How about a simpple device, handheld, controlled with an easy to use numeric keypad, used only for voice communication? Has anyone else ever thought of this?
The interesting thing in the article
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Is the description of Microsofts' reaction.
Microsoft, meanwhile, seems to be having trouble deciding how to respond to this new business model.
It's "a cancer," Microsoft officials said. "An intellectual-property destroyer." Almost un-American.
Then Microsoft executives began to "clarify" that stance
the company clarified its clarification
Those of us who read the Post daily (the dead tree version has a nice picture of Miguel and the Ximian HQ, btw) will notice an interesting parallel to the style used when the Post is going after a political figure. "Almost un-American" and "clarified its clarification" are classic ways of attacking spin.
It was alot of fun reading this while drinking my coffee this morning. Great way to start the day.
The continuing investigations into the Clinton presidency ran into a major problem. Every email sent to, and within, the administration was saved. But not indexed. Apparently there are terabytes of the stuff. On tape. Sorting through it looking for evidence is likely to take years. And then it has to go to the national archives. And that's just the email. Add in all the other digital content they generated, all of which had to be saved, and there's a major problem.
It's not like we do much business with them anyway. Besides, they're all French anyway. Wait, that's those sneaky Canadians. The Aussies are all descended from criminals, and us True Amurrken types have Zero Tolerance for criminals! Especially ones who pirate ships.
One day I came home from high school, must have beenn in 1980, to discover that my mom had given away my cherished collection of Legos. I had about a cubic foot of various pieces. She had also given away most of my Star Trek Stuff (the Blueprints, Concordance, some models, and some of the books).
I came from a job in industrial automation. Wrote custom device drivers for 82c55 chipsets, ADC/DAC cards, things like that. Now I'm doing (takes deep breath) [buzzword compliance alert] custom b2b and b2c XML enabled web applications with oracle databases and portal servers for government and private industry contracts using C++, Perl, and Python on multiple platforms. [end buzzword compliance] So I've gone from twiddling bits and machine code programming to doing XML and database applications.
I'm 36 and have a history of drug and alcohol abuse. Makes for lots of paperwork. If you're honest on the paperwork there's no problem getting the clearance.
We do lots of stuff for DMSO. Not evil, or particularly secret, but it is fun. Getting data that's been saved in a zillion formats over the years converted to XML and stored in oracle dbs and allowing web access to that same data. We're so buzzword compliant it's painful.
I met a guy who worked in a mainframe shop. He said that one day an engineer showed up to fix the machine. They didn't know it was broken. Apparently it reported a problem to the home office, which dispatched a tech to fix the problem.
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I wonder what it's like working for the guy that put Dubya in the White House.
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How about a simpple device, handheld, controlled with an easy to use numeric keypad, used only for voice communication? Has anyone else ever thought of this?
Microsoft, meanwhile, seems to be having trouble deciding how to respond to this new business model.
It's "a cancer," Microsoft officials said. "An intellectual-property destroyer." Almost un-American.
Then Microsoft executives began to "clarify" that stance
the company clarified its clarification
Those of us who read the Post daily (the dead tree version has a nice picture of Miguel and the Ximian HQ, btw) will notice an interesting parallel to the style used when the Post is going after a political figure. "Almost un-American" and "clarified its clarification" are classic ways of attacking spin.
It was alot of fun reading this while drinking my coffee this morning. Great way to start the day.
The continuing investigations into the Clinton presidency ran into a major problem. Every email sent to, and within, the administration was saved. But not indexed. Apparently there are terabytes of the stuff. On tape. Sorting through it looking for evidence is likely to take years. And then it has to go to the national archives. And that's just the email. Add in all the other digital content they generated, all of which had to be saved, and there's a major problem.
Gotta buy milk on the way home from work.
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Posted by timothy on Saturday March 18, @09:09PM
from the calm-collected-rational-and-persuasive dept.
The Washington Post article has quotes from the eff and American Library Association and a paragraph on Skylarov.
Am I the only one who thinks of the Swedish Chef when I see this?
It's not like we do much business with them anyway. Besides, they're all French anyway. Wait, that's those sneaky Canadians. The Aussies are all descended from criminals, and us True Amurrken types have Zero Tolerance for criminals! Especially ones who pirate ships.
Mr Gutnick is a devious businessman going after a US company in an Austrailian court like that.
Take a look at this story about governments requiring open source.
One day I came home from high school, must have beenn in 1980, to discover that my mom had given away my cherished collection of Legos. I had about a cubic foot of various pieces. She had also given away most of my Star Trek Stuff (the Blueprints, Concordance, some models, and some of the books).
He started Dilbert while he was working in a cubicle at PacBell.
Must be nice to have cashed in the Andover and VA stock early.
<Cynicism>That's probably why they gave it that name.</Cynicism>
One other thing. K5 isn't slashdot either.
I came from a job in industrial automation. Wrote custom device drivers for 82c55 chipsets, ADC/DAC cards, things like that. Now I'm doing (takes deep breath) [buzzword compliance alert] custom b2b and b2c XML enabled web applications with oracle databases and portal servers for government and private industry contracts using C++, Perl, and Python on multiple platforms. [end buzzword compliance] So I've gone from twiddling bits and machine code programming to doing XML and database applications.
PHB: "We need a Linux programmer, want the job?"
Hacker:"Linux coding? Excellent! What'll I be doin?"
PHB: "Maintaining this 30 year old, undocumented, COBOL code"
Hacker: "AIEEEEE!!!"
Think "programmer with screwdriver" or "phd with soldering iron". Common sense and intelligence often seem to be inversely proportional.
We do lots of stuff for DMSO. Not evil, or particularly secret, but it is fun. Getting data that's been saved in a zillion formats over the years converted to XML and stored in oracle dbs and allowing web access to that same data. We're so buzzword compliant it's painful.
I work for a DOD contractor (hooray! A dod contractor during a republican administration!) myself, that clearance does make me much more employable.
Science Applications International Corporation is not siac. SAIC is much spookier. You need a hairy security clearance for much of the stuff they do.
And the amperage also has an effect.
I met a guy who worked in a mainframe shop. He said that one day an engineer showed up to fix the machine. They didn't know it was broken. Apparently it reported a problem to the home office, which dispatched a tech to fix the problem.