Cambridge Technology Partners is where I used to work. They are a pretty damn good consulting outfit, especially now that the old management team is gone.
They started a security group in their LA office but I haven't heard anything about them.
They are an American company, incorporated in Delaware, with headquarters in Cambridge Mass USA and offices around the world.
Besides the constant nit that the millennium doesn't start until 2001, I simply MUST remind you that the millennium starting in almost 12 months will be the THIRD millennium.
Damn it must really bug people that the 20th century starts with the digits '19' and the 19th century starts with the digits '18' and so on.
is up 41 dollars on the news. Amazing what a little press release can do.
Anyway, RedHat's agressiveness in finding more markets for themselves and therefore Linux is what prompted me to sell off my Microsoft and buy Red Hat stock with the money. It would be nice to see more of this sort of thing from the other Linux companies though. I want to see many large Linux companies besides Red Hat sharing the marketplace.
It is *not* too late. There might be limitations on time and money set by the law, but credit card companies are like rabid dogs when it comes to fraudulent usage of a credit account.
I have never heard of a credit card company turning up the opportunity to make life hell for anyone using a credit card fraudulently.
My advice is to call the credit card company. I bet they will work with you and fix the problem quickly.
Linux is processor agnostic. Intel puts millions of transistors on every chip for nothing more than support of a legacy OS. Microsoft only really supports X86 hardware, and all those old programs out there only run on something that looks like an 8086 chip. Intel spends a lot of money and time for legacy support.
If Linux was dominant, then Intel could throw out the 8086 garbage, streamline their processors, save a bunch of silicon, and improve their processors more quickly.
The Linux team would just port to the new chip in a couple weeks, recompile everything, end of story. Even if nobody in the Linux world wanted to support the new chip, Intel could make their own distribution. Paying someone to recompile and port the entire Linux system to a new chip has got to be much cheaper than putting 10 million transistors on a chip to support legacy instruction sets.
This is what I get when I try to access the article:
IBM's internal systems must be used only for conducting IBM's business, or for purposes authorized by IBM management. Use is subject to audit at any time by IBM management.
YOU HAVE JUST ATTEMPTED TO ACCESS A WEBSITE THAT CONTAINS SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL. THIS IS A DIRECT VIOLATION OF IBM's INTERNET USE GUIDELINES AND IBM's BUSINESS CONDUCT GUIDELINES. CONTINUED DISREGARD OF IBM's GUIDELINES WILL RESULT IN DISCIPLINARY ACTION UP TO AND INCLUDING SEPARATION.
IBM has the right to monitor its employees' and others' use of IBM's systems and assets including use on the Internet.
October 9. 1985, I got my first Atari ST, serial number in the hundreds. The OS wasn't small enough yet to fit into the 192K roms, so I had to load it off a floppy disk every time I booted, chewing up my RAM. 512K should have been enough, but with the OS loaded there was almost nothing left.
Then, the only programming language that came with the computer was Logo. ST Basic wasn't even out! I didn't even have Neochrome at that time. All I could do was play my Hitchhiker's Guide Infocom game. When ST Basic came out it was a bug ridden piece of trash that couldn't keep strings straight. First time you ran the program, strings would look OK. Second time you ran the program, the strings would contain nothing but garbage. Rebooting as a part of the edit/run cycle became standard, destroying the learning benefits of an interpreted language.
Then the machine broke one day. I sent to the service shop and they took 9 months waiting for a board from Atari before they gave up and gave me a brand new computer.
And they made their C compiler part of a $300 dollar development kit which no high school student could afford. I bought TDK Modula-2 instead which was a decent product, but the documentation was all part of that expensive developer's kit. Boo!
I wish I knew then what I know now. I would have gotten the cheapest PC clone I could find and a copy of Turbo Pascal 3.0a and actually learned something. I wasted a couple good years of my life dinking with garbage undocumented hardware and a company that didn't care about their users.
When you say "poor Atari" I really can't say that I share the sentiment. Atari screwed me bad and I wish that I knew enough about computers back then to avoid the trap. I hope Trameil and sons are in the poor house.
Well, I can't really say that I didn't learn anything. Atari taught me that open hardware/software documentation and free or extremely cheap compilers were the number one criteria for a computer. And here I am today, a Linux fan because of it.
You'd need nothing close to an infinite tape to do useful stuff. Do you know how big infinite is? A tape that is googalplex cells in length is just a tiny tiny speck compared to infinite. Actually, it's even smaller than that.
The Turing machine is theoretical, but it defines a pure form of a computer.
Where does it say that the gadget needs to be something that you can hold in your hand?
They put the transistor and the vacuum tube in the same list. Both of those devices can be used for the same thing. Sure there's differences, but those are just minor details.
My list, not in any order:
1) the Turing machine 2) wheel 3) fire 4) reaction engine (rocket) 5) internal combustion engine 6) the escapement on clocks 7) moveable type printing press 8) vacuum tube 9) gunpowder 10) algebra
We've all got less than two months to live!!!
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Tell everyone you know that the real problem isn't over yet!
February 29th, 2000 is going to be a leap year! This strange coincidence of events hasn't happened in 400 years, and it will cause mass chaos and panic as food supplies are mis-routed. For weeks after it will be every man for himself. If you don't have a gun to protect your food, you'll be shot and someone else will eat your food. You'd better buy gold too, because paper money will be worthless after the LY2K (Leap Year 2000) problem.
As you know, every 4 years is a leap year, unless the year is divisible by 100. But, because of space limitations, the final rule was omitted from every system out there. That rule is that if the year is divisible by 400, then it *is* a leap year. Your car won't start, the power will fail, your furby will turn into a gremlin, and your Windows 98 computer will cause the transformer on the pole in front of your house to explode, throwing PCB's all over. It's going to be hell, ladies and gentlemen, and you heard it hear first. By the way, Jesus will pick that exact time to return to Earth, so you'd better get a few bibles for the bomb shelter too.
The people who were the most frightened of the Y2K problem were those who are least likely to trust their fellow human being.
Most of us, when trapped in a stuck elevator, will wait for a rescue, because we know that some people out there are knowlegable about elevators, and whatever problem exists can be fixed by an expert. But, there's always one guy who doesn't trust anyone unscrewing ceiling panels and climbing out the elevator to fix the problem himself.
This is a big problem in our society. Jon Katz, why don't you write about this one! Some home school their kids because they don't trust their fellow citizens who specialize in education. Some people maintain entire arsenals in their home because they don't trust the faith that all their neighbors have in the rule of law and the Constitution. So why are we surprised that a few people didn't trust the geeks to fix the Y2K problem?
This is plain old human nature. Look out for number one. The conflict started thousands of years ago when people specialized their jobs, and no single person could perform all the tasks required to maintain a modern lifestyle. Trusting your neighbor to do his job is still difficult for some of us to do. Not too much new about that.
Oh man! You caught me! Yes, I was kidding. Thanks for the Kaufman reference. I don't know a lot about him, and now that you mention it I finally understand what the hell the "Can you believe they put a man on the moon" lyric is all about. I've always wondered, but didn't care enough to actually go figure it out. I guess Kaufman was a bit before my time, and probably someone I should learn about. Thanks.
There was a movie starring OJ Simpson called "Capricorn One." It showed that it was possible to explain the moon landing as a Hollywood production. By Occam's Razor, we shouldn't add unnecessary complexity to our explanations if we don't have to. Why in the world would we need to introduce huge 30 story rockets, crazy moon cars, and a lunar lander that looks like a bug into the explanation? The simplest explanation is that the whole thing was filmed in Arizona.
Probably the most unbelievable thing is that they expect us to believe that we'd spend so much money and 3 guys would risk their lives just to show some silly Russians that we're better than them. I mean come on people! The Russians are our friends! We've been friends with Eurasia, er, I mean Russia for centuries now!
One of the modes of operation is indeed prevention of implantation. Not the only one though.
From www.plannedparenthood.com:
"The Pill" is the common name for oral contraception. There are two basic types-combination pills and progestin-only pills. Both are made of hormones like those made by a woman's ovaries-estrogen and progestin. Combination pills contain both hormones. Progestin-only pills contain only progestin. Both kinds of pills require a medical evaluation and prescription.
Both kinds of pills are intended to prevent pregnancy. But they work differently. Combination pills usually work by preventing a woman's ovaries from releasing eggs (ovulation). Progestin-only pills also can prevent ovulation. But they usually work by thickening the cervical mucus. This keeps sperm from joining with an egg. Combination pills also thicken cervical mucus. Both types of pill may also prevent fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus (womb).
That picture conforms to Cmdr. Taco's law of art. If it's good enough for a background image, it's art. I just added it to my rotating selection of background images.
Now, who's being Adolf? You just equated bad service at a book store with a concentration camp. I think you ought to apologize to everyone for that. A lot of good people were killed in concentration camps, and you just spit on their graves.
Can anyone honestly say that a Palm IPO would be a flop? They have the name recognition. They have the product. They are beating Microsoft in the PDA market by a wide margin. I predict fireworks on the first day of trading.
We're all allowed one totally obvious comment, right?
I've resorted to a two-tier e-mail address scheme to avoid spam.
I have a public e-mail address, and a private address. My public address is the one listed at the top of this message. My private address isn't listed anywhere, and never will be. I've configured pdrap@startrekmail.com to forward everything to my other e-mail address where I can read it. All my friends have the other e-mail address because it never changes.
Eventually, spammers will all have the pdrap@startrekmail address, and it will be useless because of all the spam. All I need to do is abandon the address, and sign up for another one. My main e-mail address never changes, so my friends never need to update their address books.
So far, it works.
Error in the plot retelling?
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I seem to remember that Vincent didn't actually kill the boss guy. Someone else killed the boss guy.
During the investigation, they vacuumed everything and discovered the eyelash that didn't belong there. Of course, they suspected the owner of the genetically defective eyelash, and tried to figure out how it got there. But that part of the investigation was totally a accidental wild goose chase.
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Most of the cost of the mission was to pay for the scientists and technicians at NASA and contracted companies to do the work.
The rest of it was used to buy a few hundred pounds of aluminum, steel, electronic circuits, glass, and plastic.
Hardly any money was wasted. Those people needed to eat regardless of the success of the mission.
Cambridge Technology Partners is where I used to work. They are a pretty damn good consulting outfit, especially now that the old management team is gone.
They started a security group in their LA office but I haven't heard anything about them.
They are an American company, incorporated in Delaware, with headquarters in Cambridge Mass USA and offices around the world.
Besides the constant nit that the millennium doesn't start until 2001, I simply MUST remind you that the millennium starting in almost 12 months will be the THIRD millennium.
Damn it must really bug people that the 20th century starts with the digits '19' and the 19th century starts with the digits '18' and so on.
is up 41 dollars on the news. Amazing what a little press release can do.
Anyway, RedHat's agressiveness in finding more markets for themselves and therefore Linux is what prompted me to sell off my Microsoft and buy Red Hat stock with the money. It would be nice to see more of this sort of thing from the other Linux companies though. I want to see many large Linux companies besides Red Hat sharing the marketplace.
It is *not* too late. There might be limitations on time and money set by the law, but credit card companies are like rabid dogs when it comes to fraudulent usage of a credit account.
I have never heard of a credit card company turning up the opportunity to make life hell for anyone using a credit card fraudulently.
My advice is to call the credit card company. I bet they will work with you and fix the problem quickly.
And you forgot another important item:
Linux is processor agnostic. Intel puts millions of transistors on every chip for nothing more than support of a legacy OS. Microsoft only really supports X86 hardware, and all those old programs out there only run on something that looks like an 8086 chip. Intel spends a lot of money and time for legacy support.
If Linux was dominant, then Intel could throw out the 8086 garbage, streamline their processors, save a bunch of silicon, and improve their processors more quickly.
The Linux team would just port to the new chip in a couple weeks, recompile everything, end of story. Even if nobody in the Linux world wanted to support the new chip, Intel could make their own distribution. Paying someone to recompile and port the entire Linux system to a new chip has got to be much cheaper than putting 10 million transistors on a chip to support legacy instruction sets.
This is what I get when I try to access the article:
IBM's internal systems must be used only for conducting IBM's business, or for purposes authorized by IBM management. Use is subject to audit at any time by IBM management.
YOU HAVE JUST ATTEMPTED TO ACCESS A WEBSITE THAT CONTAINS SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL. THIS IS A DIRECT VIOLATION OF IBM's INTERNET USE GUIDELINES AND IBM's BUSINESS CONDUCT GUIDELINES.
CONTINUED DISREGARD OF IBM's GUIDELINES WILL RESULT IN DISCIPLINARY ACTION UP TO AND INCLUDING SEPARATION.
IBM has the right to monitor its employees' and others' use of IBM's systems and assets including use on the Internet.
Now don't even get me started on Atari!!!!
October 9. 1985, I got my first Atari ST, serial number in the hundreds. The OS wasn't small enough yet to fit into the 192K roms, so I had to load it off a floppy disk every time I booted, chewing up my RAM. 512K should have been enough, but with the OS loaded there was almost nothing left.
Then, the only programming language that came with the computer was Logo. ST Basic wasn't even out! I didn't even have Neochrome at that time. All I could do was play my Hitchhiker's Guide Infocom game. When ST Basic came out it was a bug ridden piece of trash that couldn't keep strings straight. First time you ran the program, strings would look OK. Second time you ran the program, the strings would contain nothing but garbage. Rebooting as a part of the edit/run cycle became standard, destroying the learning benefits of an interpreted language.
Then the machine broke one day. I sent to the service shop and they took 9 months waiting for a board from Atari before they gave up and gave me a brand new computer.
And they made their C compiler part of a $300 dollar development kit which no high school student could afford. I bought TDK Modula-2 instead which was a decent product, but the documentation was all part of that expensive developer's kit. Boo!
I wish I knew then what I know now. I would have gotten the cheapest PC clone I could find and a copy of Turbo Pascal 3.0a and actually learned something. I wasted a couple good years of my life dinking with garbage undocumented hardware and a company that didn't care about their users.
When you say "poor Atari" I really can't say that I share the sentiment. Atari screwed me bad and I wish that I knew enough about computers back then to avoid the trap. I hope Trameil and sons are in the poor house.
Well, I can't really say that I didn't learn anything. Atari taught me that open hardware/software documentation and free or extremely cheap compilers were the number one criteria for a computer. And here I am today, a Linux fan because of it.
You'd need nothing close to an infinite tape to do useful stuff. Do you know how big infinite is? A tape that is googalplex cells in length is just a tiny tiny speck compared to infinite. Actually, it's even smaller than that.
The Turing machine is theoretical, but it defines a pure form of a computer.
Where does it say that the gadget needs to be something that you can hold in your hand?
They put the transistor and the vacuum tube in the same list. Both of those devices can be used for the same thing. Sure there's differences, but those are just minor details.
My list, not in any order:
1) the Turing machine
2) wheel
3) fire
4) reaction engine (rocket)
5) internal combustion engine
6) the escapement on clocks
7) moveable type printing press
8) vacuum tube
9) gunpowder
10) algebra
Tell everyone you know that the real problem isn't over yet!
February 29th, 2000 is going to be a leap year! This strange coincidence of events hasn't happened in 400 years, and it will cause mass chaos and panic as food supplies are mis-routed. For weeks after it will be every man for himself. If you don't have a gun to protect your food, you'll be shot and someone else will eat your food. You'd better buy gold too, because paper money will be worthless after the LY2K (Leap Year 2000) problem.
As you know, every 4 years is a leap year, unless the year is divisible by 100. But, because of space limitations, the final rule was omitted from every system out there. That rule is that if the year is divisible by 400, then it *is* a leap year. Your car won't start, the power will fail, your furby will turn into a gremlin, and your Windows 98 computer will cause the transformer on the pole in front of your house to explode, throwing PCB's all over. It's going to be hell, ladies and gentlemen, and you heard it hear first. By the way, Jesus will pick that exact time to return to Earth, so you'd better get a few bibles for the bomb shelter too.
Neither!
The people who were the most frightened of the Y2K problem were those who are least likely to trust their fellow human being.
Most of us, when trapped in a stuck elevator, will wait for a rescue, because we know that some people out there are knowlegable about elevators, and whatever problem exists can be fixed by an expert. But, there's always one guy who doesn't trust anyone unscrewing ceiling panels and climbing out the elevator to fix the problem himself.
This is a big problem in our society. Jon Katz, why don't you write about this one! Some home school their kids because they don't trust their fellow citizens who specialize in education. Some people maintain entire arsenals in their home because they don't trust the faith that all their neighbors have in the rule of law and the Constitution. So why are we surprised that a few people didn't trust the geeks to fix the Y2K problem?
This is plain old human nature. Look out for number one. The conflict started thousands of years ago when people specialized their jobs, and no single person could perform all the tasks required to maintain a modern lifestyle. Trusting your neighbor to do his job is still difficult for some of us to do. Not too much new about that.
That link should be read in conjunction with this
Enterprising geeks know when two technologies should be integrated.
Oh man! You caught me! Yes, I was kidding. Thanks for the Kaufman reference. I don't know a lot about him, and now that you mention it I finally understand what the hell the "Can you believe they put a man on the moon" lyric is all about. I've always wondered, but didn't care enough to actually go figure it out. I guess Kaufman was a bit before my time, and probably someone I should learn about. Thanks.
This is easy.
There was a movie starring OJ Simpson called "Capricorn One." It showed that it was possible to explain the moon landing as a Hollywood production. By Occam's Razor, we shouldn't add unnecessary complexity to our explanations if we don't have to. Why in the world would we need to introduce huge 30 story rockets, crazy moon cars, and a lunar lander that looks like a bug into the explanation? The simplest explanation is that the whole thing was filmed in Arizona.
Probably the most unbelievable thing is that they expect us to believe that we'd spend so much money and 3 guys would risk their lives just to show some silly Russians that we're better than them. I mean come on people! The Russians are our friends! We've been friends with Eurasia, er, I mean Russia for centuries now!
Sheesh.
One of the modes of operation is indeed prevention of implantation. Not the only one though.
From www.plannedparenthood.com:
"The Pill" is the common name for oral contraception. There are two basic types-combination pills and progestin-only pills. Both are made of hormones like those
made by a woman's ovaries-estrogen and progestin. Combination pills contain both hormones. Progestin-only pills contain only progestin. Both kinds of pills require
a medical evaluation and prescription.
Both kinds of pills are intended to prevent pregnancy. But they work differently. Combination pills usually work by preventing a woman's ovaries from releasing eggs
(ovulation). Progestin-only pills also can prevent ovulation. But they usually work by thickening the cervical mucus. This keeps sperm from joining with an egg.
Combination pills also thicken cervical mucus. Both types of pill may also prevent fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus (womb).
That picture conforms to Cmdr. Taco's law of art. If it's good enough for a background image, it's art. I just added it to my rotating selection of background images.
Now, who's being Adolf? You just equated bad service at a book store with a concentration camp. I think you ought to apologize to everyone for that. A lot of good people were killed in concentration camps, and you just spit on their graves.
One of the ways that birth control pills work is to suppress implantation of the fertilized egg.
Birth control pills can still allow fertilization.
The anti-virgin.
You'll pay 32 million dollars for Natalie Portman?
I know who you are! You must be ESR!
Har har.
Can anyone honestly say that a Palm IPO would be a flop? They have the name recognition. They have the product. They are beating Microsoft in the PDA market by a wide margin. I predict fireworks on the first day of trading.
We're all allowed one totally obvious comment, right?
I've resorted to a two-tier e-mail address scheme to avoid spam.
I have a public e-mail address, and a private address. My public address is the one listed at the top of this message. My private address isn't listed anywhere, and never will be. I've configured pdrap@startrekmail.com to forward everything to my other e-mail address where I can read it. All my friends have the other e-mail address because it never changes.
Eventually, spammers will all have the pdrap@startrekmail address, and it will be useless because of all the spam. All I need to do is abandon the address, and sign up for another one. My main e-mail address never changes, so my friends never need to update their address books.
So far, it works.
I seem to remember that Vincent didn't actually kill the boss guy. Someone else killed the boss guy.
During the investigation, they vacuumed everything and discovered the eyelash that didn't belong there. Of course, they suspected the owner of the genetically defective eyelash, and tried to figure out how it got there. But that part of the investigation was totally a accidental wild goose chase.
That's MISTER Nuts to you, buster.