Rather nice until the ozone degrades the varnish in the coil, shorting it out and causing a flood of smoke into the room....
Yes, this happens. In fact, aside from screen burn-in it seems to be one of the most common failure modes. (A quick search corroborates my personal experiences on the subject) I recommend dusting out your terminal until it doesn't smell like that on power-up anymore. If you like it, that is.
I notice that you elected to avoid comment on the wireless and vpn issues.
I don't use either, and I try not to comment about things I don't know anything about.
I will say this: I never said it was easy on every system. I clearly said that for *most* users the process involves two clicks. For some configurations it can be significantly more involved. My main assertion was that this is also true for Windows for some configurations. And it is.
Luckily it is also short lived. It rapidly breaks down into plain oxygen, and the smell goes away. I don't understand, though, how people can be in a room with one of those poorly made Ionic Breeze devices. They generate just enough ozone to drive me nuts. I don't even like walking by the outside of a Brookstone/Sharper Image store in the mall because of them.
The argument is clearly lost on you, as you don't seem to understand how a creative work can be valuable without a government granted virtual monopoly. I don't know how to respond to you until you understand that. If you need help I suggest you look into the large number of highly profitable movies based on scripts long out of copyright. Various works by Shakespeare come to mind, but there are plenty of others.
That smell is also really bad for you. The Ozone oxidizes the inside of your nose and throat. If you breathe in a large quantity, you'll get a sore throat fairly quickly, and can die after several minutes in a room with a high concentration.
I have a commercial ozone generator that I bought to use after my basement flooded to kill the mold. I had it on a timer for a while to run for an hour at night. Power went out, the timer got offset, and I went down there during the day while it was on. One lungful and I had a sore throat for a week.
They had a huge presentation and demo at E3 2006. Hyping your product to the press was the whole point of that show. If you aren't press, you weren't invited...
I think the $150 is from the first movie. It says they haven't seen the books for the other two yet.
This stuff *should* bite them in the ass, and it doesn't even have much to do with copyright. They signed a contract. Now they have to live up to their end.
Yes. I am. Or at least I'm suggesting that they'd pay to have somebody else do it.
If this weren't a foundation, but just a guy, you don't think there are people out there who would just make a call and have the guy taken care of rather than have something like this suit come up in the future after you've made a billion dollars off his work? There are some bad people out there. Once you have something worth 10+ figures in your possession, you get their attention.
I've *had* Ubuntu. Ubuntu came up with the right screen res but no acceleration. The wifi drivers were a minor pain to install, but a much bigger pain was the VPN script I had to write to get access to my university's wan (Via MPPE encryption vpn, otherwise a straightforward thing). So, maybe you have no idea what you're talking about. When you install Ubuntu, and you need closed-source drivers to get acceleration, you click the little windowsesque popup that comes up when you first log in to an installed system (you're SOL on the live CD, but Microsoft doesn't even make a Live CD, so it's not a fair comparison), click OK, type in your password, and wait for a reboot. That's it. You've got hardware acceleration now. Perhaps you used a much older version of Ubuntu?
I do between 4 and 6 installs per day (XP, Vista, 2k3 Server, Ubuntu, RHEL, and SLES). I think I know what I'm talking about.
I can't agree with that comment at all that Linux has been easier forever.
I didn't say "forever" though, now did I?
If you pop an XP CD into a random new machine, you are just as likely to not get to a desktop (more likely in my experience) without jumping through some hoops (F6 disk, for example, if you have a newer SATA controller) as you are with a Linux Live CD. Most of the time Ubuntu just works. Most of the time that it doesn't you hit reset, pick safe mode, and then it works.
Neither of these OS installs are for a total amateur, but I'd say success is more likely if you give the amateur the Ubuntu disc.
It seems like the project took an average amount of time, and they just turned on the hype engine way too soon.
Game makers should learn that the longer the period of hype, the higher the expectations. Let's hope, for the developer's sake, that this game is really extraordinary, because after all the hype, "good", or even "great" won't be good enough.
This is the same crap you have to do to install Windows. It comes up in some low-res crap graphics mode if you're lucky, and then you have to go to nvidia's site, download drivers, acknowledge the HQL deficiency, and hope everything goes well instead of bluescreening.
If you're *not* lucky (because you own some new laptop) you either have to go with the vendor's "wipe everything" recovery disc, or go through a complicated process to embed the driver you need into a CD image before installing.
Linux has been easier to install than Windows for ages now. For 99% of users, the process required to get these drivers is two clicks and now FUD. In the cases where you do have to jump through some hoops due to an exotic hardware configuration, there are practically always equivalent hooops on Windows. People like you either have never jumped through them on Windows because you rarely install, or you're so used to them by now that you don't realize how ridiculous they sound.
I "keep" saying this? I don't recall ever having said that before...
Regardless, I don't see how either of your rebuttals make sense. People kill for much less than the potential millions of dollars that could be involved here with no regard for the possible murder sentence. Many of them are never caught anyway. And what's with this "corporation paying a fine" crap? A corporation wouldn't have anything to do with it in terms of punishment. You have the guy that ordered it, and the guy that did it. If they get caught they go to jail and the corporation moves on. If there's even a corporation involved at all...
Additionally, the competitor's argument doesn't seem to make much sense either. If you're having somebody killed so that you don't have to pay them royalties, there probably aren't any competitors involved in the scenario.
Life + (X number of years) is a good way to keep people from getting killed for access to their highly profitable creation though... 70 years is probably too long, but I think 15 years is reasonable.
Of course I personally favor the "infinite copyright period with frequent renewals and exponentially increasing fees" model. I doubt we'll ever see that though.
Unfortunately, they probably did. I know several well paid network engineers and sysadmins who really have no understanding of how the internet works, and would think a local ISP DNS block would work. The typical training for these positions is heavy on the "how", and light on the "why".
Where do you think the data for/dev/urandom comes from? It's a pseudo-random number generator unless you've got a hardware random number generator, but even that probably uses a pseudo-random algorithm.
"Waste" the space. It's not worth it. Once you start doing this, the increased load on cheap desktop drives is going to lead to a several percent per year failure rate increase. It's probably not worth your time. If you want to store a few terabytes of data at much higher performance than this, spend a few hundred bucks on two or three modern drives and a SATA multiplexer.
Unless you like re-building machines with dead disks it's just not worth it.
If it's true that the blue laser's cost is negligible now
I don't recall saying it was negligible. The costs of the laser are simply down to where they expected, rather than being priced at an exorbitant premium.
I also don't recall saying I thought there would be a price cut. I don't think there will be a price cut until 3 days after Microsoft drops the price on the 360. The PS3 is gaining ground on Xbox by 100,000 units per month right now. Taking some profits on the hardware seems like a pretty good idea to me.
Every two years or so, the majority start using the amount of bandwidth the 5% that used half the capacity were using as they adopt the leading edge technologies made popular by those 5% of early adopters.
If they were smart, they would use those heavy traffic users to test their expanded capabilities lest they be crushed by the future wave of demand. But they're not, and they will be left in the dust when some faster ISP comes and steals their customers. The joke will be on them too, because whoever that faster ISP is that brings fiber to their areas is also going to steal their phone and video customers too.
Cable modems were fun while they lasted, but these types of decisions are a direct result of their inferior shared topology. It's time for these guys to upgrade or die. (In comcast's case, I vote die)
News flash: Most public education is currently handled by the States. If the U.S. Department of Education went away, public education would still be around. Public education in some States would be worse for it, but other States would be greatly relieved that to have Federal interference out of their system.
There is a meme-disease that has infested our society, spread by power-grubbing politicians and money-hungry corporate interests (including the sound-bite-driven media.) It is the idea that if there is a problem, the Federal government should fix it. Any problem, great or small, anywhere in the country, is in need of a Federal "fix." There needs to be a new cabinet-level department, or a Federal bill, or a Constitutional Amendment, or a Supreme Court ruling, or a "War On *" to fix it.
The fact of the matter is that we waste billions of dollars making the same decisions in thousands of cloned professional schoolboards across the country so that busybody mommies can meddle in something that they have no background in. Centralizing our schoolboards to some extent would lead to huge monetary savings, and if the statistics of the 15 industrialized nations that trounce us in the educational quality ratings are any example it would actually improve our educational system in other ways too. School curriculum should be *more* centralized, not less. Doing so would actually *reduce* the size of our government by double digit percentage points.
And yes, I consider myself to be a small-government conservative.
It does seem like it's not coincidence, but I just don't see the link between this and an attack on Iran. What could possibly be the connection between two cables in Egypt, and us bombing Iran? Do you honestly think that people within the agency that created this network are foolish enough to think that even several more of these cuts will stop the flow of traffic? It's more likely that a middle eastern group is doing this to reduce western influence without any real grasp on just how resilient the network is.
There has been at least one major undersea cable disruption ever year of this decade. Either maintenance accidents, shipping accidents, earthquakes....
You fail as an audiophile. Those gems have much too high a cost:profit ratio for high quality audio reproduction. Try silicon crystals, or some other common but under appreciated mineral. That should enrich your cable supplier sufficiently to have a chance at delivering that sound quality you crave.
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Rather nice until the ozone degrades the varnish in the coil, shorting it out and causing a flood of smoke into the room....
Yes, this happens. In fact, aside from screen burn-in it seems to be one of the most common failure modes. (A quick search corroborates my personal experiences on the subject) I recommend dusting out your terminal until it doesn't smell like that on power-up anymore. If you like it, that is.
I don't use either, and I try not to comment about things I don't know anything about.
I will say this: I never said it was easy on every system. I clearly said that for *most* users the process involves two clicks. For some configurations it can be significantly more involved. My main assertion was that this is also true for Windows for some configurations. And it is.
Same here.
Luckily it is also short lived. It rapidly breaks down into plain oxygen, and the smell goes away. I don't understand, though, how people can be in a room with one of those poorly made Ionic Breeze devices. They generate just enough ozone to drive me nuts. I don't even like walking by the outside of a Brookstone/Sharper Image store in the mall because of them.
The argument is clearly lost on you, as you don't seem to understand how a creative work can be valuable without a government granted virtual monopoly. I don't know how to respond to you until you understand that. If you need help I suggest you look into the large number of highly profitable movies based on scripts long out of copyright. Various works by Shakespeare come to mind, but there are plenty of others.
That smell is also really bad for you. The Ozone oxidizes the inside of your nose and throat. If you breathe in a large quantity, you'll get a sore throat fairly quickly, and can die after several minutes in a room with a high concentration.
I have a commercial ozone generator that I bought to use after my basement flooded to kill the mold. I had it on a timer for a while to run for an hour at night. Power went out, the timer got offset, and I went down there during the day while it was on. One lungful and I had a sore throat for a week.
They had a huge presentation and demo at E3 2006. Hyping your product to the press was the whole point of that show. If you aren't press, you weren't invited...
I think the $150 is from the first movie. It says they haven't seen the books for the other two yet.
This stuff *should* bite them in the ass, and it doesn't even have much to do with copyright. They signed a contract. Now they have to live up to their end.
Yes. I am. Or at least I'm suggesting that they'd pay to have somebody else do it.
If this weren't a foundation, but just a guy, you don't think there are people out there who would just make a call and have the guy taken care of rather than have something like this suit come up in the future after you've made a billion dollars off his work? There are some bad people out there. Once you have something worth 10+ figures in your possession, you get their attention.
I do between 4 and 6 installs per day (XP, Vista, 2k3 Server, Ubuntu, RHEL, and SLES). I think I know what I'm talking about.
I didn't say "forever" though, now did I?
If you pop an XP CD into a random new machine, you are just as likely to not get to a desktop (more likely in my experience) without jumping through some hoops (F6 disk, for example, if you have a newer SATA controller) as you are with a Linux Live CD. Most of the time Ubuntu just works. Most of the time that it doesn't you hit reset, pick safe mode, and then it works.
Neither of these OS installs are for a total amateur, but I'd say success is more likely if you give the amateur the Ubuntu disc.
And if you don't hit in time you restart your install.
You'd know that if you've installed XP even once on a modern machine, since you get no SATA without it.
Thanks for playing. Next time write your fanboy response about something you know about.
It seems like the project took an average amount of time, and they just turned on the hype engine way too soon.
Game makers should learn that the longer the period of hype, the higher the expectations. Let's hope, for the developer's sake, that this game is really extraordinary, because after all the hype, "good", or even "great" won't be good enough.
Listen to yourself.
This is the same crap you have to do to install Windows. It comes up in some low-res crap graphics mode if you're lucky, and then you have to go to nvidia's site, download drivers, acknowledge the HQL deficiency, and hope everything goes well instead of bluescreening.
If you're *not* lucky (because you own some new laptop) you either have to go with the vendor's "wipe everything" recovery disc, or go through a complicated process to embed the driver you need into a CD image before installing.
Linux has been easier to install than Windows for ages now. For 99% of users, the process required to get these drivers is two clicks and now FUD. In the cases where you do have to jump through some hoops due to an exotic hardware configuration, there are practically always equivalent hooops on Windows. People like you either have never jumped through them on Windows because you rarely install, or you're so used to them by now that you don't realize how ridiculous they sound.
Oh, and don't forget. Hit F6! Quick!
I "keep" saying this? I don't recall ever having said that before...
Regardless, I don't see how either of your rebuttals make sense. People kill for much less than the potential millions of dollars that could be involved here with no regard for the possible murder sentence. Many of them are never caught anyway. And what's with this "corporation paying a fine" crap? A corporation wouldn't have anything to do with it in terms of punishment. You have the guy that ordered it, and the guy that did it. If they get caught they go to jail and the corporation moves on. If there's even a corporation involved at all...
Additionally, the competitor's argument doesn't seem to make much sense either. If you're having somebody killed so that you don't have to pay them royalties, there probably aren't any competitors involved in the scenario.
Life + (X number of years) is a good way to keep people from getting killed for access to their highly profitable creation though... 70 years is probably too long, but I think 15 years is reasonable.
Of course I personally favor the "infinite copyright period with frequent renewals and exponentially increasing fees" model. I doubt we'll ever see that though.
Unfortunately, they probably did. I know several well paid network engineers and sysadmins who really have no understanding of how the internet works, and would think a local ISP DNS block would work. The typical training for these positions is heavy on the "how", and light on the "why".
Where do you think the data for /dev/urandom comes from? It's a pseudo-random number generator unless you've got a hardware random number generator, but even that probably uses a pseudo-random algorithm.
"Waste" the space. It's not worth it. Once you start doing this, the increased load on cheap desktop drives is going to lead to a several percent per year failure rate increase. It's probably not worth your time. If you want to store a few terabytes of data at much higher performance than this, spend a few hundred bucks on two or three modern drives and a SATA multiplexer.
Unless you like re-building machines with dead disks it's just not worth it.
I don't recall saying it was negligible. The costs of the laser are simply down to where they expected, rather than being priced at an exorbitant premium.
I also don't recall saying I thought there would be a price cut. I don't think there will be a price cut until 3 days after Microsoft drops the price on the 360. The PS3 is gaining ground on Xbox by 100,000 units per month right now. Taking some profits on the hardware seems like a pretty good idea to me.
That's ancient news. Since then, the blue laser shortage has ended, and Sony has gotten the costs of PS3 manufacture down to under $400.
Every two years or so, the majority start using the amount of bandwidth the 5% that used half the capacity were using as they adopt the leading edge technologies made popular by those 5% of early adopters.
If they were smart, they would use those heavy traffic users to test their expanded capabilities lest they be crushed by the future wave of demand. But they're not, and they will be left in the dust when some faster ISP comes and steals their customers. The joke will be on them too, because whoever that faster ISP is that brings fiber to their areas is also going to steal their phone and video customers too.
Cable modems were fun while they lasted, but these types of decisions are a direct result of their inferior shared topology. It's time for these guys to upgrade or die. (In comcast's case, I vote die)
The fact of the matter is that we waste billions of dollars making the same decisions in thousands of cloned professional schoolboards across the country so that busybody mommies can meddle in something that they have no background in. Centralizing our schoolboards to some extent would lead to huge monetary savings, and if the statistics of the 15 industrialized nations that trounce us in the educational quality ratings are any example it would actually improve our educational system in other ways too. School curriculum should be *more* centralized, not less. Doing so would actually *reduce* the size of our government by double digit percentage points.
And yes, I consider myself to be a small-government conservative.
It does seem like it's not coincidence, but I just don't see the link between this and an attack on Iran. What could possibly be the connection between two cables in Egypt, and us bombing Iran? Do you honestly think that people within the agency that created this network are foolish enough to think that even several more of these cuts will stop the flow of traffic? It's more likely that a middle eastern group is doing this to reduce western influence without any real grasp on just how resilient the network is.
Pick a year, and enter "Undersea fiber cut " into google.
Then realize that *your* recent memory isn't a very good thing to base odds on. Better to search.
This one particularly stands out from my top-of-the-head recollection: http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/388
There has been at least one major undersea cable disruption ever year of this decade. Either maintenance accidents, shipping accidents, earthquakes....
You fail as an audiophile. Those gems have much too high a cost:profit ratio for high quality audio reproduction. Try silicon crystals, or some other common but under appreciated mineral. That should enrich your cable supplier sufficiently to have a chance at delivering that sound quality you crave.