My only really big complaint about the eweek article is On Unix, don't expect a big performance boost with the new release. In tests of Apache 2.0 vs. Apache 1.3.24 running on Red Hat Inc.'s Red Hat Linux 7.2, performance was nearly identical (though still very good).
IMHO, Performance looks much better with 2.0. I wish that eweek did some more stressful testing of the new Apache.
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No. We arm, train, and send other people after our enemies. Then, we are very surprised that those whom we create to be vicious turn on us when they are done with the job.
Yes, AOL went after David Cassell 5 or so years ago. Since Mr Cassell wasn't trying to pass of his pages as official AOL ones, the logos stayed...for a while (most are gone now)
The writer that I was responding to was trying to say that this "self-preservation instinct" was somehow more powerful than other instincts, such as the instinct to help others.
It almost always is. In fact, you have completely supported that with your own statements today.
When faced with a situation where people are in immediate danger and need help, you have stated that you will first search for methods to cover your own ass.
Everyone can see from reading your posts today that the point has been made...and you did it yourself. If you still don't see it, I don't think you ever will.
3 rather loud rapes in my area didn't get any attention until after the fact although plenty of people were in hearing distance.
Yells about fire always drew crowds.
Some might think it's just LA people who act/think that way, but I believe that 'Someone Elses Problem' thinking isn't just an LA phenomenon. Not only that, burning does tend to interest humans...much more than personally fighting off rapists who are attacking a person that they do not know...studying to prove the opposite is rather silly.
You're asking for a reasonably acccurate & realistic study of (for example) screaming 'rape' vs 'fire'?!?!?
That's silly!. Why not 'cut to the chase' and pose the following questions to yourself and see how most of us are coded?
1) A woman screams 'rape' from a dark alley in what would be normally considered a dangerous part of town: Do you a) Call 911 or b) run to the scene to see what is happening?
2) A woman screams 'fire' from a dark alley in what would be normally considered a dangerous part of town: Do you a) Call 911 or b) run to the scene to see what is happening?
Study, schmudy, let's deal with reality...in situation #1, it's much more likely that the average person will yell for help (911 or whatever) than #2 where a person will more likely assess the situation first (for various reasons as mentioned in several of the followups to my post) before calling for help.
(and yes, i've been modded down for speaking my mind, so what, I call 'em as I see 'em)
Save yourself from problems like this in the future*
Always use a credit card company that allows you to add & remove people when you want to.
When you have heard that a company does Bad Things like you've described, add one of your cats or whatever to your CC account.
Sign up for the service and use the name of your cat for billing. After you cut off your service, remove the cats name from your credit card account.
*IANAL, your results and jail time may vary! But, this has worked well for me several times in the USA. (don't attempt to commit fraud!).
(once I had 2 of my cats added and sent in pictures of them for the credit cards. The Vet was always amused when I'd pay for shots and other medical bills with the picture CCs)
So, I don't have a CDKey and download a CDKey generator to get one, and it is actually a virus attack to steal my good cdkey? Does this seem like a stupid statement to anybody else, or if it is true, don't the CDKey authors seem stupid? Who would write CDKey generators to steal CDKeys, when most of the people who try to use them want them because they don't want a CDKey? Am I missing something?
Yes, you are. Most Q3-CD-Keygen programs also removed the CD-checking by Quake3 at game start.
People who had legal copies of Quake3 but got tired of swapping CD's in and out for different games would try one of the crack programs and their key would be stolen.
but apparently most people who run servers on the Internet feel compelled to enforce Id's accounts for some reason (which is pretty dumb unless Id is giving them some of the money really). It would be interesting to see if Id would go after people running cracked servers (planning to stand with the MPAA, John?)
People who run cracked servers (one's that don't authenticate players) are blacklisted off of the major online server listings.
So, there's no reward for running a cracked server except that you and a few friends can play on it.
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My only really big complaint about the eweek article is On Unix, don't expect a big performance boost with the new release. In tests of Apache 2.0 vs. Apache 1.3.24 running on Red Hat Inc.'s Red Hat Linux 7.2, performance was nearly identical (though still very good).
IMHO, Performance looks much better with 2.0. I wish that eweek did some more stressful testing of the new Apache.
No, in fact here is more information
No. We arm, train, and send other people after our enemies. Then, we are very surprised that those whom we create to be vicious turn on us when they are done with the job.
Yes, AOL went after David Cassell 5 or so years ago. Since Mr Cassell wasn't trying to pass of his pages as official AOL ones, the logos stayed...for a while (most are gone now)
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Last month, Amazon sent an email notice that a book I had been waiting for was finally available for online purchasing.
The odd part is that even though I was at Amazon within an hour of getting the automatic notice, there were already 2 USED copies of it for sale.
Either:
a) People disliked PHP Programming by Rasmus Lerdorf (2002 March) so much that they couldn't stand the thought of it arriving on their doorstep,
b) Amazon workers have balls of steel and sell books they pilfer at their own place of employment, or
c) Authors themselves are selling copies they received for free so that they can afford to buy other Authors books.
No they are NOT mods.
Aimbots are proxy programs that watch network traffic. Using the information they see, they can calculate what to point at and when to fire.
Wallhacks are video display hacks.
That isn't true. The full GAME SOURCE was not released.
Spambots tend to avoid web*|admin*|root|support|help@somedotDOTorg
sounds like he's gonna ban some poor guys who got a link from a friend...
Not to mention those of us who crontab mirror our web links over a network AND between work/home so that we are always using ONE book mark file.
- the ADABAS database, which may or may not be more or less functional than (say) MySQL, but I can't tell for sure, since it's closed-source
StarOffice 6 is supposed to allow connections to other data sources. (otherwise, sales of SO6 would suffer more)
Here is the Sun page containing that information
Encoding speeds vary by quite a bit depending on which encoder you use.
There is a good article here which has encoding quality & time comparisons.
The writer that I was responding to was trying to say that this "self-preservation instinct" was somehow more powerful than other instincts, such as the instinct to help others.
It almost always is. In fact, you have completely supported that with your own statements today.
When faced with a situation where people are in immediate danger and need help, you have stated that you will first search for methods to cover your own ass.
Everyone can see from reading your posts today that the point has been made...and you did it yourself. If you still don't see it, I don't think you ever will.
I still don't see your point.
Look at what you wrote just now vs your previous This "self-preservation instinct" you talk about is a proven falsity. and other similar assertions.
By answering the questions I posed, you have proven our point all by yourself.
I don't understand the purpose of those questions.
That's because you modified the situation (added a cell phone) instead of honestly answering the question of yourself.
You then go on to propose the answer to a mind experiment...
I did not suggest an experiment.
I suggested that you discover the truth yourself rather than asking people to study the subject and then tell you what you should believe.
I'm fine with the rest of you being wrong, I only have a problem when you try to pass it off as obvious fact.
Prove that all of us are wrong. I have no problem with that at all.
I lived 20 years of my life in LA.
3 rather loud rapes in my area didn't get any attention until after the fact although plenty of people were in hearing distance.
Yells about fire always drew crowds.
Some might think it's just LA people who act/think that way, but I believe that 'Someone Elses Problem' thinking isn't just an LA phenomenon. Not only that, burning does tend to interest humans...much more than personally fighting off rapists who are attacking a person that they do not know...studying to prove the opposite is rather silly.
You're asking for a reasonably acccurate & realistic study of (for example) screaming 'rape' vs 'fire'?!?!?
That's silly!. Why not 'cut to the chase' and pose the following questions to yourself and see how most of us are coded?
1) A woman screams 'rape' from a dark alley in what would be normally considered a dangerous part of town: Do you a) Call 911 or b) run to the scene to see what is happening?
2) A woman screams 'fire' from a dark alley in what would be normally considered a dangerous part of town: Do you a) Call 911 or b) run to the scene to see what is happening?
Study, schmudy, let's deal with reality...in situation #1, it's much more likely that the average person will yell for help (911 or whatever) than #2 where a person will more likely assess the situation first (for various reasons as mentioned in several of the followups to my post) before calling for help.
(and yes, i've been modded down for speaking my mind, so what, I call 'em as I see 'em)
They are already desensitized to people in distress.
Screaming 'fire' for ANY emergency is much more effective....people like to watch things burn.
Wasn't that the plotline for Dune? He who controls the Spice, controls the Universe.
A good example of Hydraulic Despotism
Save yourself from problems like this in the future*
Always use a credit card company that allows you to add & remove people when you want to.
When you have heard that a company does Bad Things like you've described, add one of your cats or whatever to your CC account.
Sign up for the service and use the name of your cat for billing. After you cut off your service, remove the cats name from your credit card account.
*IANAL, your results and jail time may vary! But, this has worked well for me several times in the USA. (don't attempt to commit fraud!).
(once I had 2 of my cats added and sent in pictures of them for the credit cards. The Vet was always amused when I'd pay for shots and other medical bills with the picture CCs)
Sure, if you want to sit down and go crazy on a 100-CD ripping binge, it's going to take forever, but "time consuming" != "impossible."
Ripping (win32) 15-20 CDs per hour isn't difficult if you have lots of hard drive space.
(linux/win32) The time-consuming encoding can easily be automated with LAME or a front end for it like (win32) Razorlame
So, I don't have a CDKey and download a CDKey generator to get one, and it is actually a virus attack to steal my good cdkey? Does this seem like a stupid statement to anybody else, or if it is true, don't the CDKey authors seem stupid? Who would write CDKey generators to steal CDKeys, when most of the people who try to use them want them because they don't want a CDKey? Am I missing something?
Yes, you are. Most Q3-CD-Keygen programs also removed the CD-checking by Quake3 at game start.
People who had legal copies of Quake3 but got tired of swapping CD's in and out for different games would try one of the crack programs and their key would be stolen.
but apparently most people who run servers on the Internet feel compelled to enforce Id's accounts for some reason (which is pretty dumb unless Id is giving them some of the money really). It would be interesting to see if Id would go after people running cracked servers (planning to stand with the MPAA, John?)
People who run cracked servers (one's that don't authenticate players) are blacklisted off of the major online server listings.
So, there's no reward for running a cracked server except that you and a few friends can play on it.