I live in Austin and many smaller TNCs have moved into the city to fill the market need, and these TNCs are willing to comply with the city ordinances.
This definitely reminds me of the V science fiction series from the 80s. Society looks down on science and scientists, and society puts full faith and trust in the authorities. People are ready to snitch on their neighbors over the slightest bit of suspicion.
The only difference from the series and real life, the enemy isn't an external force; it's us tearing ourselves apart in fear. Meanwhile, the power hungry simply use that fear to gain more power and wealth while everyone else is distracted and takes little notice.
The Austin downtown area is where most of the SXSW action occurs, and Austin's downtown really isn't that big. People needing cabs or pedicabs to move six blocks is a simple 10 to 15 minute walk.
I stopped at my local 7-Eleven two nights ago and noticed that some items have small prize stickers on them. Lo and behold, the prize stickers are for items in Facebook games. I don't know what range of games the stickers apply to, but I did receive a prize for Farmville and another prize for Mafia Wars.
I think I'll save these for my nieces and nephews as gifts for Christmas.
Instead of having several screens for one display, a large touch display can be divided into several touch screens for a number of doctors at one time. Just proposing an idea for hospitals.
Eudora and Thunderbird use the term labels. MS Entourage and MS Outlook use the term categories.
By the way, is there some standards document like RFC saying any web app, especially webmail, has to use the term tags?
There is something disturbing about this paragraph from the article:
Rogelberg has delivered this insight in a talk called "Meetings and More Meetings," which he presented to a meeting at the University of Sheffield. He also does a talk called "Not Another Meeting!", which has been well received at two meetings in North Carolina.
Actually, the system requirements are preliminary. We usually guess higher, and then readjust the requirements the closer we get to Final Candidate. I believe this happened to RTCW for Mac, but I would have to ask someone who was the project lead for RTCW for Mac.
This is done to prevent customers making a preorder for the game, only to find out that the requirements have been raised at the last minute.
It's called Information Science. As far as I know, it is only offered as a graduate program, either as a Master or PhD. In my search for a graduate program in Information Science, I have noticed more schools of Information Science offering degrees that tie in your typical information science idealogy and integrating technology.
As another poster suggested, these people are also known as libarians. They catalog, classify, store, retrieve, and research information. Anything else needing to be added to the list of librarian tasks?
I heard my dad make some mention of this a few days ago. Of course, this doesn't surprise me. My father spoke of SBC cutting retirement benefits in the future just to get people to retire early before the lower benefits took place.
He also spoke of his animosity towards SBC because of their push for Technicians to get more jobs completed in less time. Thus, you get people doing a job and meeting the most basic requirements to complete the job, so they end up closing out the job quickly.
My dad has a wall of Customer Service awards, but his managers would always complain about his inability to close jobs out quickly. My dad always told them he'd much rather take his time and make sure the customer is happy than do a barely-done job with a disgruntled customer.
Oh well, it doesn't matter now. The older generation of Technicians who actually care about the customer are retiring while newer non-union/contractors fill the slots
Even my dad doesn't have SBC for his phones anymore, even with the retiree discount
Hasn't anyone noticed how overly priced Office is for Windows or Mac? Office is Microsoft's biggest revenue generator. What better way to generate more revenue and keep businesses locked into a particular file format than release a version for Linux on an x86 hardware?
Of course, all this is speculation, and I'm too tired and sleepy to search around on the WWW for articles to support my claims.
On the other hand, there has also been speculation of Microsoft moving to an Application Server type model with Office. If this is so, then this gives Microsoft even more leverage to get into the big iron market.
I dunno, two hours of sleep and still having to go to work, I don't even know if this makes sense at all.:P
After the September 11, 2001, the Ad Council ran Campaign for Freedom consisting of several ads of what it would be like if we didn't have our freedoms.
My two favorites would have to be the Diner and the Library ads.
Maybe use in Content Management System?
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Yes, I am aware that one can likely bypass a DRM system.
On the other hand, what if they were able to develop a system that used a spec generic enough to be used on any type of data file and integrate it with a content management system or workflow management system? I can see a niche for something like this.
With the open source involved, this could restrict it only to places where one entity has complete control of the infrastructure, a business for example.
Server, X-11 terminals hardwired to the network, no open ethernet ports anywhere, ta-da. Ok, I'm sure there is more to it, but most businesses have full control of their networks and can create the proper environment to further enforce the DRM.
I know the medical field and government would benefit from this, yet I would prefer to have an open sourced, open standard system and know it uses a strong encryption algorithm other than a do-not-print flag set in the file enforced by the DMCA.
Could such a system be created following the open source philosophy with open standards and be secure?
E-COM was a message system designed to serve volume mailers, such as Shell Oil and Merrill Lynch, by generating mail from data stored electronically. The service rolled out to 25 post offices and transmitted the messages to other cities, which then transformed them into hard copy and delivered them within two days. The Postal Service was to be the active agent in E-COM, involved with all aspects of management.
Check out the online services that they offer. One simply uploads a document in a particular digital format (Word, Wordperfect,...), and USPS will print and deliver the item(s) to one or many addresses.
Just browse USPS.com and see all the services they offer online. (Isn't it interesting they push usps.com as their URL.)
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I live in Austin and many smaller TNCs have moved into the city to fill the market need, and these TNCs are willing to comply with the city ordinances.
Cab drivers, pedicabbers, and horse carriage drivers in Austin are required to have fingerprint background checks.
This definitely reminds me of the V science fiction series from the 80s. Society looks down on science and scientists, and society puts full faith and trust in the authorities. People are ready to snitch on their neighbors over the slightest bit of suspicion.
The only difference from the series and real life, the enemy isn't an external force; it's us tearing ourselves apart in fear. Meanwhile, the power hungry simply use that fear to gain more power and wealth while everyone else is distracted and takes little notice.
The Austin downtown area is where most of the SXSW action occurs, and Austin's downtown really isn't that big. People needing cabs or pedicabs to move six blocks is a simple 10 to 15 minute walk.
I stopped at my local 7-Eleven two nights ago and noticed that some items have small prize stickers on them. Lo and behold, the prize stickers are for items in Facebook games. I don't know what range of games the stickers apply to, but I did receive a prize for Farmville and another prize for Mafia Wars.
I think I'll save these for my nieces and nephews as gifts for Christmas.
Instead of having several screens for one display, a large touch display can be divided into several touch screens for a number of doctors at one time. Just proposing an idea for hospitals.
Eudora and Thunderbird use the term labels. MS Entourage and MS Outlook use the term categories. By the way, is there some standards document like RFC saying any web app, especially webmail, has to use the term tags?
There is something disturbing about this paragraph from the article:
Rogelberg has delivered this insight in a talk called "Meetings and More Meetings," which he presented to a meeting at the University of Sheffield. He also does a talk called "Not Another Meeting!", which has been well received at two meetings in North Carolina.
Actually, the system requirements are preliminary. We usually guess higher, and then readjust the requirements the closer we get to Final Candidate. I believe this happened to RTCW for Mac, but I would have to ask someone who was the project lead for RTCW for Mac.
This is done to prevent customers making a preorder for the game, only to find out that the requirements have been raised at the last minute.
It's called Information Science. As far as I know, it is only offered as a graduate program, either as a Master or PhD. In my search for a graduate program in Information Science, I have noticed more schools of Information Science offering degrees that tie in your typical information science idealogy and integrating technology.
As another poster suggested, these people are also known as libarians. They catalog, classify, store, retrieve, and research information. Anything else needing to be added to the list of librarian tasks?
I heard my dad make some mention of this a few days ago. Of course, this doesn't surprise me. My father spoke of SBC cutting retirement benefits in the future just to get people to retire early before the lower benefits took place.
He also spoke of his animosity towards SBC because of their push for Technicians to get more jobs completed in less time. Thus, you get people doing a job and meeting the most basic requirements to complete the job, so they end up closing out the job quickly.
My dad has a wall of Customer Service awards, but his managers would always complain about his inability to close jobs out quickly. My dad always told them he'd much rather take his time and make sure the customer is happy than do a barely-done job with a disgruntled customer.
Oh well, it doesn't matter now. The older generation of Technicians who actually care about the customer are retiring while newer non-union/contractors fill the slots
Even my dad doesn't have SBC for his phones anymore, even with the retiree discount
TCM (Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling)
I found it on freshmeat.net a few months back. I've done ER diagrams, UML, and even some network diagrams using the Generic Diagram editor.
This makes some business sense.
Hasn't anyone noticed how overly priced Office is for Windows or Mac? Office is Microsoft's biggest revenue generator. What better way to generate more revenue and keep businesses locked into a particular file format than release a version for Linux on an x86 hardware?
Of course, all this is speculation, and I'm too tired and sleepy to search around on the WWW for articles to support my claims.
On the other hand, there has also been speculation of Microsoft moving to an Application Server type model with Office. If this is so, then this gives Microsoft even more leverage to get into the big iron market.
I dunno, two hours of sleep and still having to go to work, I don't even know if this makes sense at all. :P
After the September 11, 2001, the Ad Council ran Campaign for Freedom consisting of several ads of what it would be like if we didn't have our freedoms. My two favorites would have to be the Diner and the Library ads.
Yes, I am aware that one can likely bypass a DRM system.
On the other hand, what if they were able to develop a system that used a spec generic enough to be used on any type of data file and integrate it with a content management system or workflow management system? I can see a niche for something like this.
With the open source involved, this could restrict it only to places where one entity has complete control of the infrastructure, a business for example.
Server, X-11 terminals hardwired to the network, no open ethernet ports anywhere, ta-da. Ok, I'm sure there is more to it, but most businesses have full control of their networks and can create the proper environment to further enforce the DRM.
I know the medical field and government would benefit from this, yet I would prefer to have an open sourced, open standard system and know it uses a strong encryption algorithm other than a do-not-print flag set in the file enforced by the DMCA.
Could such a system be created following the open source philosophy with open standards and be secure?
If there is, don't hesitate to let me know.
From the article:
Check out the online services that they offer. One simply uploads a document in a particular digital format (Word, Wordperfect,...), and USPS will print and deliver the item(s) to one or many addresses. Just browse USPS.com and see all the services they offer online. (Isn't it interesting they push usps.com as their URL.)