I work in Tech Support. A small company, about 800 desktops, and a 4 desk tech support center. About 10 years ago I quit smoking. What this has to do with the subject is interesting:
Back when I was a gasper I would meet by the designated smoking place with the other poor souls. Smokers at that time represented an excellent cross section of the company from the receiving dock to the corporate office. When I showed up for my quick smoke the conversation would always roll around to the computer headache of the day. Hardware, Network, slow response from the branch office, printers that always hang on a word macro, whatever. And 3 or 4 other people would jump in "Hey we have the same problem!" This gave me a quick "pulse" of problems that a call log, staff meetings, or all the other tools of the bureaucratic trade never provided. I miss that input.
Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. Mayor: What do you mean, biblical? Ray: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor... real Wrath-of-God-type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Venkman: Rivers and seas boiling! Egon: 40 years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanos. Winston:The dead rising from the grave! Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together... mass hysteria!
Bandwidth caps are America protecting its poor infustructure. Were we in a backward place like Korea, Japan, or Singapore we would enjoy HUGE bandwidth and no limit for a reasonable monthly fee. The Duaopoly here is protecting its rusty wires and milking that much more out of them. we need fiber please, and not FIOS. Bring us real 21st century bandwidth here in the third (online) world..
No no, What we need is to impose a 5 day waiting period on thinking about viewing a Youtube video (and the adverts) before learning on Youtube. After all, why ban weapons when you can ban knowledge?
Ever notice that laws against something in tech (encryption, network use, limit downloads, etc.); defense (ban guns knives Marshall Arts knowledge); or most anything else, are proposed and passed by clueless politicians without a shred of morality or knowledge of the subject. And that laws in favor of something (RIAA favorable laws, copyrot, big money bail outs etc) are passed by clueless politicians without a shred of morality or knowledge of the subject. not that I woudl expect otherwise mind...
I have owned: a Van 4 bugs, 1 thing, 1 square back, 1 Gia, 1 411 and I worked for a while as a mechanic specializing in VeeDub but I did head gaskets and water pumps etc on the US beasts as well. Bus: Blew due tot eh reduction gear added to allow such a small engine more torque to handle loads, but not at highway speeds.
cooling: #4 cylinder always was shorted on cooling and usually threw a rod eventually. Solutions were to always change oil every 4k miles (and set valves) and install a Varoom or other exhaust system that balanced the pressure.
some boulevard boats could get a whopping 15mpg but the average muscle car, Lincoln Continental Cady or the like got far far less; usually around 4 hence my earlier remark. The Volkswagen was not special but it just worked.
now if it only came equipped with a bot who could sit through tedious hours of Uncle Fred and Aunt Tillie's vacation at Atlantic City and toss out pithy random thoughts to write on the back of each one. Think of the advances in civilization we would have!
I recall back in the 1970s a foreign car maker had a vehicle that could get 30mpg, was a 4 seater handeld well.. but the "Big Four" pushed through import rules that virtually killed it. It was declared an obsolete gas hog, unsafe and a poluter. At a time when 4mpg land yachts which killed you dead...were the rule. That car was the Volkswagen Bug..
Any car that works that comes from out of country will not fly
There is an old, probably apocryphal tale from the days of Novel Netware and IPX of the forgotten server. A loan machine runs headless with a quiet fan and no lights in a corner of a room. New remodeling puts the server behind sheet rock and there it sits walled up and running for years. One day a power spike causes a head crash and suddenly a national billing system dies. It takes a tech tracing a cat5 cable into a wall to find it.
Scary thought: Any.NET Frameworks components found in the controls of the LHC: Large Hadron Colider? http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/ It is going online in 2 days ya know...The end is nearer then you think?
what about games that never use the internet, are stand alone puzzle games but require a internet conenction FOR NO OTHER REASON then to activate the DRM? TellTale Games: Sam and Max series fits this model. Download the game, thne yoru internet conenction must be up to play it. I Downlaoded it via a mac then transfered it to my young son's machine (which has NO "Net" connection and it refused to play. As the company also releases the game on a CD I did not bother with the episodes but just waited till the CD came out. Dumb DRM in my opinion.
Years ago I recall a tracking system at a place I worked where the text field was parced as code. It saw the word "in" apearing in the sentence in text as an INSERT and the word preceeding it as a variable in which it would insert the word following, then truncate everything else.
Thus the phrase
THERE IS A FIRE IN THE BUILDING! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES
would show as
THERE IS A THE.
Later this was repaired and the designer went on to work developing web design at Facebook....
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I work in Tech Support. A small company, about 800 desktops, and a 4 desk tech support center. About 10 years ago I quit smoking. What this has to do with the subject is interesting:
Back when I was a gasper I would meet by the designated smoking place with the other poor souls. Smokers at that time represented an excellent cross section of the company from the receiving dock to the corporate office. When I showed up for my quick smoke the conversation would always roll around to the computer headache of the day. Hardware, Network, slow response from the branch office, printers that always hang on a word macro, whatever. And 3 or 4 other people would jump in "Hey we have the same problem!"
This gave me a quick "pulse" of problems that a call log, staff meetings, or all the other tools of the bureaucratic trade never provided. I miss that input.
Sum Ergo Cogito...
Wait....
oh well, I guess I am just getting Descartes before de horse....
Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, biblical?
Ray: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor... real Wrath-of-God-type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies.
Venkman: Rivers and seas boiling!
Egon: 40 years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanos.
Winston:The dead rising from the grave!
Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together... mass hysteria!
I have a simple question: In that state, are Judges elected and, was it conducted via E-Vote?
ho-wa ould-way o-da at-thay?
Que Monty Python: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVshkVF0S
Bandwidth caps are America protecting its poor infustructure. Were we in a backward place like Korea, Japan, or Singapore we would enjoy HUGE bandwidth and no limit for a reasonable monthly fee. The Duaopoly here is protecting its rusty wires and milking that much more out of them. we need fiber please, and not FIOS. Bring us real 21st century bandwidth here in the third (online) world..
No no, What we need is to impose a 5 day waiting period on thinking about viewing a Youtube video (and the adverts) before learning on Youtube. After all, why ban weapons when you can ban knowledge?
COBOL? bah! FORTRAN rulz!
-and he said with a face quite solemn: "You better start in the 7th column"
Virtual Ex-Wife?
Ever notice that laws against something in tech (encryption, network use, limit downloads, etc.); defense (ban guns knives Marshall Arts knowledge); or most anything else, are proposed and passed by clueless politicians without a shred of morality or knowledge of the subject. And that laws in favor of something (RIAA favorable laws, copyrot, big money bail outs etc) are passed by clueless politicians without a shred of morality or knowledge of the subject.
not that I woudl expect otherwise mind...
Walt Kelly the author of the comic Pogo said it best:
"We have met the enemy and he is US!"
Creationists Evolved, Evolutionists were created....
so...
and Lawyers dance around it jumping through the EULA Hoops?
I have owned: a Van 4 bugs, 1 thing, 1 square back, 1 Gia, 1 411 and I worked for a while as a mechanic specializing in VeeDub but I did head gaskets and water pumps etc on the US beasts as well.
Bus: Blew due tot eh reduction gear added to allow such a small engine more torque to handle loads, but not at highway speeds.
cooling: #4 cylinder always was shorted on cooling and usually threw a rod eventually. Solutions were to always change oil every 4k miles (and set valves) and install a Varoom or other exhaust system that balanced the pressure.
some boulevard boats could get a whopping 15mpg but the average muscle car, Lincoln Continental Cady or the like got far far less; usually around 4 hence my earlier remark.
The Volkswagen was not special but it just worked.
now if it only came equipped with a bot who could sit through tedious hours of Uncle Fred and Aunt Tillie's vacation at Atlantic City and toss out pithy random thoughts to write on the back of each one. Think of the advances in civilization we would have!
I recall back in the 1970s a foreign car maker had a vehicle that could get 30mpg, was a 4 seater handeld well.. but the "Big Four" pushed through import rules that virtually killed it. It was declared an obsolete gas hog, unsafe and a poluter. At a time when 4mpg land yachts which killed you dead...were the rule.
That car was the Volkswagen Bug..
Any car that works that comes from out of country will not fly
There is an old, probably apocryphal tale from the days of Novel Netware and IPX of the forgotten server. A loan machine runs headless with a quiet fan and no lights in a corner of a room. New remodeling puts the server behind sheet rock and there it sits walled up and running for years. One day a power spike causes a head crash and suddenly a national billing system dies. It takes a tech tracing a cat5 cable into a wall to find it.
"A billion here, a billion there, after a while yer talkin real lines of code" -with apologies to Evert Dirksen
Scary thought: Any .NET Frameworks components found in the controls of the LHC: Large Hadron Colider? http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/ It is going online in 2 days ya know...The end is nearer then you think?
so technically would one be guilty of making an obscene clone fall?
what about games that never use the internet, are stand alone puzzle games but require a internet conenction FOR NO OTHER REASON then to activate the DRM? TellTale Games: Sam and Max series fits this model. Download the game, thne yoru internet conenction must be up to play it. I Downlaoded it via a mac then transfered it to my young son's machine (which has NO "Net" connection and it refused to play. As the company also releases the game on a CD I did not bother with the episodes but just waited till the CD came out. Dumb DRM in my opinion.
Did anyone notice: the photo on his club discount shoe card or whatever...is his mug shot from when he was arrested in Albuqurque?
Years ago I recall a tracking system at a place I worked where the text field was parced as code. It saw the word "in" apearing in the sentence in text as an INSERT and the word preceeding it as a variable in which it would insert the word following, then truncate everything else.
Thus the phrase
THERE IS A FIRE IN THE BUILDING! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES
would show as
THERE IS A THE.
Later this was repaired and the designer went on to work developing web design at
Facebook....
Hey the FCC is from the Governemnt! I am SURE they are here to help us.