Well, despite being an Obama supporter (as am I), Taco is being pragmatic. Eric Holden could be his Attorney General, and he's all for net censorship. Plus this is the Democrats we're talking about; the old guard is salivating at the prospect of getting all their old nanny state legislation back on the plate.
The EVE devs remind me of many open source dev groups; really great coders, fun guys but terrible at the subtleties of customer service.
Yes, the fact that their forums and web servers all point at the same database as the game itself is astonishing. They've certainly made some weird design decisions through the years, although we're certainly not aware of all the factors that influence those decisions. Why on earth they didn't have a static web server page up within seconds of the downtime is really quite sad.
I was on the irc channels and watched the rumours fly around, it was all the work of a bunch of/b/ style folks who enjoyed trolling and watching the rollback rumours fly. Why anyone fell for it is beyond me to explain. (apart from "folks are dumb")
But the amazing accomplishments of the eve team shouldn't go unnoticed. A single game world means that people actually gain fame across the entire game, not just their little sharded server. Being able to sell some guy a battleship that then gets used in a pivotal battle involving 100s or 1000s of players is just jaw droppingly cool, in my opinion. The player driven economy, complete with scams, piracy, corporate wars and all, have kept me enthralled and entertained. (zealot mode, deactivated)
Because MTV (and the Music Labels) view Apple as the upstart n00b.
"Who do they think they are, we're M-Fucking-T-V! We'll bury them with this new system!"
Everyone thinks their team can win, whatever the odds...
slashdot farked black hole of unintentional DDoS
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I stopped reading Fark after they started censoring *that* special number. Plus they took away boobies links and seemed to start removing any image that showed more than an inch of female cleavage.
It used to be a fun low IQ flamewar filled insight into the minds of folks who would argue the relative hotness and sharp-kneed attributes of any female media celebrity. Some of the threads were freaking hilarious and definitely made my difficult work days a little easier.
In my opinion Fark has made some terrible decisions lately: Fark "TV", terrible redesign without any user feedback, increasing censorship and more paid links. I hated the decision, but it's gone from my bookmarks.
Hmm. That would be a valid comment *if* I was the one responsible for SUS and SMS. I'm not. I manage a department, one among many, that uses a centrally administered windows domain. I don't run the SUS or SMS servers, and I don't configure them.
Were I in charge of such services, I would better understand them, and thus be able to use them correctly.
But, in response to your point about blaming MS, I think you're wrong. I've run an automated setup on 12 identical dell workstations using the same software and servers. Those PCs should all be identical. Except they're not; some have SMS on them, some don't. Others have it half installed. Each one had a different list of updates from windows update yesterday, despite windows being the same "age" on each one.
Please don't assume that all windows domains are created equal, or that everyone has your skill and care in using windows.
Gawd, sometimes I loathe Microsoft in all its guises, and sometimes I fall into a Descent style animal fury at this annoyingly necessary evil.
With the latest "Critical, this affects everything" remote exploit patch, I had to run around patching our many computers in our medium sized academic department. We're supposed to have a software update service which pushes out the patches to critical issues such as this. Of course the SUS didn't update about 60% of the PCs, requiring me to manually run windows update on each one. each damned PC.
But wait, it gets worse.
About 80% of the unpatched PCs didn't have the latest Windows Genuine Advantage activex control installed. And for some reason, using windows update via "Run As..." no longer works. So I have to kick all my users off their PCs, log in via the local admin account, run windows update, manually install the new "improved" WGA tool, then finally click a bunch of times to get through to the final update screen. On about a quarter of the PCs, the Malicious Software tool or whatever it is called, requires a "click OK to install" about halfway through the patch process.
My Red Hat servers took a couple of clicks; go to redhat satellite server, select all out of date servers, click update, OK.
My lab of Macs took a little more work; open apple remote desktop, select all, run Unix command softwareupdate -l, download the pkgs manually, then apply those pkgs to all the out of date macs.
Both of those updates, the redhat and the macs, took less time than a single windows PC.
And all this during the busiest 2 weeks of the academic IT year, preparing for new visitors, classes and students...
I've always wanted a recumbent tricycle with some kind of continuously variable transmission and a roll bar. It would look totally dorky, but maybe then I wouldn't feel terrified trying to ride on the road...
Re:PS3? No thanks, Sony; you screwed the pooch
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I used to work at Sony back in the UK. The divisions are set up semi-autonomously, the thinking being that competition is good for innovation. Problem is, anything you think of that slightly invades the 'territory' of a more politically powerful division will be denied funding or just cancelled without explanation.
Bitter? Why yes I am, thank you for asking.
I worked project support for a great team of engineers who had some amazing ideas way ahead of their time. Can they use PS2 hardware? Write DVD related software? Other video related stuff? Nope. All because of inter-division competition. (I was intentionally vague on the those project descriptions) Then there's the snobby attitude towards software; once a project I worked on was forced to use a very expensive piece of hardware to do something they were already doing in software. Quelle Suprise, Sony couldn't sell the software and eventually the project was canned.
I really can't believe Sony has survived into the 21st century.
Get yourself a cheap >$40 usb soundblaster or similar with optical out. I tested mine with my powermac and it worked just fine. however, I didn't test optical out so the home theatre thing may not work...
So whatever happened to Netscape's calendar server?
Way back, I installed it at an R&D facility; the client worked across platforms (solaris and windows) and provided an alternative to the nasty exchange lock-in.
I think Al Qaeda must read Tom Clancy novels. He crashed a plane into the senate building in Debt of Honour, and in the same book used bright lights to blinds pilots during landings.
We should arrest Tom forthwith! (if only for his terrible characters:-)
speaking of gentoo; What I'd like to see would be a benchmark 'emerge system' or bootstrap.sh. One run should be on a single proc system with MAKEOPTS="-j2". The other should be on a system with dual processors at half the speed of the first system, with MAKEOPTS="-j3".
I ran something like this a while back; a dual p3-500 just about matched a single p4-1.5.
With some "real" benchmarks, we'd at least be able to weigh this 6GHz beast against a dual 3GHz beast...
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please let the insurance file be the result of "dd if=/dev/urandom ..."
Now get back to me when you've built 24+2 of them into a 1x10x10 cm 12 core blade with water cooling.
Or 256 of them into a 1U half-depth fanless storage array.
I loathe seeing racks upon racks of heat spewing, power sucking, storage arrays.
you *do* know that an F5 Big-IP is more than an SSL accelerator? Like, a load balancer with lots of cool features.
I guess you could duplicate the features of an f5 with nginx and more, but I guess it'd take a developer more than 50k worth of time to do it.
Well, despite being an Obama supporter (as am I), Taco is being pragmatic. Eric Holden could be his Attorney General, and he's all for net censorship. Plus this is the Democrats we're talking about; the old guard is salivating at the prospect of getting all their old nanny state legislation back on the plate.
YAY, I have a tiny chance of receiving $7.32 off my comcast bill in 6 years time!
The EVE devs remind me of many open source dev groups; really great coders, fun guys but terrible at the subtleties of customer service.
/b/ style folks who enjoyed trolling and watching the rollback rumours fly. Why anyone fell for it is beyond me to explain. (apart from "folks are dumb")
Yes, the fact that their forums and web servers all point at the same database as the game itself is astonishing. They've certainly made some weird design decisions through the years, although we're certainly not aware of all the factors that influence those decisions. Why on earth they didn't have a static web server page up within seconds of the downtime is really quite sad.
I was on the irc channels and watched the rumours fly around, it was all the work of a bunch of
But the amazing accomplishments of the eve team shouldn't go unnoticed. A single game world means that people actually gain fame across the entire game, not just their little sharded server. Being able to sell some guy a battleship that then gets used in a pivotal battle involving 100s or 1000s of players is just jaw droppingly cool, in my opinion. The player driven economy, complete with scams, piracy, corporate wars and all, have kept me enthralled and entertained. (zealot mode, deactivated)
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Because MTV (and the Music Labels) view Apple as the upstart n00b.
"Who do they think they are, we're M-Fucking-T-V! We'll bury them with this new system!"
Everyone thinks their team can win, whatever the odds...
I stopped reading Fark after they started censoring *that* special number. Plus they took away boobies links and seemed to start removing any image that showed more than an inch of female cleavage.
/.
It used to be a fun low IQ flamewar filled insight into the minds of folks who would argue the relative hotness and sharp-kneed attributes of any female media celebrity. Some of the threads were freaking hilarious and definitely made my difficult work days a little easier.
In my opinion Fark has made some terrible decisions lately: Fark "TV", terrible redesign without any user feedback, increasing censorship and more paid links. I hated the decision, but it's gone from my bookmarks.
Makes me remember my love for
Hmm. That would be a valid comment *if* I was the one responsible for SUS and SMS. I'm not. I manage a department, one among many, that uses a centrally administered windows domain. I don't run the SUS or SMS servers, and I don't configure them.
Were I in charge of such services, I would better understand them, and thus be able to use them correctly.
But, in response to your point about blaming MS, I think you're wrong. I've run an automated setup on 12 identical dell workstations using the same software and servers. Those PCs should all be identical. Except they're not; some have SMS on them, some don't. Others have it half installed. Each one had a different list of updates from windows update yesterday, despite windows being the same "age" on each one.
Please don't assume that all windows domains are created equal, or that everyone has your skill and care in using windows.
Gawd, sometimes I loathe Microsoft in all its guises, and sometimes I fall into a Descent style animal fury at this annoyingly necessary evil.
With the latest "Critical, this affects everything" remote exploit patch, I had to run around patching our many computers in our medium sized academic department. We're supposed to have a software update service which pushes out the patches to critical issues such as this. Of course the SUS didn't update about 60% of the PCs, requiring me to manually run windows update on each one. each damned PC.
But wait, it gets worse.
About 80% of the unpatched PCs didn't have the latest Windows Genuine Advantage activex control installed. And for some reason, using windows update via "Run As..." no longer works. So I have to kick all my users off their PCs, log in via the local admin account, run windows update, manually install the new "improved" WGA tool, then finally click a bunch of times to get through to the final update screen. On about a quarter of the PCs, the Malicious Software tool or whatever it is called, requires a "click OK to install" about halfway through the patch process.
My Red Hat servers took a couple of clicks; go to redhat satellite server, select all out of date servers, click update, OK.
My lab of Macs took a little more work; open apple remote desktop, select all, run Unix command softwareupdate -l, download the pkgs manually, then apply those pkgs to all the out of date macs.
Both of those updates, the redhat and the macs, took less time than a single windows PC.
And all this during the busiest 2 weeks of the academic IT year, preparing for new visitors, classes and students...
I've always wanted a recumbent tricycle with some kind of continuously variable transmission and a roll bar. It would look totally dorky, but maybe then I wouldn't feel terrified trying to ride on the road...
I used to work at Sony back in the UK. The divisions are set up semi-autonomously, the thinking being that competition is good for innovation. Problem is, anything you think of that slightly invades the 'territory' of a more politically powerful division will be denied funding or just cancelled without explanation.
Bitter? Why yes I am, thank you for asking.
I worked project support for a great team of engineers who had some amazing ideas way ahead of their time. Can they use PS2 hardware? Write DVD related software? Other video related stuff? Nope. All because of inter-division competition. (I was intentionally vague on the those project descriptions) Then there's the snobby attitude towards software; once a project I worked on was forced to use a very expensive piece of hardware to do something they were already doing in software. Quelle Suprise, Sony couldn't sell the software and eventually the project was canned.
I really can't believe Sony has survived into the 21st century.
Yeah it must be so terrible, such torture to have a partner and responsibilities in life.
:-)
Sorry for the snark, but 5 minutes rubbing feet and 10 minutes cleaning a cat box? That's not exactly a long time away from your WoW auctions, is it?
Not to jump on the GTD bandwagon, but if it takes 10 minutes or less, just do it right now, you'd be amazed at how much easier your life becomes
(oh, and use lotion on those feet, peppermint body shop foot lotion work wonders on sore female feet)
usb audio for $30-$50?
Get yourself a cheap >$40 usb soundblaster or similar with optical out. I tested mine with my powermac and it worked just fine. however, I didn't test optical out so the home theatre thing may not work...
show photos. on a tiny screen.
woohoo!
So it can store photos. I can do that right now on my 20G ipod.
And it can display photos on a TV, cool.
But it can't transfer photos directly from a digital camera? You need to buy an expensive yet crappy belkin adapter for that? No thank you.
It would've been cooler had it been able to display keynote presentations to VGA...
I say it's another cube for apple.
So whatever happened to Netscape's calendar server?
Way back, I installed it at an R&D facility; the client worked across platforms (solaris and windows) and provided an alternative to the nasty exchange lock-in.
Is there *any* alternative to Exchange now?
I think Al Qaeda must read Tom Clancy novels. He crashed a plane into the senate building in Debt of Honour, and in the same book used bright lights to blinds pilots during landings.
:-)
We should arrest Tom forthwith! (if only for his terrible characters
speaking of gentoo; What I'd like to see would be a benchmark 'emerge system' or bootstrap.sh. One run should be on a single proc system with MAKEOPTS="-j2". The other should be on a system with dual processors at half the speed of the first system, with MAKEOPTS="-j3".
I ran something like this a while back; a dual p3-500 just about matched a single p4-1.5.
With some "real" benchmarks, we'd at least be able to weigh this 6GHz beast against a dual 3GHz beast...
Shrug, I guess that's correct. :-)
It *sounded* cool and insightful though!
That's the same specious argument polluting companies use. Yet crime, like mercury laden water, will still seep back through and affect you.