you may be modded troll. I got modded overrated w/ just my karma bonus to a question thats got 3 replies. Anyway, maybe someone can shed some light on the difference between a windows manager and a desktop? I honestly have never understood that since it seems most windows managers can be used as desktops but desktops (like KDE) somtimes use different windows managers.
A technuiqe my work employed to get people to stop requesting things is to make some simple form to fill out to get what they want. But then require 2 or 3 signatures. (Their supervisor, their company sponsor or contact and their own.) Then you take 3 or 4 weeks to process any of these forms, (purposefully). And you deny half of them.
Then you make your policy strictly exclusionary. And when they say "BUT I NEED THIS!", you say, "Ok, fill out a form 23" or whatever the form is. They'll learn quickly that they aren't going to get many of them approved and they'll start putting them in only when they really need them.
Damnit, it doesn't include the game I most wanted!
There used to be an old Spy vs. Spy game for the commadore 64. (Yes the MAD magazine spy vs spy.) I used to LOVE that game. Its a shame this system doesn't have it. I also had frogger for the commadore 64. Its missing too.
I still don't think it would be as much of a problem. Storing TV shows adds up quickly spacewise and people usually only will download an episode they haven't seen. I think that the retention and choise to rewatch on the hard drive as oposed to watching reruns on tv would be very low. I wouldn't be supprised if tv execs saw it your way though.
On the other hand where I'd think it would hurt them is in DVD sales. Lets face it, people don't rewatch TV series they buy on DVD. People will pay to watch it when they want and all the episodes at one time w/o commercials. But with official bittorrents, your now paying $60 for just the lack of commercials which people would not do.
That is probably where the greatest impact would be. Still, I think it would highly recommendable that TV companies at least give this a trial as they won't be able to stop it. (We are all going out to buy THESE before their illegal right?) They might as well make money through online adds.
I actually shopped alienware hoping to get a close-to-top-of-the-line computer but I realized that they didn't even offer top of the line and I'd have to build to get the features I wanted.
I have left over monitors. They do not need to be included in the price of the computer just because macs come w/ them.
Why is this even a problem?
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I'm sure I'm not the only one in this thread to say this, but why in the world is this even a problem? Why don't the TV companies just put their channel's major series on their websites w/ the commercials. Most people who download shows don't do it because they don't like the commercials, they do it because they aren't sitting at the TV when it shoes, (I'm sorry Cartoon Network but I just can't be infront of the TV at 11:30 every Saturday to watch Full Metal Alchemist, and my GF can't be infront of the TV to watch desperate housewives whenever it airs).
All they have to do is use strait bit torrent downloads encoded in the same or better quality than the people ripping them, and make them available when the show ends. Hell, put a small add saying "Friends telling you what happened before you had a chance to watch? See this show on FOX every Monday at 5:30!" or whatever at the beginning of each show. The people that are going to skip the adds are the same ones in the bathroom while its showing so what exactly is the problem?
for $2500 I'm having a rack-mount 1TB SATA RAID5 linux server built for home use.
For $1300 I can build a top of the line gaming machine. (I guess I could spend $2500 and get Alienware or Dell stamped on it.)
I work for the federal government in an aquisition program office. We are mostly contractors having only government mainly for supervising and signing duties, (I am government). Our contractors are payed more (though receive less benefits). They are treated just like government in almost all situations. The government hires contractors to avoid hiring actual employee which are MUCH harder to get rid of after 6 months. Instead they chose to pay contractors 150%-200%.
It's true that 'perminant' employees aren't more protected, but when it comes to lay-offs in times of belt tightening, contractors will likely go first.
Most the GMD tests were successful. all but 1 of the aegis tests were successful. Of flight tested missiles, only THAAD has a terrible record and that's been due to quality control, not design. And none of them have been rigged. Just because 1 MIT professor with a vindetta and w/o a security clearance sais its true doesn't make it so. I agree with you on one matter though; I would post comments like yours anonymously too.
The idea isn't that they are a threat to us, the idea is they have a theoretical ability to destroy satelites and that they might have enemies, (not necesarily us), who have satelites.
Canada will participate so they can stay in the mountain, and so they can tap the millions of dollars in contracts that could go to Canadian businesses.
What a load of crap. This is siting the Airforce saying they want to disable enemy satelites and a bit of MDA funding as proof we're going to put weapons into space?
First, you don't have to have a weapon in space to disable a satelite. Hell, last week it was either here or on fark that there was an article about non-perminant disabling of satelites using RF energy.
And the MDA funding? 7.4million is NOTHING. They gave 8 million to fund a program to improve the software aquisition process. Thats not 8 mil to build software. its not 8 mil to improve building software. Its not even 8 mil to pay the people who buy the software. Its 8 mil to improve HOW we buy the software. 7.4 million at the MDA means they are paying to see if the current state of technology supports TRYING to build it. 7.4 million isn't even enough to start drawing concept designs.
And lets face it, if the US realizes this is important, we can assume Russia, China, India, etc do to.
And what the hell does the US putting interceptors at Fylingdales have to do with anything? They're ground based intercepters. I didn't realize the US had even picked a eastern basing site. The US does something nice like offer to cover your country from missile attacks, and the media twists it into some sort of "the US is making us put weapons in space" bs. Iran is working their ass off to get long range missiles. If you want to depend on the idea that they won't attack you because they don't want to be attacked, thats fine, but considering Iran's support of the war in Iraq, (and not our side of it), I wouldn't trust them not to 'lose' a shahab 3 and then lightly condemn the terrorists who launched it on some western base in europe.
I'm moving from DC to Huntsville, AL tomarrow. Damn. Though I have never had a land line here so I can't check anyway. But I would LOVE to get this since I usually run servers at home for various things and the 14kBps up sucks.
I ran in to this problem when moving once. Having your liquid system FREEZE. That was unique. Luckily it didn't leak afterwards but since then I've been leary of liquid cooling.
I would recommend looking at Prevx personal IPS. I believe they are working on more enterprise type solutions. On a machine where you aren't stopping the install of software by limiting accounts, Prevx watches to make sure registery keys, IE addons, etc aren't added/modified w/o your explicit permission.
For windows computers, my home security software list is: Ad-aware, Spybot, Prevx home, AVG anti virus, and I've been using windows SP2 firewall. (I'm undecided whether I really need to download Kerio or tiny.)
What I want is a linux music player with the ability to deal with large, (think >10k songs). I want it to be able to search by anything in the metadata. I want it to be able to keep virtual and static playlists and be able to switch through them easily. Also I'd like it to be in a client-server setup so I can control the server computer from wherever in my house w/ either a nice graphical interface or a command line or web should need be. Winamp 5 does all of this, (except maybe the virtual playlists and the client-server setup).
It seems like linux is lacking badly on this front. There's xmms but unless it gets a big makeover it will always be a 1 playlist program. Now I've wondered if mythtv would do this. (I haven't had the chance to try it out yet.)
But for all the wonderful software for linux and such a push to the desktop, linux is SEVERLY lacking on the digital audio playing front unless you never moved from winamp 2.
I think what will become more interesting is that, now that we know the best lone player (tit for tat) can be defeated by players playing together, can we write our players to look for a player trying to communicate to another player so as to take advantage of it. Can my player play tit for tat against normal players, but, when it sees a S/M player, convince the S/M player to play slave for my gain?
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you may be modded troll. I got modded overrated w/ just my karma bonus to a question thats got 3 replies. Anyway, maybe someone can shed some light on the difference between a windows manager and a desktop? I honestly have never understood that since it seems most windows managers can be used as desktops but desktops (like KDE) somtimes use different windows managers.
To everyone, I'm not the damn Sys Admin. And they ARE justified in this type of control.
Personally, fluxbox is my favorite light desktop. What advantages do enlightenment or XFCE have over fluxbox? (if any)
Then you make your policy strictly exclusionary. And when they say "BUT I NEED THIS!", you say, "Ok, fill out a form 23" or whatever the form is. They'll learn quickly that they aren't going to get many of them approved and they'll start putting them in only when they really need them.
Damnit, it doesn't include the game I most wanted!
There used to be an old Spy vs. Spy game for the commadore 64. (Yes the MAD magazine spy vs spy.) I used to LOVE that game. Its a shame this system doesn't have it. I also had frogger for the commadore 64. Its missing too.
On the other hand where I'd think it would hurt them is in DVD sales. Lets face it, people don't rewatch TV series they buy on DVD. People will pay to watch it when they want and all the episodes at one time w/o commercials. But with official bittorrents, your now paying $60 for just the lack of commercials which people would not do.
That is probably where the greatest impact would be. Still, I think it would highly recommendable that TV companies at least give this a trial as they won't be able to stop it. (We are all going out to buy THESE before their illegal right?) They might as well make money through online adds.
I actually shopped alienware hoping to get a close-to-top-of-the-line computer but I realized that they didn't even offer top of the line and I'd have to build to get the features I wanted.
I have left over monitors. They do not need to be included in the price of the computer just because macs come w/ them.
All they have to do is use strait bit torrent downloads encoded in the same or better quality than the people ripping them, and make them available when the show ends. Hell, put a small add saying "Friends telling you what happened before you had a chance to watch? See this show on FOX every Monday at 5:30!" or whatever at the beginning of each show. The people that are going to skip the adds are the same ones in the bathroom while its showing so what exactly is the problem?
for $2500 I'm having a rack-mount 1TB SATA RAID5 linux server built for home use.
For $1300 I can build a top of the line gaming machine. (I guess I could spend $2500 and get Alienware or Dell stamped on it.)
I work for the federal government in an aquisition program office. We are mostly contractors having only government mainly for supervising and signing duties, (I am government). Our contractors are payed more (though receive less benefits). They are treated just like government in almost all situations. The government hires contractors to avoid hiring actual employee which are MUCH harder to get rid of after 6 months. Instead they chose to pay contractors 150%-200%.
It's true that 'perminant' employees aren't more protected, but when it comes to lay-offs in times of belt tightening, contractors will likely go first.
Most the GMD tests were successful. all but 1 of the aegis tests were successful. Of flight tested missiles, only THAAD has a terrible record and that's been due to quality control, not design. And none of them have been rigged. Just because 1 MIT professor with a vindetta and w/o a security clearance sais its true doesn't make it so. I agree with you on one matter though; I would post comments like yours anonymously too.
The idea isn't that they are a threat to us, the idea is they have a theoretical ability to destroy satelites and that they might have enemies, (not necesarily us), who have satelites.
Canada will participate so they can stay in the mountain, and so they can tap the millions of dollars in contracts that could go to Canadian businesses.
First, you don't have to have a weapon in space to disable a satelite. Hell, last week it was either here or on fark that there was an article about non-perminant disabling of satelites using RF energy.
And the MDA funding? 7.4million is NOTHING. They gave 8 million to fund a program to improve the software aquisition process. Thats not 8 mil to build software. its not 8 mil to improve building software. Its not even 8 mil to pay the people who buy the software. Its 8 mil to improve HOW we buy the software. 7.4 million at the MDA means they are paying to see if the current state of technology supports TRYING to build it. 7.4 million isn't even enough to start drawing concept designs.
And lets face it, if the US realizes this is important, we can assume Russia, China, India, etc do to.
And what the hell does the US putting interceptors at Fylingdales have to do with anything? They're ground based intercepters. I didn't realize the US had even picked a eastern basing site. The US does something nice like offer to cover your country from missile attacks, and the media twists it into some sort of "the US is making us put weapons in space" bs. Iran is working their ass off to get long range missiles. If you want to depend on the idea that they won't attack you because they don't want to be attacked, thats fine, but considering Iran's support of the war in Iraq, (and not our side of it), I wouldn't trust them not to 'lose' a shahab 3 and then lightly condemn the terrorists who launched it on some western base in europe.
Who's talking about presentations. Powerpoint files or printed slides have become an acceptable way to present any possible data in the government.
No, typical government reports ares, even tech, are powerpoint with no relevant info. A nice common ground though wouldn't hurt.
My cell phone already has 2 catagories in the news headlines page that tell the number of electorial votes for each candidate.
I'm moving from DC to Huntsville, AL tomarrow. Damn. Though I have never had a land line here so I can't check anyway. But I would LOVE to get this since I usually run servers at home for various things and the 14kBps up sucks.
I ran in to this problem when moving once. Having your liquid system FREEZE. That was unique. Luckily it didn't leak afterwards but since then I've been leary of liquid cooling.
For windows computers, my home security software list is: Ad-aware, Spybot, Prevx home, AVG anti virus, and I've been using windows SP2 firewall. (I'm undecided whether I really need to download Kerio or tiny.)
It seems like linux is lacking badly on this front. There's xmms but unless it gets a big makeover it will always be a 1 playlist program. Now I've wondered if mythtv would do this. (I haven't had the chance to try it out yet.)
But for all the wonderful software for linux and such a push to the desktop, linux is SEVERLY lacking on the digital audio playing front unless you never moved from winamp 2.
I think what will become more interesting is that, now that we know the best lone player (tit for tat) can be defeated by players playing together, can we write our players to look for a player trying to communicate to another player so as to take advantage of it. Can my player play tit for tat against normal players, but, when it sees a S/M player, convince the S/M player to play slave for my gain?
Looking through the screen shots, I gotta say it makes me think of "reboot", that 3D tv show.