We should put Burt Rutan in charge of NASA. No telling what he could do with a multi Billion dollar budget after putting a man into space twice with a multi million dollar budget.
OK, completely different technology. Similar premise. On vacation with my parents last December... My dad has a new Prius hybrid. He was so worried about that magic display in the center of the dash that showed his real time gas milegae that he was a damn hazard on the road. I very smoothly asked if I could drive the mighty hybrid for a while, much to his chagrin I drove us home most of the way from the airport and completely blew off the gas mileage statistics.
Most interesting to me From this quote, in 30 years ago dollars... Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Monte Davidoff work on a product for a year and Bill Gates values that at 40,000 dollars. Bill Gates, the richest man the world has ever seen... 30 years ago valued his work year out at 13,333 bucks. From that to Billionaire. God bless America.
from the article. Almost a year ago, Paul Allen and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hired Monte Davidoff and developed Altair BASIC. Though the initial work took only two months, the three of us have spent most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to BASIC. Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC. The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,000.
My site, linked below on my sig if you care to look is 90% content driven RSS and RDF feeds, of news and blogs, which are provided by the News site or blog site for exactly this type of aggregation via a feed. Although I get content for my viewers, it is actually also a service for the news or blog site I aggregate. Unless they fully feed the article my readers get teasers which link the the parent site for the full article. I do have moderation and comments related to the news article in question... but the teaser drive folks to the parent site. What they get for providing me a steady content stream is free linkage and traffic from my site. I am more than happy to provide it.... but its a I scratch your back you scratch mine arrangement. Google does the same thing on a MUCH larger scale. But the principles apply.
Its the internet, this is the modern version of the wild wild west.
We are all lucky wikipedia isn't covered wholesale with penis enlargement ads.
However, Wiki has a process to stop knuckleheads. These staffers fall into the knucklehead category and will probably be banned from this entire section of Wiki. And good riddance to bad rubbish.
Why is an auction model for expired names allowed at all? The previous owners had an agreement to purchase the name for a set period of time, after it lapses what make netsol, or godaddy or anyone think they are entitled to auction it off? Expired names whould be placed back into the pool of available names. Period.
If the secondary names market ends up smashing or grabbing or whatever a name from the pool, good for them. But there should be no secondary, hey look what I have auction for lapsed names.
expanding the.com business model my butt. unethically grabbing any and all money they can is more like it.
Microsoft will end up the winner.
Outlook mobile access on Windows mobile version 5.
We just got a quote from our vendor to replace our 156 Blackberries with IPAQ's using OMA.
We'll only exercise this option if forced to. But MS would be the clear winner.
It has long been regarded that the UNIX-like OS NetBSD is portable to every type of machine except perhaps your kitchen toaster. Just in time for the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco in August 2005, Technologic Systems, however, has conquered this last frontier. Using one of its rugged embedded TS-7200 single-board computers housed inside the empty space of a standard 2 slice toaster, Technologic Systems has designed a functional NetBSD controlled toaster. You can find more information on the NetBSD toaster at http://www.embeddedarm.com/news/netbsd_toaster.htm.
If I am ever stressed about something at work, rare but it happens every year or two I activate my Monster.com resume. By the end of the work day the calls and emails are coming in. All headhunters. Promising the moon.
Then I realize what a damn hassle it is to actually go on an interview. Negotiate salary, benefits... all the rest.
And I realize I am better off staying right where I am.
From the article I really didn't get a feel for the level of pain when it comes to paying for a M$ support contract.
I think we pay on the order of 250K a year for our premier support. I do think as long as we are a windows shop this is needed but it is a butt ton of money.
For a smaller shop I think it averages about 80 bucks an incident which is way cheap for the service. As I said earlier, I have always (well not always) but mostly been pleased with M$ premier support.
Get your company to front for some M$ premier support. When something comes up you are not sure of or are having a hell of a time resolving, call in the experts at M$.
Except for one or two "M$ Alliance partners" I have always had good luck with M$ premier support. And we have had some major fiascos to unscrew over the years.
And best of all you can consider it free on the job training, don't let the M$ Engineer hang up until you completely understand what was wrong and how to fix it in the future.
Also, document everything you do! Two years from now you will be fighting the same or similar fires you are fighting today. Have a reference to fall back on and help remember what steps you took before that fixed something.
Sounds like you are a lone gun, but a 800 Premier support help number and some documentation may help greatly.
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We should put Burt Rutan in charge of NASA.
No telling what he could do with a multi Billion dollar budget after putting a man into space twice with a multi million dollar budget.
Now that you null@vtext.com address has shown up
on the front page of slashdot...
You haven't seen anything yet.
OK, completely different technology. Similar premise. On vacation with my parents last December... My dad has a new Prius hybrid. He was so worried about that magic display in the center of the dash that showed his real time gas milegae that he was a damn hazard on the road. I very smoothly asked if I could drive the mighty hybrid for a while, much to his chagrin I drove us home most of the way from the airport and completely blew off the gas mileage statistics.
Testing purposes only my leg.
Trial balloon is more like it.
MS execs are curious how the 8 new OS versions will be accepted and raised a trial balloon.
dmoz.org
Check it out.
really.
A synopsis of his (Elliot Schrage's) comments.
"At the outset, I want to acknowledge what I hope is obvious:
Figuring out how to deal with China has been a difficult exercise for Google."
And then 5 or 6 pages of his saying that Google capitulated to Chinese demands.
Do no evil, indeed
my first was a VIC20 as well.
Graduated from it to an Adam, which I think was made by Coleco.
Then a Commodore 64.
Good memories.
Google does respect robots.txt.
/*
They won't touch content that you tell them they can't index.
Every book published whould include in the preface.
robots.txt
Disallow:
problem solved
Their success?
A loose definition I guess.
180 million in losses, 170 million in advertising.
Before the dot com era this company would be looking at shareholder lawsuits.
Today they'll probably generate enough cash to run the business with losses for another 5 years. Then the lawsuits.
He's going to be a Billionaire that smears himself cross a half acre of land somewhere if he keeps this stuff up.
Most interesting to me
From this quote, in 30 years ago dollars... Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Monte Davidoff work on a product for a year and Bill Gates values that at 40,000 dollars.
Bill Gates, the richest man the world has ever seen... 30 years ago valued his work year out at 13,333 bucks.
From that to Billionaire. God bless America.
from the article.
Almost a year ago, Paul Allen and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hired Monte Davidoff and developed Altair BASIC. Though the initial work took only two months, the three of us have spent most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to BASIC. Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC. The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,000.
male chest hair...
you ever see a play ground that didn't have a little grass on it?
My site, linked below on my sig if you care to look is 90% content driven RSS and RDF feeds, of news and blogs, which are provided by the News site or blog site for exactly this type of aggregation via a feed.
Although I get content for my viewers, it is actually also a service for the news or blog site I aggregate. Unless they fully feed the article my readers get teasers which link the the parent site for the full article. I do have moderation and comments related to the news article in question... but the teaser drive folks to the parent site.
What they get for providing me a steady content stream is free linkage and traffic from my site. I am more than happy to provide it.... but its a I scratch your back you scratch mine arrangement.
Google does the same thing on a MUCH larger scale. But the principles apply.
Its the internet, this is the modern version of the wild wild west.
We are all lucky wikipedia isn't covered wholesale with penis enlargement ads.
However, Wiki has a process to stop knuckleheads. These staffers fall into the knucklehead category and will probably be banned from this entire section of Wiki.
And good riddance to bad rubbish.
Why is an auction model for expired names allowed at all?
.com business model my butt. unethically grabbing any and all money they can is more like it.
The previous owners had an agreement to purchase the name for a set period of time, after it lapses what make netsol, or godaddy or anyone think they are entitled to auction it off?
Expired names whould be placed back into the pool of available names. Period.
If the secondary names market ends up smashing or grabbing or whatever a name from the pool, good for them. But there should be no secondary, hey look what I have auction for lapsed names.
expanding the
Microsoft will end up the winner. Outlook mobile access on Windows mobile version 5. We just got a quote from our vendor to replace our 156 Blackberries with IPAQ's using OMA. We'll only exercise this option if forced to. But MS would be the clear winner.
Octopus attacks sensitive equipment is no story...
Now, if the sensitive equipment had attacked the Octopus...
That'd be a good story
The morale of this story
Stealing is illegal. These clowns are lucky they didn't get any jail time or community service.
Is the port to a toaster
m .
It has long been regarded that the UNIX-like OS NetBSD is portable to every type of machine except perhaps your kitchen toaster. Just in time for the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco in August 2005, Technologic Systems, however, has conquered this last frontier. Using one of its rugged embedded TS-7200 single-board computers housed inside the empty space of a standard 2 slice toaster, Technologic Systems has designed a functional NetBSD controlled toaster. You can find more information on the NetBSD toaster at http://www.embeddedarm.com/news/netbsd_toaster.ht
Funny as hell
More like a few months for the re-entry. But it may make an impressive light show.
During the Christmas break last year my family and I vacationed camping in the Mojave desert near Edwards Air Force base. (California)
For three mights in a row we were treated to awesome night start gazing and many shooting stars and passing satelites.
We were all excited watching one particular satelite cross the sky, when it turned around and headed back the direction it came. Way cool.
Obviously some super damn fast Air Force whatever jet was out for the evening.
Very cool.
good point
If I am ever stressed about something at work, rare but it happens every year or two I activate my Monster.com resume.
By the end of the work day the calls and emails are coming in. All headhunters. Promising the moon.
Then I realize what a damn hassle it is to actually go on an interview. Negotiate salary, benefits... all the rest.
And I realize I am better off staying right where I am.
you are right,
the tapes are probably in a dumpster close to the thiefs house.
Maybe they drove to Target or somewhere and threw them out.
Then they get down to the serious business of striping the car for parts.
Dude just delivered to my house.
You may well be right.
From the article I really didn't get a feel for the level of pain when it comes to paying for a M$ support contract.
I think we pay on the order of 250K a year for our premier support. I do think as long as we are a windows shop this is needed but it is a butt ton of money.
For a smaller shop I think it averages about 80 bucks an incident which is way cheap for the service. As I said earlier, I have always (well not always) but mostly been pleased with M$ premier support.
regards
Alfred
Hey,
Get your company to front for some M$ premier support. When something comes up you are not sure of or are having a hell of a time resolving, call in the experts at M$.
Except for one or two "M$ Alliance partners" I have always had good luck with M$ premier support. And we have had some major fiascos to unscrew over the years.
And best of all you can consider it free on the job training, don't let the M$ Engineer hang up until you completely understand what was wrong and how to fix it in the future.
Also, document everything you do! Two years from now you will be fighting the same or similar fires you are fighting today. Have a reference to fall back on and help remember what steps you took before that fixed something.
Sounds like you are a lone gun, but a 800 Premier support help number and some documentation may help greatly.
Best of luck with the new responsibilities.