No, this is how you do it. You take out their satellite and replace it with one of your own. Send them what seems like real information, only make the data incorrect, or give yourself the ability to feed them incorrect data at key points. It would work kind of like in Speed, where they taped 6 minutes of them sitting still, and replayed it over and over so they could sneak off the bus.
The walmart employees in Canada have healthcare. What? You expect a corporation which has shareholders to keep happy to provide healthcare to employees?
So you're saying that if you throw enough wrong codes at the car, then it will disable itself? Sounds like you could have a lot of fun disabling people's cars on them. You could probably disable a whole parking garage full of cars with strong enough transmitter and 5 minutes of free time. Even without that, just walk up to a car that isn't yours, and press the button 50 times.
Maybe you can run PKZipfix on the document. I'm sure there's ways to recover it. Most users if the file doesn't open, then it's lost. If you aren't most users, then you could probably find a way to recover the data. If you're really concerned about losing your data you'll keep backups. Rellying on which format lets you recover the most is a bad way of ensuring you can recover you data. What happens if the whole file gets corrupt? Yeah, you should have had backups.
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I don't think you'll find a lot of jobs that will employ you just for your ajax skills. If you're a web developer, than you'd better learn how Ajax works. Just like it's probably a good idea to know HTML, Javascript, PHP, ASP.Net and other web technologies. Getting into that rut where you only know one thing is where a lot of people go wrong. There isn't a whole lot to learn about AJAX. If you know Javascript, and understand XML, Stylesheets, and HTML, you pretty much know everything you need to know. You just have to learn how to put them together.
Yes, because compessing a file is such an ingenios Idea. That's why when the text was 1 page repeated over and over again, the 300 page file was still 23 KB. With any written text it's a good idea to compress it, because langage is very redundant. Nobody says that MS isn't allowed to compress their files too.
I just tried it. MS Word 2002. New document no text, 20 KB. 500 Words from Lorem Ipsum, 23 K. 300 pages of that same first page repeated. 1,128 KB. OpenOffice.org 2.0. New Document no text, 6 KB. Same 500 words from lorem ipsum, 10 KB. 300 Pages of repeated text, 22 KB. Wow, too easily compressed. Lets try 300 pages of non repeated text. 329 KB. You save quite a bit. I find that once you start adding images and other things like that, you end up saving even more space.
That's bad reasoning. Apple invented the iPod and iTunes to work together. If you want your iPod to play stuff from napster or real, that isn't Apple's problem to solve. They can't be required to support every format under the sun. It's like expecting MAC OSX to run on your Sun Sparc machine. The two products only work with eachother, and if you don't like it, you can buy another product. Apple owns 80% of the market because they are the only ones producing good products and marketing them well. There are other good products out there, yet they aren't marketed at all. And there are lots of bad products, like the Sony stuff, that is marketed.
I had Yahoo toolbar slip in with an install of adobe acrobat reader. What does the yahoo toolbar have to do with the adobe reader? I know I should have been more careful, but Adobe reader used to be one of the least invasive programs. Now I have to worry about it installing things that shouldn't even be there in the first place.
Just because they follow the ad, and then decide that they don' want to be there, doesn't mean it's a fraudulent click. Maybe they took 1 look at your website, and decided that they didn't like it. Remember that article about how it only takes.5 seconds for someone to make a judgement of your site? There's lots of times when I'll click on an ad, and then leave the site right away because it wasn't really what I was looking for.
Privitized healthcare doesn't work because of the product they are selling. How much is your health (life) worth to you. Without someone controlling the costs of healthcare, the prices are going to sky rocket. In many industries, they don't charge what the product costs, but rather, what the market is willing to bear. If people will pay $50,000 for an operation, then it's going to cost you $50,000. You might be able to shop around and get the operation for $45,000, but nobody is only going to charge you $20,000, when they know the guy down the street is charging $50,000
0 vacation? wow. I thought we had it bad in Canada with our 2 weeks of vacation. I think this plays a big role. People need vacation, or they will get sick. And stat holidays don't help much if you work weekends. Sure, you get the monday off, but you don't usually work mondays anyway. You get a bit of extra cash for the stat holiday, but you still don't get time off.
Yes, but you know what you are getting into when you buy iTunes. With MS Word, there's no choice, because of monopoly. If you want to buy movies, then you have to buy DVD. Protected PDF, WMA and Fairplay fall into another category. There are other solutions. You don't like iTunes? Go buy the CD. Buy music from Real, or Napster, or listen to the radio. I don't think Corel released their specs for wordperfect files either. The monopoly status is what changes the rules.
This is my trick to making it seem like I have a lot of money. Let everyone else think they need 60 Inch TVs, $2000 computers, and $50,000 cars, and I'll just sit back and realize that I can live without such luxuries. Of course, I'm actually making the same amount as the other people who think they need all this stuff. So, while they're running around wondering where all their money went, trying to pay the credit card bills, I'm enjoying life and am quite comfortable with the money I make.
There's a Cert somewhere along the lines of Microsoft Solutions Provider. The point of this cert is to teach people which MS products to use in order to solve a problem. For instance, you need a DB, then the answer is SQL Server. This kind of thing forces people to look at problems with only a very narrow point of view.
We had a little running joke in University that you started out at Software Engineering, then if that was too hard for you, you switched to CS. If that was too hard, you switched ot CIS, and if that was too hard then you switched into Business Administration. I know a couple people who dropped down 1 or 2 "Levels".
I saw that too. I thought they were blowing the dust off it or something. I think that hard drive lived through a fire or something. I think on the same episode, they managed to "decrypt" some encrypted files in about 15 seconds. These guys are city cops. Not even the NSA can pull that kind of crap. Unless of course, they were using ROT13 encryption.
Maybe, but then again, finding pyramids isn't a trillion dollar industry. If you told somebody they'd get a billion dollars for finding a pyramid larger than the Great Pyramid, then i'm sure someone would have found it long ago.
I could understand if you were a little niche company, only selling your OS to a specific market (Maybe QNX?) then having an OS that only supported 1 or 2 file systesm wouldn't be a bad idea. However, when you're Microsoft, and you market your OS for Home Desktops, Workstations, File Servers, Database Servers, and just about everything else under the sun, it starts to make more sense to allow people to use different file systems. No one file system is going to make all the users happy.
Are you kidding me? Every night on CSI they zoom in 100x on digital photo and are able to make the photo clear as an original, with no pixelation. People have no idea what's possible with computers. They just assume that everything they see on television could really happen.
I think the same thing. Although you're old cluncker isn't quite as old as my old cluncker (PII 266, 192 MB RAM). Current distros work just fine as long as you're willing to disable some of the eyecandy. The programs I have the most problems with are things like OpenOffice, and Netbeans/Eclipse. Firefox is the least of my worries.
I wonder the same thing with windows. There are only 2 file systems. FAT32 and NTFS. I don't think this is a good idea. There is no one filesystem that works best in all cases. That's what's nice about Linux. There's like 10 different file systems to choose from. Maybe most people leave it at whatever the default is. But that doesn't matter. For those who care to research enough, and find out which filesystem is the best for their system, they will be able tos see the advantages. The other nice thing is being able to use different file systems for each partition. Like an encrypted one for your home partition, and a stable fast one for your system files.
Maybe you can find a setting in your mouse preferences that enables "Chord Middle" or pressing both buttons at the same time to signal a middle click. I know the software I installed for my logitech trackball allows me to do this. I
The problem with stuff like this is that it reminds people of how old their software was. In 2004, everyone was still using SQL Server 2000. They were still selling SQL Server 2000. Why would anybody want to buy a 4 year old computer program. Things change so much in 4 years. Sure most people don't mind using the same Database for 4 years, but try convincing a new customer to buy a product that hasn't been feature enhanced in 4 years. The other problem is that if you miss you deadline, than you end up releasing a product called 2005, just before 2006 starts. It's already a year old at release. This is why automakes sell the next year's model starting in september.
That only works when you have an internet connection that can handle 30 connections at the same time. If you have a slow connection, trying to do 30 things at once can make it slower than loading 5 things at once, 6 times.
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No, this is how you do it. You take out their satellite and replace it with one of your own. Send them what seems like real information, only make the data incorrect, or give yourself the ability to feed them incorrect data at key points. It would work kind of like in Speed, where they taped 6 minutes of them sitting still, and replayed it over and over so they could sneak off the bus.
The walmart employees in Canada have healthcare. What? You expect a corporation which has shareholders to keep happy to provide healthcare to employees?
So you're saying that if you throw enough wrong codes at the car, then it will disable itself? Sounds like you could have a lot of fun disabling people's cars on them. You could probably disable a whole parking garage full of cars with strong enough transmitter and 5 minutes of free time. Even without that, just walk up to a car that isn't yours, and press the button 50 times.
Maybe you can run PKZipfix on the document. I'm sure there's ways to recover it. Most users if the file doesn't open, then it's lost. If you aren't most users, then you could probably find a way to recover the data. If you're really concerned about losing your data you'll keep backups. Rellying on which format lets you recover the most is a bad way of ensuring you can recover you data. What happens if the whole file gets corrupt? Yeah, you should have had backups.
I don't think you'll find a lot of jobs that will employ you just for your ajax skills. If you're a web developer, than you'd better learn how Ajax works. Just like it's probably a good idea to know HTML, Javascript, PHP, ASP.Net and other web technologies. Getting into that rut where you only know one thing is where a lot of people go wrong. There isn't a whole lot to learn about AJAX. If you know Javascript, and understand XML, Stylesheets, and HTML, you pretty much know everything you need to know. You just have to learn how to put them together.
Yes, because compessing a file is such an ingenios Idea. That's why when the text was 1 page repeated over and over again, the 300 page file was still 23 KB. With any written text it's a good idea to compress it, because langage is very redundant. Nobody says that MS isn't allowed to compress their files too.
I just tried it. MS Word 2002. New document no text, 20 KB. 500 Words from Lorem Ipsum, 23 K. 300 pages of that same first page repeated. 1,128 KB. OpenOffice.org 2.0. New Document no text, 6 KB. Same 500 words from lorem ipsum, 10 KB. 300 Pages of repeated text, 22 KB. Wow, too easily compressed. Lets try 300 pages of non repeated text. 329 KB. You save quite a bit. I find that once you start adding images and other things like that, you end up saving even more space.
That's bad reasoning. Apple invented the iPod and iTunes to work together. If you want your iPod to play stuff from napster or real, that isn't Apple's problem to solve. They can't be required to support every format under the sun. It's like expecting MAC OSX to run on your Sun Sparc machine. The two products only work with eachother, and if you don't like it, you can buy another product. Apple owns 80% of the market because they are the only ones producing good products and marketing them well. There are other good products out there, yet they aren't marketed at all. And there are lots of bad products, like the Sony stuff, that is marketed.
I had Yahoo toolbar slip in with an install of adobe acrobat reader. What does the yahoo toolbar have to do with the adobe reader? I know I should have been more careful, but Adobe reader used to be one of the least invasive programs. Now I have to worry about it installing things that shouldn't even be there in the first place.
Just because they follow the ad, and then decide that they don' want to be there, doesn't mean it's a fraudulent click. Maybe they took 1 look at your website, and decided that they didn't like it. Remember that article about how it only takes .5 seconds for someone to make a judgement of your site? There's lots of times when I'll click on an ad, and then leave the site right away because it wasn't really what I was looking for.
Privitized healthcare doesn't work because of the product they are selling. How much is your health (life) worth to you. Without someone controlling the costs of healthcare, the prices are going to sky rocket. In many industries, they don't charge what the product costs, but rather, what the market is willing to bear. If people will pay $50,000 for an operation, then it's going to cost you $50,000. You might be able to shop around and get the operation for $45,000, but nobody is only going to charge you $20,000, when they know the guy down the street is charging $50,000
0 vacation? wow. I thought we had it bad in Canada with our 2 weeks of vacation. I think this plays a big role. People need vacation, or they will get sick. And stat holidays don't help much if you work weekends. Sure, you get the monday off, but you don't usually work mondays anyway. You get a bit of extra cash for the stat holiday, but you still don't get time off.
Yes, but you know what you are getting into when you buy iTunes. With MS Word, there's no choice, because of monopoly. If you want to buy movies, then you have to buy DVD. Protected PDF, WMA and Fairplay fall into another category. There are other solutions. You don't like iTunes? Go buy the CD. Buy music from Real, or Napster, or listen to the radio. I don't think Corel released their specs for wordperfect files either. The monopoly status is what changes the rules.
This is my trick to making it seem like I have a lot of money. Let everyone else think they need 60 Inch TVs, $2000 computers, and $50,000 cars, and I'll just sit back and realize that I can live without such luxuries. Of course, I'm actually making the same amount as the other people who think they need all this stuff. So, while they're running around wondering where all their money went, trying to pay the credit card bills, I'm enjoying life and am quite comfortable with the money I make.
There's a Cert somewhere along the lines of Microsoft Solutions Provider. The point of this cert is to teach people which MS products to use in order to solve a problem. For instance, you need a DB, then the answer is SQL Server. This kind of thing forces people to look at problems with only a very narrow point of view.
We had a little running joke in University that you started out at Software Engineering, then if that was too hard for you, you switched to CS. If that was too hard, you switched ot CIS, and if that was too hard then you switched into Business Administration. I know a couple people who dropped down 1 or 2 "Levels".
I saw that too. I thought they were blowing the dust off it or something. I think that hard drive lived through a fire or something. I think on the same episode, they managed to "decrypt" some encrypted files in about 15 seconds. These guys are city cops. Not even the NSA can pull that kind of crap. Unless of course, they were using ROT13 encryption.
Maybe, but then again, finding pyramids isn't a trillion dollar industry. If you told somebody they'd get a billion dollars for finding a pyramid larger than the Great Pyramid, then i'm sure someone would have found it long ago.
I could understand if you were a little niche company, only selling your OS to a specific market (Maybe QNX?) then having an OS that only supported 1 or 2 file systesm wouldn't be a bad idea. However, when you're Microsoft, and you market your OS for Home Desktops, Workstations, File Servers, Database Servers, and just about everything else under the sun, it starts to make more sense to allow people to use different file systems. No one file system is going to make all the users happy.
Are you kidding me? Every night on CSI they zoom in 100x on digital photo and are able to make the photo clear as an original, with no pixelation. People have no idea what's possible with computers. They just assume that everything they see on television could really happen.
I think the same thing. Although you're old cluncker isn't quite as old as my old cluncker (PII 266, 192 MB RAM). Current distros work just fine as long as you're willing to disable some of the eyecandy. The programs I have the most problems with are things like OpenOffice, and Netbeans/Eclipse. Firefox is the least of my worries.
I wonder the same thing with windows. There are only 2 file systems. FAT32 and NTFS. I don't think this is a good idea. There is no one filesystem that works best in all cases. That's what's nice about Linux. There's like 10 different file systems to choose from. Maybe most people leave it at whatever the default is. But that doesn't matter. For those who care to research enough, and find out which filesystem is the best for their system, they will be able tos see the advantages. The other nice thing is being able to use different file systems for each partition. Like an encrypted one for your home partition, and a stable fast one for your system files.
Maybe you can find a setting in your mouse preferences that enables "Chord Middle" or pressing both buttons at the same time to signal a middle click. I know the software I installed for my logitech trackball allows me to do this. I
The problem with stuff like this is that it reminds people of how old their software was. In 2004, everyone was still using SQL Server 2000. They were still selling SQL Server 2000. Why would anybody want to buy a 4 year old computer program. Things change so much in 4 years. Sure most people don't mind using the same Database for 4 years, but try convincing a new customer to buy a product that hasn't been feature enhanced in 4 years. The other problem is that if you miss you deadline, than you end up releasing a product called 2005, just before 2006 starts. It's already a year old at release. This is why automakes sell the next year's model starting in september.
That only works when you have an internet connection that can handle 30 connections at the same time. If you have a slow connection, trying to do 30 things at once can make it slower than loading 5 things at once, 6 times.