Not only are the Democrats quiet about this lately, but big-name organizations such as the ACLU are actually promoting electronic voting. People need to stop sending the ACLU checks and start sending them copies of the Diebold memos. Every ACLU member should be ashamed, IMO.
Indeed. I have large backup servers, one of which is Linux, the others FreeBSD. Fragmentation is a problem because the files get very, very large - sometimes larger than any single drive in the arrays.
One time I saw something like 60% fragmentation. I'd never seen anything above 2 prior to that.:-)
We understand your 'very successful business model' is so successful because we've made your product highly illegal, and as such, allowed you to basically print your own money. We wish you luck with our continued partnership."
It's screwing up the HTML rendering, so that the article is pushed all the way left. The comments are all OK though. Anyone else see this? Mozilla browser, of course.
I call them spammers not because they're commercial, but because they have set up a network of linked pages in order to fool google into linking their site ahead of other, actually useful sites.
Google is still the best for my purposes. But it's nearly useless.
For example, my Saturn's gas tank is coming up short - 8 gallons capacity. So I go to google to search for it:
saturn gas tank - half of the results on the first page are from spammers (the very first one has links to buy gas tanks from '60s Saturns. yea!)
I didn't just give up on that Saturn problem there, I tried many combinations, with no luck. That's just one of the many things I've tried to find on google and have ended up running across spammed pages.
Yes. That's partly why Google's search results are nearly useless any more - especially while looking for information about specific brand-named products. This whole blog-spam thing has been known about for a very long time, and I have yet to see it addressed - I'm surprised that it's finally picked up by the media though. Maybe that'll force Google to update their ranking code before their IPO.
I wonder how many tons of modern plants were grown by the farmer who sells the feed to the cows during that same period? I'd wager it's probably close to 2 tons, so that the farmer can keep selling feed?
I just checked - Amazon actually included the page numbers in the scanning. So a distributed effort could just "randomly" hand out page numbers to each "client" to grab.
Er, the mini-ITX is somewhat unusual in comparison to the standard ATX motherboard mostly because it does include the CPU onboard, when you buy it at the store.
Never announce events in advance - this is important because you may overload the server, because the players are so starved for content that they will do whatever they can to try to get even the slightest glimpse at something new and interesting. This is bizarre and wrong behavior on their part - they should just be camping the uberl00t. It's hard to control a player's behavior, but there is a way to help avoid this...
It's especially good if, as GM, you kill off a bunch of newbies (level 1-4, in that Wood Elf city) over and over again. Newbies REALLY hate having impossible creatures come up to them and whack them repeatedly. If you do this in every city, repeatedly, and call it a "GM Event", those newbies (the ones that don't quit) will remember it and won't flock to your new and fancier events. Now you'll have much less lag while you go and kill higher level players (who get way more bitchy about it, in case that's a turn-on as well).
battle.net does not compare to any MMOG I've ever played. You don't play it on a single, massive world. You play on very small, X-player worlds where X is less than like, 8 (I think? Maybe it's higher now, but it's not in the thousands).
Big, major, huge difference there.
MMOGs need to make content for an entire world. battle.net makes content and duplicates it thousands of times for each game.
Ah, that's where things are different. Computers are getting cheaper and cheaper all the time. You can spend $1000 to get a very capable computer, including fancy LCD monitor.
But I agree on the debt - everything I buy is either cash, or if I feel like it, on the credit card (destined to be paid off every month). It's great not having any "real" debt (beyond the aforementioned credit card, which I am in debt in for like 10-20 days max, at a time).
Nobody wants to pay $1200/year for minimal insurance (at least in CA) for a car that's worth only $500 and runs twice or three times that a year in repairs/maintainance.
Er, of course not. But minimal insurance is not for the car _at all_. It's for you, the driver, and it's called liability insurance.
It should not be counted as a car expense, it should be counted as a driver expense.
I understand where the confusion comes up - it's because most people get both car and driver insurance from the same company, under the same "policy". But they're really very, very different things.
It's not all that unusual to say "we" as in "our country" and mean the corporations that make up the country (as they are what controls its direction).
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Not only are the Democrats quiet about this lately, but big-name organizations such as the ACLU are actually promoting electronic voting. People need to stop sending the ACLU checks and start sending them copies of the Diebold memos. Every ACLU member should be ashamed, IMO.
Indeed. I have large backup servers, one of which is Linux, the others FreeBSD. Fragmentation is a problem because the files get very, very large - sometimes larger than any single drive in the arrays.
:-)
One time I saw something like 60% fragmentation. I'd never seen anything above 2 prior to that.
What happened, did the all of their programmers just unionize or something? What else could spur that sort of "laziness is OK" mentality?
er, colOmbian. kthx. and it's:
"Dear Colombian Drug Lord,
We understand your 'very successful business model' is so successful because we've made your product highly illegal, and as such, allowed you to basically print your own money. We wish you luck with our continued partnership."
It's screwing up the HTML rendering, so that the article is pushed all the way left. The comments are all OK though. Anyone else see this? Mozilla browser, of course.
"{My armor} is light red." "You know what? They already have a color for light red. It's called pink."
It's a '97. Where are you reading about it?
As I said, the link had an option to buy 60's gas tanks for Saturns. Saturns did not exist back then.
w eb c.cgi/saturn/gas-tanks.html
w eb c.cgi/ford/gas-tanks.html
Check this:
http://www.used-car-parts-exchange.com/cgi-bin/
vs
http://www.used-car-parts-exchange.com/cgi-bin/
I call them spammers not because they're commercial, but because they have set up a network of linked pages in order to fool google into linking their site ahead of other, actually useful sites.
Google is still the best for my purposes. But it's nearly useless.
For example, my Saturn's gas tank is coming up short - 8 gallons capacity. So I go to google to search for it:
saturn gas tank - half of the results on the first page are from spammers (the very first one has links to buy gas tanks from '60s Saturns. yea!)
I didn't just give up on that Saturn problem there, I tried many combinations, with no luck. That's just one of the many things I've tried to find on google and have ended up running across spammed pages.
Yes. That's partly why Google's search results are nearly useless any more - especially while looking for information about specific brand-named products. This whole blog-spam thing has been known about for a very long time, and I have yet to see it addressed - I'm surprised that it's finally picked up by the media though. Maybe that'll force Google to update their ranking code before their IPO.
I wonder how many tons of modern plants were grown by the farmer who sells the feed to the cows during that same period? I'd wager it's probably close to 2 tons, so that the farmer can keep selling feed?
$200 video card (9600XT). You get a $50 game free, plus a pack of cheap games to tide you over until that $50 game is ready.
That's a damn good deal. Plus you get a great value card.
Nah, just search for page numbers - much easier to distribute the effort that way.
Heh, way, way easier than that.
I just checked - Amazon actually included the page numbers in the scanning. So a distributed effort could just "randomly" hand out page numbers to each "client" to grab.
You're thinking Flex-ATX - Shuttle's current cash cow. Mini-ITX is indeed VIA, usually a C3 chip or something, and usually not very upgradable.
nano-itx isn't that far away:
nano-itx
They're very, very tiny. I don't see a DVI connector, though.
Er, the mini-ITX is somewhat unusual in comparison to the standard ATX motherboard mostly because it does include the CPU onboard, when you buy it at the store.
Most motherboards do not include CPUs.
That's what I was hoping this article was about - that goddamned, antiquated daylight savings time. Why can't we all just use GMT and be happy for it?
GM guide, continued:
Never announce events in advance - this is important because you may overload the server, because the players are so starved for content that they will do whatever they can to try to get even the slightest glimpse at something new and interesting. This is bizarre and wrong behavior on their part - they should just be camping the uberl00t. It's hard to control a player's behavior, but there is a way to help avoid this...
It's especially good if, as GM, you kill off a bunch of newbies (level 1-4, in that Wood Elf city) over and over again. Newbies REALLY hate having impossible creatures come up to them and whack them repeatedly. If you do this in every city, repeatedly, and call it a "GM Event", those newbies (the ones that don't quit) will remember it and won't flock to your new and fancier events. Now you'll have much less lag while you go and kill higher level players (who get way more bitchy about it, in case that's a turn-on as well).
battle.net does not compare to any MMOG I've ever played. You don't play it on a single, massive world. You play on very small, X-player worlds where X is less than like, 8 (I think? Maybe it's higher now, but it's not in the thousands).
Big, major, huge difference there.
MMOGs need to make content for an entire world. battle.net makes content and duplicates it thousands of times for each game.
Ah, that's where things are different. Computers are getting cheaper and cheaper all the time. You can spend $1000 to get a very capable computer, including fancy LCD monitor.
But I agree on the debt - everything I buy is either cash, or if I feel like it, on the credit card (destined to be paid off every month). It's great not having any "real" debt (beyond the aforementioned credit card, which I am in debt in for like 10-20 days max, at a time).
Nobody wants to pay $1200/year for minimal insurance (at least in CA) for a car that's worth only $500 and runs twice or three times that a year in repairs/maintainance.
Er, of course not. But minimal insurance is not for the car _at all_. It's for you, the driver, and it's called liability insurance.
It should not be counted as a car expense, it should be counted as a driver expense.
I understand where the confusion comes up - it's because most people get both car and driver insurance from the same company, under the same "policy". But they're really very, very different things.
But, it is more or less unusual for me to reply to the wrong post entirely. Huh. It's like an entire page away.
:)
Sorry.
It's not all that unusual to say "we" as in "our country" and mean the corporations that make up the country (as they are what controls its direction).
"We gave the world McDonalds."
Those glasses of orange juice didn't to go waste. They went to your waist.
And then they became waste.