"This project compared to my most creative experience is:" My most creative effort 13.9% Equally as creative 49.5% Somewhat less creative 28.4% Much less creative 8.1%
So we have more than 50% saying that the work they do for fun, love, and recognition in their spare time is as good or better than the work they do on company time.
This line on its own should be a cause for serious investigation into current software project management theory.
In Borland compilers, there was an example in the online help demonstrating proper usage of the sound() function... There's a brief description here. And yes, this was really in the help files:)
you had a rating system and a flexible reporting module, such that, for example, one could track the restriction level of Microsoft OS licences across the years or distribution channels, and such...
Food for coding sessions, say you? Things which are easy to cook, readily available ingredients?
I code; you want me to cook too? What, and have the circus people after me? ("It codes in 5 different languages AAAAAND it cooks lasagna! Step closer!")
Thanks. If you have a list of phone numbers for fast food delivery places, I'm your man, though.
God didn't create all this in 6 days AND cook. _Someone_ must have been delivering, even back then.
RealNetworks did not formally license the ability to offer Windows Media software, but instead re-created the technology based on data streams sent between the server and player software
I'm not American, so my details on this would be hazy. But this is reverse engineering. And you're in trouble of the DMCA kind when you perform such an operation, I've observed.
Scientist1: Well, it appears that there's some parts of space where there's no gravitational pull. So, if we chuck the craft along one of these paths, it will umm... Scientist2: It will probably need less energy. Scientist1: Right. Since it doesn't have to do any work counteracting any gravity. Reporter: Makes sense fellas. Now, you called a press conference. What's that all about? Scientist1: Well, that was it. Reporter: (short pause) I see. (another longer pause - an uncomfortable silence, actually) Now, seeing as you just worked this out, how did you fly craft before then? Scientist2: Well, gas was so cheap and all... (Scientist2 slaps Scientist1 and NASA lose what funding they have left)
IN RELATED NEWS: Liberal Arts graduate? Want to work for the JPL? We're hiring! Call NOW!
First, we'll agree that the more you know, the more powerful you are.
Then we'll say that technology can be harnessed to process data into information at alarming rates.
And observe too how much of our lives takes its course through technological means; e-mail, television, telephone network, cell phone, ad nauseam.
Put all three together, stir well, leave overnight, and what do you get?
With proper resources, we live in a time with unprecedented opportunity for data harvesting and processing. Such proper resources are most likely to be found in an organization as large and unaccountable such as 'government'.
I could be on the wrong track here, but things like Echelon, Carnivore, Magic Lantern, etc. make me think not.
When it's France, however, the folks from Yahoo stand up and defend their right to independent content. Strange dualism going on there, wouldn't you say.
It also seems that all you need to get yahoo to pull certain content or messages is a few irate e-mails... Heck, even the Saudis have asked yahoo to regulate itself according to its government's preferences./me scratches head.
If this could get bundled with the regular winamp download, I think we'd be on to something.
I think the folks at winamp would be interested in doing this; it's an interesting 'selling' point. Download this player, get instant access to millions (?) of songs instantly and without further downloads.
The gnutella network, if I read things correctly, would benefit from the incremental bandwidth of Joe Sixpack and his brethren.
After the first 3 or 4 hundred program installs/uninstalls things to tend to, err, get a bit cluttered, heh.
Then again I would like to see you do that many program installs in as short a time on a *nix box.:-D
So, let's see if I got this right. You install a lot of stuff, the box goes bad. And you can install a lot of stuff a lot faster in windows than in an *nix box.
Therefore, the primary attraction in Windows is that you can muck it up one HELL of a lot faster.
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until it codes in perl, can order pizza, cook ramen, post on /. and develops a habit of belching on socially inauspicious times.
Hmm.
You can get unauthorized access to a network easily by gaining physical access first.
As computers proliferate and approach ubiquity, security becomes a larger issue.
These are the central themes I identified. This is not news. It is hardly even analysis.
Actually, it struck me more as a kind of public service announcement designed to raise levels of awareness.
How utterly boring. What happened to the 'superior intelligences' theory?
NASA, we demand smart aliens, with tentacles and bug eyes and all. Don't you scientists read comic books?
You're not doing your job. Bacteria? If these are the only aliens you can come up with then LOOK HARDER.
Harumph.
mutter mutter misappropriated tax dollars mutter
OPEN SOURCE TURNS ON HACKERS
"This project compared to my most creative experience is:"
My most creative effort 13.9%
Equally as creative 49.5%
Somewhat less creative 28.4%
Much less creative 8.1%
So we have more than 50% saying that the work they do for fun, love, and recognition in their spare time is as good or better than the work they do on company time.
This line on its own should be a cause for serious investigation into current software project management theory.
In Borland compilers, there was an example in the online help demonstrating proper usage of the sound() function... There's a brief description here. And yes, this was really in the help files :)
you had a rating system and a flexible reporting module, such that, for example, one could track the restriction level of Microsoft OS licences across the years or distribution channels, and such...
Food for coding sessions, say you? Things which are easy to cook, readily available ingredients?
I code; you want me to cook too? What, and have the circus people after me? ("It codes in 5 different languages AAAAAND it cooks lasagna! Step closer!")
Thanks. If you have a list of phone numbers for fast food delivery places, I'm your man, though.
God didn't create all this in 6 days AND cook. _Someone_ must have been delivering, even back then.
There's an argument to be made that having a Microsoft product in your living room could be termed an emergency.
I personally find this alleged virus' behaviour entirely appropriate.
It's just trying to help.
Can't you see that?
You have no idea how far I am from being an American...
I can understand your reaction, though I must ask you to go look sarcasm up in the dictionary.
Please permit me to refer you to the authority on demand creation for potentially bogus merchandise.
Glad to help out.
Us Government property, UN property... Hmm. Am I missing a distinction in there?
Let's not split geopolitical hairs.
A headline to draw in the geek girls?
Tsk tsk... Timothy!
Fair enough. What then when the security mechanism is there to protect against reverse engineering?
RealNetworks did not formally license the ability to offer Windows Media software, but instead re-created the technology based on data streams sent between the server and player software
I'm not American, so my details on this would be hazy. But this is reverse engineering. And you're in trouble of the DMCA kind when you perform such an operation, I've observed.
Am I correct?
It's gonna take one hell of a lot of PS3 Minesweeper players for me to get the kind of framerates in my 3D games that they're speaking of...
Scientist1: Well, it appears that there's some parts of space where there's no gravitational pull. So, if we chuck the craft along one of these paths, it will umm...
Scientist2: It will probably need less energy.
Scientist1: Right. Since it doesn't have to do any work counteracting any gravity.
Reporter: Makes sense fellas. Now, you called a press conference. What's that all about?
Scientist1: Well, that was it.
Reporter: (short pause) I see. (another longer pause - an uncomfortable silence, actually) Now, seeing as you just worked this out, how did you fly craft before then?
Scientist2: Well, gas was so cheap and all...
(Scientist2 slaps Scientist1 and NASA lose what funding they have left)
IN RELATED NEWS: Liberal Arts graduate? Want to work for the JPL? We're hiring! Call NOW!
That's intelligence, not knowledge.
Let's look at this from a different angle.
First, we'll agree that the more you know, the more powerful you are.
Then we'll say that technology can be harnessed to process data into information at alarming rates.
And observe too how much of our lives takes its course through technological means; e-mail, television, telephone network, cell phone, ad nauseam.
Put all three together, stir well, leave overnight, and what do you get?
With proper resources, we live in a time with unprecedented opportunity for data harvesting and processing. Such proper resources are most likely to be found in an organization as large and unaccountable such as 'government'.
I could be on the wrong track here, but things like Echelon, Carnivore, Magic Lantern, etc. make me think not.
Like this? Fits the bill perfectly.
In Australia, apparently.
/me scratches head.
When it's France, however, the folks from Yahoo stand up and defend their right to independent content. Strange dualism going on there, wouldn't you say.
It also seems that all you need to get yahoo to pull certain content or messages is a few irate e-mails... Heck, even the Saudis have asked yahoo to regulate itself according to its government's preferences.
Where's the surprise?
They've always been like this.
Some of it is good, yes.
I attended the concert at the Pyramids; sometimes rehashing old tunes can work wonders.
And the Mac faithful are 58 percent more likely than the overall online population to build their own Web page
So that's where all the "Hi-my-name-is-Jenny-and-I-like-cats" homepages are coming from.
There's apparently a winamp plugin in the pipeline.
If this could get bundled with the regular winamp download, I think we'd be on to something.
I think the folks at winamp would be interested in doing this; it's an interesting 'selling' point. Download this player, get instant access to millions (?) of songs instantly and without further downloads.
The gnutella network, if I read things correctly, would benefit from the incremental bandwidth of Joe Sixpack and his brethren.
Win-win situation?
After the first 3 or 4 hundred program installs/uninstalls things to tend to, err, get a bit cluttered, heh.
:-D
:-)
Then again I would like to see you do that many program installs in as short a time on a *nix box.
So, let's see if I got this right. You install a lot of stuff, the box goes bad. And you can install a lot of stuff a lot faster in windows than in an *nix box.
Therefore, the primary attraction in Windows is that you can muck it up one HELL of a lot faster.
Efficiency, in other words.
Yep, I'm with you
1. Jean-michel Jarre (but stick to his old stuff; go for Magnetic Fields, Oxygene, Rendez-Vous, Revolutions, etc.)
2. Vangelis (ALL his stuff. ALL of it. Especially ALbedo 0.39)