I was a software tester for the DoD and can confirm the stupidity here. (I can't really talk about the exact program but I can tell you with 100% certainty that it was mission critical.) We were contracted to run massive amounts of automated testing on the latest build of the software I was working on. Upon finding bugs, we needed to do regression testing... to decide if we would fix them in the latest build, because if they were present in previous versions we were under no obligation to do so unless specifically paid to do so.
Did you pay for your textbooks in school? I'll be a freshman in the fall and I wish my college had implemented this program. Also, let's think about textbooks that you have no need for later in life- I'm required to pull something out of the 'Modern English Studies' selection of courses.
You can bet that as a math major, I'll be referring to that one later in my career. Good thing I paid 150% of the timeshared DRM price.
"Icasa has displayed a fundamental misunderstanding in network design. It appears the findings are based on reports by parties at the hearings, and Icasa did not apply its mind on how broadband is offered worldwide."
ICASA says Telkom should charge a fixed fee to cover the line cost when it is installed like every other country, not a monthly fee.
I was going to crack a Nigerian Spam joke, but sometimes life provides its own punchlines.
It kind of seems to me like they mentioned Yahoo for a lark in this article. The actually interesting and insightful section was about how people want to work at Google because--well, because they're Google-- but then they also sort of passingly mention "Oh, I guess people want to work at Yahoo too?"
Maybe they want to work there because they're competing against Google.
The only thing that would make that sound better is actually being true. Speculating blindly that maybe these companies are in slight competition, if one of them wins then this will give them a competitive advantage.
Not to be confused with Med-Mal style law, which is better for lawyers. (Who, possibly like their victims, make outrageously large amounts of money from questionably quantifiable damages.)
I'm not saying I'm in favor of this sort of patent adventuring, but saying knee-jerk insightful things like "Only the lawyers benefit from legal action" is rather specious IMO.
" Aren't you worried that you won't have enough movies and games if everyone keeps their rentals longer?
We will be carefully monitoring the movie and game selection to make sure we maintain our current levels of product availability for you. However, it's in everyone's best interest to return their rentals by the due date, even with the end of late fees, to ensure that we have the movies and games you want to rent, available when you want to rent them."
This seems like a reasonable assumption. People doing right for one another. So my question is... what are they actually going to do about this?
If they begin cheating to complete tasks, they'll be utterly useless if you actually need serious work done. It would be frightening if the wrong moment was fated to demonstrate thay robots were capable of cheating...
Ah, this is yet another example of hack journalism. They missed another bug that I just had to fix on an XP box today It's a vunerability in the win.ini file- it runs a harmful program called 'Explorer.exe'.
The best kind of horse to beat is a dead one...
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I was a software tester for the DoD and can confirm the stupidity here. (I can't really talk about the exact program but I can tell you with 100% certainty that it was mission critical.) We were contracted to run massive amounts of automated testing on the latest build of the software I was working on. Upon finding bugs, we needed to do regression testing... to decide if we would fix them in the latest build, because if they were present in previous versions we were under no obligation to do so unless specifically paid to do so.
I just want one. It's a nice quality of life increase to be able to do Computer Things with something I have in my pocket. That's it.
HAHAHAH LOOK I AM MAKING A JOKE ABOUT THEONION.COM ON THE INTERNET
Lameness filter nothing- Everyone thought about making this joke and it's redundant before anyone even makes it.
Uh, I think pornography is illegal in China.
Did you pay for your textbooks in school? I'll be a freshman in the fall and I wish my college had implemented this program. Also, let's think about textbooks that you have no need for later in life- I'm required to pull something out of the 'Modern English Studies' selection of courses.
You can bet that as a math major, I'll be referring to that one later in my career. Good thing I paid 150% of the timeshared DRM price.
Wow.
"Icasa has displayed a fundamental misunderstanding in network design. It appears the findings are based on reports by parties at the hearings, and Icasa did not apply its mind on how broadband is offered worldwide."
ICASA says Telkom should charge a fixed fee to cover the line cost when it is installed like every other country, not a monthly fee.
I was going to crack a Nigerian Spam joke, but sometimes life provides its own punchlines.
It kind of seems to me like they mentioned Yahoo for a lark in this article. The actually interesting and insightful section was about how people want to work at Google because--well, because they're Google-- but then they also sort of passingly mention "Oh, I guess people want to work at Yahoo too?"
Maybe they want to work there because they're competing against Google.
Aren't there other music stores with different pricing schemes or something? I think you're a little quick to criticize.
I tried to quit! I need a 12 step program...
I thought DDR2 was made by Roxor...
The only thing that would make that sound better is actually being true. Speculating blindly that maybe these companies are in slight competition, if one of them wins then this will give them a competitive advantage.
Not to be confused with Med-Mal style law, which is better for lawyers. (Who, possibly like their victims, make outrageously large amounts of money from questionably quantifiable damages.)
I'm not saying I'm in favor of this sort of patent adventuring, but saying knee-jerk insightful things like "Only the lawyers benefit from legal action" is rather specious IMO.
"Sorry, I can't pay my taxes, I run OS/2"
More like (n-k)log(n-k) where k is the frequency coefficient of That Big Dumb Guy Who Has Nothing Useful to Say.
"The three robot teams are now trying to work out what went wrong."
"You think this plug is important, Lou?"
"Nah."
What, you mean all at once?
No. Pay-per-view for television is a wild idea with no basis in reality.
...It seems like we're going down that road, what with Comcast's OnDemand and all.
Why, we get him some Sappho juice and we're in business...
" Aren't you worried that you won't have enough movies and games if everyone keeps their rentals longer?
We will be carefully monitoring the movie and game selection to make sure we maintain our current levels of product availability for you. However, it's in everyone's best interest to return their rentals by the due date, even with the end of late fees, to ensure that we have the movies and games you want to rent, available when you want to rent them."
This seems like a reasonable assumption. People doing right for one another. So my question is... what are they actually going to do about this?
If they begin cheating to complete tasks, they'll be utterly useless if you actually need serious work done. It would be frightening if the wrong moment was fated to demonstrate thay robots were capable of cheating...
Livejournalers, apparently. "Gosh, my parents are so mean! They never let me stay up late!"
Yeah, that kind of thing matters so much we should give it a special kind of award.
Wait a second...
Ah, this is yet another example of hack journalism. They missed another bug that I just had to fix on an XP box today It's a vunerability in the win.ini file- it runs a harmful program called 'Explorer.exe'. The best kind of horse to beat is a dead one...
It adds voice input/output
I can't let you go to that URL, Dave.
I know you and Frank were planning to change to Firefox, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Et Cetera...