Uh... no. 15% is very fair, as compared to $500/mo. account fees, $0.07/transaction, and 3.5% fees. Really, when you look at it, for a one-cent fee, paying $0.07 per transaction is f***ing insane, so I appriciate the reduced fees.
I can get a flat rate at $0.30 a transaction, with a $60 monthly fee if I provide my own merchant account. What the hell providor are you using?
You can end up losing lots of things when people put fat sacks of cash money in front of you.
Especially when it doesn't matter how much you suck, people still flock to see your latest creation. If Lucas lost it, why does he still make so much money on the new Star Wars stuff? Shit, everybody loved KOTOR..
I mostly agree with you, and I think that Battlefield1942 almost achieved perfection. The only problem with that was being able to respawn at any captured point. You should have one main respawn base that you respawn at on re-inforcement waves. My only bitch is that most multi-player servers have the respawns set at 20s (understandable, to keep the game play quick) and that discourages proper teamplay.
You get a lot more teamwork if death is penalized.
IBM is one of the few companies that I don't mind holding patents, at least for now. Their method for enforcing patents is waiting to get sued by someone and then busting out a nice portfolio of patents the other people are infringing on and saying, "Lets call this a day, shall we?"
As long as they keep doing that, them patenting everything is better than Amazon or countless others.
Why do you think they don't sell the clearly superior OSX for x86 systems, where the OS itself could pose a much greater threat to MS than OSX for PPC only?
It's because it's easier to have a stable and efficient operating system when you have the hardware under control. One of the major reasons why Windows sucks so bad is because of it's "open" driver architecture, and it is very flexible on what hardware it runs on.
He actually grew up in Maine. It's a fake Texas accent.
There are times where I will say something in an amazingly thick New Jersey accent just because of my mother. Accents are a funny thing, some words just really stick in your parents accent. I would say that most of what he says doesn't have much of an accent, but I try not to watch him on TV.
How many big name actors are the voices there? A Bugs Life? Et cetera, Et cetera. Sports players get paid to endorse shoes, actors are there for their name as well.
And, looking at the email headers shows that it did, in fact, come from YOUR network segment...
First, it's not anything related to nerdfarm. Second, what makes you think I don't have any security in place on top of that? Such as filtering port 25, and only allowing ssh and http, https?
I recently took my laptop on a trip across Toronto and in a couple of hours spotted around 60 wireless networks. Around 80% had NO encryption enabled at all. And yes, the most common SSIDs are 'default' and 'linksys'.
How many of those were open intentionally? Probably quite a few. I don't leave the default SSID on, just so they can get an idea where they are connecting to, but I leave my access point open. It's on a different network segment, and I figure if someone has an 802.11 card I'll help out with their bandwidth. If it ever becomes a problem on my bandwidth, I'll just regulate that segment.
Don't assume that because they are open without encryption it is due to naivity.
I have to agree with you, that it is there problem to get funding. Although I also agree with the website owners right to say "You have to see these adverts to use the site."
If I was under that pursuasion, I would have some way to secure the site (md5 checksum, for example, on the innerHTML) and to ensure it loaded properly (and in-tact), require JavaScript to decrypt the content based on the finalized innerHTML checksum. Therefor you know the HTML at least got through ok, and there are several other ways to check for the banner adverts on the client side.
Yes, it sucks and easily circumvented but most people won't care. They would rather have the banner adverts than go through the hassle of figuring out a reliable way to decrypt the content.
The only time that I object to ads is when they are forced at me for a website sending me something, or when I'm not getting anything in return for viewing the ads. You have a right to run whatever you want to on your computer, but I have a right to make sure that the content I send your computer gets their in tact and prevent 3rd party applications from fucking me.
Reams and reams of paperwork must be completed, qualified engineers must be hired, and accredited builders must be contracted before so much as a single girder is laid.
A bridge collapsing will result in a high probability of someone being killed or injured.
So, what engineering standards does MS have to adhere to before they release a potentially internet-killing product? Oh, none?
We've been down that road with Slammer... what happened? Some ATMs didn't work... Woo!
Yes, because launching a huge EMP weapon in downtown New York wouldn't be effective?
What makes you think they're all barbaric and unintelligent? They are obviously intelligent to construct some of the devices they use, so it's not a leap to assume that eventually EMP weaponary will be involved in a terrorist attack to take out some financial centers.
Just an example of how this is correct, in Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) there is this scene where they are driving and there are small shrines on the ground next to the car.
Chihiro asks her mom what they are, and her mom responds, in the English translation, "Some people believe spirits live there."
Whoever translated that line should have been shot on the spot, or at least blacklisted. It totally missed the whole point of that dialog, which is to show that Chihiro's mom is 'hip and trendy' outside of traditional Japanese beliefs (a new trend, I guess...) and showing knowledgable disdain for Buddhism but not coming across like a jackass.
It's amazing how a sentence can carry a lot of inflected weight into a character and how the inability to translate a sentiment does detract from a movie. However, unless you have someone who is a native, chances are you won't get the expressiosn anyway...
For clarification on this, "they" (double-blind means that they don't know which items are being tested.) is both the administrators and people being tested.
Not to step on your toes mate, I just wanted to clarify your answer a bit further.
The court that will be hearing your case will do everything they can to dissuade you from contesting your ticket. They'll threaten you with having to pay full court costs (often more than the fine). Even if you have a good case, you'll probably end up paying at least the amount of the original fine. Local governments can't generate revenue if they dismiss cases.
This is Stupid and Wrong. You are talking to someone who used to regularly get tickets across 3 states. The only time I've paid what the ticket said was when I was on a trip and would have had to drive 2 hours and it wasn't contestable over mail (which some states do.)
They don't dismiss cases, and I'm not saying they do. They do, however, decrease the fine amount considerably.
Last ticket was $170, just by showing up they offered to settle at $100 without taking it to court.
Jeezus, I'd love to have a "proposed" fine the next time I get a speeding ticket.
It is a proposed fine. Go to court and offer a counter proposal by following the instructions printed on the back of the ticket. Chances are it will be substantially less. The only way it becomes the actual fine is if you don't challenge the proposal.
I'm not sure how they work, but I'm sure that there is a way to not vote on a measure. Just start your voting, and don't vote for anything. It will get the point across if everybody does that.
Well, Life is Beautiful and Amelie Poulain were pretty excellent. If you're calling either cliched, either you live far in the future where everything of this era is cliched, or you are talking out of your arse.
You are the type of pseudo-intellectual, misguided nimrods that would have eaten up all the Academy award winning videos had they not been made by main-stream producers but indie. You like it for the sake of it being indie, and nothing more.
You are Indy Pete. And Life Is Beautiful is a cliche, maybe if you watched more main stream movies over the last 30 years you would have gathered that. Just starting with The Mask, and I'm not talking about Jim Carrey.
Just keep thinking that Americans are stupid and indie films are the only true source of original movies. The only indie film in the last 5 years that had a hope of originality was Bubba Ho-Tep.
I've had things stolen, and had a neighbor whose car was stolen, and had a boss whose car was broken into. You need to move to a better city, because this has been spanning 3 states and I've never had them not care.
Besides, you may want to learn the difference between a traffic patrol officer and a detective.
AFAIK, there's at least on project out there to turn CVS into a filesystem, and a few others to add MVCC functionality into a filesystem (somewhat like the Clearcase filesystem does).
The thing is you have to filter (which I mentioned briefly) what is being stored. You can't do exact diff versioning on binary files, and compare them like you can with flat files (or even XML files, with any sort of ease.) This is why a versioning control file system doesn't work well, and I've travelled down this road pretty far. CVS/RCS/SCCS just isn't the tool for the job.
However, adding a revision tag to your files is a good method of doing it, but a good CVS setup will handle this as well. It just takes learning CVS really well, and at that point you just don't care that much to do it (that was my problem.)
It's a good feature, something I'd want on my docs and code, and other specs, not necessarily on my pr0n and MP3s.
You can set CVS to just do certain file formats really easily. Just have a cvs module "home" and then as root do a cvs co home from root, and setup your filters in the CVSROOT/ dir on your master server. At my old company we setup a system like this for user projects, and it operated like a second home directory. What works out even better is being able to share (it gets a bit complicated for that though) projects amongst multiple project-home-directories. The key is to setup multiple repositories and use merge utilities when someone checks in so it gets duplicated against everybody elses repositories. It works well, and ant was a great help.
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Great. Shoot the messenger, and not the message.
If she writes the message and delivers it, she isn't just the messenger.
The worst was "Nokia to take over Prison Control Sybian."
Gave a new meaning to Pound-me-in-the-ass-prison.
Uh... no. 15% is very fair, as compared to $500/mo. account fees, $0.07/transaction, and 3.5% fees. Really, when you look at it, for a one-cent fee, paying $0.07 per transaction is f***ing insane, so I appriciate the reduced fees.
I can get a flat rate at $0.30 a transaction, with a $60 monthly fee if I provide my own merchant account. What the hell providor are you using?
You can end up losing lots of things when people put fat sacks of cash money in front of you.
Especially when it doesn't matter how much you suck, people still flock to see your latest creation. If Lucas lost it, why does he still make so much money on the new Star Wars stuff? Shit, everybody loved KOTOR..
I mostly agree with you, and I think that Battlefield1942 almost achieved perfection. The only problem with that was being able to respawn at any captured point. You should have one main respawn base that you respawn at on re-inforcement waves. My only bitch is that most multi-player servers have the respawns set at 20s (understandable, to keep the game play quick) and that discourages proper teamplay.
You get a lot more teamwork if death is penalized.
Patent story... BOO IBM
IBM is one of the few companies that I don't mind holding patents, at least for now. Their method for enforcing patents is waiting to get sued by someone and then busting out a nice portfolio of patents the other people are infringing on and saying, "Lets call this a day, shall we?"
As long as they keep doing that, them patenting everything is better than Amazon or countless others.
Why do you think they don't sell the clearly superior OSX for x86 systems, where the OS itself could pose a much greater threat to MS than OSX for PPC only?
It's because it's easier to have a stable and efficient operating system when you have the hardware under control. One of the major reasons why Windows sucks so bad is because of it's "open" driver architecture, and it is very flexible on what hardware it runs on.
He actually grew up in Maine. It's a fake Texas accent.
There are times where I will say something in an amazingly thick New Jersey accent just because of my mother. Accents are a funny thing, some words just really stick in your parents accent. I would say that most of what he says doesn't have much of an accent, but I try not to watch him on TV.
I'm sure he studied that definition and that is exactly why the president pronounces it that way.
Or perhaps it's because he's from Texas. And go listen to a speech by Carter, who is well versed in "nucular" engineering.
Total agreement, and look at Shrek.
How many big name actors are the voices there? A Bugs Life? Et cetera, Et cetera. Sports players get paid to endorse shoes, actors are there for their name as well.
And, looking at the email headers shows that it did, in fact, come from YOUR network segment...
First, it's not anything related to nerdfarm. Second, what makes you think I don't have any security in place on top of that? Such as filtering port 25, and only allowing ssh and http, https?
It's not altruism, it's just not being a dick.
I recently took my laptop on a trip across Toronto and in a couple of hours spotted around 60 wireless networks. Around 80% had NO encryption enabled at all. And yes, the most common SSIDs are 'default' and 'linksys'.
How many of those were open intentionally? Probably quite a few. I don't leave the default SSID on, just so they can get an idea where they are connecting to, but I leave my access point open. It's on a different network segment, and I figure if someone has an 802.11 card I'll help out with their bandwidth. If it ever becomes a problem on my bandwidth, I'll just regulate that segment.
Don't assume that because they are open without encryption it is due to naivity.
I have to agree with you, that it is there problem to get funding. Although I also agree with the website owners right to say "You have to see these adverts to use the site."
If I was under that pursuasion, I would have some way to secure the site (md5 checksum, for example, on the innerHTML) and to ensure it loaded properly (and in-tact), require JavaScript to decrypt the content based on the finalized innerHTML checksum. Therefor you know the HTML at least got through ok, and there are several other ways to check for the banner adverts on the client side.
Yes, it sucks and easily circumvented but most people won't care. They would rather have the banner adverts than go through the hassle of figuring out a reliable way to decrypt the content.
The only time that I object to ads is when they are forced at me for a website sending me something, or when I'm not getting anything in return for viewing the ads. You have a right to run whatever you want to on your computer, but I have a right to make sure that the content I send your computer gets their in tact and prevent 3rd party applications from fucking me.
Reams and reams of paperwork must be completed, qualified engineers must be hired, and accredited builders must be contracted before so much as a single girder is laid.
A bridge collapsing will result in a high probability of someone being killed or injured.
So, what engineering standards does MS have to adhere to before they release a potentially internet-killing product? Oh, none?
We've been down that road with Slammer... what happened? Some ATMs didn't work... Woo!
Yes, because launching a huge EMP weapon in downtown New York wouldn't be effective?
What makes you think they're all barbaric and unintelligent? They are obviously intelligent to construct some of the devices they use, so it's not a leap to assume that eventually EMP weaponary will be involved in a terrorist attack to take out some financial centers.
No offense, but what you did is equivalent to a kid building a Pine Wood Derby car and a mechanic building a custom car.
Just an example of how this is correct, in Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) there is this scene where they are driving and there are small shrines on the ground next to the car.
Chihiro asks her mom what they are, and her mom responds, in the English translation, "Some people believe spirits live there."
Whoever translated that line should have been shot on the spot, or at least blacklisted. It totally missed the whole point of that dialog, which is to show that Chihiro's mom is 'hip and trendy' outside of traditional Japanese beliefs (a new trend, I guess...) and showing knowledgable disdain for Buddhism but not coming across like a jackass.
It's amazing how a sentence can carry a lot of inflected weight into a character and how the inability to translate a sentiment does detract from a movie. However, unless you have someone who is a native, chances are you won't get the expressiosn anyway...
For clarification on this, "they" (double-blind means that they don't know which items are being tested.) is both the administrators and people being tested.
Not to step on your toes mate, I just wanted to clarify your answer a bit further.
The court that will be hearing your case will do everything they can to dissuade you from contesting your ticket. They'll threaten you with having to pay full court costs (often more than the fine). Even if you have a good case, you'll probably end up paying at least the amount of the original fine. Local governments can't generate revenue if they dismiss cases.
This is Stupid and Wrong. You are talking to someone who used to regularly get tickets across 3 states. The only time I've paid what the ticket said was when I was on a trip and would have had to drive 2 hours and it wasn't contestable over mail (which some states do.)
They don't dismiss cases, and I'm not saying they do. They do, however, decrease the fine amount considerably.
Last ticket was $170, just by showing up they offered to settle at $100 without taking it to court.
Jeezus, I'd love to have a "proposed" fine the next time I get a speeding ticket.
It is a proposed fine. Go to court and offer a counter proposal by following the instructions printed on the back of the ticket. Chances are it will be substantially less. The only way it becomes the actual fine is if you don't challenge the proposal.
New? What's new about this?
I'm not sure how they work, but I'm sure that there is a way to not vote on a measure. Just start your voting, and don't vote for anything. It will get the point across if everybody does that.
Well, Life is Beautiful and Amelie Poulain were pretty excellent. If you're calling either cliched, either you live far in the future where everything of this era is cliched, or you are talking out of your arse.
You are the type of pseudo-intellectual, misguided nimrods that would have eaten up all the Academy award winning videos had they not been made by main-stream producers but indie. You like it for the sake of it being indie, and nothing more.
You are Indy Pete. And Life Is Beautiful is a cliche, maybe if you watched more main stream movies over the last 30 years you would have gathered that. Just starting with The Mask, and I'm not talking about Jim Carrey.
Just keep thinking that Americans are stupid and indie films are the only true source of original movies. The only indie film in the last 5 years that had a hope of originality was Bubba Ho-Tep.
I've had things stolen, and had a neighbor whose car was stolen, and had a boss whose car was broken into. You need to move to a better city, because this has been spanning 3 states and I've never had them not care.
Besides, you may want to learn the difference between a traffic patrol officer and a detective.
AFAIK, there's at least on project out there to turn CVS into a filesystem, and a few others to add MVCC functionality into a filesystem (somewhat like the Clearcase filesystem does).
The thing is you have to filter (which I mentioned briefly) what is being stored. You can't do exact diff versioning on binary files, and compare them like you can with flat files (or even XML files, with any sort of ease.) This is why a versioning control file system doesn't work well, and I've travelled down this road pretty far. CVS/RCS/SCCS just isn't the tool for the job.
However, adding a revision tag to your files is a good method of doing it, but a good CVS setup will handle this as well. It just takes learning CVS really well, and at that point you just don't care that much to do it (that was my problem.)
It's a good feature, something I'd want on my docs and code, and other specs, not necessarily on my pr0n and MP3s.
You can set CVS to just do certain file formats really easily. Just have a cvs module "home" and then as root do a cvs co home from root, and setup your filters in the CVSROOT/ dir on your master server. At my old company we setup a system like this for user projects, and it operated like a second home directory. What works out even better is being able to share (it gets a bit complicated for that though) projects amongst multiple project-home-directories. The key is to setup multiple repositories and use merge utilities when someone checks in so it gets duplicated against everybody elses repositories. It works well, and ant was a great help.
Anyway.. I'm rambling.