Not because of 911 per se, but just because of a variety of problems.
First, about a third of the time calls don't connect correctly. Usually I get an echo of some sort.
Second, and this isn't Vonage's fault per se... but my internet is a cable modem. If the power goes out so does the cable modem. Well not my cable modem... it's on a UPS. But the cable signal goes off line so having it on a UPS doesn't really matter.
Third, and this is Vonage's fault.
They offered a $50 rebate. I sent it in. They sent it back saying I didn't write down my MAC address. Well I did, as I had photocopies of the paperwork. I sent it back in. And they never sent me the money.
Overall, I'm not happy with VOIP. Just the concept of it, and then on top of that the shitty behavior of Vonage.
Christopher Lydon was the host on WBUR/NPR's "The Connection", one of the best radio interview/talk shows around.
Things must be really bad in Boston.
They hired him here in the Twin Cities to replace Katherine Lampert when she left to go work with Al Franken. He was horrible. He lasted maybe a month before he was handed his walking papers.
I say he was horrible, because he was clearly leading his interviews. That is, not just asking questions, but blatantly pushing the answers in a certain direction.
That said, his new show out there may very well be ok. Lydon has been pushing the notion of Open Source Politics for a couple of years now. His BOPNews.com website, etc. The idea of OSP is more citizen involvement.
I don't think OSM is itself doing anything disengenuous. They are similarly approaching this from a citizen involvement standpoint. Although, my gut feel is, given their conservative bent chances are anybody in their group who moves off the reservation will get immediately kicked out of the group.
It doesn't help that you bought a card notorious for poor DX9 performance. Can you honestly say you didn't expect to see performance plummet in later games?
Interesting. This information is located on nVidia's website where exactly?
I have a Intel 3.0Ghz P4 with 2 Gigs DDR-400 ram... The system is about two years old now. I have a 5900XT video card.
As far as I'm concerned this is a very fast system. However with BF2, I can run only at about 800x600 with everything set to low. Any higher options and the computer starts lagging.
The sad thing is. My favorite game from this genre is still RTCW. I just think the game play was so much better. Maybe the graphics weren't as advanced... but it was more fun. Knife fights under water... calling in air raids. Priming grenades before tossing them. It was a blast.
Breaking up the questionaire into seperate tables does nothing.
Well from my experience, breaking up the questionaire into seperate tables does accomplish making maintenance of the app simpler. Which depending on whether or not you want to be stuck supporting the same dumb app for the rest of your life or not, is important.
Now you auto generate your questionaire based on a Questions table... and as an added bonus when someone decides they really need to ask Question #101, they can input it through a maintenance screen.
Your way, in order to add a new question, you have to modify the application.
Granted, querying the results get's to be a bit more complicated. You have to "pivot" the data into a matrix. It's not terribly hard to do. You can do it in your app code, or using a stored procedure you can parse the data and send back one answer per column.
A lot of reporting tools have this kind of function built in, so it's not that hard to utilize.
I can't recall exactly what I did, but basically I paid the Iowa taxes, and then to Minnesota I paid the difference between what I'd already paid to Iowa and what I would pay to Minnesota.
There was a special form you had to fill out, and it made life a bit more complicated... but it wasn't double taxation.
I have no direct experience with installing 10g or admining it. The last time I tried to work with Oracle was 8i. But at a VSLive presentation last February, the VP of Oracle development made it a point to mention that with 10g the admin tools had been greatly improved, and you would now save something like 30% of your time working with Oracle versus older versions.
Apparently they went and hired a bunch of Windows developers to show them how this works, because they also now have some reasonably good plugins to VS.NET for developing on Oracle servers.
It's nice. Their old anti-Windows attitude had been seriously hurting them in the market.
Well in all honesty, I don't think it has to do with education, or that religion in America has evolved in a vacuum. Rather I think it has to do with the nature of our Church & State Separation. In Europe even to this day, most of the states hold an Official Religion, or are at least very much aligned to it. England, for all their changes over the centuries still has the Anglican Church with the Archbishop of Canterbury or whoever to oversee the good faith of the Queen's subjects.
In the US, it's different. Rather than government and religion being combined, we have a case where politics and religion are combined. That is, people have been subverting religion to use it in a political way.
That's all the ID discussion is really about. There's a group of people out there who think it's a harmless way to get morons to vote for them, and so they use it for that purpose. Then they pass laws having to do giving building contracts to their buddies.
I think it's nice that the scientific community has woken up and started showing their irritation about how science is being undermined in our country because of these morons. Unfortunately I think the only way we can ever fix this problem entirely is to point out the truth of how the politicians in Kansas are using the religious faith of people to get their buddies contracts building overpriced roads and such.
Finally, I am able to help with the amazing mastery of Microsoft BASIC v5.21 on CP/M 2.2 that I had in my youth. I never thought that this moment, and my hours spent in front of the computer writing programs to create D&D characters would pay off 22 years later!
INT() doesn't round, it truncates.
So let's say the 6*RND does return 1.6, 2.4 and 3.3... You're right in that his function would return 2.6 + 3.4 + 4.3 = 10.3... truncated to 10.
But your function is just as wrong. Suppose RND*6 returns.4, 1.2 and 2.2. That should be 1, 1, 2 for a total of 4. Your function would return 0 + 1 + 5. Yeah, you're adding in those extra 1s, but because they aren't within the INT() they aren't being used properly.
Or if you were a master at BASIC, you would do something like this, knowing that this is a routine that you will use over and over again:
DEF FN D(D%) =INT(D% * RND(0) +1)
Then write your line:
D(6) + D(6) + D(6)
I think this is a lesson in, always break things down to their simplest components, and then just do that. Don't try to be fancy and shortcut steps... it makes your code harder to read, as well as potentionally introduces bugs.
Well we ought to reign the UN back to it's charter.
I'm totally and completely opposed to the UN being involved in peace keeping and other military actions. The UN is not a military alliance. Such things should be the work of entities such as NATO, which is a military alliance. If we need to do more of that, we should be developing seperate agreements to handle that.
"Basic human rights should have som e teeth behind it"
Honestly, I think there are teeth. The US's actions in the realm of abandoning the Geneva Accords and their treatment of prisoners have completely damaged our credibility. Not to mention the abandonment of principles just on free and fair elections in our own country.
The teeth are there, for the US elected officials have damaged their own ability to ask for anything to be done.
But Norm Coleman is one of them. He's a windsock. You track his voting record, his positions... He holds no ideology. He votes the way he is told, and says what he thinks people want to hear. He's very good at being somebody elses man. There's no way he'd ever get the Presidential nomination. Certainly not from Republicans, definately not Democrats. Maybe the Whackadoodle party.
An even quicker note for a few of you interested in Norm Coleman beyond the usual freeper drivel that infects the internet.
He lost the Governor race in 1998 to a Pro-Wrestler by the name of Jesse Ventura. He nearly lost the 2002 Senate race to Wellstone, except for the unfortunate event of a plane crash.
Coleman isn't a rising star. He has no leadership ability or vision. He simply repeats what others tell him to do and promises to voters what he thinks they want. In '02 he promised to protect ANWR because Minnesotans care about the environment, but now he's getting pressure from up above he's abandoning the pledge.
His wife lives in California. She's a "movie star". That's where he calls home.
You won't see him running for anything other than Senate, and he's more than likely to lose in 2008. President? Doubtful. But I doubt he'd even win the nomination in Minnesota, much less in the South.
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I spent most of a day installing a new copy of XP on a Dell server.
Some people are skilled with computers.
Some people ask "Do you want fries with that?"
But hey, look on the bright side. Maybe their french fry cooker needs a new copy of XP installed.
Next thing we'll be hearing about how this Sober virus Hates Christmas because it says Happy Holidays.
And it hates the soldiers, because it's not properly saying good things about the war in Iraq.
And it was written by sodomites, because it attacks gay computers as well...
Oh whatever. Maybe those conspiracy guys were right and putting flouride in our drinking water is making us stupid.
Slashdot has turned from "Microsoft sucks" to waxing poetically about how Microsoft used to suck.
How times change...
Or hard rightist what's his name? Oh yeah, that's right... all of them.
Not because of 911 per se, but just because of a variety of problems.
First, about a third of the time calls don't connect correctly. Usually I get an echo of some sort.
Second, and this isn't Vonage's fault per se... but my internet is a cable modem. If the power goes out so does the cable modem. Well not my cable modem... it's on a UPS. But the cable signal goes off line so having it on a UPS doesn't really matter.
Third, and this is Vonage's fault.
They offered a $50 rebate. I sent it in. They sent it back saying I didn't write down my MAC address. Well I did, as I had photocopies of the paperwork. I sent it back in. And they never sent me the money.
Overall, I'm not happy with VOIP. Just the concept of it, and then on top of that the shitty behavior of Vonage.
slashdot has become my #1 source for good Windows development ideas.
.NET to the front page. :-)
I think it's actually funny considering a few years ago they were afraid to post an announcement about release of
Christopher Lydon was the host on WBUR/NPR's "The Connection", one of the best radio interview/talk shows around.
Things must be really bad in Boston.
They hired him here in the Twin Cities to replace Katherine Lampert when she left to go work with Al Franken. He was horrible. He lasted maybe a month before he was handed his walking papers.
I say he was horrible, because he was clearly leading his interviews. That is, not just asking questions, but blatantly pushing the answers in a certain direction.
That said, his new show out there may very well be ok. Lydon has been pushing the notion of Open Source Politics for a couple of years now. His BOPNews.com website, etc. The idea of OSP is more citizen involvement.
I don't think OSM is itself doing anything disengenuous. They are similarly approaching this from a citizen involvement standpoint. Although, my gut feel is, given their conservative bent chances are anybody in their group who moves off the reservation will get immediately kicked out of the group.
It doesn't help that you bought a card notorious for poor DX9 performance. Can you honestly say you didn't expect to see performance plummet in later games?
Interesting. This information is located on nVidia's website where exactly?
This destroys the incentive to produce buggy software because the writer of the software never knows whether they will be the one paid to fix it.
Why would the writer of the software release it to the public at all if that were the case?
Agreed.
I have a Intel 3.0Ghz P4 with 2 Gigs DDR-400 ram... The system is about two years old now. I have a 5900XT video card.
As far as I'm concerned this is a very fast system. However with BF2, I can run only at about 800x600 with everything set to low. Any higher options and the computer starts lagging.
The sad thing is. My favorite game from this genre is still RTCW. I just think the game play was so much better. Maybe the graphics weren't as advanced... but it was more fun. Knife fights under water... calling in air raids. Priming grenades before tossing them. It was a blast.
You've never dealt with Peoplesoft, Oracle or IBM.
Or that most of the "enterprise software" industry charges 20% of initial purchase price each year for ongoing support.
It is the way the market works now. it's not the way the market should work.
The term is not red-state hick.
5 exhibits.pdf
It's 'wacko'... At least according to the Republican operatives implicated in the Abramhoff scandal.
Page 119, of this document... http://indian.senate.gov/2005hrgs/110205hrg/11020
That's only been true under the Bush administration, after he awarded the Medal of Freedom to the architects of the Iraq war.
Breaking up the questionaire into seperate tables does nothing.
Well from my experience, breaking up the questionaire into seperate tables does accomplish making maintenance of the app simpler. Which depending on whether or not you want to be stuck supporting the same dumb app for the rest of your life or not, is important.
Now you auto generate your questionaire based on a Questions table... and as an added bonus when someone decides they really need to ask Question #101, they can input it through a maintenance screen.
Your way, in order to add a new question, you have to modify the application.
Granted, querying the results get's to be a bit more complicated. You have to "pivot" the data into a matrix. It's not terribly hard to do. You can do it in your app code, or using a stored procedure you can parse the data and send back one answer per column.
A lot of reporting tools have this kind of function built in, so it's not that hard to utilize.
Well obviously if you don't fill out the tax form, the government assumes you make no money and sends you a really big rebate check!
FREE MONEY FOR EVERYBODY!
I used to reside in Minnesota and work in Iowa.
I can't recall exactly what I did, but basically I paid the Iowa taxes, and then to Minnesota I paid the difference between what I'd already paid to Iowa and what I would pay to Minnesota.
There was a special form you had to fill out, and it made life a bit more complicated... but it wasn't double taxation.
This is a non-issue, I think.
I have no direct experience with installing 10g or admining it. The last time I tried to work with Oracle was 8i. But at a VSLive presentation last February, the VP of Oracle development made it a point to mention that with 10g the admin tools had been greatly improved, and you would now save something like 30% of your time working with Oracle versus older versions.
Apparently they went and hired a bunch of Windows developers to show them how this works, because they also now have some reasonably good plugins to VS.NET for developing on Oracle servers.
It's nice. Their old anti-Windows attitude had been seriously hurting them in the market.
Wow, you're almost member One Million.
Well in all honesty, I don't think it has to do with education, or that religion in America has evolved in a vacuum. Rather I think it has to do with the nature of our Church & State Separation. In Europe even to this day, most of the states hold an Official Religion, or are at least very much aligned to it. England, for all their changes over the centuries still has the Anglican Church with the Archbishop of Canterbury or whoever to oversee the good faith of the Queen's subjects.
In the US, it's different. Rather than government and religion being combined, we have a case where politics and religion are combined. That is, people have been subverting religion to use it in a political way.
That's all the ID discussion is really about. There's a group of people out there who think it's a harmless way to get morons to vote for them, and so they use it for that purpose. Then they pass laws having to do giving building contracts to their buddies.
I think it's nice that the scientific community has woken up and started showing their irritation about how science is being undermined in our country because of these morons. Unfortunately I think the only way we can ever fix this problem entirely is to point out the truth of how the politicians in Kansas are using the religious faith of people to get their buddies contracts building overpriced roads and such.
The Air Hose I find doesn't have any dust in it?
Finally, I am able to help with the amazing mastery of Microsoft BASIC v5.21 on CP/M 2.2 that I had in my youth. I never thought that this moment, and my hours spent in front of the computer writing programs to create D&D characters would pay off 22 years later!
.4, 1.2 and 2.2. That should be 1, 1, 2 for a total of 4. Your function would return 0 + 1 + 5. Yeah, you're adding in those extra 1s, but because they aren't within the INT() they aren't being used properly.
INT() doesn't round, it truncates.
So let's say the 6*RND does return 1.6, 2.4 and 3.3... You're right in that his function would return 2.6 + 3.4 + 4.3 = 10.3... truncated to 10.
Now yours:
INT((6 * RND(0)) + INT(6 * RND(0)) + INT(6 * RND(0) + 3 )
But your function is just as wrong. Suppose RND*6 returns
It should be simply written as this...
INT((6 * RND(0) + 1) + INT(6 * RND(0) + 1) + INT(6 * RND(0) + 1)
Or if you were a master at BASIC, you would do something like this, knowing that this is a routine that you will use over and over again:
DEF FN D(D%) =INT(D% * RND(0) +1)
Then write your line:
D(6) + D(6) + D(6)
I think this is a lesson in, always break things down to their simplest components, and then just do that. Don't try to be fancy and shortcut steps... it makes your code harder to read, as well as potentionally introduces bugs.
Well we ought to reign the UN back to it's charter.
I'm totally and completely opposed to the UN being involved in peace keeping and other military actions. The UN is not a military alliance. Such things should be the work of entities such as NATO, which is a military alliance. If we need to do more of that, we should be developing seperate agreements to handle that.
"Basic human rights should have som e teeth behind it"
Honestly, I think there are teeth. The US's actions in the realm of abandoning the Geneva Accords and their treatment of prisoners have completely damaged our credibility. Not to mention the abandonment of principles just on free and fair elections in our own country.
The teeth are there, for the US elected officials have damaged their own ability to ask for anything to be done.
Call it the Free Market of ideas.
Sure, some people change their minds.
But Norm Coleman is one of them. He's a windsock. You track his voting record, his positions... He holds no ideology. He votes the way he is told, and says what he thinks people want to hear. He's very good at being somebody elses man. There's no way he'd ever get the Presidential nomination. Certainly not from Republicans, definately not Democrats. Maybe the Whackadoodle party.
It's why he has the nickname Mayor Quimby.
An even quicker note for a few of you interested in Norm Coleman beyond the usual freeper drivel that infects the internet.
He lost the Governor race in 1998 to a Pro-Wrestler by the name of Jesse Ventura. He nearly lost the 2002 Senate race to Wellstone, except for the unfortunate event of a plane crash.
Coleman isn't a rising star. He has no leadership ability or vision. He simply repeats what others tell him to do and promises to voters what he thinks they want. In '02 he promised to protect ANWR because Minnesotans care about the environment, but now he's getting pressure from up above he's abandoning the pledge.
His wife lives in California. She's a "movie star". That's where he calls home.
You won't see him running for anything other than Senate, and he's more than likely to lose in 2008. President? Doubtful. But I doubt he'd even win the nomination in Minnesota, much less in the South.
That's not the fucking purpose of the UN.
It's a body, where a bunch of countries can get together and debate things to death. That's it. That's all it should be.
Debating things to death is good, it's healthy. It helps us formulate international treaties, which are the basis for international law.
And his family all lives in California.