...but with the financial system. maybe we should be looking instead at how vast sums of money can be moved into and out of a company in seconds? episodes like this have shown the instability of the share market, and the craziness of the finance market. everything is built upon smoke and mirrors - performance counts for little, while perception, lies and marketing rule the day
Hear hear! Since Apple tends to create rifts around here, take them out of the equation. A very similar thing happened to United Air Lines a few weeks back when an old story wound up published to Bloomberg as current news. UAL's stock dropped and didn't completely recover that day after the item was corrected.
Thanks for pointing this out. All of these arguments in here over whether RoR is good or bad for Twitter are meaningless considering the founder says it ain't happening!;-)
Indeed. This appears to be the strategy now. "Don't worry about Vista, because Windows 7 will knock your socks off". Hmmmmmmm... I wonder if my machine is Windows 7 Capable.
How is this different from ITR?
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I saw the site last night when it popped up on MetaFilter. For those of you who know, what are the differences between something like this and what shows up on the Internet Traffic Report?
These devices also suffer from another exploit -- the one where technicians come in and leave the WiFi completely open and not tell the customer or, worse, tell them they're "protected" because it's "firewalled."
I've seen this with my own eyes dozens of times.:-(
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Thanks for that. I honestly never felt comfortable talking to him about it. He was still quite angry. It was sad, really, but I understood where was coming from.:-(
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When I ran a support business in Boston, I met a guy who called out aiming coordinates to the folks who ran the guns on U.S. warships in World War II. (I don't know the exact and title.) He was positioned in the South Pacific still clearly shook up about it. I recall him saying that every time he saw someone driving a Mitsubishi car he'd have to control himself. (Mitsubishi made the engines in many of the Japanese planes, or so he thought.)
I don't want to see the look on some poor guy's face if he sees this damn thing rolling down the street. He might just crap his pants.
It's pretty clear this decision is not sitting well with Creative's customers. Why didn't they hire the guy? Seriously. You want to shut him up? Stop him from doing what he's doing? Hire him. Give him a buttload of money, put him under an NDA and a non-compete, then let him slowly sink into the morass that is your corporatized, politicized, developer quicksand. We'll never hear from him again.
Of course, I wish nothing of the sort for the guy. But it does seem like Creative took the very hard way out.
No, I believe Toonces drove I-10 a few times. Yes, he does. Sometimes, he seems drunk but at those times I think he's eaten a couple of tacos or somethin'.
The first thing I did on receipt of my XP notebook with the Windows Vista Capable sticker was to remove it and put it in its correct place: on my bin. Sorry, dude (dudette?), but your statement reminded me of a Stewie quote.
Olivia: You are the weakest link, goodbye. (laughter) Stewie: Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that's funny! That's really funny! Do you write your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. You are the weakest link goodbye. You know, I've, I've never heard anyone make that joke before. Hmm. You're the first. I've never heard anyone reference, reference that outside the program before. Because that's what she says on the show right? Isn't it? You are the weakest link goodbye. And, and yet you've taken that and used it out of context to insult me in this everyday situation. God what a clever, smart girl you must be, to come up with a joke like that all by yourself. That's so fresh too. Any, any Titanic jokes you want to throw at me too as long as we're hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity. God you're so funny!
Precisely. I find it quite amazing that there are "field offices" who can just make up policy on the fly. I'm even more amazed that little or no information is being shared between offices and the main operations! It's possible they knew and the blog simply publicized the problem. As we know too well, organizations, companies, and people will try to get away with all sorts of things until it becomes embarrassing.
I still use IBM keyboards at work and home due to their durability. True story -- IBM used to market the keyboards to banks (like the one I work at) as a productivity enhancer...the loud audible 'click click click' has been proven in usability studies to improve data entry by 3-5% since its another feedback response (audible) to a potential error. When I mistype on an IBM keyboard, I *know* I've mistyped. Another selling point is that the audible clicks let the Bossman know that work's being done. Or so he thinks!
The only one of those I've had the displeasure of using is the Atari 400 keyboard. Wow. What a monstrosity. It sure looked all FUTURY, though. In fact, I imagine any of those keyboard that were designed to be flat with little-to-no tactile feedback are going to be winners (loser?) among the category.
There are some modern keyboards that suck, too. Most of them are on UMPCs, cell phones, and the occasional laptop.
Ahhh, "vaporware." It's the tag that dismisses everything in record time.
I don't understand what some folks would have these research centers do. Not work on new GUIs? Why not? Remember, many things never left PARC's labs. Some of it did and even more of it went into the current crop of GUIs that we have today. (One can debate on the ethics behind how the ideas made it out of PARC.) All of that research, even the stuff that didn't work, helped to achieve a better, more polished end-result.
And, of course, our current GUIs aren't necessarily the "best," but they're what works generally for now. So, we should continue to look for new and better ways to interface with technology. Yep, some of it will be horrible, some won't work at all, and some will be announced but turn out little more than vapor. But everything (including the failures) will lead to the next better thing.
[...] what happens when the disused coal mine collapses onto and around them? My guess is it'll be a cooler version of the story about a computer that was lost inside of a wall. "Damn! It responds to a ping, but all I see is this big hole in the ground.";-)
At least someone realises that we're not all Americans. There's a not-American? When? I just finished watching the news and they never said nothing about other countries. (What is that?!);-)
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Well, I don't know how he'd answer, but I suspect it will involve the phrase, "my friends." :-D
Thanks much for these links.
...but with the financial system. maybe we should be looking instead at how vast sums of money can be moved into and out of a company in seconds? episodes like this have shown the instability of the share market, and the craziness of the finance market. everything is built upon smoke and mirrors - performance counts for little, while perception, lies and marketing rule the day
Hear hear! Since Apple tends to create rifts around here, take them out of the equation. A very similar thing happened to United Air Lines a few weeks back when an old story wound up published to Bloomberg as current news. UAL's stock dropped and didn't completely recover that day after the item was corrected.
Microscopic black holes would evaporate in a very small amount of time due to Hawking radiation...
The router I just purchased can kill black holes?!
DAAAYMN! Dat shit is craazee. Eat it Linksys.
"Jerry, tell me how my ass tastes."
I do not find that service on my system (Vista). (Yes, I did install Chrome.)
That's hard rock??
I am officially old.
Thanks for pointing this out. All of these arguments in here over whether RoR is good or bad for Twitter are meaningless considering the founder says it ain't happening! ;-)
I saw the site last night when it popped up on MetaFilter. For those of you who know, what are the differences between something like this and what shows up on the Internet Traffic Report?
These devices also suffer from another exploit -- the one where technicians come in and leave the WiFi completely open and not tell the customer or, worse, tell them they're "protected" because it's "firewalled."
:-(
I've seen this with my own eyes dozens of times.
Thanks for that. I honestly never felt comfortable talking to him about it. He was still quite angry. It was sad, really, but I understood where was coming from. :-(
When I ran a support business in Boston, I met a guy who called out aiming coordinates to the folks who ran the guns on U.S. warships in World War II. (I don't know the exact and title.) He was positioned in the South Pacific still clearly shook up about it. I recall him saying that every time he saw someone driving a Mitsubishi car he'd have to control himself. (Mitsubishi made the engines in many of the Japanese planes, or so he thought.)
I don't want to see the look on some poor guy's face if he sees this damn thing rolling down the street. He might just crap his pants.
It's pretty clear this decision is not sitting well with Creative's customers. Why didn't they hire the guy? Seriously. You want to shut him up? Stop him from doing what he's doing? Hire him. Give him a buttload of money, put him under an NDA and a non-compete, then let him slowly sink into the morass that is your corporatized, politicized, developer quicksand. We'll never hear from him again.
Of course, I wish nothing of the sort for the guy. But it does seem like Creative took the very hard way out.
Olivia: You are the weakest link, goodbye. (laughter)
Stewie: Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that's funny! That's really funny! Do you write your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. You are the weakest link goodbye. You know, I've, I've never heard anyone make that joke before. Hmm. You're the first. I've never heard anyone reference, reference that outside the program before. Because that's what she says on the show right? Isn't it? You are the weakest link goodbye. And, and yet you've taken that and used it out of context to insult me in this everyday situation. God what a clever, smart girl you must be, to come up with a joke like that all by yourself. That's so fresh too. Any, any Titanic jokes you want to throw at me too as long as we're hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity. God you're so funny!
I seem to recall a 400 mod with a 800 keyboard or some equivalent... Hmmm
Oh yes! Here it is.
Anyway, it's a WIN-WIN!
The only one of those I've had the displeasure of using is the Atari 400 keyboard. Wow. What a monstrosity. It sure looked all FUTURY, though. In fact, I imagine any of those keyboard that were designed to be flat with little-to-no tactile feedback are going to be winners (loser?) among the category.
There are some modern keyboards that suck, too. Most of them are on UMPCs, cell phones, and the occasional laptop.
Ahhh, "vaporware." It's the tag that dismisses everything in record time.
I don't understand what some folks would have these research centers do. Not work on new GUIs? Why not? Remember, many things never left PARC's labs. Some of it did and even more of it went into the current crop of GUIs that we have today. (One can debate on the ethics behind how the ideas made it out of PARC.) All of that research, even the stuff that didn't work, helped to achieve a better, more polished end-result.
And, of course, our current GUIs aren't necessarily the "best," but they're what works generally for now. So, we should continue to look for new and better ways to interface with technology. Yep, some of it will be horrible, some won't work at all, and some will be announced but turn out little more than vapor. But everything (including the failures) will lead to the next better thing.
Before the journalists were led away by police, one of them could be heard yelling, "My nipples explode with delight!"
Ol' Mars Rover, dem Ol' Mars Rovers
They jus' keeps scoopin', surveyin', and a viewin'
They jus' keeps on rollin', keeps on rollin' along