Then you just rewarded them for their actions, financially. You're as much a part of the problem as them. If people don't stand up for their rights, they will cease to exist. The more YOUs in the world, and the more employers there will be that would do that because they would ALWAYS get away with it. Fucking pussy.
(Yes, I'm in a piss poor mood, because of other reasons.. So I came to slashdot to vent.)
It is an 80 person company that has been around for over 10 years. Their focus was never web, and They are consultants, so once the product is done, there is nothing to host as it is handed off. So why should they have a webserver or a database server? (I already asked them, and they said no...)
Anyway.. The people running my company are not idiots and are generating a lot of money during crappy economic times. Perhaps the resistance-to-running-ones-own-servers approach has more business merit than either of us could fathom, since I doubt either of us are successful CEOs who used to be consultants.
I agree with you about the privacy issues. But these "important documents" would be more along the lines of developer guidelines than, say, spreadsheets of our finances.
The point was we needed a WEB thing. Becuase not everyone is a geek like us. Hell I've been reading newsgroups since I used telnet over a 14.4kbps connection in 1990, but like hell would I ever use any NNTP-based service for anything mission critical for an enterprise. Teach employees who barely know how to use Outlook to read newsgroups? That would waste company money in hours lost.
Can someone explain to me, in layman's terms, why the L2 point isn't serviceable? I already read the entire wikipedia article on Lagrange Points but it didn't cover that.
It was a DecStation Alpha 400mHz that Virginia Tech strongly encouraged the freshmen of that year to purchase. It's one of their little tricks to make more money. They acted like "maybe you could get through one semester without it" and my dad bought it even though I told him it was b.s.
Funny thing was, their statements seemed false to me. Every year they pulled the same crap with a different hardware platform (the older students had Amigas). Because of this, most classes had mixed-platform sets of students so most students just wanted ANSI C or similar cross-platform development. So it was total b.s. that you ever needed such a p.o.s. computer. To this day it has served as a useles $3000 box in my father's basement. And that unix sucked even more than linux.
Hehehehe.... I don't think it's as bad as replying to spam. I use pine to read my email anyway so at least I'm not loading web bugs like all the outlook users. Except when I use outlook, that is. (Doh).
I got my degree in computer science. But damned if that nethack distro didn't fuck my shit all up. The only thing I'd compiled at the time was my BBS, WWIV 4.21 with 100+ modifications in it (how I learned C, which I've now forgotten in favor of Perl). Recompiling my kernel is out of the question. I don't want to work with in that high a level of detail with such low level things. I never wanted to own a DECstation anyway, Virginia Tech strongly encouraged us to buy one. I told my dad not to but he wasted $3000 of his money. What a piece of crap. Ruined linux for me forever. I'll never EVER go back to that. (And I've tried, hehe.)
I realized it was a troll; I was trolling myself just by agreeing. Even though I was telling the truth, I knew that what I said would be considered a troll here.... And I knew that before I responded. DUH.
Thing about the website... I mostly wrote it in 1995 when a 14.4 was standard. Check WebArchive if you don't believe me. It is mostly for my own personal use as I have written custom web apps to do things like tell me what VHS tape a show matching a regular expression occurs on. And it is actually linked to by an appaling number of sites because it has been around so long. (If I google for my firstname lastname, I get more results that are actually me than anyone I know.)
Obviously if I started it from the ground up, it would look completely different. I'm not even sure where I would start. I don't believe in superficiality much so I don't really have an opinoin on how things look. At least that's what I had to tell myself when I fucked your mom in the ass... (Sorry, had to work it in.) (That's what she said.) (Really, sorry. I just can't control myself tonite.)
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Amen! I've been using computers at least 4 hours a day since 1985, and I wholeheartedly agree. Unix is great to work under when someone ELSE is responsible for the machine, but if *I* have to do it I'm going to install a windows box. Crashes? Maybe once a month. Unix? Never did what I want. Only wasted my time. 4 hours to compile nethack? fuck that.
You might want to try experimenting with it. I signed up for 768dn/384up service originally. And that's what it was, for year one.
When year two came, I noticed the ADSL would "flip" depending on my demand. If I wanted to upload at 768kbps (instead of the 384kbps I signed up for), all I had to do was reduce my downloads below 384kbps, and the symmetry of my connection would magically flip. Now I was 384up/768dn instead!
I could flip this at will, and although it was manual, it was really cool to be able to control my bandwidth in such a way.
When year three came, I suddenly had SDSL. I got 786k/786k in both directions. PARADISE.
Now I have even switched DSL providers -- twice -- and kept my physical circuit running at 786/786. I basically have half a T-1 for $80/month with 3 static IP addresses. I woudln't have it any other way. And I choose ISPs that don't care when I am maxing out my bandwidth in both directions (which I have done for months on end at times).
So don't complain to your ISP, because you may be preventing my situation from happening to you.
You speak the truth, but not for lazy and/or impatient people.
I'm actually pretty patient, but I would not want to be waiting this long to be playing PS2 games. Most of the fun (for me) is playing vs other people, and people don't want to play 4-year-old games. Plus they'll have had more practice and whip my ass!
An emulator will outlive a console in general terms, but will require maintenance whereas a console generally wont.
A console gets instant results and lasts as long as the hardware lasts. But applications do not necessarily last as long as the hardware lasts.
(Example, I had to drop many of my favorite.EXE and.COM 1980s utilities when I upgraded to Win95, even though it was the same hardware, whereas a PS2 "utility" [ie the sharkport cd] will work forever. And my favorite screensaver ever, luminati.exe, will only run on dos boxes. Same hardware, diff OS, can't do it. Not saying that would happen to an emulator, but changing video cards and other various interruptions can fuck shit up badly. It's a function of computers. Consoles don't generally change hardware or install programs or do anything to upset their perfect equilibrium. That's why they sell.)
I am intrigued by the save-states though. That's the thing that pisses me off about consoles. The fascism.
Do the emulators handle 4-player games? Multitaps? Dance pads? Online? USB devices? Light guns (extra challenge: get light guns to work with TV-Out)? Steering wheels. I have all of these devices. I wouldn't want to take any time to figure it out, when I can just put a disc in my PS2.
O.K. I'm done rambling. No real point other than I disagree. For reference, the ONLY consoles I've ever owned: Atari 2600, original Nintendo, PS2. Though last summer I bought a ColecoVision and a C64 at a yardsale. (Incidentally, if you see a commodore monitor, GET IT, it's basically a TV without tuning capabilities, and people will end up selling you a TV for $5. It has sound and everything.)
Damn I wi
Sorry, but I buy hardware and games to play on that hardware.
Games aren't original; hardware is. PS2 games are largely the same games we've always played our whole lives. The fun of buying a console vs the emulator is the ability to play on that hardware, using neato controllers. I buy the hardware so I can play games on the hardware. Otherwise, I'd just wait another 5 or so years, get a PS2 emulator, and download ROMs like mad. But I don't want to play those games on my PC. I want to play them on my PS2 hardware.
There are definitely a few innovations, I admit, like GTA:VC, and the newish kinetic/rhythm genre i.e. Amplitude/Frequency/DDR/Eye Toy. But in the examples of DDR and the Eye Toy -- people buy hardware so that they can play a game on that hardware.
When I bought 2 forcefeedback steering wheels for my console, I didn't buy them "to play a game". I bought them to use the steering wheels. I didn't even have a game in mind. (Though, now, it is Burnout 2!)
So.. I have to disagree, for me personally at least.
Or like this:
1.0 - basic
2.0 - pascal
3.0 - C, single-user
4.0 - C, multi-user
I'm honestly not sure which one it was, but I know that my 4.21 and 4.22 were in C because I modded it over 100 times and also published an excellent (At the time) G-Files mod that did cool things like import file descriptions from 4DOS's DESCRIPT.ION files directly into the WWIV "Database". But I digress. Considering there is a WWIV.com (that I just found out about today), I can probably find out the information faster than it took me to type of my hypothesis. Looks like I wasted my time again...:)
Yes, it is more expensive to pay $2 for a bus ride that may only cost 60 cents of gas.
But it is FAR MORE expensive to pay $20,000 for a car, versus paying $2 for a bus ticket.
If common sense doesn't let you reconcile how those 2 statements are in agreement with my previous statements, then you are not worth the effort of being explained to.
Also, refer to some of the other excellent responses to my post. I especially liked what the other AC had to say about public transportation being much more expensive time-wise. My mom used to have a 3 hour commute due to bus transfers and junk. Yes a car is cheaper in the long run, but not everyone has a down payment or a credit rating!
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You need to punch somebody in the face.
Grow some balls and sue them. You are required to be paid for EVERY hour you work. The only person you should be whining to is yourself. (trolling)
With multicasting, I bet a worm could spread through an IPv6 network much faster than an IPv4 network.
Excellent explanation, many thanks.
Anyway.. The people running my company are not idiots and are generating a lot of money during crappy economic times. Perhaps the resistance-to-running-ones-own-servers approach has more business merit than either of us could fathom, since I doubt either of us are successful CEOs who used to be consultants.
I agree with you about the privacy issues. But these "important documents" would be more along the lines of developer guidelines than, say, spreadsheets of our finances.
The point was we needed a WEB thing. Becuase not everyone is a geek like us. Hell I've been reading newsgroups since I used telnet over a 14.4kbps connection in 1990, but like hell would I ever use any NNTP-based service for anything mission critical for an enterprise. Teach employees who barely know how to use Outlook to read newsgroups? That would waste company money in hours lost.
is actitude english, or lawyerese?
You sir are a sick and disgusting fuck. And I eat my own poop so that means alot coming from me.
Can someone explain to me, in layman's terms, why the L2 point isn't serviceable? I already read the entire wikipedia article on Lagrange Points but it didn't cover that.
Funny thing was, their statements seemed false to me. Every year they pulled the same crap with a different hardware platform (the older students had Amigas). Because of this, most classes had mixed-platform sets of students so most students just wanted ANSI C or similar cross-platform development. So it was total b.s. that you ever needed such a p.o.s. computer. To this day it has served as a useles $3000 box in my father's basement. And that unix sucked even more than linux.
I mean ruined unix for me.
Linux ruined Linux for me (Slackware because I am a SubGenius... seemed like a good idea at the time.)
I got my degree in computer science. But damned if that nethack distro didn't fuck my shit all up. The only thing I'd compiled at the time was my BBS, WWIV 4.21 with 100+ modifications in it (how I learned C, which I've now forgotten in favor of Perl). Recompiling my kernel is out of the question. I don't want to work with in that high a level of detail with such low level things. I never wanted to own a DECstation anyway, Virginia Tech strongly encouraged us to buy one. I told my dad not to but he wasted $3000 of his money. What a piece of crap. Ruined linux for me forever. I'll never EVER go back to that. (And I've tried, hehe.)
It improves with age. Like your mother's used tampons.
Thing about the website... I mostly wrote it in 1995 when a 14.4 was standard. Check WebArchive if you don't believe me. It is mostly for my own personal use as I have written custom web apps to do things like tell me what VHS tape a show matching a regular expression occurs on. And it is actually linked to by an appaling number of sites because it has been around so long. (If I google for my firstname lastname, I get more results that are actually me than anyone I know.)
Obviously if I started it from the ground up, it would look completely different. I'm not even sure where I would start. I don't believe in superficiality much so I don't really have an opinoin on how things look. At least that's what I had to tell myself when I fucked your mom in the ass... (Sorry, had to work it in.) (That's what she said.) (Really, sorry. I just can't control myself tonite.)
Amen! I've been using computers at least 4 hours a day since 1985, and I wholeheartedly agree. Unix is great to work under when someone ELSE is responsible for the machine, but if *I* have to do it I'm going to install a windows box. Crashes? Maybe once a month. Unix? Never did what I want. Only wasted my time. 4 hours to compile nethack? fuck that.
Just keep in mind that fucking up the sun might actually be worse for us than fucking up the earth.
When year two came, I noticed the ADSL would "flip" depending on my demand. If I wanted to upload at 768kbps (instead of the 384kbps I signed up for), all I had to do was reduce my downloads below 384kbps, and the symmetry of my connection would magically flip. Now I was 384up/768dn instead!
I could flip this at will, and although it was manual, it was really cool to be able to control my bandwidth in such a way.
When year three came, I suddenly had SDSL. I got 786k/786k in both directions. PARADISE.
Now I have even switched DSL providers -- twice -- and kept my physical circuit running at 786/786. I basically have half a T-1 for $80/month with 3 static IP addresses. I woudln't have it any other way. And I choose ISPs that don't care when I am maxing out my bandwidth in both directions (which I have done for months on end at times).
So don't complain to your ISP, because you may be preventing my situation from happening to you.
I prefer 512x384 to 480x480 but 640x480 would be best of all. My radeon could do that before it broke.
I'm actually pretty patient, but I would not want to be waiting this long to be playing PS2 games. Most of the fun (for me) is playing vs other people, and people don't want to play 4-year-old games. Plus they'll have had more practice and whip my ass!
An emulator will outlive a console in general terms, but will require maintenance whereas a console generally wont.
A console gets instant results and lasts as long as the hardware lasts. But applications do not necessarily last as long as the hardware lasts.
(Example, I had to drop many of my favorite .EXE and .COM 1980s utilities when I upgraded to Win95, even though it was the same hardware, whereas a PS2 "utility" [ie the sharkport cd] will work forever. And my favorite screensaver ever, luminati.exe, will only run on dos boxes. Same hardware, diff OS, can't do it. Not saying that would happen to an emulator, but changing video cards and other various interruptions can fuck shit up badly. It's a function of computers. Consoles don't generally change hardware or install programs or do anything to upset their perfect equilibrium. That's why they sell.)
I am intrigued by the save-states though. That's the thing that pisses me off about consoles. The fascism.
Do the emulators handle 4-player games? Multitaps? Dance pads? Online? USB devices? Light guns (extra challenge: get light guns to work with TV-Out)? Steering wheels. I have all of these devices. I wouldn't want to take any time to figure it out, when I can just put a disc in my PS2.
O.K. I'm done rambling. No real point other than I disagree. For reference, the ONLY consoles I've ever owned: Atari 2600, original Nintendo, PS2. Though last summer I bought a ColecoVision and a C64 at a yardsale. (Incidentally, if you see a commodore monitor, GET IT, it's basically a TV without tuning capabilities, and people will end up selling you a TV for $5. It has sound and everything.) Damn I wi
Yes. Though I knew this already. I'm an anamoly in just about every area possible.
Games aren't original; hardware is. PS2 games are largely the same games we've always played our whole lives. The fun of buying a console vs the emulator is the ability to play on that hardware, using neato controllers. I buy the hardware so I can play games on the hardware. Otherwise, I'd just wait another 5 or so years, get a PS2 emulator, and download ROMs like mad. But I don't want to play those games on my PC. I want to play them on my PS2 hardware.
There are definitely a few innovations, I admit, like GTA:VC, and the newish kinetic/rhythm genre i.e. Amplitude/Frequency/DDR/Eye Toy. But in the examples of DDR and the Eye Toy -- people buy hardware so that they can play a game on that hardware.
When I bought 2 forcefeedback steering wheels for my console, I didn't buy them "to play a game". I bought them to use the steering wheels. I didn't even have a game in mind. (Though, now, it is Burnout 2!)
So.. I have to disagree, for me personally at least.
However, one thing I'd bet for sure, is that PIRATING windows is cheaper than using Linux (even though Linux free).
1.0 - basic
2.0 - ??? pascal ???
3.0 - pascal
4.0 - C
Or like this:
1.0 - basic
2.0 - pascal
3.0 - C, single-user
4.0 - C, multi-user
I'm honestly not sure which one it was, but I know that my 4.21 and 4.22 were in C because I modded it over 100 times and also published an excellent (At the time) G-Files mod that did cool things like import file descriptions from 4DOS's DESCRIPT.ION files directly into the WWIV "Database". But I digress. Considering there is a WWIV.com (that I just found out about today), I can probably find out the information faster than it took me to type of my hypothesis. Looks like I wasted my time again... :)
But it is FAR MORE expensive to pay $20,000 for a car, versus paying $2 for a bus ticket.
If common sense doesn't let you reconcile how those 2 statements are in agreement with my previous statements, then you are not worth the effort of being explained to.
Also, refer to some of the other excellent responses to my post. I especially liked what the other AC had to say about public transportation being much more expensive time-wise. My mom used to have a 3 hour commute due to bus transfers and junk. Yes a car is cheaper in the long run, but not everyone has a down payment or a credit rating!