On the first one, the summary of the story should be "There is one less executive after Microsoft reorganization" and should be self-explanatory. In the case of Office, everyone must remember it's Microsoft's ca$h cow (not Windows), now responsible for 1/3 of profit. Internally, someone didn't like the [current] progress or sales of Office.
In the case of the second one, that's 50-50 as to whether it's a push or not.
Screw the 1st Ammendment issues (and the "restaurant" someone didn't attend school long enough to learn to spell - below) - who says you have to identify yourself online so the school knows who you are?
I love seeing schools flogging students for online material and figure the students are getting what's due to them because they were dumb enough to identify themselves. If Archie says, "Mr. Weatherby is a pinhead.", he's still exercising his 1st Ammendment rights, but he's also protecting himself from Cueball finding a way to get to him via internal school politics. Besides, he can flame him even harder. The stronger the verbage, the more difficult the day-to-day school life may be as well as any court issues which may^w arise. (but the more fun watching the people at the top squirm)
Math-wise, computers are far more intelligent than the average individual at computation.
This is why non-technical people talk about "computer glitches" - as though the computer was dumb enough to screw up.
Computers may have more speed than the human brain when it comes to math computations (savants aside), but I'd like to see where there's any useful intelligence in what a computer actually does. It's nothing more than a reflection of the coder(s).
(and it's why I've generally maintained about 95% of the people who do it for a living shouldn't be allowed to)
I must not have a DnD gene. I had clients by the time I graduated from high school twenty-five years ago, earned a paycheck in nearly two dozen languages, worked on any number of platforms & OSes, and DnD holds absolutely no interest. I used to watch friends waste countless hours with pencil & graph paper. I'd almost rather spend the time pulling out my own short & curlies, one by one, with a pair of tweezers.
I've suggested to the PC-specific game magazines (PC Gamer, Computing Games, Computing Game World) they should write a decent article about how to transition from the "standard" games (e.g. FPS) to RPGs, or if nothing else, how to understand them enough to try to have some type of fun.
Dvorak had a fit a few issues ago because (Philadelphia?, Pittsburgh?) was going to put up a muni.net and some of the commercial enterprises realized they could earn a lot more by charging what an ISP is expected to charge instead of some paltry sum (or nothing). He later said these folks created some leverage^w^w a PAC and convinced the state legislature to pass some bill which would give the commercial folks the right of first refusal for any of these setups (and IIRC, something ungodly like fourteen months to decide). The Gov signed and Pennsylvania now looks to be locked tighter than a nun.
Can anyone substantiate this? (and how would this affect the apparent plans of a nationwide Google muni.net?)
And Winston Churchill, whose weight would make him a candidate for bariatric surgery - but he'd likely continue eating the same, drank like a fish, and smoked like a factory.
Making it to ninety-one under those constraints was impressive.
They've already found a way to notify everyone around me. Fishers (Indiana) paid ca. $500'000 for a special census in 2003 and the results (52'000-53'000) entitle the town (not city) to an extra $2M/year from the state. There's going to be another one in 2006.
It's going to be easy to notify all of the Ralsky victims in town (now ca. 60'000) via this method:
Ask all of the standard questions. ...then...
"Do you have any PCs?"
"Yes."
"Are they connected to the Internet?"
"Yes". ...the official, appropriate notification will then be provided...
I love having two or three ads running at different speeds, making me feel like I'm sitting in the middle of the result of a merger of three discos with unsynchronized lights. And when I want to move my cursor around, it jumps around because the ads are stealing mouse time for their own use.
The ads have received numbers, either themseves or through a 3rd party, which indicate they catch the eye of the reader. And that's all they need to hear to justify that course of action.
It's like blocking ads on TV. If the ads are creative and funny, people don't find things to do during that time. When they're offensive, people start making trips to the euphemism, the kitchen, or channel surf. If you're time-shifting your shows, the ad skipping is great because we don't like stupid ads. If the owners of the ads think it's unfair and squeeze the shoes of the a various DVR & VCR companies, people will find new ways to bypass the ads. Again, show us something interesting and we'll watch it. It's sad companies pay ad firms so much money to create such boring junk; whether it's the Internet, tv, magazines, placement ads in movies, etc.
Everyone else keeps turning the volume up (think how bad the graphics are) and we find ways to mute it.
Forget the sheets - think about the fact you're reusing the blankets from the previous parties (and the previous parties' leftovers).
Speaking of the drives, Best Buy just finished having a sale of Memorex 2G sticks (retail $199) for $159 at the cash register, then another $30 for the rebate. Granted, you're looking at $10+ in taxes at each level, but it's still a heck of a discount. Not much more than some of the stores' retail prices for 1G, although I don't think anyone is going to pay the upper end of a 1G price scale. Those things were nearly impossible to find using the StoreFinder Inventory. I didn't want to order one and was going to my doctor's office in Chicago a couple of days after they sold out here in Indy, so I placed a pickup order there.
Then, I happened to be picking up some laptops for our DARPA team from a repair shop, and when I went back to my car, there was a Best Buy sack (this was on the far side of the BB parking lot) which was on the passenger side of my car, so I opened it up. There was a 2G stick in it. Unopened. So I figured I'd do the nice nerd thing and track down the new owner. If they paid via credit card or cheque, it shouldn't have been a problem to track them down. Unfortunately, they paid in ca$h???? So I sat there for another hour, sitting & reading, sans A/C as it was fixed, then stopped working and I hadn't had time to take it back to be re-repaired. I don't tolerate heat very well, but I felt it was the decent thing to do. After an hour, I wasn't sure what to do, so I ended up putting it onto my lanyard, feeling badly for not having another way to find the owner.
BTW, it's said you can't (or shouldn't) format NTFS, but both of mine seem to be working fine. I had the handle (which holds it on the lanyard) break off and had to finagle a fix, but also contacted Memorex. They told me to file it as a warranty issue to get a replacement cap. (???)
One of my friends, who has a 512M stick, asked me what I was going to do with 4G of stick memory and I asked him what he did with 512M. He said he rarely comes close to capacity. I thought about marking one of them with tiny lettering: ICE (In Case of Emergency), sort of like the fad with cell phones, but a text file with the important info, in addition to the usual phone numbers (a list, and who they are - more options than a cell phone) as I usually have them around my neck; e.g. I'm allergic to morphine; my pain receptors have been exposed weekly exclusively to methadone for nearly ten years, so other pain meds may not work correctly; what other meds I'm taking; why all of this is so; etc.
Here's an article from PC Magazine detailing how to stock up on what you can carry around, bootable, as well as what utilities you can tote about worrying about (on the Windows side) things which have to have components in specific directories, entries in the registry, etc.
"You can't outdevelop Microsoft, but you can outinvent them."
Nathan Myrvold, (cover) "MIT's Technology Review", May 2004
former Microsoft employee (#5?)
Microsoft's original CTO
founder of Microsoft Research
Ph.D., and now|new, J.D., specializing in....patent law, working now...buying strategic IP patents.;)
I could see comfortable shoes being helpful...at night or whenever you get a break - you don't want to wear boots 7x24,
mosquito spray, sun tan lotion with a severe SPF factor, crank radio (listed in Wired before), a hat (even a baseball cap) - depending upon your age. Now that my hair is thinning pretty good, I have to remember to wear a hat in the sun. If you irritate your scalp, it'll cause the hair to fall out faster. This is not to mention getting a sunburn on your scalp.
You aren't wrong. If the search were a bit more powerful, it'd be easy to dredge up how many there are. I don't even know if it's even every year. By now, there should already be landsharks who have won plenty of $$$ duking out the patents for this.
Comment from a member of the Smart Sensor team: Go IRV!...(countdown in milliseconds to the race)
Last year, most of the entrants died in the first 100-200 yards. There was even a motorcycle entry which went about ten feet. It's supposed to be back this year. This year's race will definitely be interesting.
I think it's got twelve or thirteen old HDs plugged into it (total = ca. 1TB). That's why I pondered buying a couple of new ones and moving everything over to them. I've got a lot of material from the "good old days".
Actually, that's something I was discussing with one of the local news directors the first time there was a challenge in Indiana, which has tighter restrictions than the Feds. I said someone should confront one of the people fighting the list on camera and ask them if an opt-in list - "it's okay to call me" - would be better. But I also told her their response would be, "Of course not, no one would sign up." (my respose? "exactly.")
I'd put it in the same league as Jerry Cerasale, from the DMA (Direct Marketing Association), the group which largely wrote the U-CAN-SPAM legislation: Cerasale said, a federal requirement that consumers opt-in instead of opt-out of bulk e-mail is unacceptable. "We think the opt-in creates a true noneconomic model," Cerasale said. "We don't believe you get a viable economic model in opt-in."
As long as there are people who seem to think the resources we are paying for (either privately, or if we own a business) must be accessible to them for their business practices, they've got their priorities out of whack. The sad part is when they are able to convince legislators to write laws giving them permission to use our resources for their benefit, we're the ones who hear the call of BOHICA: Bend Over, Here It Comes Again.
There used to be a phone service which provided free calls (and perhaps free long distance?) but you had to listen to an ad first. That's fine if someone's agreeing to a that deal up-front. But it's my phone, sitting in my sandbox, my rules. And if they don't like it, they can send junkmail, where they can invest money in any way they see fit to attempt to attract my attention to their services.
I've got enough stuff plugged into mine I'm not certain I even trust 500W to power everything (for fear a power drop will hurt something). Of course, it might help to offload all of the old HDs and combine them onto a single modern one, etc.
In-store tip: if you buy a power supply someplace such as CompUSA, open the box before you go to the cash register. A couple of years ago, I picked up a power supply (600? 750?) and popped the box open. Inside was 200W. Someone switched the boxes' contents to get a near five-finger discount.
Then you tell them to remove you from their database.
I had to turn someone (radio preferences) here (Indiana) because I started receiving calls on consecutive days despite their claims they'd removed me from their database each time. I think violators (in general) are spanked $11k per violation in Indiana. Several banks got together and tried to challenge the DNC in court a few weeks ago and were told to pound sand. They wanted the right to call their customers to offer additional services. Why don't they just spend the money for junk mail like everyone else?;) When the State AG had a campaign on TV about the suit, I sent a note and told him to take out a 1/2 page ad in the paper with snailmail addresses for the banks in question (along with a list of banks which aren't in the lawsuit), telling everyone to tear it out, fill out the relevant data telling the bank they didn't want to hear from them and if they won the suit, they'd transfer existing assets & business to one of the other banks listed on the page. My explanation was that they'd have to have someone open every envelope, even if it's a temp, because they wouldn't know if it was real bank business or not. If they were supposed to send email (as was suggested), it would all be routed to Dave Null.
My idea was ignored. I think the AG was in one of those sticky situations where he had to show the people he was continuing to follow through with the actions he'd pushed in the last two campaigns, but he didn't want to p%ss off the suits|execs at the banks because those are going to be the ones who make election contributions in the form of checks with lots of zeroes on the left side of the decimal point. (or someone he'd have to remain connected with when he leaves office and needs a cushy job).
I did take greate delight about a month ago when a local real estate person called who purchased a lead from a spammer and once I got all of the info I needed (above & beyond caller-id), I let them know they could expect a $11k dent in their sales. (I swear I had nothing to do with it.) I think he was about to cry, claiming the guy he bought the leads from said they were clean (never, ever trust a spammer).
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'spose he's one of those guys if you'd ask him how many sheep are in a field, would count the number of legs and divide by four?
(sorry, I just couldn't resist)
On the first one, the summary of the story should be "There is one less executive after Microsoft reorganization" and should be self-explanatory. In the case of Office, everyone must remember it's Microsoft's ca$h cow (not Windows), now responsible for 1/3 of profit. Internally, someone didn't like the [current] progress or sales of Office.
In the case of the second one, that's 50-50 as to whether it's a push or not.
Screw the 1st Ammendment issues (and the "restaurant" someone didn't attend school long enough to learn to spell - below) - who says you have to identify yourself online so the school knows who you are?
I love seeing schools flogging students for online material and figure the students are getting what's due to them because they were dumb enough to identify themselves. If Archie says, "Mr. Weatherby is a pinhead.", he's still exercising his 1st Ammendment rights, but he's also protecting himself from Cueball finding a way to get to him via internal school politics. Besides, he can flame him even harder. The stronger the verbage, the more difficult the day-to-day school life may be as well as any court issues which may^w arise. (but the more fun watching the people at the top squirm)
It just goes to show you how stringent the entrance requirements must be to get onto the
Math-wise, computers are far more intelligent than the average individual at computation.
This is why non-technical people talk about "computer glitches" - as though the computer was dumb enough to screw up.
Computers may have more speed than the human brain when it comes to math computations (savants aside), but I'd like to see where there's any useful intelligence in what a computer actually does. It's nothing more than a reflection of the coder(s).
(and it's why I've generally maintained about 95% of the people who do it for a living shouldn't be allowed to)
It's because they don't let the Purdue people out loose very often.
Here are the usual directions to Purdue: "go North until you smell it, West until you step in it."
Isn't this what taxes do?
I'm glad someone does.
I must not have a DnD gene. I had clients by the time I graduated from high school twenty-five years ago, earned a paycheck in nearly two dozen languages, worked on any number of platforms & OSes, and DnD holds absolutely no interest. I used to watch friends waste countless hours with pencil & graph paper. I'd almost rather spend the time pulling out my own short & curlies, one by one, with a pair of tweezers.
I've suggested to the PC-specific game magazines (PC Gamer, Computing Games, Computing Game World) they should write a decent article about how to transition from the "standard" games (e.g. FPS) to RPGs, or if nothing else, how to understand them enough to try to have some type of fun.
Dvorak had a fit a few issues ago because (Philadelphia?, Pittsburgh?) was going to put up a muni.net and some of the commercial enterprises realized they could earn a lot more by charging what an ISP is expected to charge instead of some paltry sum (or nothing). He later said these folks created some leverage^w^w a PAC and convinced the state legislature to pass some bill which would give the commercial folks the right of first refusal for any of these setups (and IIRC, something ungodly like fourteen months to decide). The Gov signed and Pennsylvania now looks to be locked tighter than a nun.
Can anyone substantiate this? (and how would this affect the apparent plans of a nationwide Google muni.net?)
If not cancer, Ballmer's got to be popping a vein.
All of the time CNN was showing hurricane image data imposed on maps today, there was "Google Earth" in the upper right-hand corner of the TV screen.
I can only imagine what kind of scheming was going on in Redmond to find a way to make a substitution.
Will that help or hurt Bubba's scores here?
Unfortunately, no.
His parents still managed to conceive him.
And Winston Churchill, whose weight would make him a candidate for bariatric surgery - but he'd likely continue eating the same, drank like a fish, and smoked like a factory.
Making it to ninety-one under those constraints was impressive.
They've already found a way to notify everyone around me. Fishers (Indiana) paid ca. $500'000 for a special census in 2003 and the results (52'000-53'000) entitle the town (not city) to an extra $2M/year from the state. There's going to be another one in 2006.
It's going to be easy to notify all of the Ralsky victims in town (now ca. 60'000) via this method:
Ask all of the standard questions.
"Do you have any PCs?"
"Yes."
"Are they connected to the Internet?"
"Yes".
I have to agree, and take it further.
I love having two or three ads running at different speeds, making me feel like I'm sitting in the middle of the result of a merger of three discos with unsynchronized lights. And when I want to move my cursor around, it jumps around because the ads are stealing mouse time for their own use.
The ads have received numbers, either themseves or through a 3rd party, which indicate they catch the eye of the reader. And that's all they need to hear to justify that course of action.
It's like blocking ads on TV. If the ads are creative and funny, people don't find things to do during that time. When they're offensive, people start making trips to the euphemism, the kitchen, or channel surf. If you're time-shifting your shows, the ad skipping is great because we don't like stupid ads. If the owners of the ads think it's unfair and squeeze the shoes of the a various DVR & VCR companies, people will find new ways to bypass the ads. Again, show us something interesting and we'll watch it. It's sad companies pay ad firms so much money to create such boring junk; whether it's the Internet, tv, magazines, placement ads in movies, etc.
Everyone else keeps turning the volume up (think how bad the graphics are) and we find ways to mute it.
Why is Google successful?
"Make things simple, not simpler." -Erasmus
Forget the sheets - think about the fact you're reusing the blankets from the previous parties (and the previous parties' leftovers).
Speaking of the drives, Best Buy just finished having a sale of Memorex 2G sticks (retail $199) for $159 at the cash register, then another $30 for the rebate. Granted, you're looking at $10+ in taxes at each level, but it's still a heck of a discount. Not much more than some of the stores' retail prices for 1G, although I don't think anyone is going to pay the upper end of a 1G price scale. Those things were nearly impossible to find using the StoreFinder Inventory. I didn't want to order one and was going to my doctor's office in Chicago a couple of days after they sold out here in Indy, so I placed a pickup order there.
Then, I happened to be picking up some laptops for our DARPA team from a repair shop, and when I went back to my car, there was a Best Buy sack (this was on the far side of the BB parking lot) which was on the passenger side of my car, so I opened it up. There was a 2G stick in it. Unopened. So I figured I'd do the nice nerd thing and track down the new owner. If they paid via credit card or cheque, it shouldn't have been a problem to track them down. Unfortunately, they paid in ca$h???? So I sat there for another hour, sitting & reading, sans A/C as it was fixed, then stopped working and I hadn't had time to take it back to be re-repaired. I don't tolerate heat very well, but I felt it was the decent thing to do. After an hour, I wasn't sure what to do, so I ended up putting it onto my lanyard, feeling badly for not having another way to find the owner.
BTW, it's said you can't (or shouldn't) format NTFS, but both of mine seem to be working fine. I had the handle (which holds it on the lanyard) break off and had to finagle a fix, but also contacted Memorex. They told me to file it as a warranty issue to get a replacement cap. (???)
One of my friends, who has a 512M stick, asked me what I was going to do with 4G of stick memory and I asked him what he did with 512M. He said he rarely comes close to capacity. I thought about marking one of them with tiny lettering: ICE (In Case of Emergency), sort of like the fad with cell phones, but a text file with the important info, in addition to the usual phone numbers (a list, and who they are - more options than a cell phone) as I usually have them around my neck; e.g. I'm allergic to morphine; my pain receptors have been exposed weekly exclusively to methadone for nearly ten years, so other pain meds may not work correctly; what other meds I'm taking; why all of this is so; etc.
Here's an article from PC Magazine detailing how to stock up on what you can carry around, bootable, as well as what utilities you can tote about worrying about (on the Windows side) things which have to have components in specific directories, entries in the registry, etc.
Isn't the race 175 miles?
"You can't outdevelop Microsoft, but you can outinvent them."
Nathan Myrvold, (cover) "MIT's Technology Review", May 2004
former Microsoft employee (#5?) Microsoft's original CTO
founder of Microsoft Research
Ph.D., and now|new, J.D., specializing in....patent law, working now...buying strategic IP patents.
I could see comfortable shoes being helpful...at night or whenever you get a break - you don't want to wear boots 7x24, mosquito spray, sun tan lotion with a severe SPF factor, crank radio (listed in Wired before), a hat (even a baseball cap) - depending upon your age. Now that my hair is thinning pretty good, I have to remember to wear a hat in the sun. If you irritate your scalp, it'll cause the hair to fall out faster. This is not to mention getting a sunburn on your scalp.
I can't donate anything, but I've tried to be creative in generating funds.
You aren't wrong. If the search were a bit more powerful, it'd be easy to dredge up how many there are. I don't even know if it's even every year. By now, there should already be landsharks who have won plenty of $$$ duking out the patents for this.
A new form of Hurricane Rita Relief
Comment from a member of the Smart Sensor team:
Go IRV!
Last year, most of the entrants died in the first 100-200 yards. There was even a motorcycle entry which went about ten feet. It's supposed to be back this year. This year's race will definitely be interesting.
A novel form of hurricane relief
I think it's got twelve or thirteen old HDs plugged into it (total = ca. 1TB). That's why I pondered buying a couple of new ones and moving everything over to them. I've got a lot of material from the "good old days".
Actually, that's something I was discussing with one of the local news directors the first time there was a challenge in Indiana, which has tighter restrictions than the Feds. I said someone should confront one of the people fighting the list on camera and ask them if an opt-in list - "it's okay to call me" - would be better. But I also told her their response would be, "Of course not, no one would sign up." (my respose? "exactly.")
I'd put it in the same league as Jerry Cerasale, from the DMA (Direct Marketing Association), the group which largely wrote the U-CAN-SPAM legislation: Cerasale said, a federal requirement that consumers opt-in instead of opt-out of bulk e-mail is unacceptable. "We think the opt-in creates a true noneconomic model," Cerasale said. "We don't believe you get a viable economic model in opt-in."
As long as there are people who seem to think the resources we are paying for (either privately, or if we own a business) must be accessible to them for their business practices, they've got their priorities out of whack. The sad part is when they are able to convince legislators to write laws giving them permission to use our resources for their benefit, we're the ones who hear the call of BOHICA: Bend Over, Here It Comes Again.
There used to be a phone service which provided free calls (and perhaps free long distance?) but you had to listen to an ad first. That's fine if someone's agreeing to a that deal up-front. But it's my phone, sitting in my sandbox, my rules. And if they don't like it, they can send junkmail, where they can invest money in any way they see fit to attempt to attract my attention to their services.
A Novel Method of Hurricane Relief
I've got enough stuff plugged into mine I'm not certain I even trust 500W to power everything (for fear a power drop will hurt something). Of course, it might help to offload all of the old HDs and combine them onto a single modern one, etc.
In-store tip: if you buy a power supply someplace such as CompUSA, open the box before you go to the cash register. A couple of years ago, I picked up a power supply (600? 750?) and popped the box open. Inside was 200W. Someone switched the boxes' contents to get a near five-finger discount.
A new approach to hurricane relief funding.
Once.
Then you tell them to remove you from their database.
I had to turn someone (radio preferences) here (Indiana) because I started receiving calls on consecutive days despite their claims they'd removed me from their database each time. I think violators (in general) are spanked $11k per violation in Indiana. Several banks got together and tried to challenge the DNC in court a few weeks ago and were told to pound sand. They wanted the right to call their customers to offer additional services. Why don't they just spend the money for junk mail like everyone else?
My idea was ignored. I think the AG was in one of those sticky situations where he had to show the people he was continuing to follow through with the actions he'd pushed in the last two campaigns, but he didn't want to p%ss off the suits|execs at the banks because those are going to be the ones who make election contributions in the form of checks with lots of zeroes on the left side of the decimal point. (or someone he'd have to remain connected with when he leaves office and needs a cushy job).
I did take greate delight about a month ago when a local real estate person called who purchased a lead from a spammer and once I got all of the info I needed (above & beyond caller-id), I let them know they could expect a $11k dent in their sales. (I swear I had nothing to do with it.) I think he was about to cry, claiming the guy he bought the leads from said they were clean (never, ever trust a spammer).
A new form of hurricane relief