I know of no CHEF that would say Butter, oil or Cream is bad. They may be out there, but whatever... REAL foods do not make people fat. Fake foods, ala McDonalds, and the lack of exercise and portion control do.
Look at the French, they have Butter and Cream all over thier diet. But they stop eating when they aren't hungry.
Also, salt isn't bad either, whatever the myths about salt say. Japanese eat way more salt than almost anyone else, yet they are really healthy for the most part as well...
The problems with Americans is they EAT TOO GOD DAMNED MUCH...
The first couple of Episodes (not including the Pilot) were a little sketchy. This isn't the fault of the Producer or Director, but the Studio... They were constantly giving them notes to "make the Captain more likable" and whatnot... They wrote a new Pilot "The Train Job" over a weekend, once Fox decided that they didn't want a two hour pilot. I think EVERY Sci-Fi show has a two hour pilot, but hey, thats Fox, and they were spending about $2 million an episode...
Like people have been saying, the show works much better on DVD... I wasn't a big fan until I saw it that way. I thought it was OK, but the stories and characters are growing and evolving too fast for it to be pre-empted, moved, rescheduled, etc...
Ultimately the show got cancelled because of bad demographics, not bad ratings... Almost all intelligent TV Shows get cancelled for this reason... Advertisers want a much dumber audience...
My whole point was that it's much harder to target one specific person with POTS then it is with VoIP. What's easier? Finding my pair or capturing packets from/bound for my IP address? Umm, finding your pair is easier... Its in any wall jack, but that being said, its NOT your pair we are worried about, it someone elses (ie, someone without physical access to your house.) The equipment required to find a pair is much easier than the equipment necessary to find an IP address when you are talking about your local cross connect. As far as farther in goes, the problems are the same either way, there is some level of access needed, and some knowledge needed.
While I admit that the FPS is dominating most advances in the game industry, MMORPG's are fast catching up, with most players doing both...
Counter Strike:Source is only an incremental improvement over CS 1.6. But the thing is that the gameplay is so good, I'll keep playing similar games (eagerly awaiting BF2).
Speaking of Gameplay, Tony Hawk Pro Skater series is the one console game in the last decade to truly have such great gameplay, that it was fun, even if you weren't interested in the topic (skateboarding). These aren't solely technical hurdles, but creative ones... Creating a game that is fun to play for all skill levels is challenging on many levels, and I commend those that manage to put the resources into making a great game.
Also, the FPS isn't that last big revolution in gaming. That was the internet. Sure, the internet existed before the FPS, but playing with/against real people is really what has driven the FPS market.
Like HL was so popular for the game... Everyone knows it was CS that made the game the #1 for so long...
Give us Couter-Strike 2.
Don't get me wrong, I like CS:Source just fine, but Counter-Strike 2 will make me forgive the recent patch and total lack of Anti-Cheat that they have had so far... (all hail HackCam.)
As for the not using a steadycam thing, I think they are riffing off of Firefly... They did really jerky effects to great success, so maybe they figured they wanted some of that Fanbase mojo or something..
All I know is that I saw a trailer for Serenity at Wonder Con last weekend, and OMG did it look amazing... I now see the difference between the movie and show, even though I thought the show looked great... Seriously, OMFG, good.
Cover his ass... Yeah... You read his testimony before the 9/11 commision. He laid the blaim at everyones feet, including his own, BUT he says that in his estimation that 9/11 PROBABLY would have happened regardless, but our REACTION to 9/11 would have been swifter had the Bush administration listened to him earlier. You cannot deny that the Bush Administration doesn't give a rip about 9/11 or terrorism. Most of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudi's, and Al Queda isn't marginalized at all... Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11, and Clark gets blasted by people saying that he should support this president...
Why, the President didn't listen to him at all, and isn't doing what Clark thinks is in the best interests of the country...
Two things to remember. 1) Clark is a Republican, and 2) He's an American first, Republican second.
Maroon 5 is pretty boring, but I agree with you about Green Day...
I worked in a CD store (a cool indy one, back when they existed), when Dookie came down... You know that seen in "High Fidelity" where they listen to that "I stole my grandmother's wheelchair" or whatever, and were just kinda disappointed because is was good? Well, thats how Dookie was for me and my co-workers... Longview was on its way to being a hit, and we could tell it was going to be big, but when we heard it we were just kinda shocked, since we were expecting the major label debut of a cool punk band to suck...
Another band that I'm suprised I like is The Killers. I don't like new bands much anymore unless they are rooted in the 1990-1996 timeframe.
For reference, band I like are: The Afghan Whigs, Stereolab, Brad, U-ziq, Beastie Boys (Pauls Boutique and after), and Tom Waits (OK, he's not from that era, but he won a grammy, so he's on topic... Sort of)
Principle photography on Serenity (the firefly movie) is done... Scheduled for release this Sept...
You really have to look at a "failed TV series" that gets made into a movie...
Then again, Joss Whedon also turned a failed movie (BTVS w/Kristy Swanson) into a cult fav TV show, also something that never gets done, although that wasn't quite the same, since background and actors where different.
Dan Simmons - Hyperion books
Tad Williams - Otherland
Stephen King - Gunslinger
Orson Scott Card - Enders Game, and shadow books.
Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars books
Neal Stephenson - Anything...
Peter Hamilton - Reality Dysfunction, Neutronium Alchemist, Naked God
It's not like there are any startup costs associated with setting up a new customer. Cell phone activation is totally computerized. Especially if you bought your phone (not a free phone), there's no loss to a wireless company when you leave. And therefore no reason to be held hostage.
It actually costs providers about $400 per new subscriber. That is why one of the key indicators in this industry is churn, which is the percentage of subs that didn't renew...
Go to College and get a degree that has nothing to do with what you want to do in life... Find something that is interesting and study the hell out of it. At the same time, pursue a career while you are in college, maybe working at the college computer administration facility.
I went to college to get a EE, hated EE, and got degrees in PoliSci, and Economics. Now I'm a Network Engineer. What college did for me was made learning new ideas and concepts a process. High School can pretty much be phoned in, so there is very little learning done on a day to day basis, and the level of comprehension necessary to do well, is much lower.
Dyspeptic, what kind of an asshole uses the word dyspeptic?
Antihumanist Misanthropy: Care to define, or are you just going to throw out big words, and hope they mean something profound.
Wait, I just realized I may be battling whits with an asshole dialog generator. Maybe it just spits out obscure words according to some Mad Lib'esque plan. I feel silly.
Woohoo. I have never been called a heathen jackal before. This makes me so happy. It means so much more coming from a raving lunatic too. As far as the 6th commandment, goes, I have never even contemplated suicide, unlike yourself.
I think you need to ask the lord for a little guidance, because a hateful heart will get you nowhere near heaven my friend, but instead make your life hell on earth. I actually consider myself a very moral person, and its your kind of glassy eyed worshipping a wrathful god types that give rational religious people a bad name.
By the way, I hate it when "Christians" quote the Old Testement. The old testament covers the covenant made with Jews. This includes the 10 commandments. Those who believe in Christ are covered under the New Covenant, which can be summed up with John 3:16 if you are so inclined. Adhering to the New Covenant as I do, I can easily say the word "FUCK" and feel no remorse, if I feel that I'm using it at an appropriate time. (Which I'll admit is almost all the time) Not only with I be forgiven, but also, I don't even think it matters what is said, but only what is meant. Intent is always worse than the words used to express it.
I wonder if you do respect the words of "Our Lord", or merely find them convenient when you want to make attacks on people.
May the lord bless you and keep you, unless you are really the asshole you pretend to be.
Does Linux suck in comparison to *BSD... Sure. Does Linux suck in Comparison to Windows? Not so much..., which is what the root article was all about... The link you posted says nothing about NT... Is it superior to Linux, just neck and neck with BSD? You must love Windows to hate Linux so much.
I'll give you something to ponder: is there a better way to implement virtual memory other than spilling over into hard drive? You have to be able to index them and swap them in and out--on things called pages.
Yes there is. Spill them to someone elses RAM across a fast network. A lot of the time they aren't using all their RAM, and it's a LOT faster to do that than write it to disk.
One word: LATENCY. Its a bitch. You would need Gig interfaces to be faster than a hard drive, and don't load the network too much, because a gig switch fabric can only take so much before the milliseconds start adding up.
"The only difference here is that they are doing this with content providers specifically and not peering with other isps and backbone providers."
Big Deal.
Prioritizing traffic has been around for a while now. Most big networks must deploy some type of prioritization so they traffic they deem important doesn't get dropped. If you are on an MCI backbone, and have a packet going to UUNet, but there is a different packet going to an MCI customer, which do you think gets precedence. My traffic is always more important than yours. All they are doing is saying, hey, now I'm a subscriber, make me a priority also.
Telco's don't give a shit about consumer service, unless they are required to by the government. In the US, the Telco must have a certain percentage of available time on Voice lines, and that is pretty high, but on DSL, there is no requirement, so if anything is going to slide its going to be the consumer services, cause they sure is hell aren't going to ask someone from the T3 group to pop over to Joe Users house and test the copper facilities. 3 weeks is a pretty average downtime for DSL, from what I've noticed. FUNFUN.
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CAT 6 isn't is real standard, the terms Cat 5e and Cat 6 are for GigE purposes interchangable, and are marketing designations.
Cat 3 is almost impossible to use for 100Mb over a distance, but 10Mb is ok if its really Cat3. Cat 3 is typically used for phone Service.
I know of no CHEF that would say Butter, oil or Cream is bad. They may be out there, but whatever... REAL foods do not make people fat. Fake foods, ala McDonalds, and the lack of exercise and portion control do.
Look at the French, they have Butter and Cream all over thier diet. But they stop eating when they aren't hungry.
Also, salt isn't bad either, whatever the myths about salt say. Japanese eat way more salt than almost anyone else, yet they are really healthy for the most part as well...
The problems with Americans is they EAT TOO GOD DAMNED MUCH...
OK, I love it, but I'm a 31 year old Male... Sci-Fi is right in my wheelhouse...
My Dad was visiting from Wyoming. He's 61. We watched the whole series in 3 nights... And he didn't fall asleep once (he's 61)...
I showed him the Pilot, and he said, is there more? Sure, kept asking, "One more?" he was like "Hell Yeah".
Its Funny, dramatic, scary, funny, and cool...
The first couple of Episodes (not including the Pilot) were a little sketchy. This isn't the fault of the Producer or Director, but the Studio... They were constantly giving them notes to "make the Captain more likable" and whatnot... They wrote a new Pilot "The Train Job" over a weekend, once Fox decided that they didn't want a two hour pilot. I think EVERY Sci-Fi show has a two hour pilot, but hey, thats Fox, and they were spending about $2 million an episode...
Like people have been saying, the show works much better on DVD... I wasn't a big fan until I saw it that way. I thought it was OK, but the stories and characters are growing and evolving too fast for it to be pre-empted, moved, rescheduled, etc...
Ultimately the show got cancelled because of bad demographics, not bad ratings... Almost all intelligent TV Shows get cancelled for this reason... Advertisers want a much dumber audience...
My whole point was that it's much harder to target one specific person with POTS then it is with VoIP. What's easier? Finding my pair or capturing packets from/bound for my IP address?
Umm, finding your pair is easier... Its in any wall jack, but that being said, its NOT your pair we are worried about, it someone elses (ie, someone without physical access to your house.) The equipment required to find a pair is much easier than the equipment necessary to find an IP address when you are talking about your local cross connect. As far as farther in goes, the problems are the same either way, there is some level of access needed, and some knowledge needed.
While I admit that the FPS is dominating most advances in the game industry, MMORPG's are fast catching up, with most players doing both...
Counter Strike:Source is only an incremental improvement over CS 1.6. But the thing is that the gameplay is so good, I'll keep playing similar games (eagerly awaiting BF2).
Speaking of Gameplay, Tony Hawk Pro Skater series is the one console game in the last decade to truly have such great gameplay, that it was fun, even if you weren't interested in the topic (skateboarding). These aren't solely technical hurdles, but creative ones... Creating a game that is fun to play for all skill levels is challenging on many levels, and I commend those that manage to put the resources into making a great game.
Also, the FPS isn't that last big revolution in gaming. That was the internet. Sure, the internet existed before the FPS, but playing with/against real people is really what has driven the FPS market.
Like HL was so popular for the game... Everyone knows it was CS that made the game the #1 for so long...
Give us Couter-Strike 2.
Don't get me wrong, I like CS:Source just fine, but Counter-Strike 2 will make me forgive the recent patch and total lack of Anti-Cheat that they have had so far... (all hail HackCam.)
As for the not using a steadycam thing, I think they are riffing off of Firefly... They did really jerky effects to great success, so maybe they figured they wanted some of that Fanbase mojo or something..
All I know is that I saw a trailer for Serenity at Wonder Con last weekend, and OMG did it look amazing... I now see the difference between the movie and show, even though I thought the show looked great... Seriously, OMFG, good.
Huh?!?
Cover his ass... Yeah... You read his testimony before the 9/11 commision. He laid the blaim at everyones feet, including his own, BUT he says that in his estimation that 9/11 PROBABLY would have happened regardless, but our REACTION to 9/11 would have been swifter had the Bush administration listened to him earlier. You cannot deny that the Bush Administration doesn't give a rip about 9/11 or terrorism. Most of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudi's, and Al Queda isn't marginalized at all... Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11, and Clark gets blasted by people saying that he should support this president...
Why, the President didn't listen to him at all, and isn't doing what Clark thinks is in the best interests of the country...
Two things to remember. 1) Clark is a Republican, and 2) He's an American first, Republican second.
Maroon 5 is pretty boring, but I agree with you about Green Day...
I worked in a CD store (a cool indy one, back when they existed), when Dookie came down... You know that seen in "High Fidelity" where they listen to that "I stole my grandmother's wheelchair" or whatever, and were just kinda disappointed because is was good? Well, thats how Dookie was for me and my co-workers... Longview was on its way to being a hit, and we could tell it was going to be big, but when we heard it we were just kinda shocked, since we were expecting the major label debut of a cool punk band to suck...
Another band that I'm suprised I like is The Killers. I don't like new bands much anymore unless they are rooted in the 1990-1996 timeframe.
For reference, band I like are: The Afghan Whigs, Stereolab, Brad, U-ziq, Beastie Boys (Pauls Boutique and after), and Tom Waits (OK, he's not from that era, but he won a grammy, so he's on topic... Sort of)
Principle photography on Serenity (the firefly movie) is done... Scheduled for release this Sept...
You really have to look at a "failed TV series" that gets made into a movie...
Then again, Joss Whedon also turned a failed movie (BTVS w/Kristy Swanson) into a cult fav TV show, also something that never gets done, although that wasn't quite the same, since background and actors where different.
I've built a Freevo, built a MythTv box, and will never willingly give up my Tivo...
Dan Simmons - Hyperion books
Tad Williams - Otherland
Stephen King - Gunslinger
Orson Scott Card - Enders Game, and shadow books.
Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars books
Neal Stephenson - Anything...
Peter Hamilton - Reality Dysfunction, Neutronium Alchemist, Naked God
It's not like there are any startup costs associated with setting up a new customer. Cell phone activation is totally computerized. Especially if you bought your phone (not a free phone), there's no loss to a wireless company when you leave. And therefore no reason to be held hostage.
It actually costs providers about $400 per new subscriber. That is why one of the key indicators in this industry is churn, which is the percentage of subs that didn't renew...
Go to College and get a degree that has nothing to do with what you want to do in life... Find something that is interesting and study the hell out of it. At the same time, pursue a career while you are in college, maybe working at the college computer administration facility.
I went to college to get a EE, hated EE, and got degrees in PoliSci, and Economics. Now I'm a Network Engineer. What college did for me was made learning new ideas and concepts a process. High School can pretty much be phoned in, so there is very little learning done on a day to day basis, and the level of comprehension necessary to do well, is much lower.
Why would you put all of your domain servers in the same subnet? Same state for that matter.
Did you ever see this game...?? Hours and hours... I would play it still if I still had it.
Thanks for the sentiment, Mr. Thesaurus.
Dyspeptic, what kind of an asshole uses the word dyspeptic?
Antihumanist Misanthropy: Care to define, or are you just going to throw out big words, and hope they mean something profound.
Wait, I just realized I may be battling whits with an asshole dialog generator. Maybe it just spits out obscure words according to some Mad Lib'esque plan. I feel silly.
-Mecha
Woohoo. I have never been called a heathen jackal before. This makes me so happy. It means so much more coming from a raving lunatic too. As far as the 6th commandment, goes, I have never even contemplated suicide, unlike yourself.
I think you need to ask the lord for a little guidance, because a hateful heart will get you nowhere near heaven my friend, but instead make your life hell on earth. I actually consider myself a very moral person, and its your kind of glassy eyed worshipping a wrathful god types that give rational religious people a bad name.
By the way, I hate it when "Christians" quote the Old Testement. The old testament covers the covenant made with Jews. This includes the 10 commandments. Those who believe in Christ are covered under the New Covenant, which can be summed up with John 3:16 if you are so inclined. Adhering to the New Covenant as I do, I can easily say the word "FUCK" and feel no remorse, if I feel that I'm using it at an appropriate time. (Which I'll admit is almost all the time) Not only with I be forgiven, but also, I don't even think it matters what is said, but only what is meant. Intent is always worse than the words used to express it.
I wonder if you do respect the words of "Our Lord", or merely find them convenient when you want to make attacks on people.
May the lord bless you and keep you, unless you are really the asshole you pretend to be.
-Mecha
Take your fucking life then...
Does Linux suck in comparison to *BSD... Sure. Does Linux suck in Comparison to Windows? Not so much..., which is what the root article was all about... The link you posted says nothing about NT... Is it superior to Linux, just neck and neck with BSD? You must love Windows to hate Linux so much.
I'll give you something to ponder: is there a better way to implement virtual memory other than spilling over into hard drive? You have to be able to index them and swap them in and out--on things called pages.
Yes there is. Spill them to someone elses RAM across a fast network. A lot of the time they aren't using all their RAM, and it's a LOT faster to do that than write it to disk.
One word: LATENCY. Its a bitch. You would need Gig interfaces to be faster than a hard drive, and don't load the network too much, because a gig switch fabric can only take so much before the milliseconds start adding up.
PSX2 doesn't run Linux... (not yet anyway-port underway). The development of games is done on a linux box I believe, but the PSX2 doesn't run Linux.
"The only difference here is that they are doing this with content providers specifically and not peering with other isps and backbone providers."
Big Deal.
Prioritizing traffic has been around for a while now. Most big networks must deploy some type of prioritization so they traffic they deem important doesn't get dropped. If you are on an MCI backbone, and have a packet going to UUNet, but there is a different packet going to an MCI customer, which do you think gets precedence. My traffic is always more important than yours. All they are doing is saying, hey, now I'm a subscriber, make me a priority also.
Telco's don't give a shit about consumer service, unless they are required to by the government. In the US, the Telco must have a certain percentage of available time on Voice lines, and that is pretty high, but on DSL, there is no requirement, so if anything is going to slide its going to be the consumer services, cause they sure is hell aren't going to ask someone from the T3 group to pop over to Joe Users house and test the copper facilities. 3 weeks is a pretty average downtime for DSL, from what I've noticed. FUNFUN.