CompUSA was doing something similar the last time I bought a rebated item there (roughly a year ago). They told me to go to their website and enter a code number printed on the sales receipt, no form to fill out, no UPC, just a website entry and everything else was automatic. The site said "Allow 6-8 weeks for delivery" and of course it took exactly 8 weeks, but they did pay.
When I was a kid in Miami, early Fifties, the service was known as "the Coca-Cola Lady"...she'd give a one-sentence plug for Coke before announcing the time.
Can't agree with that. By the time I saw Wizard I had read the first fifteen (one of those early-reading brats), and I was really up for it -- until I found they'd made a brainless, frothy musical out of it. That was where I learned what Hollywood does to literature.
Compared to that travesty, Return was fantastic. The critics, of course, murdered it for not being crap like Wizard.
I don't read it that way. If you have a kilometer-long cable span and you cut it once, you've taken down a kilometer of cable. Unless you're willing to splice it in the middle, you'll replace the whole run.
The parts from that scrapped mission were used for Phoenix, thus its name, which alludes to the mythological bird that rises from its own ashes.'"
Likewise the AIM-54 Phoenix air-to-air missile, built on the technology developed for the AIM-47 which never went operational because the two aircraft it was designed for didn't either.
OK, sorry, shoulda said "anthology" I guess. But the sad part is that Harlan Ellison, collaborating with Asimov, wrote a simply superb screenplay for it on a Warner Brothers contract...it would have gone down as the best SF film ever made, period. Warner tried to pressure Ellison into making all the robots like R2D2. Ellison made the sort of suggestion you'd expect, the contract expired, and he published it in print:
I think he may have created the "It must be true, I found it on the Internet" meme. He appeared on TV triumphantly holding up a page he'd printed off a website.
The Americans weren't even in the war when the first Enigmas were captured.
Matter of fact, when US forces did capture a U-boat with its Enigma machine, they came close to blowing the whole operation. A rather flamboyant Naval officer named Gallery planned and carried out the operation on his own initiative, unaware that the Allies already had the machine, and the Chief of Naval Operations went ballistic when he heard of it. There was quite a scramble to keep the capture secret.
...where it begins. Microsoft's security analysts have access to the source code. If they can't find exploits before outsiders find them by reverse engineering, you have prima facie evidence that M$ is (a) not hiring very talented analysts, or (b) not motivating the ones it has.
I've worked for a (non-IT) company where if you invented something that saved the company a million dollars, you'd get a coupon good for a clock radio or a DustBuster. Billion dollars, maybe some luggage...and you were bloody well expected to be grateful. For some reason, we didn't invent much. Meanwhile, the company was spending millions on the endless parade of corporate self-help scams (Zero Defects, TQM, ISO9000, ad nauseam) that produced less than they cost.
At a minimum, an analyst who documents an exploit should get some kind of bonus based on an estimate of the damage it would have caused in the wild. Further, I think they should be working in an adversary relationship with the developers...your typical coder should look on them about the way a detective looks on Internal Affairs.
Here in the Denver area, Comcast ran fixed DNS addresses up to about a year ago and then switched to automatic assignment. All that's needed for an install is to configure the modem, and they're glad to do that over the phone.
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CompUSA was doing something similar the last time I bought a rebated item there (roughly a year ago). They told me to go to their website and enter a code number printed on the sales receipt, no form to fill out, no UPC, just a website entry and everything else was automatic. The site said "Allow 6-8 weeks for delivery" and of course it took exactly 8 weeks, but they did pay.
rj
...the loss prevention employee didn't have a piece of merchandise in his pocket ready to slip into the bag.
rj
When I was a kid in Miami, early Fifties, the service was known as "the Coca-Cola Lady"...she'd give a one-sentence plug for Coke before announcing the time.
rj
Perhaps this would do:
l ips/wizoz_dingdongdead.wav
http://www.reelclassics.com/Audio_Video/Music7q/c
rj
Compared to that travesty, Return was fantastic. The critics, of course, murdered it for not being crap like Wizard.
rj
I don't read it that way. If you have a kilometer-long cable span and you cut it once, you've taken down a kilometer of cable. Unless you're willing to splice it in the middle, you'll replace the whole run.
rj
It has the same thing that keeps meteors from splatting into you: the laws of probability. Nothing more.
rj
rj
Who'd be suspicious of a flatbed truck with a big rock on it?
rj
You won't have time to die of radiation...if they miss the asteroid, it's gonna get you first.
rj
Likewise the AIM-54 Phoenix air-to-air missile, built on the technology developed for the AIM-47 which never went operational because the two aircraft it was designed for didn't either.
rj
OK, sorry, shoulda said "anthology" I guess. But the sad part is that Harlan Ellison, collaborating with Asimov, wrote a simply superb screenplay for it on a Warner Brothers contract...it would have gone down as the best SF film ever made, period. Warner tried to pressure Ellison into making all the robots like R2D2. Ellison made the sort of suggestion you'd expect, the contract expired, and he published it in print:
y -Harlan-Ellison/dp/0743486595
http://www.amazon.com/Robot-Illustrated-Screenpla
rj
Possible, yes. Easy, no...especially if the system designer passed Spread Spectrum 101.
rj
Hey, a heat-seeking missile is a killer robot. Not a very smart one, but it controls itself.
rj
rj
Too late. Pop folklore, not you, says what the truth is...ask Al Gore. So Stevens built the bridge. Oh, and he led Jumbo onto the tracks too...
rj
I think he may have created the "It must be true, I found it on the Internet" meme. He appeared on TV triumphantly holding up a page he'd printed off a website.
rj
rj
I can think of some people who didn't smile much during sex, either...
rj
Because if we flew airplanes like most people drive cars, we'd die like flies.
rj
Yeah, well, if your airplane gets in trouble you'd better hope the pilot doesn't believe that.
rj
...put their top reporting talent on the story. She announced that chess remains unsolved because it's "exponentially more complicated."
rj
Matter of fact, when US forces did capture a U-boat with its Enigma machine, they came close to blowing the whole operation. A rather flamboyant Naval officer named Gallery planned and carried out the operation on his own initiative, unaware that the Allies already had the machine, and the Chief of Naval Operations went ballistic when he heard of it. There was quite a scramble to keep the capture secret.
rj
...where it begins. Microsoft's security analysts have access to the source code. If they can't find exploits before outsiders find them by reverse engineering, you have prima facie evidence that M$ is (a) not hiring very talented analysts, or (b) not motivating the ones it has.
I've worked for a (non-IT) company where if you invented something that saved the company a million dollars, you'd get a coupon good for a clock radio or a DustBuster. Billion dollars, maybe some luggage...and you were bloody well expected to be grateful. For some reason, we didn't invent much. Meanwhile, the company was spending millions on the endless parade of corporate self-help scams (Zero Defects, TQM, ISO9000, ad nauseam) that produced less than they cost.
At a minimum, an analyst who documents an exploit should get some kind of bonus based on an estimate of the damage it would have caused in the wild. Further, I think they should be working in an adversary relationship with the developers...your typical coder should look on them about the way a detective looks on Internal Affairs.
rj
Here in the Denver area, Comcast ran fixed DNS addresses up to about a year ago and then switched to automatic assignment. All that's needed for an install is to configure the modem, and they're glad to do that over the phone.
rj