I've been giving them out as gifts for about 5 years now. All of them are still running as far as I know. Takes me about 2 days to build a nice oak frame and casing for the system, and another day to assemble and test. I use LFS, each card has wireless, and an SMB share to upload pictures and music. I usually make about four or five a year.
Lighten up Francis. I was in the Air Force for 4 years and I didn't shoot, rape or pillage anyone either. There also wasn't a war going on. And if you were - as you claim - in the Navy for 6 years and didn't meet a single person who ever shot anyone then you probably should have crawled out of your bunk for more than a few minutes. I met quite a few Vietnam vets (I was in during the Carter/Reagan years) that killed people and more than a few with pillaged war trophies.
And if a modern twist on one of the oldest Marine jokes in the arsenal offends you "as humanly possible" then I, for one, and pretty damn glad you don't have your finger on the trigger any more because you sound like your too damn sensitive to pull it.
I've never included random crap like that in my code... even in college when I was pulling all nighters. Why on earth would I want to have to reference the ParisHilton class? and how would that be helpful to other developers? This is silliness. -- Please - learn how to spell. loose != lose. Yes. It is silliness. And judging by the uptightness of your post as well as your sig, you could use a little of it in your life.
Blizzard couldn't possibly care less if you installed their client, ran Glider, but never connected to Blizzard's servers. The issue is that using applications like Glider and extra-game behaviors like buying gold significantly and adversely affect the game-play and economics of the in-game economy for other subscribers, and to prevent those adverse effects, they have rules against them.
Blizzard's attempt to enforce these prohibitions using copyright may or may not be legally correct (IANAL), but it's far from "scary." It may not be copyright infringement, but you're definitely violating the terms and conditions when you load Glider and WoW at the same time. They have a right and an obligation to protect the rest of their subscribers.
Yeah, just like an artist being on top of the charts is a accurate and undeniable evidence of their talent and excellence of their music. No. It is accurate and undeniable evidence that a large number of people are willing to purchase that music because it fulfills their particular needs or desires.
This is an amazingly poor rebuttal. McDonald's ubiquity demonstrates that for the market it's targeting, it is indeed, the best restaurant. It makes no pretense of being a fine dining establishment. People have a choice and people make that choice every time they visit McDonald's. People go to McDonald's instead of, say, Wendy's, Taco Bell, or for that matter Charlie Trotter's. It's not like they don't know what they're getting into - they know EXACTLY what to expect from McDonald's and are probably pretty familiar with what they'd get from those other restaurants.
There are reasons for Microsoft's ubiquity. And after spending a week trying to talk a non-Unix co-worker through getting wireless and USB working on his Ubuntu desktop, it's pretty clear to me what those reasons are.
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That gave me an idea... What if someone recorded a few minutes of belching and farting, named it after some song RIAA seeks You've just describe "American Idol."
A configuration change that renders a start up script ineffective is a sign that your sysadmin hasn't been doing his job, and that you have no concept of change control in your environment.
We have systems that run for years at a time because we have change management tools that guarantee that those systems are in the exact state of configuration they should be in, and these tools run every night. If you're running around making undocumented configuration changes that even have a ghost of a chance of affecting server operation, anyone that gave you root access needs to have their fingers shortened.
Not to mention the inconsistency of interfaces across applications. The beauty of Linux is there are so many ways to do the same thing. The downfall of Linux desktops is there are too many ways to do the same thing. I manage nearly 1000 RHEL servers of various flavors and I have a RHEL5 desktop (and a Windows desktop). I use my Linux desktop daily - via ssh. Any application I try using in X I usually end up quitting in frustration and use the Windows equivalent because it's just easier.
The only time I ever use a Linux desktop is when an application like Oracle or Veritas forces me to. I hate Apple and don't like their desktop paradigm, but at least it's consistent. Nonsensically consistent, but consistent nonetheless. And XP Pro just works, and it works the same way every time.
I don't use Facebook, MySpace, or any of those social sites precisely because of the quality of the content there and the caliber of the people who use them. There's nothing on those sites that I look for, and I routinely ignore search results with social networking site results because of my experience with the crappy quality of information there: think Nextag and product searches.
Quotes like "Search has always been about people" show a fundamental ignorance of how most people over the age of 25 use search, and whatever accuracy it may contain is a damning indicator of the underachievement of those for whom it is true.
Because most of us, including gamers, don't need an expensive sound card. The subtle differences - and they are subtle to anyone who is not a hardcore audiophile - are not worth the price. Graphics card, memory, CPU all have a much better price performance payoff.
Isn't the whole problem of "identity theft" that it gives the thief access to your e-mail passwords and bank account information? If not, what's the point of identity theft?
"Hi, I'm Mark." "No you're not." "Damn. That was a wasted dollar..."
Yes, I'm new here - but did anyone actually READ the article? These people were not searched or arrested for clicking on some random link. Any reasonable person - and yes, I also know I'm talking to the wrong crowd for that too - would know that that would never stand up in court. The FBI targeted a message board known to have been used by pedophiles to solicit child pornography. Second, they posted the links with a really nasty description of obviously illegal activities and participants. Third, they posted incorrect links just to see who clicked on them. Fourth, they post a SECOND set of links to see who had INTENT enough to follow through after seeing the error from the first click.
At this point - and again, I know I'm talking to the wrong crowd - any REASONABLE person can see that you've established some pretty serious intent to download child porn. Child-porn bulletin board, description of illegal activities accessible through an unpublished link, validation of intent through a reposted link... There's no way in hell you could "oops" your way into that one.
Ah, the arrogance of the right. What is it about you people that means you don't care whether or not people have considered an issue as carefully as you have: if they come to a different conclusion you will do everything in your power to legislate, demonize, criminalize, or bully them out of existence?
That's the difference between the left and right. The left is too arrogant to acknowledge they might be wrong, but at least allows those they disagree with to indulge in their ignorance. The right doesn't even get around to questioning the matter - they're too busy trying to stamp out anything that opposes them.
Wow. I fly through O'Hare or Midway about every other week and that kind of behavior or personality is not the norm from what I've seen. Maybe they just seem that way to people with an obvious problem with authority?
Agreed. With one, in my opinion, major gap. Quality. And I don't mean content quality.
The worst quality analog television picture is ten-fold better than the best YouTube video quality. I still can't believe we have an entire generation of people being sold a bill of goods in this area. For the most part; that is, digital media your average person has access to or can use regularly, digital quality sucks. Over-compression, digital artifacts, unreliable transmission and reception - I could be talking about DirecTV or YouTube./Google Video. DirecTV's "digital quality" should be a warning label, not something they should be advertising.
Sure, you can record all your MP3s in 256mb or greater quality to eliminate some artifacts, but to approach analog quality, you're gonna have to crank that up even further. But most of us don't have the bandwidth to download (let alone upload) equivalent quality videos. The satellite companies don't even have enough bandwidth to provide a watchable digital signal!
No thanks. I'll take my analog television for non HD-channels and DVDs for my movie watching any day of the week.
Aren't you, simply by virtue of the fact of being in possession of RIAA "controlled materials" constantly under threat of falling under one of their malicious and frivolous lawsuits? It's bad enough that I've started looking for their stamp on any music I buy and refusing to purchase anything with their seal of approval - solely based on the fear of becoming a victim of one of their lawsuits.
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I've been giving them out as gifts for about 5 years now. All of them are still running as far as I know. Takes me about 2 days to build a nice oak frame and casing for the system, and another day to assemble and test. I use LFS, each card has wireless, and an SMB share to upload pictures and music. I usually make about four or five a year.
Methinks your anonymity hath just been compromised.
Yeah. Aren't those the guys that invaded Iraq or something? Heard something about it on Fox I think.
Lighten up Francis. I was in the Air Force for 4 years and I didn't shoot, rape or pillage anyone either. There also wasn't a war going on. And if you were - as you claim - in the Navy for 6 years and didn't meet a single person who ever shot anyone then you probably should have crawled out of your bunk for more than a few minutes. I met quite a few Vietnam vets (I was in during the Carter/Reagan years) that killed people and more than a few with pillaged war trophies.
And if a modern twist on one of the oldest Marine jokes in the arsenal offends you "as humanly possible" then I, for one, and pretty damn glad you don't have your finger on the trigger any more because you sound like your too damn sensitive to pull it.
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Please - learn how to spell. loose != lose. Yes. It is silliness. And judging by the uptightness of your post as well as your sig, you could use a little of it in your life.
Blizzard couldn't possibly care less if you installed their client, ran Glider, but never connected to Blizzard's servers. The issue is that using applications like Glider and extra-game behaviors like buying gold significantly and adversely affect the game-play and economics of the in-game economy for other subscribers, and to prevent those adverse effects, they have rules against them.
Blizzard's attempt to enforce these prohibitions using copyright may or may not be legally correct (IANAL), but it's far from "scary." It may not be copyright infringement, but you're definitely violating the terms and conditions when you load Glider and WoW at the same time. They have a right and an obligation to protect the rest of their subscribers.
$40 million for the leading man and leading woman
$250 for overpriced sunglasses$100,000 for the script
$100 for a baseball style cap that looks cool backwards
chinstrip that completes the douchebag look
And when used in the context of Vin Diesel, draws the mind even further from the topic of books.
This is an amazingly poor rebuttal. McDonald's ubiquity demonstrates that for the market it's targeting, it is indeed, the best restaurant. It makes no pretense of being a fine dining establishment. People have a choice and people make that choice every time they visit McDonald's. People go to McDonald's instead of, say, Wendy's, Taco Bell, or for that matter Charlie Trotter's. It's not like they don't know what they're getting into - they know EXACTLY what to expect from McDonald's and are probably pretty familiar with what they'd get from those other restaurants.
There are reasons for Microsoft's ubiquity. And after spending a week trying to talk a non-Unix co-worker through getting wireless and USB working on his Ubuntu desktop, it's pretty clear to me what those reasons are.
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A configuration change that renders a start up script ineffective is a sign that your sysadmin hasn't been doing his job, and that you have no concept of change control in your environment.
We have systems that run for years at a time because we have change management tools that guarantee that those systems are in the exact state of configuration they should be in, and these tools run every night. If you're running around making undocumented configuration changes that even have a ghost of a chance of affecting server operation, anyone that gave you root access needs to have their fingers shortened.
Not to mention the inconsistency of interfaces across applications. The beauty of Linux is there are so many ways to do the same thing. The downfall of Linux desktops is there are too many ways to do the same thing. I manage nearly 1000 RHEL servers of various flavors and I have a RHEL5 desktop (and a Windows desktop). I use my Linux desktop daily - via ssh. Any application I try using in X I usually end up quitting in frustration and use the Windows equivalent because it's just easier.
The only time I ever use a Linux desktop is when an application like Oracle or Veritas forces me to. I hate Apple and don't like their desktop paradigm, but at least it's consistent. Nonsensically consistent, but consistent nonetheless. And XP Pro just works, and it works the same way every time.
I don't use Facebook, MySpace, or any of those social sites precisely because of the quality of the content there and the caliber of the people who use them. There's nothing on those sites that I look for, and I routinely ignore search results with social networking site results because of my experience with the crappy quality of information there: think Nextag and product searches.
Quotes like "Search has always been about people" show a fundamental ignorance of how most people over the age of 25 use search, and whatever accuracy it may contain is a damning indicator of the underachievement of those for whom it is true.
Your name, and the prospect of running into you on the road make me really appreciative of NOT living in Finland.
Because most of us, including gamers, don't need an expensive sound card. The subtle differences - and they are subtle to anyone who is not a hardcore audiophile - are not worth the price. Graphics card, memory, CPU all have a much better price performance payoff.
Isn't the whole problem of "identity theft" that it gives the thief access to your e-mail passwords and bank account information? If not, what's the point of identity theft?
"Hi, I'm Mark."
"No you're not."
"Damn. That was a wasted dollar..."
Yes, I'm new here - but did anyone actually READ the article? These people were not searched or arrested for clicking on some random link. Any reasonable person - and yes, I also know I'm talking to the wrong crowd for that too - would know that that would never stand up in court. The FBI targeted a message board known to have been used by pedophiles to solicit child pornography. Second, they posted the links with a really nasty description of obviously illegal activities and participants. Third, they posted incorrect links just to see who clicked on them. Fourth, they post a SECOND set of links to see who had INTENT enough to follow through after seeing the error from the first click.
At this point - and again, I know I'm talking to the wrong crowd - any REASONABLE person can see that you've established some pretty serious intent to download child porn. Child-porn bulletin board, description of illegal activities accessible through an unpublished link, validation of intent through a reposted link... There's no way in hell you could "oops" your way into that one.
:%s/airport security/military/
Ah, the arrogance of the right. What is it about you people that means you don't care whether or not people have considered an issue as carefully as you have: if they come to a different conclusion you will do everything in your power to legislate, demonize, criminalize, or bully them out of existence?
That's the difference between the left and right. The left is too arrogant to acknowledge they might be wrong, but at least allows those they disagree with to indulge in their ignorance. The right doesn't even get around to questioning the matter - they're too busy trying to stamp out anything that opposes them.
Wow. I fly through O'Hare or Midway about every other week and that kind of behavior or personality is not the norm from what I've seen. Maybe they just seem that way to people with an obvious problem with authority?
I thought this was gonna be about Taser shots to the nuts...
Agreed. With one, in my opinion, major gap. Quality. And I don't mean content quality.
/Google Video. DirecTV's "digital quality" should be a warning label, not something they should be advertising.
The worst quality analog television picture is ten-fold better than the best YouTube video quality. I still can't believe we have an entire generation of people being sold a bill of goods in this area. For the most part; that is, digital media your average person has access to or can use regularly, digital quality sucks. Over-compression, digital artifacts, unreliable transmission and reception - I could be talking about DirecTV or YouTube.
Sure, you can record all your MP3s in 256mb or greater quality to eliminate some artifacts, but to approach analog quality, you're gonna have to crank that up even further. But most of us don't have the bandwidth to download (let alone upload) equivalent quality videos. The satellite companies don't even have enough bandwidth to provide a watchable digital signal!
No thanks. I'll take my analog television for non HD-channels and DVDs for my movie watching any day of the week.
Aren't you, simply by virtue of the fact of being in possession of RIAA "controlled materials" constantly under threat of falling under one of their malicious and frivolous lawsuits? It's bad enough that I've started looking for their stamp on any music I buy and refusing to purchase anything with their seal of approval - solely based on the fear of becoming a victim of one of their lawsuits.
I'll take my check in a large please.