No - but I was so stunned at getting fired I left without my briefcase with a $100 cell phone in it... Also I owed a guy there $10 for lunch.
When I went back for the briefcase and to leave an envelope with reception with the $10 I was told later by my agency that if I ever went back again I'd be charged with criminal trespass...
By a tech support company in Toronto the second day on the job. The company itself was chin deep in the Snow White virus. The people there were clueless outside of their tiny domain of expertise.
I described the letter promoting it to some people working there so they'd know what to avoid, trying to help you see, and this girl went to management and they fired me.
When the word got back to the agency that sent me there THEY fired me. Twice in one day, a personal best.
The personal robot will run on two wheels like a Kaman wheelchair and Windows won't do for anything important - OpenBSD is your best choice for this application.
If you read my 'rolling data center' comment earlier you know I was talking about walking around festooned with digital stuff.
Optical MIGHT be the way for all these to communicate IF bluetooth crashes and burns AND people get nervous about all that radio radiation around them, and only one good cancer report might do it, AND it's only used on items that have a line of sight with each other AND they can make it secure (easy but will it be done?)
This might be an answer looking for a problem it will never find...
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The 'Don't Piss Off Theo' chapter....
well its true my cable modem's now capped BUT there's tons o idle fiber out there... thats bound to be put to use when things turn around.
Working at Napster? THATS interesting - when's your book coming out?
Broadband will never be free, but it'll get cheaper and cheaper....
We've /.'d Bell!
Good point. But here's a dirty little secret. All Unix's are alike. Further, The Will of Bill can force any software onto the market.
Since OpenBSD is much higher quality than Linux, why not go for it?
Release it's source code under GPL?
This would be a great opportunity for IBM to show it's Cluefull....
Its not /. search that sucks so much as SourceForge....
When the BSD license is so much less restricting?
To make this palatable is lower the request rate to something like 1 per minute.
Most robots do something like that.
Of course - it takes a lot longer....
No - but I was so stunned at getting fired I left without my briefcase with a $100 cell phone in it... Also I owed a guy there $10 for lunch.
When I went back for the briefcase and to leave an envelope with reception with the $10 I was told later by my agency that if I ever went back again I'd be charged with criminal trespass...
By a tech support company in Toronto the second day on the job. The company itself was chin deep in the Snow White virus. The people there were clueless outside of their tiny domain of expertise.
I described the letter promoting it to some people working there so they'd know what to avoid, trying to help you see, and this girl went to management and they fired me.
When the word got back to the agency that sent me there THEY fired me. Twice in one day, a personal best.
I'm not making this up.
It's the 'Jihad' t-shirt, dude.
Never mind Will Smith - I want to know who will play Dr Susan Calvin, the first woman I ever loved!
(And I'm not the only one here who can say that.)
Thing is - I DID spell check it.... the dicitonary passed it....
We KNOW it'll take a lot of computers a long time to crack the code.
These cycles would be a lot better spent on something constructive like the protean folding project.
Can you play UT2003 on the Doomsday Book?
Great, I've been modded down. I guess people dont know who John Koza IS...
This would be News for Nerds a lot more if it were an evolution book by John Koza....
It's a Matrix wannbe. Fuhgetaboutit.
Or perhaps they haven't updated it yet.
But did he trademark 'Tablet' the way he trademarked 'bookshelf' ?
We all know the answer to that one...
The personal robot will run on two wheels like a Kaman wheelchair and Windows won't do for anything important - OpenBSD is your best choice for this application.
as watching grass grow....
If you read my 'rolling data center' comment earlier you know I was talking about walking around festooned with digital stuff.
Optical MIGHT be the way for all these to communicate IF bluetooth crashes and burns AND people get nervous about all that radio radiation around them, and only one good cancer report might do it, AND it's only used on items that have a line of sight with each other AND they can make it secure (easy but will it be done?)
This might be an answer looking for a problem it will never find...