Actually, the Technocracy lost the Ascention War, as did the Traditions.
Who won, you ask? The Masses. As they point out, your computer crashes more often, the space program ground to a smoking halt, and people just don't care about progress anymore; they just want their satellite TV and Big Macs. The Technocracy is hurting, too.
In Vampire, they slaughtered off an entire Vampire clan (admittedly, a second tier one, but still) and in Werewolf, they shook a few things up as well. Wraith, they already ended.
Still, it's nice to see them actually bringing the story line to a close. Considering that all of the books have been saying that the various end times will happen in this character generation, I'm glad to see they have the stones to actually do it.
Granted, they'll just bring it all back during the reboot, but that's just fine.
The golden rule with Linksys is UPGRADE THE FLASH.
Hell, I just updated my four port BEFR or whatever it is; I bought it three or four YEARS ago, they're still selling the exact same model, and they're still upgrading it. The upgrades not only fix problems, but often add completely new features.
When you've got, say, a hand truck, and you need to move eight boxes, it's faster to have eight hand trucks, side by side, put one box on each, push them all down the hall, and unload them.
When you've got race cars, though, it's faster, in real life, to have that one race car make eight trips than to try to get eight racecars to all go the same speed, at the same time, so they leave one end of the hall at the same time, and arrive at the other end of the hall at the same time.
The Genevea Conventions basically boil down to 'organized forces of declared combatants, under civil authority.'
Perhaps it's old fashioned (after all, it was drafted right after WW2) and maybe it needs to be revamped for new conflict realities, but the fact of the matter is, it's designed so that opposing armies see that surrendering is a preferable alternative to dying.
This, of course, has no meaning when your opponent honestly and truly believes that he/she will be afforded a place in Paradise, if they die trying to kill you.
1. Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.
Nope.
2. Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:
(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
(b) That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
(c) That of carrying arms openly;
(d) That of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
Nope.
3. Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.
Nope.
4. Persons who accompany the armed forces without actually being members thereof, such as civilian members of military aircraft crews, war correspondents, supply contractors, members of labour units or of services responsible for the welfare of the armed forces, provided that they have received authorization from the armed forces which they accompany, who shall provide them for that purpose with an identity card similar to the annexed model.
Nope.
5. Members of crews, including masters, pilots and apprentices, of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft of the Parties to the conflict, who do not benefit by more favourable treatment under any other provisions of international law.
Nope.
6. Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.
Nope.
Other exceptions:
1. Persons belonging, or having belonged, to the armed forces of the occupied country, if the occupying Power considers it necessary by reason of such allegiance to intern them, even though it has originally liberated them while hostilities were going on outside the territory it occupies, in particular where such persons have made an unsuccessful attempt to rejoin the armed forces to which they belong and which are engaged in combat, or where they fail to comply with a summons made to them with a view to internment.
Nope.
2. The persons belonging to one of the categories enumerated in the present Article, who have been received by neutral or non-belligerent Powers on their territory and whom these Powers are required to intern under international law, without prejudice to any more favourable treatment which these Powers may choose to give and with the exception of Articles 8, 10, 15, 30, fifth paragraph, 58-67, 92, 126 and, where diplomatic relations exist between the Parties to the conflict and the neutral or non-belligerent Power concerned, those Articles concerning the Protecting Power. Where such diplomatic relations exist, the Parties to a conflict on whom these persons depend shall be allowed to perform towards them the functions of a Protecting Power as provided in the present Convention, without prejudice to the functions which these Parties normally exercise in conformity with diplomatic and consular usage and treaties.
Nope.
Now, this might give you pause:
Prisoners of war who are ministers of religion, without having officiated as chaplains to their own forces, shall be at liberty, whatever their denomination, to minister freely to the members of their community.
Entrapment would be a cop, dressed up as a drug dealer, walking up to somebody and saying 'hey, man, want to buy some cocaine?'
This, is more like a cop, dressed up as a drug dealer, just standing around, waiting for people to come up to *him* and *ask to buy* of their own volition.
This is why most consulates and embassies have incinerators, not shredders.
I'm remined of a moment in 13 Days, when they drive past the Soviet Consulate, and one person notes 'The Soviets are expecting to go to war.' 'What makes you think that?' says the other. The first indicates the plume of smoke coming out of the roof. 'They're burning their documents.'
And this is why there are laws to punish frivilous lawsuits.
But the point is, everybody who is sued, arrested, or charged, is, by defintion, innocent at the time of said suit, arrest, or charging. Through the suit, arrest, or charge, they're found responsible, liable, suspect, guilty, or other various statuses, as appropriate to the circumstances.
Rather than shrink, he probably should have said 'fall.' Unless, of course, he's intimating that SCO will turn into a kind of black hole...
If "business" is defined as revenue - costs, and you have costs with current customers (such as, say, support contracts, maintenance contracts, professional services commitments, etc etc) and you're not bringing in new customers, or bringing in new profit, then at some point, your business will hit 0; the break even point, and if your costs continue at present rate, or even increase, while your profits shink, or continue present rate, then your business continues to fall.
Out of the box, with the addition of a HD i/o card, probably a good SCSI RAID disk pack.
SGI's always been about moving massive amounts of data internally; your (and my) multi-ghz systems are still spending the vast amount of time stroking off while waiting for disk reads, memory copies, that sort of stuff.
I remember getting my shiny new Gefore3 and running the Zoltar demo for the first time. Amazing detail and quality and what not, but it actually pops up a, well, popup, saying 'please wait while we transfer an ungodly amount of data to your video card!'
What's the point of having a whomping video card when it takes a good thirty seconds to a minute just to transfer the data required to render a head and neck?
Seagate Barracuda 80 gig drive, plugged into a Ultra/66 controller, with nothing whacky done: about 5 megs per second of read.
An hour later, after mucking with the kernel, getting the chipset drivers just so, tweaking lilo just so for the IDE mhz, and using a simple little hdparm command of, as I recall, hdparm -c1d1X68/dev/hdc: about 50 megs per second of read.
A good analogy would be have multiple X servers running via VNC. You can easily just login to them and logout and then login... programs are still running and that mp3 is right where it left off(I would hope:-)
Sun's been doing this for a while; you pick any open computer, pop in your smart card, and your session, programs blah blah blah all pop up on it.
Pop out your smart card, go to a differnet office, pop it into another computer, boom, there you are.
Then, inflamed with their power, they suddenly realize that, yes, the have the right, no, the DUTY to use their awesome power to shut down OTHER net undesirables.
Suddenly, they're a vigilante mob. Any website they don't like? DoS'd. Have you reported a spammer today? No? Maybe that's because YOU'RE a spammer. Report for an interview with the House UnNetizen Activites Committee. You'll be interviewed by 5e|N McC4Rt|-|y6969 for unNetizen activity, and possibly blacklisted.
The first six months will be spent teaching your technology to 'new hires' ostensibly there to 'learn how to integrate your stuff with their stuff' or 'allow for bigger scope.'
Then, anybody from the smaller company with anything approaching 'authority' or 'ownership' will 'coincidentally' leave the company 'to persue new options.'
Then, you'll be shuffled to either a) tech support, b) a new product line, or c) ousted completely.
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Actually, the Technocracy lost the Ascention War, as did the Traditions.
Who won, you ask? The Masses. As they point out, your computer crashes more often, the space program ground to a smoking halt, and people just don't care about progress anymore; they just want their satellite TV and Big Macs. The Technocracy is hurting, too.
In Vampire, they slaughtered off an entire Vampire clan (admittedly, a second tier one, but still) and in Werewolf, they shook a few things up as well. Wraith, they already ended.
Still, it's nice to see them actually bringing the story line to a close. Considering that all of the books have been saying that the various end times will happen in this character generation, I'm glad to see they have the stones to actually do it.
Granted, they'll just bring it all back during the reboot, but that's just fine.
Hell, some of us don't play V:tES, we play Jyhad.
I was hoping they'd picked up the old Manhunter license from Sierra.
The golden rule with Linksys is UPGRADE THE FLASH.
Hell, I just updated my four port BEFR or whatever it is; I bought it three or four YEARS ago, they're still selling the exact same model, and they're still upgrading it. The upgrades not only fix problems, but often add completely new features.
That wasn't a review, that was a grade 5 book report.
Aye, the Genohanden or some such; a Rodian on Manaan. There are other such examples of that sort of thing, as well.
Most of them, though, are evil for evil's sake.
Ah, but the problem there is that so many of the "evil" choices in KOTOR are, simply, evil for evil's sake.
When you've got, say, a hand truck, and you need to move eight boxes, it's faster to have eight hand trucks, side by side, put one box on each, push them all down the hall, and unload them.
When you've got race cars, though, it's faster, in real life, to have that one race car make eight trips than to try to get eight racecars to all go the same speed, at the same time, so they leave one end of the hall at the same time, and arrive at the other end of the hall at the same time.
I disagree.
The Genevea Conventions basically boil down to 'organized forces of declared combatants, under civil authority.'
Perhaps it's old fashioned (after all, it was drafted right after WW2) and maybe it needs to be revamped for new conflict realities, but the fact of the matter is, it's designed so that opposing armies see that surrendering is a preferable alternative to dying.
This, of course, has no meaning when your opponent honestly and truly believes that he/she will be afforded a place in Paradise, if they die trying to kill you.
The samples are automatically destroyed, along with other military records, 50 years after discharge.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Other exceptions:
Nope.
Nope.
Now, this might give you pause:
Yes, if you're in hospital, you're risking winding up as training material.
http://upalumni.org/medschool/appendices/ for example. Or, look for a book called 'Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science.'
Entrapment would be a cop, dressed up as a drug dealer, walking up to somebody and saying 'hey, man, want to buy some cocaine?'
This, is more like a cop, dressed up as a drug dealer, just standing around, waiting for people to come up to *him* and *ask to buy* of their own volition.
This is why most consulates and embassies have incinerators, not shredders.
I'm remined of a moment in 13 Days, when they drive past the Soviet Consulate, and one person notes 'The Soviets are expecting to go to war.' 'What makes you think that?' says the other. The first indicates the plume of smoke coming out of the roof. 'They're burning their documents.'
And this is why there are laws to punish frivilous lawsuits.
But the point is, everybody who is sued, arrested, or charged, is, by defintion, innocent at the time of said suit, arrest, or charging. Through the suit, arrest, or charge, they're found responsible, liable, suspect, guilty, or other various statuses, as appropriate to the circumstances.
How is it a 'small human error' to copy a classified document to removable media, put it into a non-secure computer, and copy it over?
These machines are airgapped. You've got your machine for the Internet, your machine for the internal network, and ne'er the twain shall meet.
Rather than shrink, he probably should have said 'fall.' Unless, of course, he's intimating that SCO will turn into a kind of black hole...
If "business" is defined as revenue - costs, and you have costs with current customers (such as, say, support contracts, maintenance contracts, professional services commitments, etc etc) and you're not bringing in new customers, or bringing in new profit, then at some point, your business will hit 0; the break even point, and if your costs continue at present rate, or even increase, while your profits shink, or continue present rate, then your business continues to fall.
Out of the box, with the addition of a HD i/o card, probably a good SCSI RAID disk pack.
SGI's always been about moving massive amounts of data internally; your (and my) multi-ghz systems are still spending the vast amount of time stroking off while waiting for disk reads, memory copies, that sort of stuff.
I remember getting my shiny new Gefore3 and running the Zoltar demo for the first time. Amazing detail and quality and what not, but it actually pops up a, well, popup, saying 'please wait while we transfer an ungodly amount of data to your video card!'
What's the point of having a whomping video card when it takes a good thirty seconds to a minute just to transfer the data required to render a head and neck?
Well, can your cheap lintel/wintel solution do on-the-fly manipulation of HDTV streams, for example?
Actually, the usual convention is that magnetic tech is 'disk' and optical tech is 'disc.'
Hence, you have a floppy disk, a hard disk, and a compact disc.
hdparm is crazy.
Seagate Barracuda 80 gig drive, plugged into a Ultra/66 controller, with nothing whacky done: about 5 megs per second of read.
An hour later, after mucking with the kernel, getting the chipset drivers just so, tweaking lilo just so for the IDE mhz, and using a simple little hdparm command of, as I recall, hdparm -c1d1X68 /dev/hdc: about 50 megs per second of read.
Sun's been doing this for a while; you pick any open computer, pop in your smart card, and your session, programs blah blah blah all pop up on it.
Pop out your smart card, go to a differnet office, pop it into another computer, boom, there you are.
Then, inflamed with their power, they suddenly realize that, yes, the have the right, no, the DUTY to use their awesome power to shut down OTHER net undesirables.
Suddenly, they're a vigilante mob. Any website they don't like? DoS'd. Have you reported a spammer today? No? Maybe that's because YOU'RE a spammer. Report for an interview with the House UnNetizen Activites Committee. You'll be interviewed by 5e|N McC4Rt|-|y6969 for unNetizen activity, and possibly blacklisted.
Practical reccomdendations?
The first six months will be spent teaching your technology to 'new hires' ostensibly there to 'learn how to integrate your stuff with their stuff' or 'allow for bigger scope.'
Then, anybody from the smaller company with anything approaching 'authority' or 'ownership' will 'coincidentally' leave the company 'to persue new options.'
Then, you'll be shuffled to either a) tech support, b) a new product line, or c) ousted completely.
bf2.4 is one of the 'official' Debian install flavours; there's about five of them. To boot up bf2.4, boot off of CD 5 of the Debian Distro.