...was my first computer, though I remember playing around on a Pet computer (my Aunt's) and a color Trash 80 (my cousin's). But the ZX-81 was mine.
I used to subscribe to a magazine for ZX-81 owners, with code listings that people would submit. Spent hours typing in games like Minefield and others.
This is silly. I am suing all males of the human species, because their penis infringes upon my own penis's "functional structure" (although I admit that due to their vastly smaller size, our structures are different).
That's actually a pretty good analogy.
The reason all rockets, missiles, spears and yes, penises (penii?), look functionally similar is because they all do pretty much the same thing: they penetrate some medium, and streamlining is a necessity. So why should it be surprising that two reservation systems, written in different code, should be functionally similar? (I would be surprised if they were not.) Unless the plaintiff can show proof that the defendant was actually eating off their plate, then the case should be thrown out.
And what if Boeing sued Lockheed because it built planes that were "functionally similar," in that its planes had swept-back wings and smooth cylindrical fuselages? It'd get laughed out of court.
Heck, I seem to recall that calculus mathematics was developed independently at roughly the same time. This kind of thing just happens, people. Get over it.
They turn turn around, sink that $10 million into the ad budget of Movie B, and claim NO profits on Movie A.
Of course, the studios that do this are scum. If I make a profit in the stock market on, say, Cisco Systems, and then turn around and sink the profit from that into some other stock that tanks, then at the end of the year I can cancel one against the other, but my original profit from Cisco still stands as a profit line item. And if I had promised somebody a percentage of my profit on Cisco, and not my total profits for the year, then I would still be on the hook for it. Morally and legally. If I make a profit on Movie A, it doesn't matter where I spent that profit, whether it is another movie budget or a years supply of tacos.
But apparently these studios lack (big surprise!) morals. You probably can't throw a rock in Hell without hitting a studio exec.
It's the duality inherent in most things. nmap can be used for good/bad. Any tool which is remotely useful is like this. The tools of a locksmith can be used to make your house more secure, or to break into it. A gun may be used by cop or crook. You get the idea...
I want to know if he really is an expert, or just another pointy-haired manager type who knows some buzzwords and how to run a PowerPoint presentation.
It's the year 2003, people. Let's just start calling it "the internet."
I call it the Information Superhighway. Why? Is it because:
1) I like lots of syllables.
2) I'm a slave to whatever phrase is the current media darling.
3) I feel like roadkill on said highway.
or
4) I like screaming "ONRAMP!" every time I boot the computer.
Everybody seems focused on how labor in India and elsewhere is cheaper, WRT salary. But has anybody thought about the different labor laws? For instance, what's the minimum legal age to work? And what is the equivalent of OSHA over there, if any? And health benefits, if any?
I seem to recall how some celebrity (Martha Stewart, somebody else?) was in a scandal because her clothing line was alleged to be made overseas by child labor. Illegal here, perfectly legal there.
I'm sure there are many inconvenient labor laws here which can be avoided simply by sending the work overseas.
Point is, some people insist on the notion of free global trade, and open competition between all the participants in the world economy. However, until everyone has to play by the same set of laws, labor and otherwise, some countries will have an unfair advantage in this competition.
And until then, countries which have this unfair advantage, should be penalized with tariffs and anything else to balance out any advantages, real or perceived, that outsourcing would provide.
A power saw that won't saw your arm off isn't much of a power saw
How true! I bought a power saw once, tried to saw my arm off, and not a scratch. So I took it right back and told the people at the store to give me one that could saw my arm off.
When I buy a DVD, I might watch it one or two times, but I am certainly not going to watch it again, and again, and again...
A music CD, on the other hand, I could easily listen to the music on it hundreds of times, if the songs are good.
So even for the same price, music vs. DVD, the music gives me more entertainment value. However, I am refraining from buying either, partly due to economic reasons, and partly due to the fact that I hate the RIAA and the MPAA.
In the old days, vision was really important. Today, you've got to have execution with vision.
Sounds like CEO hand-waving bullshit. He thinks it makes him sound smart. Vision and execution. Simply put, you have to eyes that see what's coming (vision), and you have to have hands that can put things on top of other things (execution).
Exactly when would either one these not be important? Saying that there was a time when you needed one, but not so much the other, is just stupid.
was, of course, hell no, you'll take my computer from my cold dead fingers before you'll license me.
Then I realized that ham radio operators have to get licenses in order to broadcast. It's an FCC thing to protect from cluttering up the airwaves, and prevent a kind of "tragedy of the commons," where everybody acting in his own self-interest, ruins it for everyone else. Why should we, as Internet denizens, be any different? We broadcast, receive, communicate in all forms and protocols.
But Internet is not as wide-open as the airwaves; it's a network with collision detection, routers, bridges, hubs. It was designed to be open, and yet inherently self-controlled and -regulated. Originally, all the systems on the Internet were probably better maintained (though less secure) than your average $400 PC with every spamware, spyware, adware, trojan, and virus installed (and there are many of them now).
Overall, I still have to say no. It is:
1) Unnecessary.
2) Ineffective.
3) Would just create more gov't bureaucracy.
4) Would have no effect on Internet users outside the US (remember them?).
5) Completely impractical.
I would'nt say that you could directly contribute the success of the moon landing to Kennedy.
Well, of course not, since any advanced technology is the end-product of millenia of baby steps in that direction. For instance, we could have never gotten to the Moon without the mathemetical development of orbital mechanics, by Keppler, etc.
We could never have built anything capable of surviving the stresses of acceleration and reentry without technologies ultimately based upon the ancient techniques of metallurgy, and so on.
What may be claimed by Kennedy, is providing the kick-in-the-pants to actually take the current state of the technology, develop upon it, and go that one extra step, to actually do what is possible.
You can't legislate new technology, any more than the Continental Congress could legislate plasma TV's into existence, or Congress can legislate warp drives. What can be legislated, is a reasonable step forward from the current state of the art.
1. Companies are outsourcing work to India and elsewhere. India is obviously not refusing this.
2. For jobs that require somebody on-site in the States, companies are going big for H1-B's, at the same time as laying off people. As I understand it, this is supposed to be illegal, but INS is not being real aggressive about enforcement.
3. India is being more aggressive about enforcing their work visa laws than we are.
I get the feeling that as long as a company is laying off people, it should be disallowed from hiring H1-B's, since companies are finding ways to scoot around the laws already in place and/or the laws are not being vigorously enforced.
I think this is going to be a hot issue for the upcoming election year.
Yeah, I know. I am so ashamed. If I had read a little further, I would have realized that the dialogue sounded just a bit too trite and amateur-novelish to be authentic. May the sewers of Rangoon back up into his breakfast.
"So...you're going to copy this to your friends over The Internet, punk?" I asked him in my best Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry voice.
Right now. Seek professional help. You are an insignificant owner of a small Christian music store, you probably have a soft middle-aged belly, drive a minivan, and practice voices at yourself when you're alone. And you are married to a frigid wife who finds you repulsive.
And you are not Dirty Harry. Fantasy is OK, just keep the line between fantasy and reality distinct.
So ask yourself this: would Jesus grab a kid by the shirt and talk like Dirty Harry? Well, would he, punk?! I didn't think so...
My mother used to think that running a LAN in our home was "illegal", since every time her computer said "Application X has performed an illegal operation", she freaked out and asked if the cops were on their way!
Oh, that's better than the CD-tray-as-cup-holder!
You should have said "Yes, they are. Here hide in the pantry. I'll let you know when the coast is clear..."
We need bugs like this to be publicized in major newspapers, the way "human" virus outbreaks (and potential outbreaks) like SARS or Ebola are. That way, people might actually start patching their systems...
I thought having your charges read to you was one of the things they are supposed to do, much like your getting your one phone call.
I didn't think you'd have to negotiate just for them to say what you're arrested for.
"You're under arrest."
"For what?"
"Um, we're not saying, it's, um. Classified. Yeah."
"Oh, really..."
"Yeah, telling you why we're arresting you would, um, threaten national security, um. Yeah."
"And do I get a lawyer?"
"Sure, if you can find one in Gitmo."
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...was my first computer, though I remember playing around on a Pet computer (my Aunt's) and a color Trash 80 (my cousin's). But the ZX-81 was mine. I used to subscribe to a magazine for ZX-81 owners, with code listings that people would submit. Spent hours typing in games like Minefield and others.
That's actually a pretty good analogy.
The reason all rockets, missiles, spears and yes, penises (penii?), look functionally similar is because they all do pretty much the same thing: they penetrate some medium, and streamlining is a necessity. So why should it be surprising that two reservation systems, written in different code, should be functionally similar? (I would be surprised if they were not.) Unless the plaintiff can show proof that the defendant was actually eating off their plate, then the case should be thrown out.
And what if Boeing sued Lockheed because it built planes that were "functionally similar," in that its planes had swept-back wings and smooth cylindrical fuselages? It'd get laughed out of court.
Heck, I seem to recall that calculus mathematics was developed independently at roughly the same time. This kind of thing just happens, people. Get over it.
Of course, the studios that do this are scum. If I make a profit in the stock market on, say, Cisco Systems, and then turn around and sink the profit from that into some other stock that tanks, then at the end of the year I can cancel one against the other, but my original profit from Cisco still stands as a profit line item. And if I had promised somebody a percentage of my profit on Cisco, and not my total profits for the year, then I would still be on the hook for it. Morally and legally. If I make a profit on Movie A, it doesn't matter where I spent that profit, whether it is another movie budget or a years supply of tacos.
But apparently these studios lack (big surprise!) morals. You probably can't throw a rock in Hell without hitting a studio exec.
Yes, you're right. And since you're such the expert, how many novels have you written and published?
Halloween is coming up. Imagine putting some of these in a "haunted" house and running spooky images, with sound of course.
It's the duality inherent in most things. nmap can be used for good/bad. Any tool which is remotely useful is like this. The tools of a locksmith can be used to make your house more secure, or to break into it. A gun may be used by cop or crook. You get the idea...
I want to know if he really is an expert, or just another pointy-haired manager type who knows some buzzwords and how to run a PowerPoint presentation.
I call it the Information Superhighway. Why? Is it because:
1) I like lots of syllables.
2) I'm a slave to whatever phrase is the current media darling.
3) I feel like roadkill on said highway.
or
4) I like screaming "ONRAMP!" every time I boot the computer.
I seem to recall how some celebrity (Martha Stewart, somebody else?) was in a scandal because her clothing line was alleged to be made overseas by child labor. Illegal here, perfectly legal there.
I'm sure there are many inconvenient labor laws here which can be avoided simply by sending the work overseas.
Point is, some people insist on the notion of free global trade, and open competition between all the participants in the world economy. However, until everyone has to play by the same set of laws, labor and otherwise, some countries will have an unfair advantage in this competition.
And until then, countries which have this unfair advantage, should be penalized with tariffs and anything else to balance out any advantages, real or perceived, that outsourcing would provide.
How true! I bought a power saw once, tried to saw my arm off, and not a scratch. So I took it right back and told the people at the store to give me one that could saw my arm off.
A music CD, on the other hand, I could easily listen to the music on it hundreds of times, if the songs are good.
So even for the same price, music vs. DVD, the music gives me more entertainment value. However, I am refraining from buying either, partly due to economic reasons, and partly due to the fact that I hate the RIAA and the MPAA.
Sounds like CEO hand-waving bullshit. He thinks it makes him sound smart. Vision and execution. Simply put, you have to eyes that see what's coming (vision), and you have to have hands that can put things on top of other things (execution).
Exactly when would either one these not be important? Saying that there was a time when you needed one, but not so much the other, is just stupid.
No, actually you're thinking of the fart zone. Hold your breath for that stretch of cable.
Then I realized that ham radio operators have to get licenses in order to broadcast. It's an FCC thing to protect from cluttering up the airwaves, and prevent a kind of "tragedy of the commons," where everybody acting in his own self-interest, ruins it for everyone else. Why should we, as Internet denizens, be any different? We broadcast, receive, communicate in all forms and protocols.
But Internet is not as wide-open as the airwaves; it's a network with collision detection, routers, bridges, hubs. It was designed to be open, and yet inherently self-controlled and -regulated. Originally, all the systems on the Internet were probably better maintained (though less secure) than your average $400 PC with every spamware, spyware, adware, trojan, and virus installed (and there are many of them now).
Overall, I still have to say no. It is:
1) Unnecessary.
2) Ineffective.
3) Would just create more gov't bureaucracy.
4) Would have no effect on Internet users outside the US (remember them?).
5) Completely impractical.
In short, what has the guy been smoking?
Cause if I got learn that, to get my Internet license, well, I ain't gonna.
That's like a minute per decade, almost.
Well, of course not, since any advanced technology is the end-product of millenia of baby steps in that direction. For instance, we could have never gotten to the Moon without the mathemetical development of orbital mechanics, by Keppler, etc.
We could never have built anything capable of surviving the stresses of acceleration and reentry without technologies ultimately based upon the ancient techniques of metallurgy, and so on.
What may be claimed by Kennedy, is providing the kick-in-the-pants to actually take the current state of the technology, develop upon it, and go that one extra step, to actually do what is possible.
You can't legislate new technology, any more than the Continental Congress could legislate plasma TV's into existence, or Congress can legislate warp drives. What can be legislated, is a reasonable step forward from the current state of the art.
And I always thought it meant having your taste in women dangerously affected by your intake of alcohol.
(Fatal exception error: you have got to be kidding.)
2. For jobs that require somebody on-site in the States, companies are going big for H1-B's, at the same time as laying off people. As I understand it, this is supposed to be illegal, but INS is not being real aggressive about enforcement.
3. India is being more aggressive about enforcing their work visa laws than we are.
I get the feeling that as long as a company is laying off people, it should be disallowed from hiring H1-B's, since companies are finding ways to scoot around the laws already in place and/or the laws are not being vigorously enforced.
I think this is going to be a hot issue for the upcoming election year.
Yeah, I know. I am so ashamed. If I had read a little further, I would have realized that the dialogue sounded just a bit too trite and amateur-novelish to be authentic. May the sewers of Rangoon back up into his breakfast.
Right now. Seek professional help. You are an insignificant owner of a small Christian music store, you probably have a soft middle-aged belly, drive a minivan, and practice voices at yourself when you're alone. And you are married to a frigid wife who finds you repulsive.
And you are not Dirty Harry. Fantasy is OK, just keep the line between fantasy and reality distinct.
So ask yourself this: would Jesus grab a kid by the shirt and talk like Dirty Harry? Well, would he, punk?! I didn't think so...
Oh, that's better than the CD-tray-as-cup-holder!
You should have said "Yes, they are. Here hide in the pantry. I'll let you know when the coast is clear..."
We need bugs like this to be publicized in major newspapers, the way "human" virus outbreaks (and potential outbreaks) like SARS or Ebola are. That way, people might actually start patching their systems...
Who are you kidding, anyway?
I didn't think you'd have to negotiate just for them to say what you're arrested for.
"You're under arrest."
"For what?"
"Um, we're not saying, it's, um. Classified. Yeah."
"Oh, really..."
"Yeah, telling you why we're arresting you would, um, threaten national security, um. Yeah."
"And do I get a lawyer?"
"Sure, if you can find one in Gitmo."
What's the difference between etymology and entomology?
It's just a little 'n.