Pop quiz hotshot. When faced with a legal question that could potentially cause the MPAA to come calling on your company like a pack of rabid wolves, should you:
A) Go to that great legal authority on the net, known as Slashdot or B) Hire a fscking lawyer
Don't know that much about the software, but I have a friend who works for Newmarket International. I know this is the kind of software they do, but I don't know how good it is. *shrug*
Unfortunately, if your first step is "Start at the top of a cliff facing the dropoff. Take one step forward." then it's not exactly beneficial, is it?
My experience with all of the "Learn X in Y amount of Time" books from Sams.net publishing has been horrible. They're the Walmart of learning. Will you get something that can be called "learning"? Theoretically yes. Will it be of decent (or even *average*) quality, or worth the money you put into it? Almost certainly not.
Learning is one thing. Learning in a productive manner is something else entirely.
Movies get rated/regulated and so should video games
Um, actually the ratings system of movies (at least in the US) are *not* government imposed. They are done by the MPAA - the idea was to do so in order to prevent the government from coming in and regulating things.
Seems to me that the ESRB ratings should be taken the same way...
I've played with Nagios a fair bit. When I saw the Zabbix article in the recent Linux Magazine, I thought I'd check it out. The graphing looked much easier to do, and the I liked the concept of "screens".
Having used it for a couple weeks now, I would call it "software with potential". It's not quite there yet, and has the feeling of being immature software. This is not a dig - quite the contrary. I think that zabbix has a *lot* of potential, but I think it needs a little more time before it's ready.
As a parent myself, one of the things that I've been trying to teach my kid is that he has to use good sense while being online.
I'm not one who believes in restricting access to things, nor am I one to watch over his shoulder (particularly as he starts getting to the age where he wants more privacy).
Instead, I teach him about some of the things that go on online, some things to be aware of and to watch out for, the dangers of giving out personal information, etc. Beyond that I just encourage him to talk to me if anything comes up that he has questions about or just wants to talk about.
I glanced through the article and was absolutely amazed (not knowing that much about this subject) that the collapse into a neutron star took a mere second. Considering the scale of the event, that's just astounding to me.
What I didn't see was any indication when they'll be able to determine whether the star is going to remain a stable neutron star or become a black hole. Does anybody with actual knowledge in the subject care to comment?
...the RIAA has announced it is considering distributing songs from all its artists for free. Donations will be accept and all monies collected this way will go directly to the artists.
Actually, if they weren't running accelerated drivers, I believe bzflag would not run worth crap either. Does anybody know for sure whether or not this is correct?
My problem with this is that it implies that you are making an allegiance to "a" God at all.
What of those folks that are atheists? Or even agnostics? Are they to be excluded from the common pledge of allegiance to the US because of this?
As other's have said, this country *supposedly* encourages diversity and differing views. This nationally/governmentally endorsed pledge does not reflect that, IMNSHO.
If you don't want to scour google, purchase a support contract. I don't know about postgres (though I would suspect it's available) but I know for certain that mysql has such a thing available.
If the support is import, purchase it. It'll still come out significantly less expensive than going with MS SQL, or so I would imagine.
By forming virtual database entities, which can be either local or distributed, EAC eliminates the need for a shared storage device and provides failover protection while preserving all transaction ACID requirements.
I certainly understand your point. The influences that exist in the world around us are constantly prompting us to simply follow along and do what all the other good little drones do. Some of the prompting is so subtle to us and so constant that we don't even recognize it *as* prompting any more. (See Daniel Quinn's Ishmael for a far better and more interesting description of this than I can manage.) And it's soooo easy to just follow along. It's the "herd mentality".
However, this (or so it seems to me) is part of what separates us as humans from many other animals. We have the ability to make a decision to *not* go along with what goes on just because "everybody else was doing it."
Whether or not we *exercise* that ability is again, a personal choice.
With regards to your examples:
You can't just go out and kill someone. You can't go outside in public completely nude.
Sure you can. Like every other action in the world, these actions have consequences. However, you have the ability to look at the action, make a decision about whether it is important and if you want to do it, and finally, if the consequences are worth dealing with.
Freedom is not freedom to do whatever you want and have no repercussions. Freedom is the ability to make a choice and to try to follow through with it.
Not to belittle your experience, but everybody has a choice as to whether they want to pursue something or not.
I fully agree that sometimes circumstances prompt a person towards a particular path, but in the end following that path is that person's personal *decision*. Nobody tied them down and forced them to try it, or to continue trying it.
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I'm pretty sure that the "staffing" of EasyDNS was pretty close to just 1 person ... the owner.
DynDNS's enterprise version (Dynect) does this as well: http://www.dynect.com/features/api.html
Seems to work pretty well for me.
If you buy their Account Upgrade (at a whopping $11.50 a year), they won't expire. Seems like a small price to pay to me. *shrug*
http://www.dyndns.com/services/upgrades/
Pop quiz hotshot. When faced with a legal question that could potentially cause the MPAA to come calling on your company like a pack of rabid wolves, should you:
... you have chosen poorly.
A) Go to that great legal authority on the net, known as Slashdot
or
B) Hire a fscking lawyer
I'll give you a hint
Don't know that much about the software, but I have a friend who works for Newmarket International. I know this is the kind of software they do, but I don't know how good it is. *shrug*
No - there definitely wasn't a sword fight in the 4th Episode of Tom Baker's "Androids of Tara" (key to time series). Definitely not.
Unfortunately, if your first step is "Start at the top of a cliff facing the dropoff. Take one step forward." then it's not exactly beneficial, is it?
My experience with all of the "Learn X in Y amount of Time" books from Sams.net publishing has been horrible. They're the Walmart of learning. Will you get something that can be called "learning"? Theoretically yes. Will it be of decent (or even *average*) quality, or worth the money you put into it? Almost certainly not.
Learning is one thing. Learning in a productive manner is something else entirely.
Did anybody else notice this comment from the product description?
Go to www.olive.us, click on "Explore".
"Its pristine audio quality, combined with the proprietary Playlist music management software*, predestines..."
The * at the bottom is "Mac OS X only".
<sarcasm>Impressive.</sarcasm>
Movies get rated/regulated and so should video games
Um, actually the ratings system of movies (at least in the US) are *not* government imposed. They are done by the MPAA - the idea was to do so in order to prevent the government from coming in and regulating things.
Seems to me that the ESRB ratings should be taken the same way...
I've played with Nagios a fair bit. When I saw the Zabbix article in the recent Linux Magazine, I thought I'd check it out. The graphing looked much easier to do, and the I liked the concept of "screens".
Having used it for a couple weeks now, I would call it "software with potential". It's not quite there yet, and has the feeling of being immature software. This is not a dig - quite the contrary. I think that zabbix has a *lot* of potential, but I think it needs a little more time before it's ready.
Just my $.02.
As a parent myself, one of the things that I've been trying to teach my kid is that he has to use good sense while being online.
I'm not one who believes in restricting access to things, nor am I one to watch over his shoulder (particularly as he starts getting to the age where he wants more privacy).
Instead, I teach him about some of the things that go on online, some things to be aware of and to watch out for, the dangers of giving out personal information, etc. Beyond that I just encourage him to talk to me if anything comes up that he has questions about or just wants to talk about.
... Leather Goddesses of Phobos?
;)
No, really, it could be artistic. Really.
I glanced through the article and was absolutely amazed (not knowing that much about this subject) that the collapse into a neutron star took a mere second. Considering the scale of the event, that's just astounding to me.
What I didn't see was any indication when they'll be able to determine whether the star is going to remain a stable neutron star or become a black hole. Does anybody with actual knowledge in the subject care to comment?
Wait a minute - I thought we were talking about video games?
...the RIAA has announced it is considering distributing songs from all its artists for free. Donations will be accept and all monies collected this way will go directly to the artists.
Actually, if they weren't running accelerated drivers, I believe bzflag would not run worth crap either. Does anybody know for sure whether or not this is correct?
My problem with this is that it implies that you are making an allegiance to "a" God at all.
What of those folks that are atheists? Or even agnostics? Are they to be excluded from the common pledge of allegiance to the US because of this?
As other's have said, this country *supposedly* encourages diversity and differing views. This nationally/governmentally endorsed pledge does not reflect that, IMNSHO.
If you don't want to scour google, purchase a support contract. I don't know about postgres (though I would suspect it's available) but I know for certain that mysql has such a thing available.
If the support is import, purchase it. It'll still come out significantly less expensive than going with MS SQL, or so I would imagine.
By forming virtual database entities, which can be either local or distributed, EAC eliminates the need for a shared storage device and provides failover protection while preserving all transaction ACID requirements.
Sounds like it would be covered to me...
However, this (or so it seems to me) is part of what separates us as humans from many other animals. We have the ability to make a decision to *not* go along with what goes on just because "everybody else was doing it."
Whether or not we *exercise* that ability is again, a personal choice.
With regards to your examples:
You can't just go out and kill someone. You can't go outside in public completely nude.
Sure you can. Like every other action in the world, these actions have consequences. However, you have the ability to look at the action, make a decision about whether it is important and if you want to do it, and finally, if the consequences are worth dealing with.
Freedom is not freedom to do whatever you want and have no repercussions. Freedom is the ability to make a choice and to try to follow through with it.
Not to belittle your experience, but everybody has a choice as to whether they want to pursue something or not.
I fully agree that sometimes circumstances prompt a person towards a particular path, but in the end following that path is that person's personal *decision*. Nobody tied them down and forced them to try it, or to continue trying it.
The problem is determining when midnite is.
Seems to me that the real problem is determining how to spell midnight. 8)
Dear Slashdot users,
I keep hearing about this site called freshmeat.net. Does anybody know what this is or where I could find it? What have your experiences been with it?
Thanks in advance!
Most irrelevant software name? Wouldn't that be Microsoft Works?
Right - cuz after all there aren't any sounds of any kind for free games. Nobody would EVER donate their time for a project.
Oops - sorry. That was sarcastic, wasn't it?