And all of this in 5 minutes with a simple calculator! What is the big deal?
Well yeah, the technical part was easy, but you haven't even thought about step 2. Or step 3.
You've got your congressional hearings and committee meetings. And your lobbyists. And their lawyers. And your tactical press leaks and your recriminations. And this just in the U.S.
The UN can't even begin to look at any draft reports until the shape of the conference table has been decided, and that could drag on for decades, what with Europe wanting their own system and all.
Sigh. Some people just don't think things through.
The article also mentions something about getting rid of unauthorized files, but is unclear on when and how.
Maybe they will have some sort of amnesty whereby you can upload all of your unauthorized files to the **AA, no questions asked.
There's rumored to be an free service in the works that makes this even easier: you just share out your hard drives to the **AA and they'll take care of the housecleaning for you.
I mean, if I go down to the street corner and count how many people push the "push to cross" button and then sell that data to the people who make "push to cross" buttons, am I somehow violating peoples' privacy?
As long as you're just counting, no problem, but if you take each person's picture or lift their thumbprint with a piece of tape after each press, then it's an issue.
If TiVo keeps any personal data, that's a bad thing. As someone else noted, if the data is in a database, whether TiVo planned to use it is irrelevant to a bankruptcy court. It's an asset to be sold.
These are just the drive variations. Each of these drives could support different sector sizes, number of sectors, sector interleave values and file system formats:
Eight-inch Drives
Density - single or double
Sides - single or double
Sectors - hard or soft encoded (one hole or many holes)
Five-inch Drives
Density - single or double or quad
Sides - single or double
Sectors - hard or soft encoded
Three-inch
Don't know - someone else mentioned these
Three-point-five
Density - single or double
When I got my first PC in 1989, I bought a Compaticard multi-diskette controller ISA card with it. The software had over 200 menu choices for formats.
Okay, now somebody make the joke about Battleships and Windows NT, please.
A new Midshipman with only one foot hops into a battleship. The bartender says, "What'll you have sailor?"
"Windows, no tomato," replies the Middie.
The bar-keep mixes up something and slides it down the bar. "Hey! This is a Blue-screen-of-death," protests the Middie. "I ordered a Windows, no tomato."
The bartender looks the sailor straight in the eye and says, "Inaccessable boot device."
Imagine being able to use this to identify stolen vehicles, minutes after they are reported stolen
Imagine using this to identify all vehicles, all the time, so that you can know where any vehicle is, just minutes after it is reported stolen. I don't know about Mr. Blair and his cronies, but I'm sure Mr. Ashcroft would see the benefit in this.
To further enhance the system, let's keep a history of where each vehicle goes on a regular basis, so that when it's stolen and the thief drives it somewhere else, we'll see that it has deviated from its normal pattern and we can intercept it.
(The cool part is that thanks to keystroke monitoring, Mr. Ashcroft was stroking his chin and thinking, "Hmmm..." even before I hit SUBMIT.)
"Law-abiding motorists should have nothing to fear"
Also from the article, "One in 12 stops during the trial of the scheme produced an arrest and Mr Ainsworth described the results as 'surprisingly good'."
Well, I'd bet that the other 92-percent of the people who were stopped were none too pleased.
Let's see how this turns out. All these claims from so many companies, I'd like to see what the final conclusion is.
The Sun will nova, engulfing the Earth and SCO in its massive death-blast. SCO's still-undisclosed trade secret IP will be vaporized and that will pretty much be that.
"a visiting Japanese parliamentarian... [thinks that] the Chinese would be on the moon within three to four years" ... this is the only evidence he offers that China is even thinking of going to the moon
We invaded Iraq on less evidence than that.
"Dub-yah may be a war-mongering stooge, but at least he's our war-mongering stooge." - me.
A customer site where I used to work used these as entry badges. The guys all left them in their wallets and just raised a hip near the sensor to open the door.
So being able to read them from several inches away makes pickpocketing a serious concern. There would be no need to actually bump the victim.
This did have real-world consequences: at least one of the posters on the SB message board said he was cancelling his account. That means real dollars.
Back in 1975, Amdahl introduced the 470/V6 to compete with the IBM 168. IBM also sold the 158, a completely different machine, at a much lower price. Many potential Amdahl customers said, "Ya know, we really only need a 158. Can ya give us something smaller and cheaper than a V6?"
Amdahl didn't want to spend a lot of R&D dollars designing a slower system, so they just added a wait cycle before every pipeline operation and called it a 470/V5. (It was just a little jumper wire on a wire-wrap board, mixed in with about a thousand other little jumper wires.)
Customers bought it with the understanding that they had an instant CPU upgrade available without having to replace the computer. Life was good.
Then some marketing guy had an epiphany/brain-fart! Many customers needed the extra power for month-end processing, but not during the rest of the month. Why not add a key-switch and a time meter to turn off the extra wait cycles on demand? Sell them the slower CPU and bill the customers for the number of "fast" hours used each month. This was not standard equipment - it was a special-order feature.
By many, this was seen as a blatant attempt to gouge the customer. For others this was a godsend! It got them through those hellish month-ends at a much lower cost than buying the bigger CPU.
So the idea of charging by the MIP for the same hardware is not new. It has always been seen by some as a rip-off and by others as a budget-saver that made a lot of sense.
What is new is giving it a totally "super" name like "Computon".
The movie has grossed $365M. That's not net. Given the screwy way Hollywood plays with the numbers, we may never know the true net.
Of course, this benefits Hollywood because they can throw out whatever numbers they want in any given situation/argument and no one can ever prove them wrong.
What was the penalty in the NCA? A typcal penalty might be to have to pay back a signing bonus or forfeit a termination package.
If your brother was already working for this company, it doesn't seem likely that there was an enforcable penalty clause in the NCA. That is, one that the company could enforce without having to go to court (where their draconian NCA would be exposed and likely thrown out). Yes, he could have sued, but then the onus and costs are on him and the stall tactic benefits the company. If they have to sue, that's reversed.
This serves as a warning for everyone else, though: If your company is passing out NCAs and you don't want to sign, make them sign an exemption agreement before you finish up that really important project.
This is sort of a hybrid idea - a cross between the tumbleweed and a weather balloon.
Design the tumbleweed sphere with a helium bottle inside. Add a valve to vent the helium to the outside. If there has been no detected movement of the sphere for a day or two, inflate with helium until it attains slightly positive bouyancy. Drift off for a few hours and then open the vent, settling back to the ground. Let the wind blow it around in tumbleweed mode until it stops.
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Well yeah, the technical part was easy, but you haven't even thought about step 2. Or step 3.
You've got your congressional hearings and committee meetings. And your lobbyists. And their lawyers. And your tactical press leaks and your recriminations. And this just in the U.S.The UN can't even begin to look at any draft reports until the shape of the conference table has been decided, and that could drag on for decades, what with Europe wanting their own system and all.
Sigh. Some people just don't think things through.Los Gatos NM 30221 USA
Isn't that alphanumeric?
Maybe they will have some sort of amnesty whereby you can upload all of your unauthorized files to the **AA, no questions asked.
There's rumored to be an free service in the works that makes this even easier: you just share out your hard drives to the **AA and they'll take care of the housecleaning for you.As long as you're just counting, no problem, but if you take each person's picture or lift their thumbprint with a piece of tape after each press, then it's an issue.
If TiVo keeps any personal data, that's a bad thing. As someone else noted, if the data is in a database, whether TiVo planned to use it is irrelevant to a bankruptcy court. It's an asset to be sold."Store in a cool dry place."
I guess you'd have the ask the geckos what's coo'.Eight-inch Drives
Density - single or double
Sides - single or double
Sectors - hard or soft encoded (one hole or many holes)
Five-inch Drives
Density - single or double or quad
Sides - single or double
Sectors - hard or soft encoded
Three-inch
Don't know - someone else mentioned these
Three-point-five
Density - single or double
When I got my first PC in 1989, I bought a Compaticard multi-diskette controller ISA card with it. The software had over 200 menu choices for formats.Iran. Think "Iran."
They're the one in the middle. Just remember the cheer:"Iraq, IRAN, Aff-ganna-STAN!"
A new Midshipman with only one foot hops into a battleship. The bartender says, "What'll you have sailor?"
"Windows, no tomato," replies the Middie.The bar-keep mixes up something and slides it down the bar. "Hey! This is a Blue-screen-of-death," protests the Middie. "I ordered a Windows, no tomato."
The bartender looks the sailor straight in the eye and says, "Inaccessable boot device."Karma: worse than it was a few minutes ago.
Yeah, but it would almost be worth it just to use it to tease Mr. Ashcroft for a while before he sank it.
But don't all the HOT CHICKS hanging on to the door handles slow you down?
Imagine using this to identify all vehicles, all the time, so that you can know where any vehicle is, just minutes after it is reported stolen. I don't know about Mr. Blair and his cronies, but I'm sure Mr. Ashcroft would see the benefit in this.
To further enhance the system, let's keep a history of where each vehicle goes on a regular basis, so that when it's stolen and the thief drives it somewhere else, we'll see that it has deviated from its normal pattern and we can intercept it.(The cool part is that thanks to keystroke monitoring, Mr. Ashcroft was stroking his chin and thinking, "Hmmm..." even before I hit SUBMIT.)
Maybe he meant "Bobbies"?
Also from the article, "One in 12 stops during the trial of the scheme produced an arrest and Mr Ainsworth described the results as 'surprisingly good'."
Well, I'd bet that the other 92-percent of the people who were stopped were none too pleased.
The Sun will nova, engulfing the Earth and SCO in its massive death-blast. SCO's still-undisclosed trade secret IP will be vaporized and that will pretty much be that.
... this is the only evidence he offers that China is even thinking of going to the moon
We invaded Iraq on less evidence than that.
"Dub-yah may be a war-mongering stooge, but at least he's our war-mongering stooge." - me.Words to live by, my friends.
So being able to read them from several inches away makes pickpocketing a serious concern. There would be no need to actually bump the victim.
This did have real-world consequences: at least one of the posters on the SB message board said he was cancelling his account. That means real dollars.
For all those posters that corrected the latin grammar here, shame on you. You are programmers, aren't you?
How could you overlook that "where" clause?If your personal latin dialect specifies "virii", then the "where" returns a null set.
Return to your orgies, eveyone. Nothing to see here. Move along.Amdahl didn't want to spend a lot of R&D dollars designing a slower system, so they just added a wait cycle before every pipeline operation and called it a 470/V5. (It was just a little jumper wire on a wire-wrap board, mixed in with about a thousand other little jumper wires.)
Customers bought it with the understanding that they had an instant CPU upgrade available without having to replace the computer. Life was good.Then some marketing guy had an epiphany/brain-fart! Many customers needed the extra power for month-end processing, but not during the rest of the month. Why not add a key-switch and a time meter to turn off the extra wait cycles on demand? Sell them the slower CPU and bill the customers for the number of "fast" hours used each month. This was not standard equipment - it was a special-order feature.
By many, this was seen as a blatant attempt to gouge the customer. For others this was a godsend! It got them through those hellish month-ends at a much lower cost than buying the bigger CPU.So the idea of charging by the MIP for the same hardware is not new. It has always been seen by some as a rip-off and by others as a budget-saver that made a lot of sense.
What is new is giving it a totally "super" name like "Computon".Of course, this benefits Hollywood because they can throw out whatever numbers they want in any given situation/argument and no one can ever prove them wrong.
If your brother was already working for this company, it doesn't seem likely that there was an enforcable penalty clause in the NCA. That is, one that the company could enforce without having to go to court (where their draconian NCA would be exposed and likely thrown out). Yes, he could have sued, but then the onus and costs are on him and the stall tactic benefits the company. If they have to sue, that's reversed.
This serves as a warning for everyone else, though: If your company is passing out NCAs and you don't want to sign, make them sign an exemption agreement before you finish up that really important project.Yes, and it worked pretty well, too. Until Spaceballs came out, that is.
Tried that. Worked well at first, until it went into the "spin" cycle.
Design the tumbleweed sphere with a helium bottle inside. Add a valve to vent the helium to the outside. If there has been no detected movement of the sphere for a day or two, inflate with helium until it attains slightly positive bouyancy. Drift off for a few hours and then open the vent, settling back to the ground. Let the wind blow it around in tumbleweed mode until it stops.
Rinse.Repeat.