lol my dad did that too when I gave him an insider tip
my colleague watched his £3000 turn to dust as the company went bust and my dad made a few quid when he bought the "wrong" stock!
The company had gambled their future by planning to finance a deal with the stock rise they would get when they announced the deal to the markets. Unfortunately the price went down instead and about a week later we were all out of a job!
I bet the announced date is right about when the churn is predicted to lead to a flattening off of revenue.
Having played other MMORPG's I can honestly say that the depth of the environment in EQ is outstanding in it's field. Many lessons no doubt have been learned and it's difficult to back port new ideas. EQ2 has the danger of becoming like TeamFortress2 and Duke Nukem with a lot of expectation on it's shoulders as the next generation. I wish them well and you can expect my subscription to be there day 1 regardless of reviews and opinion might say.
Go read up on "the elasticity of demand" and then study the common agricultural policy and how governments destroy food to keep the prices up to protect the economy.
I would never threaten or attack any member of staff, they are just people but I'll abuse their trust and enjoy the intellectual arms races in removing stuff from stores. Heck, it's not even that I can't afford it. Stealing is fun.
reminds me of when I was sharing a 64kbps ISDN link trying to use SSH on remote servers and getting about 0.5 cps, very annoying but I took it thinking it was email etc. nope, one of the web designers was using Napster so he could listen and work!
I use a lead bag, the sort for protecting film's through x-ray machines
never failed me yet. I used to stand behind the plain clothes store detective in HMV while I put the CDs in it. Not for any reason other than it makes a better story:)
I got nicked pushing a trolley through the doors @ ASDA (now wal-mart) with over £170 of er goriceries in it my bravado having taken over my reasoning. Can't complain though I'd had over £200 of groceries out of the same store that week. My best haul was going up the the security guard in the door with a full trolley and asking him where the cardboard boxes where so I could use them to put the groceries in: sg:"Oh, sorry Sir we don't have those" me:"Oh bugger, now I'll have to unpack all this stuff and put it in bags" sg : "That's ok Sir, I'll get someone to do it for you"
And I stood there watching the ASDA employees putting my unpaid for shopping into bags for me so I could carry it to the car!
I know nothing of QNX but here's some stuff about plan9:
For each process one creates a namespace (possibly inheriting the one from the parent process)
All file and resource access is through the 9P (now 9P2000) protocol, one writes 9P servers to provide a namespace, for instance KFS provides access to the files stored on the local terminal, yesterday provides access to the backups.
One builds up, per process, the namespace for that process (and optionally inheriting that of it's parent).
So, for instance, at boot one would mount KFS to give access to the local disc, #AUX to give access to the VGA card, #A to give access to the sound card, and maybe run ftpfs to mount a remote ftp site.
processes can then manipulate this files using the expected/dir/file symantics and need not worry about knowing the protocols required to say write to a file using ftp : echo 'hello remote ftp' >/n/ftp/incoming/hello
This has the benefit of taking the complexity out of my applications and into the 9P library so I can place my trust in the authors of 9P and get on with the important work of solving my problem and not battling with protocols.
I hope this goes some way tro answering your question.
there are a few commercial operations using plan9.
Bell-Labs for one;)
It's used in some of Lucents telephone products too.
With no Office Suite or even a web browser it's nto going to jump onto many people's desktop any day soon.
But I use it as my working environment, it has native python and perl as well as it's own C and shell (rc).
It's very groovy
particularly the plumber, forget file associations, the plumber uses regular expressions to decide what to run. Select some text (in *any* application) send it to the plumber and based onDjår rules it will do as you say. Very powerful
actually if we're going to recommend things then I always suggest spending the 150 quid on the Linksys BEFSR41 no bulky / noisy PC to deal with no trouble getting the right NICs blinkenlights
this seriously rocks, for all my computer buddies who have 386's lying around but still run windows and aren't techie enough to see beyond "linux cba to learn all that stuff just to run a firewall, I have ZoneAlarm what more do i need"
This is the sort of thing one can drop in a client's LAN and forget about it!
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lol my dad did that too when I gave him an insider tip
my colleague watched his £3000 turn to dust as the company went bust and my dad made a few quid when he bought the "wrong" stock!
The company had gambled their future by planning to finance a deal with the stock rise they would get when they announced the deal to the markets. Unfortunately the price went down instead and about a week later we were all out of a job!
a nice little handheld one can wirelessly use as a plan9 graphic terminal, even listening to mp3s etc.
:(
if only i could afford one
you idiot troll
there's so much more software in the world than what you can see through the microsoft window
I bet the announced date is right about when the churn is predicted to lead to a flattening off of revenue.
Having played other MMORPG's I can honestly say that the depth of the environment in EQ is outstanding in it's field. Many lessons no doubt have been learned and it's difficult to back port new ideas. EQ2 has the danger of becoming like TeamFortress2 and Duke Nukem with a lot of expectation on it's shoulders as the next generation. I wish them well and you can expect my subscription to be there day 1 regardless of reviews and opinion might say.
can't find that book. Is it "Unleashing the Killer Application - By Larry Downes, Chunka Mui, Nicholas Negroponte"
the single letter is not any sort of limit, the postfix can be arbitrarily long.
you have it the wrong way round, by the way, it's 8c, 8l etc.
and it's the loader not the linker. The unix type compile pipeline is not followed.
see How to Use the Plan 9 C Compiler by Rob Pike
overhead?
:
nah mate, I never even touch mine
uptime
7:03AM up 36 days, 16:49, 5 users
no where near as secure
how?
they just put into their prices
Go read up on "the elasticity of demand" and then study the common agricultural policy and how governments destroy food to keep the prices up to protect the economy.
I would never threaten or attack any member of staff, they are just people but I'll abuse their trust and enjoy the intellectual arms races in removing stuff from stores. Heck, it's not even that I can't afford it. Stealing is fun.
hahaha you simpleton
The prices in stores are little to do with costs.
The prices for goods and services are maximised to what the market will bear.
It's called the elasticity of demand, go read about it sometime.
reminds me of when I was sharing a 64kbps ISDN link trying to use SSH on remote servers and getting about 0.5 cps, very annoying but I took it thinking it was email etc. nope, one of the web designers was using Napster so he could listen and work!
no,
:)
:"Oh, sorry Sir we don't have those" :"Oh bugger, now I'll have to unpack all this stuff and put it in bags"
I use a lead bag, the sort for protecting film's through x-ray machines
never failed me yet. I used to stand behind the plain clothes store detective in HMV while I put the CDs in it. Not for any reason other than it makes a better story
I got nicked pushing a trolley through the doors @ ASDA (now wal-mart) with over £170 of er goriceries in it my bravado having taken over my reasoning. Can't complain though I'd had over £200 of groceries out of the same store that week. My best haul was going up the the security guard in the door with a full trolley and asking him where the cardboard boxes where so I could use them to put the groceries in:
sg
me
sg : "That's ok Sir, I'll get someone to do it for you"
And I stood there watching the ASDA employees putting my unpaid for shopping into bags for me so I could carry it to the car!
happy days
Even that is not enough.
You might trust every person in the company today but who knows who will work there tomorrow or who may come along and buy the company.
An example would be ntl protest and gripe site www.nthellworld.com.
NTHellworld.com protest site bought by NTL
Company coems in a buys assets of site, possibly including logs which could reveal the identities of complainers and ntl whistle blowers alike.
it takes the cash out of the hands of 18-year-old clerks
nah, it's because they just waste on having fun.
I know nothing of QNX but here's some stuff about plan9 :
/dir/file symantics and need not worry about knowing the protocols required to say write to a file using ftp : /n/ftp/incoming/hello
For each process one creates a namespace (possibly inheriting the one from the parent process)
All file and resource access is through the 9P (now 9P2000) protocol, one writes 9P servers to provide a namespace, for instance KFS provides access to the files stored on the local terminal, yesterday provides access to the backups.
One builds up, per process, the namespace for that process (and optionally inheriting that of it's parent).
So, for instance, at boot one would mount KFS to give access to the local disc, #AUX to give access to the VGA card, #A to give access to the sound card, and maybe run ftpfs to mount a remote ftp site.
processes can then manipulate this files using the expected
echo 'hello remote ftp' >
This has the benefit of taking the complexity out of my applications and into the 9P library so I can place my trust in the authors of 9P and get on with the important work of solving my problem and not battling with protocols.
I hope this goes some way tro answering your question.
M
there are a few commercial operations using plan9.
;)
Bell-Labs for one
It's used in some of Lucents telephone products too.
With no Office Suite or even a web browser it's nto going to jump onto many people's desktop any day soon.
But I use it as my working environment, it has native python and perl as well as it's own C and shell (rc).
It's very groovy
particularly the plumber, forget file associations, the plumber uses regular expressions to decide what to run. Select some text (in *any* application) send it to the plumber and based onDjår rules it will do as you say. Very powerful
thats presuming the indention is mass market penetration.
Lucent use plan9 internally for many departments and it is used in some of their telephone systems.
It is a research OS and pegs itself as nothing more.
It has many unique features and because of that can be an influence in you rday to day projects.
I use the things I have learned from plan9 daily in my code.
Even just using wily & the rc shell on FreeBSD is enough reward for me.
with virtual file systems being de rigeur this is exactly the sort of application plan9 would be good at.
But we're stuck with 23 char filenames until the eagerly awaited 9p2000 as I discovered the day I statrted to move my mp3s over, doh!
when really it's all a function of evolution and differential exposure to radiation over time...
not so, selective breeding based aestethics
see Jared Diamond, Rise of the Third Chimpanzee
actually if we're going to recommend things then I always suggest spending the 150 quid on the Linksys BEFSR41
no bulky / noisy PC to deal with
no trouble getting the right NICs
blinkenlights
alternative use relative links on your pages and generate a random first directory
http://www.domain.com/2624764/restofpage.html
the numbers expire and if someone links to expired numbers then the get sent to where you want them to
could be the same page or anywhere else.
it's the web developers responsibility to be prepared for deep linking not the web site's lawyers!
this seriously rocks, for all my computer buddies who have 386's lying around but still run windows and aren't techie enough to see beyond "linux cba to learn all that stuff just to run a firewall, I have ZoneAlarm what more do i need"
This is the sort of thing one can drop in a client's LAN and forget about it!
wtg.
I'm running RC1 with crash feedback and boy, someone gave it a turbo boost!
;)
well done thank you thank you thank you er AOL
the announcement that rc1 is near goes on the front page and the day it's released it slips into the developers section
/.
I got the 10meg Windows version in 5 minutes and that's across the atlantic (caches not withstanding)
thanks
I guess the FreeBSD port will be updated over the weekend, my cron will auto upgrade that one in the wee hours.
I hope my favourite bug of not displaying the url in the address bar until you press refesh has gone
MS is trying once again to takeover the minds of the children.
I think that that project is called DirectX
it's working too, how many dual boots round these parts just for gaming (cos heck knows the only programs worth the bother of dual booting are games)