But I do believe in an espionage system with limits, laws, and oversight! Just because you spy on a foregin government does not mean you do not have any limits.
Do you think it's illegal, immoral, or unethical for the intelligence community to spy on other governments? If it is, then why isn't there any uproar on Russia spying on us, or China, or even France?
I'm afraid that the USA makes an easy target for outrage and will always be an easy target.
Spying is necessary. Every nation is looking out for its own self interests. Spying on government entitites is fair game. Spying on your own citizens is not. It is a very fine ethical line but as long as the focus is foreign governments, they are on the right side of that ethical line.
The French should know a thing or two about spying. They've been widely reported to engage in corporate spying against U.S. corporate interests. As an American, I say this is fair game (if the U.S. chooses this route).
I have a confession to make. I lost my data due to my sheer incompetence.
One late night, I surfed browsed through my government's website to look for some very important information. After about an hour of searching, I finally found a link to the document I needed. I had 5 other browser windows open, pointing to pages I needed. I thought the link would lead to an html page, but it was actually a pdf.
I merrily clicked on the link. Adobe Acrobat opened up inside the web browser. And to my horror, but not to my surprise, Adobe Acrobat crashed. It stalled IE, so I would have to ctrl-alt-delete and lose my 5 other browser windows, not to mention attempt to find the form again.
Out of frustration, I hit my laptop. Really hard. And the hard drive made a funny sound. A last breath kind of sound. Which it probably was.
I lost everything - work item, personal items. A lot. I had not backed up recently either.
Now I use FoxIt reader. And if a program crashes, I try to keep my cool.
The connection seems highly coincidental on the surface. But his mom is of French-Tunisian descent. Could he have heard the word from one of her friends? Very likely.
I've had horrible experiences with all three companies. I would seriously consider shorting AT&T stock now. Combining two bureaucratic and inept companies will never work!
I took a chance with SBC local phone service two years ago. I tacked on DSL for convenience, but soon regretted it. Every encounter with SBC has resulted in pain and grief. There were numerous misbillings. As soon as I had the chance to switch, I cancelled my service. I will never ever go back to them. I had the same experience with old AT&T. In fact, I currently do not use a land line. If I were to get one, I would use one of the cable companies.
I don't know how these companies can make or sustain profits when they treat their customers like they treated me. There must be some financial shenanigans occurring behind scenes. You can't run a successful business by pissing off your customers.
I originally used perl+antiword. Unfortunately, antiword choked on handling the formatting (bold, italic, etc.) correctly, so I was forced to use the OLE package.
The advantage of perl is that you can minimize having to copy and paste from the word files. You want as little human involvement with this process as possible.
I used a combination of Perl and Ole (using the Win32::Ole package). MS Word has Ole hooks, designed to work seamlessly with the native Windows VBScript. With Perl's Win32::Ole, you can always do the equivalent, but you may have to use some syntactic acrobatics. After figuring out the proper syntax to use, it worked smoothly for me.
Unfortunately, to check for bold, italic, or underlined text, I had to check every individual character to see if it was formatted. Very inefficient, especially with large documents.
Google Groups is your friend:-) If you have any further questions, reply to this thread, and hoopefully I'll get back to you with some answers.
Profits matter, not revenue. A company that makes a profit of $1million with sales of $20 million is far more preferable than a company that sells $75 billion worth of stuff but barely manages to squeak a profit.
I travel most of the week for my employer, so I use my business laptop after work hours for personal e-mail. My employer has the right to read everything I do on my laptop (including this comment). I even balance my checkbook on my work laptop - theoretically, my employer could view every purchase I've made for the past several years. That's too freaky.
Where do most companies draw the line? There is serious potential for abuse.
I did RTFA. If you RTFC, I was asking how they were able to keep it a secret for so long.
As we've seen numerous times with the iPod, Apple secrets are notoriously revealed often. I'm surprised this secret of parallel Mac OS X development on Intel processors didn't blow up earlier.
Apparently, as another poster commented, it's been reported before. This, however, is the first time I'm hearing of the parallel development.
Was there any indication that Apple had a development team working on OS X for Intel? Frankly, I'm surprised that Apple could keep it a secret for so long.
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This must be my long lost original/. account... cause I could have sworn I wrote this.
At an old job, we supported a Fortune 500 company that had an application written in assembly. Nobody at the client company knew any assembly. They hadn't the faintest idea how it worked - they just knew that it did.
I suspect this situation repeats itself in many companies.
The editor's comments imply that there is DRM on the PDF. On the contrary, there is no DRM. To quote the last pages of the book:
your file is not crippled with any Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions. You are free to print copies of our books for yourself, copy the PDF file onto your laptop, your desktop, your cell phone or your PDA, and pretty much enjoy our book any way you likejust as you would an ordinary paperback book.
As for the book, I just finished re-reading it about an hour ago (coincidence!). Having read his first two books, I expected much of the same from this book. Unfortunately, I found the first few chapters to read more like a history book (not terribly exciting). I did find the last chapter to be interesting.
Also noticed a few passages cut and paste from previous books.
That being said, the book is entirely true to its name - it tells of how we got here. For those who want to know where we are going, you might be a little disappointed.
Good point. Maybe Sony is deluded into thinking that its brand image makes it more desirable than Apple?
(Among an older crowd this may certainly be true. All things being equal, if my father were to choose between an Apple mp3 player and Sony mp3 player, I am confident he would choose Sony)
IIRC (and IANAA FWIW:-), contractor payments are an expense, whereas salaried employee pay is a liability on the financial statements. Any CFO looking to do some financial gymnastics may dip their feet into the contractor labor pool.
Faced the same situation - it helps separating a portion of your residence to devote completely for work.
When I first started a work from home job, I ended up working from the bedroom of my then apartment. It was a real drag. I moved all of my work into the dining room, and I felt tons better.
That sounds exactly like either WebTV or the Network Computer. And how will Google make this specialized architecture work where others (Microsoft, Oracle, and many more) have failed?
Israel and India also have a pact to reach the moon by 2008 with an unmanned probe (and for a mere $83 million US dollars!) . Maybe reaching the moon is becoming the new "it" thing to do for goverments, much like becoming a nuclear power once was (or is)?
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But I do believe in an espionage system with limits, laws, and oversight! Just because you spy on a foregin government does not mean you do not have any limits.
Do you think it's illegal, immoral, or unethical for the intelligence community to spy on other governments? If it is, then why isn't there any uproar on Russia spying on us, or China, or even France?
I'm afraid that the USA makes an easy target for outrage and will always be an easy target.
Spying is necessary. Every nation is looking out for its own self interests. Spying on government entitites is fair game. Spying on your own citizens is not. It is a very fine ethical line but as long as the focus is foreign governments, they are on the right side of that ethical line.
The French should know a thing or two about spying. They've been widely reported to engage in corporate spying against U.S. corporate interests. As an American, I say this is fair game (if the U.S. chooses this route).
http://www.iht.com/articles/1991/09/14/spy_.php - an article about this from 1991.
I have a confession to make. I lost my data due to my sheer incompetence.
One late night, I surfed browsed through my government's website to look for some very important information. After about an hour of searching, I finally found a link to the document I needed. I had 5 other browser windows open, pointing to pages I needed. I thought the link would lead to an html page, but it was actually a pdf.
I merrily clicked on the link. Adobe Acrobat opened up inside the web browser. And to my horror, but not to my surprise, Adobe Acrobat crashed. It stalled IE, so I would have to ctrl-alt-delete and lose my 5 other browser windows, not to mention attempt to find the form again.
Out of frustration, I hit my laptop. Really hard. And the hard drive made a funny sound. A last breath kind of sound. Which it probably was.
I lost everything - work item, personal items. A lot. I had not backed up recently either.
Now I use FoxIt reader. And if a program crashes, I try to keep my cool.
The connection seems highly coincidental on the surface. But his mom is of French-Tunisian descent. Could he have heard the word from one of her friends? Very likely.
I've had horrible experiences with all three companies. I would seriously consider shorting AT&T stock now. Combining two bureaucratic and inept companies will never work!
I took a chance with SBC local phone service two years ago. I tacked on DSL for convenience, but soon regretted it. Every encounter with SBC has resulted in pain and grief. There were numerous misbillings. As soon as I had the chance to switch, I cancelled my service. I will never ever go back to them. I had the same experience with old AT&T. In fact, I currently do not use a land line. If I were to get one, I would use one of the cable companies.
I don't know how these companies can make or sustain profits when they treat their customers like they treated me. There must be some financial shenanigans occurring behind scenes. You can't run a successful business by pissing off your customers.
I think they've already started. On CBS Marketwatch, I noticed several articles about US company earnings were written by reporters in Bangalore.
Btw, some more notes:
I originally used perl+antiword. Unfortunately, antiword choked on handling the formatting (bold, italic, etc.) correctly, so I was forced to use the OLE package.
The advantage of perl is that you can minimize having to copy and paste from the word files. You want as little human involvement with this process as possible.
I used a combination of Perl and Ole (using the Win32::Ole package). MS Word has Ole hooks, designed to work seamlessly with the native Windows VBScript. With Perl's Win32::Ole, you can always do the equivalent, but you may have to use some syntactic acrobatics. After figuring out the proper syntax to use, it worked smoothly for me.
:-) If you have any further questions, reply to this thread, and hoopefully I'll get back to you with some answers.
Unfortunately, to check for bold, italic, or underlined text, I had to check every individual character to see if it was formatted. Very inefficient, especially with large documents.
Google Groups is your friend
All things being equal, it would show that the company with $100,000,000,000 (100 billion?) in assets is not utilizing their assets efficiently.
Profits matter, not revenue. A company that makes a profit of $1million with sales of $20 million is far more preferable than a company that sells $75 billion worth of stuff but barely manages to squeak a profit.
Still, I agree with your main premises.
I travel most of the week for my employer, so I use my business laptop after work hours for personal e-mail. My employer has the right to read everything I do on my laptop (including this comment). I even balance my checkbook on my work laptop - theoretically, my employer could view every purchase I've made for the past several years. That's too freaky.
Where do most companies draw the line? There is serious potential for abuse.
I did RTFA. If you RTFC, I was asking how they were able to keep it a secret for so long.
As we've seen numerous times with the iPod, Apple secrets are notoriously revealed often. I'm surprised this secret of parallel Mac OS X development on Intel processors didn't blow up earlier.
Apparently, as another poster commented, it's been reported before. This, however, is the first time I'm hearing of the parallel development.
Was there any indication that Apple had a development team working on OS X for Intel? Frankly, I'm surprised that Apple could keep it a secret for so long.
This must be my long lost original /. account... cause I could have sworn I wrote this.
At an old job, we supported a Fortune 500 company that had an application written in assembly. Nobody at the client company knew any assembly. They hadn't the faintest idea how it worked - they just knew that it did.
I suspect this situation repeats itself in many companies.
The editor's comments imply that there is DRM on the PDF. On the contrary, there is no DRM. To quote the last pages of the book:
your file is not crippled with any Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions.
You are free to print copies of our books for yourself, copy the PDF file onto your laptop, your
desktop, your cell phone or your PDA, and pretty much enjoy our book any way you
likejust as you would an ordinary paperback book.
As for the book, I just finished re-reading it about an hour ago (coincidence!). Having read his first two books, I expected much of the same from this book. Unfortunately, I found the first few chapters to read more like a history book (not terribly exciting). I did find the last chapter to be interesting.
Also noticed a few passages cut and paste from previous books.
That being said, the book is entirely true to its name - it tells of how we got here. For those who want to know where we are going, you might be a little disappointed.
Good point. Maybe Sony is deluded into thinking that its brand image makes it more desirable than Apple?
(Among an older crowd this may certainly be true. All things being equal, if my father were to choose between an Apple mp3 player and Sony mp3 player, I am confident he would choose Sony)
If the range is inclusive, keep in mind that zero is neiter positive or negative.
But wouldn't it be a good move if they merged?
IIRC (and IANAA FWIW :-), contractor payments are an expense, whereas salaried employee pay is a liability on the financial statements. Any CFO looking to do some financial gymnastics may dip their feet into the contractor labor pool.
Me too, although I'm not as sensitive as you are. Sometimes I ask other people if they hear the same sound and they look at me like I'm crazy.
Also hear high pitched sounds from cable and dsl modems... but the CRT monitor sounds are much worse.
Faced the same situation - it helps separating a portion of your residence to devote completely for work.
When I first started a work from home job, I ended up working from the bedroom of my then apartment. It was a real drag. I moved all of my work into the dining room, and I felt tons better.
That sounds exactly like either WebTV or the Network Computer. And how will Google make this specialized architecture work where others (Microsoft, Oracle, and many more) have failed?
Israel and India also have a pact to reach the moon by 2008 with an unmanned probe (and for a mere $83 million US dollars!) . Maybe reaching the moon is becoming the new "it" thing to do for goverments, much like becoming a nuclear power once was (or is)?