I'm a parent too and I know there I times I would like to snap my kids knecks. Seriously I think she killed the baby as an act of mercy. Remember how she held the child and calmed its crying and then said it wouldn't have to cry much longer? At that point I think she realized that the baby was possibly going to die a horrible death and she spared it. I think the Boomer cylon provides some more information to help back this theory up with her actions later in the show.
Well two things really. I think the fembot whatever her name is only killed the baby in the begining to spare it the horrible suffering it might have experienced when the planet was being bombed out. Then assuming boomer is really a cylon she was the one that said that children could get on the shuttle first. She also takes Boxey under her care when she could have passed him off to one of the other survivors. By the way its reasonable to believe that Boomer doesn't know that she is a cylon. It was one of the things the fembot told Baltar.
Since you haven't seen the second one yet I don't want to give too much away but it seems the cylons have some kind of soft spot for children. You'll see this when the last cylon infiltrater has been revealed to you at the end.
Straight from the article: It turns out that Ubisoft implented code into the RVS 1.5 patch which checks PCs for ANY clone or virtual drive programs and then fails to launch the game if such devices or programs are found. Now both of you be nice.
You know I believe I remember Alan Cox adding new drivers to the 2.0 series after 2.2 was released. There was a while when you didn't want to touch 2.2 because it wasn't quite there. It wasn't nowhere as bad as 2.4. I think that one was released before it was golden. I can't comment on anything prior to 2.0 though. My first kernel was a 2.0.20 something.
There have been several RTS games that I have felt improved the genre. Rise of Nations was a good one. I don't think it was very innovative but very well polished. The introduction of a larger tech tree added some fun game play. Also the way cities are founded and captured is pretty good too. The multiplayer mode where 2 people run one nation was pretty fun too. Its biggest drawback for me was that it was such a pain to get to serve up games from behind a NAT firewall. Homeworld was cool because of the space battles you were able to control. The interface was not for the faint of heart though and most of my friends were put off by it. The sequel by a different company (I forget the name right now but the game is not HW2) refined the interface and made it easier to control. I haven't tried HW2 yet but it looks as good as the original HW. The RTS game that I like the most which I don't think anyone has mentioned yet is Kohan. Yes the graphics were a bit dated for when it was released but the gameplay was great. The resource management was fairly light with a greater emphasis on tactical combat. It was nice not to have to protect the peasants or go rescue a stupid harvester that wondered into enemy territory. The way units were grouped into squads was really cool too. You didn't have to worry about clicking on 10 magicians to make them send fireballs at the enemy. The squads all fought with whatever they had. I can't wait for the next one to come out. It should have some nice improvements to it.
Is there any kind of devkit or plans for a devkit? One of the things that adds life to a game are the user created levels. I know I wouldn't be playing Ravenshield these days if all I had access to were the stock maps. This extends to other games as well. If this thing is to have a decent life expectancy then there needs to be some kind of dev kit for user mods.
Maybe it was too hard for you to read the law so here is the relevant section for you to read.
(2) "Facility" includes all retail establishments and movie theaters.
(B) No person, without the written consent of the owner or lessee of the facility and of the licensor of the motion picture, shall knowingly operate an audiovisual recording function of a device in a facility in which a motion picture is being shown.
Funny now that I look back on my TV viewing habits since Farscape got cancelled. I haven't watched anything with regularity on SciFi since. If I am looking for something on I don't even normally surf to the SciFi channel. Ever since they did that whole realignment away from space/scifi oriented shows I have ditched it. If Farscape came back to a venue like showtime I would actually subscribe just to watch it. I do however plan to watch the Battlestar Gallactica series they'll be running. That should be cool no matter how much they change it around.
Why do the corporate firewalls not block out-bound traffic to all ports but a select few HTTP/SSL etc? I think any decent sized corporation with a firewall admin does this already. The problem starts when you have protocols designed to circumvent firewall security. SOAP is nothing really but rpc over http on port 80. You can block whatever ports you want but as long as you have an outbound port opening somebody can find a way to use it.
What kind of idiot sys-admin would allow the corporate users , to run their PCs with admin previleges , so that any unwanted junk s/w be installed on their PCs ?
Again it doesn't really matter. All the buffer overflow exploits that have happened recently didn't make a check to a security manager to see if they could install a piece of software. Nimda, code red etc just installed themselves.
What kind of stupid sys-admin allows.vbs,.js ,.exe,.sws attachements thru the corporate email ? If you haven't seen the list of attachments outlook 2003 won't let you send you'll laugh your ass off when you do. Its basically any document that you can create with a Microsoft tool with a few of their competitors thrown in for good measure(pdf!?). I still think people will find ways to socially engineer their way around that one. Which genius allows unrestricted access to confidential corporate data to its users ?
Doesn't really matter. If the pc of someone who is authorized to view that data is comprimised the cracker gets the keys to the kingdom.
I agree with you but I don't really think you are comparing apples to oranges. That same raid configuration local to a machine would easily beat the networked version. Networks are overhead. You just have to read a few articles on distributed computing to figure that one out. How many extra bytes in the packet of a tcp header? How about converting the packets from network byte order to host byte order? Hands down the local disk version will always beat the network version. I will grant that not everybody is able to afford terabyte disk arrays for everyone of their servers (for now anyway). In that case you have to comprise. This guy isn't even talking about such high end hardware though.
One reason that those server programs refuse to run from network drives is locking. Last I read there wasn't near as fine grained locking available from a network drive as from a local disk. Plus the performance seems like it would just be awful. Can you imagine how long a query would take on a 1 gig table that had to do a table scan? Yuck.
Thats easy really. Its all about the small to medium sized businesses. How many small businesses have you ever come across that could really use some good groupware software or other things but can't afford them? I saw several while I was contracting. If these companies can save a few dollars and get the tools to help them compete on a larger level its a good thing. See the economy is really driven by small businesses. When lots of small companies are doing well there are more jobs. Boeing, Ford, GM et all create very few jobs compared to the number of small businesses that open up everyday. In this world of increasing technology these tools help lower the bar for entry into a market. They can also create a niche for a small business to help other small businesses implement and use these tools.
Well I do say mostly as fair. I put this in my sig because I find that most moderations that I mark negative get an unfair meta mod. I don't do it lightly either. If a post can be construed both ways I look at the posters history. If nothing is determinable from that then I usually give the moderator the benefit of the doubt. I feel that the meta moderators are often too harsh on the moderators when it comes to a negative mod. This just discourages people from moderating negatively. All you end up with is a bunch of positive mods with everybody afraid to mark something poorly. While the people who spew the crap continue to do so with little thought.
Chile, thirty years ago, a democratically elected president is replaced by a CIA backed Augusto Pinochet (sp?). Pinochet leaves a large blood bath in his wake. I'm American and it makes me ashamed even though I wasn't even alive. Much of the worlds unstable state is a byproduct of the cold war. Maybe it looked right then but like slavery it doesn't look right now.
This past summer I took I-70 out to Colorado. On the way there we stopped for gas at an exit in Kansas. That was definately the worst smell of the trip. Not even the five of us guys could produce such a smell in the confines of a minivan.
It really depends on what your looking to do for what I would recommend. I definately don't think you'll be quickly hacking together some solution by looking at others source code. The actual pdf spec is over 500 pages. There are several COM components that will let you draw to a pdf canvas but for anything useful thats pretty basic. In the python world there is the wonderful reportlab. Its built ontop of another library (can't remember what right now) and is very full featured. One project I was on had about 20 reports that were all of the same format just different data and totals. I designed a good base class that another programmer just inherited from and he cranked the reports out in no time. The best part about that was that he'd never touched python before. In the java world I used a library called iText. Its pretty good too. You can even convert from xml to pdfs with it.
It probably would cause a shake up but with java there are several eggs in different baskets. What would perl do without Larry Wall? They would get over it and move on. Besides Sun is more likely to be an aquisition target than it is to flame out.
I have to echo this. One of my assignments right now is to fix a post production bug. It happens to be a particularly nasty bug that we haven't been able to reliably reproduce. I think if you factor in the things needed to work around the fallout of this bug its easily the 50-200 ratio described. Even if you don't its still big. There can be a lot of soft costs involved in fixing a post prod bug. One big one is opportunity cost. If I didn't have to spend my time fixing a bug I could be off doing other productive things.
You could probably argue both ways. I spent a while trying to get the tomcat connector(mod_jk) to work right in apache and after much thrashing got it right. I also spent a lot of time having to recompile php b/c the distro I just loaded (Slack 9.1) doesn't have php with postgresql support built into it. So in order to get that I had to recompile from scratch. I also needed imap support but I use Courier and it only supports compiling with UWImap or cyrus. So I had to compile UWImap before I could compile php. It took a little while to get the build settings for that right enough to compile too. At least I didn't have to worry too much about the options on that one. I only needed the c-client libraries. Then after that ordeal phpgroupware still wouldn't work. It turns out that in 4.3 or so if IMAP with ssl is installed php defaults to using that. Nevermind that it breaks old code that ran just fine on servers not doing ssl. Sure all of this would have been unecessary if I didn't need anything outside of what my distro provided. Hell it would have even been preinstalled. But if you have to go outside the bounds of whats given you then things get hairy. Anyway they can both be a pain in the ass.
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I don't see how you can call that a mistake. Thats more like quitting cold turkey.
I guess you haven't figured out that in real life there is precious little that you are administrator of.
I'm a parent too and I know there I times I would like to snap my kids knecks.
Seriously I think she killed the baby as an act of mercy. Remember how she held the child and calmed its crying and then said it wouldn't have to cry much longer? At that point I think she realized that the baby was possibly going to die a horrible death and she spared it. I think the Boomer cylon provides some more information to help back this theory up with her actions later in the show.
Well two things really. I think the fembot whatever her name is only killed the baby in the begining to spare it the horrible suffering it might have experienced when the planet was being bombed out. Then assuming boomer is really a cylon she was the one that said that children could get on the shuttle first. She also takes Boxey under her care when she could have passed him off to one of the other survivors. By the way its reasonable to believe that Boomer doesn't know that she is a cylon. It was one of the things the fembot told Baltar.
Since you haven't seen the second one yet I don't want to give too much away but it seems the cylons have some kind of soft spot for children. You'll see this when the last cylon infiltrater has been revealed to you at the end.
Straight from the article:
It turns out that Ubisoft implented code into the RVS 1.5 patch which checks PCs for ANY clone or virtual drive programs and then fails to launch the game if such devices or programs are found.
Now both of you be nice.
You know I believe I remember Alan Cox adding new drivers to the 2.0 series after 2.2 was released. There was a while when you didn't want to touch 2.2 because it wasn't quite there. It wasn't nowhere as bad as 2.4. I think that one was released before it was golden. I can't comment on anything prior to 2.0 though. My first kernel was a 2.0.20 something.
There have been several RTS games that I have felt improved the genre. Rise of Nations was a good one. I don't think it was very innovative but very well polished. The introduction of a larger tech tree added some fun game play. Also the way cities are founded and captured is pretty good too. The multiplayer mode where 2 people run one nation was pretty fun too. Its biggest drawback for me was that it was such a pain to get to serve up games from behind a NAT firewall.
Homeworld was cool because of the space battles you were able to control. The interface was not for the faint of heart though and most of my friends were put off by it. The sequel by a different company (I forget the name right now but the game is not HW2) refined the interface and made it easier to control. I haven't tried HW2 yet but it looks as good as the original HW.
The RTS game that I like the most which I don't think anyone has mentioned yet is Kohan. Yes the graphics were a bit dated for when it was released but the gameplay was great. The resource management was fairly light with a greater emphasis on tactical combat. It was nice not to have to protect the peasants or go rescue a stupid harvester that wondered into enemy territory. The way units were grouped into squads was really cool too. You didn't have to worry about clicking on 10 magicians to make them send fireballs at the enemy. The squads all fought with whatever they had. I can't wait for the next one to come out. It should have some nice improvements to it.
Is there any kind of devkit or plans for a devkit? One of the things that adds life to a game are the user created levels. I know I wouldn't be playing Ravenshield these days if all I had access to were the stock maps. This extends to other games as well. If this thing is to have a decent life expectancy then there needs to be some kind of dev kit for user mods.
Maybe it was too hard for you to read the law so here is the relevant section for you to read.
(2) "Facility" includes all retail establishments and movie
theaters.
(B) No person, without the written consent of the owner or lessee of the facility and of the licensor of the motion picture, shall knowingly operate an audiovisual recording function of a device in a facility in which a motion picture is being shown.
Funny now that I look back on my TV viewing habits since Farscape got cancelled. I haven't watched anything with regularity on SciFi since. If I am looking for something on I don't even normally surf to the SciFi channel. Ever since they did that whole realignment away from space/scifi oriented shows I have ditched it. If Farscape came back to a venue like showtime I would actually subscribe just to watch it. I do however plan to watch the Battlestar Gallactica series they'll be running. That should be cool no matter how much they change it around.
Why do the corporate firewalls not block out-bound traffic to all ports but a select few HTTP/SSL etc?
.vbs, .js , .exe, .sws attachements thru the corporate email ?
I think any decent sized corporation with a firewall admin does this already. The problem starts when you have protocols designed to circumvent firewall security. SOAP is nothing really but rpc over http on port 80. You can block whatever ports you want but as long as you have an outbound port opening somebody can find a way to use it.
What kind of idiot sys-admin would allow the corporate users , to run their PCs with admin previleges , so that any unwanted junk s/w be installed on their PCs ?
Again it doesn't really matter. All the buffer overflow exploits that have happened recently didn't make a check to a security manager to see if they could install a piece of software. Nimda, code red etc just installed themselves.
What kind of stupid sys-admin allows
If you haven't seen the list of attachments outlook 2003 won't let you send you'll laugh your ass off when you do. Its basically any document that you can create with a Microsoft tool with a few of their competitors thrown in for good measure(pdf!?). I still think people will find ways to socially engineer their way around that one.
Which genius allows unrestricted access to confidential corporate data to its users ?
Doesn't really matter. If the pc of someone who is authorized to view that data is comprimised the cracker gets the keys to the kingdom.
I agree with you but I don't really think you are comparing apples to oranges. That same raid configuration local to a machine would easily beat the networked version. Networks are overhead. You just have to read a few articles on distributed computing to figure that one out. How many extra bytes in the packet of a tcp header? How about converting the packets from network byte order to host byte order? Hands down the local disk version will always beat the network version. I will grant that not everybody is able to afford terabyte disk arrays for everyone of their servers (for now anyway). In that case you have to comprise. This guy isn't even talking about such high end hardware though.
One reason that those server programs refuse to run from network drives is locking. Last I read there wasn't near as fine grained locking available from a network drive as from a local disk. Plus the performance seems like it would just be awful. Can you imagine how long a query would take on a 1 gig table that had to do a table scan? Yuck.
Maybe its a derived redundant work then?
Thats easy really. Its all about the small to medium sized businesses. How many small businesses have you ever come across that could really use some good groupware software or other things but can't afford them? I saw several while I was contracting. If these companies can save a few dollars and get the tools to help them compete on a larger level its a good thing. See the economy is really driven by small businesses. When lots of small companies are doing well there are more jobs. Boeing, Ford, GM et all create very few jobs compared to the number of small businesses that open up everyday. In this world of increasing technology these tools help lower the bar for entry into a market. They can also create a niche for a small business to help other small businesses implement and use these tools.
Well I do say mostly as fair. I put this in my sig because I find that most moderations that I mark negative get an unfair meta mod. I don't do it lightly either. If a post can be construed both ways I look at the posters history. If nothing is determinable from that then I usually give the moderator the benefit of the doubt. I feel that the meta moderators are often too harsh on the moderators when it comes to a negative mod. This just discourages people from moderating negatively. All you end up with is a bunch of positive mods with everybody afraid to mark something poorly. While the people who spew the crap continue to do so with little thought.
Chile, thirty years ago, a democratically elected president is replaced by a CIA backed Augusto Pinochet (sp?). Pinochet leaves a large blood bath in his wake. I'm American and it makes me ashamed even though I wasn't even alive. Much of the worlds unstable state is a byproduct of the cold war. Maybe it looked right then but like slavery it doesn't look right now.
Whats with these names lately? It seems like MS is dropping u's left and right. First the drop the u out of WinFX and now MSH.
This past summer I took I-70 out to Colorado. On the way there we stopped for gas at an exit in Kansas. That was definately the worst smell of the trip. Not even the five of us guys could produce such a smell in the confines of a minivan.
It really depends on what your looking to do for what I would recommend. I definately don't think you'll be quickly hacking together some solution by looking at others source code. The actual pdf spec is over 500 pages. There are several COM components that will let you draw to a pdf canvas but for anything useful thats pretty basic. In the python world there is the wonderful reportlab. Its built ontop of another library (can't remember what right now) and is very full featured. One project I was on had about 20 reports that were all of the same format just different data and totals. I designed a good base class that another programmer just inherited from and he cranked the reports out in no time. The best part about that was that he'd never touched python before. In the java world I used a library called iText. Its pretty good too. You can even convert from xml to pdfs with it.
It probably would cause a shake up but with java there are several eggs in different baskets. What would perl do without Larry Wall? They would get over it and move on. Besides Sun is more likely to be an aquisition target than it is to flame out.
I don't know who is sicker. That one is pretty funny though. Still sick...
I have to echo this. One of my assignments right now is to fix a post production bug. It happens to be a particularly nasty bug that we haven't been able to reliably reproduce. I think if you factor in the things needed to work around the fallout of this bug its easily the 50-200 ratio described. Even if you don't its still big. There can be a lot of soft costs involved in fixing a post prod bug. One big one is opportunity cost. If I didn't have to spend my time fixing a bug I could be off doing other productive things.
You could probably argue both ways. I spent a while trying to get the tomcat connector(mod_jk) to work right in apache and after much thrashing got it right. I also spent a lot of time having to recompile php b/c the distro I just loaded (Slack 9.1) doesn't have php with postgresql support built into it. So in order to get that I had to recompile from scratch. I also needed imap support but I use Courier and it only supports compiling with UWImap or cyrus. So I had to compile UWImap before I could compile php. It took a little while to get the build settings for that right enough to compile too. At least I didn't have to worry too much about the options on that one. I only needed the c-client libraries. Then after that ordeal phpgroupware still wouldn't work. It turns out that in 4.3 or so if IMAP with ssl is installed php defaults to using that. Nevermind that it breaks old code that ran just fine on servers not doing ssl. Sure all of this would have been unecessary if I didn't need anything outside of what my distro provided. Hell it would have even been preinstalled. But if you have to go outside the bounds of whats given you then things get hairy. Anyway they can both be a pain in the ass.