- More and better driving games. Sounds like at least one is in the works, at least. I want to be able to plug in info from AAA and "test drive" routes to new places. Helpful at the rate I get lost. Again, this is one of the ways in which "games" can be extended into the "real world" in case anyone thinks games aren't part of real life anyhow.
Just as long as game designers don't forget that if two driving games are equal in all other regards the one with weapons will be superior...
When I buy a CD I instantly transfer it to my hard drive and MP3 it. I never listen to the audio CD ever. I've got several dozen CDs I've never heard from the plastic. So would this be legal, the CD considered to be the backup or something like that?
Very likely not. You've gone and changed the music, thereby making a derivative work because the MP3 encoding is not a 100% pure reformatting due to MP3's lossiness. Just taking a CDDA/WAV and making something else out of it would likely be legal as long as (1) you didn't use both of them simultaneously, and (b) the transformation was lossless. "Item changes fundamentally in transformation" is the key here IMO.
OTOH, if you didn't put it on the net, The Man is never going to know, so who cares. If they can't catch you it's irrelevant as to whether it's illegal or not.
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Oh no!!! A bissextile year, just like 4 years ago! The world will end again!
Does anyone have any clue about WHY there could be problems on Feb. 29th?
Because this time the year ending in 00 is a leap year, but they are usually not (only those evenly divisible by 400). I don't personally expect ruin from this, but it could screw up month-oriented financial things, and shipping, I suppose.
One more thing about Holos (at least before the web interface stuff), is that the interface is rude, horrid, and bletcherous---the client on the PC side actually opens up a faked-up telnet session, but doesn't keep-alive, so when the clients go down (all the time---they're PCs) you get lots of hung sessions using up bunches of memory, so you wind up setting up idle-user sweepers, with that constant battle between "more clever" users complaining about being logged out prematurely vs. the application staff complaining about tied up system resources.
Now, the web stuff is supposed to fix all of that, but I haven't seen that yet. Fortunately, I'm not the SA for "those guys" any more.
I think that this is a really good thing, this genetic "pre-engineering". After all, literature shows us that anything that gets us closer to clone wars is good. Most great science-fiction cultures have had clone wars, therefore it's unlikely that we will achieve greatness without one. No, this isn't cloning, strictly, but it's a critical improvement---who wouldn't want clone warriors with improved ability to learn/remember?
This is not specifically true. The biggest advantage to using Endpoints is that you can have more than 200 of them in one TMR, in addition to the smaller footprint. Looking at the big picture, very soon there won't be many things that will need Managed Nodes. There are man services that right now today in Tivoli 3.6 require that Endpoint be installed on the Managed Node.
Still and all, Tivoli rocks, Linux or no. One issue that I'd be concerned about is that while I would like my gateways (technically, gateway proxy hosts) to be appliances, we still have that PC-hardware is hard to manage remotely in the datacenter (the serial-port console issue from the other day).
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Just as long as game designers don't forget that if two driving games are equal in all other regards the one with weapons will be superior...
Very likely not. You've gone and changed the music, thereby making a derivative work because the MP3 encoding is not a 100% pure reformatting due to MP3's lossiness. Just taking a CDDA/WAV and making something else out of it would likely be legal as long as (1) you didn't use both of them simultaneously, and (b) the transformation was lossless. "Item changes fundamentally in transformation" is the key here IMO.
OTOH, if you didn't put it on the net, The Man is never going to know, so who cares. If they can't catch you it's irrelevant as to whether it's illegal or not.
Because this time the year ending in 00 is a leap year, but they are usually not (only those evenly divisible by 400). I don't personally expect ruin from this, but it could screw up month-oriented financial things, and shipping, I suppose.
One more thing about Holos (at least before the web interface stuff), is that the interface is rude, horrid, and bletcherous---the client on the PC side actually opens up a faked-up telnet session, but doesn't keep-alive, so when the clients go down (all the time---they're PCs) you get lots of hung sessions using up bunches of memory, so you wind up setting up idle-user sweepers, with that constant battle between "more clever" users complaining about being logged out prematurely vs. the application staff complaining about tied up system resources.
Now, the web stuff is supposed to fix all of that, but I haven't seen that yet. Fortunately, I'm not the SA for "those guys" any more.
I think that this is a really good thing, this genetic "pre-engineering". After all, literature shows us that anything that gets us closer to clone wars is good. Most great science-fiction cultures have had clone wars, therefore it's unlikely that we will achieve greatness without one. No, this isn't cloning, strictly, but it's a critical improvement---who wouldn't want clone warriors with improved ability to learn/remember?
This is not specifically true. The biggest advantage to using Endpoints is that you can have more than 200 of them in one TMR, in addition to the smaller footprint. Looking at the big picture, very soon there won't be many things that will need Managed Nodes. There are man services that right now today in Tivoli 3.6 require that Endpoint be installed on the Managed Node.
Still and all, Tivoli rocks, Linux or no. One issue that I'd be concerned about is that while I would like my gateways (technically, gateway proxy hosts) to be appliances, we still have that PC-hardware is hard to manage remotely in the datacenter (the serial-port console issue from the other day).