We had this when I worked in the web-dev team at Dell. Friday afternoons was "personal project" time. I guess they figurued no-one did anything on Friday afternoon anyway. It has to be said, however, that most people didn't take it for anything more than an excuse to not even *pretend* to be working. The few people that took it seriously tended to use it to learn new languages and explore new ideas, rather than develop anything anyone would ever consider useful. This helped their CVs, though, more than it helped Dell - I got some Java onto my CV that I didn't have before, which helped me to get my next job after Dull (sic!).
Because the biometric tech is only good enough to validate that you are the same as the person identified on the card.
The technology is not capable of matching your biometric data (eg your retina scan) with a unique individual on the database - your retina would match you + several other people, so the system wouldn't know whether the person standing there was John Smith or Osama Bin Laden, who (from the system's point of view) have identical retinas.
Worked for me. I put the access point in the middle of the atic (roofspace), and now can even access it while I'm baby-sitting for the kids down the street!
I just checked out the site, and it is cool - listened to some of the samples, and there is a good buzz to some of the music, BUT...
All the samples I listened to seemed(???) to be from the BEGINNING of songs, so they are mostly intros. It would give a better flavor if the saples were from the middle of the song (the chorus, in a traditionally structured song) as they do on Amazon. (And I HAVE bought stuff from Amazon having heard nothing but the lo-fi samples.)
I know the article has been retracted, but the debate is still an interesting one...
In the UK there are two main football (soccer) games - EA's and Pro-Evolution Soccer. EA's has much more extensive licenses to use real players/ grounds/ etc; and while EVERY review says Pro-Ev has better gameplay, guess which one sells more?
I had Daley Thompson's Decathlon for the C64 - but I do remember him in real-life too - Daley was a big hero to us kids growing up in the UK in the 80s, when he won the Olympics. He was interviewed recently in one of the 'Sundays' - he is now a fitness trainer to rich guys in The City, and he seemed a little bitter about life after his days on the track...
Just sent the following. It will probably be filed in/dev/null as I am obviously one of the offending zealots myself, but...
This article contains a number of errors. The virus did NOT unleash "a barrage of emails" - it was programmed to unleash a barrage of HTTP requests. Furthermore, the virus did NOT bring down the SCO web site - the site was removed from the internet before the attacks could take place. Additionally, this is not a "new" kind of attack - very similar attacks were unleashed by viruses against part of Microsoft's web site last year.
The article also implies/ insinuates a link between the Open Source movement and the virus which is the equivalent of blaming all Muslims for September 11th. The Open Source movement, via its Slashdot web community, has in fact been forthright in CONDEMNING the attack.
As a British TV license payer, I help to fund BBCi, and I am appalled that this article has found its way onto a site which I would usually expect to be factually accurate and balanced.
IANAL, but surely under the long-established "SCO Principle" SEGA should be suing everyone who PURCHASED Simpsons Road Rage? I am looking forward to my letter!
This seems to suggest that GC owners are not sports fans (or not football fans, anyways) - 7% of PS2 owners bought Madden , 5% of XBox owners, but 0% (???) of GC owners... Come to think of it, I own a GC (and N64) and I have never bought a sports title...
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We had this when I worked in the web-dev team at Dell. Friday afternoons was "personal project" time. I guess they figurued no-one did anything on Friday afternoon anyway. It has to be said, however, that most people didn't take it for anything more than an excuse to not even *pretend* to be working. The few people that took it seriously tended to use it to learn new languages and explore new ideas, rather than develop anything anyone would ever consider useful. This helped their CVs, though, more than it helped Dell - I got some Java onto my CV that I didn't have before, which helped me to get my next job after Dull (sic!).
Because the biometric tech is only good enough to validate that you are the same as the person identified on the card.
The technology is not capable of matching your biometric data (eg your retina scan) with a unique individual on the database - your retina would match you + several other people, so the system wouldn't know whether the person standing there was John Smith or Osama Bin Laden, who (from the system's point of view) have identical retinas.
Worked for me. I put the access point in the middle of the atic (roofspace), and now can even access it while I'm baby-sitting for the kids down the street!
And this is funny, why?
For the first 30 minutes, somthing light and breezy, like Britany.
For the next 30 minutes, something soulful, like Nora Jones.
And after an hour...
Mandatory Suicide by Slayer.
So, as a guy who rides a bike...
What is the one case where a manual car is better than an automatic?
I'm seeing these probs with .9 as well - for some reason the "Games" section seems particularly vulnerable.
I just checked out the site, and it is cool - listened to some of the samples, and there is a good buzz to some of the music, BUT...
All the samples I listened to seemed(???) to be from the BEGINNING of songs, so they are mostly intros. It would give a better flavor if the saples were from the middle of the song (the chorus, in a traditionally structured song) as they do on Amazon. (And I HAVE bought stuff from Amazon having heard nothing but the lo-fi samples.)
I know the article has been retracted, but the debate is still an interesting one...
In the UK there are two main football (soccer) games - EA's and Pro-Evolution Soccer. EA's has much more extensive licenses to use real players/ grounds/ etc; and while EVERY review says Pro-Ev has better gameplay, guess which one sells more?
I had Daley Thompson's Decathlon for the C64 - but I do remember him in real-life too - Daley was a big hero to us kids growing up in the UK in the 80s, when he won the Olympics. He was interviewed recently in one of the 'Sundays' - he is now a fitness trainer to rich guys in The City, and he seemed a little bitter about life after his days on the track...
Just sent the following. It will probably be filed in /dev/null as I am obviously one of the offending zealots myself, but...
This article contains a number of errors. The virus did NOT unleash "a barrage of emails" - it was programmed to unleash a barrage of HTTP requests. Furthermore, the virus did NOT bring down the SCO web site - the site was removed from the internet before the attacks could take place. Additionally, this is not a "new" kind of attack - very similar attacks were unleashed by viruses against part of Microsoft's web site last year.
The article also implies/ insinuates a link between the Open Source movement and the virus which is the equivalent of blaming all Muslims for September 11th. The Open Source movement, via its Slashdot web community, has in fact been forthright in CONDEMNING the attack.
As a British TV license payer, I help to fund BBCi, and I am appalled that this article has found its way onto a site which I would usually expect to be factually accurate and balanced.
I agree with the rest, but farm subsidies do NOT keep prices down: Economist.com
IANAL, but surely under the long-established "SCO Principle" SEGA should be suing everyone who PURCHASED Simpsons Road Rage? I am looking forward to my letter!
This seems to suggest that GC owners are not sports fans (or not football fans, anyways) - 7% of PS2 owners bought Madden , 5% of XBox owners, but 0% (???) of GC owners... Come to think of it, I own a GC (and N64) and I have never bought a sports title...