I just started working for a company that is a mix of NT/2k Server, NT (migrating to XP Pro in November) desktop, with Netware for file and print and Notes for email/groupware/knowledgebase. While the Notes interface is utterly unituitive for me (F9 to refresh?? No Ctrl-Click??), I've adapted, and I'm glad that our highest IT managers have said "We don't run IIS on external webpages and Active Directory for domain services for the simple reason that they're both insecure."
Being a former member of the armed services that held a Top Secret clerance my entire career (and honorably discharged, before you ask), the "requirement" is there, but, provided that you are HONEST with your interviewers and stay off the stuff during your tenure, you will pass this part just fine.
The real source for trouble is financial dealings. If you've bounced checks, forget about it. Money, not sex, drugs, or ideology, has been the root of most espionage cases over the last 40 years.
At any rate, I was honest with my screeners, didn't touch drugs while I was in, and I had no issues with this area. Now, my ex-wife on the other hand...
And more mines are opening in Canada, with the potential to dwarf the output and quality of African mines. The problem being, there's no way of knowing where your diamond came from. There's been zero incentive for diamond merchants to advertise that their diamonds aren't "blood diamonds", so obviously now that there's a much larger supply of them, there's no incentive to advertise "bloodless diamonds". Regardless of where they came from, they're still selling.
When the whole concept of MMORPGs was explained to me, I thought "Wow, this is pretty cool!" But when I was told that I would have to pony up $10 a month after paying $50 for the game, as long as CS and Battlenet are still out there, I think I'll pass.
Don't get me wrong, more power to these guys, but really, we're talking about the same mentality behind selling heroin, except that the first hit isn't free. Now if the game was a free downloadable, I might consider it. Hats off to these guys for the scam of the century, but my money is going towards something without ongoing expenses.
I've got a Presario 2700, and while it's not a bad laptop at all, I'd really like to ditch the Radeon Mobility and move to the GeForce2Go, just for better drivers alone!
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any of the Compaqs with this same basic mobo that used anything other than the Rage Mobility, and I haven't been able to find any links to see if Dell and Compaq used the same supplier for the mobos. Are these daughterboards reasonably standard, since they're all coming from the same two or three suppliers in Taiwan?
Yes I do feel bad about it now, and I'm determined not to give my son the excuse of being too poor to afford it, and show him that through work on his part he can earn what he wants. Would I go back and smack myself if I could? You bet. Can I fix what I did twenty some years ago? No. Can I make sure my son doesn't follow in my footsteps? Hell yeah.
I don't remember that being in the 1st Ed. I vividly remember an article in Dragon that Gary wrote talking about the avatar issue and mentioning that this was going to be done like Greyhawk 2nd Ed. Something like "... readers of the new Greayhawk will know where I'm going with this." The plan was to break the book in two: first half for players and second half for DM's with the finer details about NPC priests, church structure, and avatar stats. This never got done, but I honestly don't remember avatars being mentioned at all in the 1st or 2nd Ed's (with and without the Chaosium stuff, but still the same cover).
If it was in the fine print rules at the back, we might have just missed it, or twenty plus years are catching up with me.
Jim Ward wrote X1 (Isle of Dread). I had a B series that was a fill in the blanks module, but I don't remember who wrote it. Had a brown cover, very very lame.
But they never explained that they were Avatars until the 2nd Ed of Greyhawk, and it never made it into the Dieties and Demigod's rulebook. I always loved the "I'm stronger than Loki!" comments that would be made by some of our dumber players.
Personally, I want the "Giants in the Earth" series to come back in Dragon. I loved getting ideas by looking at these cool mythic heros all done up nice and neat with the James Holloman or Roger Raupp art.
Takes me back to my childhood: shoplifting huge amounts of RPG's because I couldn't afford the $32 for a boxed set of Rolemaster. Nowadays, I try to remember that when my son is so jazzed up about a $40 PSX game, and I say "Okay, we'll save up your allowance for a few weeks, and you can pick up extra cash by edging the lawn". Trying to avoid the creation of another prolific teenage shoplifter in my family!
Anyhoo, those little brown books, followed by the billygoat on the front of the Monster Manual, and that HORRIBLE illustration on the cover of the DM's Guide (all courtesy of the same artist, whose name eludes me) occupied many lunches in Jr. High and High School for me, going over the endless variants of classes, the newest Dragon mag, the latest from Judge's Guild, the Thieves Guild series, and anything from Chaosium.
Speaking of which, it's really cool to see Sandy Peterson there, that man is simply a genius of the RPG world. CoC, the various supplements he made, plus his work on Runequest, made my bookshelf (legally, or illegally) every release. I'm about to have all my stuff out of storage for the first time in eight months, and I have space now for ALL of my RPG stuff, and I've kept it all from when I was younger: Traveller, Twilight 2000, RoleMaster, Battletech and Mechwarrior (1st ED), Gamma World, Harn, etc. And I have a feeling that after I spend a few hours setting up the network and entertainment totem again, that I will be unpacking these for days, since I'll be rereading them as I go! My wife will not be happy...
The only thing is, the government refused to own up to their part in the whole scandal: they assisted and turned a blind eye to their corporate and banking misconduct for years, and took kickbacks and bribes from all the parties involved. I was over there during the whole time that the IMF was helping them out of their economic hole, and they called the downturn and rebuilding of their economy "The IMF Era", as if their problems were all the IMF's fault.
Are they better off now than they were? Heck yeah. Have the root causes been addressed? Nope, just gone underground for a few years. Mark my words, in five to ten years, the ROK will go through the whole thing all over again.
While Dubya may be a doofus, he at least knows how to put his finger to the wind, much like his old man did, in the past he was leaning off his buddy Ken, but now that the winds have shifted, Kenny and company are just waiting in the on deck circle.
What I've been reading about the whole Enron thing, it's not a matter of figuring out who the bad guys are, but unravelling everything enough to have a clear picture to take to a grand jury. The "accounting practices" of WorldCom, Global Crossing, Adelphia, etc. are pretty blatant. Enron takes this to a whole new level.
Imagine a 4500 machine network wired by a pack of monkeys hopped up crack, crystal meth, and mescaline, and you'll have a pretty good idea of how convoluted the shell game that Enron was running was. Ken Lay and his boys are going down, it's just going to take awhile to untangle the wiring.
Not that Dubya wouldn't cover for him if he could, but that would be total political suicide.
That was exactly my point. If you live in, or plan to ever live in Legacy Land, then by all means learn it. There are still plenty of positions and demand for people who know and can debug/edit commentless arcane legacy code. I don't know how many positions I ran across that were looking for MVS experience!
Isn't this what keeps happening with sucessive versions of gcc? We're already seeing binary issues with 3.1.x and 3.2 compiled programs, if Linux users are expected to suck it up, what's the difference?
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I just started working for a company that is a mix of NT/2k Server, NT (migrating to XP Pro in November) desktop, with Netware for file and print and Notes for email/groupware/knowledgebase. While the Notes interface is utterly unituitive for me (F9 to refresh?? No Ctrl-Click??), I've adapted, and I'm glad that our highest IT managers have said "We don't run IIS on external webpages and Active Directory for domain services for the simple reason that they're both insecure."
8. Make a list of all persons we had harmed, and become willing to make amends to them all.
Being a former member of the armed services that held a Top Secret clerance my entire career (and honorably discharged, before you ask), the "requirement" is there, but, provided that you are HONEST with your interviewers and stay off the stuff during your tenure, you will pass this part just fine.
The real source for trouble is financial dealings. If you've bounced checks, forget about it. Money, not sex, drugs, or ideology, has been the root of most espionage cases over the last 40 years.
At any rate, I was honest with my screeners, didn't touch drugs while I was in, and I had no issues with this area. Now, my ex-wife on the other hand...
And more mines are opening in Canada, with the potential to dwarf the output and quality of African mines. The problem being, there's no way of knowing where your diamond came from. There's been zero incentive for diamond merchants to advertise that their diamonds aren't "blood diamonds", so obviously now that there's a much larger supply of them, there's no incentive to advertise "bloodless diamonds". Regardless of where they came from, they're still selling.
Boo Hiss.
You're just trying to get a rice out of someone.
All the dot com's used them on their common stock.
The memory will cost a fortune, that's the difference.
Uptime isn't everything you know!
Sure it is, with five nines you have all the time in the world to debug and recompile!
GAMES, I'm talking about GAMES.
Dude, take the pills everyday or they don't work.
When the whole concept of MMORPGs was explained to me, I thought "Wow, this is pretty cool!" But when I was told that I would have to pony up $10 a month after paying $50 for the game, as long as CS and Battlenet are still out there, I think I'll pass.
Don't get me wrong, more power to these guys, but really, we're talking about the same mentality behind selling heroin, except that the first hit isn't free. Now if the game was a free downloadable, I might consider it. Hats off to these guys for the scam of the century, but my money is going towards something without ongoing expenses.
I've got a Presario 2700, and while it's not a bad laptop at all, I'd really like to ditch the Radeon Mobility and move to the GeForce2Go, just for better drivers alone!
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any of the Compaqs with this same basic mobo that used anything other than the Rage Mobility, and I haven't been able to find any links to see if Dell and Compaq used the same supplier for the mobos. Are these daughterboards reasonably standard, since they're all coming from the same two or three suppliers in Taiwan?
Anyone? Anyone?
No, I wondered about that too, just didn't get invited to any of the parties. And I was obsesses with all of the female anatomy, not just the breasts.
I'm guilty of the same stuff, we're trying to remember things through how many substances that have run through our brains since then?
David C. Sutherland III!!!!
It just finally hit me!
The red and blue basic sets that I bought, had covers by Erol Otis IIRC
Yes I do feel bad about it now, and I'm determined not to give my son the excuse of being too poor to afford it, and show him that through work on his part he can earn what he wants. Would I go back and smack myself if I could? You bet. Can I fix what I did twenty some years ago? No. Can I make sure my son doesn't follow in my footsteps? Hell yeah.
I don't remember that being in the 1st Ed. I vividly remember an article in Dragon that Gary wrote talking about the avatar issue and mentioning that this was going to be done like Greyhawk 2nd Ed. Something like "... readers of the new Greayhawk will know where I'm going with this." The plan was to break the book in two: first half for players and second half for DM's with the finer details about NPC priests, church structure, and avatar stats. This never got done, but I honestly don't remember avatars being mentioned at all in the 1st or 2nd Ed's (with and without the Chaosium stuff, but still the same cover).
If it was in the fine print rules at the back, we might have just missed it, or twenty plus years are catching up with me.
Jim Ward wrote X1 (Isle of Dread). I had a B series that was a fill in the blanks module, but I don't remember who wrote it. Had a brown cover, very very lame.
But they never explained that they were Avatars until the 2nd Ed of Greyhawk, and it never made it into the Dieties and Demigod's rulebook. I always loved the "I'm stronger than Loki!" comments that would be made by some of our dumber players.
Personally, I want the "Giants in the Earth" series to come back in Dragon. I loved getting ideas by looking at these cool mythic heros all done up nice and neat with the James Holloman or Roger Raupp art.
Takes me back to my childhood: shoplifting huge amounts of RPG's because I couldn't afford the $32 for a boxed set of Rolemaster. Nowadays, I try to remember that when my son is so jazzed up about a $40 PSX game, and I say "Okay, we'll save up your allowance for a few weeks, and you can pick up extra cash by edging the lawn". Trying to avoid the creation of another prolific teenage shoplifter in my family!
Anyhoo, those little brown books, followed by the billygoat on the front of the Monster Manual, and that HORRIBLE illustration on the cover of the DM's Guide (all courtesy of the same artist, whose name eludes me) occupied many lunches in Jr. High and High School for me, going over the endless variants of classes, the newest Dragon mag, the latest from Judge's Guild, the Thieves Guild series, and anything from Chaosium.
Speaking of which, it's really cool to see Sandy Peterson there, that man is simply a genius of the RPG world. CoC, the various supplements he made, plus his work on Runequest, made my bookshelf (legally, or illegally) every release. I'm about to have all my stuff out of storage for the first time in eight months, and I have space now for ALL of my RPG stuff, and I've kept it all from when I was younger: Traveller, Twilight 2000, RoleMaster, Battletech and Mechwarrior (1st ED), Gamma World, Harn, etc. And I have a feeling that after I spend a few hours setting up the network and entertainment totem again, that I will be unpacking these for days, since I'll be rereading them as I go! My wife will not be happy...
Right on the money.
The only thing is, the government refused to own up to their part in the whole scandal: they assisted and turned a blind eye to their corporate and banking misconduct for years, and took kickbacks and bribes from all the parties involved. I was over there during the whole time that the IMF was helping them out of their economic hole, and they called the downturn and rebuilding of their economy "The IMF Era", as if their problems were all the IMF's fault.
Are they better off now than they were? Heck yeah. Have the root causes been addressed? Nope, just gone underground for a few years. Mark my words, in five to ten years, the ROK will go through the whole thing all over again.
While Dubya may be a doofus, he at least knows how to put his finger to the wind, much like his old man did, in the past he was leaning off his buddy Ken, but now that the winds have shifted, Kenny and company are just waiting in the on deck circle.
What I've been reading about the whole Enron thing, it's not a matter of figuring out who the bad guys are, but unravelling everything enough to have a clear picture to take to a grand jury. The "accounting practices" of WorldCom, Global Crossing, Adelphia, etc. are pretty blatant. Enron takes this to a whole new level.
Imagine a 4500 machine network wired by a pack of monkeys hopped up crack, crystal meth, and mescaline, and you'll have a pretty good idea of how convoluted the shell game that Enron was running was. Ken Lay and his boys are going down, it's just going to take awhile to untangle the wiring.
Not that Dubya wouldn't cover for him if he could, but that would be total political suicide.
That was exactly my point. If you live in, or plan to ever live in Legacy Land, then by all means learn it. There are still plenty of positions and demand for people who know and can debug/edit commentless arcane legacy code. I don't know how many positions I ran across that were looking for MVS experience!
Home of the VAX and land of Basic, FORTRAN, and COBOL!
Isn't this what keeps happening with sucessive versions of gcc? We're already seeing binary issues with 3.1.x and 3.2 compiled programs, if Linux users are expected to suck it up, what's the difference?