well, at least that explains it, I guess, though I thought it would be clear enough if someone understood IRQs.
Are you sure you can always change the IRQ on a parallel port? This was 1993. We were not able to do it. I forget if the bios wouldn't do it, or if there was some other, subsequent conflict, but I remember trying to do that for some time, since it was the obvious solution.
Bottom line, even if it was somehow our fault, it was easier to crack the software ourself than make that change.
what are you talking about? are you doubting me or making fun of the way our novel network was hacked together? Fuck, the network card was configured to use the parallel ports IRQ, what can I tell you?
I worked at a game company and we were using 3D studio which used a dongle. Problem was that none of the PCs had a parallel port, well, we had them, but the IRQ was tied up in the network because you printed over the network anyway. As a game company we had a couple hackers who were able to break the protection in a couple days.
When it happens, it's a pain. If you don't have the internet (SHOCK!) to that machine. It's the lamest copy protection since the dongle, especially since these sorts of things are only a bother to paying customers! Pirates crack and solve the issue. It's pathetic.
It does pull more machines on the net though, so there is a Machiavellian appeal to it. And don't get me wrong, companies are perfectly within their rights to use this kind of buttheaded scheme.
the seaways they use to ship the goods back here to sell. They will drain all the consumer capital from the beast and worry about it later. Of course tech jobs should be developed around the world, but as usual, the way the corporate system is going about it sucks.
>Trusting a VB-only developer to write an Enterprise class application is like having the "tire change boy" be your machanic. It is a stupid choice to make.
but that doesn't mean a lot of people didn't get reamed. The machines you mention populate the server room. Then engineers got Ulta 10's for their workstations. These engineers would have been better off with Solaris or even Linux or possibly even a Windows machine! I understand that these were Sun's attempt to reach down in the market, I know, I look inside and see IDE drives. They were cheap for sun boxes. But they were still twice a similar Lintel machine.
Another problem is that cheap commodity harward in clusters can easily get the mission critical statistics of an expensive premium brand that keeps running... but the cluster has so many advantages, after all, people have multiple Suns work together for failover and load ballancing anyway.
Sun's tanks are not much more of an advantage than their lemons. I'm sad to see this.
One, they started with Unix because it was open. Among the unix licensees the scene has the bazaar atmosphere. They should have jumped on Linux.
Also they are a hardware company and not all their hardware is great anymore. The Ultra 10's seem to crash like flies (this mixed metaphor is anecdotal and maybe you think different).
do you have a problem with that, because it's the written word of what this country is about and if you disagree, and think it's about amenities, you should leave.
also, perhaps you need to also look up the definitions of "devotion" and "loyalty" when you deny that allegience to a person implies a certain amount of unconditional support.
It's the difference between to ally and to allege.
Here is the american heritage defintion via dictionary.com
1. Loyalty or the obligation of loyalty, as to a nation, sovereign, or cause. See Synonyms at fidelity.
I love the space station. But it's orbit is too low. We need a construction platform in space, which we don't have. I do think the international cooperation is great. I don't think the money is all wasted.
But it slows us down because it's a big drain on resources. My point is just this... consider we raced the Chinese in their goal to have a manned moon base. Would we use the shuttle or ISS. Nope. Of no use. We'd have to go back to the Apollo rocket. And that's what I'm talking about. The shuttle and ISS are brute force solutions to problems that don't quite exist. That's how they slow us down, by giving us the impression we have a big lead, when we really have big drains on resources that do not make space easier to get to and from and use.
I guess my argument is that there is no excuse for not understand contructors.
C++ gives you a place to hide the "hard" and "error prone" parts, and in fact, others can cover that and you can use any of a wide range of classes to hide that word. You can use a pointerless paradigm in C++.
Fact is, most don't do that because it's overkill, it's NOT hard to manage memory in C++ compared to C, and pointers are not so hard to understand. And freeing memory is no more complicated a responsibility than closing scope.
everyone saying "uh the race is already over" is pulling from the book of "Things The Hare Said".
An earnest program could easily outpace the current US ability which is tied up in Shuttles and the IIS. Those older style rockets are cheaper. They can get things out of earth orbit. Getting a man in space is to basically catch the hell up in one step.
The Race never ends. And we have not lapped anyone, because we stopped advancing. The shuttle, while cool, gives us no advantages over a Chinese rocket based program.
They will catch up quick. In fact, they are basically all caught up as of today. China doesn't have to build a shuttle to catch... in fact, they and the ISS are slowing US down... so those things are going to make it easier for China to catch up.
China is saying "space science is still important". We can agree or disagree, but we can't sit on our laurels and expect it to last long.
>just that America is a nation under God, and as another poster pointed out, the average American does believe in a God.
"just". Do you see the illogic of saying that saying America is "under God" in order to pledge allegience has nothing to do with any God?
You only say something like that if you believe. As an atheist, of course it means something, it means I have to LIE to speak the pledge, because America is NOT under God.
I think you are wrong, with that phrase in there, we are not all "free to our own opinion", becuase you opinion is getting preferential treatment not in accord with American tradition.
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well, at least that explains it, I guess, though I thought it would be clear enough if someone understood IRQs.
Are you sure you can always change the IRQ on a parallel port? This was 1993. We were not able to do it. I forget if the bios wouldn't do it, or if there was some other, subsequent conflict, but I remember trying to do that for some time, since it was the obvious solution.
Bottom line, even if it was somehow our fault, it was easier to crack the software ourself than make that change.
... but the guy is clueless.
I think it's a (not so) clever way to try to get you to upgrade your old Microsoft stuff.
Linux lovers everywhere: You must ensure the 90 million Windows 9X users convert to linux, not XP. That is your mission.
I'm a lazy bastard, I won't be helping, please report your results.
I think not.
what are you talking about? are you doubting me or making fun of the way our novel network was hacked together? Fuck, the network card was configured to use the parallel ports IRQ, what can I tell you?
I worked at a game company and we were using 3D studio which used a dongle. Problem was that none of the PCs had a parallel port, well, we had them, but the IRQ was tied up in the network because you printed over the network anyway. As a game company we had a couple hackers who were able to break the protection in a couple days.
When it happens, it's a pain. If you don't have the internet (SHOCK!) to that machine. It's the lamest copy protection since the dongle, especially since these sorts of things are only a bother to paying customers! Pirates crack and solve the issue. It's pathetic.
It does pull more machines on the net though, so there is a Machiavellian appeal to it. And don't get me wrong, companies are perfectly within their rights to use this kind of buttheaded scheme.
the seaways they use to ship the goods back here to sell. They will drain all the consumer capital from the beast and worry about it later. Of course tech jobs should be developed around the world, but as usual, the way the corporate system is going about it sucks.
there were national health care and re-education funding when people lose not just their job but industry.
>Trusting a VB-only developer to write an Enterprise class application is like having the "tire change boy" be your machanic. It is a stupid choice to make.
I see you've been the the Sears Auto Center.
> The end result, PHP/MySQL is what people use when they want to get a job done, Java/XML is what you use if you want to build a career.
damn near perfect!!! damn near... but it would ring the point better if it was this.
The end result, PHP/MySQL is what people use when they want to get a job done, Java/XML is what you use if you want to get a job.
Just hire Bill Nye and that guy from The Secret Life of Machines to run it.
btw, "noggin", for kids is pushing this type of formula for kids... is it working?
but that doesn't mean a lot of people didn't get reamed. The machines you mention populate the server room. Then engineers got Ulta 10's for their workstations. These engineers would have been better off with Solaris or even Linux or possibly even a Windows machine! I understand that these were Sun's attempt to reach down in the market, I know, I look inside and see IDE drives. They were cheap for sun boxes. But they were still twice a similar Lintel machine.
Another problem is that cheap commodity harward in clusters can easily get the mission critical statistics of an expensive premium brand that keeps running... but the cluster has so many advantages, after all, people have multiple Suns work together for failover and load ballancing anyway.
Sun's tanks are not much more of an advantage than their lemons. I'm sad to see this.
>National healthcare will be run with the fairness of the IRS and the efficiency of the DMV.
:)
at least you admit it's coming!
... it's actually the lesser of two most predominant Unix'.
but not his outspokenness.
One, they started with Unix because it was open. Among the unix licensees the scene has the bazaar atmosphere. They should have jumped on Linux.
Also they are a hardware company and not all their hardware is great anymore. The Ultra 10's seem to crash like flies (this mixed metaphor is anecdotal and maybe you think different).
Does Java make them money?
have you read the GPL though?
do you have a problem with that, because it's the written word of what this country is about and if you disagree, and think it's about amenities, you should leave.
also, perhaps you need to also look up the definitions of "devotion" and "loyalty" when you deny that allegience to a person implies a certain amount of unconditional support.
It's the difference between to ally and to allege.
Here is the american heritage defintion via dictionary.com
1. Loyalty or the obligation of loyalty, as to a nation, sovereign, or cause. See Synonyms at fidelity.
2. The obligations of a vassal to a lord.
Vassal to a lord? Oblication of loyalty?
I'm an original space fanboy.
I love the space station. But it's orbit is too low. We need a construction platform in space, which we don't have. I do think the international cooperation is great. I don't think the money is all wasted.
But it slows us down because it's a big drain on resources. My point is just this... consider we raced the Chinese in their goal to have a manned moon base. Would we use the shuttle or ISS. Nope. Of no use. We'd have to go back to the Apollo rocket. And that's what I'm talking about. The shuttle and ISS are brute force solutions to problems that don't quite exist. That's how they slow us down, by giving us the impression we have a big lead, when we really have big drains on resources that do not make space easier to get to and from and use.
I guess my argument is that there is no excuse for not understand contructors.
C++ gives you a place to hide the "hard" and "error prone" parts, and in fact, others can cover that and you can use any of a wide range of classes to hide that word. You can use a pointerless paradigm in C++.
Fact is, most don't do that because it's overkill, it's NOT hard to manage memory in C++ compared to C, and pointers are not so hard to understand. And freeing memory is no more complicated a responsibility than closing scope.
everyone saying "uh the race is already over" is pulling from the book of "Things The Hare Said".
An earnest program could easily outpace the current US ability which is tied up in Shuttles and the IIS. Those older style rockets are cheaper. They can get things out of earth orbit. Getting a man in space is to basically catch the hell up in one step.
The Race never ends. And we have not lapped anyone, because we stopped advancing. The shuttle, while cool, gives us no advantages over a Chinese rocket based program.
They will catch up quick. In fact, they are basically all caught up as of today. China doesn't have to build a shuttle to catch... in fact, they and the ISS are slowing US down... so those things are going to make it easier for China to catch up.
China is saying "space science is still important". We can agree or disagree, but we can't sit on our laurels and expect it to last long.
outed any spies lately?
nothing changes? I disagree, I think nothing stays the same.
>just that America is a nation under God, and as another poster pointed out, the average American does believe in a God.
"just". Do you see the illogic of saying that saying America is "under God" in order to pledge allegience has nothing to do with any God?
You only say something like that if you believe. As an atheist, of course it means something, it means I have to LIE to speak the pledge, because America is NOT under God.
I think you are wrong, with that phrase in there, we are not all "free to our own opinion", becuase you opinion is getting preferential treatment not in accord with American tradition.
That's one in five that you are stomping there bucko.