I agree that I'd like to see SharePoint work better (or even correctly) in say FireFox. However, I myself don't know how to do that without some plugins like COM objects (for talking to Communicator to show contacts and for the menus like check out etc. that interoperate with Office). I imagine these could be implemented as FireFox extensions, and it would be very cool if they would do that. But doing just HTML and AJAX wouldn't work - at least not to give you the full feature set that the product has.
Here's hoping they do some work to make SharePoint allow FireFox as a full-featured client.
Well reading the claims they aren't talking about a treeview file system anyway; they seem to be talking about the system of non-file namespace extensions similar to how they show "Desktop" as a node at a level where it is not in the FS, and "Network", "Control Panel", etc. that can all show up in their Treeview controls interspersed with file system objects. I don't believe Norton Commander or XTree did that. They also are claiming a system of registering these namespace add-ins. None of that seems like any attempt to patent a simple treeview of the file system.
I don't know enough about this to have a real opinion I guess, but I had sort of made the assumption that PINs worked like passwords in Linux and Windows - the server wouldn't know your password (PIN), but would know the HASH only. I guess these folks are saying that you can actually steal the PIN itself from a bank's server? I'd think it more likely that you could steal the hashes and then knowing that the PINs are generally 4 digit numbers, crack the hash. But if they directly store the PIN on their servers - that seems like a stupid idea.
I agree with you here. I think it will be an escalation though between the people who want to know what everyone is doing and those of us who want privacy. For example, if we encrypt everything - how long will it take these same wiretapping morons to pass more laws requiring that sites make the decryption key available for all "official agencies" or some such?
You'd think that. I'd imagine anyone reasonable would. But then, at my company where we use bog standard SMS to distribute software, we have found that the UK considers an SMS package being sent from a server in the US to a server in the UK, and on to a server in say South Africa to be "distribution" - this is the UK tax authorities or some such. They are actually trying to convince the courts there of such and it is a pain in the rear dealing with it. These are not "installed"; they are merely the setup files.
I use a backpack type bag for mine, and I have several notebooks - all Lenovo. I have a T60p, T61p (15.4 inch), an x60, and an X61 tablet. I find I generally take the X61 tablet. With its 1400x1050 resolution, I can do most of what I need (I prefer coding on it to the 1024x768 on the lighter X60). I don't care at all about the tablet features, but find it a decent trade off for me to have the little extra weight of the X61 tablet to get the higher res screen.
I do spend quite a bit of time traveling with TWO notebooks; let me tell you it is a real pain to carry around the T61p (15.4") and the T60p in the same bag along with external USB drives, etc. (trips to enterprise labs at vendor sites).
But I would have to agree with you that I would much rather take my X61 tablet that any of those other machines and I find myself generally always carrying just the X61 and leaving the others in the office. When you have all of them available to you like that, the one you actually pick isn't a matter of finances and only being able to have one. If you can find a small, light machine that fits enough of your needs - that is the one to go with.
Flash isn't installed with Windows anymore (it was briefly - I think it was Flash 6 that came with older versions of XP). When you visit a site that tries to instantiate Flash, you get a "gold bar" warning that says the site needs a control. You click through a few dialogs (allow, ok, install) - a couple of clicks and it is installed. Sure, the dialogs are annoying but the key is that they are easy.
On Hardy, I actually had a pretty good experience with it on some sites though where it offered me the add-in and I could choose (on one of my boxes I chose the non-adobe one and on another I chose the Adobe; both seem to work). I guess with Firefox and Ubuntu it really depends on the site and how they have coded their detection (as others have mentioned). I have had to do the./flash-installer thing many times in the past after opening the gzip.
Bottom line, this is an extremely easy task on Windows and is getting much better with FF on Ubuntu.
Sorry, the OS doesn't really make any difference (assuming you have a firewall - which all current operating systems do - to protect against buffer overflows found on inbound ports). What makes the difference is secure users.
I don't care how secure your OS is, if users are going to click on SomeFamousPersonNaked.exe, then they are going to eventually get owned - "secure" OS or not. We've all heard the "Linux doesn't get attacked much because it has an insignificant market share" and sort of argued around it - maybe the real one is "Linux doesn't get attacked much because the average Linux user knows enough to not click on ridiculous shit that gets emailed to them."
I run both Windows and Linux and the only time I have had a AV product tell me "oh noes, there is a virus" is when I have been manually TRYING to infect a system in order to reverse engineer what the damn thing does (in order to create cleanup packages for work). These are in non-networked VM's where we also re-image the host afterwards. But really - a secure USER is what we need. The OS won't make all that much difference compared to the user.
Because they are different things. The earlier dates are for update.exe (or whatever it is called now). The other is for a pre-built VL slipstream ISO image download.
I'd hope that law is really clear about what "access" to the data is. Because Microsoft ships free "viewers" that allow you to read the data, at which point you could copy and paste it to something else. Not sure if that meets the legal terms in that law, but it sure might. I'd prefer that "access" meant you could read and write, but since copy/paste/write would "work" it may be all that is required.
Right, but they ask you that as a way to find out if you have any ideas that may make you useful to them as a new hire - to see if you think beyond the box or beyond "make search better". As someone who has to do some amount of interviewing for a company of 60,000 people - I can tell you that is the type of question I may ask folks. But if I thought you had a good idea on something, I could take it to my manager, who could take it to their manager, who could send it to the "guy in charge of that". Any step along the way the idea could get quashed, ignored by someone "too busy" or morphed into something else resembling someone's pet project that now has "vetting from an outside party".
I don't think it is a reasonable assumption that you told the legal and technical teams that actually work on Google Streets anything. You certainly tried to tell them something - but that message getting to anyone who could act on it is probably vanishingly small.
I'd agree with you there; I have had probably 8 or 9 hard drives fail over the years (I currently have 10 running in the house right now and I have 8 running at my desk at work, so I do have a lot of drives). I am sure that I have caused some of the failures by just what you are talking about - I've maxed out the cases (for example my server has 4 drives in it, but was designed for 2 - I had to make my own bracket to jam the 4th in there, the 3rd went in place of a floppy). But I've never done anything about cooling and I probably caused this myself. Although to hear the noises coming from some of the platters when they failed I'm sure at least a couple weren't just heat. For example at work I have had 2 drives fail in just bog standard HP Compaq dc7700 desktops (without cramming in extra stuff). Sometimes they just up and die, other times I must have helped them along with heat.
I don't know about disease; I guess it depends on how fast travel between planets / stations is vs. how fast/virulent the disease is and how fast it could kill? I mean all these sci-fi stories of far-flung civilizations being wiped out by disease shared among locations by their supply ships don't seem that far out of the realm of possibility. I'd imagine something that kills quickly like Ebola wouldn't make it to the other locations, but that something slower - akin to a more virulent airborne thing with a kill time more like HIV could easily do it.
Well said sir. I would even say it would be OK for say iTunes to pop up in the area at the bottom of the screen where the store or whatever is something like, "hey, we have this web browser called Safari that we think is the bomb and if you want to try it, click here to download". But I was pretty amazed when the software update thing popped up with it already checked. It is similar to how installs of things like Real Player (that I haven't installed in YEARS and may be way out of date on) tried to install other things. Or, to call Microsoft out on it - when you install Live Messenger and it wants to install Rhapsody, Live Writer, and god knows what else.
Even Microsoft doesn't really disguise them as security updates though. Firefox doesn't either; it updates Firefox - it doesn't show Thunderbird or something else as something needing to be updated when it isn't even installed.
To your point about the users not trusting the updater anymore - when I saw it just the other day on my daughter's machine, I set the apple updated to NEVER CHECK FOR UPDATES because I don't want it installing any extra software. I've taught the kids to always install the Windows Updates, the FireFox Updates, and the Apple Updates (and what those dialogs should look like), but they wouldn't even think to uncheck a security update. So off it went. And now I have to remember to manually update her and my son both. So you are absolutely right about how they should stick to security updates so people don't turn them off.
OK, I just tried it. I didn't get an ad or a suggestion that I try some other product. I was using Office 2007 Pro Plus and inserted the equation in Word. Maybe I have to have the "internet services" turned on? I'm sure you've seen it - I am not contradicting you there - I just am not seeing it on my copy and I would actually LIKE to see it as I am in desktop design (3rd level design with a small amount of support) and anything my customers may see, I would like to know about first. Any idea how to reproduce this?
Just imagine: if this stuff panned out, it would not only be rain that could deform it. It could be deformed by say birds walking on it (toughen it against claws). So instead of cities trying to actively chase pigeons away (some places chase them on the ground with dogs and in the air with falcons, etc.) and the "don't feed the pigeons" signs - you would instead see "feed the pigeons right HERE." (where the special plastic is). Hopefully they get some of that rain working for them to, to wash the pigeon poop off the plastic though.
Wait a minute; if Windows can't see the data, how will it serve the data up to your remote machines? Or are you saying that he should remotely (or on an schedule) reboot the machines into Linux overnight to do this? Because there is no way an OS is going to serve up files from a partition it can't even read.
I've never had any problems setting up wireless on Windows - but it is because Windows is what the vendors support. I'd heard horror stories from people about setting up wireless on Linux (and I guess it can be that way depending on your wireless chipset). But I have to say; I repartitioned a Lenovo X60s yesterday (running Vista) and added Ubuntu 7.10 to the BCD menu and fired up wireless and it worked with no "messing" with anything; just out of the box flawless. It was a pleasant surprise (I normally just run Ubuntu on a desktop machine and this was my first try on wireless). Nicely done GNU/Linux/Ubuntu team!
Nicely said. However, one nit-pick. Don't think cross-sectional area; think surface area. I may be mis-remembering my electronics class, or it may only apply to high voltage systems - but what I recall is that surface area is important as most of the current flows near the surface. So much so that you could take a large cross-section wire and hollow it out and get nearly the same performance (of course it would then crush when you bent it around a corner).
Yes, the government and the cable companies both SAY that analog will continue over cable. And if you look deeper you find that only LOCAL programming is required to stay on analog over cable. Over the last several months Comcast in California anyway has been removing some programming from analog and moving it to digital only. Now, we know they aren't required to do it and we know there are no technical reasons for it (as even if the feed they get is digital only they can convert at the head end and continue to deliver analog). They must believe they can get people to buy or rent converter boxes or even switch to digital which COSTS MORE.
In fact, they are succeeding in that. My mom now has TWO of their $7 a month converter boxes which do nothing but convert the digital signal from the cable to NTSC analog out on channel 3. The channels that have "digitalized only" so far have been ones like the TV Guide channel (in her area; my cable area 60 miles away lost one channel of it from analog but has one remaining - her area now has the guide only on digital), some news channels from neighboring areas, and a couple of others that she watches a lot (came to about 7 stations that she felt she "needed").
This type of business practice is unfortunately enabled by the mandated changeover - but at least with this coupon program she can get two retail converters cheaply and give Comcast back their overpriced ones. Anyone who has cable and an analog TV should consider getting the coupon just in case their cable company starts doing this to them in their market area.
I didn't get the PET computer, but William Shatner advertising the Vic-20 on TV made me want one. We got one and I learned some basic and machine code programming on it. I don't miss the "press play on tape" message that would come up on the screen when you told it to load something though. When I got the C-64 later, we got the 5010 SmartDrive (I think that is what it was called) to go with it so we didn't have to sit through tape loads. 5.25 inch floppy drive and at the time I was glad to have it. I programmed some simple games on that thing - loads of fun.
Certainly gave me an interest in computers that must have affected where I ended up today (employed in IT and posting on/.).
While that part may be true, the worst part is that notebooks on laps or on conference tables are not ergonomically correct and really cannot be made to be correct without a bunch of equipment lying around (for example external keyboard and mouse, silly looking device to hold the machine with the screen in the right position, etc.). The way we are setup at my company (80,000 machines) - notebook users are issued port replicators with real monitors, actual ergo keyboards, real ergo mice, etc. Everyone also gets some training on how to best setup in a hotel room for the limited ergonomics you can get there.
While this "big open environment with nice chairs and conference tables" sounds nice and all - it will HURT people. Wrist, arm, neck, and shoulder problems will follow this around like crazy.
Oh, and like others in the thread have said: The company requires me to keep certain paperwork and some few receipts. Where do I put those?
I'd agree with your statement about the Zune not being popular unless it is cheap. I am NOT the target market for these music players (Apple, Microsoft or other) as I don't buy them - however I have several that I got for free. For example a couple of years back when they were new, I got three gen 1 2 GB Nano's in some Beta testing contests like best bug, first security bug, etc. A couple of week ago - the week before the Gen 2 Zune's came out - I was at a MS conference and they handed out Gen 1 Zune's to everyone.
So, having both devices I obviously like the 30 GB storage on the Zune better than the (much older and much smaller in size) 2 GB Nano. However the touch wheel on the Nano kicks the butt of the "thingy" that controls the Zune. The fit and finish of the Nano is better even though it is an old model now. (Obviously can't compare the storage as one is small and flash based and out of date while the other is a year or so old and larger with a hard drive). Just the design though - Apple's kicks the Zune's butt. That said, if it is cheap enough - people will find it is "good enough" at that low price.
I certainly find it to be perfectly acceptable for free!
That's what I was thinking; the drop would be at high speed, but since the bomb is leaving the bay at much higher than its terminal velocity the fact that it is going mach 2 at drop really isn't going to add to the impact the device has (for example if you read Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress they dropped "rocks" from the moon onto Earth. If big enough to not disintegrate in the atmosphere you didn't need an explosive payload for an impressive destructive force). With this though, the bomb would be slowing the whole way down I would imagine. The benefit then being as you surmised - the plane is less susceptible to enemy fire as they remain at high speed.
How do you actually know that this happened? From what you posted it seems just as likely that the author of the code worked for your company and saw some question in a web forum, took some code that was the companies' property (developed on their time and their equipment) and posted it to the web forum to answer someone's question. Do you have any way to be sure that that isn't your own companies' code out there?
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I agree that I'd like to see SharePoint work better (or even correctly) in say FireFox. However, I myself don't know how to do that without some plugins like COM objects (for talking to Communicator to show contacts and for the menus like check out etc. that interoperate with Office). I imagine these could be implemented as FireFox extensions, and it would be very cool if they would do that. But doing just HTML and AJAX wouldn't work - at least not to give you the full feature set that the product has.
Here's hoping they do some work to make SharePoint allow FireFox as a full-featured client.
Well reading the claims they aren't talking about a treeview file system anyway; they seem to be talking about the system of non-file namespace extensions similar to how they show "Desktop" as a node at a level where it is not in the FS, and "Network", "Control Panel", etc. that can all show up in their Treeview controls interspersed with file system objects. I don't believe Norton Commander or XTree did that. They also are claiming a system of registering these namespace add-ins. None of that seems like any attempt to patent a simple treeview of the file system.
I don't know enough about this to have a real opinion I guess, but I had sort of made the assumption that PINs worked like passwords in Linux and Windows - the server wouldn't know your password (PIN), but would know the HASH only. I guess these folks are saying that you can actually steal the PIN itself from a bank's server? I'd think it more likely that you could steal the hashes and then knowing that the PINs are generally 4 digit numbers, crack the hash. But if they directly store the PIN on their servers - that seems like a stupid idea.
I agree with you here.
I think it will be an escalation though between the people who want to know what everyone is doing and those of us who want privacy. For example, if we encrypt everything - how long will it take these same wiretapping morons to pass more laws requiring that sites make the decryption key available for all "official agencies" or some such?
You'd think that. I'd imagine anyone reasonable would. But then, at my company where we use bog standard SMS to distribute software, we have found that the UK considers an SMS package being sent from a server in the US to a server in the UK, and on to a server in say South Africa to be "distribution" - this is the UK tax authorities or some such. They are actually trying to convince the courts there of such and it is a pain in the rear dealing with it. These are not "installed"; they are merely the setup files.
I use a backpack type bag for mine, and I have several notebooks - all Lenovo. I have a T60p, T61p (15.4 inch), an x60, and an X61 tablet. I find I generally take the X61 tablet. With its 1400x1050 resolution, I can do most of what I need (I prefer coding on it to the 1024x768 on the lighter X60). I don't care at all about the tablet features, but find it a decent trade off for me to have the little extra weight of the X61 tablet to get the higher res screen.
I do spend quite a bit of time traveling with TWO notebooks; let me tell you it is a real pain to carry around the T61p (15.4") and the T60p in the same bag along with external USB drives, etc. (trips to enterprise labs at vendor sites). But I would have to agree with you that I would much rather take my X61 tablet that any of those other machines and I find myself generally always carrying just the X61 and leaving the others in the office. When you have all of them available to you like that, the one you actually pick isn't a matter of finances and only being able to have one. If you can find a small, light machine that fits enough of your needs - that is the one to go with.
Flash isn't installed with Windows anymore (it was briefly - I think it was Flash 6 that came with older versions of XP). When you visit a site that tries to instantiate Flash, you get a "gold bar" warning that says the site needs a control. You click through a few dialogs (allow, ok, install) - a couple of clicks and it is installed. Sure, the dialogs are annoying but the key is that they are easy.
./flash-installer thing many times in the past after opening the gzip.
On Hardy, I actually had a pretty good experience with it on some sites though where it offered me the add-in and I could choose (on one of my boxes I chose the non-adobe one and on another I chose the Adobe; both seem to work). I guess with Firefox and Ubuntu it really depends on the site and how they have coded their detection (as others have mentioned). I have had to do the
Bottom line, this is an extremely easy task on Windows and is getting much better with FF on Ubuntu.
Sorry, the OS doesn't really make any difference (assuming you have a firewall - which all current operating systems do - to protect against buffer overflows found on inbound ports). What makes the difference is secure users.
I don't care how secure your OS is, if users are going to click on SomeFamousPersonNaked.exe , then they are going to eventually get owned - "secure" OS or not. We've all heard the "Linux doesn't get attacked much because it has an insignificant market share" and sort of argued around it - maybe the real one is "Linux doesn't get attacked much because the average Linux user knows enough to not click on ridiculous shit that gets emailed to them."
I run both Windows and Linux and the only time I have had a AV product tell me "oh noes, there is a virus" is when I have been manually TRYING to infect a system in order to reverse engineer what the damn thing does (in order to create cleanup packages for work). These are in non-networked VM's where we also re-image the host afterwards. But really - a secure USER is what we need. The OS won't make all that much difference compared to the user.
Because they are different things. The earlier dates are for update.exe (or whatever it is called now). The other is for a pre-built VL slipstream ISO image download.
I'd hope that law is really clear about what "access" to the data is. Because Microsoft ships free "viewers" that allow you to read the data, at which point you could copy and paste it to something else. Not sure if that meets the legal terms in that law, but it sure might. I'd prefer that "access" meant you could read and write, but since copy/paste/write would "work" it may be all that is required.
Right, but they ask you that as a way to find out if you have any ideas that may make you useful to them as a new hire - to see if you think beyond the box or beyond "make search better". As someone who has to do some amount of interviewing for a company of 60,000 people - I can tell you that is the type of question I may ask folks. But if I thought you had a good idea on something, I could take it to my manager, who could take it to their manager, who could send it to the "guy in charge of that". Any step along the way the idea could get quashed, ignored by someone "too busy" or morphed into something else resembling someone's pet project that now has "vetting from an outside party".
I don't think it is a reasonable assumption that you told the legal and technical teams that actually work on Google Streets anything . You certainly tried to tell them something - but that message getting to anyone who could act on it is probably vanishingly small.
I'd agree with you there; I have had probably 8 or 9 hard drives fail over the years (I currently have 10 running in the house right now and I have 8 running at my desk at work, so I do have a lot of drives). I am sure that I have caused some of the failures by just what you are talking about - I've maxed out the cases (for example my server has 4 drives in it, but was designed for 2 - I had to make my own bracket to jam the 4th in there, the 3rd went in place of a floppy). But I've never done anything about cooling and I probably caused this myself. Although to hear the noises coming from some of the platters when they failed I'm sure at least a couple weren't just heat. For example at work I have had 2 drives fail in just bog standard HP Compaq dc7700 desktops (without cramming in extra stuff). Sometimes they just up and die, other times I must have helped them along with heat.
I don't know about disease; I guess it depends on how fast travel between planets / stations is vs. how fast/virulent the disease is and how fast it could kill? I mean all these sci-fi stories of far-flung civilizations being wiped out by disease shared among locations by their supply ships don't seem that far out of the realm of possibility. I'd imagine something that kills quickly like Ebola wouldn't make it to the other locations, but that something slower - akin to a more virulent airborne thing with a kill time more like HIV could easily do it.
Well said sir. I would even say it would be OK for say iTunes to pop up in the area at the bottom of the screen where the store or whatever is something like, "hey, we have this web browser called Safari that we think is the bomb and if you want to try it, click here to download". But I was pretty amazed when the software update thing popped up with it already checked. It is similar to how installs of things like Real Player (that I haven't installed in YEARS and may be way out of date on) tried to install other things. Or, to call Microsoft out on it - when you install Live Messenger and it wants to install Rhapsody, Live Writer, and god knows what else.
Even Microsoft doesn't really disguise them as security updates though. Firefox doesn't either; it updates Firefox - it doesn't show Thunderbird or something else as something needing to be updated when it isn't even installed.
To your point about the users not trusting the updater anymore - when I saw it just the other day on my daughter's machine, I set the apple updated to NEVER CHECK FOR UPDATES because I don't want it installing any extra software. I've taught the kids to always install the Windows Updates, the FireFox Updates, and the Apple Updates (and what those dialogs should look like), but they wouldn't even think to uncheck a security update. So off it went. And now I have to remember to manually update her and my son both. So you are absolutely right about how they should stick to security updates so people don't turn them off.
OK, I just tried it. I didn't get an ad or a suggestion that I try some other product. I was using Office 2007 Pro Plus and inserted the equation in Word. Maybe I have to have the "internet services" turned on? I'm sure you've seen it - I am not contradicting you there - I just am not seeing it on my copy and I would actually LIKE to see it as I am in desktop design (3rd level design with a small amount of support) and anything my customers may see, I would like to know about first. Any idea how to reproduce this?
Just imagine: if this stuff panned out, it would not only be rain that could deform it. It could be deformed by say birds walking on it (toughen it against claws). So instead of cities trying to actively chase pigeons away (some places chase them on the ground with dogs and in the air with falcons, etc.) and the "don't feed the pigeons" signs - you would instead see "feed the pigeons right HERE." (where the special plastic is). Hopefully they get some of that rain working for them to, to wash the pigeon poop off the plastic though.
Wait a minute; if Windows can't see the data, how will it serve the data up to your remote machines? Or are you saying that he should remotely (or on an schedule) reboot the machines into Linux overnight to do this? Because there is no way an OS is going to serve up files from a partition it can't even read.
I've never had any problems setting up wireless on Windows - but it is because Windows is what the vendors support. I'd heard horror stories from people about setting up wireless on Linux (and I guess it can be that way depending on your wireless chipset). But I have to say; I repartitioned a Lenovo X60s yesterday (running Vista) and added Ubuntu 7.10 to the BCD menu and fired up wireless and it worked with no "messing" with anything; just out of the box flawless. It was a pleasant surprise (I normally just run Ubuntu on a desktop machine and this was my first try on wireless). Nicely done GNU/Linux/Ubuntu team!
Nicely said. However, one nit-pick. Don't think cross-sectional area; think surface area. I may be mis-remembering my electronics class, or it may only apply to high voltage systems - but what I recall is that surface area is important as most of the current flows near the surface. So much so that you could take a large cross-section wire and hollow it out and get nearly the same performance (of course it would then crush when you bent it around a corner).
Yes, the government and the cable companies both SAY that analog will continue over cable. And if you look deeper you find that only LOCAL programming is required to stay on analog over cable. Over the last several months Comcast in California anyway has been removing some programming from analog and moving it to digital only. Now, we know they aren't required to do it and we know there are no technical reasons for it (as even if the feed they get is digital only they can convert at the head end and continue to deliver analog). They must believe they can get people to buy or rent converter boxes or even switch to digital which COSTS MORE.
In fact, they are succeeding in that. My mom now has TWO of their $7 a month converter boxes which do nothing but convert the digital signal from the cable to NTSC analog out on channel 3. The channels that have "digitalized only" so far have been ones like the TV Guide channel (in her area; my cable area 60 miles away lost one channel of it from analog but has one remaining - her area now has the guide only on digital), some news channels from neighboring areas, and a couple of others that she watches a lot (came to about 7 stations that she felt she "needed").
This type of business practice is unfortunately enabled by the mandated changeover - but at least with this coupon program she can get two retail converters cheaply and give Comcast back their overpriced ones. Anyone who has cable and an analog TV should consider getting the coupon just in case their cable company starts doing this to them in their market area.
I didn't get the PET computer, but William Shatner advertising the Vic-20 on TV made me want one. We got one and I learned some basic and machine code programming on it. I don't miss the "press play on tape" message that would come up on the screen when you told it to load something though. When I got the C-64 later, we got the 5010 SmartDrive (I think that is what it was called) to go with it so we didn't have to sit through tape loads. 5.25 inch floppy drive and at the time I was glad to have it. I programmed some simple games on that thing - loads of fun.
/.).
Certainly gave me an interest in computers that must have affected where I ended up today (employed in IT and posting on
While that part may be true, the worst part is that notebooks on laps or on conference tables are not ergonomically correct and really cannot be made to be correct without a bunch of equipment lying around (for example external keyboard and mouse, silly looking device to hold the machine with the screen in the right position, etc.). The way we are setup at my company (80,000 machines) - notebook users are issued port replicators with real monitors, actual ergo keyboards, real ergo mice, etc. Everyone also gets some training on how to best setup in a hotel room for the limited ergonomics you can get there.
While this "big open environment with nice chairs and conference tables" sounds nice and all - it will HURT people. Wrist, arm, neck, and shoulder problems will follow this around like crazy.
Oh, and like others in the thread have said: The company requires me to keep certain paperwork and some few receipts. Where do I put those?
I'd agree with your statement about the Zune not being popular unless it is cheap. I am NOT the target market for these music players (Apple, Microsoft or other) as I don't buy them - however I have several that I got for free. For example a couple of years back when they were new, I got three gen 1 2 GB Nano's in some Beta testing contests like best bug, first security bug, etc. A couple of week ago - the week before the Gen 2 Zune's came out - I was at a MS conference and they handed out Gen 1 Zune's to everyone.
So, having both devices I obviously like the 30 GB storage on the Zune better than the (much older and much smaller in size) 2 GB Nano. However the touch wheel on the Nano kicks the butt of the "thingy" that controls the Zune. The fit and finish of the Nano is better even though it is an old model now. (Obviously can't compare the storage as one is small and flash based and out of date while the other is a year or so old and larger with a hard drive). Just the design though - Apple's kicks the Zune's butt. That said, if it is cheap enough - people will find it is "good enough" at that low price.
I certainly find it to be perfectly acceptable for free!
That's what I was thinking; the drop would be at high speed, but since the bomb is leaving the bay at much higher than its terminal velocity the fact that it is going mach 2 at drop really isn't going to add to the impact the device has (for example if you read Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress they dropped "rocks" from the moon onto Earth. If big enough to not disintegrate in the atmosphere you didn't need an explosive payload for an impressive destructive force). With this though, the bomb would be slowing the whole way down I would imagine. The benefit then being as you surmised - the plane is less susceptible to enemy fire as they remain at high speed.
How do you actually know that this happened? From what you posted it seems just as likely that the author of the code worked for your company and saw some question in a web forum, took some code that was the companies' property (developed on their time and their equipment) and posted it to the web forum to answer someone's question. Do you have any way to be sure that that isn't your own companies' code out there?