Although some of the questions were fair, I feel some of the questions/comments made by Spiegel were closer to an assault on Microsoft.
Mr. Gates somehow managed to either answer or avoid the questions very aptly, fair play to him. He has contributed more to the computing world than most if not all. Dont you forget it.
Most operating systems are frustrating in one way or another, as I have found while developing stuff for IBM MVS, Linux & Windows.
I applied for a position at Google Ireland, I had 3 telephonic interviews, 2 of them was with Engineers in the US. The 2 technical interviews were very interesting as the engineers were quite open & answered the questions that I had for them, they were very friendly, too.
It took nearly 6months after that for them to get back to me telling me that they 'had moved forward with other candidates'.
Actually, if you go and check most of the worlds weapons are designed & manufactured in South Africa.
If the Iraqi military learnt how to aim the G5 cannon, the coalition would've been in a little bit of trouble, for those that dont know - the G5 is a ballistic cannon accurate to 1 square meter over 86km, i cant remember the shell size, but it's pretty big.
Broadband is pretty new to Ireland, and is naturally quite expensive, although, where I live, in a small town, a local person has provided a cable internet service, until recently I was paying around 60euro per month for a service varying between 256k and 512k.
It's now up to 70euro a month, but my provider upgraded my link to nearly 3mbit/s.
Learning from experience, users dont actually seem to know what they really want..
First they decide that they need something, so it gets done,
next they decide that isnt what they wanted. And now what was made is not good enough.
This happens every day in the PC world where we're forced to deal with endusers.
All of the above technologies were created through a demand for them, only to realise that they werent sufficient for what they wanted to achieve in the first place.
Yep,
just think, soon as they 'invent' threaded email viewing in Outlook & OE, I'd bet they'd make an attempt to patent threading.
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I have a series of passwords, all based roughly on the same thing, it is actually a full sentence without the spaces in
This provides me with a variable length password, with being able to substitute capitals & numbers where i feel nessecary
Like a previous comment, websites & relatively arbitary things get a short, 'insecure' password, and ssh logins and the like get the typically longer more complex passwords, all basically linked to the same thing, starting at different points within the phrase.
I dont think i'd ever forget it, there are only a number of variations which i'd use.
And in other news today, George Bush has deployed military units in China on the basis that China can deploy cyber-weapons of mass destruction within 45minutes.
He plans to attack at daybreak.
the chinese information minister denies all statements of american troops in china.
I think, SCO, Linux && IBM have made Bill feel very left out of the fun & games and this is his only way back into the news (other than if he decides to release the source code to WinXP or something)
*imagines SCO, IBM, Bill, Linux as 8 yearolds*
SCO: I saw it first! Linux: No I saw it first! IBM: But I wanna use it! Bill: Mommmyyy!! They dont wanna play with me anymore!! *waaaaah*
My local library has hundreds of movies on DVD, and thousands on VHS, that they allow anybody to view for free... does this mean that sweet little old lady at the checkout desk is a PIRATE???
You could always go and find out.. ask her to go HAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR... and that'll tell you if she's a pirate or not:)
-Rob
I can imagine it now, power suddenly fails, PC & other devices start using their ethernet to provide power to their machines, switches would probably think thats alright, but the poor UPS that power the stacks of switches might just go BANG.. so, largish company, 150-300 devices, powered by a UPS... really?
heh.
-Rob
I recently (today) set up 3 point to point links, equipment made by Alvarion (ex BreezeCOM), the longest leg of it was 7.4miles, using 2 21db Parabolic antennas...
Worked perfectly...
-Rob
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I wonder if they'll introduce clippy to this:
Clippy: It looks like you're trying to pirate some music, do you want me to:
1. Send your details to the RIAA
2. Delete your files
3. Ruin the files by overlaying Cliff Richard music into it?
I just checked the date! and it's not April 1st .. whats going on here?!?
If only my parents had been creative enough to give me a name as cool as B1508+55!
I didnt realise pr0n could be THAT fast!
Although some of the questions were fair, I feel some of the questions/comments made by Spiegel were closer to an assault on Microsoft.
Mr. Gates somehow managed to either answer or avoid the questions very aptly, fair play to him. He has contributed more to the computing world than most if not all. Dont you forget it.
Most operating systems are frustrating in one way or another, as I have found while developing stuff for IBM MVS, Linux & Windows.
I applied for a position at Google Ireland, I had 3 telephonic interviews, 2 of them was with Engineers in the US.
The 2 technical interviews were very interesting as the engineers were quite open & answered the questions that I had for them, they were very friendly, too.
It took nearly 6months after that for them to get back to me telling me that they 'had moved forward with other candidates'.
No other information was given.
Once again.. you forget, this is slashdot, nobody here gets dates out of anything except a calendar!
Actually, if you go and check most of the worlds weapons are designed & manufactured in South Africa. If the Iraqi military learnt how to aim the G5 cannon, the coalition would've been in a little bit of trouble, for those that dont know - the G5 is a ballistic cannon accurate to 1 square meter over 86km, i cant remember the shell size, but it's pretty big.
This somewhat reminds me of the relatively recent episode of BOFH - BOFH: Protecting bodily waste in the public domain
As far as I'm aware, eircom bill their customers with a per-second billing model, with a minimum call charge of roughly 5c.
and yes, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford is where I live.
On a different note, both esat & eircom now provide a flatrate internet access charge including the telephone call.
With regards to telephone calls, esat has just released a flatrate charge for all local & national calls for a reasonable fee.
Broadband is pretty new to Ireland, and is naturally quite expensive, although, where I live, in a small town, a local person has provided a cable internet service, until recently I was paying around 60euro per month for a service varying between 256k and 512k.
It's now up to 70euro a month, but my provider upgraded my link to nearly 3mbit/s.
I think i'm getting my moneys worth now.
Learning from experience, users dont actually seem to know what they really want..
First they decide that they need something, so it gets done,
next they decide that isnt what they wanted. And now what was made is not good enough.
This happens every day in the PC world where we're forced to deal with endusers.
All of the above technologies were created through a demand for them, only to realise that they werent sufficient for what they wanted to achieve in the first place.
Yep, just think, soon as they 'invent' threaded email viewing in Outlook & OE, I'd bet they'd make an attempt to patent threading.
I have a series of passwords, all based roughly on the same thing, it is actually a full sentence without the spaces in
This provides me with a variable length password, with being able to substitute capitals & numbers where i feel nessecary
Like a previous comment, websites & relatively arbitary things get a short, 'insecure' password, and ssh logins and the like get the typically longer more complex passwords, all basically linked to the same thing, starting at different points within the phrase.
I dont think i'd ever forget it, there are only a number of variations which i'd use.
And in other news today, George Bush has deployed military units in China on the basis that China can deploy cyber-weapons of mass destruction within 45minutes.
He plans to attack at daybreak.
the chinese information minister denies all statements of american troops in china.
I think, SCO, Linux && IBM have made Bill feel very left out of the fun & games and this is his only way back into the news (other than if he decides to release the source code to WinXP or something)
:)
*imagines SCO, IBM, Bill, Linux as 8 yearolds*
SCO: I saw it first!
Linux: No I saw it first!
IBM: But I wanna use it!
Bill: Mommmyyy!! They dont wanna play with me anymore!! *waaaaah*
heh
My local library has hundreds of movies on DVD, and thousands on VHS, that they allow anybody to view for free... does this mean that sweet little old lady at the checkout desk is a PIRATE???
:)
-Rob
You could always go and find out.. ask her to go HAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR... and that'll tell you if she's a pirate or not
I can imagine it now, power suddenly fails, PC & other devices start using their ethernet to provide power to their machines, switches would probably think thats alright, but the poor UPS that power the stacks of switches might just go BANG .. so, largish company, 150-300 devices, powered by a UPS... really?
heh.
-Rob
At least it's first result isnt Al Gore's homepage... :)
I recently (today) set up 3 point to point links, equipment made by Alvarion (ex BreezeCOM), the longest leg of it was 7.4miles, using 2 21db Parabolic antennas... Worked perfectly... -Rob