Cause I have a pile that I can't get rid of its all deemed HazMat my the local trash haulers and nobody wants it unless I pay them money to take it...NOT Gonna happen...I am beginning to understand why empty lots get covered with various stuff like this, not that I'd ever do such a thing, I care about this little rock we live on a bit more than that.
...On the one hand I absolutely understand the problem and fully support the ISP's position. However on the other, there is HUGE oportunity here if the order stands to use it as a precedent to get the goddamned cable/dsl providers to stop changing IPs.
I have been told that Oracle Corp is already planning to phase out the Stock Option, and Employee Purchase Programs for just this reason... Need I say more.
Seing as they are the first to exit the atmosphere in the way that they did it. Its not entirely unexpected that the ship would encounter things that it had not previous to this. The stresses (and lack of conversely as atmospheric pressure lessens) required to do what it did are hard to calculate and test. I wouldn't even count this as a set back...my bet is that they will take June and Most of July to figure out what was up during this flight make design changes and do another single pilot test flight in Late July Early August. And then another in September, the winning flights will probably take place in late October early November...just my guess...
The worst thing that Ken and Roberta ever did was sellout the company. Sierra didn't need as a company to become part of a larger mess, esspecially the mess it became part of. The slow side into death began almost immediately...I wonder if they will at least be smart enough to continue to make some of the older IP available to future generations of gamers. Kings Quest games are great get started with computers, and still think while playing games.
...its stuff like this that makes me believe more and more that the next revolution(or civil war, coupe, or whaterver term you prefer) is going to be fought over the govenment so restricting the rights of citizens with legistation like this that people are going to have to march on the congress to regain our freedoms and stop living under the oppressive thumbs of the corporations which have seized control of our government. I'm not advocating such an uprising (no wars for me thanks) however this is jeust getting insane. I've said it before the first rule of law making should be for the legistators to ask "is this law good for the average citizen, will it be of benefit to them" if the answer is no the law should never be written or passed.
Umm...this has been mis-stated several times and I feel compeled to comment an clear it up if you have a RAID 5 and one drive in the array your system does NOT go down...a hot spare is not absolutely required.
If you loose a drive the controller, or software if your doing software makes up for the loss of the drive by calculating the missing information. This same firmware/software is what puts the information back when the new drive is installed to the array, again bu calculating what the missing data is from the available data.
We have had from time to time to run a server for a day or more with a failed drive in the array while a replacement was procured. there is a performance hit, but your not down during this time.
...Yeah there's an answer...bring on plain vanilla radio...it will be all talk shows and ex-cheerleaders on the air in a year...
Good radio on good stations always pushes the line, its a fact of entertainment. I am sick of the best DJ's that are the most fun to listen too getting railroaded by stupid rules...
American PUBLIC...DUMBASSES...there is a knob on the radio if you don't like what you are listening to, turn it!
NDA's and Ideas...In this case the guy would be going to large corporation saying hey I figured out X...You can have the rights to X for $YYYYYYYYYYY, just sign to document before I reveal the infor to you...
You hit the problem right on the head "profit" drug companies...the medical practice in general shouldn't be allowed to operate at a profit. Any money they make should be going into payroll and research anyway...
Actually I disgree with your tougue in cheek comments...
Drugs will always cost something, and drug companies will always spend money to develop new drugs, however when that drug has an obvious benifical purpose as most do, or they wouldn't be marketed, the drug company shouldn't have the right to charge whatever they want, and potential lock some people out of obtaining the drug because of thier finalcial situation which is exactly the problem patents cause. Perhaps if they were required to give the drug away to people who have little or no heath insurance, or are in middle to lower income brackets I could see the way clear to scalp the medical insurance of everyone else...ah, um no maybe I can't becuase that just would contrubute to the rising cost of health care. Thats doesn't work either...
lets face it if someone discovers the cure/prevention of AIDs or Cancer, etc tomorrow, then the next day I want every drug factory capable of pumping that chemical out to be doing just that and GIVING it away on the street corner, sorry but when the benefit of society is on the line in a case like this the restriction of a patent just doesn't make sense.
Please feel free to respond, I know this discussion has sorta moved on now so I understand if you don't.
I had no problem making the change on my slackware systems. 1. Pulled slackware_current (actually I rsync it every night) 2. cd/var/log/packages 3. removepkg xfree* (the difference in the names between the old xfree packages and the new x packages caused the upgradepkg utility to fail to recognize this as an upgrade...wish he would fix that kind thing this is not the only time its happened.) 4. cd/slack_current/slackware/x 5. installpkg *.tgz
If you can do it the best way to handle is Clusters with an external Raid 5 device that is a shared resource between the two(or more) servers. Set them up with a shared hardware Raid 5 device. There is only one active Node in the cluster at a time, if that one fails the second one assumes the identity. Works great never fails! We are a bit larger so we use EMC Symmetrix, however a smaller shop could probably do a low end EMC Clariion CX200 or the like.
...elminate patents all together... Its an out dated concept, we no longer need to protect incomes due to invention. If you make a good product you will make money.
...Because cars have always been, and remain one of the last bastions of the DIY'er. Its expected that most people have at least some small ability to diagnose and repair thier own car. The car makers have been taking that ability away inch by inch the car-codes problem is just the most obvious outward evidense of the problem.
... the/. community is highly anti-windows, however some advise anyway. ANY repeat ANY new product should NEVER be introduced as a single platform solution. At a bare minimum you need to support Windows, MAC and Linux from the start, and if it uses web technologies it needs to support IE, and Mozilla/Netscape. Your sales break down will look like 65% Windows, 20% Mac, and 15% Linux at the start, hwoever that balence will shift in time because you support hose other platforms. if your product is good, those "other" platforms are going to start using it and word will spread. You will gain loyal customers, you next release, and/or product the MAC and LInux numbers will be MUCH higher at the start.
Dump Novell, consolidate to Active Directory and W2K/2K3, and get on with your life. Running multiple NOSes is a waste of time and effort on your part.
Wing Commander 2 was basically the same as 1 so it didn't really get better just consistent 3 hower was the best game of the series, even without Mark Hamill. After that sequelitis set in big time. 4 was a let down, Armada rasised the bar back a little, all and all was little more than a blip.
Diablo 2 was awesome, but really just a very large expansion and extention of 1's concepts.
Warcraft Just keeps getting better...
C&C The first is still the best of course after the number of expansions I'm not sure it had anywhere to go.
Quake Quake 1 still holds a special place in my heart, 2 and 3 didn't really thrill me that much. Of corse its probably because 2/3 never could give me the same excitement as Quake 1 team Fortress 2fort4:)
Unreal The Direct sequel Unreal 2 was a complete let down, it didn amanage to capture any of the thrill and excitement that I had in the original. The Unreal tournements have been great I loved the first. 2003 brought some great new game play modes to the table, and so far 2004 is rocking me big time, each is really just an incremental improvment, however I'm excited by where Epic is going next with this. I am kinda hoping that we might see a real Unreal single player Sequel from themsome day that goes back to the original story.
Doom 1 & 2 and the various incarnations were all the same game, 3 remains to be seen is it something truely revolutionary, or Doom 1 with prettier Pictures.
..and applied it to his movies. If he had included even a tenth of the things people wanted to see in the prequels, or thought they would see, or had speculated about...these movies would have been insanely incredible.
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Cause I have a pile that I can't get rid of its all deemed HazMat my the local trash haulers and nobody wants it unless I pay them money to take it...NOT Gonna happen...I am beginning to understand why empty lots get covered with various stuff like this, not that I'd ever do such a thing, I care about this little rock we live on a bit more than that.
...by sourcing from different providers.
Of Instance one T1 from AT&T and one from MCI.
...On the one hand I absolutely understand the problem and fully support the ISP's position. However on the other, there is HUGE oportunity here if the order stands to use it as a precedent to get the goddamned cable/dsl providers to stop changing IPs.
I have been told that Oracle Corp is already planning to phase out the Stock Option, and Employee Purchase Programs for just this reason...
Need I say more.
Seing as they are the first to exit the atmosphere in the way that they did it. Its not entirely unexpected that the ship would encounter things that it had not previous to this. The stresses (and lack of conversely as atmospheric pressure lessens) required to do what it did are hard to calculate and test. I wouldn't even count this as a set back...my bet is that they will take June and Most of July to figure out what was up during this flight make design changes and do another single pilot test flight in Late July Early August. And then another in September, the winning flights will probably take place in late October early November...just my guess...
The worst thing that Ken and Roberta ever did was sellout the company. Sierra didn't need as a company to become part of a larger mess, esspecially the mess it became part of. The slow side into death began almost immediately...I wonder if they will at least be smart enough to continue to make some of the older IP available to future generations of gamers. Kings Quest games are great get started with computers, and still think while playing games.
...its stuff like this that makes me believe more and more that the next revolution(or civil war, coupe, or whaterver term you prefer) is going to be fought over the govenment so restricting the rights of citizens with legistation like this that people are going to have to march on the congress to regain our freedoms and stop living under the oppressive thumbs of the corporations which have seized control of our government. I'm not advocating such an uprising (no wars for me thanks) however this is jeust getting insane. I've said it before the first rule of law making should be for the legistators to ask "is this law good for the average citizen, will it be of benefit to them" if the answer is no the law should never be written or passed.
Umm...this has been mis-stated several times and I feel compeled to comment an clear it up if you have a RAID 5 and one drive in the array your system does NOT go down...a hot spare is not absolutely required.
If you loose a drive the controller, or software if your doing software makes up for the loss of the drive by calculating the missing information. This same firmware/software is what puts the information back when the new drive is installed to the array, again bu calculating what the missing data is from the available data.
We have had from time to time to run a server for a day or more with a failed drive in the array while a replacement was procured. there is a performance hit, but your not down during this time.
...Yeah there's an answer...bring on plain vanilla radio...it will be all talk shows and ex-cheerleaders on the air in a year...
Good radio on good stations always pushes the line, its a fact of entertainment. I am sick of the best DJ's that are the most fun to listen too getting railroaded by stupid rules...
American PUBLIC...DUMBASSES...there is a knob on the radio if you don't like what you are listening to, turn it!
In total agreement here...if there have to be patents they should be for real working demonstatable things.
NOT for I have an idea for a thing, or practice that would work like XXXXX...
Which 20 years later gets turned into a lawsuit because someone finally made XXXXXX
NDA's and Ideas...In this case the guy would be going to large corporation saying hey I figured out X...You can have the rights to X for $YYYYYYYYYYY, just sign to document before I reveal the infor to you...
On the same note, there will always be people who are just in research to do research....they enjoy doing research and do it for the satisfaction.
You hit the problem right on the head "profit" drug companies...the medical practice in general shouldn't be allowed to operate at a profit. Any money they make should be going into payroll and research anyway...
Actually I disgree with your tougue in cheek comments...
Drugs will always cost something, and drug companies will always spend money to develop new drugs, however when that drug has an obvious benifical purpose as most do, or they wouldn't be marketed, the drug company shouldn't have the right to charge whatever they want, and potential lock some people out of obtaining the drug because of thier finalcial situation which is exactly the problem patents cause. Perhaps if they were required to give the drug away to people who have little or no heath insurance, or are in middle to lower income brackets I could see the way clear to scalp the medical insurance of everyone else...ah, um no maybe I can't becuase that just would contrubute to the rising cost of health care. Thats doesn't work either...
lets face it if someone discovers the cure/prevention of AIDs or Cancer, etc tomorrow, then the next day I want every drug factory capable of pumping that chemical out to be doing just that and GIVING it away on the street corner,
sorry but when the benefit of society is on the line in a case like this the restriction of a patent just doesn't make sense.
Please feel free to respond, I know this discussion has sorta moved on now so I understand if you don't.
Now even the G5 has leap frogged your processer speeds...
Couriously I have not had to do the conf file rename thing on any systems. Everything works so I have not had alot of motivation to look into why...
I had no problem making the change on my slackware systems. /var/log/packages /slack_current/slackware/x
1. Pulled slackware_current (actually I rsync it every night)
2. cd
3. removepkg xfree* (the difference in the names between the old xfree packages and the new x packages caused the upgradepkg utility to fail to recognize this as an upgrade...wish he would fix that kind thing this is not the only time its happened.)
4. cd
5. installpkg *.tgz
Done, worked no problems
If you can do it the best way to handle is Clusters with an external Raid 5 device that is a shared resource between the two(or more) servers.
Set them up with a shared hardware Raid 5 device.
There is only one active Node in the cluster at a time, if that one fails the second one assumes the identity. Works great never fails!
We are a bit larger so we use EMC Symmetrix, however a smaller shop could probably do a low end EMC Clariion CX200 or the like.
...elminate patents all together...
Its an out dated concept, we no longer need to protect incomes due to invention. If you make a good product you will make money.
End of Story.
...Because cars have always been, and remain one of the last bastions of the DIY'er. Its expected that most people have at least some small ability to diagnose and repair thier own car. The car makers have been taking that ability away inch by inch the car-codes problem is just the most obvious outward evidense of the problem.
... the /. community is highly anti-windows, however some advise anyway. ANY repeat ANY new product should NEVER be introduced as a single platform solution. At a bare minimum you need to support Windows, MAC and Linux from the start, and if it uses web technologies it needs to support IE, and Mozilla/Netscape.
Your sales break down will look like 65% Windows, 20% Mac, and 15% Linux at the start, hwoever that balence will shift in time because you support hose other platforms. if your product is good, those "other" platforms are going to start using it and word will spread. You will gain loyal customers, you next release, and/or product the MAC and LInux numbers will be MUCH higher at the start.
Dump Novell, consolidate to Active Directory and W2K/2K3, and get on with your life. Running multiple NOSes is a waste of time and effort on your part.
4 was a cheap lack luster continuation of the plot line in 3 with none of the fun or excitement 3 had. The story line in 3 was mach more engaging.
Wing Commander
:)
2 was basically the same as 1 so it didn't really get better just consistent 3 hower was the best game of the series, even without Mark Hamill. After that sequelitis set in big time. 4 was a let down, Armada rasised the bar back a little, all and all was little more than a blip.
Diablo
2 was awesome, but really just a very large expansion and extention of 1's concepts.
Warcraft
Just keeps getting better...
C&C
The first is still the best of course after the number of expansions I'm not sure it had anywhere to go.
Quake
Quake 1 still holds a special place in my heart, 2 and 3 didn't really thrill me that much. Of corse its probably because 2/3 never could give me the same excitement as Quake 1 team Fortress 2fort4
Unreal
The Direct sequel Unreal 2 was a complete let down, it didn amanage to capture any of the thrill and excitement that I had in the original. The Unreal tournements have been great I loved the first. 2003 brought some great new game play modes to the table, and so far 2004 is rocking me big time, each is really just an incremental improvment, however I'm excited by where Epic is going next with this. I am kinda hoping that we might see a real Unreal single player Sequel from themsome day that goes back to the original story.
Doom
1 & 2 and the various incarnations were all the same game, 3 remains to be seen is it something truely revolutionary, or Doom 1 with prettier Pictures.
..and applied it to his movies. If he had included even a tenth of the things people wanted to see in the prequels, or thought they would see, or had speculated about...these movies would have been insanely incredible.