The company would simply turn to the HORDES of starving, jobless IT workers and bring them in as scab labour.
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Ok. A person who likes porn is not necessarily a rapist, but a rapist, by defination, probably likes porn.
Therefore, eliminating all porn from an area will also eliminate the already existing rapists; I'd be curious to see if, at the same time that the crime rates dropped in that area, they rose (no pun intended) in other areas; this would indicate sexual criminals simply migrating to where they can get their fix.
Similarly, people who play violent video games aren't automatically violent; people who are violent probably like violent video games. This does not mean that violent video games cause violence; it means that pre-existing violence is attracted to violent video games.
Similarly, porn doesn't create sexual criminals; sexual criminals are drawn to porn-rich areas. Removing the porn does not cause said individuals to suddenly turn into non-criminals; they simply have nothing causing them to congregate in that specific area.
They don't mean not random as in 'every encounter is scripted' so much as not random as in 'you can see, and avoid, random monsters on the travelling map.' For example, Lunar 1 and 2. You can avoid them if you wish. They're still randomly placed, and wandering, but you're not tooling along and suddenly BAM! You're in COMBAT!
And if you want to be REALLY fast, you can RAID stripe across tapes.
I had a Dell PowerVault 130T; 4 DLT4 drives, 28 slots for tapes, and a roboarm. There was just something indescribably nice about having four separate backups going at once, all nice and zippy.
What's the cost of, say, 1000 feet of Cat5 Ethernet cable? Now, what's the cost of the switches, routers, and other such equipment to make use of it?
Now, multiply that by lots, and you have the problem with fibre. Little glass tubes? Cheap. Nifty laser equipment and what not to do neat things? Expensive.
Aye, they reissued TiE Fighter and X-Wing using the TiE Fighter vs X-Wing engine; it's directx 5.1, I think? Or 3. Or something. But it runs properly, so who's complaining?
Having them VPN in solves a lot of DNS, routing and other such issues, as well as security, and blah blah blah. That's how I did it, at least, last time I had to worry about offline users talking to Exchange. Worked pretty good, too.
Oh, and Outlook Web Access. True, doesn't help with the offline stuff, but how many users REALLY need that? Otherwise, tell them to sync at night in the hotel room when it doesn't matter, or to find a broadband connection.
I was once party to an experiment which showed that a metal coat hanger would pass Dolby Digital with zero digital errors.
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And I have yet to hear a remotely reasonable explanation as to why an alien species would expend the enormous amounts of energy it would take to get to the one of the obscure spokes of the galaxy (way away from the interesting concentrated center) and spend even two seconds watching us. Denibian slime worms would more interesting.
And I have yet to hear a remotely reasonable explanation as to why Charles Darwin would expend the enormous amounts of capital it would take to get to remote islands. Or Marco Polo, or Columbus, for that matter.
That you can't think of a good reason doesn't mean that there's no good reason.
If I wasn't supposed to go to college, what do you suggest I SHOULD have done after high school? College certainly hasn't paid off.
You were supposed to go to college, but in a field that isn't so drastically oversaturated as tech is now a days. That way, you wouldn't be competing for entry level positions against people who already have 10+ years of experience.
Yes, but that's not what he's complaining about. He's complaining that, for example, if Apple decides not to do dual proc systems, you simply cannot get a dual proc system. If there's a design flaw with the powerbook line of laptops, Apple doesn't need to worry about people buying MacOS laptops from a different vendor; they can shaft people at will.
BMW has a monopoly in the BMW market. GM has a monopoly in the GM market. And yet, they both sell cars and compete against each other. I guess that's why this guy is only a visiting professor of economics.;)
Actually, it does, because he knows what he's talking about.
If you want a MacOS based computer, you buy from Apple. End of story. If you want a Windows based computer, you buy from a plethora (tell me, do you know what a ple-thor-a is? No, El Guappo...) of dealers; one shafts you, you go to another.
To extend to the car analogy, if you want a *high end car* you might go to BMW, you might go to somebody else. If you want a *work pickup* you might go Ford, you might go Chevrolet.
Harsh way of putting it, for sure, but you get the point. These things that happen to the US are horrible, horrible tragedies, yes, but i didn't see anyone in the United States skip a beat when the above things happened to other people. Many Americans have this kind of superiority complex, where they think they are the centre of the Universe, and that everybody else in the world should feel sorry for them whenever they are "picked on".
George W Bush: Let it be known that any country which harbours, or funds, terrorists or terrorist activities, will be considered our enemy.
Wag in crowd: Are you aware that a major source of funding for, say, the IRA, is the US of A? This country funds terrorism too, you know.
Well, considering that one of of the entire points of COM is that old interfaces aren't removed, only superceded, and that COM is designed to be language independant, and that you only ever need to KNOW two whole interfaces, I think they've got that covered.
Oh, and just to feed the trolls, gosh, we never have THAT problem on Linux, do we? Nope, not with GCC, not with virtual memory interfaces, not with filesystem abstraction layers, not with LVM concepts, nope nope nope. Similarly, Windows DLL hell would NEVER happen with a robust and intelligent packaging system like RPM, would it?
Every OS and every programming concept has it's strengths and it's weaknesses; dismiss one and the only thing you're doing is limiting yourself.
Pah. 25th Anniversary and Judgement Rites were great. StarFleet Academy sucked large, but Klingon Academy continues to shine; still better than Bridge Commander, btw, both for graphics and for gameplay. Run, don't walk, to Ebay and grab a copy.
And who can forget beaming into mountains in Kobyashi Alternative?
You can see an interesting implementation of this with Exchange 2000.
Exchange 2000 has a mail store; the IS. How you get to it really doesn't matter; they've a POP3 front end, an IMAP4 front end, a WebDAV front end, a MAPI front end, a windows Explorer front end (go check out the M: drive of your exchange box some day,) an HTTP front end (OWA for Exch2000 is NOT a set of ASP scripts like it was in Exch5.x, which actually really sucks when you want to deploy it on your !exchange front end) and so on.
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You are correct, sir.
All iexplore.exe does, for example, is call mshtml.dll in creative ways. All excel.exe does is call the Excel COM objects in creative ways, and so on and so forth.
The fundamental difference between scripting on UNIX and scripting on Win32 is that on UNIX, you're manipulating text files and calling programs with CL arguments. On Win32, you're invoking objects, setting properties, then calling methods.
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The company would simply turn to the HORDES of starving, jobless IT workers and bring them in as scab labour.
Ok. A person who likes porn is not necessarily a rapist, but a rapist, by defination, probably likes porn.
Therefore, eliminating all porn from an area will also eliminate the already existing rapists; I'd be curious to see if, at the same time that the crime rates dropped in that area, they rose (no pun intended) in other areas; this would indicate sexual criminals simply migrating to where they can get their fix.
Similarly, people who play violent video games aren't automatically violent; people who are violent probably like violent video games. This does not mean that violent video games cause violence; it means that pre-existing violence is attracted to violent video games.
Similarly, porn doesn't create sexual criminals; sexual criminals are drawn to porn-rich areas. Removing the porn does not cause said individuals to suddenly turn into non-criminals; they simply have nothing causing them to congregate in that specific area.
Go take a look at the control system (you CANNOT call that work of beauty a 'joystick') that ships with the Xbox game 'Steel Batallion.'
They don't mean not random as in 'every encounter is scripted' so much as not random as in 'you can see, and avoid, random monsters on the travelling map.' For example, Lunar 1 and 2. You can avoid them if you wish. They're still randomly placed, and wandering, but you're not tooling along and suddenly BAM! You're in COMBAT!
Sorry, I have to....
In Soviet Union, Comrade Natalie Portman pours hot grits down your pants!
Moore's law has nothing to do with speed.
So, yes, you're limiting yourself to silicon IC's, and I belive this translates as 'number of transistors on a given size.'
And if you want to be REALLY fast, you can RAID stripe across tapes.
I had a Dell PowerVault 130T; 4 DLT4 drives, 28 slots for tapes, and a roboarm. There was just something indescribably nice about having four separate backups going at once, all nice and zippy.
The ACD system at my last place of business ran a single-board P100 system running OS/2. Lots of other phone equipment run OS/2 as well.
Can read, or can read at a functional and acceptable level for common day-to-day purposes?
And what about writing?
Heaven forbid they simply stamp out a 'showroom floor' install CD, and a 'end user' install CD, and use both appropriately.
What's the cost of, say, 1000 feet of Cat5 Ethernet cable? Now, what's the cost of the switches, routers, and other such equipment to make use of it?
Now, multiply that by lots, and you have the problem with fibre. Little glass tubes? Cheap. Nifty laser equipment and what not to do neat things? Expensive.
Aye, they reissued TiE Fighter and X-Wing using the TiE Fighter vs X-Wing engine; it's directx 5.1, I think? Or 3. Or something. But it runs properly, so who's complaining?
Heaven help you if your doctor happens to have an accent that sounds even a little bit arabic or middle-eastern.
What good is a note from a random person going to do?
Your exchange box is behind a firewall, right?
Having them VPN in solves a lot of DNS, routing and other such issues, as well as security, and blah blah blah. That's how I did it, at least, last time I had to worry about offline users talking to Exchange. Worked pretty good, too.
Oh, and Outlook Web Access. True, doesn't help with the offline stuff, but how many users REALLY need that? Otherwise, tell them to sync at night in the hotel room when it doesn't matter, or to find a broadband connection.
I was once party to an experiment which showed that a metal coat hanger would pass Dolby Digital with zero digital errors.
And I have yet to hear a remotely reasonable explanation as to why Charles Darwin would expend the enormous amounts of capital it would take to get to remote islands. Or Marco Polo, or Columbus, for that matter.
That you can't think of a good reason doesn't mean that there's no good reason.
You were supposed to go to college, but in a field that isn't so drastically oversaturated as tech is now a days. That way, you wouldn't be competing for entry level positions against people who already have 10+ years of experience.
Sad, but true.
Yes, but that's not what he's complaining about. He's complaining that, for example, if Apple decides not to do dual proc systems, you simply cannot get a dual proc system. If there's a design flaw with the powerbook line of laptops, Apple doesn't need to worry about people buying MacOS laptops from a different vendor; they can shaft people at will.
The Three Amigos!
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Actually, it does, because he knows what he's talking about.
If you want a MacOS based computer, you buy from Apple. End of story. If you want a Windows based computer, you buy from a plethora (tell me, do you know what a ple-thor-a is? No, El Guappo...) of dealers; one shafts you, you go to another.
To extend to the car analogy, if you want a *high end car* you might go to BMW, you might go to somebody else. If you want a *work pickup* you might go Ford, you might go Chevrolet.
George W Bush: Let it be known that any country which harbours, or funds, terrorists or terrorist activities, will be considered our enemy.
Wag in crowd: Are you aware that a major source of funding for, say, the IRA, is the US of A? This country funds terrorism too, you know.
George W Bush: ... ... ... Have that man shot.
It's funny because it's true.
Well, considering that one of of the entire points of COM is that old interfaces aren't removed, only superceded, and that COM is designed to be language independant, and that you only ever need to KNOW two whole interfaces, I think they've got that covered.
Oh, and just to feed the trolls, gosh, we never have THAT problem on Linux, do we? Nope, not with GCC, not with virtual memory interfaces, not with filesystem abstraction layers, not with LVM concepts, nope nope nope. Similarly, Windows DLL hell would NEVER happen with a robust and intelligent packaging system like RPM, would it?
Every OS and every programming concept has it's strengths and it's weaknesses; dismiss one and the only thing you're doing is limiting yourself.
Pah. 25th Anniversary and Judgement Rites were great. StarFleet Academy sucked large, but Klingon Academy continues to shine; still better than Bridge Commander, btw, both for graphics and for gameplay. Run, don't walk, to Ebay and grab a copy.
And who can forget beaming into mountains in Kobyashi Alternative?
You can see an interesting implementation of this with Exchange 2000.
Exchange 2000 has a mail store; the IS. How you get to it really doesn't matter; they've a POP3 front end, an IMAP4 front end, a WebDAV front end, a MAPI front end, a windows Explorer front end (go check out the M: drive of your exchange box some day,) an HTTP front end (OWA for Exch2000 is NOT a set of ASP scripts like it was in Exch5.x, which actually really sucks when you want to deploy it on your !exchange front end) and so on.
You are correct, sir.
All iexplore.exe does, for example, is call mshtml.dll in creative ways. All excel.exe does is call the Excel COM objects in creative ways, and so on and so forth.
The fundamental difference between scripting on UNIX and scripting on Win32 is that on UNIX, you're manipulating text files and calling programs with CL arguments. On Win32, you're invoking objects, setting properties, then calling methods.