We have rednecks here in Australia too. More than we need actually need. Want some? Curiously a lot of the immigrants from Europe I meet tend to be of the redneck variety. Perhaps they are refugees from the typically more left wing environment in their home countries. While US immigrants tend to be more left wing. A lot of the members of our right wing nationalist party were actually immigrants from the UK.
A woman I worked with who would have been of my parents generation (born in the 1940s or so) told me that in the 1950s she drove from Melbourne to Adelaide and back with her family. Both ways they had to stop every 50 miles so her dad could prise the dead rabbits out of the wheel bays.
From the same time, my dad told me he used to roam the countryside around his aunt's place in Violet Town for days, living on rabbit. They weren't hard to catch. Just chuck a good pocket knife and have your camp fire ready.
The hardest thing about being in HR is justifying your existence. The HR department where I work spits out a constant stream of useless projects, purely so they can claim to be doing something. For example we have a program to encourage employees to find people to apply for jobs at our company, but there are no positions open to apply for. The list goes on.
Snake oil products like this are ideal for HR. They take maybe a fifth of an HR person to administer, so it looks great on the HR managers resume (always looking for that next job, go home and update your resume). They use money (administered a budget of $DOLLARS, also great on the resume). They sound like a good idea. Its sounds really web 2.0 and hip to be involved. Really, it can't fail.
If they could afford the water (I know supply is short in Nevada) they could build a fountain to project water into the path of the beam. The effect should be spectacular, and a lot of the light would be either diffused or absorbed.
The hotel is both a solar oven and a sundial. They should redevelop the field of fire (so to speak) to show the date and time when the focus will be on certain areas. Should be quite educational.
That statement seemed pretty silly given that most applications will be to transcode the encrypted stream into something more portable, and transcoding doesn't have to be in real time.
I read this story years ago, probably in Electronics Australia. A science museum set up a computer terminal so that people could type on it and play with the buttons. Unfortunately school children left the screen covered with naughty words so a clever admin created a blacklist of words which could not be typed. Unfortunately there had to be a way to display and edit the blacklist...
That's funny, comparing yourself to an olympic athlete to make your argument
I wear bathers (or a wetsuit, when appropriate) when I swim and cycling clothes when I ride. Never been to the Olympics though. So again: how is wearing appropriate clothing for an activity the wrong thing to do?
why the fuck can't I new up an array of fully specialized generic objects
I can't imagine wanting to do that. Arrays were invented because the infrastructure didn't exist for better data structures. Ever heard of Collections?
Sometimes it pays to have a reputation for telling it like it is. I have been training customers when I did that and my employer didn't like it but sometimes a relationship needs to be repaired and the only way is to open the books so to speak so I get to do that.
No I understand that, I just question the benefit of P2P at all for the wiki. I doubt that it will have many videos popular enough to benefit from this type of distribution, and I doubt P2P would save wikimedia much bandwidth.
P2P is good for content which everybody wants right now but what about the situation where you have an encyclopedia full of videos and few of them are accessed by different browsers in any given day? Client side caches can't hold on to this stuff for ever. I wonder if there is any benefit from using P2P in this case.
Why? We dont need this. We need a Storm 3 that WORKS! Why is RIM ignoring the market that made them successful? Let Apple have the consumers, let Droid have the geeks. Business needs a phone that just works, dammit. Oooh, a tablet. I can read my email with larger fonts? WTF?!?!?
Hey RIM, pssst! There is nothing wrong with having the boring, but secure, reliable but quick, phone that just works. NOTHING.
You are being distracted into oblivion by people who WONT BUY YOUR TABLET ANYWAY.
It's likely that the QNX team (recently acquired by RIM) will be making this product. So I don't think it will change the focus and quality of the current offerings.
Shades of BeOS and Palm, except Palm didn't capitalise on their purchase.
The only real contact requests I got on Linked In were spam, just slightly more sophisticated than this. I have never seen that site do anything useful.
...but I don't think the have anything to do with my non-neglected linkedin account. Its just normal phishing.
What I did get yesterday was a telephone spam phishing attempt. They called told me they had detected malware from my system and tried to get me to load a remote administration tool from their web site. Take a look at the language on that site "Blue Screen To Death Error", etc. Its hilarious.
Yeah in my first job in aerospace my employer enrolled me in the union and arranged for union fees to be paid. My supervisor told me when I had to be on strike (the union didn't). After I left that job the union used a debt collector to chase me for my union fees. Apparently my employer had not un-enrolled me so from the unions POV I was still a member.
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In five years time I expect to see a story about Microsoft buying minecraft.
We have rednecks here in Australia too. More than we need actually need. Want some? Curiously a lot of the immigrants from Europe I meet tend to be of the redneck variety. Perhaps they are refugees from the typically more left wing environment in their home countries. While US immigrants tend to be more left wing. A lot of the members of our right wing nationalist party were actually immigrants from the UK.
A woman I worked with who would have been of my parents generation (born in the 1940s or so) told me that in the 1950s she drove from Melbourne to Adelaide and back with her family. Both ways they had to stop every 50 miles so her dad could prise the dead rabbits out of the wheel bays.
From the same time, my dad told me he used to roam the countryside around his aunt's place in Violet Town for days, living on rabbit. They weren't hard to catch. Just chuck a good pocket knife and have your camp fire ready.
The hardest thing about being in HR is justifying your existence. The HR department where I work spits out a constant stream of useless projects, purely so they can claim to be doing something. For example we have a program to encourage employees to find people to apply for jobs at our company, but there are no positions open to apply for. The list goes on.
Snake oil products like this are ideal for HR. They take maybe a fifth of an HR person to administer, so it looks great on the HR managers resume (always looking for that next job, go home and update your resume). They use money (administered a budget of $DOLLARS, also great on the resume). They sound like a good idea. Its sounds really web 2.0 and hip to be involved. Really, it can't fail.
It just won't work.
If they could afford the water (I know supply is short in Nevada) they could build a fountain to project water into the path of the beam. The effect should be spectacular, and a lot of the light would be either diffused or absorbed.
The hotel is both a solar oven and a sundial. They should redevelop the field of fire (so to speak) to show the date and time when the focus will be on certain areas. Should be quite educational.
That statement seemed pretty silly given that most applications will be to transcode the encrypted stream into something more portable, and transcoding doesn't have to be in real time.
Yes I am sure you would hate that, just like rain on your wedding day...
I read this story years ago, probably in Electronics Australia. A science museum set up a computer terminal so that people could type on it and play with the buttons. Unfortunately school children left the screen covered with naughty words so a clever admin created a blacklist of words which could not be typed. Unfortunately there had to be a way to display and edit the blacklist...
That's funny, comparing yourself to an olympic athlete to make your argument
I wear bathers (or a wetsuit, when appropriate) when I swim and cycling clothes when I ride. Never been to the Olympics though. So again: how is wearing appropriate clothing for an activity the wrong thing to do?
Yeah its not only bike riders who benefit from breathable fabrics.
They should not be confused with the American Constitution Society
And the Australian Computer Society.
..we need more detail about this. Examples are required.
why the fuck can't I new up an array of fully specialized generic objects
I can't imagine wanting to do that. Arrays were invented because the infrastructure didn't exist for better data structures. Ever heard of Collections?
run method exits. object will be returned to the heap at some unspecified time.
Sometimes it pays to have a reputation for telling it like it is. I have been training customers when I did that and my employer didn't like it but sometimes a relationship needs to be repaired and the only way is to open the books so to speak so I get to do that.
No I understand that, I just question the benefit of P2P at all for the wiki. I doubt that it will have many videos popular enough to benefit from this type of distribution, and I doubt P2P would save wikimedia much bandwidth.
P2P is good for content which everybody wants right now but what about the situation where you have an encyclopedia full of videos and few of them are accessed by different browsers in any given day? Client side caches can't hold on to this stuff for ever. I wonder if there is any benefit from using P2P in this case.
Yeah thats the call I got, about 24 hours ago. I am in Australia. I wish I had let the call go longer. Could be good for endless minutes of lulz.
Why? We dont need this. We need a Storm 3 that WORKS! Why is RIM ignoring the market that made them successful? Let Apple have the consumers, let Droid have the geeks. Business needs a phone that just works, dammit. Oooh, a tablet. I can read my email with larger fonts? WTF?!?!?
Hey RIM, pssst! There is nothing wrong with having the boring, but secure, reliable but quick, phone that just works. NOTHING.
You are being distracted into oblivion by people who WONT BUY YOUR TABLET ANYWAY.
It's likely that the QNX team (recently acquired by RIM) will be making this product. So I don't think it will change the focus and quality of the current offerings.
Shades of BeOS and Palm, except Palm didn't capitalise on their purchase.
Sure, browsers can run java applets which are sandboxed. Probably why phishers don't use java.
The only real contact requests I got on Linked In were spam, just slightly more sophisticated than this. I have never seen that site do anything useful.
...but I don't think the have anything to do with my non-neglected linkedin account. Its just normal phishing.
What I did get yesterday was a telephone spam phishing attempt. They called told me they had detected malware from my system and tried to get me to load a remote administration tool from their web site. Take a look at the language on that site "Blue Screen To Death Error", etc. Its hilarious.
Yeah in my first job in aerospace my employer enrolled me in the union and arranged for union fees to be paid. My supervisor told me when I had to be on strike (the union didn't). After I left that job the union used a debt collector to chase me for my union fees. Apparently my employer had not un-enrolled me so from the unions POV I was still a member.
Or just a bunch of LED flash generators pointing in slightly different directions.