Damn OS bigots. My desktop runs Windows XP. Heres the setup:
1.6Ghz P4(Lower end) NVidia TNT2M64(Definitely low end) 1GB ram(ok, I overkill here but performance was ok even at 256MB)
The Windows NT series operating systems are quite good. Reliable, well performing and productive in general. It may be easier to trash it entirely(ask me about my NT4 permission troubles someday) but, the point is, set up with half a brain the NT series is solid.
True. On that subject, the CH-46. Most of them are 30+ years old, they aren't built anymore, anywhere, and they still do the job. The youngest of them are older than almost all of the pilots.
Goddamnit, the Marine Corps needs the Osprey. Those 46's are old, and need replacement... I hope it doesn't get canceled.
Heh. Well, you have to admit the ST-225 was rather well built. I'm not sure if its the amount of money I paid or lack of faith in it, but I wouldn't dream of dropping my WD drive unless I was falling off a cliff and I had to grab on or I'd die. But the ST-225s... Those were built like a tank.
Problem is todays economy moves fast. Very fast. If you can't get a product to market NOW, you are dead. So, companies often simply cannot afford to produce items as durable as they used to be able to, and when they do, they have to charge more than most people can afford.
In general, I agree that older stuff does last longer and is more solid. My car was scrapped only because it wasn't worth repairing a 700 dollar car. Everything worked, it was just the body panels being light sheet metal(and some fiberglass and plastic in the grill area) that got messed up)
Those things ruled! Well, back when a 20MB MFM drive was acceptable they did. Drop it, from 3 feet, onto a hard surface, during heavy disk access, and watch it keep going without skipping a beat.
BTW, the drive was 14 years old when we did that. Of the half dozen or so of those that I had my hands on, all of that age, only one had failed. I had known of several more in operation that my friends had, and those were still going strong.
What other hard drive, can last close to 15 years with that sort of durability, and only a 10% failure rate?
Our ST-225's have been retired for about 6 years now, but I trust if I ever needed one, it would come online grinding away as those old motors do, and serve me well even in the 21st century.
The Japanese also reported the USS Enterprise sunk at least 4 times. Got to be a superstition among the crew, the Japanese reported them sunk, they were guaranteed good luck for a while. Even the kamikaze hit they took late in the war wasn't that horrible- took her out of action for a while, but she was repaired after the war.
There was a War of the Ring game years ago, I probably have it around here somewhere. Definitely highly on the strategic level, with small bits of a non linear computer RPG thrown in. You could even take the fellowship through Goblin Town, where I had Gandalf alone take out some 400 goblins, the rest of the fellowship took out the rest.
Actually, while its generally in the field of military hardware, the Chinese are some of the worlds best reverse-engineers. They just might be able to pull it off.
Not to mention, you put a restriction like that into your open source license, it immediately becomes non compatible with the GPL. You could go to the point of saying "This code is distributed under the GPL, with the exceotion that it cannot be used for military purposes". Immediately upon doing so, you lose the right to integrate GPL code, and other people cannot use your code in GPL software. Completely against the intention of the GPL and open source movements...
However, recall one of the big anti trust issues, that Microsoft did not release the full API...
Perhaps the greater quality of MS software is because they have access to full API documentation, whereas other companies must use flaky workarounds to do the same thing MS can do with a single API call?
We all know idiot users. How many times has your mom told you her computer messed up, you go there only to find that everything works perfectly fine but she had made a stupid mistake?
Disable cookies, or set them to prompt you before acceptance. Problem solved.
2. Google records everything they can:
They provide a service to give you relevant results, and they don't ask for any personally identifying information. There are anonymyzing proxies if you are that worried about your IP being known.
3. Google retains all data indefinitely:
So they log IP addresses and your filter settings? If you had to enter personal information to use their service, I'd see a problem.
4. Google won't say why they need this data:
Hello! You already said in your expansion on point two you know why they collect the info! Anyways, I know if I was running a search engine, I'd sure as hell be logging IPs and search terms, dates, times, etc so I could tweak the search engine to provide better results.
5. Google hires spooks:
One, people with a security clearance have been thoroughly investigated and are known to be trustworthy. This in and of itself should give them an edge in the hiring process. Plus, as the article pointed out, Google wants federal contracts, personnel with clearances already will make that process much less expensive. Even if the clearance is lapsed, and they have to run a reinvestigation, the risk of being denied a clearance and wasting the money is far less.
6. Google's toolbar is spyware:
Google has a toolbar? Anyways, they spell out what happens when you install it, if you don't like the terms, don't install it.
7. Google's cache copy is illegal:
Gee, one short line added to your pages- which any decent text editor can be set to automatically include in your templates or whatever- can stop this completely. The web cache is no different from USENET archives.
8. Google is not your friend:
Gee, they defend their search results against people trying to manipulate the system. Gee, great lack of integrity there... NOT!
9. Google is a privacy time bomb:
And what private information do they collect, and what information do they collect that isn't clearly needed to enhance their search results?
Clear FUD. These idiots hate Google simply because its big. They probably tried to subvert the Page Rank system and got nailed for it. Whiners.
Believe it or not, I have a hotmail account that recieves absolutely zero unsolicited emails. My other hotmail account recieves hundereds per day, its the address I use when I don't know that I can trust the recipient. My ISP account is at the same spam level as my low spam hotmail account.
Hotmail is a very good service, not to rely on, but to have so you can sign up for websites and not spam your email address, and so you can sign up for interesting mailing lists where you can't trust their "no spam" or "opt out" promises.
"A 'win', requiring CompUSA to take the returned software, is actually enforcing the idea that an EULA means something."
However, a win would still ensure one of two things. Either it is cleared up once and for all that you can get a refund in the event you disagree with the EULA, whether the box is opened or not, or, it will force the EULA outside the box where customers can review it before purchase. In either event, the customer wins. They get to review the EULA without risking losing what could be a several hundered dollar investment.
Personally, I'd prefer the latter outcome. If refunds are enforced, people still won't read the things, and noone who doesn't already know will realize how jacked up they are. If its on the outside of the box, more people will read it(even if only out of boredom) and see the insanity, and some of them will try to do something about it...
crap CGI. Stuff from Star Wars(BLATANT ripoffs in several spots). The scimitar looked like a shadow ship. Data as superman! so much crap. I've got to analyze this in detail to put a review on my blog... will make interesting reading. Its a bunch of other stuff, poorly imitated, dressed in starfleet uniforms.
I didn't see Nemesis -- it never occurred to me to go
Heh. I actually wanted to go, but not for the movie- which based on the trailer and everything I read about it, looked like it was going to be horrible. I only wanted to see it to see how Steven Culp did. I love his character on JAG, so I was curious how he'd do as a starfleet officer.
Agree with Bush's handling of the WTC investigation or not, the national security implications of letting outsiders look at our intelligence structure are much greater than outsiders looking at our shuttle program. One untrustworthy panel member, and US Intelligence efforts could be severely hampered. That is why there was such a difference in handling the issues.
REgardless of whether or not it fell in the same actual week(whether or not two given dates are in the same week fluctuates from year to year), Appolo 1, Challenger, and Columbia disasters all happened in the middle of winter. Perhaps the shuttle doesn't like winter weather? Maybe the Russians could help us with specifics of cold weather space launches/recoveries?
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Damn OS bigots. My desktop runs Windows XP. Heres the setup:
1.6Ghz P4(Lower end)
NVidia TNT2M64(Definitely low end)
1GB ram(ok, I overkill here but performance was ok even at 256MB)
The Windows NT series operating systems are quite good. Reliable, well performing and productive in general. It may be easier to trash it entirely(ask me about my NT4 permission troubles someday) but, the point is, set up with half a brain the NT series is solid.
True. On that subject, the CH-46. Most of them are 30+ years old, they aren't built anymore, anywhere, and they still do the job. The youngest of them are older than almost all of the pilots.
Goddamnit, the Marine Corps needs the Osprey. Those 46's are old, and need replacement... I hope it doesn't get canceled.
Heh. Well, you have to admit the ST-225 was rather well built. I'm not sure if its the amount of money I paid or lack of faith in it, but I wouldn't dream of dropping my WD drive unless I was falling off a cliff and I had to grab on or I'd die. But the ST-225s... Those were built like a tank.
Problem is todays economy moves fast. Very fast. If you can't get a product to market NOW, you are dead. So, companies often simply cannot afford to produce items as durable as they used to be able to, and when they do, they have to charge more than most people can afford.
In general, I agree that older stuff does last longer and is more solid. My car was scrapped only because it wasn't worth repairing a 700 dollar car. Everything worked, it was just the body panels being light sheet metal(and some fiberglass and plastic in the grill area) that got messed up)
Those things ruled! Well, back when a 20MB MFM drive was acceptable they did. Drop it, from 3 feet, onto a hard surface, during heavy disk access, and watch it keep going without skipping a beat.
BTW, the drive was 14 years old when we did that. Of the half dozen or so of those that I had my hands on, all of that age, only one had failed. I had known of several more in operation that my friends had, and those were still going strong.
What other hard drive, can last close to 15 years with that sort of durability, and only a 10% failure rate?
Our ST-225's have been retired for about 6 years now, but I trust if I ever needed one, it would come online grinding away as those old motors do, and serve me well even in the 21st century.
The Japanese also reported the USS Enterprise sunk at least 4 times. Got to be a superstition among the crew, the Japanese reported them sunk, they were guaranteed good luck for a while. Even the kamikaze hit they took late in the war wasn't that horrible- took her out of action for a while, but she was repaired after the war.
Did the first one remind any of you of ArmitageIII? Similar animation style, similar themes...
42.
There was a War of the Ring game years ago, I probably have it around here somewhere. Definitely highly on the strategic level, with small bits of a non linear computer RPG thrown in. You could even take the fellowship through Goblin Town, where I had Gandalf alone take out some 400 goblins, the rest of the fellowship took out the rest.
Actually, while its generally in the field of military hardware, the Chinese are some of the worlds best reverse-engineers. They just might be able to pull it off.
Nope. I distinctly recall the Intel 80186 in an old wang I had once that had no pins, just a bunch of contacts.
Not to mention, you put a restriction like that into your open source license, it immediately becomes non compatible with the GPL. You could go to the point of saying "This code is distributed under the GPL, with the exceotion that it cannot be used for military purposes". Immediately upon doing so, you lose the right to integrate GPL code, and other people cannot use your code in GPL software. Completely against the intention of the GPL and open source movements...
However, recall one of the big anti trust issues, that Microsoft did not release the full API...
Perhaps the greater quality of MS software is because they have access to full API documentation, whereas other companies must use flaky workarounds to do the same thing MS can do with a single API call?
We all know idiot users. How many times has your mom told you her computer messed up, you go there only to find that everything works perfectly fine but she had made a stupid mistake?
1. Google's immortal cookie:
Disable cookies, or set them to prompt you before acceptance. Problem solved.
2. Google records everything they can:
They provide a service to give you relevant results, and they don't ask for any personally identifying information. There are anonymyzing proxies if you are that worried about your IP being known.
3. Google retains all data indefinitely:
So they log IP addresses and your filter settings? If you had to enter personal information to use their service, I'd see a problem.
4. Google won't say why they need this data:
Hello! You already said in your expansion on point two you know why they collect the info! Anyways, I know if I was running a search engine, I'd sure as hell be logging IPs and search terms, dates, times, etc so I could tweak the search engine to provide better results.
5. Google hires spooks:
One, people with a security clearance have been thoroughly investigated and are known to be trustworthy. This in and of itself should give them an edge in the hiring process. Plus, as the article pointed out, Google wants federal contracts, personnel with clearances already will make that process much less expensive. Even if the clearance is lapsed, and they have to run a reinvestigation, the risk of being denied a clearance and wasting the money is far less.
6. Google's toolbar is spyware:
Google has a toolbar? Anyways, they spell out what happens when you install it, if you don't like the terms, don't install it.
7. Google's cache copy is illegal:
Gee, one short line added to your pages- which any decent text editor can be set to automatically include in your templates or whatever- can stop this completely. The web cache is no different from USENET archives.
8. Google is not your friend:
Gee, they defend their search results against people trying to manipulate the system. Gee, great lack of integrity there... NOT!
9. Google is a privacy time bomb:
And what private information do they collect, and what information do they collect that isn't clearly needed to enhance their search results?
Clear FUD. These idiots hate Google simply because its big. They probably tried to subvert the Page Rank system and got nailed for it. Whiners.
Believe it or not, I have a hotmail account that recieves absolutely zero unsolicited emails. My other hotmail account recieves hundereds per day, its the address I use when I don't know that I can trust the recipient. My ISP account is at the same spam level as my low spam hotmail account.
Hotmail is a very good service, not to rely on, but to have so you can sign up for websites and not spam your email address, and so you can sign up for interesting mailing lists where you can't trust their "no spam" or "opt out" promises.
"A 'win', requiring CompUSA to take the returned software, is actually enforcing the idea that an EULA means something."
However, a win would still ensure one of two things. Either it is cleared up once and for all that you can get a refund in the event you disagree with the EULA, whether the box is opened or not, or, it will force the EULA outside the box where customers can review it before purchase. In either event, the customer wins. They get to review the EULA without risking losing what could be a several hundered dollar investment.
Personally, I'd prefer the latter outcome. If refunds are enforced, people still won't read the things, and noone who doesn't already know will realize how jacked up they are. If its on the outside of the box, more people will read it(even if only out of boredom) and see the insanity, and some of them will try to do something about it...
"must go to the website and read the EULA before installing."
And those people who do not have internet access can do this how?
http://googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=Strai ght&q2=Gay&B1=Make+a+fight%21&compare=1&langue =us
Is this section really needed? Seems redundant to me, don't we already have laws regarding destruction or concealment of evidence?
So I can filbuster one of these stupid laws by reading it, over and over again, making comments as I see fit.
crap CGI. Stuff from Star Wars(BLATANT ripoffs in several spots). The scimitar looked like a shadow ship. Data as superman! so much crap. I've got to analyze this in detail to put a review on my blog... will make interesting reading. Its a bunch of other stuff, poorly imitated, dressed in starfleet uniforms.
I didn't see Nemesis -- it never occurred to me to go
Heh. I actually wanted to go, but not for the movie- which based on the trailer and everything I read about it, looked like it was going to be horrible. I only wanted to see it to see how Steven Culp did. I love his character on JAG, so I was curious how he'd do as a starfleet officer.
Agree with Bush's handling of the WTC investigation or not, the national security implications of letting outsiders look at our intelligence structure are much greater than outsiders looking at our shuttle program. One untrustworthy panel member, and US Intelligence efforts could be severely hampered. That is why there was such a difference in handling the issues.
REgardless of whether or not it fell in the same actual week(whether or not two given dates are in the same week fluctuates from year to year), Appolo 1, Challenger, and Columbia disasters all happened in the middle of winter. Perhaps the shuttle doesn't like winter weather? Maybe the Russians could help us with specifics of cold weather space launches/recoveries?