Framemaker is my doc software of choice for everything longer than email and most love letters. Currently I'm still using it on Mac OS 9. I was really happy about the beta for Linux, and terribly unhappy that Adobe seems to be letting that development die. I'd suggest keeping the Irix server running and using X Windows to mirror to your Linux systems.
what else is a desk for but holding computers?
Papers. Peripherals. Books. Telephones. If I wanted fifteen computers in one compact space I'd have a rack loaded with 1U-4U systems. I don't want all the fan and drive noise under or on my desk, fast ethernet to the server closet is fast enough & quiet, too. And gives me desk space for all the other stuff.
It's got the body shape of an Airport base station. In concept it's a Cube with a flat panel attached to even further reduce the desktop footprint. It's cool looking, it's cheaper than a Cube was, and it takes up less space on the desk. Spiffy.
Every year, since it came out on VHS & now DVD, I watch Strange Days. It's flashy, dramatic, has a good score, has good acting, nice sf story, and is a new years eve story.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0114558
wrote an ee doc smith-like series of stories of men running a communications satellite relaying between the Earth, Venus and either Mercury or Mars. You can find the space opera stories collected as _The Complete Venus Equilateral_.
OS 9/9000 - developed by Microware of Des Moines, Iowa under contract to Motorola to write an OS that worked the same on Intel and 68000-series chips - ran on 68000 to the 68060 that I recall. More common than Bob, but I've almost always had to explain what it is whenever the subject came up. Had a GUI called G-Windows which was a proprietary and almost totally undocumented version of X-Windows from GESPAC in Switzerland. I worked for a company that wrote a PLC simulator running under OS 9/9000. I believe OS 9/9000 is used in some set-top box these days.
...something that would sneak around the house watching you, and then attack you when you least expect it.
But it *doesn't* look like my ex-roommate from college....
the cosmetic changes to the new AIBO...
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make it now look more like the robot in the film _Red Planet_ to me than the first AIBOs did.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0199753
And if it HAD everything else you listed...
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you'd be whining it wasn't released with Linux support. Some people are never ever satisfied.
It doesn't exactly do students a favor by exposing them to the forrest until they have a good grasp of the concept of the "tree", which is hedridm's main point.
I did catch Fight Club on showtime (or hbo2, forget right now) about 1am on Wednesday night/Thursday morning - channel flipping about 2:30am and cut into the finale. It was surrealistic to see the financial district blow up on film after seeing it all week in live television.
"Some addresses Monster Hut sent to were only used as points of contact for domains with NetSol. There is no way they could have opted in anywhere since these addresses aren't used for anything other than domain contact."
I have been receiving spam from Maverick Records concerning their various pop music artists for over a year, including to addresses I never use. Emails to the record label bounce, and I hate them.(more details snipped)
In regards to the recent Code Red/Sircam hoorah, a very pro-Microsoft acquaintance of mine said the Code Red hassle "demonstrated the enormous user base of MS as far as Internet sites go. As with anything that could achieve that level of user-base, security holes are ineveitable just as with linux, only they aren't as publicized due to the smaller user-base" (his words).
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Eco-terrorists who do things like torch SUV dealerships are not IMO helping their cause. They are spoiled brats who want to see things happen NOW NOW NOW and will stomp their feet, shout and cry because they can't have what their instant gratification demands. They will continue until a) they get what they want (never worked with my parents) or b) they get put in time-out/jail. Want to help the environment? Help other people do things in a better way.
Thank you, that was my point (well, my real point was to nitpick Katz for the error of casually referring to all semi-automatics as 9mms), but I'm obliged to you for bothering to explain more fo the background than I bothered to do so. The Tomb Raider Tech Manual as referenced by CaptainFlyingToaster may say Lara's guns are 9mm, but the guns she's actually carrying are.45s. Personally I've seen some nice match-accessorized Browning Hi-Powers that would have been quite photogenic enough.
Re:speaking on behalf of the Illuminati....
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Someone thought that was insightful? Aack. Some people have no sense of humor.
speaking on behalf of the Illuminati....
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I want to formally protest the blackening of the Illuminati's name by being portrayed as the bad guys in so many movies, openly here in Tomb raider and in thinly-disguised slanders in so many other films and novels. Just because you're a secret underground society, it makes defending your name and good works ever so much harder...ahem, sorry.
Umm, not all semiautomatic pistols are 9mms. She's using match versions of the H&K.45 pistol the US military adopted for the elite units (SEAL, Delta, etc). Come on, get obvious details right.
http://www.heckler-koch.de/html/english/civil/01 _p istols/01_07_index.html
(exposed URL, cut&paste to see the gun)
Lara does run out of ammo at least once when it's inconvenient, and does reload frequently. I can't believe I'm defending the realism of a videogame-turned-movie, but it's honestly not as bad as the old western "sixty-six shooters" or the never needs recahrging energy packs of most sf blaster/laser weapons.
Ralph Bakshi's Wizards (1977) was about 81-86 minutes. F.W. Murnau's classic vampire film Nosferatu (1922) was only 75 minutes, as was the Bela Lugosi Dracula of 1931.
The Maltese Falcon (1941) was 99 minutes (slightly past your ninety-minute cutoff, but still short.
Casablanca (1942) at 102 minutes hardly requires more than a single evening, and Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934) at 105 minutes leaves plenty of the evening free after watching. There are certainly others that are shorter, these are just the classics I remembered as being pretty short offhand.
And recently, you could have seen Soderbergh's Traffic and von Trier's Dancer in the Dark at close to three hours apiece. Going back not too far, there's Mel Gibson's Braveheart, Kenneth Brannagh's uncut Hamlet at nearly four hours (anyone who wants to can look them up on IMDB if they're interested).
Don't get me wrong, I loved the nearly four hours of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, nine hours of Shoah, and the twelve hours of Berlin Alexanderplatz, but this is more a matter of selective perception - you're forgetting the older short films as well as the newer long films.
I agree it may well be illegal, but I have seen exxactly that happen. A friend of mine went in for an interview for a (now defunct) local company (not the one I referenced in my first posting). He received with his offer letter an IP & non-compete agreement that he found impossible to accept. He politely (according to him, but I believe him) requested negotiation of details in the IP & non-compete agreement (in addition to the IP issues similar to the story's problems, it basically said he couldn't work for any Internet-oriented company for 18 months after he left, either voluntarily or not). He was told, very sharply, that the company felt these terms were reasonable, and his offer letter was immediately voided.
Another friend of mine who worked for, then left, this particular company, had the company actually pursue him legally for working for another technical company. I should mention the first one (who questioned) was a Java developer, but the second one (who did work for them) was a Photoshop-oriented web artist. The company pursued the web artist legally. His attorneys told him the contract he signed was uneneforcable and illegal, but that he could go broke proving it. He had to essentially not work for eighteen months until it expired.
So, anon, I agree such might well be illegal, and thanks for raising that point. I threw that comment in because I've seen it happen. Having such a comment in an interview is sort of a big hint to find another job elsewhere.
Rule 1: Some people are good at some things.
Rule 2: Not all people are good at all things.
Rule 3: Clint Eastwood said "A man's got to know his limitations".
Get expert advice if it's important. If you're installing a switch in a network, you'll ask an expert. I have a CPA I trust to do my taxes, I have an auto mechanic I trust not to gouge me when fixing my cars, I have an agent for my book cotnract negotiations, I have an attorney I trust to have my interests in mind when I ask for advice because I'm not as good at what they do as they are, and I acknowledge that.
If you're signing a legal document, get advice from a lawyer. If they won't let you get legal advice before signing (as in claiming the document is "company proprietary" or some similar excuse, they may well be sneaking something into the document you wouldn't like.
When a company was trying to hire me a short while back, I was handed a several-page IP agreement at a company that wanted me, that required me to list everything I'd ever done, and that any innovations, to prior work or not, done during my time of employment, whether on or off worktime, belonged to the company. Their attitude (it was a small and privately owned, but very well known Java development shop) was they'd "been burned" in a previous business by one of their guys leaving & stealing everything, so they were just protecting themselves. This agreement was significantly farther-reaching than I felt comfortable with, and was one of the several reasons I became convinced I was dealing with untrustworthy and unethical people - we parted ways shortly thereafter.
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Framemaker is my doc software of choice for everything longer than email and most love letters. Currently I'm still using it on Mac OS 9. I was really happy about the beta for Linux, and terribly unhappy that Adobe seems to be letting that development die. I'd suggest keeping the Irix server running and using X Windows to mirror to your Linux systems.
I'd actually expect that to be OS9 as in OS9/9000. Is this Mac OS 9?
what else is a desk for but holding computers? Papers. Peripherals. Books. Telephones. If I wanted fifteen computers in one compact space I'd have a rack loaded with 1U-4U systems. I don't want all the fan and drive noise under or on my desk, fast ethernet to the server closet is fast enough & quiet, too. And gives me desk space for all the other stuff.
It's got the body shape of an Airport base station. In concept it's a Cube with a flat panel attached to even further reduce the desktop footprint. It's cool looking, it's cheaper than a Cube was, and it takes up less space on the desk. Spiffy.
Every year, since it came out on VHS & now DVD, I watch Strange Days. It's flashy, dramatic, has a good score, has good acting, nice sf story, and is a new years eve story.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0114558
wrote an ee doc smith-like series of stories of men running a communications satellite relaying between the Earth, Venus and either Mercury or Mars. You can find the space opera stories collected as _The Complete Venus Equilateral_.
Isn't the latency for wireless bad enough it's noticable for fast-twitch gaming such as Unreal/Quake and relatives?
OS 9/9000 - developed by Microware of Des Moines, Iowa under contract to Motorola to write an OS that worked the same on Intel and 68000-series chips - ran on 68000 to the 68060 that I recall. More common than Bob, but I've almost always had to explain what it is whenever the subject came up. Had a GUI called G-Windows which was a proprietary and almost totally undocumented version of X-Windows from GESPAC in Switzerland. I worked for a company that wrote a PLC simulator running under OS 9/9000. I believe OS 9/9000 is used in some set-top box these days.
Got through the first segment in horrified fascination, and the first commercial break freed my eyeballs. Aggghhh. This is so bad. Stay away.
...something that would sneak around the house watching you, and then attack you when you least expect it.
But it *doesn't* look like my ex-roommate from college....
make it now look more like the robot in the film _Red Planet_ to me than the first AIBOs did.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0199753
you'd be whining it wasn't released with Linux support. Some people are never ever satisfied.
But it does teach them to spell forest correctly.
I did catch Fight Club on showtime (or hbo2, forget right now) about 1am on Wednesday night/Thursday morning - channel flipping about 2:30am and cut into the finale. It was surrealistic to see the financial district blow up on film after seeing it all week in live television.
"Some addresses Monster Hut sent to were only used as points of contact for domains with NetSol. There is no way they could have opted in anywhere since these addresses aren't used for anything other than domain contact."
I have been receiving spam from Maverick Records concerning their various pop music artists for over a year, including to addresses I never use. Emails to the record label bounce, and I hate them.(more details snipped)
In regards to the recent Code Red/Sircam hoorah, a very pro-Microsoft acquaintance of mine said the Code Red hassle "demonstrated the enormous user base of MS as far as Internet sites go. As with anything that could achieve that level of user-base, security holes are ineveitable just as with linux, only they aren't as publicized due to the smaller user-base" (his words).
Eco-terrorists who do things like torch SUV dealerships are not IMO helping their cause. They are spoiled brats who want to see things happen NOW NOW NOW and will stomp their feet, shout and cry because they can't have what their instant gratification demands. They will continue until a) they get what they want (never worked with my parents) or b) they get put in time-out/jail. Want to help the environment? Help other people do things in a better way.
Thank you, that was my point (well, my real point was to nitpick Katz for the error of casually referring to all semi-automatics as 9mms), but I'm obliged to you for bothering to explain more fo the background than I bothered to do so. The Tomb Raider Tech Manual as referenced by CaptainFlyingToaster may say Lara's guns are 9mm, but the guns she's actually carrying are .45s. Personally I've seen some nice match-accessorized Browning Hi-Powers that would have been quite photogenic enough.
Someone thought that was insightful? Aack. Some people have no sense of humor.
I want to formally protest the blackening of the Illuminati's name by being portrayed as the bad guys in so many movies, openly here in Tomb raider and in thinly-disguised slanders in so many other films and novels. Just because you're a secret underground society, it makes defending your name and good works ever so much harder...ahem, sorry.
Umm, not all semiautomatic pistols are 9mms. She's using match versions of the H&K .45 pistol the US military adopted for the elite units (SEAL, Delta, etc). Come on, get obvious details right.
1 _p istols/01_07_index.html
http://www.heckler-koch.de/html/english/civil/0
(exposed URL, cut&paste to see the gun)
Lara does run out of ammo at least once when it's inconvenient, and does reload frequently. I can't believe I'm defending the realism of a videogame-turned-movie, but it's honestly not as bad as the old western "sixty-six shooters" or the never needs recahrging energy packs of most sf blaster/laser weapons.
Ralph Bakshi's Wizards (1977) was about 81-86 minutes. F.W. Murnau's classic vampire film Nosferatu (1922) was only 75 minutes, as was the Bela Lugosi Dracula of 1931. The Maltese Falcon (1941) was 99 minutes (slightly past your ninety-minute cutoff, but still short. Casablanca (1942) at 102 minutes hardly requires more than a single evening, and Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934) at 105 minutes leaves plenty of the evening free after watching. There are certainly others that are shorter, these are just the classics I remembered as being pretty short offhand. And recently, you could have seen Soderbergh's Traffic and von Trier's Dancer in the Dark at close to three hours apiece. Going back not too far, there's Mel Gibson's Braveheart, Kenneth Brannagh's uncut Hamlet at nearly four hours (anyone who wants to can look them up on IMDB if they're interested). Don't get me wrong, I loved the nearly four hours of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, nine hours of Shoah, and the twelve hours of Berlin Alexanderplatz, but this is more a matter of selective perception - you're forgetting the older short films as well as the newer long films.
Besides the server upgrades, service packs, etc., I find it hard to believe any Windows server has ever run close to four years without a crash.
I agree it may well be illegal, but I have seen exxactly that happen. A friend of mine went in for an interview for a (now defunct) local company (not the one I referenced in my first posting). He received with his offer letter an IP & non-compete agreement that he found impossible to accept. He politely (according to him, but I believe him) requested negotiation of details in the IP & non-compete agreement (in addition to the IP issues similar to the story's problems, it basically said he couldn't work for any Internet-oriented company for 18 months after he left, either voluntarily or not). He was told, very sharply, that the company felt these terms were reasonable, and his offer letter was immediately voided.
Another friend of mine who worked for, then left, this particular company, had the company actually pursue him legally for working for another technical company. I should mention the first one (who questioned) was a Java developer, but the second one (who did work for them) was a Photoshop-oriented web artist. The company pursued the web artist legally. His attorneys told him the contract he signed was uneneforcable and illegal, but that he could go broke proving it. He had to essentially not work for eighteen months until it expired.
So, anon, I agree such might well be illegal, and thanks for raising that point. I threw that comment in because I've seen it happen. Having such a comment in an interview is sort of a big hint to find another job elsewhere.
Rule 2: Not all people are good at all things.
Rule 3: Clint Eastwood said "A man's got to know his limitations".
Get expert advice if it's important. If you're installing a switch in a network, you'll ask an expert. I have a CPA I trust to do my taxes, I have an auto mechanic I trust not to gouge me when fixing my cars, I have an agent for my book cotnract negotiations, I have an attorney I trust to have my interests in mind when I ask for advice because I'm not as good at what they do as they are, and I acknowledge that.
If you're signing a legal document, get advice from a lawyer. If they won't let you get legal advice before signing (as in claiming the document is "company proprietary" or some similar excuse, they may well be sneaking something into the document you wouldn't like.
When a company was trying to hire me a short while back, I was handed a several-page IP agreement at a company that wanted me, that required me to list everything I'd ever done, and that any innovations, to prior work or not, done during my time of employment, whether on or off worktime, belonged to the company. Their attitude (it was a small and privately owned, but very well known Java development shop) was they'd "been burned" in a previous business by one of their guys leaving & stealing everything, so they were just protecting themselves. This agreement was significantly farther-reaching than I felt comfortable with, and was one of the several reasons I became convinced I was dealing with untrustworthy and unethical people - we parted ways shortly thereafter.