Wrong! If the planes had been empty of fuel the buildings wouldn't have come down. The designer and other structural engineers have said this many times. They came down because the jet fuel fueled fire weakened the steel beams until they couldn't hold the weight of the floors above. Also, why would the rest of the building be designed to disintegrate? That would serve no purpose.
You can also goto the bars after a hard day of drinking... err... gaming! That way you can hide in the dark until that big-bright-ball-in-the-sky-that-hurts-my-eyes goes down.
I have an optical mouse and game with it all the time. I love it because it's so light and less resistent to movement. When you get to the end of the mouse pad with a ball mouse you have to pick it up, move it and set it down. The ball tends to shift when you pick it up and when you sit it down, which usually screws me up. With the optical mouse I have full control at all times. The problem I think most people experience is that not all surfaces are perfect for optical mice. The instructions have some pointers for good surfaces. If you run it over something like a newspaper it can jerk around, for example.
Yes you can get a linux driver for almost all Nvidia cards. In fact it's one driver for all of them, so hardware upgrades don't require a new driver. You can get them from the Nvidia website or they come with some distros anymore (Mandrake for sure).
Your card is still faster than all the new cards except the GeForce3 Ti500 and has all the same features. Also, NVidia always comes out with new products every 6 months so just live with it. If you are going to worry about money then why are you buying the top of the line stuff? It's called the bleeding edge for a reason, if you stay on the edge you'll be bleeding green! (Just like Spock!)
He's made $800,000 - $1,000,000 from these sites, which the FTC would like to take away. It does not say he's been fined for that much. Also, he lost 53 of the cases not 57, it doesn't say if he was fined beyond losing the domain names. Check your facts!
I think the optimal setup that you want would be to dual boot. Linux for surfing/email/whatever and whatever copy of windows you have around for gaming. I'm currently setting my PC up this way, linux gaming isn't mature enough yet for my tastes so Windows still has a (now much smaller) home on my hard drive. As for a distro I recomend linux-Mandrake, the install is awesome expecially for people new to linux. Any linux distro will have partitioning tools and run them at install so you can set the partitions. Then use lilo, which you should get an option to install during your distro's setup, to select which OS you want to use at boot.
The patches have been out since Code Red II for sure. I patched my machine at work shortly after it hit, even though no one was infected in the company. When Nimba hit I was the only one on the web team that wasn't infected.
I recently installed a linux distro on a new hard drive. Imagine my surprise when I open up a config file in vi and (gasp) it was in color! The horror! I quickly turned off the monitor and haven't touched that computer since. Someday perhaps I will gather the courage to turn the monitor on again, but not anytime soon!
If you get a CD that fails to play for you, you can still use it as a throwing weapon. I've been burned by one before, someone threw it at me and hit my hand. The spinning of the disk caused enough friction with my skin in the split second it took for it to fall down that it burnt me.
People who travel a lot by car for work/pleasure might like this. Some possible people who would like it: rural mail carriers/delivery people that use their own car, sales people who move all around the states, all those retired people with their RV's, semi-truck drivers etc. etc. So for you it might not be worth the money but others would probably love it.
In my senior year at college one of my roomates kept complaining about his computer (an HP). After about 7 months I looked at it when it started making unusual noises, it was something loose and easily fixed. While I was in there I checked the rest of the box over. Imagine my surprise when I see that the DIP switches were set in such a way to underclock his RAM as well as his CPU (by about 100MHz!) What a great job they seem to be doing!
I've noticed with Dells that they seem to go with cases that require a specific motherboard. The ones at work have a daughterboard for the expansion cards. My guess is it's to encourage buying a new PC when you want a CPU/MB upgrade. Not exactly something with the customer's best interests in mind.
"They may have difficulty blaming themselves when they get laid off, so they direct their anguish at the company."
Right, so when I got laid off for doing my job and doing it well it was really my fault? You know since the website worked well and did everything asked and more the whole IT department had to go! I'm not bitter about being laid off, the company was more than fair, giving us our computer and a months pay if we stayed the three months till the meger finished. What bothers me is according to this article's "expert" I should be blaming myself for being laid off in the first place.
I never claimed it is impossible to rewrite everything. There are at least three common situations in which your view on redoing the application fails
1. The most common would be an application writen and then barely maintained or maintained by someone who knows just enough to keep it working. This would be the case with a lot of web applications in none IT centered companys. Most companys aren't willing to rebuild an application that none of the programmers know much about and isn't broken, even if it may be annoying to maintain the server. Remember server people and progammers are often in different departments, so it becomes "their" problem. 2. IT companys that sell their ActiveX/ASP product basically can't do what you did. My company, for example, could not do a rewrite without a code freeze because you can't expect the customer to install a hybrid system, it goes beyond what the customers expect to have to do to install our product. A rewrite isn't feasible because in that time the industry would have passed us by as we rewrite 3 years of code. 3. For a large application you would need multiple people with the proper skill set to convert a large application in the way you propose. Finding and paying these people for would be expensive. What you did cost the company money because the time you spent rewriting little chunks at a time was time you could have been doing new production. Your company still paid the cost of a rewrite you just spoon fed it to management a little at a time. That doesn't work as well for a large development team.
I don't see a problem with your solution but just because it's possible doesn't mean it's in the best interest of a lot of companys. Unless the TCO of IIS is costing them more than the solution they are going to keep what they have. My argument is one of economics and managment behavior, not programming ability.
ActiveX isn't just for running things in a browser. It's common to have ActiveX components generating the page dynamically on the server. Also many large windows applications use ActiveX.
This is great but many companys can't switch easily because they have web apps based on ASP/ActiveX. Unless it's something small they are stuck since rewriting it isn't probably an option.
This is mostly for the paranoid, which is why/. is a good place for it:)
I like cash because you can keep your privacy a little easier with it. I use my check card for almost everything but every time in the back of my mind I know that information on my spending and even my physical location are being recorded. For example, if someone got ahold of my monthly bank/credit card statement they would be able to roughly know where I've been going and what I've been doing. My strategy now is to get cash at the same couple of ATMs on a regular basis and use it as much as possible. I trust my credit union, but only as far as I can throw the teller.
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I don't know if this is true for all manufacturers but Microsoft will be losing money on every XBox sold. The plan is to make the money with game sales. So if MS can't get a decent set of killer games like the other two do then they indeed may be the man out. But with pockets like MS's they might be able to cope, hard to tell.
They're pre-compiled, like debs, but the pkg_add software is terrible! In order to update a package you have to first remove the package then add it again! And if the package has dependancies you have to remove all the dependancies and re-install them all again!
The whole point of OpenBSD is that is security oriented. Its this way so you know exactly what's changing on the machine. A dependency that is automatically changed might induce security holes, for example. By doing it this way you can investigate and verify that the software is secure before putting it on the system. So what you want is fine on normal linux boxes but for something you are counting on being secure it isn't so hot.
Plus you can't just do a "pkg_add foo," you have to do a "pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org{blabalbla}/foo-3.17-2.pkg," which means you not only have to know where to get the file, you also have to know the version number and all other information in the filename in advance!
The solution is trivial, ftp the package to your drive, then type pkg_add foo{tab}. All done!
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Wrong! If the planes had been empty of fuel the buildings wouldn't have come down. The designer and other structural engineers have said this many times. They came down because the jet fuel fueled fire weakened the steel beams until they couldn't hold the weight of the floors above. Also, why would the rest of the building be designed to disintegrate? That would serve no purpose.
You can also goto the bars after a hard day of drinking... err... gaming! That way you can hide in the dark until that big-bright-ball-in-the-sky-that-hurts-my-eyes goes down.
I have an optical mouse and game with it all the time. I love it because it's so light and less resistent to movement. When you get to the end of the mouse pad with a ball mouse you have to pick it up, move it and set it down. The ball tends to shift when you pick it up and when you sit it down, which usually screws me up. With the optical mouse I have full control at all times. The problem I think most people experience is that not all surfaces are perfect for optical mice. The instructions have some pointers for good surfaces. If you run it over something like a newspaper it can jerk around, for example.
Apple has been one to go against the grain. Actually making the product out of what it is advertised with, what nerve!
Yes you can get a linux driver for almost all Nvidia cards. In fact it's one driver for all of them, so hardware upgrades don't require a new driver. You can get them from the Nvidia website or they come with some distros anymore (Mandrake for sure).
Your card is still faster than all the new cards except the GeForce3 Ti500 and has all the same features. Also, NVidia always comes out with new products every 6 months so just live with it. If you are going to worry about money then why are you buying the top of the line stuff? It's called the bleeding edge for a reason, if you stay on the edge you'll be bleeding green! (Just like Spock!)
He's made $800,000 - $1,000,000 from these sites, which the FTC would like to take away. It does not say he's been fined for that much. Also, he lost 53 of the cases not 57, it doesn't say if he was fined beyond losing the domain names. Check your facts!
True, but in this instance this person already has windows, the price has been paid already so might as well make the most of it.
I think the optimal setup that you want would be to dual boot. Linux for surfing/email/whatever and whatever copy of windows you have around for gaming. I'm currently setting my PC up this way, linux gaming isn't mature enough yet for my tastes so Windows still has a (now much smaller) home on my hard drive. As for a distro I recomend linux-Mandrake, the install is awesome expecially for people new to linux. Any linux distro will have partitioning tools and run them at install so you can set the partitions. Then use lilo, which you should get an option to install during your distro's setup, to select which OS you want to use at boot.
The patches have been out since Code Red II for sure. I patched my machine at work shortly after it hit, even though no one was infected in the company. When Nimba hit I was the only one on the web team that wasn't infected.
If the /. effect takes hold maybe they don't deserve to stick around! :)
I recently installed a linux distro on a new hard drive. Imagine my surprise when I open up a config file in vi and (gasp) it was in color! The horror! I quickly turned off the monitor and haven't touched that computer since. Someday perhaps I will gather the courage to turn the monitor on again, but not anytime soon!
Color text files! [[[shudder]]]
So that explains why I feel so dirty after buying software!
If you get a CD that fails to play for you, you can still use it as a throwing weapon. I've been burned by one before, someone threw it at me and hit my hand. The spinning of the disk caused enough friction with my skin in the split second it took for it to fall down that it burnt me.
It hurt for several days.
They tried but he wouldn't fit in the captin's chair, and there wasn't room on the set for a "captin's loveseat"
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People who travel a lot by car for work/pleasure might like this. Some possible people who would like it: rural mail carriers/delivery people that use their own car, sales people who move all around the states, all those retired people with their RV's, semi-truck drivers etc. etc. So for you it might not be worth the money but others would probably love it.
In my senior year at college one of my roomates kept complaining about his computer (an HP). After about 7 months I looked at it when it started making unusual noises, it was something loose and easily fixed. While I was in there I checked the rest of the box over. Imagine my surprise when I see that the DIP switches were set in such a way to underclock his RAM as well as his CPU (by about 100MHz!) What a great job they seem to be doing!
I've noticed with Dells that they seem to go with cases that require a specific motherboard. The ones at work have a daughterboard for the expansion cards. My guess is it's to encourage buying a new PC when you want a CPU/MB upgrade. Not exactly something with the customer's best interests in mind.
"They may have difficulty blaming themselves when they get laid off, so they direct their anguish at the company."
Right, so when I got laid off for doing my job and doing it well it was really my fault? You know since the website worked well and did everything asked and more the whole IT department had to go! I'm not bitter about being laid off, the company was more than fair, giving us our computer and a months pay if we stayed the three months till the meger finished. What bothers me is according to this article's "expert" I should be blaming myself for being laid off in the first place.
I never claimed it is impossible to rewrite everything. There are at least three common situations in which your view on redoing the application fails
1. The most common would be an application writen and then barely maintained or maintained by someone who knows just enough to keep it working. This would be the case with a lot of web applications in none IT centered companys. Most companys aren't willing to rebuild an application that none of the programmers know much about and isn't broken, even if it may be annoying to maintain the server. Remember server people and progammers are often in different departments, so it becomes "their" problem.
2. IT companys that sell their ActiveX/ASP product basically can't do what you did. My company, for example, could not do a rewrite without a code freeze because you can't expect the customer to install a hybrid system, it goes beyond what the customers expect to have to do to install our product. A rewrite isn't feasible because in that time the industry would have passed us by as we rewrite 3 years of code.
3. For a large application you would need multiple people with the proper skill set to convert a large application in the way you propose. Finding and paying these people for would be expensive. What you did cost the company money because the time you spent rewriting little chunks at a time was time you could have been doing new production. Your company still paid the cost of a rewrite you just spoon fed it to management a little at a time. That doesn't work as well for a large development team.
I don't see a problem with your solution but just because it's possible doesn't mean it's in the best interest of a lot of companys. Unless the TCO of IIS is costing them more than the solution they are going to keep what they have. My argument is one of economics and managment behavior, not programming ability.
ActiveX isn't just for running things in a browser. It's common to have ActiveX components generating the page dynamically on the server. Also many large windows applications use ActiveX.
This is great but many companys can't switch easily because they have web apps based on ASP/ActiveX. Unless it's something small they are stuck since rewriting it isn't probably an option.
This is mostly for the paranoid, which is why /. is a good place for it :)
I like cash because you can keep your privacy a little easier with it. I use my check card for almost everything but every time in the back of my mind I know that information on my spending and even my physical location are being recorded. For example, if someone got ahold of my monthly bank/credit card statement they would be able to roughly know where I've been going and what I've been doing. My strategy now is to get cash at the same couple of ATMs on a regular basis and use it as much as possible. I trust my credit union, but only as far as I can throw the teller.
I don't know if this is true for all manufacturers but Microsoft will be losing money on every XBox sold. The plan is to make the money with game sales. So if MS can't get a decent set of killer games like the other two do then they indeed may be the man out. But with pockets like MS's they might be able to cope, hard to tell.
The whole point of OpenBSD is that is security oriented. Its this way so you know exactly what's changing on the machine. A dependency that is automatically changed might induce security holes, for example. By doing it this way you can investigate and verify that the software is secure before putting it on the system. So what you want is fine on normal linux boxes but for something you are counting on being secure it isn't so hot.
The solution is trivial, ftp the package to your drive, then type pkg_add foo{tab}. All done!