The original post is highly inflammatory and naive. From what I understand this "loan" is actually an Advance, same as when you write a book.
An author is paid an "Advance on royalties" by the Publisher. Once the book is released and starts making sales, the author will not see any additional income until after they have accrued enough actual royalties to match the advance.
Meanwhile the original poster is suggesting the music artist gets 100-63 = 37% royalty share? I wish I got that much as an author!
Doomed to Fail?!
you mean, Doomed to Fail the way both Friendster and Live Journal were? you'd be surprised how many friends geeks have, in the online-realm.
While I was in college, I needed a summer job, and signed up for factory work at Herco Technology Incorperated. I was promptly shuffled into their HASL (Hot-Air Solder Level) department, working on the HASL-C Alchemy machine. This is a conveyor belt which takes unfinished circuit boards and places solder on them (the solder sticks to exposed copper, everything else on the board is masked with a green layer already).
It first goes thru an acid wash (sulfuric acid, and two others), then a dry-heater, the actual solder bath, another wash, and another dryer.
I was in the graveyard shift, which does maintanence on the machine. Every night I got to open up the solder bath, and wearing 1/2 inch thick heat gloves and a plastic face shield, remove the soldier manifolds from the 500 degree hot oil, and place them into a bath of alcaline. Then I got to scrub the pair of manifolds that had already spent the night in an acid bath (that stuff slowly eats away at your skin if you get any on you) and put that back into the hot oil.
Every other night, I got to give the thing an oil change. This entails first filling up several buckets with fresh oil (using a hand oil pump), un-plugging the soldier bath, and pouring in the new oil while the old oil drains out into a pan. Someone (me) gets to sit next to the pan that is slowly filling up with hot oil and molten solder, and use a scoop to move the oil into a large oil drum marked for waste product. If you go to slow, it will over flow, and if you touch anything, you will be burned.
Apart from the gloves and face shield, we got goggles and workshop smocks. Anything else would be too hot, since the room temperature when working on the soldier bath was about 100+ degrees.
Everyone who worked there had at least one scar. I only worked there for 3 months, and I walked away with a small one which is now almost invisible.
There was more (lugging 50lb buckets of waste solder, dragging tubs of sulfuric acid, etc) but I think you get the point.
Oh, I got paid $8/hr.
When I asked the 40 yr old man who I worked with why he was still there after 5 years, he said: because I have a family, and dont speak good English.
and what he was saying in his head was:
"Windows is about choice [the Microsoft Choice] - you can mix and match software and music player stuff [as long as we support it]. We believe you should have [the Microsoft Choice] when it comes to music services."
Why dont you guys go after Linux Distributors?
"McBride: Our goal is not to blow up Linux. People ask why we don't go after the distributors...'If you have such a strong case, why not shut down Red Hat?' Our belief is that SCO has great opportunity in the future to let Linux keep going, not to put it on its back but for us to get a transaction fee every time it's sold. That's really our goal. "
"Sontag: SCO had been avoiding testing the GPL. That' why we didn't take action against the distributors."
So, the CEO says they're being nice to linux, but the VP says they were afraid attacking the GPL (what they'd have to do to get at distributors) would blow up on them.
These guys arent out for justice. They're out for money- and thats BS.
At what point does high-level chess played by intellegent and equally skilled people/machines become a game of Tic Tac Toe?
Certainly it has a finite set of moves, and while that set is greater than what most humans can consider in its entirety, these Grand Masters seem to be able to.
So where does it become a complex version of Tic Tac Toe- where the only way to win is for someone else to mess up?
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I really dont see your link between SCO and Microsoft
But SCO has certainly lost. Unfortunately they dont seem to realize it yet.
WTF, SCO? IMHO: STFU.
As am I.
If they actually are going to put out a product, they're going about it the wrong way. Their trumped up press has died away.
Meanwhile, they arent feeding the gamers any reasons to keep interest other than saying, "trust me guys, it's really cool."
They're starting to sound like that guy who sends you links to stupid websites, and while you're waiting for it to load hes saying "its the best thing ever" and after you've seen it you realize you just wasted 40 minutes of your life on an idiot. 40 minutes you'll never get back.
My message to Infinium Labs: Dont be that guy. Everyone hates that guy.
Websense blocks access to sites that mention 'proxy' servers and other work around methods. Fortunately I have access to a personal webserver with PHP. I simply wrote a script that would make my webserver download pages and images to it and post them to me, so the domain and content was innocuous to Websense.
You could also set up a proxie from outside of work, and write down the information you needed when you went in to work to set it up on your computer- its really not very hard to get around Websense.
Generally, professors who work on this sort of thing are not course-teachers. They get several years off from the wet-backs to do cool stuff like this when they can get the grants. Time off for good behaviour, so to speak.
I assume you mean |30n0, in which case, she knew jack about it. She didnt even know it was happening until the first semester she taught it and they handed her an MFC text book. (She is a Mac person)
I remember having to tell her all the windows shortcuts in class because she was taking 15 minutes to do a 10 second thing each day.
"The first step to fixing the spam problem should be a mass adoption of protocols that make it imbossible to determine the origin and owner of the offending piece of data"
I assume you meant "possible"
There was an article on/. a while ago about a proposed email schemea that would enforce accountability: When you send email, the email actually stays on your computer (or your ISP'
s) and instead a notification of this email is sent. Then the other person's email client downloads the email directly from your computer/ISP.
This doesnt stop spam in and of itself, but it forces spammers to be accountable, since we can tell where the mail is coming from.
I do contract IT work with a company. They have their own IT department, but the people there are either busy keeping the Exchange server from breaking, or are futzing with the Database (the contents of which, they know nothing about). All together, they dont seem very helpful.
That is why I was hired, to directly apply technology to some of the different projects a parts distributing company has. As a result, I have several different project managers coming to me for major help on several different projects. Thus far, I have kept all my TODOs on stickies attached to my desk above my computer. When someone asks me to do a new thing, I write it on a stickie and append it to the end of the list: FIFO.
Occasionally higher-ups request things, which jump straight to the top. But luckily, they can recognize the importance of some of the other projects I am doing, and when I tell them about it they demote themselves to the back of the queue.
The biggest issue is one person in particular who knows a great deal more about IT than the others. He wants automation. When I have to tell him no, I generally point out what would be neccesary, and why its different from what I could do for him already, and he understands. Maybe Im just blessed with project managers who are willing to listen- it is a smallish company after all.
That really sucks. REALLY SUCKS. Man.
Isnt there an actual law about not using the SS# as an ID though? My school used to, but they almost got in trouble for doing so and have since switched their student ID numbering system.
Perhaps you could look into this?
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The original post is highly inflammatory and naive. From what I understand this "loan" is actually an Advance, same as when you write a book. An author is paid an "Advance on royalties" by the Publisher. Once the book is released and starts making sales, the author will not see any additional income until after they have accrued enough actual royalties to match the advance. Meanwhile the original poster is suggesting the music artist gets 100-63 = 37% royalty share? I wish I got that much as an author!
Worse than the headline is the image caption:
"Dolphins are the only mammals other than humans to recognise rhythms and reproduce them vocally (Image: iStockphoto)"
So I guess birds that can whistle tunes, or 'talk' in the case of parrots, are strictly the result of causality?
Native 64-bit support? XAML?
Never underestimate the power of Duct Tape!!
this functionality has existed on OSX for several years now..
Doomed to Fail?! you mean, Doomed to Fail the way both Friendster and Live Journal were? you'd be surprised how many friends geeks have, in the online-realm.
While I was in college, I needed a summer job, and signed up for factory work at Herco Technology Incorperated. I was promptly shuffled into their HASL (Hot-Air Solder Level) department, working on the HASL-C Alchemy machine. This is a conveyor belt which takes unfinished circuit boards and places solder on them (the solder sticks to exposed copper, everything else on the board is masked with a green layer already).
It first goes thru an acid wash (sulfuric acid, and two others), then a dry-heater, the actual solder bath, another wash, and another dryer.
I was in the graveyard shift, which does maintanence on the machine. Every night I got to open up the solder bath, and wearing 1/2 inch thick heat gloves and a plastic face shield, remove the soldier manifolds from the 500 degree hot oil, and place them into a bath of alcaline. Then I got to scrub the pair of manifolds that had already spent the night in an acid bath (that stuff slowly eats away at your skin if you get any on you) and put that back into the hot oil.
Every other night, I got to give the thing an oil change. This entails first filling up several buckets with fresh oil (using a hand oil pump), un-plugging the soldier bath, and pouring in the new oil while the old oil drains out into a pan. Someone (me) gets to sit next to the pan that is slowly filling up with hot oil and molten solder, and use a scoop to move the oil into a large oil drum marked for waste product. If you go to slow, it will over flow, and if you touch anything, you will be burned.
Apart from the gloves and face shield, we got goggles and workshop smocks. Anything else would be too hot, since the room temperature when working on the soldier bath was about 100+ degrees.
Everyone who worked there had at least one scar. I only worked there for 3 months, and I walked away with a small one which is now almost invisible.
There was more (lugging 50lb buckets of waste solder, dragging tubs of sulfuric acid, etc) but I think you get the point.
Oh, I got paid $8/hr.
When I asked the 40 yr old man who I worked with why he was still there after 5 years, he said: because I have a family, and dont speak good English.
and what he was saying in his head was: "Windows is about choice [the Microsoft Choice] - you can mix and match software and music player stuff [as long as we support it]. We believe you should have [the Microsoft Choice] when it comes to music services."
Why dont you guys go after Linux Distributors? "McBride: Our goal is not to blow up Linux. People ask why we don't go after the distributors...'If you have such a strong case, why not shut down Red Hat?' Our belief is that SCO has great opportunity in the future to let Linux keep going, not to put it on its back but for us to get a transaction fee every time it's sold. That's really our goal. " "Sontag: SCO had been avoiding testing the GPL. That' why we didn't take action against the distributors." So, the CEO says they're being nice to linux, but the VP says they were afraid attacking the GPL (what they'd have to do to get at distributors) would blow up on them. These guys arent out for justice. They're out for money- and thats BS.
At what point does high-level chess played by intellegent and equally skilled people/machines become a game of Tic Tac Toe? Certainly it has a finite set of moves, and while that set is greater than what most humans can consider in its entirety, these Grand Masters seem to be able to. So where does it become a complex version of Tic Tac Toe- where the only way to win is for someone else to mess up?
I really dont see your link between SCO and Microsoft But SCO has certainly lost. Unfortunately they dont seem to realize it yet. WTF, SCO? IMHO: STFU.
does this sound like a major smart dust application to anyone else out there?
"make it a criminal offense to share information and tools online which could be used by malicious hackers and virus writers"
So, goodbye to downloading DevCPP, getting code from Sourceforge.net, and CVS in general. Im sure you guys could think of more.
You dont play many video games, do you?
As am I. If they actually are going to put out a product, they're going about it the wrong way. Their trumped up press has died away. Meanwhile, they arent feeding the gamers any reasons to keep interest other than saying, "trust me guys, it's really cool." They're starting to sound like that guy who sends you links to stupid websites, and while you're waiting for it to load hes saying "its the best thing ever" and after you've seen it you realize you just wasted 40 minutes of your life on an idiot. 40 minutes you'll never get back. My message to Infinium Labs: Dont be that guy. Everyone hates that guy.
A friend of mine saw the screen at Siggraph, he said the fog they used to create the screen smelled awful.
This was a post on slashdot not too long ago: http://individual.utoronto.ca/iizuka/research/cell ophane.htm
Websense blocks access to sites that mention 'proxy' servers and other work around methods. Fortunately I have access to a personal webserver with PHP. I simply wrote a script that would make my webserver download pages and images to it and post them to me, so the domain and content was innocuous to Websense. You could also set up a proxie from outside of work, and write down the information you needed when you went in to work to set it up on your computer- its really not very hard to get around Websense.
Generally, professors who work on this sort of thing are not course-teachers. They get several years off from the wet-backs to do cool stuff like this when they can get the grants. Time off for good behaviour, so to speak.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=balkaniza tion
I assume you mean |30n0, in which case, she knew jack about it. She didnt even know it was happening until the first semester she taught it and they handed her an MFC text book. (She is a Mac person) I remember having to tell her all the windows shortcuts in class because she was taking 15 minutes to do a 10 second thing each day.
I have a CA license, and it does not have my SS# on it (unless its encoded in the magnetic strip).
"The first step to fixing the spam problem should be a mass adoption of protocols that make it imbossible to determine the origin and owner of the offending piece of data" I assume you meant "possible" There was an article on /. a while ago about a proposed email schemea that would enforce accountability: When you send email, the email actually stays on your computer (or your ISP'
s) and instead a notification of this email is sent. Then the other person's email client downloads the email directly from your computer/ISP.
This doesnt stop spam in and of itself, but it forces spammers to be accountable, since we can tell where the mail is coming from.
I do contract IT work with a company. They have their own IT department, but the people there are either busy keeping the Exchange server from breaking, or are futzing with the Database (the contents of which, they know nothing about). All together, they dont seem very helpful. That is why I was hired, to directly apply technology to some of the different projects a parts distributing company has. As a result, I have several different project managers coming to me for major help on several different projects. Thus far, I have kept all my TODOs on stickies attached to my desk above my computer. When someone asks me to do a new thing, I write it on a stickie and append it to the end of the list: FIFO. Occasionally higher-ups request things, which jump straight to the top. But luckily, they can recognize the importance of some of the other projects I am doing, and when I tell them about it they demote themselves to the back of the queue. The biggest issue is one person in particular who knows a great deal more about IT than the others. He wants automation. When I have to tell him no, I generally point out what would be neccesary, and why its different from what I could do for him already, and he understands. Maybe Im just blessed with project managers who are willing to listen- it is a smallish company after all.
That really sucks. REALLY SUCKS. Man. Isnt there an actual law about not using the SS# as an ID though? My school used to, but they almost got in trouble for doing so and have since switched their student ID numbering system. Perhaps you could look into this?