Freedom of speech generally implies a level of maturity whereby people don't shove pictures of genetalia into the face of passing parents.
Actually, it doesn't. Freedom of speech sort of implies that there is a freedom to offend, as well. Just remember that you also have a freedom to not listen.
Steve Ballmer seems almost impressive with his shouts of "Developers! Developers! Developers!". I like to think of Darl giving a rousing meeting, stomping around the stage yelling "Marketeers! Marketeers! Marketeers! Lawyers! Lawyers! Lawyers!"
I more or less see him in a highchair screaming "Mommy!"
Considering the speed of most ATMs and other critical systems, I'm of the opinion that most "critical" systems are running on a PDP-1, which is periodically taken down so that the operators can have a rousing game of Spacewar.
Yeah, those pointy headed college educated researchers at Bell Labs and Xerox PARC have sure never come up with anything useful. Not to mention the utter morons at IBM's research facilities. Please...
Most inventions are the result of chance discoveries. Chance favors the prepared mind.
Our head of department once gave me a lecture over playing Flash games online cos they "could be virus-infected". If there's a way that this is possible, someone please tell me.
You mean like this? The vulnerability has been patched, but that doesn't mean the architecture isn't vulnerable to viruses anymore. Not to say that the administrator in question is the most brilliant guy in the world, but at least he stayed tuned in to his virus warnings.
Steve Jobs never in his life did any tech woprk Woz was the one..
Actually, a four second google search would reveal this link. Here's the relevant part (emphasis mine):
Going to work for Atari after leaving Reed College, Jobs renewed his friendship with Steve Wozniak.
The two designed computer games for Atari and a telephone "blue box", getting much of their impetus from the Homebrew Computer Club. Beginning work in the Job's family garage they managed to make their first "killing" when the Byte Shop in Mountain View bought their first fifty fully assembled computers.
Always make sure that the facts line up with your mythology. Woz was always technically superior to Jobs, but Jobs has worked in the tech industry, not in marketing, before co-founding Apple.
You didn't answer the question about the Library of Alexandria. Data on paper is just as easily lost. Not to mention that it was blind luck that the Rosetta Stone survived and was found. Without it, all of those Egyptian Hieroglyphs would be just so many pretty pictures.
If you want something to survive for a long time, it seems to me that the best strategy is to make as many copies as possible, in as many formats as possible. Unfortunately with money, copies aren't often as useful as the original, and can even get you in trouble.
I've managed two major office moves in my career. In both cases, we demolished 100% of the interior walls to get the configuration we required. The cable came out as a side effect of the demolition. How common is it for a tennant to move in and leave the existing walls? In most big office buildings, it doesn't seem to be common at all.
Have you checked out O'Reilly's on-line library? Between that and freely available documentation sites on the web, I haven't cracked a technical reference book in years. I have read some introductions to new technologies in dead tree format, but you hardly need to haul those back and forth to work each day.
Google is your friend here. It's absolutely so important to how I do my job now that I'm all for splitting dates into B.G and A.G.
I can think of another. Who is going to move my technical books each day?
Yes, if only we could come up with some way to display technical reference material on a computer screen! We could even incorporate a search function more powerful than an index or table of contents! If we got really fancy, we could allow for shared annotation and electronic "bookmarks" to important sections.
The next logical step would be for some genius to find a secure way to extend the workplace network to my home so I could use these references without having to drag books home with me. If that's too hard maybe someone could come up with a way to synchronize those documents on my laptop's hard drive or to a CD that I can take home.
Yep, it's too bad that nobody's invented any of this yet. Too bad indeed.
For the longest time I had Konqueror reporting that I was browsing using Mosaic.01A on a Coleco Adam. Used to drive our webmaster nuts when he ran the user agent reports for the month.
That's what I said. Legally speaking lots of things are murky for salaried employees. They are specifically exempt from huge numbers of legal protections in the United States. It's not clear that this isn't one of them.
Non-salaried and union jobs have far more protections, as does any job that has an explicit contract instead of an "employment agreement." Now you know why you don't have a contract and why you're exempt. The IT profession's aversion toward unionization has allowed management to take advantage of it. (And I used to be very anti-union!)
The two houses of ill repute are over two years old. Note that there aren't any in the expansion and that Temple of Elemental Evil had all of its brothels deleted just prior to shipment. Furhtermore, TOEE had to remove all children from the game, because it was possible for the player to kill them. Of course an evil party might do just that if it was expident.
Don't take my word for it though. A quick google on TOEE's development woes will tell you all you need to know.
You can't put the D&D name on it, my friend, only the D20. Otherwise, expect a Cease and Desist from Atari shortly after release. They have an exclusive license from Hasbro to distribute D&D PC games. What you collect in fees won't pay your lawyer fees, much less buy a new computer.
Unless, of course Atari is distributing your game. In which case you will need to go through all of the hoops I mentioned before. Be prepared for any vaguely adult themes to be brutally ripped out of your product shortly prior to shipment.
The problem is the triumverate of Atari, Hasbro, and Wizards of the Coast, who must approve all content sold under the Dungeons and Dragons name. They have decided that any D&D game can have no more than a Teen Rating, and a fairly soft T at that. From the vibe I'm getting on the Bioware boards, it looks like the creative people are tired of fighting those battles. Bioware has already announced that their next PC game will not be based on a licensed property.
Unless Hasbro unloads the D&D license to another company, I expect D&D games to slowly fade out. I very much doubt that the folks who made Temple of Elemental Evil really want to repeat the experience they had with them, and Bioware seems to be tiring as well.
They hyped it afterwards. Kahn admits that the story he told in Codebreakers is only partly correct. Later releases of information showed that not only mathematics, but good old fashioned skullduggery were responsible for much of the success in breaking Enigma. That's why he wrote Seizing the Enigma.
While Turing's contributions to breaking Enigma were valuable, as the years slide on we find that his contributions may have been overstated to cover up other covert operations. Try reading Seizing the Enigma by David Kahn (of Codebreakers fame). It appears that the Enigma was also solved by some covert ops that seized monthly settings documents from Nazi weather ships and surrendered U-boats. For most of the war, hints like these were needed to get anything resembling real time Ultra, even with the bombes cranking away at full speed.
Interestingly enough, the Luftwaffe was very careful with its settings documents and its discipline for changing rotors. Bletchley Park never solved the Luftwaffe version of Enigma.
None of this should detract from Turing's greatness as a mathematician, but it appears that the British used his reputation to hide a few other facts. No need to alert your enemies to all of your methods, after all.
I sure hope this is true now. My Series 2 didn't have the OS revision on it to recognize USB Ethernet adapters. I had to download the revision over a phone line before switching to broadband.
At least that's what the folks at TiVO told me. It's worked like a charm since.
I did exactly the same. Funny how the fact that their reply-to address is just a bot saying "I can't do anything about this." Already that bot is 99% more effective than MusicMatch's Tech Support (motto: We put the "less" in Clueless) ever was.
The disabling of MusicMatch was a bugfix, in my opinion.
I'd believe this if it wasn't Novell that was calling the shots. They have a real history of screwing up every golden opportunity that comes their way.
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Actually, it doesn't. Freedom of speech sort of implies that there is a freedom to offend, as well. Just remember that you also have a freedom to not listen.
I more or less see him in a highchair screaming "Mommy!"
Considering the speed of most ATMs and other critical systems, I'm of the opinion that most "critical" systems are running on a PDP-1, which is periodically taken down so that the operators can have a rousing game of Spacewar.
Most inventions are the result of chance discoveries. Chance favors the prepared mind.
You mean like this? The vulnerability has been patched, but that doesn't mean the architecture isn't vulnerable to viruses anymore. Not to say that the administrator in question is the most brilliant guy in the world, but at least he stayed tuned in to his virus warnings.
You need to see some of the newer LCDs, I think. I'm typing this on a Dell Ultrasharp 15 and I don't see any dropoff in brightness at the corners.
Get pregnant?
TiVo doesn't play AAC or Ogg. At least not yet.
Actually, a four second google search would reveal this link. Here's the relevant part (emphasis mine):
Always make sure that the facts line up with your mythology. Woz was always technically superior to Jobs, but Jobs has worked in the tech industry, not in marketing, before co-founding Apple.If you want something to survive for a long time, it seems to me that the best strategy is to make as many copies as possible, in as many formats as possible. Unfortunately with money, copies aren't often as useful as the original, and can even get you in trouble.
I've managed two major office moves in my career. In both cases, we demolished 100% of the interior walls to get the configuration we required. The cable came out as a side effect of the demolition. How common is it for a tennant to move in and leave the existing walls? In most big office buildings, it doesn't seem to be common at all.
Google is your friend here. It's absolutely so important to how I do my job now that I'm all for splitting dates into B.G and A.G.
Yes, if only we could come up with some way to display technical reference material on a computer screen! We could even incorporate a search function more powerful than an index or table of contents! If we got really fancy, we could allow for shared annotation and electronic "bookmarks" to important sections.
The next logical step would be for some genius to find a secure way to extend the workplace network to my home so I could use these references without having to drag books home with me. If that's too hard maybe someone could come up with a way to synchronize those documents on my laptop's hard drive or to a CD that I can take home.
Yep, it's too bad that nobody's invented any of this yet. Too bad indeed.
For the longest time I had Konqueror reporting that I was browsing using Mosaic .01A on a Coleco Adam. Used to drive our webmaster nuts when he ran the user agent reports for the month.
There's not much difference between what the Frenchmen were dumping and Darl's "evidence," I'm afraid.
That's what I said. Legally speaking lots of things are murky for salaried employees. They are specifically exempt from huge numbers of legal protections in the United States. It's not clear that this isn't one of them.
Non-salaried and union jobs have far more protections, as does any job that has an explicit contract instead of an "employment agreement." Now you know why you don't have a contract and why you're exempt. The IT profession's aversion toward unionization has allowed management to take advantage of it. (And I used to be very anti-union!)
Don't take my word for it though. A quick google on TOEE's development woes will tell you all you need to know.
Unless, of course Atari is distributing your game. In which case you will need to go through all of the hoops I mentioned before. Be prepared for any vaguely adult themes to be brutally ripped out of your product shortly prior to shipment.
If this guy's an exempt employee, he's not paid for his time. He's paid a salary instead. At that point it gets murky.
Of course, if Apple's management had half a brain, they'd give him a bonus/promotion in exchange for the rights and be done with it.
Unless Hasbro unloads the D&D license to another company, I expect D&D games to slowly fade out. I very much doubt that the folks who made Temple of Elemental Evil really want to repeat the experience they had with them, and Bioware seems to be tiring as well.
They hyped it afterwards. Kahn admits that the story he told in Codebreakers is only partly correct. Later releases of information showed that not only mathematics, but good old fashioned skullduggery were responsible for much of the success in breaking Enigma. That's why he wrote Seizing the Enigma.
Interestingly enough, the Luftwaffe was very careful with its settings documents and its discipline for changing rotors. Bletchley Park never solved the Luftwaffe version of Enigma.
None of this should detract from Turing's greatness as a mathematician, but it appears that the British used his reputation to hide a few other facts. No need to alert your enemies to all of your methods, after all.
At least that's what the folks at TiVO told me. It's worked like a charm since.
The disabling of MusicMatch was a bugfix, in my opinion.
I'd believe this if it wasn't Novell that was calling the shots. They have a real history of screwing up every golden opportunity that comes their way.