Save your money. The API is pretty hosed. I sent a simple command, almost verbatim from the docs, only substituted my own object, and well, it didn't work! Here's the code snippet:
I'm just hoping there's a subsidy-code unlock that can be done to open this up to other sim cards. I got a Motorola A780, and after a year and a half of futzing with it I STILL don't have a good synchronization solution going. I got it because it runs linux and there are (theoretically) all sorts of things I could do with it, but none of them have worked quite right. This would be a breath of fresh air for me, but given I'm on contract with T-Mobile, I'd gladly buy if I could bring my own sim card.
Actually, our own data center I'm kinda proud of, being that it is one large hack. We're in a mixed residential/commercial facility, and it happens that our unit was residential prior to our arrival. I converted the master bedroom to be our server room (holds 10 racks...not too shabby for a small operation!), have a 5 ton air conditioner piped in, picked up the racks themselves for about $100 each from a reseller here in town, and our original servers were Compaq desktop machines, all sharing NFS back to a RAID array, and using load balancers to make many of them appear as single servers (thanks for the idea, Google!)
Anything that requires resource forks won't execute from UFS. I used UFS explicitly for things that I *didn't* want to deal with resource forks, primarily home directories. That, and where I wanted a fully case-sensitive filesystem. OSX has since added an explicitly case-sensitive journalling HFS+, to go along with the HFS+ that was case-respecting but case-insensitive. No reason to use UFS1 anymore...especially since there's no journalling. UFS2 adds that, but with the advent of this, I don't see them adding UFS2.
I couldn't help it. As I was scrolling up the screen I saw this thread of comments and saw slashdot inviting me to drink for it's firehouse, and though to myself that SCO is asking the Judge to drink from their firehose.:\....
I've learned something about trapping small animals.
My wife's cat (ie, she had the cat for the better part of 5 years before we got married) doesn't like me all that much. She would take the cat with us when we'd visit her parents' house, and in her old bedroom she had a queen-sized waterbed, where the headboard is suspended, leaving a little "tunnel" behind the bedframe and underneath the headboard.
The cat decided that when it was time to leave, it wasn't time to leave, and got under there, dead center out of reach. Now, in having raised cats prior, I taught them early on that I was the parent, and would pick them up by the scruff of the neck to let them know who was boss. This cat didn't know that game. I quickly grabbed her by the back of the neck and pulled her out....only for her to empty her bowel and bladder on me. There have been a few more times since I've had to do this, and the result is the same.
Point is, you may win in the end, but don't underestimate their ability to claw, scratch, kick, scream, and lastly, crap and pee all over you on the way out.:P
It would be better if they would say "formerly the IDSA".
Then have people google "Dave's Video Game Classics", IDSA, emulation, etc. Maybe a link the wayback machine. This guy was everyone's person to hate in 1998. I still have a picture on my computer of him that I used to make evil caracatures of.
Check out this old forum post at Dextrose for the type of stuff that went down 1997-1999. This guys are bad news.:|
I hate to be pedantic, but despite claiming UFS compatibility, the UFS that OSX uses is incompatible with everyone else. I tried formatting a UFS1 volume in FreeBSD, OSX wouldn't recognize it. Tried doing the same on OSX, FreeBSD couldn't read it.:\
I forget the reason now, but point is, UFS it may claim to be, but if you're using UFS for compatibility, sucks to be you.:(
"the Cell is not just another chip: it is a giant leap beyond the current generation of computer processors into a nextgen muscle machine optimized for multimedia tasks."
and the fish sayeth:
"Cell is not just another chip, it is a big buzzword buzzword buzzword processor buzzword buzzword buzzword buzzword."
So it's not just another chip...it's a processor!:D
It's not that it's new. It just keeps getting more and more annoying.
Did you count how many items you listed there? I counted 7. You're willing to jump through SEVEN flaming hoops to avoid it. SEVEN.
That's a lot of hoops man. I personally really enjoy football (american, NFL) and even I am beginning to become unnerved by the ads. They squeeze them on-screen in-game. Commercials between PAT's and kickoffs. Then back to commercial before the first play of the drive. WTF?
It's very, VERY distracting. Pair that with the need to crank up the volume when it goes to commercial. Ugh. Drives me batty. I get to the point that I mute the TV when it goes to commercial.
When are these people going to buy themselves a clue and scale it back a little?
There's a double-edged sword that the manufacturers LOVE about this packaging.
1. Nearly impossibly for the product to shrink (ie, someone walks up, takes the item from the packaging, leave the package, takes the item.
2. People feel guilty taking something back to the store that looks destroyed. I've actually gotten dirty looks from sales associates when I took a bluetooth headset back that didn't work right. The packaging was mangled because at the time the only thing I had handy to open it were my keys. So I poked holes in it until I could get my fingers into it, ripped it open, charged it....didn't work. Took a manager to get them to take it back.
So yeah. The stores won't put an open item that looks like *that* back on the shelf, so fewer returns. Win-win in their eyes. They don't really care about convenience on this one. In fact, the more inconvenient, the better.
You're both off your respective wagons IMHO. The Bible isn't a book. It is a compilation of relatively small documents (in most cases...can you even really call them books?) written by multiple authors, and arbitrarily chosen as canon vs non-canonical scriptures.
Reading any or all of them at face value is probably a bad idea. You're also over-intellictualizing it if you can't pick up on the basic premise that the documents attempt to convey. I often feel people attempt to belittle the bible by the arguments I hear, but over all, it is very difficult to argue the vast majority of the ideologies that the bible brings across. The problems rise when people try to read between the lines, or "proof text" in order to defend their point of view.
Glad to see someone that understands this. Unfortunately many times Christians act on either bad information/education, or just from an ignorant perspective.
I believe I once read that George Washington died because the thought process of the day regarding infections was to "bleed out" the bad blood. So he bled to death at the hands of his own doctors.:|
It is very, VERY difficult to publicly profess christianity because of persecution that results from christians acting out of ignorance or bad information. I really wish more christians were taught to:
a. think for themselves b. take up servant leadership BEFORE jumping into going out to "seek and save"
If you reach out to meet the needs of others, the "seek and save" part winds up being a natural extension. Perhaps not comfortable, but natural. You have to create a relationship of trust if you're to share these kinds of things. Why should someone trust Christ if they can't (at least at a basic level) trust you?
Lying about having professed that Christ is the one true way to heaven DOES NOT earn you brownie points towards trust.
Meh, two things....nope. Wasn't force fed the "one truth". Took it up and accepted it myself. Second, everyone's reading WAAAAY more into this than I intended. All I was getting at was that if you're defining Easter, wikipedia aside, the publicly acknowledged reason for Easter celebration is the death of Christ. I'm well aware that the european church shanghai'ed pagan holidays. All I'm saying is that there's a difference between saying "What is easter? It's an acknowlegment of the crucifixion of Jesus." and "It's the day Christ died for your sins, and if you don't accept him as your personal savior, you're going to hell."
IMHO, both statements are facts, but the former is allowed by law in a public school classroom, the latter is not. The person in this story stepped over that line.
Erm....I don't necessarily wrong you for being upset about Christians that attempt to force-feed you their belief set. The bible does call people to seek and save, but I still feel most christians go about it all wrong.
I do have to take exception to your qualm about Easter. Sure, cultural norm is easter bunnies and hiding eggs, candy, etc, however if you're going to teach facts, how exactly do you tell a child what Easter is without telling them about the crucifixion? Even if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you can't deny the fact that Easter is a holiday in the rememberance of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. That is a fact, not a matter of faith. It's a well documented historical fact.
So....I can't figure out what your problem is there. You aren't required to believe he rose from the dead, but there's not denying the fact that he was indeed crucified, and we have a holiday that takes remembrance of that fact. You may take issue with that holiday, but taking issue with the fact that a teacher explained it is a bit silly, isn't it?
Hmm. Just out of curiousity, perhaps they do go look for themselves, and decide to initiate dialogue with you. They can't exactly look up anonymous coward.
Righteous anger is one thing. Righteous goading? ???
Erm....tough love is fine and all, but mocking people is hardly appropriate behavior. (So far as I'm aware?)
Anyhoo, I'm a christian, I've never claimed to be otherwise. What you state here may very well be true, but you're being prideful and not terribly humble or meek. You're not meeting hte needs of others with your statements.
"Yeah, this is all an accident. Get REAL."
Okay, look. You just insulted a very large base of intelligent people. Evolution, big band, blah blah blah...I would never term those things as "accidental", however there are a large number of Christians that will sit back and plain say that things that are factual, can be PROVEN are fiction in a blind sheep-like sunday-school faith. That's BS too, and you know it. You sound very educated in your studies, you also understand that the King James version is a TRANSLATION from original language, and as such meaning gets lost in translation. There are things that appear contradictory because meaning gets lost...there are cultural norms that there are NO WAY the average person can understand in casual reading.
So please, come down off of your soap box, and lead by serving others. Don't try to build yourself up in a public forum by sounding like a know-it-all and gloating about how everyone else is going to hell. The one that got whipped, beaten, ridiculed, impaled, had nails run through his head, and got to hang there while people argued over his clothes and his friends and family looked on in horror...would probably not appreciate the attitude.:(
Thank you. This is a story of something that isn't so bright.:\ Christians are just like everyone else - the majority of them are stupid (just as with atheists, muslims, catholics, etc).
"The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians...who acknowledge Jesus with their, then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle. That, is what an unbelieving world, simply finds, unbelievable."
Bad #1 - Preaching hellfire and brimstone in a school classroom about science. The two ARE NOT mutually exclusive. Sure, saying you'll go to hell if you don't accept Jesus may very well be a fact, it has been well established that you are supposed to seperate church from state in a public classroom. To try to get away with it was stupid.
Bad #2 - Lying about it. He acknowledged Jesus with his lips, THEN turned around and denied him by his lifestyle. What are those very students going to think now?
If you feel justified in defying established rules and try to preach the gospel openly in a public school classroom, you have to walk the walk, and accept the consequences. You can't do this halfway. Either way he was stupid to try it, but lying about it makes it even worse.:(
There is something very specific that disgusts me about this: no one stepped in to stop it.
Yeah, it's the police. Big freakin' whoop. Maybe because I have friends or family on the police force, but they're human beings. "They might throw obstruction of justice at me." Ya know...it saddens me how everyone will stand back and watch a spectacle like this and not take action against it when it's happening. Perhaps it's just choosing your battles, I dunno. If I'm standing there, I at least attempt to intervene. Now, perhaps we're seeing this out of context. We got tossed in after the tasering begins. I seriously doubt he did anything to that point to deserve it. He may have been a jerk, an a**, whatever, but enough to deserve getting a taser? Look, I've been unlucky enough to forget to turn off the TV after a football game and have "Cops" come on. You wanna see people acting stupid? There you go. Tasers come out on occasion, but I don't recall ever seeing someone tasered for failing to produce ID or failing to move when told.
Everyone stands around watching the show, and no one is principled enough to stand up and say, "This is wrong, stop it. Cuff him, carry him out, do what you want, but stop inflicting pain upon him wrongly." Are we all either that entertained by the abuse of others or that afraid of our own persecution that we won't act? Or the last one....we just don't care?:(
Slashdot Mirror
I know the parent is a troll, but this gets better:
Error: 403 Forbidden
Error when attempting to use the Coral Content Distribution Network (http://www.coralcdn.org/).
The hostname specified in the Coralized URL has been blacklisted from the system.
Server CoralWebPrx/0.1.18 (See http://coralcdn.org/) at 128.208.4.199:8080
Blacklisted??? How the heck do you get blacklisted from Coral Cache?
I'm just hoping there's a subsidy-code unlock that can be done to open this up to other sim cards. I got a Motorola A780, and after a year and a half of futzing with it I STILL don't have a good synchronization solution going. I got it because it runs linux and there are (theoretically) all sorts of things I could do with it, but none of them have worked quite right. This would be a breath of fresh air for me, but given I'm on contract with T-Mobile, I'd gladly buy if I could bring my own sim card.
Sorry. My brain jumped on to the other.
:D
Actually, our own data center I'm kinda proud of, being that it is one large hack. We're in a mixed residential/commercial facility, and it happens that our unit was residential prior to our arrival. I converted the master bedroom to be our server room (holds 10 racks...not too shabby for a small operation!), have a 5 ton air conditioner piped in, picked up the racks themselves for about $100 each from a reseller here in town, and our original servers were Compaq desktop machines, all sharing NFS back to a RAID array, and using load balancers to make many of them appear as single servers (thanks for the idea, Google!)
Ah the joys of doing it yourself.
Anything that requires resource forks won't execute from UFS. I used UFS explicitly for things that I *didn't* want to deal with resource forks, primarily home directories. That, and where I wanted a fully case-sensitive filesystem. OSX has since added an explicitly case-sensitive journalling HFS+, to go along with the HFS+ that was case-respecting but case-insensitive. No reason to use UFS1 anymore...especially since there's no journalling. UFS2 adds that, but with the advent of this, I don't see them adding UFS2.
I couldn't help it. As I was scrolling up the screen I saw this thread of comments and saw slashdot inviting me to drink for it's firehouse, and though to myself that SCO is asking the Judge to drink from their firehose. :\ ....
I've learned something about trapping small animals.
:P
My wife's cat (ie, she had the cat for the better part of 5 years before we got married) doesn't like me all that much. She would take the cat with us when we'd visit her parents' house, and in her old bedroom she had a queen-sized waterbed, where the headboard is suspended, leaving a little "tunnel" behind the bedframe and underneath the headboard.
The cat decided that when it was time to leave, it wasn't time to leave, and got under there, dead center out of reach. Now, in having raised cats prior, I taught them early on that I was the parent, and would pick them up by the scruff of the neck to let them know who was boss. This cat didn't know that game. I quickly grabbed her by the back of the neck and pulled her out....only for her to empty her bowel and bladder on me. There have been a few more times since I've had to do this, and the result is the same.
Point is, you may win in the end, but don't underestimate their ability to claw, scratch, kick, scream, and lastly, crap and pee all over you on the way out.
Helps to actually post the link:
http://dextrose.com/_forum/showthread.php?t=870
It would be better if they would say "formerly the IDSA".
:|
Then have people google "Dave's Video Game Classics", IDSA, emulation, etc. Maybe a link the wayback machine. This guy was everyone's person to hate in 1998. I still have a picture on my computer of him that I used to make evil caracatures of.
Check out this old forum post at Dextrose for the type of stuff that went down 1997-1999. This guys are bad news.
I hate to be pedantic, but despite claiming UFS compatibility, the UFS that OSX uses is incompatible with everyone else. I tried formatting a UFS1 volume in FreeBSD, OSX wouldn't recognize it. Tried doing the same on OSX, FreeBSD couldn't read it. :\
:(
I forget the reason now, but point is, UFS it may claim to be, but if you're using UFS for compatibility, sucks to be you.
Stupid obscure tech bubble 2.0 reference win you nothing. :\
Did you know you can super-size that combo for another 35 cents?
:D
Would you like fries with that?
(and the karma suffers...)
I entered:
:D
"the Cell is not just another chip: it is a giant leap beyond the current generation of computer processors into a nextgen muscle machine optimized for multimedia tasks."
and the fish sayeth:
"Cell is not just another chip, it is a big buzzword buzzword buzzword processor buzzword buzzword buzzword buzzword."
So it's not just another chip...it's a processor!
It's not that it's new. It just keeps getting more and more annoying.
Did you count how many items you listed there? I counted 7. You're willing to jump through SEVEN flaming hoops to avoid it. SEVEN.
That's a lot of hoops man. I personally really enjoy football (american, NFL) and even I am beginning to become unnerved by the ads. They squeeze them on-screen in-game. Commercials between PAT's and kickoffs. Then back to commercial before the first play of the drive. WTF?
It's very, VERY distracting. Pair that with the need to crank up the volume when it goes to commercial. Ugh. Drives me batty. I get to the point that I mute the TV when it goes to commercial.
When are these people going to buy themselves a clue and scale it back a little?
What about when it's not defective and you just change your mind?
There's a double-edged sword that the manufacturers LOVE about this packaging.
1. Nearly impossibly for the product to shrink (ie, someone walks up, takes the item from the packaging, leave the package, takes the item.
2. People feel guilty taking something back to the store that looks destroyed. I've actually gotten dirty looks from sales associates when I took a bluetooth headset back that didn't work right. The packaging was mangled because at the time the only thing I had handy to open it were my keys. So I poked holes in it until I could get my fingers into it, ripped it open, charged it....didn't work. Took a manager to get them to take it back.
So yeah. The stores won't put an open item that looks like *that* back on the shelf, so fewer returns. Win-win in their eyes. They don't really care about convenience on this one. In fact, the more inconvenient, the better.
You're both off your respective wagons IMHO. The Bible isn't a book. It is a compilation of relatively small documents (in most cases...can you even really call them books?) written by multiple authors, and arbitrarily chosen as canon vs non-canonical scriptures.
Reading any or all of them at face value is probably a bad idea. You're also over-intellictualizing it if you can't pick up on the basic premise that the documents attempt to convey. I often feel people attempt to belittle the bible by the arguments I hear, but over all, it is very difficult to argue the vast majority of the ideologies that the bible brings across. The problems rise when people try to read between the lines, or "proof text" in order to defend their point of view.
Glad to see someone that understands this. Unfortunately many times Christians act on either bad information/education, or just from an ignorant perspective.
:|
I believe I once read that George Washington died because the thought process of the day regarding infections was to "bleed out" the bad blood. So he bled to death at the hands of his own doctors.
It is very, VERY difficult to publicly profess christianity because of persecution that results from christians acting out of ignorance or bad information. I really wish more christians were taught to:
a. think for themselves
b. take up servant leadership BEFORE jumping into going out to "seek and save"
If you reach out to meet the needs of others, the "seek and save" part winds up being a natural extension. Perhaps not comfortable, but natural. You have to create a relationship of trust if you're to share these kinds of things. Why should someone trust Christ if they can't (at least at a basic level) trust you?
Lying about having professed that Christ is the one true way to heaven DOES NOT earn you brownie points towards trust.
Meh, two things....nope. Wasn't force fed the "one truth". Took it up and accepted it myself. Second, everyone's reading WAAAAY more into this than I intended. All I was getting at was that if you're defining Easter, wikipedia aside, the publicly acknowledged reason for Easter celebration is the death of Christ. I'm well aware that the european church shanghai'ed pagan holidays. All I'm saying is that there's a difference between saying "What is easter? It's an acknowlegment of the crucifixion of Jesus." and "It's the day Christ died for your sins, and if you don't accept him as your personal savior, you're going to hell."
IMHO, both statements are facts, but the former is allowed by law in a public school classroom, the latter is not. The person in this story stepped over that line.
Erm....I don't necessarily wrong you for being upset about Christians that attempt to force-feed you their belief set. The bible does call people to seek and save, but I still feel most christians go about it all wrong.
I do have to take exception to your qualm about Easter. Sure, cultural norm is easter bunnies and hiding eggs, candy, etc, however if you're going to teach facts, how exactly do you tell a child what Easter is without telling them about the crucifixion? Even if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you can't deny the fact that Easter is a holiday in the rememberance of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. That is a fact, not a matter of faith. It's a well documented historical fact.
So....I can't figure out what your problem is there. You aren't required to believe he rose from the dead, but there's not denying the fact that he was indeed crucified, and we have a holiday that takes remembrance of that fact. You may take issue with that holiday, but taking issue with the fact that a teacher explained it is a bit silly, isn't it?
"Try to think out of the box next time."
Hmm. Just out of curiousity, perhaps they do go look for themselves, and decide to initiate dialogue with you. They can't exactly look up anonymous coward.
Righteous anger is one thing. Righteous goading? ???
Erm....tough love is fine and all, but mocking people is hardly appropriate behavior. (So far as I'm aware?)
Why are you anonymous?
:(
Anyhoo, I'm a christian, I've never claimed to be otherwise. What you state here may very well be true, but you're being prideful and not terribly humble or meek. You're not meeting hte needs of others with your statements.
"Yeah, this is all an accident. Get REAL."
Okay, look. You just insulted a very large base of intelligent people. Evolution, big band, blah blah blah...I would never term those things as "accidental", however there are a large number of Christians that will sit back and plain say that things that are factual, can be PROVEN are fiction in a blind sheep-like sunday-school faith. That's BS too, and you know it. You sound very educated in your studies, you also understand that the King James version is a TRANSLATION from original language, and as such meaning gets lost in translation. There are things that appear contradictory because meaning gets lost...there are cultural norms that there are NO WAY the average person can understand in casual reading.
So please, come down off of your soap box, and lead by serving others. Don't try to build yourself up in a public forum by sounding like a know-it-all and gloating about how everyone else is going to hell. The one that got whipped, beaten, ridiculed, impaled, had nails run through his head, and got to hang there while people argued over his clothes and his friends and family looked on in horror...would probably not appreciate the attitude.
Thank you. This is a story of something that isn't so bright. :\ Christians are just like everyone else - the majority of them are stupid (just as with atheists, muslims, catholics, etc).
:(
"The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians...who acknowledge Jesus with their, then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle. That, is what an unbelieving world, simply finds, unbelievable."
Bad #1 - Preaching hellfire and brimstone in a school classroom about science. The two ARE NOT mutually exclusive. Sure, saying you'll go to hell if you don't accept Jesus may very well be a fact, it has been well established that you are supposed to seperate church from state in a public classroom. To try to get away with it was stupid.
Bad #2 - Lying about it. He acknowledged Jesus with his lips, THEN turned around and denied him by his lifestyle. What are those very students going to think now?
If you feel justified in defying established rules and try to preach the gospel openly in a public school classroom, you have to walk the walk, and accept the consequences. You can't do this halfway. Either way he was stupid to try it, but lying about it makes it even worse.
Gives Christianity a bad name on every front.
Yeah, it's the police. Big freakin' whoop. Maybe because I have friends or family on the police force, but they're human beings. "They might throw obstruction of justice at me." Ya know...it saddens me how everyone will stand back and watch a spectacle like this and not take action against it when it's happening. Perhaps it's just choosing your battles, I dunno. If I'm standing there, I at least attempt to intervene. Now, perhaps we're seeing this out of context. We got tossed in after the tasering begins. I seriously doubt he did anything to that point to deserve it. He may have been a jerk, an a**, whatever, but enough to deserve getting a taser? Look, I've been unlucky enough to forget to turn off the TV after a football game and have "Cops" come on. You wanna see people acting stupid? There you go. Tasers come out on occasion, but I don't recall ever seeing someone tasered for failing to produce ID or failing to move when told.
Everyone stands around watching the show, and no one is principled enough to stand up and say, "This is wrong, stop it. Cuff him, carry him out, do what you want, but stop inflicting pain upon him wrongly." Are we all either that entertained by the abuse of others or that afraid of our own persecution that we won't act? Or the last one....we just don't care?