In the data center I used to work in, the battery backups (all 20 tons of it) was only meant to give around 15 minutes of power. It was there to give the generators time to spin up. If the generators failed and you couldn't get the center back on street power before 15 minutes were up, I would have expected everything to go down.
How long did you expect the battery backups to last?
Which all goes to indicate that there will have to be a difference between the PnP ruleset and MMORPG ruleset.
This is no different than DDO or even NWN. There are some things that need to be trimmed from the PnP ruleset because they make no sense for a video game. Things will have to be simplified. Heck, there isn't balance between the games in PnP. A mage can pretty much toast any other type of character.
Odds are the result won't satisfy the hardcore WoD fans, as whatever they are accustomed to will be diluted and made more uniform across the board. Either they will have to suck it up and deal with it, or decide not to play.
It was Wal-Mart that starting selling PC with Linspire preloaded instead of Windows, in order to have a low cost machine. Now they are supporting MS exclusively.
"SCO submits that in light of the removal of this case from the trial calendar, there is no bona fide reason to reject an amendment to the December Submission to include that information - especially where the information was disclosed to IBM through expert reports served in May, 2006."
So not only are they claiming that IBM has plenty of time to respond, but that they are already familiar with some of it, given that they tried to add it back in May 2006. That was the amendment that the judge struck down. So SCO is saying 'Remember the stuff you said we couldn't add because it was after the Final Disclosure? We want to add some of it again, but that should be okay because IBM is now aware of what it is and has plenty of time to respond to it'
IANAL, but it doesn't matter if IBM is now aware of it. They weren't allowed to submit it then as it was after the Final Disclosure date. I imagine it is like trying to submit evidence to a criminal case that was ruled inadmissible, then claiming that it can be submitted because the other side is already aware of what it is.
Probably in a similar fashion as gambling. The IRS requires you to pay taxes on gambling winnings, but you cannot claim a loss for gambling losses. Technically it is (IIRC) to the point of: You go to a casino and win $600 at the blackjack table, but then lose $500 of it as you continue to play. You owe taxes on the $600 you won, regardless of the fact that you proceded to lose most of it.
This guys took a page from AOL and offered me a free month to stay i said ok and then next month i called again, and agiain anouter free months (did this for 6 months)
GameTap and AOL are both owned by Time-Warner. Odds are the support rep. was trained at AOL.
On the other hand, potassium chloride is also part of the 'lethal injection' method of execution used in many US States. It is an axiom of toxicology that everything is toxic, it is just a matter of dose.
I never saw why people use DirectX when all it does is limit your application to MS platforms and is dictated by MS.
Because that's where the market/money is. The vast majority of the audience for a PC-based game run Windows. DirectX is part of that, while OpenGL is an add-on. Sure you could have the game install OpenGL along with the game, but it is easier to just go with what is in the OS already as long as it meets your needs. For most games out there (FPS seem to be the exception) DirectX works just fine. I doubt that the major game publishers are sweating the loss of sales to the *unix crowd.
I was working desktop support for a large company that used HP machines. We had a batch of machines that acted very oddly, right from the start. NT Workstation (this was 1998-9) thought it was the year 1701. Telnet would not work. All sorts of weird things.
Turns out that HP had decided to use a capacitor instead of a battery to provide power to the CMOS BIOS. The units had been imaged by a contractor, then they set on a shelf for about 3 months before they got shipped to us for provisioning. The capacitors had lost their charge in that time, so the BIOS lost its settings. I don't know why this impacted NT so hard, but it did, and we had to send the whole lot back.
IF you see the PS3 as more than a game console, and intend to use it as a Blue-Ray disc player and/or whatever other features Sony decides to add to it, then it might be worth it. From a purely gaming perspective, unless there is some game only on the PS3 you can't live without, it just ain't worth it.
Other than having the convenience of not needing an antenna, the security of most VoIP installations are as secure as your typical wireless networks without encryption.
If you want to secure your VoIP, there are products available from some of the equipment manufacturers that will do encryption in hardware. Even without that, if you have a way to set up a VPN tunnel the packets will essentially be encrypted from an external point of view.
I no longer own it, but when I had a pdQ Smartphone with an SSH client loaded, I was once able to log into the switches and router in the data center when there were issues installing hosts on the switches. I was roaming around a street fair 15 miles away from the data center at the time. Not what I would call ideal, but it got the job done. It beat having to leave the fair, drive to the data center and fix the problem there, not the least of which it would have taken me more time to do the latter.
"In recent years, it has also been shown that some prenylflavonoids found in hops are potent phytoestrogens, and could ultimately have value in prevention or treatment of post-menopausal "hot flashes" and osteoporosis - but no proper clinical trials have been done to study this."
So there is an estrogen-like substance in beer as well. Hmmm... maybe that explains the enlarged chest of men who drink a lot of beer...
When I was working there as internal tech support about six years ago, there was a dedicated division, named Delta Technology, that did all the development work. That included not only the software that ran on the mainframes and Unix boxen but also the hardware like the ticket scanners that they've implemented in that time. Given how well they knew how to deal with their desktop machines (Win2K Pro boxes), the vast majority of the software developers didn't know squat about Windows. Of course, that doesn't stop them from developing software for it...
AT&T did not merge with Cingular. AT&T Wireless, which had already been spun off from AT&T, merged with Cingular. AT&T is still around as a separate company.
If, for 24hrs., you were Gods over this planet, ala Black & White, what would your avatars be, and what would you do with your allotted time of godhood?
Honestly, in desktop use, the SATA drive will be as fast as a SCSI drive. SCSI really shines in multiple drive configurations under load, like a server. They are handy when you want to stream data to a drive with as little potential interruption from activity to/from other drives as possible (like video capture), but given that SATA drives are on their own channel, that isn't a big advantage anymore.
ASCAP and BMI don't operate under "voluntary collective licensing" or other such thing. They operate under what's called statutory or compulsory licensing (). If you want to use material that a songwriter holds a copyright to, you pay a set fee. The copyright holder does not make a decision as to whether or not they want you to use it.
The record labels (not the RIAA, which has nothing to do with the collection of license fees) do not have a system like this. To make a copy of a physical recording that they own the copyright on, you need to negotiate with the record label whether or not you can use it, and how much you will need to pay them. They can deny you use, which they will typically do unless you are licensing a catalog of music, and intend on making many copies of the physical recordings in question.
Nah, the real sex application is for a strap-on, with the sensors wired to an array of vibrating microwidgets molded in a particular form for each sex...
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...be America's Army? Realistic weapons, realistic scenarios, realistic combat. All provided by the US Army.
In the data center I used to work in, the battery backups (all 20 tons of it) was only meant to give around 15 minutes of power. It was there to give the generators time to spin up. If the generators failed and you couldn't get the center back on street power before 15 minutes were up, I would have expected everything to go down.
How long did you expect the battery backups to last?
I thought that was Abner Doubleday's father/grandfather, and if the unit was eliminated baseball was never invented.
Which all goes to indicate that there will have to be a difference between the PnP ruleset and MMORPG ruleset.
This is no different than DDO or even NWN. There are some things that need to be trimmed from the PnP ruleset because they make no sense for a video game. Things will have to be simplified. Heck, there isn't balance between the games in PnP. A mage can pretty much toast any other type of character.
Odds are the result won't satisfy the hardcore WoD fans, as whatever they are accustomed to will be diluted and made more uniform across the board. Either they will have to suck it up and deal with it, or decide not to play.
It was Wal-Mart that starting selling PC with Linspire preloaded instead of Windows, in order to have a low cost machine. Now they are supporting MS exclusively.
From the filing:
"SCO submits that in light of the removal of this case from the trial calendar, there is no bona fide reason to reject an amendment to the December Submission to include that information - especially where the information was disclosed to IBM through expert reports served in May, 2006."
So not only are they claiming that IBM has plenty of time to respond, but that they are already familiar with some of it, given that they tried to add it back in May 2006. That was the amendment that the judge struck down. So SCO is saying 'Remember the stuff you said we couldn't add because it was after the Final Disclosure? We want to add some of it again, but that should be okay because IBM is now aware of what it is and has plenty of time to respond to it'
IANAL, but it doesn't matter if IBM is now aware of it. They weren't allowed to submit it then as it was after the Final Disclosure date. I imagine it is like trying to submit evidence to a criminal case that was ruled inadmissible, then claiming that it can be submitted because the other side is already aware of what it is.
But does the real game have the feature that if you only wing an opponent, that person becomes a Unitarian?
Probably in a similar fashion as gambling. The IRS requires you to pay taxes on gambling winnings, but you cannot claim a loss for gambling losses. Technically it is (IIRC) to the point of: You go to a casino and win $600 at the blackjack table, but then lose $500 of it as you continue to play. You owe taxes on the $600 you won, regardless of the fact that you proceded to lose most of it.
This guys took a page from AOL and offered me a free month to stay i said ok and then next month i called again, and agiain anouter free months (did this for 6 months)
GameTap and AOL are both owned by Time-Warner. Odds are the support rep. was trained at AOL.
On the other hand, potassium chloride is also part of the 'lethal injection' method of execution used in many US States. It is an axiom of toxicology that everything is toxic, it is just a matter of dose.
I never saw why people use DirectX when all it does is limit your application to MS platforms and is dictated by MS.
Because that's where the market/money is. The vast majority of the audience for a PC-based game run Windows. DirectX is part of that, while OpenGL is an add-on. Sure you could have the game install OpenGL along with the game, but it is easier to just go with what is in the OS already as long as it meets your needs. For most games out there (FPS seem to be the exception) DirectX works just fine. I doubt that the major game publishers are sweating the loss of sales to the *unix crowd.
I was working desktop support for a large company that used HP machines. We had a batch of machines that acted very oddly, right from the start. NT Workstation (this was 1998-9) thought it was the year 1701. Telnet would not work. All sorts of weird things.
Turns out that HP had decided to use a capacitor instead of a battery to provide power to the CMOS BIOS. The units had been imaged by a contractor, then they set on a shelf for about 3 months before they got shipped to us for provisioning. The capacitors had lost their charge in that time, so the BIOS lost its settings. I don't know why this impacted NT so hard, but it did, and we had to send the whole lot back.
IF you see the PS3 as more than a game console, and intend to use it as a Blue-Ray disc player and/or whatever other features Sony decides to add to it, then it might be worth it. From a purely gaming perspective, unless there is some game only on the PS3 you can't live without, it just ain't worth it.
Other than having the convenience of not needing an antenna, the security of most VoIP installations are as secure as your typical wireless networks without encryption.
If you want to secure your VoIP, there are products available from some of the equipment manufacturers that will do encryption in hardware. Even without that, if you have a way to set up a VPN tunnel the packets will essentially be encrypted from an external point of view.
I no longer own it, but when I had a pdQ Smartphone with an SSH client loaded, I was once able to log into the switches and router in the data center when there were issues installing hosts on the switches. I was roaming around a street fair 15 miles away from the data center at the time. Not what I would call ideal, but it got the job done. It beat having to leave the fair, drive to the data center and fix the problem there, not the least of which it would have taken me more time to do the latter.
From the article:
"In recent years, it has also been shown that some prenylflavonoids found in hops are potent phytoestrogens, and could ultimately have value in prevention or treatment of post-menopausal "hot flashes" and osteoporosis - but no proper clinical trials have been done to study this."
So there is an estrogen-like substance in beer as well. Hmmm... maybe that explains the enlarged chest of men who drink a lot of beer...
When I was working there as internal tech support about six years ago, there was a dedicated division, named Delta Technology, that did all the development work. That included not only the software that ran on the mainframes and Unix boxen but also the hardware like the ticket scanners that they've implemented in that time. Given how well they knew how to deal with their desktop machines (Win2K Pro boxes), the vast majority of the software developers didn't know squat about Windows. Of course, that doesn't stop them from developing software for it...
AT&T did not merge with Cingular. AT&T Wireless, which had already been spun off from AT&T, merged with Cingular. AT&T is still around as a separate company.
If, for 24hrs., you were Gods over this planet, ala Black & White, what would your avatars be, and what would you do with your allotted time of godhood?
Honestly, in desktop use, the SATA drive will be as fast as a SCSI drive. SCSI really shines in multiple drive configurations under load, like a server. They are handy when you want to stream data to a drive with as little potential interruption from activity to/from other drives as possible (like video capture), but given that SATA drives are on their own channel, that isn't a big advantage anymore.
You can already do that with SSDs (Solid State Drive). Essentially DRAM backed up with a battery. Very fast, no moving parts, expensive as heck.
ASCAP and BMI don't operate under "voluntary collective licensing" or other such thing. They operate under what's called statutory or compulsory licensing (). If you want to use material that a songwriter holds a copyright to, you pay a set fee. The copyright holder does not make a decision as to whether or not they want you to use it.
The record labels (not the RIAA, which has nothing to do with the collection of license fees) do not have a system like this. To make a copy of a physical recording that they own the copyright on, you need to negotiate with the record label whether or not you can use it, and how much you will need to pay them. They can deny you use, which they will typically do unless you are licensing a catalog of music, and intend on making many copies of the physical recordings in question.
Nah, the real sex application is for a strap-on, with the sensors wired to an array of vibrating microwidgets molded in a particular form for each sex...
How about setting up a domain where the MX record is 127.0.0.1?
I believe he was refering to the fact that 1729 is the product of two primes, which additionally are comprised of two digits in reversed positions.
1729 = 19 * 91