I went to a MS presentation when Win3.1 came out YEARS ago. In discussing the memory and swap abilities of 3.1, the rep actually said that you should not use RAM drvies for swap. He said you'd be surprised how many people actually did it.
Ah...the good ole days when MS wasn't completly evil.
Don't you know - PJ just can't resist any temptation to hammer into the viewer's head that man can't handle the right. Elrond goes on about it over and over, Boromir and now Faramir go on about it.
I fully expect that when Aragorn arrives at Minas Tirith that he will be drawn and quartered for not bringing the one ring, thus further showing the desire for it.
If they'd stop thinking viewers are stupid, they could have put more of the book end and ended with Shelob stinging Frodo, which would have been a great cliffhanger.
Then again, after FotR, I heard someone explaining to someone else that there are gonna be three movies. I guess he couldn't handle the one ring either:)
Amen. If it's not the printer giving trouble, it's the drivers trying to be too damn smart and just getting in the way.
I HATE PRINTERS - the worst part of computers. I had been printer free for years then my wife decided she needed to print some things - just waiting for the ink cart to die.
This project at MS research not only does the face detection, but recognition.
I can't get the videos to play right now, but when I saw them before, as people walked on and off camera, it would find their face, put a square around it and label their name on it.
I like it as well and think it is getting better. Archer used to be too wimpy, but seems to be developing a pair lately.
Though I do miss the days of "Analysis Mr Worf" "Captain, they pose no threat to us."
I just wish everyplace they went didn't look like some development in the desert with funky doors, or every alien species was just a person with a funny nose/forehead.
Also a problem for places outbound connections
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My boss came to me around the 13th asking what were we gonna do on the 17th if we went to war...basically, how are mission critical apps gonna communicate over our school's internet connection if everyone is streaming video of war coverage?
Luckily Shock and Awe started after most of our classes were done for the week and Thurs wasn't that bad. I guess with all the Kazaa traffic, streaming web didn't stand a chance:)
Can't wait for that packetshaper to get here.
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Yes...he won't disarm and the UN is like the League of Nations - but is he a threat to the US?
An athlete, lawyer, scientist and accountant are applying for a job. During the interview, they are asked "what is two and two"
The athlete says "22" The lawyer says the courts have proved it is 4. The scientist says it is between 3.99999 and 4.00001.
The accountant softly says "what do you want it to be?"
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I am not against the war if it justified, but I hope that they have more information than just "he's a menace to the US". To me, that says nothing. Do they have some proof of operations Saddam is planning? Do they have proof of him funding al quida or something?
If not, I agree with Putin - he is not a threat to the US so why go in now? I agree that the UN is pretty limp, but I think that we finally had their attention and that another month would not make a difference. By that time, maybe Chirac would have gotten off his "I am france, I have veto power...let me use it before I give it to the germans" stance.
I stand 100% behind our troops and wish them the best of luck. We will be able to recover from whatever world opinion we get, but my biggest concern if for the general Iraqi populace. When the bombs start dropping, there will be civilian casualties. Hopefully they will remain small.
Too bad SAS or some other team could not have gone in and just taken out who we need to take out and that is it. A few apache's and low altitude jumps in the middle of the night and who knows what we could have done.
Best of luck to everyone. No matter where you stand on this issue, this is a dark day. War is never good.
HP has a box that does something similar - the hp wireless digital media receiver ew5000 (DB226A#ABA) (tried to add a link, but session vars didn't help)
It hooks to your TV/receiver and connects with wireless or cat5 to the PC.
Though the first time I saw a pamphlet for this, it made it sound as if it would stream digital video as well, but looking at the specs, it appears the video out is just for menus and jpgs.
Still, it's small, would easily fit in with other components, and since it uses the TV and not some small LCD, probably a lot easier to navigate directory trees.
While I agree in principal, how often does your server need an office app on it?:)
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And I can take that gif, jpg, psd or pdf and open it in another application, make changes, etc...
Basically, I'm not forced to use the Adobe product.
I'm sure that Microsoft realises this and would hate to let the users have a choice of what they can use. Why let them choose when they can almost be foreced to use the MS product.
I dunno...maybe I've been hanging out on/. too long:)
They should learn how to think and figure things out. Training (to me) is, to make this do x, you click on y, choose z and click OK.
Students should not be learning Word, they should be learning English. They should not be learning Visual C++, they should be learning C++.
I think back to my music class I took - we did not have to learned about the music theory, scales, tone intervals, keys, etc... For a final project, we were not told to sit at a piano and play a C scale. We were told to compose something on the instrument of our choice - to apply the theory we learned to the real world.
My operating systems course, we learned the basics of OS's, what page swapping was, what a queue was. For our OS project, we had to implement a batch based OS. The professor did not care what language or platform it ran on. Instead there were certain criteria we had to have documented showing how it ran, the output of the jobs(*) and so on. I'm not even sure if he ever looked at the code.
Colleges should be as implentation-agnostic as possible. Let the students learn how to apply things to the real world. If the students wanna learn W2K or somemthing, let them take a continuing education course concentrating in that. Perhaps then we'll have people turned out that can adapt as they go along and not just know the one program they were shown how to use in college - I graduated with CS people who could write some code, but when it came to copying a file in DOS or anything that the Modula-2 "GUI" couldn't do, they were lost. They had no interest in learning. Most likely they are the ones that are not doing much now.
(*) Each team in the OS class had to submit two or three programs that all the other teams had to run under their OS. Basically a stripped down assembly language was used. Our team was hated because we included self-modifying code.
Not protection - just less tracking. We own several Linux copies of VMWare and some other software that we could be audited for on a Non-MS platform.
I'd actually think that it's piss the BSA off enough that they would dig more until they found somethign to get you on - one machine no one knew about in a corner with a copy of windows that no one could find the license for.
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I think it's time to run some more hot water in my bath.
You do realize that Alan Turing was gay.
That may put a bit of a slant on the outcome.
I went to a MS presentation when Win3.1 came out YEARS ago. In discussing the memory and swap abilities of 3.1, the rep actually said that you should not use RAM drvies for swap. He said you'd be surprised how many people actually did it.
Ah...the good ole days when MS wasn't completly evil.
Don't you know - PJ just can't resist any temptation to hammer into the viewer's head that man can't handle the right. Elrond goes on about it over and over, Boromir and now Faramir go on about it.
:)
I fully expect that when Aragorn arrives at Minas Tirith that he will be drawn and quartered for not bringing the one ring, thus further showing the desire for it.
If they'd stop thinking viewers are stupid, they could have put more of the book end and ended with Shelob stinging Frodo, which would have been a great cliffhanger.
Then again, after FotR, I heard someone explaining to someone else that there are gonna be three movies. I guess he couldn't handle the one ring either
First off - the only readon it would need a real-world IP is if you are running a server. (okay...maybe netmeeting or something)
I was told the same thing by the installers from Charter - unoffically. They suggested the linksys before I showed them the linux firewall.
The head doesn't know what the tail is doing.
A lightbulb with a network connection :)
Amen. If it's not the printer giving trouble, it's the drivers trying to be too damn smart and just getting in the way.
I HATE PRINTERS - the worst part of computers. I had been printer free for years then my wife decided she needed to print some things - just waiting for the ink cart to die.
This project at MS research not only does the face detection, but recognition.
I can't get the videos to play right now, but when I saw them before, as people walked on and off camera, it would find their face, put a square around it and label their name on it.
Pretty neat.
I like it as well and think it is getting better. Archer used to be too wimpy, but seems to be developing a pair lately.
Though I do miss the days of "Analysis Mr Worf" "Captain, they pose no threat to us."
I just wish everyplace they went didn't look like some development in the desert with funky doors, or every alien species was just a person with a funny nose/forehead.
My boss came to me around the 13th asking what were we gonna do on the 17th if we went to war...basically, how are mission critical apps gonna communicate over our school's internet connection if everyone is streaming video of war coverage?
:)
Luckily Shock and Awe started after most of our classes were done for the week and Thurs wasn't that bad. I guess with all the Kazaa traffic, streaming web didn't stand a chance
Can't wait for that packetshaper to get here.
Yes...he won't disarm and the UN is like the League of Nations - but is he a threat to the US?
Reminds me of a joke I just read:
An athlete, lawyer, scientist and accountant are applying for a job. During the interview, they are asked "what is two and two"
The athlete says "22"
The lawyer says the courts have proved it is 4.
The scientist says it is between 3.99999 and 4.00001.
The accountant softly says "what do you want it to be?"
I am not against the war if it justified, but I hope that they have more information than just "he's a menace to the US". To me, that says nothing. Do they have some proof of operations Saddam is planning? Do they have proof of him funding al quida or something?
If not, I agree with Putin - he is not a threat to the US so why go in now? I agree that the UN is pretty limp, but I think that we finally had their attention and that another month would not make a difference. By that time, maybe Chirac would have gotten off his "I am france, I have veto power...let me use it before I give it to the germans" stance.
I stand 100% behind our troops and wish them the best of luck. We will be able to recover from whatever world opinion we get, but my biggest concern if for the general Iraqi populace. When the bombs start dropping, there will be civilian casualties. Hopefully they will remain small.
Too bad SAS or some other team could not have gone in and just taken out who we need to take out and that is it. A few apache's and low altitude jumps in the middle of the night and who knows what we could have done.
Best of luck to everyone. No matter where you stand on this issue, this is a dark day. War is never good.
How could I? I haven't seen the movie yet. :)
:)
Besides, Spidey started in what - 1963 - what's the statute of limitations on spoiler warnings
Spiderman droned on about responsibility coming with power
Wasn't that part of the whole basis of spider man?
He decided one night not to stop a theif even though he had the power to, and that guy ended up killing his uncle.
The scans aren't the greatest. Would be nice if it was like userfriendly - click on the comic and see a bigger better scan.
:(
Oh well...still means I'll finally get a complete collection of Bloom county...books skipped a lot
I run servers that cost more than my house. Almost everything I do is command line based.
My moms questions are usually along the lines of printers, outlook and other things like that.
It's kinda hard to explain why, with a CS degree and a job running tons of equipment, I have no idea why the printer keeps spitting a blank page out.
HP has a box that does something similar - the hp wireless digital media receiver ew5000 (DB226A#ABA) (tried to add a link, but session vars didn't help)
It hooks to your TV/receiver and connects with wireless or cat5 to the PC.
Though the first time I saw a pamphlet for this, it made it sound as if it would stream digital video as well, but looking at the specs, it appears the video out is just for menus and jpgs.
Still, it's small, would easily fit in with other components, and since it uses the TV and not some small LCD, probably a lot easier to navigate directory trees.
Even better/worse depending on how you look at it was the published "Internet White Pages" which was just a bunch of names and e-mail addresses.
If RH is smarth, they will also market this as much better support than calling MS on something - less wait, no pay per support.
For someone just goofing around it's expensive.
For someone like me who is too bullheaded to ask for directions - er - support it's expensive.
For corporate, etc...what a bargin.
While I agree in principal, how often does your server need an office app on it? :)
And I can take that gif, jpg, psd or pdf and open it in another application, make changes, etc...
/. too long :)
Basically, I'm not forced to use the Adobe product.
I'm sure that Microsoft realises this and would hate to let the users have a choice of what they can use. Why let them choose when they can almost be foreced to use the MS product.
I dunno...maybe I've been hanging out on
Students should be taught, not trained.
They should learn how to think and figure things out. Training (to me) is, to make this do x, you click on y, choose z and click OK.
Students should not be learning Word, they should be learning English. They should not be learning Visual C++, they should be learning C++.
I think back to my music class I took - we did not have to learned about the music theory, scales, tone intervals, keys, etc... For a final project, we were not told to sit at a piano and play a C scale. We were told to compose something on the instrument of our choice - to apply the theory we learned to the real world.
My operating systems course, we learned the basics of OS's, what page swapping was, what a queue was. For our OS project, we had to implement a batch based OS. The professor did not care what language or platform it ran on. Instead there were certain criteria we had to have documented showing how it ran, the output of the jobs(*) and so on. I'm not even sure if he ever looked at the code.
Colleges should be as implentation-agnostic as possible. Let the students learn how to apply things to the real world. If the students wanna learn W2K or somemthing, let them take a continuing education course concentrating in that. Perhaps then we'll have people turned out that can adapt as they go along and not just know the one program they were shown how to use in college - I graduated with CS people who could write some code, but when it came to copying a file in DOS or anything that the Modula-2 "GUI" couldn't do, they were lost. They had no interest in learning. Most likely they are the ones that are not doing much now.
(*) Each team in the OS class had to submit two or three programs that all the other teams had to run under their OS. Basically a stripped down assembly language was used. Our team was hated because we included self-modifying code.
Not protection - just less tracking. We own several Linux copies of VMWare and some other software that we could be audited for on a Non-MS platform.
I'd actually think that it's piss the BSA off enough that they would dig more until they found somethign to get you on - one machine no one knew about in a corner with a copy of windows that no one could find the license for.
The conversation the net day with her friend:
"I thought last night was gonna be THE night, but the whole date, all he kept doing was staring at my ass...what a pervert."