Actually, it doesn't matter if both parties don't have similar retention policies. My company is going through a goofy process to regenerate and supply some old data to a major bank that we did some back-office processing for. People in my company involved in things 5 years ago SWEAR up and down that they had the OK by the bank in an email to stop the collection of certain data that we'd been doing for the bank that was bought by this major bank way back then, but NO ONE in my company could find the email on our side. No way is the bank going to find it on their side, even if they still had the email (this was like 5+ years ago, so it's probably out of their email & backup retention window for that kind of data).
So... lots of silly work on our side to reprocess and regenerate this data, but I suppose it's cheaper than dealing with a lawsuit and probably having to do it anyways.
An old saying from when I worked at Abbott Laboratories..."if it isn't documented, it didn't happen". Yes, this is a sword that can cut both ways, but usually it inflicts great harm on the wielder of the sword.
And, the paper trail that is email, being stored on centralized servers, and at least in a bigger company, having some degree of isolation of manipulation by end users (OK, they deleted the email from their inbox, but it was sent to them while they were at home during the night, and it was saved on the mail server's backups from that night...), means it's going to stand up in court far more than an IM log stored on a user's computer.
But, it's his company to run, I suppose. Good luck to him.
But they have to start somewhere with something to make a fix, either prophylactic (e.g., vaccine), antiviral (post-infection), or treat some of the symptoms (treat or prevent the system shock that the 1918 flu seemed to cause).
Depends on the tax payer. Some tax payers don't like the current administration, so it really comes down to them wishing they were CSI, detective and forensic accountant all in one. Or, at least asking their representatives to be like this (along with some freespeech encouragement, e.g., $$$ to their election fund).
...but that's what Word puts into the document anyways when you use the menu/toolbar/ribbon to set them up. It's too bad that the real functionality for these kinds of things gets more and more obscure and obfuscated with each version of Word, in the interest of making it "easier".
It may seem like a feature, but imho it was just a way to fix bugginess in WP.. I used to support both WinWord and WP 5.x. At least with Word, the major brain freeze was just how much was wrapped up into the "last paragraph" mark in a document, and to a lesser extent, the other paragraph marks. The UI actually did show how things were. Since hardly anyone really used section breaks or styles in practice, that wasn't a big one, either.
As far as more complicated stuff, (e.g., page layout), that's what PageMaker was for.
The biggest problem I had was how people formatted (and still do...) their documents to print on their home printers, and then would bring to the computer lab to print on the laser printer. They'd be troubled, to say the least, when their carefully "formatted" tables, etc. (they'd used tabs & spaces) would go all askew when printed on our printers, or when they changed typefaces, etc.
But WP could seriously hork up its documents. While it was kind of nice to see the guts, it was kind of like editing raw HTML. I never could really see the fascination with Reveal Codes. At least, I guess, if things were bad enough, you could go through a document and just reduce it to an unformatted (short of paragraph breaks) blob, but it probably would be just as fast to save it to a text file, too, to start over. Some of the things I remember seeing were a normal-looking line of text when printed out, but reveal codes revealed all sorts of nested, cancelling out formatting tags. It wasn't noticed until another formatting change was applied, and it totally upset the applecart, so some spelunking in Reveal Codes became necessary to clean up the internal mess.
That, and managing printer setup strings in WP... I suppose that was one of those "elite" things I was happy to not deal with ever again after Windows 3.x. That people *still* hold onto WP boggles me.
I'm not that far. I'm perfectly happy buying electronic versions of books from Pragmatic Programmers - they come watermarked with my info. At this point, it does feel like mine, and there is no value-add for me to share it randomly, nor to look into ways to strip that watermark that consists of "from the library of..." on each page. I can run it through a PDF-to-Kindle app, if I really want it on my Kindle.
But, the key concept from PragProg is that it feels like mine. There's no other DRM in their eBooks that prevents me from copying the PDF to all my computers (work, laptop, desktop), or, more onerously, to only the One Device that has been blessed by the Publisher as being worthy of me using it on (like plugging your iWhatever into another computer, and it wants to wipe out any content files you may have already installed?), and that I should suffer blindness (e.g., deleting files) if I worship at another altar...
Funny thing about parenting... children tend to live up to the expectations put on them. Same goes for people.
Expect everyone out there to be conniving thieves, and set things up that way to "prevent" that? Well, they'll act like...conniving thieves.
The business model by the content creators is to have someone else deal with the business, aka, The Publishers.
The business model of the publishers, however, does not seem to be "let's adapt to the marketplace", but to try as hard as possible to get the marketplace to conform to the publishers' illusion of reality, including treating other authors (you know, the actual content creators) who realize that maybe they can do better off by themselves due to the variety of self-publishing models available now, and fighting anyone else trying to start new publishing models (e.g., Amazon.com).
The Publishers think they're the gatekeeper between the marketplace and the authors. Well, they're more and more really just coming off like Tom Smykowski from Office Space: "We take the manuscripts from the writers and give them to the Customers. You don't want the Authors giving the manuscripts directly to the Customers! We have PEOPLE SKILLS!!!"...while most of us here on/. are snarkily like the Two Bobs, with the dubious/skeptical faces on... "So, what exactly do you do here, uh...Tom?"
Windows Media Player isn't that big of a deal. The system will still "run" without it. And we can still install other players (iTunes, for example) to play most of the same media types. And the operating system doesn't "require" WMP to exist to function or provide functionality, the way they still made Windows "require" Internet Explorer.
And, isn't IE still one of the major infection vectors on Windows computers? Hmm...
Oh, I don't know...for the same reason the government gave sole source contract for Anthrax vaccine to the company owned and/or run by former Bush (the First) people? Same company that had problems keeping the FDA out of its hair for production problems, as well as problems staying afloat, before it got that contract? Oh, but that was OK, I suppose... R = OK, D = Bad. Check.
If all the projects were the same (or similar enough), then this would be true. But even if the current project is "customize this website framework for Customer X", which implies that there's a bit of a standardized template, and one makes some educated guesses about what needs to be customized to fit the customer's needs (is it within the framework, e.g., setting up colors, typefaces, etc), or really customizing it (writing custom modules that then interface with the existing framework), there's still too much variation in practice from project to project. It's great if some things can be reused from previous projects, but adding those pieces then again starts to fall into "vague feelings or unquantified rememberances of previous projects".
In the end, though, we really are more like authors or artists or craftsmen, not car mechanics (if you didn't know, car mechanics do their work estimates from a huge estimate database, sort of like the ICD9/10 for cars, and then work to beat the time estimates that come out of it, so they can do more work... most of them are paid piecework, essentially. For cars, an oil change is basically an oil change, with the major variations being where's the oil filter, what kind of oil filter (and do we have it in stock) and how much oil to add). Not too much in the software development world fits that paradigm.
As much as people want to put the "engineering" into software development, it's just not going to happen. The architects and structural engineers may come up with the plans, with good estimates, but the plans will not, cannot, take into account any site issues, product issues, or anything else that has to be resolved or figured out on-site by the contractors.
Better send the $50K to Iran, as they were able to do it in 1978...Oh, wait, that involved computors, not computers.
Doesn't IBM have some algorithmic tech that can help with this? I imagine it involves scanning each strip, and figuring out a way to do some sort of edge analysis of each strip, for each side. Do some sort of FFT or DCT for the edges, and then come up with a way to join similar strips' edges for each side of the strip together. Then, run the joined images of likely sets of strips through an OCR to see if any letters come off of the strips. Then, join further sets of those strips together, perhaps a few more times, before you probably run things in front of people to accept or reject.
Perhaps more than one strip could be scanned at once and digitally "separated" from that initial image...
Are there possible clues to doing this in "Rainbow's End", by Vernor Vinge?
A President won't be able to do it. It will take some evil triumvirate to do it - a President who is able to persuade Congress, or a Congress that is willing to rubber-stamp what the President wants to do. We occasionally have the first case (many examples), and every once in awhile the second case. But even in GWB's heyday of rubber-stamp Congress, the Republican-controlled Congress started ignoring what the President wanted to do.
Oh, and things have to be inline with the majority swaying of the Supreme Court, too (or, a Supreme Court willing to be quite flexible about what has standing or not for them to hear, etc).
So what if these so-called squatters were rotating in and out every day, so that no one was really there more than a few hours a day?
But, I suppose this is the same resentment one would have if their favorite park was suddenly "overrun" by a large, unplanned (and probably un-permitted) gathering, thus interrupting their peaceful stroll around the park on a beautiful Sunday morning, and then coming back leaving bitchy notes posted everywhere about the lazy Parks employees never coming around to clean things up.
It's easy to be on the "right side" when there is a group that is so easily classified as "other".
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Actually, it doesn't matter if both parties don't have similar retention policies. My company is going through a goofy process to regenerate and supply some old data to a major bank that we did some back-office processing for. People in my company involved in things 5 years ago SWEAR up and down that they had the OK by the bank in an email to stop the collection of certain data that we'd been doing for the bank that was bought by this major bank way back then, but NO ONE in my company could find the email on our side. No way is the bank going to find it on their side, even if they still had the email (this was like 5+ years ago, so it's probably out of their email & backup retention window for that kind of data).
So... lots of silly work on our side to reprocess and regenerate this data, but I suppose it's cheaper than dealing with a lawsuit and probably having to do it anyways.
An old saying from when I worked at Abbott Laboratories..."if it isn't documented, it didn't happen". Yes, this is a sword that can cut both ways, but usually it inflicts great harm on the wielder of the sword.
And, the paper trail that is email, being stored on centralized servers, and at least in a bigger company, having some degree of isolation of manipulation by end users (OK, they deleted the email from their inbox, but it was sent to them while they were at home during the night, and it was saved on the mail server's backups from that night...), means it's going to stand up in court far more than an IM log stored on a user's computer.
But, it's his company to run, I suppose. Good luck to him.
The governments of US, Japan and Germany were asking the scientists to develop atomic weapons...
But they have to start somewhere with something to make a fix, either prophylactic (e.g., vaccine), antiviral (post-infection), or treat some of the symptoms (treat or prevent the system shock that the 1918 flu seemed to cause).
OMG! 200 grams? That's like... not going to worry about it.
Depends on the tax payer. Some tax payers don't like the current administration, so it really comes down to them wishing they were CSI, detective and forensic accountant all in one. Or, at least asking their representatives to be like this (along with some freespeech encouragement, e.g., $$$ to their election fund).
...but that's what Word puts into the document anyways when you use the menu/toolbar/ribbon to set them up. It's too bad that the real functionality for these kinds of things gets more and more obscure and obfuscated with each version of Word, in the interest of making it "easier".
It may seem like a feature, but imho it was just a way to fix bugginess in WP.. I used to support both WinWord and WP 5.x. At least with Word, the major brain freeze was just how much was wrapped up into the "last paragraph" mark in a document, and to a lesser extent, the other paragraph marks. The UI actually did show how things were. Since hardly anyone really used section breaks or styles in practice, that wasn't a big one, either.
As far as more complicated stuff, (e.g., page layout), that's what PageMaker was for.
The biggest problem I had was how people formatted (and still do...) their documents to print on their home printers, and then would bring to the computer lab to print on the laser printer. They'd be troubled, to say the least, when their carefully "formatted" tables, etc. (they'd used tabs & spaces) would go all askew when printed on our printers, or when they changed typefaces, etc.
But WP could seriously hork up its documents. While it was kind of nice to see the guts, it was kind of like editing raw HTML. I never could really see the fascination with Reveal Codes. At least, I guess, if things were bad enough, you could go through a document and just reduce it to an unformatted (short of paragraph breaks) blob, but it probably would be just as fast to save it to a text file, too, to start over. Some of the things I remember seeing were a normal-looking line of text when printed out, but reveal codes revealed all sorts of nested, cancelling out formatting tags. It wasn't noticed until another formatting change was applied, and it totally upset the applecart, so some spelunking in Reveal Codes became necessary to clean up the internal mess.
That, and managing printer setup strings in WP... I suppose that was one of those "elite" things I was happy to not deal with ever again after Windows 3.x. That people *still* hold onto WP boggles me.
What's a "latex printer"?
I'm not that far. I'm perfectly happy buying electronic versions of books from Pragmatic Programmers - they come watermarked with my info. At this point, it does feel like mine, and there is no value-add for me to share it randomly, nor to look into ways to strip that watermark that consists of "from the library of..." on each page. I can run it through a PDF-to-Kindle app, if I really want it on my Kindle.
But, the key concept from PragProg is that it feels like mine. There's no other DRM in their eBooks that prevents me from copying the PDF to all my computers (work, laptop, desktop), or, more onerously, to only the One Device that has been blessed by the Publisher as being worthy of me using it on (like plugging your iWhatever into another computer, and it wants to wipe out any content files you may have already installed?), and that I should suffer blindness (e.g., deleting files) if I worship at another altar...
Funny thing about parenting... children tend to live up to the expectations put on them. Same goes for people.
Expect everyone out there to be conniving thieves, and set things up that way to "prevent" that? Well, they'll act like...conniving thieves.
The business model by the content creators is to have someone else deal with the business, aka, The Publishers.
The business model of the publishers, however, does not seem to be "let's adapt to the marketplace", but to try as hard as possible to get the marketplace to conform to the publishers' illusion of reality, including treating other authors (you know, the actual content creators) who realize that maybe they can do better off by themselves due to the variety of self-publishing models available now, and fighting anyone else trying to start new publishing models (e.g., Amazon.com).
The Publishers think they're the gatekeeper between the marketplace and the authors. Well, they're more and more really just coming off like Tom Smykowski from Office Space: "We take the manuscripts from the writers and give them to the Customers. You don't want the Authors giving the manuscripts directly to the Customers! We have PEOPLE SKILLS!!!" ...while most of us here on /. are snarkily like the Two Bobs, with the dubious/skeptical faces on... "So, what exactly do you do here, uh...Tom?"
"Onze visie op de eigen slagkracht van de overheid" ...which translates to:
"Drink more Ovaltine".
Windows Media Player isn't that big of a deal. The system will still "run" without it. And we can still install other players (iTunes, for example) to play most of the same media types. And the operating system doesn't "require" WMP to exist to function or provide functionality, the way they still made Windows "require" Internet Explorer.
And, isn't IE still one of the major infection vectors on Windows computers? Hmm...
Business versions are better because businesses won't put up with this nonsense
You're kidding, right?
could have been someone (some local cop jurisdiction?) was using a MD500 with NOTAR. Those helicopters are VERY quiet.
Oh, I don't know...for the same reason the government gave sole source contract for Anthrax vaccine to the company owned and/or run by former Bush (the First) people? Same company that had problems keeping the FDA out of its hair for production problems, as well as problems staying afloat, before it got that contract? Oh, but that was OK, I suppose... R = OK, D = Bad. Check.
Plus, doesn't the regolith have a bit of a static charge to it, due to being bombarded by solar radiation so much?
If all the projects were the same (or similar enough), then this would be true. But even if the current project is "customize this website framework for Customer X", which implies that there's a bit of a standardized template, and one makes some educated guesses about what needs to be customized to fit the customer's needs (is it within the framework, e.g., setting up colors, typefaces, etc), or really customizing it (writing custom modules that then interface with the existing framework), there's still too much variation in practice from project to project. It's great if some things can be reused from previous projects, but adding those pieces then again starts to fall into "vague feelings or unquantified rememberances of previous projects".
In the end, though, we really are more like authors or artists or craftsmen, not car mechanics (if you didn't know, car mechanics do their work estimates from a huge estimate database, sort of like the ICD9/10 for cars, and then work to beat the time estimates that come out of it, so they can do more work... most of them are paid piecework, essentially. For cars, an oil change is basically an oil change, with the major variations being where's the oil filter, what kind of oil filter (and do we have it in stock) and how much oil to add). Not too much in the software development world fits that paradigm.
As much as people want to put the "engineering" into software development, it's just not going to happen. The architects and structural engineers may come up with the plans, with good estimates, but the plans will not, cannot, take into account any site issues, product issues, or anything else that has to be resolved or figured out on-site by the contractors.
Better send the $50K to Iran, as they were able to do it in 1978...Oh, wait, that involved computors, not computers.
Doesn't IBM have some algorithmic tech that can help with this? I imagine it involves scanning each strip, and figuring out a way to do some sort of edge analysis of each strip, for each side. Do some sort of FFT or DCT for the edges, and then come up with a way to join similar strips' edges for each side of the strip together. Then, run the joined images of likely sets of strips through an OCR to see if any letters come off of the strips. Then, join further sets of those strips together, perhaps a few more times, before you probably run things in front of people to accept or reject.
Perhaps more than one strip could be scanned at once and digitally "separated" from that initial image...
Are there possible clues to doing this in "Rainbow's End", by Vernor Vinge?
"Rango" was more motion capture and translating to CGI animation. "A Scanner Darkly" was rotoscoped.
Well, considering that BillG and Monkeyboy are major shareholders of MSFT stock... if they're happy, their votes count for a bunch at voting time...
A President won't be able to do it. It will take some evil triumvirate to do it - a President who is able to persuade Congress, or a Congress that is willing to rubber-stamp what the President wants to do. We occasionally have the first case (many examples), and every once in awhile the second case. But even in GWB's heyday of rubber-stamp Congress, the Republican-controlled Congress started ignoring what the President wanted to do.
Oh, and things have to be inline with the majority swaying of the Supreme Court, too (or, a Supreme Court willing to be quite flexible about what has standing or not for them to hear, etc).
So what if these so-called squatters were rotating in and out every day, so that no one was really there more than a few hours a day?
But, I suppose this is the same resentment one would have if their favorite park was suddenly "overrun" by a large, unplanned (and probably un-permitted) gathering, thus interrupting their peaceful stroll around the park on a beautiful Sunday morning, and then coming back leaving bitchy notes posted everywhere about the lazy Parks employees never coming around to clean
things up.
It's easy to be on the "right side" when there is a group that is so easily classified as "other".
probably still not big enough. Thus, displaying the magnified text on a full-size TV screen...
'cept NASA, the SEC (Stock Exchange Commission) and related Wall St regulators, banking regulators, food inspection services, things like that...
What about the Mimic Octopus?