...and an API to allow all this data to be uploaded to sites you do business with, and all their partners, to provide you the best possible Intraweb experience.
"If found out that any of my guys spent *any* significant time trying to cut less than a gigabyte out of our application footprint, I would give him a footprint of my own..."
Back in 1972 I worked the summer for a multimedia hardware company. One lunchtime, I wandered into a room where they were burning in a projection TV. It had some test equipment attached to it and I noticed one meter that stayed at midpoint during the show but immediately bumped up about 30% when the commercials started. When the commercials were over, it dropped neatly back down to midpoint again. At the time, or course, no one was thinking "What a great way to skip commercials"... we would have been looking at a blank screen:-)
I did, however, think "What a great way to *mute* commercials.
So, evidently, there was some reliable, measurable parameter of the transmission that could have been used to detect the commercial. It wasn't volume, by the way; it was a steady DC voltage being displayed.
-Non
One of the senior engineers in my government office proudly revealed he had talked to the agency's lawyers and between them they had decided to draft guidance to disallow the use of Linux.
And why?...
Their interpretation of the federal procurement regulations prohibits acceptance of "free" products!
Slashdot Mirror
...has graphics turned off?
Am I deeply troubling you???
There's an *odd* number of conflatulances?
...and an API to allow all this data to be uploaded to sites you do business with, and all their partners, to provide you the best possible Intraweb experience.
... smell the coffee.
hopefully no false identifications
"Hope is not a plan."
...to Hollywood, Warren!
"...execs who probably know more about computers than how to operate the on/off button."
Probably NOT!
A beowulf mob-cluster of wi-fi smartphones!
Pack up all my content and put it into one last post!
This is disturbing. Maybe the box in my car is broken and 'stuck at 98'.
I'm sure the owners of the copyright on that material don't *intend* for it to be used in that way!
Bill? Bill, is that you?
Back in 1972 I worked the summer for a multimedia hardware company. One lunchtime, I wandered into a room where they were burning in a projection TV. It had some test equipment attached to it and I noticed one meter that stayed at midpoint during the show but immediately bumped up about 30% when the commercials started. When the commercials were over, it dropped neatly back down to midpoint again. At the time, or course, no one was thinking "What a great way to skip commercials"... we would have been looking at a blank screen :-)
I did, however, think "What a great way to *mute* commercials.
So, evidently, there was some reliable, measurable parameter of the transmission that could have been used to detect the commercial. It wasn't volume, by the way; it was a steady DC voltage being displayed.
-Non
winzip -scramble "scramble" carddata
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=87483&cid=7589 498 :-)
www.mylastpost.com ? Thinking 24 hours a day!
Or zero lines of... Ooops. I guess I should posted earlier.
One of the senior engineers in my government office proudly revealed he had talked to the agency's lawyers and between them they had decided to draft guidance to disallow the use of Linux.
And why?...
Their interpretation of the federal procurement regulations prohibits acceptance of "free" products!
*sigh*
Ye-e-es... I tried to explain....