And can someone please shoot that damn "Spirit" from a chopper so we don't have to watch those previews anymore? A Native American and his horse--someone put me out of my misery!
I saw it at a Cinemark theater here last night. While not particularily deep, it was a satisfyingly consistent movie. It didn't insult the viewer's intelligence once, which is saying a lot for a movie these days. Certain plot twists, while unexpected, help the storyline along. I give it 2 thumbs up for being easy to watch and it didn't totally mangle the original concept!
"The IOC has hired NetResult, a joint venture of three British digital-rights-protection firms, to police the Web for any sites that show illegal broadcasts.
NetResult's Copyright Control Services will use spider technology to scour the Net for sites that use Olympic trademarks without permission. The company will also use experienced surfers to monitor former violators.
"You have to let the human experts drive the use of technology," said Caroline Townley, managing director at NetResult. "You need to focus on where the commercial damage is being done."
Since the Sydney Olympics, the IOC has created a database that contains several thousand sites that have been identified as potential violators, said Aikman, who is also a member of the IOC's Internet task force."
Better not put those snaps online too soon after the trip!!!
Commercial damage my ass. 500 or even 500,000 people watching some vidclips of Olympic Events or their logo won't do any commericial damage.
What if an athelete who participates wants to put up the video of his kick ass butt-slide down the mountain?
Call it a troll but I think these fast response copyright/trademark violation investigation teams are a little scary!
The difference is that punch cards actually are the data. Your university ID card or my drivers license or credit card only contain enough unique info to allow a positive match to the data on the server side.
How many megabytes do 80,000 punch cards represent? I wouldn't know where to start the math, but I suspect that if you took 80,000 university ID cards and added up the server side data the university stores for each individual you'd have 1-2 megs per student and I bet a punch card doesn't hold that much!
4 car batteries at roughly full power = 48.9 volts. Device powers up, runs light bulb for 10 minutes. If this was a conventional electrical generator-odd as it sounds being powered by batteries-it would burn roughly.3kwh to power the 3 100w light bulbs for 10 minutes. Using electricity to generate electricity is not very efficient, yet there was a net gain on the original energy source. Device continues to run for another 2 hours. Again if it was a generator running off the car batteries this would have consumed those @15 times in those 2 hours yet yet the device continued to run. The article doesn't state that they ran 3 100w bulbs for 2 hours off 4 car batteries. It states they "started" a device that in turn generated roughly.6kwh and still had a net gain on the starter batteries.
There probably is another power source concealed within the device that falsifies the readings, however your math is totally flawed. I think it's a hoax as much as the next guy but your reasoning is off.
The article describes an electrically started generating device that returns a net gain. It doesn't say that 3 100w bulbs should drain 4.5kwh in 2 hours. It says that an electrically powered electrical generator would consume roughly 4.5kwh to generate the.6kwh the light bulbs use during a 2 hour period.
This one is funny. You're advocating a walk-in confrontation with the poster's manager's boss? The last major corporation I worked at that would be the CIO, or VP of Info. Might as well bring any company property you have in your possession with you, you'll be turning it all in shortly enough.
To start, I'd suggest a major attitude readjustment in regards to your coworkers. These folks have been there for years and they know how things are done. You just got there and already you want to fix everything you see them doing wrong. That isn't why they hired you. You're there to make sure all the crappy systems they have in the back office keep chugging, not to re-architect the business that was running fine before you got there.
BTW your age raises legitimate concerns from an HR standpoint. Most of these concerns would relate to lack of emotional maturity, poor ability to work on a team, etc.
IMHO your best course of action is to take the wise advice of several other posters and recognize that you're there to keep your boss's fat out of the fire. The actual business requirements of your job, including following the dress code, are a very close second.
It is a good time to currently be employed, you don't want to join the unemployed masses especially with a new family! On that note I'd suggest keeping that resume up to date and the more interviews you can get, the more likely you can get out of that place. It's always better to be currently employed when looking for a new job. Good Luck!!!
Last year when ILOVEYOU hit I worked for #49 in the Fortune 100. In the aftermath, Management estimated we'd spent 2400 hours of employee time cleaning it up, not to mention our corporate email was down for 3 days.
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Maybe you missed the point, the answer to his question: You cannot change the past because the future already depends on it.
PS: Did anyone else think it was realllly cool when they accidently blew up the moon? Never seen that one before.
Yeah that one doesn't look too bad. Actually that was the best preview they showed: "You're being arrested for the future-murder of..." heh
And can someone please shoot that damn "Spirit" from a chopper so we don't have to watch those previews anymore? A Native American and his horse--someone put me out of my misery!
I saw it at a Cinemark theater here last night. While not particularily deep, it was a satisfyingly consistent movie. It didn't insult the viewer's intelligence once, which is saying a lot for a movie these days. Certain plot twists, while unexpected, help the storyline along. I give it 2 thumbs up for being easy to watch and it didn't totally mangle the original concept!
"The IOC has hired NetResult, a joint venture of three British digital-rights-protection firms, to police the Web for any sites that show illegal broadcasts.
NetResult's Copyright Control Services will use spider technology to scour the Net for sites that use Olympic trademarks without permission. The company will also use experienced surfers to monitor former violators.
"You have to let the human experts drive the use of technology," said Caroline Townley, managing director at NetResult. "You need to focus on where the commercial damage is being done."
Since the Sydney Olympics, the IOC has created a database that contains several thousand sites that have been identified as potential violators, said Aikman, who is also a member of the IOC's Internet task force."
Better not put those snaps online too soon after the trip!!!
Commercial damage my ass. 500 or even 500,000 people watching some vidclips of Olympic Events or their logo won't do any commericial damage.
What if an athelete who participates wants to put up the video of his kick ass butt-slide down the mountain?
Call it a troll but I think these fast response copyright/trademark violation investigation teams are a little scary!
The difference is that punch cards actually are the data. Your university ID card or my drivers license or credit card only contain enough unique info to allow a positive match to the data on the server side.
How many megabytes do 80,000 punch cards represent? I wouldn't know where to start the math, but I suspect that if you took 80,000 university ID cards and added up the server side data the university stores for each individual you'd have 1-2 megs per student and I bet a punch card doesn't hold that much!
MOD THIS UP!
Crashing like my Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server High Availability Cluster.
4 car batteries at roughly full power = 48.9 volts. Device powers up, runs light bulb for 10 minutes. If this was a conventional electrical generator-odd as it sounds being powered by batteries-it would burn roughly .3kwh to power the 3 100w light bulbs for 10 minutes. Using electricity to generate electricity is not very efficient, yet there was a net gain on the original energy source. Device continues to run for another 2 hours. Again if it was a generator running off the car batteries this would have consumed those @15 times in those 2 hours yet yet the device continued to run. The article doesn't state that they ran 3 100w bulbs for 2 hours off 4 car batteries. It states they "started" a device that in turn generated roughly .6kwh and still had a net gain on the starter batteries.
.6kwh the light bulbs use during a 2 hour period.
There probably is another power source concealed within the device that falsifies the readings, however your math is totally flawed. I think it's a hoax as much as the next guy but your reasoning is off.
The article describes an electrically started generating device that returns a net gain. It doesn't say that 3 100w bulbs should drain 4.5kwh in 2 hours. It says that an electrically powered electrical generator would consume roughly 4.5kwh to generate the
Dude that was like 6 months ago!
This one is funny. You're advocating a walk-in confrontation with the poster's manager's boss? The last major corporation I worked at that would be the CIO, or VP of Info. Might as well bring any company property you have in your possession with you, you'll be turning it all in shortly enough.
To start, I'd suggest a major attitude readjustment in regards to your coworkers. These folks have been there for years and they know how things are done. You just got there and already you want to fix everything you see them doing wrong. That isn't why they hired you. You're there to make sure all the crappy systems they have in the back office keep chugging, not to re-architect the business that was running fine before you got there.
BTW your age raises legitimate concerns from an HR standpoint. Most of these concerns would relate to lack of emotional maturity, poor ability to work on a team, etc.
IMHO your best course of action is to take the wise advice of several other posters and recognize that you're there to keep your boss's fat out of the fire. The actual business requirements of your job, including following the dress code, are a very close second.
It is a good time to currently be employed, you don't want to join the unemployed masses especially with a new family! On that note I'd suggest keeping that resume up to date and the more interviews you can get, the more likely you can get out of that place. It's always better to be currently employed when looking for a new job. Good Luck!!!
I thought it was pretty +funny, if EA makes me cry like the movie then it'll be money well spent!
MIRRORS PLEASE
Last year when ILOVEYOU hit I worked for #49 in the Fortune 100. In the aftermath, Management estimated we'd spent 2400 hours of employee time cleaning it up, not to mention our corporate email was down for 3 days.
Kinda reminds me of the old emulator days of Asimov.net