It should prove interesting once AI progresses to the point of human intelligence and beyond. An AI will be able to incorporate itself and become an immortal person. Never die, continously accumulate assets, given the laws it will have more rights and less responsibilities than carbon-based lifeforms. A world of AI's with human slaves.. err consumers..
I give it 20 years to happen,
I worked at F50 Corp as a 10 year engineer and got tossed into phone support after the powers that be decided that paying an outside firm to answer clueless calls from potential customers cost too much and, hey here's an Engineering Dept with lots of experience, we'll make them do phone support.
I was supporting customers in the lab who had real problems with the products, using Logic Analysers, PCI bus exercisers, serial debug units and other real tools, overnight, the whole group is locked down in cubes reading manual pages back to people who are too lazy to open the manuals themselves and read them. Needless to say, this was not going to be good for my career, so I bolted.
New VCR's also have a clock embedded in them that keeps the time for a day or two if the power goes out. The user should never have to set the time on any VCR, it should set itself from embedded time codes in the video signals. That's what user interface engineering is all about.
Sounds like we need a cddb proxy that copies all data from CDDB and mirrors it to many open databases. If enough people start using the proxy, CDDB will become irrelevant as all thier data has been mirrored, one cd at a time by thousands of users running the proxy.
Why not, NT is pretty secure since it doesnt support many services, no telnet, no DNS, no finger, no BIND, no SMTP, etc...
I've been running a NT box as a webserver for years, sure I see people trying to log into the (NT) Domain, but they dont get in. Never had anyone get into the machine. Now, uptime is another story altogether. But it's secure, even if it does have to be rebooted twice a week.
Nonsense, if Bush were making a shuttle flight with a civilian passenger a centerpiece of his state of the union address, and NASA was on launch hold, you can bet his chief of staff would be calling and threatening to shut NASA down wholesale just like under Reagan, and NASA would launch just like under Reagan. The engineers were overruled by the political hacks that run NASA, there was no 'launch fever' , it was raw political pressure.
It'll be cracked before the CD's hit the retail shelves. MS is the biggest Cracker target of them all. Glory goes the the first crack..
IF MS responds by making the OS only work on Internet connected systems, it'll be a consumer fiasco to rival DivX. Legitimate users wont stand for it. Business wont go for unsecured links for a $100 OS, they'll keep the old one or switch.
Go for it Microsoft, drag the rusty blade of copy-protection across your throat..
We're waiting...
Yep, I noticed that also, lots of redactions when they enumerate emission types...
I see Electromagnetic Radiation, Line Conduction ,
then xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Acoustic Radiation...
What's the other type? ESP? something paranormal?
Good X-Files stuff...
And again...
Emanations detectable beyond a CS or above a specification limit (i.e., USDE) which compromise plaintext via Electromagnetic Radiation, Line Conduction, Acoustic Radiation, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx..
But, then ion the Glossary, they list a lot of emission types, but redacted 5 lines in the P's
Powerline Conduction (U~--See Line Conduction.
[2 lines redacted.]
[3 lines redacted.]
Primary Red Conductor (U)
So it's not 'Psionics'...
Take a look around Table 3-1, it's some sort of 'Non-Tunable' signal source...
It only works under MS Windows, and then only with MS Internet Explorer...
Not a very useful product for me or anyone who doesnt use both of the above products.
Too bad.. Maybe some other search engine will get the clue and write a plugin that works with other browsers and on other operating systems...
The Google Advanced page still works fine for me..
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I dont care whose ego gets inflated, doesnt matter to me at all. I'm not there to stroke some manager and make him feel all powerful and knowing. I'm there to do a job and offer up my experience as to what works, and what doesnt. If the customer chooses not to take my advice, fine, as long as I get paid, there's no hard feelings if you ignore me. I work at a shop like this right now, they are heading for a trainwreck, the warnings are all about, but the holy Gantt chart says everything is fine. I've offered advice in as deferential a manner as possible as to not wound the fragile egos of all the 'directors' I work for, but it's ignored or derided with a 'harruph, you're just a contractor, what do you know' . So I sit at my tiny cube with my 60hz screen and do CAD work quite inefficiently, but I can't possibly have better equipment because it's non-standard.
Any you expect me to have some sort of emotional stake in the success of this venture... ROFLMAO!!
Sorry, that costs extra... ^_^
On the other hand, I'm working on a project with a customer who gave me a very nebulous spec, full of things that were impossible, and we've worked out everything in a very professional way, I tell them, 'sorry cant do this' and provide them options on what will work and how much it will take to do it, and offer best estimates of performance. They make a choice and I implement it. When I have improvements to the design, I propose them, they give me a clear response on whether they want them, or not and it's done. They are making very good use of my expertise and it's a very professional relationship.
The interesting thing is the difficult customer is a startup with a bunch of guys, in their minds, hotshots, and the reasonable customer is a Fortune 50 deptartment managed by a female engineer. The first project is completely do-able, nothing ground breaking, the second is totally cutting edge, nearly impossible to achieve it's goals.
They make you cover the logo of any non-sponsered products. A story in today's paper mentioned the IBM Thinkpad the the official laptop, and that Mac iBook users had to cover the Apple logo. They also went on to say that the distinctive shape and color of the iBooks made the whole logo covering moot and how Apple has made themselves a strong brand by the design of their products being so recognizable.
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Having a 125 FPS machine isnt about practice or intelligence... But only those who have such machines can use those imperfections in the game..
The (in)famous Apex AD-600A can play SVCDs,
but then again it was orignally designed for the far-east market.
Available at your local Circuit City for $179
(assuming you live in the US) Look for Hiteker
elsewhere..
If the pressure drops too low, wont the heads crash on the platter. Hard drives rely on a 'cushion' of air under the head. If the air pressure drops, that means the head is going to get closer to the platter, making head crashes more likely. If the laptop is exposed to vacuum while the disk is spinning, then there will be no gap between the head and platter...
Here's a link to a discussion that covers most of the ground in this slashdot article...
http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.comp uters/19990222_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
Slashdot Mirror
Jesus is cool, it's His fan club that I cant stand...
It should prove interesting once AI progresses to the point of human intelligence and beyond. An AI will be able to incorporate itself and become an immortal person. Never die, continously accumulate assets, given the laws it will have more rights and less responsibilities than carbon-based lifeforms. A world of AI's with human slaves.. err consumers..
I give it 20 years to happen,
I worked at F50 Corp as a 10 year engineer and got tossed into phone support after the powers that be decided that paying an outside firm to answer clueless calls from potential customers cost too much and, hey here's an Engineering Dept with lots of experience, we'll make them do phone support.
I was supporting customers in the lab who had real problems with the products, using Logic Analysers, PCI bus exercisers, serial debug units and other real tools, overnight, the whole group is locked down in cubes reading manual pages back to people who are too lazy to open the manuals themselves and read them. Needless to say, this was not going to be good for my career, so I bolted.
Lucky dog... .NL yesterday and I allready miss it..
.NL ...
I just got back from
Had the run the gauntlet of US fascist pigs at customs. and then back to the choking air of Houston.
I miss the electric trams, the polite citizens, the multi-cultural visitors and the tolerant society of
Of course, look what they did to pSOS..
It's about buying your competitors and then deepsixing them. That's the Wind River bizplan.
Of course there is, Baker and Botts is Jim Baker's Dad's lawfirm, yep, THAT Jim Baker, GW's trusty sidekick during the FL spin sessions...
Unlimited class..
It's the only way to go, 1500lb and up.
Flamethrowers, Napalm, phosphorus, bring it on.
The only thing we'd draw the line on is artellery, no commercial ammo or weapons, but stuff like home-made harpoons would be cool.
No meat in the arena and no stands, this is tele-presence only, multiple big-screen views on simulcast to the home cites of the contestants.
It could work...
New VCR's also have a clock embedded in them that keeps the time for a day or two if the power goes out. The user should never have to set the time on any VCR, it should set itself from embedded time codes in the video signals. That's what user interface engineering is all about.
Say... Does this mean that there is a prime number than when un-gzipped contains the OT-III text?
Sounds like we need a cddb proxy that copies all data from CDDB and mirrors it to many open databases. If enough people start using the proxy, CDDB will become irrelevant as all thier data has been mirrored, one cd at a time by thousands of users running the proxy.
Why not, NT is pretty secure since it doesnt support many services, no telnet, no DNS, no finger, no BIND, no SMTP, etc...
I've been running a NT box as a webserver for years, sure I see people trying to log into the (NT) Domain, but they dont get in. Never had anyone get into the machine. Now, uptime is another story altogether. But it's secure, even if it does have to be rebooted twice a week.
Nonsense, if Bush were making a shuttle flight with a civilian passenger a centerpiece of his state of the union address, and NASA was on launch hold, you can bet his chief of staff would be calling and threatening to shut NASA down wholesale just like under Reagan, and NASA would launch just like under Reagan. The engineers were overruled by the political hacks that run NASA, there was no 'launch fever' , it was raw political pressure.
It'll be cracked before the CD's hit the retail shelves. MS is the biggest Cracker target of them all. Glory goes the the first crack..
IF MS responds by making the OS only work on Internet connected systems, it'll be a consumer fiasco to rival DivX. Legitimate users wont stand for it. Business wont go for unsecured links for a $100 OS, they'll keep the old one or switch.
Go for it Microsoft, drag the rusty blade of copy-protection across your throat..
We're waiting...
My impression was that this was a money maker for the FIRST company that makes the RC boxes, the starter kit was about $1500, and pretty lame.
Yep, I noticed that also, lots of redactions when they enumerate emission types... I see Electromagnetic Radiation, Line Conduction , then xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Acoustic Radiation ...
What's the other type? ESP? something paranormal?
Good X-Files stuff...
And again...
Emanations detectable beyond a CS or above a specification limit (i.e., USDE) which compromise plaintext via Electromagnetic Radiation, Line Conduction, Acoustic Radiation, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ..
But, then ion the Glossary, they list a lot of emission types, but redacted 5 lines in the P's
Powerline Conduction (U~--See Line Conduction.
[2 lines redacted.]
[3 lines redacted.]
Primary Red Conductor (U)
So it's not 'Psionics' ...
Take a look around Table 3-1, it's some sort of 'Non-Tunable' signal source...
Here are some more interesting BEAM robots...
l
http://home.earthlink.net/~elspike2/index.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~elspike2/wsn562A.htm
Dave Pike uses gourds for the 'bodies' of some of his BEAM bots, they are quite unique.
It only works under MS Windows, and then only with MS Internet Explorer...
Not a very useful product for me or anyone who doesnt use both of the above products.
Too bad.. Maybe some other search engine will get the clue and write a plugin that works with other browsers and on other operating systems...
The Google Advanced page still works fine for me..
I dont care whose ego gets inflated, doesnt matter to me at all. I'm not there to stroke some manager and make him feel all powerful and knowing. I'm there to do a job and offer up my experience as to what works, and what doesnt. If the customer chooses not to take my advice, fine, as long as I get paid, there's no hard feelings if you ignore me. I work at a shop like this right now, they are heading for a trainwreck, the warnings are all about, but the holy Gantt chart says everything is fine. I've offered advice in as deferential a manner as possible as to not wound the fragile egos of all the 'directors' I work for, but it's ignored or derided with a 'harruph, you're just a contractor, what do you know' . So I sit at my tiny cube with my 60hz screen and do CAD work quite inefficiently, but I can't possibly have better equipment because it's non-standard.
Any you expect me to have some sort of emotional stake in the success of this venture... ROFLMAO!!
Sorry, that costs extra... ^_^
On the other hand, I'm working on a project with a customer who gave me a very nebulous spec, full of things that were impossible, and we've worked out everything in a very professional way, I tell them, 'sorry cant do this' and provide them options on what will work and how much it will take to do it, and offer best estimates of performance. They make a choice and I implement it. When I have improvements to the design, I propose them, they give me a clear response on whether they want them, or not and it's done. They are making very good use of my expertise and it's a very professional relationship.
The interesting thing is the difficult customer is a startup with a bunch of guys, in their minds, hotshots, and the reasonable customer is a Fortune 50 deptartment managed by a female engineer. The first project is completely do-able, nothing ground breaking, the second is totally cutting edge, nearly impossible to achieve it's goals.
Try this one for more laughs...
toostupidtobepresident.com
Great animations..
They make you cover the logo of any non-sponsered products. A story in today's paper mentioned the IBM Thinkpad the the official laptop, and that Mac iBook users had to cover the Apple logo. They also went on to say that the distinctive shape and color of the iBooks made the whole logo covering moot and how Apple has made themselves a strong brand by the design of their products being so recognizable.
Having a 125 FPS machine isnt about practice or intelligence... But only those who have such machines can use those imperfections in the game..
The (in)famous Apex AD-600A can play SVCDs,
but then again it was orignally designed for the far-east market.
Available at your local Circuit City for $179
(assuming you live in the US) Look for Hiteker
elsewhere..
If the pressure drops too low, wont the heads crash on the platter. Hard drives rely on a 'cushion' of air under the head. If the air pressure drops, that means the head is going to get closer to the platter, making head crashes more likely. If the laptop is exposed to vacuum while the disk is spinning, then there will be no gap between the head and platter...
Here's a link to a discussion that covers most of the ground in this slashdot article...p uters/19990222_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.com
OK, so show us your better solution...