"I don't really understand the rationale behind points 2 and 4. I agree that it's important to have respect for foreign powers, but we shouldn't let that respect for foreigh powers dominate our own policy decisions. (Hopefully, most of the time, they'll coincide, but that's far from guaranteed.)"
If we're not careful managing the world opinion of our country, the oil market could change from using the dollar to using the euro. That could be devastating to our currency, because we are (unfortunately) very oil dependant.
Perhaps it's because Kerry believes (rightfully) that the law is on the side of the pro-choice folks? If someone is pro-life (anti-abortion), they are anti-law (as it stands now). What's wrong with appointing judges who are knowledgable of the law?
1) There is no need for an "enter" key. 2) There shouldn't be a default selection, it wouldn't matter though, since there should not be an enter key. 3) No, they're not. You can still call it user error if they weren't paying attention, the blame rests on both sides. Now, since one side has a sinister reason, and the other side doesn't, I think it's not unreasonable to investigate and perhaps conclude it was intentional.
I've had exactly the opposite experience with 3Ware vs. the competition. 3Ware works flawlessly with drive swapping, putting in spares, bringing out spares; no rebooting necessary. This is under FreeBSD, and with the PATA and SATA versions of the card.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I've run several servers with different 3Ware cards and have had a great experience.
Everyone has their own experience with a bad hard drive or a bad batch of drives from a vendor. I know people who swear Seagate is the worst manufacturer, and then some that say WD is awful, and Maxtor, and etc etc etc.
I've used them all, Seagate primarily though (SCSI servers), and have noticed a trend. They all suck the same!
The sooner we can move to cheap solid state storage the better.
The only good RAID cards I've run in to are the 3Ware IDE cards (ATA and SATA). Adaptec's SCSI RAID stuff is awful in comparison. Commnication with the card is flakey at best, it handles failures *very* poorly (drive disappears, some data may still be lost, because the RAID may crash. drive replaced (zapped) may cause SCSI errors as well), it doesn't seem to do staggered-spinup (so be prepared to trip breakers, although they may have added that feature later).
The 3Ware cards are about the same price, maybe a bit more for the SATA, but it's well worth it. PATA doesn't compare performance-wise, but if you're just doing storage, they're a good choice too.
It was a preview in this case, they're not releasing yet. In this case, Game Informer paid to host the exclusive screenshots/preview in their magazine.
I agree, they aren't very trustworthy for reviews (almost none of the sites/magazines are).
I'll be getting the game based on how much I got out of Morrowind, and now because it's just so beautiful.
The screenshots of Oblivion are *incredible*, would love to see how it'd perform with two SLI cards. If you haven't yet, do yourself a favor and look up the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion screenshots. The company pulled some bullshit marketing thing giving Game Informer some exclusives, but some people have scanned them.
IMO, it's like having an interactive Myst, it's so pretty.
No. Certainly not. People should be made aware of security issues. Especially for free services like this, where people have no guarantee they will ever be addressed.
That's not because of your browser. Sometimes the comments don't even come up.
Since you can reload and sometimes fix it, the problem is their backend code (probably mod_perl) is not sending the right HTML (missing tables, probably).
It's not free, though. It's the sort of free the GPL folks like to talk about, but it clearly says it's for non-commercial use only (which is contradictory to the GPL, but oh well).
Plus, since it is GPL, what are the odds it'll be incorporated into Windows? I'd say 0.
TCP works just fine for the majority. Plus, it's free (truly free).
Re:Not gonna work if encumbered
on
Replacing TCP?
·
· Score: 2, Funny
No license in the world will make MySQL work "nicely".
Nobody has to have respect for the Christian faith. I have to tolerate that other people believe in it, but that's as far as I have to go in our society.
I may actually start respecting Christians if they can manage to keep their noses out of other people's business and out of public government. I don't know if they can do that, though -- history (modern and "ancient") indicates that they can not.
"Furthermore if someone dies in a group, the entire group shares debt... an interesting approach towards balancing the risk/reward of classes that may end up dying more often."
Also an interesting way to keep groups from including people they don't already know. Good for guilds, I suppose. Not so good for the casual player, which Everquest was already very unfriendly to (... I'm remembering days of/ooc's of LFG for half an hour before giving up and soloing...)
"* Automatic zone instancing... apparently if some zones get too crowded, the system may create another instance of the zone and people zoning in can select which instance of the zone they want to enter."
Too bad they didn't do what most other games do, have one giant zone, broken up into smaller pieces, which your computer pre-loads as you move through the landscape.
What they're talking about here is not revolutionary. In fact they talked about it years ago for EQ1.
"Kill stealing has always been a troubling issue in EQ, but I'm not sure I like this mod. It flies in the face of realism. Furthermore, I see much potential for this feature to be abused.. casters with long-range spells can now easily take a mob away from another group heading to pull it."
Agreed. Personally, I've thought the systems that rewarded each distinct action were better for this sort of thing. Someone could take it further and offer the XP only upon the monster's death, offer additional XP for "initiating" the attack (so KSers don't get that bonus), etc. That could be something revolutionary. This, what they're doing, isn't.
"Those who think that minors might not have the decision-making abilities of adults and may need guidance, or that school systems should make any effort at all to compensate for deficiencies in parenting, are generally not well regarded."
I thought that was why kids have parents, to help guide their decisions? Everything is the fault of the individual is correct. For kids and adults. But in kids sake, the adults (or guardians) are the ones who should "fix" (or help fix) what goes wrong. If these parents aren't doing the job, perhaps they shouldn't have had kids in the first place, and perhaps they should give them to someone who can do the job. Sadly, however, these parents are probably the same ones who had the kids just to feel needed/important.
Big, big difference. Sending white noise on a police band from your amateur radio is a very deliberate act -- you could do it on accident, but you couldn't do it thinking it was normal operation.
Using a cell phone, on the other hand, is widely considered normal. It's rare that people will use them to harass others, especially those who wear hearing aids.
If Motorola et al were putting out cell phones that interfered with FM radio (wild example I know), wouldn't the manufacturer be responsible, rather than the people who think it's just a regular non-interfering cell phone?
Paypal has a really neat tie-in with USPS. It's a small handful of clicks from accepting the payment to printing out a shipping label (with postage!). I think it's worth it for a smaller scale business. It's VERY easy to use.
You can use a Paypal debit card to get cash out of your account, although there is a daily limit. Maybe once you surpass that limit you should consider getting your own merchant account though.;)
Slashdot Mirror
"I don't really understand the rationale behind points 2 and 4. I agree that it's important to have respect for foreign powers, but we shouldn't let that respect for foreigh powers dominate our own policy decisions. (Hopefully, most of the time, they'll coincide, but that's far from guaranteed.)"
If we're not careful managing the world opinion of our country, the oil market could change from using the dollar to using the euro. That could be devastating to our currency, because we are (unfortunately) very oil dependant.
Perhaps it's because Kerry believes (rightfully) that the law is on the side of the pro-choice folks? If someone is pro-life (anti-abortion), they are anti-law (as it stands now). What's wrong with appointing judges who are knowledgable of the law?
1) There is no need for an "enter" key.
2) There shouldn't be a default selection, it wouldn't matter though, since there should not be an enter key.
3) No, they're not. You can still call it user error if they weren't paying attention, the blame rests on both sides. Now, since one side has a sinister reason, and the other side doesn't, I think it's not unreasonable to investigate and perhaps conclude it was intentional.
I've had exactly the opposite experience with 3Ware vs. the competition. 3Ware works flawlessly with drive swapping, putting in spares, bringing out spares; no rebooting necessary. This is under FreeBSD, and with the PATA and SATA versions of the card.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I've run several servers with different 3Ware cards and have had a great experience.
Yep. Maybe even set up a pseudo-"RAID5" with 3 RAID5 servers. :) Costs _WAY_ less than tape, and is far more reliable. (I hate tape, can you tell?)
Everyone has their own experience with a bad hard drive or a bad batch of drives from a vendor. I know people who swear Seagate is the worst manufacturer, and then some that say WD is awful, and Maxtor, and etc etc etc.
I've used them all, Seagate primarily though (SCSI servers), and have noticed a trend. They all suck the same!
The sooner we can move to cheap solid state storage the better.
The only good RAID cards I've run in to are the 3Ware IDE cards (ATA and SATA). Adaptec's SCSI RAID stuff is awful in comparison. Commnication with the card is flakey at best, it handles failures *very* poorly (drive disappears, some data may still be lost, because the RAID may crash. drive replaced (zapped) may cause SCSI errors as well), it doesn't seem to do staggered-spinup (so be prepared to trip breakers, although they may have added that feature later).
The 3Ware cards are about the same price, maybe a bit more for the SATA, but it's well worth it. PATA doesn't compare performance-wise, but if you're just doing storage, they're a good choice too.
Whatever you do though, avoid Adaptec.
It was a preview in this case, they're not releasing yet. In this case, Game Informer paid to host the exclusive screenshots/preview in their magazine.
I agree, they aren't very trustworthy for reviews (almost none of the sites/magazines are).
I'll be getting the game based on how much I got out of Morrowind, and now because it's just so beautiful.
The screenshots of Oblivion are *incredible*, would love to see how it'd perform with two SLI cards. If you haven't yet, do yourself a favor and look up the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion screenshots. The company pulled some bullshit marketing thing giving Game Informer some exclusives, but some people have scanned them.
IMO, it's like having an interactive Myst, it's so pretty.
No. Certainly not. People should be made aware of security issues. Especially for free services like this, where people have no guarantee they will ever be addressed.
Should also "foe" them, and set foe as the lowest moderation in preferences. Then you won't see 'em again.
FWIW:
Most people consider the knee a part of the leg.
They won't let news like that get out until after November 2nd anyways. Same problem, just a different day.
That's not because of your browser. Sometimes the comments don't even come up.
Since you can reload and sometimes fix it, the problem is their backend code (probably mod_perl) is not sending the right HTML (missing tables, probably).
Worse yet, an SQL query to a MySQL server.
It's not free, though. It's the sort of free the GPL folks like to talk about, but it clearly says it's for non-commercial use only (which is contradictory to the GPL, but oh well).
Plus, since it is GPL, what are the odds it'll be incorporated into Windows? I'd say 0.
TCP works just fine for the majority. Plus, it's free (truly free).
No license in the world will make MySQL work "nicely".
UT2004 was released before or after Doom 3?
WC3 was more of an anomoly I think. HL2 is already showing up at $55.
In general, $50 was the price for "most" new games. They're trying to make it $55. That's my point.
The main effect I see Doom 3 having, for HL2, is that it paved the way for "high press" games to launch at $55 US instead of $50.
Nobody has to have respect for the Christian faith. I have to tolerate that other people believe in it, but that's as far as I have to go in our society.
I may actually start respecting Christians if they can manage to keep their noses out of other people's business and out of public government. I don't know if they can do that, though -- history (modern and "ancient") indicates that they can not.
"Furthermore if someone dies in a group, the entire group shares debt... an interesting approach towards balancing the risk/reward of classes that may end up dying more often."
/ooc's of LFG for half an hour before giving up and soloing...)
Also an interesting way to keep groups from including people they don't already know. Good for guilds, I suppose. Not so good for the casual player, which Everquest was already very unfriendly to (... I'm remembering days of
"* Automatic zone instancing... apparently if some zones get too crowded, the system may create another instance of the zone and people zoning in can select which instance of the zone they want to enter."
Too bad they didn't do what most other games do, have one giant zone, broken up into smaller pieces, which your computer pre-loads as you move through the landscape.
What they're talking about here is not revolutionary. In fact they talked about it years ago for EQ1.
"Kill stealing has always been a troubling issue in EQ, but I'm not sure I like this mod. It flies in the face of realism. Furthermore, I see much potential for this feature to be abused.. casters with long-range spells can now easily take a mob away from another group heading to pull it."
Agreed. Personally, I've thought the systems that rewarded each distinct action were better for this sort of thing. Someone could take it further and offer the XP only upon the monster's death, offer additional XP for "initiating" the attack (so KSers don't get that bonus), etc. That could be something revolutionary. This, what they're doing, isn't.
What's revolutionary in EQII?
"Those who think that minors might not have the decision-making abilities of adults and may need guidance, or that school systems should make any effort at all to compensate for deficiencies in parenting, are generally not well regarded."
I thought that was why kids have parents, to help guide their decisions? Everything is the fault of the individual is correct. For kids and adults. But in kids sake, the adults (or guardians) are the ones who should "fix" (or help fix) what goes wrong. If these parents aren't doing the job, perhaps they shouldn't have had kids in the first place, and perhaps they should give them to someone who can do the job. Sadly, however, these parents are probably the same ones who had the kids just to feel needed/important.
Big, big difference. Sending white noise on a police band from your amateur radio is a very deliberate act -- you could do it on accident, but you couldn't do it thinking it was normal operation.
Using a cell phone, on the other hand, is widely considered normal. It's rare that people will use them to harass others, especially those who wear hearing aids.
If Motorola et al were putting out cell phones that interfered with FM radio (wild example I know), wouldn't the manufacturer be responsible, rather than the people who think it's just a regular non-interfering cell phone?
Paypal has a really neat tie-in with USPS. It's a small handful of clicks from accepting the payment to printing out a shipping label (with postage!). I think it's worth it for a smaller scale business. It's VERY easy to use.
;)
You can use a Paypal debit card to get cash out of your account, although there is a daily limit. Maybe once you surpass that limit you should consider getting your own merchant account though.