Phrack, nice. Only been a decade since I've seen a Phrack reference. Probably got some Phrack printouts with some 2600 mags in a storage bin somewhere. I wonder what the modern underground magazine of record is nowadays
Would be nice to get a real Rainbow 6 game again, none of this Vegas crap. Good old fashioned Rogue Spear type game. The map is prepopulated with enemies, you can approach your objective any way you want, and your team can get themselves killed and taken out of future missions at any time. Too bad devs cater to the ADD-riddled Xbox generation these days
onboard share resources with the rest of the system while dedicated cards tend to have their own memory and processors. I've also had lots of problems with onboard cards and interference/feedback/hum/etc
I conditionally disagree. Inhouse hardware guys may create the same hardware configuration initially for all of the systems, but then that goes out the window after the initial run. They typically buy what's cheap and in budget so if you have to have replacement parts you end up with a dozen different hardware configurations. The nice thing about a maintenance contract with the system provider is that you'll keep that uniformity, which makes hardware and software management easier. Now, some companies will keep a stock of replacement parts for the expected life of the hardware, but most companies do not do that. They want you to buy what's necessary to implement the configuration, which is another bonus for the maintenance contract, since it's much easier to sell "5 year warranty with onsite labor and parts replacement" over "I need to buy an extra 25% of each item to store in a backroom incase of a hardware failure"
Basically, for 20 people, you're going to want to run an MS implementation with Dell PC's under a maintenance contract. Simple to implement and simple to manage, even if they get rid of you(which may not be in your best interest)
The fastest DB I've ever used is based on PICK OS/DB. Reality is the retail name for it now(essentially an emulator with an API for *nix/Windows). The military used it for inventory tracking and various companies still use it today for a great deal of things. ADP uses it for extremely large databases with tons of history for accounting, financials, inventory, etc. Even very old systems with 20+ years of data are very responsive/quick(these systems are running Digital Unix 4 with Alpha processors)
Pick/Reality is a hashfile oriented multivalue database. Wikipedia has a pretty good explanation and I believe Northgate Systems markets Reality today
Diablo could work on a console. It's got that style. But what about Battle.net? Are you going to force that on to console gamers? Force them to have internet to play singleplayer? etc
You say all this as if people in other jobs don't bring their work home because they have to, aren't required to continue their education perpetually or they'll be a dinosaur, don't deal with all kinds of bureaucratic nonsense, etc. This is Slashdot for crying out loud. Most of the people here are in technical fields, and being a technical field means that you are continually educating yourself because you have to. The second you become complacent, the harder it is to catch up when you're laid off as they ship your job to India, El Paso, Utah, etc.
Like I said earlier, teaching may require long hours, but it only requires long hours for 3/4ths of the year and it gives you public health benefits, a defined benefit pension, and a great deal of job security. Everyone works hard, some just do it in different ways.
Considering the cost of home ownership(and rentals for that matter) in the Bay area/San Jose area, this is pretty obvious. They attract a lot of people out of college who simply can't afford to live within any reasonable distance of the facility. So they rent/buy in places like Tracy, which are 90+minutes away. It would be nice if more companies did this.
I'm not defending the scanners, I'm saying that you make the choice to fly commercial airliners. No one is forcing you to go through a scanner but yourself.
This is great, except you're not given the right to travel by airplane anywhere in the Constitution, and the airline industry is currently in private hands. True, the TSA is a government agency, but you are electing to travel by air on a private carrier. There is no violation of privacy as far as laws are concerned. This has nothing to do with liberty, as any true Libertarian would tell you. And, as always, you can buy your own airplane and avoid these searches.
No one ever said teaching was rewarding from the start. The reward is the public retirement, the overall benefits package, the job security, etc. I know plenty of teachers that have spent their whole lives teaching in one school or one district and are set for life whenever they choose to retire(and a lot of times they do not because they enjoy their work). I know absolutely no one that has worked their entire career at one company as an non-owner/non-founding employee. That's the benefit of being the 42k math teacher working 12 hours a day for 9months a year. And your wage is more than I made working the same hours doing entry level tech support 10 years ago. 42k isn't a "bad" wage, even in Los Angeles, especially in a profession where wages grow by union contract
Except that ditch digging isn't preferable because you make shit money and do shit labor..Net is no different than any language he current programs in those terms. It's not like he's avoiding assembly because it's too difficult to learn or doesn't have the greatest job prospects. He's just cutting off his nose to spite his face.
100s of times daily that contrails that look like the product of a solid fuel rocket appear in the same area that actual solid fuel rockets are launched fairly often?
Why does Occam's Razor favor the airliner when there is a very distinct history of missile tests off the coast of southern California and from Vandenberg on the coast of southern California? It would seem that Occam's Razor would favor the missile because it is the most common and obvious answer given the location. It happens multiple times per year. I know because I live here.
Meanwhile, a staffer for Jane's Defense(who have a great deal of empirical knowledge in this arena) stated that the visual evidence clearly states that the object was a solid fuel rocket of some sort. I'll trust the people at Jane's, who have been doing this for decades and are among the most knowledgeable civilians on such matters in the world, over an amateur sleuth from the internet.
Realistically, if it wasn't the US launching one as a show of power while touring Asia, it was the Russians(not sure if the Chinese are ready for that yet) as a show of power indicating to get out of their back yard.
A standard item cost from the distributor at a grocery store is about 40% of retail price. From my experience, this model seems to float across various retail operations, not just grocery. That is just what the retailer pays the distributor(the publisher in this case). The publisher, in turn, pays the developer.
I don't sell my PC games(and I don't buy console games I intend to sell, GameFly takes care of that), so I don't care about resale rights(and I could always sell my Steam account if I wanted to).
GameStop has shit selection of PC games in store, and second hand PC games are useless since the ones that are not tied to a persistent online service(be it Steam, Impulse, GFWL, Ubisoft, etc) have CD keys that in modern times are one online at a time(like original HL) or use limited(like Spore).
Steam is DRM, but it's a reasonable DRM and it provides a service that makes up for the disadvantages of it. Instead of needing to find a pug channel on IRC, load up Xfire, etc, I just search my friends or groups list on Steam to join a game. Instead of needing a CD and a key to install a game when I want to play it, when I want to install a new PC, or when I use a friends PC, I can download from Steam with no hassle.
Ultimately, the service is worth the potential downside. This is the assessment you make for every decision in your life: Does the benefit outweigh the negative? In this case, it emphatically does.
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By giving a corporation control over corporate property(virtual property in this case, but established property as far as the law is concerned)?
I think you'll need to hate pretty much every company in the world.
Guess I'll just use my old fashioned SLR and scan the developed photos. SLR is superior anyways, but that's another story
Phrack, nice. Only been a decade since I've seen a Phrack reference. Probably got some Phrack printouts with some 2600 mags in a storage bin somewhere. I wonder what the modern underground magazine of record is nowadays
Would be nice to get a real Rainbow 6 game again, none of this Vegas crap. Good old fashioned Rogue Spear type game. The map is prepopulated with enemies, you can approach your objective any way you want, and your team can get themselves killed and taken out of future missions at any time. Too bad devs cater to the ADD-riddled Xbox generation these days
onboard share resources with the rest of the system while dedicated cards tend to have their own memory and processors. I've also had lots of problems with onboard cards and interference/feedback/hum/etc
I conditionally disagree. Inhouse hardware guys may create the same hardware configuration initially for all of the systems, but then that goes out the window after the initial run. They typically buy what's cheap and in budget so if you have to have replacement parts you end up with a dozen different hardware configurations. The nice thing about a maintenance contract with the system provider is that you'll keep that uniformity, which makes hardware and software management easier. Now, some companies will keep a stock of replacement parts for the expected life of the hardware, but most companies do not do that. They want you to buy what's necessary to implement the configuration, which is another bonus for the maintenance contract, since it's much easier to sell "5 year warranty with onsite labor and parts replacement" over "I need to buy an extra 25% of each item to store in a backroom incase of a hardware failure"
The licenses are lifetime, but the subscription to get those isn't.
Tribes 1 was superior to Tribes 2. Otherwise, I like the cut of your jib.
Basically, for 20 people, you're going to want to run an MS implementation with Dell PC's under a maintenance contract. Simple to implement and simple to manage, even if they get rid of you(which may not be in your best interest)
The fastest DB I've ever used is based on PICK OS/DB. Reality is the retail name for it now(essentially an emulator with an API for *nix/Windows). The military used it for inventory tracking and various companies still use it today for a great deal of things. ADP uses it for extremely large databases with tons of history for accounting, financials, inventory, etc. Even very old systems with 20+ years of data are very responsive/quick(these systems are running Digital Unix 4 with Alpha processors) Pick/Reality is a hashfile oriented multivalue database. Wikipedia has a pretty good explanation and I believe Northgate Systems markets Reality today
That is much more readable. No squinting on my end to read that unlike the font from TF(404)A
Diablo could work on a console. It's got that style. But what about Battle.net? Are you going to force that on to console gamers? Force them to have internet to play singleplayer? etc
You say all this as if people in other jobs don't bring their work home because they have to, aren't required to continue their education perpetually or they'll be a dinosaur, don't deal with all kinds of bureaucratic nonsense, etc. This is Slashdot for crying out loud. Most of the people here are in technical fields, and being a technical field means that you are continually educating yourself because you have to. The second you become complacent, the harder it is to catch up when you're laid off as they ship your job to India, El Paso, Utah, etc.
Like I said earlier, teaching may require long hours, but it only requires long hours for 3/4ths of the year and it gives you public health benefits, a defined benefit pension, and a great deal of job security. Everyone works hard, some just do it in different ways.
Considering the cost of home ownership(and rentals for that matter) in the Bay area/San Jose area, this is pretty obvious. They attract a lot of people out of college who simply can't afford to live within any reasonable distance of the facility. So they rent/buy in places like Tracy, which are 90+minutes away. It would be nice if more companies did this.
I'm not defending the scanners, I'm saying that you make the choice to fly commercial airliners. No one is forcing you to go through a scanner but yourself.
This is great, except you're not given the right to travel by airplane anywhere in the Constitution, and the airline industry is currently in private hands. True, the TSA is a government agency, but you are electing to travel by air on a private carrier. There is no violation of privacy as far as laws are concerned. This has nothing to do with liberty, as any true Libertarian would tell you. And, as always, you can buy your own airplane and avoid these searches.
No one ever said teaching was rewarding from the start. The reward is the public retirement, the overall benefits package, the job security, etc. I know plenty of teachers that have spent their whole lives teaching in one school or one district and are set for life whenever they choose to retire(and a lot of times they do not because they enjoy their work). I know absolutely no one that has worked their entire career at one company as an non-owner/non-founding employee. That's the benefit of being the 42k math teacher working 12 hours a day for 9months a year. And your wage is more than I made working the same hours doing entry level tech support 10 years ago. 42k isn't a "bad" wage, even in Los Angeles, especially in a profession where wages grow by union contract
Or, rather, the .Net platform and CLI languages
Except that ditch digging isn't preferable because you make shit money and do shit labor. .Net is no different than any language he current programs in those terms. It's not like he's avoiding assembly because it's too difficult to learn or doesn't have the greatest job prospects. He's just cutting off his nose to spite his face.
Jane's Missiles and Rockets maybe? http://jmr.janes.com/public/jmr/index.shtml
100s of times daily that contrails that look like the product of a solid fuel rocket appear in the same area that actual solid fuel rockets are launched fairly often?
Why does Occam's Razor favor the airliner when there is a very distinct history of missile tests off the coast of southern California and from Vandenberg on the coast of southern California? It would seem that Occam's Razor would favor the missile because it is the most common and obvious answer given the location. It happens multiple times per year. I know because I live here.
Meanwhile, a staffer for Jane's Defense(who have a great deal of empirical knowledge in this arena) stated that the visual evidence clearly states that the object was a solid fuel rocket of some sort. I'll trust the people at Jane's, who have been doing this for decades and are among the most knowledgeable civilians on such matters in the world, over an amateur sleuth from the internet.
Realistically, if it wasn't the US launching one as a show of power while touring Asia, it was the Russians(not sure if the Chinese are ready for that yet) as a show of power indicating to get out of their back yard.
A standard item cost from the distributor at a grocery store is about 40% of retail price. From my experience, this model seems to float across various retail operations, not just grocery. That is just what the retailer pays the distributor(the publisher in this case). The publisher, in turn, pays the developer.
I don't sell my PC games(and I don't buy console games I intend to sell, GameFly takes care of that), so I don't care about resale rights(and I could always sell my Steam account if I wanted to).
GameStop has shit selection of PC games in store, and second hand PC games are useless since the ones that are not tied to a persistent online service(be it Steam, Impulse, GFWL, Ubisoft, etc) have CD keys that in modern times are one online at a time(like original HL) or use limited(like Spore).
Steam is DRM, but it's a reasonable DRM and it provides a service that makes up for the disadvantages of it. Instead of needing to find a pug channel on IRC, load up Xfire, etc, I just search my friends or groups list on Steam to join a game. Instead of needing a CD and a key to install a game when I want to play it, when I want to install a new PC, or when I use a friends PC, I can download from Steam with no hassle.
Ultimately, the service is worth the potential downside. This is the assessment you make for every decision in your life: Does the benefit outweigh the negative? In this case, it emphatically does.