I was a first time bidder on eBay and saw that the seller only took paypal. I opened the account, but never used it (didn't win the auction, never had occasion to use it).
Months later I got a cc bill with all kinds of charges from $50-$500 all to paypal over a couple weeks for a total of around $2,600. I called up the cc company and reported the fraud. They did not seem surprised/skeptical in the least and immediately canceled the card, credited the charges and issued a new card. They sent out a form for me to fill out and sign -- that was it.
Since then I've gotten all kinds of email from paypal telling me that my card is expired. I tried once or twice to contact them to have them cancel my account with no response. Eventually I got a new email address when Comcast took over ATTBI and I've obviously never heard from them again.
I still have no idea how someone was able to use my account, but they apparently bought a bunch of stuff online and the cc company must have ended up eating it.
My brother-in-law also had bad charges show up through paypal. He is the only other person I know who used paypal and in both cases we had problems.
This makes me doubt the stories of people who claim that they have used paypal and never had a problem, or even heard of anyone they know having a problem.
Oatmeal raisin are reasonably healthy and therefore "good for you".
Oreo cookies, with their lard and sugar filling, are most definitely unhealthy and not at all "good for you".
oh wait...
REDMOND, WA -- In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors," the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.
With the patent, Microsoft's rivals are prohibited from manufacturing or selling products containing zeroes and ones--the mathematical building blocks of all computer languages and programs--unless a royalty fee of 10 cents per digit used is paid to the software giant.
"Microsoft has been using the binary system of ones and zeroes ever since its inception in 1975," Gates told reporters. "For years, in the interest of the overall health of the computer industry, we permitted the free and unfettered use of our proprietary numeric systems. However, changing marketplace conditions and the increasingly predatory practices of certain competitors now leave us with no choice but to seek compensation for the use of our numerals."
A number of major Silicon Valley players, including Apple Computer, Netscape and Sun Microsystems, said they will challenge the Microsoft patent as monopolistic and anti-competitive, claiming that the 10-cent-per-digit licensing fee would bankrupt them instantly.
"While, technically, Java is a complex system of algorithms used to create a platform-independent programming environment, it is, at its core, just a string of trillions of ones and zeroes," said Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, whose company created the Java programming environment used in many Internet applications. "The licensing fees we'd have to pay Microsoft every day would be approximately 327,000 times the total net worth of this company."
"If this patent holds up in federal court, Apple will have no choice but to convert to analog," said Apple interim CEO Steve Jobs, "and I have serious doubts whether this company would be able to remain competitive selling pedal-operated computers running software off vinyl LPs."
As a result of the Microsoft patent, many other companies have begun radically revising their product lines: Database manufacturer Oracle has embarked on a crash program to develop "an abacus for the next millennium." Novell, whose communications and networking systems are also subject to Microsoft licensing fees, is working with top animal trainers on a chimpanzee-based message-transmission system. Hewlett-Packard is developing a revolutionary new steam-powered printer.
Despite the swarm of protest, Gates is standing his ground, maintaining that ones and zeroes are the undisputed property of Microsoft.
"We will vigorously enforce our patents of these numbers, as they are legally ours," Gates said. "Among Microsoft's vast historical archives are Sanskrit cuneiform tablets from 1800 B.C. clearly showing ones and a symbol known as 'sunya,' or nothing. We also own: papyrus scrolls written by Pythagoras himself in which he explains the idea of singular notation, or 'one'; early tracts by Mohammed ibn Musa al Kwarizimi explaining the concept of al-sifr, or 'the cipher'; original mathematical manuscripts by Heisenberg, Einstein and Planck; and a signed first-edition copy of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being And Nothingness. Should the need arise, Microsoft will have no difficulty proving to the Justice Department or anyone else that we own the rights to these numbers."
Added Gates: "My salary also has lots of zeroes. I'm the richest man in the world."
According to experts, the full ramifications of Microsoft's patenting of one and zero have yet to be realized.
"Because all integers and natural numbers derive from one and zero, Microsoft may, by extension, lay claim to ownership of all mathematics and logic systems, including Euclidean geometry, pulleys and levers, gravity, and the basic Newtonian principles of motion, as well as the concepts of existence and nonexistence," Yale University theoretical mathematics professor J. Edmund Lattimore said. "In other words, pretty much everything."
Lattimore said that the only m
> more than public
you mean less than secretive?
For me, the links don't show as underlined
why, are you using AOL?
*ducks*
yeah, the article actually makes this distinction:
However, the real potty-mouths appeared to be open-source developers whose software made it into the OpenSolaris release in the form of the Perl and GRUB projects.
The summary does not go out of its way to make this clear.
at first I read this "Will Google buy NeXT?"
>Try it.
Is this directed at me? I said I didn't care, didn't I?
Problem is there are some who do and I was pointing that out.
>Disney isn't about animation anymore, its about...
You forgot a number of important LOBs
The Walt Disney Company is a diversified worldwide entertainment company with operations in four business segments: Media Networks, Parks and Resorts, Studio Entertainment and Consumer Products. The Media Networks segment is comprised of the Company's television and radio networks and includes cable/satellite and international broadcast operations. It operates the Walt Disney World Resort and Disney Cruise Line in Florida, the Disneyland Resort in California, ESPN Zone facilities in several states and Anaheim Sports in California. It also licenses the operations of the Tokyo Disneyland Resort in Japan and licenses and manages the Disneyland Resort Paris in France. The Studio Entertainment segment produces live-action and animated motion pictures, television animation programs, musical recordings and live-stage plays. The Consumer Products segment licenses the Company's characters and other intellectual property to manufacturers, retailers, show promoters and publishers worldwide.
didn't he say "unless you are gay"? That implies to me that it is ok to wear earrings if you are gay, right?
Personally, I don't think males wearing earrings in the IT (professional) workplace is inappropriate. Multiple piercings (nose, tongue, etc) might be pushing it.
We had a guy with a stud in his tongue, nobody seemed to really care or even notice. I do remember one of the female managers asking about it, though --
"does that mean he's gay or something?"
"don't really know, why don't you ask him?"
"oh no, I couldn't do thaaat!"
no, but it's ok to speculate and ask others about it. That's probably why it isn't sunch a good idea, it gives the nosy, intolerant assholes too much to think about and it distracts them from their important work of scheduling team-building exercises and writing diversity action plans.
uh, he's a fairly significant memeber of the community*
"I was one of the folks who created and ran the Mozilla Organization during the first year of its life: mozilla.org was the division of Netscape responsible for releasing the Navigator source code and coordinating the open source development of the browser. I resigned from both mozilla.org and from (what came to be known as) the Netscape division of America Online just before AOL took over."
*not that I knew who he was either, but I figured he must be _somebody_ other than some random blogger who switched. Difference was I took the time to find out before posting 'never hear of him, who cares'
>they won't give a damn about GPL
why, are they supposed to?
I mean, doesn't the GPL allow you to do whatever you want up until you release your modified version -- then you must release the source and all that?
So, if the Chinese govt were to develop their own linux-derived OS and use it internally without releasing binary/source to the public, is this really a problem? Of course, if they sold it (or gave it away) to their own citizens as a windows replacement without releasing source, that would be different.
I'm asking, not telling, because that's my (admittedly basic) understanding.
The urine stain on your pants tells me that you are a workaholic. You are a two-shake man, far too busy for the follow-up "jiggle".
Sure, they saw it on star trek -- they don't want to be turned into drones from wearing some nifty pants!
or not -- I can't get to the article
Not to replace or supplant the internet, but to be comparable in importance/impact/etc...
as in "the cabbage patch doll will be the next hula hoop".
I know this thread is long cold, but I just came across this and felt like posting it. I do remember this dialog now...
YODA: Pregnant, she must still appear. Hidden, safe, the children must be kept.
OBI-WAN: We must take them somewhere the Sith will not sense their presence.
YODA: Split up, they should be.
BAIL ORGANA: My wife and I will take the girl. We've always talked of adopting a baby girl. She will be loved with us.
OBI-WAN: And what of the boy?
YODA: To Tatooine. To his family, send him.