there was a mod some maniac made over ten years ago of id's original doom fps. you were let loose in a level full of monsters, and each monster correlated with a process running on your computer. when you shot a monster (with a shotgun, preferably), the process associated with that sprite was terminated as well.
I use ssh and vnc connections to remotely administer and backup a number of the machines that I look after for various businesses. I need static IP addresses on both ends because (a) I have to be able to find them on the Internet and (b) they will only accept an incoming connection from specific IP addresses.
I run webservers, email servers and even a streaming audio server for some small businesses and they all require public IP addresses (not to mention domain names, etc.)
It should be obvious that a lot of stuff requires a "public" IP address. Even POS tills have to be able to find the central office to write their sales records.
The average home user (if such a thing exists) may not need a static public IP address but most businesses require at least some static IP addresses.
The best street name that I've ever seen is Ragged Ass Road in the city of Yellowknife. I always thought that anyone living there would have a helluva time ordering anything by phone or mail order. "What's your address?" "123 Ragged Ass Road." "Yeah, sure it is." *click*
Is it so difficult for you to believe that in 2010 we couldn't design and implement a better architected OS than something that was made in 1969 and has been duct-taped with add-ons ever since?
Yes it is, actually.
Linux/Unix/Posix is the product of 40 years of design work, thought and planning by some of the smartest people in the world.
we could very well see the zombie corpse of SCO rise from the grave to terrorize the world again.
Just the USA, which is only a small part of "the world".
It's my understanding that copyrights aren't really the issue due to the provisions of the GPL, but software patents could be a problem. Only in the USA, though, as the rest of the world doesn't have those. Yet, anyway.
so you can lose taxation either by overtaxing or by undertaxing.
Why in the world would you want to establish things such that the maximum amount of tax revenue can be extracted by the government?
Wouldn't it be a better idea to find out how much revenue is actually required by the government for necessary services, then set the taxation regime to generate that amount of revenue and no more.
That's a highly interesting article. I wonder, though, where someone like Bernie Madoff fits into that system. He's a non-violent offender, so should he be sent home to his multi-million dollar penthouse with an electronic monitor instead of being in jail?
I use RHEL5 at work. I hate it with the fiery passion of a million supernovas. It doesn't help that rhel5 is like six years old, and 5.4 isn't much better. Who else likes using a version of gedit so old it doesn't even have syntax highlighting?
RHEL 5.5 is the current release version, not 5.4. 5.5 has been available since the end of March.
I use Centos (equivalent to RHEL) and the version of gedit that it comes with (2.16.0) has syntax highlighting.
On the other hand, if you're looking for a really superb programmer's editor I highly recommend geany.
In a former life I was in charge of Emergency and Disaster Response for a Mutual Aid District. Every town in the district that had a volunteer fire department paid the volunteers an hourly wage for training time and call-outs. Towns and villages that didn't have their own FD always had some kind of a contract with a neighbouring town to provide fire protection through their FD at a fixed yearly price plus hourly call-out charges.
I always assumed that similar arrangements were in place "everywhere"; at least, everyone that I ever met while doing that seemed to be familiar with the model.
I own and operate a movie theatre. I wonder if these folks have considered making a 35mm version of their short for theatres to play before the main features.
It would be a way to gain a lot more exposure and publicity than they will get otherwise.
The projectionist at most splices the trailers and maybe 2 or 3 rolls for the actual film (hopefully in the right order, I've seen plenty done incorrectly).
2 or 3 "rolls"? What kind of reels are you using there? (And the word is "reel", not "roll".)
35mm film is shipped on 2000-foot reels, which hold roughly 20 minutes of film, each. So the average movie comes on something between 5 and 8 reels.
As a former theatre manager,
...who apparently has no idea how projection works. Pardon me if I have some difficulty believing that statement.
someone (once again, this is the theory) has looked at the kernel modifications and made sure it won't cause problems.
I can't imagine that it would be a manual process. Isn't scanning for differences between two files and creating a list of the same something that computers can do rather well on their own? (See diff and patch by way of example.)
TFA says that they are making the code available to be directly included in the Fedora distribution. Fedora is pretty strict about what they include in their distribution so if it's included it will have to be Free Software.
Accordingly, what's to prevent anyone from taking the Fedora version and porting it to the other Linux distributions that this outfit is currently charging a user fee for?
Other comments above state that the use of this thing requires a specially crafted patch instead of the regular "here's a new kernel package" that you get from the distribution's repositories. If so, then wouldn't it be worthwhile to use the technology that is revealed in the Free Software Fedora version to make a patch-creating kernel update reader program (KURP - Kernel Update Reader Patch) that would scan a standard kernel update and create the required patch?
Then this technology could become available as a stock feature in all Linux distributions, without charge.
Of course, if the technology isn't Free Software then this whole scheme goes off the rails, but if it's not Free Software it won't be included in Fedora anyway.
Technically, you could have IBM® brand breakfast cereal as long as it wasn't marketed to confuse the customer to think that International Business Machines, Inc. wasn't the parent company.
I am not entirely sure that you are correct. There is a special category of trademark called Famous Marks that receive additional protection over and above a regular trademark.
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the Wolfgang Puck restaurant's kitchen knives appeared to have been affixed to the workstation with fairly heavy-duty steel cables.
"Appear" is the operative word. Do you suppose they never take them off to clean them? (If not, I really wouldn't want to eat there.)
there was a mod some maniac made over ten years ago of id's original doom fps. you were let loose in a level full of monsters, and each monster correlated with a process running on your computer. when you shot a monster (with a shotgun, preferably), the process associated with that sprite was terminated as well.
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what needs "public" IPs?
I use ssh and vnc connections to remotely administer and backup a number of the machines that I look after for various businesses. I need static IP addresses on both ends because (a) I have to be able to find them on the Internet and (b) they will only accept an incoming connection from specific IP addresses.
I run webservers, email servers and even a streaming audio server for some small businesses and they all require public IP addresses (not to mention domain names, etc.)
It should be obvious that a lot of stuff requires a "public" IP address. Even POS tills have to be able to find the central office to write their sales records.
The average home user (if such a thing exists) may not need a static public IP address but most businesses require at least some static IP addresses.
The best street name that I've ever seen is Ragged Ass Road in the city of Yellowknife.
I always thought that anyone living there would have a helluva time ordering anything by phone or mail order. "What's your address?" "123 Ragged Ass Road." "Yeah, sure it is." *click*
Is it so difficult for you to believe that in 2010 we couldn't design and implement a better architected OS than something that was made in 1969 and has been duct-taped with add-ons ever since?
Yes it is, actually.
Linux/Unix/Posix is the product of 40 years of design work, thought and planning by some of the smartest people in the world.
we could very well see the zombie corpse of SCO rise from the grave to terrorize the world again.
Just the USA, which is only a small part of "the world".
It's my understanding that copyrights aren't really the issue due to the provisions of the GPL, but software patents could be a problem. Only in the USA, though, as the rest of the world doesn't have those. Yet, anyway.
so you can lose taxation either by overtaxing or by undertaxing.
Why in the world would you want to establish things such that the maximum amount of tax revenue can be extracted by the government?
Wouldn't it be a better idea to find out how much revenue is actually required by the government for necessary services, then set the taxation regime to generate that amount of revenue and no more.
$ whois gunreviews.org
[Querying whois.publicinterestregistry.net]
[whois.publicinterestregistry.net]
NOT FOUND
Looks like you can have it now for the price of registering it.
First of all, this only affects US citizens.
No.
the Class includes all Gmail users in the United States
Many people are "in" the United States for various time periods and purposes who are not citizens.
Actually I think Stiletto is (was?) the main developer of the MAME Voodoo emulation.
I had to pay my own monthly bill for monitoring services, which went to BI incorporated in Colorado somewhere.
How much were they charging you? And if you were unemployed and unable to cover that bill would you be ineligible for that program?
That's a highly interesting article. I wonder, though, where someone like Bernie Madoff fits into that system. He's a non-violent offender, so should he be sent home to his multi-million dollar penthouse with an electronic monitor instead of being in jail?
I use RHEL5 at work. I hate it with the fiery passion of a million supernovas. It doesn't help that rhel5 is like six years old, and 5.4 isn't much better. Who else likes using a version of gedit so old it doesn't even have syntax highlighting?
RHEL 5.5 is the current release version, not 5.4. 5.5 has been available since the end of March.
I use Centos (equivalent to RHEL) and the version of gedit that it comes with (2.16.0) has syntax highlighting.
On the other hand, if you're looking for a really superb programmer's editor I highly recommend geany.
In a former life I was in charge of Emergency and Disaster Response for a Mutual Aid District. Every town in the district that had a volunteer fire department paid the volunteers an hourly wage for training time and call-outs. Towns and villages that didn't have their own FD always had some kind of a contract with a neighbouring town to provide fire protection through their FD at a fixed yearly price plus hourly call-out charges.
I always assumed that similar arrangements were in place "everywhere"; at least, everyone that I ever met while doing that seemed to be familiar with the model.
Volunteer firefighters get paid for the time that they are working/training/whatever.
I own and operate a movie theatre. I wonder if these folks have considered making a 35mm version of their short for theatres to play before the main features.
It would be a way to gain a lot more exposure and publicity than they will get otherwise.
Add to that the fact that it appears half the population doesn't know how to pronounce "libre" or even what it means
I'm part of that half (or maybe quarter -- I do know what it means, but I have no idea what the correct pronunciation is).
How DO you pronounce that, anyway? Libra? Liber? Something else entirely?
copyright material on it, just my family photos.
br>I think you'll find that your family photos are indeed under copyright. Yours.
http://www.goldentrailer.com/awards.gta11.php
As you can see, the Golden Fleece is listed here right between "Best Video Game Trailer" and "Most Original".
Did you know that the film industry actually gives an annual award for the best trailer? It's called the Golden Fleece Award. (Really.)
The projectionist at most splices the trailers and maybe 2 or 3 rolls for the actual film (hopefully in the right order, I've seen plenty done incorrectly).
2 or 3 "rolls"? What kind of reels are you using there? (And the word is "reel", not "roll".)
35mm film is shipped on 2000-foot reels, which hold roughly 20 minutes of film, each. So the average movie comes on something between 5 and 8 reels.
As a former theatre manager,
...who apparently has no idea how projection works. Pardon me if I have some difficulty believing that statement.
The amount of money that you require to be "happy" depends on where you live and what the lifestyles of the people around you are.
Where you live sets the baseline cost of living, and visible lifestyles determine your expectations.
someone (once again, this is the theory) has looked at the kernel modifications and made sure it won't cause problems.
I can't imagine that it would be a manual process. Isn't scanning for differences between two files and creating a list of the same something that computers can do rather well on their own? (See diff and patch by way of example.)
TFA says that they are making the code available to be directly included in the Fedora distribution. Fedora is pretty strict about what they include in their distribution so if it's included it will have to be Free Software.
Accordingly, what's to prevent anyone from taking the Fedora version and porting it to the other Linux distributions that this outfit is currently charging a user fee for?
Other comments above state that the use of this thing requires a specially crafted patch instead of the regular "here's a new kernel package" that you get from the distribution's repositories. If so, then wouldn't it be worthwhile to use the technology that is revealed in the Free Software Fedora version to make a patch-creating kernel update reader program (KURP - Kernel Update Reader Patch) that would scan a standard kernel update and create the required patch?
Then this technology could become available as a stock feature in all Linux distributions, without charge.
Of course, if the technology isn't Free Software then this whole scheme goes off the rails, but if it's not Free Software it won't be included in Fedora anyway.
Technically, you could have IBM® brand breakfast cereal as long as it wasn't marketed to confuse the customer to think that International Business Machines, Inc. wasn't the parent company.
I am not entirely sure that you are correct. There is a special category of trademark called Famous Marks that receive additional protection over and above a regular trademark.