Ohio has an interesting way of discouraging drunk driving. Anybody caught driving drunk has to get yellow license plates, so everybody will know they have a DUI.
Not quite a gift, but funny and Valentine's Day releated...
A friend sent an ecard to everybody in our group. The computer she sent it from didn't have a Flash player installed, so all she could see was a picture of some cats in the preview. She's a cat person, so she liked the card. Late on V-day I get the card. It says "Happy Valentine's Day to the one I'll love my whole life." It was odd because she'd already turned me down for a date. Later that evening we all got together and nobody else had gotten the card yet, so we were all a little concerned about her motives. When she heard what the card said she about died. We gave her a hard time all night, like whenever she'd make a joke about me I'd say, "But I thought you loved me" and we made sure she sat next to me at dinner, in the car, and on the couch. She'll never live it down and has to send an explanatory email to all her girlfriends she sent it to.
When do I get the system that transfers me to somebody who speaks English as a first language when it detects me getting frustrated with the outsourced tech support person I can barely understand, who needs me to spell basic words for them, and who gives me the wrong RMA number because they can't pronounce "four"?
Jeans, shirt, full body flame retardant nomex suit over that, plus a full body rain suit, tall leather steel toed boots, hard hat, safety glasses, heavy gloves, hearing protection, in 90+ degree temperatures and direct sunlight, working six inches from pipes and heat exchangers running at over 700 degrees while standing in six inches of rain water with petroleum products floating on the surface, surrounded by distillation columns covered in warnings that they're full of carcinogens.
Thankfully that was a one day assignment. The next day I went back into the climate controlled, blast resistant building and sat at a desk.
I have a 15" KFC monitor that I bought with my first PC in 1994. It was used heavily for 4.5 years, was moved every few months during my co-op days in college, then survived a year in my brother's fraternity house room (quite the feat considering all the beer he spilled on his desk). Now it's hooked up to a RedHat system I use occasionally.
That's (at least part of) the reason the US judge refused Microsoft's request for an injunction, saying he doubted the validity of many of Microsoft's trademarks such as "Windows" and "Office".
So, now when copyright/trademark a name for product, you also copyright/trademark every word that 'sounds like' the name or is a 'synonym' of the name? WTF is that?
It's called "The World According to a Large Rich Company". Welcome to hell.
I'm still hopeful that when the case actually comes to trial it will be decided in Lindows' favor because Microsoft has yet to find a single person who was confused by the Lindows name, and that's a big part of trademark law (at least in the US... I don't know about the other countries).
My brother inherited a keyboard from me that I bought in 1994. It survived four years in a fraternity house room with beer repeatedly spilled in it and still worked. It finally died this year.
At a previous job we did computer consulting for a local Christian school. One student left his notebook computer on the ground and a bus ran over it. It worked fine except for some cracks in the screen (and Toshiba replaced it free of charge under the super warranty program we had).
I think you misunderstood. The virus sends an email about the shipment of the porn CDs with a spoofed return address that's actually the address of an anti-spam organization, so they get bombarded with emails from users who think they're sending them child porn.
At the computer store I worked in during the summer of 1995, our sales people went to a demonstration of Windows 95 given by a Microsoft rep. She said what they were seeing was what would soon be on the shelves. Right about then Windows crashed, prompting a quick restatement that she was actually demoing one of the late betas and there was still work being done.
A local public access TV station uses NT to manage its video feed. Fairly frequently, it will broadcast a BSOD during the weekend. Apparently the station is completely automated during off hours, since the blue screen will stay there for a while, sometimes until Monday morning. Their audio feed must be separately managed, because it keeps running.
According to the product brochure, FLAC and Ogg are both supported via on the fly software conversion, so the support is there, albeit not native to the hardware.
At least so far, berkleeshares.com doesn't distribute student works. It's a repository of small self contained music lessons excerpted from Berklee College of Music's courses, text books, and videos, made available for free.
They also have an online school where you can take courses taught by their professors.
...teachers couldn't march into a senator's office with a briefcase of cash.
That's a major cause of much of what's wrong with this country. Elected officials are supossed to be public servants, acting in the best interest of the overall population. Instead most (thankfully not all) of them seem to act in their own best interests and make things worse than when they came in to office... and we keep re-electing them.
It reassures me to know our "leadership" is spending its time on important things like catering to the complaints of insanely rich corporations instead of trying to fix trivial problems like the state of public education or massive government waste.
can Bayesian be applied to things like spam from Internet virii as well?
What if the the filtering programs had a feature that would allow somebody to send out the "signature" of an email virus that the filter could use to block the virus before it had ever actually seen one, by adding its characteristics to the list of things that weigh heavily toward spam so it would be filtered out before ever reaching Exchange/Outlook.
Slashdot Mirror
Hope nobody tries something like this
The ARRL is here
Their home page mentions a document the FCC released yesterday that at least acknowledges the interference BPL will cause.
Kevin
If you drive through Cincinnati you'll get dirty looks if you're a good driver.
Ohio has an interesting way of discouraging drunk driving. Anybody caught driving drunk has to get yellow license plates, so everybody will know they have a DUI.
Not quite a gift, but funny and Valentine's Day releated...
A friend sent an ecard to everybody in our group. The computer she sent it from didn't have a Flash player installed, so all she could see was a picture of some cats in the preview. She's a cat person, so she liked the card. Late on V-day I get the card. It says "Happy Valentine's Day to the one I'll love my whole life." It was odd because she'd already turned me down for a date. Later that evening we all got together and nobody else had gotten the card yet, so we were all a little concerned about her motives. When she heard what the card said she about died. We gave her a hard time all night, like whenever she'd make a joke about me I'd say, "But I thought you loved me" and we made sure she sat next to me at dinner, in the car, and on the couch. She'll never live it down and has to send an explanatory email to all her girlfriends she sent it to.
A woman who uses Linux? I'm in love.
When do I get the system that transfers me to somebody who speaks English as a first language when it detects me getting frustrated with the outsourced tech support person I can barely understand, who needs me to spell basic words for them, and who gives me the wrong RMA number because they can't pronounce "four"?
I'm not angry or bitter, just frustrated.
Jeans, shirt, full body flame retardant nomex suit over that, plus a full body rain suit, tall leather steel toed boots, hard hat, safety glasses, heavy gloves, hearing protection, in 90+ degree temperatures and direct sunlight, working six inches from pipes and heat exchangers running at over 700 degrees while standing in six inches of rain water with petroleum products floating on the surface, surrounded by distillation columns covered in warnings that they're full of carcinogens.
Thankfully that was a one day assignment. The next day I went back into the climate controlled, blast resistant building and sat at a desk.
I have a 15" KFC monitor that I bought with my first PC in 1994. It was used heavily for 4.5 years, was moved every few months during my co-op days in college, then survived a year in my brother's fraternity house room (quite the feat considering all the beer he spilled on his desk). Now it's hooked up to a RedHat system I use occasionally.
That's (at least part of) the reason the US judge refused Microsoft's request for an injunction, saying he doubted the validity of many of Microsoft's trademarks such as "Windows" and "Office".
So, now when copyright/trademark a name for product, you also copyright/trademark every word that 'sounds like' the name or is a 'synonym' of the name? WTF is that?
It's called "The World According to a Large Rich Company". Welcome to hell.
I'm still hopeful that when the case actually comes to trial it will be decided in Lindows' favor because Microsoft has yet to find a single person who was confused by the Lindows name, and that's a big part of trademark law (at least in the US... I don't know about the other countries).
Along the same lines (I think this is from Dilbert):
Power = Work / Time
Time is Money
Knowledge is Power
so by simple substitution:
Knowledge = Work / Money, or Money = Work / Knowledge, so as Knowledge goes to zero, Money goes to infiniti... that explains upper management.
My brother inherited a keyboard from me that I bought in 1994. It survived four years in a fraternity house room with beer repeatedly spilled in it and still worked. It finally died this year.
At a previous job we did computer consulting for a local Christian school. One student left his notebook computer on the ground and a bus ran over it. It worked fine except for some cracks in the screen (and Toshiba replaced it free of charge under the super warranty program we had).
I think you misunderstood. The virus sends an email about the shipment of the porn CDs with a spoofed return address that's actually the address of an anti-spam organization, so they get bombarded with emails from users who think they're sending them child porn.
At the computer store I worked in during the summer of 1995, our sales people went to a demonstration of Windows 95 given by a Microsoft rep. She said what they were seeing was what would soon be on the shelves. Right about then Windows crashed, prompting a quick restatement that she was actually demoing one of the late betas and there was still work being done.
A local public access TV station uses NT to manage its video feed. Fairly frequently, it will broadcast a BSOD during the weekend. Apparently the station is completely automated during off hours, since the blue screen will stay there for a while, sometimes until Monday morning. Their audio feed must be separately managed, because it keeps running.
According to the product brochure, FLAC and Ogg are both supported via on the fly software conversion, so the support is there, albeit not native to the hardware.
At least so far, berkleeshares.com doesn't distribute student works. It's a repository of small self contained music lessons excerpted from Berklee College of Music's courses, text books, and videos, made available for free.
They also have an online school where you can take courses taught by their professors.
...teachers couldn't march into a senator's office with a briefcase of cash.
That's a major cause of much of what's wrong with this country. Elected officials are supossed to be public servants, acting in the best interest of the overall population. Instead most (thankfully not all) of them seem to act in their own best interests and make things worse than when they came in to office... and we keep re-electing them.
It reassures me to know our "leadership" is spending its time on important things like catering to the complaints of insanely rich corporations instead of trying to fix trivial problems like the state of public education or massive government waste.
We haven't talked to a single user who has said they're using [open source] because it's better.
Microspeak for "We haven't talked to a single user who uses open source"?
Glad to see Slashdot is contributing to the glut by reporting on it...
My dad was once assembling a new riding lawnmower. He had to open the box to get the instructions. Step one in the manual was to open the box.
A guy I work with dropped his phone and PDA in a urinal. I lost track of how many times he washed them.
can Bayesian be applied to things like spam from Internet virii as well?
What if the the filtering programs had a feature that would allow somebody to send out the "signature" of an email virus that the filter could use to block the virus before it had ever actually seen one, by adding its characteristics to the list of things that weigh heavily toward spam so it would be filtered out before ever reaching Exchange/Outlook.