Most Adults, and even most children are BALANCED enough to realise that perhaps taking a sniper rifle and standing on a building roof is a very bad idea. I don't think I could ever bring myself to pull the trigger or do somthing I knew might kill someone, and I really enjoyed all of the GTA and Quake series.
And another hint: If you have unstable children make sure they can't get hold of guns or explosives when they leave for school in the mornings.
Seems to me more like the loss leaders like baked beans and bread supermarkets use to lure punters in with... they then easily make up for the loss with other purchases through out the store.
Microsoft ARENT preparting to charge CF/SM/MMC mfrs etc. (Though that is a pleseant side effect for them) They're preparing a war of patents and litigation (An "IP" war if you will) against Linux. Remeber who is funding a large part of SCO's FUD campagin right now, so if Microsoft can "show" the media that linux is built on IP quicksand they can nip linux desktops in the bud nicely and possibly make a buck or two in the process.
The things thats bugging me at the moment is now that microsoft have started waving their patents on FAT around I think the next phase (if they really are behind this) is to start chasing up people who haven't licensed FAT.... and what a supprise look who comes top of the list of unlicensed FAT implementations - Those "dirty GNU/Linux hippies". ("They have no respect for IP, so your company better not use any of their products" etc etc etc)
looks to me like the rootservers themselves would have nothing to do with it. Where it hurts is the ISP's nameservers which have to cache the stuff. When I to a TXT lookup on some domain all the root servers do is point me to the right server to awnswer that request (or one that might know the one that knows the awnswer) Suprnova.org gets 1million+ hits per day iirc, so a few extra million hits per day to the rootserver is negligable. Infact if all of the queries were to somthing like 0_197_56633ab0d90f43c68ed1b47358eccfe7.suprnova.or g then the isp's servers would cache the nameserver for suprnova.org, so it would result in virtualy no increased load on the root servers.
That is SO true... how is it possible for a company to sell advanced tickets on a train that infact doesn't exist??? and why despite "competition" are they the only operator between birmingham and reading that doesnt stop at every shed put up next to the line on the way???
The virgin trains I've been on (the Euston Liverpool lime street service, and also Liverpool Portsmouth harbour) have all had laptop charging points in the carriges I've been in, and I've most definatly only been in the cheapest parts of the train... They also had headphone jacks in the seats so you could listen to virgin radio (which by the way is by far the best comercial radio station i've ever heard)
Its kinda weird, we have a 60amp supply + an off peak supply to this house, and still one of the microwaves in the kitchen makes all the kitchen lights dim. Same with the water heater on the top floor too. As for sockets in my room I have no real complaints there. They're positioned fairly sensibly too, either side of my desk (which is huge). What i'd really like though is some cat5 cabling in the walls instead. Currently we have a switch on each floor and cables just running tucked up against the skirting board to the rooms themselves, and tied to the banisters on the stairs.
Yeah, and im sure here I read somthing (in the UK) about it being illegal to threaten lawsuits if you never actualy intented to persue it... wonder if we can nail them with that or whatever the US equivilant it
I have more than one debit card, and NO overdraft on any of them, and they're all totaly legitimate... I would be pretty pissed off if I have to move all my debit cards to one account. (Incase you dont realise with debit cards you can only spend what you have + overdraft if you ask the bank for one)
as far as I know it was a ring in the first place (but unfixed fault somewhere near us south coast), and they have redundancy both ways round it too. And i'd like to point out (http://www.tat-14.com if it were actualy working) that we brits wern't actualy cut off from the net. The only trouble I noticed really was logging into msn was impossible at one point, but most places that are actualy worth the time I spend on them are either in the UK/Europe or have mirrors over here somewhere already.
I was wondering... was the problems with their caches last night caused by all the threads that do the actual work being blocked waiting for things to time out??
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that you Darl?
The one that scares me most is the smoke detector!! It's a real killer that one.
Give kiss time to investigate??? This IS slashdot we're talking about, they're on death row already according to 90% of the posts so far!
Most Adults, and even most children are BALANCED enough to realise that perhaps taking a sniper rifle and standing on a building roof is a very bad idea. I don't think I could ever bring myself to pull the trigger or do somthing I knew might kill someone, and I really enjoyed all of the GTA and Quake series.
And another hint: If you have unstable children make sure they can't get hold of guns or explosives when they leave for school in the mornings.
He told me it was a huge step forward from the 1 bit computer he sold me last year :-(
Sorry to dissapoint but I doubt it scales liniarly... and the PCI bus isnt exactly fast either
Seems to me more like the loss leaders like baked beans and bread supermarkets use to lure punters in with... they then easily make up for the loss with other purchases through out the store.
9 Dancing ladies though... NINE!!! Think of the possibilities :-)
damm the slashdot drinking game... its 1pm here and I'd be drunk allready!
even tenebrae should run reasaonably on those machines from the sound of things...
Microsoft ARENT preparting to charge CF/SM/MMC mfrs etc. (Though that is a pleseant side effect for them) They're preparing a war of patents and litigation (An "IP" war if you will) against Linux. Remeber who is funding a large part of SCO's FUD campagin right now, so if Microsoft can "show" the media that linux is built on IP quicksand they can nip linux desktops in the bud nicely and possibly make a buck or two in the process.
The things thats bugging me at the moment is now that microsoft have started waving their patents on FAT around I think the next phase (if they really are behind this) is to start chasing up people who haven't licensed FAT.... and what a supprise look who comes top of the list of unlicensed FAT implementations - Those "dirty GNU/Linux hippies". ("They have no respect for IP, so your company better not use any of their products" etc etc etc)
looks to me like the rootservers themselves would have nothing to do with it. Where it hurts is the ISP's nameservers which have to cache the stuff. When I to a TXT lookup on some domain all the root servers do is point me to the right server to awnswer that request (or one that might know the one that knows the awnswer) Suprnova.org gets 1million+ hits per day iirc, so a few extra million hits per day to the rootserver is negligable. Infact if all of the queries were to somthing like 0_197_56633ab0d90f43c68ed1b47358eccfe7.suprnova.or g then the isp's servers would cache the nameserver for suprnova.org, so it would result in virtualy no increased load on the root servers.
Alan
That is SO true... how is it possible for a company to sell advanced tickets on a train that infact doesn't exist??? and why despite "competition" are they the only operator between birmingham and reading that doesnt stop at every shed put up next to the line on the way???
The virgin trains I've been on (the Euston Liverpool lime street service, and also Liverpool Portsmouth harbour) have all had laptop charging points in the carriges I've been in, and I've most definatly only been in the cheapest parts of the train... They also had headphone jacks in the seats so you could listen to virgin radio (which by the way is by far the best comercial radio station i've ever heard)
Its kinda weird, we have a 60amp supply + an off peak supply to this house, and still one of the microwaves in the kitchen makes all the kitchen lights dim. Same with the water heater on the top floor too. As for sockets in my room I have no real complaints there. They're positioned fairly sensibly too, either side of my desk (which is huge). What i'd really like though is some cat5 cabling in the walls instead. Currently we have a switch on each floor and cables just running tucked up against the skirting board to the rooms themselves, and tied to the banisters on the stairs.
Strange... i've never really looked into ppp links much, but windows definalty shows a mac address for ppp adaptors
Yeah but the only mac address they'd get to see would be for the PPP adapter which im not 100% sure how they get assigned
I guess their custom login software could be sending it though... but thats kinda evil
Yeah, and im sure here I read somthing (in the UK) about it being illegal to threaten lawsuits if you never actualy intented to persue it... wonder if we can nail them with that or whatever the US equivilant it
I have more than one debit card, and NO overdraft on any of them, and they're all totaly legitimate... I would be pretty pissed off if I have to move all my debit cards to one account. (Incase you dont realise with debit cards you can only spend what you have + overdraft if you ask the bank for one)
nah.. the dolphins are the ones doing the interviewing it looks like :-)
as far as I know it was a ring in the first place (but unfixed fault somewhere near us south coast), and they have redundancy both ways round it too. And i'd like to point out (http://www.tat-14.com if it were actualy working) that we brits wern't actualy cut off from the net. The only trouble I noticed really was logging into msn was impossible at one point, but most places that are actualy worth the time I spend on them are either in the UK/Europe or have mirrors over here somewhere already.
I was wondering... was the problems with their caches last night caused by all the threads that do the actual work being blocked waiting for things to time out??
The way ICANN is run it makes me wonder somtimes....
What about people who have more than one credit/debit card?? Will that become an impossible thing of the past?