Qwest refused to give a small "hick town" (i don't mean to be offensive by that, hence the "") broadband at all. they said it would cost in excess of a million dollars and for about 20-odd users that wouldn't be cost efficient.
so they went ahead and did it themselves for like a 5th of the cost.
the point is, the cost may be relatively expensive to large-town DSL and broadband services, but for them i'm sure that its WORTH IT. and that's the point.
evertime i see screenshots of games and everybody hypes them up, i can't but help wonder the EXACT source of them...
as you are all well aware, any decent game these days has a horde of PRE-RENDERED animations. personally i feel that the content of all the screenshots we've seen have been animation rather than in-game-action.
can anyone shed any light on whether these new shots are pre-rendered?
obvisouly we aren't privvy to all the details surrounding the case; but I can only assume he discussed reasonably high-level concepts with his colleagues.
so, lets say, i go to my bosses and say i'm resigning because i've come up with a really good idea to make money from software (in this fairy tale, assume my idea is unrelated to our core business). i tell them the high-level angel on it, but retain the details. now that a precident has been set, they say "hahaha, sorry pal; all your ideas are belong to us". and they sue me. um, ok, so i just go, "oh right well my idea is based on the precognescent polarity of perpetual motion and you just go click click click and it all happens."
my point is, if the details haven't been revealed to anyone else, do they have the right to supena my brain? and how will they ever know that my disclosures were exactly the way it should be?
ok so its only 128MB. but i just use it to go to and from work in the morning (40 mins either way).
so what's so great about it? its not that small either... but, it has probably the best amp out of the mp3 players i've used (rio, panasonic) and it comes with a great set of street-style speakers as well.
can't comment on the linux support - and being on dialup in a hotel at the moment, i'm not so big into finding out. sorry. <insert ode to DSL here>
strip the ends of the wires, put one on her index finger and one on her thumb (and the other ends of the wires onto the battery). all she needs do is close the gap between her two finges and the wires will contant. voila, bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
i was thinking you could get cunning and try some form of variable resistance and have different actions based on that. so the higher she slid her thumb up her index finger - she would achieve a different result.
this is assuming she has that level of movement in her hand.
the statement about sap-db being on a par with oracle has forked this conversation off into a million "how can it be on a par with oracle" comments. not the question...
one fine example of this was the boss conversation thread (this one).
the point was, its an open source database, why aren't people using it INSTEAD OF PG/MYSQL.
i tend to agree with the complexity side of things as about 3 years ago i tried getting it up and running - without much success. although, friends of mine who know pretty much nothing about unix are running a web solution on apache jakarta (jsp+servlets) using SAPDB as the databaase which they installed from RPMs. they sing its praises all day long.
maybe its the communities fear of a traditionally large $$ corporation giving away its technology?
I've always wondered that if we (well you and your colleagues!) created AI software, and by this I mean just software, would it have a personality?
I would think that if put the same piece of software in two different environments such that it was asked different questions by different people they may form different opinions; but I also think that if you put two humans in the same environment and ask them the same questions - they won't turn out with the same personalities. Obviously I can't justify that statement, but it would appear to be the case.
So my question is, rather than developing AI purely by using software - would it not make sense to try and use the human brain as some form of hardware? Or am I just being weird here...
ring ring at&t internal helpdesk hello bob speaking hey bob, its jack here from whatever department. you know that mail you guys just sent out about the hacking conference thing yeah something's wrong with my email client, can you forward it to this hotmail account...
well i seem to be useless at finding wired articles that i've read in print on their web site; but a few months ago they had on the cover "is this man a pirate? are you?" and it was all about our hollywood accusing silicon valley of promoting piracy yadda yadda
and naturally they went on to say that internet-based piracy was costing them billions of dollars. now this article says its not even an issue.
it would be really great to have an independant advisory panel who analysed and reported REAL statistics (and took into account social movements etc and CRAP ALBUMS FILL OF FILLER!) so one would be able to have an objective analysis on this.
i'm so bored of reading conflicting articles on this whole piracy issue...
and people know this. if you phrase it so that they know you are really happy in your workplace, but life is pretty tough at the moment earning 50% of what you were last time and that you could really do with some extra money (so downplay the other position and "upplay??" the more money factor) then i very much doubt you will be considered disloyal.
going to an interview doesn't neccessarily mean that you want to leave. you can often justify it as being a way to have an awareness of your value to business in general and a way of assessing your own skills, ability and worthyness. if you find that you are worth more money that you are being payed, then you have every right to ask for (and accept) the counteroffer.
think about it socially. lets say you've got a girlfriend and you are out without her and there is another good looking girl around. without being unfaithful to her its fine to flirt with this other girl until you get a positive (or negative) reaction. then you can go back home feeling up-beat about yourself knowing that you can score other chicks; but you'd rather be home in bed with your girlfriend (and enjoy the pleasures of her "counter offers!;))
so what, a $30 dollar fine and a slap on the wrists? i'm sorry but to prevent this kind of thing from happening again they need to not only THREATEN large penalties, but actually IMPLEMENT them as well. i reckon 170k and no criminal record is quite a deal...
reading the tone of aj's message, he seems to be blaming various members indirectly for the delay. surely if he is the "woody release manager", he:
a) wouldn't have let these issues which have been known for months only crop up now. b) should have known earlier than the day before to announce the delay.
so if you consider the delay of woody to be a failure, i wouldn't blame the anonymous (yet cited) individuals who checked in code late. i would blame the process that resulted in these events.
... sometimes they are just printed onto "paper." This last type is called a "paper prototype," the name deriving from the "paper" on which it is printed, and the fact that it is a prototype.
ok, so aprils fools jokes are really funny. so not only have you guys managed to be so ridiculously stupid, but the wonderfully objective/. journalism ("should be a great boon to Java, a language renown for, well, sucking.") just shines through.
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the history on this is...
Qwest refused to give a small "hick town" (i don't mean to be offensive by that, hence the "") broadband at all. they said it would cost in excess of a million dollars and for about 20-odd users that wouldn't be cost efficient.
so they went ahead and did it themselves for like a 5th of the cost.
the point is, the cost may be relatively expensive to large-town DSL and broadband services, but for them i'm sure that its WORTH IT. and that's the point.
shouldn't people use
fark dot com for silly games
like this sort of thing
evertime i see screenshots of games and everybody hypes them up, i can't but help wonder the EXACT source of them...
as you are all well aware, any decent game these days has a horde of PRE-RENDERED animations. personally i feel that the content of all the screenshots we've seen have been animation rather than in-game-action.
can anyone shed any light on whether these new shots are pre-rendered?
obvisouly we aren't privvy to all the details surrounding the case; but I can only assume he discussed reasonably high-level concepts with his colleagues.
so, lets say, i go to my bosses and say i'm resigning because i've come up with a really good idea to make money from software (in this fairy tale, assume my idea is unrelated to our core business). i tell them the high-level angel on it, but retain the details. now that a precident has been set, they say "hahaha, sorry pal; all your ideas are belong to us". and they sue me. um, ok, so i just go, "oh right well my idea is based on the precognescent polarity of perpetual motion and you just go click click click and it all happens."
my point is, if the details haven't been revealed to anyone else, do they have the right to supena my brain? and how will they ever know that my disclosures were exactly the way it should be?
ok so its only 128MB. but i just use it to go to and from work in the morning (40 mins either way).
so what's so great about it? its not that small either... but, it has probably the best amp out of the mp3 players i've used (rio, panasonic) and it comes with a great set of street-style speakers as well.
can't comment on the linux support - and being on dialup in a hotel at the moment, i'm not so big into finding out. sorry. <insert ode to DSL here>
emuff said?
*sigh* - jet lag.
3V of battery power
piezo tweeter
two wires
strip the ends of the wires, put one on her index finger and one on her thumb (and the other ends of the wires onto the battery). all she needs do is close the gap between her two finges and the wires will contant. voila, bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
i was thinking you could get cunning and try some form of variable resistance and have different actions based on that. so the higher she slid her thumb up her index finger - she would achieve a different result.
this is assuming she has that level of movement in her hand.
the statement about sap-db being on a par with oracle has forked this conversation off into a million "how can it be on a par with oracle" comments. not the question...
one fine example of this was the boss conversation thread (this one).
the point was, its an open source database, why aren't people using it INSTEAD OF PG/MYSQL.
i tend to agree with the complexity side of things as about 3 years ago i tried getting it up and running - without much success. although, friends of mine who know pretty much nothing about unix are running a web solution on apache jakarta (jsp+servlets) using SAPDB as the databaase which they installed from RPMs. they sing its praises all day long.
maybe its the communities fear of a traditionally large $$ corporation giving away its technology?
the two things i don't get about living in london:
1) the press (the sun, daily mirror, trash, etc)
2) the people who read them
the brits seem to love to overdo, overhype, overanything anything that is printable; even things that aren't.
I've always wondered that if we (well you and your colleagues!) created AI software, and by this I mean just software, would it have a personality?
I would think that if put the same piece of software in two different environments such that it was asked different questions by different people they may form different opinions; but I also think that if you put two humans in the same environment and ask them the same questions - they won't turn out with the same personalities. Obviously I can't justify that statement, but it would appear to be the case.
So my question is, rather than developing AI purely by using software - would it not make sense to try and use the human brain as some form of hardware? Or am I just being weird here...
ring ring
at&t internal helpdesk hello bob speaking
hey bob, its jack here from whatever department. you know that mail you guys just sent out about the hacking conference thing
yeah
something's wrong with my email client, can you forward it to this hotmail account...
well i seem to be useless at finding wired articles that i've read in print on their web site; but a few months ago they had on the cover "is this man a pirate? are you?" and it was all about our hollywood accusing silicon valley of promoting piracy yadda yadda
.rant.sorry :P
and naturally they went on to say that internet-based piracy was costing them billions of dollars. now this article says its not even an issue.
it would be really great to have an independant advisory panel who analysed and reported REAL statistics (and took into account social movements etc and CRAP ALBUMS FILL OF FILLER!) so one would be able to have an objective analysis on this.
i'm so bored of reading conflicting articles on this whole piracy issue...
do you not ever need a "bandwidth fix"?
i spent DAYS trying to figure out why netscape wouldn't implement some style-like features on particular named DIV elements.
i had named all my layers menu_first menu_second etc...
i was so desparate for a solution at the end i thought, oh, what if i take out the underscores in the layer names. AND IT WORKED!!!!
longhorn? wtf calls a product longhorn other than dirk diggler...
check that guys picture. i ALWAYS thought that bill had to be an evil twin.
and people know this. if you phrase it so that they know you are really happy in your workplace, but life is pretty tough at the moment earning 50% of what you were last time and that you could really do with some extra money (so downplay the other position and "upplay??" the more money factor) then i very much doubt you will be considered disloyal.
;))
going to an interview doesn't neccessarily mean that you want to leave. you can often justify it as being a way to have an awareness of your value to business in general and a way of assessing your own skills, ability and worthyness. if you find that you are worth more money that you are being payed, then you have every right to ask for (and accept) the counteroffer.
think about it socially. lets say you've got a girlfriend and you are out without her and there is another good looking girl around. without being unfaithful to her its fine to flirt with this other girl until you get a positive (or negative) reaction. then you can go back home feeling up-beat about yourself knowing that you can score other chicks; but you'd rather be home in bed with your girlfriend (and enjoy the pleasures of her "counter offers!
hope i'm making sense...
these fines (170k) seem a bit much to me.
so what, a $30 dollar fine and a slap on the wrists? i'm sorry but to prevent this kind of thing from happening again they need to not only THREATEN large penalties, but actually IMPLEMENT them as well. i reckon 170k and no criminal record is quite a deal...
finally!
or not
damn the 20 second thing...
doh!
wrong article; was supposed to be the game cube one. anyone selling any good brains on ebay?
price is not a competitive advantage. cash reserves are...
reading the tone of aj's message, he seems to be blaming various members indirectly for the delay. surely if he is the "woody release manager", he:
a) wouldn't have let these issues which have been known for months only crop up now.
b) should have known earlier than the day before to announce the delay.
so if you consider the delay of woody to be a failure, i wouldn't blame the anonymous (yet cited) individuals who checked in code late. i would blame the process that resulted in these events.
i was just trying to put some names to faces from the super pow-wow discussed on the salon article.
anyway, came across Dave Riola (WebTV)'s home page and found it quite funny that he uses these little icons that look like the Debian logo! checkit
... sometimes they are just printed onto "paper." This last type is called a "paper prototype," the name deriving from the "paper" on which it is printed, and the fact that it is a prototype.
thanks for that!
ok, so aprils fools jokes are really funny. so not only have you guys managed to be so ridiculously stupid, but the wonderfully objective /. journalism ("should be a great boon to Java, a language renown for, well, sucking.") just shines through.
pathetic taco and co, pathetic.