This was a picture taken without permission in a PUBLIC property, in a PUBLIC area, where it is quite permissible to take pictures, with the photo facing AWAY from anything related to his employer, save the arriving truck and shipment.
The Microsoft campus is NOT a gated community! The line of public vs. Microsoft-private is drawn at the door to each building, which has (surprise) access control locks.
The campus infrastructure, or whatever, is ordinary public streets. Hell, there are even jogging trails there.
(I used to work for Microsoft. Been there, even on the jogging trails.)
So, yes, the picture does image a loading dock, a truck, and a public street.
This isn't just a rumor, the system has two different priorities.
Low priority preemption, with strobe flashes at 10Hz, is intended for mass transit vehicles.
High priority preemption, with strobe flashes at 13Hz, is inteded for emergency vehicles.
So while on the surface, it may look like your almost-empty chugging-along Greyhound bus gives itself the same priority as a heart attack victim in a racing ambulance, in reality, the system was designed for this situation and gives the ambulance priority.
"All Red" also gives the emergency vehicles the clearance to use the opposing lanes and any other clear space in the intersection etc, coupled with the fact that at any intersection, you ONLY want the emergency vehicles moving...no others.
Actually, you DO want other vehicles moving. Specifically, the ones in front of the emergency vehicle. There's not always room to pull over or give way within your lane, and giving the vehicles immediately in front of you a red light will... well... stop you too.
This time limit is in the Berne Convention, which was instituted in 1905. I'm surprised that Australia has taken 98 years to institute it into national law?
Unless CowboyNeal is concerned with being unable to pir8 the latest screener DVD in the future, I don't see how this matters nerd-wise.
...and hence, this qualifies as "stuff that matters".
Or are you saying that you're not among the 60 million Americans who use P2P to get your latest media fix? I certainly am. And I'm not afraid of talking about it, either.
Read my lips: I want to find out where I can get movies sooner and in better quality. The legality of it is irrelevant, at least the present legality, which I consider broken and needs enough violations to make a point to lawmakers.
Yes, that's right. Not only do I have a personal satisfaction in leeching content, but I see it as my duty in order to protect citizens from corporate greed. I see it as my duty to violate this law in order to make a point. This law NEEDS to be violated. It needs to be made absolutely clear that lawmakers are put in place by voters, and that tens of millions of people want a different order than lawmakers are currently being paid to institute.
But seeing how they have numerous times had their asses saved by the USA, at the cost of blood and hard work, it adds insult to injury, when the USA is trying to fight down the opressors of this world.
Notably, the USA is one of few who CAN fight down the oppressors of this world.
However, you're going about it in completely the wrong way. The way the US people can fight down world oppression is in their voting booths.
The really interesting thing about this is that trademarks are national resources, not international. If you trademark something in, say, Sweden, then that thing is trademarked in, well, Sweden.
Now, how would a global advertising activity successfully prevent company A, which is based in Kuala Lumpur, from infringing on company B:s trademark, which only exists in, say, the Outer Hebrides?
The world is international, folks. National namespaces don't work when extrapolated to the global view.
(Insert obligatory rant here about the French not caring about anything non-French anyway):-)
The key, just as you state, is accountability. I've been involved in electronic secret voting on numerous occasions and it has always worked without a hitch.
Here's the thing: Every voter chooses a secret phrase. One trusted party knows the connection between you and the phrase you choose. (Phrases have to be unique.)
Then, you cast your vote, for alternative or candidate X.
As a result of the ballot, all people who voted are publicly listed. Also, under each alternative or candidate, all phrases from the voters for that alternative is listed. One phrase per voter. The votes are easily counted, and everyone can see that they are on the list of voters, and that their vote has been correctly counted since their phrase is under the alternative/candidate they voted for. However, only the trusted party has the full global list of who voted for what, but everybody can verify that their piece of the ballot adds upp to the stated total.
This gives full accountability and transparency while maintaining anonymity (well, it does require a trusted party, but that party can well be a government one).
Paper, once written, can still be changed. You, however, know how you voted, and can (and will!) check that your vote was correctly counted.
Other favorites that change meaning to the opposite depending on context:
"Fast" - can mean that something is moving rapidly, OR that is it secured to the ground and thus immobile
"Anxious" - seeking to avoid (anxious about the nearby gunfire) OR actively seeking out (anxious to see her)
"Sanctioned", as in "sanctioned action" - An explicitly permitted action, OR an explicitly forbidden and punished action
"Quite" - completely OR not completely
"Apparent" - uncertain but possible OR completely certain
This comes with phrases, as well. One of my favorites is "I could care less", which actually communicates "I could NOT care less" (this is not interesting to me).
Good Lord, Apple is slashdotted. This has got to be a first, their site usually stands up even to the worst rushes of newly-released trailers for the next geek movie.
More specifically, iTunes has to talk to the IMAPI (Image Mastering API) present in Windows systems, which abstracts CD burning since a while back.
Things have changed since CD burners first appeared. It is not all that different, these days. If IMAPI says you're good to go, then go ahead and pump the data. Who knows where it'll end up? It's not your problem anymore.
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Quite to the contrary. Bluetooth is the successor to IrDA, and a good one at that.
When I sit at my desk, I hit "Synchronize" on my desktop, and my Outlook stuff syncs with my mobile phone. One step. That's it. With IrDA, there were many more steps involved -- the first, FINDING THE DAMN PHONE, not the least. With Bluetooth, the phone remains in my belt, or my bag, or buried under heaps of paper on my desk, or wherever. Then you had to point it, align it, turn on infrared reception, set it to sync receive, blah blah.
Sync in one step. It takes as many steps for me to use my computer's more convenient headset as voice channel for my phone (!). Or to connect to the bluetooth headset.
Bluetooth was intended to REPLACE CABLES IN SHORT RANGE COMMUNICATIONS! Nothing more, nothing less. And it's doing a remarkably fine job at it. My phone is exposing its file interface, its audio interface, and its contacts/calendaring interface to my computer, everything beautifully accessible. Nothing before did that in this simple way.
Anybody who thinks Bluetooth is going away is smoking crack - it's filled the niche it indended to fill.
The oldest hardware I'm still using are my two Pentium 75 and Pentium 60 machines. They are completely broken, long since, and are stripped of all usable parts, also long since. Everything in them is broken. In fact, when something breaks, I have a habit of mounting it in one of these guys.
But they are put to very good use; they are placed to _appear_ like they are the computers in operation at the place I hack. In case of a raid/prank/whatever, these are the boxes that will be grabbed and go. Good luck and godspeed. My real machines, the ones actually doing the crunching, are stowed away in closets, hidden from view.
Paranoid? Probably. But hey, being overly paranoid has sometimes paid off for me, just because people around me don't believe someone will go to such lengths for a Maskirovka. Hopefully this will never pay off, just like I never hope I'll have to put my electricity-is-out-for-days kit to use.
Now, perhaps I'm answering the question too literally, but I'm still interested in if other people think along the same lines.:-)
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This was a picture taken without permission in a PUBLIC property, in a PUBLIC area, where it is quite permissible to take pictures, with the photo facing AWAY from anything related to his employer, save the arriving truck and shipment.
The Microsoft campus is NOT a gated community! The line of public vs. Microsoft-private is drawn at the door to each building, which has (surprise) access control locks.
The campus infrastructure, or whatever, is ordinary public streets. Hell, there are even jogging trails there.
(I used to work for Microsoft. Been there, even on the jogging trails.)
So, yes, the picture does image a loading dock, a truck, and a public street.
This isn't just a rumor, the system has two different priorities.
Low priority preemption, with strobe flashes at 10Hz, is intended for mass transit vehicles.
High priority preemption, with strobe flashes at 13Hz, is inteded for emergency vehicles.
So while on the surface, it may look like your almost-empty chugging-along Greyhound bus gives itself the same priority as a heart attack victim in a racing ambulance, in reality, the system was designed for this situation and gives the ambulance priority.
"All Red" also gives the emergency vehicles the clearance to use the opposing lanes and any other clear space in the intersection etc, coupled with the fact that at any intersection, you ONLY want the emergency vehicles moving...no others.
Actually, you DO want other vehicles moving. Specifically, the ones in front of the emergency vehicle. There's not always room to pull over or give way within your lane, and giving the vehicles immediately in front of you a red light will... well... stop you too.
This time limit is in the Berne Convention, which was instituted in 1905. I'm surprised that Australia has taken 98 years to institute it into national law?
...it's not like they have a good public relation to care for. What do they have to lose?
Not only does it not come with dots, but there isn't much of a plot you can aspire to miss.
More pr0n for the people!
If I become an Academy member, can I get some for free? Or do I have to log on to Kazaa again?
Unless CowboyNeal is concerned with being unable to pir8 the latest screener DVD in the future, I don't see how this matters nerd-wise.
...and hence, this qualifies as "stuff that matters".
Or are you saying that you're not among the 60 million Americans who use P2P to get your latest media fix? I certainly am. And I'm not afraid of talking about it, either.
Read my lips: I want to find out where I can get movies sooner and in better quality. The legality of it is irrelevant, at least the present legality, which I consider broken and needs enough violations to make a point to lawmakers.
Yes, that's right. Not only do I have a personal satisfaction in leeching content, but I see it as my duty in order to protect citizens from corporate greed. I see it as my duty to violate this law in order to make a point. This law NEEDS to be violated. It needs to be made absolutely clear that lawmakers are put in place by voters, and that tens of millions of people want a different order than lawmakers are currently being paid to institute.
You're reading the acrony wrong...
http://www.mpaa.org
But seeing how they have numerous times had their asses saved by the USA, at the cost of blood and hard work, it adds insult to injury, when the USA is trying to fight down the opressors of this world.
Notably, the USA is one of few who CAN fight down the oppressors of this world.
However, you're going about it in completely the wrong way. The way the US people can fight down world oppression is in their voting booths.
The really interesting thing about this is that trademarks are national resources, not international. If you trademark something in, say, Sweden, then that thing is trademarked in, well, Sweden.
:-)
Now, how would a global advertising activity successfully prevent company A, which is based in Kuala Lumpur, from infringing on company B:s trademark, which only exists in, say, the Outer Hebrides?
The world is international, folks. National namespaces don't work when extrapolated to the global view.
(Insert obligatory rant here about the French not caring about anything non-French anyway)
And as a side note, it would also quadruple the manufacturing costs per disc, and introduce nifty moving parts that can break down instead.
Plus, it takes much more storage space!
No, I don't think caddies would have been a brilliant idea. Not for the mass-market product.
0xCC for Coca-Cola.
No, I don't think that was the reason, but it struck me as the only thing being special about 204...
204 decimal is CC in hex. We often talked about cans of 204 at my last work...
The key, just as you state, is accountability. I've been involved in electronic secret voting on numerous occasions and it has always worked without a hitch.
Here's the thing: Every voter chooses a secret phrase. One trusted party knows the connection between you and the phrase you choose. (Phrases have to be unique.)
Then, you cast your vote, for alternative or candidate X.
As a result of the ballot, all people who voted are publicly listed. Also, under each alternative or candidate, all phrases from the voters for that alternative is listed. One phrase per voter. The votes are easily counted, and everyone can see that they are on the list of voters, and that their vote has been correctly counted since their phrase is under the alternative/candidate they voted for. However, only the trusted party has the full global list of who voted for what, but everybody can verify that their piece of the ballot adds upp to the stated total.
This gives full accountability and transparency while maintaining anonymity (well, it does require a trusted party, but that party can well be a government one).
Paper, once written, can still be changed. You, however, know how you voted, and can (and will!) check that your vote was correctly counted.
A software update applied to the inventory and ordering software last week is malfunctioning, causing orders and inventory to be lost or misrouted
Ok, so where is the party?
You don't get bragging rights until you have scored a (5, Troll).
:-)
(If you DO score a 5, Troll and brag about it, let me know exactly how much her eyes glazed over)
Other favorites that change meaning to the opposite depending on context:
"Fast" - can mean that something is moving rapidly, OR that is it secured to the ground and thus immobile
"Anxious" - seeking to avoid (anxious about the nearby gunfire) OR actively seeking out (anxious to see her)
"Sanctioned", as in "sanctioned action" - An explicitly permitted action, OR an explicitly forbidden and punished action
"Quite" - completely OR not completely
"Apparent" - uncertain but possible OR completely certain
This comes with phrases, as well. One of my favorites is "I could care less", which actually communicates "I could NOT care less" (this is not interesting to me).
Good Lord, Apple is slashdotted. This has got to be a first, their site usually stands up even to the worst rushes of newly-released trailers for the next geek movie.
I wonder what tomorrow's headlines will be.
More specifically, iTunes has to talk to the IMAPI (Image Mastering API) present in Windows systems, which abstracts CD burning since a while back.
Things have changed since CD burners first appeared. It is not all that different, these days. If IMAPI says you're good to go, then go ahead and pump the data. Who knows where it'll end up? It's not your problem anymore.
RIAA Says Future Of Music Industry Is Suing File Sharers
Quite to the contrary. Bluetooth is the successor to IrDA, and a good one at that.
When I sit at my desk, I hit "Synchronize" on my desktop, and my Outlook stuff syncs with my mobile phone. One step. That's it. With IrDA, there were many more steps involved -- the first, FINDING THE DAMN PHONE, not the least. With Bluetooth, the phone remains in my belt, or my bag, or buried under heaps of paper on my desk, or wherever. Then you had to point it, align it, turn on infrared reception, set it to sync receive, blah blah.
Sync in one step. It takes as many steps for me to use my computer's more convenient headset as voice channel for my phone (!). Or to connect to the bluetooth headset.
Bluetooth was intended to REPLACE CABLES IN SHORT RANGE COMMUNICATIONS! Nothing more, nothing less. And it's doing a remarkably fine job at it. My phone is exposing its file interface, its audio interface, and its contacts/calendaring interface to my computer, everything beautifully accessible. Nothing before did that in this simple way.
Anybody who thinks Bluetooth is going away is smoking crack - it's filled the niche it indended to fill.
The oldest hardware I'm still using are my two Pentium 75 and Pentium 60 machines. They are completely broken, long since, and are stripped of all usable parts, also long since. Everything in them is broken. In fact, when something breaks, I have a habit of mounting it in one of these guys.
:-)
But they are put to very good use; they are placed to _appear_ like they are the computers in operation at the place I hack. In case of a raid/prank/whatever, these are the boxes that will be grabbed and go. Good luck and godspeed. My real machines, the ones actually doing the crunching, are stowed away in closets, hidden from view.
Paranoid? Probably. But hey, being overly paranoid has sometimes paid off for me, just because people around me don't believe someone will go to such lengths for a Maskirovka. Hopefully this will never pay off, just like I never hope I'll have to put my electricity-is-out-for-days kit to use.
Now, perhaps I'm answering the question too literally, but I'm still interested in if other people think along the same lines.
And you call yourself a geek? :-)
:-)
Hard drives have two states, new or full. Their size is irrelevant.
My next computer will have 1.4 terabytes of disk storage (8x200G in RAID5). I'm convinced it will last me at least a month.
Real geeks have always want MORE hard drive space, FASTER processors, and MORE COLORFUL blinkenlights. Which school are you from, anyway?
First, the potential customers aren't likely to care.
Second, does anybody remember their history? The first hardware MP3 player (Diamond) was sued like hell, and won. Why should this be any different?