Everything else is made in either Taiwan or China, why not SPAM. All the US spammers probably outsource their spam to these countries to get their costs low enough Walmartize the product:-)
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When asked about the delays, a spokesperson remarked that, "The product's been completed for some time, but we're waiting for Netcraft to predict our fate before expending any serious marketing capital."
Netcraft replied that "it's too early to tell, but we should have the numbers after some more lead time."
In related news, the Google Online Spreadsheet System will exhibit the 1% critical error rate expected from most spreadsheets.
When asked, a Google spokesperson related that, while contrary to their design goals, the computational flaws were incorporated into the software in keeping with industry expectations.
Bin Laden was unhappy with... our military bases in the middle east...
Although, we're there at the invitation / permission of the local countries. Bin Laden should direct his anger about this point toward the host nations instead of the U.S., but won't for obvious political and ego/ethno-centric reasons.
The meta information can be just as telling as the actual conversation. For example, monitor the information about a reporter's phone to get leakers. Monitor psychotherapist's phone records to get lists of people in therapy, etc...
Think of all the calls you've ever made. Do you really want the government keeping track of their date, time, duration, frequency? You can surmise a lot from just this information.
Mr. Gonzales began the discussion by showing slides of child pornography...
So let me get this straight, he starts the meeting by showing a group of people (presummably men) illegal, dirty pictures?
In his defense, they're probably just examples of what he's looking for, but can't get the Google query quite right.
Ya, replace e-mail and the bad guys will just "stay away". Oooo, security measures like compression (huh?), encryption and signatures, will save the day - please. A new transport protocol will befuddle them for sure!
Oh ya, make it simple and transparent to use as well.
If there's money or havoc to be made, people will find a way to scam any system -- especially if they believe they won't get caught, or the penalties are naught.
Hmm... so right now I can replace a £200 PC if I spend about £600 per user on a thin client solution... and that will save me money how exactly?
With the right IT infrastructure - a lot of time and money.
With PCs, you've got N disks that can fail or get corrupted with viruses, spyware, etc. These are spread out all over. Want to install / upgrade software (or disk space)? With PCs, you can (try to) install or upgrade apps with AD, SMS, Altiris, etc, or bug the users to do it themselves -- or fire up your sneaker net.
With thin clients, it's all done from *your* desk or server room baby. Yes, the upfront and back-end costs may be higher, depending on your usage, but there are long-term saving to be had with thin clients.
Billy Ray: Once you make it with a man with no legs, you'll never go back!
I've been in IT since 1984 (while still in college). Most of my jobs have been ok; some interesting, like adminstering a Cray II at NASA Langley, or being lead Unix SA at the NYT SSC in Norfolk, VA and remote admining their production systems in Boston; some not so interesting. There were always things to be done, and never enough time to do them.
I met my wife in 1985. She was a teacher, an excellent teacher. The kind of teacher teachers should be. She was always well prepared, and kept her students challenged and interested. She taught English and Gifted Education. She was often even busy during the summer keeping herself prepared for the next year. I routinely helped her with things, especially on the computer. We were always busy.
As a result, we had very little time to actually enjoy the fruits of our labors. Sure, we spent a lot of time together (shopping, movies, house/school work, etc), and tried to take long weekend trips (during the summer or school breaks). Those times I cherish. We enjoyed every minute of our 20 years together, but it wasn't enough - not nearly enough. We simply expected to do more "real vacation things" when she retired in the summer of 2006.
Well, here's how it went. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor in November of 2005 and died January 13, 2006. She never got to enjoy her retirement and we never had the opportunity to really travel or do the things we had put off until "later".
Perhaps we should have tried harder to dedicate more down time, but that's not the work ethic under which we were raised and it's difficult to ignore. Lesson learned, though too late for me.
I think there's too much emphasis in the US business world on doing more work, with fewer people -- you know "worker productivity". As a result, people feel pressured into working more and guilty about taking time for themselves or their family.
The traditional Eurpoean model is much more family friendly. A month off every year with no work strings attached sounds pretty good to me.
I know that work is important, but you can always find another job; you can't find another family or another life.
I think that what most of us are missing in our work is "challenge" and we're bored. By challenge, I don't mean performing inane work to an unreasonable schedule (though some might like that), but rather, doing stimulating and interesting work.
Solving a real problem is interesting, tweaking the solution because someone prefers a blue font isn't. A lot of work is simply not that interesting.
The sad truth is that most work can probably be done in short order, but we're not movitated to do it 'cause it's dull. As a result, we surf the web (and/.), looking for more interesting things to ponder and put off work until the moment it absolutely needs to be completed. Even if we got things done promptly, there would just be more crap to do to fill up the work day -- gotta work those 8-12 hours or your not being "productive".
Perhaps, we're all a bit lonely, sitting at our desks (or cubes), typing, typing, typing. The mandatory work schedules and extra off-hours IT work often don't leave much personal time. Slacking at work gives some of this back.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to modify some programs to change the location of the log directory...ooo the next Slashdot story is ready!
... Deckard and Batty are remarkably similar and the voiceover prevents you from seeing this since you tend to sympathize with someone who's thoughts you can hear.
Very insightful. I had never thought of this way.
Now about your sig...
Mathematicians do it smoothly and continuously
Is this the same as "integrating over the curve"?:-)
It's about a brilliant but evil criminal mastermind who hijacks the automatic aircraft guidance system and aims a crowded airliner directly at the White House...
if my website is a problem with you then dnt read it...its not for you...wat i do outside of school is my bissness n mi parents...they control me wen im not w/ u for 8 hours a day...u dnt lik me n i dnt lik u so go away...oh n i hope that u r readin this...cuz its not a threat...cuz i kno that u wuldnt want us to break into ur privte lives then dnt snoop in mine...any questions call mi mother...she is lookin forward to talkin w/ u...
Probably typed this with her thumbs...on her cell (sigh).
Man, the future looks bleak.
I contend that you could understand the situation if you wanted to, but you're just to lazy to do more than bitch from the safety of your armchair.
I understand things just fine, but I don't believe the general population does. In addition, I do my part by doing my job.
Even if we were to capture ben [sic] laden, enough of his organiziation is bound to be left around the world to guarantee that the repressive policies that have come since 9/11 are going to continue.
Agreed, but the administration has expended a lot of political capital pointing the finger directly at Bin Laden. If he were imprisioned, they'd have to convince the people all over again that the security procedures (e.g., domestic spying) are warranted.
I don't like it any more than you appear to, but I don't see any way back to an open trusting society the way it supposedly "used to be".
Well, we could simply roll things back. I mean really, do the airport security procedures actually make us significantly safer? (Profiling would probably work better.) Does the "no fly list" really help (ask Ted Kennedy)?
Terror isn't their only goal. Turning the U.S. into a police state would make them almost as happy. Destroying our way of life destroys who we are as a nation. Ask John Gilmore, "papers please?", ask ABC reporters what Gonzalas thinks about the 1st amendment, etc...
Sorry, perhaps I need some more coffee (or less)...
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Everything else is made in either Taiwan or China, why not SPAM. All the US spammers probably outsource their spam to these countries to get their costs low enough Walmartize the product :-)
The text following this declares that by reading this gear the user is bound by the inscribed agreement and that only one device may be used by a particular individual at any one time, no backup devices may be manufactured and continues on to absolve the maker from any inaccuracies in clestial observation and disclaim any fitness for any general or specific purpose.
It's much worse than that. From the summary:
Your computer could program your Roomba to "accidentally" push you into a grinding machine. The Three Laws" be dammed.Why couldn't it have been... Will Smith?
Then we would have been spared I, Robot. :-)
Netcraft replied that "it's too early to tell, but we should have the numbers after some more lead time."
There are, of course, not 2d, but Double-D.
When asked, a Google spokesperson related that, while contrary to their design goals, the computational flaws were incorporated into the software in keeping with industry expectations.
Thank you, Mr. Sesquipedalian; I sprained my tounge.
I believe it would complement the decor of his stunt ship: all black on black. Nice...
Although, we're there at the invitation / permission of the local countries. Bin Laden should direct his anger about this point toward the host nations instead of the U.S., but won't for obvious political and ego/ethno-centric reasons.
Funny how it's always someone else's fault.
Think of all the calls you've ever made. Do you really want the government keeping track of their date, time, duration, frequency? You can surmise a lot from just this information.
Damn, another car analogy.
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So let me get this straight, he starts the meeting by showing a group of people (presummably men) illegal, dirty pictures? In his defense, they're probably just examples of what he's looking for, but can't get the Google query quite right.
Ya, replace e-mail and the bad guys will just "stay away". Oooo, security measures like compression (huh?), encryption and signatures, will save the day - please. A new transport protocol will befuddle them for sure!
Oh ya, make it simple and transparent to use as well.
If there's money or havoc to be made, people will find a way to scam any system -- especially if they believe they won't get caught, or the penalties are naught.
Might want to re-think the sig.
It didn't turn out so well for Wash...
dong ma?
With the right IT infrastructure - a lot of time and money.
With PCs, you've got N disks that can fail or get corrupted with viruses, spyware, etc. These are spread out all over. Want to install / upgrade software (or disk space)? With PCs, you can (try to) install or upgrade apps with AD, SMS, Altiris, etc, or bug the users to do it themselves -- or fire up your sneaker net.
With thin clients, it's all done from *your* desk or server room baby. Yes, the upfront and back-end costs may be higher, depending on your usage, but there are long-term saving to be had with thin clients.
Billy Ray: Once you make it with a man with no legs, you'll never go back!
I've been in IT since 1984 (while still in college). Most of my jobs have been ok; some interesting, like adminstering a Cray II at NASA Langley, or being lead Unix SA at the NYT SSC in Norfolk, VA and remote admining their production systems in Boston; some not so interesting. There were always things to be done, and never enough time to do them.
I met my wife in 1985. She was a teacher, an excellent teacher. The kind of teacher teachers should be. She was always well prepared, and kept her students challenged and interested. She taught English and Gifted Education. She was often even busy during the summer keeping herself prepared for the next year. I routinely helped her with things, especially on the computer. We were always busy.
As a result, we had very little time to actually enjoy the fruits of our labors. Sure, we spent a lot of time together (shopping, movies, house/school work, etc), and tried to take long weekend trips (during the summer or school breaks). Those times I cherish. We enjoyed every minute of our 20 years together, but it wasn't enough - not nearly enough. We simply expected to do more "real vacation things" when she retired in the summer of 2006.
Well, here's how it went. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor in November of 2005 and died January 13, 2006. She never got to enjoy her retirement and we never had the opportunity to really travel or do the things we had put off until "later".
Perhaps we should have tried harder to dedicate more down time, but that's not the work ethic under which we were raised and it's difficult to ignore. Lesson learned, though too late for me.
I think there's too much emphasis in the US business world on doing more work, with fewer people -- you know "worker productivity". As a result, people feel pressured into working more and guilty about taking time for themselves or their family.
The traditional Eurpoean model is much more family friendly. A month off every year with no work strings attached sounds pretty good to me.
I know that work is important, but you can always find another job; you can't find another family or another life.
Remember Sue...
Solving a real problem is interesting, tweaking the solution because someone prefers a blue font isn't. A lot of work is simply not that interesting.
The sad truth is that most work can probably be done in short order, but we're not movitated to do it 'cause it's dull. As a result, we surf the web (and /.), looking for more interesting things to ponder and put off work until the moment it absolutely needs to be completed. Even if we got things done promptly, there would just be more crap to do to fill up the work day -- gotta work those 8-12 hours or your not being "productive".
Perhaps, we're all a bit lonely, sitting at our desks (or cubes), typing, typing, typing. The mandatory work schedules and extra off-hours IT work often don't leave much personal time. Slacking at work gives some of this back.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to modify some programs to change the location of the log directory...ooo the next Slashdot story is ready!
Very insightful. I had never thought of this way.
Now about your sig...
Is this the same as "integrating over the curve"?Put some snakes on the plane...
Probably typed this with her thumbs...on her cell (sigh).
Man, the future looks bleak.
I understand things just fine, but I don't believe the general population does. In addition, I do my part by doing my job.
Even if we were to capture ben [sic] laden, enough of his organiziation is bound to be left around the world to guarantee that the repressive policies that have come since 9/11 are going to continue.
Agreed, but the administration has expended a lot of political capital pointing the finger directly at Bin Laden. If he were imprisioned, they'd have to convince the people all over again that the security procedures (e.g., domestic spying) are warranted.
I don't like it any more than you appear to, but I don't see any way back to an open trusting society the way it supposedly "used to be".
Well, we could simply roll things back. I mean really, do the airport security procedures actually make us significantly safer? (Profiling would probably work better.) Does the "no fly list" really help (ask Ted Kennedy)?
Terror isn't their only goal. Turning the U.S. into a police state would make them almost as happy. Destroying our way of life destroys who we are as a nation. Ask John Gilmore, "papers please?", ask ABC reporters what Gonzalas thinks about the 1st amendment, etc...
Sorry, perhaps I need some more coffee (or less)...
P.S. Your sig is right on.
Dear NASA,
Try:
Achieve these and you won't need clever tricks to get people interested in your projects.
Sincerely,
The Public.