I know how frustrating it is. I posted a story a couple of weeks ago that I was going to be in the hospital for nearly a week for emergency surgery. Not a single person I've talked to since then saw the post. It was depressing thinking no one cared when in reality no one knew.
Sorry you had to go through that. Honestly. But you know what? If I went into the hospital for emergency surgery anyone I wanted to know would know. I don't have a facebook account. And I'd never create one and expect it to act as a tool to disseminate critical information. It was important to you that people knew but you relied on a mechanism that is geared towards monetizing you and if it works for you all the better. If it doesn't, oh well. Not like you can sue them over it.
I'm not trying to be harsh, and I do feel for you. Next time, use the phone (you had time to post to facebook, all it takes is one phone call to spread the word....)
For PC based demos Win 7 is used. (Linux also available) The latest version of Direct X and.Net are present and available for use. Other OSs and hardware will have their own support packages as well. So yes, third party libraries are available but that does not make the outcomes any less impressive.
Here is a link to where the info above came from with additional details:
In fact, I'm still running a free BBS. I'm using ProBoard v2.17 under OS/2 Warp 4.52.
Wonderful! It's great to see folks still carrying the torch. I would probably do so as well but my interests have moved onto guitar (from all things computer) and specifically, the blues. I always preferred OS/2 until it just became impractical as the businesses I supported that were initially on DOS moved to windows so I went where the market was. Still held out though in my programming language of choice. For internal business apps I still used Delphi up until last year when I retired. I actually had a recruiter contact me last week about a Delphi position so it's still in use, though it has a very very small market share.
Anyway, you may have been a latecomer but you're keeping this stuff alive. Good on you! Besides, you never know, given all the stuff that governments and corporations are doing to the internet these days. We may end up back to "the good old days" again at some point.
I ran one, great times. Blazing 300 baud modem. By the time I was done we were up to 56K. I could probably still tell you the connection speed based on the squawks during the initial connection session.
I'm still very nostalgic about those times as I was part of them, and contributed to them. My BBS was free, and wasn't half bad. Of course Fido Net really gave you that sense of being in communication with the rest of the world. Amazing stuff!
Strong companies don't have these problems with "hedge fund" guys. Weak ones do. Like nature, american enterprise and the markets can be very cruel.
"Like nature", very apropos. The vultures don't fly and circle around healthy animals. They wait until either the object of their desire is dead, or so close to that point that there is no risk other than their peers trying to get their share. Personally, I think a hedge fund manager cage match could possibly be quite entertaining:) I suppose the winner would be the one with the "fan of death" made of SCO $699 linux license certificates.
There are 3 such games: Craps, Blackjack and Baccarat. Poker is promoted so heavily, because it makes the Casinos so much lucre.
Baccarat!. (In Atlantic City) My father and I (mostly he...) developed a system for playing Baccarat. I believe it's the only game, at least back then, where you could write with pencil and paper to keep track of where you were.
The end result: you would win something around $450.00 USD per a complete play through of the system. (The number was exact, I just can't remember it. And it was based on a $5.00 table, if you played on a more expensive table you would win more but your outlay at certain times were proportionately, or perhaps even exponentially higher. The most we could afford was a 5.00 table so we didn't look to much into that.)
You had to follow the system, if you forgot where you were, you would lose. It also depended on a $5.00 minimum table as the bets required were proportional to the minimum bet on the table. Even on a $5.00 table we would frequently place bets in excess of $3,000.00. But if you followed the system, you were golden.
What we didn't count on: The psychological aspect of placing a $3,000.00 bet that would be played in a heartbeat. (Baccarat is a very fast game). My father would cave from pressure in the middle of the system, hand me the card with where we were in the system, and expect me to go back in and pick it precisely where he left off. I did. It was his money not mine, so I didn't have the psych barrier going on. We made close to $500.00 every time we played it. You could play 2-3 systems per day easily.
The other thing we couldn't control was that the casinos would bump our tables from 5.00 to 10.00 minimum bet in the middle of our system. They knew what they were doing, and they knew what they were doing. Anything to disrupt us would put the odds back in their favor.
If you could afford to bump to a 10.00 table the rewards were even greater. To us, it was a job, we'd leave Friday afternoon, play it all weekend for 8.00-10.00 hours per day and we never lost. But, the pressure of putting that much money out, on a five dollar table, was too much for my dad, so we gave it up........
He went on to continue sinking his money into something he couldn't win at: boats:)
What does the system do with numbers once it has them? I can only imagine that the only use from a law-enforcement perspective would be to check for stolen vehicles. I'm not sure if tags like "yro" and the associated paranoia is justified.
No offense but I'm sure there are folks with far greater imaginations than yours (in this case) who will come up with many ways this could be used. Many uses of which I'm sure would definitely pertain to your rights, and not necessarily in a positive way.
Back in high school our band performed at EPCOT, and that night, to keep all the kids in their hotel rooms, the chaperones put tape on each door. If a student left their room, then the tape on the outside of the door would be broken loose and they would get in trouble. However there was a fatal flaw. Late that night when we were sneaking around the hotel, we simply removed the tape from a dozen other rooms.
An excellent example of how when we pay attention to the obvious, someone else has a different interpretation of obvious. A cause of many a security breach, I'm sure.
I can't read the cable from the link in the article linked to in the summary. You start reading and all of a sudden up pops a plea for money and a video supporting same. I'm sure it could be easily circumvented but damn, hard to get the word out when you won't let readers read the damn cable. Yes, I know, the world needs money (as do Assange and Wikileaks) to go round and round but blocking the important information (to some) is counter productive to what they're trying to accomplish.
Funny, I can't get to the link from the url above, something about maintenance.
Works just fine if you go to the link from the following paragraph from the article:
"The Canberra Wikileaks cables revealed the US Embassy sanctioned a [conspiracy by Hollywood studios] (This is the linking text) to target Australian communications company iiNet through the local court-system, with the aim of establishing a binding common-law precedent which would make ISPs responsible for the unauthorised file-sharing of their customers."
See article for link and more info..... I really don't like the way this information is presented by Wikileaks, or not presented in my case.
I'm not 100% certain, but the "explorer" part ceases to exist around puberty.... My experience, I might be 100% off.
Oh, I don't know. The "exploration" starts to get mighty intense around the age of puberty. Just not about common school subjects. Probably why teaching people of that age is so difficult. You're competing with forces that are extremely powerful, and deeply ingrained. Instinctual even.:) For me, learning about the (damn, can't even remember what they were teaching me at the time, insert subject here) didn't hold a candle to exploring the breasts of the girl that sat next to me.
I was thinking of Stephen Batchelor and his books about sort-of-secular Buddhism... you'd probably like some of his books, I do. Quoting his "confessions of an buddhist atheist" would appear to be completely unclear under their law.
Pema Chodron has also written many books on Buddhism that are quite accessible and emphasize the importance of the major tenets of Buddhism such as compassion, mindfulness, and detachment. I haven't read all of her books but none of those that I have read have focused on deities of any sort. She shows much respect for "The Buddha" and all "Buddhas". Her books read as a road map on how to go through life, doing the best you can, for yourself and others. We all will suffer in some way or another and kindness can help us all. Karma is important, and I believe in karma, and it only makes sense, to me at least, that we are responsible for our actions and typically, if you lead a life of treating others poorly, that is what you'll get. In one way or another.
Of course some people dodge their negative karma, perhaps, in this life, and this is where reincarnation comes in: You'll learn now or later. Personally, to me, that's a faith thing and not one I'm concerned with. All I have to be concerned with is the here and now, and my actions now. Whether or not reincarnation is a reality means naught to me for I do not seek a better afterlife. I only seek to live my life now in a way that benefits others, which benefits me, to the best of my ability. (Of course altruistic behavior and ensuing philosophical discussion is another kettle of fish best left for another day.)
One particular passage that I found very cool was that Buddhism is not about being passive in the face of abuse. She describes a scenario of being set upon by bandits. Her advice: Beat them with all the loving kindness you can muster:)
Parents can administrate, while at the same time teaching their kids how to behave on the internet, teachers can email assignments, etc. As long as control rests solely with the parent, I see no issue with something like that.
And how would Google know if they are dealing with a parent or a child during initial setup without providing yet more information than I'm currently putting out there on the web. I'm a parent and grandparent as well and I have no accounts on social sites that I use. When asked to enter a birth date you can be assured it's not the real one....
It's not that I feel your thoughts are without merit, but rather how could it be accomplished without divulging yet more personal information? Or, in other words, more data to sell........
Regardless of what you do, don't be surprised if the patent trolls come a trolling. You invented the algorithms, but are you sure that they have not been "invented" before? Not used, mind you. Just patented. If that's the case then open source/closed source doesn't really matter. Who's your competition, and how much money do they have? Actually that may be the most important question as you can be in the right but lose all day long......
It's a disincentive because the very same blurb you read also mentioned that it reduces violent crime since the thieves know they won't be able to sell the stolen phone. Less theft, thus.
And that is a good thing. But in my world, whether it's broken (and then I have to pay a fee even though I have insurance on it) or stolen, I still have to pay something for a new phone. As an aside, how many thieves study their quarry to see what phone they have before robbing them. My guess is they'd rob them anyway and whatever they get that is good.... so much the better
I know many students, myself included when I was in school, would sell back textbooks that we weren't interested in. Of course, being a math major, that meant there were a ton of used books to buy at much less than the cost of new books. (At the lower levels of course...) Same with physics and engineering books, how many drop out of those disciplines and sell the books back. Enough to have saved me a lot of money.
I like the features that can't be duplicated in a paper textbook but really, textbooks are a major expense and the ability to sell them back, and buy used books, made that a bit more bearable.
This, for sure. I have personally had it happen to me. Dilution of shares is definitely the most popular way to get fucked over.
Another one is where they sell or otherwise break up and restructure the company right before your options vest, making them worthless. Had that happen to me too.
Trust no one.
Perhaps this would make a good ask/. submission. How do you avoid getting screwed over the old fashioned way. And this way as well. I'm sure there will be plenty of IANAL, and consult your attorney answers but there have to be some who have successfully negotiated this maze...... And the more you know when going to an attorney the better off you are in either a) judging their competence and/or b) saving a bit of cash by doing some upfront research so you're asking questions that are relevant.
Not all of us, that remember the Polaroid fondly, are dead yet:) It may be a small market. And shrinking, most assuredly. But if there's money to be made.....
Me thinks an entire culture inside of certain IT Departments are not well versed in Risk Aversion, instead seeking to make their lives easier at the expensive of their employer.
Or, perhaps more likely, the scenario is: "We need this, without it we're left wide open." Management response: "It's not in the budget and what are the chances.....?"
I'm most confident that we are getting to see what we want to see. Even if they give out info that seems injurious to the parties involved it only gives us an impression of FOIA that makes us feel good. Lot's more to see here folks, and we're not going to see it.
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Sorry you had to go through that. Honestly. But you know what? If I went into the hospital for emergency surgery anyone I wanted to know would know. I don't have a facebook account. And I'd never create one and expect it to act as a tool to disseminate critical information. It was important to you that people knew but you relied on a mechanism that is geared towards monetizing you and if it works for you all the better. If it doesn't, oh well. Not like you can sue them over it.
I'm not trying to be harsh, and I do feel for you. Next time, use the phone (you had time to post to facebook, all it takes is one phone call to spread the word....)
Whatever you do don't handcuff your briefcase to your hand. At least not if you value your hand :)
I suppose if you believe Mozilla knows what's best for us then this is a good thing. If you don't........
For PC based demos Win 7 is used. (Linux also available) The latest version of Direct X and .Net are present and available for use. Other OSs and hardware will have their own support packages as well. So yes, third party libraries are available but that does not make the outcomes any less impressive.
Here is a link to where the info above came from with additional details:
http://www.revision-party.net/compos/pc/
Yep, only let registered, pre-approved and guaranteed condom carrying boyfriends into the house. Help prevented that health hazard called pregnancy :)
Wonderful! It's great to see folks still carrying the torch. I would probably do so as well but my interests have moved onto guitar (from all things computer) and specifically, the blues. I always preferred OS/2 until it just became impractical as the businesses I supported that were initially on DOS moved to windows so I went where the market was. Still held out though in my programming language of choice. For internal business apps I still used Delphi up until last year when I retired. I actually had a recruiter contact me last week about a Delphi position so it's still in use, though it has a very very small market share.
Anyway, you may have been a latecomer but you're keeping this stuff alive. Good on you! Besides, you never know, given all the stuff that governments and corporations are doing to the internet these days. We may end up back to "the good old days" again at some point.
I ran one, great times. Blazing 300 baud modem. By the time I was done we were up to 56K. I could probably still tell you the connection speed based on the squawks during the initial connection session.
I'm still very nostalgic about those times as I was part of them, and contributed to them. My BBS was free, and wasn't half bad. Of course Fido Net really gave you that sense of being in communication with the rest of the world. Amazing stuff!
"Like nature", very apropos. The vultures don't fly and circle around healthy animals. They wait until either the object of their desire is dead, or so close to that point that there is no risk other than their peers trying to get their share. Personally, I think a hedge fund manager cage match could possibly be quite entertaining :) I suppose the winner would be the one with the "fan of death" made of SCO $699 linux license certificates.
Baccarat!. (In Atlantic City) My father and I (mostly he...) developed a system for playing Baccarat. I believe it's the only game, at least back then, where you could write with pencil and paper to keep track of where you were.
The end result: you would win something around $450.00 USD per a complete play through of the system. (The number was exact, I just can't remember it. And it was based on a $5.00 table, if you played on a more expensive table you would win more but your outlay at certain times were proportionately, or perhaps even exponentially higher. The most we could afford was a 5.00 table so we didn't look to much into that.)
You had to follow the system, if you forgot where you were, you would lose. It also depended on a $5.00 minimum table as the bets required were proportional to the minimum bet on the table. Even on a $5.00 table we would frequently place bets in excess of $3,000.00. But if you followed the system, you were golden.
What we didn't count on: The psychological aspect of placing a $3,000.00 bet that would be played in a heartbeat. (Baccarat is a very fast game). My father would cave from pressure in the middle of the system, hand me the card with where we were in the system, and expect me to go back in and pick it precisely where he left off. I did. It was his money not mine, so I didn't have the psych barrier going on. We made close to $500.00 every time we played it. You could play 2-3 systems per day easily.
The other thing we couldn't control was that the casinos would bump our tables from 5.00 to 10.00 minimum bet in the middle of our system. They knew what they were doing, and they knew what they were doing. Anything to disrupt us would put the odds back in their favor.
If you could afford to bump to a 10.00 table the rewards were even greater. To us, it was a job, we'd leave Friday afternoon, play it all weekend for 8.00-10.00 hours per day and we never lost. But, the pressure of putting that much money out, on a five dollar table, was too much for my dad, so we gave it up........
He went on to continue sinking his money into something he couldn't win at: boats :)
True story this.....
No offense but I'm sure there are folks with far greater imaginations than yours (in this case) who will come up with many ways this could be used. Many uses of which I'm sure would definitely pertain to your rights, and not necessarily in a positive way.
An excellent example of how when we pay attention to the obvious, someone else has a different interpretation of obvious. A cause of many a security breach, I'm sure.
I can't read the cable from the link in the article linked to in the summary. You start reading and all of a sudden up pops a plea for money and a video supporting same. I'm sure it could be easily circumvented but damn, hard to get the word out when you won't let readers read the damn cable. Yes, I know, the world needs money (as do Assange and Wikileaks) to go round and round but blocking the important information (to some) is counter productive to what they're trying to accomplish.
Here is the link:
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2008/11/08CANBERRA1197.html/
Funny, I can't get to the link from the url above, something about maintenance.
Works just fine if you go to the link from the following paragraph from the article:
"The Canberra Wikileaks cables revealed the US Embassy sanctioned a [conspiracy by Hollywood studios] (This is the linking text) to target Australian communications company iiNet through the local court-system, with the aim of establishing a binding common-law precedent which would make ISPs responsible for the unauthorised file-sharing of their customers."
See article for link and more info..... I really don't like the way this information is presented by Wikileaks, or not presented in my case.
Oh, I don't know. The "exploration" starts to get mighty intense around the age of puberty. Just not about common school subjects. Probably why teaching people of that age is so difficult. You're competing with forces that are extremely powerful, and deeply ingrained. Instinctual even. :) For me, learning about the (damn, can't even remember what they were teaching me at the time, insert subject here) didn't hold a candle to exploring the breasts of the girl that sat next to me.
Pema Chodron has also written many books on Buddhism that are quite accessible and emphasize the importance of the major tenets of Buddhism such as compassion, mindfulness, and detachment. I haven't read all of her books but none of those that I have read have focused on deities of any sort. She shows much respect for "The Buddha" and all "Buddhas". Her books read as a road map on how to go through life, doing the best you can, for yourself and others. We all will suffer in some way or another and kindness can help us all. Karma is important, and I believe in karma, and it only makes sense, to me at least, that we are responsible for our actions and typically, if you lead a life of treating others poorly, that is what you'll get. In one way or another.
Of course some people dodge their negative karma, perhaps, in this life, and this is where reincarnation comes in: You'll learn now or later. Personally, to me, that's a faith thing and not one I'm concerned with. All I have to be concerned with is the here and now, and my actions now. Whether or not reincarnation is a reality means naught to me for I do not seek a better afterlife. I only seek to live my life now in a way that benefits others, which benefits me, to the best of my ability. (Of course altruistic behavior and ensuing philosophical discussion is another kettle of fish best left for another day.)
One particular passage that I found very cool was that Buddhism is not about being passive in the face of abuse. She describes a scenario of being set upon by bandits. Her advice: Beat them with all the loving kindness you can muster :)
And how would Google know if they are dealing with a parent or a child during initial setup without providing yet more information than I'm currently putting out there on the web. I'm a parent and grandparent as well and I have no accounts on social sites that I use. When asked to enter a birth date you can be assured it's not the real one....
It's not that I feel your thoughts are without merit, but rather how could it be accomplished without divulging yet more personal information? Or, in other words, more data to sell........
Regardless of what you do, don't be surprised if the patent trolls come a trolling. You invented the algorithms, but are you sure that they have not been "invented" before?
Not used, mind you. Just patented. If that's the case then open source/closed source doesn't really matter. Who's your competition, and how much money do they have? Actually that may be the most important question as you can be in the right but lose all day long......
And that is a good thing. But in my world, whether it's broken (and then I have to pay a fee even though I have insurance on it) or stolen, I still have to pay something for a new phone. As an aside, how many thieves study their quarry to see what phone they have before robbing them. My guess is they'd rob them anyway and whatever they get that is good.... so much the better
I know many students, myself included when I was in school, would sell back textbooks that we weren't interested in. Of course, being a math major, that meant there were a ton of used books to buy at much less than the cost of new books. (At the lower levels of course...) Same with physics and engineering books, how many drop out of those disciplines and sell the books back. Enough to have saved me a lot of money.
I like the features that can't be duplicated in a paper textbook but really, textbooks are a major expense and the ability to sell them back, and buy used books, made that a bit more bearable.
Perhaps you meant "strumpet"? Or maybe even "tart"? :)
Perhaps this would make a good ask /. submission. How do you avoid getting screwed over the old fashioned way. And this way as well. I'm sure there will be plenty of IANAL, and consult your attorney answers but there have to be some who have successfully negotiated this maze...... And the more you know when going to an attorney the better off you are in either a) judging their competence and/or b) saving a bit of cash by doing some upfront research so you're asking questions that are relevant.
Not all of us, that remember the Polaroid fondly, are dead yet :) It may be a small market. And shrinking, most assuredly. But if there's money to be made.....
Or, perhaps more likely, the scenario is: "We need this, without it we're left wide open." Management response: "It's not in the budget and what are the chances.....?"
I've been there....
I'm most confident that we are getting to see what we want to see. Even if they give out info that seems injurious to the parties involved it only gives us an impression of FOIA that makes us feel good. Lot's more to see here folks, and we're not going to see it.
With a skull about an inch long, I doubt it.