"...Microsoft replied that this was a 'hardware issue' which they would leave for the display manufacturers to resolve if they wished to have their products approved under the MSATD (Microsoft Approved Transparent Display) programme."
In the UK, we have Johnny Ball - I remember watching his shows in the 1970s and 80s - he was just ***sooo** enthusiastic about his topics - he made science fun as well as informative.
...hmmm...go have a look at the end credits of a Pixar film - they list 'production babies' - children born to staff during the making of the film - there usually quite a few!!!
The startpoint for a decent environment should be a way to interconnect (or 'internetwork'?) various computer systems and local networks using data links with redundant, multiple pathways (or 'routes') so that the failure of a single route would not affect the overall functionality of the internetwork.
Since the US government is worried about this, maybe one of their own divisions - say the Department of Defense? - should look into this.
In the end, maybe technology spin offs from this could be used for the benefit of the civilian population too?
A friend of mine at school in the 1980s used to use an 8-pin 555 timer chip as a 'tie pin' - he thought he was really cool! I bet he's got a CPU keychain now too!
Anyway, with the 1GB USB memory stick, LED mini-flashlight, office alarm system RFID tag and bottle opener on my key ring I don't think I have much room for anything else - oh yeah, there's a few keys on it too!
Are you assuming I am American? - I am from the UK as it happens.
Many have the impression (rightly or wrongly) in Europe that the EU is a cosy club for the French and Germans, although the latter are currently pre-occupied with their own economic mess.
Going back to France for a moment - maybe you do not recall the time when France refused to accept British beef long after the EU scientists and food agencies declared it completely safe and over the BSE crisis - the EU governing body even imposed a massive daily fine, but France never paid a Euro and British farmers suffered nearly 3 years of financial hardship. Go looksee: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2269808.st m
The French have done it for so long in the EU (ie: 'worked around' things or just ignored the directives) that seeing M$ trying to do it is not exactly bucking an established (French) trend.
In fact, I can see a good way around this for M$ and that is to have Microsoft's French company assigned ownership of any products or technologies that are the subject of this action and then have the company bleat loudly about how the EU is punishing a French company - there will be immediate national strikes, rioting on the streets and farmers blocking the ports and road tunnels until the EU backs down! Vivre la France!!
US Patent Office
Provisional patent application: PPA1283405995
Applicant: Microsoft Corp., Redmond
Date: 12-Feb-2005
Synopsis:
A rotating, magnetically polarised (variable), spherical device occupying a non-fixed position in time and space, comprising a semi-liquid core encased by an unstable, multi-layered outer shell surrounded by a mixed-composition liquid/gaseous environment with a range of complex environmental variances, capable of hosting a variety of surface and sub-surface, organic-based life forms supporting social and other interactions at various levels of intelligence using a range of simple-to-complex sensory devices.
It's One of these (oh, yeah I bought two for £25!), hooked up to two of these in an Acer Altos G310 P4-2.4 with 768MB RAM running Centos-3.
The system is running eGroupWare for around 40 users and is also a store for their mailboxes. Load is not that heavy and such a non-issue that I've not bothered to benchmark anything
There was no hassle installing the drivers from the manufacturer's Web site. The initial RAID 1 sync on the disks took 90 mins.
Go download the new ForecastFox plugin and get the weather on your status bar from almost anywhere courtesy of weather.com - it's a really cool plugin - it shows me small icons representing now and the next 5 days in my area (near the coast in UK, West Sussex)
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Are you so passionate about this that you have to post anon?
I'm surprised they didn't watch you actually in the act just in case you were letting homing pigeons out the window with cans of film tied to their legs!
I also worked for 6 years for a defence contractor in the UK and was security cleared for defence sites which made life easier but I turned up once at a research site and was being processed in the guard house when a university student turned up to begin a 6 month placement. Unfortunately, the person he was visiting had forgotten and was on holiday so they were trying to find someone else to approve his visit and look after him for the day - he was still sitting in the guard house when I left site 6 hours later!
In my previous job I worked as a trainer and consultant for many blue chip companies and spent a lot of time in their corporate HQs, Call Centres and Help Desks.
Invariably, front desk security was adequate, but it was easy to get into many Call Centres and Help Desks without a key card, fob or access code simply by waiting for an employee to walk towards the main door and then approaching the same door carrying an abviously heavy, large box full of training manuals - most people in service delivery roles want to be helpful so they often hold the door open for you! In 6 years of consulting I was only ever challenged once.
In reverse, I would occasionally be coming out of a building and someone would ask me to hold the door because they had forgotten their pass - it would really piss them off when refused to let them in and said if they waited outside I would fetch a team leader or manager for them!
For soldiers operating in the field, especially in desert areas that receive lots of sunlight, the new "solar tube" cells could provide an alternate power source for the growing number of electronic devices they use
Woah, let's back it up a bit here - if we have a more efficient form of generating electricity, we will reduce the cost of producing hydrogen which will make it cheaper and more viable to move to a hydrogen economy so we won't need all these soldiers in desert countries protecting the oil^h^h^hfreedom of the formerly-opressed citizens anyway?!
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"...Microsoft replied that this was a 'hardware issue' which they would leave for the display manufacturers to resolve if they wished to have their products approved under the MSATD (Microsoft Approved Transparent Display) programme."
In the UK, we have Johnny Ball - I remember watching his shows in the 1970s and 80s - he was just ***sooo** enthusiastic about his topics - he made science fun as well as informative.
...hmmm...go have a look at the end credits of a Pixar film - they list 'production babies' - children born to staff during the making of the film - there usually quite a few!!!
Since I got my first 'Ask Jeeves' popunder in Firefox last night they can go boil their heads.
Just to confirm that masturbating to online porn at 10Km (33,000ft) does *NOT* qualify you for membership of the mile-high club.
"A "cyberterrorist" can melt down the Internet without even leaving home."
Wrong! They have to drive around town for 5 mins to find an open wireless access point through which to launch the attack.
Yep - then the Sentor's lapel badge starts beeping, which means 'you're now covered in anthrax - you pWned'.
Hmm - maybe I need to think further 'up the chain'?
The startpoint for a decent environment should be a way to interconnect (or 'internetwork'?) various computer systems and local networks using data links with redundant, multiple pathways (or 'routes') so that the failure of a single route would not affect the overall functionality of the internetwork.
Since the US government is worried about this, maybe one of their own divisions - say the Department of Defense? - should look into this.
In the end, maybe technology spin offs from this could be used for the benefit of the civilian population too?
Just an idea.
Rom's just been escorted from the building by the police - he was caught flashing.
A friend of mine at school in the 1980s used to use an 8-pin 555 timer chip as a 'tie pin' - he thought he was really cool! I bet he's got a CPU keychain now too!
Anyway, with the 1GB USB memory stick, LED mini-flashlight, office alarm system RFID tag and bottle opener on my key ring I don't think I have much room for anything else - oh yeah, there's a few keys on it too!
"...but claim none have been..."
As any real journalist would know, it should be "...none has..."
Are you assuming I am American? - I am from the UK as it happens.
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Many have the impression (rightly or wrongly) in Europe that the EU is a cosy club for the French and Germans, although the latter are currently pre-occupied with their own economic mess.
Going back to France for a moment - maybe you do not recall the time when France refused to accept British beef long after the EU scientists and food agencies declared it completely safe and over the BSE crisis - the EU governing body even imposed a massive daily fine, but France never paid a Euro and British farmers suffered nearly 3 years of financial hardship. Go looksee: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2269808.s
The French have done it for so long in the EU (ie: 'worked around' things or just ignored the directives) that seeing M$ trying to do it is not exactly bucking an established (French) trend.
In fact, I can see a good way around this for M$ and that is to have Microsoft's French company assigned ownership of any products or technologies that are the subject of this action and then have the company bleat loudly about how the EU is punishing a French company - there will be immediate national strikes, rioting on the streets and farmers blocking the ports and road tunnels until the EU backs down! Vivre la France!!
DVD-XP surely!?
US Patent Office
Provisional patent application: PPA1283405995
Applicant: Microsoft Corp., Redmond
Date: 12-Feb-2005
Synopsis:
A rotating, magnetically polarised (variable), spherical device occupying a non-fixed position in time and space, comprising a semi-liquid core encased by an unstable, multi-layered outer shell surrounded by a mixed-composition liquid/gaseous environment with a range of complex environmental variances, capable of hosting a variety of surface and sub-surface, organic-based life forms supporting social and other interactions at various levels of intelligence using a range of simple-to-complex sensory devices.
It's One of these (oh, yeah I bought two for £25!), hooked up to two of these in an Acer Altos G310 P4-2.4 with 768MB RAM running Centos-3.
The system is running eGroupWare for around 40 users and is also a store for their mailboxes. Load is not that heavy and such a non-issue that I've not bothered to benchmark anything
There was no hassle installing the drivers from the manufacturer's Web site. The initial RAID 1 sync on the disks took 90 mins.
I dread to think where my 'vanilla' dual channel SATA controller would come on the evaluation list but, hey, it's working fine and only cost £25!!!
Eniac on a chip is the way to go for you then!
Go download the new ForecastFox plugin and get the weather on your status bar from almost anywhere courtesy of weather.com - it's a really cool plugin - it shows me small icons representing now and the next 5 days in my area (near the coast in UK, West Sussex)
Are you so passionate about this that you have to post anon?
I'm surprised they didn't watch you actually in the act just in case you were letting homing pigeons out the window with cans of film tied to their legs!
I also worked for 6 years for a defence contractor in the UK and was security cleared for defence sites which made life easier but I turned up once at a research site and was being processed in the guard house when a university student turned up to begin a 6 month placement. Unfortunately, the person he was visiting had forgotten and was on holiday so they were trying to find someone else to approve his visit and look after him for the day - he was still sitting in the guard house when I left site 6 hours later!
In my previous job I worked as a trainer and consultant for many blue chip companies and spent a lot of time in their corporate HQs, Call Centres and Help Desks.
Invariably, front desk security was adequate, but it was easy to get into many Call Centres and Help Desks without a key card, fob or access code simply by waiting for an employee to walk towards the main door and then approaching the same door carrying an abviously heavy, large box full of training manuals - most people in service delivery roles want to be helpful so they often hold the door open for you! In 6 years of consulting I was only ever challenged once.
In reverse, I would occasionally be coming out of a building and someone would ask me to hold the door because they had forgotten their pass - it would really piss them off when refused to let them in and said if they waited outside I would fetch a team leader or manager for them!
Spam Adverts in space!? Imagine the Orion Nebula Cluster full of those!
I wonder what distro he runs now.
Hurd?
For soldiers operating in the field, especially in desert areas that receive lots of sunlight, the new "solar tube" cells could provide an alternate power source for the growing number of electronic devices they use
Woah, let's back it up a bit here - if we have a more efficient form of generating electricity, we will reduce the cost of producing hydrogen which will make it cheaper and more viable to move to a hydrogen economy so we won't need all these soldiers in desert countries protecting the oil^h^h^hfreedom of the formerly-opressed citizens anyway?!