um.
They have multiplayer in CounterStrike:source. Soon they will have Day of Defeat:Source. HL2 is a you aganst the universe kind of deal, multiplayer co-op mode just would not fit the game.
I'm sure somebody will come out with a multiplayer with the Gravity gun and and all the other gizmos soon. But Half-Life 2 is a single player only game, sorry. Multiplayer would be a hinderance not an advantage for this game.
Vivendi did not put the authentication in there. But they are the ones insisting that "the game has not shipped yet" and not letting Valve turn on the authentication servers allowing people to play.
It is the same old business model as music if you look at it. Valve came up with robust system for distributing a game to users, who could have had the game turned on two weeks or more ago, but there is a traditional publisher saying "No you cannot do that, you will steal our profit".
I find out more stuff about software and the like after playing with it for a few hours, then browsing through the manual/book/whatever. A dead tree version of the help files would be nice to thumb through.
Search feature are ok, but that is what indexes were made for.
~H
Now, lets seem them tackle the Cell Phone/plane interaction problem. Anybody got a few large airliners that the Mythbusters can use for a few weeks....:)
Put it in a the db of your choice, if you have to be a geek about it, then access it through the Home Theater PC so you can see what disk to cue up.
That said, this might require a meatspace trip to a near by Best Buy, Circuit City, "insert local electronics store here". I'd be willing to bet if you make the motions that you are going to buy one, then they will gladly show you the disk managment functions of the machine.
NASA does not own the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville. The government in general provides little of the funding that runs the place. The rockets and aircraft on display are on loan from NASA or the orginal owner in most cases.
Click here for faq
The install of Kronos we had at my previous job was a royal piece of shit. But I also did not let them use serial connections or modems to connect to the time clocks, we purchaced the network card for the clock so we could move them anywhere we wanted to as long as we put a network drop to it. That was about the only redeaming feature that was had.
The payroll person hated it, the managers hated it, the employees hated it.
At my current job, we have ADP's payroll solution, which is just rebranded Kronos. It sucks too, and we do not have the network cards in the clocks here, so I have to maintain 5 pots lines to connect to the clocks. (We have some remote sites that the payroll person dials into to get the information from the clock)
"This doesn't have as much impact as it looks," one record executive said. "The labels were offering some discount programs to the retailers that would now end. So it's not entirely clear how much of a change there is for retailers' margins."
Anybody else see the flaw in this? In this day and age, they should cut out most of the retailers. Get rid of a few Turtles, Tower, and switch to using the Internet as your distribution method. iTunes is a step in the right direction. I want one or two good songs, not the other 14 pieces of trash on a cd. If you are having to subsidize your retail outlets, then hey dumbass, there is something wrong with your distribution model.
Now the other side of this is that you cut out people who do not have internet access. Well yeah, but how many of those actually chunk down money on a CD? At this time in the U.S. a lot of people have a computer and Internet access of some form. If they do not, you can take the former retail outlet, put in a server or eight, some fast burners, and setup a computer lab for people to burn whatever songs they want onto one cd. Charge them about.75 cents a song. Give them a massive catalog of music and let them make their own cds.
Maybe the artist should get together and start something like this. Forget about the RIAA, and start their own organization with low entry fees, and low overhead to help distribute their music to the masses through the Internet and through the retail outlets that I mentioned above.
It is freakin grayscale for christsakes. Most people gave up on Black and White video somewhere around the Nixon Administration in the U.S.
Its cute and all, but go buy a portable DVD and go find a project where you are not going to run the risk of being sued into oblivion by the borg of Hasbro.
A code review would hopefully catch the "hey, we're only using *one single time server for all our hardware* and the *hey, there's no way of configuring this short of patching the firmware* parts. Maybe the address part was overlookable, but the other bits?
RTFA! They do mention that there were more than one time server in the list of time servers that the code checked. But the one at UofW-Madison was the last one on that list that was still active.
But that said, having this hardcoded and not having it listed as a changeable variable somewhere in under the advanced catigory of the router config is pretty stupid.
I understand why they did it. But it was a pretty crappy design decision. If Netgear was thinking, they would have setup something like time.windows.com on their domain. Or hell, hardcode time.windows.com in the code.:-)
after a quick memory wipe, finds trying to piece together the mystery of his past
This sounds like Memento. Maybe instead of a polaroid and tattoos, they will use a pda or cell phone with acamera for him to remember what happened.Or not.
The SR-71 is still there. They also have an errect Saturn V replica, to go along with the Saturn V that is on its side and in its stages. Some of the equipment is in poor shape, but there is still some impressive stuff. Also the tour of the space flight facilty was good.
The space shuttle replica, and the SR-71 are free to look at, as they are outside the fence. Also kinda hard to miss the Saturn V replica standing upright.:-)
Have a nice time,
Honig
Unless Hormel cans of spam have a ethernet connection
Be careful what one speaks of. It is only a matter of time before someone puts an embeded system into a can of Spam. Draw your on conclusions about things being embedded in Spam.
Hopefully they will not use the meat as a thermal insulator. *slight shudder*
Honig
I second that opinion.
The company I left in Febuary 03 had just finished an across the board install of Exchange 2000 servers with Outlook 2k or XP as the client. Rock stable. And after running 6 months of the two locations I administered we had no virus get past Symantec for Exchange.
My current company uses exchange 5.5. OWA throught that is a henious hellbitch. And user management between our Active Directory and it is a pain in the ass just because it is not integrated like it is with exchange 2k and 2k3.
In my capitol budget for next year I am getting an Exchange 2003 server and might possibly take most of my users to OWA in that release because 2k3's web client looks like and acts like Outlook.
That said, if any open source project were to roll along and work as well as Exchange for what it does, then by all means I would look at it and evaluated it for my users.
Unless the RIAA maintained *lots* of servers and managed to lure downloaders to use them, it'd be hard for them to track.
That would be entrapment, if I remeber correctly. But maybe not. It might be simular to a honeypot server, which if I remember correctly, is in sort of a legal gray area at the moment.
Honig
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Then you get somebody to use the tools that every company should have if they are doing underground instalations.
um. They have multiplayer in CounterStrike:source. Soon they will have Day of Defeat:Source. HL2 is a you aganst the universe kind of deal, multiplayer co-op mode just would not fit the game. I'm sure somebody will come out with a multiplayer with the Gravity gun and and all the other gizmos soon. But Half-Life 2 is a single player only game, sorry. Multiplayer would be a hinderance not an advantage for this game.
Yeah ripped CounterStrike out and stomped that sucker flat........2.919 BILLION player mintues a month is a dead game.
I'm sure Valve will be fine without your $49.00 Bronze package fee. You will be missing out on a wonderful game experence. Enjoy TuxRacer!
It is the same old business model as music if you look at it. Valve came up with robust system for distributing a game to users, who could have had the game turned on two weeks or more ago, but there is a traditional publisher saying "No you cannot do that, you will steal our profit".
Yeah how would you get it to stay on the strippers g-string if it was a coin?
I find out more stuff about software and the like after playing with it for a few hours, then browsing through the manual/book/whatever. A dead tree version of the help files would be nice to thumb through. Search feature are ok, but that is what indexes were made for.
~H
Now, lets seem them tackle the Cell Phone/plane interaction problem. Anybody got a few large airliners that the Mythbusters can use for a few weeks.... :)
Honig
Its not everyday that I click on a link in a /. topic and see a picture of my sister-in-law.
Its a small world after alll........
Later,
Honig
If it gets enough hits, will it become small enough to fit in a blade system?
Put it in a the db of your choice, if you have to be a geek about it, then access it through the Home Theater PC so you can see what disk to cue up.
That said, this might require a meatspace trip to a near by Best Buy, Circuit City, "insert local electronics store here". I'd be willing to bet if you make the motions that you are going to buy one, then they will gladly show you the disk managment functions of the machine.
H
You mean this? 400 Disk Sony DVD Changer.... Honig
Nice Ed Gruberman sig too.
~H
NASA does not own the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville. The government in general provides little of the funding that runs the place. The rockets and aircraft on display are on loan from NASA or the orginal owner in most cases. Click here for faq
There is a replica that stands upright at Huntsville, along with the one that is on its side. The original one on its side is in pretty tough shape.
There are all kinds of rockets there in Huntsville, from a V2 to the Saturn 5 to a Patriot setup to a Shuttle Mockup with External tank and SRBs
The install of Kronos we had at my previous job was a royal piece of shit. But I also did not let them use serial connections or modems to connect to the time clocks, we purchaced the network card for the clock so we could move them anywhere we wanted to as long as we put a network drop to it. That was about the only redeaming feature that was had. The payroll person hated it, the managers hated it, the employees hated it.
At my current job, we have ADP's payroll solution, which is just rebranded Kronos. It sucks too, and we do not have the network cards in the clocks here, so I have to maintain 5 pots lines to connect to the clocks. (We have some remote sites that the payroll person dials into to get the information from the clock)
Anybody else see the flaw in this? In this day and age, they should cut out most of the retailers. Get rid of a few Turtles, Tower, and switch to using the Internet as your distribution method. iTunes is a step in the right direction. I want one or two good songs, not the other 14 pieces of trash on a cd. If you are having to subsidize your retail outlets, then hey dumbass, there is something wrong with your distribution model.
Now the other side of this is that you cut out people who do not have internet access. Well yeah, but how many of those actually chunk down money on a CD? At this time in the U.S. a lot of people have a computer and Internet access of some form. If they do not, you can take the former retail outlet, put in a server or eight, some fast burners, and setup a computer lab for people to burn whatever songs they want onto one cd. Charge them about .75 cents a song. Give them a massive catalog of music and let them make their own cds.
Maybe the artist should get together and start something like this. Forget about the RIAA, and start their own organization with low entry fees, and low overhead to help distribute their music to the masses through the Internet and through the retail outlets that I mentioned above.
Just a thought,
Honig
It is freakin grayscale for christsakes. Most people gave up on Black and White video somewhere around the Nixon Administration in the U.S.
Its cute and all, but go buy a portable DVD and go find a project where you are not going to run the risk of being sued into oblivion by the borg of Hasbro.
RTFA! They do mention that there were more than one time server in the list of time servers that the code checked. But the one at UofW-Madison was the last one on that list that was still active.
But that said, having this hardcoded and not having it listed as a changeable variable somewhere in under the advanced catigory of the router config is pretty stupid.
I understand why they did it. But it was a pretty crappy design decision. If Netgear was thinking, they would have setup something like time.windows.com on their domain. Or hell, hardcode time.windows.com in the code. :-)
Honig
How very true. Memento was an excelent movie. This sounds like a steaming pile of shit and celuloid. H
This sounds like Memento. Maybe instead of a polaroid and tattoos, they will use a pda or cell phone with acamera for him to remember what happened.Or not.
Although the Uma aspect is tantalizing. :-)
HonigThe SR-71 is still there. They also have an errect Saturn V replica, to go along with the Saturn V that is on its side and in its stages. Some of the equipment is in poor shape, but there is still some impressive stuff. Also the tour of the space flight facilty was good. :-)
The space shuttle replica, and the SR-71 are free to look at, as they are outside the fence. Also kinda hard to miss the Saturn V replica standing upright.
Have a nice time,
Honig
Be careful what one speaks of. It is only a matter of time before someone puts an embeded system into a can of Spam. Draw your on conclusions about things being embedded in Spam.
Hopefully they will not use the meat as a thermal insulator. *slight shudder*
Honig
My current company uses exchange 5.5. OWA throught that is a henious hellbitch. And user management between our Active Directory and it is a pain in the ass just because it is not integrated like it is with exchange 2k and 2k3.
In my capitol budget for next year I am getting an Exchange 2003 server and might possibly take most of my users to OWA in that release because 2k3's web client looks like and acts like Outlook.
That said, if any open source project were to roll along and work as well as Exchange for what it does, then by all means I would look at it and evaluated it for my users.
Um you might want to look at this: Oracle Collaboration Suite It is like a database...for your e-mail and other associated stuff.
Unless the RIAA maintained *lots* of servers and managed to lure downloaders to use them, it'd be hard for them to track. That would be entrapment, if I remeber correctly. But maybe not. It might be simular to a honeypot server, which if I remember correctly, is in sort of a legal gray area at the moment. Honig