Hmmm, apparently the FBI password database was made up from a consultant. I wonder if someone possibly meant compromised? Keep up the good work, Timmy. You deserve a raise!
My old Windows tower machine used to sit on the desk next to my monitor. It had the type of CD-ROM drive with the little drawer that slides out so you can get media into it.
I'm not familiar with CD drives like that. It must've been a really really old computer.
That issue is addressed in the essay as well (the link above is only a 3 or 4 page excerpt from the 30 page essay). Tufte makes mention of how many students are being taught to prepare a 7 or 8 slide presentation on a topic. Of those slides, there are maybe 10 words or so on each of them. Total time to sit down and silently read through the slides: under 30 seconds. Total time that the student spent preparing the presentation: 1 week.
Thanks very much for that response. I was going to write something very similar as soon as I returned from lunch. Had the GP even looked at the article in question, he would've seen that in the first paragraph Tufte mentions that this bullet-point presentation culture was witnessed and commented on by Feynman after Challenger. Since then, however, PowerPoint has worked it's way onto just about every single corporate/office/government/whatever desk in the world. It's not particularly a problem with the software itself (and hence not MS's fault at all), but rather the way in which people use the software for purposes that it's not well suited.
On my way to work today I was reading Edward Tufte's The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, in which he presents an interesting breakdown of the communication structure at NASA. Basically, it seems that many of the technical reports within NASA are now being given as PowerPoint presentations, with formal write-ups being supplanted by lists of bullet points. Needless to say, this means that very important technical information is being distilled to easily-consumable fragments that don't contain much information. The furthur up the chain you go, the more filtered it gets. Is it any wonder why there are so many problems there?
There's no mention of time travel anywhere in there. They're just saying that NASA has nearly a year to sort out any issues that might arise. That sounds like good planning to me.
Yes, but at least we have meta-moderation to help figure out whether the moderators are doing a reasonably good job. Imagine what the voter pool would be like if we had meta-moderation of voters available.
Assuming the school is doing a good job of maintaining those machines, you won't be able to boot off a live cd or usb thumbdrive or anything. In which case I'd say your safest bet is to get yourself a cheap machine.
A few weeks ago I ordered a refurbished HP Athlon64 3500+ machine from ecost.com. Total cost was $401 after shipping. It had a few mobo screws rattling around in the case when I got it, but after putting those back in place, I haven't been able to find a thing wrong with it. You'll need to supply your own monitor, but that shouldn't be hard to come by. Even a broke college kid can manage to scrounge up 400 bucks after a little while.
Not to mention that the clones were licensees of the MacOS and Apple hardware. Even had the DMCA existed, there wouldn't have been any violations to speak of.
MS is "considering" supporting ODF. They will continue to "consider" it and will go so far as to "almost promise" that ODF support will come. Once the Belgian government signs another contract with Microsoft based on the "near promises" and "strongly worded statements indicating that MS will indeed support ODF," Microsoft will decide that it's not feasible. They simply won't have the resources to devote to such a task.
No kidding. I have about 400-500 7"s on a shelf here from when I used to DJ in college. Maybe 50 of those songs were ever released on CD. And most of that is early to mid 90s stuff, so it's not like CDs weren't being made at the time...
Windows Vista has now been renamed Windows XP Service Pack 3.
On top of that, they'll announce that it's a free upgrade! Due to the size they won't have it available for download. But the media kit will only cost you $249! Oh, and it'll need a new product key, which only comes with the media kit. But I'm sure they'll still call it a "free upgrade."
I don't know if it was 100% effective. As far as I can tell, it just adjusted things in your calendar. Now if it had sent an email to the appointees notifying them that you couldn't meet with them as originally scheduled, but rather a week later, then I would call it 100% effective.
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Hmmm, apparently the FBI password database was made up from a consultant. I wonder if someone possibly meant compromised? Keep up the good work, Timmy. You deserve a raise!
Pffft! That's just a rendering made on a computer. You can make some pretty fantastical things with computers these days...
My old Windows tower machine used to sit on the desk next to my monitor. It had the type of CD-ROM drive with the little drawer that slides out so you can get media into it.
I'm not familiar with CD drives like that. It must've been a really really old computer.
Ah...there are quite many references to Qualye and "tomatoe" when I searched, so I assumed that must have been the one.
That's because the two make a very delectable dish when prepared together. You can also throw some potatoes in there if you'd like.
Have you ever actually used a Mac?
That issue is addressed in the essay as well (the link above is only a 3 or 4 page excerpt from the 30 page essay). Tufte makes mention of how many students are being taught to prepare a 7 or 8 slide presentation on a topic. Of those slides, there are maybe 10 words or so on each of them. Total time to sit down and silently read through the slides: under 30 seconds. Total time that the student spent preparing the presentation: 1 week.
Thanks very much for that response. I was going to write something very similar as soon as I returned from lunch. Had the GP even looked at the article in question, he would've seen that in the first paragraph Tufte mentions that this bullet-point presentation culture was witnessed and commented on by Feynman after Challenger. Since then, however, PowerPoint has worked it's way onto just about every single corporate/office/government/whatever desk in the world. It's not particularly a problem with the software itself (and hence not MS's fault at all), but rather the way in which people use the software for purposes that it's not well suited.
On my way to work today I was reading Edward Tufte's The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, in which he presents an interesting breakdown of the communication structure at NASA. Basically, it seems that many of the technical reports within NASA are now being given as PowerPoint presentations, with formal write-ups being supplanted by lists of bullet points. Needless to say, this means that very important technical information is being distilled to easily-consumable fragments that don't contain much information. The furthur up the chain you go, the more filtered it gets. Is it any wonder why there are so many problems there?
There's no mention of time travel anywhere in there. They're just saying that NASA has nearly a year to sort out any issues that might arise. That sounds like good planning to me.
Hey, at least it's not gonna whizz on the Earth.
How so? I've always thought it was just another word for remedy.
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Yes, but at least we have meta-moderation to help figure out whether the moderators are doing a reasonably good job. Imagine what the voter pool would be like if we had meta-moderation of voters available.
In a couple decades somebody is going to start a great project to just check people's DNA and plug them into a world family tree.
You mean like this?
Assuming the school is doing a good job of maintaining those machines, you won't be able to boot off a live cd or usb thumbdrive or anything. In which case I'd say your safest bet is to get yourself a cheap machine.
A few weeks ago I ordered a refurbished HP Athlon64 3500+ machine from ecost.com. Total cost was $401 after shipping. It had a few mobo screws rattling around in the case when I got it, but after putting those back in place, I haven't been able to find a thing wrong with it. You'll need to supply your own monitor, but that shouldn't be hard to come by. Even a broke college kid can manage to scrounge up 400 bucks after a little while.
Not to mention that the clones were licensees of the MacOS and Apple hardware. Even had the DMCA existed, there wouldn't have been any violations to speak of.
Chief Creative Officer, huh? I guess my question is exactly how much "creativity" is involved with incrementing a number with each new game release?
MS is "considering" supporting ODF. They will continue to "consider" it and will go so far as to "almost promise" that ODF support will come. Once the Belgian government signs another contract with Microsoft based on the "near promises" and "strongly worded statements indicating that MS will indeed support ODF," Microsoft will decide that it's not feasible. They simply won't have the resources to devote to such a task.
No kidding. I have about 400-500 7"s on a shelf here from when I used to DJ in college. Maybe 50 of those songs were ever released on CD. And most of that is early to mid 90s stuff, so it's not like CDs weren't being made at the time...
Well, the BeBox had what, 2-66 MHz processors and 64MB of RAM? That's a fraction of a Vista compatible video card...
Windows Vista has now been renamed Windows XP Service Pack 3.
On top of that, they'll announce that it's a free upgrade! Due to the size they won't have it available for download. But the media kit will only cost you $249! Oh, and it'll need a new product key, which only comes with the media kit. But I'm sure they'll still call it a "free upgrade."
On a side note, real irony is when you make a ferrousiously bad pun.
I always thought it was when you made a ferriciously bad pun...
I don't know if it was 100% effective. As far as I can tell, it just adjusted things in your calendar. Now if it had sent an email to the appointees notifying them that you couldn't meet with them as originally scheduled, but rather a week later, then I would call it 100% effective.
Quit being such a looser...
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