And if I remember, the beureaucrats, administrators and lawyers ended up on an uninhabited planet orbiting a yellow star in one of the outer arms of the galaxy...
Sure beats Adam and Eve for a convincing creation myth.
Yeah, but what about the Police (the law-enforcement guys, not the band). In England, anyway, it's always "the Police are..." I don't know why, but it is.
O2 are running an advertising campaign at the moment saying that you can do just this. I'm going to look into it myself - maybe won't bother with a landline at all.
I work for a large public-sector organisation in England.
We decided that we needed a project management solution for a department of thirty people, hopefully to be rolled out across the entire dvision of a hundred and fifty.
So we got a bunch of consultants in, and they had a look at the options, and they charged us 20k (~$30k) to recommend SureTrak, an entry-level project management system by Primavera. There consultants were so expensive that we could see no possible way that they could be wrong.
Unfortunately, after using the software for two years, and sitll being the only person in the whole division who can uyse it at all, really, I have to say that, IMHO, it sucks.
Nothing about it makes any sense whatsoever. I will not list the many many ways in which it's broken, but trust me, you'd be better off drawing Gantt charts with a paper and pen. You can export data in.csv format, but you can't import it. It, allegedly, has a scripting language as part of it, but it's this wierd obfuscated proprietorial version of BASIC that, despite my being pretty handy with VBA, makes no sense to me whatsoever. For most of the day to day project managemet functions we need, I have to export the data into an actually useful piece of software such as Excel and manipulate it there.
So now our project management system, broadly speaking, consists of 12k worth of software (30 x 400 single licences) which we pretty muich use as a big list of stuff, and a whole bunch of VBA modules I've written over the years to process the data and talk to the finance system.
I've learned a lot about programming, but something tells me that we somehow, despite the expensive consultancy, failed to hit on the optimal solution.
It wasn't until I started work here that I realised that Dilbert was true. And what's up with the invisible GBP signs?
Yeah, so she wasn't as careful as she should have been. That doesn't mean that it wasn't a low-down dirty trick that she had played on her, though, and it in no way undermines the legitimacy of her complaint, no more so than if I complained of being mugged while walking down a crime-ridden street carrying an expensive laptop. Sure, I would have been a little careless, but that doesn't make it OK to mug me.
I know that spamming is wrong, and fraud is wrong, and spamming + fraud is therefore doubly wrong, but in cases like this, as with the Nigerian money-laundering scams, I find it very difficult to sympathise with the victims of such a blatant scam. I know I should, but there's a cruel part of me that sees this as stupid people being taught a painful but valuable lesson.
The scary thing about this that most london cabbies seem to be bigoted, racist, sexist, quasi-fascist, foaming-at-the-mouth right-wingers.
I always thought it was just due to the buildup of misanthropic rage from the job they do, but this research raises the disturbing possibility is that maybe their opinions only seem offensive to me because I'm not smart enough to understand them, and that they're actually right.
Genuine quote from when I took a cab last winter:
Me: Cold out tonight, eh?
Cabbie: Yeah. Still, if it kills off a few of these homeless people it's not a bad thing, eh?
I would go further - I wouldn't want one, and I can't really see what "concept" it's "proving". It looks to me like they've just got a waistcoat with a whole bunch of pockets, carrying some electronics.
I'm not going to even start getting excited until materials technology reaches the point where the processsor and display elements can actually be woven into the fabric of the garment. Animated T-shirt designs would be cool. Being able to write notes directly onto my trousers and having OCR software translate this into text would also be cool.
seeing how many gadgets one can fit in one's waistcoat pockets is, however, not cool.
It makes sense to me - for some reason, most diehard Dr. Who fans seem to be gay. I asked a gay Dr. Who fan (or "Whovian" as they style themselves) about the connection, and he said:
Well, the vast majority of high-profile Dr Who fans are big gays, and I've
heard at least one lament about the new level of acceptance people have of
gaysexuality leading to a boring paucity of furtive, secretive trouser
adventure. This is chronologically the reverse of your description of DW
fandom. Also, to get all 3/4 angle, "I heart the Dr Who" for a moment, that
it was utterly, utterly British, and we're very much engulfed by
Americanised telefantasy, ever since the Star Trek revival. The other odd
lot is Blake's 7 fans (who tend to be bored housewives who, by adorning
eyepatches and leathers, treat the B7 scene as a diversion from the path to
fully fledged swinging - a sort of polyamorous swimming pool verouka bath).
Which doesn't quite answer the "whay do gay people like Dr Who so much?" question, but is interesting, anyway.
I've read stuff suggesting that you could have the elevator going up to Geostationary orbit, but then continuing past that point to a big rock or something further out. The big rock would be dragged round at geostationary-orbit-speed but, being further out, would have a centrifugal pull on the cable, keeping it taut.
You might want to have the elevator cars going 'up' to this counterweight (although once you passed the geostationary point it would feel more like you were going down) as it would have a weak 'gravity' pulling away from the Earth, which would be pretty cool.
Then again, I could well have totally misunderstood the wohle thing and this post merely serves to exhibit my shameful ignorance of physics.
a review from a blog called Sopsy Digest shows up 15 notches higher than an article from Business Week.
Maybe that's because the Sopsy's Digest review was better than the Business Week review.
I've heard this argument before, but IMHO it just boils down to journalists whining that "amateurs" are scoring higher on Google than they are.
But it is, in part, precisely this egalitarian, anyone-can-get-exposure nature of the Web that makes it so cool. If you don't like it, stick to the print media.
Yeah, that's all true. Maybe I misunderstood what the original poster meant by "repetition".
What I meant was that repetition of any particular string of digits, eg 228634254 or whatever, is inevitable in any truly random sequence if you keep churning out the numbers long enough. In fact, if your evesdropper knew that you were filtering out such repetitions, then he could use this redundancy in the keystream to have a go at brute-forcing the pad.
I read somewhere that this is one of the reasons it's hard to produce random numbers. If you just get someone to write down a "random" string of digits, then, no matter how hard they try, they are going to subconsciously avoid repetitions, chance patterns, etc, and thus it will not be random.
Having said all the above, the exact nature of randomness is still something I don't quite understand. I mean, I know the pop-science definition, maximum entropy, minimum information, yadda yadda yadda, but how, in real life, does one test for this, given that any string of numbers possible could, theoretically, have been produced by a random process?
Some repetition is a feature of randomness - as the string of random numbers gets larger, is beomes more and more likely that there will be a repetition somewhere. A very long string of numbers in which no sequence was repeated would be astronomically unlikely, and therefore not 'really' random.
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And if I remember, the beureaucrats, administrators and lawyers ended up on an uninhabited planet orbiting a yellow star in one of the outer arms of the galaxy...
Sure beats Adam and Eve for a convincing creation myth.
Yeah, but what about the Police (the law-enforcement guys, not the band). In England, anyway, it's always "the Police are..." I don't know why, but it is.
O2 are running an advertising campaign at the moment saying that you can do just this. I'm going to look into it myself - maybe won't bother with a landline at all.
Yeah, and the wierdest part of that, is:
Why would a paedophile ever have an engraved brass plaque screwed to the wall of his office identifying him as such?
I work for a large public-sector organisation in England. .csv format, but you can't import it. It, allegedly, has a scripting language as part of it, but it's this wierd obfuscated proprietorial version of BASIC that, despite my being pretty handy with VBA, makes no sense to me whatsoever.
We decided that we needed a project management solution for a department of thirty people, hopefully to be rolled out across the entire dvision of a hundred and fifty.
So we got a bunch of consultants in, and they had a look at the options, and they charged us 20k (~$30k) to recommend SureTrak, an entry-level project management system by Primavera. There consultants were so expensive that we could see no possible way that they could be wrong.
Unfortunately, after using the software for two years, and sitll being the only person in the whole division who can uyse it at all, really, I have to say that, IMHO, it sucks.
Nothing about it makes any sense whatsoever. I will not list the many many ways in which it's broken, but trust me, you'd be better off drawing Gantt charts with a paper and pen. You can export data in
For most of the day to day project managemet functions we need, I have to export the data into an actually useful piece of software such as Excel and manipulate it there.
So now our project management system, broadly speaking, consists of 12k worth of software (30 x 400 single licences) which we pretty muich use as a big list of stuff, and a whole bunch of VBA modules I've written over the years to process the data and talk to the finance system.
I've learned a lot about programming, but something tells me that we somehow, despite the expensive consultancy, failed to hit on the optimal solution.
It wasn't until I started work here that I realised that Dilbert was true. And what's up with the invisible GBP signs?
Yeah, so she wasn't as careful as she should have been. That doesn't mean that it wasn't a low-down dirty trick that she had played on her, though, and it in no way undermines the legitimacy of her complaint, no more so than if I complained of being mugged while walking down a crime-ridden street carrying an expensive laptop. Sure, I would have been a little careless, but that doesn't make it OK to mug me.
I know that spamming is wrong, and fraud is wrong, and spamming + fraud is therefore doubly wrong, but in cases like this, as with the Nigerian money-laundering scams, I find it very difficult to sympathise with the victims of such a blatant scam. I know I should, but there's a cruel part of me that sees this as stupid people being taught a painful but valuable lesson.
The scary thing about this that most london cabbies seem to be bigoted, racist, sexist, quasi-fascist, foaming-at-the-mouth right-wingers.
I always thought it was just due to the buildup of misanthropic rage from the job they do, but this research raises the disturbing possibility is that maybe their opinions only seem offensive to me because I'm not smart enough to understand them, and that they're actually right.
Genuine quote from when I took a cab last winter:
Me: Cold out tonight, eh?
Cabbie: Yeah. Still, if it kills off a few of these homeless people it's not a bad thing, eh?
Dude, have you ever been to a philosophy lecture? They can get pretty damn demanding.
this technology is not copyable, it's not downloadable, it's not swappable
Does this guy want the game cracked? Saying stuff like the above is just going to make it happen all the faster.
I would go further - I wouldn't want one, and I can't really see what "concept" it's "proving". It looks to me like they've just got a waistcoat with a whole bunch of pockets, carrying some electronics.
I'm not going to even start getting excited until materials technology reaches the point where the processsor and display elements can actually be woven into the fabric of the garment. Animated T-shirt designs would be cool. Being able to write notes directly onto my trousers and having OCR software translate this into text would also be cool.
seeing how many gadgets one can fit in one's waistcoat pockets is, however, not cool.
Might shielding oneself against cellphone-induced brain-tumors be a worthwhile application for a tinfoil hat?
I'm only semi-joking. Less than that. I'm 70% serious. I can imagine people wearing special "Antiradiation hats" to make cellphone calls.
The article should really have included This Link whence you can download the original trilogy and construction set for Windows.
Not half as cool as I remember it. Expectations change, I guess.
It makes sense to me - for some reason, most diehard Dr. Who fans seem to be gay. I asked a gay Dr. Who fan (or "Whovian" as they style themselves) about the connection, and he said:
Well, the vast majority of high-profile Dr Who fans are big gays, and I've heard at least one lament about the new level of acceptance people have of gaysexuality leading to a boring paucity of furtive, secretive trouser adventure. This is chronologically the reverse of your description of DW fandom. Also, to get all 3/4 angle, "I heart the Dr Who" for a moment, that it was utterly, utterly British, and we're very much engulfed by Americanised telefantasy, ever since the Star Trek revival. The other odd lot is Blake's 7 fans (who tend to be bored housewives who, by adorning eyepatches and leathers, treat the B7 scene as a diversion from the path to fully fledged swinging - a sort of polyamorous swimming pool verouka bath).
Which doesn't quite answer the "whay do gay people like Dr Who so much?" question, but is interesting, anyway.
I wonder if showing pictures of Keith Richards to himself would be some kind of self-abuse
What about showing people pictures of Keith Richards engaging in self-abuse?
I wish I hadn't thought that, but now I have, I want to share.
I've read stuff suggesting that you could have the elevator going up to Geostationary orbit, but then continuing past that point to a big rock or something further out. The big rock would be dragged round at geostationary-orbit-speed but, being further out, would have a centrifugal pull on the cable, keeping it taut. You might want to have the elevator cars going 'up' to this counterweight (although once you passed the geostationary point it would feel more like you were going down) as it would have a weak 'gravity' pulling away from the Earth, which would be pretty cool.
Then again, I could well have totally misunderstood the wohle thing and this post merely serves to exhibit my shameful ignorance of physics.
you'd stop wasting time on friends and wives after the 5th or 6th set of them died
How so? I didn't give up on girls after I split up with my 5th or 6th girlfriend.
No, I also looked for Qwghlm on a map. And even more embarassaingly, I'm British.
It depends who drinks it.
Amen to that.
If more Christians spoke like that, I might even consider joining them.
a review from a blog called Sopsy Digest shows up 15 notches higher than an article from Business Week.
Maybe that's because the Sopsy's Digest review was better than the Business Week review.
I've heard this argument before, but IMHO it just boils down to journalists whining that "amateurs" are scoring higher on Google than they are.
But it is, in part, precisely this egalitarian, anyone-can-get-exposure nature of the Web that makes it so cool. If you don't like it, stick to the print media.
How do you find the speed of light with marshmaloows and a microwave? I've never heard of this, and I want to try it out.
But isn't B# the same as C?
Yeah, I know (you?) musicological types like to talk about B sharp or F flat or whatever, but I've never understood why.
Yeah, that's all true. Maybe I misunderstood what the original poster meant by "repetition".
What I meant was that repetition of any particular string of digits, eg 228634254 or whatever, is inevitable in any truly random sequence if you keep churning out the numbers long enough. In fact, if your evesdropper knew that you were filtering out such repetitions, then he could use this redundancy in the keystream to have a go at brute-forcing the pad.
I read somewhere that this is one of the reasons it's hard to produce random numbers. If you just get someone to write down a "random" string of digits, then, no matter how hard they try, they are going to subconsciously avoid repetitions, chance patterns, etc, and thus it will not be random.
Having said all the above, the exact nature of randomness is still something I don't quite understand. I mean, I know the pop-science definition, maximum entropy, minimum information, yadda yadda yadda, but how, in real life, does one test for this, given that any string of numbers possible could, theoretically, have been produced by a random process?
Some repetition is a feature of randomness - as the string of random numbers gets larger, is beomes more and more likely that there will be a repetition somewhere. A very long string of numbers in which no sequence was repeated would be astronomically unlikely, and therefore not 'really' random.