Personal computers back then were more akin to consoles with keyboards, with a standard configuration and hardware features making it possible to optimize.
There are local concerns as ocean temperature is not uniform. On a small scale such as this cooling scenario, local heating may promote algae or bacteria, but the reality is it would be as insignificant as cooling blocks on the roof of your building.
There are astonishing anti-competitive roadblocks to wholesalers. I recently looked into converting my internet service into a naked service, but the caveats and hoops they have to jump through made me give up for now.
The internet service stays the same, the physical wire stays the same, the exchange connections pretty much stay the same, all that I wanted to change was moving the line rental from Telstra to my ISP. To do so would require a totally new service to be commissioned with extended outages, and was told this is an artificial limitation.
There are plenty of posts here poo-pooing touch screens, I think that there are as yet unknown input methods that will come with spatial touch recognition.
There are comparisons to the mouse and sure, shoehorning touch onto an interface designed for mice may seem sub-optimal. But human fingers are incredibly dextrous and common usage may evolve a better way; you wouldn't play a piano with a mouse.
I agree, I've never run Windows on my PC, always have some sort of *nix since before windows 95. But these new games sure are fun, and wine sucks for brand new games. (no offence wine crew)
Selling the hardware business to HP would invalidate Oracle's Solaris aquisition, because one of the advantages of running Sun software is running it on Sun hardware. I know other OS runs on Sparc, as does Solaris run on other hardware, but Solaris/Sparc is a known good entity.
Scammers are getting around that by hijacking your phone number. Probably the best I've seen is using a challenge-response for all transactions, with a frob supplied by the bank.
Yeah I bought the Penumbra series and World of Goo, which didn't even have a key. I appreciate the lack of DRM on my old Loki titles because they're easy to drag along on upgrades. DRM sucks and I won't tolerate it on my computer.
Having been an avid computer user since the 8-bit wave, I can assure you that the c64 had terrible production issues and high failure rates. I have boxes of dead machines which I use to repair other systems. The ZX Spectrum had notoriously poor MTBF and the rubber keyboard wore out pretty quick.
Also recall the infamous NES cartridge slot issues.
I had accidentally sent double payment through to a seller, due to a paypal site hiccup. When I asked them for help it was all blah blah your fault, be more careful etc. But because I use credit cards only, I only needed to threaten the bank's attention and the problem was solved instantly.
To be fair, generating assets for a modern game and playtesting them requires a fair bit of investment. these aren't Doom WADs we're talking here. There is still the option to vote with your buck, you can treat the xbox like the PS2 and pretend there is no online or expansion available, and just play the game as-is.
If an item of DLC is quality and value, I will pay for it. If it's horse armour, then I won't.
Either you trust your sysadmins or you don't give them the access they need. Administrators require access to all of your files, your network traffic, your email, your financial data. Not all of the admin staff needs it, but at least one of them does need some access.
The problem with outsourcing is you are treating sysadmins like janitors, a necessary evil farmed out to the lowest bidder. Where the reality is the function is a critical professional appointment which requires vetting, just as you would your accountant and lawyer.
The danger is you're only human. If you are running at 100%, your employers take that as your baseline and any variation is obvious. When you're feeling burned out, which you will running at that level, a drop to 90% will make you look bad even when your output is still exemplary.
Your employers get used to that output and when the crunch comes and you've got nothing more, you will also look bad. If you are being payed salary in line with usual hourly contract, then you may have a point. But day in, day out is very tiring.
I've been a sysadmin for a long time. As long as you like tech and know how to do your job, you'll be fine. There are a lot of shit admins out there, for a while the ratio of good sysadmins was quite low which makes your job all the harder, you have to pick up the slack. But when you've got a good team, it's a great job.
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The Nazi method would be just to move the border.
Water as a liquid isn't stable in vacuum and it evaporates, but UV doesn't decompose it. Comets are water.
Stable substance composed of two of the most common and reactive elements in universe, common in the universe! News at 11.
Personal computers back then were more akin to consoles with keyboards, with a standard configuration and hardware features making it possible to optimize.
There are local concerns as ocean temperature is not uniform. On a small scale such as this cooling scenario, local heating may promote algae or bacteria, but the reality is it would be as insignificant as cooling blocks on the roof of your building.
I personally hate Access because of MDB, but if MS could provide an online database builder they would be onto a major winner.
There are astonishing anti-competitive roadblocks to wholesalers. I recently looked into converting my internet service into a naked service, but the caveats and hoops they have to jump through made me give up for now.
The internet service stays the same, the physical wire stays the same, the exchange connections pretty much stay the same, all that I wanted to change was moving the line rental from Telstra to my ISP. To do so would require a totally new service to be commissioned with extended outages, and was told this is an artificial limitation.
There are plenty of posts here poo-pooing touch screens, I think that there are as yet unknown input methods that will come with spatial touch recognition.
There are comparisons to the mouse and sure, shoehorning touch onto an interface designed for mice may seem sub-optimal. But human fingers are incredibly dextrous and common usage may evolve a better way; you wouldn't play a piano with a mouse.
Damn straight, reading on my old palm pilot works great in full sun.
I agree, I've never run Windows on my PC, always have some sort of *nix since before windows 95. But these new games sure are fun, and wine sucks for brand new games. (no offence wine crew)
Translucent, but it's also nearly frictionless. So you'd have to put a contact layer on top of that, something like asphalt is fairly cheap.
Selling the hardware business to HP would invalidate Oracle's Solaris aquisition, because one of the advantages of running Sun software is running it on Sun hardware. I know other OS runs on Sparc, as does Solaris run on other hardware, but Solaris/Sparc is a known good entity.
What could possibly go wrong? Fucking ricers.
Scammers are getting around that by hijacking your phone number. Probably the best I've seen is using a challenge-response for all transactions, with a frob supplied by the bank.
Yeah I bought the Penumbra series and World of Goo, which didn't even have a key. I appreciate the lack of DRM on my old Loki titles because they're easy to drag along on upgrades. DRM sucks and I won't tolerate it on my computer.
Having been an avid computer user since the 8-bit wave, I can assure you that the c64 had terrible production issues and high failure rates. I have boxes of dead machines which I use to repair other systems. The ZX Spectrum had notoriously poor MTBF and the rubber keyboard wore out pretty quick.
Also recall the infamous NES cartridge slot issues.
Play Quake live and get some meaningful stats back to a major developer.
I had accidentally sent double payment through to a seller, due to a paypal site hiccup. When I asked them for help it was all blah blah your fault, be more careful etc. But because I use credit cards only, I only needed to threaten the bank's attention and the problem was solved instantly.
I've got a few of systems like that on my networks, except I call them honeypots.
X-plane, multiplatform commercial flight sim.
To be fair, generating assets for a modern game and playtesting them requires a fair bit of investment. these aren't Doom WADs we're talking here. There is still the option to vote with your buck, you can treat the xbox like the PS2 and pretend there is no online or expansion available, and just play the game as-is.
If an item of DLC is quality and value, I will pay for it. If it's horse armour, then I won't.
My systems and processes are subject to annual third-party auditing, which is fine in my book because the job is always done right.
Either you trust your sysadmins or you don't give them the access they need. Administrators require access to all of your files, your network traffic, your email, your financial data. Not all of the admin staff needs it, but at least one of them does need some access.
The problem with outsourcing is you are treating sysadmins like janitors, a necessary evil farmed out to the lowest bidder. Where the reality is the function is a critical professional appointment which requires vetting, just as you would your accountant and lawyer.
The danger is you're only human. If you are running at 100%, your employers take that as your baseline and any variation is obvious. When you're feeling burned out, which you will running at that level, a drop to 90% will make you look bad even when your output is still exemplary.
Your employers get used to that output and when the crunch comes and you've got nothing more, you will also look bad. If you are being payed salary in line with usual hourly contract, then you may have a point. But day in, day out is very tiring.
I've been a sysadmin for a long time. As long as you like tech and know how to do your job, you'll be fine. There are a lot of shit admins out there, for a while the ratio of good sysadmins was quite low which makes your job all the harder, you have to pick up the slack. But when you've got a good team, it's a great job.