Well in that case it seems pretty important that we find other races first so we can arm ourselves before they "discover" earth. I think we are safe from discovery since we haven't been broadcasting too long and any species that monitors our transmissions for long (especially TV) will be lulled into a stupor too quickly to come get us anyway.
What I'd love to see is some sort of model which predicts where and when the equilibrium point will be reached with all of this outsourcing.
Probably sometime in 2062 when India starts outsourcing jobs back to the US and offering 3 month work visas for Americans to come pick rice. Yes I am kidding (maybe).
Pleaze go to the link below to update yoor bank account infromation. I am not feeeling well these days and I want to make shure that you get yoor inheretence munny as quickly as possible. Thanks!
Luckily I could go read the article and reply to your post at the same time easily since I have a dual monitor setup! Seriously though, I would rather have a multi-desktop window manager than two big monitors taking up my whole desk any day of the week, at least until I can afford a gigantomondo plasma TV that I can hang on the wall instead.
Firefox needs a browser plugin that automatically links acronyms to a "big ol' acrynym" website or something, because yes I agree there are way too many out there.
Now all we need is support for this in thunderbird/procmail/postfix (any one of those really) and I will be a happy camper. Anyone know of support elsewhere besides sendmail?
Don't count out the defense department either; I am betting the station in earth orbit they are talking about in the article used to kick a spacecraft out to the other planets could also put a nice big hole in selected ships/buildings/people here on earth. Just think of it as a dual-purpose satellite.
After a few days it would just degenerate into them sitting around in their underwear farting and scratching themselves all the time (what else is there for them to do with no women and no booze?) Actually in a way I guess that would be the most accurate reality show of all, since that is probably what the audience would be doing too.
We are an engineering firm with about 30 employees. Before I was hired it was almost 100% microsoft (with four solaris and linux servers). Since then we have migrated the entire engineering staff from windows to linux and nearly all of the tools they use (Cadence and crap like that). The front office staff are staying in windowsworld for now (since they get microsoft docs from clients, that probably isn't gonna change) and some of the servers (mail, file sharing etc) are still waiting to be migrated. The end result? We won't have to pay piles of $$$$ to upgrade everything (Exchange, virus software, etc etc etc) to have the newest mail/web/etc software, and to top it off most people got new machines, which would have cost at least an extra $2,000 for just the windows licenses alone. And don't even get me started on how much it would cost to upgrade the exchange server, we are talking several thousand dollars (for software and hardware, since there is no way the current hardware could run the newest mail server) instead of the ~$500 for a new machine which will replace the current server (which can then get recycled into something else). Now we can spend our IT money on hardware and quit wasting it on software that quite frankly is inferior. For example, it is funny watching people's faces when I say they can go ahead and open attachments from unknown people in thunderbird now and it won't blast their machine, or that yes they can have a 20" monitor instead of a 17" because the money we saved by not buying the newest version of XP/Office/Virus scanner/etc/etc can now be applied to a bigger monitor instead.
We really really want to use something else, but sadly we have a big pile of steaming custom code that generates project files that isn't going away anytime soon, so we are stuck with project, unless we can find a way to convert it to something more friendly. What is the software you have written tho, is it in sourceforge?
We use an ok calendar you can find out more about here. Evolution didn't seem to have any group calendar (at the time) and we were using some custom peice of junk software riding on top of Exchange (which we are trying to stop using as soon as possible, another reason Evolution wasn't a great choice). The biggest problem so far has been getting data out of a microsoft only format into something other programs can read (no suprise there). Thanks for the info we may have to look at the planner stuff, though we are currently using msproject 98:-| (but a single copy of a newer version to use to convert to planner might not be too bad).
The thing that we couldn't get a replacement for is MS Project, since there appears to be no freebie program that can read project files. We ended up using crossover office to run our project licenses, which is ok but not very desireable. Other than that the transition is going well, with Open Office working fine. Rather than evolution we are looking at thunderbird, since it runs on both linux and windows.
When my brain first saw "Mezonic" it couldn't decide if it was some weird reference to the Mesozoic era or something to do with the Masons. What the heck is "Mezonic"?
Well, I was kind of kidding in my post about the whole "web enable every freakin' thing", but I could actually see some interesting uses for some appliances to be web enabled:
- Keep track of items you consume (microwaved dinners, loads of laundry, etc) and when you get ready to go shopping you get a list of items consumed to help you figure out if you need any more of said items. - Cooking microwaveable dinners: you scan in the barcode and it sets your microwave to the right power settings to cook it (I have seen some like this already, not sure how they get updated for new food items).
Plenty more I am sure, but I have to admit I am a little leary of having my appliances accessible from outside my house, for both security and marketing reasons. For example, do I want the company that makes my microwave to know how many microwaved pizzas I eat a week? (I might be getting offers for "1st week free" at the local gyms however). How about my insurance company? It is my God-given right as an American to eat all the fat-filled food I want and not have my premiums go up!
Now we are one step closer to every single electronic device made in the future being web-enabled! Who wouldn't want their microwave oven to have its own built-in web server?
Can you still claim an "entertaining clients" business expense if the entertainment isn't legal? I suppose I could call up the IRS and ask but I don't think I want to get audited this year....
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If they find any with a ring on their finger, they need to find that volcano and toss the ring in pronto.
Well in that case it seems pretty important that we find other races first so we can arm ourselves before they "discover" earth. I think we are safe from discovery since we haven't been broadcasting too long and any species that monitors our transmissions for long (especially TV) will be lulled into a stupor too quickly to come get us anyway.
Probably sometime in 2062 when India starts outsourcing jobs back to the US and offering 3 month work visas for Americans to come pick rice. Yes I am kidding (maybe).
You do it by getting an article written about your store on CNN, and then you get a geek to post it on slashdot. Oh wait....
I am guessing the murder rate would skyrocket if everyone didn't have the TV on to numb them into a senseless torpor.
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Luckily I could go read the article and reply to your post at the same time easily since I have a dual monitor setup! Seriously though, I would rather have a multi-desktop window manager than two big monitors taking up my whole desk any day of the week, at least until I can afford a gigantomondo plasma TV that I can hang on the wall instead.
Firefox needs a browser plugin that automatically links acronyms to a "big ol' acrynym" website or something, because yes I agree there are way too many out there.
Now all we need is support for this in thunderbird/procmail/postfix (any one of those really) and I will be a happy camper. Anyone know of support elsewhere besides sendmail?
So they can offer the boxed set for $94.99 and you will feel like you are getting a good deal?
The key is to make this into a weapon and get the DoD to put it up there for you. Gotta love dual purpose satellites!
Don't count out the defense department either; I am betting the station in earth orbit they are talking about in the article used to kick a spacecraft out to the other planets could also put a nice big hole in selected ships/buildings/people here on earth. Just think of it as a dual-purpose satellite.
After a few days it would just degenerate into them sitting around in their underwear farting and scratching themselves all the time (what else is there for them to do with no women and no booze?) Actually in a way I guess that would be the most accurate reality show of all, since that is probably what the audience would be doing too.
We are an engineering firm with about 30 employees. Before I was hired it was almost 100% microsoft (with four solaris and linux servers). Since then we have migrated the entire engineering staff from windows to linux and nearly all of the tools they use (Cadence and crap like that). The front office staff are staying in windowsworld for now (since they get microsoft docs from clients, that probably isn't gonna change) and some of the servers (mail, file sharing etc) are still waiting to be migrated. The end result? We won't have to pay piles of $$$$ to upgrade everything (Exchange, virus software, etc etc etc) to have the newest mail/web/etc software, and to top it off most people got new machines, which would have cost at least an extra $2,000 for just the windows licenses alone. And don't even get me started on how much it would cost to upgrade the exchange server, we are talking several thousand dollars (for software and hardware, since there is no way the current hardware could run the newest mail server) instead of the ~$500 for a new machine which will replace the current server (which can then get recycled into something else).
Now we can spend our IT money on hardware and quit wasting it on software that quite frankly is inferior. For example, it is funny watching people's faces when I say they can go ahead and open attachments from unknown people in thunderbird now and it won't blast their machine, or that yes they can have a 20" monitor instead of a 17" because the money we saved by not buying the newest version of XP/Office/Virus scanner/etc/etc can now be applied to a bigger monitor instead.
We really really want to use something else, but sadly we have a big pile of steaming custom code that generates project files that isn't going away anytime soon, so we are stuck with project, unless we can find a way to convert it to something more friendly. What is the software you have written tho, is it in sourceforge?
We use an ok calendar you can find out more about here. :-| (but a single copy of a newer version to use to convert to planner might not be too bad).
Evolution didn't seem to have any group calendar (at the time) and we were using some custom peice of junk software riding on top of Exchange (which we are trying to stop using as soon as possible, another reason Evolution wasn't a great choice). The biggest problem so far has been getting data out of a microsoft only format into something other programs can read (no suprise there). Thanks for the info we may have to look at the planner stuff, though we are currently using msproject 98
The thing that we couldn't get a replacement for is MS Project, since there appears to be no freebie program that can read project files. We ended up using crossover office to run our project licenses, which is ok but not very desireable. Other than that the transition is going well, with Open Office working fine. Rather than evolution we are looking at thunderbird, since it runs on both linux and windows.
Or at least they would if paypal wasn't broken (top story on their website no less).
I did notice:
Mezonic
Diebold
Same length, same number of vowels, etc. I wonder if there is some message hidden here (probably just a coincidence).
When my brain first saw "Mezonic" it couldn't decide if it was some weird reference to the Mesozoic era or something to do with the Masons. What the heck is "Mezonic"?
- Keep track of items you consume (microwaved dinners, loads of laundry, etc) and when you get ready to go shopping you get a list of items consumed to help you figure out if you need any more of said items.
- Cooking microwaveable dinners: you scan in the barcode and it sets your microwave to the right power settings to cook it (I have seen some like this already, not sure how they get updated for new food items).
Plenty more I am sure, but I have to admit I am a little leary of having my appliances accessible from outside my house, for both security and marketing reasons. For example, do I want the company that makes my microwave to know how many microwaved pizzas I eat a week? (I might be getting offers for "1st week free" at the local gyms however). How about my insurance company? It is my God-given right as an American to eat all the fat-filled food I want and not have my premiums go up!
Now we are one step closer to every single electronic device made in the future being web-enabled! Who wouldn't want their microwave oven to have its own built-in web server?
Yes to both. When was the last time we saw a "super hero" in a popular movie on the big screen that wasn't copied from a comic book?
My first thought was, "yes, rewrite them in perl or PHP".
Can you still claim an "entertaining clients" business expense if the entertainment isn't legal? I suppose I could call up the IRS and ask but I don't think I want to get audited this year....