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Which, to me, is an interesting idea. In 'respecting people's beliefs', the Army (and other armed services) has gotten away from a core tenet: You are not special. You are a part of the Green Machine, as they say, or a part of the Navy/Air Force/the Corps (the Marines, sorry). The point is that once everyone is treated the same, then you won't have the little whining about how "it's against my $BELIEFSET !"
Cripes. PC is nice, and all, but this is a little extreme. About the only real choice you had in boot camp was to holler for what kind of meat you wanted. Didn't want either? Better eat something to give you energy while your Company Commander makes you drop.:)
Yeah, the company I worked for installed about 6 of them. We dropped 5-6 PC's behind a Linux box which connected to the Starband (**NOTE: This was not a supported setup**).
Worked pretty good for web stuff, 5250 sessions, and general usage.
File sharing was SLOW, but usable. When it's the only option, it works well.
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Thanks! Trying it out now...
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OK, quick question: Can you use the apt-get RPMs on Mandrake?
My wife and I played together EQ for about a year. I was a High Elf Paladin, she a High Elf Enchantress. We started together, leveled together, and grouped together. We each had other characters, but our primary characters were together. I personally was glad my wife wanted to play - I had a mage until lv 5, then she created a character and said "OK, I'm buying this!". We also know two other married couples here locally that play EQ together, and also group together.
It allowed us to do something fun together; for me to play a game without ignoring her (she's not much of a Quake III player); and for her to better understand why I like computer gaming as a stress relief tool.
We have since quit EQ - I hit 33, she was 35, and we were becoming bored and frustrated with the time requirements at those levels. We also bought a house and the Real World has taken over.:) We've tried Dark Age of Camelot, and may return to it at some point.
My point here? Gaming with your SO _can_ be very fun. You have another thing in common, and it can be a nice diversion from the realities of paying bills, etc. I mean hey, you can't spend the whole week in bed.:)
So I'm confused here... are you *against*.NET then, or are you applauding the fact that we'll get a "true cross platform, high-quality application development environment"?
Well, the thing is, your flippant little quote illustrates exactly the quote you're responding to. We've got Miss Native American, Miss Black America, Miss $non-white$-America - but if we (us damn whites) were to have a "Miss White America" or "White American History Month", we'd be branded racist, and culturally insensitive.
The NAACP and its sympathizers have done more to damage 'racial relations' than any other movement. It's the exact attitude that any group is 'special' or different or should be recognized as such that's preventing true harmony among people of differing skin tones and language.
Bwahaha! I bought my Athlon XP1500+ and a GeForce 3 Ti500 4 months ago - poof, I'm outdone and obsolete, once again.:) But hey, I still use a PII/350 and V770 Ultra (TNT2) in one of my other machines, so...:) Don't give up hope just yet on your old card.
"If the sysadmins don't fight for their users, then who will?"
Please. These users you're bravely fighting for could give a flying f*ck less about what browser they're using. They want simple things: Check their stocks, read their $web-based$ email, and whatever little features their job may require the Internet/Intranet for. Do they care about you fighting the MAN?! Hell no. They want solid, reliable software that lets them do their job with minimal interruption. Your little power plays will likely have the effect oft mentioned by Shakespeare, paraphrased as such... "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Seriously. As far as politics goes, why is Netscape better? They're owned by the OTHER EVIL EMPIRE - A0HelL!
Ahem. Sorry, that's a bit hot. </flamethrower>
There is no real good reason to not use IE, or to use Netscape in it's stead - unless you have apps or developers who code specifically for that platform. As far as that goes, IE5.5 and 6 are much farther along in supporting the cool toys that the dev guys like - y'know, VBScript, etc. - and it's *already there* on MS installs. Easy to deploy, easy to upgrade (IEAK), and most of your users already have IE at home.
So please, use Netscape/Opera/Lynx/Mozilla/your browser of choice, but "fighting for your users" means enabling them to do their job with transparent application of technology.
OK, but here's my question: Is Mandrake's update system so pissy about dependencies like Red Hat? I installed Ximian Gnome and apt-get RPM on my RH7.2 box, and now Red Carpet and apt-get constantly bitch at each other - apparently because Ximian's RPMs aren't the same as the apt-repositories.
Granted, maybe I shouldn't use both of them, but Christ, my Red Hat 7.2 machine is borked. I installed Debian 2.2 last night, compiled the new 2.5.1 kernel, ran apt-get update, apt-get install &packages_I_wanted& - and zoom, updated and shiny new and pretty. Damn, that's slick.
The install, however, was *far* from "Mom-intuitive."
Does Mandrake handle their dependencies any better/as well as Debian seems to?
Oh, man, I wish I had some mod points left for your line about the copper armor. I was literally crying from laughing so hard. Just struck me as damned funny.:)
And I imagine they'd see 1/5 of the subscriber rate.
People will pay $10/mo for EQ - I did for 1.5 years, as did my wife and several other friends - but $20/mo for a game is more than many people are willing to spend on 'computer gaming'.
Fine, blah, blah - "average players play 20 hours per month, that breaks down to $1/hr". That's great, but it's still the *thought* of kicking $20/mo. to a _game_.
It's the price point that will choke it.
On a different but related note, please tell me you're kidding about 24/7 support - have you tried to contact Verant in the evenings or on weekends? I'm not talking/petition, I'm talking picking up the damned phone - they're *gone* when most people are online. Tech support during the day for a game most people play in the evening and on weekends? Absurd.
Everquest's death knell will be Verant's continual abuse of their player base. I wish them every bit of ill will that people feel towards them, as they've had numerous opportunity to come clean on debated issues, and have generally pissed on everyone's cornflakes.
I, for one, would love the opportunity to see a well-crafted example in order to learn and see how it's done properly. The email here is fine, or to djpotter(at)rushmore(dot)com would be great, also.
As a matter of fact, the Black Hills of South Dakota are being serviced by a company named Black Hills FiberCom - and they provide local and long distance phone service, 230 channels of digital cable, and high-speed cable Internet service (1MB symmetrical). Price is $100/mo for the full package.
Won't work? Market penetration is at 50% after 3 years, and rising.
$230/mo is way high, when we're doing it here in the sticks for much less. But everything else here sucks, so don't move here.:)
OK, excellent point. The answer is very likely, no. However, I think public perception and fear of nuclear power would help to inflate the cost of liability insurance, don't you?
I'm not saying that nuclear power is the 'be-all, end-all', just that it isn't the Big Scary Thing (TM) that some have portrayed.
Please explain your statement "Nuclear power is way to expensive to use and they hide that fact."
Per KW/h, nuclear power is cheaper than many other generation facilities. It also has a much better safety rate than you believe. Admittedly, when failures or accidents occur, it is with horrific results, but these facilities improve all the time. There is a newer 1300MW (? I think it's near that) facility in Brazil that is one of the cleanest generation facilities yet.
Truth of the matter is this: all of you who don't like nuclear waste, fossil fuels, oil, gasoline, etc.; please turn off your PCs now, sell your cars, etc. if they bother you so much.
Too often, we're all content with knowing the lights come on - but that does come at a price. Power generation has some by-products. The industry is working very hard to lower emissions and make and use more efficient plants, but with our current resources, economy, and infrastructure, what we've got works. And works well. (Don't even start about California - they did that to themselves with deregulation.)
Nuclear power could actually ease the load from coal-burning and natural gas-burning power plants, with safer operation and lower overall operations cost. However, public fear and perception, combined with monetary interests in politicians from oil, gas, and coal companies may have helped slow adoption of nuclear power.
--My comments are in no way indicative of my employer.--
And they should run "some sort of address translation". With IPv4 space rapidly decreasing, and the added benefit of a smaller number of control points to the 'real, scary' Internet, why would you want clients on a regular LAN to have real IP addresses?
If most of us are 'numbnuts', you're a moron.
Now that that is out of the way, I'll take issue with your little Verant love-fest.
I played on Veeshan for nearly a year and a half with 7 different characters, so I have some experience with this game. Probably not as much as you, Mr. UberGuildBoy, but hey, I'm not really a n00b anymore, either.
I've been playing DAoC for a month now, and have thoroughly enjoyed it. Launch day went *very* smoothly for Mythic. They had the bandwidth, they had the patch servers, and their customer service Doesn't Suck (TM).
I hadn't cancelled my account in EQ yet because I have been waiting for SoL. I attempted to patch - and after bluescreening in WinXP, I finally patched - 5 hours later on a 2MB connection. When I started, I got the lovely "No 3D Device found." - Uhh, yeah. GeForce3 Ti500 and WinXP/DirectX 8.1. So, repatch. Feh. Finally got in - and lo and behold, the same little idiots were still around, still screaming in/ooc and/shout.
I logged in to DAoC, got a patch - 1 MB, 300K/sec.
I cancelled my account today.
But DAoC sucks too, all you EQ fanboys/girls should just stay there and then go to EQ2 when it comes out. Please. We don't need you in DAoC mucking that up too.
Verant's attitude towards their customers is terrible, they care little about uptime because they know they have a captive audience. You'll rant and rail, but you won't pull your account, because you're UBER. You'll cry, but you won't quit, because you need that R4re sp4wn, d00d. You'll also say, "Good, quit, less lag for me," and laugh it off. Personally, I'm glad to be gone. If EQ is your thing, great, but don't excuse Verant's poor planning by saying "You try to deal with 400,000 customers!" It's called running a business. Do it competently, or eventually, you will lose.
And Verant is losing. All these little 'touches' lately reek of fear. Not publishing server counts any longer "because our competition might use them for bad" is bullshit. Numbers are dropping. Adding horses is now part of the Vision - but at one point, we were told that horses couldn't fit in the character model file. Necros couldn't have Iksar pets b/c they wouldn't fit in the character file. No spectre pets - oops, we always planned spectre pets! And the brutal, unrelenting use of the nerf^H^H^H^Hbalance stick was pitiful. Hybrids were shit on for years, then a half-hearted
All the underlying problems with EQ - corpse runs, unkillable mobs, camping, d3wdz, and 'see no evil/hear no evil' fanboys like you - are only now covered by the thin veneer of pretty new T&L graphics.
*Whew* Sorry for the extended rant, but I know of SO many people who are so sick of EQ. Yeah, we're leaving. But my question is: Why are the rest of you staying? My honest query to you.
I believe the X15 - a rocket powered plane launched from a B52 - has the inter-atmosphere world speed record for a man-made device - Mach 6.72, or about 5,000 mph at sea level.
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Which, to me, is an interesting idea. In 'respecting people's beliefs', the Army (and other armed services) has gotten away from a core tenet: You are not special. You are a part of the Green Machine, as they say, or a part of the Navy/Air Force/the Corps (the Marines, sorry). The point is that once everyone is treated the same, then you won't have the little whining about how "it's against my $BELIEFSET !"
:)
Cripes. PC is nice, and all, but this is a little extreme. About the only real choice you had in boot camp was to holler for what kind of meat you wanted. Didn't want either? Better eat something to give you energy while your Company Commander makes you drop.
Ah, the memories...
Yeah, the company I worked for installed about 6 of them. We dropped 5-6 PC's behind a Linux box which connected to the Starband (**NOTE: This was not a supported setup**).
Worked pretty good for web stuff, 5250 sessions, and general usage.
File sharing was SLOW, but usable. When it's the only option, it works well.
Thanks! Trying it out now...
OK, quick question: Can you use the apt-get RPMs on Mandrake?
Alright, I agree with your viewpoints and think you have a great idea.
Now: How do we implement this on a large scale?
My wife and I played together EQ for about a year. I was a High Elf Paladin, she a High Elf Enchantress. We started together, leveled together, and grouped together. We each had other characters, but our primary characters were together. I personally was glad my wife wanted to play - I had a mage until lv 5, then she created a character and said "OK, I'm buying this!". We also know two other married couples here locally that play EQ together, and also group together.
:) We've tried Dark Age of Camelot, and may return to it at some point.
:)
It allowed us to do something fun together; for me to play a game without ignoring her (she's not much of a Quake III player); and for her to better understand why I like computer gaming as a stress relief tool.
We have since quit EQ - I hit 33, she was 35, and we were becoming bored and frustrated with the time requirements at those levels. We also bought a house and the Real World has taken over.
My point here? Gaming with your SO _can_ be very fun. You have another thing in common, and it can be a nice diversion from the realities of paying bills, etc. I mean hey, you can't spend the whole week in bed.
So I'm confused here... are you *against* .NET then, or are you applauding the fact that we'll get a "true cross platform, high-quality application development environment"?
"Are 11 months not enough?" you ask. Hrmm.
Well, the thing is, your flippant little quote illustrates exactly the quote you're responding to. We've got Miss Native American, Miss Black America, Miss $non-white$-America - but if we (us damn whites) were to have a "Miss White America" or "White American History Month", we'd be branded racist, and culturally insensitive.
The NAACP and its sympathizers have done more to damage 'racial relations' than any other movement. It's the exact attitude that any group is 'special' or different or should be recognized as such that's preventing true harmony among people of differing skin tones and language.
Bwahaha! I bought my Athlon XP1500+ and a GeForce 3 Ti500 4 months ago - poof, I'm outdone and obsolete, once again. :) But hey, I still use a PII/350 and V770 Ultra (TNT2) in one of my other machines, so... :) Don't give up hope just yet on your old card.
"If the sysadmins don't fight for their users, then who will?"
Please. These users you're bravely fighting for could give a flying f*ck less about what browser they're using. They want simple things: Check their stocks, read their $web-based$ email, and whatever little features their job may require the Internet/Intranet for. Do they care about you fighting the MAN?! Hell no. They want solid, reliable software that lets them do their job with minimal interruption. Your little power plays will likely have the effect oft mentioned by Shakespeare, paraphrased as such... "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Seriously. As far as politics goes, why is Netscape better? They're owned by the OTHER EVIL EMPIRE - A0HelL!
Ahem. Sorry, that's a bit hot. </flamethrower>
There is no real good reason to not use IE, or to use Netscape in it's stead - unless you have apps or developers who code specifically for that platform. As far as that goes, IE5.5 and 6 are much farther along in supporting the cool toys that the dev guys like - y'know, VBScript, etc. - and it's *already there* on MS installs. Easy to deploy, easy to upgrade (IEAK), and most of your users already have IE at home.
So please, use Netscape/Opera/Lynx/Mozilla/your browser of choice, but "fighting for your users" means enabling them to do their job with transparent application of technology.
OK, but here's my question: Is Mandrake's update system so pissy about dependencies like Red Hat? I installed Ximian Gnome and apt-get RPM on my RH7.2 box, and now Red Carpet and apt-get constantly bitch at each other - apparently because Ximian's RPMs aren't the same as the apt-repositories.
Granted, maybe I shouldn't use both of them, but Christ, my Red Hat 7.2 machine is borked. I installed Debian 2.2 last night, compiled the new 2.5.1 kernel, ran apt-get update, apt-get install &packages_I_wanted& - and zoom, updated and shiny new and pretty. Damn, that's slick.
The install, however, was *far* from "Mom-intuitive."
Does Mandrake handle their dependencies any better/as well as Debian seems to?
Oh, man, I wish I had some mod points left for your line about the copper armor. I was literally crying from laughing so hard. Just struck me as damned funny. :)
And I imagine they'd see 1/5 of the subscriber rate.
/petition, I'm talking picking up the damned phone - they're *gone* when most people are online. Tech support during the day for a game most people play in the evening and on weekends? Absurd.
:)
People will pay $10/mo for EQ - I did for 1.5 years, as did my wife and several other friends - but $20/mo for a game is more than many people are willing to spend on 'computer gaming'.
Fine, blah, blah - "average players play 20 hours per month, that breaks down to $1/hr". That's great, but it's still the *thought* of kicking $20/mo. to a _game_.
It's the price point that will choke it.
On a different but related note, please tell me you're kidding about 24/7 support - have you tried to contact Verant in the evenings or on weekends? I'm not talking
Everquest's death knell will be Verant's continual abuse of their player base. I wish them every bit of ill will that people feel towards them, as they've had numerous opportunity to come clean on debated issues, and have generally pissed on everyone's cornflakes.
Bah. Now I remember why I quit.
I, for one, would love the opportunity to see a well-crafted example in order to learn and see how it's done properly. The email here is fine, or to djpotter(at)rushmore(dot)com would be great, also.
Thanks!
As a matter of fact, the Black Hills of South Dakota are being serviced by a company named Black Hills FiberCom - and they provide local and long distance phone service, 230 channels of digital cable, and high-speed cable Internet service (1MB symmetrical). Price is $100/mo for the full package.
:)
Won't work? Market penetration is at 50% after 3 years, and rising.
$230/mo is way high, when we're doing it here in the sticks for much less. But everything else here sucks, so don't move here.
OK, excellent point. The answer is very likely, no. However, I think public perception and fear of nuclear power would help to inflate the cost of liability insurance, don't you?
I'm not saying that nuclear power is the 'be-all, end-all', just that it isn't the Big Scary Thing (TM) that some have portrayed.
Thanks for the valid point, though.
Please explain your statement "Nuclear power is way to expensive to use and they hide that fact."
Per KW/h, nuclear power is cheaper than many other generation facilities. It also has a much better safety rate than you believe. Admittedly, when failures or accidents occur, it is with horrific results, but these facilities improve all the time. There is a newer 1300MW (? I think it's near that) facility in Brazil that is one of the cleanest generation facilities yet.
Truth of the matter is this: all of you who don't like nuclear waste, fossil fuels, oil, gasoline, etc.; please turn off your PCs now, sell your cars, etc. if they bother you so much.
Too often, we're all content with knowing the lights come on - but that does come at a price. Power generation has some by-products. The industry is working very hard to lower emissions and make and use more efficient plants, but with our current resources, economy, and infrastructure, what we've got works. And works well. (Don't even start about California - they did that to themselves with deregulation.)
Nuclear power could actually ease the load from coal-burning and natural gas-burning power plants, with safer operation and lower overall operations cost. However, public fear and perception, combined with monetary interests in politicians from oil, gas, and coal companies may have helped slow adoption of nuclear power.
--My comments are in no way indicative of my employer.--
The poster didn't say it. Timothy, with his usual self-indulgent preaching, condemned it to vapor.
Excellent points. I hadn't thought far enough ahead (as usual) to have my brain use that. :)
Thanks for the info.
And they should run "some sort of address translation". With IPv4 space rapidly decreasing, and the added benefit of a smaller number of control points to the 'real, scary' Internet, why would you want clients on a regular LAN to have real IP addresses?
If most of us are 'numbnuts', you're a moron. /ooc and /shout.
Now that that is out of the way, I'll take issue with your little Verant love-fest.
I played on Veeshan for nearly a year and a half with 7 different characters, so I have some experience with this game. Probably not as much as you, Mr. UberGuildBoy, but hey, I'm not really a n00b anymore, either.
I've been playing DAoC for a month now, and have thoroughly enjoyed it. Launch day went *very* smoothly for Mythic. They had the bandwidth, they had the patch servers, and their customer service Doesn't Suck (TM).
I hadn't cancelled my account in EQ yet because I have been waiting for SoL. I attempted to patch - and after bluescreening in WinXP, I finally patched - 5 hours later on a 2MB connection. When I started, I got the lovely "No 3D Device found." - Uhh, yeah. GeForce3 Ti500 and WinXP/DirectX 8.1. So, repatch. Feh. Finally got in - and lo and behold, the same little idiots were still around, still screaming in
I logged in to DAoC, got a patch - 1 MB, 300K/sec.
I cancelled my account today.
But DAoC sucks too, all you EQ fanboys/girls should just stay there and then go to EQ2 when it comes out. Please. We don't need you in DAoC mucking that up too.
Verant's attitude towards their customers is terrible, they care little about uptime because they know they have a captive audience. You'll rant and rail, but you won't pull your account, because you're UBER. You'll cry, but you won't quit, because you need that R4re sp4wn, d00d. You'll also say, "Good, quit, less lag for me," and laugh it off. Personally, I'm glad to be gone. If EQ is your thing, great, but don't excuse Verant's poor planning by saying "You try to deal with 400,000 customers!" It's called running a business. Do it competently, or eventually, you will lose.
And Verant is losing. All these little 'touches' lately reek of fear. Not publishing server counts any longer "because our competition might use them for bad" is bullshit. Numbers are dropping. Adding horses is now part of the Vision - but at one point, we were told that horses couldn't fit in the character model file. Necros couldn't have Iksar pets b/c they wouldn't fit in the character file. No spectre pets - oops, we always planned spectre pets! And the brutal, unrelenting use of the nerf^H^H^H^Hbalance stick was pitiful. Hybrids were shit on for years, then a half-hearted
All the underlying problems with EQ - corpse runs, unkillable mobs, camping, d3wdz, and 'see no evil/hear no evil' fanboys like you - are only now covered by the thin veneer of pretty new T&L graphics.
*Whew* Sorry for the extended rant, but I know of SO many people who are so sick of EQ. Yeah, we're leaving. But my question is: Why are the rest of you staying? My honest query to you.
WindowBlinds from Stardock has updated their program to take advantage of the WinXP theme engine.
Have fun!
You're absolutely right. I was merely relating the top speed for an inter-atmospheric man-made device.
I believe the X15 - a rocket powered plane launched from a B52 - has the inter-atmosphere world speed record for a man-made device - Mach 6.72, or about 5,000 mph at sea level.
The man who presented the theory of supersonic travel was Ernst Mach. Hence 'Mach'.