Is nobody else seeing the words 'images shown are for demonstrative purposes only'? It's the same as putting two cars side by side and putting a wind-up toy handle on one. Obviously it's not really a toy car (and obviously a 'low end' graphics card will not display a desktop in any washed out way), but it illustrates the point of marketing that one has more power/better quality than the other.
This concept of entitlement just pisses me off. Google should not be REQUIRED to make a product that the blind can use, nobody should! This is equivalent to walking into a regular restaurant (full of common/average consumers) and demanding vegan/gluten-free/insert-super-picky-niche-here menu items. You should NOT have the right to call the cops in and force them to make the food you desire.
What the blind (or anybody who has a need for a product) should do is create a voice for themselves as a demanding consumer for a product that doesn't exist and let the industry trip over itself and fight each other to make the dominant/superior product! Make your time/money/effort/usage the product that companies WANT you to give them rather than cramming it down their throat and complaining when they don't swallow well enough for your satisfaction because you're an Apple/Google/Microsoft/XYZ brand fanboy and they 'don't fulfill your needs'.
Stop demanding that others enable you to do something and figure a way to make it happen yourself. Show off your own Rube Goldberg solution of self empowerment with pride and pretty soon someone will come along with a tool that you inspired them to create to simplify your efforts and improve your life.
There are a few non-standard racks in my facility too, in that case we added notes to describe what is what. Irritating that it marked me as 'anonymous coward'... I'm logged in!
This is what I use to keep track of the racks in my work's facility. It allows you to put in a whole lot more than just simple rack location. It's a wonderful tool.
This is total bull. Just because something can't experience pain doesn't mean that you are not treating it poorly. Talk about the ultimate exploitation. As a caretaker for another species YOU would know it's being mistreated/handled even if IT was not able to perceive it.
This also assumes that pain is the only factor in whether an animal is 'happy/content' or not. Squalid conditions or inhumane treatment are still going to cause stress, discomfort, and overall unpleasant/undesirable results in a creature even if it can't feel something as selective as pain.
Without having established some sort of contract that they can show paragraph and line where Google breached it, they're SOL.
You should/NOT/ build your business to revolve around someone else's service. That would be like McDonalds suing some city if people started driving by less on their street.
We run RH AS2.1 on most machines right now and hyperthreading is disabled (under any kernel) because of this performance hit, it can grind a heavily active database into a big backlog.
So far it looks like AS3 and a newer kernel resolves the issue - but we don't have a big spread of those servers in the DC just yet so may not be a good sampling of HT enabled instances.
You obviously live a life of perfectly sheltered normalcy.
The part about invading privacy without being told is that they can then ACT on it for whatever reason they deem fit.
Have porn on your computer that is deemed illegal in your area when they happen to do a sweep? *WHACK* In you go.
Been to any websites that the government says are fringe? Wow - you're on their 'watchlist' now.
Live a lifestyle that the government doesn't approve of (bdsm, polyamory, etc)? Get ready to have a living hell for a life.
So while YOU may not have anything to hide, and none of the rest of us have anything we're ashamed of either as we live our lives as consenting adults - the fact of the matter is that if the government doesn't like what they see when they go snooping around without your consent, your life can become a living hell.
So, Do something about it. It is YOUR fucked up phsyco ELECTED officials who are doing this shit. They do it every day, in countries around the world. Then you wonder why people hate you? These are your dogs, reign them in for fuck sake.
The problem here is that it's not that easy. What happens when you 'reign in' all the corrupt, self righteous, moral/thought police, political doublespeaking politicians in this country? Well.. um.. there wouldn't be anyone left in office.
You have to vote for SOMEONE, and we do. The issue is that EVERY someone to get voted for is a fucking sleaze because they have what it takes to get elected in a campaign: Money.
Promise the moon, deliver a salt shaker. I would love to see a new option on the ballot - 'no confidence' and have it negate a positive vote someone received. that would do all sorts of crazy shit with the system. But it still doesn't change that someone needs to actually BE in office to even HAVE an office, and no regular schmoe can get into the game. It's a total snake pit.
So who would YOU vote for - the spitting cobra, black mamba, or ball python?
It's called 'common decency' around here - unfortunately it tends to get awarded to the highest bidder (such as RIAA, tobacco industry, oil companies, etc)
The ONLY problem with this game (and considering I'm in the hobby it's obviously not a problem to me) is the investment of time and money. A sizeable army (2500pts) will run you well into a few hundred dollars.
I would suggest start small - check out the battle of macragge set. $45, everything you need to play (rules, dice, templates, etc). Gives you the feel of space marines and tyranids. From there if you like it great - you can get more. if not, you're only out $45.
Also note that everything for the game needs tob e assembled and painted - you can't just play instantly out of the box. (ok, you don't have to paint to play but partial assembling is at least key)
Outside of a rocket sled.. I don't think we have something that can test a 3-30g switch. More than likely I think the designer had the head/tail of the probe backwards in their head when they designed the part.
But yeah - stupid mistake. Very expensive stupid mistake.
It's not bullshit. I have a xenium. Unfortunately this article presents it as new when the chip is at almost a year old.
Calling linux an app is also dumb. You need to run a particular bios that can be loaded into the chip's memory (with various configurations and possible loadouts), cromwell I think, and then you can load a linux distribution that has been built for xbox.
I mean come on - what is xbox but a legacy free PC?
Who says that because you have an AIM ID that you have to use the aol client?
Trillian accesses the AIM network and and adds more options, to my knowledge. I don't remember seeing 'Secure IM' in AIM's preferences for example.
Things like that. I think the IM market is a bit flooded as it is without having another to compete - even if it was the badass of them all. People like my mom and dad aren't going to switch away from AIM because it's learning something new and is intimidating.
Trillian is the most useful program out there for IM's because you don't need 5 IM clients installed anymore (not even counting IRC) to chat.
The savvy people will use trillian and have connections to everything they have friends on, those that aren't will stay attached to their favorite clients.
Likely because the games were actually FUN back then. Sure they were simple little platformers, but you could go for as long as you had the skill to survive. Not to mention the fact that everything now is almost a dollar or more to play for 2 minutes, thanks to timers and 'checkpoint' play there's just no way to feel satisfied out of the money you put in.
I'd gladly throw $20 or more at an old quarter arcade from the early 90's (and would gladly do so again if they had some today), but today's 'arcades' simply aren't. You have a few hulking machines taking up all the space because shooters need distance from the screen, driving games need chairs and such, and heaven knows what else (silent scope et al that need rediculously large gear).
Where $20 used to go 60-80 games (some games were $.50 *GASP!*), it'll now go maybe 15-20, and anything that's still the same old cabinet type is just a fighting game with no creativity or amusement to it at all. No thanks.
But look at this, it's not like microsoft is outsourcing the xbox to another country. Nobody 'relies' on the xbox. People RELY on big tech companies for database, hardware, and all manner of other things that help THEM run.
What do you expect a company to do, slit it's own throat because it's provider of hardware/support outsources? Not likely. Or what about a hospital that uses X software and such to manage their systems? You'd have people in an uproar because medical costs are already outrageous.
This is not an easy or clearcut boycott situation, and honestly I've got no fucking clue how it would be best to prevent this kind of thing. Exports should be goods, not jobs, in my opinion - but in an age when many if not most high profile companies have international branches, where does the 'hiring in X country' vs 'exporting to X country' get defined?
Juno used to do this too, a friend of mine complained about it all the time. Kinda stupid to do it, considering that on dialup anything over a few megs could take that long to download. Talk about crippling - try using windows update on a dialup with a 4 hr limit. 50mb service pack download? forget it.
If it was just porn that parents were worried about then this would be a pretty simple topic. As it is there are far more things on the internet than just porn to worry about. I also had full internet access in my private room (upstairs of all places, I could hear a mouse coming up those stairs) since I was in my early teens too. And yeah, porn was/is/will-be readily available and is only going to be more attractive.
But as I said - porn is the least of worries to be honest. People seeing and possibly de-tabooing sex? Oh no, not that! It's the other things, the countless and unnameable (because you may not have run across them yet) things that could cause other problems. I for one went out and searched for details on how to build things such as spud guns and other 'harmless' home projects; learned enough about computers to hack(code) and hack(crack) things.
Now apply that about tenfold, 'script kiddies' abound today, the tools readily available - and if they get caught then they can be federally prosecuted as a 'cyber terrorist' these days, I mean come on - wasn't there an article posted just the other day about ddos extortionists.
So sure, lets just all turn a blind eye and as one person said 'leave them the fuck alone'. No thanks. I know exactly what I did with my free reign and while I turned out a decent person it wasn't because I was 'left free to grow into an individual'. I had other rules to follow and structure to fill my life.
I don't claim that any child of mine will be the perfect kid because I know all the tricks and nothing will get past me - that'd be just stupid and arrogant to say. I plan to talk to my kid(s) about sex, drugs, crime, and other things - to keep things supervised but not restricted.
Any kid(s) of mine will not have a computer in their private area until they are 18. It will be in the computer room just like my computer and my wife's computers are. I also plan to have some pretty heavy logging/sniffing going on. I won't intrude unless something horrible is going on (such as predation via the net or criminal activity) but damnit I will/not/ be ignorant of my kid(s) actions as much as I possibly can - I refuse to be another parent of the columbine kids where the parents didn't notice bomb making components in their bedrooms.
A parent can still be a parent without being a tyrant. And to the person (not whom I'm replying to here) who said they'd call child protection services and work to destroy their parents' lives, you obviously have no fucking clue what the real world is like, your immaturety (whether you're legally an adult or not) is showing through. You want parents to 'get a clue' and leave you alone? Do them a favor and get a clue back.
I've seen a couple mentions of X-COM, which was great. The first game was fantastic, second game was a flop, apocalypse was moderate, and now there's an fps out that I am not even going to try.
But the best game that left it's mark on me was the first AvP. The box came with a label that said 'the game so scary we give you a free pair of underwear!' and they weren't kidding.
Marine campaign, lights out, surround sound, facehugger. NEVER AGAIN. [chuckle]
First of all, the single target of 'liberals' is pretty darn close minded of you. Second, the government really is doing a bunch of horrible things (detainees that haven't been declared POW's anyone?). Third, what do you think "we're going to start regulating" means? If you don't do it their way you will be told to change it or they will shut you down.. that's how regulations work ya know.
The government is doing it's damndest to whip people into a patriotic fever so that they willingly give up their rights and not appear to be 'taking' them -/that's/ the reason behind the use of 'terrorist' and other such buzzwords. Who on earth would want to disagree with a bill that would get past if it labels them as someone who's pro-terrorist?
Patriot Act allows the government to detain people without legal counsel, without being accused of an actual crime, and many other things that go completely opposite of everything this country has tried to be so far to date. And lets not forget the Citizen Corps, where the government sets up tip hotlines for people to call in their neighbors for suspected dangerous activities.
You're right: 'homeland security' in the sense of the ability to protect our nation from threats (internal or external) is important, but at what point does it stop being a free state and start being some quasi fascist state? Mail is mail is mail. It's against the law for them to open a piece of snail-mail sent to someone unless they have good cause to do it (and good cause is not 'hey this guy has a middle eastern last name - lets check up on him'), so why the fuck should email be any different?
Honestly the answer to that one is simple: because they can and no one will know it. Sniffing packets and logging traffic is a lot easier than searching through mail without making it look tampered - that doesn't make it any less a piece of mail that is personal and NOT something they should stick their nose in without some damn good reason.
Anyway, there's my counter rant and not really meant to be a flame aside from the first paragraph.
Sure, and leaving your car unlocked (either accidentally or on purpose) is a potential for having it stolen. Same with your front door, your cell phone left on a table, your wallet loose in your back pocket, etc.
Does that mean a law should be written about how to wear a wallet properly? Or should some public inspector walk around testing all the cars in a parking lot to see if the doors are open and the car can be stolen for a car-bomb threat?
Sorry US Govt: FUCK YOU.
You're right. People should have the common sense not to go walking around in public naked and not expect to get groped or possibly raped (metaphoricly speaking for 802.11 stuff). We've already got problems with 'attractive nuisance' bullshit laws and criminals who sue their victims and/WIN/. This is just another of those same stupid rules.
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Is nobody else seeing the words 'images shown are for demonstrative purposes only'? It's the same as putting two cars side by side and putting a wind-up toy handle on one. Obviously it's not really a toy car (and obviously a 'low end' graphics card will not display a desktop in any washed out way), but it illustrates the point of marketing that one has more power/better quality than the other.
This concept of entitlement just pisses me off. Google should not be REQUIRED to make a product that the blind can use, nobody should! This is equivalent to walking into a regular restaurant (full of common/average consumers) and demanding vegan/gluten-free/insert-super-picky-niche-here menu items. You should NOT have the right to call the cops in and force them to make the food you desire.
What the blind (or anybody who has a need for a product) should do is create a voice for themselves as a demanding consumer for a product that doesn't exist and let the industry trip over itself and fight each other to make the dominant/superior product! Make your time/money/effort/usage the product that companies WANT you to give them rather than cramming it down their throat and complaining when they don't swallow well enough for your satisfaction because you're an Apple/Google/Microsoft/XYZ brand fanboy and they 'don't fulfill your needs'.
Stop demanding that others enable you to do something and figure a way to make it happen yourself. Show off your own Rube Goldberg solution of self empowerment with pride and pretty soon someone will come along with a tool that you inspired them to create to simplify your efforts and improve your life.
I've been saying this exact phrase for years.
There are a few non-standard racks in my facility too, in that case we added notes to describe what is what. Irritating that it marked me as 'anonymous coward'... I'm logged in!
http://flux.org.uk/projects/rackmonkey/
This is what I use to keep track of the racks in my work's facility. It allows you to put in a whole lot more than just simple rack location. It's a wonderful tool.
This is total bull. Just because something can't experience pain doesn't mean that you are not treating it poorly. Talk about the ultimate exploitation. As a caretaker for another species YOU would know it's being mistreated/handled even if IT was not able to perceive it.
This also assumes that pain is the only factor in whether an animal is 'happy/content' or not. Squalid conditions or inhumane treatment are still going to cause stress, discomfort, and overall unpleasant/undesirable results in a creature even if it can't feel something as selective as pain.
Oh wow, that's stable within a handful of degrees of boiling water.
I'm very curious what it may be good for, but that little factoid makes it sound and feel like buzzword useless hype.
Without having established some sort of contract that they can show paragraph and line where Google breached it, they're SOL.
/NOT/ build your business to revolve around someone else's service. That would be like McDonalds suing some city if people started driving by less on their street.
You should
We run RH AS2.1 on most machines right now and hyperthreading is disabled (under any kernel) because of this performance hit, it can grind a heavily active database into a big backlog.
So far it looks like AS3 and a newer kernel resolves the issue - but we don't have a big spread of those servers in the DC just yet so may not be a good sampling of HT enabled instances.
You obviously live a life of perfectly sheltered normalcy.
The part about invading privacy without being told is that they can then ACT on it for whatever reason they deem fit.
Have porn on your computer that is deemed illegal in your area when they happen to do a sweep? *WHACK* In you go.
Been to any websites that the government says are fringe? Wow - you're on their 'watchlist' now.
Live a lifestyle that the government doesn't approve of (bdsm, polyamory, etc)? Get ready to have a living hell for a life.
So while YOU may not have anything to hide, and none of the rest of us have anything we're ashamed of either as we live our lives as consenting adults - the fact of the matter is that if the government doesn't like what they see when they go snooping around without your consent, your life can become a living hell.
So, Do something about it. It is YOUR fucked up phsyco ELECTED officials who are doing this shit. They do it every day, in countries around the world. Then you wonder why people hate you? These are your dogs, reign them in for fuck sake.
The problem here is that it's not that easy. What happens when you 'reign in' all the corrupt, self righteous, moral/thought police, political doublespeaking politicians in this country? Well.. um.. there wouldn't be anyone left in office.
You have to vote for SOMEONE, and we do. The issue is that EVERY someone to get voted for is a fucking sleaze because they have what it takes to get elected in a campaign: Money.
Promise the moon, deliver a salt shaker. I would love to see a new option on the ballot - 'no confidence' and have it negate a positive vote someone received. that would do all sorts of crazy shit with the system. But it still doesn't change that someone needs to actually BE in office to even HAVE an office, and no regular schmoe can get into the game. It's a total snake pit.
So who would YOU vote for - the spitting cobra, black mamba, or ball python?
It's called 'common decency' around here - unfortunately it tends to get awarded to the highest bidder (such as RIAA, tobacco industry, oil companies, etc)
Damn you to hell. :]
The ONLY problem with this game (and considering I'm in the hobby it's obviously not a problem to me) is the investment of time and money. A sizeable army (2500pts) will run you well into a few hundred dollars.
I would suggest start small - check out the battle of macragge set. $45, everything you need to play (rules, dice, templates, etc). Gives you the feel of space marines and tyranids. From there if you like it great - you can get more. if not, you're only out $45.
Also note that everything for the game needs tob e assembled and painted - you can't just play instantly out of the box. (ok, you don't have to paint to play but partial assembling is at least key)
Outside of a rocket sled.. I don't think we have something that can test a 3-30g switch. More than likely I think the designer had the head/tail of the probe backwards in their head when they designed the part.
But yeah - stupid mistake. Very expensive stupid mistake.
That's the problem. It wasn't installed wrong, it was designed wrong. The installation was exactly as it should have been.
My guess is that whoever designed that part had the head and tail of the probe itself backwards in their head.
It's not bullshit. I have a xenium. Unfortunately this article presents it as new when the chip is at almost a year old.
Calling linux an app is also dumb. You need to run a particular bios that can be loaded into the chip's memory (with various configurations and possible loadouts), cromwell I think, and then you can load a linux distribution that has been built for xbox.
I mean come on - what is xbox but a legacy free PC?
http://www.xbox-linux.org/
Who says that because you have an AIM ID that you have to use the aol client?
Trillian accesses the AIM network and and adds more options, to my knowledge. I don't remember seeing 'Secure IM' in AIM's preferences for example.
Things like that. I think the IM market is a bit flooded as it is without having another to compete - even if it was the badass of them all. People like my mom and dad aren't going to switch away from AIM because it's learning something new and is intimidating.
Trillian is the most useful program out there for IM's because you don't need 5 IM clients installed anymore (not even counting IRC) to chat.
The savvy people will use trillian and have connections to everything they have friends on, those that aren't will stay attached to their favorite clients.
Likely because the games were actually FUN back then. Sure they were simple little platformers, but you could go for as long as you had the skill to survive. Not to mention the fact that everything now is almost a dollar or more to play for 2 minutes, thanks to timers and 'checkpoint' play there's just no way to feel satisfied out of the money you put in.
I'd gladly throw $20 or more at an old quarter arcade from the early 90's (and would gladly do so again if they had some today), but today's 'arcades' simply aren't. You have a few hulking machines taking up all the space because shooters need distance from the screen, driving games need chairs and such, and heaven knows what else (silent scope et al that need rediculously large gear).
Where $20 used to go 60-80 games (some games were $.50 *GASP!*), it'll now go maybe 15-20, and anything that's still the same old cabinet type is just a fighting game with no creativity or amusement to it at all. No thanks.
But look at this, it's not like microsoft is outsourcing the xbox to another country. Nobody 'relies' on the xbox. People RELY on big tech companies for database, hardware, and all manner of other things that help THEM run.
What do you expect a company to do, slit it's own throat because it's provider of hardware/support outsources? Not likely. Or what about a hospital that uses X software and such to manage their systems? You'd have people in an uproar because medical costs are already outrageous.
This is not an easy or clearcut boycott situation, and honestly I've got no fucking clue how it would be best to prevent this kind of thing. Exports should be goods, not jobs, in my opinion - but in an age when many if not most high profile companies have international branches, where does the 'hiring in X country' vs 'exporting to X country' get defined?
Juno used to do this too, a friend of mine complained about it all the time. Kinda stupid to do it, considering that on dialup anything over a few megs could take that long to download. Talk about crippling - try using windows update on a dialup with a 4 hr limit. 50mb service pack download? forget it.
If it was just porn that parents were worried about then this would be a pretty simple topic. As it is there are far more things on the internet than just porn to worry about. I also had full internet access in my private room (upstairs of all places, I could hear a mouse coming up those stairs) since I was in my early teens too. And yeah, porn was/is/will-be readily available and is only going to be more attractive.
/not/ be ignorant of my kid(s) actions as much as I possibly can - I refuse to be another parent of the columbine kids where the parents didn't notice bomb making components in their bedrooms.
But as I said - porn is the least of worries to be honest. People seeing and possibly de-tabooing sex? Oh no, not that! It's the other things, the countless and unnameable (because you may not have run across them yet) things that could cause other problems. I for one went out and searched for details on how to build things such as spud guns and other 'harmless' home projects; learned enough about computers to hack(code) and hack(crack) things.
Now apply that about tenfold, 'script kiddies' abound today, the tools readily available - and if they get caught then they can be federally prosecuted as a 'cyber terrorist' these days, I mean come on - wasn't there an article posted just the other day about ddos extortionists.
So sure, lets just all turn a blind eye and as one person said 'leave them the fuck alone'. No thanks. I know exactly what I did with my free reign and while I turned out a decent person it wasn't because I was 'left free to grow into an individual'. I had other rules to follow and structure to fill my life.
I don't claim that any child of mine will be the perfect kid because I know all the tricks and nothing will get past me - that'd be just stupid and arrogant to say. I plan to talk to my kid(s) about sex, drugs, crime, and other things - to keep things supervised but not restricted.
Any kid(s) of mine will not have a computer in their private area until they are 18. It will be in the computer room just like my computer and my wife's computers are. I also plan to have some pretty heavy logging/sniffing going on. I won't intrude unless something horrible is going on (such as predation via the net or criminal activity) but damnit I will
A parent can still be a parent without being a tyrant. And to the person (not whom I'm replying to here) who said they'd call child protection services and work to destroy their parents' lives, you obviously have no fucking clue what the real world is like, your immaturety (whether you're legally an adult or not) is showing through. You want parents to 'get a clue' and leave you alone? Do them a favor and get a clue back.
I've seen a couple mentions of X-COM, which was great. The first game was fantastic, second game was a flop, apocalypse was moderate, and now there's an fps out that I am not even going to try.
But the best game that left it's mark on me was the first AvP. The box came with a label that said 'the game so scary we give you a free pair of underwear!' and they weren't kidding.
Marine campaign, lights out, surround sound, facehugger. NEVER AGAIN. [chuckle]
First of all, the single target of 'liberals' is pretty darn close minded of you. Second, the government really is doing a bunch of horrible things (detainees that haven't been declared POW's anyone?). Third, what do you think "we're going to start regulating" means? If you don't do it their way you will be told to change it or they will shut you down.. that's how regulations work ya know.
/that's/ the reason behind the use of 'terrorist' and other such buzzwords. Who on earth would want to disagree with a bill that would get past if it labels them as someone who's pro-terrorist?
The government is doing it's damndest to whip people into a patriotic fever so that they willingly give up their rights and not appear to be 'taking' them -
Patriot Act allows the government to detain people without legal counsel, without being accused of an actual crime, and many other things that go completely opposite of everything this country has tried to be so far to date. And lets not forget the Citizen Corps, where the government sets up tip hotlines for people to call in their neighbors for suspected dangerous activities.
You're right: 'homeland security' in the sense of the ability to protect our nation from threats (internal or external) is important, but at what point does it stop being a free state and start being some quasi fascist state? Mail is mail is mail. It's against the law for them to open a piece of snail-mail sent to someone unless they have good cause to do it (and good cause is not 'hey this guy has a middle eastern last name - lets check up on him'), so why the fuck should email be any different?
Honestly the answer to that one is simple: because they can and no one will know it. Sniffing packets and logging traffic is a lot easier than searching through mail without making it look tampered - that doesn't make it any less a piece of mail that is personal and NOT something they should stick their nose in without some damn good reason.
Anyway, there's my counter rant and not really meant to be a flame aside from the first paragraph.
Sure, and leaving your car unlocked (either accidentally or on purpose) is a potential for having it stolen. Same with your front door, your cell phone left on a table, your wallet loose in your back pocket, etc.
/WIN/. This is just another of those same stupid rules.
Does that mean a law should be written about how to wear a wallet properly? Or should some public inspector walk around testing all the cars in a parking lot to see if the doors are open and the car can be stolen for a car-bomb threat?
Sorry US Govt: FUCK YOU.
You're right. People should have the common sense not to go walking around in public naked and not expect to get groped or possibly raped (metaphoricly speaking for 802.11 stuff). We've already got problems with 'attractive nuisance' bullshit laws and criminals who sue their victims and