CV stands for Curriculum Vitae. It's a format for people in professional and academic fields. It also serves as a good vehicle for additional information should an employer wish to see your full range of skills. For example, a 2-page resume with a reference to see your CV on your website for more information is a good idea.
I tried to listen to this whole thing, I really did. However, combine my Attention Deficit Disorder with visions of "Hereeeeeee's Jack!" from the Shining, and I was pretty quick to delete those mp3s.
When it comes to electronic music, I think that Wendy Carlos or Brian Eno have nothing to be afraid of.
Unfortunately this isn't the answer -- forcing open access on a company that, unlike telcos, spent every dime of the costs in building that infrastructure. Now they are looking at lengthened ROIs (which are already pretty bad) and yet more government intrusion.
Furthermore, to open up that infrastructure to outside parties will require millions and millions of dollars in new hardware investments for each and every site that delivers cable modem service. Who gets to eat that cost? Lucky you.
Then there's the whole ballgame of outside access into sensitive headend equipment that cable companies guard jealously lest the whole cookie crumble should a malfunction occur.
So let's see... less secure internet at higher cost. Thank you, 9th Circuit. Why don't you just give me a kick in the groin while you're at it.
You know you're in deep water...
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SCO Roundup
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· Score: 5, Interesting
...when the EFF is coming after you. The EFF is not light-handed on the legal representation side, and if they're coming down on the side of Linux against SCO, then SCO has problems.
What I want to see happen, however, is an injunction that holds all funds paid for "Linux licenses" in an escrow account until this matter is settled permanently.
Who the heck uses QBASIC?!? Not even QuickBASIC, the compiled version -- but the QBASIC interpreter? Perhaps as a first programming language it wouldn't be TOO bad... but where would one even find the interpreter anymore?
QuickBASIC was an interesting product in its day, except for the fact that the simplest programs were bloated by about 400% due to the overhead of all the standard libraries in the runtimes. Or you could create a "Standalone EXE" which contained the minimum necessary procedures. (If only Visual BASIC did that.)
I can't really recommend QBASIC to anyone these days though -- the structural model of QBASIC was pretty weak, and these days, it pays to learn C and Java as your first structured and OO languages, following up with VB. (Assuming this is for a novice programmer).
Just imagine the uses for such a cloth made of this material... not to mention the obvious thing that comes to mind, "Hello Space Elevator!"
This could be the first truly fantastic scientific breakthrough of the 21st century. Now all we need is a room-temperature superconductor, and we're all set.
Think of how easy it would be to gather all the information of the stuff you have in your home for insurance purposes. The readers should be cheap enough, given time...
I think there's a lot of ways we could use this technology to our personal advantage. Think of dating, for example. Imagine the power of being able to tell what she's wearing...
"Hey, that's a FAKE Louis Vuitton!"
"Victoria's Secret under all that... hmmm...!"
"No wait... it's... FREDERICK'S OF HOLLYWOOD!!! Yes!!!"
Obviously your ROI will be based upon two metrics:
1 > Time savings versus average hourly rates for computing & employee time costs. This would be an agressive ROI metric.
2 > A more conservative metric would be the cost of replacements of Sun systems over time versus costs of , say, a small farm of Dell Optiplex PCs.
You could then also compute the value of gigaflops per dollar, showing the clear advantage of the PCs.
You have no idea...
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NYT on RFID Tags
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· Score: 4, Informative
Wal-Mart, for example, has a database TWICE the size of all the U.S. Government, combined.
EVERY purchase you have ever made with a credit card is tracked right down to you. All your preferences are known, right down to your favorite deodorant.
Wal-Mart, however you might think of it, is a brilliant company. Did you know that most of the products on the Wal-Mart shelf have NOT been bought by Wal-Mart? No, the manufacturer sends the products to Wal-Mart and waits until the item is actually run through the checkout scanner before it receives a check. The manufacturer is responsible for sending more products for Wal-Mart to stock. In return, they get access to that titanic-sized wealth of marketing data.
This is where the radio tags come in. If you know exactly where any product is in your store, you can see what products sell better in what location -- in real time, across the country. And yes, shoplifting will become far more difficult for the petty theives -- I doubt the pros will be stopped by this technology.
RFID tags aren't about big brother -- they're about big bucks.
In a large business, this technology could be invaluable. Some people might need to read a document -- but not necessarily copy or print it, because you can't be 100% sure they won't sell the information to your competition.
That being said, this is still a technology with a LOT of strings attached. Tread carefully.
...akin to the Great Library Fire of Alexandria. Millions and millions of precious works are going to be destroyed because a few greedy people don't want to let go of their 75 year old money makers.
As the dissenting Justices perceptively noted, the Constitution places a "quid pro quo" method of rewarding creativity -- we will give you the right to make loads of money off your work, for a while. Then you have to give it back to everyone.
That fair tradeoff has been destroyed as of today. What's to stop the Congress from enacting Sonny Bono's "eternity minus a day" clause into the copyright act? By the court's ruling, that's perfectly legal. Infinity minus one is a finite number.
Now we will see the death of innovation, because copyright houses will be the next big business -- buying copyrights to old material, and suing people who create works that are close enough to count as infringement, not to mention that terrible idea of building upon the earlier work.
Meanwhile, many old films and recordings will fall into dust because nobody has the courage to rescue them for fear of lawsuits.
I was just giving it some thought, and Anti-Leech's popup blocking method may be illegal, and fall under the anti-circumvention code of the DMCA.
Argument:
1. They are requesting CPU cycles from you, in a discrete program window... the popup.
2. According to existing computer law, going back to the UNIX mainframe days, all CPU cycles can be accounted and billed for.
3. Thus, system operators have the right to limit user requests for CPU time.
4. Popup blocking, because popup ads are not integrated into the content of the served site, is a legitimate control on the amount of CPU time a user can request.
5. Anti-Leech's "Theft Control" device attempts to bypass this control.
6. The DMCA defines a circumvention device as code that is intended to defeat a protection mechanism.
No flame here. I agree that one should get paid for their work, however, when it comes to hijacking the web browser in order to inundate the browser with a window that steals focus, you are entering into the realm of discourtesy. It is the electronic equivalent of physically grabbing the subject, putting toothpicks in their eyelids until they read your whole pitch, and then wondering why they're pissed at you.
Rule of thumb: the web page belongs to the service -- but the browser belongs to the user.
Sorry it wasn't quite clear -- I should have said, "only nominal power is required"...
Something I think it would be interesting to do would be to use part of the screen to create assembler programs, and then, since the screen is technically very similar to RAM, you could use a section of the screen to mirror the registers, stack, etc. in the processor on a bit-by-bit basis. Would that be useful? Who knows, I sure don't program in assembler these days, but perhaps on a PDA...?
They're in the hardware business...
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Nosy Vendors?
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...which means your choice of software isn't their business. If they MAKE it their business, put them out of business.
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CV stands for Curriculum Vitae. It's a format for people in professional and academic fields. It also serves as a good vehicle for additional information should an employer wish to see your full range of skills. For example, a 2-page resume with a reference to see your CV on your website for more information is a good idea.
When it comes to electronic music, I think that Wendy Carlos or Brian Eno have nothing to be afraid of.
It's really sad to see such great news as this smothered beneath the noise that the mainstream press calls "news".
THIS is news, this will be written in history books under our accomplishments. How little perspective we have at any given time...
Anyway, congrats to the Scaled team.
During monsoon season, outsource your IT operations to the United States.
Unfortunately this isn't the answer -- forcing open access on a company that, unlike telcos, spent every dime of the costs in building that infrastructure. Now they are looking at lengthened ROIs (which are already pretty bad) and yet more government intrusion.
Furthermore, to open up that infrastructure to outside parties will require millions and millions of dollars in new hardware investments for each and every site that delivers cable modem service. Who gets to eat that cost? Lucky you.
Then there's the whole ballgame of outside access into sensitive headend equipment that cable companies guard jealously lest the whole cookie crumble should a malfunction occur.
So let's see... less secure internet at higher cost. Thank you, 9th Circuit. Why don't you just give me a kick in the groin while you're at it.
...when the EFF is coming after you. The EFF is not light-handed on the legal representation side, and if they're coming down on the side of Linux against SCO, then SCO has problems.
What I want to see happen, however, is an injunction that holds all funds paid for "Linux licenses" in an escrow account until this matter is settled permanently.
At the risk of replying to myself, here's a good link to video (alas, Quicktime) of just what the Toughbook can handle...
The drawback: cost... you're talking about $4K for a top-of-the-line model. But you'll never have to worry about breaking it.
Who the heck uses QBASIC?!? Not even QuickBASIC, the compiled version -- but the QBASIC interpreter? Perhaps as a first programming language it wouldn't be TOO bad... but where would one even find the interpreter anymore?
QuickBASIC was an interesting product in its day, except for the fact that the simplest programs were bloated by about 400% due to the overhead of all the standard libraries in the runtimes. Or you could create a "Standalone EXE" which contained the minimum necessary procedures. (If only Visual BASIC did that.)
I can't really recommend QBASIC to anyone these days though -- the structural model of QBASIC was pretty weak, and these days, it pays to learn C and Java as your first structured and OO languages, following up with VB. (Assuming this is for a novice programmer).
Just imagine the uses for such a cloth made of this material... not to mention the obvious thing that comes to mind, "Hello Space Elevator!"
This could be the first truly fantastic scientific breakthrough of the 21st century. Now all we need is a room-temperature superconductor, and we're all set.
Think of how easy it would be to gather all the information of the stuff you have in your home for insurance purposes. The readers should be cheap enough, given time...
I think there's a lot of ways we could use this technology to our personal advantage. Think of dating, for example. Imagine the power of being able to tell what she's wearing...
"Hey, that's a FAKE Louis Vuitton!"
"Victoria's Secret under all that... hmmm...!"
"No wait... it's... FREDERICK'S OF HOLLYWOOD!!! Yes!!!"
Actually, before anyone thinks of taking this message seriously --- this kind of coordinated trading is illegal. FYI.
Last Trade
12:26pm $6.66
Hmmmm, 'nuff said.
Obviously your ROI will be based upon two metrics:
1 > Time savings versus average hourly rates for computing & employee time costs. This would be an agressive ROI metric.
2 > A more conservative metric would be the cost of replacements of Sun systems over time versus costs of , say, a small farm of Dell Optiplex PCs.
You could then also compute the value of gigaflops per dollar, showing the clear advantage of the PCs.
Wal-Mart, for example, has a database TWICE the size of all the U.S. Government, combined.
EVERY purchase you have ever made with a credit card is tracked right down to you. All your preferences are known, right down to your favorite deodorant.
Wal-Mart, however you might think of it, is a brilliant company. Did you know that most of the products on the Wal-Mart shelf have NOT been bought by Wal-Mart? No, the manufacturer sends the products to Wal-Mart and waits until the item is actually run through the checkout scanner before it receives a check. The manufacturer is responsible for sending more products for Wal-Mart to stock. In return, they get access to that titanic-sized wealth of marketing data.
This is where the radio tags come in. If you know exactly where any product is in your store, you can see what products sell better in what location -- in real time, across the country. And yes, shoplifting will become far more difficult for the petty theives -- I doubt the pros will be stopped by this technology.
RFID tags aren't about big brother -- they're about big bucks.
In a large business, this technology could be invaluable. Some people might need to read a document -- but not necessarily copy or print it, because you can't be 100% sure they won't sell the information to your competition.
That being said, this is still a technology with a LOT of strings attached. Tread carefully.
...the Operating System programs YOU.
Perhaps, but VIM doesn't include free pshyciatric help for after you've used it. Think about it.
This astute piece of observation has made me become far more transcendental. Now I realize that we're all just connected.
Yet I shall take this wisdom even further: the digital universe is based upon everything being opposite, where you have everything and nothing.
That's deep, man.
...akin to the Great Library Fire of Alexandria. Millions and millions of precious works are going to be destroyed because a few greedy people don't want to let go of their 75 year old money makers.
As the dissenting Justices perceptively noted, the Constitution places a "quid pro quo" method of rewarding creativity -- we will give you the right to make loads of money off your work, for a while. Then you have to give it back to everyone.
That fair tradeoff has been destroyed as of today. What's to stop the Congress from enacting Sonny Bono's "eternity minus a day" clause into the copyright act? By the court's ruling, that's perfectly legal. Infinity minus one is a finite number.
Now we will see the death of innovation, because copyright houses will be the next big business -- buying copyrights to old material, and suing people who create works that are close enough to count as infringement, not to mention that terrible idea of building upon the earlier work.
Meanwhile, many old films and recordings will fall into dust because nobody has the courage to rescue them for fear of lawsuits.
R.I.P. Free Culture
1774 - 2003
I was just giving it some thought, and Anti-Leech's popup blocking method may be illegal, and fall under the anti-circumvention code of the DMCA.
Argument:
1. They are requesting CPU cycles from you, in a discrete program window... the popup.
2. According to existing computer law, going back to the UNIX mainframe days, all CPU cycles can be accounted and billed for.
3. Thus, system operators have the right to limit user requests for CPU time.
4. Popup blocking, because popup ads are not integrated into the content of the served site, is a legitimate control on the amount of CPU time a user can request.
5. Anti-Leech's "Theft Control" device attempts to bypass this control.
6. The DMCA defines a circumvention device as code that is intended to defeat a protection mechanism.
7. Therefore, the Anti-Leech script is illegal.
No flame here. I agree that one should get paid for their work, however, when it comes to hijacking the web browser in order to inundate the browser with a window that steals focus, you are entering into the realm of discourtesy. It is the electronic equivalent of physically grabbing the subject, putting toothpicks in their eyelids until they read your whole pitch, and then wondering why they're pissed at you.
Rule of thumb: the web page belongs to the service -- but the browser belongs to the user.
Ah, I see you learned their "secure" script. LOL!!!
Sorry it wasn't quite clear -- I should have said, "only nominal power is required"...
Something I think it would be interesting to do would be to use part of the screen to create assembler programs, and then, since the screen is technically very similar to RAM, you could use a section of the screen to mirror the registers, stack, etc. in the processor on a bit-by-bit basis. Would that be useful? Who knows, I sure don't program in assembler these days, but perhaps on a PDA...?
...which means your choice of software isn't their business. If they MAKE it their business, put them out of business.
'nuff said.