Join the military. The government is, in my experience, the only employer that will pay you to get a security clearance, a process that can easily take 9-18 months.
Fewer Americans move to Europe than vice versa because most Americans don't speak (continental) European languages and European nations have much stricter immigration requirements.
Keep dreaming about the standard of living - in Europe, one's not generally forced into choosing between making decent money and having a life outside of work. I'd say that's worth something.
Blah blah blah. Yes, I RTFA. I was aware of this game-under-development years ago, too.
No, it's not puzzle-based, but is substantially similar to Puzzle Pirates in that it
* claims to be skill-based ("no levelling treadmill") * features sea combat with command strategy, ship damage, grappling, etc. * has a"PvP conquerable world" & a commodity trading economy * offers customizable avatars (i.e. colors, jewelry, bears, peg-legs, & so on)
Frankly, this sounds plenty like puzzle pirates to me. PP has these things plus some puzzles. PotBS has these things plus 3D graphics.
Hey, I like pirates. I like Sid Meier's Pirates. I liked Puzzle Pirates & I might even like this game. But it's clearly evolutionary, not revolutionary.
Maybe, just maybe, domain owners are sick of being spammed at their listed contact info. I know I am. It comes in all forms, too - email, snail-mail, telemarketers.
Pardon my English, but that sucks rocks.
Fortunately, some registrars offer privacy proxy services allowing you to list the registrar as the contact in the whois info. Unfortunately, not all registrars offer this service.
It may also be the case that people using obviously fake whois info do so for the legitimate purpose of free speech to avoid repressive governments or private institutions. The implication that all anonymous speech is fraudulent is unwarranted.
Yeah, so nobody actually read your question. Welcome to slashdot and sorry about that. You really need to understand how email and the internet work a bit better if you thought DNS could do this for you. What you're asking for is a slightly more difficult problem than just "sendmail | tee -a foo".
If you want to give other MTA's a whirl for this purpose, google "tee postfix" and see the postfix mailing list thread or try that qmail foo suggested by another poster.
Basically, there are different "problems" with each method, but it's late and I want to go home so you'll have to do your own homework. A few likely complications: recipient checks, source IP checks, header munges interfering with spam filtering
Zip is miles more common than anything else and compresses better (generally) than gzip. It's supported out of the box on almost every OS either natively or with bundled software. Even Solaris comes with unzip.
Forget.tar.bz2 unless your audience is the type of people you'd expect to have cygwin or 3rd-party compression tools installed on their windows peecees.
Range: There are very few destinations that are more than 10,000 km apart. What are we talking about? 15 flights per day worldwide? Only so many people want to fly betwen Sydney and New York.
Most of Asia (bar Siberia) is further than 10,000km from most of the population of North America. It's 10097 km from Tokyo to Chicago. Forget NYC, Toronto, Miami, Houston, etc. There's enough of a market for planes with >10,000km range that they exist at all. It's not like planes with that range are cheap to design.
I bought a refurb eMac last year from Apple, slapped in a 1GB DIMM from transintl.com (eMacs are picky about 1GB DIMMs, as they're not officially supported), and added an extra 19" CRT for a dual-monitor setup.
It's a great workstation. Not as fast in raw CPU horsepower as the P4 I use at work, but I'm rarely cpu-bound. 1.5GB RAM is probably overkill for development (my wife needs it for photoshop, though).
The best thing is the dual-head setup. I use the 19" CRT as my primary workspace and keep palettes, terminal windows, email, notes, etc. open on the internal 17" monitor. That's one thing the Mac mini can't do.
This is a no brainer. Trust your instincts; all signs indicate that young children require real human interaction to grow into healthy, well adjusted human beings and should be kept away from electronic media.
Children as young as 2 or 3 shouldn't be spending ANY time in front of a screen. Older children and teenagers shouldn't have TVs or computers in their rooms - keep the electronic media in a common area where you can monitor what's being consumed.
Once your children are a little older (say, able to read and possessing the motor skills to use a keyboard and mouse), consider introducing them to creative tools rather than merely "interactive tv" or worse, media designed to be consumed passively. Think paint programs, basic programming tools, animation programs, music programs, etc. (Of course, these tools shouldn't totally take the place of physical crayons and paint and clay and musical instruments) Let the kids find entertainment in creating rather than blasting aliens (even if it's "educational" and requires you to solve a math problem first).
As an aside, I'd keep TV out of the house entirely rather than attempt to limit what's watched - TV priveleges or loss thereof almost always end up becoming a reward, which tends to increase its allure.
Even after I get the PCI one, I'll still need cabling and some sort of switch though. But in the meantime, I can start tinkering with linux drivers...
Cabling? I've never seen a PCI parallel-HIPPI interface. All the PCI HIPPI I've seen is serial (fiber) with standard SC-type connectors. I've never seen sbus HIPPI in the wild at all and can only assume that such an old card would be parallel (copper) and probably half-duplex (only 1 channel).
You don't need a switch, though (assuming you've got 2 HIPPI cards that speak the same variant - parallel vs. serial - and the right cables or fibers). HIPPI is a point-to-point link by design. Crossbar switches exist for it of course, as does a (fairly rudimentary) switch control protocol specification where I-fields instruct the switch where to route the data packets, but you don't need a switch. With serial, it's as simple as crossing the fibers.
yeah, i'm curious too. If it's 12in diameter and say 2 feet tall from that picture (if it's taking all the vertical space in the frame). Then I come up with it weighing ~800 lbs if made of iron. I would guess it's made of some crazy ceramic type matarial, still don't see it making 1.5 ton, would have to have a density of ~1.0 lb/in^3
The pole diameter is only 12 inches but the yoke and coils are included in that figure. Total weight is 4600 lbs for the magnet assembly - each coil is 800 lbs and the iron yoke and pole assembly is 3000 lbs.
While I never like to see sleezy behaviour, I've always thought it was a good sign when your adversary starts acting out of desperation.
Yeah, I'm sure the EFF will win any day now. Those little, *GIGANTIC* media conglomorates sure don't stand a chance now.
This sort of incident just reflects the win-at-all-costs mentality of the dominant players, not their weakness. They'll do anything to win, and they usually do.
The EFF, on the other hand, loses. A lot. I've given them a fair amount of money over the years, and I'm very supportive of what they do, but every battle they fight is wildly lopsided and their results reflect this.
When you're talking about real money, you do what research you can to scope your requirements, then get some eval units and test the hell out of them with your application. Repeat for each vendor under consideration, then decide.
First, prettier is definitely a factor.
Second, "more features" doesn't mean "superior," either.
To hell with a gadget that does a million things poorly. The iPod is successful because it does the few things it does very well, and looks like a million bucks while doing it. Also it's not that much more expensive than its competitors, making it an affordable luxury.
...prosecutors throughout the country now worry about juries that refuse to accept eyewitness accounts or even outright confessions...
We can only hope. A key lesson I took away from law school is that the unreliability of eyewitness testimony and the relatively high rate of coerced and/or false confessions present huge problems to the fair administration of criminal justice. Most of the cases of people exonerated by DNA evidence after serving years in prison were originally put away on faulty eyewitness testimony or coerced confessions.
Of course prosecutors don't like forensic technology! Their job isn't to be fair, it's to convict at all costs. (Doesn't matter if it's the wrong person, as long as *someone* was convicted of the crime.)
(Here in the US, there are open discussions in the media of the lengths that producers sometimes go to in order to get an R rating, which is the minimum that will bring in most adults. Sometimes they have to add a nude/sex scene that has nothing to do with the plot, just to get that all-important rating.;-)
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Join the military. The government is, in my experience, the only employer that will pay you to get a security clearance, a process that can easily take 9-18 months.
-Isaac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defcon_(computer_game )
Damn, why was this article even posted?
-Isaac
Fewer Americans move to Europe than vice versa because most Americans don't speak (continental) European languages and European nations have much stricter immigration requirements.
Keep dreaming about the standard of living - in Europe, one's not generally forced into choosing between making decent money and having a life outside of work. I'd say that's worth something.
-Isaac
Here's what carries weight now:
A check.
You got to pay to play in DC (or any state capitol, for that matter).
-Isaac
Blah blah blah. Yes, I RTFA. I was aware of this game-under-development years ago, too.
No, it's not puzzle-based, but is substantially similar to Puzzle Pirates in that it
* claims to be skill-based ("no levelling treadmill")
* features sea combat with command strategy, ship damage, grappling, etc.
* has a"PvP conquerable world" & a commodity trading economy
* offers customizable avatars (i.e. colors, jewelry, bears, peg-legs, & so on)
Frankly, this sounds plenty like puzzle pirates to me. PP has these things plus some puzzles. PotBS has these things plus 3D graphics.
Hey, I like pirates. I like Sid Meier's Pirates. I liked Puzzle Pirates & I might even like this game. But it's clearly evolutionary, not revolutionary.
Sheesh, I didn't bend your wookiee.
-Isaac
I loved that game... 2 years ago when it was called Puzzle Pirates.
Get a new idea, guys, this one's taken.
-Isaac
Maybe, just maybe, domain owners are sick of being spammed at their listed contact info. I know I am. It comes in all forms, too - email, snail-mail, telemarketers.
Pardon my English, but that sucks rocks.
Fortunately, some registrars offer privacy proxy services allowing you to list the registrar as the contact in the whois info. Unfortunately, not all registrars offer this service.
It may also be the case that people using obviously fake whois info do so for the legitimate purpose of free speech to avoid repressive governments or private institutions. The implication that all anonymous speech is fraudulent is unwarranted.
-Isaac
Yeah, so nobody actually read your question. Welcome to slashdot and sorry about that. You really need to understand how email and the internet work a bit better if you thought DNS could do this for you. What you're asking for is a slightly more difficult problem than just "sendmail | tee -a foo".
If you're stuck on sendmail, these might help:
http://www.nber.org/copy-out.html
http://www.milter.info/sendmail/milter-bcc/
If you want to give other MTA's a whirl for this purpose, google "tee postfix" and see the postfix mailing list thread or try that qmail foo suggested by another poster.
Basically, there are different "problems" with each method, but it's late and I want to go home so you'll have to do your own homework. A few likely complications: recipient checks, source IP checks, header munges interfering with spam filtering
-Isaac
Thank you. I thought this was common knowledge.
-Isaac
Zip.
.tar.bz2 unless your audience is the type of people you'd expect to have cygwin or 3rd-party compression tools installed on their windows peecees.
Zip is miles more common than anything else and compresses better (generally) than gzip. It's supported out of the box on almost every OS either natively or with bundled software. Even Solaris comes with unzip.
Forget
-Isaac
Remember, this is a UI designed for functional idiots for whom typing with CAPSLOCK held down is the most natural thing in the world.
-Isaac
Most of Asia (bar Siberia) is further than 10,000km from most of the population of North America. It's 10097 km from Tokyo to Chicago. Forget NYC, Toronto, Miami, Houston, etc. There's enough of a market for planes with >10,000km range that they exist at all. It's not like planes with that range are cheap to design.
Check the great circle mapper at http://gc.kls2.com/
-Isaac
I bought a refurb eMac last year from Apple, slapped in a 1GB DIMM from transintl.com (eMacs are picky about 1GB DIMMs, as they're not officially supported), and added an extra 19" CRT for a dual-monitor setup.
It's a great workstation. Not as fast in raw CPU horsepower as the P4 I use at work, but I'm rarely cpu-bound. 1.5GB RAM is probably overkill for development (my wife needs it for photoshop, though).
The best thing is the dual-head setup. I use the 19" CRT as my primary workspace and keep palettes, terminal windows, email, notes, etc. open on the internal 17" monitor. That's one thing the Mac mini can't do.
-Isaac
This is a no brainer. Trust your instincts; all signs indicate that young children require real human interaction to grow into healthy, well adjusted human beings and should be kept away from electronic media.
Children as young as 2 or 3 shouldn't be spending ANY time in front of a screen. Older children and teenagers shouldn't have TVs or computers in their rooms - keep the electronic media in a common area where you can monitor what's being consumed.
Once your children are a little older (say, able to read and possessing the motor skills to use a keyboard and mouse), consider introducing them to creative tools rather than merely "interactive tv" or worse, media designed to be consumed passively. Think paint programs, basic programming tools, animation programs, music programs, etc. (Of course, these tools shouldn't totally take the place of physical crayons and paint and clay and musical instruments) Let the kids find entertainment in creating rather than blasting aliens (even if it's "educational" and requires you to solve a math problem first).
As an aside, I'd keep TV out of the house entirely rather than attempt to limit what's watched - TV priveleges or loss thereof almost always end up becoming a reward, which tends to increase its allure.
Just MHO.
-Isaac
Cabling? I've never seen a PCI parallel-HIPPI interface. All the PCI HIPPI I've seen is serial (fiber) with standard SC-type connectors. I've never seen sbus HIPPI in the wild at all and can only assume that such an old card would be parallel (copper) and probably half-duplex (only 1 channel).
You don't need a switch, though (assuming you've got 2 HIPPI cards that speak the same variant - parallel vs. serial - and the right cables or fibers). HIPPI is a point-to-point link by design. Crossbar switches exist for it of course, as does a (fairly rudimentary) switch control protocol specification where I-fields instruct the switch where to route the data packets, but you don't need a switch. With serial, it's as simple as crossing the fibers.
-Isaac
In my experience, you need a minimum of 2 to do anything useful. This is true of most network cards, BTW.
(New PCI HIPPI cards are in the "call your VAR for a quote" price category, FWIW. Once in a blue moon you'll see a pull from an SGI Octane on eBay.)
-Isaac
Don La Fontaine is his name. He's a millionaire many times over.
-Isaac
The pole diameter is only 12 inches but the yoke and coils are included in that figure. Total weight is 4600 lbs for the magnet assembly - each coil is 800 lbs and the iron yoke and pole assembly is 3000 lbs.
http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/cyclotron/12inchmag .shtml
-Isaac
Yeah, I'm sure the EFF will win any day now. Those little, *GIGANTIC* media conglomorates sure don't stand a chance now.
This sort of incident just reflects the win-at-all-costs mentality of the dominant players, not their weakness. They'll do anything to win, and they usually do.
The EFF, on the other hand, loses. A lot. I've given them a fair amount of money over the years, and I'm very supportive of what they do, but every battle they fight is wildly lopsided and their results reflect this.
-Isaac
When you're talking about real money, you do what research you can to scope your requirements, then get some eval units and test the hell out of them with your application. Repeat for each vendor under consideration, then decide.
It's called due diligence. Just Do It.
-Isaac
First, prettier is definitely a factor. Second, "more features" doesn't mean "superior," either.
To hell with a gadget that does a million things poorly. The iPod is successful because it does the few things it does very well, and looks like a million bucks while doing it. Also it's not that much more expensive than its competitors, making it an affordable luxury.
-Isaac
We can only hope. A key lesson I took away from law school is that the unreliability of eyewitness testimony and the relatively high rate of coerced and/or false confessions present huge problems to the fair administration of criminal justice. Most of the cases of people exonerated by DNA evidence after serving years in prison were originally put away on faulty eyewitness testimony or coerced confessions.
Of course prosecutors don't like forensic technology! Their job isn't to be fair, it's to convict at all costs. (Doesn't matter if it's the wrong person, as long as *someone* was convicted of the crime.)
-Isaac
If you have access to G4TechTV, you almost certainly have access to the internet, so why bother?
I never understood the appeal personally.
-Isaac
Sweet merciful crap, who cares about wifi in a *PHONE*? What application are you running on your phone that requires more bandwidth than GPRS/3G?
Is your goal to use VoIP over 802.11? Why? What real benefit does that provide over your regular freaking voice service?
-Isaac
What? Movie producers never want a movie to be "barely R" - Look how few R-rated films are on the box office charts. http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm
Movie producers are usually cutting things out to get an lower rating (either R->PG13 or NC-17->R) to broaden the potential audience.
-Isaac