Those of you who are hardcore Apple watchers will recall that 10 years ago Sun was supposed to buy us. This was back when we were really hurting and almost going out of business. Scott made all sorts of promises and then the night before we were going to close the deal he canceled -- just left us standing at the altar. So we've been waiting for some payback, and now we've got it. Monday night we rented a suite at the Four Seasons in Palo Alto and had him wait there. Meeting was set for 9 and we were going to sign the papers. Then I just hung out in the Jobs Pod and kept having people call telling him I'm running late.

Hahaha

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Re: the Apple-Sun merger

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# Detailed seat map graphics.
# In-depth seat specific comments denoting seats with limited recline, reduced legroom, mis-aligned windows.
# Color-coding to help identify superior and substandard seats.
# In-seat power port locations.
# Galley, lavatory, Exit Row and closet locations.

The other day I needed to know if a particular exit row seat on a Delta 757-200 was any good. This site tells you. Nice. Delta has seat diagrams on the check-in screen, and on the web, but they don't show bulkheads, etc.

In this case, row 19 on a DL 757-200 had 5 feet of leg room. NICE.

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You should read the actual patent application for more and scarier examples. It's only a few pages long anyway. It looks like Microsoft wants users to pay separately for every basic OS functionality that they use through some sort of web shop, much the same way that antiquated mainframes used to be licensed out but with the added pixie-dust of “…through the internet”. It will actively throttle down functionality that it is capable of, but which has not been payed for. Or it will “restrict unauthorized operating system extensions from being installed that may support unauthorized hardware and/or software”. So not only do you have to pay for new hardware, you have to pay again in order to use it to it's full capacity. And you can bet that the hardware makers will have to pay Microsoft as well to be included in their web shop.

A dystopian future - looking beyond Windows Vista

from: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osbornekevin

Summary

- Turns up late, most every day. Programming engine doesn't really
kick in 'til midafternoon, and up until then will happily browse RSS
feeds, write personal emails, and fantasize about peforming sordid sex
acts while staring out the window.
- When finally getting around to tapping something useful out on the
keyboard, will produce code that is often enough of a particularly
poor quality. The insufferable banality of domain-specific business
logic drives the extrusion of nothing other than fetid little stools
of code, like a mangy cat with a bent tail and gammy leg squatting and
mewling as its little programming-porticullis lets loose with yet
another poorly formed explusion.
- Soon enough will be back to circumventing the internet filter and
logging on to home linux boxen to manage bittorrent downloads and
perform housekeeping tasks (a.k.a filing freshly downloaded porn by
size and colour of sexual extremity and number of partners involved).
- Managers will find the candidate to be just as much an insufferable
prig as any other engineer, believing that anyone not coding full-time
is semi-imbecilic and finding your needs for 'on-time' and 'on-budget'
to be the plaintive whinings of a corporate shill who sold out to the
man long ago.
- When entering into salary and performance reviews passive-agressive
neuroticism will only be matched by overinflated sense of self-worth
and entitlement. Will be miffed if renumeration extortions are not
ridiculous enough and leave in the middle of a late project to swan
off to yet another deluded firm who have no idea that any engineer
worth their salt can swan by hacking 100 minutes of mangled
obfuscation a week while still billing 40 hours plus overtime.

Specialties:
Skiving, Bilking, Surfing, Bludging. Watercooler Etiquette. Nose
Picking, Masturbation on the Premises, Intermittent Bathing. Stealing
Stationery and Peripherals, Posting the entire IP Codebase on
Sourceforge.

hahahaha!

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NIGC Chairman Phil Hogen stated “The Commission is extremely appreciative of the great interest which tribes and gaming equipment manufacturers have taken in the effort to craft regulations for the equipment used by tribes to play bingo and other Class II games. An unprecedented level of communication and cooperation was demonstrated in the intense effort a working group of gaming manufacturers and gaming tribes devoted to drafting and presenting proposed technical standards to NIGC’s Tribal Advisory Committee, which that Advisory Committee delivered to the Commission today. While the Commission has not yet had the opportunity to fully review the recommendations which were received, we think the fresh approach reflected in this package—which focuses on the game system, not just “player boxes”-- has the potential of addressing many of the Commission’s concerns relating to insuring the integrity of Class II gaming played with technological aids.” Hogen continued “The need to have standards that protect the integrity of Class II technologic aids is as great today as it has ever been, and

hopefully these sincere efforts of the Indian gaming industry will assist the Commission in completing this task in the near future.”

The comment period for Class II technical regulations will come to an end on January 31, 2007. At that time, the NIGC will review the comments and determine what will be the next step in the process.

Hopefully this means they will not hamstring Class II gaming, and devastate tribal revenues, tomorrow.

NIGC Class II Meeting :: PR-55 01-2007

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Remote Call Forwarding (RCF) is an exchange service which allows incoming calls to be forwarded to a telephone number in a distant location.

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RCF requires neither a physical telephone set nor physical input by customer to get calls forwarded.

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