Rackspace charge for you using 30GB of bandwidth a month. So when you only use 20GB you still get charged the same amount. And you think this is a good deal? Rackspace quoted me a charge (in the UK) of 75 pounds a month to upgrade a server from 512MB of RAM to 1GB. I don't call this a good deal either. I just took over a site with a dedicated box in Rackspace and I am moving the hell out of there fast.
You're right - I didn't go through and work out which was for which in a trial-and-error process. It was the 'preferences toolbar' I wanted to choose to get rid of and it does indeed disappear. Curse me for being so stupid.
Now that I've learned that it really does look like an improvement.
I downloaded a toolbar that lets me turn graphics, colours and cookies on and off at the click of a button. This no longer has the little thing at teh side that lets me shrink it down - this was mentioned in the Release Notes. What I'm puzzling over is why they removed that. Is there any way to make the toolbar shrink up and free screen space now it has gone?
You must have better things to do than invent arguments in your head. I haven't claimed any innovation for the consoles that do not include a network adapter. You claim that they follow the lead of the XBox, which I say is total rubbish. Nintendo aren't even looking towards the same market as Microsoft. They have generally tended to focus on young players whereas Microsoft are asking you to have a credit card to play on XBox Live.
Nintendo are aiming at a different market to Microsoft. They've generally courted younger players whereas Microsoft are quite deliberately going for older players here.
Penguins are nowhere near as nice as Tim Tams. Double Chocolate is just gorgeous, especially when you suck piping hot tea through it and then eat it while it melts. Chocolate mouth orgasm!
As regards the "standard" I have ethernet running all around my house. This is nothing to do with broadband. I was referring to upstream service.
People aren't buying enough XBoxes for MS. They didn't do something right enough. In fact for a company that as moaned about the "freedom to innovate" what they did wrong was not innovate at all. Sticking a network adaptor in a machine is about as innovative as giving it a hand controller. The Dreamcast had an integrated modem and that...well let's not go there.
MS must be wondering what the receptionfor XBox 2 will be now. When one console fails to grab the big share of the market it is harder for the next one along to do so.
Broadband is the standard? There is no standard broadband package, so "standard" of what? Lots of people with XBoxes already have broadband...attached to their PC. You think they will all start setting up home networks?
As forthe PS3 comment I was merely commenting on the XBox being a jumped up PC in a big case. Where Sony can unify the CPU and graphics processors onto one chip Intel and Nvidia (who are still awaiting full royalties payment from Microsoft) are not going to play dice. No similar drop in manufacturing costs. Still losing lots and lots of money per console that is never going to be made back up by games sales because...they're subsidised too!
No doubt about it - XBox is a platform that will be around in the future. And no doubt about it it will not dominate like Windows has done.
What flimsy evidence for claiming a market lead. Not everyone will want to play online so building an adaptor into a box is a bit pointless if it is not going to be used. Microsoft will find it a challenge to get 1 million subscribers within the first year. And how many consoles will be sold by then? Sony are not rolling out on-line gaming themselves in the same way Microsoft are. They are leaving it to developers of games to do this and they are not specifying that you must have broadband either so the market is potentially much larger.
I do find it funny that you think Sony and Nintendo are taking their lead from MS. Perhaps you expect the PS3 to come out with commodity hardware in a box the size of a car?
MS puts considerable efforts into making their products viable does it? Well they've just put considerable effort into making the X Box come a very distant second while losing lots of money on it. Odd that you conveniently forget Nintendo's and Sony's plans for online gaming to make MS sound visionary.
I can only quote the headline I read once but there is a comment from a member of the public on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1160375.stm
They say: 'Lest we also forget The Beastie Boys, circa summer 1987, who were alleged to have told some kids who had recently had chemotherapy treatment that they were "baldies".'
There is some reference to this on: http://www.essential-eighties.net/blist4.htm
A good reaction to events is often gained from the tabloids. When the Sex Pistols swore on Bill Grundy's show the Daily Mirror led with a story of a man so angry with what had happened that he kicked in his television set to stop his child from hearing it.
Last people to get really and truly stitched up by the media were the Beastie Boys in 1987 weren't they? "Pop Idols Sneer At Dying Kids" was the headline I recall. Of course these days we have Chris Morris so don't need pop acts.:-)
I would disagree strongly. The modern-day equivalent of the Sex Pistols would have to do a whole load than just swear. Look at Noel Gallagher as an exmaple of someone trying very hard. He gets interviewed by Radio One who bleep out the rude stuff, and he is using about 70 times as many expletives as the Sex Pistols ever did. He says stuff like "kill all Tories and the Royal Family". He then goes on to say that taking drugs is like "having a cup of tea" first thing in the morning. Are we shocked? No, it's just Noel being Noel. Big deal....NEXT!.
We're desensitized to stuff and we're definitely not as conservative as we were. Sex Pistols now just look quaint.
3G is just a faster mobile data pipe. What services someone wants to run on it is up to them. You're right that there are more masts required. You may well be able to get a mobile always-on net link with a 3G service provider. You may well find that some licence holders don't offer this sort of service at all.
3G will be a profit-making technology but not tomorrow and not next year. It's a long-term investment which so many analysts seem to forget.
How was it messy for you? It taught me and others quite a lot about OS design (the basics) even though it is not how you'd ultimately write any really decent OS.
English is the "standard" language when people of different tongues meet. Of course enterprising people (and in India you'd expect to find a lot of those) can work on code to bring about support for languages if they want.
No but you can disable that account which is the point. The other accounts don't come into it. A denial of service attack is obviously different to an intrusion.
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Consider this - the founders of Rare are thought go to be leaving next year. It will take roughly 2 years at least before you see any XBox title from Rare. How long has Star Fox Adventures taken to write? (longer than that...) In that time the Gamecube has already had Star Fox Adventures and Nintendo have strengthened third party relations with the money they got from selling their stake in Rare. Developers do not stay at a company forever. The Xbox is not as nice to write for as the Gamecube. Some may leave with their bosses exit and the fact that they have to relearn how to do everything again (having no doubt perfected the art of Gamecube development). Microsoft end up with Rare not as good as it was.
Yes you're wrong.:-) The row size thing was fixed years ago. They've come on in leaps and bounds since version 7. And in my experience of using it for commercial purposes (3 years and counting) it hasn't actually crashed once. I'm still waiting to tickle a bug. Not that they aren't there but clearly not that prevalent.
Easy this one! From the documentation: "If you don't issue a BEGIN command, then each individual statement has an implicit BEGIN and (if successful) COMMIT wrapped around it."
This is all you need to do and is SQL-compliant of course.
The subject? Because yours did not make much sense so I decided to go the whole hog.:-) I have no theory as to God, really. There are no scientific tests to bemade though. Praying is not scientific. How can I know I really meant God to appear in my heart of hearts? What about my subconcious desires I may not fully understand etc.? And what if god does get in touch? What test is ther for knowing if it realy is god? I can't just go "oooh I feel this is god" - I can fool myself just as much as anyone else can. Maybe I'll think it was the way I nearly got run over but saved by a random stranger - maybe I'll believe that stranger was god. Maybe it is the way the sun shines every morning for a month. Maybe I'll think God made it shine for me. Maybe I'll see a burning bush. I am not testing a condition so it's hard to do this sort of thing. with any sort of rigour.
Now...historical evidence for the existence of Jesus and evidence he was the son of god. That's another matter. That can be tested or at least examined for veracity.
When looking for things you have to apply a proper discipline in what you do. It is no good me looking for the existence of dark matter by looking at some astronomical figures and having faith that they prove what I was looking for. Similarly it is no good me praying and having faith in the existence of a God in the hope that they will reward that. That is, after all, what you're saying here. I say I am open, you say that it is not enough, and that I must ask God to reveal himself with my heart ready to accept him. This really means I have to believe in order to get anywhere. And that is clearly wrong.
I can only reply to this one - the other 2 posts are retreads of what you've already said. This is more interesting. First of all I don't trust the Bible anymore than I trust any book I that tells me things I cannot verify the veracity of. The difference is that I am happy to accept a computing book that tells me how the innards of my PC work because it's less important. Accepting it is no big deal. Now accepting a book that wants to change the way I fundementally view my experiences...that's different.
So first of all - I think that, for me, the "pray and see what happens" approach is meaningless. I am perfectly open to the idea God exists as I have already stated. Praying does nothing for this. I've seen no good evidence so I feel I cannot believe as yet. What praying will do is merely confuse me, as it used to. I am not confused at the moment. You can't verify what I am saying you'll have to take my words on trust. If you find that hard to do, sorry.
As for the points you've given: 1) Which gods want to be far away from us? Why does how far away some god, let's call them X, wants to exist from us have any bearing on whether they exist or not? Evidence is important, not "oooh I like the sound of this one" 2) There is a risk which I mentioned above. I believe I am totally open to the existence of God. I fail to see how praying changes how open I am. 3) Thanks for this point - it's definitely something I agree with. I couldn't tell you how to live your life, and I feel you've failed to explain (thus far) why I should be living my life with a very different set of core beliefs. That's fine because I'm not angry - heck, you do what you think is right and good for you. I'm quite happy with my position as it stands though, because it is consistent and it is safe.
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Rackspace charge for you using 30GB of bandwidth a month. So when you only use 20GB you still get charged the same amount. And you think this is a good deal?
Rackspace quoted me a charge (in the UK) of 75 pounds a month to upgrade a server from 512MB of RAM to 1GB. I don't call this a good deal either.
I just took over a site with a dedicated box in Rackspace and I am moving the hell out of there fast.
You're right - I didn't go through and work out which was for which in a trial-and-error process.
It was the 'preferences toolbar' I wanted to choose to get rid of and it does indeed disappear.
Curse me for being so stupid.
Now that I've learned that it really does look like an improvement.
I downloaded a toolbar that lets me turn graphics, colours and cookies on and off at the click of a button.
This no longer has the little thing at teh side that lets me shrink it down - this was mentioned in the Release Notes.
What I'm puzzling over is why they removed that. Is there any way to make the toolbar shrink up and free screen space now it has gone?
You must have better things to do than invent arguments in your head.
I haven't claimed any innovation for the consoles that do not include a network adapter.
You claim that they follow the lead of the XBox, which I say is total rubbish.
Nintendo aren't even looking towards the same market as Microsoft. They have generally tended to focus on young players whereas Microsoft are asking you to have a credit card to play on XBox Live.
Nintendo are aiming at a different market to Microsoft. They've generally courted younger players whereas Microsoft are quite deliberately going for older players here.
Penguins are nowhere near as nice as Tim Tams. Double Chocolate is just gorgeous, especially when you suck piping hot tea through it and then eat it while it melts.
Chocolate mouth orgasm!
As regards the "standard" I have ethernet running all around my house. This is nothing to do with broadband. I was referring to upstream service.
People aren't buying enough XBoxes for MS. They didn't do something right enough.
In fact for a company that as moaned about the "freedom to innovate" what they did wrong was not innovate at all. Sticking a network adaptor in a machine is about as innovative as giving it a hand controller.
The Dreamcast had an integrated modem and that...well let's not go there.
MS must be wondering what the receptionfor XBox 2 will be now. When one console fails to grab the big share of the market it is harder for the next one along to do so.
Broadband is the standard? There is no standard broadband package, so "standard" of what?
Lots of people with XBoxes already have broadband...attached to their PC. You think they will all start setting up home networks?
As forthe PS3 comment I was merely commenting on the XBox being a jumped up PC in a big case. Where Sony can unify the CPU and graphics processors onto one chip Intel and Nvidia (who are still awaiting full royalties payment from Microsoft) are not going to play dice. No similar drop in manufacturing costs. Still losing lots and lots of money per console that is never going to be made back up by games sales because...they're subsidised too!
No doubt about it - XBox is a platform that will be around in the future. And no doubt about it it will not dominate like Windows has done.
What flimsy evidence for claiming a market lead. Not everyone will want to play online so building an adaptor into a box is a bit pointless if it is not going to be used. Microsoft will find it a challenge to get 1 million subscribers within the first year. And how many consoles will be sold by then?
Sony are not rolling out on-line gaming themselves in the same way Microsoft are. They are leaving it to developers of games to do this and they are not specifying that you must have broadband either so the market is potentially much larger.
I do find it funny that you think Sony and Nintendo are taking their lead from MS. Perhaps you expect the PS3 to come out with commodity hardware in a box the size of a car?
MS puts considerable efforts into making their products viable does it?
Well they've just put considerable effort into making the X Box come a very distant second while losing lots of money on it.
Odd that you conveniently forget Nintendo's and Sony's plans for online gaming to make MS sound visionary.
I can only quote the headline I read once but there is a comment from a member of the public on:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1160375.stm
They say:
'Lest we also forget The Beastie Boys, circa summer 1987, who were alleged to have told some kids who had recently had chemotherapy treatment that they were "baldies".'
There is some reference to this on:
http://www.essential-eighties.net/blist4.htm
And of course they were more popular for it!
A good reaction to events is often gained from the tabloids.
:-)
When the Sex Pistols swore on Bill Grundy's show the Daily Mirror led with a story of a man so angry with what had happened that he kicked in his television set to stop his child from hearing it.
Last people to get really and truly stitched up by the media were the Beastie Boys in 1987 weren't they?
"Pop Idols Sneer At Dying Kids" was the headline I recall.
Of course these days we have Chris Morris so don't need pop acts.
I would disagree strongly.
The modern-day equivalent of the Sex Pistols would have to do a whole load than just swear.
Look at Noel Gallagher as an exmaple of someone trying very hard. He gets interviewed by Radio One who bleep out the rude stuff, and he is using about 70 times as many expletives as the Sex Pistols ever did.
He says stuff like "kill all Tories and the Royal Family".
He then goes on to say that taking drugs is like "having a cup of tea" first thing in the morning.
Are we shocked? No, it's just Noel being Noel.
Big deal....NEXT!.
We're desensitized to stuff and we're definitely not as conservative as we were.
Sex Pistols now just look quaint.
Not specifically aimed at your comments:
3G is just a faster mobile data pipe. What services someone wants to run on it is up to them.
You're right that there are more masts required.
You may well be able to get a mobile always-on net link with a 3G service provider. You may well find that some licence holders don't offer this sort of service at all.
3G will be a profit-making technology but not tomorrow and not next year. It's a long-term investment which so many analysts seem to forget.
How was it messy for you?
It taught me and others quite a lot about OS design (the basics) even though it is not how you'd ultimately write any really decent OS.
English is the "standard" language when people of different tongues meet.
Of course enterprising people (and in India you'd expect to find a lot of those) can work on code to bring about support for languages if they want.
No but you can disable that account which is the point. The other accounts don't come into it.
A denial of service attack is obviously different to an intrusion.
Consider this - the founders of Rare are thought go to be leaving next year.
It will take roughly 2 years at least before you see any XBox title from Rare. How long has Star Fox Adventures taken to write? (longer than that...)
In that time the Gamecube has already had Star Fox Adventures and Nintendo have strengthened third party relations with the money they got from selling their stake in Rare.
Developers do not stay at a company forever. The Xbox is not as nice to write for as the Gamecube.
Some may leave with their bosses exit and the fact that they have to relearn how to do everything again (having no doubt perfected the art of Gamecube development).
Microsoft end up with Rare not as good as it was.
Yes you're wrong. :-) The row size thing was fixed years ago. They've come on in leaps and bounds since version 7.
And in my experience of using it for commercial purposes (3 years and counting) it hasn't actually crashed once.
I'm still waiting to tickle a bug. Not that they aren't there but clearly not that prevalent.
Easy this one! From the documentation:
"If you don't issue a BEGIN command, then each individual statement has an implicit BEGIN and (if successful) COMMIT wrapped around it."
This is all you need to do and is SQL-compliant of course.
I'm sure some solvent applied in the right place would sort the glue out anyway.
As long as it didnt' get on the CD I guess.
The subject? Because yours did not make much sense so I decided to go the whole hog. :-)
I have no theory as to God, really.
There are no scientific tests to bemade though.
Praying is not scientific. How can I know I really meant God to appear in my heart of hearts? What about my subconcious desires I may not fully understand etc.?
And what if god does get in touch? What test is ther for knowing if it realy is god? I can't just go "oooh I feel this is god" - I can fool myself just as much as anyone else can.
Maybe I'll think it was the way I nearly got run over but saved by a random stranger - maybe I'll believe that stranger was god. Maybe it is the way the sun shines every morning for a month. Maybe I'll think God made it shine for me.
Maybe I'll see a burning bush.
I am not testing a condition so it's hard to do this sort of thing. with any sort of rigour.
Now...historical evidence for the existence of Jesus and evidence he was the son of god. That's another matter.
That can be tested or at least examined for veracity.
When looking for things you have to apply a proper discipline in what you do. It is no good me looking for the existence of dark matter by looking at some astronomical figures and having faith that they prove what I was looking for.
Similarly it is no good me praying and having faith in the existence of a God in the hope that they will reward that. That is, after all, what you're saying here. I say I am open, you say that it is not enough, and that I must ask God to reveal himself with my heart ready to accept him. This really means I have to believe in order to get anywhere. And that is clearly wrong.
I can only reply to this one - the other 2 posts are retreads of what you've already said. This is more interesting.
First of all I don't trust the Bible anymore than I trust any book I that tells me things I cannot verify the veracity of.
The difference is that I am happy to accept a computing book that tells me how the innards of my PC work because it's less important. Accepting it is no big deal. Now accepting a book that wants to change the way I fundementally view my experiences...that's different.
So first of all - I think that, for me, the "pray and see what happens" approach is meaningless.
I am perfectly open to the idea God exists as I have already stated. Praying does nothing for this.
I've seen no good evidence so I feel I cannot believe as yet.
What praying will do is merely confuse me, as it used to. I am not confused at the moment.
You can't verify what I am saying you'll have to take my words on trust.
If you find that hard to do, sorry.
As for the points you've given:
1) Which gods want to be far away from us? Why does how far away some god, let's call them X, wants to exist from us have any bearing on whether they exist or not? Evidence is important, not "oooh I like the sound of this one"
2) There is a risk which I mentioned above. I believe I am totally open to the existence of God.
I fail to see how praying changes how open I am.
3) Thanks for this point - it's definitely something I agree with. I couldn't tell you how to live your life, and I feel you've failed to explain (thus far) why I should be living my life with a very different set of core beliefs.
That's fine because I'm not angry - heck, you do what you think is right and good for you.
I'm quite happy with my position as it stands though, because it is consistent and it is safe.
Sounds silly but without learning the maths behind physics it is meaningless.