”‘Reverse primary thrust, Marvin,’ that’s what they say to me, ‘open airlock number three, Marvin. Marvin, can you pick up that piece of paper?’ Can I pick up that piece of paper!

I started on a very, very cool tech R&D project in April at the age of 50. It’s one of those things that is so involved that when anyone starts working there their brain swells up for the first month as it is filled up.I have said many times why couldn’t I be like 30 or 40 when my brain worked better and come across something like this?I make up for the slowly decreasing short term storage by making a lot of notes.

You know, maybe if companies would spend less time trying to figure out how to target me with ads for stuff I find lacking and actually, oh I dunno, make products I actually want to buy, then maybe I would. And they wouldn’t need to waste their ad dollars.

I have been working with Solaris for many years. When OpenSolaris was announced, I jumped for joy at what could be accomplished.

From ieee.org, and other places: Unfortunately, 158 pages of internal Microsoft emails by employees like Michael Nash, a Microsoft vice president who oversees Windows product management, tends to undercut Microsoft’s insistence that there was nothing misleading with Vista.

Using a spreadsheet as a graphics program is about as efficient as using a browser to run office applications …

Go to work developing a C++ compiler for a big company and then ask the lawyers if you can also work on GCC in your spare time. You’ll get a very emphatic “no!” IP law is fiddly and they don’t want to risk cross-contamination either way.

“Amero was working on a very old Gateway PC running Windows 98, an extremely vulnerable setup .. Detective Mark Lounsbury ..

I still think the cops will have the ability to turn off the camera. One of my first jobs out of high school (‘89) was in a company that made, among other things, circuit boards for cop-car cameras.

FTFA: “VIVACE stands for Vortex Induced Vibrations for Aquatic Clean Energy”There was a time when creating an acronym that made a real word was considered cute. Those were the days of the “ESPRIT” (Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotational Invariance Techniques) and “MUSIC” (MUltiple SIgnal Classification) algorithms.All that is in the past.

It has come to my attention that as I prepare to leave office my previous instructions to make all email and other documentation available to the shredder was incorrect. The correct policy is to make everything available to the archiver.

horrible at JavaScript, HTML and standard compliance With Firefox, Opera and Chrome why would a sane person even want to use IE? IE still trails almost every other browser in JavaScript performance, try it for yourself.

I’ve used netflix on video over the internet for a year or two now. The way to solve the problem is to break the star ratings up into a few different categories.

It’s just that the bigger something is, the less significant the uncertainty is.

What would happen if the webwise.net domain (which shares an IP with phorm.com) was to accidentally get DDOSed?Going by the Phorm diagram on wikipedia, it would seem that webwise.net is a central point of failure for the system.

I’m sure other posters will mention Tabula Rasa’s bugs, lousy control scheme, poor class balance, etc (typical MMO grievances) but to me the thing that always stood out about TR was its abysmal support for building communities.Everyone’s abuzz about Web 2.0 and “social networking,” and somehow the TR devs didn’t even see fit to have a Looking For Group feature in the game. The had on-line chat and a Friends list, and that’s about it.