Nowadays, here at RPI, we have computer programs that automatically tell them that you're not going to graduate... in April.
Two fraternity brothers of mine found out they were missing some silly requirement or other, despite the online monitoring program showing it as completed.
Btw, in Europe, using a card isn't the same as using credit. Most banks have cards where the balance is checked before the transaction is ok.
Yea, those are around in the US too:) Debit or Check cards that simply deduct from your bank account...
Of course, a lot of places only take them in credit mode (where they work like a credit card at Point of Sale and then is charged to your account like you had written a check), which means that it won't always bounce if it's bad, even though the bank will know 2 minutes later.
As an actual RPI student, I can tell you for a fact that there are several other uses for Phynd on our campus. For example, a lot of people share course files that are required, research papers they've written, etc.
You're right - apparently I'm channeling an idiot this morning and for some reason when I saw it on the Gentoo page associated the two more strongly. It definitly does seem like a reasonably neat tool to allow testing of some of the dev stuff that's still to unstable to put on a business machine...
other than the portage system, this seems to be a moderatly unexciting distro. User-mode Linux is somewhat interesting but doesn't seem compelling enough to change from slack\SuSE\debian, etc. Is that a compelling enough feature to consider this an important step in the evolution of Linux, or, as is more likely, is this simply going to go by the wayside...
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But hey, there must be some critical mass, right? If you respond to everyone, sooner or later they won't be able to pile more spam on you since you'll be getting as much as possible from that source...
Of course, you're one of a minority that's continually growing smaller. As more and more people go broadband, even thinking about disconnecting will make less and less sense to most people.
Of course, not even that is always you being sold out, since there are some pretty good automated processes that can go through whois and harvest out both your domain and the registrar, making it appear slightly more personalized like that.
In one sense, that's the truly scary thing - spam is eventually going to get more and more personalized until it takes a few moments to realize it isn't from a legit source.
Out of curiousity, does the industry really think that this form of copy protection will actually be any more successful than the last few? Or is this seemingly nothing more than a way for everyone to get upset about another format?
imho, hopefully some admins will get more *nix experience with this, and will see the advantages of such. If enough do, it might be able to convince them to either ask apple to go more bsd compliant or (even better) get them to switch to running a *nix box instead...
Based on what i've seen from the XServer box I've been testing, pretty much every administration task has been given a GUI frontend so that you never have to use the terminal. Indeed, a lot of the needed stuff won't run under Terminal, can't add users and so forth...
if there was a Windows version, it would help increase the popularity of the game
True, but if not, perhaps this could make linux just a bit more popular? Not enough to switch a die-hard windows fan, but might be able to help convince someone wavering between the two OSs. Even so, it prolly won't help much...
Of course, if its small groups putting together odds and ends here and there, who knows if any of them will take off? In order for them to be worthwhile, they need to be championed on a bigger scale, I think. Not to mention, this is assured to be unpopular with any of the companies that genuinely
Privacy may be non-existant, but, at least you are most likely giving information to the company directly (Plenty of discussion on the immorality of what they do and why is another issue). Here, it seems conspiritorial, in that you now need to give demographics to only one or two groups, and anyone will be able to get it, for the right price.
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The person who did fire safety inspections for my fraternity up until 2 or 3 years ago is currently serving time for that.
Nowadays, here at RPI, we have computer programs that automatically tell them that you're not going to graduate... in April.
Two fraternity brothers of mine found out they were missing some silly requirement or other, despite the online monitoring program showing it as completed.
I'm surprised noone has tried to make better use of this (Game of Life is nice and all, but not exactly useful...)
Wouldn't it be possible to use this to allow a printer to directly process form information into something printable?
Btw, in Europe, using a card isn't the same as using credit. Most banks have cards where the balance is checked before the transaction is ok.
:) Debit or Check cards that simply deduct from your bank account...
Of course, a lot of places only take them in credit mode (where they work like a credit card at Point of Sale and then is charged to your account like you had written a check), which means that it won't always bounce if it's bad, even though the bank will know 2 minutes later.
Yea, those are around in the US too
As an actual RPI student, I can tell you for a fact that there are several other uses for Phynd on our campus. For example, a lot of people share course files that are required, research papers they've written, etc.
You're right - apparently I'm channeling an idiot this morning and for some reason when I saw it on the Gentoo page associated the two more strongly. It definitly does seem like a reasonably neat tool to allow testing of some of the dev stuff that's still to unstable to put on a business machine...
other than the portage system, this seems to be a moderatly unexciting distro. User-mode Linux is somewhat interesting but doesn't seem compelling enough to change from slack\SuSE\debian, etc. Is that a compelling enough feature to consider this an important step in the evolution of Linux, or, as is more likely, is this simply going to go by the wayside...
But hey, there must be some critical mass, right? If you respond to everyone, sooner or later they won't be able to pile more spam on you since you'll be getting as much as possible from that source...
Or at least I wish that was the case. Ugh.
Of course, you're one of a minority that's continually growing smaller. As more and more people go broadband, even thinking about disconnecting will make less and less sense to most people.
Of course, not even that is always you being sold out, since there are some pretty good automated processes that can go through whois and harvest out both your domain and the registrar, making it appear slightly more personalized like that.
In one sense, that's the truly scary thing - spam is eventually going to get more and more personalized until it takes a few moments to realize it isn't from a legit source.
Out of curiousity, does the industry really think that this form of copy protection will actually be any more successful than the last few? Or is this seemingly nothing more than a way for everyone to get upset about another format?
imho, hopefully some admins will get more *nix experience with this, and will see the advantages of such. If enough do, it might be able to convince them to either ask apple to go more bsd compliant or (even better) get them to switch to running a *nix box instead...
Based on what i've seen from the XServer box I've been testing, pretty much every administration task has been given a GUI frontend so that you never have to use the terminal. Indeed, a lot of the needed stuff won't run under Terminal, can't add users and so forth...
if there was a Windows version, it would help increase the popularity of the game
True, but if not, perhaps this could make linux just a bit more popular? Not enough to switch a die-hard windows fan, but might be able to help convince someone wavering between the two OSs. Even so, it prolly won't help much...
Its nice to see some interesting multiplayer games being developed for Linux, expecially something unique as opposed to shoot-em-ups...
Oops =( genuinely have the rights to a domain name.
Of course, if its small groups putting together odds and ends here and there, who knows if any of them will take off? In order for them to be worthwhile, they need to be championed on a bigger scale, I think. Not to mention, this is assured to be unpopular with any of the companies that genuinely
Privacy may be non-existant, but, at least you are most likely giving information to the company directly (Plenty of discussion on the immorality of what they do and why is another issue). Here, it seems conspiritorial, in that you now need to give demographics to only one or two groups, and anyone will be able to get it, for the right price.