I solved the "overbuilding transports" problem by obsoleting my transport designs once I had enough transports, then creating new designs when I wanted more.
Not the solution I would have preferred, I think there's a way to do it with policies, but it got the job done.
I'm sure a psudeo-capitalist troll will spout off with "they're doing what a good business should, they're doing this for thier stock holders, we should applaud them"
Really? Destroying the last vestige of goodwill that the company has is a good move? In one fell stroke annihillating any chance that SCO will ever be respected by the Linux community, on the off chance they can successfully sue IBM for some cash?
My company dropped support for SCO last year. Their hardware support is so horrible just putting a test machine together is more of a pain in the ass than its worth. The number of sales we would theoretically get doesn't justify the development and testing resources necessary. We would sell more copies of an _OS/2_ package than we would SCO (and we dropped OS/2 support around the same time).
We will NEVER support SCO again after this little move.
(my company == one of the top 5 software publishers)
Yep, somethings going on. Rather than mod points, I found 3 off-topic moderations (only one of which could be remotely considered OT). If someone's stalking me, rather than those scores being a database glitch, They'll be losing mod privledges as soon as M2 kicks in...:)
Anyhow, It took three tries for me to get to each of the moderated posts, due to DB errors...
That's just silly. Everone knows IBM replaced their standards-compliant "mirrors" with proprietary "light-reflective image replication" devices that plug into the MCA bus back in the late '80's.
Not in the Dinosaur Pen in a company I interned for about 6 years ago. They had Ops in the pen most of the time (apparently because the PC and MAC servers were in with the big iron) and an alarm system. When I was given the tour, I was told "if this goes off, you have X amount of time to get out the door, or you're dead, because the room will fill up with Halon."
Posted signs all over the place gave the same information. Signs in the NOC outside the Dino Pen indicated that if the alarm went off, get the hell out of the way of the door, because people would shortly be hauling ass through it.
Ah yes. The first copy protection scheme ever to piss me off.
You see, Dungeon Master was the whole reason I bought an ST. I found a ST 520 (not the FM, external floppy) used, along with boxes of original game disks for relatively cheap back around 1989. Dungeon master NEVER worked for me. For some reason, the original, labeled disks didn't work, and triggered the "protection".
The ST was basically stolen from me by a (fly-by night, I discovered) Consignment shop. Never got a cent for it and they went out of business. As I was in college and DIRT poor at the time, I couldn't really pursue the issue (the machine was in consignment for a LONG time), but the owner of that shop, well he'd better pray he never meets me in a dark alley.
Anyhow, at least now I can PLAY the game that I read so much about. Dungeon Master II never ran correctly on my PC back then (probably DR Dos or the Cyrix 4x86 were the cause).
I actually ran contrast and hue correction on the original images, and it's quite a good reconstruction of helms deep from what I could see. Of course the "orcs" are Cacodemons, I think. It's been a few years since I played doom...
And no I don't have a place I can put the corrected images for public consumption. I used a couple autocorrect functions in Photoimpact. Had to convert data types on a couple of them, as I think some were 256 color PNG (on which the autocorrect will not work)
I believe the word we should use here is barratry. quick definition is "attempting to use baseless legal threats to frighten the subject into compliance.
When employed by actual lawyers, it can result in disbarment. Assuming the prey bothers to find out that's whats happening. People are largely ignorant that unethical behavior like barratry is more actionable than the made-up "facts" that are bandied as theats in these cases...
I know the feeling. Aspergers hadn't been fully identified when I was in school. My therapist had read some papers, but didn't really have any good information to give my parents. It's not any better as an adult either.
Me too. Spent more money on kits that met questionable ends than I can remember.
They're not outlawing them though (as has been pointed out) just heavily restricting shipping. Theres an entrepreneurial opportunity there for the person who wants to specialize in shipping these things at a reasonable rate.
Not the kind of front light your thinking though. This is more akin to the "front light" on a Compaq iPaq. Much nicer. Take a look at the screenshots on the linked article. That's pretty much what it looks like. You would THINK it was a backlight when you looked at it.
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Hmm, she really was an "Electric" Sheep, now wasn't she?
The $20 referred to the price of the simulation:).
I live in Florida, so the price for the mountain is the least of my worries, even if I was in a position to GO snowboarding. I'd have to book airfare, get a room, food, etc.
Not if you ARE old hardware. I'd like to continue walking into my golden years, and real snowboarding would stress my already damaged knee enough to put me on the "uses a cane" list by my early 40's.
I happen to enjoy Snowboarding/skateboarding games because I liked that stuff when I was able to do it (well skateboarding anyhow, snowboarding didn't exist then, or hadn't been heard of).
Besides, in this economy, fewer people can shell out hundreds or thousands of dollars, and take time off from work, to go to some mountain resort than can shell out $20 (or $100, w/controller) for a simulation.
I don't classify Gabriel as an "act". He writes his own material, etc. The "acts" that I refer to usually don't introduce their band members, if they are even visible on stage.
I have worked as a session musician in the past (commercials, mainly), and I agree with your statement "All session players are NOT created equal." My dismissal of the Clear Channel pap is out of disdain for the fact the "act" does not usually encourage attention to the band, and the fans of those "acts" are by and large ignorant of the names of the people who actually PLAY the music.
When I made the "act" comment, I was referring to the boy bands and bubblegum that Clear Choice promotes most heavily.
I meant to refer to performers who not only do not write most of their own material, but are on stage primarilly because of a pretty face and a marketable voice.
Too bad Clear Channel isn't likely to sponsor concerts by bands I actually give a shit about.
Now that I think of it, they'll be sponsoring "acts" rather than bands. Performers with nameless backup musicians, rather than groups with musicians whose names are known.
I think $15 is a little excessive, considering for a Clear Channel concert you're already paying around $100 a ticket (from what I've read).
As to the "what does the RIAA think of this" quesiton, I'm sure the licensing and fees are already part of this. The RIAA is probably just trying to figure out how to get them to cripple these "instant" concert CDs...
If they want to take an extreme measure such as that, fine. They are entitled to limit their viewership as much as they like. To take steps to get a project to eliminate code that offends them is going beyond the realm of reasonable request.
If they wish to restrict which applications can access their content, it is up to THEM to take the measures necessary to restrict the access. It is not the responsibility of the developer to comply with their request.
I'm referring to the network. Other peoples machines. Not the copyrighted works or other files.
As in "No you are not allowed to attack other users" and "That IRC network server is not yours, don't touch it (virtually)" Simple social rules these kids don't understand. I don't care about file traficking. I do care about script kiddies throwing tantrums.
Pretty lame troll ace.
And you can drop dead right back. Read the context next time.
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I solved the "overbuilding transports" problem by obsoleting my transport designs once I had enough transports, then creating new designs when I wanted more.
Not the solution I would have preferred, I think there's a way to do it with policies, but it got the job done.
This is a phenominally bad move for SCO to make.
I'm sure a psudeo-capitalist troll will spout off with "they're doing what a good business should, they're doing this for thier stock holders, we should applaud them"
Really? Destroying the last vestige of goodwill that the company has is a good move? In one fell stroke annihillating any chance that SCO will ever be respected by the Linux community, on the off chance they can successfully sue IBM for some cash?
My company dropped support for SCO last year. Their hardware support is so horrible just putting a test machine together is more of a pain in the ass than its worth. The number of sales we would theoretically get doesn't justify the development and testing resources necessary. We would sell more copies of an _OS/2_ package than we would SCO (and we dropped OS/2 support around the same time).
We will NEVER support SCO again after this little move.
(my company == one of the top 5 software publishers)
Yep, somethings going on. Rather than mod points, I found 3 off-topic moderations (only one of which could be remotely considered OT). If someone's stalking me, rather than those scores being a database glitch, They'll be losing mod privledges as soon as M2 kicks in... :)
Anyhow, It took three tries for me to get to each of the moderated posts, due to DB errors...
That's just silly. Everone knows IBM replaced their standards-compliant "mirrors" with proprietary "light-reflective image replication" devices that plug into the MCA bus back in the late '80's.
Not in the Dinosaur Pen in a company I interned for about 6 years ago. They had Ops in the pen most of the time (apparently because the PC and MAC servers were in with the big iron) and an alarm system. When I was given the tour, I was told "if this goes off, you have X amount of time to get out the door, or you're dead, because the room will fill up with Halon."
Posted signs all over the place gave the same information. Signs in the NOC outside the Dino Pen indicated that if the alarm went off, get the hell out of the way of the door, because people would shortly be hauling ass through it.
One of these might be of interest then. I miss my ST too.
USB Midi stuff
Ah yes. The first copy protection scheme ever to piss me off.
You see, Dungeon Master was the whole reason I bought an ST. I found a ST 520 (not the FM, external floppy) used, along with boxes of original game disks for relatively cheap back around 1989. Dungeon master NEVER worked for me. For some reason, the original, labeled disks didn't work, and triggered the "protection".
The ST was basically stolen from me by a (fly-by night, I discovered) Consignment shop. Never got a cent for it and they went out of business. As I was in college and DIRT poor at the time, I couldn't really pursue the issue (the machine was in consignment for a LONG time), but the owner of that shop, well he'd better pray he never meets me in a dark alley.
Anyhow, at least now I can PLAY the game that I read so much about. Dungeon Master II never ran correctly on my PC back then (probably DR Dos or the Cyrix 4x86 were the cause).
I actually ran contrast and hue correction on the original images, and it's quite a good reconstruction of helms deep from what I could see. Of course the "orcs" are Cacodemons, I think. It's been a few years since I played doom...
And no I don't have a place I can put the corrected images for public consumption. I used a couple autocorrect functions in Photoimpact. Had to convert data types on a couple of them, as I think some were 256 color PNG (on which the autocorrect will not work)
I believe the word we should use here is barratry. quick definition is "attempting to use baseless legal threats to frighten the subject into compliance. When employed by actual lawyers, it can result in disbarment. Assuming the prey bothers to find out that's whats happening. People are largely ignorant that unethical behavior like barratry is more actionable than the made-up "facts" that are bandied as theats in these cases...
No problem, I figured as much. I'm rather suprised to get a reply on this thread after 2 weeks :)
I know the feeling. Aspergers hadn't been fully identified when I was in school. My therapist had read some papers, but didn't really have any good information to give my parents. It's not any better as an adult either.
No no no. it's:
"Wine before Beer, Never Fear.
Beer before Wine, Also Fine.
Prestone and Gin, Think Again."
~Dave Letterman, somewhere around 1987ish.
Me too. Spent more money on kits that met questionable ends than I can remember.
They're not outlawing them though (as has been pointed out) just heavily restricting shipping. Theres an entrepreneurial opportunity there for the person who wants to specialize in shipping these things at a reasonable rate.
When arriving at the office sweaty isnt' an option, neither is a bike, I'm afraid.
Just a thought.
Not the kind of front light your thinking though. This is more akin to the "front light" on a Compaq iPaq. Much nicer. Take a look at the screenshots on the linked article. That's pretty much what it looks like. You would THINK it was a backlight when you looked at it.
My handwriting is largely illegible. Attempts to make it otherwise result in painful cramping. I certainly won't buy TurboTax ever again, but I will use an alternative (probably TaxAct). I have no desire to do my taxes "by hand". I have several perfectly good computers to do that with...
Hmm, she really was an "Electric" Sheep, now wasn't she?
As does this.
:)
Sorry, too obvious, nothing personal
The $20 referred to the price of the simulation :).
I live in Florida, so the price for the mountain is the least of my worries, even if I was in a position to GO snowboarding. I'd have to book airfare, get a room, food, etc.
Not if you ARE old hardware. I'd like to continue walking into my golden years, and real snowboarding would stress my already damaged knee enough to put me on the "uses a cane" list by my early 40's.
I happen to enjoy Snowboarding/skateboarding games because I liked that stuff when I was able to do it (well skateboarding anyhow, snowboarding didn't exist then, or hadn't been heard of).
Besides, in this economy, fewer people can shell out hundreds or thousands of dollars, and take time off from work, to go to some mountain resort than can shell out $20 (or $100, w/controller) for a simulation.
I don't classify Gabriel as an "act". He writes his own material, etc. The "acts" that I refer to usually don't introduce their band members, if they are even visible on stage.
I have worked as a session musician in the past (commercials, mainly), and I agree with your statement "All session players are NOT created equal." My dismissal of the Clear Channel pap is out of disdain for the fact the "act" does not usually encourage attention to the band, and the fans of those "acts" are by and large ignorant of the names of the people who actually PLAY the music.
When I made the "act" comment, I was referring to the boy bands and bubblegum that Clear Choice promotes most heavily.
I meant to refer to performers who not only do not write most of their own material, but are on stage primarilly because of a pretty face and a marketable voice.
Too bad Clear Channel isn't likely to sponsor concerts by bands I actually give a shit about.
Now that I think of it, they'll be sponsoring "acts" rather than bands. Performers with nameless backup musicians, rather than groups with musicians whose names are known.
I think $15 is a little excessive, considering for a Clear Channel concert you're already paying around $100 a ticket (from what I've read).
As to the "what does the RIAA think of this" quesiton, I'm sure the licensing and fees are already part of this. The RIAA is probably just trying to figure out how to get them to cripple these "instant" concert CDs...
If they want to take an extreme measure such as that, fine. They are entitled to limit their viewership as much as they like. To take steps to get a project to eliminate code that offends them is going beyond the realm of reasonable request.
If they wish to restrict which applications can access their content, it is up to THEM to take the measures necessary to restrict the access. It is not the responsibility of the developer to comply with their request.
Accepted. I misunderstand things often enough myself. The troll comment, etc is retracted :)
I long since gave up on trying to solve the problem, as I realised that if I wanted to play Don Quixote, I could find a better windmill to joust with.
Good luck with the Metanet thing. I'll read up on it when I'm not at the office.
I'm referring to the network. Other peoples machines. Not the copyrighted works or other files.
As in "No you are not allowed to attack other users" and "That IRC network server is not yours, don't touch it (virtually)" Simple social rules these kids don't understand. I don't care about file traficking. I do care about script kiddies throwing tantrums.
Pretty lame troll ace.
And you can drop dead right back. Read the context next time.