Finally a step towards debugging the machine that led to the imprisonment of Mr. Buttle, shoe repairman, instead of Harry Tuttle, illegal freelance Heating Engineer.
First, they're refusing a publisher in, even after Kircaali presented his press credentials, photo id, and his business card: "We know SYS-CON Media and we know you, however you need to show us your press credentials and bring us copies of your work. We can not issue a press/media badge for you at this time."
Second, Carly was boasting of how she cut out the "boring" basic research from HP: "Carly's newest message, which is - basically - that HP isn't any longer the boring old printing and imagine specialist, it's a 'full-service' computer company, offering end-to-end solutions." "While the demand for technology for its own sake may be down, the need for technology that solves real human and business problems is stronger than it has ever been."
Demand for basic research comes from a desire to discover and improve, not by those that only seek the visible profits on the easy branches of the tech tree. It's like trying to explain farming to "hunter-gatherers".
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. - Julius Caesar
Perhaps I can help. I was a contractor for the last 5 years, and I saw so many tricks people used to get free work.
- her entire corporate LAN was down Meaning: It's costing her company 1 day of their capital. Unemployment is costing you 5 months of your capital
- helped her save the day Meaning: You helped her save her job, even though she mismanaged by removing a necessary support position.
- my ex-Boss calls me and demands that I help her out. Boy what attitude. She did not even bother calling me back to thank me Meaning: She's unpleasant and not a friend. She's blaming you for the problem and you believe it's your fault.
- an opportunity to make a little money off of your old company Meaning: It's wrong to get paid by a company?? What is the purpose of any business (including yours)? It doesn't sound like you hang out there for fun. There's nothing wrong about receiving some sort of pay for your work.
- It doesn't pay to burn bridges, especially if they need something that you can provide Not so: Getting paid is not burning bridges. You want to be known for the quality of your work, not your charity. How about your bridges that she burned?
I could understand if the item that broke was covered under warranty by you. If they were a poor charity or she was friendly I might even do them a favor.
- she knows that I'm a kind person Kind people don't complain about what they have decided to give away. Successful people make a quick decision and stick with it. It would be wise to work on your bargaining.
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Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing down real science, but their arguments don't hold up.
Embarrassingly, in the 21st century, in the most scientifically advanced nation the world has ever known, creationists can still persuade politicians, judges and ordinary citizens that evolution is a flawed, poorly supported fantasy.
"When the sales rep. at Dell was told of our decision, he became upset and began demanding explanations as to why we wanted to use a 'desktop' as a server"
Only customers are entitled to getting upset and demanding explanations. When sales starts to bully potential customers then it's time to find a better vendor. Support is usually far less accomodating than sales.
Banning Free and Open Source Software would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g., OpenBSD) that currently help support network security. It would also limit DoD access to -- and overall expertise in -- the use of powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security focused DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks.
Starting on page 32, theres a very nice glossary of common Free and Open Source Acronyms.
- Corporations don't have a death expectancy, so they could be around for hundreds of years without having to pay any form of inheritance tax.
- Some people seem to think that the corporations with the most money know what's best for the nation. This is not correct. Any form of goverment relies on the integrity of it's leaders. Corporations also do not represent the general public: their purpose is to make a profit and provide an income for their employees without much thought as to the well being of the people they receive money from. There is also no system of checks and balances.
In recent history private industry has been entrusted with much power in an effort to manage national resources more efficiently. People started to believe that mergers and privatization were the solutions to all problems. Now as we lower our expectations of the integrity of big business, we see the aftermath in a market downturn.
"Basic science has always worked on the fact that we don't know the answer, hence we ask the question without having the answer."
Even if discoveries like sounds in space are never applied, it gets the public interested in science. It might even inspire young minds to accomplish great works someday. Such was the case of a simple beeping noise in 1957 from Sputnik.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit2002101 0. html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit200 21017. html
The reason that you'll never see an accurate economy in a game is the same reason why people play online games: People want to escape to a better place.
An economy is a careful, thrifty management of resources, such as money, materials, or labor. Having an economy requires someone to work boring and unpleasant jobs. This includes monotonous jobs in a factory/office/farm/mine/store/vehicle with paperwork, early/late hours, and homework. However, gamers don't like to be managed - when they have too many boring tasks in an online game, they go play another game that's more fun. In a game there is no need for food, shelter, or clothing to survive. Everyone is looking for adventure and as a result they constantly raid or fight each other. If you want to constantly raid new lands like Gengis Khan's horde then play Everquest (it gets lonely if you don't stick with the horde though). If you want to fight other players in large team battles then play Dark Age of Camelot. If you like boring jobs, log off and save up for a nice house. Forget about a gamer economy because no one has to be there.
It looks like it is a decision that Jobs or his team feels strongly about. Apple tries to get into the center of the biggest cities to influence more people. Sony's Metreon stores are probably a similar tactic. The news.com article states that the show was held in Boston for 12 years, before moving to New York in 1998. If you look at Apple's Stock Chart their business shot up starting in 1998.
Here's a brief timeline: 1997 - Steve Jobs becomes an advisor at Apple Computer. - Steve Jobs becomes interim CEO (for life) 1998: - Apple phases out Newton. - Apple discontinues support for all 68000- and 68020-based Macs, and most 86030-based models. - iMac introduced, largest model rollout in the industry. - Mac OS 8.5 ships, first Mac OS release with no 680X0 support. - Apple had their first year with four profitable quarters since 1985. It was a very good year.
Apple also has plenty of cash to survive a rough market: $4.31B
I know Boston's a big city but after all, New York's the Big Apple!
While television brought the downfall of the huge single-show theaters, there was still a group of people that went out to see the shows (might have something to do with not being a cheap/easy date). From there the multi-plex theaters were born, with more variety for a large group of people.
This information is from Maurice Kanbar's book. He invented one of the first multi-show movie theatres.
"A general manager at the city's hockey arena, Moehring has used the Hamilton County court's Web site to check out potential hires." "He's even turned away a few because of what he found."
"But someone used the site to pull Moehring's Social Security number and other details from a 1996 traffic ticket, opening seven credit cards in his name and charging $11,000."... "People don't have good intentions, and the county is laying a road map for them," Bloch said. "It goes beyond stolen identity. It speaks to personal safety."
Verant usually bans players that they find using any un-official Everquest programs to do things that the other players can't do. This includes running Everquest in a window or decoding the net traffic to the machine.
Slashdot Mirror
Hold out for the billionaires claiming to represent the people!
We do not want to live in the world where we are all artist/waiters... the copyright lawyers would never get tipped!
--a former artist/waiter
If I were a cab driver in Finland and I played a CD of music of my own composition, i'd scare my passengers away!
"an ad that's shaped exactly like the widget set for the most widely installed OS in the world is misleading"
Advertisements steal people's attention. What's to stop billboards from looking like road signs and re-directing highway traffic to stores?
Finally a step towards debugging the machine that led to the imprisonment of Mr. Buttle, shoe repairman, instead of Harry Tuttle, illegal freelance Heating Engineer.
"The 'How about a beowulf cluster of these?' joke finally gets played out."
d !
Steve Ballmer will be chanting:
Distributed!
Distributed!
Distribute
First, they're refusing a publisher in, even after Kircaali presented his press credentials, photo id, and his business card:
"We know SYS-CON Media and we know you, however you need to show us your press credentials and bring us copies of your work. We can not issue a press/media badge for you at this time."
Second, Carly was boasting of how she cut out the "boring" basic research from HP:
"Carly's newest message, which is - basically - that HP isn't any longer the boring old printing and imagine specialist, it's a 'full-service' computer company, offering end-to-end solutions."
"While the demand for technology for its own sake may be down, the need for technology that solves real human and business problems is stronger than it has ever been."
Demand for basic research comes from a desire to discover and improve, not by those that only seek the visible profits on the easy branches of the tech tree.
It's like trying to explain farming to "hunter-gatherers".
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. - Julius Caesar
Perhaps I can help. I was a contractor for the last 5 years, and I saw so many tricks people used to get free work.
- her entire corporate LAN was down
Meaning: It's costing her company 1 day of their capital. Unemployment is costing you 5 months of your capital
- helped her save the day
Meaning: You helped her save her job, even though she mismanaged by removing a necessary support position.
- my ex-Boss calls me and demands that I help her out. Boy what attitude. She did not even bother calling me back to thank me
Meaning: She's unpleasant and not a friend. She's blaming you for the problem and you believe it's your fault.
- an opportunity to make a little money off of your old company
Meaning: It's wrong to get paid by a company?? What is the purpose of any business (including yours)? It doesn't sound like you hang out there for fun. There's nothing wrong about receiving some sort of pay for your work.
- It doesn't pay to burn bridges, especially if they need something that you can provide
Not so: Getting paid is not burning bridges. You want to be known for the quality of your work, not your charity. How about your bridges that she burned?
I could understand if the item that broke was covered under warranty by you. If they were a poor charity or she was friendly I might even do them a favor.
- she knows that I'm a kind person
Kind people don't complain about what they have decided to give away.
Successful people make a quick decision and stick with it. It would be wise to work on your bargaining.
Server Operation: Dial-up and high speed access customers are not permitted to knowingly operate information servers of any type. Servers include, but are not limited to, Web servers, FTP servers, Mail servers, IRC servers, etc. Any customer accounts found knowingly operating a server of any type may face immediate and permanent revocation of service. If customers wish to operate any type of server, contact Commercial Sales to establish a Commercial Dedicated account.
Commercial Postings: Commercial postings, those for monetary gain whether for profit or non-profit, via e-mail, newsgroup postings etc, except those in which it is specifically permitted, is prohibited by PTD.
Commercial Use: Web pages provided as part of the Internet Access Service are for residential use only. PTD prohibits commercial use of these Web Pages. The offending page must be altered or removed upon a warning being issued or access to it will be denied. This includes but is not limited to commercial advertising, commercial banners, etc. Commercial web pages are available at additional charges. Information can be found at info@ptd.net.
Obscene: The personal use of or commercial distribution of vulgar language, sexually suggestive language, obscene language, obscene images or vulgar images which are transmitted, posted, or displayed are prohibited to traverse any PTD system or any system accessible through PTD. Obscenities may result in the immediate and permanent termination of your customer privileges. These activities may border on criminal depending upon circumstances and could result in Federal, State or Local Law Enforcement involvement.
Customers are responsible and are solely legally accountable for all liability including but not limited to defamatory comments, copyright and trademark violations. Residential home pages are not to contain profanity and obscenities. The substitution of alternate characters in place of letters for profanity is not permissible. Residential Home Pages may not contain banner advertisements promoting commercial or monetary gain.
Unacceptable Content for Residential Home Pages
The following are prohibited:
1. Advertising products or services by non-profit entities (such as Charitable Organizations, Professional Societies, Service Groups) as well as for profit entities.
a. Display of Advertisements, including banner exchange services.
b. Conducting raffles, lotteries, or contests.
c. Pages that are patently offensive, as determined by PTD, including but not limited to bigotry, racism, hatred and profanity.
d. Pages that promote physical harm or injury to any group or individual.
e. Pages that contain nudity, pornography or obscenities of any kind.
2. Pages that promote illegal activities including but not limited to hacking, cracking, warez, denial of services, phreaking, etc.
3. Password only and restricted access pages.
4. Pages with hidden images or pages.
5. Pages with unauthorized third party copyrighted, trademarked, service marked, or trade secret materials.
6. Use of the page that would otherwise violate the PTD Acceptable Usage Policy or Service Agreement.
Scientific AmericanE C-7D5B-1D07-8E49809EC588EEDF&catID=2
July 2002 issue
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000D4F
Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing down real science, but their arguments don't hold up.
Embarrassingly, in the 21st century, in the most scientifically advanced nation the world has ever known, creationists can still persuade politicians, judges and ordinary citizens that evolution is a flawed, poorly supported fantasy.
Doo, doo, doo, Lookin' out my back door.
"When the sales rep. at Dell was told of our decision, he became upset and began demanding explanations as to why we wanted to use a 'desktop' as a server"
Only customers are entitled to getting upset and demanding explanations. When sales starts to bully potential customers then it's time to find a better vendor. Support is usually far less accomodating than sales.
Reminds me of the movie "Glengarry Glen Ross".
Banning Free and Open Source Software would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g., OpenBSD) that currently help support network security. It would also limit DoD access to -- and overall expertise in -- the use of powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security focused DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks.
Starting on page 32, theres a very nice glossary of common Free and Open Source Acronyms.
- Corporations don't have a death expectancy, so they could be around for hundreds of years without having to pay any form of inheritance tax.
- Some people seem to think that the corporations with the most money know what's best for the nation. This is not correct. Any form of goverment relies on the integrity of it's leaders. Corporations also do not represent the general public: their purpose is to make a profit and provide an income for their employees without much thought as to the well being of the people they receive money from. There is also no system of checks and balances.
In recent history private industry has been entrusted with much power in an effort to manage national resources more efficiently. People started to believe that mergers and privatization were the solutions to all problems. Now as we lower our expectations of the integrity of big business, we see the aftermath in a market downturn.
With power comes responsibility.
"Basic science has always worked on the fact that we don't know the answer, hence we ask the question without having the answer."
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Even if discoveries like sounds in space are never applied, it gets the public interested in science. It might even inspire young minds to accomplish great works someday. Such was the case of a simple beeping noise in 1957 from Sputnik.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit200210
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20
http://www.spacesounds.com/
The reason that you'll never see an accurate economy in a game is the same reason why people play online games: People want to escape to a better place.
An economy is a careful, thrifty management of resources, such as money, materials, or labor. Having an economy requires someone to work boring and unpleasant jobs. This includes monotonous jobs in a factory/office/farm/mine/store/vehicle with paperwork, early/late hours, and homework. However, gamers don't like to be managed - when they have too many boring tasks in an online game, they go play another game that's more fun. In a game there is no need for food, shelter, or clothing to survive. Everyone is looking for adventure and as a result they constantly raid or fight each other. If you want to constantly raid new lands like Gengis Khan's horde then play Everquest (it gets lonely if you don't stick with the horde though). If you want to fight other players in large team battles then play Dark Age of Camelot. If you like boring jobs, log off and save up for a nice house. Forget about a gamer economy because no one has to be there.
It looks like it is a decision that Jobs or his team feels strongly about.
Apple tries to get into the center of the biggest cities to influence more people. Sony's Metreon stores are probably a similar tactic.
The news.com article states that the show was held in Boston for 12 years, before moving to New York in 1998.
If you look at Apple's Stock Chart their business shot up starting in 1998.
Here's a brief timeline:
1997
- Steve Jobs becomes an advisor at Apple Computer.
- Steve Jobs becomes interim CEO (for life)
1998:
- Apple phases out Newton.
- Apple discontinues support for all 68000- and 68020-based Macs, and most 86030-based models.
- iMac introduced, largest model rollout in the industry.
- Mac OS 8.5 ships, first Mac OS release with no 680X0 support.
- Apple had their first year with four profitable quarters since 1985.
It was a very good year.
Apple also has plenty of cash to survive a rough market: $4.31B
I know Boston's a big city but after all, New York's the Big Apple!
While television brought the downfall of the huge single-show theaters, there was still a group of people that went out to see the shows (might have something to do with not being a cheap/easy date). From there the multi-plex theaters were born, with more variety for a large group of people.
This information is from Maurice Kanbar's book. He invented one of the first multi-show movie theatres.
How well it works in WineX: 4 out of 5
3
User Comments: Fallout works really fine; Haven't
experienced any glitches while testing
the game.
http://www.transgaming.com/gamepage.php?gameid=17
Hopefully IBM hasn't patented a compression algorithm that involves a trough instead of urinals.
"A general manager at the city's hockey arena, Moehring has used the Hamilton County court's Web site to check out potential hires."
...
o urt.records.ap/
"He's even turned away a few because of what he found."
"But someone used the site to pull Moehring's Social Security number and other details from a 1996 traffic ticket, opening seven credit cards in his name and charging $11,000."
"People don't have good intentions, and the county is laying a road map for them," Bloch said. "It goes beyond stolen identity. It speaks to personal safety."
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Midwest/10/12/online.c
It allowed people to decode and convert RealPlayer format so you wouldn't have to see all the annoying ads. Real shut them down.
I don't hack into your company so please don't advertise into my home.
Verant usually bans players that they find using any un-official Everquest programs to do things that the other players can't do. This includes running Everquest in a window or decoding the net traffic to the machine.
Sub little_language_that_tried()
Dim my_brain as string
my_brain = "simple mind"
Do while my_brain = "simple mind"
Debug.Print "I think I can.. ";
Loop
End Sub