Linux handles gaming just fine, and Mac isn't bad at it either. What sucks is game developer support for those platforms, not the support of the platforms for graphics, networking, and simple AI.
Those are certainly no weekend sport planes. It'd be really cool to rescue, maintain, and fly anything of that sort. The Hawker Hunter they list is a nice plane, too. The paying passenger flights and air shows in these planes are a cool thing to do with them. They'd probably work pretty well in the role of combat training planes if Thunder City could get such a contract. As you said, they're no Migs, but additional or alternative plane configurations wouldn't be a bad training idea.
They have a serious consideration about character count for a two-character operator vs. a one-characters operator which will be used in a minority of lines of code? This is from the people who put entire APIs for a few dozen optional libraries in the global namespace in the first place rather than working out separate namespaces? This is the same language with the functions "mysql_real_quote", "mysql_query", "imagetruecolortopalette", "xsl_xsltprocessor_transform_to_xml", "htmlentities" and "html_entity_decode", right? They can't even decide how the the words in multi-word function names will be joined.
That may be true, but some people say certain things are worse than death. Some of those people probably consider having their minds tampered with this way one of those things.
I'm not sure which side of that choice I'd fall. I hope I never have to make it, or at least never remember having to make it.;-)
The Kirlin family runs one of the world's the largest chains of Hallmark cards and gifts franchises (Kirlin's Hallmark stores, based out of Quincy, Illinois). Two sons of founder Dale Kirlin Sr. (Dale Jr. and Gary) went into the family business.
The other son, Don Kirlin, pursued an aviation career with the US Navy and Us Airways before he started Red Air which is a company also based out of Quincy, IL. Don has lived in Quincy, in Boulder, Colorado, and also in Kyrgyzstan while working on acquiring a former Soviet fighter.
Red Air operates a fleet of Mig, Alpha, and Vodochody fighter aircraft in training maneuvers with US and Canadian fighter groups. Their former USAF and US Navy flight instructors flying foreign-built fighters make for a much more realistic training scenario than simulators or flying US aircraft against other US aircraft.
Don's also the man behind the World Free Fall Convention, which brought visitors from every state and 70 foreign countries to Quincy, IL and Rantoul, IL for 17 years and featured during that time over 600,000 jumps. Jump platforms included everything from a B-17 bomber to the Family Channel blimp. Even a Super Constellation and a Boeing 727 have been featured.
So if you really want to talk about privately held air power, Oracle and Google take a back seat to the black sheep son of a greeting card and gift store magnate.
They could have undercut other brokers by just a bit, not paid bigger portions to the trucking companies, and could have filed complaints about damaged loads and such to claim insurance back or to short-pay the trucking operations.
The whole idea of offering more than they quoted the customer was just an easier way to land the business once they had already decided they weren't going to pay the carriers. Impersonating the brokers could still work without that part of the plan at all. It'd just be a lot less lucrative in the short term.
That's the real reason right there. Despite all the other reasons given as responses why they had to take a higher-risk route to this, the most likely reason is that this was the quickest and lowest- effort way to run this scam.
The phrase "taxes whatever fees" includes taxes, advertising, insurance, bonding payments in some states, regulatory approval from a number of agencies, background checks, registered agents in all the states in which they do business, and probably more not coming to mind right now.
Once they get the call to move the load, there is no competition. The broker can bid it out to multiple trucking companies and take the lowest bid. They could promise one known-crooked, unlicensed, unregistered trucking operation all the business at a very low rate.
Yes, their take would have been much lower. Their risk of getting caught would have been much lower, too. A bunch of low-risk scams or low-risk scams over a broader market make up for risk in volume. You do increase your risk as you ramp up the volume, but not by as much as outright not paying your subcontractors.
That would be a dangerous defense. The premise that even criminals deserve dignity and a certain level of treatment is based in large part on the idea that we are unique creatures and not automatons. Take that away, and the criminal who is hardwired to commit crime is just a faulty part to be recycled. The judge and jury could just claim to be hardwired to kill criminals and not consider the circumstances or anything else.
If you're just hardwired and not capable of free will, then are you even worthy of a trial in the first place? Why not just toss out all the possible problems? They're nothing special after all. They're just a bunch of randomly wired networks of tissue. Destroy all the suspects so that the properly wired naked apes can remain unbothered.
Seeing some movies or reading some books more than once allows you to pick up on additional subtleties and to interpret things in multiple possible ways. I'm not sure it'd be worth forgetting those particular ones to experience them as fresh material again.
Alternately, give a man a good and defensible reason to kill someone and erase his memory. Collect the forensic evidence against him, and convict. He doesn't remember killing anyone or why he did it. It doesn't matter now that it was self-defense of defense of an innocent third party. All you have is a dead guy and a guy who killed him. It's a perfect frame-up. "I don't recall" is not likely to be enough of a defense.
I think they're planning on it being more selective than that. Wait until after the guy's convicted, for one. Then don't erase memories of his face or of the place it happened.
Just erasing the specifics of the attack is probably what they have in mind. Rape victims often say they'll never forget what the attacker said, exactly what he did to them, the feel of his body, and other details. Being able to later say, "I was raped and that's a horrible thing, but I don't remember the specifics of the event" would be a wonderful thing for some women.
Abused children, victims of war crimes, robbery victims, car crash victims, soldiers, victims of animal attacks, and more people often don't want the knoeldge of what happened to them to go away. They just want to block out the details.
It's not that simple. Some people become so traumatized they can't function normally and require years of therapy and medication. If the trauma could go away and it actually allowed them to function without the flashbacks, then a radical treatment like this might actually be beneficial. There are downsides and ethical issues, but the idea does have merit in some cases.
It's a double-edged sword. You can help soldiers after a war. You can help a rape victim over the painful memory of the act. Maybe, though, you can make the soldier forget the war crime his commanding officer committed. Maybe you can make the rape victim forget that it was a powerful public figure who raped her.
Making people forget the parts they'd rather remember would be a very bad thing. Forcing them to go under this treatment and preventing them from remembering the treatment itself would be even worse.
The story of hacking isn't bullshit. They changed the contact info for the companies they were impersonating to numbers they controlled. It says so in TFA. The scam may have worked without that step, but according to the article that's what they did.
Also, it's funny that if they'd paid the subcontractor and kept the difference, they'd probably still be running the scam. They'd probably be able to rip off the brokers indefinitely if the trucking companies were happy with their pay and arrangements. It seems it was the angry trucking companies coming back on the brokers they thought hired them that caused this to break open.
A smaller, slower take could have given them a good steady side income for years longer. If the only crime was posing as some broker and using that broker's good name to garner business, they'd get light sentences even if they were caught. If they could have ramped up to where they were stealing 3% or 4% of every broker's business, they'd have been able to live very comfortably.
RAID 5 is designed for 3 to 4 disk arrays. RAID 6 should be used up to 6 or 7 disks. Anything bigger, and you really need something like RAID 1 over RAID 5 or a clustering file system. AndrewFS, Lustre, or anything similar can make the chances of losing every copy of your data extremely unlikely.
You should still have data somewhere off-site just in case. A Lustre system at your primary location and a smaller Lustre system for compressed backups at a secondary location should be plenty of redundancy.
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1) download Puppy
2) install Puppy
3) have working system
There is no ???.
Similarly, replace Puppy with Mandriva, Mint, Ubuntu, or Fedora.
Linux handles gaming just fine, and Mac isn't bad at it either. What sucks is game developer support for those platforms, not the support of the platforms for graphics, networking, and simple AI.
Quit using Gentoo and Slackware and get a distro where people actually help on the forums. ;-)
Those are certainly no weekend sport planes. It'd be really cool to rescue, maintain, and fly anything of that sort. The Hawker Hunter they list is a nice plane, too. The paying passenger flights and air shows in these planes are a cool thing to do with them. They'd probably work pretty well in the role of combat training planes if Thunder City could get such a contract. As you said, they're no Migs, but additional or alternative plane configurations wouldn't be a bad training idea.
That's a good point.
They have a serious consideration about character count for a two-character operator vs. a one-characters operator which will be used in a minority of lines of code? This is from the people who put entire APIs for a few dozen optional libraries in the global namespace in the first place rather than working out separate namespaces? This is the same language with the functions "mysql_real_quote", "mysql_query", "imagetruecolortopalette", "xsl_xsltprocessor_transform_to_xml", "htmlentities" and "html_entity_decode", right? They can't even decide how the the words in multi-word function names will be joined.
That may be true, but some people say certain things are worse than death. Some of those people probably consider having their minds tampered with this way one of those things.
I'm not sure which side of that choice I'd fall. I hope I never have to make it, or at least never remember having to make it. ;-)
The Kirlin family runs one of the world's the largest chains of Hallmark cards and gifts franchises (Kirlin's Hallmark stores, based out of Quincy, Illinois). Two sons of founder Dale Kirlin Sr. (Dale Jr. and Gary) went into the family business.
The other son, Don Kirlin, pursued an aviation career with the US Navy and Us Airways before he started Red Air which is a company also based out of Quincy, IL. Don has lived in Quincy, in Boulder, Colorado, and also in Kyrgyzstan while working on acquiring a former Soviet fighter.
Red Air operates a fleet of Mig, Alpha, and Vodochody fighter aircraft in training maneuvers with US and Canadian fighter groups. Their former USAF and US Navy flight instructors flying foreign-built fighters make for a much more realistic training scenario than simulators or flying US aircraft against other US aircraft.
If you have the cash, the licenses, and the desire then check out his foreign fighter and trainer sales business, Air USA. Weapons systems are not included, of course.
Don's also the man behind the World Free Fall Convention, which brought visitors from every state and 70 foreign countries to Quincy, IL and Rantoul, IL for 17 years and featured during that time over 600,000 jumps. Jump platforms included everything from a B-17 bomber to the Family Channel blimp. Even a Super Constellation and a Boeing 727 have been featured.
So if you really want to talk about privately held air power, Oracle and Google take a back seat to the black sheep son of a greeting card and gift store magnate.
Sam Walton is dead. It's difficult to drive a pickup while afflicted with such a condition.
They could have undercut other brokers by just a bit, not paid bigger portions to the trucking companies, and could have filed complaints about damaged loads and such to claim insurance back or to short-pay the trucking operations.
The whole idea of offering more than they quoted the customer was just an easier way to land the business once they had already decided they weren't going to pay the carriers. Impersonating the brokers could still work without that part of the plan at all. It'd just be a lot less lucrative in the short term.
That's the real reason right there. Despite all the other reasons given as responses why they had to take a higher-risk route to this, the most likely reason is that this was the quickest and lowest- effort way to run this scam.
The phrase "taxes whatever fees" includes taxes, advertising, insurance, bonding payments in some states, regulatory approval from a number of agencies, background checks, registered agents in all the states in which they do business, and probably more not coming to mind right now.
Once they get the call to move the load, there is no competition. The broker can bid it out to multiple trucking companies and take the lowest bid. They could promise one known-crooked, unlicensed, unregistered trucking operation all the business at a very low rate.
Yes, their take would have been much lower. Their risk of getting caught would have been much lower, too. A bunch of low-risk scams or low-risk scams over a broader market make up for risk in volume. You do increase your risk as you ramp up the volume, but not by as much as outright not paying your subcontractors.
That would be a dangerous defense. The premise that even criminals deserve dignity and a certain level of treatment is based in large part on the idea that we are unique creatures and not automatons. Take that away, and the criminal who is hardwired to commit crime is just a faulty part to be recycled. The judge and jury could just claim to be hardwired to kill criminals and not consider the circumstances or anything else.
If you're just hardwired and not capable of free will, then are you even worthy of a trial in the first place? Why not just toss out all the possible problems? They're nothing special after all. They're just a bunch of randomly wired networks of tissue. Destroy all the suspects so that the properly wired naked apes can remain unbothered.
Seeing some movies or reading some books more than once allows you to pick up on additional subtleties and to interpret things in multiple possible ways. I'm not sure it'd be worth forgetting those particular ones to experience them as fresh material again.
Man, the DeLorean will be really cramped already with four.
Alternately, give a man a good and defensible reason to kill someone and erase his memory. Collect the forensic evidence against him, and convict. He doesn't remember killing anyone or why he did it. It doesn't matter now that it was self-defense of defense of an innocent third party. All you have is a dead guy and a guy who killed him. It's a perfect frame-up. "I don't recall" is not likely to be enough of a defense.
I think they're planning on it being more selective than that. Wait until after the guy's convicted, for one. Then don't erase memories of his face or of the place it happened.
Just erasing the specifics of the attack is probably what they have in mind. Rape victims often say they'll never forget what the attacker said, exactly what he did to them, the feel of his body, and other details. Being able to later say, "I was raped and that's a horrible thing, but I don't remember the specifics of the event" would be a wonderful thing for some women.
Abused children, victims of war crimes, robbery victims, car crash victims, soldiers, victims of animal attacks, and more people often don't want the knoeldge of what happened to them to go away. They just want to block out the details.
It's not that simple. Some people become so traumatized they can't function normally and require years of therapy and medication. If the trauma could go away and it actually allowed them to function without the flashbacks, then a radical treatment like this might actually be beneficial. There are downsides and ethical issues, but the idea does have merit in some cases.
If it's the only thing familiar to you, Goatse might become your comfort zone. Anytime you were without an image of it, you might start to panic.
If you log in, they can take care of that. You won't recognize it as a dupe next week either, even.
It's a double-edged sword. You can help soldiers after a war. You can help a rape victim over the painful memory of the act. Maybe, though, you can make the soldier forget the war crime his commanding officer committed. Maybe you can make the rape victim forget that it was a powerful public figure who raped her.
Making people forget the parts they'd rather remember would be a very bad thing. Forcing them to go under this treatment and preventing them from remembering the treatment itself would be even worse.
Running this scam was much easier than getting a job at Google is.
The story of hacking isn't bullshit. They changed the contact info for the companies they were impersonating to numbers they controlled. It says so in TFA. The scam may have worked without that step, but according to the article that's what they did.
Also, it's funny that if they'd paid the subcontractor and kept the difference, they'd probably still be running the scam. They'd probably be able to rip off the brokers indefinitely if the trucking companies were happy with their pay and arrangements. It seems it was the angry trucking companies coming back on the brokers they thought hired them that caused this to break open.
A smaller, slower take could have given them a good steady side income for years longer. If the only crime was posing as some broker and using that broker's good name to garner business, they'd get light sentences even if they were caught. If they could have ramped up to where they were stealing 3% or 4% of every broker's business, they'd have been able to live very comfortably.
RAID 5 is designed for 3 to 4 disk arrays. RAID 6 should be used up to 6 or 7 disks. Anything bigger, and you really need something like RAID 1 over RAID 5 or a clustering file system. AndrewFS, Lustre, or anything similar can make the chances of losing every copy of your data extremely unlikely.
You should still have data somewhere off-site just in case. A Lustre system at your primary location and a smaller Lustre system for compressed backups at a secondary location should be plenty of redundancy.
The Federal Trade Commission may help, too, if it's a US company from another state.