Ahh, I was wondering the filing date; I know I was doing inline page updates (not frames), using script to dynamically replace content in 2000... a bit later that that.
How many Units do you think an average store will stock? Every Wal*Mart, every Target, every Sears, every Fred Meyer, every EB-Games...
If I were in charge of electronics inventory for a major chain, I'd have to think long and hard... If they don't sell, will Sony reimburse? Should each store stock 10 Wii's 10 360's and 10 PS3's?, or 30 Wii's, 10 360's and 5 PS 3's?
Which would make the store more profit? 30 Wii's plus 1-3 games each, or 10 PS3's with 0-2 game each? (If it comes with Linux, many will not be used for retail games)
How many pre-orders will end up not being redeemed, because the customer can't afford it?
Spending $600 for a game console is one thing, but if you're the guy who bought $60,000,000 worth for your company, and only 50% of them sell, who's gonna get blamed for the lost $30,000,000?
But then, if you stock too few, and the competition gets all the sales profit...
With some driver/hardware combinations when you take a screen shot of a playing video, all you get is the chroma key box.
The way that works is that wherever the video is to be shown, the player software sets the pixel color to a specific color, like a TV 'Green Screen' (used to be Blue), I've seen dark purple or hot pink used for video card chroma key.
So, you hit print screen, you get a dark purple square.
The video output hardware then replaced all of that one shade of dark purple with the hardware decompressed video feed.
In a 'trusted' video playback situation, the OS may not even have access to the output video stream.
If China and India start using a gasoline car per adult, we're doomed.
Technology needs to be shared, so that instead of putting a gas station on every corner, developing countrys start with electric cars, efficent power plants, recycling of packaging, etc. etc.
Cutting the birth rate is easy, just eliminate poverty. The wealthier a country is, the lower the birth rate.
The biggest mistake would be for the US to cut ties with countries that do objectional things. By allowing their local government to be the only source of cultural influence, the people may never realize their options. (A filtered Internet is better than no Internet at all)
The pay rate in India is climbing, and the populace is getting more an more tech savvy, before long, Indians will be answering tech support calls for Indians, and Outsourcing will balance out.
And stop going to wars to 'give people their freedom'. That's impossible. Freedom cannot be 'given' it must be earned and taken; because if anyone gives you freedom, they can also take it away.
Arn't some of their fees based on a percentage of the sale amount?
If so, they need to know that the amount transferred through a payment system is equal to a known amount of U.S. Dollars, or else they 'risk' auctions like
"... All bids shall be placed in the form of a number of Cents equal to the number of Dollars you agree to pay."
But replace 'Cents' with 'G-Money' units... which may or may not be linked to the value of the U.S. Dollar...
I would classify XOR'ing a number against itself to obtain Zero as a 'hack' (clever, but obfuscated) no matter how frequently it was used...
But I suppose making a special instruction just to Zero a register would be just as much a hack (hardcoded values...)
But depending on a workaround to be faster than the direct way of setting the register to Zero just seems to me to be a bad idea... But as often as it's done, it's probably saved years, if not centuries of cumulative CPU time.
Even if it only plays WMA, there are non-drm WMA formats available, including a Lossless format you could transcode to, the Media Player that comes with Windows (usually) can do this automatically.
Yes, but... they arn't accepted as secondary IDs. And for purposes of getting a passport a 'Certified' Birth Certificate is needed; and there is a fee for the certification.
It's extra security for everyone when everyone uses encryption, someone sniffing the network wouldn't be able to tell a critical e-mail from a snippet of voice... Not being able to identify the data is the real reason 'Net Neutrality' is assured.
Since it's a good thing that the data can't be identified (in some ways) how about having your users, in a business setting, not run as Administrator on the desktop machines? Just disallow the installation of IP telephony applications, not as a policy, but as an account restriction.
Better yet, do it before the next worm ravages your network.
Or my friend, who I tried to help open a bank account a savings account that I could deposit into, and he could withdraw from, instead of having to find him when he needs something)
You need two peices of ID, he does have a state ID card, so that's good, secondary form of ID?
Passport: costs a bit nowdays, and you need 2 peices of ID to get that I think. Military ID: Even if he were willing, I doubt they want someone with schitzophrenia, who's been involentarally commited a few times to hold a rifle. Utility Bill: He's homeless, the upside is no power/water/telephone bills to pay. Credit Card: homeless, no bank accounts, no job. Employee ID: He's sometimes insane, not the best triat for an employee Student ID: Possible, but difficult without a home, or a bank account.
If a homeless person gets a bank account, the terrorists win?
Actually that was a favored prank back when I was testing keyboard device driver for WIndows 95; the managers put a stop to it when people started disconnecting each others hard drives.
I myself only did it once, when the person who did it most had rotated his chair 90 degrees to talk to someone next to him, I reached over and ninja'd his desktop into paint, save, set desktop in under 20 seconds...
"That is why I (also a Military SysAdmin type) put GetRight or a similar download management tool on my machines. Network goes down....no problem! Download resume!"
aside from the 4 hour long phone call on printing mailing labels, which I have mostly blocked out...
One interesting set of calls I got was from a University, the student databases were getting corrupted, and there were no known bugs of that nature in the product.
After discussing with the fellow different means to diagnose problems, I let him go investigate while I did some research of possible causes, and I called him back a week later, after he scanned all 3 labs for viruses, and such It turned out that only databases saved in one of the three labs were getting corrupted.
as a last gasp to solve the problem, I recalled that at the time, many PC's had parity ram, while Macintoshes did not.
So I asked if there was anything unusual about the building in which the lab was located, like an MRI machine, lab equipment, tesla coil, whatever might cause a power dip.
Turns out they were doing construction of a new building next door, and the equipment was running off the computer labs power.
300 sounds like too many, that many people takes so much effort to coordinate, you lose a ton of labor right off the bat:
1 manager for every 4 workers: -60, 240 left 2 testers for every developer: -160, 80 left 1 administrative assistant for each group of 20: -15, 65 left 1 hardware support/lab manager for each 60: -5, 60 left 20 multilingual people for localization: -20, 40 left 20 more multilingual people for localization testing: -20, 20 left Beta liasons, Project managers: -6, 14 left Security, Reception: -6, 8 left Payroll, Accounting: -6, 2 left 1 code reviewer for each developer: -1, 1 left
The one guy able to actually do anything is probably working his ass off.
safely decay was implied, I'm sure some chemical company could do it. and the attributes were in an order, no point in the casing rotting if the explosives were still live, or toxic; although you may still want the explosives to last as long as the timers are getting reset.
If the enemy commanders are killed, and their military buildings blown up, and noone knows the codes to deactivate the mines, they'll keep on going.
self-deactivating timers in a few months, with explosives that decay in a few years, and casings that bio-degrade in a few decades would be better. (for the winners)
Food, Shelter, Clothing: The Internet allows us to buy different versions of the same, but it doesn't provide, or really do a lot to produce the things that are really important. Maybe there is an automated watering system out there, but most cornfields don't need IP addresses.
Family, Religion, Education: The Internet can be useful for these things, but they all were available, and would still be available if the whole 'net shut down right now.
Police, Fire Fighters, Medical care: In some ways, these things are complicated by the Internet, 911 over VOIP is a problem, as well as quack devices/drugs bought online.
I'd be perfectly happy if the government never passed any laws specifically for the Internet. it's fun and all that, but I could live without it.
If a sophisticated technical person wanted to steal the data in the first place, I'd think they would have copied the data and put the laptop back exactly as it was; once it's known the data was stolen, it's a lot less useful.
While it may have been stolen by a 'low brow' (as another posted put it), then sold to someone with skill; why would they they sell the laptop again with possible fingerprints, hairs, skin flakes, and such that could ID them, as well as allow someone else to copy the data, reducing it's usefulness?
No really skilled master criminal hacker would be famous for it, noone would even know they exist.
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Well, he's also vulnerable to Magic, so a Superman vs. Mr. Myxlyplx game could be possible...
The percentage of students who reported being afraid of being attacked at school or on the way to and from school decreased from 12 % in 1995 to 6 % in 2001.
Between 1993 and 2003, the percentage of students in grades 9-12 who reported carrying a weapon such as a gun, knife, or club on school property within the previous 30 days declined--from 12 % to 6 %
Fewer than 1% of all homicides among school-age children occur on or around school grounds or on the way to and from school....the total number of events has decreased steadily since 1992-1993 school year...
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Having been needle-phobic myself, my fear was of the needle breaking off inside.
(mostly over it now, giving myself 2x a week injections)
Unless the referances include Goats...
Ahh, I was wondering the filing date; I know I was doing inline page updates (not frames), using script to dynamically replace content in 2000... a bit later that that.
How many Units do you think an average store will stock?
Every Wal*Mart, every Target, every Sears, every Fred Meyer, every EB-Games...
If I were in charge of electronics inventory for a major chain, I'd have to think long and hard... If they don't sell, will Sony reimburse? Should each store stock 10 Wii's 10 360's and 10 PS3's?, or 30 Wii's, 10 360's and 5 PS 3's?
Which would make the store more profit? 30 Wii's plus 1-3 games each, or 10 PS3's with 0-2 game each? (If it comes with Linux, many will not be used for retail games)
How many pre-orders will end up not being redeemed, because the customer can't afford it?
Spending $600 for a game console is one thing, but if you're the guy who bought $60,000,000 worth for your company, and only 50% of them sell, who's gonna get blamed for the lost $30,000,000?
But then, if you stock too few, and the competition gets all the sales profit...
Sounds like someone needs the Cruciatus Curse used on them, if they insist on Imperius Cursing peoples PC's...
or maybe Avada Kedavra.
With some driver/hardware combinations when you take a screen shot of a playing video, all you get is the chroma key box.
The way that works is that wherever the video is to be shown, the player software sets the pixel color to a specific color, like a TV 'Green Screen' (used to be Blue), I've seen dark purple or hot pink used for video card chroma key.
So, you hit print screen, you get a dark purple square.
The video output hardware then replaced all of that one shade of dark purple with the hardware decompressed video feed.
In a 'trusted' video playback situation, the OS may not even have access to the output video stream.
If China and India start using a gasoline car per adult, we're doomed.
Technology needs to be shared, so that instead of putting a gas station on every corner, developing countrys start with electric cars, efficent power plants, recycling of packaging, etc. etc.
Cutting the birth rate is easy, just eliminate poverty. The wealthier a country is, the lower the birth rate.
The biggest mistake would be for the US to cut ties with countries that do objectional things. By allowing their local government to be the only source of cultural influence, the people may never realize their options. (A filtered Internet is better than no Internet at all)
The pay rate in India is climbing, and the populace is getting more an more tech savvy, before long, Indians will be answering tech support calls for Indians, and Outsourcing will balance out.
And stop going to wars to 'give people their freedom'. That's impossible. Freedom cannot be 'given' it must be earned and taken; because if anyone gives you freedom, they can also take it away.
Arn't some of their fees based on a percentage of the sale amount?
If so, they need to know that the amount transferred through a payment system is equal to a known amount of U.S. Dollars, or else they 'risk' auctions like
"... All bids shall be placed in the form of a number of Cents equal to the number of Dollars you agree to pay."
But replace 'Cents' with 'G-Money' units... which may or may not be linked to the value of the U.S. Dollar...
I would classify XOR'ing a number against itself to obtain Zero as a 'hack' (clever, but obfuscated) no matter how frequently it was used...
But I suppose making a special instruction just to Zero a register would be just as much a hack (hardcoded values...)
But depending on a workaround to be faster than the direct way of setting the register to Zero just seems to me to be a bad idea... But as often as it's done, it's probably saved years, if not centuries of cumulative CPU time.
I don't envy CPU designers work.
Even if it only plays WMA, there are non-drm WMA formats available, including a Lossless format you could transcode to, the Media Player that comes with Windows (usually) can do this automatically.
The Feds like to do things 'Offshore' like holding POW's on nearby island nations.
Yes, but... they arn't accepted as secondary IDs.
And for purposes of getting a passport a 'Certified' Birth Certificate is needed; and there is a fee for the certification.
It's extra security for everyone when everyone uses encryption, someone sniffing the network wouldn't be able to tell a critical e-mail from a snippet of voice... Not being able to identify the data is the real reason 'Net Neutrality' is assured.
Since it's a good thing that the data can't be identified (in some ways) how about having your users, in a business setting, not run as Administrator on the desktop machines? Just disallow the installation of IP telephony applications, not as a policy, but as an account restriction.
Better yet, do it before the next worm ravages your network.
Or my friend, who I tried to help open a bank account a savings account that I could deposit into, and he could withdraw from, instead of having to find him when he needs something)
You need two peices of ID, he does have a state ID card, so that's good, secondary form of ID?
Passport: costs a bit nowdays, and you need 2 peices of ID to get that I think.
Military ID: Even if he were willing, I doubt they want someone with schitzophrenia, who's been involentarally commited a few times to hold a rifle.
Utility Bill: He's homeless, the upside is no power/water/telephone bills to pay.
Credit Card: homeless, no bank accounts, no job.
Employee ID: He's sometimes insane, not the best triat for an employee
Student ID: Possible, but difficult without a home, or a bank account.
If a homeless person gets a bank account, the terrorists win?
Actually that was a favored prank back when I was testing keyboard device driver for WIndows 95; the managers put a stop to it when people started disconnecting each others hard drives.
I myself only did it once, when the person who did it most had rotated his chair 90 degrees to talk to someone next to him, I reached over and ninja'd his desktop into paint, save, set desktop in under 20 seconds...
"That is why I (also a Military SysAdmin type) put GetRight or a similar download management tool on my machines. Network goes down....no problem! Download resume!"
or Upload Resume; to Monster, Dice, HotJobs...
Skipping commercails is as much theft as reading a library book.
aside from the 4 hour long phone call on printing mailing labels, which I have mostly blocked out...
One interesting set of calls I got was from a University, the student databases were getting corrupted, and there were no known bugs of that nature in the product.
After discussing with the fellow different means to diagnose problems, I let him go investigate while I did some research of possible causes, and I called him back a week later, after he scanned all 3 labs for viruses, and such It turned out that only databases saved in one of the three labs were getting corrupted.
as a last gasp to solve the problem, I recalled that at the time, many PC's had parity ram, while Macintoshes did not.
So I asked if there was anything unusual about the building in which the lab was located, like an MRI machine, lab equipment, tesla coil, whatever might cause a power dip.
Turns out they were doing construction of a new building next door, and the equipment was running off the computer labs power.
300 sounds like too many, that many people takes so much effort to coordinate, you lose a ton of labor right off the bat:
1 manager for every 4 workers: -60, 240 left
2 testers for every developer: -160, 80 left
1 administrative assistant for each group of 20: -15, 65 left
1 hardware support/lab manager for each 60: -5, 60 left
20 multilingual people for localization: -20, 40 left
20 more multilingual people for localization testing: -20, 20 left
Beta liasons, Project managers: -6, 14 left
Security, Reception: -6, 8 left
Payroll, Accounting: -6, 2 left
1 code reviewer for each developer: -1, 1 left
The one guy able to actually do anything is probably working his ass off.
safely decay was implied, I'm sure some chemical company could do it. and the attributes were in an order, no point in the casing rotting if the explosives were still live, or toxic; although you may still want the explosives to last as long as the timers are getting reset.
If they win.
If the enemy commanders are killed, and their military buildings blown up, and noone knows the codes to deactivate the mines, they'll keep on going.
self-deactivating timers in a few months, with explosives that decay in a few years, and casings that bio-degrade in a few decades would be better. (for the winners)
(in as much as anyone 'wins' a war)
Food, Shelter, Clothing:
The Internet allows us to buy different versions of the same, but it doesn't provide, or really do a lot to produce the things that are really important. Maybe there is an automated watering system out there, but most cornfields don't need IP addresses.
Family, Religion, Education:
The Internet can be useful for these things, but they all were available, and would still be available if the whole 'net shut down right now.
Police, Fire Fighters, Medical care:
In some ways, these things are complicated by the Internet, 911 over VOIP is a problem, as well as quack devices/drugs bought online.
I'd be perfectly happy if the government never passed any laws specifically for the Internet. it's fun and all that, but I could live without it.
If a sophisticated technical person wanted to steal the data in the first place, I'd think they would have copied the data and put the laptop back exactly as it was; once it's known the data was stolen, it's a lot less useful.
While it may have been stolen by a 'low brow' (as another posted put it), then sold to someone with skill; why would they they sell the laptop again with possible fingerprints, hairs, skin flakes, and such that could ID them, as well as allow someone else to copy the data, reducing it's usefulness?
No really skilled master criminal hacker would be famous for it, noone would even know they exist.
Well, he's also vulnerable to Magic, so a Superman vs. Mr. Myxlyplx game could be possible...
maybe a licensed version of Scrabble.
School violence has not been increasing, it's just the media sensationalizing the death of suburban white kids (I used to be one myself)
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...the total number of events has decreased steadily since 1992-1993 school year...
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/crimeindicators/Indic
Violent Deaths at School and Away From School:
Years School Away
1992-93 34 3,584
1993-94 29 3,804
1994-95 28 3,552
1995-96 32 3,305
1996-97 28 2,952
1997-98 34 2,728
1998-99 33 2,366
1999-00 14 2,126
2000-01 12 2,047
2001-02 17 2,036
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_violence
The percentage of students who reported being afraid of being attacked at school or on the way to and from school decreased from 12 % in 1995 to 6 % in 2001.
Between 1993 and 2003, the percentage of students in grades 9-12 who reported carrying a weapon such as a gun, knife, or club on school property within the previous 30 days declined--from 12 % to 6 %
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/fact_book/23_School_Viol
Fewer than 1% of all homicides among school-age children occur on or around school grounds or on the way to and from school.