Your distinction between your firm's policy and the offending publisher in my post is valid.
If I resorted to a hacked code under your firm's policy I would truly be a fool.
Now the question is, am I a fool who deserves whatever admonishment you have devised for such fools, or am I a thief who deserves punishment?
If your prima facie assumption is that I am a thief, you might feel it appropriate to arrange a nasty consequence for my employment of a hacked code--delete or encrypt some files for example.
If on the other hand, you give your users the benefit of the doubt and assume that your users are honest, but possibly foolish customers, you might put up an alert that informed the user of his or her folly--e.g. "FOOL! why have you used a hacked registration code? "
Followed by another one moments later: "Don't you know registered users can always get a replacement by sending an e-mail to our friendly support staff?"
And finally: "Unlike some software publishers who assume their users are all potential criminals, we respect you." "Won't you respect us as well by paying for the software you use, if you have not done so already?"
Failing that, I guess one would be justified in encrypting his home directory, burning his home, and slaughtering his family like cattle.
I know you never suggested doing anything drastic to your users.
If I knew someone was beating me out of my well-deserved compensation for providing and supporting a good product, I admit I would want to do something bad to that person. If it happened a lot, I'd probably want to do something really, really bad.
I guess my point is, what you know is someone is doing something dishonest when they use a hacked reg code for your product.
Whether you "know" the person is trying to steal from you or not depends on your assumptions about human nature.
It's called "benefit of the doubt." When I get the benefit of the doubt I feel blessed and grateful, if I deserve it. If I don't deserve it I feel guilty and repentant.
Some people feel as though they "got over" if they undeservedly get the benefit of the doubt.
To hell with users like that. For those kinds of asshats, providing freeware and shareware is basically the same, You can never have them as customers, and if you thought about it, you wouldn't want them.
The following quotes on debt would seem to apply:
"If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it."
"It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same."
I used a hacked registration code once. It was for a 'couple of hundred dollar PC emulation product that I had paid for and had upgraded over a period of a few years.
I lost the registration code for the product somehow. I "always" write the S/N or Reg code in the inner cover of the manual, except for this product, apparently.
After a repair facility replaced the hard disk from my 'couple of month old notebook, I wanted to reinstall my application software.
I was able to re-install all of my application software except for the aforementioned product.
Regarding the product:
I still had the install CD-ROM.
I still had the manual.
I still had the cardboard packaging.
I still had the serial number.
I still had the e-mail address and password for the support site where I registered the software.
I no longer had the registration code.
I never had a printed invoice because I bought the software with a new computer from the computer manufacturer's online store.
I logged in to the support site where I had registered the product and requested a new registration code.
I was told I would have to fax them a copy of an invoice showing payment in full for the product--the one thing I could not do.
The fact that I could log in with the same password and e-mail I used to register the product was not good enough.
The fact that I could quote the serial number was not good enough.
The support staff insisted on a faxed copy of the non-existent invoice.
There was a time when you could get a replacement for your software registration code by faxing a copy of the install disk or the manual to the publisher.
My kid said to just go to the serial surfer's site and get all the registration codes I want. He said he had already been doing that with a bunch of games I had bought him.
I asked him why he didn't just ask me for the codes. He knows I always write the reg codes down and file them. He said he used the hacked codes "cause he wanted to play the games but he didn't want a big lecture from me about responsible record keeping."
He got a pretty big laugh out of me downloading about a dozen hacked reg codes for my expensive "grownup" software and filing THEM after re-installing using a hacked code.
I no longer use the software because a year or so later I went to a different vendor the next time it became necessary to purchase an upgrade.
To hell with vendors that treat long-term customers like criminals. I had purchased, used, upgraded and recommended the offending publisher's products since 1991.
Almost ten years ago I worked as a researcher for two of my accounting professors, David H. Lindsay and Annhennrie Campbell on a project titled A Fractal Approach to
Bankruptcy.
I gathered data on daily stock market returns on 5000 companies listed in Standard and Poor's listing of U.S. publicly traded companies.
I normalized then crunched the data through a fractal analysis tool that quantified the level of chaos (randomness) in the changes of each company's stock market value from one day to the next.
I understand the professors studied the data to determine any correlation between each company's chaos metric and the company's eventual bankruptcy.
Now, IANAM* and I have never read any of the resulting research papers, so I cannot tell you many details of the professors' findings.
However, I understand that the hypothesis was that changes in market value characterized by a high amount of chaos (randomness) would correlate to a robust, or healthy business model, just as the life sciences have found that a high degree of chaos correlates with a healthy system. As business managers' actions become constrained by the costs of bankruptcy, so the theory goes, the daily variation in stock market returns become less and less random.
I do recall that they did find a correlation between eventual bankruptcy and suppressed chaos. However, I seem to recall they also found a correlation between a successful turnaround and suppressed chaos.
I guess (IIRC) you could say that suppressed levels of chaos could be a predictor of future business distress, but not necessarily of future business failure.
A list of the research supported by the fractal study follows:
Lindsay, D.H. and A. Campbell. A Fractal Approach to
Bankruptcy
Prediction. Business Research Yearbook: Global Business
Perspectives, (2), 1995, 13-17.
Lindsay, D.H. and A. Campbell. The Effect of Deregulation
Upon
the Chaotic Properties of Stock Market Time Series Returns.
Business Research Yearbook: Global Business Perspectives, (3),
1996, 13-17.
Lindsay, D.H. and A. Campbell. A Chaos Approach to Bankruptcy
Prediction. Journal of Applied Business Research, (12)4,
Fall,
1996, 1-9.
Lindsay, D.H. and Campbell, A. The Effect of Changes
in
Proportional Institutional Ownership upon the Chaotic Properties
of Stock Market Time Series Returns. Business Research Yearbook:
Global Business Perspectives, (4), 1997, 267-271.
Lindsay, D.H. and Campbell, A. Beta and the Chaotic Properties
of Time Series Returns. Business Research Yearbook: Global
Business Perspective, (5), 1998, 7-11.
Lindsay, D.H. and Campbell, A. Public Pension Funds:
The Effect of Negative Public Announcements on Chaotic Properties
of Returns Business Research Yearbook: Global Business Perspective,
(6), 1999,
Lindsay, D.H. and Campbell, A. Risk and Financial Distress:
A New Approach, Business Research Yearbook: Global Business
Perspective, (7), 2000,
*IANAM - I am not a mathematician. (I am an accountant. Accountants don't need math. We have tables.)
According to the CNN article the original definition is the 3rd full moon in a quarter that has 4 full moons, so tonight meets both the original Maine Farmer's Almanac definition and the post-1980 Sky and Telescope magazine definition.
WriteNow was written by Heidi Rozen's company. IIRC, the company was made up of all the female Macintosh engineers of the time who were both competent and attractive.
Really?
Not according to an quote from her in a Sacramento Bee newspaper article on Women in computing.
Quote from the article: But Roizen, for all her own success, still is troubled by the lack of women in her industry.
Despite efforts to be completely unbiased in hiring, almost everyone on T/Maker's technical support staff is male. "We look for (technical) women but we don't find them," she said with a sigh.
Also, I think her company, T/Maker, originally produced a table making Unix product in 1983, then leveraged its 68000 machine code/Unix expertise into the original word processor bundled with the NeXt computer a couple of years later. I'm pretty sure I remember Heidi saying in an interview years ago that her brother wrote WriteNow entirely in machine code, but memory may have failed me as it has the parent.
WritNow is my favorite word processor of all time, but it, along with another favorite--Dyno Notepad, stopped working once I went to OS 10.1. I haven't tried them out since moving to 10.3.
A week doesn't go by when I don't wish I could copy and paste a paragraph's entire ruler in Word '97 with a pair of simple key combinations the way you can in W/N.
By the way, the Aussie version of Yahoo, yahoo.com.au still provides free pop access. I think they also offer smtp, although I use my ISP's smtp server.
Hint, I used Melbourne (Postal Code 3000) as my home location when I registered (I really live smack dab in the middle of the eastern edge of North America's west coast).
I eventually got the same message you did, but check out the message I got a few hours before that. By the way I was waiting for a confirmation e-mail on some tickets I ordered from a ticket agency when the following message came in.
Hello xxx @sbcglobal.net,
You are currently exceeding your Yahoo! Mail storage quota by a very large amount. You are only allowed -2048.0MB of storage but you are currently using 1.3MB of storage. Your account has been temporarily disabled from receiving new messages.
The easiest way to continue receiving your important email is to expand your mailbox. Yahoo! Mail offers 10, 25, 50 and 100MB of storage space starting at just $9.99/year. Click here now to order Extra Storage.
If you are not interested in Extra Storage, you will need to delete some of your email. You may want to start with older email, or email with large attachments. Please remember, however, that once you delete a message, it is gone forever. [snip]
Any of you guys able to figure out how many messages I'd have to have deleted to get my storage down from 1.3 MB to -2048 MB in my then 100 MB account?
BTW, I never received the ticket confirmation and it's a three hour drive to the venue.
Any ideas on how I might pare down standard disclaimer to four lines?
If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that the path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish, and the tyranny of evil men. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this message. For, blessed is he, who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost communication. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to forward, print, copy, or otherwise reproduce my message, and you will know my name is The Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
According to these guys (in perhaps a more fitting forum for discussing this topic), you may want one of these, or one of these.
And, if you plan on using a firearm, you'll definitely want to be wearing one of these (I gave my wife a set along with her other birthday present), 'cause you don't want to spoil those ears for all that good iPod listenin' just 'cause you deliverd the old double tap to some fool.
From: ZED To: ARMANDO Date: Thursday - May 6, 2004 7:46 AM Subject: Re: Request #90210 has been closed.
ARMANDO-
You acutally have 228MB available space you total space is 446MB ? Long live Google I'd be lost without it.
Zed
>>> ARMANDO 05/05/04 05:52PM >>> Zed, is it true that 228MB is allocated to P:\Albumen and if we have about 210MB stored, there is about 18MB free space?
In other words,
What is the total capacity of P:\Albumen?
How much is stored on P:\Albumen? (that I think I know--currently about 213MB is stored on P:\Albumen)
How much free space do I have on P:\Albumen?
I apologize for being so dense. All this elite technical stuff is so baffling.
BTW: I've checked the Google calculator, and yes, I had my goggles on when I checked the Google calculator so I think I was able to see all the hidden thing is.
If you go to Goggle and enter in the search "xxx kb =" it will give you the answer. It's called Goggle Calculator, one of the many hidden thing is Goggle.
Right now you have 228 544 kilobits = 27.8984375 megabytes or almost 30MB's
>>> ARMANDO 05/05/04 03:16PM >>> Currently, P:\Albumen properties shows 210MB (220,799,167 bytes), so I guess that means my current storage in Kilobytes is 215,624, right?
That means I have about 15,608 Kilobytes of free space, which is about 15.24MB, right?
I must not be figuring this right, because you just gave us 30MB more disk space and I just deleted a whole bunch of files, but by my reckoning we've ended up with only half as much free space as you just gave us.
Please tell me how much free space we have in Kilobytes.
Thank you.
>>> HELP DESK 05/05/04 02:19PM >>> Right now it's at 231232KB's per Novell
>>> ARMANDO 05/05/04 10:16AM >>> I've archived a bunch of old files and have gotten our file storage down to 209 MB in...Share/Albumen.
Could you let me know how much disk space is currently allocated to this directory?
I'll try to keep the amount of files we have stored there under the allocated amount.
Thank you.
>>> <HELP DESK> 05/04/04 04:16PM >>> Dear LOUISE,
Your request has been closed. The following is the resolution. Added 30MB more space
For details or to reopen it, go to http://helpdesk/hd/index.ssp?ticket_id=90210&u ser_id=LOUISE
All I know is, if I ever wake up in the morining to find a time machine sitting in my driveway, I wouldn't waste any time.
I'd amass a fortune in the usual time-travel-exploit manner, go forward into the future to a time when you can buy a time machine, buy one and deliver it to my driveway in the 21st century.
You couldn't do it with the DeLorean, though.
I worked for a machine shop/ fab shop that built and modded parts of two of the original cars (the first car, and the car with the railroad wheels), and I know first hand, they couldn't really travel any way through time other than forward at a rate of about 1/24th of a day per hour.
You might be on to something. In fact I think you must be right about it being about the way the human brain works.
I find it extremely disturbing to be sitting at my table in the lunch room, eating and reading for the one hour break I get in my 12 hour day, only to be accosted by the inevitable hands-free cell phone user.
The cell phone user invariably roams around the room, alternately approaching my table then retreating, while ranting to no one in particular.
I've always thought these people disturb me so much because their behavior mimics the antics of a gravely disabled schizophrenic, but your explanation makes more sense.
After all, I've known plenty of gravely disabled schizophrenics and have never found any of them to be as irritating as one of these cell phone commandos.
It used to be (back in the 60s when I lived/worked there) well known that the traffic lights on all of LA's big 35 mph speed limit thouroughfares (i.e. Olympic, 3rd, Pico, Venice, Washington, Slauson, Manchester, La Brea, Crenshaw, Normandy, Central, etc.) were timed for 30 mph.
Once you got going, you could maintain 30 mph and hit all green lights.
It seemed to work at 45 mph too, I think.
I know it worked at 60 for sure.
Traffic is probably too heavy nowadays in L.A. to maintain any constant speed or do anything other than react.
I wonder if the Apple][ would have been the huge success it was if Microsoft's floating point AppleBasic had never existed and we had to rely on the Apple]['s built-in Integer Basic.
Would the PC have taken off if Bill Gates hadn't ripped off what came to be MSDOS and peddled it to IBM?
If the Apple ][ and the PC hadn't been successful, I wouldn't have my Mac today, and my friends wouldn't have their linux boxen.
I agree with the parent that this site seems untrustworthy, or Safire is.
Safire claims the blast occurred in June 1982.
The nobombs.net story quotes the "Soviet leader" Gorbachev holding a moment of silence in memory of those who died "over the weekend."
Gorby wasn't a Soviet leader until he was elected General Secretary of the CPSU in 1985, then Executive President of the Soviet Union in 1989.
Either Safire is wrong about the 1982 date of the blast, nobombs.net is wrong about Gorbachev being the Soviet leader at the time of the blast, or there were two blasts, one in 1982, and one some time after 1985.
Re:I just don't get it.
on
The Star Wars Car
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· Score: 3, Informative
A wing creates negative lift.
A spoiler (like the upswept rear of the "Whale Tail Porsche) "spoils the lift created by the vehicle's body.
The body of a car shaped generally like the cross section of a wing, creates lift because of the Bernoulli Principle.
In order for the Bernoulli princlple to operate, airflow over the body (or wing) must be laminar.
A spoiler "spoils" the laminar airflow by creating turbulence.
A spoiler can also increase top speed if it is designed to create pressure (actually "spoil" the vacuum) at the rear of the vehicle by causing to turbulence fill what otherwise would be a void at the immediate rear of the vehicle's body. Instead of a smooth laminar flow of air that meets some distance past the end of the bodywork, leaving a void (vaccum) at the immediate rear of the body work, a spoiler can create create a high pressure area there, resulting in forward force and higher top speed.
So, a spoiler is generally an intrusion into the airflow across the smooth upper surface of a automobile body; often a pronounced upturn of the rear edge of the trunk lid/rear engine cover.
A wing is an inverse airfoil that is usually mounted above the vehicle's body and is not intended to spoil the lift-creating properties of the vehicle's bodywork.
Yes, and in addition, I find that my kid learns by example.
So, it is an opportunity to expose him to proper grammar and business form (hoo boy, I'd better preview this post).
I must admit, when messaging him, I often lapse into im form using all lower case and using the usual short cuts my kid's generation uses (that learning by example thing works both ways).
I don't think my im use has been detrimental to my communication at work, yet--except for that time I blurted out to the senior applications manager "and you'll get mad props from the help desk for finally getting rid of the last printer on IPX."
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If I resorted to a hacked code under your firm's policy I would truly be a fool.
Now the question is, am I a fool who deserves whatever admonishment you have devised for such fools, or am I a thief who deserves punishment?
If your prima facie assumption is that I am a thief, you might feel it appropriate to arrange a nasty consequence for my employment of a hacked code--delete or encrypt some files for example.
If on the other hand, you give your users the benefit of the doubt and assume that your users are honest, but possibly foolish customers, you might put up an alert that informed the user of his or her folly--e.g. "FOOL! why have you used a hacked registration code? "
Followed by another one moments later: "Don't you know registered users can always get a replacement by sending an e-mail to our friendly support staff?"
And finally: "Unlike some software publishers who assume their users are all potential criminals, we respect you." "Won't you respect us as well by paying for the software you use, if you have not done so already?"
Failing that, I guess one would be justified in encrypting his home directory, burning his home, and slaughtering his family like cattle.
I know you never suggested doing anything drastic to your users. If I knew someone was beating me out of my well-deserved compensation for providing and supporting a good product, I admit I would want to do something bad to that person. If it happened a lot, I'd probably want to do something really, really bad.
I guess my point is, what you know is someone is doing something dishonest when they use a hacked reg code for your product.
Whether you "know" the person is trying to steal from you or not depends on your assumptions about human nature.
It's called "benefit of the doubt." When I get the benefit of the doubt I feel blessed and grateful, if I deserve it. If I don't deserve it I feel guilty and repentant.
Some people feel as though they "got over" if they undeservedly get the benefit of the doubt.
To hell with users like that. For those kinds of asshats, providing freeware and shareware is basically the same, You can never have them as customers, and if you thought about it, you wouldn't want them.
The following quotes on debt would seem to apply:
"If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it."
"It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same."
You DON'T know the user is stealing from you.
I used a hacked registration code once. It was for a 'couple of hundred dollar PC emulation product that I had paid for and had upgraded over a period of a few years.
I lost the registration code for the product somehow. I "always" write the S/N or Reg code in the inner cover of the manual, except for this product, apparently.
After a repair facility replaced the hard disk from my 'couple of month old notebook, I wanted to reinstall my application software.
I was able to re-install all of my application software except for the aforementioned product.
Regarding the product:
I still had the install CD-ROM.
I still had the manual.
I still had the cardboard packaging.
I still had the serial number.
I still had the e-mail address and password for the support site where I registered the software.
I no longer had the registration code.
I never had a printed invoice because I bought the software with a new computer from the computer manufacturer's online store.
I logged in to the support site where I had registered the product and requested a new registration code.
I was told I would have to fax them a copy of an invoice showing payment in full for the product--the one thing I could not do.
The fact that I could log in with the same password and e-mail I used to register the product was not good enough.
The fact that I could quote the serial number was not good enough.
The support staff insisted on a faxed copy of the non-existent invoice.
There was a time when you could get a replacement for your software registration code by faxing a copy of the install disk or the manual to the publisher.
My kid said to just go to the serial surfer's site and get all the registration codes I want. He said he had already been doing that with a bunch of games I had bought him.
I asked him why he didn't just ask me for the codes. He knows I always write the reg codes down and file them. He said he used the hacked codes "cause he wanted to play the games but he didn't want a big lecture from me about responsible record keeping."
He got a pretty big laugh out of me downloading about a dozen hacked reg codes for my expensive "grownup" software and filing THEM after re-installing using a hacked code.
I no longer use the software because a year or so later I went to a different vendor the next time it became necessary to purchase an upgrade.
To hell with vendors that treat long-term customers like criminals. I had purchased, used, upgraded and recommended the offending publisher's products since 1991.
I gathered data on daily stock market returns on 5000 companies listed in Standard and Poor's listing of U.S. publicly traded companies.
I normalized then crunched the data through a fractal analysis tool that quantified the level of chaos (randomness) in the changes of each company's stock market value from one day to the next.
I understand the professors studied the data to determine any correlation between each company's chaos metric and the company's eventual bankruptcy.
Now, IANAM* and I have never read any of the resulting research papers, so I cannot tell you many details of the professors' findings.
However, I understand that the hypothesis was that changes in market value characterized by a high amount of chaos (randomness) would correlate to a robust, or healthy business model, just as the life sciences have found that a high degree of chaos correlates with a healthy system. As business managers' actions become constrained by the costs of bankruptcy, so the theory goes, the daily variation in stock market returns become less and less random.
I do recall that they did find a correlation between eventual bankruptcy and suppressed chaos. However, I seem to recall they also found a correlation between a successful turnaround and suppressed chaos.
I guess (IIRC) you could say that suppressed levels of chaos could be a predictor of future business distress, but not necessarily of future business failure.
A list of the research supported by the fractal study follows:
Lindsay, D.H. and A. Campbell. A Fractal Approach to Bankruptcy
Prediction. Business Research Yearbook: Global Business
Perspectives, (2), 1995, 13-17.
Lindsay, D.H. and A. Campbell. The Effect of Deregulation Upon
the Chaotic Properties of Stock Market Time Series Returns.
Business Research Yearbook: Global Business Perspectives, (3),
1996, 13-17.
Lindsay, D.H. and A. Campbell. A Chaos Approach to Bankruptcy
Prediction. Journal of Applied Business Research, (12)4, Fall,
1996, 1-9.
Lindsay, D.H. and Campbell, A. The Effect of Changes in
Proportional Institutional Ownership upon the Chaotic Properties
of Stock Market Time Series Returns. Business Research Yearbook:
Global Business Perspectives, (4), 1997, 267-271.
Lindsay, D.H. and Campbell, A. Beta and the Chaotic Properties of Time Series Returns. Business Research Yearbook: Global Business Perspective, (5), 1998, 7-11.
Lindsay, D.H. and Campbell, A. Public Pension Funds: The Effect of Negative Public Announcements on Chaotic Properties of Returns Business Research Yearbook: Global Business Perspective, (6), 1999,
Lindsay, D.H. and Campbell, A. Risk and Financial Distress: A New Approach, Business Research Yearbook: Global Business Perspective, (7), 2000,
*IANAM - I am not a mathematician. (I am an accountant. Accountants don't need math. We have tables.)
According to the CNN article the original definition is the 3rd full moon in a quarter that has 4 full moons, so tonight meets both the original Maine Farmer's Almanac definition and the post-1980 Sky and Telescope magazine definition.
Really?
Not according to an quote from her in a Sacramento Bee newspaper article on Women in computing.
Quote from the article:
But Roizen, for all her own success, still is troubled by the lack of women in her industry.
Despite efforts to be completely unbiased in hiring, almost everyone on T/Maker's technical support staff is male. "We look for (technical) women but we don't find them," she said with a sigh.
Also, I think her company, T/Maker, originally produced a table making Unix product in 1983, then leveraged its 68000 machine code/Unix expertise into the original word processor bundled with the NeXt computer a couple of years later. I'm pretty sure I remember Heidi saying in an interview years ago that her brother wrote WriteNow entirely in machine code, but memory may have failed me as it has the parent.
WritNow is my favorite word processor of all time, but it, along with another favorite--Dyno Notepad, stopped working once I went to OS 10.1. I haven't tried them out since moving to 10.3.
A week doesn't go by when I don't wish I could copy and paste a paragraph's entire ruler in Word '97 with a pair of simple key combinations the way you can in W/N.
Hint, I used Melbourne (Postal Code 3000) as my home location when I registered (I really live smack dab in the middle of the eastern edge of North America's west coast).
Hello xxx @sbcglobal.net,
You are currently exceeding your Yahoo! Mail storage quota by a very large amount. You are only allowed -2048.0MB of storage but you are currently using 1.3MB of storage. Your account has been temporarily disabled from receiving new messages.
The easiest way to continue receiving your important email is to expand your mailbox. Yahoo! Mail offers 10, 25, 50 and 100MB of storage space starting at just $9.99/year. Click here now to order Extra Storage.
If you are not interested in Extra Storage, you will need to delete some of your email. You may want to start with older email, or email with large attachments. Please remember, however, that once you delete a message, it is gone forever. [snip]
Any of you guys able to figure out how many messages I'd have to have deleted to get my storage down from 1.3 MB to -2048 MB in my then 100 MB account?
BTW, I never received the ticket confirmation and it's a three hour drive to the venue.
I guess that's the philosophy behind the Portland Rain Festival.
Let's see, that runs from September 30th through September 1st every year, doesn't it?
If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that the path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish, and the tyranny of evil men. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this message. For, blessed is he, who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost communication. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to forward, print, copy, or otherwise reproduce my message, and you will know my name is The Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
And, if you plan on using a firearm, you'll definitely want to be wearing one of these (I gave my wife a set along with her other birthday present), 'cause you don't want to spoil those ears for all that good iPod listenin' just 'cause you deliverd the old double tap to some fool.
"Hope you enjoy my laptop with one freakin eye!"
Just find yourself a position on your local slaughter house's steer killing floor.
From: ZED
...Share/Albumen.
u ser_id=LOUISE
To: ARMANDO
Date: Thursday - May 6, 2004 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: Request #90210 has been closed.
ARMANDO-
You acutally have 228MB available space you total space is 446MB ? Long live Google I'd be lost without it.
Zed
>>> ARMANDO 05/05/04 05:52PM >>>
Zed, is it true that 228MB is allocated to P:\Albumen and if we have about 210MB stored, there is about 18MB free space?
In other words,
What is the total capacity of P:\Albumen?
How much is stored on P:\Albumen? (that I think I know--currently about 213MB is stored on P:\Albumen)
How much free space do I have on P:\Albumen?
I apologize for being so dense. All this elite technical stuff is so baffling.
BTW: I've checked the Google calculator, and yes, I had my goggles on when I checked the Google calculator so I think I was able to see all the hidden thing is.
>>> HELP DESK 05/05/04 05:13PM >>>
220 799 167 bytes = 210.570495 megabytes
15 608 kilobytes = 15.2421875 megabytes
If you go to Goggle and enter in the search "xxx kb =" it will give you the answer. It's called Goggle Calculator, one of the many hidden thing is Goggle.
Right now you have 228 544 kilobits = 27.8984375 megabytes or almost 30MB's
>>> ARMANDO 05/05/04 03:16PM >>>
Currently, P:\Albumen properties shows 210MB (220,799,167 bytes), so I guess that means my current storage in Kilobytes is 215,624, right?
That means I have about 15,608 Kilobytes of free space, which is about 15.24MB, right?
I must not be figuring this right, because you just gave us 30MB more disk space and I just deleted a whole bunch of files, but by my reckoning we've ended up with only half as much free space as you just gave us.
Please tell me how much free space we have in Kilobytes.
Thank you.
>>> HELP DESK 05/05/04 02:19PM >>>
Right now it's at 231232KB's per Novell
>>> ARMANDO 05/05/04 10:16AM >>>
I've archived a bunch of old files and have gotten our file storage down to 209 MB in
Could you let me know how much disk space is currently allocated to this directory?
I'll try to keep the amount of files we have stored there under the allocated amount.
Thank you.
>>> <HELP DESK> 05/04/04 04:16PM >>>
Dear LOUISE,
Your request has been closed. The following is the resolution.
Added 30MB more space
For details or to reopen it, go to
http://helpdesk/hd/index.ssp?ticket_id=90210&
IT - Acme Carnival Help Desk
I'd amass a fortune in the usual time-travel-exploit manner, go forward into the future to a time when you can buy a time machine, buy one and deliver it to my driveway in the 21st century.
You couldn't do it with the DeLorean, though.
I worked for a machine shop/ fab shop that built and modded parts of two of the original cars (the first car, and the car with the railroad wheels), and I know first hand, they couldn't really travel any way through time other than forward at a rate of about 1/24th of a day per hour.
Uh, just how long have you been spelling the word "definite" the way you do?
I find it extremely disturbing to be sitting at my table in the lunch room, eating and reading for the one hour break I get in my 12 hour day, only to be accosted by the inevitable hands-free cell phone user.
The cell phone user invariably roams around the room, alternately approaching my table then retreating, while ranting to no one in particular.
I've always thought these people disturb me so much because their behavior mimics the antics of a gravely disabled schizophrenic, but your explanation makes more sense.
After all, I've known plenty of gravely disabled schizophrenics and have never found any of them to be as irritating as one of these cell phone commandos.
Once you got going, you could maintain 30 mph and hit all green lights.
It seemed to work at 45 mph too, I think.
I know it worked at 60 for sure.
Traffic is probably too heavy nowadays in L.A. to maintain any constant speed or do anything other than react.
Aren't you forgetting the product Bill and Paul created for controlling traffic signals?
You must remember. It's the one they came out with right before they went into business together.
Would the PC have taken off if Bill Gates hadn't ripped off what came to be MSDOS and peddled it to IBM?
If the Apple ][ and the PC hadn't been successful, I wouldn't have my Mac today, and my friends wouldn't have their linux boxen.
less error corrections and replies to nitpickers
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I agree with the parent that this site seems untrustworthy, or Safire is.
Safire claims the blast occurred in June 1982.
The nobombs.net story quotes the "Soviet leader" Gorbachev holding a moment of silence in memory of those who died "over the weekend."
Gorby wasn't a Soviet leader until he was elected General Secretary of the CPSU in 1985, then Executive President of the Soviet Union in 1989.
Either Safire is wrong about the 1982 date of the blast, nobombs.net is wrong about Gorbachev being the Soviet leader at the time of the blast, or there were two blasts, one in 1982, and one some time after 1985.
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A spoiler (like the upswept rear of the "Whale Tail Porsche) "spoils the lift created by the vehicle's body.
The body of a car shaped generally like the cross section of a wing, creates lift because of the Bernoulli Principle.
In order for the Bernoulli princlple to operate, airflow over the body (or wing) must be laminar.
A spoiler "spoils" the laminar airflow by creating turbulence.
A spoiler can also increase top speed if it is designed to create pressure (actually "spoil" the vacuum) at the rear of the vehicle by causing to turbulence fill what otherwise would be a void at the immediate rear of the vehicle's body. Instead of a smooth laminar flow of air that meets some distance past the end of the bodywork, leaving a void (vaccum) at the immediate rear of the body work, a spoiler can create create a high pressure area there, resulting in forward force and higher top speed.
So, a spoiler is generally an intrusion into the airflow across the smooth upper surface of a automobile body; often a pronounced upturn of the rear edge of the trunk lid/rear engine cover.
A wing is an inverse airfoil that is usually mounted above the vehicle's body and is not intended to spoil the lift-creating properties of the vehicle's bodywork.
I'd like to thank all the little people who made this possible.
So, it is an opportunity to expose him to proper grammar and business form (hoo boy, I'd better preview this post).
I must admit, when messaging him, I often lapse into im form using all lower case and using the usual short cuts my kid's generation uses (that learning by example thing works both ways).
I don't think my im use has been detrimental to my communication at work, yet--except for that time I blurted out to the senior applications manager "and you'll get mad props from the help desk for finally getting rid of the last printer on IPX."