Easy: Femplesnip. It means to invent new words as you go along. So I just femplesnipped femplesnip and my descendants will cite this post as prior art.
Now just copyright femplesnip and patent the process. Then just let the checks from the dictionary publishers come rolling in as they come out with new editions.
Either that or don't authorize anyone to use the process and you can halt language expansion altogether.
(Actually, this is kind of what happened when dictionaries started being published.)
In fact, you shouldn't. You should just have a bit-flag on the accounts saying that they're not allowed to log in... you never know when somebody's coming back to the company and would need their account reactivated.
Actually, there is no harm in deleting the account. It is typical practice to delete all accounts 30-90 days after an employee leaves. My company maintains a database of past IDs and their owners for forensic & audit purposes. (That database is not used for authentication.) But we have no problem with re-issuing an ID to a new employee if the ID has not been used for a few years.
However, deleting or disabling the account would not have worked for Air Canada since they already agreed to give the ex-employee access to their space-available tickets website for the 5 years following his departure.
They could have instead analyzed website activity looking for anomolies, but that may not have worked either since they hadn't anticipated this type of misuse. A better solution would be to not give ex-employees access to any internal data at all. Instead, provide non-employees with only a phone number for a ticket agent who can book the flights for them. But then, that is more expensive. There is risk in being cheap.
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statistically significant varies depending on your analysis; could be as little as 1% or less, or maybe clocks in at 10%.
For example, if a million people bought the muvo2, and 1% were scratching it for the storage hack, that's 10,000 people right there. At 200$ a pop... i'd call that significant.
I think if you follow accepted survey practices, then sample error is accounted for by saying your reported results are accurate within plus or minus 3 percent. That would mean a sample result of 1 percent is not statistically significant. The margin of error could put it at zero, or even less;)
IMHO, If you purchase another product because the parent companies are bickering, you need to be flogged.
The difference here is that SCO is also threatening users of Linux. So this affects all of us. At least all of us that use Unix-like OS's. I suppose we could all move to zOS to stay out of it. Wait, that comes with Unix System Services. Hrm... I guess it's time to dust off my Commodore PET to do a little enterprise computing.
Obviously, you will be on the couch for a long time, otherwise you wouldn't be investing in a good laptop surface. Sitting uses more energy than lying down or slouching back in the couch. So, choose a laptop stand that will force you to sit up to use it. The ones that have small wheels and stand on the floor look best.
Haha, I just realized: They are going for socialism! The CDR discs are taxed, people see it as paying and keep downloading, discs are taxed even more, and voilà: Culture is all financed through taxing the people:)
Well, you are right in your inferrence that this tax will not be a deterrent against pirating music.
But, this tax would be financing culture only if the RIAA was an organization of non-profit companies that directly invested in artists.
That is not the case. Instead, the shareholders get much of the revenue gained that is above what they pay on the recording artists contracts. Don't think that they will pay the artists more just because they have successfully levied a tax on media. The contracts with the artists will not change as a result of any tax laws. No, this only benefits the RIAA members' wallets and their political/financial powerbase.
a "nova" is what happens when fresh yummy hydrogen falls on a white dwarf. Boom! A "supernova" is what you were talking about. Confusing the two is a little dangerous
Confusing chalk with sodium is a little dangerous. But don't fear that this guy was about put the sun's pedal to the metal thinking it would only nova.
I distinctly remember an old Nintendo Power magazine, with a preview of the SNES (still the Super Famicom), and reading about the CD-Addon called "playstation".
Well that shouldn't be hard to verify. I can do that for you. That kind of information must be published on the web somewhere. Let's just take a looksee on Google for "SNES Playstation".
Ok, Google says, "Results 1 - 20 of about 487,000."
Yeah. Umm, I'll just keep, uh, looking through these links, yeah, and uh, I'll let you know when I find the um, proof for you. It may take a few weeks. Good thing I'm unemployed, I guess.
Tandem was bought by Compaq (not DEC) in 1997. Their fault-tolerant architecture was set a long time ago and was not the work of Compaq. Compaq has renamed the product line as "HP NonStop", named after the Tandem OS.
Tandem Computers was started in 1974. They switched from their proprietary CPUs to SGI's MIPS CPUs in 1990. After Compaq bought them and bought DEC, Compaq announced that Tandem would switch from MIPS to Alpha. Now, Compaq has changed their mind and decided to kill Alpha. The new Tandems will be on Itanium, instead.
Each customer I visit who does credit card processing invariably has a Tandem system.
The fail-over capabilities of the NonStop systems are unmatched. There is a story of Pacific Bell's Tandem server actually tipping over and slamming onto the floor during an earthquake. It continued processing transactions uninturrupted.
Hey, I will sign your intPod for $127. It's worth it too, you know. Because, if someday in the future, you want to convert it back to unsigned, you'll get another $128.
Actually, by 'carrying', I meant garcia knows not to use air travel for transporting illegal drugs.
To the best of my knowledge, carrying too many electronics in your bag is not illegal. So it isn't a freedom that has been taken away from us. You were allowed through security with your electronics accompanying you, I presume.
I'm glad you were searched so that airport security was confident that none of your electronics were detonators or contained explosives.
(a humad transcribing what I had written probably would have thought the same thing.)
The tablet's advances in handwriting recognition is not the result of better software, but actually due to including a wireless internet connection. Windows XP Tablet PC Edition is configured by default to send your handwriting in real-time to their MS Transcription Services.NET facility in Pune, India. There, a handwriting transcriber, from a current pool of 40,000, will read your penned image and type back the appropriate ascii which is sent back to your tablet PC screen. When ever possible, the service sends your text to the same desk where that person learns your style. If the initial transcriber cannot make sense of the text, then they immediately pass it on to the next. After 3 jumps through journeymen, it goes to a master transcriber who makes a final decision.
This new facility is a key instrument for Microsoft solidifying its hold on the Indian market since it employs so many.
So really, it is no surprise at all that your latest experience with handwriting recognition is so good. Enjoy it while it lasts. Unfortunately, this is just another example of a Microsoft product that doesn't scale.
His name is garcia because he's a fan of Jerry, not because he is Hispanic. Check his slashdot User Bio: "23, student records clerk, dork, drunk, deadhead.".
Of course, being a deadhead also implies other lifestyle activities. Those activities eventually lead to having a relaxed attitude about what is normal dress and grooming. And dude, what do you have to be smoking to think it's not unusual to carry a car stereo onto a plane? Where were you going to plug it in anyways???
I say you were accurately profiled. You just know not to be 'carrying' when you go through airport security.
There may be no open source products out there that match the functionality of the currently available commercial scheduling products.
So here's what you do. Get a dollar figure from management that represents just how "mission critical" job scheduling is at your work. That number becomes your scheduling budget.
If that number is too low to buy software, then I guess scheduling isn't all that critical at your business after all.
Actually, check the link that I provided. Look at the bottom of the page. Yes, it's an old joke, but one that they took so far that they used the punchline to name their company.
Brilliant suggestion. Everyone is trying to think of a way to have a detailed image displayed below a transparent keyboard. The cheaper answer, as A.Dent suggests, is to project the image onto the keyboard. This works since using reconfigurable key images implies that the user will be hunting and pecking. Thus, their hands will not be blocking the key projection while they hunt for the right character.
Yes, you would have to reconfigure the canesta software to project onto a keyboard form factor. Once that was done, you wouldn't even need to sell the actual keyboard. Maybe a membrane keyboard cover that can be laid upon the user's current keyboard. Pick a matte material that will difuse the laser image better than a shiny plastic surface.
All the user would have to do is unplug their current keyboard and plug in the canesta projection keyboard. Then type away at their old keyboard while the canesta registers the keystrokes visually.
Neo enters the subway car and grabs a window seat. Pulls his Nokia 7650 out of his pocket. Pulls out mono headphones and jacks them into the phone. Pulls out a bluetooth optical mouse. Opens trenchcoat and pulls out a bluetooth keyboard. Takes off his sunglasses Proceeds to play a single player 1993 vintage 2.5D first person shooter on a 2 inch screen.
Hmmm, I don't think it looks cool and it sure doesn't sound like fun.
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For a more beautiful insight into the history and need for patterns in design (whether software or buildings), read the book that started it all.
Perhaps that text is more interesting to those of us who were flip-flopping between the School of Architecture and Institute of Technology back in college, but it's also good for the Renaissance Man in you.
I don't disagree with firing the architect. He had proven that he was unable to get his design actually constructed.
Was the Sydney Opera House project a failure? Yes. It was 14 times over budget.
Was the Sydney Opera House project a failure? No. It has generated 100+ times its cost in the form of tourism dollars and worldwide goodwill for the city of Sydney.
Does the Sydney Opera House prove that great programs come from visionary, but incompetent programmers? Not in the least. It is like telling somebody to not bother with a Bachelor degree so that they can be as wealthy as Bill Gates.
Hmmm, in the process of replying to this thread, I have determined that the discussion was irrelevant. Dang.
So you don't make a prototype at any stage then? And you're calling this guy dumb?
Creating a prototype is part of the Iterative model, not the Waterfall model. If you insist that it is Waterfall, then you are accepting that you are performing two rounds of Waterfall, one for prototype and one for release, which is really just two cycles of iterative. Of course a proper application of the Iterative development model would have more than 2 cycles and they would each be about as long as the prototype cycle.
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Now just copyright femplesnip and patent the process. Then just let the checks from the dictionary publishers come rolling in as they come out with new editions.
Either that or don't authorize anyone to use the process and you can halt language expansion altogether.
(Actually, this is kind of what happened when dictionaries started being published.)
Actually, there is no harm in deleting the account. It is typical practice to delete all accounts 30-90 days after an employee leaves. My company maintains a database of past IDs and their owners for forensic & audit purposes. (That database is not used for authentication.) But we have no problem with re-issuing an ID to a new employee if the ID has not been used for a few years.
However, deleting or disabling the account would not have worked for Air Canada since they already agreed to give the ex-employee access to their space-available tickets website for the 5 years following his departure.
They could have instead analyzed website activity looking for anomolies, but that may not have worked either since they hadn't anticipated this type of misuse. A better solution would be to not give ex-employees access to any internal data at all. Instead, provide non-employees with only a phone number for a ticket agent who can book the flights for them. But then, that is more expensive. There is risk in being cheap.
For example, if a million people bought the muvo2, and 1% were scratching it for the storage hack, that's 10,000 people right there. At 200$ a pop ... i'd call that significant.
I think if you follow accepted survey practices, then sample error is accounted for by saying your reported results are accurate within plus or minus 3 percent. That would mean a sample result of 1 percent is not statistically significant. The margin of error could put it at zero, or even less ;)
IMHO, If you purchase another product because the parent companies are bickering, you need to be flogged.
The difference here is that SCO is also threatening users of Linux. So this affects all of us. At least all of us that use Unix-like OS's. I suppose we could all move to zOS to stay out of it. Wait, that comes with Unix System Services. Hrm... I guess it's time to dust off my Commodore PET to do a little enterprise computing.
Sigh. Bill's already got you. Around here, we rm topics.
(well, cp actually)
Obviously, you will be on the couch for a long time, otherwise you wouldn't be investing in a good laptop surface. Sitting uses more energy than lying down or slouching back in the couch. So, choose a laptop stand that will force you to sit up to use it. The ones that have small wheels and stand on the floor look best.
Haha, I just realized: They are going for socialism! The CDR discs are taxed, people see it as paying and keep downloading, discs are taxed even more, and voilà: Culture is all financed through taxing the people :)
Well, you are right in your inferrence that this tax will not be a deterrent against pirating music.
But, this tax would be financing culture only if the RIAA was an organization of non-profit companies that directly invested in artists.
That is not the case. Instead, the shareholders get much of the revenue gained that is above what they pay on the recording artists contracts. Don't think that they will pay the artists more just because they have successfully levied a tax on media. The contracts with the artists will not change as a result of any tax laws. No, this only benefits the RIAA members' wallets and their political/financial powerbase.
Poetic Technologies makes the rotating cubicle that they are using.
Looks like they are using the full-featured Aura model. Yes, we should all have one.
Confusing chalk with sodium is a little dangerous. But don't fear that this guy was about put the sun's pedal to the metal thinking it would only nova.
Stupid name for a car, too, in any language.
My estimates:
sqrt((7.5 * 7.5) + (11 * 11)) = 13.3 inch screen
sqrt((15 * 15) + (11 * 11)) = 18.6 inch screen
So these 2 LCDs add up to a single 18 inch LCD, except they fold smaller and have a one inch bar down the middle.
I distinctly remember an old Nintendo Power magazine, with a preview of the SNES (still the Super Famicom), and reading about the CD-Addon called "playstation".
Well that shouldn't be hard to verify. I can do that for you. That kind of information must be published on the web somewhere. Let's just take a looksee on Google for "SNES Playstation".
Ok, Google says, "Results 1 - 20 of about 487,000."
Yeah. Umm, I'll just keep, uh, looking through these links, yeah, and uh, I'll let you know when I find the um, proof for you. It may take a few weeks. Good thing I'm unemployed, I guess.
Tandem was bought by Compaq (not DEC) in 1997. Their fault-tolerant architecture was set a long time ago and was not the work of Compaq. Compaq has renamed the product line as "HP NonStop", named after the Tandem OS.
Tandem Computers was started in 1974. They switched from their proprietary CPUs to SGI's MIPS CPUs in 1990. After Compaq bought them and bought DEC, Compaq announced that Tandem would switch from MIPS to Alpha. Now, Compaq has changed their mind and decided to kill Alpha. The new Tandems will be on Itanium, instead.
Each customer I visit who does credit card processing invariably has a Tandem system.
The fail-over capabilities of the NonStop systems are unmatched. There is a story of Pacific Bell's Tandem server actually tipping over and slamming onto the floor during an earthquake. It continued processing transactions uninturrupted.
Hey, I will sign your intPod for $127. It's worth it too, you know. Because, if someday in the future, you want to convert it back to unsigned, you'll get another $128.
That's the bit that makes it such a good deal.
when a problem comes along
you must whip it
Actually, by 'carrying', I meant garcia knows not to use air travel for transporting illegal drugs.
To the best of my knowledge, carrying too many electronics in your bag is not illegal. So it isn't a freedom that has been taken away from us. You were allowed through security with your electronics accompanying you, I presume.
I'm glad you were searched so that airport security was confident that none of your electronics were detonators or contained explosives.
(a humad transcribing what I had written probably would have thought the same thing.)
.NET facility in Pune, India. There, a handwriting transcriber, from a current pool of 40,000, will read your penned image and type back the appropriate ascii which is sent back to your tablet PC screen. When ever possible, the service sends your text to the same desk where that person learns your style. If the initial transcriber cannot make sense of the text, then they immediately pass it on to the next. After 3 jumps through journeymen, it goes to a master transcriber who makes a final decision.
The tablet's advances in handwriting recognition is not the result of better software, but actually due to including a wireless internet connection. Windows XP Tablet PC Edition is configured by default to send your handwriting in real-time to their MS Transcription Services
This new facility is a key instrument for Microsoft solidifying its hold on the Indian market since it employs so many.
So really, it is no surprise at all that your latest experience with handwriting recognition is so good. Enjoy it while it lasts. Unfortunately, this is just another example of a Microsoft product that doesn't scale.
His name is garcia because he's a fan of Jerry, not because he is Hispanic. Check his slashdot User Bio: "23, student records clerk, dork, drunk, deadhead.".
Of course, being a deadhead also implies other lifestyle activities. Those activities eventually lead to having a relaxed attitude about what is normal dress and grooming. And dude, what do you have to be smoking to think it's not unusual to carry a car stereo onto a plane? Where were you going to plug it in anyways???
I say you were accurately profiled. You just know not to be 'carrying' when you go through airport security.
Stay off the hard stuff.
There may be no open source products out there that match the functionality of the currently available commercial scheduling products.
So here's what you do. Get a dollar figure from management that represents just how "mission critical" job scheduling is at your work. That number becomes your scheduling budget.
If that number is too low to buy software, then I guess scheduling isn't all that critical at your business after all.
I think the fiber cables inside most other supercomputers was just to keep the clock synchronized across all nodes.
Actually, check the link that I provided. Look at the bottom of the page. Yes, it's an old joke, but one that they took so far that they used the punchline to name their company.
Dewey, Cheatham & Howe produce the radio show Car Talk on National Public Radio here in the US.
That's the name that the very funny guys on Car Talk gave to their production company.
Brilliant suggestion. Everyone is trying to think of a way to have a detailed image displayed below a transparent keyboard. The cheaper answer, as A.Dent suggests, is to project the image onto the keyboard. This works since using reconfigurable key images implies that the user will be hunting and pecking. Thus, their hands will not be blocking the key projection while they hunt for the right character.
Yes, you would have to reconfigure the canesta software to project onto a keyboard form factor. Once that was done, you wouldn't even need to sell the actual keyboard. Maybe a membrane keyboard cover that can be laid upon the user's current keyboard. Pick a matte material that will difuse the laser image better than a shiny plastic surface.
All the user would have to do is unplug their current keyboard and plug in the canesta projection keyboard. Then type away at their old keyboard while the canesta registers the keystrokes visually.
Slick
Neo enters the subway car and grabs a window seat.
Pulls his Nokia 7650 out of his pocket.
Pulls out mono headphones and jacks them into the phone.
Pulls out a bluetooth optical mouse.
Opens trenchcoat and pulls out a bluetooth keyboard.
Takes off his sunglasses
Proceeds to play a single player 1993 vintage 2.5D first person shooter on a 2 inch screen.
Hmmm, I don't think it looks cool and it sure doesn't sound like fun.
For a more beautiful insight into the history and need for patterns in design (whether software or buildings), read the book that started it all.
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
Oxford University Press; ISBN: 0195024028; (1979)
Perhaps that text is more interesting to those of us who were flip-flopping between the School of Architecture and Institute of Technology back in college, but it's also good for the Renaissance Man in you.
I don't disagree with firing the architect. He had proven that he was unable to get his design actually constructed.
Was the Sydney Opera House project a failure? Yes. It was 14 times over budget.
Was the Sydney Opera House project a failure?
No. It has generated 100+ times its cost in the form of tourism dollars and worldwide goodwill for the city of Sydney.
Does the Sydney Opera House prove that great programs come from visionary, but incompetent programmers? Not in the least. It is like telling somebody to not bother with a Bachelor degree so that they can be as wealthy as Bill Gates.
Hmmm, in the process of replying to this thread, I have determined that the discussion was irrelevant. Dang.
So you don't make a prototype at any stage then? And you're calling this guy dumb?
Creating a prototype is part of the Iterative model, not the Waterfall model. If you insist that it is Waterfall, then you are accepting that you are performing two rounds of Waterfall, one for prototype and one for release, which is really just two cycles of iterative. Of course a proper application of the Iterative development model would have more than 2 cycles and they would each be about as long as the prototype cycle.
Confused? I figured you would be.