Ad campaigns tend to coincide with a new product. Those genuinely interested in it, tend to find it on their own, regardless
I work for a phone company. We have special rates to certain countries, and every now and then our marketers push rates to a particular place, even though we've always had that rate. We do get more people calling the call centre during those times.
Back when you were in college you didn't e-mail people that left themselves logged in after they left the terminal?
I work in a call centre. When people finish their shift leaving their workstation logged in, I just quietly log them out. I hope they'd do the same for me.
and The Lord Of The Rings series (NZ). Apparently it is cheaper down here
In the case of LoTR, the dude behind it, Peter Jackson, just happens to be a New Zealander. It's made here because Jackson is doing it at home instead of overseas.
BTW: Weta Studios are using Linux - oooeee I mentioned Linux on/.
An email that took a whole year to be delivered:
A server that had been switched off for a year was fired up, and one of the first things it did when the various daemons started was find some email in a mail spool directory.
That further reminds me of the mail exchange system used by the Dutch East Indies company (VOC) whereby mail was left under rocks at the beach at the cape at the bottom of Afrika.
When the system type for time_t is change to something with more than 32 bits, the code just needs a recompile and voilla
What about data files that have had the old time_t written to file. That will be stored as 32 bit version. After a recompile the program will try to read back a 64 bit version from the file. In addition to a recompile, you'll also need a file translator that reads old format files and outputs new format files.
If you are really worried about timewrap breaking programs in subtle ways, then set your clock ahead now, and find the bugs. That will give you several years to fix them. If you are binary only, you might NEED several years to get you vendor to fix them!:-)... is interesting. IIRC some countries made it legal to reverse engineer software to fix Y2K "bugs" in the late 1990s.
I really wish US multinationals would stop pushing GE onto other countries. If they wanted to be nice they could have given normal corn.
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I don't even want to see my computer. I want it tucked away in a server/comms room. I want to say "Holly, record the rugby tonite", "Holly, read me my emails", "Holly, random play all my ogg files".
I'd be working on it now if I didn't have to turn up to my real job. Someone wanna sponsor me?
The now oft-heard argument where porting from Windows to Linux is costly for a company and buys little market, but where porting to OS X can share much of a port effort with Linux. Suddenly it changes to "port from Windows to Unix" instead and starts to look better.
It does not become "port from Windows to Unix" instead. Porting to X11 and porting to the MacOS X gui are not the same. Where the OSes differ with regard to porting (having to change source code, rather than simply recompiling) is mainly in the user interface.
I would say that a Linux distro, if properly tamed, can be a quality desktop solution provided you're willing to bite the gaming bullet.
I wonder how many people are happy using their computer for docs, spreadsheets etc and don't bother much with games. I know I am. I guess I'm atypical for a geek, but if I wanna play, I turn off the computer and turn on the romance - but then, I've only been married for three months;-)
I'm still using KDE 1.? and StarOffice 5.2, only coz I don't wanna d/l over a 33kbps modem. I'll buy the latest SuSE as soon as wifey gives me some pocket money:-)
... there will definitely be times when the best resource is someone at SGI, HP or some random university.
In the same city as Weta Productions (the studio where LotR is made) we find Victoria University, Whitireia Polytechnic, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, and Central Institute of Technology. (I might have left out a few). All of these tertiary education institutions have good IT departments and techies who would pay to be involved with Peter Jackson's project.
How about all of the people who do online shopping, but know nothing more than point-and-click? Let me put it another way: How many people that shop online could answer what 'https' stands for? They may not know what "https" stands for, but hopefully someone has told them what that padlock icon is for.
I just read the article you linked to. It really does scare me, doubly so because I live in a small country (NZ) that is paying huge sums to this foreign vendor that is a convicted monopolist. That money should be going to the local economy. I hope NZ will be able to buy non-palladium-crippled hardware to run alternative OSen.
If they do start using this bar for banner ads, why not just stick something over it? Stick a few bits of velcro on either side of the sceen and have a peice of cardboard with the bits that stick to velcro. Then you can remove it easily when watching channels with no banner ads.
Cable is only available in some suburbs in two cities in New Zealand - Wellington and Christchurch. You would have thought they would set up in Auckland first.
I don't know if this has occured to anyone. GPL only applies if govt depts distribute their products. If those depts make security mods for their own use, they don't have to give away anything. GPL clearly states that it covers the rights to distribute. If those govt depts do distribute their mods, they have to give the source as well. Sorry for stating the obvious - it wasn't obvious to the author of the white paper though.
Not to mention that a lot of phones are hardwired into ONE carrier service plan, (or at least you have to hook it into their plan by buying it from them in order to use it with them at all, without using 'alternative' means.::grins:: ) do you REALLY want to have to choose your phone carrier based upon your desire for an MP3 player?
Don't you guys have SIM cards in America? The telco that I work for (outside America) lets customers use their own handset if they want to. As long as it supports SIM cards.
How about after they've done their time? Can they vote then? I'd like to think we restore ALL freedoms after the debt to society is paid. I don't know exactly how it works here in New Zealand. I don't think dark skinned people get as much of a hard time here as they do in some parts of USA.
Back-up and store the backup away from your computer. I've heard of students who diligenlty copy their ~ (or "My Documents") to removable disk. Then someone breaks into their car and steals their laptop, and the disks were also in the car so they lose them too. Bummer if it's your thesis. I have a yahoo account that I regularly email.gz files to. This is in addition to storing back-ups at my fathers house.
On the other hand, I would never ever consider putting on any of my relatives tombstones without their prior consent.
That's what it comes down to - consent. If it's not against the deceased's wishes and the relatives don't mind, then neither do I. Just don't advertise Microsoft on my grave please.
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I work for a phone company. We have special rates to certain countries, and every now and then our marketers push rates to a particular place, even though we've always had that rate.
We do get more people calling the call centre during those times.
I work in a call centre. When people finish their shift leaving their workstation logged in, I just quietly log them out.
I hope they'd do the same for me.
In the case of LoTR, the dude behind it, Peter Jackson, just happens to be a New Zealander. It's made here because Jackson is doing it at home instead of overseas.
BTW: Weta Studios are using Linux - oooeee I mentioned Linux on /.
Actually, that's called a cartel.
A monopoly is where one company is in control.
An email that took a whole year to be delivered:
A server that had been switched off for a year was fired up, and one of the first things it did when the various daemons started was find some email in a mail spool directory.
That further reminds me of the mail exchange system used by the Dutch East Indies company (VOC) whereby mail was left under rocks at the beach at the cape at the bottom of Afrika.
When the system type for time_t is change to something with more than 32 bits, the code just needs a recompile and voilla
What about data files that have had the old time_t written to file. That will be stored as 32 bit version. After a recompile the program will try to read back a 64 bit version from the file.
In addition to a recompile, you'll also need a file translator that reads old format files and outputs new format files.
This quote,
:-) ... is interesting. IIRC some countries made it legal to reverse engineer software to fix Y2K "bugs" in the late 1990s.
If you are really worried about timewrap breaking programs in subtle ways,
then set your clock ahead now, and find the bugs. That will give you several
years to fix them. If you are binary only, you might NEED several years
to get you vendor to fix them!
I really wish US multinationals would stop pushing GE onto other countries.
If they wanted to be nice they could have given normal corn.
I don't even want to see my computer.
I want it tucked away in a server/comms room.
I want to say "Holly, record the rugby tonite",
"Holly, read me my emails", "Holly, random play all my ogg files".
I'd be working on it now if I didn't have to turn up to my real job.
Someone wanna sponsor me?
The now oft-heard argument where porting from Windows to Linux is costly for a company and buys little market, but where porting to OS X can share much of a port effort with Linux. Suddenly it changes to "port from Windows to Unix" instead and starts to look better.
It does not become "port from Windows to Unix" instead.
Porting to X11 and porting to the MacOS X gui are not the same.
Where the OSes differ with regard to porting (having to change source code, rather than simply recompiling) is mainly in the user interface.
I would say that a Linux distro, if properly tamed, can be a quality desktop solution provided you're willing to bite the gaming bullet.
;-)
:-)
I wonder how many people are happy using their computer for docs, spreadsheets etc and don't bother much with games. I know I am. I guess I'm atypical for a geek, but if I wanna play, I turn off the computer and turn on the romance - but then, I've only been married for three months
I'm still using KDE 1.? and StarOffice 5.2, only coz I don't wanna d/l over a 33kbps modem.
I'll buy the latest SuSE as soon as wifey gives me some pocket money
Since I don't have mod points, I post a me too! instead.
I'm also going to forward this suggestion to a few friends who run small ISPs locally.
The New Zealand police department had huge problems with a system purchased from IBM.
In the same city as Weta Productions (the studio where LotR is made) we find Victoria University,
Whitireia Polytechnic, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, and Central Institute of Technology.
(I might have left out a few).
All of these tertiary education institutions have good IT departments and techies who would pay to be involved with Peter Jackson's project.
How about all of the people who do online shopping, but know nothing more than point-and-click? Let me put it another way: How many people that shop online could answer what 'https' stands for?
They may not know what "https" stands for, but hopefully someone has told them what that padlock icon is for.
LOL
I just read the article you linked to.
It really does scare me, doubly so because I live in a small country (NZ) that is paying huge sums to this foreign vendor that is a convicted monopolist. That money should be going to the local economy. I hope NZ will be able to buy non-palladium-crippled hardware to run alternative OSen.
If they do start using this bar for banner ads, why not just stick something over it?
Stick a few bits of velcro on either side of the sceen and have a peice of cardboard with the bits that stick to velcro. Then you can remove it easily when watching channels with no banner ads.
Cable is only available in some suburbs in two cities in New Zealand - Wellington and Christchurch. You would have thought they would set up in Auckland first.
Seems like a sensationalist piece intending to attract attention through misinformation rather than inform the reader
..
To me is seems more like disinformation.
New word: disinformation = deliberate misinformation.
A useful distinction when discussing FUD etc
I don't know if this has occured to anyone.
GPL only applies if govt depts distribute their products.
If those depts make security mods for their own use, they don't have to give away anything.
GPL clearly states that it covers the rights to distribute.
If those govt depts do distribute their mods, they have to give the source as well.
Sorry for stating the obvious - it wasn't obvious to the author of the white paper though.
Not to mention that a lot of phones are hardwired into ONE carrier service plan, (or at least you have to hook it into their plan by buying it from them in order to use it with them at all, without using 'alternative' means. ::grins:: ) do you REALLY want to have to choose your phone carrier based upon your desire for an MP3 player?
Don't you guys have SIM cards in America?
The telco that I work for (outside America) lets customers use their own handset if they want to.
As long as it supports SIM cards.
How about after they've done their time? Can they vote then? I'd like to think we restore ALL freedoms after the debt to society is paid.
I don't know exactly how it works here in New Zealand. I don't think dark skinned people get as much of a hard time here as they do in some parts of USA.
Back-up and store the backup away from your computer. I've heard of students who diligenlty copy their ~ (or "My Documents") to removable disk. Then someone breaks into their car and steals their laptop, and the disks were also in the car so they lose them too. .gz files to. This is in addition to storing back-ups at my fathers house.
Bummer if it's your thesis.
I have a yahoo account that I regularly email
It's actually a germanic plural.
On the other hand, I would never ever consider putting on any of my relatives tombstones without their prior consent.
That's what it comes down to - consent.
If it's not against the deceased's wishes and the relatives don't mind, then neither do I. Just don't advertise Microsoft on my grave please.