Well, by that logic, packet-based routers don't work either. Any script kiddie can create new 'packets' at random, flood them at the router, and the router'll fall over and die.
Ah, so close, so close. I knew it was the 'NA_S'. Just couldn't remember that last bit.
Back in the good old days, when seeing a heavy 'mech was an affair, and seeing an Assault 'mech was rare. When it was just accepted that you DO NOT shoot the DropShips or JumpShips. When plates with the crests of worlds were considered vital military intelligence....
Exactly. Classic CLASSIC BattleTech, where a 'mech was often a family heirloom, battles were as much ritual combat as anything else, and MechWarriors were akin to pilots in WW1.
All got farked up when the GDL found that damn Star League memory core and New Avalon Academy of Science started unlocking lostech....
(hope I remembered all that fluff properly - been a while, but dammit, I'm going to reread the Warrior trilogy tonight. Justin Allard for the win!)
On a very practical note, you'd literally be laughed out of any print shop where you showed up with your earnest little smile and a USB key with an HTML file, and an expectation of getting an accurate print-out.
True, true. I've often thought that not teaching Latin, or actually teaching English as a language, in schools, is a problem. Too many people who have English as a primary language don't actually understand English, and it makes for difficulty in communicating properly.
But yeah, in this case, I notice that there were two basic kinds of responses to the original poster. One type assumed that he was basically competent, and needed a somewhat extraordinary solution; the other type assumed that he was utterly incompetent, and didn't know the basics of something as trivial, in this context, as how FTP (and ftp) works.
Nah, Tom Clancy, "Debt of Honor," the transition book between the cold-war techno-thriller era and the domestic political commentary era. That having been said, I doubt he's the only person who's ever come up with the idea. And in a later novel, Rainbow 6, there are straight vanilla plane hijackings, and a discussion of how the pilots are specifically trained to go where the hijackers say to go, with the intention of landing somewhere a response team can deploy. In other words, a 9/11 style attack was guaranteed to work the first time it was tried.
In a nutshell, Japanese business tycoons engineer an 'incident' with an eye to taking over the Mariana Islands to help a flagging economy brought on by bad loans by people who should have known better, but who believed real estate was an eternal escalator, appreciating in value with each tick of the clock (prescient!).
At the end, a Japanese airline pilot, having lost a brother and a son in the conflict which resulted, crashes a 747 empty of passengers, but full of fuel, into a joint session of Congress and Senate, where the hero of the series is about to be confirmed as VP.
I remember Clancy being interviewed by phone during the coverage on the morning of 9/11, actually. I also remember being able to see Pearson Int'l from my office window, and wondering if it would be hit either by design or by an opportunistic hi-jacker on a diverted plane.
Well sure, but that's why nobody uses the output as 'uptime' as an SLA metric. You look at service availability, not 'time since last reboot.'
If your service is important enough to require four or five nines of availability, you have some sort of redundancy built in, and can leave your main system on while you upgrade and test your backup or cluster member.
Or, you were smart enough to allow for maintenance windows and what not.
The problem I have with the 'will allow apathetic or uninformed people to vote, and is therefore a bad idea' idea is that, for good or for ill, interest, intelligence, or knowledge are *not* requirements to vote.
This is the reason for the original requirements in the American constitution; 21, land-owning meant the leisure time to get educated, think upon the issues, and have that much more chance of being an informed voter.
The problem with the American system is that, when it was designed, the idea of 'parties' was looked upon with disdain and derision. It was expected that on each and every vote, a given elected official would vote according to his voter's wills, his understanding, and his concience, not blindly by party line. Hence, when parties did rise, the system could not deal with it.
The problem with the Canadian system is that, while explicitly designed for parties, it's never really been taken advantage of. Canada tends to elect Majority governments. This leads to situations such as, when the minority parties attempt to USE THE SYSTEM AS DESIGNED to form a coalition minorty government, they get labelled as hijackers of democracy. Even the Canadian media jumped in on this, which is stupid. I still can't believe all the headlines like 'Is this legal?' where they should have been 'This is legal! This is proper! This is the way the system is supposed to work!'
Now, to address the original idea, voting online? You know what, if I can bank on line, which I can, and file my taxes online, which I can, I should bloody well be able to vote online.
I'm still exceedingly pissed that they managed to get the Canadian media outlets to go along with their line that, in our Westminster-style parliamentary system, attempting to form a coalition government was, some how, a usurpation of they system.
Will a pop star be able to save us in the event of a meteor impact?
What about global warming, tsunami, outbreak of a virus, nuclear proliferation, global famine, and what about the samll things?
Well, to be fair, most people of 'my' generation are fully aware that a single pop singer can, in fact, help defeat an armada of 4.7 million alien battleships, crewed by fifty-foot-tall aliens.
We're also aware that transgendered (or, at least, cross-dressing) pop stars are in an excellent position to help the resistance against invading hive-mind type aliens.
/We Will Win! //My Boyfriend's a Pilot! ///Shao Pai Long! //Wait a minute, this is Slashdot, not Fark. /.
Go back and reread the submission. The purchaser offered to pay the large deposit, or pre-pay the contract, in lieu of giving an SSN, and the seller refused.
Quick offtopic question for you: I've a PSP, and noticed that with, say, PS1 Classics, they're available for both the PSP and the PS3. Does one purchase enable play on both, should you own both? Or do you need to purchase twice?
Or, you could have brought the issue to your boss's attention after, say, a few days, he would have spoken to the help desk manager, and the issue might have gotten some attention, maybe even something broken in processes, resources, or expectations fixed.
Just make sure you approach the conversation correctly; 'wah wah the users are being mean to me none of them listen to me wah wah' won't get you anywhere. "Hey, I need some professional development advice...." will.
I never understood why Japan, a more open-minded and socially liberal nation, censors its porn. While in prude America you can easily acquire uncensored porn.
Just remember which country occupied Japan about, oh, sixty-four years ago or so, and dictated a constitution.
Next time you connect your Pre to iTunes, well, iTunes attempts to install iPod software on a Pre and I have no idea how happy the Pre will be with that:-(
Well, the Pre will just respond with 'sure, upload the new firmware!' and pipe it over to the Pre equivalent of/dev/null. Then it will respond with the 'upgrade worked! Thanks alot!' code.
Or, worst comes to worst, a simple update to the Pre allows it to emulate the new and improved firmware version.
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Actually, you'll find that a lot of 'classic' games being released these days (including, I think, Fallout) are wrapped in DosBox.
So? With one model, you're overflowing memory; with the other, you're overflowing processor.
Well, by that logic, packet-based routers don't work either. Any script kiddie can create new 'packets' at random, flood them at the router, and the router'll fall over and die.
Ah, so close, so close. I knew it was the 'NA_S'. Just couldn't remember that last bit.
Back in the good old days, when seeing a heavy 'mech was an affair, and seeing an Assault 'mech was rare. When it was just accepted that you DO NOT shoot the DropShips or JumpShips. When plates with the crests of worlds were considered vital military intelligence....
Gauss Cannon and T-51B Winterized armour didn't count?
(Went Deathclaw hunting with the Gauss cannon. Pop'em in the leg to slow them down, then start pumping rounds into the torso.)
Exactly. Classic CLASSIC BattleTech, where a 'mech was often a family heirloom, battles were as much ritual combat as anything else, and MechWarriors were akin to pilots in WW1.
All got farked up when the GDL found that damn Star League memory core and New Avalon Academy of Science started unlocking lostech....
(hope I remembered all that fluff properly - been a while, but dammit, I'm going to reread the Warrior trilogy tonight. Justin Allard for the win!)
Or go find a copy of Heavy Gear 2; one of the finest 'power armour' paradigm simulations.
Better yet, go find a copy of Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri, which *is* the finest Power Armour sim ever. Too bad it's circa 1996.
You can't place the ToS of an interactive website on the same level as the EULA in a shrink-wrapped box.
The ToS:
On a very practical note, you'd literally be laughed out of any print shop where you showed up with your earnest little smile and a USB key with an HTML file, and an expectation of getting an accurate print-out.
True, true. I've often thought that not teaching Latin, or actually teaching English as a language, in schools, is a problem. Too many people who have English as a primary language don't actually understand English, and it makes for difficulty in communicating properly.
But yeah, in this case, I notice that there were two basic kinds of responses to the original poster. One type assumed that he was basically competent, and needed a somewhat extraordinary solution; the other type assumed that he was utterly incompetent, and didn't know the basics of something as trivial, in this context, as how FTP (and ftp) works.
TCP only guarantees that it will tell you if it fails. It has no way of guaranteeing 'delivery.'
For all we know, he's scripted ftp.exe and isn't checking the exit codes, and it could be quite merrily telling him that it's never worked properly.
You know, that's so ingrained it wouldn't even occur to me to mention at first.
It's just natural, ya know? "binhashpromptmput *.important
Nah, Tom Clancy, "Debt of Honor," the transition book between the cold-war techno-thriller era and the domestic political commentary era. That having been said, I doubt he's the only person who's ever come up with the idea. And in a later novel, Rainbow 6, there are straight vanilla plane hijackings, and a discussion of how the pilots are specifically trained to go where the hijackers say to go, with the intention of landing somewhere a response team can deploy. In other words, a 9/11 style attack was guaranteed to work the first time it was tried.
In a nutshell, Japanese business tycoons engineer an 'incident' with an eye to taking over the Mariana Islands to help a flagging economy brought on by bad loans by people who should have known better, but who believed real estate was an eternal escalator, appreciating in value with each tick of the clock (prescient!).
At the end, a Japanese airline pilot, having lost a brother and a son in the conflict which resulted, crashes a 747 empty of passengers, but full of fuel, into a joint session of Congress and Senate, where the hero of the series is about to be confirmed as VP.
I remember Clancy being interviewed by phone during the coverage on the morning of 9/11, actually. I also remember being able to see Pearson Int'l from my office window, and wondering if it would be hit either by design or by an opportunistic hi-jacker on a diverted plane.
Well sure, but that's why nobody uses the output as 'uptime' as an SLA metric. You look at service availability, not 'time since last reboot.'
If your service is important enough to require four or five nines of availability, you have some sort of redundancy built in, and can leave your main system on while you upgrade and test your backup or cluster member.
Or, you were smart enough to allow for maintenance windows and what not.
The problem I have with the 'will allow apathetic or uninformed people to vote, and is therefore a bad idea' idea is that, for good or for ill, interest, intelligence, or knowledge are *not* requirements to vote.
This is the reason for the original requirements in the American constitution; 21, land-owning meant the leisure time to get educated, think upon the issues, and have that much more chance of being an informed voter.
The problem with the American system is that, when it was designed, the idea of 'parties' was looked upon with disdain and derision. It was expected that on each and every vote, a given elected official would vote according to his voter's wills, his understanding, and his concience, not blindly by party line. Hence, when parties did rise, the system could not deal with it.
The problem with the Canadian system is that, while explicitly designed for parties, it's never really been taken advantage of. Canada tends to elect Majority governments. This leads to situations such as, when the minority parties attempt to USE THE SYSTEM AS DESIGNED to form a coalition minorty government, they get labelled as hijackers of democracy. Even the Canadian media jumped in on this, which is stupid. I still can't believe all the headlines like 'Is this legal?' where they should have been 'This is legal! This is proper! This is the way the system is supposed to work!'
Now, to address the original idea, voting online? You know what, if I can bank on line, which I can, and file my taxes online, which I can, I should bloody well be able to vote online.
I'm still exceedingly pissed that they managed to get the Canadian media outlets to go along with their line that, in our Westminster-style parliamentary system, attempting to form a coalition government was, some how, a usurpation of they system.
Well, to be fair, most people of 'my' generation are fully aware that a single pop singer can, in fact, help defeat an armada of 4.7 million alien battleships, crewed by fifty-foot-tall aliens.
We're also aware that transgendered (or, at least, cross-dressing) pop stars are in an excellent position to help the resistance against invading hive-mind type aliens.
/We Will Win!
//My Boyfriend's a Pilot!
///Shao Pai Long!
//Wait a minute, this is Slashdot, not Fark.
/.
I also don't recall if he mentioned having adjusted the C64 price for inflation.
Go back and reread the submission. The purchaser offered to pay the large deposit, or pre-pay the contract, in lieu of giving an SSN, and the seller refused.
Quick offtopic question for you: I've a PSP, and noticed that with, say, PS1 Classics, they're available for both the PSP and the PS3. Does one purchase enable play on both, should you own both? Or do you need to purchase twice?
Or, you could have brought the issue to your boss's attention after, say, a few days, he would have spoken to the help desk manager, and the issue might have gotten some attention, maybe even something broken in processes, resources, or expectations fixed.
Just make sure you approach the conversation correctly; 'wah wah the users are being mean to me none of them listen to me wah wah' won't get you anywhere. "Hey, I need some professional development advice...." will.
Just remember which country occupied Japan about, oh, sixty-four years ago or so, and dictated a constitution.
Well, the Pre will just respond with 'sure, upload the new firmware!' and pipe it over to the Pre equivalent of /dev/null. Then it will respond with the 'upgrade worked! Thanks alot!' code.
Or, worst comes to worst, a simple update to the Pre allows it to emulate the new and improved firmware version.