Breaking the rules
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Gates to Pay for Breaking Antitrust
Rules
Gates to Pay for Breaking Antitrust
Rules
05/03/2004 10:12 PMBizReport.com May 4 2004 1:18AM GMT
Breaking the rules with open source
Breaking the rules with open source
08/02/2004 06:45 AMStart-ups, investors turn to open-source software to jump-start new
companies.
Court Rules Evel Knievel Is A Pimp;
Knievel Rules Judges Are Bimbos
Court Rules Evel Knievel Is A Pimp;
Knievel Rules Judges Are Bimbos
01/04/2005 08:20 PMReally not quite sure what to make of this one, but it's too amusing
to pass up. Apparently, a few years ago, ESPN posted a picture of
famed daredevil Evel Knievel with his arms around two women (one of
whom was his wife) with the caption: "You're never too old to be a
pimp." Knievel, not realizing this was a (weak) attempt at
complimenting him, sued ESPN for defamation. A lower court tossed out
the ruling, and he appealed. Now the Appeals Court has ruled against
him as well, noting that, based on the context no one is actually
going to think Knievel is a "pimp," and, in fact that the statement
was supposed to be a positive one, as the slang of the day suggests.
Knievel, apparently lacking a sense of irony over this particular
case, has responded by
calling the judges
"bimbos." The full quote is: "They ruled against the law. What
good is law in the United States of America if five or six goddamn
bimbos are going to rule against it?" You think he intended that as a
compliment? Anyway, in the meantime, feel free to go on captioning
photos on the web while calling people pimps.
Online Resume Rules Sound Like Offline
Resume Rules
Online Resume Rules Sound Like Offline
Resume Rules
09/13/2004 02:14 PMUSA Today is claiming that the
rules have changed for resumes, now that they're
mostly sent via email instead of snail mail. However, when they get
into the details, they sound amazingly like the "rules" many of us
learned back in the days before you emailed resumes: focus on results
from previous jobs (read: throw in lots of useless percentages to make
it look like you improved something), use "descriptive or significant
terms" (read: make sure you include the BS buzzwords-of-the-moment to
make it through that first pass filter), don't send the wrong cover
letter to the wrong company (read: don't be completely stupid), and
don't apply "above your skill level" (read: don't waste HR's time so
much). I remember hearing all of these years ago as well, and they
don't seem any different in this "new age of electronic resumes" as
the article would have you believe. Then, of course, there's the
biggest recommendation for this supposed new age: they suggest you
spam as many companies as possible. Again, has there ever been a time
when people were told to send out
fewer resumes? If anything,
it seems like this strategy is the
wrong strategy in the
digital age where HR folks are
so
inundated with resumes that some have found that going back to
paper
resumes is much more effective in getting attention.
Breaking .htaccess
Breaking .htaccess
03/14/2005 05:02 PM Suppose you try to be a good web citizen, and set BBEdit to create
UTF-8 encoded files by default. Then you create an .htaccess...
HP: Breaking up is hard to do
HP: Breaking up is hard to do
03/31/2005 12:35 PMMark Hurd, who will take over the reins at floundering tech giant
Hewlett-Packard on Friday, was grilled by analysts Wednesday about
whether he plans drastic restructuring of the company.
Hurd, formerly the chief executive officer of NCR (Research), was
named CEO on Tuesday. During an introductory conference call with the
financial community Wednesday morning, Hurd stressed that his primary
goal is to repair the problems at HP (Research), and not necessarily
break up the company. "You talk about problems but there are a
bunch of opportunities at the same time," Hurd said in response
to one question about strategy. "I want to get underneath every
piece of the business and will be focused on doing my best to optimize
each part."
News source:
CNNRead full story...Breaking GOP ranks
Breaking GOP ranks
05/12/2004 08:20 AMAs more Republican senators sour on Rumsfeld's war, John McCain and
Chuck Hagel may no longer be the party's lone men of conscience.
Stuff breaking in slo-mo
Stuff breaking in slo-mo
12/09/2003 06:10 AMMicah says, "Here are some wonderful high-speed videos of objects
changing state, deforming, recoiling and combusting. Glass, tofu,
matches and kickballs are all subjected to forces and recorded in
fascinating detail."
Link
(
Thanks, Micah!)
Breaking Mail
Breaking Mail
06/17/2005 05:03 PMWe (Creative Commons) just upgraded to Apple's Tiger to get the
benefit of some cool new iCal features. I'm regretting the decision
already. I had moved to Mail.app a while ago, after being frustrated
with Entourage's bloat. And after some tinkering, I had crafted a
series of hotkeys to automatically move mail from the inbox to
different folders. I have always been astonished that this function
wasn't integrated into mail applications -- do you all really drag and
drop the hundred of emails you file, or do you just not file email?
Anyway, though Apple proudly lists all the improvements to Mail as an
inducement to upgrade, it doesn't list the things it broke -- in
particular, scripting. No longer can you script within Mail. And while
you can script at the system level, hot-key support for those scripts
doesn't work right now.
This is a bug, no doubt. I imagine they'll fix it. But meanwhile,
they've also changed the naming convention for such scripts (used to
be ctrl, now ctl, etc., or something like that). All of which makes me
wonder: who is it that thinks changes like this are improvements? How
could you ever imagine that there's more good than harm done by a
change like this? Just part of an endless conspiracy to disable the
ability to automate life in macland. Why work to automate when some
genius will change a convention to force you to recode every time you
"up"grade a system?
Update: I thought I had posted this update last week. Sorry for
the delay. Just about an hour after I posted this, a modest coder sent
along his work which solves the problem. Check out
Red-Sweater's
Fastscripts. See also
this free
plug-in.
Breaking The IE Habit
Breaking The IE Habit
07/06/2004 08:08 PMFear of viruses, security whoa's, spyware, scumware, malware, and
general obsolecence is driving users away from IE in record numbers.
Breaking up J2EE
Breaking up J2EE
06/06/2002 06:00 AMCNET Jun 5 2002 10:13PM ET
xa0! xa0! Non breaking spaces!
xa0! xa0! Non breaking spaces!
07/07/2004 11:15 AMUsers of the FedEx Tracker trying, and failing, to get it to work with
a windows machine should find it now works. For what it's worth, an
error of 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in the Feed Validator
means...
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
07/18/2004 04:11 AMI was an iPod junkie. It was hard, but I had no choice. I had to say
goodbye. By Bret Begun, Newsweek (via MyAppleMenu)
At the breaking point
At the breaking point
04/29/2004 07:45 AMThe Bush administration's unrealistic war planning has increased the
dangers facing the men and women on the ground in Iraq.
Breaking into Bioinformatics
Breaking into Bioinformatics
07/08/2004 05:10 PMWhen the Xserves arrived for the new Idaho State University
bioinformatics lab, says assistant professor of comparative genomics
Mike Thomas, “they were up and ready to be used almost
immediately.” [Jul 8]
Breaking Down The Benchmarks
Breaking Down The Benchmarks
09/22/2004 06:17 PM By James Galbraith, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)
Breaking Down the Google IPO
Breaking Down the Google IPO
09/15/2004 11:09 AMSearch Engine Lowdown Sep 15 2004 2:50PM GMT
Electronic Arts Breaking Out
Electronic Arts Breaking Out
08/20/2004 04:29 PMThe company's stock is not as popular as Madden NFL 2005, with its top
sales numbers. Yet.
The Stakeholder :: Breaking News...
The Stakeholder :: Breaking News...
08/11/2004 10:28 PMhoisted by his own petard .. This makes me
happy
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Microsoft says it isn't breaking EU laws
Microsoft says it isn't breaking EU laws
11/13/2003 10:01 AMMicrosoft Corp. defended its
business practices Wednesday during a three-day hearing in Brussels in
front of European competition regulators, in a final attempt to
persuade them that it isn't breaking the European Union's antitrust
laws.
Sun, Microsoft Breaking SOA Barriers
Sun, Microsoft Breaking SOA Barriers
02/05/2005 09:53 PMBreaking the News, Then Becoming It
(washingtonpost.com)
Breaking the News, Then Becoming It
(washingtonpost.com)
09/23/2004 03:15 PMcastigates the mainstream media .. sniffing in her castle .. has a
million excuses .. LA TINA
emotes:
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Breaking Down Communication Barriers
Breaking Down Communication Barriers
06/21/2004 09:15 AMCNET Asia Jun 21 2004 1:11PM GMT
Breaking Down Language Barriers
Breaking Down Language Barriers
07/18/2004 08:08 PM
One of the big problems in the American presence
in Iraq has been a wall of misunderstanding and ignorance brought
about by lack of language skills and a lack of information. Machine
translation is getting better all the time, and we're seeing some of
the results of that improvement here.
The gear in the picture is a piece in the puzzle. From a satellite
dish outside this tent at the
Strong Angel II
exercise, it's capturing and recording the
Al-Manar TV station, a Hezbollah
outlet. U.S. military and aid workers may not like what this and other
Arabic stations are broadcasting, but they need to know what's being
said -- to know what prominent Arab news outlets are saying about the
U.S. occupation of Iraq and other issues.
Audio is extracted from the news broadcasts, and converted to text in
a speech-to-text program. Then the Arabic text is translated, also by
a machine, into English. The results, twice removed from what the
announcers have said, are rough approximations. But they capture the
gist of the reports.
The video, audio and texts (Arabic and English) go into a database.
Sean Colbath, senior engineer at the BBN Technologies Speech and
Language Processing Group, pulls out items -- short video quotes --
that look especially interesting or relevant to the key topics of the
day. He bundles them into a file that goes to a human translator on
the mainland, who gives an accurate rendering of what the broadcast
snippet actually told the audience.
This is a blending of human and machine translation capabilities, and
it's a smart one. The machines get us part of the way. Humans capture
more subtlety, but machines can winnow out a lot of the dross first.
Colbath's gear is just one element in the translation tests here at
Strong Angel, where people from the military, civilian, governmental
and non-governmental spheres are testing new ways to communicate and
collaborate in the aftermath of great human tragedy.
Another experiment, which I have yet to see, sounds amazing: a chat in
which you input in one language, someone gets your input in a
different language and replies in his or her own tongue, which then
comes back to you in your language. I'll tell you more when I've seen
it up close.
Wes Clark says Outkast is NOT breaking
up
Wes Clark says Outkast is NOT breaking
up
11/06/2003 03:01 AMamusing wes clark qt video clip .. Wesley Clark's new TV ad ..
QuickTime .. The
spot
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Hit the Road Without Breaking the Bank
Hit the Road Without Breaking the Bank
06/30/2004 09:29 AMSummer is finally here, and for many Americans that means barbecues,
pool parties and, of course, road trips. But with the high price of
gas, even a short road trip can leave drivers feeling a lot lighter in
the wallet. People tired of emptying their wallets every time they
fill up the tank can now turn to a free service on MSN® at
http://www.autos.msn.com/ that makes it easy to find less expensive
gas in their area. The customized service analyzes prices at 30,000
gas stations daily. All consumers have to do is type in their ZIP
code, and MSN will tell them less expensive places to fill up.
Breaking the Laptop Barrier
Breaking the Laptop Barrier
08/03/2004 07:54 PMPre-loaded, supported HP laptops now are available with SuSE 9.1
Professional.
Breaking: Quake/Tsunami
Breaking: Quake/Tsunami
03/28/2005 03:45 PMTechnocrat.net Mar 28 2005 8:14PM GMT
Senator proposes breaking up CIA
Senator proposes breaking up CIA
08/23/2004 01:12 AMA Republican senator calls for a post-9/11 overhaul of US intelligence
which would see the break-up of the CIA.
Breaking Changes in System.Xml from v1.1
to v2.0 of the .NET Framework
Breaking Changes in System.Xml from v1.1
to v2.0 of the .NET Framework
07/05/2004 11:18 AMDare Obasanjo
discusses breaking changes in the System.Xml namespace of .NET 2.0:
MSN Money - Breaking News
MSN Money - Breaking News
04/02/2005 05:11 AMall-time high ..
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R&Date=20050401&ID=4342219
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Breaking software easier than you think
Breaking software easier than you think
04/16/2005 02:26 AMBreaking the speed limit
Breaking the speed limit
06/05/2005 10:53 PMThis year's Indianapolis 500 race has something other than the cars
going fast - think wireless.
Spy On What People Do, On Your PC and
Networks Without Breaking the Law
Spy On What People Do, On Your PC and
Networks Without Breaking the Law
06/05/2005 11:14 PMSurveilleTech, LLC. today announces a new version of the award-winning
e-Surveiller surveillance software, an easy to use and yet powerful
monitoring software package that empowers users to monitor what
happens on their computers. [PRWEB Jun 2, 2005]
"Breaking the News, Then Becoming It
(washingtonpost.com)"
"Breaking the News, Then Becoming It
(washingtonpost.com)"
09/24/2004 04:07 PMBreaking Writer's Block
Breaking Writer's Block
04/19/2004 08:21 AMWebDevInfo Apr 19 2004 12:27PM GMT
Breaking the Gigapixel Barrier
Breaking the Gigapixel Barrier
12/02/2003 10:15 PMmegas writes "Max Lyons has just posted on his site what seems to be
the first 1 Gigapixel picture, created from 196 separate photographs
taken with a 6 ...
"'Creed' is finally breaking up"
"'Creed' is finally breaking up"
06/05/2004 09:07 AMBreaking the loan shark spiral
Breaking the loan shark spiral
01/28/2004 03:25 AMCredit union workers call for a widening of similar schemes to help
families clear debts to so-called loan sharks.
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