FYI, for the financial year 1999, Microsoft had earnings of $19.75 Billion. IBM had earnings of $87.5 Billion. More to the point however, FY1999 microsoft had a net income of $7.785 billion, while IBM only had a net income of $7.7 billion. Now which one do you think is more profitable?
Just did a little check on amazon- box set of 4 led zeppelin cd's is going for 62.97- knock off three dollars for the extra cost of the additional cd's, and you're looking at 59.97 (american).
It all depends on where you lie in the food chain. At least from the programming end (I've seen studies in literature for this one, see the Mythical Man-Month ), and from my experience on the Engineering side of things, the top ten percent of the people you run into are an order of magnitude better than the average person. I once broke it down for a manager I had this way: you can have superman, or you could have aquaman. You only have to pay superman 40% more. What do you do? (alright, so speed had just come out) Of course as management you run into problems if you think that you've hired superman, and you've really only hired aquaman... and as an employee you run into problems if managements thinks they have aquaman when you're really superman.
My initial thoughts on this were negative to say the least- another example of the motion picture industry not getting 'it'.
However, they do have an interesting point, although its not brought out enough in the article. Going to see a movie in the theater is a fundamentally different experience than seeing it on some sort of home system. Not only are the sound and visual special effects held to a higher standard, a movie in a theater is a shared experience.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) doesn't hand out academy awards to movies produced for the direct to video market, cable, or tv- they've just tacked the internet on to the end of the current bylaws.
If we're going to bitch about AMPAS, let's complain about something that is important- namely why hasn't Jim Carrey won an oscar yet?
Another one couldn't compile because VC++ put a 255 character limit on the length of the names of instantiated templates.
The compiler doesn't actually put a limit here- the ms debugging format (whatever it is these days) limits type names to 255 characters. The compiler will emit a warning on code that exceeds this, which you can turn off, but it will compile the code and execute it correctly.
Took about 30 seconds to find this on msdn.microsoft.com- not quite as nice as runas, but it comes with complete source code. Interactive Client Process.
More likely, in my opinion is that you'll find an even greater division between dominant, economically successful countries and the third world. If the moral and ethical dilemmas don't preclude it's use in the US, I imagine that the government would create a program very similar to the vaccinations that all children are required to go through. While the US is fond of structural inequalities, most people here at least pretend to want a level playing ground for children.
This has actually been discounted by a couple follow up studies in Nature. (I'd give a link to the abstract which you can read for free, but I couldn't figure out how to deep link into Nature's site.) The scientists involved seem to think that it was hereditary- Myopic parents were more likely to leave a night light on in their children's rooms so that they wouldn't have to fumble around in the dark.
The simple knapsack system was broken back in the very early eighties by shamir- and the iterated one not the long after (although I can't remember by who off hand).
For air at room temperature and standard pressure and composition, the root mean square speed of the air particles is approximately 500m/s. The speed of sound at STP is approximately 331m/s. The particles involved move much faster than the wave itself. Grab any sort of first year chemistry book to verify those numbers...
The best part about the rim is that they use a 386 chip- so their development SDK is just an addon for Visual C++. It's pretty easy to develop for- I was able to port a small text based app in a couple of hours the first time I picked up the SDK. If you have a RIM, go get it.
Mostly good points, but having worked with a lot of corporate email systems over the years, how do you address the issue of a user saving an attachment to his/her hard drive and executing it? Turning off active scripting in outlook really wouldn't help all that much with the I Love You virus if the user has wsh installed- default on windows 2000 and (I believe) 98. The user clicks on the file, windows finds the associated program and executes.
Or you could take the tact that Microsoft is trying to be nice about this- send a polite warning, before sending in the swarms of lawyers to make an example out of andover.net.
I was all set to jump on you about your second point, until I looked up the binary file format spec on microsoft's web site.
To quote (Gosh, I really hope this falls under fair usage):
NOTE: The Microsoft Office binary file format documentation was removed from the MSDN in 1999. If you would like to receive this documentation, you can send e-mail to officeff@microsoft.com, or mail to: Office File Format Documentation Request One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052
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FYI, for the financial year 1999, Microsoft had earnings of $19.75 Billion. IBM had earnings of $87.5 Billion. More to the point however, FY1999 microsoft had a net income of $7.785 billion, while IBM only had a net income of $7.7 billion. Now which one do you think is more profitable?
Titans atmosphere is 4 times denser than earths, and titan has 1/7 of the gravity. Helicopters will be far more effective on titan than on earth.
Aerospace engineers do it with the thrust of a saturn V
Just did a little check on amazon- box set of 4 led zeppelin cd's is going for 62.97- knock off three dollars for the extra cost of the additional cd's, and you're looking at 59.97 (american).
It all depends on where you lie in the food chain. At least from the programming end (I've seen studies in literature for this one, see the Mythical Man-Month ), and from my experience on the Engineering side of things, the top ten percent of the people you run into are an order of magnitude better than the average person. I once broke it down for a manager I had this way: you can have superman, or you could have aquaman. You only have to pay superman 40% more. What do you do? (alright, so speed had just come out) Of course as management you run into problems if you think that you've hired superman, and you've really only hired aquaman... and as an employee you run into problems if managements thinks they have aquaman when you're really superman.
Except when the machine has stopped responding to a bad nic...
However, they do have an interesting point, although its not brought out enough in the article. Going to see a movie in the theater is a fundamentally different experience than seeing it on some sort of home system. Not only are the sound and visual special effects held to a higher standard, a movie in a theater is a shared experience.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) doesn't hand out academy awards to movies produced for the direct to video market, cable, or tv- they've just tacked the internet on to the end of the current bylaws.
If we're going to bitch about AMPAS, let's complain about something that is important- namely why hasn't Jim Carrey won an oscar yet?
If you happen to have a spare prom burner lying around, the cassiopeia roms can be pulled out and replaced.
The compiler doesn't actually put a limit here- the ms debugging format (whatever it is these days) limits type names to 255 characters. The compiler will emit a warning on code that exceeds this, which you can turn off, but it will compile the code and execute it correctly.
I agree completely. I just don't understand why everyone else just doesn't understand that they're wrong.
Took about 30 seconds to find this on msdn.microsoft.com- not quite as nice as runas, but it comes with complete source code. Interactive Client Process.
More likely, in my opinion is that you'll find an even greater division between dominant, economically successful countries and the third world. If the moral and ethical dilemmas don't preclude it's use in the US, I imagine that the government would create a program very similar to the vaccinations that all children are required to go through. While the US is fond of structural inequalities, most people here at least pretend to want a level playing ground for children.
This has actually been discounted by a couple follow up studies in Nature. (I'd give a link to the abstract which you can read for free, but I couldn't figure out how to deep link into Nature's site.) The scientists involved seem to think that it was hereditary- Myopic parents were more likely to leave a night light on in their children's rooms so that they wouldn't have to fumble around in the dark.
I'd respond to this, but that would involve admitting that I'd seen... Oh crap. Let the cat out of the bag on that one, didn't I?
The simple knapsack system was broken back in the very early eighties by shamir- and the iterated one not the long after (although I can't remember by who off hand).
Depending on the context and the state that you're in that could be considered assaulting a police officer...
For air at room temperature and standard pressure and composition, the root mean square speed of the air particles is approximately 500m/s. The speed of sound at STP is approximately 331m/s. The particles involved move much faster than the wave itself. Grab any sort of first year chemistry book to verify those numbers...
Quick, what's the cube root of 175616?
Think flywheels.
The best part about the rim is that they use a 386 chip- so their development SDK is just an addon for Visual C++. It's pretty easy to develop for- I was able to port a small text based app in a couple of hours the first time I picked up the SDK. If you have a RIM, go get it.
Mostly good points, but having worked with a lot of corporate email systems over the years, how do you address the issue of a user saving an attachment to his/her hard drive and executing it? Turning off active scripting in outlook really wouldn't help all that much with the I Love You virus if the user has wsh installed- default on windows 2000 and (I believe) 98. The user clicks on the file, windows finds the associated program and executes.
Actually closer to 14,000 years
Or you could take the tact that Microsoft is trying to be nice about this- send a polite warning, before sending in the swarms of lawyers to make an example out of andover.net.
Yes that's true- but the converse is as well. A real test of decryption skills needs to assume that you don't know the algorithm.
To quote (Gosh, I really hope this falls under fair usage):
NOTE: The Microsoft Office binary file format documentation was removed from the MSDN in 1999. If you would like to receive this documentation, you can send e-mail to officeff@microsoft.com, or mail to:
Office File Format Documentation Request
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
Office Development Structured Storage and File Formats