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Posted on 01/27/2005 9:59:05 AM PST by ecurbh
That actor looks like the guy that plays the Sec of Defense on "24".
hehehehe....
One of the first movies with sort of realistic CGI (Tron doesn't cut it for me, sorry), though by today's standards it looks pretty...fake.
See y'all tomorrow.
Have a good night!
Right behind ya, XGI. I'm beat.
Thank God tomorrow is Friday!
Good night everyone!
Good evening...
I am doomed. A project is due Sunday night. I can't get the "hello world" version of the technology to work. I'm doomed. And then a major homework assignment is due in another class Monday night. And two midterms next week.
Someone please wave a wand and make me a genius. Or competent. Or independently wealthy.
I did that. Twice. In the same class. A week apart.
The secret lies in the magic words. They render the SOX auditor totally helpless and quivering. They are the words of power. They are so powerful that their use is possibly in contravention of the Geneva Convention. Yes, they are that good. If I tell you these words, you must promise to only use this power for good.
The words are: "Not in scope."
SOX auditors do not know how to deal with this, and they will run from you screaming like schoolgirls.
Used in a sentence, it would be something like: "Management has determined that this application is not in scope."
Then [poof] the SOX people shrivel away like the wicked witch of the west.
Companies forget that *they* have the ability to decide what parts of their own systems are "in scope" or "out of scope" with regard to SOX compliance. Many companies are so cowed by the process they let many systems fall into scope that really, seriously, could be easily defined as "out of scope".
This is all spelled out in the original "scoping document". We managed to define our scope *very* narrowly, and this saved us untold grief by giving us the ability to tell the auditors that such-and-such application was "out of scope" and therefore was not subject to SOX.
Most companies, I think, don't realize how much they can narrow the scope of SOX compliance. Just because a system is "important" to the operation of a bidness, doesn't mean it is relevant to the data integrity of *financial statements* which is really the core scope of SOX.
Man... that was really rich food...
Had a big seafood sampler platter appetizer and an 18 ounce steak, much of which is in the fridge for later :~D
Yowza, now that I see the score I kinda miss watching the game... it took us an overtime to win by 1. And I decided to tape Jeopardy instead of the game. What was I thinking?
But we really splurged on dinner... drinks, appetizers, the whole nine yards. I went with the stuffed salmon, now I am the one stuffed.
I can't handle this sort of pressure.... I like to have things done 48 hours before they're due!
Have a little faith in yourself! You'll get it done, I'm sure.
[waving wand] OK... you're a genius. Go ahead and recompile. :-)
There is a certain comfort in being doomed, though. Once you know that you can't get where you're going, suddenly it doesn't matter how you get there.
It is small comforts like this that get me from day to day. :-)
I have faith. It's just this technology is weird and it's taking me forever to do the simplest tasks - like getting the new libraries I need to be imported. Wonder what I'm doing wrong here...
I wasn't paying attention and completely missed the end of the game. I just figgered it was forgone that UA would take it in the second half.
We're talking about the game they do with the big orange ball, right? :-)
Sounds like the Falls Terrace fulfilled its obligation this evening. :-)
Aye, that it did. Now to take out my contacts, and hit the couch to watch the rest of the ASU-UDub game.
Heh... that is about the most alien concept to me that I've ever heard. I'm jealous of that, really.
Regrettably, I'm in the "there's no minute like the last minute" category.
Everything I know about chemistry I learned in ten hours. Bummer for me was that they were the ten hours immediately before my 8:00am chem140 midterm. Fortunately, I learned alot, because I only finished half the test before I fell asleep right in the middle, but still got a C on the test.
My college experience is not one that I would necessarily recommend for others.
Um, no... I would have stressed out so badly, I'd be dead. But hey, you got out and became a productive member of society, so you can't have screwed up too bad, right?
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