As I told my home-owner's association, "That's not a solar panel, it's a satellite dish. You can tell by that line coming from it connected to the TV, but don't touch it!"
A merchant does not receive your billing address to verify who you are. Merchants can submit your address with the approval request to allow the credit processor to validate whether it is a legitimate transaction. Think punching in your Zip when at the fuel pump.
Receiving an update by mail sounds more like the result of having registered something under warranty. Did he send that card in?
How about Democratic statement on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act from the very Wikipedia page cited?
President Clinton himself stated: "I don't see that signing that bill had anything to do with the current crisis. Indeed, one of the things that has helped stabilize the current situation as much as it has is the purchase of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America, which was much smoother than it would have been if I hadn't signed that bill... On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to look at the evidence."
"Edmund J. Walsh is a shareholder and a member of the electrical and computer technologies and the IP transactions groups at Wolf Greenfield."
Ahh, now I understand! Apparently Wolf Greenfield has even done some patent filing for Microsoft:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/70199000.html
Our company manufactures embedded devices that run off CF cards (typically the cheapest 512M we can source). In five years the only failures have been attributed to bad CF cards themselves. Now, each time we receive a difference batch of cards, we scrutinize them under many days of stress testing.
dishonest pawnshops will charge you far more and will give you up if the 50 come looking for you
Not really, in the US anyway. A purchase from a pawn shop comes with good "title". When you buy it, it is yours, permanently. Up until that point of sale, it is subject to confiscation by the authorities at the shop's expense.
A "smart" shop will steeply discount a suspicious item to get it off the floor after the mandatory holding period.
encrypt all data
two-factor authentication -- a password plus a physical device such as a key card
automatically severed
keeping detailed records of any information downloaded
verify that those records are deleted
Sounds like a DRM music download. Maybe they could take a lesson from the music/movie industry.
The overlap of functionality between NT and Linux is, really, quite small. There aren't many cases for which Linux is a good solution, where NT could also be (and vice versa).
Does not matter to the manager that wants a particular OS deployed for a particular solution. A few years ago I migrated a Netware printing system that handled tens of thousands of documents per day to an NT solution. It ended up requiring 16 NT servers to replace 3 Netware servers. Of course NT was not the correct solution but management insisted on making it work.
Many times developers are limited to a particular OS, particularly in enterprise systems where there is only "one approved platform".
I can't believe I need a court order to find out the phone number that called last night my cell phone?
Maybe you should just oblige them. After having to spend a few hundred dollars on answering each of a couple of court orders they will quickly come to their senses that it would be a lot cheaper to just tell you when requested.
There may be new opportunities due to content providers having to pay for premium access. There may be a day where I get some percent off my iTunes purchase if I agree to partially host content "inside" of BS's network on my own system(s). If I, along with several thousand users, share some of their bandwidth already inside the network, then the provider does not need to pay for access to get goods delivered "to" the network. Bittorrentish, I guess.
There is room for altruism, generosity and openness too.
I've been going through a string of interviews lately and one of them was with the owner of a really small startup. I had cited my contributions to F/OSS during the interview and the interviewer's repsonse, "How are you compensated for it?". I promptly replied, "Money is not the primary motivator when you enjoy what you do." He was rather stunned at the concept of giving something away. I knew at that point that I would not likely accept anything he offered.
BTW, I did just accept a position with an established company that does understand F/OSS. Now I am getting nicely compensated for what I really like to do.
I think the list systems are backwards. It would seem to me that no one wants spam and that everyone would would want to be on a do-not-spam list. To maintain a list of almost everyone would be unwieldly and expensive. The same idea applies for the do-not-call lists for telemarketing. Why not reverse the purpose of the lists and make them "OK-to-spam" list and "OK-to-Call" lists? All twelve people that like that stuff can voluntarily submit their info.
I used to work around nuclear reactors and monitored them for years using equipment similar to the model in the article. The desire for such a mod is alien to me as I can't imagine ever voluntarily carrying around one of those things.
Before the time of commonplace computers, the Nuclear trained personnel in the Navy were the geekiest ones on the sub or ship. Carrying around a geiger counter was tantamount to wearing a pocket protector and sure to earn few jokes from passing workers.
Maybe someone can explain to me how it is called 'censorship' when a private company voluntarily block/removes content. It is my understanding that censorship is practiced "often by government intervention" according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship.
So if someone illegally paints a swastika on my house, is it censorship for me to remove it? I hope someone could explain the difference to me.
I would not call auto smashing and stock smashing on the same level. First, a smart investor should not feel the neglible effect of a single stock on their diversified portfolio. However, the loss of an automobile would have a devastating effect on my self-transportability and is one of the reasons I voluntarily take insurance out on my auto.
In effect, I insure several bad stocks by holding lots of good stocks.
I did a thesis on table de-normalization and performance on Oracle 9. In order to avoid complicating the results with disk reads, we used a command to load entire tables into memory. I forget what the command is but it can be found in the Orabm test files at www.dbcool.com
This may be more of a valid point than you think. The above statistic along with what I would consider to be popular music tends to be marketed towards people that are either to old, to young, or to technically challenged to share/pirate. That pretty much leaves out any educated person between 16 and 40.
So it is not surprising that if you are between 16 and 40, it is really hard to find something to buy that you liked. You are just not part of the market.
I was not very impressed with the article. While the author was quick to point out bad examples on page two if the article, the author did not cite what constitutes a 'poor' font in the first page. The author simply pointed out what makes a 'good' font: low contrast, generous x-height, generous width, while failing to quantify any of these. The author did not even define x-height and thus viewing the page without images, one would likely never figure it out.
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As I told my home-owner's association, "That's not a solar panel, it's a satellite dish. You can tell by that line coming from it connected to the TV, but don't touch it!"
A merchant does not receive your billing address to verify who you are. Merchants can submit your address with the approval request to allow the credit processor to validate whether it is a legitimate transaction. Think punching in your Zip when at the fuel pump.
Receiving an update by mail sounds more like the result of having registered something under warranty. Did he send that card in?
"What does that is your signature."
Still a signature is only part of it. I've issued checks without the signature and they still pass though the mostly automated clearing houses.
Could the signature prove that you did[n't] issue the check?
How about Democratic statement on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act from the very Wikipedia page cited?
President Clinton himself stated: ... On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to look at the evidence."
"I don't see that signing that bill had anything to do with the current crisis. Indeed, one of the things that has helped stabilize the current situation as much as it has is the purchase of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America, which was much smoother than it would have been if I hadn't signed that bill
Our company manufactures embedded devices that run off CF cards (typically the cheapest 512M we can source). In five years the only failures have been attributed to bad CF cards themselves. Now, each time we receive a difference batch of cards, we scrutinize them under many days of stress testing.
dishonest pawnshops will charge you far more and will give you up if the 50 come looking for you
Not really, in the US anyway. A purchase from a pawn shop comes with good "title". When you buy it, it is yours, permanently. Up until that point of sale, it is subject to confiscation by the authorities at the shop's expense.
A "smart" shop will steeply discount a suspicious item to get it off the floor after the mandatory holding period.
Real geeks order their parts online
Nah, real geeks etch their own boards.
encrypt all data
two-factor authentication -- a password plus a physical device such as a key card
automatically severed
keeping detailed records of any information downloaded
verify that those records are deleted
Sounds like a DRM music download. Maybe they could take a lesson from the music/movie industry.
"Is this person having a good day?"
These types of images tests, especially ones that show people, are impossible to apply successfully across cultural boundaries.
Wow, I did retain something from that Human Computer Interaction course. Thanks Dr. Wallace!
The overlap of functionality between NT and Linux is, really, quite small. There aren't many cases for which Linux is a good solution, where NT could also be (and vice versa).
Does not matter to the manager that wants a particular OS deployed for a particular solution. A few years ago I migrated a Netware printing system that handled tens of thousands of documents per day to an NT solution. It ended up requiring 16 NT servers to replace 3 Netware servers. Of course NT was not the correct solution but management insisted on making it work.
Many times developers are limited to a particular OS, particularly in enterprise systems where there is only "one approved platform".
I can't believe I need a court order to find out the phone number that called last night my cell phone?
Maybe you should just oblige them. After having to spend a few hundred dollars on answering each of a couple of court orders they will quickly come to their senses that it would be a lot cheaper to just tell you when requested.
There may be new opportunities due to content providers having to pay for premium access. There may be a day where I get some percent off my iTunes purchase if I agree to partially host content "inside" of BS's network on my own system(s). If I, along with several thousand users, share some of their bandwidth already inside the network, then the provider does not need to pay for access to get goods delivered "to" the network. Bittorrentish, I guess.
Of course, there may security issues.
There is room for altruism, generosity and openness too.
I've been going through a string of interviews lately and one of them was with the owner of a really small startup. I had cited my contributions to F/OSS during the interview and the interviewer's repsonse, "How are you compensated for it?". I promptly replied, "Money is not the primary motivator when you enjoy what you do." He was rather stunned at the concept of giving something away. I knew at that point that I would not likely accept anything he offered.
BTW, I did just accept a position with an established company that does understand F/OSS. Now I am getting nicely compensated for what I really like to do.
I recall one of my favorite MOTD:
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics".
-Mark Twain?
I think the list systems are backwards. It would seem to me that no one wants spam and that everyone would would want to be on a do-not-spam list. To maintain a list of almost everyone would be unwieldly and expensive. The same idea applies for the do-not-call lists for telemarketing. Why not reverse the purpose of the lists and make them "OK-to-spam" list and "OK-to-Call" lists? All twelve people that like that stuff can voluntarily submit their info.
Oh wait, that would make sense.
I used to work around nuclear reactors and monitored them for years using equipment similar to the model in the article. The desire for such a mod is alien to me as I can't imagine ever voluntarily carrying around one of those things.
Before the time of commonplace computers, the Nuclear trained personnel in the Navy were the geekiest ones on the sub or ship. Carrying around a geiger counter was tantamount to wearing a pocket protector and sure to earn few jokes from passing workers.
Maybe someone can explain to me how it is called 'censorship' when a private company voluntarily block/removes content. It is my understanding that censorship is practiced "often by government intervention" according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship.
So if someone illegally paints a swastika on my house, is it censorship for me to remove it? I hope someone could explain the difference to me.
why is this different?
I would not call auto smashing and stock smashing on the same level. First, a smart investor should not feel the neglible effect of a single stock on their diversified portfolio. However, the loss of an automobile would have a devastating effect on my self-transportability and is one of the reasons I voluntarily take insurance out on my auto.
In effect, I insure several bad stocks by holding lots of good stocks.
Is there any open source in memory database?
I did a thesis on table de-normalization and performance on Oracle 9. In order to avoid complicating the results with disk reads, we used a command to load entire tables into memory. I forget what the command is but it can be found in the Orabm test files at www.dbcool.com
So the only alternative is to fine the organization into submission?
Works for other "junkie" industries like pr0n, tobacco and alcohol, except around here we call them taxes.
My Kari Question: What is that tattoo on her lower right abdomen? Geeky and tattooed. Ahhhh...
This may be more of a valid point than you think. The above statistic along with what I would consider to be popular music tends to be marketed towards people that are either to old, to young, or to technically challenged to share/pirate. That pretty much leaves out any educated person between 16 and 40.
So it is not surprising that if you are between 16 and 40, it is really hard to find something to buy that you liked. You are just not part of the market.
if you really think K-12 schools have access to that kind of programming talent
Programmers can be volunteers too.
I was not very impressed with the article. While the author was quick to point out bad examples on page two if the article, the author did not cite what constitutes a 'poor' font in the first page. The author simply pointed out what makes a 'good' font: low contrast, generous x-height, generous width, while failing to quantify any of these. The author did not even define x-height and thus viewing the page without images, one would likely never figure it out.
"my x-height is bigger than your x-height!"