Oh, please. Immigrants have always been labeled as lazy drains on society. Mexicans are no different. Reality is that they are just as hard working as anyone else. Quite often they do the work that no other Americans would want to do... for less than minimum wage. The problem is that getting "documented" is not easy.
If you are worried about deficits, talk to George W. about his new, very expensive, Department of Homeland Security. Or the billions of dollars spent per year keeping military in Iraq.
First, where were you doing your speed tests? Some random internet site? NEVER trust those. They are worthless. If your ISP provides a speed test page, use that. Don't use one from dslreports.com or whatever. The reality is that, between you and your remote destination, there is probably some bottlenck that prevents your from getting full speed. Just because YOU have 6Mbit available, doesn't mean the site you are hitting does. WE ARE sharing the internet. You don't get a full 6Mbit connection oF your own to each and every site you visit.
That said, it is rather disturbing that your grandmother only got half of 768k. But again, that is just what the test said. WHo knows what is going on there.
All in all, I'm not particularly surprised. It is just par for the course that marketing promises so much and products deliver so little. Get used to it. That is how our economy/culture works. It isn't just ISPs.
Yeah, so? They use the internet to communicate with each other to... BLOW SHIT UP. There is nothing at all terrifying about the thought of some mean people communicating on the internet. Hell, they could shut down the shock market and it STILL wouldn't be terrifying to most people. Unfortunate, sure. Bad for the economy, of course. But terror is something else entirely. Terror is about shock and spectacle. Shadowy figures moving through a virtual network is creepy, sure. But it doesn't even approach the kind of base, intense response that shit blowing up gets.
Nope. Sorry. Shit blowing up tops all. People dying from bad pills is just unfortunate and perhaps scary if you happen to be one who takes a lot of pills. Shit blowing up easily beats it as far as terror goes. That is why the terrorists do it. It isn't about body counts. It about the shear spectacle of shit blowing up and body parts landing on windshields. It is especially effective now with modern media able to propagate the images instantly around the world. This whole idea of "cyberterrorism" is just ridiculous. Terrorists will continue to simply blow stuff up because it works.
sigh] Yet another vacuous "story" posted by someone just trying to drive hits to their ads. I'd like to see the day when the text on a page offered up more than a few paragraphs, surrounded by ads/other useless stuff.
I'd love to move our office to thin clients however I really can't justify the cost.
I'm wondering.. how well does this actually scale. Seems to me that the real issue with Windows thin clients is the server side. Doesn't a single TS login take up pretty hefty resources? What kind of a server farm would you need to maintain to run, say, 100 TS/Citrix clients simutaneously?
1) Any floating point operations are goign to be performed on the server 2) Type types of systems that thin clients are meant to replace don't generally deal with fp ops. 3) It is Windows CE!
The majority of programmers everywhere are like that, in my experience. Sure, the real genius hackers are going to know just about everything about everything, but most developers just focus on their chosen niche. Sounds like they just selected the wrong instructors for teh class you were taking. I would, however, be concerned about people focussed on the price of their stock options.
Yeah, i unknowingly chose a class that has both acrobatics and athletics as majors. But the slow leveling mod takes care of that. Still, it takes more work than it should to get decent stat bonuses per level. From what I gather, if you don't power level, the game gets ridiculously hard a higher levels and you end up having to turn the difficulty way down.
But they do give a shit. That is my point. Any Mac user I've known can tell can tell right away that some thing isn't quite right with a Java (Swinge/AWT) application (even if they dont' understand why). If they do use the application, it is in lieu of a suitable native one. It is like emulation. Mac users will run (or used to at least) an application in Virtual PC, for exmaple, if they absolutely have to, but the minute a viable, native replacement comes along, they'll jump on it. Same with Linux users. Wine is OK if you absolutely need a specific Windows application, but most people will be on the lookout for a native alternative. While Java isn't quite as bad as running a program in Wine, it isn't too far off either.
Of course that skill bonus could accidentally put your into the next level before you had practiced your minor skills enough to get optimal stat bonuses! Argh.. i hate the levelling system. I had to install the "slow levelling mod" because my character was leveling uncontrollably. I'd be in a dungeon and I would gain two levels before I was out and only get like +2 to the important stats. Now I don a full set of Heavy Armour and tank a rat or goblin until I get enough Block/HA points before each level so I can get +5 endurance.
I'll ask a again, what woudl be the point? As long as DirectX 9 remains supported, what is the poitn of switching to OpenGL assuming the market doesn't change such that OS X becomes a generally worthwhle game target?
Ya know, I hear a lot of people suggesting Java because it'll run on OS X and Linux, but all the Mac and Linux users I know despise Java applications as a rule. The only people who seem to actually like using Java programs are Java developers (Eclipse). I find it rather amusing that one of the only good examples of a large Java GUI applicaiton is for developers. Of course, most of them are using it on Windows where it runs decently. Eclipse on the Mac is dreadfully slow and clunky. Most Mac users will not use anything but genuine Cocoa apps. Of course, one can write Cocoa apps in Java, but then you lose all the portability.
Like a.sig I read here on/. once said, "Saying Java is good because it runs on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders." Couldn't be more true.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but I believe that DirectX provides a lot more to game developers than just graphics. There is also DirectSound and whatever they use for joysticks and other input devices. I doubt Windows game devopers are going to go OpenGL unless they are trying to be OS X compatable (which could happen). I see developers just staying with DirectX 9 for several years.
The first time I played GTA: Vice City i laughed my ass off at all the crazy things you could do. In San Andreas I liked to see how big of a car pile-up I could cause on the freeway, for example. I thought that was pretty funny. Although i would hesitate to call GTA an inherently funny game. Still, I think it is important to consider what makes a game funny. Is it jokes told by NPCs? Is it silly plot lines? Or is it just allowing the player to make their own fun if they want?
The biggest reason I switched away from sendmail was I did lose data because of mbox file corruption on two occasions. Maildir is much better at protecting against that.
That isn't a function of Sendmail. That is a function of your LDA, i.e. procmail. And procmail can do Maildir. It is dead simple to enable.
Qmail/Qmail-Scanner/Qmail-SPP have been doing a great job for me for the last few years.
But isn't qmail pretty much dead as far as development goes? It has been at 1.03 for years now. I found qmail to be great for virtual domains (with vmailmgr), but just plain awkward for anything else. Postfix is where its as as far as I am concerned.
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Oh, please. Immigrants have always been labeled as lazy drains on society. Mexicans are no different. Reality is that they are just as hard working as anyone else. Quite often they do the work that no other Americans would want to do... for less than minimum wage. The problem is that getting "documented" is not easy.
If you are worried about deficits, talk to George W. about his new, very expensive, Department of Homeland Security. Or the billions of dollars spent per year keeping military in Iraq.
-matthew
Wouldn't it be easier to just to hand over Texas to Mexico? I know I wouldn't miss it.
-matthew
First, where were you doing your speed tests? Some random internet site? NEVER trust those. They are worthless. If your ISP provides a speed test page, use that. Don't use one from dslreports.com or whatever. The reality is that, between you and your remote destination, there is probably some bottlenck that prevents your from getting full speed. Just because YOU have 6Mbit available, doesn't mean the site you are hitting does. WE ARE sharing the internet. You don't get a full 6Mbit connection oF your own to each and every site you visit.
That said, it is rather disturbing that your grandmother only got half of 768k. But again, that is just what the test said. WHo knows what is going on there.
All in all, I'm not particularly surprised. It is just par for the course that marketing promises so much and products deliver so little. Get used to it. That is how our economy/culture works. It isn't just ISPs.
-matthew
Yeah, so? They use the internet to communicate with each other to... BLOW SHIT UP. There is nothing at all terrifying about the thought of some mean people communicating on the internet. Hell, they could shut down the shock market and it STILL wouldn't be terrifying to most people. Unfortunate, sure. Bad for the economy, of course. But terror is something else entirely. Terror is about shock and spectacle. Shadowy figures moving through a virtual network is creepy, sure. But it doesn't even approach the kind of base, intense response that shit blowing up gets.
-matthew
Nope. Sorry. Shit blowing up tops all. People dying from bad pills is just unfortunate and perhaps scary if you happen to be one who takes a lot of pills. Shit blowing up easily beats it as far as terror goes. That is why the terrorists do it. It isn't about body counts. It about the shear spectacle of shit blowing up and body parts landing on windshields. It is especially effective now with modern media able to propagate the images instantly around the world. This whole idea of "cyberterrorism" is just ridiculous. Terrorists will continue to simply blow stuff up because it works.
-matthew
Ahhh! The corpses of the Twin Towers victims. Being waved around loudly on facist poles since Sep-2001.
Since when has it become fashionable for Polish political extremists to wear corpses? That seems like a pretty big public health problem.
-matthew
I've been meaning to brew a batch of beer with part molasses...
-matthew
sigh] Yet another vacuous "story" posted by someone just trying to drive hits to their ads. I'd like to see the day when the text on a page offered up more than a few paragraphs, surrounded by ads/other useless stuff.
Kinda like magazines, eh? Don't hold your breath.
-matthew
You start counting at zero? That's a fencepost error. You'll always end up thinking you have one more of something than you actually do.
Yeah, it is like counting masturbation as sex.
-matthew
11) Little Endianness
I'd love to move our office to thin clients however I really can't justify the cost.
I'm wondering.. how well does this actually scale. Seems to me that the real issue with Windows thin clients is the server side. Doesn't a single TS login take up pretty hefty resources? What kind of a server farm would you need to maintain to run, say, 100 TS/Citrix clients simutaneously?
-matthew
1) Any floating point operations are goign to be performed on the server
2) Type types of systems that thin clients are meant to replace don't generally deal with fp ops.
3) It is Windows CE!
-matthew
The majority of programmers everywhere are like that, in my experience. Sure, the real genius hackers are going to know just about everything about everything, but most developers just focus on their chosen niche. Sounds like they just selected the wrong instructors for teh class you were taking. I would, however, be concerned about people focussed on the price of their stock options.
-matthew
Have you interpretted your dreams correctly? Perhaps you actually desire to serve the sun-god, Ra?
-matthew
Yeah, i unknowingly chose a class that has both acrobatics and athletics as majors. But the slow leveling mod takes care of that. Still, it takes more work than it should to get decent stat bonuses per level. From what I gather, if you don't power level, the game gets ridiculously hard a higher levels and you end up having to turn the difficulty way down.
-matthew
But they do give a shit. That is my point. Any Mac user I've known can tell can tell right away that some thing isn't quite right with a Java (Swinge/AWT) application (even if they dont' understand why). If they do use the application, it is in lieu of a suitable native one. It is like emulation. Mac users will run (or used to at least) an application in Virtual PC, for exmaple, if they absolutely have to, but the minute a viable, native replacement comes along, they'll jump on it. Same with Linux users. Wine is OK if you absolutely need a specific Windows application, but most people will be on the lookout for a native alternative. While Java isn't quite as bad as running a program in Wine, it isn't too far off either.
-matthew
Of course that skill bonus could accidentally put your into the next level before you had practiced your minor skills enough to get optimal stat bonuses! Argh.. i hate the levelling system. I had to install the "slow levelling mod" because my character was leveling uncontrollably. I'd be in a dungeon and I would gain two levels before I was out and only get like +2 to the important stats. Now I don a full set of Heavy Armour and tank a rat or goblin until I get enough Block/HA points before each level so I can get +5 endurance.
=matthew
IF they really cared the books would be more than 5 pages long and you'd be able to extract the PDF version of offline reading. ;-)
-matthew
I'll ask a again, what woudl be the point? As long as DirectX 9 remains supported, what is the poitn of switching to OpenGL assuming the market doesn't change such that OS X becomes a generally worthwhle game target?
-matthew
Ya know, I hear a lot of people suggesting Java because it'll run on OS X and Linux, but all the Mac and Linux users I know despise Java applications as a rule. The only people who seem to actually like using Java programs are Java developers (Eclipse). I find it rather amusing that one of the only good examples of a large Java GUI applicaiton is for developers. Of course, most of them are using it on Windows where it runs decently. Eclipse on the Mac is dreadfully slow and clunky. Most Mac users will not use anything but genuine Cocoa apps. Of course, one can write Cocoa apps in Java, but then you lose all the portability.
.sig I read here on /. once said, "Saying Java is good because it runs on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders." Couldn't be more true.
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-matthew
You're an amateur website developer, aren't you?
-matthew
What would be the point?
-matthew
Perhaps I am mistaken, but I believe that DirectX provides a lot more to game developers than just graphics. There is also DirectSound and whatever they use for joysticks and other input devices. I doubt Windows game devopers are going to go OpenGL unless they are trying to be OS X compatable (which could happen). I see developers just staying with DirectX 9 for several years.
-matthew
The first time I played GTA: Vice City i laughed my ass off at all the crazy things you could do. In San Andreas I liked to see how big of a car pile-up I could cause on the freeway, for example. I thought that was pretty funny. Although i would hesitate to call GTA an inherently funny game. Still, I think it is important to consider what makes a game funny. Is it jokes told by NPCs? Is it silly plot lines? Or is it just allowing the player to make their own fun if they want?
-matthew
The biggest reason I switched away from sendmail was I did lose data because of mbox file corruption on two occasions. Maildir is much better at protecting against that.
That isn't a function of Sendmail. That is a function of your LDA, i.e. procmail. And procmail can do Maildir. It is dead simple to enable.
Qmail/Qmail-Scanner/Qmail-SPP have been doing a great job for me for the last few years.
But isn't qmail pretty much dead as far as development goes? It has been at 1.03 for years now. I found qmail to be great for virtual domains (with vmailmgr), but just plain awkward for anything else. Postfix is where its as as far as I am concerned.
-matthew