Who's the chairman of Charter? Paul G. Allen, of Microsoft fame. here's his picture. If any of your out there work in food service and Paul Allen happens to come into your establishment, remember to spit in his food. Strictly for "enhanced user experience", of course.
The fact that your method gets results does not make it ethical or honorable. I could employ someone named Guido to come to your house and threaten to break your kneecaps if you didn't renew your magazine subscriptions. I'm sure my closing rate would then be very close to 100%. But guess what, I wouldn't do that because unlike all telemarketers, I'm not scum. Also, stop using the old excuse that you're trying to give some gainful employment to poor, down-trodden teenagers and retirees. That excuse doesn't work for drug pushers, and it doesn't work for you.
Head, meet pike.
Gives us legitimate telemarketing companies a bad name.
There are *no* legitimate telemarketing companies. Nobody has ever asked you to call them on the telephone and try to sell them something; stop trying to pretend otherwise. If you call me with a sales pitch, regardless of what it is or who you represent, I'll want your head on a pike.
How is that with over 370 comments posted so far, and my threshold is set at 3, I only see 6 comments? Me thinks the new slashdot code has some problems.
I'm 49 years old; In high school my math teachers still had 6 foot long slide rules hanging above the blackboard, but by the time I graduated I was the proud owner of a TI calculator. Within that 2 year (or so) span, pretty much everyone I knew made the jump from only using slide rules to only using calculators. I still, however, have my Kueffel & Esser, made of bamboo, ivory & glass
I previously had a Shuttle desktop machine running Windows XP. One day I started noticing that when I copied files to a network file server, about 1 out of 20 or so would get corrupted, with larger files getting corrupted more often than smaller ones. Copying them to the local IDE hard drive caused no problems, and other machines did not have problems copying files to the same file server. I spent a lot of time swapping networking cards, etc. and not getting anywhere, until I plugged in a USB drive and noticed that files were also getting corrupted when copied to it.
I then ran tests with large random files, doing diff's between the originals and the copies. The errors were always single bytes that had changed; the file size never changed. Interestingly, whenever there was a changed byte, the seventh and eighth bytes preceding the error were always the same values, although having those two values next to each other in a file did not always cause the error. The problem turned out to be a bad motherboard; the data path to some destinations like the NIC and USB ports would corrupt data, while the path to the IDE connectors would not.
Micron size water filters have been around for a long time, ask any outdoorsman or backpacker. They've always been rather expensive, though not usually as much as this one. Also, all those particles that are filtered out of your water are left behind in the filter, which rather quickly clogs up those micron sized pores, requiring the cartridges to be replaced. The throughput also isn't very great, unless you have a pump to force the water through filter.
How is this anything more then a press release for something that's not very new at all??
i think the whole point of watermarking is that you can not detect it, meaning you can not remove it by rewriting it.
If I can't detect it, then the entity that put the watermark in the file in the first place would not be able to detect it either, unless of course the watermark is created in some secret method that only they know about. That would require them to keep that secret hidden from everyone else, and we all know how well security by obscurity has worked in the past in this business.
Why should people who never go to the beach have to pay for it?
I've never driven on 90% of the interstate highways in this country, so why should my federal tax dollars be used to build & maintain them?
I've never needed to go to the emergency room either, so why should I have to pay taxes to support those frivolous hospitals?
My house has never been attacked by a foreign nation, so why should I foot the bill for our trillion dollar armed forces?
Get the point?
I hate the beach as much as you; it's too hot, too sunny, and too sandy. I have *no* problem, however, with paying taxes to help keep the beaches clean and have lifeguards on duty. Our ocean's beaches are a national resource, and should be maintained for the good of the entire public, not just for scum like David Geffen http://www.calcoast.org/news/beach0050415.html that try to lock up portions for themselves.
Many many years ago, the president of the Solo Cup Company (they make paper cups and plates) had a wife who had aspirations as a singer. She wasn't very good, but he tried to jump start her career by including copies of her records in packages of his paper cups.
For a short while in the 80's, the packages of cups & plates included coupons to get a *free* VHS copy of Dora's performances; I think even the shipping was free. This was at a time when a blank VHS tape cost four bucks or so retail. The campaign was wildly successful, coupons were coming in much faster than he could get VHS dubs made. Old Leo thought that America loved his wife's talent. Eventually someone pointed out to him the fact that most of the customers were just putting a piece of scotch tape over the record tab and using the tapes for other purposes. He wasn't too happy after that.
I Agree. I'm one of those that's got some degree of red-green color blindness. I can almost never tell the difference between a yellow LED and a green one unless I jab the damn thing into my eyeball. Nothing's worse than trying to find the one hard drive in a whole rack of hard drives that blinks yellow while all the rest blink green.
Music used to be heavily restricted. You bought an LP/cassette/8-track and you couldn't back it up, make extracts from it, mash it up with anything, or do much except play it on the device for which you bought it.
You could only play it on the *type* of device for which you bought it, but there was nothing that prevented you from playing it on your friends turntable, and if your turntable died you could just buy another one and all your music would still be playable. Furthermore, once you were tired of an album there was nothing preventing you from either selling it or giving it away. Try doing that with your iTunes files.
Not to mention that 3D rendering cycle prices went wayyy down. Much cheaper than building lifesize realistic looking stuff in lots of cases.
From the film industry's standpoint, Norton Sales provides props and set decoration, not entire backdrops. Renting a three foot tall rocket engine for a few hundred dollars to place behind the actors will be cheaper than setting up a green-screen shot for quite some time. Heck, it's probably cheaper to rent the real thing than it is to build a realistic facsimile out of Styrofoam and vacuum-form plastic. If Norton Sales goes under any time soon, it won't be because of cheap CPU cycles.
These trained dogs, unless deployed for a limited time in a specific area, are there for little more than show. Although they can be trained to sniff out almost anything, they aren't robots. The dogs treat it as a game, but they need frequent breaks or they'll quickly tire of it. You can't just march a dog for 8 hours around the airport and expect him to magically find any contraband that finds its way into the building. They may be the best choice in a situation such as a building collapse, where they need to find bodies in an area of a few thousand square feet, but to expect that even hundreds of these dogs will be able to sniff the millions of cargo containers that come into this country every year is laughable.
Besides, since it's perfectly legal to ship blank media, anyone in the bootlegging business will just declare the cargo and it will get lost among the false positives of all the other blank DVDs that come in from overseas.
But I guess that trained pooches do make for good press releases, letting everyone know that something is being done about this horrible scourge of bit copying.
Holding intellectual property ransom has nothing to do with capitalism.
On the contrary; it has everything to with capitalism. Microsoft's entire existence is based on creating intellectual property and then only releasing it when paid their asking price. As I see it, registering the "micorsoft.com" domain name in hopes that someone will accidentally land there is no different than creating yet another new OS in hopes that you can force people to upgrade to it.
I think there's a difference in the way the government would treat someone who finds a critical vulnerability in an otherwise secure system, and someone who find just another practical exploit in an inherently insecure system.
An "otherwise secure system" is just an "inherently insecure system" in which nobody has *yet* found all the weaknesses. To think otherwise is to ignore reality.
> What is the business reason for developing more female engineers?
> > The potential doubling of your talent pool.
We could just as easily "double our talent pool" by developing more engineers of any gender. Back to the question; what is the business reason for developing more FEMALE engineers?
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Interesting article on Hugh Herr, a scientist and also a double amputee, and how his opinions may have changed once he was an expert paid witness. http://scienceofsport.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-much-does-it-cost-to-buy-scientific.html
Who's the chairman of Charter? Paul G. Allen, of Microsoft fame. here's his picture. If any of your out there work in food service and Paul Allen happens to come into your establishment, remember to spit in his food. Strictly for "enhanced user experience", of course.
Quite a few? Heck, I'll bet that nearly half of you are above average.
The fact that your method gets results does not make it ethical or honorable. I could employ someone named Guido to come to your house and threaten to break your kneecaps if you didn't renew your magazine subscriptions. I'm sure my closing rate would then be very close to 100%. But guess what, I wouldn't do that because unlike all telemarketers, I'm not scum. Also, stop using the old excuse that you're trying to give some gainful employment to poor, down-trodden teenagers and retirees. That excuse doesn't work for drug pushers, and it doesn't work for you. Head, meet pike.
There are *no* legitimate telemarketing companies. Nobody has ever asked you to call them on the telephone and try to sell them something; stop trying to pretend otherwise. If you call me with a sales pitch, regardless of what it is or who you represent, I'll want your head on a pike.
How is that with over 370 comments posted so far, and my threshold is set at 3, I only see 6 comments? Me thinks the new slashdot code has some problems.
37 comments, my threshold's set to 3, and only one comment shows up. Hey Taco! What's the deal with the new code? Forgot to beta test it first?
I agree completely, except the part where you claim that not all creationists are dumb.
I know, we'll have an election to decide who gets to be on the ballot. Oh... wait.
I'm 49 years old; In high school my math teachers still had 6 foot long slide rules hanging above the blackboard, but by the time I graduated I was the proud owner of a TI calculator. Within that 2 year (or so) span, pretty much everyone I knew made the jump from only using slide rules to only using calculators. I still, however, have my Kueffel & Esser, made of bamboo, ivory & glass
And once I do, I can't wait to get within 1/2 mile of anyone that OK'd the use of this device on humans.
I previously had a Shuttle desktop machine running Windows XP. One day I started noticing that when I copied files to a network file server, about 1 out of 20 or so would get corrupted, with larger files getting corrupted more often than smaller ones. Copying them to the local IDE hard drive caused no problems, and other machines did not have problems copying files to the same file server. I spent a lot of time swapping networking cards, etc. and not getting anywhere, until I plugged in a USB drive and noticed that files were also getting corrupted when copied to it.
I then ran tests with large random files, doing diff's between the originals and the copies. The errors were always single bytes that had changed; the file size never changed. Interestingly, whenever there was a changed byte, the seventh and eighth bytes preceding the error were always the same values, although having those two values next to each other in a file did not always cause the error. The problem turned out to be a bad motherboard; the data path to some destinations like the NIC and USB ports would corrupt data, while the path to the IDE connectors would not.
Micron size water filters have been around for a long time, ask any outdoorsman or backpacker. They've always been rather expensive, though not usually as much as this one. Also, all those particles that are filtered out of your water are left behind in the filter, which rather quickly clogs up those micron sized pores, requiring the cartridges to be replaced. The throughput also isn't very great, unless you have a pump to force the water through filter.
How is this anything more then a press release for something that's not very new at all??
If I can't detect it, then the entity that put the watermark in the file in the first place would not be able to detect it either, unless of course the watermark is created in some secret method that only they know about. That would require them to keep that secret hidden from everyone else, and we all know how well security by obscurity has worked in the past in this business.
You seem to have missed the sarcasm.
I've never driven on 90% of the interstate highways in this country, so why should my federal tax dollars be used to build & maintain them?
I've never needed to go to the emergency room either, so why should I have to pay taxes to support those frivolous hospitals?
My house has never been attacked by a foreign nation, so why should I foot the bill for our trillion dollar armed forces?
Get the point?
I hate the beach as much as you; it's too hot, too sunny, and too sandy. I have *no* problem, however, with paying taxes to help keep the beaches clean and have lifeguards on duty. Our ocean's beaches are a national resource, and should be maintained for the good of the entire public, not just for scum like David Geffen http://www.calcoast.org/news/beach0050415.html that try to lock up portions for themselves.
For a short while in the 80's, the packages of cups & plates included coupons to get a *free* VHS copy of Dora's performances; I think even the shipping was free. This was at a time when a blank VHS tape cost four bucks or so retail. The campaign was wildly successful, coupons were coming in much faster than he could get VHS dubs made. Old Leo thought that America loved his wife's talent. Eventually someone pointed out to him the fact that most of the customers were just putting a piece of scotch tape over the record tab and using the tapes for other purposes. He wasn't too happy after that.
I Agree. I'm one of those that's got some degree of red-green color blindness. I can almost never tell the difference between a yellow LED and a green one unless I jab the damn thing into my eyeball. Nothing's worse than trying to find the one hard drive in a whole rack of hard drives that blinks yellow while all the rest blink green.
Good riddance to bad rubbish
You could only play it on the *type* of device for which you bought it, but there was nothing that prevented you from playing it on your friends turntable, and if your turntable died you could just buy another one and all your music would still be playable. Furthermore, once you were tired of an album there was nothing preventing you from either selling it or giving it away. Try doing that with your iTunes files.
From the film industry's standpoint, Norton Sales provides props and set decoration, not entire backdrops. Renting a three foot tall rocket engine for a few hundred dollars to place behind the actors will be cheaper than setting up a green-screen shot for quite some time. Heck, it's probably cheaper to rent the real thing than it is to build a realistic facsimile out of Styrofoam and vacuum-form plastic. If Norton Sales goes under any time soon, it won't be because of cheap CPU cycles.
These trained dogs, unless deployed for a limited time in a specific area, are there for little more than show. Although they can be trained to sniff out almost anything, they aren't robots. The dogs treat it as a game, but they need frequent breaks or they'll quickly tire of it. You can't just march a dog for 8 hours around the airport and expect him to magically find any contraband that finds its way into the building. They may be the best choice in a situation such as a building collapse, where they need to find bodies in an area of a few thousand square feet, but to expect that even hundreds of these dogs will be able to sniff the millions of cargo containers that come into this country every year is laughable. Besides, since it's perfectly legal to ship blank media, anyone in the bootlegging business will just declare the cargo and it will get lost among the false positives of all the other blank DVDs that come in from overseas. But I guess that trained pooches do make for good press releases, letting everyone know that something is being done about this horrible scourge of bit copying.
On the contrary; it has everything to with capitalism. Microsoft's entire existence is based on creating intellectual property and then only releasing it when paid their asking price. As I see it, registering the "micorsoft.com" domain name in hopes that someone will accidentally land there is no different than creating yet another new OS in hopes that you can force people to upgrade to it.
An "otherwise secure system" is just an "inherently insecure system" in which nobody has *yet* found all the weaknesses. To think otherwise is to ignore reality.
> What is the business reason for developing more female engineers? > > The potential doubling of your talent pool. We could just as easily "double our talent pool" by developing more engineers of any gender. Back to the question; what is the business reason for developing more FEMALE engineers?