Obviously someone put a lot of thought into this moronic bill. Although I'm totally missing the 'but our kids want to listen to new music' (Ignore the fact that 90% of the so called new music is just a remix/rehash of old ones, but hey)
An idea would possibly be to put in a second branch of Congress which only allows people that have a technical background. They can then create the laws that they think are required for the regularion of technology, instead of the current flock of congresscritters that think floppies are shoes.
The boot.ini for Eve itself contains information about whether you have the "Classic" version or not. The patch that was released for the Classic version did not contain this problem.
The patch released for the "Premium" version does contain this installer error. The change made to the boot.ini is the line that contains this definition, and is changed from Classic to Premium.
It's a very logical problem, easy to fix if you know it, but also incredibly stupid...
Running a program from flash is purely read cycles, so this should not be a problem or even an issue.
You can use flash as common memory which has an acceptable read speed for the low-speed CPUs that are generally in phones. I personally thought this was brilliant. (Remember that your old BIOS tended to run directly from an EPROM/EEPROM)
This works perfectly, with just one small problem...
All burn software I've used so far (Sonic, Nero, Isoburn) will NOT recognize a multi session DVD as having data on it if you've disabled autorun in this manner.
It cost me a lot of headaches to finally find out what was going on, since the DVDs were all reported as 'unformatted, empty' (depending on whether it was a R or RW), but not actually writable (however it was formattable if it was an RW)
So there's some underlying logic there which probably disables the preread necessary for multisession discs (I'm assuming this would work the same for CDs, although I haven't tried that)
This is my personal experience and my inquest into why this happened, so YMMV. Win XP Home SP 2.
Following your idea of administrating machines, you invalidate all currently running clusters.
Remember that in a production environment, it's often a *lot* more important to get something back up and running than it is to find out what went wrong *before* you restart it. With good monitoring (that's where you're absolutely right), you should be able to analyze afterwards what has gone wrong, then copy everything to a QA or D/T environment, and try to recreate the same circumstances to make it fail again.
At no point in time should the human factor be a limit to whether a production environment is up or not (arguably, most of the time this is not the case, but as a good admin you'll try to minimize this as much as possible)
Most annoying thing I've ever found in pinball machines were a couple that actually overflowed back to zero on the display and did the same damn thing internally!
So for a few of those it was the trick to get as close to 999,999,999 (or whichever equivalent thereof) without actually going over. For some of those machines it was fairly easy (just tilt the sucker), but others were amazingly tilt proof, and god it sucked when the ball would hit just that one bumper on the way down.
The main problem I have with nationalism is that generally the definition of who is a 'national' is either arbitrary, or politically motivated.
A lot of things that happenes in the second world war would not have happened, or would have had less impact if it wasn't for the nationalism involved.
As an example you might want to think about how the US put all their Japanese citizens in internment camps, because they might be the enemy, and were definitely not 'nationals'.
Or as more recent examples, the black/white segregation that still exists in large parts of the world, or the whole idea of islam. An Islamist can never be a US 'national' in the eyes of a lot of people.
And once you start down that road, I think it takes little imagination where it'll end. Most of the time this whole segregation happens over quite a long time period, and without people even realizing it's happening, so things that would've been considered barbaric 20 years ago suddenly seem quite normal. And that's what I think is the scary thing about it..
Uhm... Not to be a total bitch. But is there any actual reason why we would *not* want to totally forget about Keanu 'Rigor Mortis Is Acting, Really!' Reeves?
I mean, in my admittedly not so humble opinion, he's about the most overrated semi-actor I know. His only good 'performance' was as Johnny Mnemonic, and that pretty much only because he had to play himself.
You'd actually break 2 of their not-to-be-used rules with that one. One for the fact you're playing a 'streaming' (client-server model) game, and the other for usage of a P2P program (WoW updates through P2P).
The 5GB limit would also severely impact me doing any work for the company through that sort of link, since a backup of a database for installation on a test machine would already get to over 15G. So I wouldn't even be able to do that once.
World of Warcraft uses a full bittorrent implementation for the delivery of their patches and content updates. So technically, you running World of Warcraft on a Comcast connection forces you to violate their ToS, or you just can't get the patch automatically.
Now. I can see where Comcast comes in with the 'no servers' allowed, but that would also mean that any (very) badly installed windows installation that keeps advertising its NetBios shares would get you into serious problems (assuming your firewall/nat/etc is 'accidentilly' off)
It seems to be that their ToS is needlessly constricting, but then again, I'm quite used to that from ISPs and related companies by now.
It's good to read that I'm not the only one that thought that was a fantastic game, despite all the bugs and crashes. I actually still play it from time to time:) Trying to find my adamantite places and enough extra spellbooks for crusade was always fun:)
And I'd love to see a sequel with less bugs and some graphics improvements but the same sort of total configurability. Multiplayer by default would also be good. The fact it's turn based for the most part is brilliant.
Since the perfect game for this would most definitely have been the 'I, Spy' series obviously.
The idea has merit, though, since you're bound to attract a younger audience with an aggressive streak who loves blowing up enemies and.... uhm.... Maybe not.
Unfortunately I see more and more software companies using beta testers where they should've implemented quality control from the start. In a properly designed program, you can pretty much point at any sort of calculation or procedure that might cause off-by-one errors and such.
Having more people at least look over the code for these kind of discrepancies saves a lot of headaches later on.
I have an innovative optimization for the slow running windows system. It's a random mixture of the letters cmfroat. I also have a very innovative bit of beach in northern texas. And of course my innovative system of election by sniper rifle is always a good one!
These types of lasers aren't exactly useful for communication in any way shape or form. This due to the fact the last doesn't actually survive the process. After this thing fires, you'll have one beam of laser heading off in whatever direction you pointed it, and one rapidly expanding cloud of ex-lasergenerator.
So no, not very useful in a practical sense at all, although it might solve a lot of war related issues if this were to be made into a handheld weapon;)
This time, we can take comfort in knowing that someone at NASA is paying attention to the difference between feet and meters.
Yeah. They're now using 6 wheels instead of feet. Those seem to work quite well, too, unless of course one sort of starts wobbling and ceases to function (used to happen to my lego cars all the time for some reason...)
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Obviously someone put a lot of thought into this moronic bill. Although I'm totally missing the 'but our kids want to listen to new music' (Ignore the fact that 90% of the so called new music is just a remix/rehash of old ones, but hey)
An idea would possibly be to put in a second branch of Congress which only allows people that have a technical background. They can then create the laws that they think are required for the regularion of technology, instead of the current flock of congresscritters that think floppies are shoes.
The boot.ini for Eve itself contains information about whether you have the "Classic" version or not. The patch that was released for the Classic version did not contain this problem.
The patch released for the "Premium" version does contain this installer error. The change made to the boot.ini is the line that contains this definition, and is changed from Classic to Premium.
It's a very logical problem, easy to fix if you know it, but also incredibly stupid...
The older company here would actually be Activision... So I'm not sure what your rant is about.
The Ghost of Infocom has been eaten by a Grue.
Running a program from flash is purely read cycles, so this should not be a problem or even an issue.
You can use flash as common memory which has an acceptable read speed for the low-speed CPUs that are generally in phones. I personally thought this was brilliant. (Remember that your old BIOS tended to run directly from an EPROM/EEPROM)
This works perfectly, with just one small problem...
All burn software I've used so far (Sonic, Nero, Isoburn) will NOT recognize a multi session DVD as having data on it if you've disabled autorun in this manner.
It cost me a lot of headaches to finally find out what was going on, since the DVDs were all reported as 'unformatted, empty' (depending on whether it was a R or RW), but not actually writable (however it was formattable if it was an RW)
So there's some underlying logic there which probably disables the preread necessary for multisession discs (I'm assuming this would work the same for CDs, although I haven't tried that)
This is my personal experience and my inquest into why this happened, so YMMV. Win XP Home SP 2.
Or maybe just Leotard? It looks nice, but you really want it gone?
Following your idea of administrating machines, you invalidate all currently running clusters.
Remember that in a production environment, it's often a *lot* more important to get something back up and running than it is to find out what went wrong *before* you restart it. With good monitoring (that's where you're absolutely right), you should be able to analyze afterwards what has gone wrong, then copy everything to a QA or D/T environment, and try to recreate the same circumstances to make it fail again.
At no point in time should the human factor be a limit to whether a production environment is up or not (arguably, most of the time this is not the case, but as a good admin you'll try to minimize this as much as possible)
The Invader Zim one :)
"Give me tacos! Or I will explode.. That happens to me sometimes.."
Roomba... Wrong appliance... Carpet...
Uhm. We're seriously going the wrong way here in this thread.
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Most annoying thing I've ever found in pinball machines were a couple that actually overflowed back to zero on the display and did the same damn thing internally!
So for a few of those it was the trick to get as close to 999,999,999 (or whichever equivalent thereof) without actually going over. For some of those machines it was fairly easy (just tilt the sucker), but others were amazingly tilt proof, and god it sucked when the ball would hit just that one bumper on the way down.
It's the difference between killing someone that's trying to kill you, or killing someone because you selected him to be the one getting shot.
Note the quotes around 'performance' ;)
The main problem I have with nationalism is that generally the definition of who is a 'national' is either arbitrary, or politically motivated.
A lot of things that happenes in the second world war would not have happened, or would have had less impact if it wasn't for the nationalism involved.
As an example you might want to think about how the US put all their Japanese citizens in internment camps, because they might be the enemy, and were definitely not 'nationals'.
Or as more recent examples, the black/white segregation that still exists in large parts of the world, or the whole idea of islam. An Islamist can never be a US 'national' in the eyes of a lot of people.
And once you start down that road, I think it takes little imagination where it'll end. Most of the time this whole segregation happens over quite a long time period, and without people even realizing it's happening, so things that would've been considered barbaric 20 years ago suddenly seem quite normal. And that's what I think is the scary thing about it..
Uhm... Not to be a total bitch. But is there any actual reason why we would *not* want to totally forget about Keanu 'Rigor Mortis Is Acting, Really!' Reeves?
I mean, in my admittedly not so humble opinion, he's about the most overrated semi-actor I know. His only good 'performance' was as Johnny Mnemonic, and that pretty much only because he had to play himself.
You'd actually break 2 of their not-to-be-used rules with that one. One for the fact you're playing a 'streaming' (client-server model) game, and the other for usage of a P2P program (WoW updates through P2P).
The 5GB limit would also severely impact me doing any work for the company through that sort of link, since a backup of a database for installation on a test machine would already get to over 15G. So I wouldn't even be able to do that once.
World of Warcraft uses a full bittorrent implementation for the delivery of their patches and content updates. So technically, you running World of Warcraft on a Comcast connection forces you to violate their ToS, or you just can't get the patch automatically.
Now. I can see where Comcast comes in with the 'no servers' allowed, but that would also mean that any (very) badly installed windows installation that keeps advertising its NetBios shares would get you into serious problems (assuming your firewall/nat/etc is 'accidentilly' off)
It seems to be that their ToS is needlessly constricting, but then again, I'm quite used to that from ISPs and related companies by now.
It's good to read that I'm not the only one that thought that was a fantastic game, despite all the bugs and crashes. I actually still play it from time to time :) Trying to find my adamantite places and enough extra spellbooks for crusade was always fun :)
And I'd love to see a sequel with less bugs and some graphics improvements but the same sort of total configurability. Multiplayer by default would also be good. The fact it's turn based for the most part is brilliant.
Since the perfect game for this would most definitely have been the 'I, Spy' series obviously.
The idea has merit, though, since you're bound to attract a younger audience with an aggressive streak who loves blowing up enemies and.... uhm.... Maybe not.
Have they really thought this through?
Unfortunately I see more and more software companies using beta testers where they should've implemented quality control from the start. In a properly designed program, you can pretty much point at any sort of calculation or procedure that might cause off-by-one errors and such.
Having more people at least look over the code for these kind of discrepancies saves a lot of headaches later on.
Uhm... Yeah... Right... Innovative indeed...
I have an innovative optimization for the slow running windows system. It's a random mixture of the letters cmfroat.
I also have a very innovative bit of beach in northern texas.
And of course my innovative system of election by sniper rifle is always a good one!
These types of lasers aren't exactly useful for communication in any way shape or form. This due to the fact the last doesn't actually survive the process. After this thing fires, you'll have one beam of laser heading off in whatever direction you pointed it, and one rapidly expanding cloud of ex-lasergenerator.
;)
So no, not very useful in a practical sense at all, although it might solve a lot of war related issues if this were to be made into a handheld weapon
Yeah. They're now using 6 wheels instead of feet. Those seem to work quite well, too, unless of course one sort of starts wobbling and ceases to function (used to happen to my lego cars all the time for some reason...)
Gah. Mass. Not Weight.... *slaps self silly*