At a previous job, before I was laid off (our parent company was shutting down all of our branch offices), I was partially responsible for a couple of our sites and our data center. I had absolutely no accountability (my boss was on the other side of the country) during the last two or three weeks before my layoff date, so one day I decided to take a day off and stay home without letting anyone know just to see if I could get away with it.
Surprise, someone called me up on my cell phone from one of the branch sites with an issue. Not intentionally, because I was sitting right next to my computer (in which the case fans were very loud), he just assumed I was working away in the datacenter and I just ended up playing along with it!
Boy, that Bambino Football game brought back some serious memories. My dad used to do some legal work for them and knew the president of the company, so I had their entire line of games for free before they had been released. Pretty awesome at the time for a 9 year old. I remember telling my friends about the company, but no one would believe me until I showed up one day at school with their first game out, Master Blaster. Boy, I was certainly popular for that week.
I work for a company that provides multiplatform software for Windows, Macintosh, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and Linux. The biggest problem that we have with Linux as far as I know is that kernel changes often breaks our software, but as far as dropping support due to the SCO lawsuits... no way.
"the [CRF-created] file would set up a process that automatically delivers files in the right format and potentially triggers an automatic payment system that could be changed moment to moment by the content distributor."
WOW! They're FINALLY giving us a LEGAL option for all of our content! Let's all give up our P2P stuff now since this is what we've ALL BEEN WAITING FOR! I can *hardly wait* to start PAYING for all this stuff that I used to get for free!
"Suppose I have an I-Pod that can hold 10,000 songs.
What compels me to spend a dollar a song to fill it up?...even half-way?"
You don't have to. I know people that already have several hundred cds and don't need to spend money downloading music to fill their ipods with mp3s - all they have to do is rip, mix, burn.
But I'll vent anyhow. My issues with e-mail are generally twofold:
1. People expect email to be a time-sensitive medium when it's really the LEAST time-sensitive medium of all. I've seen people send an email that they EXPECT a response in several minutes. If I have a time critical issue, I don't send e-mails, I start calling people directly. And how many times have you avoided even opening up an e-mail from a certain recipient because you didn't want to have to deal with that person and were afraid that it'd have a return receipt attached to it?
2. For the most part, the problem for me isn't an e-mail client. My problem lies in spending tons of hours trying to create the perfect politically correct response to a completely retarded question from the CEO that isn't going to piss off him, my boss, and the managers of the all of the departments, and everyone else in between.
..that every time a new virus comes out that now we have to patch our routers with new virus definitions too? Sounds like this in itself could potentially be exploited...
Q: Stripped of all the jargon and market-speak, can you succinctly define what Adaptive Enterprise is supposed to be about?
A: We proudly adapt to the needs of our enterprise: namely, the CEO, the CIO, and our board members. Screw the rest of the employees and the customers. Aside from that, we really have no idea what the heck we're talking about. We need to make up big words in long sententces to justify our existence in the company. This is the same mindset that allowed us to have fantastic ideas like merging with Compaq, laying off thousands of employees, while giving Capellas the goodbye gift that one can only dream about.
Q: That could be boilerplate applying to any company. What's the special sauce?
A: The special sauce is no different than what you find in Burger King. We sit around all day long whacking off in an effort to come up with this sh--.
Q: Can't you get that by going to any reputable company out there? Sun, IBM--that's what they're about. Am I missing something here?
A: Nope. They're all the same formula. Same sauce. Right down to the last drop.
...things have become stagnant because of some logistical backwards compatible form factor issue or if it's just corporate greed not wanting to get battery lives up. The longer a battery will last, the less incentive people will have to purchase batteries more often.
... is the fact that a [b]FOURTEEN[/b] and a [b]SIXTEEN[/b] year old did this, then blame it on the freaking GAME? Get. A. Life.
If this were a 7 year old, I could [b]MAYBE[/b] understand that there might not be a proper reality adjustment here, but you're talking about teens that are [b]capable of having kids[/b]!
Oh, I'm sure they knew the difference. They just didn't care and are only remorseful because they got caught!
So where can I get my Xecuter2 PC modchip? Does it come preinstalled with a cromwell bios or can I get a version off of IRC that runs "backups" of my Microsoft Office products?
Funny that, I didn't start watching Buffy either till it was well into in its fifth season, and I did it just to see what the hoopla was about. The first episode I saw was the last show of season two (as I later on found out).
I was surprised that there was a lot of character depth and emotional intensity to it which I really didn't expect, especially given the frivolous title name. I'm not the addict of the show that some are, but I do think that there's a lot of stuff there that resonates with people. Clearly a lot of people relate to the emotions and human interaction, even if the storylines and action are completely unbelieveable.
For $300, this thing is going to give the audiotron a serious run for the money. Wasn't their first iteration of this about $1000 a couple of years ago?
This really makes me wonder - and I may be completely off-base on my understanding of this here, so please excuse me if this is kind of whacked...
But since this initiative is to make sure that users aren't using a particular hardware/software combination in a way that the copyright holder or software manufacturer doesn't want, would Palladium hypothetically, for instance, give Apple the power to keep users from putting OS X on a non-apple branded x86 pc? Or could it be used to prevent other OSs to be installed on an x86-based mac?
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Now we can get our AOL discs with even MORE style!
At a previous job, before I was laid off (our parent company was shutting down all of our branch offices), I was partially responsible for a couple of our sites and our data center. I had absolutely no accountability (my boss was on the other side of the country) during the last two or three weeks before my layoff date, so one day I decided to take a day off and stay home without letting anyone know just to see if I could get away with it.
Surprise, someone called me up on my cell phone from one of the branch sites with an issue. Not intentionally, because I was sitting right next to my computer (in which the case fans were very loud), he just assumed I was working away in the datacenter and I just ended up playing along with it!
"People aren't perfect, and people make computers, so why should computers be perfect?"
Boy, that Bambino Football game brought back some serious memories. My dad used to do some legal work for them and knew the president of the company, so I had their entire line of games for free before they had been released. Pretty awesome at the time for a 9 year old. I remember telling my friends about the company, but no one would believe me until I showed up one day at school with their first game out, Master Blaster. Boy, I was certainly popular for that week.
I work for a company that provides multiplatform software for Windows, Macintosh, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and Linux. The biggest problem that we have with Linux as far as I know is that kernel changes often breaks our software, but as far as dropping support due to the SCO lawsuits... no way.
So did you create the list of which access points have no WEP?? Information, dammit!! We need more information!!
"the [CRF-created] file would set up a process that automatically delivers files in the right format and potentially triggers an automatic payment system that could be changed moment to moment by the content distributor."
WOW! They're FINALLY giving us a LEGAL option for all of our content! Let's all give up our P2P stuff now since this is what we've ALL BEEN WAITING FOR! I can *hardly wait* to start PAYING for all this stuff that I used to get for free!
"Suppose I have an I-Pod that can hold 10,000 songs.
...even half-way?"
What compels me to spend a dollar a song to fill it up?
You don't have to. I know people that already have several hundred cds and don't need to spend money downloading music to fill their ipods with mp3s - all they have to do is rip, mix, burn.
But I'll vent anyhow. My issues with e-mail are generally twofold:
1. People expect email to be a time-sensitive medium when it's really the LEAST time-sensitive medium of all. I've seen people send an email that they EXPECT a response in several minutes. If I have a time critical issue, I don't send e-mails, I start calling people directly. And how many times have you avoided even opening up an e-mail from a certain recipient because you didn't want to have to deal with that person and were afraid that it'd have a return receipt attached to it?
2. For the most part, the problem for me isn't an e-mail client. My problem lies in spending tons of hours trying to create the perfect politically correct response to a completely retarded question from the CEO that isn't going to piss off him, my boss, and the managers of the all of the departments, and everyone else in between.
Let's use the rpc protocol for ftp transfers! This sounds like it could be fun!
Now I can enjoy all of my Pr0n in 3D!
..that every time a new virus comes out that now we have to patch our routers with new virus definitions too? Sounds like this in itself could potentially be exploited...
Q: Stripped of all the jargon and market-speak, can you succinctly define what Adaptive Enterprise is supposed to be about?
A: We proudly adapt to the needs of our enterprise: namely, the CEO, the CIO, and our board members. Screw the rest of the employees and the customers. Aside from that, we really have no idea what the heck we're talking about. We need to make up big words in long sententces to justify our existence in the company. This is the same mindset that allowed us to have fantastic ideas like merging with Compaq, laying off thousands of employees, while giving Capellas the goodbye gift that one can only dream about.
Q: That could be boilerplate applying to any company. What's the special sauce?
A: The special sauce is no different than what you find in Burger King. We sit around all day long whacking off in an effort to come up with this sh--.
Q: Can't you get that by going to any reputable company out there? Sun, IBM--that's what they're about. Am I missing something here?
A: Nope. They're all the same formula. Same sauce. Right down to the last drop.
... this really reminded me of Sikorsky of the Starjammers from the X-Men comic book.
s ky.jpg
http://www.uncannyxmen.net/images/headshots/sikor
As a side note, can anyone tell my why my link is getting an extra space in the url that I didn't add?
...things have become stagnant because of some logistical backwards compatible form factor issue or if it's just corporate greed not wanting to get battery lives up. The longer a battery will last, the less incentive people will have to purchase batteries more often.
... that DRM meant Deficating on RIAA's Management. Oh well...
... is the fact that a [b]FOURTEEN[/b] and a [b]SIXTEEN[/b] year old did this, then blame it on the freaking GAME? Get. A. Life.
If this were a 7 year old, I could [b]MAYBE[/b] understand that there might not be a proper reality adjustment here, but you're talking about teens that are [b]capable of having kids[/b]!
Oh, I'm sure they knew the difference. They just didn't care and are only remorseful because they got caught!
So where can I get my Xecuter2 PC modchip? Does it come preinstalled with a cromwell bios or can I get a version off of IRC that runs "backups" of my Microsoft Office products?
Funny that, I didn't start watching Buffy either till it was well into in its fifth season, and I did it just to see what the hoopla was about. The first episode I saw was the last show of season two (as I later on found out).
I was surprised that there was a lot of character depth and emotional intensity to it which I really didn't expect, especially given the frivolous title name. I'm not the addict of the show that some are, but I do think that there's a lot of stuff there that resonates with people. Clearly a lot of people relate to the emotions and human interaction, even if the storylines and action are completely unbelieveable.
"Wouldn't it be cool if you could run a cluster of these?"
</obligatory stupid joke>
Here was the first version of this from HP. It was called the de100c, and was $1000. It's come a long way from 2001, baby...
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http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0
http://www.techtv.com/product
http://www.pcmag.
For $300, this thing is going to give the audiotron a serious run for the money. Wasn't their first iteration of this about $1000 a couple of years ago?
This really makes me wonder - and I may be completely off-base on my understanding of this here, so please excuse me if this is kind of whacked...
But since this initiative is to make sure that users aren't using a particular hardware/software combination in a way that the copyright holder or software manufacturer doesn't want, would Palladium hypothetically, for instance, give Apple the power to keep users from putting OS X on a non-apple branded x86 pc? Or could it be used to prevent other OSs to be installed on an x86-based mac?