They're trying to dupe the simple into giving them free services - just like they've screwed over 'hobbyists' many times in the past - "here, try this alpha out, report the bugs to us, now bugger off". Remember, anything anyone contributs to the Msft effort is the property of Msft, all your rights belong to them. Suckers....
Speaking of bombe's - there was a recent series of articles in the Dayton Daily News about the people behing the NCR / Navy's Enigma cracking machine here. Nice read.
I though a good answer to SOAP would be something like Distributed Information Retrieval Technology - no, that would project the wrong image to the laity.
Exactly - That's what they taught me, during a brief stint as Patent Examiner: "Think Broadly", that is, if someone is trying to claim a memory scheme they created in silicon chips, it may be rejected based on prior art that might include a similar scheme that was realized using wooden wheels or whatever.
Happens all the time - when you buy something at the store, your paying for all the shoplifted items also; i.e., the cost of theft is spread over and paid for by all the legit customers.
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Of course, it would be much better to have a friggin' CHOICE of which store to shop at so we could avoid those with over 25% theft rate - but nooooooooooooo, all those little office desktop bozo's just HAVE to love their little pc pope and do everything he wants, however po'd the it dept gets...
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Now they'll have to revert back to their original primordial secret society, the Illuminatti, regroup, come up with a new plan to enslave the humans and try again. Nice try with the digital Internet thing, but good triumphs again, woohoo!
Newpaper boy is hawking papers on the street, yelling, "36 People Swindled!! 36 People Swindled!! Read all about it!!" and this guy comes up and buys a paper, looks at it and say, "I don't see anything in here about people being swindled" and the newsboy starts yelling, "37 People Swindled!! 37 People..."
Another important idea is his application of Boolean algebra to switching circuits - as in this paper - "A symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits".
switch to banner ads! Slash-bait-and-switch. How ingenious. In fact you could automate the process - whenever you web site is getting over a certain number of hits/unit time, switch the content to paid-for ads, sort of like building up to a dramatic climax during a tv program and then pausing for a few commercial messages.
Re:Isn't it illegal to deface US currency?
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in fact, the more money you burn or destroy, the more real wealth you leave for everyone else, and it helps fight inflation.
Now printing your own money - that's illegal, big time.
I can see it now, fast fwd 20 years hence, a current college student is running for President and is asked, "Have you ever pirated music?" - answer: "Well, I, uh, I did download a track once, heck everybody did it back then! But I didn't listen to it!"
I just got a copy of an old book called "Computer Lib/Dream Machines" originally published by genius/crackpot Ted Nelson, a very historical and visionary book about personal computers - the originals now go for over $100 IF you can find one - I got a 1987 Msft Press reprint ("Revised & Updated!") and am very disappointed by how much it is "poisoned" by all the self serving, Msft centric, revisionist history they interleaved in with all the original material - it is constantly bashing Mac's/Atari's or anything NOT tied to PC's or Msft. Disgustingly biased. This version of history is bunk.
He's the guy who bolted from Intel and started up Zilog (in a nutshell - detailed versions welcome).
Excerpt: Three weeks after that disappointment, a new run came. My hands were trembling as I loaded the 2-inch wafer into the probe station. It was late at night, and I was alone in the lab. I was praying for it to work well enough that I could find all the bugs so the next run could yield shippable devices. My excitement grew as I found various areas of the circuit working. By 3:00 a.m., I went home in a strange state of exhaustion and excitement.
That's right - from last Thursday 2/15 untill next Thursday 2/22 I volunteered to fill out the little tv diary they sent. Since I rarely watch this stuff anymore, it's going to be fun to mail the diary back with almost every day streaked from midnight to midnight with TV OFF X---------.
That's a great idea - the shopping card swapping parties the article mentions at the start. A local SuperMkt here has those and I notice the cashiers will often swipe their own cards for customers who haven't signed up - at first I thought they were poisoning the database - but on second thought those are probably special employee cards that are used to sell folks on the idea.
well, getting a gui is/so/ much better than talking someone thru a blind procedure (and HOPING they're clicking what you think they are clicking).
One solution to having a security risk open is to have a remote control agent available but not always running. say PCANywhere is installed, but not waiting for connections. Then if someone has an issues, you can ask them to launch PCANywhere, connect and tweak, then shut it down, and move on to the next issue w/o wasting time making a big deal out of every little thing.
cluster of one hundred 800 MhZ Pentium III CPUs running Linux
that's what we're dying to know.
Also, in jest, I wonder if they'll every creat a bio-compiler out of gene assembly? Maybe dna reproduction techniques are the key to nanotechnology?
Any guess why Verizon hasn't qualified me?
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I'm just under 12000 feet from a co I know has DSL service available (like where I work, which is even closer is loop qualified) - yet their web site sez it's not available at my address? Who do I have to bribe at Vrzn to get qualified already??
.NET and app subscriptions is a project of Titanic proportions that simply cannot fail, being run by the chief architect, Mr. Goldfinger himself. Smart money'd be loading up on Msft stock - antitrust is going to quietly fade away, and their value only goes up on major paradigm shifting releases like this, no matter what happens.
She's adamant that the country needs to focus more on reading to children under the age of 5
provided, of course, that you have purchased and can produce a receipt on demand for a "5 listener license pak" for groups of 5 children or less, or, ir you act now, librarians, school teachers and qualified parents can get a 20 pak for the low low price of 10 if you send in the rebate coupon (allow 4-6 weeks for rebate processing). Some restrictions may apply.
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They're trying to dupe the simple into giving them free services - just like they've screwed over 'hobbyists' many times in the past - "here, try this alpha out, report the bugs to us, now bugger off". Remember, anything anyone contributs to the Msft effort is the property of Msft, all your rights belong to them. Suckers....
Speaking of bombe's - there was a recent series of articles in the Dayton Daily News about the people behing the NCR / Navy's Enigma cracking machine here. Nice read.
I though a good answer to SOAP would be something like Distributed Information Retrieval Technology - no, that would project the wrong image to the laity.
Exactly - That's what they taught me, during a brief stint as Patent Examiner: "Think Broadly", that is, if someone is trying to claim a memory scheme they created in silicon chips, it may be rejected based on prior art that might include a similar scheme that was realized using wooden wheels or whatever.
Happens all the time - when you buy something at the store, your paying for all the shoplifted items also; i.e., the cost of theft is spread over and paid for by all the legit customers.
<rant>
Of course, it would be much better to have a friggin' CHOICE of which store to shop at so we could avoid those with over 25% theft rate - but nooooooooooooo, all those little office desktop bozo's just HAVE to love their little pc pope and do everything he wants, however po'd the it dept gets...
</rant>
the Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything (est 1994).
Now they'll have to revert back to their original primordial secret society, the Illuminatti, regroup, come up with a new plan to enslave the humans and try again. Nice try with the digital Internet thing, but good triumphs again, woohoo!
was just here a little while ago - an example of Computer Engineering. You decide.
(PS - you can get an AT90S8515 kit for about $70 here )
That reminds me of an old joke:
Newpaper boy is hawking papers on the street, yelling, "36 People Swindled!! 36 People Swindled!! Read all about it!!" and this guy comes up and buys a paper, looks at it and say, "I don't see anything in here about people being swindled" and the newsboy starts yelling, "37 People Swindled!! 37 People..."
Another important idea is his application of Boolean algebra to switching circuits - as in this paper - "A symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits".
switch to banner ads! Slash-bait-and-switch. How ingenious. In fact you could automate the process - whenever you web site is getting over a certain number of hits/unit time, switch the content to paid-for ads, sort of like building up to a dramatic climax during a tv program and then pausing for a few commercial messages.
in fact, the more money you burn or destroy, the more real wealth you leave for everyone else, and it helps fight inflation.
Now printing your own money - that's illegal, big time.
I can see it now, fast fwd 20 years hence, a current college student is running for President and is asked, "Have you ever pirated music?" - answer: "Well, I, uh, I did download a track once, heck everybody did it back then! But I didn't listen to it!"
I just got a copy of an old book called "Computer Lib/Dream Machines" originally published by genius/crackpot Ted Nelson, a very historical and visionary book about personal computers - the originals now go for over $100 IF you can find one - I got a 1987 Msft Press reprint ("Revised & Updated!") and am very disappointed by how much it is "poisoned" by all the self serving, Msft centric, revisionist history they interleaved in with all the original material - it is constantly bashing Mac's/Atari's or anything NOT tied to PC's or Msft. Disgustingly biased. This version of history is bunk.
right here
He's the guy who bolted from Intel and started up Zilog (in a nutshell - detailed versions welcome).
Excerpt: Three weeks after that disappointment, a new run came. My hands were trembling as I loaded the 2-inch wafer into the probe station. It was late at night, and I was alone in the lab. I was praying for it to work well enough that I could find all the bugs so the next run could yield shippable devices. My excitement grew as I found various areas of the circuit working. By 3:00 a.m., I went home in a strange state of exhaustion and excitement.
That's right - from last Thursday 2/15 untill next Thursday 2/22 I volunteered to fill out the little tv diary they sent. Since I rarely watch this stuff anymore, it's going to be fun to mail the diary back with almost every day streaked from midnight to midnight with TV OFF X---------.
That's a great idea - the shopping card swapping parties the article mentions at the start. A local SuperMkt here has those and I notice the cashiers will often swipe their own cards for customers who haven't signed up - at first I thought they were poisoning the database - but on second thought those are probably special employee cards that are used to sell folks on the idea.
voice recognition to convert streaming audio into streaming text for the sound card impaired drones
well, getting a gui is /so/ much better than talking someone thru a blind procedure (and HOPING they're clicking what you think they are clicking).
One solution to having a security risk open is to have a remote control agent available but not always running. say PCANywhere is installed, but not waiting for connections. Then if someone has an issues, you can ask them to launch PCANywhere, connect and tweak, then shut it down, and move on to the next issue w/o wasting time making a big deal out of every little thing.
cluster of one hundred 800 MhZ Pentium III CPUs running Linux
that's what we're dying to know.
Also, in jest, I wonder if they'll every creat a bio-compiler out of gene assembly? Maybe dna reproduction techniques are the key to nanotechnology?
I'm just under 12000 feet from a co I know has DSL service available (like where I work, which is even closer is loop qualified) - yet their web site sez it's not available at my address? Who do I have to bribe at Vrzn to get qualified already??
.NET and app subscriptions is a project of Titanic proportions that simply cannot fail, being run by the chief architect, Mr. Goldfinger himself. Smart money'd be loading up on Msft stock - antitrust is going to quietly fade away, and their value only goes up on major paradigm shifting releases like this, no matter what happens.
you read it here folk.
(blast shileds deployed)
She's adamant that the country needs to focus more on reading to children under the age of 5
provided, of course, that you have purchased and can produce a receipt on demand for a "5 listener license pak" for groups of 5 children or less, or, ir you act now, librarians, school teachers and qualified parents can get a 20 pak for the low low price of 10 if you send in the rebate coupon (allow 4-6 weeks for rebate processing). Some restrictions may apply.
Outdoor sport, takes some skill, fun, non-competitive.