Sounds like it is poorly calibrated, but it may just be your speedo that is badly calibrated. Are you still running with stock sized tires? Had any work done to your transmission? Some states have speedometer calibration areas, where you can work out what your actual speed is relative to what the speedometer is saying.
I tried digging up some info on this and couldn't. Is this like a standard NES console with a CD-ROM interface adapted to it, or a whole new console that is a clone of the NES?
A CD-ROM adapter would be AWESOME to say the least. Hell, a flash adapter would be even better. You could get a lot of games on a 16meg flash card these days.
In case you did not know, Satire is entirely protected by free speech in the United States. Since they changed the names of the charachters, they should be even more protected from the lawyers. For what it is worth, however, they could have used the USS Enterprise and everything else as long as it was satire. How do you think TV shows like Saturday Night Live and MAD TV get away with it all the time?
Thanks to Jerry Falwell vs. Larry Flynt, satire has been protected by a landmark supreme court decision. A fan flick is not satire, in case you didn't know. Fan flicks are not protected free speech, though, personally I think anything you can create whether it be music, speech, or video should all be protected under our first amendment rights. Blatant plagurism is one thing, but creating something new based upon an existing concept should be protected, especially when there is no financial gain to be made, as in fan flicks.
If the republic represented people instead of corporations, this would be the case. A good idea to see who your congressperson represents would be to look at their campaign donations. Too bad so much soft money gets unrecorded, not to mention people in congress who likely line their pockets for pushing through pro-corporate legislation. How do you think the Senators get to be the rich white men they are?
He didn't really work on it. He was listed in the "Special Thanks" which means that maybe the designers of the games were just fans or something.
Oh well. At least you got some easy karma.:)
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Now that's just funny. Yeah, I've always been a few years behind the times. Games *were* more fun back then, weren't they? Hell, I'd rather play some old SNES games than the latest and greatest. I'd be happy to update my computer technology out of the 90s as long as someone would be happy to start donating to my cause.:)
Hell, at least I recently upgraded my fileserver from a P166 to a P3-566. Slimserver runs pretty good on it too once you compile your own optimized codecs and run it on a ramdisk, since I realized that the disk i/o was just another bottleneck to getting at the database. Playlists generate a lot faster on a ram disk too.:)
The reason a speedometer is innacurate is so that speeders end up going slower than they actually think they are. It is a road safety "feature." For example, the next time you pass one of those radar signs that show your speed on the highway, try hitting on at 90 or so. If your car is anything like mine, it will probably say somewhere between 80-85 mph. When I blaze by them at 80, it usually says 75. For a long time I thought maybe they were not calibrated, but I have realized that those signs are pretty damned accurate and it is indeed my speedometer that is incorrectly showing my speed. Now I don't know if all manufacturers do this, but it is noticable. Sometimes that is why I don't think I get tickets when I consistently drive 15+ over the speed limit on the highway, as the state troopers here give you a good 10+ mph buffer to speed safely in. If you ever change your rims and tires to a different size, you will see a dramatic change in your speed as well because the transmission counts axle rotations which will very well be smaller with larger tires. So in essence, you are going faster than the speedometer in this case. Just something to think about if you like 18 inch rims on your Audi. (why, oh why?)
Check it out one day!
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That's awesome. Can't believe I missed out on that back in the day. Of course, I never had cutting edge hardware and I recently got around to playing the first quake about a year ago. Honestly, I liked Doom better because the better atmosphere and some resemblence of a plot. Once I started playing half-life, there just isn't any comparison. Half-life is still the best shooter I've ever played, which is kind of funny, considering that it was written on an improved quake 1 engine. Still don't have the horsepower to run Half-life 2, but I imagine that somewhere in the next 4 years I will. Bah, who needs a multi-ghz machine anyways? This 900mhz box here still chugs along just fine and runs most of my apps with comfort.
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Do you have anything to back this up? I heard that the quake cd was encrypted with the full version waiting to be unlocked, but I never heard that it was cracked, though I'm sure someone did it.
From some googling it looks like all you needed was a keygen. I bet id never made this mistake again.:)
There is a lot of corporate greed in America. A terrible amount. I agree that not all corps are bad. From what I understand, slashdot doesn't really even make enough off of ads to support itself. (Thanks OSDN for keeping the train rolling!!) Google and a few others immediately come to mind. Hell even Billy Gates is a philanthropist, but then again, what smart monopolist isn't? Andrew Carnegie? That's what I thought. I'm not pro-republican of course, and I surely ain't pro-democrat. Either side is equally as bad as the others. The republicans we once knew are long gone, and the effects of pro-democratic social welfare are a whole different story, but I will say that it wasn't all bad and that this country needed the New Deal to keep itself afloat. Of course, World War II changed all of that and led to a huge boom in the 50s.
I don't care personally who the youth votes for. It might be enough, however, to stem the tide. We don't need 80+ year old senators who are so far out of touch of the needs of their constituents its downright pathetic. They sure as hell know what their local corporations need though, all the while these companies line their pockets, as you pointed out. With less than 50% on average of the populace voting, nobody is even remotely winning by a so called "popular" vote. When only 25% of the population at best is deciding who is making the rules, we have a huge disconnect between what happens on Capitol Hill and what is happening in people's neighborhoods and towns.
Representative democracy aka a Republic may very well be the best model we have going considering the complexities of managing a federal government, but it needs to get back to the representative part. Seriously, does anyone even bother to pay attention to what these people say? If the people in my state heard him saying over and over again that people deserve absolutely no privacy and that their is nothing in the constitution to protect their privacy, they would all cry foul. Unfortunately the 5.6 seconds the local daily news spends on politics glosses over such terrible admissions.
And that, is the heart of the problem. The media. We have a vice president that may be guilty of war crimes, a member of the president's staff that revealed the identity of a covert agent in a time of war (and needs to be thrown in jail) and yet the media has simply glossed over all the facts and moved on to the next big story. Hell, the president getting a blowjob got 100x more media than the attrocities we have committed. Oh wait, we aren't supposed to talk about them because it makes the terrorists mad. Well, don't they have a right at this point to be mad? Remember Abu Gharib? We hung Japanese and German soldiers for doing what those american soldiers did over there. Raping little boys in front of their parents? I cannot think of anything more terrible, short of maybe letting MP K-9s eat people alive, which also happened there. The whole thing reeks of coverup and when the abuses there and at Guantanamo Bay start to surface, it makes me sad that the public could probably care less and would likely assume that those people are all terrorists and probably desrved what they had gotten. Yeah, some english teacher that was pro-democratic and a non-combatant is finally released from the Bay in a wheelchair, after soldiers broke his back and refused to give him surgery. I surely hope a lot of World War II vets are apalled that the country their buddies died for has become a terror state.
When they asked Cheney about the prison in the bay, he responded that they have it pretty good down there. They live in paradise and they just built them a whole new facility. Since the US government and the dept of justice has already tried to legally exempt themselves from the Geneva convention because Afghanistan was not an internationally recognized country, all of these people will likely be held indefinately unless the ACLU can (and they have been) get these people representation with some legal teeth to sink into the whole mess.
A Level I quote is the most basic information available about a stock. It is information available to all at no extra fee. A Level I quote consists of:
* Bid
* Ask
* Quote size
* Last trade
* Volume
* High
* Low
Level II
Level II goes a step beyond Level I. It basically reveals the order book for a Nasdaq stock. But it's not the complete order book, rather it shows the best bid and offer of every market participant who is publicly posting a quote.
The upper part of this Level II display should look familiar, it is basic Level I information. In this example we have, left to right, top to bottom:
* Last, Last Size, Change
* Bid, Ask, Quote Size
* Open, Low, High
To the right is what should be another familiar tool, the tape, or the ticker. It is a list of trades as they happen. The price is given as well as the number of shares traded. Upticks are shown in green, downticks in red, and zero ticks in gray.
But the information we're interested in, at least in this article, is the Level II information that makes up the rest of the display.
On the left side are the current bids of market participants, ranked from best to worst, highest to lowest. On the right are the offers, again ranked from best to worst, here from lowest to highest.
Each line in the display gives three pieces of information. The market maker ID, a four letter identifying code, the price bidding or offering at, and the number of shares being bid for or offered.
For example, on the offer side, the fifth offer down reads as follows:
MSCO 89 1/2 10
What is this telling us? Morgan Stanley is offering 1,000 shares of Sun Microsystems (SUNW) at 89 1/2. Now, where did I get that? MSCO is the market maker ID of Morgan Stanley. Since moscow is on the right side, or offer side, of the window, it is selling stock. The price it would like to sell at is 89 1/2. It is selling 1,000 shares as evidenced by its size of 10 (all sizes shown are in hundreds).
Scottrader isn't level 2? Hell from watching the glitzy commercials I got the impression that their software did everything but the kitchen sink. How the hell did Scott Trade get into this market anyways? I mean, nobody heard of them (at least me) until very recently. Their commercials are really annoying too. The one where the kid paints a mural on the barn. Come on. Giving people more for their buck. Give me a break. All that hype and they don't even do level 2. I love it. Guess they aren't on the next level afterall.
Pittsburgh is an awesome city. Definately on my top 5 in the US. It is very cheap. I am typing this in the north side of pittsburgh. Unfortunately, the job market here has fallen flat on its face and there really isn't a whole lot in the way of good paying jobs. Lately, I've been looking at moving west (actually for a long time now). I'd love to go somewhere like Oregon or Washington, where I can take a drive and be in the middle of nowhere with absolutely no people for miles around. The great expanses that the west offers are really what draws me. Here in PA, you get to the top of a mountain (hills, if you ask me) and everywhere you look there are traces of people and power lines and everything else. Not so out west. I love the people here though. We do have the friendliest east/midwest city around. The further east you go the worse the attitude gets from here. I hated New York and DC and honestly, I've never been to Philly, but I'd imagine that I would hate that too. Even San Francisco has a terrible attitude about it these days. If I couldn't see the bay and all the west coast style buildings, I'd swear that I was walking around in New York. Kentucky is not just in the middle of this state either. It is really all around. You don't have to drive more than but a half an hour or so out of pittsburgh to start running into redneckville. The do call it Pennsyltucky for a reason you know?
Problem with pittsburgh these days is that all the young people are moving away and no many of the college graduates stay around here for very long. There are more old people here than just about anywhere else in the country, barring Florida, and I think that in 10 years, pittsburgh is going to lose a significant portion of its population. It already has, what with the steel mills and industry leaving 20 years ago. It went from a city of 600,000+ to a mere 300,000+ in about a 15 year period. The major employers are all non-profits and a large portion of would be taxable property is owned by them. UPMC runs a good medical monopoly here and the fact that they run their own insurance company doesn't help. The most profitable healthcare provider in the state and it is of course, non-profit.
The city is on the verge of bankruptcy and the local city council doesn't even have control of financing anymore. I honestly don't know if anyone should really move here for the long term unless they come with money and plan on just buying a house and getting by. It is really hard to say how well the city will be doing in the next 10-20 years, and I fear that it may become more like Buffallo or Rochester. A crumbling ruin that has turned into a welfare state. Most of our inner city neighborhoods are already starting to show the signs. Its like white flight here. The africans are spreading out and buying the cheap houses that nobody can sell in the better neighborhoods as the white people are all fleeing to suburban communities. Isn't urban sprawl grand? Don't take me as racist either, its just that the fact remains that neighborhoods that were very nice 10-15 years ago have slowly evolved into ghettos with no end in sight.
Hey, at least we got the Steelers and a beautiful skyline. Too bad most of the Fortune 500s that built the skyline have all packed their bags. Yeah. Pittsburgh is a great city, but I don't know how much longer it will be great for.
My GF works at a technical school. She teaches, and her and her whole department is tenured.
Her boss comes over and threatens to fire her whole department on a weekly basis. The last time it was because he couldn't find them. They were sitting in the classrooms that they teach in. It was lunch hour. He was mad because they didn't leave a note on their monitor as to where they were. On lunch hour! She usually doesn't get threatened, but she just happened to be caught up in the mix. He accused them of conspiring behind his back, hiding from him, playing computer games at work, and on and on and ON! They were hiding alright. In their fucking work area no less! With the door wide open! Her coworkers told her that her boss does this to them every single week! How would you like be threatened every single week with being fired? These people aren't even allowed to have their own phones on their desk.
Their IT department is a whole other story. Remember this place is a technical school. So check this out. They have to get permission to download anything above say like 10 megs. And their whole class is bandwith capped, so forget about installing Windows and getting updates, or forget about doing a net install of linux. They get something like 5k/sec per classroom or something ridiculous. Meanwhile the douchebags at IT are sitting on at least a T3 with unlimited bandwith pumping into their offices. They also get super pissed when an employee, God forbid, actually connects to their wireless lan by accident. Not to mention that they have VNC installed on all the employee machines and that all they seemingly do all day is abuse the schools bandwith and spy on people with their VNC. How fucking draconian is that?!
I keep telling her to get another job, but she keeps saying that she doesn't have time and such. It really has made her quality of life suffer since she moved out there and honestly it hasn't helped our relation at all. A lot of nights she just comes home and goes right to sleep after she sits and bitches to me for an hour about how much her job sucks. Truly not worth the hassle.
To those who don't know. Rick Santorum (bought and sold by accuweather which is a Pennsylvania corp) is proposing a bill that would kill free NWS information in favor of paid for info from greedy corporations like Accuweather. Since the NWS provides the bulk of Accuweather's infornation, we would essentially be paying a tax on this information and then paying accuweather to present it to us. It is almost like letting companies charge tolls on public roads that were built with public tax dollars. Pretty great huh?
For those of you who realize what a douchebag Rick Santorum is, I bring you the following link:
You know, if more young people voted in America, it would be my hope that scumbags such as Santorum wouldn't see the light of day. Campaign donations need to be the first to go. What the bill that santorum is introducing would do is cut the public off from something that it pays for and something that Accuweather uses. Do you think accuweather has their own satellites up there? We don't need accuweather. We NEED the NWS.
That is Rick Santorum's bill. The NWS has no intention of cutting off service. The greedy chaps at Accuweather have decided that its just easier to buy a senator with campaign funds than to try and compete. No coincidence they both share the same state of residence. Honestly, I hope this bill goes nowhere. We need the NWS a lot more than we need to start paying accuweather for free information. Nevermind the violations of the FOI Act that such a bill would introduce.
For the record, this is the same senator (who the fuck in my state voted for this guy?) who said that gay marriage would lead to legalized beastiality and incest. Nothing like spreading the FUD to the elderly church going voters who are the only ones that seem to vote in this state. Thankfully one of my favorite sex columnists (are there any others) Dan Savage has coined the term Santorum to mean the frothy mix of fecal matter and sperm that exits ones bunghole after some good ole anal penetration. I can't think of a Senator offhand that would be more deserving of being lumped together with frothy, spunky fecal matter.
My Gods, Pennsylvania is a very backwards state. They won't sell beer or wine in the grocery. Nothing like a state sponsored monopoly on liquor to jack prices up sky high. You can't even buy alcohol outside of a bar after 9PM here. They finally just started to allow Sunday sales of beer and alcohol in select locations. Its 2005. Get with the fucking times.
Why do I envision levar burton (is that how you spell it?) saying this post now?
"But don't take my word for it.........."
Reading Rainbow. Anyone remember that show? I always thought that levar was pretty cool. He was pretty good in Roots too. Truly an underused talent.
Dude, you fell for one of the oldest trolls out there, and you have lower slashdot number than me. Stephen King is not dead. The media would be all over it if it were to be true.
Time and time again has shown that developers will not support addons or upgrades to a console. I don't possibly see how fragmenting your market is a good thing. The abysmal PS/2 hard drive sales should be a good indicator of how willing the public is to spend money on upgrading their console. For reference of history, look at the Sega CD, the 32X, the light gun, ROB the robot, and a whole slew of other useless failed addons. I will say that network adapters for the PS/2 have done fairly well though, but very few games actually require the hard drive, with FFXI being a notable exception. FFIX's population is about 2 million by the way. Good for a MMORPG, terrible for a blockbuster console game. How many did FFVII sell worldwide? 5? 6 million?
If you were a developer what market would you choose? The market that your game will run on the most consoles (base 360) or the market that is likely just a small fraction of the overall maximum market?
Your comparison the PC world is completely absurd in that PCs are constantly upgraded and evolving whereas the typical console is a single target that never moves. It is an awful lot easier to make a game for one console with fixed specs than the hundreds and thousands of possible PC hardware configurations. It should be no secret that most PC games these days are RTS, first person shooters, a few RPGs here and there and of course, the simulator. Not much variety to be found. A great deal of developer shops have fallen quite recently due to poor sales in the PC market. Most kids these days seem to prefer the TV versus the monitor and I hate to say it, but I would imagine that a large number of computer game players are also software pirates given the ease of downloading an ISO and mounting it with the convieniently free daemon tools, whereas on the console you have to mod the console or pay to have someone do it for you and that is really out of the grasp of a lot of people.
I don't honestly think that Microsoft is choosing a good plan here. It is better to have a unified market than one that is potentially fractured. If you make a console that much better than the original and manage to convince a foolish developer to produce games that only run on the newer console, then why bother at all when instead you could have just waited a few years and released a whole new console with a slew of upgrades? Oh wait. That is precisely what they do now.
If there were a market for upgradeable consoles, it would have surely materialized by now. I think that the average gamer cares far less about the platform and a great deal more about the actual games themselves. IF you want to win a console race you need a lot of killer apps like GTA3 and the first Xbox had about 3 triple A titles and that just isn't going to cut it.
Yeah, but it did not really shred the document. I hear the gold standard these days is something like 30+ write overs. That is an awful lot of writing to delete a file. Just imagine how long a 1 gig file would take to delete! On a 486/33! Clearly they didn't do anything beyond just marking the filespace as writable.
"But since SCO owns the UNIX operating system...."
Quoth the wikipedia:
The present owner of the UNIX trademark is The Open Group, while the present claimants on the rights to the UNIX source code are The SCO Group and Novell. Only systems fully compliant with and certified to the Single UNIX Specification qualify as "UNIX" (others are called "UNIX system-like" or Unix-like).
Novell also has source code rights. Also, Darl, you should be careful to use the UNIX trademark so freely as it is clearly a registered trademark of the Open Group. From their website.
"Customers can identify UNIX certified products by the Open Brand logo and the mandatory attribution declaring to which version of the specification the product complies:"
So no Darl, you do not own UNIX. Get a clue.
"The competitive battle between Pepsi and Coke is legendary, as is the battle between GM and Ford, Boeing and Airbus, and the Red Sox and Yankees."
Your analogy between Pepsi and Coke (where did you learn to write anyways? 4th grade?) is so inherently flawed that the term "apples to oranges" doesn't even begin to describe how distorted this viewpoint is, as both are still fruit. My guess is that you were trying to provide some humour. I certainly got a good laugh.
" 1. OpenServer 6 Costs Less - OpenServer 6 offers very aggressive pricing.
The purchase price for SCO OpenServer 6 is priced from $599 to $1399
which includes the license to the product, software fixes, and access
to SCO's online knowledge base. Customers pay once for the product
and run it for as long as they like."
I don't really know what kind of math you are using Darl, because in my world, $599 is a whole lot more than $0. Also, I don't really see how asking for a support contract is a "bait and switch" tactic as you claim. If you don't need support, there are more than enough FREE, as in beer and speech, alternatives out there in the Linux universe.
" "Free" is one of the most searched words on the Web today. When you
type in "Free" in Yahoo search, it brings up more than 3 billion hits.
"Free" is a very powerful marketing concept. We all love free. Linux
lures you in with the promise of its being "free." But before you get
out of the "store," you are surprised to find out that it was anything
but free. Just remember the proverb, 'Free is the most expensive
price.'"
Darl. All I gotta ask is, can I have some of what you are smoking. It has GOTTA be good!
"OpenServer 6's features form a very powerful server."
Yeah. Especially now that you included a bunch of, get this, FREE software. How much did apache cost you? How much did you spend on developing the open source tools that you now use? Are we, as a collective, supposed to just swallow this pill, that you attack free, open source software, and then include it in your own operating system. If that is not sheer hypocricy that I have no idea what is. Go to hell Darl. We all know what UNIX is and was and it surely is not SCO anymore, or probably ever was for what it matters. Personally I hope your lawyers bleed what little liquidity you have left, if they are smart that is. You are a joke. Nobody respects your company anymore. I hope that you go to bed everynight worrying that your illegal insider trading activities may one day land you in court. Crooks like you, and the ones that fund your pitiful crusade, deserve to sit in a 4'x4' cell with your new wife, Bubba.
Uh...how exactly is this flamebait? It is at best informative, but I was going for funny a bit there. Ye mods! It is indeed a fact that the point of having any sort of article is, ad revenue. Sorry. That's how the real world works. Notice how I didn't say that it was a bad thing or anything inflamatory. Is it flamebait because I called him son? Well, look at his freaking UID. Its not exactly my fault I have nearly half the UID he has.:)
Isn't there anything better you guys could have done with the mod points?
You should also remember that it was IBM that set the hardware requirements for the PC. The original PC had an 8088 with 16K of memory. The original Mac had 68000 with 128K of memory.
I was curious as to this, because 16k does not seem like enough to even boot DOS 1.0 yet alone run anything. Seemed suspicious. Let's check out the wikipedia, which I realize is not the most acurate source sometimes, but I have a feeling their data on the original IBM PC is pretty good.
The original PC had a version of Microsoft BASIC --IBM Cassette BASIC-- in ROM. The CGA (Colour Graphics Adapter) video card could use a standard TV for display. The standard storage device was cassette tape. A floppy disk drive was an optional extra; no hard disk was available. It had only five expansion slots; maximum memory using IBM parts was 256 KB, 64K on the main board and three 64K expansion cards. The processor was an Intel 8088 (second-sourced AMDs were used after 1983) running at 4.77 MHz. IBM sold it in configurations with 16K and 64K of RAM preinstalled.
Amazing! Only 16k onboard and the 64k would have made it around 80k or so. How did these things sell like hotcakes? I mean they weren't really any better than much else that was out at the time, in fact they were inferior in a lot of ways to a few of the PCs out there. $1,500 or so is an awful lot of money in 1981 dollars. Anyways, I digress. If people actually bought things based upon real information instead of big names like IBM, maybe we would all have been using Macintoshes by now. Personally, I don't know if a closed hardware/software solution would have been all that great for innovation. Much as the Mac has driven PC innovation, the PC has also driven innovation on the Mac. When you look at MacOS 7-9 it becomes painfully clear that Macintosh was losing the race in terms of competent operating systems, which, I think, they have finally adressed with OS X, which for what it is worth, is more of an evolution of operating systems design than the revolution the Parc and Lisa were so many years ago. Funny how things work out and even more funny how history tends to repeat itself.
The comments about steve jobs being a terrible manager were pretty funny too. I guess some things never change.:)
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Sounds like it is poorly calibrated, but it may just be your speedo that is badly calibrated. Are you still running with stock sized tires? Had any work done to your transmission? Some states have speedometer calibration areas, where you can work out what your actual speed is relative to what the speedometer is saying.
I tried digging up some info on this and couldn't. Is this like a standard NES console with a CD-ROM interface adapted to it, or a whole new console that is a clone of the NES?
A CD-ROM adapter would be AWESOME to say the least. Hell, a flash adapter would be even better. You could get a lot of games on a 16meg flash card these days.
I didn't have to reboot.
In case you did not know, Satire is entirely protected by free speech in the United States. Since they changed the names of the charachters, they should be even more protected from the lawyers. For what it is worth, however, they could have used the USS Enterprise and everything else as long as it was satire. How do you think TV shows like Saturday Night Live and MAD TV get away with it all the time?
Thanks to Jerry Falwell vs. Larry Flynt, satire has been protected by a landmark supreme court decision. A fan flick is not satire, in case you didn't know. Fan flicks are not protected free speech, though, personally I think anything you can create whether it be music, speech, or video should all be protected under our first amendment rights. Blatant plagurism is one thing, but creating something new based upon an existing concept should be protected, especially when there is no financial gain to be made, as in fan flicks.
If the republic represented people instead of corporations, this would be the case. A good idea to see who your congressperson represents would be to look at their campaign donations. Too bad so much soft money gets unrecorded, not to mention people in congress who likely line their pockets for pushing through pro-corporate legislation. How do you think the Senators get to be the rich white men they are?
He didn't really work on it. He was listed in the "Special Thanks" which means that maybe the designers of the games were just fans or something.
:)
Oh well. At least you got some easy karma.
Now that's just funny. Yeah, I've always been a few years behind the times. Games *were* more fun back then, weren't they? Hell, I'd rather play some old SNES games than the latest and greatest. I'd be happy to update my computer technology out of the 90s as long as someone would be happy to start donating to my cause. :)
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Hell, at least I recently upgraded my fileserver from a P166 to a P3-566. Slimserver runs pretty good on it too once you compile your own optimized codecs and run it on a ramdisk, since I realized that the disk i/o was just another bottleneck to getting at the database. Playlists generate a lot faster on a ram disk too.
You know. They do that on purpose.
The reason a speedometer is innacurate is so that speeders end up going slower than they actually think they are. It is a road safety "feature." For example, the next time you pass one of those radar signs that show your speed on the highway, try hitting on at 90 or so. If your car is anything like mine, it will probably say somewhere between 80-85 mph. When I blaze by them at 80, it usually says 75. For a long time I thought maybe they were not calibrated, but I have realized that those signs are pretty damned accurate and it is indeed my speedometer that is incorrectly showing my speed. Now I don't know if all manufacturers do this, but it is noticable. Sometimes that is why I don't think I get tickets when I consistently drive 15+ over the speed limit on the highway, as the state troopers here give you a good 10+ mph buffer to speed safely in. If you ever change your rims and tires to a different size, you will see a dramatic change in your speed as well because the transmission counts axle rotations which will very well be smaller with larger tires. So in essence, you are going faster than the speedometer in this case. Just something to think about if you like 18 inch rims on your Audi. (why, oh why?)
Check it out one day!
That's awesome. Can't believe I missed out on that back in the day. Of course, I never had cutting edge hardware and I recently got around to playing the first quake about a year ago. Honestly, I liked Doom better because the better atmosphere and some resemblence of a plot. Once I started playing half-life, there just isn't any comparison. Half-life is still the best shooter I've ever played, which is kind of funny, considering that it was written on an improved quake 1 engine. Still don't have the horsepower to run Half-life 2, but I imagine that somewhere in the next 4 years I will. Bah, who needs a multi-ghz machine anyways? This 900mhz box here still chugs along just fine and runs most of my apps with comfort.
Do you have anything to back this up? I heard that the quake cd was encrypted with the full version waiting to be unlocked, but I never heard that it was cracked, though I'm sure someone did it. From some googling it looks like all you needed was a keygen. I bet id never made this mistake again. :)
There is a lot of corporate greed in America. A terrible amount. I agree that not all corps are bad. From what I understand, slashdot doesn't really even make enough off of ads to support itself. (Thanks OSDN for keeping the train rolling!!) Google and a few others immediately come to mind. Hell even Billy Gates is a philanthropist, but then again, what smart monopolist isn't? Andrew Carnegie? That's what I thought. I'm not pro-republican of course, and I surely ain't pro-democrat. Either side is equally as bad as the others. The republicans we once knew are long gone, and the effects of pro-democratic social welfare are a whole different story, but I will say that it wasn't all bad and that this country needed the New Deal to keep itself afloat. Of course, World War II changed all of that and led to a huge boom in the 50s.
I don't care personally who the youth votes for. It might be enough, however, to stem the tide. We don't need 80+ year old senators who are so far out of touch of the needs of their constituents its downright pathetic. They sure as hell know what their local corporations need though, all the while these companies line their pockets, as you pointed out. With less than 50% on average of the populace voting, nobody is even remotely winning by a so called "popular" vote. When only 25% of the population at best is deciding who is making the rules, we have a huge disconnect between what happens on Capitol Hill and what is happening in people's neighborhoods and towns.
Representative democracy aka a Republic may very well be the best model we have going considering the complexities of managing a federal government, but it needs to get back to the representative part. Seriously, does anyone even bother to pay attention to what these people say? If the people in my state heard him saying over and over again that people deserve absolutely no privacy and that their is nothing in the constitution to protect their privacy, they would all cry foul. Unfortunately the 5.6 seconds the local daily news spends on politics glosses over such terrible admissions.
And that, is the heart of the problem. The media. We have a vice president that may be guilty of war crimes, a member of the president's staff that revealed the identity of a covert agent in a time of war (and needs to be thrown in jail) and yet the media has simply glossed over all the facts and moved on to the next big story. Hell, the president getting a blowjob got 100x more media than the attrocities we have committed. Oh wait, we aren't supposed to talk about them because it makes the terrorists mad. Well, don't they have a right at this point to be mad? Remember Abu Gharib? We hung Japanese and German soldiers for doing what those american soldiers did over there. Raping little boys in front of their parents? I cannot think of anything more terrible, short of maybe letting MP K-9s eat people alive, which also happened there. The whole thing reeks of coverup and when the abuses there and at Guantanamo Bay start to surface, it makes me sad that the public could probably care less and would likely assume that those people are all terrorists and probably desrved what they had gotten. Yeah, some english teacher that was pro-democratic and a non-combatant is finally released from the Bay in a wheelchair, after soldiers broke his back and refused to give him surgery. I surely hope a lot of World War II vets are apalled that the country their buddies died for has become a terror state.
When they asked Cheney about the prison in the bay, he responded that they have it pretty good down there. They live in paradise and they just built them a whole new facility. Since the US government and the dept of justice has already tried to legally exempt themselves from the Geneva convention because Afghanistan was not an internationally recognized country, all of these people will likely be held indefinately unless the ACLU can (and they have been) get these people representation with some legal teeth to sink into the whole mess.
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Ask and ye shall recieve:
Check this out here.
A snippet for the lazy:
Level I
A Level I quote is the most basic information available about a stock. It is information available to all at no extra fee. A Level I quote consists of:
* Bid
* Ask
* Quote size
* Last trade
* Volume
* High
* Low
Level II
Level II goes a step beyond Level I. It basically reveals the order book for a Nasdaq stock. But it's not the complete order book, rather it shows the best bid and offer of every market participant who is publicly posting a quote.
The upper part of this Level II display should look familiar, it is basic Level I information. In this example we have, left to right, top to bottom:
* Last, Last Size, Change
* Bid, Ask, Quote Size
* Open, Low, High
To the right is what should be another familiar tool, the tape, or the ticker. It is a list of trades as they happen. The price is given as well as the number of shares traded. Upticks are shown in green, downticks in red, and zero ticks in gray.
But the information we're interested in, at least in this article, is the Level II information that makes up the rest of the display.
On the left side are the current bids of market participants, ranked from best to worst, highest to lowest. On the right are the offers, again ranked from best to worst, here from lowest to highest.
Each line in the display gives three pieces of information. The market maker ID, a four letter identifying code, the price bidding or offering at, and the number of shares being bid for or offered.
For example, on the offer side, the fifth offer down reads as follows:
MSCO 89 1/2 10
What is this telling us? Morgan Stanley is offering 1,000 shares of Sun Microsystems (SUNW) at 89 1/2. Now, where did I get that? MSCO is the market maker ID of Morgan Stanley. Since moscow is on the right side, or offer side, of the window, it is selling stock. The price it would like to sell at is 89 1/2. It is selling 1,000 shares as evidenced by its size of 10 (all sizes shown are in hundreds).
Read more if you are still interested.........
(I HATE THE DAMNED JUNK FILTER)
Scottrader isn't level 2? Hell from watching the glitzy commercials I got the impression that their software did everything but the kitchen sink. How the hell did Scott Trade get into this market anyways? I mean, nobody heard of them (at least me) until very recently. Their commercials are really annoying too. The one where the kid paints a mural on the barn. Come on. Giving people more for their buck. Give me a break. All that hype and they don't even do level 2. I love it. Guess they aren't on the next level afterall.
Pittsburgh is an awesome city. Definately on my top 5 in the US. It is very cheap. I am typing this in the north side of pittsburgh. Unfortunately, the job market here has fallen flat on its face and there really isn't a whole lot in the way of good paying jobs. Lately, I've been looking at moving west (actually for a long time now). I'd love to go somewhere like Oregon or Washington, where I can take a drive and be in the middle of nowhere with absolutely no people for miles around. The great expanses that the west offers are really what draws me. Here in PA, you get to the top of a mountain (hills, if you ask me) and everywhere you look there are traces of people and power lines and everything else. Not so out west. I love the people here though. We do have the friendliest east/midwest city around. The further east you go the worse the attitude gets from here. I hated New York and DC and honestly, I've never been to Philly, but I'd imagine that I would hate that too. Even San Francisco has a terrible attitude about it these days. If I couldn't see the bay and all the west coast style buildings, I'd swear that I was walking around in New York. Kentucky is not just in the middle of this state either. It is really all around. You don't have to drive more than but a half an hour or so out of pittsburgh to start running into redneckville. The do call it Pennsyltucky for a reason you know?
Problem with pittsburgh these days is that all the young people are moving away and no many of the college graduates stay around here for very long. There are more old people here than just about anywhere else in the country, barring Florida, and I think that in 10 years, pittsburgh is going to lose a significant portion of its population. It already has, what with the steel mills and industry leaving 20 years ago. It went from a city of 600,000+ to a mere 300,000+ in about a 15 year period. The major employers are all non-profits and a large portion of would be taxable property is owned by them. UPMC runs a good medical monopoly here and the fact that they run their own insurance company doesn't help. The most profitable healthcare provider in the state and it is of course, non-profit.
The city is on the verge of bankruptcy and the local city council doesn't even have control of financing anymore. I honestly don't know if anyone should really move here for the long term unless they come with money and plan on just buying a house and getting by. It is really hard to say how well the city will be doing in the next 10-20 years, and I fear that it may become more like Buffallo or Rochester. A crumbling ruin that has turned into a welfare state. Most of our inner city neighborhoods are already starting to show the signs. Its like white flight here. The africans are spreading out and buying the cheap houses that nobody can sell in the better neighborhoods as the white people are all fleeing to suburban communities. Isn't urban sprawl grand? Don't take me as racist either, its just that the fact remains that neighborhoods that were very nice 10-15 years ago have slowly evolved into ghettos with no end in sight.
Hey, at least we got the Steelers and a beautiful skyline. Too bad most of the Fortune 500s that built the skyline have all packed their bags. Yeah. Pittsburgh is a great city, but I don't know how much longer it will be great for.
My GF works at a technical school. She teaches, and her and her whole department is tenured.
Her boss comes over and threatens to fire her whole department on a weekly basis. The last time it was because he couldn't find them. They were sitting in the classrooms that they teach in. It was lunch hour. He was mad because they didn't leave a note on their monitor as to where they were. On lunch hour! She usually doesn't get threatened, but she just happened to be caught up in the mix. He accused them of conspiring behind his back, hiding from him, playing computer games at work, and on and on and ON! They were hiding alright. In their fucking work area no less! With the door wide open! Her coworkers told her that her boss does this to them every single week! How would you like be threatened every single week with being fired? These people aren't even allowed to have their own phones on their desk.
Their IT department is a whole other story. Remember this place is a technical school. So check this out. They have to get permission to download anything above say like 10 megs. And their whole class is bandwith capped, so forget about installing Windows and getting updates, or forget about doing a net install of linux. They get something like 5k/sec per classroom or something ridiculous. Meanwhile the douchebags at IT are sitting on at least a T3 with unlimited bandwith pumping into their offices. They also get super pissed when an employee, God forbid, actually connects to their wireless lan by accident. Not to mention that they have VNC installed on all the employee machines and that all they seemingly do all day is abuse the schools bandwith and spy on people with their VNC. How fucking draconian is that?!
I keep telling her to get another job, but she keeps saying that she doesn't have time and such. It really has made her quality of life suffer since she moved out there and honestly it hasn't helped our relation at all. A lot of nights she just comes home and goes right to sleep after she sits and bitches to me for an hour about how much her job sucks. Truly not worth the hassle.
To those who don't know. Rick Santorum (bought and sold by accuweather which is a Pennsylvania corp) is proposing a bill that would kill free NWS information in favor of paid for info from greedy corporations like Accuweather. Since the NWS provides the bulk of Accuweather's infornation, we would essentially be paying a tax on this information and then paying accuweather to present it to us. It is almost like letting companies charge tolls on public roads that were built with public tax dollars. Pretty great huh?
For those of you who realize what a douchebag Rick Santorum is, I bring you the following link:
http://www.spreadingsantorum.com/
Also, here is a link about his proposed bill to the No Child Left behind act forcing educators to talk about "Intelligent" design. (Oh the irony!)
Santorum Amendment
Here is a link to the wikipedia arcticle about the comments he made that started the whole gay controversy.
Santorum Controversy
Enjoy.
You know, if more young people voted in America, it would be my hope that scumbags such as Santorum wouldn't see the light of day. Campaign donations need to be the first to go. What the bill that santorum is introducing would do is cut the public off from something that it pays for and something that Accuweather uses. Do you think accuweather has their own satellites up there? We don't need accuweather. We NEED the NWS.
That is Rick Santorum's bill. The NWS has no intention of cutting off service. The greedy chaps at Accuweather have decided that its just easier to buy a senator with campaign funds than to try and compete. No coincidence they both share the same state of residence. Honestly, I hope this bill goes nowhere. We need the NWS a lot more than we need to start paying accuweather for free information. Nevermind the violations of the FOI Act that such a bill would introduce.
For the record, this is the same senator (who the fuck in my state voted for this guy?) who said that gay marriage would lead to legalized beastiality and incest. Nothing like spreading the FUD to the elderly church going voters who are the only ones that seem to vote in this state. Thankfully one of my favorite sex columnists (are there any others) Dan Savage has coined the term Santorum to mean the frothy mix of fecal matter and sperm that exits ones bunghole after some good ole anal penetration. I can't think of a Senator offhand that would be more deserving of being lumped together with frothy, spunky fecal matter.
My Gods, Pennsylvania is a very backwards state. They won't sell beer or wine in the grocery. Nothing like a state sponsored monopoly on liquor to jack prices up sky high. You can't even buy alcohol outside of a bar after 9PM here. They finally just started to allow Sunday sales of beer and alcohol in select locations. Its 2005. Get with the fucking times.
One of these days I'll get the hell out.
Why do I envision levar burton (is that how you spell it?) saying this post now? "But don't take my word for it.........." Reading Rainbow. Anyone remember that show? I always thought that levar was pretty cool. He was pretty good in Roots too. Truly an underused talent.
This has gotta be some sort of joke. Either that, or you sir are a moron.
Dude, you fell for one of the oldest trolls out there, and you have lower slashdot number than me. Stephen King is not dead. The media would be all over it if it were to be true.
Time and time again has shown that developers will not support addons or upgrades to a console. I don't possibly see how fragmenting your market is a good thing. The abysmal PS/2 hard drive sales should be a good indicator of how willing the public is to spend money on upgrading their console. For reference of history, look at the Sega CD, the 32X, the light gun, ROB the robot, and a whole slew of other useless failed addons. I will say that network adapters for the PS/2 have done fairly well though, but very few games actually require the hard drive, with FFXI being a notable exception. FFIX's population is about 2 million by the way. Good for a MMORPG, terrible for a blockbuster console game. How many did FFVII sell worldwide? 5? 6 million?
If you were a developer what market would you choose? The market that your game will run on the most consoles (base 360) or the market that is likely just a small fraction of the overall maximum market?
Your comparison the PC world is completely absurd in that PCs are constantly upgraded and evolving whereas the typical console is a single target that never moves. It is an awful lot easier to make a game for one console with fixed specs than the hundreds and thousands of possible PC hardware configurations. It should be no secret that most PC games these days are RTS, first person shooters, a few RPGs here and there and of course, the simulator. Not much variety to be found. A great deal of developer shops have fallen quite recently due to poor sales in the PC market. Most kids these days seem to prefer the TV versus the monitor and I hate to say it, but I would imagine that a large number of computer game players are also software pirates given the ease of downloading an ISO and mounting it with the convieniently free daemon tools, whereas on the console you have to mod the console or pay to have someone do it for you and that is really out of the grasp of a lot of people.
I don't honestly think that Microsoft is choosing a good plan here. It is better to have a unified market than one that is potentially fractured. If you make a console that much better than the original and manage to convince a foolish developer to produce games that only run on the newer console, then why bother at all when instead you could have just waited a few years and released a whole new console with a slew of upgrades? Oh wait. That is precisely what they do now.
If there were a market for upgradeable consoles, it would have surely materialized by now. I think that the average gamer cares far less about the platform and a great deal more about the actual games themselves. IF you want to win a console race you need a lot of killer apps like GTA3 and the first Xbox had about 3 triple A titles and that just isn't going to cut it.
Yeah, but it did not really shred the document. I hear the gold standard these days is something like 30+ write overs. That is an awful lot of writing to delete a file. Just imagine how long a 1 gig file would take to delete! On a 486/33! Clearly they didn't do anything beyond just marking the filespace as writable.
"But since SCO owns the UNIX operating system...."
Quoth the wikipedia:
The present owner of the UNIX trademark is The Open Group, while the present claimants on the rights to the UNIX source code are The SCO Group and Novell. Only systems fully compliant with and certified to the Single UNIX Specification qualify as "UNIX" (others are called "UNIX system-like" or Unix-like).
Novell also has source code rights. Also, Darl, you should be careful to use the UNIX trademark so freely as it is clearly a registered trademark of the Open Group. From their website.
"Customers can identify UNIX certified products by the Open Brand logo and the mandatory attribution declaring to which version of the specification the product complies:"
So no Darl, you do not own UNIX. Get a clue.
"The competitive battle between Pepsi and Coke is legendary, as is the battle between GM and Ford, Boeing and Airbus, and the Red Sox and Yankees."
Your analogy between Pepsi and Coke (where did you learn to write anyways? 4th grade?) is so inherently flawed that the term "apples to oranges" doesn't even begin to describe how distorted this viewpoint is, as both are still fruit. My guess is that you were trying to provide some humour. I certainly got a good laugh.
" 1. OpenServer 6 Costs Less - OpenServer 6 offers very aggressive pricing.
The purchase price for SCO OpenServer 6 is priced from $599 to $1399
which includes the license to the product, software fixes, and access
to SCO's online knowledge base. Customers pay once for the product
and run it for as long as they like."
I don't really know what kind of math you are using Darl, because in my world, $599 is a whole lot more than $0. Also, I don't really see how asking for a support contract is a "bait and switch" tactic as you claim. If you don't need support, there are more than enough FREE, as in beer and speech, alternatives out there in the Linux universe.
" "Free" is one of the most searched words on the Web today. When you
type in "Free" in Yahoo search, it brings up more than 3 billion hits.
"Free" is a very powerful marketing concept. We all love free. Linux
lures you in with the promise of its being "free." But before you get
out of the "store," you are surprised to find out that it was anything
but free. Just remember the proverb, 'Free is the most expensive
price.'"
Darl. All I gotta ask is, can I have some of what you are smoking. It has GOTTA be good!
"OpenServer 6's features form a very powerful server."
Yeah. Especially now that you included a bunch of, get this, FREE software. How much did apache cost you? How much did you spend on developing the open source tools that you now use? Are we, as a collective, supposed to just swallow this pill, that you attack free, open source software, and then include it in your own operating system. If that is not sheer hypocricy that I have no idea what is. Go to hell Darl. We all know what UNIX is and was and it surely is not SCO anymore, or probably ever was for what it matters. Personally I hope your lawyers bleed what little liquidity you have left, if they are smart that is. You are a joke. Nobody respects your company anymore. I hope that you go to bed everynight worrying that your illegal insider trading activities may one day land you in court. Crooks like you, and the ones that fund your pitiful crusade, deserve to sit in a 4'x4' cell with your new wife, Bubba.
Have a wonderful day!
Sincerely,
Zos/Xavius.23
Uh...how exactly is this flamebait? It is at best informative, but I was going for funny a bit there. Ye mods! It is indeed a fact that the point of having any sort of article is, ad revenue. Sorry. That's how the real world works. Notice how I didn't say that it was a bad thing or anything inflamatory. Is it flamebait because I called him son? Well, look at his freaking UID. Its not exactly my fault I have nearly half the UID he has. :)
Isn't there anything better you guys could have done with the mod points?
Ad revenue son!
You should also remember that it was IBM that set the hardware requirements for the PC. The original PC had an 8088 with 16K of memory. The original Mac had 68000 with 128K of memory.
:)
I was curious as to this, because 16k does not seem like enough to even boot DOS 1.0 yet alone run anything. Seemed suspicious. Let's check out the wikipedia, which I realize is not the most acurate source sometimes, but I have a feeling their data on the original IBM PC is pretty good.
The original PC had a version of Microsoft BASIC --IBM Cassette BASIC-- in ROM. The CGA (Colour Graphics Adapter) video card could use a standard TV for display. The standard storage device was cassette tape. A floppy disk drive was an optional extra; no hard disk was available. It had only five expansion slots; maximum memory using IBM parts was 256 KB, 64K on the main board and three 64K expansion cards. The processor was an Intel 8088 (second-sourced AMDs were used after 1983) running at 4.77 MHz. IBM sold it in configurations with 16K and 64K of RAM preinstalled.
Amazing! Only 16k onboard and the 64k would have made it around 80k or so. How did these things sell like hotcakes? I mean they weren't really any better than much else that was out at the time, in fact they were inferior in a lot of ways to a few of the PCs out there. $1,500 or so is an awful lot of money in 1981 dollars. Anyways, I digress. If people actually bought things based upon real information instead of big names like IBM, maybe we would all have been using Macintoshes by now. Personally, I don't know if a closed hardware/software solution would have been all that great for innovation. Much as the Mac has driven PC innovation, the PC has also driven innovation on the Mac. When you look at MacOS 7-9 it becomes painfully clear that Macintosh was losing the race in terms of competent operating systems, which, I think, they have finally adressed with OS X, which for what it is worth, is more of an evolution of operating systems design than the revolution the Parc and Lisa were so many years ago. Funny how things work out and even more funny how history tends to repeat itself.
The comments about steve jobs being a terrible manager were pretty funny too. I guess some things never change.