You think I'm *NOT* pissed I cannot seem to get a complete cut of Army of Darkness on DVD? damn, the japan dubbed english language import on VHS had VASTLY more scenes in it than the "Directors Cut" did.
Get CYA Insurance. Yes, brothers, Covery-Yo-Ass Insurance. Get the email from your boss saying it's okay to do this. Yup, send your unreasonable request to the boss, and the requestors boss. Get both to agree it's a good idea. CC EVERYBODY.
Yeah, baby. More likely to get the VP fired than you. I can't tell you the number of issues I've gotten "dropped" by simply having Directory-level approval from two different people.
Just for reference, most programmers are far FAR more clueful than assumed by most IT people. Everything else is just a pissing contest.
I can say emphatically, that this is bullshit. As an IT guy turned programmer, I've spent more years of my life educating programmers about the computers they use, and the grand overall scheme of things in network interoperabilty than I did learning my bad-ass programming skillz.
Programmers as a general rule can program, burn cd's, rip the few MP3s, and maybe, just maybe, avoid getting their nuts cut when they shave them in the morning...
I don't think I disagree with you. My ultimate hope is that the U.S. ABM initiative would turn into a giant planet-covering ABM shield that would protect the entire planet. No American wants the threat of MAD overshadowing life on this planet (except the diabolical ones who want to push the button, but we'll ignore that they exist for the moment).
Someone has to take the slap in the face, if we're going to get it for invading afghanistan, we might as well cut a few treaties for the sake of the planet.
You wouldn't need to. Just a satellite at the earth-moon lagrange points pinging the moon. Anyone tries to mess with your bird, and you know something's afoot.
If your enemies only have dozens or hundreds of warheads, you can *INDEED* field a system (at great cost no doubt) that can protect against them. That's why everyone's so pissed at U.S. for backing out of the ABM treaty. To maintain the MAD doctrine will require countries to pour money into nuclear deterrance that they'd rather spend on Internet infrastructure.
Which isn't true, because if the tuner box can't output to the TV in High-Def, there's *ZERO* chance this plan will succeed. So somewhere in the component video signal is a bit that says "don't timeshift me". That bit will get stripped, and for the rest of us that this matters to, life will go on.
Man in the middle attack. I take the output from my cable box, plug it into my black-box signal decoder, and then plug that into my TV. Sooner or later, this encryption mechanism *WILL* be cracked... It's just a matter of time. Especially once HDTV is all there is...
Outlook 98 was a joy compared to Outlook 97... at least from a developers perspective (creating _functional_ VB-based MAPI Forms instead of having to build COM based ones)... But you're right, from a user perspective 98 was no improvement...
Not the same thing. Email should *NEVER* be active. The whole MSForms interface in Outlook was keyed off properties: build apps that have properties, these can be emailed around as mime attachments, and if the recipient has the right form application, it just works for them. *THIS* is what makes exchange/outlook the killer groupware combo that is taking the world by storm.
HTML email with active VBscript and javascript is STUPID, and Microsoft proves it by disabling it in recent versions of Outlook.
-Chris Kaminski *Building outlook apps for 7 years and counting...
Whilst I agree with you, and disagree with you, some of us (me) are hoping that AMD finds enough success in AMD64 to cripple a shitload of them as Athlons, and get out of the segregated 32bit cpu business.
But yes, I agree with you, AMD cannot neglect the desktop market, unless it makes AMD64 cheap enough that it can put them in all computers (which I think is their inevitable goal). Hell, once eMachines starts stocking them in Computer City, I think they'll have achieved it.
I think the biggest fear of electronic voting is that *1* compromised set of machines can be spread across the entire country, set to rig elections (harder with the presidential election with the electorate, but easier with the congressional and local seats). Whereas to mess with paper or level machines, you have to physically get at the entire set of machines you tampered with.
How about PGP encrypted results, where a line judge puts a password on the results-card that can only be decrypted once the card is loaded into the master (state) database? judge compares his paper results from when he encrypted the card, to the results in the database, printed on the web, and yays/nays the results? Or he has two cards, one of which he can verify on a laptop external to the voting machine for proof??
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I can tell you for a FACT that trains travelling north of Boston at 35 or more miles per hour is a myth. :-)
You think I'm *NOT* pissed I cannot seem to get a complete cut of Army of Darkness on DVD? damn, the japan dubbed english language import on VHS had VASTLY more scenes in it than the "Directors Cut" did.
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The mark of the beast!!! National ID cards!!! the sky is falling, the sky is falling!!! AHHHH!! AHHH!!!!
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Rule #1 of IT work:
Get CYA Insurance. Yes, brothers, Covery-Yo-Ass Insurance. Get the email from your boss saying it's okay to do this. Yup, send your unreasonable request to the boss, and the requestors boss. Get both to agree it's a good idea. CC EVERYBODY.
Yeah, baby. More likely to get the VP fired than you. I can't tell you the number of issues I've gotten "dropped" by simply having Directory-level approval from two different people.
-Chris
I can say emphatically, that this is bullshit. As an IT guy turned programmer, I've spent more years of my life educating programmers about the computers they use, and the grand overall scheme of things in network interoperabilty than I did learning my bad-ass programming skillz.
Programmers as a general rule can program, burn cd's, rip the few MP3s, and maybe, just maybe, avoid getting their nuts cut when they shave them in the morning...
I don't think I disagree with you. My ultimate hope is that the U.S. ABM initiative would turn into a giant planet-covering ABM shield that would protect the entire planet. No American wants the threat of MAD overshadowing life on this planet (except the diabolical ones who want to push the button, but we'll ignore that they exist for the moment).
Someone has to take the slap in the face, if we're going to get it for invading afghanistan, we might as well cut a few treaties for the sake of the planet.
Holy shit, what an idea!!!
PGA Tour 2015 @ Tranquilty base. Be there to see Tiger Jr. (youngest PGA champ ever) knock one all the way back to earth!
You wouldn't need to. Just a satellite at the earth-moon lagrange points pinging the moon. Anyone tries to mess with your bird, and you know something's afoot.
If your enemies only have dozens or hundreds of warheads, you can *INDEED* field a system (at great cost no doubt) that can protect against them. That's why everyone's so pissed at U.S. for backing out of the ABM treaty. To maintain the MAD doctrine will require countries to pour money into nuclear deterrance that they'd rather spend on Internet infrastructure.
Yeah, Microsoft and Intel sure do seem to have about 96% penetration in Michael Dell...
It's indeed sad when Futurama and Samurai Jack are the greatest intellectual sources of entertainment on TV...
Which isn't true, because if the tuner box can't output to the TV in High-Def, there's *ZERO* chance this plan will succeed. So somewhere in the component video signal is a bit that says "don't timeshift me". That bit will get stripped, and for the rest of us that this matters to, life will go on.
I guess you and I have completely different ideas of what makes "good wine"... ;-) HD-cable costs me significantly more than $1000/y. :(
Man in the middle attack. I take the output from my cable box, plug it into my black-box signal decoder, and then plug that into my TV. Sooner or later, this encryption mechanism *WILL* be cracked... It's just a matter of time. Especially once HDTV is all there is...
Why, oh WHY BERNERS-LEE didn't you just set web.domain.tld as the standard? WHY!!!!
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And now they're owned by gateway... all the great work eMachines went through to shed their shitty past... down the tubes... :-/
Thanks for the info!
-Chris
Outlook 98 was a joy compared to Outlook 97... at least from a developers perspective (creating _functional_ VB-based MAPI Forms instead of having to build COM based ones)... But you're right, from a user perspective 98 was no improvement...
The LDAP implementation is also seriously broken.
Not the same thing. Email should *NEVER* be active. The whole MSForms interface in Outlook was keyed off properties: build apps that have properties, these can be emailed around as mime attachments, and if the recipient has the right form application, it just works for them. *THIS* is what makes exchange/outlook the killer groupware combo that is taking the world by storm.
HTML email with active VBscript and javascript is STUPID, and Microsoft proves it by disabling it in recent versions of Outlook.
-Chris Kaminski
*Building outlook apps for 7 years and counting...
I'm sorry, but the last thing I want is for my IM client to be wedded to my email client. This "feature" is stupid.
whack whack whack has gotten eerily popular here in the Boston area...
Silly, but true.
Yes, but AFAIK, none of those stores actually *HAVE* any.
:-)
Could be wrong though. I only checked last week...
I sure hope microsoft has an easy upgrade path from XP32 to XP64.
Is that with or without a warranty? :-)
Whilst I agree with you, and disagree with you, some of us (me) are hoping that AMD finds enough success in AMD64 to cripple a shitload of them as Athlons, and get out of the segregated 32bit cpu business.
But yes, I agree with you, AMD cannot neglect the desktop market, unless it makes AMD64 cheap enough that it can put them in all computers (which I think is their inevitable goal). Hell, once eMachines starts stocking them in Computer City, I think they'll have achieved it.
I think the biggest fear of electronic voting is that *1* compromised set of machines can be spread across the entire country, set to rig elections (harder with the presidential election with the electorate, but easier with the congressional and local seats). Whereas to mess with paper or level machines, you have to physically get at the entire set of machines you tampered with.
How about PGP encrypted results, where a line judge puts a password on the results-card that can only be decrypted once the card is loaded into the master (state) database? judge compares his paper results from when he encrypted the card, to the results in the database, printed on the web, and yays/nays the results? Or he has two cards, one of which he can verify on a laptop external to the voting machine for proof??