Last November, my fiance's cat took it into her head to knock mine off of my desk. I sent it back, after getting an RMA, explaining that it wasn't a "shipping damage" issue (because I was past the time limit for that sort of thing.) I even arranged for the "fast track/we'll get you a replacement tomorrow/$100 even" deal. The never billed me; however, this was when they couldn't even keep track of orders for the new units.
So I wouldn't count on something this lucky happening to anyone else. But it made my day.
This timothy guy posted an article about the Glass Cockpit installed in the shuttle a little while ago - the comments included a link to this Fast Company article (very good, but I'm sure most of us read it.) It's also from Dec 96 - not very new.
Hello? Not hardly. It's because of the copyrighted _CONTENT_. Quote beloew from Thagg, comment # 378:
He holds that the interoperability exception only applies to software; and he consideres movies to be other-than-software. To quote the ruling: "Finally, and most important, the legislative history makes it abundantly clear that Section 1201(f) permits reverse engineering of copyrighted computer programs only and does not authorize circumvention of technological systems that control access to other copyrighted works, such as movies.21 In consequence, the reverse engineering exception does not apply."
No, it's called the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. (I think.) The point of it being, reverse engineering can be illegal if it can be used illegaly (or words to that effect.)
I had a Sharp 93000C (I think) that I bought on the cheap from Damark (I hate that catalog.) It was more powerful than any TI when I was in school (93-96), with an excellent equation solver (graphical, Newtonian, and one other method), and it would evaluate definite integrals too! It was also easier to use (for me) than any HP I saw. Too bad it died a couple of years ago
Does NOBODY watch TV anymore? I saw a commercial for the car I must have, the Honda Insight. 71 mpg , for chrissake! The system described above is exactly what it uses. It's a hybrid gas/electric, for sale NOW anywhere. Actually, since Dec 17, I think. www.honda.com, baby.
A lot of NT's design was taken from VMS. MSFT hired a crew of old VMS folks when they started work on it (although I don't know if that was before or after they switched NT from OS/2 to Windows.)
I think Roblimo is making an invalid comparison here. It takes a different skillset, and different type of intelligence, to do different things. No matter how bright a person may be in one thing, that doesn't mean that they're good with other things.
Personally, and applicable to your analogy with "Ron," I am good with computers and software. I am useless with mechanical contrivances. With my car, I can change my own oil, and I even did my own air filter a few weeks back. But no matter how hard my Mechanical Engineering friends try, I still have troble really understanding how a car's transmission works.
You said that there was a politico you met who you wouldn't trust to drive your limo, because he'd get lost. I have friends in the IT business who I would never ask for financial or personal advice, because they aren't good at and don't understand that sort of thing.
People gravitate towards the things that they feel rewarded by, either external (monetary, social prestige) rewards or internal (sense of satisfaction, personal growth) rewards. IT people do it because they are good at it and get paid well for it. Many (like McNealy) could get paid much better as executives, but most don't. Either they wouldn't view the hassle of management as worth their salary (unlikely) or they don't have a hig-end management mindset. Or the current management wouldn't promote them that high, which shows that the hypothetical IT people in question aren't good at office/social politics.
I must say, I've seen an excellent movie, all around and hacker-specific. Pi, from Artisan Entertainment. It's right around 1.5 hrs long, black and white, and absolutely amazing. One of the first films picked up by the same company that then got The Blair Witch Project. It's all about mathematics, number theory, chaos theory, the stock market, and a paranoiac migraine-sufferer in Brooklyn, caught between corporations and Kabalistic Hasidics.
"Government cryptanalysis may have been ahead in WW2, but this is a drastically different time. Now, crypto is in the hands of Universities and hackers. We've literally taken the field of cryptology from the hands of the NSA, and they're annoyed. That's why they come up with insane ploys like Echelon. " But SigInt was initiated in 1947-1948. http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990523/news/news3.h tml
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Windows NT 4.0 release: 1996
49.7 day bug discovered: 1999
Fix released: never
Well, it was Win 95 and 98, not NT. And it was fixed. click
So this is like Nicodeamus' "magic whirly thing" from the kids' cartoon movie, "The Secret of NYMH?"
> Who knows what will happen to Molecule X when you weld a new Oxegen atom to it!
Well, first they'll have to _make_ Oxegen (is that trademarked? Can I use the name?)
He didn't claim it was a new breed. You read "new" into it.
Last November, my fiance's cat took it into her head to knock mine off of my desk. I sent it back, after getting an RMA, explaining that it wasn't a "shipping damage" issue (because I was past the time limit for that sort of thing.) I even arranged for the "fast track/we'll get you a replacement tomorrow/$100 even" deal. The never billed me; however, this was when they couldn't even keep track of orders for the new units. So I wouldn't count on something this lucky happening to anyone else. But it made my day.
Well, maybe not for an intro course, they shouldn't. Lots of non-CS types will be taking the course too.
>Aww... but why can't I append my sig to the beginning of comments I post? Cuz then that would be _pre-pending_.
That would be a tarantula. Tarantella is a dance.
Woohoo - I was worried about the exhaustion of the letter "s" in the current address space.
First off, the authoer said he wasn't a competent enough programmer to do it. Second, he's a she.
The cube does not have Gb ether. That's only the towers.
Actually, Sagan was (by trade) an astronomer (and exobiologist.)
This timothy guy posted an article about the Glass Cockpit installed in the shuttle a little while ago - the comments included a link to this Fast Company article (very good, but I'm sure most of us read it.) It's also from Dec 96 - not very new.
Hello? Not hardly. It's because of the copyrighted _CONTENT_. Quote beloew from Thagg, comment # 378:
He holds that the interoperability exception only applies to software; and he consideres movies to be other-than-software. To quote the ruling: "Finally, and most important, the legislative history makes it abundantly clear that Section 1201(f) permits reverse engineering of copyrighted computer programs only and does not authorize circumvention of technological systems that control access to other copyrighted works, such as movies.21 In consequence, the reverse engineering exception does not apply."
No, it's called the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. (I think.) The point of it being, reverse engineering can be illegal if it can be used illegaly (or words to that effect.)
Don't forget, they request 15 copies when sending paper mail.
I had a Sharp 93000C (I think) that I bought on the cheap from Damark (I hate that catalog.) It was more powerful than any TI when I was in school (93-96), with an excellent equation solver (graphical, Newtonian, and one other method), and it would evaluate definite integrals too! It was also easier to use (for me) than any HP I saw. Too bad it died a couple of years ago
Saw this on The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/991201-000008.html It's like a demo+, that runs over/in Windows.
Does NOBODY watch TV anymore? I saw a commercial for the car I must have, the Honda Insight. 71 mpg , for chrissake! The system described above is exactly what it uses. It's a hybrid gas/electric, for sale NOW anywhere. Actually, since Dec 17, I think. www.honda.com, baby.
A lot of NT's design was taken from VMS. MSFT hired a crew of old VMS folks when they started work on it (although I don't know if that was before or after they switched NT from OS/2 to Windows.)
I think Roblimo is making an invalid comparison here. It takes a different skillset, and different type of intelligence, to do different things. No matter how bright a person may be in one thing, that doesn't mean that they're good with other things.
Personally, and applicable to your analogy with "Ron," I am good with computers and software. I am useless with mechanical contrivances. With my car, I can change my own oil, and I even did my own air filter a few weeks back. But no matter how hard my Mechanical Engineering friends try, I still have troble really understanding how a car's transmission works.
You said that there was a politico you met who you wouldn't trust to drive your limo, because he'd get lost. I have friends in the IT business who I would never ask for financial or personal advice, because they aren't good at and don't understand that sort of thing.
People gravitate towards the things that they feel rewarded by, either external (monetary, social prestige) rewards or internal (sense of satisfaction, personal growth) rewards. IT people do it because they are good at it and get paid well for it. Many (like McNealy) could get paid much better as executives, but most don't. Either they wouldn't view the hassle of management as worth their salary (unlikely) or they don't have a hig-end management mindset. Or the current management wouldn't promote them that high, which shows that the hypothetical IT people in question aren't good at office/social politics.
I must say, I've seen an excellent movie, all around and hacker-specific. Pi, from Artisan Entertainment. It's right around 1.5 hrs long, black and white, and absolutely amazing. One of the first films picked up by the same company that then got The Blair Witch Project. It's all about mathematics, number theory, chaos theory, the stock market, and a paranoiac migraine-sufferer in Brooklyn, caught between corporations and Kabalistic Hasidics.
"Government cryptanalysis may have been ahead in WW2, but this is a drastically different time. Now, crypto is in the hands of Universities and hackers. We've literally taken the field of cryptology from the hands of the NSA, and they're annoyed. That's why they come up with insane ploys like Echelon. " But SigInt was initiated in 1947-1948. http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990523/news/news3.h tml