I bought a shredder and I try to be very careful now with the garbage I throw out.
It seems silly but I keep a 'burn bag' of stuff I'm going to shred - credit card receipts, address labels, customer numbers, etc.
I know it's unfair what they did but there's a certain level of caution to take these days...
I think about all those CIBC Aerogold visa stands at every airport in Canada and how I'm afraid to make eye contact as I walk by...
'want a cibc aerogold visa card? 5000 miles' 'no i already have 3 credit cards' 'how about another? it's free and easy to get a card' 'no thanks' 'are you sure you don't want one'...
I was part of the slashdot crowd that visited and saw the counter... but now it's on hold!
Those crazy bastards! I know what they saw about a tear not having serious effects but having this big balloon streak across europe as it deflates is kinda a freaky mental image! (pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt there goes the balloon)
Oracle Video Server.. around before 1998. Now owned by Thirdspace
Way to go Larry!
How would wifi really be used in an RATP station
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Just thinking about my work I've done in Paris.. there are many times the stations are simply swamped with people. Laptop wifi is just out of the question. Far too many people and no real area to sit down. Besides, you only have minutes in a subway stop before your train comes. Even with Hibernate, my W2K box takes a while to be ready for use.
That really only leaves handheld devices, like a trusty ole iPaq. But.. with anyone with an iPaq (or laptop for that matter) probably also carries a mobile telephone - probably with bluetooth.
So in the 5 minutes you've got in the subway station, why not just go to street-level, turn on your PDA, and connect via GPRS. The iPaq with bluetooth is fantastic for downloading and running a quick scan on your email.
Plus if you really want to sit down and check your mail or surf, then zip off to a Brasserie for a coffee too... this idea just doesn't seem practical, but maybe I'm missing something. It seems more of a bandwagon folks are jumping on.
Gare du nord now has WiFi.. I spend many hours sitting there waiting for my trains. Hey that's a great idea - wire up the trains themselves with WiFi. A Thalys or TGV with WiFi access would rock.
Open Office is a great suite to replace a word process, spreadsheet and a presentation tool. But replacing an Office suite means replacing all the tools. I need my Outlook. I wish this wicked office app had a similar-in-quality outlook clone that could interface with open source back-ends for ldap, mcal, imap, etc.
Or maybe one exists? Anyone got a good pointer on a windows app (not a web-based system) that lets me calendar, email and share address books?
Well we got excited about ATVEF, then MHEG, then MHP, somewhere in there OpenTV developed their own proprietary system, as did Liberate. And that's not even including the TV over ADSL guys...
iMagicTV, one of those TV over ADSL middleware providers uses HTML with 'tv in the browser' as does others like Minerva and Orca...
Don't forget about hardware vendors who are alreadyshipping and this includes the big boys like Thomson/RCA
So why yet another dtv standard.. I'm getting dizzy...
Netherlands.. already here too..
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We've got our 'Chip' cards already. They're wickedly convenient. 500 Euro limit, reloading machines all over the place, can use them many places - even raunchy ron's and parking meters.
I don't use chip cards where I would use paper money - I use PIN (my bank account) for these so I will have a limit. The Chip cards are great for places you would ordinarily carry around loose change.
I see a lot of complaints about the skills of 'real innovators' vs either H1B's or overseas labour but it comes down to cost. A bean counter sees a cost for running a programming department. A bean counter sees the cost of running the project overseas. Sure there will be wrinkles at first, but if it cuts costs 20%. Hell, it reduces a percentage of the company to an operation cost as opposed to headcount.
It's our jobs being shipped overseas this time. It's not an autoworker in Detroit out of work because of increased foreign competition, a shoemaker, etc etc etc.
What a nasty vicious circle. More companies do it to save money, other companies have to follow simply to be competitive.
My good god Planet Internet has awful technical support. I have to call a 900 number and PAY to be put on hold when they have network problems. And don't think about emailing them, 3 weeks later the best I get is 'change your ISDN settings'. ARRRGHHH *bangs head against table*
Thanks for letting me get this out of my system in English haha
One tech support operator can handle multiple people at once with an online system. That's the cost savings! Of course Planet's argument would be 'why bother with a human at all'
How many engineers out there have heard the marketing / sales 'it has to be always available' and priced out an infrastructure accordingly.
Even recently I'm working with a customer who wants a compromise between price and availability - but it still needs five nine's
Availability is infrastructure plus process. You need to have the supporting process to go along with the hardware - maintenance schedules, change management (well FCAPS in general), etc. It's not just a big box.
No, all this will do is isolate the computing world in American from the rest of the world.
Afterall, folks like Monti in European government are a lot harder to please than the US government. Europe won't toe the line with this American-based dominating technology (well, except maybe the UK.
Unless of course the US starts bombing European countries saying our citizens are living in an undemocratic civilization where American companies don't have the freedom to dominate^h^h^hinnovate.:) Seriously, the rest of the world won't buy it.
Slashdot Mirror
Odd name for a corporation, isn't it?
Company names up for grabs:
Multicast, TCPIP, IPV6,
I bought a shredder and I try to be very careful now with the garbage I throw out.
It seems silly but I keep a 'burn bag' of stuff I'm going to shred - credit card receipts, address labels, customer numbers, etc.
I know it's unfair what they did but there's a certain level of caution to take these days...
I think about all those CIBC Aerogold visa stands at every airport in Canada and how I'm afraid to make eye contact as I walk by...
'want a cibc aerogold visa card? 5000 miles'
'no i already have 3 credit cards'
'how about another? it's free and easy to get a card'
'no thanks'
'are you sure you don't want one'
While she was at it, she should have signed a bunch of blank cheques and power of attorney forms and just threw them away.
Why didn't she rip up the application? Or write void on it? Atleast then she could go back and say 'I didn't sign anything, prove it'
Gotta love google:
here's a story
I was part of the slashdot crowd that visited and saw the counter... but now it's on hold!
Those crazy bastards! I know what they saw about a tear not having serious effects but having this big balloon streak across europe as it deflates is kinda a freaky mental image! (pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt there goes the balloon)
Atleast I'll have the time to wait for my W2K machine to boot... sheeeesh!
No one else on slashdot ever reads it, why should I? haha
Oracle Video Server.. around before 1998. Now owned by Thirdspace
Way to go Larry!
Just thinking about my work I've done in Paris.. there are many times the stations are simply swamped with people. Laptop wifi is just out of the question. Far too many people and no real area to sit down. Besides, you only have minutes in a subway stop before your train comes. Even with Hibernate, my W2K box takes a while to be ready for use.
That really only leaves handheld devices, like a trusty ole iPaq. But.. with anyone with an iPaq (or laptop for that matter) probably also carries a mobile telephone - probably with bluetooth.
So in the 5 minutes you've got in the subway station, why not just go to street-level, turn on your PDA, and connect via GPRS. The iPaq with bluetooth is fantastic for downloading and running a quick scan on your email.
Plus if you really want to sit down and check your mail or surf, then zip off to a Brasserie for a coffee too.
Gare du nord now has WiFi.. I spend many hours sitting there waiting for my trains. Hey that's a great idea - wire up the trains themselves with WiFi. A Thalys or TGV with WiFi access would rock.
Open Office is a great suite to replace a word process, spreadsheet and a presentation tool. But replacing an Office suite means replacing all the tools. I need my Outlook. I wish this wicked office app had a similar-in-quality outlook clone that could interface with open source back-ends for ldap, mcal, imap, etc.
Or maybe one exists? Anyone got a good pointer on a windows app (not a web-based system) that lets me calendar, email and share address books?
Well we got excited about ATVEF, then MHEG, then MHP, somewhere in there OpenTV developed their own proprietary system, as did Liberate. And that's not even including the TV over ADSL guys...
iMagicTV, one of those TV over ADSL middleware providers uses HTML with 'tv in the browser' as does others like Minerva and Orca...
Don't forget about hardware vendors who are already shipping and this includes the big boys like Thomson/RCA
So why yet another dtv standard.. I'm getting dizzy...
We've got our 'Chip' cards already. They're wickedly convenient. 500 Euro limit, reloading machines all over the place, can use them many places - even raunchy ron's and parking meters.
I don't use chip cards where I would use paper money - I use PIN (my bank account) for these so I will have a limit. The Chip cards are great for places you would ordinarily carry around loose change.
It's short because...
As you're having your heart attack coming down the free-fall, you won't have long to wait before you can get medical care
More like, the society comes to earth and finds nothing but stored copies of Star Trek Nemesis screener...
Sounds like a new RIAA slogan 'do you want to be responsible for destroying the world?'
I agree - black and white. Either you have money and connections or you don't.
Kenneth Lay isn't in jail now why is that?
Any UNB students past or present out there that have explored the steam tunnels?
These darlings connect all the residences to every building on campus. Since the campus is built on a hill, there are a lot of steps.
Once went as far as the hospital! (that's a long walk above ground let alone going through the tunnels.)
Every so often there are vents that you can peek out of (locked of course) so you can try to figure out where you are.
I see a lot of complaints about the skills of 'real innovators' vs either H1B's or overseas labour but it comes down to cost. A bean counter sees a cost for running a programming department. A bean counter sees the cost of running the project overseas. Sure there will be wrinkles at first, but if it cuts costs 20%. Hell, it reduces a percentage of the company to an operation cost as opposed to headcount.
It's our jobs being shipped overseas this time. It's not an autoworker in Detroit out of work because of increased foreign competition, a shoemaker, etc etc etc.
What a nasty vicious circle. More companies do it to save money, other companies have to follow simply to be competitive.
Also check Fucked Company There's an internal memo there.
That will teach 'em to donate more to the Bush/Cheney campaign..
Just ask Ken Lay
My good god Planet Internet has awful technical support. I have to call a 900 number and PAY to be put on hold when they have network problems. And don't think about emailing them, 3 weeks later the best I get is 'change your ISDN settings'. ARRRGHHH *bangs head against table*
Thanks for letting me get this out of my system in English haha
One tech support operator can handle multiple people at once with an online system. That's the cost savings! Of course Planet's argument would be 'why bother with a human at all'
I find a good bottle of tequila makes me lighter...
You need a good sized toilet though so that the law of conservation of mass stays valid.
How many engineers out there have heard the marketing / sales 'it has to be always available' and priced out an infrastructure accordingly.
Even recently I'm working with a customer who wants a compromise between price and availability - but it still needs five nine's
Availability is infrastructure plus process. You need to have the supporting process to go along with the hardware - maintenance schedules, change management (well FCAPS in general), etc. It's not just a big box.
'cause I'm an idiot!
Before P2P I must have bought Joshua Tree about 4 times on CD and now I lost it again!
But I have backups - mind you only at 128k. I can build it without having to re-buy the CD I lost.
Not something to be proud of, I suppose
No, all this will do is isolate the computing world in American from the rest of the world.
:) Seriously, the rest of the world won't buy it.
Afterall, folks like Monti in European government are a lot harder to please than the US government. Europe won't toe the line with this American-based dominating technology (well, except maybe the UK.
Unless of course the US starts bombing European countries saying our citizens are living in an undemocratic civilization where American companies don't have the freedom to dominate^h^h^hinnovate.
Sorry had to ask..
Seriously though, the 40 TFLOPS is a peak value. On well-written-code, I wonder how fast it's capable of versus the number 2 in a similar comparison.
Saying 40 TFLOPS peak is still too much like 'Hey my 2.2 GHz Intel beats your 1.2 GHz AMD'. While it is fast, is it really that accurate?