And how long before RedHat back pedals and screws us, like they did those of us who bought support contracts for RH9? Sorry, we have several servers with paid support that just got stranded, and then given the choice of paying 5 times more, or using Fedora, which isn't ready and had spotty support after a year.
No, I think not RedHat. I got to explain to the owner why you left me high and dry once. Never again. I will keep using CentOS because I was weened on RH, gladly paying for the box set of every major release since 4.x because I wanted to support FOSS and still do. I pay others when I need a second opinion, or just in over my head on a particular want/desire, but not RedHat.
This always hits a nerve with me, and thousands of us who were abandoned by RH the first go around. We were loyal small server users for many years, then was told to 'eat cake', and choke on Fedora we did.
In the US, you can read about how 20 year olds go to jail for having sex with a 16 year old, for statutory rape. No less a 40 year old. This isn't theory, it happens fairly often.
When you are 40, 16 is never legal. Even if it was, that is what you call "pitchfork and torch" justification. Legal would be the least of your concerns.
I am old enough to remember "Lost in Space" both as original and saturday reruns. Loved the campy original, and loved the movie. Not EVERYONE hated that movie, you know.
Brazil to California may also mean only the America continent.
Unless you go the other way around. Then it's South America, Antarctica and Canada, too. Maybe all those penguins want cheap laptops with Linux on them.
Karma is a simple game. The key is building it to Excellent, then writing what you want most of the time. Then just post in a topic really early with stuff like "Microsoft sucks" or rave about Ubuntu, even if the subject isn't about operating systems. That gets you good mod points. Also, never post anything funny unless you have karma to burn. Remember: Karma is only good for burning. There is no purpose in getting it if you can't use it to make a serious point.
Here are some things you can say that will guarantee you good karma if you post early in the conversation. Just somehow make a reference to the conversation about:
1. Steve Balmer throwing a chair. 2. Your scanner/printer/anything working better in Linux than WinDoze (spelling is mandentory) 3. How Netcraft proves Micro$oft is losing market share (the $ is mandentory) 4. Anything that says "I'm an American, but ashamed of it" goes great with the Europeans and self loathing American moderators. 5. If you can't post early enough, go toward the back of the posts, find something that is really good but is on page 3 so ignored, then post it under the first +5 on page one, even if it is irrelevent. If you get called out on it, say you didn't see it and call the accuser a Karma Whore. 6. Start post with "This will probably get modded down, but..." then say something somewhat worthwhile, even if it is obvious. 7. Take a strong stand and rant (short rant...) on something no one can disagree with. If "child abuse" can be worked into the topic, get on a pedestal about it and watch the mods come flying in from the conservative side of the political spectrum. Just don't go overboard, state the obvious, use good grammar and puncuation.
Yes, all this is terrible citizenship on/. but will guarantee you very good karma. And since I have karma to burn, I won't even post this as AC. Then again, I've only posted about 3000 times on/., so what do I know. And honestly, I try not to be a karma whore. Most of the time.
Um, I wasn't condoning this method, I was just explaining it to someone. That it exists is fact. I didn't bother to interject my personal opinion about the practice.
Funny gets you no karma, Informative does, so some mods will mod informative to give the post a boost in ranking AND karma to the poster.
The logic in "funny" not giving karma is based on the idea that it is easier to be funny than to be smart, and they want to promote "smart" more than "funny", which makes sense.
Technically, you can write a post, get it modded +5 Funny and lose karma points. Example: your post gets modded up and down as funny and offtopic. 8 mods Funny, 3 mods Offtopic = -3 Karma. Modding Insightful, Interesting, etc. offsets that.
You should read the faq. All of it. That is where you will learn how a post can technically be modded as +5 Flamebait. (I have seen it) -1 Flamebait and +6 Underrated = +5 Flamebait.
For decades, we Mac users haven't really given a shit what was happening off in PC land....... If you're some sort of tragic square who needs to run Windows, maybe you should have thought of that before you bought a Mac.
I can't speak for video, but the gaming system Steam uses UDP for all the game play, and tcp only to log into the server, so 99% of the packets are UDP. Any stream that is live is UDP, ie: if it misses a packet, you just don't get it. This would be for sports video on the web, etc. Even DNS uses UDP. I don't sniff packets enough to see who does and doesn't but I know that it takes a lot less overhead and bandwidth since there are no ACKS, only occasional "i am still here" tcp packets.
I entertain Europeans regularly, and most are thrilled to get a decent steak, stating that European beef is just bland and plain (I agree). And these are business owners and rather affluent people who would eat in the finer places. I guess all our harmones and antibiotics make our beef tastier. Our pork and poultry also kicks their asses, likely for the same reasons: Ours are healthier with the extra drugs they ban there.
They also like California wines (similar in quality to French). They do, however, hate our French Fries. I have to admit, they make better fries. And chocolate.
Bullshit. That is not the law, and hasn't been. The radio stations simply have to act "in the public interest" and are granted a license to operate as long as they do. The FCC doesn't require you record every song, particularly since they are not in the royalty business.
You are simply making shit up and have no idea what you speak of.
By today's standards, TFC has crappy graphics but great gameplay, which is why there are still a couple hundred servers still running it, after 10 years.
I am not talking about the gaming "experience", I am talking about gameplay: how fluid the controls are, how intuitive the action is, how the game can offer something new each time.
SimCity 3000 has marginal graphics compared to SimCity 4, but it has better gameplay.
For the average joe the main content where bandwidth is going to be an issue are things like an html file, audio file, video file... all effectively one large file.
html isn't one big file, just like bittorrent files aren't (are hacked into smaller chucks). Most video and audio are streaming, which uses UDP instead of TCP, so you get different "bandwidth" results, since measuring with TCP would account for dropped or corrupt packets, and UDP just ignores them. I understand your logic, but your example is a bit flawed. The point is there are several ways to measure an internet connection, and bandwidth is just one.
Wow, good point. Since the band is performing at football games, and they sell tickets and nachos to support the team, they are making 'a profit', and would be subject to royalties. Even the old "Budweiser theme" song the tuba players play is subject.
And when _I_ worked in radio, we just filled it in with a bunch of crap, as we didn't really track every song we played, like most other radio stations. It might have been 50% accurate, at best.
For another example of same, consider the spammers' plight. Are you really devastated by having to press 'Delete' even 5 times a day?
So some guy playing old Beatles songs for free at the local coffee shop is the same as the guy sending me 100 emails a day for vi4gra? I think you might want to go back and read the first sentence is your post again.
That a songwriter gets paid when you play her song?
I've been the poor musician, the DJ and the radio station. No, the songwriter doesn't get paid when you play their song in fact. The RIAA "guesses" what songs you would have played, and pays the songwritters according to these guesses. The system is far from exact.
And if you worked in a "sucky little coffee shop" is so bad to work for, why did you work at one for a dozen or so years? It couldn't have paid THAT good that you would have put up with it, could it?
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And how long before RedHat back pedals and screws us, like they did those of us who bought support contracts for RH9? Sorry, we have several servers with paid support that just got stranded, and then given the choice of paying 5 times more, or using Fedora, which isn't ready and had spotty support after a year.
No, I think not RedHat. I got to explain to the owner why you left me high and dry once. Never again. I will keep using CentOS because I was weened on RH, gladly paying for the box set of every major release since 4.x because I wanted to support FOSS and still do. I pay others when I need a second opinion, or just in over my head on a particular want/desire, but not RedHat.
This always hits a nerve with me, and thousands of us who were abandoned by RH the first go around. We were loyal small server users for many years, then was told to 'eat cake', and choke on Fedora we did.
In the US, you can read about how 20 year olds go to jail for having sex with a 16 year old, for statutory rape. No less a 40 year old. This isn't theory, it happens fairly often.
When you are 40, 16 is never legal. Even if it was, that is what you call "pitchfork and torch" justification. Legal would be the least of your concerns.
I am old enough to remember "Lost in Space" both as original and saturday reruns. Loved the campy original, and loved the movie. Not EVERYONE hated that movie, you know.
Damn kids and their loud music....
Now maybe, but she was young enough then to make you do time.
At least it had Heather Graham. mmm.
Brazil to California may also mean only the America continent.
Unless you go the other way around. Then it's South America, Antarctica and Canada, too. Maybe all those penguins want cheap laptops with Linux on them.
Karma is a simple game. The key is building it to Excellent, then writing what you want most of the time. Then just post in a topic really early with stuff like "Microsoft sucks" or rave about Ubuntu, even if the subject isn't about operating systems. That gets you good mod points. Also, never post anything funny unless you have karma to burn. Remember: Karma is only good for burning. There is no purpose in getting it if you can't use it to make a serious point.
/. but will guarantee you very good karma. And since I have karma to burn, I won't even post this as AC. Then again, I've only posted about 3000 times on /., so what do I know. And honestly, I try not to be a karma whore. Most of the time.
Here are some things you can say that will guarantee you good karma if you post early in the conversation. Just somehow make a reference to the conversation about:
1. Steve Balmer throwing a chair.
2. Your scanner/printer/anything working better in Linux than WinDoze (spelling is mandentory)
3. How Netcraft proves Micro$oft is losing market share (the $ is mandentory)
4. Anything that says "I'm an American, but ashamed of it" goes great with the Europeans and self loathing American moderators.
5. If you can't post early enough, go toward the back of the posts, find something that is really good but is on page 3 so ignored, then post it under the first +5 on page one, even if it is irrelevent. If you get called out on it, say you didn't see it and call the accuser a Karma Whore.
6. Start post with "This will probably get modded down, but..." then say something somewhat worthwhile, even if it is obvious.
7. Take a strong stand and rant (short rant...) on something no one can disagree with. If "child abuse" can be worked into the topic, get on a pedestal about it and watch the mods come flying in from the conservative side of the political spectrum. Just don't go overboard, state the obvious, use good grammar and puncuation.
Yes, all this is terrible citizenship on
+2 Flamebait = thank you mods for proving my point.
Um, I wasn't condoning this method, I was just explaining it to someone. That it exists is fact. I didn't bother to interject my personal opinion about the practice.
Funny gets you no karma, Informative does, so some mods will mod informative to give the post a boost in ranking AND karma to the poster.
The logic in "funny" not giving karma is based on the idea that it is easier to be funny than to be smart, and they want to promote "smart" more than "funny", which makes sense.
Technically, you can write a post, get it modded +5 Funny and lose karma points. Example: your post gets modded up and down as funny and offtopic. 8 mods Funny, 3 mods Offtopic = -3 Karma. Modding Insightful, Interesting, etc. offsets that.
You should read the faq. All of it. That is where you will learn how a post can technically be modded as +5 Flamebait. (I have seen it) -1 Flamebait and +6 Underrated = +5 Flamebait.
For decades, we Mac users haven't really given a shit what was happening off in PC land.... ...
If you're some sort of tragic square who needs to run Windows, maybe you should have thought of that before you bought a Mac.
Well, at least you aren't a fanboy.
I can't speak for video, but the gaming system Steam uses UDP for all the game play, and tcp only to log into the server, so 99% of the packets are UDP. Any stream that is live is UDP, ie: if it misses a packet, you just don't get it. This would be for sports video on the web, etc. Even DNS uses UDP. I don't sniff packets enough to see who does and doesn't but I know that it takes a lot less overhead and bandwidth since there are no ACKS, only occasional "i am still here" tcp packets.
All I know is that this sounds like a "double dog dare". My money is on the crackers in 12 to 18 months or less.
I entertain Europeans regularly, and most are thrilled to get a decent steak, stating that European beef is just bland and plain (I agree). And these are business owners and rather affluent people who would eat in the finer places. I guess all our harmones and antibiotics make our beef tastier. Our pork and poultry also kicks their asses, likely for the same reasons: Ours are healthier with the extra drugs they ban there.
They also like California wines (similar in quality to French). They do, however, hate our French Fries. I have to admit, they make better fries. And chocolate.
You forgot to add the reason: Because we Americans are all like Jethro Bodine and don't appreciate the difference anyway.
Bullshit. That is not the law, and hasn't been. The radio stations simply have to act "in the public interest" and are granted a license to operate as long as they do. The FCC doesn't require you record every song, particularly since they are not in the royalty business.
You are simply making shit up and have no idea what you speak of.
By today's standards, TFC has crappy graphics but great gameplay, which is why there are still a couple hundred servers still running it, after 10 years.
I am not talking about the gaming "experience", I am talking about gameplay: how fluid the controls are, how intuitive the action is, how the game can offer something new each time.
SimCity 3000 has marginal graphics compared to SimCity 4, but it has better gameplay.
For the average joe the main content where bandwidth is going to be an issue are things like an html file, audio file, video file... all effectively one large file.
html isn't one big file, just like bittorrent files aren't (are hacked into smaller chucks). Most video and audio are streaming, which uses UDP instead of TCP, so you get different "bandwidth" results, since measuring with TCP would account for dropped or corrupt packets, and UDP just ignores them. I understand your logic, but your example is a bit flawed. The point is there are several ways to measure an internet connection, and bandwidth is just one.
Then maybe developers will start focusing more on playability and less on eye candy? Anyone?
Wow, good point. Since the band is performing at football games, and they sell tickets and nachos to support the team, they are making 'a profit', and would be subject to royalties. Even the old "Budweiser theme" song the tuba players play is subject.
And when _I_ worked in radio, we just filled it in with a bunch of crap, as we didn't really track every song we played, like most other radio stations. It might have been 50% accurate, at best.
For another example of same, consider the spammers' plight. Are you really devastated by having to press 'Delete' even 5 times a day?
So some guy playing old Beatles songs for free at the local coffee shop is the same as the guy sending me 100 emails a day for vi4gra? I think you might want to go back and read the first sentence is your post again.
That a songwriter gets paid when you play her song?
I've been the poor musician, the DJ and the radio station. No, the songwriter doesn't get paid when you play their song in fact. The RIAA "guesses" what songs you would have played, and pays the songwritters according to these guesses. The system is far from exact.
And if you worked in a "sucky little coffee shop" is so bad to work for, why did you work at one for a dozen or so years? It couldn't have paid THAT good that you would have put up with it, could it?
Damn, now I'm afraid to even hum a tune in Starbucks!