because the last 2 that I bought both died. (while my old NES still chugs along)
Unfortunetly, I have a sizable collection of Playstation games to plow through. (plus memory cards, controllers, etc.)
Damn you Square for leaving Nintendo!
I hope they are still selling systems at a loss.
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I worked in a county office as a sysadmin, and while I didn't have detailed schematics for stealth bombers, I handled payroll/personnel data for jail guards, judges, prosecutors... I brought in my own music CD player even though I could have polayed them my machines CD-Rom, because I believed in keeping personal things out of government equipment. Now, thinking of other departments... Bus Schedules, you could phone in an listen to recorded bus schedules, something that messes with audio could hose that. The county hospital, people have died from bugs in radiology software, as well as patient records. Court records, crime Victim/witness information. Computer controlled sewage equipment...
Always read patents that just expired, and build your products based on those.
Did anyone but me notice that McDonalds introduced their 'McFlurry' at the same time Dairy Queen celebrated the 14th anniversery of their 'Blizzard'? 14 years being the length of a Patent in those days?
I guess DQ patented putting chunks in ice cream.
My only problem with Patents is that they were made longer, 20 years instead of 14, instead of shorter, when the pace of technological advancement has increased.
Software patents should be cut to 7 years, because 7 year old software is basically obselete. (Windows 98 anyone?)
Along with a 'Submarine' defense. If a patent holder participates in a standards group, and later claims that the standard infringes on their patent; their claim, in reguards to that standard, is void. However they could still pursue infringment outside of the standard. It would allow standards to be made with protection for both the Standard and the Inventor.
The benifit to the consumer? Think of DRM 'protected' 'CD's, that not longer meet the official 'CD' standard. The other companies that make True CDs could sue the producers of those discs for infringing on their patents that they contributed to the standard.
Fenestration is a perfectly valid word, for windows, doors, etc.
I suggest that all Open software projects stop using the term 'Window' to describe areas in which applications display controls and content, and instead use the neutral term 'Fenestration'
'wavelengths which pass through the atmosphere are said to "pass through a window."' (astronomy) becomes 'wavelengths which pass through the atmosphere are said to "pass through a Fenestration."'
The PC on my desk ran several proccesses to manipulate a $2,000,000,000 dollar budget, checking for accounting errors, backing up the database, printing reports. Along with Payroll information for Prosecutors, Judges, Sherriff's deputies, jail guards, tax assessors, election officials... (the highest payed employee was the Coroner) Think how interesting the home address, SSN, etc. of some of those folks could be to, for example, a convicted murderer.
I also listened to music while working (David Bowie, 'Earthling' for the most part)
I'm glad I bought my own seperate CD player in, instead of using the one built into the PC.
Google is investing in Space Elevator technology, in order to launch space billboards.
However, the billboards will have those lenses that cause a different image to appear from different angles, so that advertising can be targeted to each 50 mile wide strip of land.
UV lasers will shine from the billboards, designed to catch reflections from the irises (iri?) of anyone looking at the billboards, in order to calculate the response to each ad.
SCO's mistake was to let it become a public case, if IBM could have paid 'em off without anyone knowing, it would have been an option. At this point, if IBM bought out SCO, it would start a landslide of copycats hoping to cash in.
The most sensible thing for IBM at this point is to totally crush SCO, Darl, the lawyers, any press that were on SCO's side, etc. etc. Not just financially, but to get Darl and etc. in prison for perjury/fraud if possible, get the laywers sanctioned for a friviolus case, and so forth.
Just like the Vegas casinos, if you get caught faking a slip-and-fall to sue the casino, you not only lose the case, you go to prison for fraud. (which isn't as bad as the old way of ending up dead in the middle of the desert)
The conversation around the dinner table thing only works until you find out that your son is gay, your daughter a democrat, and your wife cares about black people.
When TV gets turns off, expect a jump in the domestic violence rate.
ED seizures should require a citizen jury trial or a public vote, perhaps not requiring a uniaminous verdict, but perhaps just a majority, depending on the specifics of the situation. In a criminal case, even though the state believes it's justified in taking a defendants time/property it requires citizen overview, people should have at least such rights when their property is to be taken when they are not even accused of wrongdoing.
Only the public can decide the 'public' good.
However, in this case, where multiple countries are involved...
The Florida Bar Ideals and Goals of Professionalism These aspirational guidelines for lawyers were adopted by the Board of Governors of the Florida Bar on May 16, 1990.
"A lawyer's word should be his or her bond. The lawyer should not knowingly misstate, distort, or improperly exaggerate any fact or opinion and should not improperly permit the lawyer's silence or inaction to mislead anyone."
"I will not knowingly misstate, distort, or improperly exaggerate any fact or opinion and will not improperly permit my silence or inaction to mislead anyone."
The was an article not to long ago about underclocking systems, where you can save more power/heat than you slow the system down by, percentage wise. Would the users really notice the servers underclocked by 10%?
Do Americans have an innate right to a better financial situation than others in the world?
China, Brazil and many other governments are encouraging local software development for their own culture. Pretty soon those cheap tech-support guys in India will be supporting Indians using software written in India. Then the cost of hiring them might rise enough that it will once again be more economical to do things locally. Heck, if you think trying to understand what the Indian guy is saying is hard for you, think how hard your english is for them, all day, every day, for a fraction of your pay.
I already think it's more economical to use local support people in the long run, what with language barriars, and better accountability. Saving $2 on a support call won't matter when you lose too many paying customers. The bottom line of Outsourcing is that the providing companies make a profit, so that instead of paying $20 to an employee for $40 worth of work (if an employee isn't worth more to your company than you are paying, then you are losing money), you're paying $15, minus $5 for the Outsourcer, minus $5 for long distance, so $5 left for the worker for $10 worth of work. So you just lost money. (YMMV)
I also think it's our duty to help other cultures to progress in better ways, think of China, then think of the gas-hogging cars of the 60's/70's. If the worlds oil reserves, and the earths atmosphere is going to last for all of us, we had best help them skip over the Gasoline powered cars in every home phase, and go directly to electric/fuel cell automobiles, and the needed infrastructure.
To me, it boils down to that most americans think america is the best country in the world. I agree, but, I don't think that our Geography, our Genetics, our Religion, or our Language is ideal. What makes us the best is our Ideas, and an Idea costs us nothing to share, except our compedative advantage in other areas. But once they subscribe to our ideas, we win. Like McDonalds in Moscow.
I was greatly amused by a proctologists website, with before/after images of hemmeroid surgery, with music from his native Peru playing in the background.
Is there any available virtual PC environment that allows you to simulate more CPU's?, that is for example, if you have 2 physical cores, making an OS believe you have 4?
Most useful for testing multi-cpu software for basic compatibility I would think.
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And I recently bought a new PS2.
because the last 2 that I bought both died. (while my old NES still chugs along)
Unfortunetly, I have a sizable collection of Playstation games to plow through. (plus memory cards, controllers, etc.)
Damn you Square for leaving Nintendo!
I hope they are still selling systems at a loss.
I worked in a county office as a sysadmin, and while I didn't have detailed schematics for stealth bombers, I handled payroll/personnel data for jail guards, judges, prosecutors... I brought in my own music CD player even though I could have polayed them my machines CD-Rom, because I believed in keeping personal things out of government equipment. Now, thinking of other departments... Bus Schedules, you could phone in an listen to recorded bus schedules, something that messes with audio could hose that. The county hospital, people have died from bugs in radiology software, as well as patient records. Court records, crime Victim/witness information. Computer controlled sewage equipment...
Always read patents that just expired, and build your products based on those.
Did anyone but me notice that McDonalds introduced their 'McFlurry' at the same time Dairy Queen celebrated the 14th anniversery of their 'Blizzard'? 14 years being the length of a Patent in those days?
I guess DQ patented putting chunks in ice cream.
My only problem with Patents is that they were made longer, 20 years instead of 14, instead of shorter, when the pace of technological advancement has increased.
Software patents should be cut to 7 years, because 7 year old software is basically obselete. (Windows 98 anyone?)
Along with a 'Submarine' defense. If a patent holder participates in a standards group, and later claims that the standard infringes on their patent; their claim, in reguards to that standard, is void. However they could still pursue infringment outside of the standard. It would allow standards to be made with protection for both the Standard and the Inventor.
The benifit to the consumer? Think of DRM 'protected' 'CD's, that not longer meet the official 'CD' standard. The other companies that make True CDs could sue the producers of those discs for infringing on their patents that they contributed to the standard.
Fenestration is a perfectly valid word, for windows, doors, etc.
I suggest that all Open software projects stop using the term 'Window' to describe areas in which applications display controls and content, and instead use the neutral term 'Fenestration'
Such as:
"X Window System" becomes "X Fenestration System"
"Window Manager" (WM) becomes "Fenestration Manager" (FM)
"TCP Window Size" becomes "TCP Fenestration Size"
"Rear Window" (Alfred Hitchcock) becomes "Rear Fenestration"
"Launch Window" (NASA) becomes "Launch Fenestration"
"Stained Glass Window" (Churches) becomes "Stained Glass Fenestration"
'wavelengths which pass through the atmosphere are said to "pass through a window."' (astronomy) becomes 'wavelengths which pass through the atmosphere are said to "pass through a Fenestration."'
Imagine if it was remotely hijacked... hopefully it would be designed to self-destruct/break apart on reentry.
If I owned one of those, I don't know how I could resist the temptation to swallow it.
I'd only do this if I could Zot people.
The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was:
> Why is a cow?
And in response, thus spake the oracle:
} Mu.
Problem is that also uses your time, which is hopefully worth more than a phone monkeys.
I used to work in a county budget office.
The PC on my desk ran several proccesses to manipulate a $2,000,000,000 dollar budget, checking for accounting errors, backing up the database, printing reports. Along with Payroll information for Prosecutors, Judges, Sherriff's deputies, jail guards, tax assessors, election officials... (the highest payed employee was the Coroner) Think how interesting the home address, SSN, etc. of some of those folks could be to, for example, a convicted murderer.
I also listened to music while working (David Bowie, 'Earthling' for the most part)
I'm glad I bought my own seperate CD player in, instead of using the one built into the PC.
Google is investing in Space Elevator technology, in order to launch space billboards.
However, the billboards will have those lenses that cause a different image to appear from different angles, so that advertising can be targeted to each 50 mile wide strip of land.
UV lasers will shine from the billboards, designed to catch reflections from the irises (iri?) of anyone looking at the billboards, in order to calculate the response to each ad.
It's absolutly a worthwhile investment.
SCO's mistake was to let it become a public case, if IBM could have paid 'em off without anyone knowing, it would have been an option. At this point, if IBM bought out SCO, it would start a landslide of copycats hoping to cash in.
The most sensible thing for IBM at this point is to totally crush SCO, Darl, the lawyers, any press that were on SCO's side, etc. etc. Not just financially, but to get Darl and etc. in prison for perjury/fraud if possible, get the laywers sanctioned for a friviolus case, and so forth.
Just like the Vegas casinos, if you get caught faking a slip-and-fall to sue the casino, you not only lose the case, you go to prison for fraud. (which isn't as bad as the old way of ending up dead in the middle of the desert)
I recently read the full set of James Bond stories from Ian Fleming.
Bond has a 'fondness for ni??ers', and 'all women secretly desire to be raped'
Far less employee time is wasted waiting for Open Office to run than is wasted on Freecell
I think the statement, "If you have to ask, you can't afford it' applies.
The conversation around the dinner table thing only works until you find out that your son is gay, your daughter a democrat, and your wife cares about black people.
When TV gets turns off, expect a jump in the domestic violence rate.
ED seizures should require a citizen jury trial or a public vote, perhaps not requiring a uniaminous verdict, but perhaps just a majority, depending on the specifics of the situation. In a criminal case, even though the state believes it's justified in taking a defendants time/property it requires citizen overview, people should have at least such rights when their property is to be taken when they are not even accused of wrongdoing.
Only the public can decide the 'public' good.
However, in this case, where multiple countries are involved...
http://www.law.stetson.edu/excellence/litethics/fl bar.htm
n d%20Inn%20of%20Court%20Creeds.pdf
The Florida Bar
Ideals and Goals of Professionalism
These aspirational guidelines for lawyers were
adopted by the Board of Governors of the Florida Bar on May 16, 1990.
"A lawyer's word should be his or her bond. The lawyer should not knowingly misstate, distort, or improperly exaggerate any fact or opinion and should not improperly permit the lawyer's silence or inaction to mislead anyone."
http://www.jud10.org/WillsonInn/Florida%20Bar%20a
Florida Bar Creed Of Professionalism
"I will not knowingly misstate, distort, or improperly exaggerate any fact or opinion and will not improperly permit my silence or inaction to mislead anyone."
However, I am my Karma.
(to bad I lost my ancient 4 digit ID)
The was an article not to long ago about underclocking systems, where you can save more power/heat than you slow the system down by, percentage wise. Would the users really notice the servers underclocked by 10%?
Cheaper than training a replacement soldier.
It probably helps if the Operating System kept better track of things that get installed, so that it can remove entire sets of programs together.
Do Americans have an innate right to a better financial situation than others in the world?
China, Brazil and many other governments are encouraging local software development for their own culture. Pretty soon those cheap tech-support guys in India will be supporting Indians using software written in India. Then the cost of hiring them might rise enough that it will once again be more economical to do things locally. Heck, if you think trying to understand what the Indian guy is saying is hard for you, think how hard your english is for them, all day, every day, for a fraction of your pay.
I already think it's more economical to use local support people in the long run, what with language barriars, and better accountability. Saving $2 on a support call won't matter when you lose too many paying customers. The bottom line of Outsourcing is that the providing companies make a profit, so that instead of paying $20 to an employee for $40 worth of work (if an employee isn't worth more to your company than you are paying, then you are losing money), you're paying $15, minus $5 for the Outsourcer, minus $5 for long distance, so $5 left for the worker for $10 worth of work. So you just lost money. (YMMV)
I also think it's our duty to help other cultures to progress in better ways, think of China, then think of the gas-hogging cars of the 60's/70's. If the worlds oil reserves, and the earths atmosphere is going to last for all of us, we had best help them skip over the Gasoline powered cars in every home phase, and go directly to electric/fuel cell automobiles, and the needed infrastructure.
To me, it boils down to that most americans think america is the best country in the world. I agree, but, I don't think that our Geography, our Genetics, our Religion, or our Language is ideal. What makes us the best is our Ideas, and an Idea costs us nothing to share, except our compedative advantage in other areas. But once they subscribe to our ideas, we win. Like McDonalds in Moscow.
I was greatly amused by a proctologists website, with before/after images of hemmeroid surgery, with music from his native Peru playing in the background.
Is there any available virtual PC environment that allows you to simulate more CPU's?, that is for example, if you have 2 physical cores, making an OS believe you have 4?
Most useful for testing multi-cpu software for basic compatibility I would think.
My dryer is in the darkest corner of a windowless room, it's door being in the farthest corner of the outer room.
You probably don't have brown-recluse, black-widow, or such spiders.
Spiders are useally fairly sedentary, but toss 'em in a tumbling machine, and they emerge pretty pissed off.