There's a reason why they call it commercial radio. Sure, there's a chance that you'll tune in during the 5-10 minutes an hour when they play music, but it'll be some crap being flogged by ClearChannel.
I only listen to the CBC (no ads, good news coverage) in my car, or CDs. Rio Karma when I'm riding my bike (just wish I could mount the thing as a USB mass storage device on my iBook or XP).
Not only have I seen punch cards, I've used them. We had to use them to set up a batch job on the mini in highschool (PDP 11/34 running RSTS-E) to get printouts.
I've been on the 'net since before the web existed. I remember USENET before MAKE.MONEY.FAST invented spam. I remember a time when AOL users couldn't access the 'net at large.
IIRC I'm the same age as the Internet itself. But I still want a flying car.
I used to play Thief 2 on my dual P3 666MHz system while ripping CDs. I'd set Thief 2 to use one CPU, and CDex to use the other. Worked like a charm, and was a very enjoyable way to get all of my audio CDs online.
If you've got a hyperthreaded or multi-core CPU (or just a plain old SMP box) you need to set the executable's affinity (via Task Manager) so it only runs on one CPU. Thief 2 kills itself when migrating between CPUs somehow.
Runs great on my system (P4 2.5GHz, AGP Radeon x1600), which isn't exactly "modern" but isn't ridiculously old either.
I was vaguely interested until I saw "proprietary format" that won't work in whatever player I feel like using (iTunes, or my Rio Karma, or whatever).
There are companies such as Magnatune that'll sell you 100% legal (as opposed to "of questional legality" like AllOfMP3.com), DRM-free music, without ads, or a monthly subscription, or any other sort of nonsense. There are some really interesting artists there, too, and quite a wide range of music.
I don't work for them or get paid by them, I just think they're awesome because of the way they're doing business and supporting independant artists.
But with dual-core CPUs becoming more popular, it'll only take up 100% of one CPU, leaving you a whole other CPU for running XP and your apps! Win-win!
Given the "loyalty" that companies give to their employees, why shouldn't we post our resumes, or leave them up all the time? If they want to keep us, they need to give us incentive to stay (good work environment, interesting work, etc.).
In real life examples, we have found that it maxes out at around.000001 babies per month. There seems to be a problem with the supply of sufficient resources to keep the women fully productive
Server maintenance is generally an hour or less around 8:00 or 9:00 AM Eastern, and things are generally very smooth and happy. There have been problems when large patches are released (the big patch right before City of Villains was released caused a bunch of lag, etc. for people; in their defense, it was enormous).
Granted, there aren't millions of subscribers, but shouldn't the enormous piles of money sitting around at Blizzard HQ be able to pay for some additional '486 boxes to run as servers?;-) Seriously, they must be 5' deep in greenbacks there.
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At least one of the major Canadian ISPs (Rogers) traffic shapes BitTorrent traffic. I tried grabbing the latest Fedora Core release from a very well-stocked torrent when it was released and got a max of around 2-12Kbytes/sec.
Compare that to the 600K/sec I got downloading it via http from a mirror. Yay Rogers.
I'm just glad I had an alternative for that particular data set.
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There's a reason why they call it commercial radio. Sure, there's a chance that you'll tune in during the 5-10 minutes an hour when they play music, but it'll be some crap being flogged by ClearChannel.
I only listen to the CBC (no ads, good news coverage) in my car, or CDs. Rio Karma when I'm riding my bike (just wish I could mount the thing as a USB mass storage device on my iBook or XP).
Sure wish my Karma mounted as a normal USB drive instead of using their own proprietary software to access it. I wish it worked with iTunes, too.
So much for my theory about Apple going with an Intel exclusive to get a sweet discount on embedded processors for the iPod line...
If you guys weren't blowing so much money on the war against "terror" in various middle-eastern countries, you could do both.
With any luck, other nations will fill this vacuum.
LOL, n00b!
Not only have I seen punch cards, I've used them. We had to use them to set up a batch job on the mini in highschool (PDP 11/34 running RSTS-E) to get printouts.
I've been on the 'net since before the web existed. I remember USENET before MAKE.MONEY.FAST invented spam. I remember a time when AOL users couldn't access the 'net at large.
IIRC I'm the same age as the Internet itself. But I still want a flying car.
It's stupid to reply to myself, but anyway...
I used to play Thief 2 on my dual P3 666MHz system while ripping CDs. I'd set Thief 2 to use one CPU, and CDex to use the other. Worked like a charm, and was a very enjoyable way to get all of my audio CDs online.
If you've got a hyperthreaded or multi-core CPU (or just a plain old SMP box) you need to set the executable's affinity (via Task Manager) so it only runs on one CPU. Thief 2 kills itself when migrating between CPUs somehow.
Runs great on my system (P4 2.5GHz, AGP Radeon x1600), which isn't exactly "modern" but isn't ridiculously old either.
I was vaguely interested until I saw "proprietary format" that won't work in whatever player I feel like using (iTunes, or my Rio Karma, or whatever).
There are companies such as Magnatune that'll sell you 100% legal (as opposed to "of questional legality" like AllOfMP3.com), DRM-free music, without ads, or a monthly subscription, or any other sort of nonsense. There are some really interesting artists there, too, and quite a wide range of music.
I don't work for them or get paid by them, I just think they're awesome because of the way they're doing business and supporting independant artists.
But with dual-core CPUs becoming more popular, it'll only take up 100% of one CPU, leaving you a whole other CPU for running XP and your apps! Win-win!
It's all an evil plan to let them buy back a huge number of Sony shares when the stock price drops below a dollar.
If you only want to pay for what you're downloading, try Magnatune.
They have quite an interesting collection of independant artists, and you can listen to whole albums before buying.
Not affiliated in any way, just impressed with some of the music I've found there (I really like Solace and Shiva in Exile, for example).
Seriously, how can you flame Comic Sans without including a link to Ban Comic Sans?
It's on MSN, what did you expect? Ads for the new Mac laptops?
According to the adjusted chart, the GameCube is the cheapest console evar! Woot!
Installing "Goatse.cx Screensaver", please wait...
Pretty much all Windows development is already done using VisualStudio... so no discount for you!
Note that this won't necessarily prevent the RIAA from suing you after being "tipped off" that you've been downloading music...
Given the "loyalty" that companies give to their employees, why shouldn't we post our resumes, or leave them up all the time? If they want to keep us, they need to give us incentive to stay (good work environment, interesting work, etc.).
This just in... Cuba harbouring tourists! Fear!
Build more farms!
I've never had to wait to log on to City of Heroes and City of Villains.
;-) Seriously, they must be 5' deep in greenbacks there.
Server maintenance is generally an hour or less around 8:00 or 9:00 AM Eastern, and things are generally very smooth and happy. There have been problems when large patches are released (the big patch right before City of Villains was released caused a bunch of lag, etc. for people; in their defense, it was enormous).
Granted, there aren't millions of subscribers, but shouldn't the enormous piles of money sitting around at Blizzard HQ be able to pay for some additional '486 boxes to run as servers?
You guys pay for this?
Maybe they're using Access in the back-end and the large data sets are causing your performance to degrade over time. Or flat text files.
Oh yes, lots of interesting life down there...
At least one of the major Canadian ISPs (Rogers) traffic shapes BitTorrent traffic. I tried grabbing the latest Fedora Core release from a very well-stocked torrent when it was released and got a max of around 2-12Kbytes/sec.
Compare that to the 600K/sec I got downloading it via http from a mirror. Yay Rogers.
I'm just glad I had an alternative for that particular data set.
If they follow your plan, when they hit the #3 item, how about:
3.5. Don't rewrite the 3D engine when you're licensing a 3D engine from someone.
What's the point of licensing an engine if you throw it away and invent your own wheel?