I wonder what it takes to get a job like that (government agent or "spook" as you called it). It sounds like in some cases it could be a rather interesting career.
Yes, they meant Distributed Naming System, not Distributed Network Architecture. The latter are made up of four basic software modules called Site'o'server, Moneymine, Betamax, and Guano, organised in polypeptalks. I think. It was something like that, anyway.
Microsoft has a history of using patents to protect its desktop market share. They attempted to scare people out of using open source software because it supposedly violated 235 of their patents
Not to mention being suspected of having encouraged (if not underwritten) the SCO vs. Linux epic IP lawsuit.
Remember the early editions of the LA Free Press? On the masthead they printed a dot with a square border around it. The caption read "Lick this spot - you may be one of the lucky 25!" I guess that was the original acid paper.
You'd have to use Civet Coffee or rare Jamaca Blue Mountain Select personally ground by Paris Hilton at a Monte Carlo speaking engagement to approach the cost per cup of OEM inkjet printer ink.
You use catapults! From the moon, the catapults lift the materials into high lunar orbit.
We might have decades, if we're lucky. But re-read Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". An interesting point he made was that the lunar mass driver didn't have to be vertical -- it could be laid out along the ground, and as long as its trajectory cleared any bumps in the horizon would work quite nicely in a near-horizontal.
"I think we should stop targeting Cheyenne Mountain" said Mycroft.
Work with the native American cultures in Utah has shown that flint was not "chipped" into shape by striking. Arrow heads and spear points were shaped by heating the rock and dripping water on it. Thermal shock did the hard work. Yes, it took a considerable amount of work and skill to shape, but does not require impact that might shatter the rock. Pretty sophisticated technology for the day, but really all you needed was rock (flint, jasper or similar), fire, water and a steady hand. Try it yourself.
Corporations with very limited IT budgets are not going to move to Windows 7 any time soon.
You may be correct. However, I suspect our corporation (an international SI with about 40k desktops) will be moving to Win 7 rather soon if it is shown to be relatively crash-free. It's considerably faster than XP Pro which is our current standard desktop.
I rather like our SOE, and our network engineers are relatively cluey. They had the good sense to say "whups, no way" after a small, brief pilot with Vista.
My money is on Microsoft having moved hard on rebuilding Vista the moment the first reviews came in, right about the first week it shipped. At the same time, the marketers had to sell the rather porcine version of Windows with yet another disaster-portending funny name. Their karma, I suppose, for having overruled the engineers early on. Marketing should never be in the director's chair for product that technical (and I'm in marketing, so I say that advisedly). They had to do that to keep the momentum. They didn't want another Osborne debacle on their hands. (Osborne, if you'll remember, announced the Osborne II while they had warehouses full of Osborn I's. Naturally, sales tanked and all their capital was tied up in inventory. Sucked to be them.
The power companies notice when the power meter readings don't change month to month at a particular residence and the meter readers see lights on. Alarms can be set on the PDA/reader. The usage drain they can't identify is mostly written off to line losses.
Many power companies are currently investigating (some already investing) in "smart metering" that gives more data points per day per meter and allows remote meter reading. This may make hiding usage a little more difficult as anomalous profiles might be easier to spot.
As an aside, until remote reading is in place the most favored characteristic of portable reading devices is whether they're robust enough to help fend off a dog attack. (I have a background in E&U and have witnessed that criterion making the difference in a large purchase.)
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Sometimes you do. I find myself getting rather impatient at my (reasonably current) laptop at work because I publish to PDF using full Acrobat Pro (I need the feature set that cutePDF doesn't offer). Takes a bit of time to do, and I would be more productive if the computer were faster.
On the plus side though, our company (a large multinational SI) has taken the decision to ignore Vista altogether. I'm happily still on XP Pro;)
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I thought Cole's Law was mostly thinly-sliced cabbage.
If the ratio of loose bacteria to organised tissue in our bodies is so high, does this mean that we could someday expect targeted antibiotics for weight loss?
...strongly feel we'd be better off working on surviving on this planet, instead of ruining it, then going off looking for others to ruin...
Spare me. Yes, we need to work on cleaning up our own nest, but get this.. space is infinite. If only a tiny percentage of it contains habitable planets, and only a tiny percentage of those are uninhabited (say) then the number of planets for us to use is still infinite. Check your math. And if it takes generations to get even a few of those inhabited, then we win.
I rather like being alive, would like my children and their children's children to have a future, and I do not consider humanity to be a disease infecting a planet. And if you do, then whose bloody side are you on?
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I wonder what it takes to get a job like that (government agent or "spook" as you called it). It sounds like in some cases it could be a rather interesting career.
Probably. They're probably contacting you now, but in the odd event they're being slack here you go - https://www.cia.gov/careers/index.html
Yes, they meant Distributed Naming System, not Distributed Network Architecture. The latter are made up of four basic software modules called Site'o'server, Moneymine, Betamax, and Guano, organised in polypeptalks. I think. It was something like that, anyway.
You're lucky if it's the legal system that catches you, and not some Russian entrepreneur with a grudge. They may be a bit more efficient.
StikyPad, you are my new best friend.
"Mathematics Made Difficult" by Karl Linderholm. Hilarious, but I wasn't sure how to count in positive integers for weeks afterwards.
I'm still waiting to see if anyone will sue him over releasing bugs at a tech conference.
Brilliant straight line, mate.
So where is the niche for MySQL?
Slashdot.
Microsoft has a history of using patents to protect its desktop market share. They attempted to scare people out of using open source software because it supposedly violated 235 of their patents
Not to mention being suspected of having encouraged (if not underwritten) the SCO vs. Linux epic IP lawsuit.
No, that is my tinfoil. You can't have it.
The biggest ruby is just 8.2 lbs, compared to the 403 lbs python.
...but Rails weigh tons.
No we aren't(link)
Very funny. But check the date on the article ;-)
I remember acid paper. The hippies would...
Remember the early editions of the LA Free Press? On the masthead they printed a dot with a square border around it. The caption read "Lick this spot - you may be one of the lucky 25!" I guess that was the original acid paper.
You'd have to use Civet Coffee or rare Jamaca Blue Mountain Select personally ground by Paris Hilton at a Monte Carlo speaking engagement to approach the cost per cup of OEM inkjet printer ink.
The trick is to use single drops of water.
You use catapults! From the moon, the catapults lift the materials into high lunar orbit.
We might have decades, if we're lucky. But re-read Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". An interesting point he made was that the lunar mass driver didn't have to be vertical -- it could be laid out along the ground, and as long as its trajectory cleared any bumps in the horizon would work quite nicely in a near-horizontal .
"I think we should stop targeting Cheyenne Mountain" said Mycroft.
"Why?"
"It isn't there any more".
Work with the native American cultures in Utah has shown that flint was not "chipped" into shape by striking. Arrow heads and spear points were shaped by heating the rock and dripping water on it. Thermal shock did the hard work. Yes, it took a considerable amount of work and skill to shape, but does not require impact that might shatter the rock. Pretty sophisticated technology for the day, but really all you needed was rock (flint, jasper or similar), fire, water and a steady hand. Try it yourself.
Corporations with very limited IT budgets are not going to move to Windows 7 any time soon.
You may be correct. However, I suspect our corporation (an international SI with about 40k desktops) will be moving to Win 7 rather soon if it is shown to be relatively crash-free. It's considerably faster than XP Pro which is our current standard desktop.
I rather like our SOE, and our network engineers are relatively cluey. They had the good sense to say "whups, no way" after a small, brief pilot with Vista.
My money is on Microsoft having moved hard on rebuilding Vista the moment the first reviews came in, right about the first week it shipped. At the same time, the marketers had to sell the rather porcine version of Windows with yet another disaster-portending funny name. Their karma, I suppose, for having overruled the engineers early on. Marketing should never be in the director's chair for product that technical (and I'm in marketing, so I say that advisedly). They had to do that to keep the momentum. They didn't want another Osborne debacle on their hands. (Osborne, if you'll remember, announced the Osborne II while they had warehouses full of Osborn I's. Naturally, sales tanked and all their capital was tied up in inventory. Sucked to be them.
Was it Greg Bear who explored this in "Blood Music"?
Willing to swap Melbourne weather for any weather from the USA or Siberia
I'll get the truck. *so* not used to 43c days.
The power companies notice when the power meter readings don't change month to month at a particular residence and the meter readers see lights on. Alarms can be set on the PDA/reader. The usage drain they can't identify is mostly written off to line losses.
Many power companies are currently investigating (some already investing) in "smart metering" that gives more data points per day per meter and allows remote meter reading. This may make hiding usage a little more difficult as anomalous profiles might be easier to spot.
As an aside, until remote reading is in place the most favored characteristic of portable reading devices is whether they're robust enough to help fend off a dog attack. (I have a background in E&U and have witnessed that criterion making the difference in a large purchase.)
On the plus side though, our company (a large multinational SI) has taken the decision to ignore Vista altogether. I'm happily still on XP Pro ;)
I thought Cole's Law was mostly thinly-sliced cabbage.
What does it even mean to break bacteria up into species? They don't reproduce sexually
Hmm... Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species ... then Cell Type, Virus Type, Record industry representatives and eBay'd WoW account holders.
Who's up for guessing what the difference is between Windows 7 'Starter' and Windows 7 'Home Basic?'"
If it's anything like earlier versions, it will be whether or not you can actually see or affect any of the network settings.
If the ratio of loose bacteria to organised tissue in our bodies is so high, does this mean that we could someday expect targeted antibiotics for weight loss?
...strongly feel we'd be better off working on surviving on this planet, instead of ruining it, then going off looking for others to ruin...
Spare me. Yes, we need to work on cleaning up our own nest, but get this .. space is infinite. If only a tiny percentage of it contains habitable planets, and only a tiny percentage of those are uninhabited (say) then the number of planets for us to use is still infinite. Check your math. And if it takes generations to get even a few of those inhabited, then we win.
I rather like being alive, would like my children and their children's children to have a future, and I do not consider humanity to be a disease infecting a planet. And if you do, then whose bloody side are you on?
-- Disclosure: IAAEND (I am an ex-NASA dude).