Yes, exactly my point. IBM published the specs so that 3rd party vendors could create plug-in cards. Those specs also allowed people at Compaq and elsewhere to relatively trivially reverse engineer everything else about the PC, and from then on IBM went from a position of extreme strength in the PC field to being the company that brought us the Ambra, OS2 Warp, and the butterfly keyboard.
After which they tried to reassert their 'it's our shit, but you'll use it' mentality, with things like MCA. And they went down faster than a cheap hooker.
Bah. We used to play a variant using tennis balls and a very large brick wall. The idea was to hurl the ball at the wall, and hit somebody on the rebound. Everybody had a baseball glove they could use for defense, but if the ball touched you, then touched the ground, you lost a point. Lose enough points, you're out.
Too bad we couldn't find any indian rubber Lacrosse balls....
I think this is the cheeze wiz of excercise, with the added bonous of producing somone who can hold their own on a dance floor.
Exactly. How is this any different than a treadmill? Or an exercise bike? Or step aerobics? Answer: It's more fun. It provides immediate feedback and encouragement. It gives you a TANGIBLE goal to work towards; the next level, the next song, unlocking something cool, whatever.
You are exempt if you supply the tools to enable the user to fix it himself Ie Open source is automatically exempt because you can check for bugs yourself and ITS FIXABLE That's why we like it.
Oooh, isn't that just like in the construction world, where when you drive over a bridge, there's a big box on the side with tools and all the construction plans? Then, if the bridge collapses, well, you had the tools and plans, and could have figured out if it was going to collapse or not, and it's all your fault, really. What, you're not an architect or civil engineer? Hell, just go grab the "Spider Monkey Book," you know, O'Reilly's Bridges in a Nutshell. It's got all the formulas you need, as well as a jargon primer, chapters on each of the tools, and a list of handy websites.
What if somebody else packages and charges for it? If I write a neat little util, and it winds up in the RedHat distro, who takes blame for it when somebody installs it on their server, and it works about as well as you'd expect for a 'version 0.4' release?
Actually, it's just as easy to do it with software, and you see vendors of 'turnkey' type apps do it all the time.
"Run this software WITH this OS (or boot directly) with THIS hardware with THIS patch level and we guarentee the following things. Otherwise, you're on your own."
This is why average software cannot be certified, as you say, there are too many variables. This is also why anything that you don't want going down at random times cannot be run on random software.
That, of course, is why you go through a Professional Services firm, who WILL supply such a guarentee. With, of course, a shitload of stipulations as to hardware, other software, and so on.
Aye, doing things like that for the sake of the pilot is always good.
Or people who complain about, say, Wing Commander, when they're hiding from the Kilrathi, and they're all whispering. People say "Oh, it's not like they'll be HEARD!" failing to recognize that a human being who is actively trying to hide is going to instinctively speak quietly, crouch, minimize profile, regardless of if it's going to help or not.
No, costs cents to DUPLICATE. SOMEBODY has to create the content, do the encoding, the disc layout, the artwork, organize all of the supplements, and so on.
I got the HP DVD the day it came out, for 19.95 Canadian. That's a DAMN GOOD deal for a two DVD set, I think, as there are CDs with barely half an hour of "music" that retail for more.
DVD is NOT overpriced. You want to see overpriced, find the appropriate forum and ask what it was like to collect Laserdisc several years back. You know, like 200 US for a single movie.
What's the difference between a bug that allows remote access, and a bug that allows remote denial of service?
None, really. In either case, you can't use your equipment properly, and there's a chance for data loss/corruption.
And haven't "many eyes" been looking at the code for a hell of a lot longer than "three days?"
I wouldn't exactly be calling this a victory for OSS.
Who's destroying anything? Better to simulate, for them, exactly what's going to happen because they're not following policy, leaving them slightly annoyed, but still functional and intact when all is said and done, then to be standing there, watching them literally yell, bawl, and threaten you, while you repeat the mantra 'You were told, in writing, and in person, by your boss, to put data you couldn't stand to lose, onto the fileserver. This is YOUR fault. This is YOUR fault. This is YOUR fault. This is YOUR fault."
Or would you prefer explaining all this to the VP of Sales, an hour before he goes infront of the share holders, and he's accidently trashed the Quarterly Earnings report?
Aye, but you need to take it one step further. Verify mode only verifies that bits were written to tape.
You need a bitchbox lying around that you can point your backup system at, and say "Hey, that's the (mail/database/file/contact/whatever) server, and it's screwed the pooch. Do a blanket restore." and see if it works.
Similarly, you need to yank the cord on your UPS every once in a while. Pull a perfectly functional HD out of your RAID array, and see if it's as redundant as it seems to be.
EVEN then, shit's going to happen. I remember, one day, having a UPS fail to kick over during a power failure. Abosolutely no reason. Never had the problem again. UPSs did a self test every two weeks, and a discharge calibration ever week. BUT, because our over-all plan was designed to overcome such things, we just plugged the affected machine into the backup UPS, and fired it up.
Perhaps I should have made clear that you don't do this without the apporpriate permission from the appropriate executive who's allowed to give such permission.
But human beings, as a rule, are a LOT more likely to understand and agree to a seemingly arbitrary (from their perspective) rule once they've been shown the why.
Assuming you're a Windows shop, put 2K (or XP I suppose, possibly even nt4) on the laptops, and use the 'synchronize network share' options. This'll take care of it all for you, and let those roadwarriors have all thier docs.
To me, it had other purposes, like showing early Jedi training. We know that at some point in the teen years a Jedi is taken as a Padawan learner. What about before then? How does Jedi instruction work? It shows how Yoda taught Jedi in classes. Maybe this wasn't the most crucial moment on which the entire plot hinged. It was showing a character, and fleshing out the universe, and frankly, putting in touches like that is what makes a movie like Episode II, with an epic universe and tons of back stories, really enjoyable.
Actually, what I thought was "I wonder just how complete Vader's eventual purge of the Jedi order is...does he wind up slaughtering all of the three and four year olds that they apparently induct?
Remember that, even in Empire, Yoda almost keels over after hoisting the X-Wing. I think that what he's saying is more that you can channel as much Force power as you think you can, but it's still going to be a strain.
I was too busy wondering why Padme, having caught all of the subtle*cough* hints Anakin was throwing, and knowing she'd have to let him down, chose to wear the Heaving Bosom(tm) dress.
Also, Yoda was trying to drive home a very personal point to his former student; that no matter what Dooku's game was, and no matter how much Dark Side force he put into it, Yoda could whup him.
Hell, I almost think Yoda made a point of not slaying him, so he could run away and think about how much he got his ass kicked.
Automating backups on workstations, very bad, very difficult. For example, getting people to not turn them off, or even turn off a power bar (wake on lan doesn't work so good in such a situation.)
What you do, if you're on NT, is set your system policies so that my documents, all that stuff, is on the server, in their home share. Tell them to put everything on home share. Tell them that anything that's on their hard drive, and lost, will be their responsibility. Explain why they need a central data repository. MAKE DAMN SURE YOUR BACKUPS WORK, OR YOU'LL LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT.
Then, if need be, pick a sacrifical lamb. Back up their harddrive, then engineer a 'hard disk failure.' Make sure something important was there, that wasn't properly placed onto the fileserver. This'll drive the point home.
So they're nice enough to not charge the DVD licenseing fees to people who don't want to watch DVDs, unlike, say, Sony.
Isn't Slashdot the place where people complain long and loud that Microsoft needs to take unneeded crap out of their apps?
Besides, somehow I doubt a DivX is worth watching on a home DLP projector and a good AC-3/dts sound setup.
But, the Xbox can already play a high quality movie format. Plus, that format supports mutli-channel surround sound. Comes on really special discs that look like CDs, but hold anywhere from 10 to 30 times the data. AND, a two hour movie, with tons of extras, languages, and so on, often costs less than a 30 minute music CD.
This is pretty standard stuff. The thinking, or at least part of it, is that they don't want www.jimbobstech-o-rama.com running some half-assed benchmarks on a fucked-up install, and pimping those numbers out as 'representative.'
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Bah. We used to play a variant using tennis balls and a very large brick wall. The idea was to hurl the ball at the wall, and hit somebody on the rebound. Everybody had a baseball glove they could use for defense, but if the ball touched you, then touched the ground, you lost a point. Lose enough points, you're out. Too bad we couldn't find any indian rubber Lacrosse balls....
What if somebody else packages and charges for it? If I write a neat little util, and it winds up in the RedHat distro, who takes blame for it when somebody installs it on their server, and it works about as well as you'd expect for a 'version 0.4' release?
Actually, it's just as easy to do it with software, and you see vendors of 'turnkey' type apps do it all the time. "Run this software WITH this OS (or boot directly) with THIS hardware with THIS patch level and we guarentee the following things. Otherwise, you're on your own." This is why average software cannot be certified, as you say, there are too many variables. This is also why anything that you don't want going down at random times cannot be run on random software. That, of course, is why you go through a Professional Services firm, who WILL supply such a guarentee. With, of course, a shitload of stipulations as to hardware, other software, and so on.
Aye, doing things like that for the sake of the pilot is always good. Or people who complain about, say, Wing Commander, when they're hiding from the Kilrathi, and they're all whispering. People say "Oh, it's not like they'll be HEARD!" failing to recognize that a human being who is actively trying to hide is going to instinctively speak quietly, crouch, minimize profile, regardless of if it's going to help or not.
A CD holds audio information, which might be encoded data. A DVD holds data, which might be encoded audio or video.
What's the difference between a bug that allows remote access, and a bug that allows remote denial of service? None, really. In either case, you can't use your equipment properly, and there's a chance for data loss/corruption. And haven't "many eyes" been looking at the code for a hell of a lot longer than "three days?" I wouldn't exactly be calling this a victory for OSS.
Who's destroying anything? Better to simulate, for them, exactly what's going to happen because they're not following policy, leaving them slightly annoyed, but still functional and intact when all is said and done, then to be standing there, watching them literally yell, bawl, and threaten you, while you repeat the mantra 'You were told, in writing, and in person, by your boss, to put data you couldn't stand to lose, onto the fileserver. This is YOUR fault. This is YOUR fault. This is YOUR fault. This is YOUR fault." Or would you prefer explaining all this to the VP of Sales, an hour before he goes infront of the share holders, and he's accidently trashed the Quarterly Earnings report?
Aye, but you need to take it one step further. Verify mode only verifies that bits were written to tape. You need a bitchbox lying around that you can point your backup system at, and say "Hey, that's the (mail/database/file/contact/whatever) server, and it's screwed the pooch. Do a blanket restore." and see if it works. Similarly, you need to yank the cord on your UPS every once in a while. Pull a perfectly functional HD out of your RAID array, and see if it's as redundant as it seems to be. EVEN then, shit's going to happen. I remember, one day, having a UPS fail to kick over during a power failure. Abosolutely no reason. Never had the problem again. UPSs did a self test every two weeks, and a discharge calibration ever week. BUT, because our over-all plan was designed to overcome such things, we just plugged the affected machine into the backup UPS, and fired it up.
Perhaps I should have made clear that you don't do this without the apporpriate permission from the appropriate executive who's allowed to give such permission. But human beings, as a rule, are a LOT more likely to understand and agree to a seemingly arbitrary (from their perspective) rule once they've been shown the why.
Assuming you're a Windows shop, put 2K (or XP I suppose, possibly even nt4) on the laptops, and use the 'synchronize network share' options. This'll take care of it all for you, and let those roadwarriors have all thier docs.
I thought it was that the Republic had existed for 1000 generations, or about 25,000 years, and, in ATOC, hadn't fought a war in 1000 years.
Remember that, even in Empire, Yoda almost keels over after hoisting the X-Wing. I think that what he's saying is more that you can channel as much Force power as you think you can, but it's still going to be a strain.
I was too busy wondering why Padme, having caught all of the subtle*cough* hints Anakin was throwing, and knowing she'd have to let him down, chose to wear the Heaving Bosom(tm) dress.
Also, Yoda was trying to drive home a very personal point to his former student; that no matter what Dooku's game was, and no matter how much Dark Side force he put into it, Yoda could whup him. Hell, I almost think Yoda made a point of not slaying him, so he could run away and think about how much he got his ass kicked.
Automating backups on workstations, very bad, very difficult. For example, getting people to not turn them off, or even turn off a power bar (wake on lan doesn't work so good in such a situation.) What you do, if you're on NT, is set your system policies so that my documents, all that stuff, is on the server, in their home share. Tell them to put everything on home share. Tell them that anything that's on their hard drive, and lost, will be their responsibility. Explain why they need a central data repository. MAKE DAMN SURE YOUR BACKUPS WORK, OR YOU'LL LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT. Then, if need be, pick a sacrifical lamb. Back up their harddrive, then engineer a 'hard disk failure.' Make sure something important was there, that wasn't properly placed onto the fileserver. This'll drive the point home.
So they're nice enough to not charge the DVD licenseing fees to people who don't want to watch DVDs, unlike, say, Sony. Isn't Slashdot the place where people complain long and loud that Microsoft needs to take unneeded crap out of their apps? Besides, somehow I doubt a DivX is worth watching on a home DLP projector and a good AC-3/dts sound setup.
But, the Xbox can already play a high quality movie format. Plus, that format supports mutli-channel surround sound. Comes on really special discs that look like CDs, but hold anywhere from 10 to 30 times the data. AND, a two hour movie, with tons of extras, languages, and so on, often costs less than a 30 minute music CD.
This is pretty standard stuff. The thinking, or at least part of it, is that they don't want www.jimbobstech-o-rama.com running some half-assed benchmarks on a fucked-up install, and pimping those numbers out as 'representative.'