I don't smoke, so why should I work harder than the smokers when I get paid less than they do?
There was a study a few years ago that showed that smokers interact with more coworkers at different levels in the company since the VP smoker often hangs out in the same place as the Marketing intern smoker. The study further concluded that by this token smokers enjoy avenues of advancement within the company due to their connections to senior employees.
That could be, and I can't prove it otherwise. I'll just say what I said before: I don't believe it. This is attributing a tremendous amount of foresight to an industry that has not otherwise been well known for its forward thinking.
It absolutely does not require foresight. Internet streaming is a distribution channel and the RIAA will not allow a distribution channel to exist that does not give them majority control via royalty schemes that force internet streamers to be no more than sharecroppers. If they can't control it they'll destroy it by imposing a usurious business model.
Here's an example. I searched for wood cutting on Sourcetool. That's a pretty relevant list of results if you're a business looking for that kind of equipment.
Except that every link is to a business.com redirector. Aside from the linkfarm site design going on, the redirect for every link is a big, spammy and red siren for me.
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Besides, while I love Will Wright, and I *want* to support him -- he knew what EA would do,
Eh, I don't know about that. What I do know is that "September 08" was at least the second time the launch date had been pushed back and I think it satisfies Occam to say that perhaps the initial plan was just too ambitious and multiplayer, level grinding, and the other things people complain about based on their expectations of what the game could be were likely just chopped off in order not to miss the date.
EA does not actually have that many irons in the PC Gaming industry fire, especially AAA titles that are not sequels, and there has been a lot of effort and expectations pinned on the launch of Spore. Whether it plays out as a half-stepping "expansion pack" plan or just a cute game attempting to give EA a little Wii-ish business (or whatever), remains to be seen, but I can't say that the launch and the description of gameplay match too well with the dreamy "game for all" rhetoric that followed this game from its announcement.
In short, I give Wil the benefit of the doubt that he had a great game in mind, it's just that we only have 10% (pick your favorite percentage) of it so far. Industry business got in the way of the rest, and it remains to be seen if and how much it will cost to flesh it out.
For me, PC gaming has been reduced to FPS, and that's only because the mouse+WASD is the greatest strength of the PC gaming interface. I bought both a PS3 and a Wii last year, which got me off of PC gaming after being hardcore UT/UT2k4 for years (20-40hrs/wk). The games on console are different, to be sure, but no less enjoyable and I found that my attachment to shooters was not as strong as my history would seem to indicate.
Hardware incompatibility is a huge bugbear. Before my UT bouts, I was very much into racing sims as well, both arcade and more realistic ones. I have a Logitech Momo and I drilled a hole in my desk to make it even more stable. Did the squash-ball mod for the brake, too. Guess what? Need For Speed: Carbon didn't want to play nice with it. I'm not sure what its problem was, but my impression is that EA decided to change something that required me to remap the entire wheel. Since I got NFS:C for cheap, I took it as a wash and just swore off PC driving games and now the wheel sits gathering dust on the floor next to my right foot.
The last game I really bought was The Orange Box (Half-Life 2), which was fun, but it wasn't anything that translated to other games. It was just another story to finish and didn't matter where I was playing it (PC or TV).
Maybe this all pegs me as a casual gamer, so casual I'll spend $1000 on a couple of consoles and related accessories, but not tied to any one genre, game, or platform. But you know what? I've always been agnostic in this way, with no preference between Ladders on CP/M, that square car race game with the dots on the TI 99/4A, Gorf on the VIC-20, or Motorstorm on the PS3.
I've spent as much on a reasonably good hifi as a lot of other people spend on video equipment and I *really really* don't get what is the big deal with compressed music - sure, I use MP3s of my collection on a portable player for travelling and the gym but I don't see how someone who buys compressed music can be classified as a music fan when a "movie buff" is never going to be taken seriously unless he/she has got a huge TV, cable, surround sound, etc.
Not to be too harsh, but I think you're confusing "music fan" with "audiophile" or maybe even "music-equipment fan." It's not about classification of tastes and habits, it's about accessibility and quality. Quality is inversely proportional to accessibility.
People for whom music is a constant companion do not necessarily need the highest quality at all times. Radio taught us this. Would you say that someone in the '50's listening to Alan Freed on the radio was less of a music fan than they who bought shellac and vinyl for their home phonographs? Does someone who watches Tarkovsky with a VCR hooked up to a 19" TV know any less about the movie than someone with a 108" flat panel and amplifiers soldered by the children of nimble priests?
To be sure, the experience of watching a movie or listening to music in a purpose-built environment is going to be different than this, and the word to describe it is "quality." What I'm saying is that one's home theater or listening room says nothing about appreciation for movies and music. Compression just allows people to have music in more places, or more music in a given place, similar to the definition of "compression" itself.
The big deal is that compression allows music to exist in more aspects of a person's life, just like radio did. It makes it more portable and allows the listener to select what they're going to listen to (unlike radio). Selection is common to both MP3 players and video/audiophile equipment, so that cancels out.
The Democrats seem to want to attack Palin on experience
Really? Where do you get this? Are you sure it's not that it's the McCain campaign who wants her to be criticized on that point so that it floats over to Obama?
What I'm reading indicates that people realize that "experience" - however McCain is currently redefining it - is just not very important. Do it yourself: what previous presidents have had the kind of experience that people like you are criticizing Obama for not having? Bush 41? Lincoln? Come on, let's see a cite. Don't just throw out Freeper talking points. Who was the most successful President with whatever kind of experience you are referring to?
Moral: the odds are against you ever being able to produce a Halo-style blockbuster, unless you want to get into career game design or are willing to give the idea to someone who is.
To my knowledge, the option of becoming a career game designer in order to make this idea happen is only realistic if the story's designer is still in high school.
I love when I ask a question, and the question gets totally ignored and people insist on the exact thing that I specifically excluded as an answer.
I agree that there are countless legitimate reasons why you would be "saddled" with a Control Panel based webhost. There are also countless legitimate reasons not to continue using that host, having backup requirements that the webhost doesn't support is one of them. Maybe not so explicitly stated by the flowering examples of conventional wisdom above, but if you're going to mysteriously exclude "Run. Fast. Now." from your list of acceptable answers then you run the risk of painting yourself into a corner.
Business continuity undergirds much of system administration, much more than choice of webhost, but if you are unable to make a business case for why the company should change webhosts in terms of, "If something happens, we're screwed," then you should at least not be excluding rational choices and at most should not be dealing with the BC issues of the company.
I don't know how cheap webhosts go, but your implication is that there is no two-way communication allowed with the server itself, possibly there's just an "Upload Site" file selector in the Control Panel? If so, then you need to realize that you have only client-level access and so your backups are going to be client level. If you need anything on the backend like DB dumps then you need a way to get to them, which you don't seem to have.
If, as you allow in your question, the host does in fact give you a shell but no rsync then the answer is simple: "scp -r". For database backups you'll either need a DB interface or utility to do your dumps, or be able to copy the datafiles themselves (janky and unreliable quality). For low-bandwidth situations a good stopgap would be to get a shell host from which you can copy your backups to another location over a larger pipe.
Hah, you probably right. In the scheme of "God created the heavens and the earth," Mars life could conceivably be considered to be part of "the heavens." Not being a chuchgoing man I have no idea how well the concept of heaven is explicated so as to exclude Mars' inclusion, but whatever.
So what can be the big story they want to tell the President first?
I don't know what they briefed him on, but one issue that hangs over all of these Mars missions is that The Bible does not allow for the possibility of life anywhere else but Earth.
perhaps pro-rata fee where you basically bought out your subsidised phone (which is an outstanding debt you owe to the company) I may not have read any of my cell contracts closely enough, but I don't think I've ever seen this "debt" quantified in the contract or on my bill. That is to say, why is an invisible deal with the phone manufacturers any of my business? If the cell companies want to invent a debt that is not specified, that's their problem.
So I'm curious, when Clinton fired all 93 US attorneys was he filling political or career posts?
The point is every president replaces career posts with political allies, they just do it in a much more broad way than Bush did (Bush replaced 8, total.) Frankly "fire everyone and then rehire just those we like" seems like a fairly shady way to skirt the law.
BZZT! Karl, is that you?. If not, try turning the channel away from O'Reilly, because it's making you stupid.
Unless I'm making some massive logical fallacy here, the more potential buyers seeing a listing, the better
You didn't say that, you said that you're paying EBay money to put your listing in front of X number of visitors. Implicitly there is a point at which the number of visitors to an auction site is not worth the money you would have to pay to put it there. I was just wondering what that point was.
The project was successful and in retrospect making the backups kept me sane and kept the pressure off of him that he would feel if I was nervous or watching him too closely.
So, it sounds like his "instability" might have been entirely a figment of your imagination?
I'm paying them to show a little page with my listing on where thousands of potential buyers will see it.
This raises a question: how many potential buyers do you need to see your listing in order for you to make the listing? If you don't know what this number is (or even why it's not "fewer") then your attachment to EBay would seem to be irrational.
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I don't smoke, so why should I work harder than the smokers when I get paid less than they do?
There was a study a few years ago that showed that smokers interact with more coworkers at different levels in the company since the VP smoker often hangs out in the same place as the Marketing intern smoker. The study further concluded that by this token smokers enjoy avenues of advancement within the company due to their connections to senior employees.
That could be, and I can't prove it otherwise. I'll just say what I said before: I don't believe it. This is attributing a tremendous amount of foresight to an industry that has not otherwise been well known for its forward thinking.
It absolutely does not require foresight. Internet streaming is a distribution channel and the RIAA will not allow a distribution channel to exist that does not give them majority control via royalty schemes that force internet streamers to be no more than sharecroppers. If they can't control it they'll destroy it by imposing a usurious business model.
are all apple customers so damn self centered?
How do you know he's a customer?
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
If you don't want to leap into "Infinite Jest," start with "Girl With Curious Hair."
Here's an example. I searched for wood cutting on Sourcetool. That's a pretty relevant list of results if you're a business looking for that kind of equipment.
Except that every link is to a business.com redirector. Aside from the linkfarm site design going on, the redirect for every link is a big, spammy and red siren for me.
Besides, while I love Will Wright, and I *want* to support him -- he knew what EA would do,
Eh, I don't know about that. What I do know is that "September 08" was at least the second time the launch date had been pushed back and I think it satisfies Occam to say that perhaps the initial plan was just too ambitious and multiplayer, level grinding, and the other things people complain about based on their expectations of what the game could be were likely just chopped off in order not to miss the date.
EA does not actually have that many irons in the PC Gaming industry fire, especially AAA titles that are not sequels, and there has been a lot of effort and expectations pinned on the launch of Spore. Whether it plays out as a half-stepping "expansion pack" plan or just a cute game attempting to give EA a little Wii-ish business (or whatever), remains to be seen, but I can't say that the launch and the description of gameplay match too well with the dreamy "game for all" rhetoric that followed this game from its announcement.
In short, I give Wil the benefit of the doubt that he had a great game in mind, it's just that we only have 10% (pick your favorite percentage) of it so far. Industry business got in the way of the rest, and it remains to be seen if and how much it will cost to flesh it out.
Maybe because the current system basically doesn't work? ...You might actually create some law and order!"
So, the "system" doesn't work and we don't have any law and order? I had no idea that this is what anarchy looked like!
I think your heart is in the right place, but your mind is jumping to conclusions. Don't be that guy!
For me, PC gaming has been reduced to FPS, and that's only because the mouse+WASD is the greatest strength of the PC gaming interface. I bought both a PS3 and a Wii last year, which got me off of PC gaming after being hardcore UT/UT2k4 for years (20-40hrs/wk). The games on console are different, to be sure, but no less enjoyable and I found that my attachment to shooters was not as strong as my history would seem to indicate.
Hardware incompatibility is a huge bugbear. Before my UT bouts, I was very much into racing sims as well, both arcade and more realistic ones. I have a Logitech Momo and I drilled a hole in my desk to make it even more stable. Did the squash-ball mod for the brake, too. Guess what? Need For Speed: Carbon didn't want to play nice with it. I'm not sure what its problem was, but my impression is that EA decided to change something that required me to remap the entire wheel. Since I got NFS:C for cheap, I took it as a wash and just swore off PC driving games and now the wheel sits gathering dust on the floor next to my right foot.
The last game I really bought was The Orange Box (Half-Life 2), which was fun, but it wasn't anything that translated to other games. It was just another story to finish and didn't matter where I was playing it (PC or TV).
Maybe this all pegs me as a casual gamer, so casual I'll spend $1000 on a couple of consoles and related accessories, but not tied to any one genre, game, or platform. But you know what? I've always been agnostic in this way, with no preference between Ladders on CP/M, that square car race game with the dots on the TI 99/4A, Gorf on the VIC-20, or Motorstorm on the PS3.
"The older they get, the cuter they ain't."
I've spent as much on a reasonably good hifi as a lot of other people spend on video equipment and I *really really* don't get what is the big deal with compressed music - sure, I use MP3s of my collection on a portable player for travelling and the gym but I don't see how someone who buys compressed music can be classified as a music fan when a "movie buff" is never going to be taken seriously unless he/she has got a huge TV, cable, surround sound, etc.
Not to be too harsh, but I think you're confusing "music fan" with "audiophile" or maybe even "music-equipment fan." It's not about classification of tastes and habits, it's about accessibility and quality. Quality is inversely proportional to accessibility.
People for whom music is a constant companion do not necessarily need the highest quality at all times. Radio taught us this. Would you say that someone in the '50's listening to Alan Freed on the radio was less of a music fan than they who bought shellac and vinyl for their home phonographs? Does someone who watches Tarkovsky with a VCR hooked up to a 19" TV know any less about the movie than someone with a 108" flat panel and amplifiers soldered by the children of nimble priests?
To be sure, the experience of watching a movie or listening to music in a purpose-built environment is going to be different than this, and the word to describe it is "quality." What I'm saying is that one's home theater or listening room says nothing about appreciation for movies and music. Compression just allows people to have music in more places, or more music in a given place, similar to the definition of "compression" itself.
The big deal is that compression allows music to exist in more aspects of a person's life, just like radio did. It makes it more portable and allows the listener to select what they're going to listen to (unlike radio). Selection is common to both MP3 players and video/audiophile equipment, so that cancels out.
Accessiblity vs. quality, same as it ever was.
The Democrats seem to want to attack Palin on experience
Really? Where do you get this? Are you sure it's not that it's the McCain campaign who wants her to be criticized on that point so that it floats over to Obama?
What I'm reading indicates that people realize that "experience" - however McCain is currently redefining it - is just not very important. Do it yourself: what previous presidents have had the kind of experience that people like you are criticizing Obama for not having? Bush 41? Lincoln? Come on, let's see a cite. Don't just throw out Freeper talking points. Who was the most successful President with whatever kind of experience you are referring to?
She said no thanks to Sen. Ted "Internet Tubes" Steven's 100 million dollar "bridge to nowhere",
Anchorage Daily News, 10/5/06: Palin Said She Supported The So-Called "Bridge To Nowhere," But Was Concerned Money "Flow" Was "Going to Slow"
Might want to revisit your history....
As an auditor I search for errors that others have made and haughtily tell them.
It's possible InfoSec is not the thing making you unhappy; maybe you're just a dick.
...but was left to burn several floors out completely.
Let's talk about the science behind the construction of this statement, shall we?
that he simply hadn't taken any pictures yet, or any pictures at all, wouldn't necessarily reassure the manager that he wasn't staring at her boobs.
You'd think that the fact that the employee was wearing a sweater/jacket might reassure him.
Moral: the odds are against you ever being able to produce a Halo-style blockbuster, unless you want to get into career game design or are willing to give the idea to someone who is.
To my knowledge, the option of becoming a career game designer in order to make this idea happen is only realistic if the story's designer is still in high school.
I love when I ask a question, and the question gets totally ignored and people insist on the exact thing that I specifically excluded as an answer.
I agree that there are countless legitimate reasons why you would be "saddled" with a Control Panel based webhost. There are also countless legitimate reasons not to continue using that host, having backup requirements that the webhost doesn't support is one of them. Maybe not so explicitly stated by the flowering examples of conventional wisdom above, but if you're going to mysteriously exclude "Run. Fast. Now." from your list of acceptable answers then you run the risk of painting yourself into a corner.
Business continuity undergirds much of system administration, much more than choice of webhost, but if you are unable to make a business case for why the company should change webhosts in terms of, "If something happens, we're screwed," then you should at least not be excluding rational choices and at most should not be dealing with the BC issues of the company.
I don't know how cheap webhosts go, but your implication is that there is no two-way communication allowed with the server itself, possibly there's just an "Upload Site" file selector in the Control Panel? If so, then you need to realize that you have only client-level access and so your backups are going to be client level. If you need anything on the backend like DB dumps then you need a way to get to them, which you don't seem to have.
If, as you allow in your question, the host does in fact give you a shell but no rsync then the answer is simple: "scp -r". For database backups you'll either need a DB interface or utility to do your dumps, or be able to copy the datafiles themselves (janky and unreliable quality). For low-bandwidth situations a good stopgap would be to get a shell host from which you can copy your backups to another location over a larger pipe.
Hah, you probably right. In the scheme of "God created the heavens and the earth," Mars life could conceivably be considered to be part of "the heavens." Not being a chuchgoing man I have no idea how well the concept of heaven is explicated so as to exclude Mars' inclusion, but whatever.
So what can be the big story they want to tell the President first?
I don't know what they briefed him on, but one issue that hangs over all of these Mars missions is that The Bible does not allow for the possibility of life anywhere else but Earth.
perhaps pro-rata fee where you basically bought out your subsidised phone (which is an outstanding debt you owe to the company)
I may not have read any of my cell contracts closely enough, but I don't think I've ever seen this "debt" quantified in the contract or on my bill. That is to say, why is an invisible deal with the phone manufacturers any of my business? If the cell companies want to invent a debt that is not specified, that's their problem.
Demonization comes with the territory. ...
EDIT: I'm not saying I like it. I'm just saying that it's the way it has been for 200 years.
It will remain "the way it has been" until people like you stop telling people that bad behavior should be treated as normal.
So I'm curious, when Clinton fired all 93 US attorneys was he filling political or career posts?
The point is every president replaces career posts with political allies, they just do it in a much more broad way than Bush did (Bush replaced 8, total.) Frankly "fire everyone and then rehire just those we like" seems like a fairly shady way to skirt the law.
BZZT! Karl, is that you?. If not, try turning the channel away from O'Reilly, because it's making you stupid.
Unless I'm making some massive logical fallacy here, the more potential buyers seeing a listing, the better
You didn't say that, you said that you're paying EBay money to put your listing in front of X number of visitors. Implicitly there is a point at which the number of visitors to an auction site is not worth the money you would have to pay to put it there. I was just wondering what that point was.
The project was successful and in retrospect making the backups kept me sane and kept the pressure off of him that he would feel if I was nervous or watching him too closely.
So, it sounds like his "instability" might have been entirely a figment of your imagination?
I'm paying them to show a little page with my listing on where thousands of potential buyers will see it.
This raises a question: how many potential buyers do you need to see your listing in order for you to make the listing? If you don't know what this number is (or even why it's not "fewer") then your attachment to EBay would seem to be irrational.