I thought I was super badass at street fighter 2 in middle school, then I went to the arcade and saw older kids getting the insane combos on killer instinct. First thing I thought was... wow, you really have to study this stuff to know what you're doing. If only there was some sort of global information network where I could quickly and easily find out what all those moves are.
It bugs me that 10 years ago I could play serious fps's and hit 100fps and actually see that on my monitor. It made a huge difference for the kind of competitive precision I was hitting.
My fancy new(ish) wuxga monitor has plenty of pixels, but 60fps feels real choppy to me.
I see some of these future 3d lcd's claiming 480Hz... is there a good inexpensive desktop monitor that can do 120Hz?
Have you ever had to blow in a breathalyzer for picking up trash? Have you ever spent a night in jail when someone else attacked you? Have you ever had to fly 3,000 miles to defend yourself because some cop lied on a citation in hopes you wouldn't show? Have you ever been help up to a wall and searched for retrieving your own bicycle in a public space?
Not all police are my enemies, but some go out of their way to make themselves exactly that.
Laws are not simple reflections of the feelings of the public majority. Drugs are not illegal because people want them to be, and changing the law is not as simple as getting majority public support.
It seems worth noting that this uber car also has hydraulics.
"Just waking up in the morning gotta thank marconi I don't know but today seems kinda lonely Got chatter from the police radio only And momma got static on the HF I got my eavesdrop on, but my signal left Finally got a call on the cell phone in my vest Hooked up a bigger antenna as I shut the do' Thinking will i live, for another set of radios I gotta go cause I got me a chevy colt And if I hit the switch, I can make the ass drop"
There are a million reasons for a server to restart, everything that happens after that is your fault.
I had a contract in excruciatingly clear language that held them liable for the consequences of their failing to uphold their obligations. I also have very, very good reasons for not running that script upon startup, accidental or otherwise. Furthermore, that machine is used specifically for its redundancy and resilience in not mysteriously rebooting. I'm not running a google where machine failure is part of the formula, nor am I running crappy beige boxes on windows.
I had a machine colocated in a very nice, secured facility right in the middle of a major city where all the telco wiring runs. It was awful for these reasons: - they advertised 24 access to your equipment on the web site, then the smarmy salesperson explained how that's actually not going to happen. That should have been it right there, but I was dumb. - later, they had a brief power outage due to a contractor f-ing up one day, and I was never notified. This in turn disabled my traffic shaping configs, which I intentionally do not have running upon startup. I didn't know anything was amiss until I got a huge bill for bandwidth overages. I had to fight heavily with them to overturn the charges because I had a contract with them that said 100% uptime in regards to power. They disabled my controls by not upholding their deal, and were trying to pin the results on me. Afterward I put in a simple script to email me when the maching mysteriouly rebooted. The whole time they were acting like jackasses about it, then acting like they were doing me a huge favor when they gave in. - Then, the worst offense. I took off for a three day weekend right when they cold-cocked my machine during a maintenance operation. I didn't notice until the following sunday that things had been down all weekend. I had missed my opportunity to visit my machine since it was just after 6:00pm, and I'd have to wait until 9:00 the following morning to see what the hell was wrong. Or they offered to let me PAY THEM to look at it for me sooner. I declined.
When I got there, they had unplugged my machine, moved it to a new location, failed to power it back up, and had the network cable in the wrong port. All of those things were in total violation of my contract. When giving me excuses, they were saying that because the network lights were on they thought the machine was powered on.
Then it was like all hell to get them to come through on their contractual provisions when they don't provide the guaranteed uptime and exhibited severe negligence.
I eventually got paid back what I had paid for the service that month, but not any of the reimbursement specified in the contract for exceeding downtime. And it took two months for them to return my money.
Huh. So much for the internet revolutionising music. Here is an obscure DnB producer that I found through internet radio, whos website is on MySpace and.... guess what. He only uses the "legacy business model". So though I'd love to see this frustrating and archaic system disappear, I do realize that it fulfills a purpose - musicians don't want to fuck about with distribution. They want to make music and have some semblance of financial stability, with other people absorbing the losses from failures and making it back on the hits.
You make an excellent point, but then isn't that precisely what cdbaby is good for? I just sent in a resume to be a systems admin for them... not betting heavily on it but I'd still love to work there.
It's like being a contractor, using a pneumatic hammer, and having the foreman come up to you and insist you use a carrot to perform your nailing. Then the boss expresses discontent at your declining performance, especially since he made an executive decision he thought would make things works better.
Yeah, it sounds like a dumb analogy, but human civilizations have been building structures much longer than your boss has had exposure to IT concepts. I'll be happy to stand by my carrot analogy and relate real-world examples.
They'd have to open new factories to produce all the ones they'd sell. People get a big kick out of seeing it on my mini9, and it's way more powerful than the PBG4 I used for a long time.
Officially, apple says that their users don't want the mac experience on a dinky netbook. I think they're just holding off the would-be ravenous crowds until they can get their own (tablet?) out the gate.
Wood was sentenced Tuesday to 39 months in prison and three years of supervised release for wire fraud, accessing a protected computer without authorization to commit fraud, and aggravated identity theft.
What chain of idiocy determined the computers he accessed to be "protected"?
Wood: Hey, do you have any files with names like this? Computer: Yeah, I do. Wood: Can I have them plz? Computer: No problem - here they are for you.
Tool support for debugging still has a way to go. And since weak vs strong typing is a religious war it would be nice to have an alternative for those on the strong typing side.
Firebug is an excellent JS debugger!
JS has its types (number, string, etc) and variables are loose. Knowing what those types are and how to use them makes JS a compelling language for a strong-typer like myself.
hahaha... I picked my username in high school right after I'd read the non-reference half of the oreilly sendmail bat book (2nd edition) in two days. I figured at that point sendmail and I were well acquainted.
One day I started using postfix and never looked back, but now at least I'm proficient with apache mod_rewrite.
Plus, physical books are kinda cool; they don't need to be recharged, you can drop them from amazing heights and they still work, they're infinitely reusable and lendable, and they effortlessly multitask--leave one in the bathroom, one on the nightstand, one in the car, etc.
responses: - This thing uses very little power. You have to worry more about charging your body with food than charging this thing with power.
- Dunno about you, but I don't like dropping my books either.
- Digital books are EXTREMELY "lendable".
- If you like being a slob you'll find you can leave books (and other things) just about anywhere! Compare looking all over for a book you left somewhere to pushing a few buttons on the kindle.
- and try carrying all your favorite books with you on a plane.
- or reading a backlit laptop display in bright sunlight.
Well, I have a conversion layer to create the object my program uses, but I can't think of a need to convert it back. All the things that make it what it is are a result of all the little things that interact with the db. Using triggers, it knows when to update parts of itself. The parts that interact with the db often don't care about the object, even if it's being used as in input to those parts.
When I DO need to care about the object, replicate it, or maintain persistence, then I use...
DUN DUN DUN!
memcached. (I rtfa'd and even amazon's thing said it was a basically a key -> value system)
If I did this exclusively with my object instead of sql, I don't know right away how I would do all my searches and processing because everything is so hugely related... and I think the whole point of this nosql thing is that it's a non-relational alternative for when things are pretty basic, but comprise enormous data size.
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I like to brag about how I was able to get e-porn in `91 ;D
the KI file would have been nice though
thanks!
I thought I was super badass at street fighter 2 in middle school, then I went to the arcade and saw older kids getting the insane combos on killer instinct. First thing I thought was... wow, you really have to study this stuff to know what you're doing. If only there was some sort of global information network where I could quickly and easily find out what all those moves are.
It bugs me that 10 years ago I could play serious fps's and hit 100fps and actually see that on my monitor. It made a huge difference for the kind of competitive precision I was hitting.
My fancy new(ish) wuxga monitor has plenty of pixels, but 60fps feels real choppy to me.
I see some of these future 3d lcd's claiming 480Hz... is there a good inexpensive desktop monitor that can do 120Hz?
Have you ever had to blow in a breathalyzer for picking up trash? Have you ever spent a night in jail when someone else attacked you? Have you ever had to fly 3,000 miles to defend yourself because some cop lied on a citation in hopes you wouldn't show? Have you ever been help up to a wall and searched for retrieving your own bicycle in a public space?
Not all police are my enemies, but some go out of their way to make themselves exactly that.
Laws are not simple reflections of the feelings of the public majority. Drugs are not illegal because people want them to be, and changing the law is not as simple as getting majority public support.
I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to argue unless you've paid!
It's a DODGE colt, not a chevy.
It seems worth noting that this uber car also has hydraulics.
"Just waking up in the morning gotta thank marconi
I don't know but today seems kinda lonely
Got chatter from the police radio only
And momma got static on the HF
I got my eavesdrop on, but my signal left
Finally got a call on the cell phone in my vest
Hooked up a bigger antenna as I shut the do'
Thinking will i live, for another set of radios
I gotta go cause I got me a chevy colt
And if I hit the switch, I can make the ass drop"
sounds like someone doesn't want to get sued by apple for defamation.
There are a million reasons for a server to restart, everything that happens after that is your fault.
I had a contract in excruciatingly clear language that held them liable for the consequences of their failing to uphold their obligations. I also have very, very good reasons for not running that script upon startup, accidental or otherwise. Furthermore, that machine is used specifically for its redundancy and resilience in not mysteriously rebooting. I'm not running a google where machine failure is part of the formula, nor am I running crappy beige boxes on windows.
I had a machine colocated in a very nice, secured facility right in the middle of a major city where all the telco wiring runs. It was awful for these reasons:
- they advertised 24 access to your equipment on the web site, then the smarmy salesperson explained how that's actually not going to happen. That should have been it right there, but I was dumb.
- later, they had a brief power outage due to a contractor f-ing up one day, and I was never notified. This in turn disabled my traffic shaping configs, which I intentionally do not have running upon startup. I didn't know anything was amiss until I got a huge bill for bandwidth overages. I had to fight heavily with them to overturn the charges because I had a contract with them that said 100% uptime in regards to power. They disabled my controls by not upholding their deal, and were trying to pin the results on me. Afterward I put in a simple script to email me when the maching mysteriouly rebooted. The whole time they were acting like jackasses about it, then acting like they were doing me a huge favor when they gave in.
- Then, the worst offense. I took off for a three day weekend right when they cold-cocked my machine during a maintenance operation. I didn't notice until the following sunday that things had been down all weekend. I had missed my opportunity to visit my machine since it was just after 6:00pm, and I'd have to wait until 9:00 the following morning to see what the hell was wrong. Or they offered to let me PAY THEM to look at it for me sooner. I declined.
When I got there, they had unplugged my machine, moved it to a new location, failed to power it back up, and had the network cable in the wrong port. All of those things were in total violation of my contract. When giving me excuses, they were saying that because the network lights were on they thought the machine was powered on.
Then it was like all hell to get them to come through on their contractual provisions when they don't provide the guaranteed uptime and exhibited severe negligence.
I eventually got paid back what I had paid for the service that month, but not any of the reimbursement specified in the contract for exceeding downtime. And it took two months for them to return my money.
Anyone have worse stories?
Huh. So much for the internet revolutionising music. Here is an obscure DnB producer that I found through internet radio, whos website is on MySpace and .... guess what. He only uses the "legacy business model". So though I'd love to see this frustrating and archaic system disappear, I do realize that it fulfills a purpose - musicians don't want to fuck about with distribution. They want to make music and have some semblance of financial stability, with other people absorbing the losses from failures and making it back on the hits.
You make an excellent point, but then isn't that precisely what cdbaby is good for? I just sent in a resume to be a systems admin for them... not betting heavily on it but I'd still love to work there.
It's like being a contractor, using a pneumatic hammer, and having the foreman come up to you and insist you use a carrot to perform your nailing. Then the boss expresses discontent at your declining performance, especially since he made an executive decision he thought would make things works better.
Yeah, it sounds like a dumb analogy, but human civilizations have been building structures much longer than your boss has had exposure to IT concepts. I'll be happy to stand by my carrot analogy and relate real-world examples.
I may sound like a jerkwad here, but why waste all that battery power watching a dvd when you could watch the divx version off local storage?
They'd have to open new factories to produce all the ones they'd sell. People get a big kick out of seeing it on my mini9, and it's way more powerful than the PBG4 I used for a long time.
Officially, apple says that their users don't want the mac experience on a dinky netbook. I think they're just holding off the would-be ravenous crowds until they can get their own (tablet?) out the gate.
Wood was sentenced Tuesday to 39 months in prison and three years of supervised release for wire fraud, accessing a protected computer without authorization to commit fraud, and aggravated identity theft.
What chain of idiocy determined the computers he accessed to be "protected"?
Wood: Hey, do you have any files with names like this?
Computer: Yeah, I do.
Wood: Can I have them plz?
Computer: No problem - here they are for you.
Tool support for debugging still has a way to go. And since weak vs strong typing is a religious war it would be nice to have an alternative for those on the strong typing side.
Firebug is an excellent JS debugger!
JS has its types (number, string, etc) and variables are loose. Knowing what those types are and how to use them makes JS a compelling language for a strong-typer like myself.
hahaha... I picked my username in high school right after I'd read the non-reference half of the oreilly sendmail bat book (2nd edition) in two days. I figured at that point sendmail and I were well acquainted.
One day I started using postfix and never looked back, but now at least I'm proficient with apache mod_rewrite.
you're making me hungry for mutton chops
I'll be sure to stay away from your beloved ice cream bar.
Sing along everybody...
"Happy happy. Joy joy!"
"Happy happy. Joy joy!"
"I don't think you're happy enough"
"I'll teach you to be happy. I'll teach your grandma to suck eggs!"
"and the little critters of nature. They don't know that they're ugly."
"I TOLD YOU I'D SHOOT, BUT YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE ME!!! WHYYYYY WOULDN'T YOU BELIEVE ME!!!???"
"Happy happy. Joy joy!"
"Happy happy. Joy joy!"
So, we should still be ensuring that all tags have matching close tags?
All tags that need a closing tag should have one, yeah. singular tags like br and img simply close themselves, <br /> , <img src="blah" />
Plus, physical books are kinda cool; they don't need to be recharged, you can drop them from amazing heights and they still work, they're infinitely reusable and lendable, and they effortlessly multitask--leave one in the bathroom, one on the nightstand, one in the car, etc.
responses:
- This thing uses very little power. You have to worry more about charging your body with food than charging this thing with power.
- Dunno about you, but I don't like dropping my books either.
- Digital books are EXTREMELY "lendable".
- If you like being a slob you'll find you can leave books (and other things) just about anywhere! Compare looking all over for a book you left somewhere to pushing a few buttons on the kindle.
- and try carrying all your favorite books with you on a plane.
- or reading a backlit laptop display in bright sunlight.
TFA says accenture. Did they just change names like diddy or something?
Well, I have a conversion layer to create the object my program uses, but I can't think of a need to convert it back. All the things that make it what it is are a result of all the little things that interact with the db. Using triggers, it knows when to update parts of itself. The parts that interact with the db often don't care about the object, even if it's being used as in input to those parts.
When I DO need to care about the object, replicate it, or maintain persistence, then I use...
DUN DUN DUN!
memcached. (I rtfa'd and even amazon's thing said it was a basically a key -> value system)
If I did this exclusively with my object instead of sql, I don't know right away how I would do all my searches and processing because everything is so hugely related... and I think the whole point of this nosql thing is that it's a non-relational alternative for when things are pretty basic, but comprise enormous data size.