You'd be surprised how many mommies & daddies are standing there with Timmy while he picks out a game. Timmy hands it to them, they look it over (front & back):
"Is this what you want?"
"Yes."
"Okay, let's go."
I could take a lunch to CompUSA and make a day of it. n.b. Timmy is frequently no older than twelve or thirteen, usually less.
Grammar tip #2: effect isn't just a noun.
"Raising the price will effect a change in our revenue."
A kidney transplant isn't always medically necessary.
Hooking up to the machine several times a week may not be fun but it can be done for a long, long time. Your life just may not be as lively. You do run the risk of eventually requiring a kidney, but not always.
Something which can be done and is a huge risk, is the fact you can live with just 1/2 of a kidney. If they were to slice 1/2 of yours away and give it to someone else and it were to fail (or your 1/2 were to fail), then you've wasted a kidney. But under circumstances where there are no other options (e.g. someone already has just one kidney and someone else needs a kidney but cannot find a suitable donor), then it may be attempted.
For the most part, we think of people getting a slice of a liver, but that's only come into vogue within the previous few years. And, it's kind of fascinating, when you think about it, particularly to save a child's life. I'm not sure we envisioned the day when a liver transplant would become like a pizza party ("Here, have a slice.")
One other question about a face transplant: how long of a grace period would she have before she has to get a new driver's license? ("No, officer, really, that's me. Honest. That's my driver's license.")
(Regardless of party) I remember seeing a mayor of one town|city who was notified his house was a pancake. He got a ride there, looked at it, then went back to work. He said his personal interests were secondary to the job he'd been hired to perform and he'd return to deal with his house & possessions when everyone else was taken care of.
I really don't care which party chooses to assign those qualities to their members, having someone like that taking care of their constituents is enough to make everyone wait in line to vote for hours if there's a single voting machine just to make sure they remain in office.
Aside from a few exceptions and having connections with people who have been elevated to the federal level, most party affiliations have little to do with one's abilities and outlook, let alone what kind of job they do until they get to at least the state level (Governor or State Legislature, regardless of which House).
What I do have concerns about is paying for people who live in Hurricane Alley and want someone [else] to pay to rebuild, pay to rebuild, pay to rebuild, pay to rebuild, pay to rebuild...pivot!pivot!pivot! (Friends) the news keeps referring to insurance companies or the Federal Gov't. Either way, it's everyone else paying. Individuals pay the insurance premiums which are used to cover other people and the Federal Gov't is funded by individuals paying taxes. I live in an area which is a reasonably large magnet for tornadoes. If my house is flattened more than once, I think I'm going to get the hint it's time to reexamine my living situation. The attitude of, "This is where I want to live and if it's interrupted for any reason, someone's going to pay to restore it so I'm happy." is a bit more than I can stomach and I don't know that the family-sized bottle of Pepto is going to alleviate that. I also live in an area where prior to purchasing a house, you are required to check to see if you live in a flood plane and you're made aware of where you stand financially (insurance-wise) as a result. I've got news for the people of the South: you live in a flood plane. If your insurance premiums were made to properly reflect this, kwitcherbitchin'. It's the price you pay for living in a warm place year 'round. I live in a place which has four seasons each year. And there's a price to be paid for that and I pay it.
Last night, the NBC National News said some of the larger insurance companies are dropping people who live in areas affected by certain types of weather - I believe they were referring to locations where make sure you've got hip waders handy four or five times each year. The only problem with that is the gov't is then expected to bail them out. Either way, someone else pays for their lifestyle.
As far as the poor who are suffering, a lot of people have been presented with opportunities to live in other locations with a decent period (multiple months) of rent or mortgage amnesty to permit them to set their lives up with the donations of goods and permit them to find a job.
This may be apocryphal, but it's been said one guy was shown a trailer for temporary housing and when he asked where the tv was, he was told there wasn't one, so he refused the housing. That sounds a little too fishy to be true, but if it is [true], then someone (him) needs to wait in line for an attitude adjustment with a 2x4.
When cleaning out a section of the garage to unload antiques from a deceased family member's house, I hit the inevitable: boxes of old magazines. When I'm done in the house, they get stacked, eventually boxed, and finally pushed into the garage, and somehow forgotten until we need more room (the books are boxed and are such they don't take up room.
Last night, I hit a box of ca. '94-'95, and the cover of an Economic Review asks, "How Dangerous is Microsoft?" with a web and WHG III's head on the body of a spider, waiting for prey to get caught. In a strange way, it's interesting how the same questions have come up over & over & over for at least ten years.
One of the things I've pointed out before (and should just save on HD) is the fact Microsoft is failing in one of its most powerful areas: marketing. I'd be greatly surprised if someone (bald? turns red easily?) doesn't promise someone in Marketing that if they don't come up with a way to pry the corporate sector's fingers off of the unholy trinity of Win2K (general service expired 06/30/05 but Microsoft tossed a couple of rollup SPs), Office2K and VS 6.0, they won't have to worry about a lump of coal in their stocking, it'll be the insertion of a broomstick which won't be removed until the problem is fixed.
I have to put "finding numbers I can cite" on my ToDo list. The number of individual licenses in the corporate world for Win2K alone is well into six digits. The TCO for these environments has to be staggeringly low. All joking aside about the Microsoft Seal of Software Quality stamped on discs, Win2K, Office2K, and VS6.0 seem to be Triplet Sons of Different Mothers. They dovetail so well and are probably the sturdiest products Microsoft has put out which don't clobber each other. (Please don't cite problems you encountered as exceptions to disprove the rule. I'm quite serious about this. Look at all of their other products and make an objective analysis. But as Winston Churchill used to say, "The lesser of two evils is still evil.")
Microsoft would love to replace those three products with their descendents. They'd probably like to replace SQL2K with SQL05 as those same shops are likely not to upgrade there, either. We're talking massive revenue+profit for Microsoft (not to mention huge commissions for Sales), and hardware vendors would suffer from priapism for a couple of months because the new software would perform so poorly on the old hardware. The corporations, however, would see their budgets melt to the point any form of bonuses, even those executives who are exempt from the freezes everyone else is vulnerable to, would likely get just a free pair of movie tickets as a show of gratitude. The TCO would go from fractions of a cent to incalcuable dollars. Massive scheduling would have to take place to figure out who could be upgraded when (both hardware & software) in conjunction with getting them trained, as well as the technical staff, yadda-yadda. Worst of all, their profits (what profits?), okay, they'd miss their earnings and p%ss off shareholders for six or seven quarters trying to make up for the big technology jump.
Basically, Microsoft screwed up. Remember the joke about the pig that had a cork shoved up its posterior, was fed & fed & fed, got fatter & fatter, won award after award at every fair & exhibition the owners could find? When it was all said & done, they realized they had to pull the cork. So they trained a monkey to do it. When the time came, someone couldn't resist trying to get just close enough to watch the grand event. After the explosion, they found this guy and asked him what happened. He said, "well, about the time the sh%t started flying, the only thing I could see was the monkey trying to push the cork back in."
Microsoft has done something similar with corks. Except it's the geese which lay golden eggs. They motivated the corporations to cork the geese so Microsoft can't grab anything of
There used to be a fairly expensive green laser at ThinkGeek which was strong enough to melt a styrofoam coffee cup from across the room. I don't know if they removed it because of the incidents of commercial pilots being blinded (or nearly blinded) whilst flying and hit with a laser. On eBay, there's a guy who advertises one which will burn through styrofoam and tape.
...attached to farming jobs out to foreign countries...
I can't get to the article due to the slashdot effect (to see what else it says - such as moving to rural areas), but to anyone else reading, moving to the Midwest (specifically, Indiana) isn't such a bad thing, either. We've got several large malls (just in case you're wondering), two "outdoor lifestyle centers" (new style of malls - very large), an international airport, we're 3 hours (driving) from downtown Chicago, two hours from Cincinnati, 4 hours from St. Louis, and two hours from Urbana-Champaign (NCSA).
We've got a 10-0 NFL team (building a new dome with removable roof and a new convention center as the old one isn't big enough any more), the NCAA Final Four every five years or so, the Big 10 basketball tournament every other year, the Indy 500, NASCAR Brickyard 400, Formula I, NBA and WNBA teams, a hockey team, AAA baseball, and Indiana University has won seven Div I men's soccer championships. Indiana University has a med school, law school, and dental school in downtown Indy, Purdue University has an excellent veterinary school, and Ball State's entrepreneurial program is ranked #5 in the country - Ball State was also recently named the most unwired campus (most wireless). As far as colleges go, we've got a total of six NCAA Div I schools, and a ton of critically acclaimed private schools. Indiana University & Purdue University have a shared branch in downtown Indy, so you can work on an advanced degree here instead of commuting.
Several of the residential areas surrounding Indy (technically, I live in Fishers, the population growth is staggering. Fishers wants to remain a town and is scheduling its second special census (2003, 2006) since the official one in 2000, potentially achieving 60k people (do we build six or eight new grade schools for 2008?). This is in contrast to when I bought my house in '88, when Fishers was 7'500 people. Carmel's the same way, as are Zionsville and Plainfield.
Downtown is safe enough to walk at night, there's another sizable mall downtown as well as a lot of clubs & general nightlife. Oh, an award-winning children's museum, zoo (with a walk-under "dolphin dome" - see the link, a baby elephant who is about a month old, and the only zoo with a roller coaster), a symphony, yadda, yadda.
(If you're looking at employment issues, wages aren't as bad as you'd think. There are a number of larger companies (including research, such as Eli Lilly) and startups are blossoming as well as having access to places such as Purdue, Indiana University, Ball State University, Rose-Hulman, Anderson University, and Taylor University, all of whom are relatively close and either have technical parks or incubators.
You could do a lot worse and spend a lot more money to live elsewhere.
(or as one of the amusement parks says, "there's more than corn in Indiana")
If it's bucks you're after, take a look at the challenges Paul Erdos (RIP) created and the price he put on their solutions. I got to study with him for awhile. It's too bad we couldn't have sent a few other people in his stead and kept him here.
You'll save more by shopping via the 'bot at AddAll.com. You can usually get the book + shipping for less than the "discounted" book price (alone) at Amazon.
If you don't want to do it, send me the Amazon money and I'll send you the book when I get it from one of the less expensive outlets [and I'll keep the difference].
I have yet to understand why everyone heads to Amazon or B&N like a dog in heat. Do your research there, then save yourself money elsewhere.
He did do a lot before he died, but not immediately before.
What's funny is the stuff he did is only coming into vogue in many circles - left untouched. And the poor bastard had a hard time dealing with the entrance exams to the ecole.
I took a lot of pure math, group thery, Galois theory, etc. in college for recreation - to make the math majors sweat. But whenever the chairman of the department started talking about what a slacker Galois was, everyone kept turning around and looking at me.:(
'tis okay. He's still my hero (except I don't duel)
I cannot provide a citing OTTOMH, but IIRC, Microsoft has said they believe 1/3 of all Windows running today [worldwide] are pirated.
Some where, some how, they've gone to the same school as the oil executives sitting before Congress last week, attempting to justify their record quarterly profits, but claiming to have done so without gouging their customers: "We had to do it. Otherwise, there'd be a run on gas and it would have create shortages." Imagine them saying under their breath: "the fact we made a lot of money protecting people from themselves was just gravy" and their other friends saying, "smoking is not dangerous". Oil executives, tobacco executives, baseball players: is there anyone who doesn't lie before Congress?)
How many threads|entries [below] will it be before we see:
"Our software would be cheaper[1] if we didn't have to compensate for pirated copies." "We wouldn't pirate copies if they weren't so expensive." and "How can you say 100% of the people pirating would purchase a legitimate copy if they weren't so expensive?"
[1] Not "less expensive", "cheaper".
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A new punchline for an old joke:
So the priest walks up to a nun and asks, "What's Windows?" She looks at him and says, "$10, just like everywhere else."
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What percentage of people who need to harden Linux (but haven't done so, perhaps those who remain logged in as root; see also: Windows XP users who are signed in with Administrator privilege; unsecured wireless routers at home) have even heard of SELinux? (let alone know where to get it?)
Silcone? Is a silicone computer like some women? They're fun to watch whilst they're running? (think about it)
{back to quantum computing}
So...exporting it is the only way to regulate it?
When PGP went on the Thou Shalt Not Export List early in its life (thirteen? fourteen? fifteen? years ago), I always imported my copies. That meant either: 1) someone from the US exported it; or, 2) someone outside the US imported it. I'm not sure you can prove someone accidentally left a copy unprotected on a server.
Despite coming up through the ranks as a mainframe systems programmer, I made a lot of money with COBOL, SNOBOL, and PL/I!
(systems people who could outcode applications coders were pretty valuable because they could do both [systems and applications])
PL/I is not a bad language. I would daresay most/. people who are good (not just like to) C and Pascal/Delphi programmers could pick up PL/I pretty fast and make it do anything they want it to.
The primary purpose SNOBOL would have in today's coding world would be for those who can't learn PERL. It (SNOBOL) is not a tough language to learn, either.
BLISS anyone?
One of the biggest shortcomings of a lot of programmers (now) is the languages they have restricted themselves to: for the most part - C, C++, Visual Basic|VBA, Delphi, Java, PERL, perhaps LISP, and now, the.NET languages. This isn't meant to be comprehensive, so a response of "I know <x>, so there." The point isn't in finding exceptions. It's in learning diversity. What's the point in knowing two or three languages which are so close to each other in syntax & purpose they become Twin Sons of Different Mothers? (why do you need a collection of screwdrivers when you could have a screwdriver, a pair of pliers, a hammer, etc.?)
Obviously, there's not much of a market outside of those languages, but some of the older languages provide ideas or techniques you can "steal" and use elsewhere.
It's no different than other OSes|platforms. Commands, sub-architectures, software, etc. can be swiped and used on "modern" systems. You want to see a broad repertoire of functions? Check out IBM's AS (Application System)
p.s. The punctuation-challenged can pretend OSes was typed as OS's (gag).
I'm waiting for some of these to be ruined as they are "old enough" - meaning there won't be a chance to redeem "the movie" for another 20-25 years: The Andromeda Strain ('71), Caddyshack ('80), Capricorn One ('78) - with OJ Simpson, no less; Dog Day Afternoon ('75) (I'm not certain how they'll improve upon Al Pacino holding up a bank to pay for his lover's sex change operation), Escape from New York ('81), Fast Times at Ridgemont High ('82), Fantastic Voyage ('66), The Mechanic ('72), Midnight Cowboy ('69) - the only X-rated movie to win Best Picture Oscar (tame by today's standards), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ('75) - the answer to the trivia question of "How did Michael Douglas win the first of his two Oscars?" (Producer), Serpico ('73), Soylent Green ('73), Three Days of the Condor ('75), Westworld+FutureWorld ('73,'76), Deathwish ('74), Logan's Run ('76) - with Farrah Fawcett - the same year Charlie's Angels debuted, Blue Thunder ('83), Cool Hand Luke ('67).
I'm reserving judgement when I see "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, '71).
That's not the entire list, but enough to see what we're due to see remade in the very near future.
a DNA sample and a RFID in your right forearm. Several Mexican gov't officials are currently testing them in lieu of keys, standard biometrics, or standard identification. (NYTimes? Chicago Tribune?)
Several of us have maintained for quite some time [that] Microsoft wanted to patent their XML format so something such as OpenOffice can't write to MS Office. You can see the format, read the format, but not write the format. Frustrate the geeks. (don't think this happened by mistake in Redmond)
It also forces the business-end of decisions when it comes to migrating away from MS Office. Noone is going to move from one app to another overnight in a large environment, no matter how good or inexpensive the proposition. This means a one-way bridge...everyone who moves across can't come back just as their material can't come back.
Why is Microsoft so touchy about MS Office? It represents [at least] 1/3 of their profit (not revenue, profit). They have to protect their cash cow someway until they can supplement it with another pass-the-hat release of Windows.
Pass-the-hat as in what they did with 98SE, ME as intermediate releases of 98 before XP was done cooking. Add a couple of changes, pass the hat around, those who buy anything new will pay and the revenue stream increases a little bit. This is why the mags are jumping on XP-to-Longhorn intermediate releases - more income until Longhorn is done.
One of the biggest problems facing doctors (re: diagnosing problems) today are their patients. Patients tell the doctor what they think is relevant, leaving out what could be vital information presuming it's not related because it seems insignificant [to them]. My policy is to tell them everything and let them sort out what is|not important. Then again, I've got a physician & his partner who are pretty holistic in their outlook and aren't willing to shove a pill bottle in your hand and point you towards the door.
Big tip - which would have helped in this case...once you've received some form of treatment, Rx, or anything there are two very important questions to ask: 1) how soon should I start noticing an improvement? 2) how many days should I wait before I don't feel better or feel worse?
Some doctors will volunteer this information to you. But if they don't...
When I went to an ER with an ACL blowout, I had a first-year Resident check it out and respond, "well, all of your external ligaments are tight. Here's some Tylenol-3. If you don't feel better in two weeks, see your doctor." My response to him was, "'Dr.' and I use that term lightly, I knew that before I came in, and I didn't go to medical school. Would you care to go get your Attending or should I start yelling until *everyone* within earshot wants to know what you're doing to your patient(s)?" He brought the Attending back and I told him what had happened - and what his prize student had done. The exchanged looks between Attending & toad told me there'd be some discussions later. After I told the Attending all of my suspicions & why, he asked me what my background was - where I learned what I knew and used the terminology. (I worked as an EMT from 16-21; 18 is the legal minimum but I got special permission because there weren't enough where I lived. I actually got to deliver three babies before I graduated from high school!)
The bottom line is you are responsible for your own health. Otherwise, physicals would be manditory as part of insurance and you'd be required to meet with a trainer at a health club, be checked for nicotine in your system, etc...along with a bunch of other things...As such, you can't give up when things look crazy - he did right to keep pursuing solutions.
I was in a severe car accident almost ten years ago. I have a "permanent headache" - constant pain - my companion with me when I wake up until I go to sleep. Occasionally it wants attention and wakes me up at night. So far, nothing has shown why this occurs but I still try new things on a regular basis. Eventually, something will come along and fix it.
UL/FOAF.
Check out "Games for the SuperIntelligent" and "More Games for the SuperIntelligent" both by James Fixx, who died young of a heart attack, but was a marathon runner & member of Mensa (=="table" in Latin).
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You'd be surprised how many mommies & daddies are standing there with Timmy while he picks out a game. Timmy hands it to them, they look it over (front & back):
"Is this what you want?"
"Yes."
"Okay, let's go."
I could take a lunch to CompUSA and make a day of it.
n.b. Timmy is frequently no older than twelve or thirteen, usually less.
Grammar tip #2: effect isn't just a noun.
"Raising the price will effect a change in our revenue."
A kidney transplant isn't always medically necessary.
Hooking up to the machine several times a week may not be fun but it can be done for a long, long time. Your life just may not be as lively. You do run the risk of eventually requiring a kidney, but not always.
Something which can be done and is a huge risk, is the fact you can live with just 1/2 of a kidney. If they were to slice 1/2 of yours away and give it to someone else and it were to fail (or your 1/2 were to fail), then you've wasted a kidney. But under circumstances where there are no other options (e.g. someone already has just one kidney and someone else needs a kidney but cannot find a suitable donor), then it may be attempted.
For the most part, we think of people getting a slice of a liver, but that's only come into vogue within the previous few years. And, it's kind of fascinating, when you think about it, particularly to save a child's life. I'm not sure we envisioned the day when a liver transplant would become like a pizza party ("Here, have a slice.")
One other question about a face transplant: how long of a grace period would she have before she has to get a new driver's license? ("No, officer, really, that's me. Honest. That's my driver's license.")
No, it's still twenty-six.
Just like when you register now: You check [x].com [x].net
Is anyone keeping score as to how many stories Carl Fogle has posted?
The requirements for techncial jobs are becoming stiffer.
(Regardless of party) I remember seeing a mayor of one town|city who was notified his house was a pancake. He got a ride there, looked at it, then went back to work. He said his personal interests were secondary to the job he'd been hired to perform and he'd return to deal with his house & possessions when everyone else was taken care of.
I really don't care which party chooses to assign those qualities to their members, having someone like that taking care of their constituents is enough to make everyone wait in line to vote for hours if there's a single voting machine just to make sure they remain in office.
Aside from a few exceptions and having connections with people who have been elevated to the federal level, most party affiliations have little to do with one's abilities and outlook, let alone what kind of job they do until they get to at least the state level (Governor or State Legislature, regardless of which House).
What I do have concerns about is paying for people who live in Hurricane Alley and want someone [else] to pay to rebuild, pay to rebuild, pay to rebuild, pay to rebuild, pay to rebuild...pivot! pivot! pivot! (Friends) the news keeps referring to insurance companies or the Federal Gov't. Either way, it's everyone else paying. Individuals pay the insurance premiums which are used to cover other people and the Federal Gov't is funded by individuals paying taxes. I live in an area which is a reasonably large magnet for tornadoes. If my house is flattened more than once, I think I'm going to get the hint it's time to reexamine my living situation. The attitude of, "This is where I want to live and if it's interrupted for any reason, someone's going to pay to restore it so I'm happy." is a bit more than I can stomach and I don't know that the family-sized bottle of Pepto is going to alleviate that. I also live in an area where prior to purchasing a house, you are required to check to see if you live in a flood plane and you're made aware of where you stand financially (insurance-wise) as a result. I've got news for the people of the South: you live in a flood plane. If your insurance premiums were made to properly reflect this, kwitcherbitchin'. It's the price you pay for living in a warm place year 'round. I live in a place which has four seasons each year. And there's a price to be paid for that and I pay it.
Last night, the NBC National News said some of the larger insurance companies are dropping people who live in areas affected by certain types of weather - I believe they were referring to locations where make sure you've got hip waders handy four or five times each year. The only problem with that is the gov't is then expected to bail them out. Either way, someone else pays for their lifestyle.
As far as the poor who are suffering, a lot of people have been presented with opportunities to live in other locations with a decent period (multiple months) of rent or mortgage amnesty to permit them to set their lives up with the donations of goods and permit them to find a job.
This may be apocryphal, but it's been said one guy was shown a trailer for temporary housing and when he asked where the tv was, he was told there wasn't one, so he refused the housing. That sounds a little too fishy to be true, but if it is [true], then someone (him) needs to wait in line for an attitude adjustment with a 2x4.
Required skills for job applicants are are getting stiffer
When cleaning out a section of the garage to unload antiques from a deceased family member's house, I hit the inevitable: boxes of old magazines. When I'm done in the house, they get stacked, eventually boxed, and finally pushed into the garage, and somehow forgotten until we need more room (the books are boxed and are such they don't take up room.
Last night, I hit a box of ca. '94-'95, and the cover of an Economic Review asks, "How Dangerous is Microsoft?" with a web and WHG III's head on the body of a spider, waiting for prey to get caught. In a strange way, it's interesting how the same questions have come up over & over & over for at least ten years.
One of the things I've pointed out before (and should just save on HD) is the fact Microsoft is failing in one of its most powerful areas: marketing. I'd be greatly surprised if someone (bald? turns red easily?) doesn't promise someone in Marketing that if they don't come up with a way to pry the corporate sector's fingers off of the unholy trinity of Win2K (general service expired 06/30/05 but Microsoft tossed a couple of rollup SPs), Office2K and VS 6.0, they won't have to worry about a lump of coal in their stocking, it'll be the insertion of a broomstick which won't be removed until the problem is fixed.
I have to put "finding numbers I can cite" on my ToDo list. The number of individual licenses in the corporate world for Win2K alone is well into six digits. The TCO for these environments has to be staggeringly low. All joking aside about the Microsoft Seal of Software Quality stamped on discs, Win2K, Office2K, and VS6.0 seem to be Triplet Sons of Different Mothers. They dovetail so well and are probably the sturdiest products Microsoft has put out which don't clobber each other. (Please don't cite problems you encountered as exceptions to disprove the rule. I'm quite serious about this. Look at all of their other products and make an objective analysis. But as Winston Churchill used to say, "The lesser of two evils is still evil.")
Microsoft would love to replace those three products with their descendents. They'd probably like to replace SQL2K with SQL05 as those same shops are likely not to upgrade there, either. We're talking massive revenue+profit for Microsoft (not to mention huge commissions for Sales), and hardware vendors would suffer from priapism for a couple of months because the new software would perform so poorly on the old hardware. The corporations, however, would see their budgets melt to the point any form of bonuses, even those executives who are exempt from the freezes everyone else is vulnerable to, would likely get just a free pair of movie tickets as a show of gratitude. The TCO would go from fractions of a cent to incalcuable dollars. Massive scheduling would have to take place to figure out who could be upgraded when (both hardware & software) in conjunction with getting them trained, as well as the technical staff, yadda-yadda. Worst of all, their profits (what profits?), okay, they'd miss their earnings and p%ss off shareholders for six or seven quarters trying to make up for the big technology jump.
Basically, Microsoft screwed up. Remember the joke about the pig that had a cork shoved up its posterior, was fed & fed & fed, got fatter & fatter, won award after award at every fair & exhibition the owners could find? When it was all said & done, they realized they had to pull the cork. So they trained a monkey to do it. When the time came, someone couldn't resist trying to get just close enough to watch the grand event. After the explosion, they found this guy and asked him what happened. He said, "well, about the time the sh%t started flying, the only thing I could see was the monkey trying to push the cork back in."
Microsoft has done something similar with corks. Except it's the geese which lay golden eggs. They motivated the corporations to cork the geese so Microsoft can't grab anything of
There used to be a fairly expensive green laser at ThinkGeek which was strong enough to melt a styrofoam coffee cup from across the room. I don't know if they removed it because of the incidents of commercial pilots being blinded (or nearly blinded) whilst flying and hit with a laser. On eBay, there's a guy who advertises one which will burn through styrofoam and tape.
The Golden Rule has a partner:
"Life is like a sh%t sandwich: the more bread you have, the less sh%t you have to eat."
I'm from Indy as well.
But you both missed the pun:
I can't get to the article due to the slashdot effect (to see what else it says - such as moving to rural areas), but to anyone else reading, moving to the Midwest (specifically, Indiana) isn't such a bad thing, either. We've got several large malls (just in case you're wondering), two "outdoor lifestyle centers" (new style of malls - very large), an international airport, we're 3 hours (driving) from downtown Chicago, two hours from Cincinnati, 4 hours from St. Louis, and two hours from Urbana-Champaign (NCSA).
We've got a 10-0 NFL team (building a new dome with removable roof and a new convention center as the old one isn't big enough any more), the NCAA Final Four every five years or so, the Big 10 basketball tournament every other year, the Indy 500, NASCAR Brickyard 400, Formula I, NBA and WNBA teams, a hockey team, AAA baseball, and Indiana University has won seven Div I men's soccer championships. Indiana University has a med school, law school, and dental school in downtown Indy, Purdue University has an excellent veterinary school, and Ball State's entrepreneurial program is ranked #5 in the country - Ball State was also recently named the most unwired campus (most wireless). As far as colleges go, we've got a total of six NCAA Div I schools, and a ton of critically acclaimed private schools. Indiana University & Purdue University have a shared branch in downtown Indy, so you can work on an advanced degree here instead of commuting.
Several of the residential areas surrounding Indy (technically, I live in Fishers, the population growth is staggering. Fishers wants to remain a town and is scheduling its second special census (2003, 2006) since the official one in 2000, potentially achieving 60k people (do we build six or eight new grade schools for 2008?). This is in contrast to when I bought my house in '88, when Fishers was 7'500 people. Carmel's the same way, as are Zionsville and Plainfield.
Downtown is safe enough to walk at night, there's another sizable mall downtown as well as a lot of clubs & general nightlife. Oh, an award-winning children's museum, zoo (with a walk-under "dolphin dome" - see the link, a baby elephant who is about a month old, and the only zoo with a roller coaster), a symphony, yadda, yadda.
(If you're looking at employment issues, wages aren't as bad as you'd think. There are a number of larger companies (including research, such as Eli Lilly) and startups are blossoming as well as having access to places such as Purdue, Indiana University, Ball State University, Rose-Hulman, Anderson University, and Taylor University, all of whom are relatively close and either have technical parks or incubators.
You could do a lot worse and spend a lot more money to live elsewhere.
(or as one of the amusement parks says, "there's more than corn in Indiana")
When can we expect to see you here?
If it's bucks you're after, take a look at the challenges Paul Erdos (RIP) created and the price he put on their solutions. I got to study with him for awhile. It's too bad we couldn't have sent a few other people in his stead and kept him here.
You'll save more by shopping via the 'bot at AddAll.com. You can usually get the book + shipping for less than the "discounted" book price (alone) at Amazon.
If you don't want to do it, send me the Amazon money and I'll send you the book when I get it from one of the less expensive outlets [and I'll keep the difference].
I have yet to understand why everyone heads to Amazon or B&N like a dog in heat. Do your research there, then save yourself money elsewhere.
That's a bit of UL.
He did do a lot before he died, but not immediately before.
What's funny is the stuff he did is only coming into vogue in many circles - left untouched. And the poor bastard had a hard time dealing with the entrance exams to the ecole.
I took a lot of pure math, group thery, Galois theory, etc. in college for recreation - to make the math majors sweat. But whenever the chairman of the department started talking about what a slacker Galois was, everyone kept turning around and looking at me.
'tis okay. He's still my hero (except I don't duel)
Wrong country. You're thinking of Nigeria (419).
I cannot provide a citing OTTOMH, but IIRC, Microsoft has said they believe 1/3 of all Windows running today [worldwide] are pirated.
Some where, some how, they've gone to the same school as the oil executives sitting before Congress last week, attempting to justify their record quarterly profits, but claiming to have done so without gouging their customers: "We had to do it. Otherwise, there'd be a run on gas and it would have create shortages." Imagine them saying under their breath: "the fact we made a lot of money protecting people from themselves was just gravy" and their other friends saying, "smoking is not dangerous". Oil executives, tobacco executives, baseball players: is there anyone who doesn't lie before Congress?)
How many threads|entries [below] will it be before we see:
"Our software would be cheaper[1] if we didn't have to compensate for pirated copies." "We wouldn't pirate copies if they weren't so expensive." and "How can you say 100% of the people pirating would purchase a legitimate copy if they weren't so expensive?"
[1] Not "less expensive", "cheaper".
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A new punchline for an old joke:
So the priest walks up to a nun and asks, "What's Windows?" She looks at him and says, "$10, just like everywhere else."
How about prices which include shipping and are less than Amazon's cover price?
(there are online bookstores other than Amazon and B&N)
What percentage of people who need to harden Linux (but haven't done so, perhaps those who remain logged in as root; see also: Windows XP users who are signed in with Administrator privilege; unsecured wireless routers at home) have even heard of SELinux? (let alone know where to get it?)
Silcone? Is a silicone computer like some women? They're fun to watch whilst they're running? (think about it)
{back to quantum computing}
So...exporting it is the only way to regulate it?
When PGP went on the Thou Shalt Not Export List early in its life (thirteen? fourteen? fifteen? years ago), I always imported my copies. That meant either: 1) someone from the US exported it; or, 2) someone outside the US imported it. I'm not sure you can prove someone accidentally left a copy unprotected on a server.
Happy POETS Day!
Hey!
Despite coming up through the ranks as a mainframe systems programmer, I made a lot of money with COBOL, SNOBOL, and PL/I!
(systems people who could outcode applications coders were pretty valuable because they could do both [systems and applications])
PL/I is not a bad language. I would daresay most
The primary purpose SNOBOL would have in today's coding world would be for those who can't learn PERL. It (SNOBOL) is not a tough language to learn, either.
BLISS anyone?
One of the biggest shortcomings of a lot of programmers (now) is the languages they have restricted themselves to: for the most part - C, C++, Visual Basic|VBA, Delphi, Java, PERL, perhaps LISP, and now, the
Obviously, there's not much of a market outside of those languages, but some of the older languages provide ideas or techniques you can "steal" and use elsewhere.
It's no different than other OSes|platforms. Commands, sub-architectures, software, etc. can be swiped and used on "modern" systems. You want to see a broad repertoire of functions? Check out IBM's AS (Application System)
p.s. The punctuation-challenged can pretend OSes was typed as OS's (gag).
Okay, most (not some) remakes are worse than the originals. Here's another schlocked movie of late: The Longest Yard.
"The Poseidon Adventure" is due for 2006.
I'm waiting for some of these to be ruined as they are "old enough" - meaning there won't be a chance to redeem "the movie" for another 20-25 years: The Andromeda Strain ('71), Caddyshack ('80), Capricorn One ('78) - with OJ Simpson, no less; Dog Day Afternoon ('75) (I'm not certain how they'll improve upon Al Pacino holding up a bank to pay for his lover's sex change operation), Escape from New York ('81), Fast Times at Ridgemont High ('82), Fantastic Voyage ('66), The Mechanic ('72), Midnight Cowboy ('69) - the only X-rated movie to win Best Picture Oscar (tame by today's standards), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ('75) - the answer to the trivia question of "How did Michael Douglas win the first of his two Oscars?" (Producer), Serpico ('73), Soylent Green ('73), Three Days of the Condor ('75), Westworld+FutureWorld ('73,'76), Deathwish ('74), Logan's Run ('76) - with Farrah Fawcett - the same year Charlie's Angels debuted, Blue Thunder ('83), Cool Hand Luke ('67).
I'm reserving judgement when I see "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, '71).
That's not the entire list, but enough to see what we're due to see remade in the very near future.
You'll be offered an alternative:
a DNA sample and a RFID in your right forearm. Several Mexican gov't officials are currently testing them in lieu of keys, standard biometrics, or standard identification. (NYTimes? Chicago Tribune?)
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What's "quiet angry"? Is that when he stares at you without saying something?
;)
Let's have some prior art to this statement. ;)
Several of us have maintained for quite some time [that] Microsoft wanted to patent their XML format so something such as OpenOffice can't write to MS Office. You can see the format, read the format, but not write the format. Frustrate the geeks. (don't think this happened by mistake in Redmond)
It also forces the business-end of decisions when it comes to migrating away from MS Office.
Noone is going to move from one app to another overnight in a large environment, no matter how good or inexpensive the proposition. This means a one-way bridge...everyone who moves across can't come back just as their material can't come back.
Why is Microsoft so touchy about MS Office? It represents [at least] 1/3 of their profit (not revenue, profit). They have to protect their cash cow someway until they can supplement it with another pass-the-hat release of Windows.
Pass-the-hat as in what they did with 98SE, ME as intermediate releases of 98 before XP was done cooking. Add a couple of changes, pass the hat around, those who buy anything new will pay and the revenue stream increases a little bit. This is why the mags are jumping on XP-to-Longhorn intermediate releases - more income until Longhorn is done.
Finding "stones" meant they found male ancestors. What proof do they have there were females back then? ;)
One of the biggest problems facing doctors (re: diagnosing problems) today are their patients. Patients tell the doctor what they think is relevant, leaving out what could be vital information presuming it's not related because it seems insignificant [to them]. My policy is to tell them everything and let them sort out what is|not important. Then again, I've got a physician & his partner who are pretty holistic in their outlook and aren't willing to shove a pill bottle in your hand and point you towards the door.
Big tip - which would have helped in this case...once you've received some form of treatment, Rx, or anything there are two very important questions to ask: 1) how soon should I start noticing an improvement? 2) how many days should I wait before I don't feel better or feel worse?
Some doctors will volunteer this information to you. But if they don't...
When I went to an ER with an ACL blowout, I had a first-year Resident check it out and respond, "well, all of your external ligaments are tight. Here's some Tylenol-3. If you don't feel better in two weeks, see your doctor." My response to him was, "'Dr.' and I use that term lightly, I knew that before I came in, and I didn't go to medical school. Would you care to go get your Attending or should I start yelling until *everyone* within earshot wants to know what you're doing to your patient(s)?" He brought the Attending back and I told him what had happened - and what his prize student had done. The exchanged looks between Attending & toad told me there'd be some discussions later. After I told the Attending all of my suspicions & why, he asked me what my background was - where I learned what I knew and used the terminology. (I worked as an EMT from 16-21; 18 is the legal minimum but I got special permission because there weren't enough where I lived. I actually got to deliver three babies before I graduated from high school!)
The bottom line is you are responsible for your own health. Otherwise, physicals would be manditory as part of insurance and you'd be required to meet with a trainer at a health club, be checked for nicotine in your system, etc...along with a bunch of other things...As such, you can't give up when things look crazy - he did right to keep pursuing solutions.
I was in a severe car accident almost ten years ago. I have a "permanent headache" - constant pain - my companion with me when I wake up until I go to sleep. Occasionally it wants attention and wakes me up at night. So far, nothing has shown why this occurs but I still try new things on a regular basis. Eventually, something will come along and fix it.
We all choose what defeats us.
UL/FOAF. Check out "Games for the SuperIntelligent" and "More Games for the SuperIntelligent" both by James Fixx, who died young of a heart attack, but was a marathon runner & member of Mensa (=="table" in Latin).