That sort of pressure would stop me enjoying the games, which sort of defeats the purpose of playing them in the first place.
I wonder if professional soccer, baseball, [insert pro sport here] atheletes develop this same attitude? Aren't they also getting paid to play a game and the pressure is on to play well? And these vid gamers are getting paid a fraction of what top earning physical sport players pull down.
Not to rain on the parade but please notice that this is a Mandrake company web page with some pretty graphs and just a handfull of numbers. Dunno about you, but I prefer to see official financial filings with an auditor's stamp of approval. Even just a regular cash flow statement and a balance sheet would be nice.
So which is it?? A hub? A switch? Or is it 4 NICs? Notice they don't list a NIC, just this hub/switch thing unless you count the built in 802.11b. So is THAT its link to the network? Obviously it would be nuts to incorporate a standalone hub (or switch) in the back of the thing without a NIC of its own except wireless, BUT that's the way the specs page reads! Someone needs to do a common sense proofread.
Without at least RAID 1 (mirrored drives) I never consider a hardware device a server
I was going to suggest that this thing could use an external drive and software RAID. But then I noticed that this brand new design has USB 1.1 and not Firewire or even USB 2.0. What a crying shame; you'd think for $1,400 they could have done that.
In this context it means a speed so fast it can be expressed as a reasonable fraction of light speed. Such as 1/10. As opposed to expressing the speed of walking as being 1/1,000,000,000,000 light.
At a given distance, orbital speed needs to be x. It doesn't matter if the orbiting body is the moon or a Kleenex. However at a distance y from bodies a and b of different masses, orbital speed needs to be different.
Good luck moving enough mass to the Earth make a difference within a few million years.
Well, 1% of millions is tens of thousands. Tens of thousands times $50 each is a nice house in Tuscany. Realise that it's an automated near-instant process for the spammer to submit leads and days/weeks/months of worker-hours of doing followups to discover there's a lot of bad leads. Each individual would-be loan closer is going to think he/she is just having a bad week until a supervisor or other higher-up connects the dots and realises the spammer submitted a bad lot.
That works great for spammers who send to real, or what they hope are real, addresses. Some spam to 000000@domain through zzzzzzzz@domain. These are the truly evil bandwidth suckers, if there are degrees of spammers.
It isn't about bandwidth. This plan is to make the flood of loan referrals, or whatever, have lower value. If the only people who respond to loan spams are people searching for loans then each one has a good chance of being a customer. But if there are a thousand bogus loan seekers then there are suddenly less real customers and the loan companies will not want to pay very much to chase bad leads. At least, that seems to be the idea here.
Well, in the short run, loan referrals are STILL worth $50, so spamming a spammer who is doing that will result in an insane windfall for said spammer. And if the reverse attack isn't sustained... well, it just pays for a new boat and house in Tuscany for the spammer. Then it's back to spamming as usual. I vote against this plan unless you guarantee you can sustain it.
Given that this is Utah, home of ultra conservative religious types and companies like the one that edits out all the parts of DVDs that they think you shouldn't see, how much filtering is going to be in place?
What he is saying is that the average American's access to health care is not that great
No, the AVERAGE American has excellent access to health care thanks to health insurance. Even poor people, thanks to Medicade, get good access to health care. Medicade is 7% of the Federal budget, hardly doing nothing for low income health care. Even the poorest people in America get plenty health care.
The CEO, as well as any citizen, can promote any candidate he wants to. At question here is the *company's* donations. I'm still searching for that. Opensecrets reports that companies in the "computers/internet" category donate to dems/reps at 45%/54%. Hardly a wildly lopsided figure. Of the 20 tops corporate political contributors, only 3 have 100% lopsided donations and only 8 are what I'd call heavily lopsided. So it seems that my assertion that most donate somewhat equally is not that far off the mark: http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.asp? Ind=B12 As handy as opensecrets is, I can't find a breakdown by company and that's the closest category to voting machines.
In any case, the assertion is that "the voting machine companies are donors to Bush" without backup or comparision. This is Vidal's assertion from the interview, not mine, and yes, I am trying to educate myself.
All the money we have wasted on the military, while our schools are nowhere.
What an absolutely bizarre comparison. Schools are funded by property taxes collected by the local/state goverment and given to schools completely managed by those local/state goverments. The federal government has absolutely no control and no fiscal responsibility for this local issue. Sometimes they make grants to states but this is an inefficient step for the federal government to collect taxes away from states and then give it back.
There is no health care
Another absurd statement; health care in the USA is the best in the world. Oh wait, he means health care paid for by the taxpayer. There are plenty of private health insurers and hospitals are forbidden to turn away patients who cannot pay.
We get nothing back for our taxes.
That's odd, I get protection from the greatest, by a wide margin, military in the world. Interstate highways, police, fire, national parks, etc. The list goes on and on. Vidal must be a serious hermit to not get ANYTHING for his taxes.
I wouldn't have thought that would have lasted the last 50 years, which I lived through.
Thanks to superior medical care and a solid national defence...
He's wrecked the economy. Unemployment is up.
Umm, what about last week's unemployment numbers down to 6 from 61? Umm, what about the stock market up significantly from the first of the year? Umm, what about corporate earnings meeting and beating expectations (which are up from last year)?
In short, there's nothing in this interview except paranoid rantings.
Since even supposedly indepented media is created by people who are hardly perfect, yes, completely unbiased media is extremely rare. What is important as consumers of media is to realise that behind every news item may well be slanted toward the leanings of whoever presents it.
all three owners of the companies who make these machines are donors to the Bush administration
Everyone who pays taxes in the US is a "donor" to the executive branch. Perhaps you mean the Bush campaign? In that case, you may be suprised that most companies actually donate pretty equally to both sides just to cover the bases. What were these companies' total donations to political campaigns compared to just to just Bush's? Without that info, this is a meaninglessly paranoid "article".
Talk radio is a forum for opinions and you'd be hard pressed to mistake it otherwise. The term "media" refers to what is presented as supposedly unbiased news.
It's your switches being set incorrectly; I had a similar situation. Get into the switch management and turn on the multicasting friendly features. If you've got simple unmanaged switches then you're out of luck.
Slashdot Mirror
Is it called version 5 Final because of the staff reduction at AOL's California campus that houses Nullsoft?
That sort of pressure would stop me enjoying the games, which sort of defeats the purpose of playing them in the first place.
I wonder if professional soccer, baseball, [insert pro sport here] atheletes develop this same attitude? Aren't they also getting paid to play a game and the pressure is on to play well? And these vid gamers are getting paid a fraction of what top earning physical sport players pull down.
Not to rain on the parade but please notice that this is a Mandrake company web page with some pretty graphs and just a handfull of numbers. Dunno about you, but I prefer to see official financial filings with an auditor's stamp of approval. Even just a regular cash flow statement and a balance sheet would be nice.
Therefore, we should ban forks from planes
Shows how long since you last flew; utensils ARE already banned.
and an interesting circular wound to my abdomen
Circular wounds should only be described as "interesting" when they're in OTHER PEOPLE'S abdomens, not one's own.
From the specs list:
4-port 10/100 Hub/Switch
So which is it?? A hub? A switch? Or is it 4 NICs? Notice they don't list a NIC, just this hub/switch thing unless you count the built in 802.11b. So is THAT its link to the network? Obviously it would be nuts to incorporate a standalone hub (or switch) in the back of the thing without a NIC of its own except wireless, BUT that's the way the specs page reads! Someone needs to do a common sense proofread.
Without at least RAID 1 (mirrored drives) I never consider a hardware device a server
I was going to suggest that this thing could use an external drive and software RAID. But then I noticed that this brand new design has USB 1.1 and not Firewire or even USB 2.0. What a crying shame; you'd think for $1,400 they could have done that.
In this context it means a speed so fast it can be expressed as a reasonable fraction of light speed. Such as 1/10. As opposed to expressing the speed of walking as being 1/1,000,000,000,000 light.
and prepare a well thought out response
Cool, so when can we expect to start seeing these?
The article does not mention if this is a net loss or a gross loss. This small detail will widely vary the topic's importance.
At a given distance, orbital speed needs to be x. It doesn't matter if the orbiting body is the moon or a Kleenex. However at a distance y from bodies a and b of different masses, orbital speed needs to be different.
Good luck moving enough mass to the Earth make a difference within a few million years.
Well, 1% of millions is tens of thousands. Tens of thousands times $50 each is a nice house in Tuscany. Realise that it's an automated near-instant process for the spammer to submit leads and days/weeks/months of worker-hours of doing followups to discover there's a lot of bad leads. Each individual would-be loan closer is going to think he/she is just having a bad week until a supervisor or other higher-up connects the dots and realises the spammer submitted a bad lot.
That works great for spammers who send to real, or what they hope are real, addresses. Some spam to 000000@domain through zzzzzzzz@domain. These are the truly evil bandwidth suckers, if there are degrees of spammers.
It isn't about bandwidth. This plan is to make the flood of loan referrals, or whatever, have lower value. If the only people who respond to loan spams are people searching for loans then each one has a good chance of being a customer. But if there are a thousand bogus loan seekers then there are suddenly less real customers and the loan companies will not want to pay very much to chase bad leads. At least, that seems to be the idea here.
Well, in the short run, loan referrals are STILL worth $50, so spamming a spammer who is doing that will result in an insane windfall for said spammer. And if the reverse attack isn't sustained... well, it just pays for a new boat and house in Tuscany for the spammer. Then it's back to spamming as usual. I vote against this plan unless you guarantee you can sustain it.
Given that this is Utah, home of ultra conservative religious types and companies like the one that edits out all the parts of DVDs that they think you shouldn't see, how much filtering is going to be in place?
Along the way they uncovered a trail that led ... right back to some of the largest financial institutions in the US
So have they been arrested and charged under the DMCA for divulging weaknesses in the financial system?
What he is saying is that the average American's access to health care is not that great
No, the AVERAGE American has excellent access to health care thanks to health insurance. Even poor people, thanks to Medicade, get good access to health care. Medicade is 7% of the Federal budget, hardly doing nothing for low income health care. Even the poorest people in America get plenty health care.
The CEO, as well as any citizen, can promote any candidate he wants to. At question here is the *company's* donations. I'm still searching for that. Opensecrets reports that companies in the "computers/internet" category donate to dems/reps at 45%/54%. Hardly a wildly lopsided figure. Of the 20 tops corporate political contributors, only 3 have 100% lopsided donations and only 8 are what I'd call heavily lopsided. So it seems that my assertion that most donate somewhat equally is not that far off the mark: http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.asp? Ind=B12
As handy as opensecrets is, I can't find a breakdown by company and that's the closest category to voting machines.
In any case, the assertion is that "the voting machine companies are donors to Bush" without backup or comparision. This is Vidal's assertion from the interview, not mine, and yes, I am trying to educate myself.
All the money we have wasted on the military, while our schools are nowhere.
What an absolutely bizarre comparison. Schools are funded by property taxes collected by the local/state goverment and given to schools completely managed by those local/state goverments. The federal government has absolutely no control and no fiscal responsibility for this local issue. Sometimes they make grants to states but this is an inefficient step for the federal government to collect taxes away from states and then give it back.
There is no health care
Another absurd statement; health care in the USA is the best in the world. Oh wait, he means health care paid for by the taxpayer. There are plenty of private health insurers and hospitals are forbidden to turn away patients who cannot pay.
We get nothing back for our taxes.
That's odd, I get protection from the greatest, by a wide margin, military in the world. Interstate highways, police, fire, national parks, etc. The list goes on and on. Vidal must be a serious hermit to not get ANYTHING for his taxes.
I wouldn't have thought that would have lasted the last 50 years, which I lived through.
Thanks to superior medical care and a solid national defence...
He's wrecked the economy. Unemployment is up.
Umm, what about last week's unemployment numbers down to 6 from 61? Umm, what about the stock market up significantly from the first of the year? Umm, what about corporate earnings meeting and beating expectations (which are up from last year)?
In short, there's nothing in this interview except paranoid rantings.
Since even supposedly indepented media is created by people who are hardly perfect, yes, completely unbiased media is extremely rare. What is important as consumers of media is to realise that behind every news item may well be slanted toward the leanings of whoever presents it.
all three owners of the companies who make these machines are donors to the Bush administration
Everyone who pays taxes in the US is a "donor" to the executive branch. Perhaps you mean the Bush campaign? In that case, you may be suprised that most companies actually donate pretty equally to both sides just to cover the bases. What were these companies' total donations to political campaigns compared to just to just Bush's? Without that info, this is a meaninglessly paranoid "article".
Talk radio is a forum for opinions and you'd be hard pressed to mistake it otherwise. The term "media" refers to what is presented as supposedly unbiased news.
It's your switches being set incorrectly; I had a similar situation. Get into the switch management and turn on the multicasting friendly features. If you've got simple unmanaged switches then you're out of luck.
but it's not yours
An academic point; do you really think they can repo it after the launch?