The sad state of affairs is that in a not insignificant number of cases consultants are meant to be yes men to the manager that hired them. In some cases the 'consultants' are just salesmen come in to reinforce some already decided business plan.
In an idea world a consultant woudl be broughtin to actually consult and provide information and reccomendations. The fact that the people hiring you don't want to listen to your reccomendation kind of point to the fact that they want to pay someoen from the 'outside' to agree with them so they can get heir agenda rammed through.
Its really a lose-lose situation. Only think I can suggest is to make sureyour contract says that you get paid regardless if they like the report or not. Because if they dont, they'll find some other consulting firm that will give them one they like.
Well if spammers deserve the same right to privacy then they also deserve to have their contact information sold and given away to massive amounts of people just like everyone else. This bastard can suck it up. He makes his living selling identity data, let him suffer.
Can you carbonate fruit juice? As for carbonating veggie juice, well why bother.. i ean really haveyouever actually *had* a V8? mebbe its different when you are an adult but v8 was nasty to me as a kid.
But if you really want a fun sugar rush.. drink some bulk FCOJ:) (frozen concentrated orange juice)
I have seen good quailty mpeg4 streams. Thats what really leads me to wonder why someone would jump into a proprietary format, even if it its bastardized mpeg4.
Perhaps I am behind the times, But to this day I havent seen a WMP file that didnt really look crummy. *shrug*
On the other hand, digital projection upgrade for theatres cost a fortune. Ihave to wonder if this WMP 'upgrade' at these theatres are gonan lock these guys into some future non fuctional system.
Choosing a propriatry format when there are equally good ones is almost always a bad idea. But as we all now, some slick salesman walks in and talk to some business school graduate management who still hasnt mastered Instant messenger and says "hey look at the shiny object!"
Well we know apple doesnt like knock-offs. However there are people clamoring for a screenless imac. Perhaps if steve doenst go nut, apple can let this guy run a 'proof of concept' and then if there is strong demand apple would just buy the guy out. Im sure they could sue him out of business and then take the market he built up. But thats a good way to lose 'good will'
Ya know every once in a while an ICANN story pops up and its like 'icann is bad' 'icann is corrupt' 'icann kicks out xyz' 'icann is run by coroprate instrests'. well ya know these are all liek true and the thing is.. everyone knows it already. I dont think the stories are unimportant, but its kinda like a shadow of a dup post. It really just kidna the same stuff over and over. Im starting to think we need to take the Ripley approach to ICANN, nuke it from space, its the only way to be sure.
(c) To receive, disrupt, decrypt, transmit, retransmit, acquire, intercept, or facilitate the receipt, disruption, decryption, transmission, retransmission, acquisition, or interception of any telecommunications service without the express authority or actual consent of the telecommunications service provider. --
With that wording i also expect that all cordless phone would be illegal as it is in fact retransmitting your phone line. Also illegal would be those UHF transmitters you can use to watch tv in the attic if you dont want to run a cable there.
Well ya know the main reason why Intel doenst think we are ready for 64bit computing is that the primary SW channel for the OS that runs on intel chips (MS) isnt ready yet (if ever) but this is a rehash of the posting. However a while i think the intel xeon had the same problem.. intel dumped resources into teh linux devlopment for the xeon because who was gonna buy the damned thing if it didint run MS windows (insert server flavor here).
Whats actually *more* suprising, is that MS has about a 'billion' times more people working on windows than apple has on osx and we still expect to see a 64 bit desktop version of osx before windows. What does this imply? I think the only reasonable explanation is that the MS windows codebase is a walking talking 50' nightmare. I dont think I have seen anyone dispute that anywhere. So alli can say, as windows gets largers and borgs more stuff expect to see larger and larger delays in the releases of windows when theymake a jump to somethign totally new.
This is gonan be good in theory, but just wait until someone makes it *really* big with something, and then you arent ever going to be able to find actual *revenue* charged to the product, just circumventing their responsibiility. I can think right now the money they make will be from selling 'software service' contracts and not actual software products.
One time SciFi had an advert about farscape with the clip "the epic continues", this is truer than you might think. Farscape is an epic in a homeric sense. Bunch of people wandering around all trying to get home they do crazy things, end up in totally fantanstic situations, succeed against overwhelming odds. So really in one sense it it less 'hard scifi' and really an epic.
I read this and I was shocked and amazed. I had no idea that the big monopolies had such dedicated copyright staff that they were also an anti-terrorism orginization!
But seriously, regardless of the actual validity of the statement, they remain full of crap. Thier past action show clearly they will take any strategy to try to get what they want. This will range from unfair licenseing agreements, to buyign off lawmakers, to trying to legalize otherwise illegal acts. Holding up the spectre of 'terrorism' is really a shameful ploy. It really does belittle those who suffered and died because of acts of terrorists.
Of course on ther other hand you could say that monopolies and big business cause connunism:)
Everyone knows that when the mammals passed the Dinosaur Managed Copulation Agenda (DMCA) it was really a plot to make them extince.. and look how well it worked..
Remeber that the courts have decided (the sony case) that 'time shifting' is legal, quite frankly why would i want to buy a device that lets the networks tell me when to watch tv. they do that now.. its called "the schedule" The point of a vcr/pvr is to let the consumers have control. This is stupid.
Also ths thing that makes even *less* sense is that AOL-TW is pushing their digital cable system that lets you watch the programs they have available when you want them. So why exactly would they offer half a service that gives you flexability, and have a service that takes it away? Because of greed.
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The sad state of affairs is that in a not insignificant number of cases consultants are meant to be yes men to the manager that hired them. In some cases the 'consultants' are just salesmen come in to reinforce some already decided business plan.
In an idea world a consultant woudl be broughtin to actually consult and provide information and reccomendations. The fact that the people hiring you don't want to listen to your reccomendation kind of point to the fact that they want to pay someoen from the 'outside' to agree with them so they can get heir agenda rammed through.
Its really a lose-lose situation. Only think I can suggest is to make sureyour contract says that you get paid regardless if they like the report or not. Because if they dont, they'll find some other consulting firm that will give them one they like.
Well if spammers deserve the same right to privacy then they also deserve to have their contact information sold and given away to massive amounts of people just like everyone else. This bastard can suck it up. He makes his living selling identity data, let him suffer.
Well as long as its not Daikatana.
Can you carbonate fruit juice? As for carbonating veggie juice, well why bother.. i ean really haveyouever actually *had* a V8? mebbe its different when you are an adult but v8 was nasty to me as a kid.
But if you really want a fun sugar rush.. drink some bulk FCOJ:)
(frozen concentrated orange juice)
I have seen good quailty mpeg4 streams. Thats what really leads me to wonder why someone would jump into a proprietary format, even if it its bastardized mpeg4.
Perhaps I am behind the times, But to this day I havent seen a WMP file that didnt really look crummy. *shrug*
On the other hand, digital projection upgrade for theatres cost a fortune. Ihave to wonder if this WMP 'upgrade' at these theatres are gonan lock these guys into some future non fuctional system.
Choosing a propriatry format when there are equally good ones is almost always a bad idea. But as we all now, some slick salesman walks in and talk to some business school graduate management who still hasnt mastered Instant messenger and says "hey look at the shiny object!"
Well we know apple doesnt like knock-offs. However there are people clamoring for a screenless imac. Perhaps if steve doenst go nut, apple can let this guy run a 'proof of concept' and then if there is strong demand apple would just buy the guy out. Im sure they could sue him out of business and then take the market he built up. But thats a good way to lose 'good will'
Ya know I was thinking about my original post, and it occured to me taht Hitchcock's "the birds" is really an archetype for evil avian transport DDoS.
How would one go about setting the evil flag bit when you use the avian transport layer?
Ya know every once in a while an ICANN story pops up and its like 'icann is bad' 'icann is corrupt' 'icann kicks out xyz' 'icann is run by coroprate instrests'. well ya know these are all liek true and the thing is.. everyone knows it already. I dont think the stories are unimportant, but its kinda like a shadow of a dup post. It really just kidna the same stuff over and over. Im starting to think we need to take the Ripley approach to ICANN, nuke it from space, its the only way to be sure.
(c) To receive, disrupt, decrypt, transmit, retransmit, acquire, intercept, or facilitate the receipt, disruption, decryption, transmission, retransmission, acquisition, or interception of any telecommunications service without the express authority or actual consent of the telecommunications service provider.
--
With that wording i also expect that all cordless phone would be illegal as it is in fact retransmitting your phone line. Also illegal would be those UHF transmitters you can use to watch tv in the attic if you dont want to run a cable there.
Well ya know the main reason why Intel doenst think we are ready for 64bit computing is that the primary SW channel for the OS that runs on intel chips (MS) isnt ready yet (if ever) but this is a rehash of the posting. However a while i think the intel xeon had the same problem.. intel dumped resources into teh linux devlopment for the xeon because who was gonna buy the damned thing if it didint run MS windows (insert server flavor here).
Whats actually *more* suprising, is that MS has about a 'billion' times more people working on windows than apple has on osx and we still expect to see a 64 bit desktop version of osx before windows. What does this imply? I think the only reasonable explanation is that the MS windows codebase is a walking talking 50' nightmare. I dont think I have seen anyone dispute that anywhere. So alli can say, as windows gets largers and borgs more stuff expect to see larger and larger delays in the releases of windows when theymake a jump to somethign totally new.
well come on.. treasure planet was widely considered to be a flaming pile of dung:)
pahn-thar the barbarian and Algore the mock!
This is gonan be good in theory, but just wait until someone makes it *really* big with something, and then you arent ever going to be able to find actual *revenue* charged to the product, just circumventing their responsibiility. I can think right now the money they make will be from selling 'software service' contracts and not actual software products.
Ya know if you were to make it work via USB it coudl grab its power off the bus as well.
One time SciFi had an advert about farscape with the clip "the epic continues", this is truer than you might think. Farscape is an epic in a homeric sense. Bunch of people wandering around all trying to get home they do crazy things, end up in totally fantanstic situations, succeed against overwhelming odds. So really in one sense it it less 'hard scifi' and really an epic.
Ya know it was kinda odd to see an 'apple' story with with bill gates borg head icon on it. i was confused for a moment:)
I read this and I was shocked and amazed. I had no idea that the big monopolies had such dedicated copyright staff that they were also an anti-terrorism orginization!
But seriously, regardless of the actual validity of the statement, they remain full of crap. Thier past action show clearly they will take any strategy to try to get what they want. This will range from unfair licenseing agreements, to buyign off lawmakers, to trying to legalize otherwise illegal acts. Holding up the spectre of 'terrorism' is really a shameful ploy. It really does belittle those who suffered and died because of acts of terrorists.
Of course on ther other hand you could say that monopolies and big business cause connunism:)
I wonder is this make corel 'beleaguered' now?
Im a freaking adult, i dont really need a religious web filter telling me what is offensive to me on the internet link i pay for out of my pocket.
Everyone knows that when the mammals passed the Dinosaur Managed Copulation Agenda (DMCA) it was really a plot to make them extince.. and look how well it worked..
*GO MAMMALS!*
Remeber that the courts have decided (the sony case) that 'time shifting' is legal, quite frankly why would i want to buy a device that lets the networks tell me when to watch tv. they do that now.. its called "the schedule" The point of a vcr/pvr is to let the consumers have control. This is stupid.
Also ths thing that makes even *less* sense is that AOL-TW is pushing their digital cable system that lets you watch the programs they have available when you want them. So why exactly would they offer half a service that gives you flexability, and have a service that takes it away? Because of greed.
so what doyou figure? arsenal without a chance?
Only problem here is that if you require a certificate you have to subsidize the broken monopoly that is verisign.
Dear SCO,
Be sure to close your eyes before walking into the jet intake manifold.
Sincerely.