... Who goes to McDonald's with the intention of hanging out? Personally, I don't want to be seen or recognized when I'm plucking down a few dollars for some cardiac arrest food.
EOF detected, after Who goes to McDonald's....everything else ignored.
I gave up after I found that irrespective how much or how long I spent in the place I always felt hungrier when I left the place than when I first went in.
As far as i know windows gets upset if you go above 40 something thousand files in a sinlge directory. Why do I know this? one of the guys I work with had his NT box hacked as a SPAM realy, and it fell over at that point.
The big problems have been setting up lights and a camera in my study properly, so that I don't look dead, or hung over. But those are hardware problems, not software. The software worked perfectly right out of the box.
His initial concern is for his appearance, doesn't sound like "news for nerds" to me....
Gee students today have some really funny names,
What kind of parent are going to call their kid something like "growyourdick", it's just cruel
And as for calling your kid mortgage that is just so sad, but what can you expect with a family name re-finance...
one thing that is bugging me though is "penile" and boys name or a girls name?
I don't know...Students today
The patent seems to govern the collecting of data from multiple sources and storing in staged areas for manipulation and/or writing back to the original database(s) or deploying to a new target (the example given is OLAP cubes).
I worked for Broadbase (when they were still Broadbase) and that seems to describe there ETL (analytics) pretty well. Mind you it also covers a whole raft of other ETL tools that are out there
This is a hard sell for all involved i think. For the Merchant
"....That's right Mr. Merchant we will allow these anonymous customers to log on to your system you give them your products, and they can pay with our tokens that are worthless 95% of the time, but you'll be ok in the long run. Um no we are not like those other dot.com companies that are not around for the long run..."
As well as that what is the advantage to the customer?
I can see how the law of averages works (or works more quickly) for the Merchant, but picture the situation that I buy one item per month for 6 or 7 months @ 50 cents a go, but due to randomness I am included in the 95% of those tokens that are thrown away. Then on the 8th month I get hit by a 10 dollar charge for something that should cost 50 cents, and even assuming I remember I have had 7 freebies, I am still out of pocket. This means I have to keeping buying, and hope that I can get 10 dollars worth of stuff, and then get out before I get hit again for another $10. This then leads to abuse/gambling, how much stuff can I get without getting charged and then get out or quit?
pop quiz:
List the top ten sites that you cannot live without? I bet google is on it if not in position 1.
Some of the points on the list are double edged swords, it records everything it can, and it retains it forever, I know the articles means records everything about our usage etc, but the flip side is, 1) how often has it saved your ass when you couldn't remember the bloody syntax for a correlated sub query on Oracle, 2)Someone said go to www.soontobeslashdotted.com and you find that it is down...
arrange the words cake, eat, can't have, you, and, it & your into a well known phrase
While I am sure that the music industry has to try to recoup what they perceive as lost revenue it is in stark contrast to the approach a lot of other companies use when targeting students. Namely giving there products away for nothing.
Yeah sure at present student live on 10 $/euro/pound/drachma a week, and 98 % of that goes on drink and mind altering substances, but the students of today are the consumers of tomorrow (and the next day and the next day), or that is they will be if they don't get butt f#$@$ked left right and centre for making there spending money go a little further.
Compare the record companies approach to that of the credit card companies (stolen or otherwise). CC companies allow relatively high amounts of abuse on the part of students as the are in it for the long run, they know that the dreadlocked Muppet in front of them now will some day come, cap in hand looking for a credit extension for what ever....
Of course the record companies could say that by the time these "cyber pirates" start to put their money where there mouth is the out-moded business model they now use will be part of every business 101 class on how NOT to do business.
A few posters mentioned why don't the Uni(versities) get behind the students, if their uni is anything like mine (www.dcu.ie) then students are a necessary inconvenience that must be tolerated in order to continue to receive revenue to fund the construction of white elephantesque structures, what seats and space in the library, naw we don't think that is needed.
I have to admit I have not read the article, but there again who does, but
1) How strong is it, yeah sure denim-like is fine for cowboy(neal) but when it is stuck to your roof in a force 8 gale how strong is it.
2) Again on strength what is it's ability to function when damaged. Is it like fibreglass that can split if the hard external case is broken. What % damage can it take before it needs to be replaced repaired.
I know this sounds like a whinge but this stuff is only cool if it works
I've have watched this for ages on Discovery. The latest series seems to consists of exclusively of US teams, although it appears still to be set in the UK (UK number plates on the scrapped cars etc). In addition to shipping the teams in they also appear to ship cars in, like Oldsmobile and the like.
The challenges are getting a bit repetitive too, last night (I live in Holland) we had the "build a old fashioned diving bell and get some treasure off the bottom of the pool". Been there done that.
If they are going to repeat these things can we have repeats of the ones that involve building guns and siege weapons, you can never have enough of that.
While this kind of initiative is always good that is attempting to bring an entity that is (perceived to be) abusing it's monopolistic position, at the end of the day even if the case against Microsoft is proven, it still relies on Microsoft playing ball, and based on the fact that the last time this went to court and went against Microsoft (I think? Right?) it took a hell of a long time to resolve, and then without a clear cut "win" (no one was burned at the stake, or even disemboweled).
What I would propose is that the CCIA (is this a government agency with a stammer?) put a percentage of their allocated budget for this case say, 100% into funding a Europe wide alternative to Microsoft,
with the current chill in the political air I think this should be written in French and called Iraq;-)
I think that this is not confined to your manager it is the mindset of anyone who has to manage IT resources. While Linux is pretty cool, open source, felxible, public minded, etc etc, if it is going to go main stream it has to work, full stop. I'm not talking about it working, once you re-compile the nuts off it and spend whatever amount of time tuning it, it has to work for a wide range of people "out of the box" . For fear of getting shot to hell it has to do exactly what M$ does, and then people (those who pay the bills) will buy into it.
Add in the value added proposal that it is free-(ish) and that it is open source, and then you will continue to gain market share.
If you read the hints (the only bit that makes [some] sense to me) some of the code is pretty damn cool, and I've only got to the networked pong example.
Does anyone know where you can get any of these programs with some nice comments like
/*this bit deals with n/w connection dummy */
:
:
/*this does something else */
I've got all the skin for a chin, well actually enough for two or three chins, but I seem to have miss-placed the bone that was supposed to come with it.
I see
Ed Harris with the same tough hair cut he had in Appollo 13 as Bob Gerber Nicholas Cage as Marcus Sachs (think The Rock here),
and probably Julia Roberts for Michelle Jupina
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... Who goes to McDonald's with the intention of hanging out? Personally, I don't want to be seen or recognized when I'm plucking down a few dollars for some cardiac arrest food.
....everything else ignored.
EOF detected, after Who goes to McDonald's
I gave up after I found that irrespective how much or how long I spent in the place I always felt hungrier when I left the place than when I first went in.
....The Patent and Trademark Office recently issued Patent 6,362,718 for a physically impossible motionless electromagnetic generator....
For sale desgin for Flux capacitor, will pay shipping in US....
As far as i know windows gets upset if you go above 40 something thousand files in a sinlge directory. Why do I know this? one of the guys I work with had his NT box hacked as a SPAM realy, and it fell over at that point.
The big problems have been setting up lights and a camera in my study properly, so that I don't look dead, or hung over. But those are hardware problems, not software. The software worked perfectly right out of the box.
His initial concern is for his appearance, doesn't sound like "news for nerds" to me....
Gee students today have some really funny names,
What kind of parent are going to call their kid something like "growyourdick", it's just cruel
And as for calling your kid mortgage that is just so sad, but what can you expect with a family name re-finance...
one thing that is bugging me though is "penile" and boys name or a girls name?
I don't know...Students today
I said it once I'll say it again,
Ireland, a banana republic, without the bananas. Note: I am Irish
The patent seems to govern the collecting of data from multiple sources and storing in staged areas for manipulation and/or writing back to the original database(s) or deploying to a new target (the example given is OLAP cubes).
I worked for Broadbase (when they were still Broadbase) and that seems to describe there ETL (analytics) pretty well. Mind you it also covers a whole raft of other ETL tools that are out there
This is a hard sell for all involved i think.
For the Merchant
"....That's right Mr. Merchant we will allow these anonymous customers to log on to your system you give them your products, and they can pay with our tokens that are worthless 95% of the time, but you'll be ok in the long run. Um no we are not like those other dot.com companies that are not around for the long run..."
As well as that what is the advantage to the customer?
I can see how the law of averages works (or works more quickly) for the Merchant, but picture the situation that I buy one item per month for 6 or 7 months @ 50 cents a go, but due to randomness I am included in the 95% of those tokens that are thrown away. Then on the 8th month I get hit by a 10 dollar charge for something that should cost 50 cents, and even assuming I remember I have had 7 freebies, I am still out of pocket. This means I have to keeping buying, and hope that I can get 10 dollars worth of stuff, and then get out before I get hit again for another $10. This then leads to abuse/gambling, how much stuff can I get without getting charged and then get out or quit?
Or am I missing something?
pop quiz: List the top ten sites that you cannot live without? I bet google is on it if not in position 1.
Some of the points on the list are double edged swords, it records everything it can, and it retains it forever, I know the articles means records everything about our usage etc, but the flip side is,
1) how often has it saved your ass when you couldn't remember the bloody syntax for a correlated sub query on Oracle,
2)Someone said go to www.soontobeslashdotted.com and you find that it is down...
arrange the words cake, eat, can't have, you, and, it & your into a well known phrase
While I am sure that the music industry has to try to recoup what they perceive as lost revenue it is in stark contrast to the approach a lot of other companies use when targeting students. Namely giving there products away for nothing.
Yeah sure at present student live on 10 $/euro/pound/drachma a week, and 98 % of that goes on drink and mind altering substances, but the students of today are the consumers of tomorrow (and the next day and the next day), or that is they will be if they don't get butt f#$@$ked left right and centre for making there spending money go a little further.
Compare the record companies approach to that of the credit card companies (stolen or otherwise). CC companies allow relatively high amounts of abuse on the part of students as the are in it for the long run, they know that the dreadlocked Muppet in front of them now will some day come, cap in hand looking for a credit extension for what ever....
Of course the record companies could say that by the time these "cyber pirates" start to put their money where there mouth is the out-moded business model they now use will be part of every business 101 class on how NOT to do business.
A few posters mentioned why don't the Uni(versities) get behind the students, if their uni is anything like mine (www.dcu.ie) then students are a necessary inconvenience that must be tolerated in order to continue to receive revenue to fund the construction of white elephantesque structures, what seats and space in the library, naw we don't think that is needed.
um I think you'll find that it has been done already....Here
oh wait a second a chimp with the gene sorry my mistake
I have to admit I have not read the article, but there again who does, but
1) How strong is it, yeah sure denim-like is fine for cowboy(neal) but when it is stuck to your roof in a force 8 gale how strong is it.
2) Again on strength what is it's ability to function when damaged. Is it like fibreglass that can split if the hard external case is broken. What % damage can it take before it needs to be replaced repaired.
I know this sounds like a whinge but this stuff is only cool if it works
The best episode (apart from the guns etc) was the one where they built the hover crafts.
/. terms Will Smith used an Apple Mac to crash that big space craft in Independance day.
One of the guys built a propellor out of a solid piece of wood,
or in
I've have watched this for ages on Discovery. The latest series seems to consists of exclusively of US teams, although it appears still to be set in the UK (UK number plates on the scrapped cars etc). In addition to shipping the teams in they also appear to ship cars in, like Oldsmobile and the like. The challenges are getting a bit repetitive too, last night (I live in Holland) we had the "build a old fashioned diving bell and get some treasure off the bottom of the pool". Been there done that.
If they are going to repeat these things can we have repeats of the ones that involve building guns and siege weapons, you can never have enough of that.
While this kind of initiative is always good that is attempting to bring an entity that is (perceived to be) abusing it's monopolistic position, at the end of the day even if the case against Microsoft is proven, it still relies on Microsoft playing ball, and based on the fact that the last time this went to court and went against Microsoft (I think? Right?) it took a hell of a long time to resolve, and then without a clear cut "win" (no one was burned at the stake, or even disemboweled).
;-)
What I would propose is that the CCIA (is this a government agency with a stammer?) put a percentage of their allocated budget for this case say, 100% into funding a Europe wide alternative to Microsoft,
with the current chill in the political air I think this should be written in French and called Iraq
but I am going here and then I am going to go here
The requested COUNTRY (Iraq) was not found. If you feel like it, mail the president@whitehouse.com to see if he had anything to do with it.
On a scale of black this goes up to 11 right?
I think that this is not confined to your manager it is the mindset of anyone who has to manage IT resources. While Linux is pretty cool, open source, felxible, public minded, etc etc, if it is going to go main stream it has to work, full stop. I'm not talking about it working, once you re-compile the nuts off it and spend whatever amount of time tuning it, it has to work for a wide range of people "out of the box" . For fear of getting shot to hell it has to do exactly what M$ does, and then people (those who pay the bills) will buy into it. Add in the value added proposal that it is free-(ish) and that it is open source, and then you will continue to gain market share.
If you read the hints (the only bit that makes [some] sense to me) some of the code is pretty damn cool, and I've only got to the networked pong example. Does anyone know where you can get any of these programs with some nice comments like
/*this bit deals with n/w connection dummy */
:
:
/*this does something else */
when was the last time you paid for a MS product? You just "borrow" the CD from somone right?
I've got all the skin for a chin, well actually enough for two or three chins, but I seem to have miss-placed the bone that was supposed to come with it.
I've got stuff living in my sock drawer that must be good for a decent size battery in the mega-Ah range I would say.
I see Ed Harris with the same tough hair cut he had in Appollo 13 as Bob Gerber
Nicholas Cage as Marcus Sachs (think The Rock here),
and probably Julia Roberts for Michelle Jupina
were still casting for Jimmy Kuo....
oh I don't know the features here from this screen shot look fine?