It can be worse then that. When SBC, Everest and Time Warner were trenching here in Overland Park they kept hitting gas and water mains. The city finally had to halt all trenching until a survey of mains was done.
We also had the problem that there was no coordination in laying the fiber. SBC might dig up a street one week and lay some fiber and then Everest would come in the next month and dig it up again. It made a mess of the streets and traffic. You could hardly go anywhere without it being one lane and then you'd have to drive over those big metal plates all over the place.
Here in Overland Park you can't work in IT without having a few ex Sprint people around as well as coworkers with spouses who work there. We hear a lot of stuff.
Word is that Nextel people are taking over Sprint management from the inside. They may be able to pull this WiMax thing off if they can get the internal politics and bureaucracy under control.
When the CEO's technophobe secretary demands that she not have to enter her password then, yea, the privileges will be elevated. They'll send a IT guy right over.
Until those legacy apps break or run in a VM I doubt they have addressed security in any meaningful way. The same for games with copy protection that roots your system (i.e. Starforce).
There's a lot of unbelievably bad Windows code out there. If most of it runs without a hitch have they really fixed anything?
If developers would just make it easier for Cedega/Wine users by not tying things to IE or using obnoxious copy protection. That would at least let them run on Linux.
We're not asking for full support. Just fewer roadblocks.
In any case even if I had Windows I wouldn't install any new games on it until I could find out if it used DRM Malware like Starforce.
One interesting bit in Puzzle Pirates is that your levels aren't directly related to how much time you put in. It's how good you are at the puzzles. So instead of experience points you get real experience.
It makes accounts eBay proof too. I've never seen a gold farmer in PP.
Check the ratings, read reviews and at least watch your kids play occasionally.
Try playing with them. I play with my niece and nephew. They think I'm the coolest uncle ever.
You know, Lego Star Wars is fun and you can hit Jar Jar with a lightsaber when the kids aren't watching.
Now that being said I never buy the kids anything without researching it first and running it by my sister so she can check it out too.
There's a bonus too. If parents started really looking at the games they get for their kids there might be an incentive to stop making some of the godawful crap they make for kids.
You don't just want to know if it's too violent. You also need to know if it's too hard or too easy. You don't want to frustrate or insult them.
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For some reason I'm now hungry for alphabet soup.
It can be worse then that. When SBC, Everest and Time Warner were trenching here in Overland Park they kept hitting gas and water mains. The city finally had to halt all trenching until a survey of mains was done.
We also had the problem that there was no coordination in laying the fiber. SBC might dig up a street one week and lay some fiber and then Everest would come in the next month and dig it up again. It made a mess of the streets and traffic. You could hardly go anywhere without it being one lane and then you'd have to drive over those big metal plates all over the place.
They spun off the local phone stuff as Embarq http://embarq.com/.
Here in Overland Park you can't work in IT without having a few ex Sprint people around as well as coworkers with spouses who work there. We hear a lot of stuff.
Word is that Nextel people are taking over Sprint management from the inside. They may be able to pull this WiMax thing off if they can get the internal politics and bureaucracy under control.
It would make a dandy Apache module just like Subversion.
Battlegrounds looks great. Thanks for making a OS X client.
So many games, so little time.
Gizmo http://gizmoproject.com/ works pretty well too and allows more people in a conference call.
It's also free and works on Linux, OS X, and Windows.
Oh, and it speaks Jabber and SIP too.
> Microsoft's most secure Operating System yet
It says that it's MICROSOFTS most secure OS yet. Not THE most secure OS yet.
I'm sure it is. The only way to make it worse would be to ship it pre-trojaned.
I think MS may charge to get the exe signed. If that is still the case you still won't see that many signed drivers.
When the CEO's technophobe secretary demands that she not have to enter her password then, yea, the privileges will be elevated. They'll send a IT guy right over.
> The only legitimate break in the security model here was the end-user.
The user is the biggest security problem of all, regardless of OS.
Until those legacy apps break or run in a VM I doubt they have addressed security in any meaningful way. The same for games with copy protection that roots your system (i.e. Starforce).
There's a lot of unbelievably bad Windows code out there. If most of it runs without a hitch have they really fixed anything?
It's modded funny 'cause it's true.
That is a excellent way to save a few bucks. I'd drop the RAM and disk to minimum and get what you want from Newegg or somesuch.
I'll bet you remember this one:
purge ud0:[000000...]*.*
Yup, everything old is new again.
A more apt comparaison. "Time Machine is like System Restore except Time Machine is useful."
I just hope they don't go completely down the tubes before IBM's lawyers eat them alive.
Ice Pirates!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/
Call it Scripophily it sounds more impressive.
If developers would just make it easier for Cedega/Wine users by not tying things to IE or using obnoxious copy protection. That would at least let them run on Linux.
We're not asking for full support. Just fewer roadblocks.
In any case even if I had Windows I wouldn't install any new games on it until I could find out if it used DRM Malware like Starforce.
They also host Game Gardens where people can experiment with making their own games.
I like these guys more all the time.
One interesting bit in Puzzle Pirates is that your levels aren't directly related to how much time you put in. It's how good you are at the puzzles. So instead of experience points you get real experience.
It makes accounts eBay proof too. I've never seen a gold farmer in PP.
...that both Puzzle Pirates and Bang! Howdy are available for the PC, Mac and Linux. I play it on Linux and it works flawlessly.
I didn't mean to offend. There are a lot of non gamers here too.
Hmmmmm, by their definition Wack-A-Mole is 100% violent. That's pretty screwed up.
Check the ratings, read reviews and at least watch your kids play occasionally.
Try playing with them. I play with my niece and nephew. They think I'm the coolest uncle ever.
You know, Lego Star Wars is fun and you can hit Jar Jar with a lightsaber when the kids aren't watching.
Now that being said I never buy the kids anything without researching it first and running it by my sister so she can check it out too.
There's a bonus too. If parents started really looking at the games they get for their kids there might be an incentive to stop making some of the godawful crap they make for kids.
You don't just want to know if it's too violent. You also need to know if it's too hard or too easy. You don't want to frustrate or insult them.
Nobody said raising kids was easy.