Because the equipment is physically deteriorating and wouldn't be useful for much more than storage. Of course, once that last little bit breaks, it becomes a serious liability - and danger - for Alpha.
Which is exactly the plan. You won't have any success killing the games themselves by passing legislation specifically against them. So instead, you trick people into thinking you're "only" restricting the advertising. It becomes a waste of time and money for companies to make the games, thus acheiving the desired end result - no more Quake.
Taco brings up an interesting point - computers do get noisy, and it's a dull, droning noise. Standing in our server room one day last week, I got to thinking about the noise level and type of noise being generated. I wonder if long-term exposure to it without protection would lead to partial hearing loss, maybe in particular frequency ranges? Might we see OSHA regs on the amount of noise put out by desktops, and required hearing protection in a room with more than X boxes per square foot?
cdrom.com used to have (may still) have the record for most data throughput in a day. They may also have a record for most connections (you'd almost have to, unles you've got real big files people are getting).
Look at the current situation. We keep making boxes smaller (because the CPUs are getting smaller) but they're getting much hotter. We're already having concerns at work with our newer Intel boxen; We're cramming more and hotter CPUs into the same space, and having to get a lot of cooling fans in there.
California's power shortages are being partially blamed on Silicon Valley.
Crusoe would be great in this situation. Low power consumption, low heat output. Reduce your electicity bill twice, and eliminate those rolling blackout.s
Hopefully they still do this, but their claim to fame was "we'll insure anything." Sure, some of them were obviously pure money-makers (like covering people against getting hit by a falling satellite - true!). They have insured a man's taste buds, Angie Everheart's legs.
Back in the early '80s my parents got (for free) a VHS camera (can't call it a camcorder) that did this. It was a VCR split in 2; Tuner and tape deck. At home, you'd have them side by side, and a fat cable connecting the two. Each required a power outlet. When you wanted to go out to film something, you took the tape deck part with you, and plugged the camera into the same port as the tuner plugged into at home.
The whole setup weighed a good 20 pounds and was a bitch to lug around anwhere, but then you didn't get more than 30 minutes of battery life anyway. Going to be standing a while, recording something? Enjoy the back/neck pain for the next week. Putting it on a tripod? The cord was just long enough to be able to put the deck on the floor close by. Couldn't put it on a table, because someone would walk by and catch the cable.
When I did FIRST in high school, we got almost no support from the school, financial or otherwise. Our teacher spent enormous amounts of his own money on it. We were partnered with a local (15 miles) university, and because we didn't have and weren't given the resources at the high school, most of the construction work was done at the university. This made it very difficult for those of us still in high school to participate heavily; Quite a few couldn't drive, and those who did have a license weren't always able to get their hands on a car from their parents. In addition, the university made it an actual class, so they had dedicated time in their schedule; For me it was an "extracurricular."
As a result, I felt like an outsider no matter how much time I put into it. I never felt like a part of the team doing the project.
As it turned out, the college students & our teacher did most of the work in design & construction. We got little say in what went on. When it came time to decide who would drive the thing, it came down to myself and one other person (because very few other people would committ to making the weekend trip to New Hampshire); The college students were given the decision, and they picked him over me because they'd seen him more. Well, gee, sorry guys, I had things outside this project to do. I held off on getting a part-time after school/weekend job (which I needed, to cover the costs of recently getting my driver's license) for this project, apparently that wasn't enough.
When it came time to go to the competition (there was only one event at the time, not the regional/national thing like now), very few people from my school went, again because of lack of support from the school; They counted it as an absence against me, and there was no assistance in paying for hotel rooms. Even worse, only a couple of the college students went, and they're the ones who knew everything about the robot because they were given free reign (as explained above).
A few years later, my brother got involved with FIRST at the same school. By then they'd gotten a corporate sponsor instead, the high schoolers were put in the driver's seat, and I think everyone was much more interested because they were able to actually do something.
A few years ago, they invented these things called rechargable batteries. Get 2 sets per controller (actually, wouldn't need that many, unless you play 4-player all the time), you'll always have batteries ready to go for your wireless controller(s) and just buy them once.
2.2 came out in late January of 1999. 2.2 was in development at least 2 1/2 years and 2.0 had twice as many minor releases at that point as 2.2 has now (36 vs. 18).
Debian 2.2 already has this, about 2 dozen "tasks" worth, and they're pretty good for 90% of the users. Other groups have added their own; For example, to install Helix Gnome, I add the Helixcode.com line to my sources.apt and apt-get install task-helix-gnome. I understand that Woody will have a very large number of tasks available at install time.
How many people has the US launched in that time, and how many has Russia/USSR? IIRC, the USA has never lost a person outside Earth's atmosphere, and only a handful off the pad (the 7 in the Challenger).
He wasn't talking about Tomb Raider as being an "adventure" movie, he was talking about Tomb Raider possibly being very similar to the Indiana Jones trilogy. Compare Tomb Raider's themes, plotlines, etc. to Indiana Jones; very similar. But not at all a generic adventure movie, as you've implied.
That's all you need (plus the expiration date, which most e-commerce site's I've been to require) to make a purchase over the phone as well. E-commerce is simply mirroring mail-order.
Just offering 4 weeks vacation isn't enough. The company has to make it possible to use this vacation time, and more importantly, encourage employees to take that time, and encourage project managers to make it possible to take that time. It's nice to dangle the carrot out there, but you can't yank it away.
I've got 3 weeks, and as of the beginning of November, had used less than half of that. Why? Stupid project schedules. One project I'm on basically had me needing a vacation due to burnout, but unable to use it because of poor management ("we can't afford to have you out of the office if we're to make this deadline"). I took the full Thanksgiving week off, even though there's a project that needed me that week. But not having a day out of the office aside from weekends since the beginning of August was really wearing on me.
My point...You can offer all the "perks" you want, but unless the company is committed to letting the employees take full advantage of them, they're worthless. That cruise is a nice idea, but I don't really want to go on vacation with the same people I work with. You're not really "off." A satellite office seems nice in theory, but when you need daily interaction with non-IT people, it's more trouble.
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And was reminded when I saw a DVD of an animated movie based on it.
I bet lots of other people forgot about sIn too. Too little, too late. The game's, what, almost 3 years old? It's nice to see games getting ported, but as has been said many times here on/. and elsewhere, timing is everything. Or, in this case, nothing - because that's about what sIn on Linux is going to gain "us."
We all took it, and for those who had been around a while, it confirmed what they knew about each other. For everyone, it helped us learn what we could expect in dealing with other members of the team.
But that was about it. The results weren't used beyond the occasional joke, or keeping tucked in the back of one's mind "he's always quiet in these meetings because he's an INTP." Never used in project management (our projects are primarly 1-3 programmers at a time, dealing with clients), but at times I wish the results were looked at by people. It would make it a lot easier, for example, for me to deal with some of my clients if I knew roughly what to expect based on their M-B test. As opposed to finding out the hard way over several months.
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Because the equipment is physically deteriorating and wouldn't be useful for much more than storage. Of course, once that last little bit breaks, it becomes a serious liability - and danger - for Alpha.
Or maybe they'll be streaming using something like Akamai.
The papermaking process isn't exactly healthy for your local river.
If you can find a way to electronically file your taxes from home without TurboTax, TaxCut, etc. I'm all ears.
Which is exactly the plan. You won't have any success killing the games themselves by passing legislation specifically against them. So instead, you trick people into thinking you're "only" restricting the advertising. It becomes a waste of time and money for companies to make the games, thus acheiving the desired end result - no more Quake.
But my Whistler installation keeps failing on the boot splash screen after the reboot following with "main" setup stuff. Somehow, I'm not surprised.
Taco brings up an interesting point - computers do get noisy, and it's a dull, droning noise. Standing in our server room one day last week, I got to thinking about the noise level and type of noise being generated. I wonder if long-term exposure to it without protection would lead to partial hearing loss, maybe in particular frequency ranges? Might we see OSHA regs on the amount of noise put out by desktops, and required hearing protection in a room with more than X boxes per square foot?
cdrom.com used to have (may still) have the record for most data throughput in a day. They may also have a record for most connections (you'd almost have to, unles you've got real big files people are getting).
California's power shortages are being partially blamed on Silicon Valley.
Crusoe would be great in this situation. Low power consumption, low heat output. Reduce your electicity bill twice, and eliminate those rolling blackout.s
See Lloyd's homepage
The 'Net is the root of all the rest of society's ills, why not blame this one on it as well?
No, they resigned the agreement.
The whole setup weighed a good 20 pounds and was a bitch to lug around anwhere, but then you didn't get more than 30 minutes of battery life anyway. Going to be standing a while, recording something? Enjoy the back/neck pain for the next week. Putting it on a tripod? The cord was just long enough to be able to put the deck on the floor close by. Couldn't put it on a table, because someone would walk by and catch the cable.
When I did FIRST in high school, we got almost no support from the school, financial or otherwise. Our teacher spent enormous amounts of his own money on it. We were partnered with a local (15 miles) university, and because we didn't have and weren't given the resources at the high school, most of the construction work was done at the university. This made it very difficult for those of us still in high school to participate heavily; Quite a few couldn't drive, and those who did have a license weren't always able to get their hands on a car from their parents. In addition, the university made it an actual class, so they had dedicated time in their schedule; For me it was an "extracurricular."
As a result, I felt like an outsider no matter how much time I put into it. I never felt like a part of the team doing the project.
As it turned out, the college students & our teacher did most of the work in design & construction. We got little say in what went on. When it came time to decide who would drive the thing, it came down to myself and one other person (because very few other people would committ to making the weekend trip to New Hampshire); The college students were given the decision, and they picked him over me because they'd seen him more. Well, gee, sorry guys, I had things outside this project to do. I held off on getting a part-time after school/weekend job (which I needed, to cover the costs of recently getting my driver's license) for this project, apparently that wasn't enough.
When it came time to go to the competition (there was only one event at the time, not the regional/national thing like now), very few people from my school went, again because of lack of support from the school; They counted it as an absence against me, and there was no assistance in paying for hotel rooms. Even worse, only a couple of the college students went, and they're the ones who knew everything about the robot because they were given free reign (as explained above).
A few years later, my brother got involved with FIRST at the same school. By then they'd gotten a corporate sponsor instead, the high schoolers were put in the driver's seat, and I think everyone was much more interested because they were able to actually do something.
A few years ago, they invented these things called rechargable batteries. Get 2 sets per controller (actually, wouldn't need that many, unless you play 4-player all the time), you'll always have batteries ready to go for your wireless controller(s) and just buy them once.
2.2 came out in late January of 1999. 2.2 was in development at least 2 1/2 years and 2.0 had twice as many minor releases at that point as 2.2 has now (36 vs. 18).
Debian 2.2 already has this, about 2 dozen "tasks" worth, and they're pretty good for 90% of the users. Other groups have added their own; For example, to install Helix Gnome, I add the Helixcode.com line to my sources.apt and apt-get install task-helix-gnome. I understand that Woody will have a very large number of tasks available at install time.
How many people has the US launched in that time, and how many has Russia/USSR? IIRC, the USA has never lost a person outside Earth's atmosphere, and only a handful off the pad (the 7 in the Challenger).
He wasn't talking about Tomb Raider as being an "adventure" movie, he was talking about Tomb Raider possibly being very similar to the Indiana Jones trilogy. Compare Tomb Raider's themes, plotlines, etc. to Indiana Jones; very similar. But not at all a generic adventure movie, as you've implied.
I had to order online after giving up on stores (after New Year's), and still had to wait a couple weeks.
You're asking a government agency (the FCC) to plan ahead and do something makes sense. Think about that.
That's all you need (plus the expiration date, which most e-commerce site's I've been to require) to make a purchase over the phone as well. E-commerce is simply mirroring mail-order.
I've got 3 weeks, and as of the beginning of November, had used less than half of that. Why? Stupid project schedules. One project I'm on basically had me needing a vacation due to burnout, but unable to use it because of poor management ("we can't afford to have you out of the office if we're to make this deadline"). I took the full Thanksgiving week off, even though there's a project that needed me that week. But not having a day out of the office aside from weekends since the beginning of August was really wearing on me.
My point...You can offer all the "perks" you want, but unless the company is committed to letting the employees take full advantage of them, they're worthless. That cruise is a nice idea, but I don't really want to go on vacation with the same people I work with. You're not really "off." A satellite office seems nice in theory, but when you need daily interaction with non-IT people, it's more trouble.
I bet lots of other people forgot about sIn too. Too little, too late. The game's, what, almost 3 years old? It's nice to see games getting ported, but as has been said many times here on /. and elsewhere, timing is everything. Or, in this case, nothing - because that's about what sIn on Linux is going to gain "us."
But that was about it. The results weren't used beyond the occasional joke, or keeping tucked in the back of one's mind "he's always quiet in these meetings because he's an INTP." Never used in project management (our projects are primarly 1-3 programmers at a time, dealing with clients), but at times I wish the results were looked at by people. It would make it a lot easier, for example, for me to deal with some of my clients if I knew roughly what to expect based on their M-B test. As opposed to finding out the hard way over several months.