MM is a sequal to Under a Killing Moon, which I believe was remade into a game who's name escapes me. There were about four or five entries in the Tex Murphy series.
Under a Killing Moon was also notable for being in VGA and for using what I think they called Real Sound to play digitised audio (mainly speech and some music) through the standard PC speaker.
Sorry, but what does talking about their 'enterprise class' offerings have to do with a product called *HOME* Server?
Microsoft has a patch mentality which is totally abhorrent to those of us in the high-availability industry. Sysadmins simply can't "just patch" every time Microsoft discovers a hole in their operating system. It takes weeks - if not months - of testing before a business can roll out a new patch, during which time, the whole business is at risk. This is a risk which is simply not present on mainframe and UNIX systems.
Oh, the revisionist history. We're talking UNIX here, where you got root access by typing one of three words into Sendmail. As a FEATURE. Where turning off the RPC subsystem was just a standard part of the install, because it was SO DAMN BUGGY. Where lpd had more root holes than an orchard. Where there were huge debates about the terrible bloat of xclock.
UNIX isn't inherently more secure than Windows; it's just been around longer, and had most of the more braindead stuff expunged.
The two problems with that that immediately come to mind is: A) the US uses GPS for everything now. For example, aircraft navigation uses the civilian GPS bits. That's why the FAA begged Clinton to permanantly turn off SA.
B) All the stories you hear about US Military troops using OTS GPS receivers because the Military versions are a) unavailable, b) break more easily, and c) don't work as well.
Because people have this wierd idea that sticker price is sacrosanct; if the flyer says '$279, supplies are limited,' then every other store better also have them for $279 +- $20.
Ebay, on the other hand, is expected to actually price what the market will bear.
Hmmm. Two closed fists = 0. Two open hands with all fingers pressed together, Judo Chop! style, = 1024. Fingers elevated in the counting style work as expected.
Please note that you need to specfy if you're using signed or unsigned hands; if signed, palm-out is negative, palm-in is positive. If unsigned, palm-out picks up where palm-in leaves off.
If you want to get slightly more complicated, you can have left-palm-in, right-palm-out and left-palm-out, right-palm-in to tack another couple of bits onto your maximum.
This is a multi-part failure. One part Microsoft for making an OS that almost requires standard users to run a privileged account all the time to make basic applications work. One part CCP for developing software that damaged the underlying OS.
Windows hasn't 'required' privileged accounts since ME. But everybody bitches about Vista trying to *enforce* not using a privileged account for everything.
Ok, you've provided excellent counterexamples in Branson and Carter. Well played.
Your second point, though, merely emphasizes my own. An ignorant bastard who happens to be a good writer will be preferred over a genius expert who isn't a good writer.
No, the GP post said that you could use any cell phone to call 911 without that phone actually being subscribed or activated to a carrier. In response to your 'Public deserves atleast a lowcost emergency phone which doesn't need the monthly and yearly contract slavery.'
He took 'emergency' to mean 'can dial 911,' where you probably meant it as 'need to call Grandma and tell her I'll be late so she doesn't worry'.
When you buy those minutes, the cell company has to provision their network to be able to provide you with that service. In other words, if you buy, say, 100 minutes of airtime, the company has to have the capacity to reasonably serve you that 100 minutes of air time, *weather or not you use it.*
So, if those minutes don't expire, they have to continually pay to be ready for you to use them, without any sort of recurring revenue.
Here's an example: stale-dated cheques. Lets say you write me a cheque for $50. I have some amount of time, usually three to six months, to cash that cheque. If I try to cash it during that time, and you don't have the funds to cover it, you've done a bad thing. But what if there was no 'expiry' on that cheque? I could cash it a year, ten years, twenty years down the road, and you're required to have the funds sitting there to cover it. That's not cool.
Ok, a quick test. Lets say I want to, oh, pair a bluetooth device.
On XP, I click start, help, type 'bluetooth' and hit enter.
I'm presented with a whole list of tasks; Install a Bluetooth phone, install a BT mobile phone and use it as a modem, install a BT printer, keyboard, mouse, pocketpc, all sorts of nifty stuff.
What's the equivalent on Linux? Or does it depend based on distro, revision, windowing system, what packages are installed, and so on?
Oh, and no, you can't google 'linux bluetooth.' We're talking about included help systems here. That, or the original assertion that XP's manual sucks is proven as irrelevant, as Google is considered to be a legitimate reference guide. (Which, in my most humble opinion, it is. I'd Google something rather than look it up in XP's help, out of sheer habit.)
What happened? Their ice foundation melted already? Roving gangs of starving polar bears finally cracked their nut? Some kind of cosmic driveby took them down? Or maybe the South Pole Station IT department repair to McMurdo's WAN is just glacially slow...
The manual for DOS 3.1, an OS that fit on a 360k floppy was about an inch and a half think. The manual for XP, an OS that needs a 650 MB CD to hold, is about fifty pages.
To be fair, the manual for XP needs to be exactly as long as it takes to teach you how to boot, open the start menu, select 'help and support', and type in what you're looking for, at which time it will take you to wonderful help entries, complete with, as appropriate, step-by-step walkthroughs and troubleshooting wizards.
Actually, the metric equivalent to a 'shitload' is the metric 'assload.' As in, 'That's an assload of storage!'
It's much easier to talk in terms of milliassloads, centiassloads, assloads, kiloassloads and mega-assloads than in shitloads; who can ever remember that one shitload=4 'whole piles of' = 7.46 'whole lotta's = 14.5 (14 even in certain states) 'whole buncha's = 31 'fair chunk of' which, finally, contains 252 'bitta's.
After all, isn't it easier to say 'there's 40 centiassloads of storage on that mem card' than 'there's a whole lotta and a bitta space on that mem card'?
Bah! In my day, we didn't even have computers! We had to write the program, then IMAGINE how it would run! And we liked it! We loved it! We were begging for more!
--The Lady Ada Lovelace
I've been selling off my RPG collection, but I've still got some first ed, and most of the second ed, and some of the first few 2.5 ed, sourcebooks available, if anybody's interested.
In the middle section, when the robot is standing between two metal posts, at one point, it widens it's stance, settles it's center of gravity a bit, and the first thing that popped into my ferbile little mind was 'Holy crap, it's about to kick that guy's ass!'
Any group has one or more defined goals. At some point, a new goal spontaneously appears: perpetuate the group. Eventually, that goal begins to take precidence over the other goals.
It's often the overriding pursuit of that goal at the expense of the original goals that winds up destroying the group.
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MM is a sequal to Under a Killing Moon, which I believe was remade into a game who's name escapes me. There were about four or five entries in the Tex Murphy series.
Under a Killing Moon was also notable for being in VGA and for using what I think they called Real Sound to play digitised audio (mainly speech and some music) through the standard PC speaker.
Sorry, but what does talking about their 'enterprise class' offerings have to do with a product called *HOME* Server?
Oh, the revisionist history. We're talking UNIX here, where you got root access by typing one of three words into Sendmail. As a FEATURE. Where turning off the RPC subsystem was just a standard part of the install, because it was SO DAMN BUGGY. Where lpd had more root holes than an orchard. Where there were huge debates about the terrible bloat of xclock.
UNIX isn't inherently more secure than Windows; it's just been around longer, and had most of the more braindead stuff expunged.
The two problems with that that immediately come to mind is: A) the US uses GPS for everything now. For example, aircraft navigation uses the civilian GPS bits. That's why the FAA begged Clinton to permanantly turn off SA.
B) All the stories you hear about US Military troops using OTS GPS receivers because the Military versions are a) unavailable, b) break more easily, and c) don't work as well.
Because people have this wierd idea that sticker price is sacrosanct; if the flyer says '$279, supplies are limited,' then every other store better also have them for $279 +- $20.
Ebay, on the other hand, is expected to actually price what the market will bear.
So, what...three days instead of one?
What's better; fast results dictated to you by the Supreme Court, or accurate results dictated to you by the People?
Corporate nuke reactors, eh? Can the Shiawase Decision be far behind?
Hmmm. Two closed fists = 0. Two open hands with all fingers pressed together, Judo Chop! style, = 1024. Fingers elevated in the counting style work as expected.
Please note that you need to specfy if you're using signed or unsigned hands; if signed, palm-out is negative, palm-in is positive. If unsigned, palm-out picks up where palm-in leaves off.
If you want to get slightly more complicated, you can have left-palm-in, right-palm-out and left-palm-out, right-palm-in to tack another couple of bits onto your maximum.
Ah. So we've shifted the indications of 'authority' from credentials and education to how many examples you can point to.
Or, put another way, cite sources? That are other web pages? If it's on a webpage, it MUST be true!
Windows hasn't 'required' privileged accounts since ME. But everybody bitches about Vista trying to *enforce* not using a privileged account for everything.
Ok, you've provided excellent counterexamples in Branson and Carter. Well played.
Your second point, though, merely emphasizes my own. An ignorant bastard who happens to be a good writer will be preferred over a genius expert who isn't a good writer.
Back this up. Prove it. Explain how by equalizing the input of, say, a high-school dropout and a nobel laureate, accuracy is improved.
No, the GP post said that you could use any cell phone to call 911 without that phone actually being subscribed or activated to a carrier. In response to your 'Public deserves atleast a lowcost emergency phone which doesn't need the monthly and yearly contract slavery.'
He took 'emergency' to mean 'can dial 911,' where you probably meant it as 'need to call Grandma and tell her I'll be late so she doesn't worry'.
When you buy those minutes, the cell company has to provision their network to be able to provide you with that service. In other words, if you buy, say, 100 minutes of airtime, the company has to have the capacity to reasonably serve you that 100 minutes of air time, *weather or not you use it.*
So, if those minutes don't expire, they have to continually pay to be ready for you to use them, without any sort of recurring revenue.
Here's an example: stale-dated cheques. Lets say you write me a cheque for $50. I have some amount of time, usually three to six months, to cash that cheque. If I try to cash it during that time, and you don't have the funds to cover it, you've done a bad thing. But what if there was no 'expiry' on that cheque? I could cash it a year, ten years, twenty years down the road, and you're required to have the funds sitting there to cover it. That's not cool.
Ok, a quick test. Lets say I want to, oh, pair a bluetooth device.
On XP, I click start, help, type 'bluetooth' and hit enter.
I'm presented with a whole list of tasks; Install a Bluetooth phone, install a BT mobile phone and use it as a modem, install a BT printer, keyboard, mouse, pocketpc, all sorts of nifty stuff.
What's the equivalent on Linux? Or does it depend based on distro, revision, windowing system, what packages are installed, and so on?
Oh, and no, you can't google 'linux bluetooth.' We're talking about included help systems here. That, or the original assertion that XP's manual sucks is proven as irrelevant, as Google is considered to be a legitimate reference guide. (Which, in my most humble opinion, it is. I'd Google something rather than look it up in XP's help, out of sheer habit.)
Nothing so exciting; router's just frozen.
Well, let me put it another way, then; is the XP system help any worse than Linux man pages?
To be fair, the manual for XP needs to be exactly as long as it takes to teach you how to boot, open the start menu, select 'help and support', and type in what you're looking for, at which time it will take you to wonderful help entries, complete with, as appropriate, step-by-step walkthroughs and troubleshooting wizards.
Actually, the metric equivalent to a 'shitload' is the metric 'assload.' As in, 'That's an assload of storage!'
It's much easier to talk in terms of milliassloads, centiassloads, assloads, kiloassloads and mega-assloads than in shitloads; who can ever remember that one shitload=4 'whole piles of' = 7.46 'whole lotta's = 14.5 (14 even in certain states) 'whole buncha's = 31 'fair chunk of' which, finally, contains 252 'bitta's.
After all, isn't it easier to say 'there's 40 centiassloads of storage on that mem card' than 'there's a whole lotta and a bitta space on that mem card'?
Bah! In my day, we didn't even have computers! We had to write the program, then IMAGINE how it would run! And we liked it! We loved it! We were begging for more!
--The Lady Ada Lovelace
Three referenes for the price of one: "So tell me, are you a RepliCAN or a RepliCANT?"
You'd think that RFID makes a hell of a lot more sense in this application.
Before you start closing, run RFID wand over patient. If it beeps, you've left something in there!
Each beep means the responsible party has to buy the surgical team a round.
I've been selling off my RPG collection, but I've still got some first ed, and most of the second ed, and some of the first few 2.5 ed, sourcebooks available, if anybody's interested.
In the middle section, when the robot is standing between two metal posts, at one point, it widens it's stance, settles it's center of gravity a bit, and the first thing that popped into my ferbile little mind was 'Holy crap, it's about to kick that guy's ass!'
I'm Spartacus!
Any group has one or more defined goals. At some point, a new goal spontaneously appears: perpetuate the group. Eventually, that goal begins to take precidence over the other goals.
It's often the overriding pursuit of that goal at the expense of the original goals that winds up destroying the group.