Q: Why did NASA switch to Sprite? A: They couldn't get 7 up.
(Awful, I know.)
I was in 6th or 7th grade -- the middle school was doing mini-week (different curriculum for the week) and my group went on a field trip to somewhere local and I didn't hear about the disaster until the late afternoon. I was stunned. I clearly remember that day.
I actually had one of these I got dumpster diving in Cambridge, MA. Can't remember the name of the company...Spyglass maybe...but it was clearly marked as a demo/development unit only. I just wish I could find it and donate it to that guy with the Mac museum.
Where the hell are my karma points when I need them?
+2 to you LDAPMAN.
I work at a large company that has acquired (and not fully integrated) other companies over the years. To say that it's a complete mess when it comes to identity management is an understatement.
In practice, it's easy to get rid of someone for stealing (information or physical assets) or bad behavior (browsing naughty stuff). But getting rid of ineffective employees takes too much work sometimes and that ineffective employee is moved around the company until they retire...
Cat and mouse. Some companies go one further with port-level security (only white listed machines can get on the network using client-side software...so it's more than just MAC address) and disabling boot-from-cd in the BIOS and pw protecting the BIOS. What really bothers me is when a site/domain gets auto-blocked and it just happens to be a CDN holding images or css for a number of sites like IBM, Apple, Amazon, our own company's site... There's no good process for getting those blocks quickly removed. Google was accidentally blocked one day...
I started learning computer programming way back when I was 8 or 9 (1980/1981); our local community college had a class for kids in the evenings. Basic on a PDP11 running RSTS/e. I still remember the username and password (username:113,3; password: mercer).
Anyhow, exposing kids to coding at that age isn't about learning how to be a computer programmer. It's about teaching logic and how to break a problem down into smaller, more manageable pieces (think WBS in project management). Why do we make our kids take geometry? Proofs. Critical thinking. Algebra? Same thing.
In 7th grade math we used LOGO - not a language for career computer programmers I'd say, but it was a "training wheels" language. The teacher would give you a problem and you had to solve it.
As an aside...
I have a theory that Germans make good programmers because of the German language itself. Stacks. Subroutines. Recursion...
(I realize we're talking about the German STATE spying on its own people, which is different. My MIL lived in East Germany and tells stories of how you never knew which of your neighbors or friends was passing info on to the state.)
Germans spy on Germans...what else is new? It's a piece of national pride to know everything about your neighbor...except when they die watching TV and nobody finds them for 16 years. It seems that every time I hear about one of those happening, 9 out of 10 times it's in Germany...
Last winter I stepped out my front door and smelled gas and called NSTAR and they came out with a truck and detectors and the whole lot. They smelled it too, but the concentration wasn't high enough to call it an emergency, so they put me on a repair list. Two weeks later I come home to find the street in front of my house spray painted by DigSafe and a note on my door saying I need to be home the next day. They came, ran a liner in the pipe from the main to my house, connected it inside, and were gone. No more gas smell.
Then they came 2 months later to replace my meter (which they do every 7 years).
And the EVIL Exxon Mobil's Net Profit Margin is 8.68% and its Operating Margin is 15.06% compared with the EVIL Microsoft's of 33.1% and 38.3% respectively.
The ones that mention both the drug and what it is indicated for are called Product Claim Ads and must enumerate the benefits and the risks including potential side effects. Reminder Ads give the drug's name but not what it is indicated for and Help-Seeking ads describe a condition does not recommend or suggest a specific drug or drugs.
Fidelity and State Street are the two largest inst shareholders of Apple. Wanna know why? It is part of an index and therefore part of index mfs. A lot of people benefit from Apples performance.
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Q: Why did NASA switch to Sprite?
A: They couldn't get 7 up.
(Awful, I know.)
I was in 6th or 7th grade -- the middle school was doing mini-week (different curriculum for the week) and my group went on a field trip to somewhere local and I didn't hear about the disaster until the late afternoon. I was stunned. I clearly remember that day.
--Mike
I actually had one of these I got dumpster diving in Cambridge, MA. Can't remember the name of the company...Spyglass maybe...but it was clearly marked as a demo/development unit only. I just wish I could find it and donate it to that guy with the Mac museum.
Is there a Norweigan term for "NIMBY"? If so, what's the NIMBY density in Norway compared with CA? I bet the CA density is at least 100x... :)
Where the hell are my karma points when I need them?
+2 to you LDAPMAN.
I work at a large company that has acquired (and not fully integrated) other companies over the years. To say that it's a complete mess when it comes to identity management is an understatement.
It's not quite that simple, but close enough for Slashdot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In practice, it's easy to get rid of someone for stealing (information or physical assets) or bad behavior (browsing naughty stuff). But getting rid of ineffective employees takes too much work sometimes and that ineffective employee is moved around the company until they retire...
Cat and mouse. Some companies go one further with port-level security (only white listed machines can get on the network using client-side software...so it's more than just MAC address) and disabling boot-from-cd in the BIOS and pw protecting the BIOS. What really bothers me is when a site/domain gets auto-blocked and it just happens to be a CDN holding images or css for a number of sites like IBM, Apple, Amazon, our own company's site...
There's no good process for getting those blocks quickly removed. Google was accidentally blocked one day...
I started learning computer programming way back when I was 8 or 9 (1980/1981); our local community college had a class for kids in the evenings. Basic on a PDP11 running RSTS/e. I still remember the username and password (username:113,3; password: mercer).
Anyhow, exposing kids to coding at that age isn't about learning how to be a computer programmer. It's about teaching logic and how to break a problem down into smaller, more manageable pieces (think WBS in project management). Why do we make our kids take geometry? Proofs. Critical thinking. Algebra? Same thing.
In 7th grade math we used LOGO - not a language for career computer programmers I'd say, but it was a "training wheels" language. The teacher would give you a problem and you had to solve it.
As an aside...
I have a theory that Germans make good programmers because of the German language itself. Stacks. Subroutines. Recursion...
(I realize we're talking about the German STATE spying on its own people, which is different. My MIL lived in East Germany and tells stories of how you never knew which of your neighbors or friends was passing info on to the state.)
Germans spy on Germans...what else is new? It's a piece of national pride to know everything about your neighbor...except when they die watching TV and nobody finds them for 16 years. It seems that every time I hear about one of those happening, 9 out of 10 times it's in Germany...
It's worse now that the other USVI Golden Goose (HOVENSA) has shut down. I've seen up-close-and-personal the graft that exists on St Croix...
My mom was born in E. St. Louis (in 1940, it was a little different then). The E. St. Louis of today makes Camden, NJ look nice.
Of course. That's the way things have been going around here (USA) for a while now. It's quite unfortunate you know.
Imagine a budget spreadsheet in Comic Sans. I've seen it and it made me cry.
I wasn't pre-med, I was a chem major and the hardest class for me was orgo due to the same reasons mentioned above.
Marky Mark is Mark Wahlberg. Donnie is on Blue Bloods.
Wouldn't your fingerprint be on the glass of the iPhone in the first place? Like, maybe, on the button itself?
OH yeah, for relevance this is in a town just north of Boston.
Last winter I stepped out my front door and smelled gas and called NSTAR and they came out with a truck and detectors and the whole lot. They smelled it too, but the concentration wasn't high enough to call it an emergency, so they put me on a repair list. Two weeks later I come home to find the street in front of my house spray painted by DigSafe and a note on my door saying I need to be home the next day. They came, ran a liner in the pipe from the main to my house, connected it inside, and were gone. No more gas smell.
Then they came 2 months later to replace my meter (which they do every 7 years).
--Mike
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And the EVIL Exxon Mobil's Net Profit Margin is 8.68% and its Operating Margin is 15.06% compared with the EVIL Microsoft's of 33.1% and 38.3% respectively.
There are three types of drug ads in the US - http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/PrescriptionDrugAdvertising/default.htm
The ones that mention both the drug and what it is indicated for are called Product Claim Ads and must enumerate the benefits and the risks including potential side effects. Reminder Ads give the drug's name but not what it is indicated for and Help-Seeking ads describe a condition does not recommend or suggest a specific drug or drugs.
Didn't Motorbootkompanie 10 used to open for Kraftwerk?
LOX + bagel works for hunger. LOX on a HDD? Not effective at wiping data or satisfying hunger.
This is totally one step beyond! It's madness!
Fidelity and State Street are the two largest inst shareholders of Apple. Wanna know why? It is part of an index and therefore part of index mfs. A lot of people benefit from Apples performance.
--Mike