True, and you should never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. Though in fun world of corporations, the two seem to go hand in hand.
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Just one more thing that demonstrates the reason I ignore the mainstream media. I refuse to believe any hype. As soon as I hear about anything "new and wonderful" I look into what makes it new and what makes it wonderful. When I first heard the term "cyber Monday", I thought to myself, "That's a bunch of bull. It's all just media hype." I was proved correct. I'm tired of all the media hype. Like NBC's Today show having the woman in a canoe to report on all the flooding, only to have a couple of guys walk through the few-inch deep water in front of her. Like the guy reporting on a hurricane a couple of years ago, struggling to stay in front of the camera despite the ferocious winds, only to have someone walk behind him, looking at him funny like "Why are you acting like the wind is blowing that hard?" Don't believe what the media tells you. All they want is to have more viewers for their commercials so they can make more money. What a bunch of crap.
If someone is in the market for Enterprise wireless email, if you ask me, GoodLink is a better choice. People I know who have used both prefer the way GoodLink looks and works. It appears very similar to Outlook on your handheld and it synchs with your email server. When you delete an email on your handheld, it's gone from your mailbox and vice-versa. The part I like best is that if a handheld is lost or stolen or someone quits or gets fired, I can, with just a couple of mouse clicks (confirmation), do a hard reset on any handheld set to access our email system. No, I don't work for Good and I don't get anything for saying this. I'm just happy with their setup.
One or the other. It's bad enough the company has this in their EULA, but the fact they are trying to enforce it through the courts proves one of two things. They either have a legal department/management team with serious balls or their legal department/management team is out of their mind. One or the other. I personally would believe the latter. I can't wait until it gets laughed out of court or, even better, the judge takes the evidence and does whatever he has to do to get the company prosecuted.
Since I'm not logged in yet when posting this message, I have to type in a captcha. This one is "agree". By typing this, what am I agreeing to? Crap, time to get my lawyer to read this page before pressing preview.
It was the same thing with the X-Files. I don't know if it's changed, but it was about $100 when it came out. Totally crazy.
Actually, they are now selling them in mythology sets: AbductionBlack Oil, Colonization, and Super Soldiers. I'm considering buying them this way. It might actually cost more per episode. I haven't figured that out but these sets are affordable and you only get the ones you want. Now if only they come out with the Lone Gunmen set. Not the Lone Gunmen series. I already have that. I want the X-Files episodes that feature them.
I started reading Stephen King books back when Carrie first came out. I really enjoyed most of them, but in recent years his quality has dropped. Most of my friends have been wondering why I continue reading his books because like they say, "His early books were good, but it's pretty much just crap any more." I have every book he published. I really enjoyed the first three books of the Dark Tower series. The ending to book three pissed me off because of the "cliff-hanger" ending. What made it worse is the way he started book four. Can anyone whose read it say that was an honest conclusion to the climax of the third book? I don't think so. The quality of the series continued to go downhill from there. I see a few people commenting on how they thought the ending and what was behind the final door was great. I can't disagree more. I thought that was the most amatuer ending of any of his books and that's saying quite a bit. Sad to say, but I've stopped purchasing SK books and the poor quality ones will be finding themselves in the closet as I find new books to replace them on my bookshelves.
I'm left with The Stand (another one that was great until the end), It (ditto), Salem's Lot, Misery, Christine, The Dead Zone, The Shining, The Night Shift Collection, Firestarter, Pet Semetery and Carrie. I tried to stay a loyal fan and I made it much longer than others I know, but after all those years of the Dark Tower to end like that...I'm done.
"Warm glow?" That's not the feeling I got from that movie (to avoid a spoiler, I'll just point out LOTS OF ICE)!
Then you haven't seen The Shining - Redux. There was a contest where people took movies, recut their previews, added different music and voiceover to make it seem like a diffent movie. On the page linked above, a link to the Quicktime file is in the Blue Box near the top of the page and a mirror is just below the picture.
This will get you the answer, and would be the way to program it, but there's a way to do it without as much math. I've seen at least one post in this discussion that explains it well.
I think I'd just stop by work on my way home from shopping and degauss my new clothes/whatever. With the way the thing fries the circuits in watches, hard drives and such, I don't think RFID chips would stand a chance. I may even have to invest in one for home. Granted, it wouldn't work so well for some items, but for many that really matter it would.
We're using Windows network load balancing on a web-hosted application. The cluster is given one IP, the servers are each given one. When the initial connection is made, the client is directed to one of the servers and that server handles all requests from that client until the session ends. The biggest problem is when one server is having issues, we need to connect to each individually to figure out which is having problems, then remove that one from the cluster. Also, the load balancing takes some processing power on each of the servers. This isn't important to us in this particular situation.
Another one we use is an active-active Exchange cluster. Each server is aware of the other in the cluster and they share disks on a SAN. If one server is brought down for whatever reason, the other automatically grabs the services that were running on the first. The thing you have to watch is that neither of the servers uses more than 50% of their processing power when running one half of the cluster. If it ever does, you'd better upgrade your servers because if it gets the full load, it won't be able to handle it.
The last one we use is an F5 BigIP box. This is a dedicated network load balancing box we use on a high-use web cluster. The nice thing is that all the computing power needed to manage the cluster is on the F5 box, freeing the servers for more users.
You're right. The fact that Mars' climate may be warming at the same rate that Earth's climate may be warming does not mean that Earth's climate change is causing Mars' climate change. Very good observation.
Sarcasm aside, more study is needed on both situations. I tend to believe that while man's pollution may be contributing to climate change, it would be happening regardless. Darwin was almost right. It is not survival of the fittest. It is survival of those most able to adjust to change. Nature is constantly changing. Anyone who would believe that Earth was to remain exactly the same forever is sorely mistaken.
First we do a 6 pass writing 0's and 1's alternately, then a random character write. Once this is done, or if we can't do a drive wipe, we then run it 4 passes through our degausser. This degausser causes the drive to make some pretty noises while going through it. I can only imagine what's happening to the heads/platters. One of our techs learned the hard way that you remove ALL jewelry, watches, keys from your person before degaussing. His watch stopped working and had to be replaced. If it's a drive we are trying to replace under warranty, we then send it in. If it's denied because degauss destroyed it, we take it as a loss. We don't mind.
Our tech bench is approximately 20 feet long. We put up a good solid shelf at about chin-level above the bench. On this shelf we have four LCD monitors each attached to a 2-port KVM switch. Every 6 feet or so we have a tower of drawers, each labeled appropriately with their contents (tools, software CDs, labeling kits, spare drives of various sorts, ribbon cables, spare keyboards, mice, power cables, network cables and just about anything else you can think you may need handy. At each monitor station, we have a 2-port network drop and a four outlet power wall-plate. Works pretty good but we ended up with too many "misc" drawers so I'd recommend reorganizing them once in a while.
I play PokerStars for play money for reasons others have stated. Too easy to cheat etc. I won't play for real money online. Period. I play for fun and practice. The reason I don't play as much is that many of the people who play online are just complete idiots. Now, a bad player I can deal with. What I'm talking about are the ones who trash-talk, criticize, bitch about other peoples' playing, spout out cheap personal attacks, go all-in every hand, sit out most of a tournament and crap like that. I play for fun and if it's not fun, I won't play.
I agree the levee breaks in New Orleans are horrible. How is this any worse than the Tsunami in Sumatra, Thailand, Sri Lanka and elsewhere in that region? Yes, unfortunately people die. For the rest of us, life goes on. We are helping where we can, but we must continue to live.
I'm just waiting for Dungeon Keeper III. Yes, a completely different game from Dungeon Siege II, DKII was much better than DSI, in my opinion. For those not familiar, in Dungeon Keeper, you are in SimCity-like control of an underground area with a few imps to serve you. You tag rock for the imps to dig out. Relatively early, you find a gateway where creatures enter your dungeon. You build a lair, hatchery (chickens to feed your creatures), training room, library for your spellcasters etc to keep your creatures happy and trained. You then send them out to take over other Keepers' dungeons or protect your dungeon from do-gooders from the top-side. If you don't keep your creatures happy, they can rebel, damaging your dungeon, or just leaving. Fun game. The DKII disc had a preview movie for DKIII. I just hope they actually make it someday.
I noticed SETI@Home being down pretty frequently so I added climateprediction.net as another project. I set SETI down to 25% of my process time and Climate Prediction at 75%. I'm thinking of adding another couple of projects, like Folding@Home or the Einstein project. I may even drop SETI. Kind of sad, seeing a project I believed in not improving their software and being down way too often. Besides, as many have already posted, I think there are projects whose results are more worth my CPU time.
I just take care to totally mix up my shreddings and only empty it 1/4 to 1/2 at a time. I figure it's unlikely an entire document will end up in the same haul of garbage and the dumpster diver is unlikely to get the info they want. Anyone putting THAT much effort into getting my personal stuff is obviously out to get ME and not just a random attack. In that case, I've got bigger things to worry about that the crook finding out my credit card number.
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True, and you should never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. Though in fun world of corporations, the two seem to go hand in hand.
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Just one more thing that demonstrates the reason I ignore the mainstream media. I refuse to believe any hype. As soon as I hear about anything "new and wonderful" I look into what makes it new and what makes it wonderful. When I first heard the term "cyber Monday", I thought to myself, "That's a bunch of bull. It's all just media hype." I was proved correct. I'm tired of all the media hype. Like NBC's Today show having the woman in a canoe to report on all the flooding, only to have a couple of guys walk through the few-inch deep water in front of her. Like the guy reporting on a hurricane a couple of years ago, struggling to stay in front of the camera despite the ferocious winds, only to have someone walk behind him, looking at him funny like "Why are you acting like the wind is blowing that hard?" Don't believe what the media tells you. All they want is to have more viewers for their commercials so they can make more money. What a bunch of crap.
--Okay, you can now mod this -1 Obvious.
If so, what does he or she look like?
Honestly, you must not be paying attention. She looks exactly like Alanis Morissette. ;-P
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by MemeRot (80975)
"Whenever I try to use the ATM machine, I always forget my PIN number. "
This is Insightful? OK, every time I try to put on my shoes, I forget how to tie them.
Very appropriate name for the post of this comment.
If someone is in the market for Enterprise wireless email, if you ask me, GoodLink is a better choice. People I know who have used both prefer the way GoodLink looks and works. It appears very similar to Outlook on your handheld and it synchs with your email server. When you delete an email on your handheld, it's gone from your mailbox and vice-versa. The part I like best is that if a handheld is lost or stolen or someone quits or gets fired, I can, with just a couple of mouse clicks (confirmation), do a hard reset on any handheld set to access our email system. No, I don't work for Good and I don't get anything for saying this. I'm just happy with their setup.
One or the other. It's bad enough the company has this in their EULA, but the fact they are trying to enforce it through the courts proves one of two things. They either have a legal department/management team with serious balls or their legal department/management team is out of their mind. One or the other. I personally would believe the latter. I can't wait until it gets laughed out of court or, even better, the judge takes the evidence and does whatever he has to do to get the company prosecuted.
Since I'm not logged in yet when posting this message, I have to type in a captcha. This one is "agree". By typing this, what am I agreeing to? Crap, time to get my lawyer to read this page before pressing preview.
You don't hear much about them here in St. Louis, MO
That would be because there aren't many of them in St. Louis MO. I'm not sure, but it could be the lack of high seas. ;-)
Looking through the CD titles this comes with, some of them are appropriately named:
Nothing Is Sound - Not once you try to remove the software
Life In Slow Motion - Don't you just love spyware?
Unwritten - and unripped
Suspicious Activity - sums it up nicely
Unfabulous And More - quite unfabulous
Healthy In Paranoid Times - Funniest of the bunch
The Invisible Invasion - nice description of the spyware
Phantoms - hidden software
Change It All - Your CD-ROM drive, your Windows install
Broken Valley - If you call your Windows PC "Valley" (okay, it's a stretch)
and the most appropriate title of the bunch:
Get Right with the Man
It was the same thing with the X-Files. I don't know if it's changed, but it was about $100 when it came out. Totally crazy.
Actually, they are now selling them in mythology sets: Abduction Black Oil, Colonization, and Super Soldiers. I'm considering buying them this way. It might actually cost more per episode. I haven't figured that out but these sets are affordable and you only get the ones you want. Now if only they come out with the Lone Gunmen set. Not the Lone Gunmen series. I already have that. I want the X-Files episodes that feature them.
I started reading Stephen King books back when Carrie first came out. I really enjoyed most of them, but in recent years his quality has dropped. Most of my friends have been wondering why I continue reading his books because like they say, "His early books were good, but it's pretty much just crap any more." I have every book he published. I really enjoyed the first three books of the Dark Tower series. The ending to book three pissed me off because of the "cliff-hanger" ending. What made it worse is the way he started book four. Can anyone whose read it say that was an honest conclusion to the climax of the third book? I don't think so. The quality of the series continued to go downhill from there. I see a few people commenting on how they thought the ending and what was behind the final door was great. I can't disagree more. I thought that was the most amatuer ending of any of his books and that's saying quite a bit. Sad to say, but I've stopped purchasing SK books and the poor quality ones will be finding themselves in the closet as I find new books to replace them on my bookshelves.
I'm left with The Stand (another one that was great until the end), It (ditto), Salem's Lot, Misery, Christine, The Dead Zone, The Shining, The Night Shift Collection, Firestarter, Pet Semetery and Carrie. I tried to stay a loyal fan and I made it much longer than others I know, but after all those years of the Dark Tower to end like that...I'm done.
In case those links don't work, try this one.
"Warm glow?" That's not the feeling I got from that movie (to avoid a spoiler, I'll just point out LOTS OF ICE)!
Then you haven't seen The Shining - Redux. There was a contest where people took movies, recut their previews, added different music and voiceover to make it seem like a diffent movie. On the page linked above, a link to the Quicktime file is in the Blue Box near the top of the page and a mirror is just below the picture.
This will get you the answer, and would be the way to program it, but there's a way to do it without as much math. I've seen at least one post in this discussion that explains it well.
I think I'd just stop by work on my way home from shopping and degauss my new clothes/whatever. With the way the thing fries the circuits in watches, hard drives and such, I don't think RFID chips would stand a chance. I may even have to invest in one for home. Granted, it wouldn't work so well for some items, but for many that really matter it would.
We're using Windows network load balancing on a web-hosted application. The cluster is given one IP, the servers are each given one. When the initial connection is made, the client is directed to one of the servers and that server handles all requests from that client until the session ends. The biggest problem is when one server is having issues, we need to connect to each individually to figure out which is having problems, then remove that one from the cluster. Also, the load balancing takes some processing power on each of the servers. This isn't important to us in this particular situation.
Another one we use is an active-active Exchange cluster. Each server is aware of the other in the cluster and they share disks on a SAN. If one server is brought down for whatever reason, the other automatically grabs the services that were running on the first. The thing you have to watch is that neither of the servers uses more than 50% of their processing power when running one half of the cluster. If it ever does, you'd better upgrade your servers because if it gets the full load, it won't be able to handle it.
The last one we use is an F5 BigIP box. This is a dedicated network load balancing box we use on a high-use web cluster. The nice thing is that all the computing power needed to manage the cluster is on the F5 box, freeing the servers for more users.
Correlation does not equal causation
You're right. The fact that Mars' climate may be warming at the same rate that Earth's climate may be warming does not mean that Earth's climate change is causing Mars' climate change. Very good observation.
Sarcasm aside, more study is needed on both situations. I tend to believe that while man's pollution may be contributing to climate change, it would be happening regardless. Darwin was almost right. It is not survival of the fittest. It is survival of those most able to adjust to change. Nature is constantly changing. Anyone who would believe that Earth was to remain exactly the same forever is sorely mistaken.
First we do a 6 pass writing 0's and 1's alternately, then a random character write. Once this is done, or if we can't do a drive wipe, we then run it 4 passes through our degausser. This degausser causes the drive to make some pretty noises while going through it. I can only imagine what's happening to the heads/platters. One of our techs learned the hard way that you remove ALL jewelry, watches, keys from your person before degaussing. His watch stopped working and had to be replaced. If it's a drive we are trying to replace under warranty, we then send it in. If it's denied because degauss destroyed it, we take it as a loss. We don't mind.
Our tech bench is approximately 20 feet long. We put up a good solid shelf at about chin-level above the bench. On this shelf we have four LCD monitors each attached to a 2-port KVM switch. Every 6 feet or so we have a tower of drawers, each labeled appropriately with their contents (tools, software CDs, labeling kits, spare drives of various sorts, ribbon cables, spare keyboards, mice, power cables, network cables and just about anything else you can think you may need handy. At each monitor station, we have a 2-port network drop and a four outlet power wall-plate. Works pretty good but we ended up with too many "misc" drawers so I'd recommend reorganizing them once in a while.
I play PokerStars for play money for reasons others have stated. Too easy to cheat etc. I won't play for real money online. Period. I play for fun and practice. The reason I don't play as much is that many of the people who play online are just complete idiots. Now, a bad player I can deal with. What I'm talking about are the ones who trash-talk, criticize, bitch about other peoples' playing, spout out cheap personal attacks, go all-in every hand, sit out most of a tournament and crap like that. I play for fun and if it's not fun, I won't play.
I agree the levee breaks in New Orleans are horrible. How is this any worse than the Tsunami in Sumatra, Thailand, Sri Lanka and elsewhere in that region? Yes, unfortunately people die. For the rest of us, life goes on. We are helping where we can, but we must continue to live.
Eexxxcellent! I hadn't heard of this one. Looks cool. Thank you.
Aw....thanks for the info. Obviously I haven't looked up the progress recently. I appreciate the update.
Slightly off-topic.
I'm just waiting for Dungeon Keeper III. Yes, a completely different game from Dungeon Siege II, DKII was much better than DSI, in my opinion. For those not familiar, in Dungeon Keeper, you are in SimCity-like control of an underground area with a few imps to serve you. You tag rock for the imps to dig out. Relatively early, you find a gateway where creatures enter your dungeon. You build a lair, hatchery (chickens to feed your creatures), training room, library for your spellcasters etc to keep your creatures happy and trained. You then send them out to take over other Keepers' dungeons or protect your dungeon from do-gooders from the top-side. If you don't keep your creatures happy, they can rebel, damaging your dungeon, or just leaving. Fun game. The DKII disc had a preview movie for DKIII. I just hope they actually make it someday.
I noticed SETI@Home being down pretty frequently so I added climateprediction.net as another project. I set SETI down to 25% of my process time and Climate Prediction at 75%. I'm thinking of adding another couple of projects, like Folding@Home or the Einstein project. I may even drop SETI. Kind of sad, seeing a project I believed in not improving their software and being down way too often. Besides, as many have already posted, I think there are projects whose results are more worth my CPU time.
I just take care to totally mix up my shreddings and only empty it 1/4 to 1/2 at a time. I figure it's unlikely an entire document will end up in the same haul of garbage and the dumpster diver is unlikely to get the info they want. Anyone putting THAT much effort into getting my personal stuff is obviously out to get ME and not just a random attack. In that case, I've got bigger things to worry about that the crook finding out my credit card number.