I smell protests from the drummer and bass guitar unions. First the industrial revolution replaced workers with robots, now the entertainment industry is being targetted.
Wait, if the robotic drummer/bass guitar player invents a new riff, who takes the royalties? Maybe it could use the money for new servo motors or a replacement oil pan.
I do the logistics and statistics for a telemarketing company, I manage the lists, crunch the numbers and provide software which our pool of TM's use to call. They have an auto-dialler which does all the numbers for them, they just do their nails while waiting for a live pick up.
The magic words are "can you please place me on your do not call list". It's important to say it like that because these people are drones. They have a scripts and because they do 1000's of these calls a day they are generally listening for key phrases from people in order for them to react. If they hear that phrase, they click the checkbox, save it and hang up.
Now, believe it or not, this company isn't in the business to annoy people. They sell a product which they get people to come along to seminars and we give them a free meal and tell them about the stuff we import and flog to them.
For us to stay alive, we have to make some form of profit. It's a tight ship, so lower costs raises that margin. Flagfall on 800,000 calls a month is expensive, even at a bulk rate from our provider. We buy a massive list of people, including a DNC list which we integrate into our system so we make sure we never call these people. To our management team, each DNC record represents a saving in flagfall trying to contact the person. They are saying that they are categorically not interested in buying from us.
If we lost our DNC list, we would be wasting thousands re-calling people who have already told us they are not interested.
I've read Steven Hawkings Brief History of Time and understood it. However, I think this comment somehow managed to escape the event horizon. Either that or one of my cats has exploded.
Where he was reading Brief History of Time and read "light is effected by gravity", to which he concluded that it was easier to drop things in the dark.
-1 offtopic.
Mind you, maybe I could strap a blue LED to an albatross and find my way home when I'm drunk.
I was doing some work for the attorney generals department working on their handgun buyback project in 2003/04, which required me to visit gunsmiths and other people who work around firearms in general. It involved me visiting their workshops, gun shops, firing ranges etc with a laptop. Close contact with firearm making materials, especially fulminate of mercury, sitting around their workshops, shaking hands etc. Suffice to say I was randomly selected at Canberra airport on the way home and given the once over with the bomb stick.
It went off, not big red lights and stuff but a little flashing message. The person looked a little stunned at first and I was pulled over to an office. I showed them my AG passes and explained what I had been doing in Canberra that day. They seemed fairly sceptical until I gave them the name of a senior officer in the department of defence who could verify who I was, the questioning stopped and they let me go after a quick search of everything. It was a quick interlude in what was going to be a fairly un-eventful day. They were polite and cheerful, but certainly focused on their job.
... July 4th: (all day) Fireworks at Ball's Ballmer's house, bring shoe polish for that head July 5th: 7am - 11pm - Office. Vista meeting. July 6th: 7am - 11pm - Office. Vista meeting. July 7th: 7am - 11pm - Office. Vista meeting. July 8th: 7am - 11pm - Office. Vista meeting. July 9th: (all day) 2nd annual Vista release party. July 10th: 10am - Dan's leather emporium. 5pm - Babysitter. 6pm - Pizza Hut. 9pm - Hell Fire Club w/Melinda. July 11th: 11am - Sucker punch Steve Job's. 12pm - 6pm - Review MS Bob v2. 8pm - Whiskey a go-go with Ellison....
I only live 30 minutes from his Australia Zoo at Beerwah and have watched him perform the croc stuff a couple of times and it was very entertaining.
I remember trying to take a photograph of my kid at the petting zoo while his kid was in there and I was politely asked not to. Mind you, it was just after the whole 'dangling the baby in front of the baby eating crocodile' incident, I can understand the paranoia at the time.
haha, now that you mention it, there was an element of that.
I remember the fall quite well, it plays in my mind in slow motion, except my mind has added a slow moving pram and a gun fight. Once you do film studies it scars you for life...
I owned one many years ago and it was fairly rugged until I dropped it down 30 concrete steps in Singapore. I had accidentally poured beer over it the night before but it survived, although the little rubber nipple thing in the keyboard went kinda funky, turning to the same consistency as Silly Putty.
They repaired it at my cost, replaced the inverter, case and keyboard (they complained of a strange smell, I didn't tell them about the Tiger beer bath it had previously) and I used it for about six months until I traded for a Toshiba, which was practically bomb proof as I ran over it 8 months later and *nothing* broke.
Luckily, it wasn't a tram that ran it over, like the one that ran over my Motorola E398 phone. It was totally flat. I did take it in to show the repair shop for a joke, asked if it was a warranty job. They were very polite.
I've administered a music oriented forum which has been working since 1999 (watmm.com, used to be joyrex.com, not linked, not my intention to spam, but if you really must visit be my guest) and the purpose of the forum certainly has changed many times over that period. For the first few years it was pretty much on-subject matter (it started out as a fan site for Richard D James) picked up a lot of members during the first couple of years, faced competition from similar fan sites, engaged in site wars for a while. The content of the site, news, releases, discography, images, audio and video has fluctuated in size. We have a central forum area where a lot of general chit-chat takes place, then generally smaller forums for on-topic discussions. We're currently on our 7th 'refresh' of forums, mainly due to changing forum software several times or changing service providers and not having time to restore the data properly.
Funnily enough, the members don't mind the refreshes, they gripe for a little while, but then it's soon forgotten and things return to normal. We learn't early on that a good set of rules really helps control what's going on, then finding a set of reliable moderators who are spread evenly around the planet to ensure at least one will be reading the forum within a certain time frame.
Right now, we are low on content because of a recent service provider move and a site re-design, but our members are still very active. We don't have a wiki on any part of the site. I can't honestly see a firm reason why we would need one at this stage. If we were to install one, the information would probably be covered by wikipedia anyway. A lot of our special permission material, things we've been allowed to show on our site only wouldn't fit the copyright rules on wikipedia.
I would have to say that above the social interaction of members, there tends to be a grouping of mindset within the community. I find this is very evident in humor on the site. It's very light hearted, very on topic, and very geeky. Although this may seem insignificant, passing on-topic jokes can contain valuable information. Especially to new people on the forum, older members make a joke about what is deemed commonly known information, but it may not be talked about in great detail at this point in time.
I guess an example would be a joke passed around about the on stage Vodka consumption of Squarepusher (a manic bass player), this was common information talked about a few years ago, seemingly forgotten about now, not really documented on our site. A few new guys were a bit surprised, but now they know.
If they could clone the fat that goes on the steak that makes it taste good I'd eat it. Then I'd use their other device for de-cloning my fat afterwards.
De-cloning. Wait, I've just invented the fat mux/demux. I'm going to be rich!
Everytime I hear that name I cringe thinking about the years lost fixing CB86 code. Small memory model, code segments were split across module files and swapped in and out. I maintained a large job costing system which was split into hundreds of modules, old modules were basically full and we had to be very careful just fixing small bugs. We knew what kind of code would be produced by the compiler, so we could calculate to the byte how much data space we had left. Sometimes, for us to fix a bug, we had to optimise another part of the module so it would take up less space and then implement the bug fix. Either that or we split the module up into two files, which was time consuming and we had to be careful passing information from one module to another.
It ran under MU/CCPM, with a little tweaking and some tactical ASM I managed to fix it so we could compile versions for MS-DOS, then with further changes to the record locking it would work nicely with Novell.
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I smell protests from the drummer and bass guitar unions. First the industrial revolution replaced workers with robots, now the entertainment industry is being targetted.
Wait, if the robotic drummer/bass guitar player invents a new riff, who takes the royalties? Maybe it could use the money for new servo motors or a replacement oil pan.
Person 1: My Amorphophallus titanum has no nose!
Person 2: How does it smell?
Person 3: Fucking awful.
Very true indeed, especially when I've heard that the w2k task manager code was included in the source leak a few years ago.
Not that I know anything about the source leak or any of its contents...
I do the logistics and statistics for a telemarketing company, I manage the lists, crunch the numbers and provide software which our pool of TM's use to call. They have an auto-dialler which does all the numbers for them, they just do their nails while waiting for a live pick up.
The magic words are "can you please place me on your do not call list". It's important to say it like that because these people are drones. They have a scripts and because they do 1000's of these calls a day they are generally listening for key phrases from people in order for them to react. If they hear that phrase, they click the checkbox, save it and hang up.
Now, believe it or not, this company isn't in the business to annoy people. They sell a product which they get people to come along to seminars and we give them a free meal and tell them about the stuff we import and flog to them.
For us to stay alive, we have to make some form of profit. It's a tight ship, so lower costs raises that margin. Flagfall on 800,000 calls a month is expensive, even at a bulk rate from our provider. We buy a massive list of people, including a DNC list which we integrate into our system so we make sure we never call these people. To our management team, each DNC record represents a saving in flagfall trying to contact the person. They are saying that they are categorically not interested in buying from us.
If we lost our DNC list, we would be wasting thousands re-calling people who have already told us they are not interested.
I've read Steven Hawkings Brief History of Time and understood it. However, I think this comment somehow managed to escape the event horizon. Either that or one of my cats has exploded.
With a nose the size of mine I'm not looking forward to the polar shift. I'll have to wear kneepads and a helmet.
Where he was reading Brief History of Time and read "light is effected by gravity", to which he concluded that it was easier to drop things in the dark.
-1 offtopic.
Mind you, maybe I could strap a blue LED to an albatross and find my way home when I'm drunk.
+1 ontopic.
Blinking lights? Luxury! In my day you had to keep the abacus lubricated, otherwise the beads would just stop!
Public, private and corporate schooling. The school uniform being freebie TechEd polo shirts.
Buy Nextstep...
First thing that popped into my head was the new Mozilla security slogan.
"We're not going to take it! NO! We ain't gonna take it! We're not going to take it, anymore!"
I was doing some work for the attorney generals department working on their handgun buyback project in 2003/04, which required me to visit gunsmiths and other people who work around firearms in general. It involved me visiting their workshops, gun shops, firing ranges etc with a laptop. Close contact with firearm making materials, especially fulminate of mercury, sitting around their workshops, shaking hands etc. Suffice to say I was randomly selected at Canberra airport on the way home and given the once over with the bomb stick.
It went off, not big red lights and stuff but a little flashing message. The person looked a little stunned at first and I was pulled over to an office. I showed them my AG passes and explained what I had been doing in Canberra that day. They seemed fairly sceptical until I gave them the name of a senior officer in the department of defence who could verify who I was, the questioning stopped and they let me go after a quick search of everything. It was a quick interlude in what was going to be a fairly un-eventful day. They were polite and cheerful, but certainly focused on their job.
Not the cause...
It was just outside the SGH.
... ...
July 4th: (all day) Fireworks at Ball's Ballmer's house, bring shoe polish for that head
July 5th: 7am - 11pm - Office. Vista meeting.
July 6th: 7am - 11pm - Office. Vista meeting.
July 7th: 7am - 11pm - Office. Vista meeting.
July 8th: 7am - 11pm - Office. Vista meeting.
July 9th: (all day) 2nd annual Vista release party.
July 10th: 10am - Dan's leather emporium. 5pm - Babysitter. 6pm - Pizza Hut. 9pm - Hell Fire Club w/Melinda.
July 11th: 11am - Sucker punch Steve Job's. 12pm - 6pm - Review MS Bob v2. 8pm - Whiskey a go-go with Ellison.
I only live 30 minutes from his Australia Zoo at Beerwah and have watched him perform the croc stuff a couple of times and it was very entertaining.
I remember trying to take a photograph of my kid at the petting zoo while his kid was in there and I was politely asked not to. Mind you, it was just after the whole 'dangling the baby in front of the baby eating crocodile' incident, I can understand the paranoia at the time.
haha, now that you mention it, there was an element of that.
I remember the fall quite well, it plays in my mind in slow motion, except my mind has added a slow moving pram and a gun fight. Once you do film studies it scars you for life...
I owned one many years ago and it was fairly rugged until I dropped it down 30 concrete steps in Singapore. I had accidentally poured beer over it the night before but it survived, although the little rubber nipple thing in the keyboard went kinda funky, turning to the same consistency as Silly Putty.
They repaired it at my cost, replaced the inverter, case and keyboard (they complained of a strange smell, I didn't tell them about the Tiger beer bath it had previously) and I used it for about six months until I traded for a Toshiba, which was practically bomb proof as I ran over it 8 months later and *nothing* broke.
Luckily, it wasn't a tram that ran it over, like the one that ran over my Motorola E398 phone. It was totally flat. I did take it in to show the repair shop for a joke, asked if it was a warranty job. They were very polite.
They'd make a 16 bit version and call it a Thunkpad.
GET /pluto.html HTTP/1.1
Host: www.sun.com
Accept: */*
HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found
Server: Sun-System-Web-Server/6.1
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:44:59 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/rock
I've administered a music oriented forum which has been working since 1999 (watmm.com, used to be joyrex.com, not linked, not my intention to spam, but if you really must visit be my guest) and the purpose of the forum certainly has changed many times over that period. For the first few years it was pretty much on-subject matter (it started out as a fan site for Richard D James) picked up a lot of members during the first couple of years, faced competition from similar fan sites, engaged in site wars for a while. The content of the site, news, releases, discography, images, audio and video has fluctuated in size. We have a central forum area where a lot of general chit-chat takes place, then generally smaller forums for on-topic discussions. We're currently on our 7th 'refresh' of forums, mainly due to changing forum software several times or changing service providers and not having time to restore the data properly.
Funnily enough, the members don't mind the refreshes, they gripe for a little while, but then it's soon forgotten and things return to normal. We learn't early on that a good set of rules really helps control what's going on, then finding a set of reliable moderators who are spread evenly around the planet to ensure at least one will be reading the forum within a certain time frame.
Right now, we are low on content because of a recent service provider move and a site re-design, but our members are still very active. We don't have a wiki on any part of the site. I can't honestly see a firm reason why we would need one at this stage. If we were to install one, the information would probably be covered by wikipedia anyway. A lot of our special permission material, things we've been allowed to show on our site only wouldn't fit the copyright rules on wikipedia.
I would have to say that above the social interaction of members, there tends to be a grouping of mindset within the community. I find this is very evident in humor on the site. It's very light hearted, very on topic, and very geeky. Although this may seem insignificant, passing on-topic jokes can contain valuable information. Especially to new people on the forum, older members make a joke about what is deemed commonly known information, but it may not be talked about in great detail at this point in time.
I guess an example would be a joke passed around about the on stage Vodka consumption of Squarepusher (a manic bass player), this was common information talked about a few years ago, seemingly forgotten about now, not really documented on our site. A few new guys were a bit surprised, but now they know.
2 Laptops, cross-over cable, NIC's and a game of network PornoDoom. There's a night in.
Then sex.
If they could clone the fat that goes on the steak that makes it taste good I'd eat it. Then I'd use their other device for de-cloning my fat afterwards.
De-cloning. Wait, I've just invented the fat mux/demux. I'm going to be rich!
Poor things, hopefully it doesn't halt their ability to spin around really really fast.
Everytime I hear that name I cringe thinking about the years lost fixing CB86 code. Small memory model, code segments were split across module files and swapped in and out. I maintained a large job costing system which was split into hundreds of modules, old modules were basically full and we had to be very careful just fixing small bugs. We knew what kind of code would be produced by the compiler, so we could calculate to the byte how much data space we had left. Sometimes, for us to fix a bug, we had to optimise another part of the module so it would take up less space and then implement the bug fix. Either that or we split the module up into two files, which was time consuming and we had to be careful passing information from one module to another.
It ran under MU/CCPM, with a little tweaking and some tactical ASM I managed to fix it so we could compile versions for MS-DOS, then with further changes to the record locking it would work nicely with Novell.