Missing? They just finally got rid of the d@mn things and you are trying to bring them back? Let me say again: good riddance to floppies. If you still actually use floppies you can just buy a seperate reader and let the rest of us continue on into the 21st century.
In my opinion the C&C series went downhill since "Red Alert", the problem being that the game complexity kept increasing, allowing people to develop pre-cooked strategies which could only be defeated with other pre-cooked strategies, reducing the opportunity for creativity in playing the game.
What? Red Alert was pretty much the pinnacle of complexity for Westwood. (Unless you count the Red Alert expansion pack). Since then games like Red Alert 2 and CC:TS seem to focus a lot more on a few strategies (especially RA2, fortunatly the expansion pack gives you much more flexibility). Heck, RA2 comes with a little cardboard standup with a few of the "recommended" strategies on it (although they tend to be dumb strategies).
Perhaps. How many of you belligerent, or simply benign Linux users have been to a site which demand you have WIMP, REAL, or QT installed??
Quick... which one of those players are on your platform?! None!!! Yes. You got it right.
Well, If you can't be bothered to install the Linux version of Realplayer or Mplayer I can't really feel sorry for you. Sorensen is a major sticking point though. The only Linux player is not freeware!
I didn't really understand the rest of your comment unfortunatly. "Open base level MPEG4?" All your base are belong to Sorensen?
I thought Uhura's nude scene was handled pretty nicely. I was just laughing my ass off once these stupid horny guards realized that not only is it a blatently obvious trap, but they were lusting after someone old enough to be their grandmother...
Actually, it seems like they do exactly the opposite. The odd movies tend to be more of the same (tm) while the even ones more often break the mold (ST IV for example).
I'm with Comcast in Reston too and I've been noticing a fair number of what appear to be router resets on my cable modem (the cable modem is fine, but no traffic makes it in or out and all of my existing connections time out). I'm offline for about 5 minutes on each hit which is enough to time out my newgroup connections.
On the other hand, I've had no major problems with Comcast for over a year now, which is pretty good for a broadband provider.
I echo your sentiment about dialup though. I'm surprised you managed to get RedHat so quick though. Even though my pipe is nice and fat, it seems like most of RedHat's mirror sites are on dialup (if they aren't 5 versions out of date or just plain dead)
Er, Netscape of course. Well, I guess it's technically Mozilla, but Netscape was always called Mozilla under the hood.
In fact I never use IE here, mostly because I don't have Windows here and MS's idea of well ported code is "It runs on both kinds of platforms, Windows AND Mac[1]". Not that i'd be jumping all over IE even if were ported to FreeBSD anyway, Mozilla does a bang up job for what I do.
Unfortunatly I can't carry the tone correctly in the post. Just imagine the diner scene in the Blues Brothers where the waitress explains how they have both kinds of music, Country AND Western.
Then a large percentage of their users would go elsewhere.
That's assuming they can go elsewhere. Remember in a lot of areas there is only 1 high speed access provider for home users. Where I live now I'm too far away from the central office to get DSL, so if my local cable company starts price gouging I have little recourse other than going back to modem. Modems are not a good solution for people like me who use a fair bit of bandwidth. I'm not ashamed to admit that both me and my roommates consume a good chunck of bandwidth, and that I rather like the somewhat lower latencies and lack of random disconnects when I'm playing games over the internet. Modems suck and I want nothing to do with them ever again.
Also, cell phones were slow to take off in the US because the phone companes not only wanted metered charges, but they wanted enormous metered charges. Everybody seems to forget that cell phones used to be the things you got for business purposes because no regular individual could reasonably afford to use one for personal purposes unless they were a drug dealer or a millionare. I don't know what it was like in other parts of the world, but I can remember when a single 5 minute call on a cell phone would cost you over $2us (or much more if you were roaming).
Assuming you're using the standard conventions, MTF stands for Mean Time to Fail. ("to" sometimes being replaced by "between" and Fail with Failures). In that case I can wholeheartedly agree with your statement, using a single tasking OS in a multiuser environment will decrease your MTF significantly, especially if your users have service level agreements.
Hmm, you both complained about the tediousness of entering text on your phone and your lack of motivation to use the autocomplete in the same sentence. Isn't the autocomplete supposed to make the text entry on the phone less tedious? What am I missing here?
Thats what we do. Use 128 bit passwords, but then treat the link as insecure. Remember that good security comes in layers. The 128 bit WEP may not provide foolproof security, but it is certainly a deterrent to attack, and if you only run VPN traffic over the network you add yet another layer the cracker must compromise, and if you require that everything connected to the network have a good firewall (with a specified standard ruleset that allows only VPN traffic, and only to the IPs and MACs that we're expecting) then you add yet another layer of security.
What I really want is for the cards to rotate the WEP codes on a regular basis (once ever second for instance) automatically. I actually implemented this on our WaveLans with FreeBSD, but unfortunatly it prevented Windows users from connecting because the Windows drivers weren't nearly as automatable. It also opens a big can of worms with keeping the machines synchronized (ntp helps, but what happens when someone goes away for awhile and their clock drifts?) and coming up with a way of producing the same pseudo-random number on all machines without it being predictable since you obviously can't send the encryption key over the air. This would obviously work a lot better if the cards themselves implemented it and just ran it transparently with only a little bit of extra configuration data (a 128 bit or bigger seed).
The biggest problem I have with PC104 hardware is the cost. Most of it is ment for industrial type applications where people don't mind paying $100 for a 10 Base-T NIC and a thousand dollars for a 133Mhz PC.
Also, PC104 boards are terrible for laptops. They are ment to be stackable (vertically!) and each card is pretty high (about an inch thick) to start with. You could probably build ribbon cables and special connectors for PC104 boards, but if you're going to that much trouble you might as well just buy a cheap laptop and rip it's mobo out.
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Several times? I seem to remember breaking a sweat pretty much every time I used that thing. Granted I wasn't the most athletic kid, but given that the shortest course in that track and field cartridge was apparently 10 miles long, I don't see how you could avoid breaking a sweat.
Of course we didn't cheat...much. Everytime it had you jumping some hurdle we'd quickly jump off the pad and back on. It made the game thing that you'd just jumped 20 feet in the air.:)
Still, remembering that pad made me wish DDR was invented sooner instead of the just plain awful Dance Aerobics cart.
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Gee, all we need now is a railgun that doesn't melt every time you fire it.
Missing? They just finally got rid of the d@mn things and you are trying to bring them back? Let me say again: good riddance to floppies. If you still actually use floppies you can just buy a seperate reader and let the rest of us continue on into the 21st century.
Screw porn. Fill the servers up with DivX movies/anime and MP3 files. Then announce it on Slashdot. That is the ultimate test of bandwidth.
Or just 42.
In my opinion the C&C series went downhill since "Red Alert", the problem being that the game complexity kept increasing, allowing people to develop pre-cooked strategies which could only be defeated with other pre-cooked strategies, reducing the opportunity for creativity in playing the game.
What? Red Alert was pretty much the pinnacle of complexity for Westwood. (Unless you count the Red Alert expansion pack). Since then games like Red Alert 2 and CC:TS seem to focus a lot more on a few strategies (especially RA2, fortunatly the expansion pack gives you much more flexibility). Heck, RA2 comes with a little cardboard standup with a few of the "recommended" strategies on it (although they tend to be dumb strategies).
Perhaps. How many of you belligerent, or simply benign Linux users have been to a site which demand you have WIMP, REAL, or QT installed??
Quick... which one of those players are on your platform?! None!!! Yes. You got it right.
Well, If you can't be bothered to install the Linux version of Realplayer or Mplayer I can't really feel sorry for you. Sorensen is a major sticking point though. The only Linux player is not freeware!
I didn't really understand the rest of your comment unfortunatly. "Open base level MPEG4?" All your base are belong to Sorensen?
I thought Uhura's nude scene was handled pretty nicely. I was just laughing my ass off once these stupid horny guards realized that not only is it a blatently obvious trap, but they were lusting after someone old enough to be their grandmother...
Actually, it seems like they do exactly the opposite. The odd movies tend to be more of the same (tm) while the even ones more often break the mold (ST IV for example).
I'm with Comcast in Reston too and I've been noticing a fair number of what appear to be router resets on my cable modem (the cable modem is fine, but no traffic makes it in or out and all of my existing connections time out). I'm offline for about 5 minutes on each hit which is enough to time out my newgroup connections.
On the other hand, I've had no major problems with Comcast for over a year now, which is pretty good for a broadband provider.
I echo your sentiment about dialup though. I'm surprised you managed to get RedHat so quick though. Even though my pipe is nice and fat, it seems like most of RedHat's mirror sites are on dialup (if they aren't 5 versions out of date or just plain dead)
Er, Netscape of course. Well, I guess it's technically Mozilla, but Netscape was always called Mozilla under the hood.
In fact I never use IE here, mostly because I don't have Windows here and MS's idea of well ported code is "It runs on both kinds of platforms, Windows AND Mac[1]". Not that i'd be jumping all over IE even if were ported to FreeBSD anyway, Mozilla does a bang up job for what I do.
Unfortunatly I can't carry the tone correctly in the post. Just imagine the diner scene in the Blues Brothers where the waitress explains how they have both kinds of music, Country AND Western.
Then a large percentage of their users would go elsewhere.
That's assuming they can go elsewhere. Remember in a lot of areas there is only 1 high speed access provider for home users. Where I live now I'm too far away from the central office to get DSL, so if my local cable company starts price gouging I have little recourse other than going back to modem. Modems are not a good solution for people like me who use a fair bit of bandwidth. I'm not ashamed to admit that both me and my roommates consume a good chunck of bandwidth, and that I rather like the somewhat lower latencies and lack of random disconnects when I'm playing games over the internet. Modems suck and I want nothing to do with them ever again.
Also, cell phones were slow to take off in the US because the phone companes not only wanted metered charges, but they wanted enormous metered charges. Everybody seems to forget that cell phones used to be the things you got for business purposes because no regular individual could reasonably afford to use one for personal purposes unless they were a drug dealer or a millionare. I don't know what it was like in other parts of the world, but I can remember when a single 5 minute call on a cell phone would cost you over $2us (or much more if you were roaming).
I'm probably being trolled, but...
Assuming you're using the standard conventions, MTF stands for Mean Time to Fail. ("to" sometimes being replaced by "between" and Fail with Failures). In that case I can wholeheartedly agree with your statement, using a single tasking OS in a multiuser environment will decrease your MTF significantly, especially if your users have service level agreements.
Yeah, and last time I used the firmware flasher for my IBM drives I noticed that the disk used PC-DOS. What's so amazing about that?
0101100101100101011000010110100000101100
0010000001100010011101010111010000100000
0111010001101000011011110111001101100101
0010000001110111011010000110111100100000
0110001101100001011011100010000001110010
0110010101100001011001000010000001010011
0110110001100001011100110110100001100100
011011110111010000101110
But then God replied: "Nietzsche is dead", and he was right on the money.
Hmm, you both complained about the tediousness of entering text on your phone and your lack of motivation to use the autocomplete in the same sentence. Isn't the autocomplete supposed to make the text entry on the phone less tedious? What am I missing here?
Dang, I couldn't remember which were NP-Hard vs. NP-Complete. Well, just substitute any NP-Complete problem in there.
Dang, now I'm unsure if the Halting problem is NP-Complete.
AT&T has solved the traveling salesman problem by translating it into an input their program understands...
wasn't this supposed to be an NP-Complete problem?
Neat troll, but I think you are forgetting one thing. We do understand their motivations because we programmed them ourselves. In a word: duh.
Thats what we do. Use 128 bit passwords, but then treat the link as insecure. Remember that good security comes in layers. The 128 bit WEP may not provide foolproof security, but it is certainly a deterrent to attack, and if you only run VPN traffic over the network you add yet another layer the cracker must compromise, and if you require that everything connected to the network have a good firewall (with a specified standard ruleset that allows only VPN traffic, and only to the IPs and MACs that we're expecting) then you add yet another layer of security.
What I really want is for the cards to rotate the WEP codes on a regular basis (once ever second for instance) automatically. I actually implemented this on our WaveLans with FreeBSD, but unfortunatly it prevented Windows users from connecting because the Windows drivers weren't nearly as automatable. It also opens a big can of worms with keeping the machines synchronized (ntp helps, but what happens when someone goes away for awhile and their clock drifts?) and coming up with a way of producing the same pseudo-random number on all machines without it being predictable since you obviously can't send the encryption key over the air. This would obviously work a lot better if the cards themselves implemented it and just ran it transparently with only a little bit of extra configuration data (a 128 bit or bigger seed).
The biggest problem I have with PC104 hardware is the cost. Most of it is ment for industrial type applications where people don't mind paying $100 for a 10 Base-T NIC and a thousand dollars for a 133Mhz PC.
Also, PC104 boards are terrible for laptops. They are ment to be stackable (vertically!) and each card is pretty high (about an inch thick) to start with. You could probably build ribbon cables and special connectors for PC104 boards, but if you're going to that much trouble you might as well just buy a cheap laptop and rip it's mobo out.
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If everyone were to say this, we would never have had Nazis
I'm sorry, this debate is over. You lose.
Several times? I seem to remember breaking a sweat pretty much every time I used that thing. Granted I wasn't the most athletic kid, but given that the shortest course in that track and field cartridge was apparently 10 miles long, I don't see how you could avoid breaking a sweat.
:)
Of course we didn't cheat...much. Everytime it had you jumping some hurdle we'd quickly jump off the pad and back on. It made the game thing that you'd just jumped 20 feet in the air.
Still, remembering that pad made me wish DDR was invented sooner instead of the just plain awful Dance Aerobics cart.