It's also not very useful if you want a proper backup policy, which would include incremental backups (so if a script misplaces an rm -rf, or you get infected with a virus, but don't discover them for a few days).
Well, incremental backups will work to some X% of the drive's capacity, but depending on how large and how frequent your changes are, along with your incremental backup policy, you'll probably need a third drive.
So Linux users, in general, want to pirate music rather than buy it? That's a pretty gross generalization. Especially since many of them have reasonably-paying software/IT jobs. And they're geeks, so they're used to plunking down cash for computer upgrades and broadband upgrades more quickly than others.
My Fortune-500 company has many offices around the country. They pay the same amount to almost everyone, with only a couple percent of places having higher pay because of local cost-of-living.
I don't know if this is true of every company, but it wouldn't surprise me, since global companies make the same profit from your work, no matter where you live.
So, as I see it, at least with my company, living in the heart of an urban area is something that comes straight out of employee's pockets, since it's primarily a benefit to the employee (we're a tech/manufacturing company, not a financial/investment firm or anything that might more reasonably REQUIRE you to live in the heart of a large city).
Well, very large rivers are unavoidably going to have river deltas. And river deltas form into bayous once the path switches. And very large rivers are an economic draw due to the shipping lane. Therefore... mankind is unavoidably economically drawn toward building cities in bayous.
Though the Mississippi Delta is shrinking quickly due to artificial intervention. And apparently European Deltas are headed the same way? So, in the long run, mankind is destined to destroy river deltas so they can economically prosper at shipping ports without getting sprinkled with 20 feet of water from time to time?
Isn't "competitive PVP" something of a drag on time anyway, insofar as the people most willing to grind and grind to get EQ will be the ones who win at PVP. It seems like something like online RTS's would be significantly less of a timesink, and much more of a skill-vs-skill kind of game.
collect insane amounts of dark iron ore and other things, so that eventually one of your reputation bars can turn the color you want
... anything else people do at level 60. EVERYTHING at level 60 is significantly harder to get than anything at level 59, because Blizzard wants to give people something to do once experience is no longer worth anything
Ahh, but the bayous would regularly flood from the other side, and New Orleans was built on the highest ground they could find to begin with. Ahh screw it, like you said, don't build a city in the bayou!
Well, New New Orleans wouldn't be "bowl shaped", it would be... I don't know, ski-slope shaped. (half a bowl, since it wouldn't be up against the Lake). New New Orleans could still get flooded just as readily, but the 20 feet of water wouldn't stay stuck there, it would run off into the bayou on the other side, so it would be a situation where fewer people could die due to human negligence. Though, like they say, no matter how idiot-proof you try to make something, there's always a smarter idiot out there.
As far as I can tell, implementors of TCP systems, file protocols (NFS, Samba), etc. When push comes to shove, they may be able to come up with a legal definition to try to separate Kazaa from these. But most likely, this sucks, because the judge didn't realize quite the landmine he was stepping into.
I mean, surely the inventors of the BSD TCP stack have known for a long time that piracy was occuring over the network. And it's possible to do data fingerprinting, even at the TCP level. So what stops them from being legally liable in the future?
I'm using the Classic (grey) start button configuration, for what that's worth. Are you using the cotton-candy default XP start button? The default green+blue XP button covers more area visually, though I don't see why they need to act any differently. (if this is the reason, then maybe the new layout isn't completely rubbish)
For what it's worth, 50 years ago, the Army Corps of Engineers had to do quite a bit of work to keep the Mississippi River flowing past New Orleans. If they would have let Mississippi move to the west, New Orleans would have dwindled economically, and shipping would have moved over to the new branch of the Mississippi. I don't know if New New Orleans would have been terribly much safer. It would still probably be stuck in a bayou, though it at least wouldn't have been stuck between the river and Lake Ponchartrain.
I can't really upgrade my screen until my company laptop is replaced. My current workaround is to use a second screen (a CRT... I prefer my laptop's LCD for reading text), and designate it as the "primary" screen, so all the visual junk shows up over there (not just un-auto-hide), while I do my real work on the screen that Windows considers the "secondary". It mostly works well, except that the Alt-Tab dialog ends up being the ONLY thing I actually regularly need to show up in my primary workspace (gee, who would have guessed you don't need all that other stuff?).
so why don't any major Desktop Environments exploit the screen corners?
I have a good reason: it's because they are the easiest spots to hit with the mouse.
So require the user to click first. The article mentions this, and mentions that their "Start" Button can be activated this way.
But you know what's weird about Windows XP? You can throw the cursor into the lower-left corner, click, and... nothing. Windows is nanometers from doing the right thing, but still manages to miss it.
MOD UP. Does anyone know how to prevent the Taskbar from poping up when it's on Auto-Hide? It drives me insane. Especially in MSN IM, every time someone messages you, the taskbar pops up, blocking what you're doing! I've literally ended conversations with people simply because this is so annoying.
(I've seen some suggested registry hacks, but I haven't seen them work properly in XP)
On a more serious note though, there's nothing at all preventing PC games from running completely from the *ROM and not from the hard drive.
(though, of course, as soon as you suggest that, someone is going to complain that they spent far too much on their computer just to have to store a pile of *ROMs next to their computer, waiting to get scratched)
And FEMA now controls the Nuclear Incident Response Team too! So apparently we won't be responding to nuclear incidents for at least four days either. I'm getting a warm and fuzzy feeling already.
Not to mention that FEMA is under the Department of Homeland Security now, and responding to an event four days later, war-zone conditions or not, is really unspeakably incompetent, given that the DHS is supposed to be prepared to respond to chemical or biological attacks very very quickly. Apparently they're not remotely prepared.
New Orleans isn't some third-world country who just got out from under the rule of a greedy tyrant, that's stuck on the other side of the world surrounded by countries who are only helping us because we're giving them enough money. The food and gas supply chain doesn't have to pass through hundreds of miles of insurgents with improvised explosives.
This is the US. This is FIVE days after the hurricane went through, and FEMA still doens't have their story straight.
Zoinks! That's not some obscure out-of-the-way webpage either. Go to http://www.dhs.gov/. On the top navigation bar, there's an obvious "Emergencies & Disasters" link, click it. That page is basically completely empty.
Yeah, but once you write your shared idea down, it's automatically copyrighted to you. You have to formally state that the written-down idea is in the public domain if you wish. All your spoken-only words are still in the public domain though.
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Well, incremental backups will work to some X% of the drive's capacity, but depending on how large and how frequent your changes are, along with your incremental backup policy, you'll probably need a third drive.
Because guitars have lower switching barriers than software.
So Linux users, in general, want to pirate music rather than buy it? That's a pretty gross generalization. Especially since many of them have reasonably-paying software/IT jobs. And they're geeks, so they're used to plunking down cash for computer upgrades and broadband upgrades more quickly than others.
You can grab your own copy (I'm not sure why it's delayed by a couple months though, it used to be up-to-date).
I don't know if this is true of every company, but it wouldn't surprise me, since global companies make the same profit from your work, no matter where you live.
So, as I see it, at least with my company, living in the heart of an urban area is something that comes straight out of employee's pockets, since it's primarily a benefit to the employee (we're a tech/manufacturing company, not a financial/investment firm or anything that might more reasonably REQUIRE you to live in the heart of a large city).
Though the Mississippi Delta is shrinking quickly due to artificial intervention. And apparently European Deltas are headed the same way? So, in the long run, mankind is destined to destroy river deltas so they can economically prosper at shipping ports without getting sprinkled with 20 feet of water from time to time?
Isn't "competitive PVP" something of a drag on time anyway, insofar as the people most willing to grind and grind to get EQ will be the ones who win at PVP. It seems like something like online RTS's would be significantly less of a timesink, and much more of a skill-vs-skill kind of game.
Ahh, but the bayous would regularly flood from the other side, and New Orleans was built on the highest ground they could find to begin with. Ahh screw it, like you said, don't build a city in the bayou!
Well, New New Orleans wouldn't be "bowl shaped", it would be... I don't know, ski-slope shaped. (half a bowl, since it wouldn't be up against the Lake). New New Orleans could still get flooded just as readily, but the 20 feet of water wouldn't stay stuck there, it would run off into the bayou on the other side, so it would be a situation where fewer people could die due to human negligence. Though, like they say, no matter how idiot-proof you try to make something, there's always a smarter idiot out there.
I mean, surely the inventors of the BSD TCP stack have known for a long time that piracy was occuring over the network. And it's possible to do data fingerprinting, even at the TCP level. So what stops them from being legally liable in the future?
I'm using the Classic (grey) start button configuration, for what that's worth. Are you using the cotton-candy default XP start button? The default green+blue XP button covers more area visually, though I don't see why they need to act any differently. (if this is the reason, then maybe the new layout isn't completely rubbish)
For what it's worth, 50 years ago, the Army Corps of Engineers had to do quite a bit of work to keep the Mississippi River flowing past New Orleans. If they would have let Mississippi move to the west, New Orleans would have dwindled economically, and shipping would have moved over to the new branch of the Mississippi. I don't know if New New Orleans would have been terribly much safer. It would still probably be stuck in a bayou, though it at least wouldn't have been stuck between the river and Lake Ponchartrain.
I can't really upgrade my screen until my company laptop is replaced. My current workaround is to use a second screen (a CRT... I prefer my laptop's LCD for reading text), and designate it as the "primary" screen, so all the visual junk shows up over there (not just un-auto-hide), while I do my real work on the screen that Windows considers the "secondary". It mostly works well, except that the Alt-Tab dialog ends up being the ONLY thing I actually regularly need to show up in my primary workspace (gee, who would have guessed you don't need all that other stuff?).
But you know what's weird about Windows XP? You can throw the cursor into the lower-left corner, click, and... nothing. Windows is nanometers from doing the right thing, but still manages to miss it.
(I've seen some suggested registry hacks, but I haven't seen them work properly in XP)
Haha, the same people are trolling wikipedia. Wikipedia's "no original research" policy is specifically designed to avoid physics cranks, but somehow, Wikipedia can't get rid of these guys either.
On a more serious note though, there's nothing at all preventing PC games from running completely from the *ROM and not from the hard drive.
(though, of course, as soon as you suggest that, someone is going to complain that they spent far too much on their computer just to have to store a pile of *ROMs next to their computer, waiting to get scratched)
And FEMA now controls the Nuclear Incident Response Team too! So apparently we won't be responding to nuclear incidents for at least four days either. I'm getting a warm and fuzzy feeling already.
Not to mention that FEMA is under the Department of Homeland Security now, and responding to an event four days later, war-zone conditions or not, is really unspeakably incompetent, given that the DHS is supposed to be prepared to respond to chemical or biological attacks very very quickly. Apparently they're not remotely prepared.
New Orleans isn't some third-world country who just got out from under the rule of a greedy tyrant, that's stuck on the other side of the world surrounded by countries who are only helping us because we're giving them enough money. The food and gas supply chain doesn't have to pass through hundreds of miles of insurgents with improvised explosives.
This is the US. This is FIVE days after the hurricane went through, and FEMA still doens't have their story straight.
This is gross incompetence.
http://www.fema.gov/ has lots of stuff up, but dhs.gov doesn't. How weird.
Donations will go to New Orleans, diamond mining, and horse racin^H^H^H^H^H^H athleticism.
Link to the guy's posts on a webserver that can handle it, please
Yeah, but once you write your shared idea down, it's automatically copyrighted to you. You have to formally state that the written-down idea is in the public domain if you wish. All your spoken-only words are still in the public domain though.