Amen. Several years ago on a very stressful project we setup a Nintendo 64 on the big video conference televisions and had four way death matches every day at 18h00 --- it was the perfect way to relieve the tension.
At a previous job one of the engineers created a Doom map of the corporate head quarters, with appropriate facial skins... he got in a hell of a lot of trouble but it was fun while it lasted.
Start trolling for relevant Dilberts and tape them to the door of your office or wall of your cube. Then start putting them in more conspicuous locations, like the bulletin board over the photo-copier or the lunch room refrigerator.
You can also write your letter of resignation, print it out, and put one of those "Sign Here -->" Post-It notes on it. Put a pen on it and leave it on your desk. He'll get the message.
While this is true (I have several Murakami Haruki novels that are physically small and split into two volumes) you also see books like Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone which is, at least in hardback, a single volume.
South Korea also does this: my copy of the first Harry Potter is published in Korean in two soft-bound volumes.
[1] IBM traditionally refuses to hire anyone without American citizenship. This rule was relaxed to allow the hiring of permanent residents. Nonetheless, as a matter of corporate policy, IBM managers generally do not hire people with an H-1B visa.
Instead they just ship the work off to one of the overseas IBM facilities where wages are considerably less. IBM Cairo being a prime example.
This may actually not work with Arabic. I'm not sure how good the iPod is at displaying Arabic characters. But I know you can make it work with most European languages, Japanese and Chinese.
The iPod does not display Arabic or Hebrew. Latin-script based languages, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, and Korean all work fine.
This whole thing makes me wonder about the scalability and maintainability of the underlying software controlling these blogs.
If you assume that bloggers registered with their legitimate email address, I would have thought it would be a small matter of scripting to tar up the content and email it to the owner. Bandwidth issue? Send two sites per minute: in a little over 24 hours everyone can get their content.
I get the feeling that Winer has to manually export and package each blog: sad. What provisions are made for backups then, short of using wget to slurp your entire blog?
You are being ignorant if you think the Ashcroft's minions give a rat's ass about getting permission for this stuff.
Whatever ever.
And why the anonymous posting?
Another poster suggested switching to English so you can install the software. Did you try that? Or does it refuse to work even after installation?
Also, have you looked for "Japanese" drivers on the Sony web site? Never mind that their "technical support" (probably sitting in Bangalore) told you there was no work around.
On the other hand, region software lock-outs are common in video game software, though I bought a GameBoy AdvancedSP in Japan and catridges sold here in the US work fine.
Oh get off it. Your e-mail can be searched with the same court orders that have been in place for years, well before Ashcroft and Poindexter, I might add.
Absolutely --- I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I'd go so far as to say that your email is being searched court order or not. Regardless of what people might think, unless you are encrypting your mail you should have no expectation of privacy from anyone. Anyway, after PATRIOT was passed the Feds probably don't even need the court order to snoop.
At his keynote address at HLT-NAACL 2004 conference, Andrei Broder (once of AltaVista, now at IBM TJW) mentioned that IBM has a regular policy of purging deleted email every 3 months. But one must believe it still exists, at least for the next lawsuite.
that next-generation programming systems will combine compilers, linkers, debuggers,
...THINK Pascal (for the Mac) was doing this almost 20 years ago: the editor served as the front end to the compiler --- so the syntax highlighting in the THINK Pascal editor was driven by the lexer (really was the lexer): you knew about syntax errors immediately. The debugger was fully integrated into the environment. It was really sweet, and probably one of the best programming environments ever written.
Isn't it ironic that Microsoft has allowed two projects, WTL and WiX, to be released under the CPL? Evidently these have little value to the company (and by extension, the developer's are not valued.)
This is more FUD coming out of Microsoft, but that is stating the redundant.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier to just use SSL and/or IPSec with well peer-reviewed algorythms, and H.323 for voice communications so they too can be wrapped in IPSec?
People do that already, at least those who are paranoid. Certainly the types of people Echelon (assuming it exists;-) are targeting already use encryption a lot of the time.
I expect there is little that the NSA, NRO, and other organizations with the US (and British) intelligence community cannot decrypt, given the time and enough text.
The goal of the EU is, I expect, to make communication originating within the EU countries transparently encrypted. Otherwise how else will it work across the board?
The Kendall Square area has improved a lot in the last few years... especially the area around the T stop and down mainstreet towards Tech Square. Anyway, walking from the T stop down Main Street to the Stata building isn't that bad now.
I would still be a bit worried about walking down Vassar Street towards Mass Ave in the middle of the night, but going from Stata to the T wouldn't be too bad.
I don't see why the CS/AI Lab and the Linguistics Departments need this much security anyway.
Perhaps the hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment available for the taking in the the AI Lab and LCS have something to do with it, no? Not to mention the technology under development and other property. IMHO security should be tight in these buildings. But as another poster said, physical security is useless unless because you'll always find people who will let you in. When I was in college the dorm doors had punch number locks, and people were always calling out to others for the combos --- either because they were drunk and couldn't remember, were visting a friend, or were from the local area and wanted to steal something.
I expect RMS is upset because beyond the RFID id letting him into the building, it also lets people track his where abouts throughout the building. So does he still use "rms" as his password on the FSF machines?
IIRC work on the building started in 1998 or 1999... it's been in the works for a long time. They first had to tear down the buildings that were there , and the plans changed several times (i.e., a parking garage was added underneath.
I personally am not a big fan of Frank Gehry's work: I find it to be an eyesore. The pictures on the original post make it look 'better' than it really is. In person it's an eyesore, IMHO. Frankly I prefer IM Pei's design on The Media Lab to this.
This is the same kodak that is offshoring film production because they are unable to compete with Fuji Film.
Offshoring is being done because it is cheaper. Period. Kodak has many problems, for sure, but film competition is not one of them any more. Their Portra line of professional films is outstanding: I certainly prefer them to Fuji's portrain films. Their black and white films and their chemicals are still some of the best.
The biggest recent problem for Kodak has been the onset of Digital photography. This has hit all traditional film manufacturers: Kodak, Fuji, Ilford, Agfa...
Fuji Film is made in the USA.
Fuji Film for sale in the USA may be made in the USA. There are many types of Fuji film emulsions that are made and sold outside of the United States.
I had read a while back about the CIA and US Govt investing in startups - I think its quite possible that these guys are probably funded thus:)
In-Q-Tel makes no secret of the companies it invests in, though they are very careful with their money and perform a lot of due-diligence before making any investment. And to be pedantic, In-Q-Tel is not a Governmental agency, they just happen to concentrate their activity based on the needs of the Defense-Intelligence community. The company I work for is one of those that In-Q-Tel has invested in.
There are lots of programs in the Department of Defence that companies can apply to in order to get research money: you just need to know which back to scratch and get yourself noticed.
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Amen. Several years ago on a very stressful project we setup a Nintendo 64 on the big video conference televisions and had four way death matches every day at 18h00 --- it was the perfect way to relieve the tension.
At a previous job one of the engineers created a Doom map of the corporate head quarters, with appropriate facial skins... he got in a hell of a lot of trouble but it was fun while it lasted.
Start trolling for relevant Dilberts and tape them to the door of your office or wall of your cube. Then start putting them in more conspicuous locations, like the bulletin board over the photo-copier or the lunch room refrigerator.
You can also write your letter of resignation, print it out, and put one of those "Sign Here -->" Post-It notes on it. Put a pen on it and leave it on your desk. He'll get the message.
I'd love to be able to dig up some early BBC2.
Yes, I've really missed my weekend Welsh lessons...
While this is true (I have several Murakami Haruki novels that are physically small and split into two volumes) you also see books like Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone which is, at least in hardback, a single volume. South Korea also does this: my copy of the first Harry Potter is published in Korean in two soft-bound volumes.
[1] IBM traditionally refuses to hire anyone without American citizenship. This rule was relaxed to allow the hiring of permanent residents. Nonetheless, as a matter of corporate policy, IBM managers generally do not hire people with an H-1B visa.
Instead they just ship the work off to one of the overseas IBM facilities where wages are considerably less. IBM Cairo being a prime example.
This may actually not work with Arabic. I'm not sure how good the iPod is at displaying Arabic characters. But I know you can make it work with most European languages, Japanese and Chinese.
The iPod does not display Arabic or Hebrew. Latin-script based languages, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, and Korean all work fine.
Yes, but they do not include the compiler or debugger, so you are still getting more from Express.
This whole thing makes me wonder about the scalability and maintainability of the underlying software controlling these blogs.
If you assume that bloggers registered with their legitimate email address, I would have thought it would be a small matter of scripting to tar up the content and email it to the owner. Bandwidth issue? Send two sites per minute: in a little over 24 hours everyone can get their content.
I get the feeling that Winer has to manually export and package each blog: sad. What provisions are made for backups then, short of using wget to slurp your entire blog?
You are being ignorant if you think the Ashcroft's minions give a rat's ass about getting permission for this stuff. Whatever ever. And why the anonymous posting?
Another poster suggested switching to English so you can install the software. Did you try that? Or does it refuse to work even after installation?
Also, have you looked for "Japanese" drivers on the Sony web site? Never mind that their "technical support" (probably sitting in Bangalore) told you there was no work around.
On the other hand, region software lock-outs are common in video game software, though I bought a GameBoy AdvancedSP in Japan and catridges sold here in the US work fine.
Oh get off it. Your e-mail can be searched with the same court orders that have been in place for years, well before Ashcroft and Poindexter, I might add.
Absolutely --- I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I'd go so far as to say that your email is being searched court order or not. Regardless of what people might think, unless you are encrypting your mail you should have no expectation of privacy from anyone. Anyway, after PATRIOT was passed the Feds probably don't even need the court order to snoop.
At his keynote address at HLT-NAACL 2004 conference, Andrei Broder (once of AltaVista, now at IBM TJW) mentioned that IBM has a regular policy of purging deleted email every 3 months. But one must believe it still exists, at least for the next lawsuite.
GMail is John Ashcroft and John Poindexter's wet dream: billions of messages nicely indexed and ready for mining.
Fortunately experience shows that Google doesn't much care to help the USG.
that next-generation programming systems will combine compilers, linkers, debuggers,
...THINK Pascal (for the Mac) was doing this almost 20 years ago: the editor served as the front end to the compiler --- so the syntax highlighting in the THINK Pascal editor was driven by the lexer (really was the lexer): you knew about syntax errors immediately. The debugger was fully integrated into the environment. It was really sweet, and probably one of the best programming environments ever written.
and that other tools will be plugin frameworks
Like Unix pipes and Eclipse?
Tomorrow arrived yesterday and appears today.
...that says "Fuck Ashcroft"
Isn't it ironic that Microsoft has allowed two projects, WTL and WiX, to be released under the CPL? Evidently these have little value to the company (and by extension, the developer's are not valued.)
This is more FUD coming out of Microsoft, but that is stating the redundant.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier to just use SSL and/or IPSec with well peer-reviewed algorythms, and H.323 for voice communications so they too can be wrapped in IPSec?
People do that already, at least those who are paranoid. Certainly the types of people Echelon (assuming it exists ;-) are targeting already use encryption a lot of the time.
I expect there is little that the NSA, NRO, and other organizations with the US (and British) intelligence community cannot decrypt, given the time and enough text.
The goal of the EU is, I expect, to make communication originating within the EU countries transparently encrypted. Otherwise how else will it work across the board?
Clearly Microsoft is reeling under the impact of Linux, and is regrouping for a last stand.
Uh, yeah, that's the ticket. Linux really ate that absolutely huge router market Microsoft was dominating.
What is important is that you believe it.
The Kendall Square area has improved a lot in the last few years... especially the area around the T stop and down mainstreet towards Tech Square. Anyway, walking from the T stop down Main Street to the Stata building isn't that bad now.
I would still be a bit worried about walking down Vassar Street towards Mass Ave in the middle of the night, but going from Stata to the T wouldn't be too bad.
Nevertheless, I agree with much of what you say.
I don't see why the CS/AI Lab and the Linguistics Departments need this much security anyway.
Perhaps the hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment available for the taking in the the AI Lab and LCS have something to do with it, no? Not to mention the technology under development and other property. IMHO security should be tight in these buildings. But as another poster said, physical security is useless unless because you'll always find people who will let you in. When I was in college the dorm doors had punch number locks, and people were always calling out to others for the combos --- either because they were drunk and couldn't remember, were visting a friend, or were from the local area and wanted to steal something.
I expect RMS is upset because beyond the RFID id letting him into the building, it also lets people track his where abouts throughout the building. So does he still use "rms" as his password on the FSF machines?
IIRC work on the building started in 1998 or 1999... it's been in the works for a long time. They first had to tear down the buildings that were there , and the plans changed several times (i.e., a parking garage was added underneath.
I personally am not a big fan of Frank Gehry's work: I find it to be an eyesore. The pictures on the original post make it look 'better' than it really is. In person it's an eyesore, IMHO. Frankly I prefer IM Pei's design on The Media Lab to this.
This is the same kodak that is offshoring film production because they are unable to compete with Fuji Film.
Offshoring is being done because it is cheaper. Period. Kodak has many problems, for sure, but film competition is not one of them any more. Their Portra line of professional films is outstanding: I certainly prefer them to Fuji's portrain films. Their black and white films and their chemicals are still some of the best.
The biggest recent problem for Kodak has been the onset of Digital photography. This has hit all traditional film manufacturers: Kodak, Fuji, Ilford, Agfa...
Fuji Film is made in the USA.
Fuji Film for sale in the USA may be made in the USA. There are many types of Fuji film emulsions that are made and sold outside of the United States.
Just out of curiosity, any that you can think of off the top of your head? :)
Well, DARPA Solicitations is a good place to look.
I don't particularly want to rely upon Redmond for support, or for making sure the bugs aren't in there to begin with.
So all you need now is a Free (as in speech) version of MS Office and whatever other Windows-only software you use, and you'll be all set.
I'm just being the devil's advocate here...
I had read a while back about the CIA and US Govt investing in startups - I think its quite possible that these guys are probably funded thus :)
In-Q-Tel makes no secret of the companies it invests in, though they are very careful with their money and perform a lot of due-diligence before making any investment. And to be pedantic, In-Q-Tel is not a Governmental agency, they just happen to concentrate their activity based on the needs of the Defense-Intelligence community. The company I work for is one of those that In-Q-Tel has invested in.
There are lots of programs in the Department of Defence that companies can apply to in order to get research money: you just need to know which back to scratch and get yourself noticed.
Yeah, but it wasn't a "free" Windows. It both upped the cost of your PC, and you have few, if any, rights regarding it.
Fair enough. So a Free Windows is a Good Windows?