And what you say about maintaining order and control in a school environment may be true, but it would take only a few word substitutions to make that paragraph read like an Orwellian nightmare.
Bad argument there. Not all control is "Orwellian", and unless you can produce evidence of said principle using truncheons or rat cages to maintain student discipline, it's not even a close comparison.
Wouldn't want to try and play any decent FPS on that puppy... the lag has GOT to be horrible.
Speaking of which, how DO they manage "realtime" data on that w/o the lag? It wouldn't exactly be true realtime if ~250ms delay keeps chucking in there. While that may be no biggie now, I can see where that would/could be a factor as real battlefields become just as data-dependant as the game ones. (cue lots of "haha, you got pwned by the Chinese!" jokes here, but seriously... I wonder how they're going to eventually get around that; the physics would be gnarly at best...)
Also, why are they testing cedega with a game that has a linux port. That just seems silly.
I dunno - I kind of like the idea: It would make a good selling point to developers who are thinking of doing a Linux port of their product. I can very easily imagine a developer saying "oh, why bother? it runs good enough in Cedega/WINE/etc". This way you have numbers to show up-front that porting may or may not be worth the trouble.
Ferinstance, I can use Cedega or Crossover (both worked at one time) to run 3D/CG hobbyist apps in Linux (DAZ|Studio, Poser)... If I can show the producer how much faster, say, a frame render would complete natively vs. under emulation (games performance make a damned good comparator in many aspects), it's one less argument to have to chew on so much.
Fair enough - but legally, it is still within his rights to do it, and said 'little pricks' are about to find that out the hard way. Otherwise, what's all the shouting about? The kids committed what may well have been libel, and they (as well as their parents) are about to find out what happens when you do that. Thin-skinned petty authority figures have existed in unfortunate large numbers ever since the dawn of Civilization. It's pretty much a constant in some quarters. You, me, and most other sane individuals have learned to be cautious around them, then happily ignore them when they are no longer relevant.
One thing, though. As someone who has previously done the teaching thing professionally, I can say at least this: Sometimes you have to come down hard on miscreants if you hope to maintain any semblance of authority over those students who are within your purview. It sucks, but it's still there. Teachers and administrators have many means at their disposal - some more effective than others. In the face of increasing boundaries and limitations, some educators figure that maybe the legal route is one of the few means left. This does not supercede being fair and being courteous; just that it lets any other potential screwballs know up-front that if they try, the results will hurt. For this kid and his parents who are in the docket for libel, I'm willing to bet that the rest of the kids in his school (and more importantly, their parents) are paying very close attention, and won't be in any mood to duplicate the prank. Of course, there could be a backlash of sorts, but I doubt the parents (who are rather enamoured of maintaining sole ownership of their house, car, stock portfolios, etc) will be even close to eager to let their kid be the first to try it.
Fair enough on the "blatant" label (opinions differ, etc), but the circumstances were a bit different here than what you portray - the kids didn't say "my principal so-and-so is a pedo", they pretended to be said principal and proceeded to have "him" claim that he was paedophilic, an illicit drug user, someone who beats his wife, etc...
Considering the career field, even the slightest whiff of impropriety (esp. when it comes to such subjects as paedophilia or drug use) will be enough to bomb you on a job interview, whether it's true or not. 'Absurdity' and the level thereof on the Internet also differs vastly between a geek and an ordinary person.
IMHO he went overboard, yes... I would've simply suspended the kid and forced him (and his parents) to publicly apologize in front of a suitable audience - the entire school would do. OTOH, it is still well within his rights to sue over it, and let a jury decide whether it rises to the level of a legitimate and recompensable tort.
(cue Monster Truck Rally announcer guy voice...) THIS SATURDAY AT THE EXPO CENTER! The Best admins and the worst spammers come together in a throwdown-showdown-lowdown Greased Spammer Contest! We kidnap, strip, and grease down every known spammer we can find on Planet Earth! We bring 'em here, then we give our lucky mail server admins (as determined by lottery) a chance to catch 'em! The spammers will be released into a large pit, where the admins may use any method to catch and immobilize spammers (firearms and other projectile weapons are excluded). Points will be given for the number of spammers caught, the methods of capture, and the level of eye-rattling violence applied to each spammer after their capture! Watch as the winning admin gets to publicly execute the dreaded Sanford Wallace by any method that he or she can dream up! Any method at all! You'll buy a ticket for the whole seat, but you will only need the edge! Get your tickets at the Mondotix - DON'T MISS IT!(/voice)
...or just the filter software/daemon performance/stats alone? There's lots you can do to the MTA itself to stop spam before it even has to be examined by the filters (mostly by monkeying w/ the SMTP session handling and timeouts).
It's be interesting to see a solid setup that handles a combination of the two, then publish the results (yes, spammers can read those results/settings to try to foil the setup, but many settings would make it patently unprofitable for them to do so).
If it comes from anybody that does DRM, I sure as hell wouldn't want to put it on (I'd imagine it to be something with spikes pointing inwards, somewhere around the rectal area...)
As a former Utahn, and a non-mormon, I can back your statement up. I sincerely doubt the AC you replied to know WTF he is even thinking of talking about.
If the AC was instead trying to paint it as "gentiles" (the LDS term) being given inadequate medical care due to the predominant religion of the doctors and staff, he's still full of shit. I've had zero problems with obtaining solid, professional health care at any IHC facility (Intermountain Health Care is the non-profit institute which owns LDS Hospital among many others), or any other medical establishment that I cared to go to while living in Salt Lake City. Also, my s/o had to have surgery done at Huntsman Cancer Center last year due to suspicion of a lymph node tumor (turned out to be benign). She's about as Mormon as I am (roughly about as Mormon as The Pope would be), and we experienced nothing but the highest standards in care and in staff/patient relations.
I got plenty of valid complaints about LDS domination in Utah (e.g. practically tearing apart downtown SLC and nearby Sugarhouse for *cough*money-grab*cough*- development projects), but medical care and professionalism is certainly not one of those complaints.
...and let us not forget Sex Wax, the best damned surfboard stuff on the planet... (protects the board a bit, slicks it up against water, helps the feet stick... good stuff all around).
Meh - Comcast offers it; though prolly not as sweet of a deal as Vonage.
I'm actually disgruntled at Verizon enough to actively avoid them at this point. It's a pity that most of Vonage's customer base has no clue as to what all just happened...
Verizon will get one less if I have anything to say about it (I am a Vonage customer ATM. I may not particularly like Comcast, but considering the rotten time I had last year dealing with linking to Verizon's non-RFC-compliant SMTP servers, and now this? I'll take Comcast's VoIP over Verizon's any frigging day of the week, and I'll do it with a smile).
"I don't "upgrade" until I have to or there is sufficient benefit to be
gained."
Heh - that's why I have more than one machine @ the desk... one to 'test and familiarize' on, and one (Linux-based) upon which all the actual work gets done.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20070209 Fedora/1.5.0.9-3.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.9 (yeah, yeah - haven't fiddled with an upgrade yet... sue me).
Now - forget the dazzling array of hardware and software to check against. This.ani thingy is a UI issue that should --at worst-- munge the way an app's mouse cursor animation looks, but not munge the app itself, or even think of touching OS stability.
C'mon... we're not talking about patching the TCP/IP stack, or patching against ntldr here... it's a mouse cursor. How piss-poor does an OS design have to be in order to have a tiny subset of a tiny subset the UI... break stuff!?
Even w/ the G5 series, I was able to spec' out and buy my own RAM (2GB of PC 3200) for a lot less than Apple charges per GB of their 'blessed' stuff. 2-1/2 years later, everything is chugging along just fine (I'm typing this missive on the very same machine). I'm not sure if the vidcard's BIOS has changed since the Intel switch, but I suspect that someone has already figured out if one can simply get a std. PC vidcard or not and simply go with that (you could in the G5's, but it required a BIOS flash first).
While most Mac folks would think it anathema to do it, I've always had no probs with getting a Mac w/ only the CPU strength I want, then buffing out the hardware specs everywhere else once I got it home - saves tons of cash that way.
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And what you say about maintaining order and control in a school environment may be true, but it would take only a few word substitutions to make that paragraph read like an Orwellian nightmare.Bad argument there. Not all control is "Orwellian", and unless you can produce evidence of said principle using truncheons or rat cages to maintain student discipline, it's not even a close comparison.
Speaking of which, how DO they manage "realtime" data on that w/o the lag? It wouldn't exactly be true realtime if ~250ms delay keeps chucking in there. While that may be no biggie now, I can see where that would/could be a factor as real battlefields become just as data-dependant as the game ones. (cue lots of "haha, you got pwned by the Chinese!" jokes here, but seriously... I wonder how they're going to eventually get around that; the physics would be gnarly at best...)
I dunno - I kind of like the idea: It would make a good selling point to developers who are thinking of doing a Linux port of their product. I can very easily imagine a developer saying "oh, why bother? it runs good enough in Cedega/WINE/etc". This way you have numbers to show up-front that porting may or may not be worth the trouble.
Ferinstance, I can use Cedega or Crossover (both worked at one time) to run 3D/CG hobbyist apps in Linux (DAZ|Studio, Poser)... If I can show the producer how much faster, say, a frame render would complete natively vs. under emulation (games performance make a damned good comparator in many aspects), it's one less argument to have to chew on so much.
One thing, though. As someone who has previously done the teaching thing professionally, I can say at least this: Sometimes you have to come down hard on miscreants if you hope to maintain any semblance of authority over those students who are within your purview. It sucks, but it's still there. Teachers and administrators have many means at their disposal - some more effective than others. In the face of increasing boundaries and limitations, some educators figure that maybe the legal route is one of the few means left. This does not supercede being fair and being courteous; just that it lets any other potential screwballs know up-front that if they try, the results will hurt. For this kid and his parents who are in the docket for libel, I'm willing to bet that the rest of the kids in his school (and more importantly, their parents) are paying very close attention, and won't be in any mood to duplicate the prank. Of course, there could be a backlash of sorts, but I doubt the parents (who are rather enamoured of maintaining sole ownership of their house, car, stock portfolios, etc) will be even close to eager to let their kid be the first to try it.
Considering the career field, even the slightest whiff of impropriety (esp. when it comes to such subjects as paedophilia or drug use) will be enough to bomb you on a job interview, whether it's true or not. 'Absurdity' and the level thereof on the Internet also differs vastly between a geek and an ordinary person.
IMHO he went overboard, yes... I would've simply suspended the kid and forced him (and his parents) to publicly apologize in front of a suitable audience - the entire school would do. OTOH, it is still well within his rights to sue over it, and let a jury decide whether it rises to the level of a legitimate and recompensable tort.
PS: Why the AC post?
...an attempt to punish students who had done something within their rights that he didn't like.Blatant libel is a right?
It's be interesting to see a solid setup that handles a combination of the two, then publish the results (yes, spammers can read those results/settings to try to foil the setup, but many settings would make it patently unprofitable for them to do so).
The same could apply to the kids now facing the legal consequences of their actions, no?
If the AC was instead trying to paint it as "gentiles" (the LDS term) being given inadequate medical care due to the predominant religion of the doctors and staff, he's still full of shit. I've had zero problems with obtaining solid, professional health care at any IHC facility (Intermountain Health Care is the non-profit institute which owns LDS Hospital among many others), or any other medical establishment that I cared to go to while living in Salt Lake City. Also, my s/o had to have surgery done at Huntsman Cancer Center last year due to suspicion of a lymph node tumor (turned out to be benign). She's about as Mormon as I am (roughly about as Mormon as The Pope would be), and we experienced nothing but the highest standards in care and in staff/patient relations.
I got plenty of valid complaints about LDS domination in Utah (e.g. practically tearing apart downtown SLC and nearby Sugarhouse for *cough*money-grab*cough*- development projects), but medical care and professionalism is certainly not one of those complaints.
I'm actually disgruntled at Verizon enough to actively avoid them at this point. It's a pity that most of Vonage's customer base has no clue as to what all just happened...
Be honest now... would you?
(stop staring at me like that).
Is that anything like NetBEUI?
(as /me ducks and runzlakhell from the gathering mob of angry CNA/CNE's...)
Heh - that's why I have more than one machine @ the desk... one to 'test and familiarize' on, and one (Linux-based) upon which all the actual work gets done.
Now - forget the dazzling array of hardware and software to check against. This .ani thingy is a UI issue that should --at worst-- munge the way an app's mouse cursor animation looks, but not munge the app itself, or even think of touching OS stability.
C'mon... we're not talking about patching the TCP/IP stack, or patching against ntldr here... it's a mouse cursor. How piss-poor does an OS design have to be in order to have a tiny subset of a tiny subset the UI... break stuff!?
While most Mac folks would think it anathema to do it, I've always had no probs with getting a Mac w/ only the CPU strength I want, then buffing out the hardware specs everywhere else once I got it home - saves tons of cash that way.