I think sockets work fi.... *connection lost, host not routable*
Really, for networking, all they need to do is ask slashdot's elite technical team. Years before Gmail automatically saved my drafts,/. consistently preempted everone with the above example (or Homeland_Security/FBI/Police knocking on the door, or person getting a hard attack) and snatches the post from the jaws of defeat when the user wouldn't otherwise be able to hit submit. Moreover, unlike anyone else to this day, even gmail, there is also a nice little hint as to the cause of the interruption.
While I took a japanese course one semester, my teacher decided to forgo the required text, a classic 300 page textbook for the course, and gave us this short booklet - probably about 50-75 pages long (I forget). Being Japanese herself, she said that it was the atypical school book in Japan, being good for 6 weeks of study. We got a second one half-way through.
I really liked having a short workbook. It was disposable (paper covers) and much like the Schaum's outlines here (a bit shorter, those outlines cost about less than $15 a subject, don't see why textbooks cost like 8x that and up). It also helped studying because everything in the booklet was relevant to the course and you could keep up with ease.
Math books especially have that problem of being mini-tomes of info. My calculus book in highschool could also cover Calc II and Calc III courses. I don't see why I have to lug all that around at once.
I think trademarks are great as it stops the Microsoft's of the world to make it their own, which they could otherwise in a heartbeat. Imagine "Windows 7 integrated with Microsoft's new browser Firefox!" Which sounds great (90%+ marketshare) until you realize that MS can fork it, and continue to embrace, extend, and extinguish it as their own while providing updates through their channels (getting around GPL because most people just don't care and will let the computer do anything for them automatically that it can, having the upgrade channels is a powerful thing) with most nontechy people never knowing.
I can't even imagine the scenario if the Linux trademark was like that as well.
The BSA doesn't go by discs or keys, but by invoices. Last I heard, if you don't have an official one, they consider it pirated. Now, I don't consider them good, just that they have more than enough money to make 99.999% of people settle on their terms (but this is something only business have to worry about...)
Of all the people I know that play (or used to play) paintball, not one of them even owned guns.
Goddamned, I'm sick of people parading around their lack of experience with guns as if it were a fucking virtue. The second amendment was written specifically to have an armed populace so the government wouldn't get oppressive. Now it's chic to never have touched a gun, good job, the government fucking loves you and can send in the swat teams without any worry.
I don't care if they never handled guns, but the way some people go around telling others they never had a gun as if they never "sullied" themselves with one. Yes good citizen, good job.
This move by Germany is stupid beyond all belief. They don't have real freedom of speech, they are locking down on guns, etc. The whole reason oppressive regimes rise up isn't because the people have too many freedoms but because of these ever more powerful and centralized states and the worship of the idea of the all-knowing state. Just look at the number of police they have, insane beyond all reason and armed with light tanks, armored personnell carriers, etc.
They should take some instructions from Switzerland, where the populace is well-armed (and trained).
I think most of there where to have fun and do what they liked. If you read their job posting, you'll see they offer revenue from sales of their projects and honestly are a cool company to work at. And that probably was what caused their shutdown, with all the EA and others just going for profits and making developers and programmers a slave.
Unfortunately, by itself, having fun does not pay the bills.
Even a generous company like google, where 20% of your time goes into a project of your choosing, looks like it requires you to do something with that 80% of the time.
DNF is now the gold-standard for vapor-ware. How much money did they spend, I wonder, producing nothing?
Whatever it was, just way, way too much. It will (or has long already?) become the prime example for developers why one should eventually just product out the door. Like a chef repeatedly fiddling with his concoction too much, the built up anticipation of changed recipes and of just the endless waiting meant the game just would have never lived up to the hype. Ever.
Years ago, the best they could have done was scrap the project in name without announcing it, and use whatever art and code they had as the foundation for another (officially unrelated) Duke Nukem Game while promising DNF would come out later. Once it was out for a while, just announce pulling the plug. It made the DaiKatana team seem to be on top of their game.
I was watching a program last night about the evolution of the planet, something about vulcanic activity and the superplume, and other things, as well as the evolution of the first landwalkers (tulogs?) that basically looked like a cross between crocodiles and fish, among all the changes in the environment, as well as mass ocean pollution (millions of years ago) killing a vast number of species.
When someone says nature is wise, they probably are romantizing how much "nature"/god? cares about our survival as a species but also don't want to be at the short end of the evolutionary stick when nature shows it' uncaring side and things change. I'm sure a man-made solutions to various things would be welcomed with open arms then.
"The project seemed promising at first, as cucumbers, radishes and beans thrived on Nickel's test fields on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. But the project also consumed vast numbers of worms -- 3,000 per square meter, to be exact -- which eventually made the project too costly for its sponsors."
I wonder what the costs between the two projects are or if they could be used in conjuction with each other (to lower costs) somehow.
Because when I buy gas to run my lawnmower, I'm clearly damaging the roads.
You can buy gasoline for those applications where they are not used for the road. It is dyed (taxed gasoline is undyed, so they can do a quick tank check) and farmers buy it all the time for their tractors.
Yes, you may not use it, but most people don't use all the roads either.
Gas tax on gasoline to support roads is a generally fair excise tax, you pay what you use. Heavier vehicles do more damage to the roads but also get less mpg in general.
Depending on the country, even if you never watch state subsidized channels, you still have to pay "TV tax". Also demanding a TV tax on a computer seems akin to demanding a newspaper tax on computers (since the newspaper industry is suffering).
Either sell advertising to cover the cost and charge people who do watch it online through the website.
And three, economist Paul Pecorino calculated in 1995 that peak revenue was generated at a tax rate of around 65%, much higher than current tax rates in the US.
Besides that government is only a means to an end, something many people forget all to often in this economic crisis...
I have to wonder what the growth rate of the economy would be at 65%? And I mean everyone at 65%, because I know they had above that rate "progressively" earlier last century. So what are the long term effects of that rate?
Would a lower rate bring in more long term? Or is high growth possible at the 65% end?
Inherent in that argument is that maximizing revenue is desirable for the government. Perhaps that is true in a time of war, but government is not a business, minimization, not maximization should be it's goal imo.
two ways to solve the tax "scam" 1. raise overseas tax 2. lower domestic tax
guess which road the government takes.
Abolish the 16th (and the idea that government owns and what you make, deigning what % you can keep yourself) and use something like apt-tax which is effectively an excise tax on currency as I understand it: http://www.apttax.com/
The college I went to had us do some exams on our personal laptops. They'd give you a CD to boot from, which put you into a separate OS with no way of accessing the contents of your harddrive or USB drives. You'd then connect to a server to get your particular test. I never heard of anyone finding a way to cheat - excluding the methods that work on pencil & paper tests, of course.
Now, if they set up some sort of system where you could tip the people who put up particularly neat stuff and skimmed a percentage off of that, I could see doing that.
It's called advertising and revenue sharing.
Conversely, there should be an option where you don't see any ads, but pay a small amount per video watched that then gets shared with the uploader.
Of course, then comes the problem with uploaders not being the original person who uploaded the video in the first place (thinking of all those AMVs that are copied and uploaded 20 times over)....
That's what I would like to know. Just a short while ago, if you opted for the linux version of one of their models, eeePC gave a nice SSD upgrade on their line of computers in lieu of Windows.
Now, the newer models don't have a Linux option (1000he and 1000hae). So I can't even get linux if I'm willing to pay (more than willing).
Regardless of if you are in a math heavy career or not, you aren't going to waste your time doing it by hand, you'll use a calculator which is faster and more accurate.
Well, strictly not if that calculator gives you decimals instead of a remainder besides the whole number and that number has to be carried over elsewhere.
He obviously meant that one should beckon him a disciple of AOL, just like one would call a cab. But I don't find any AOL disciples in the phone book. Maybe if I check under frisbee...
Also, Dan Rosenthal, a blogger and veteran of the Iraq War, gave this insightful analysis of Konami's situation:
In order to make the game fun... it simply has to sacrifice some amount of realism for fun factor. When you do that with a war game based on a real war, with real people, you run the risk of dishonoring their memories and sacrifices, and I think that this game has a dangerous potential to do that.
That analysis makes no sense because a bunch of war games were already made with a fun factor and thus they all dishonored the soldiers in those wars. And I read wikipedia and I don't see mention of the game using real soldier's name, unless that's the case, I don't see the difference here other than the memory is too raw in the collective public's mind.
I don't see why companies shy away from controversy, that's usually what sells something.
Slashdot Mirror
switch between Linux (a full featured distro), Windows, and OS X, but with minimal (almost no) speed penalty, if I'm reading this correctly.
Really, for networking, all they need to do is ask slashdot's elite technical team. Years before Gmail automatically saved my drafts, /. consistently preempted everone with the above example (or Homeland_Security/FBI/Police knocking on the door, or person getting a hard attack) and snatches the post from the jaws of defeat when the user wouldn't otherwise be able to hit submit. Moreover, unlike anyone else to this day, even gmail, there is also a nice little hint as to the cause of the interruption.
While I took a japanese course one semester, my teacher decided to forgo the required text, a classic 300 page textbook for the course, and gave us this short booklet - probably about 50-75 pages long (I forget). Being Japanese herself, she said that it was the atypical school book in Japan, being good for 6 weeks of study. We got a second one half-way through.
I really liked having a short workbook. It was disposable (paper covers) and much like the Schaum's outlines here (a bit shorter, those outlines cost about less than $15 a subject, don't see why textbooks cost like 8x that and up). It also helped studying because everything in the booklet was relevant to the course and you could keep up with ease.
Math books especially have that problem of being mini-tomes of info. My calculus book in highschool could also cover Calc II and Calc III courses. I don't see why I have to lug all that around at once.
Hopefully this initiative and wikibooks work together:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
I think trademarks are great as it stops the Microsoft's of the world to make it their own, which they could otherwise in a heartbeat. Imagine "Windows 7 integrated with Microsoft's new browser Firefox!" Which sounds great (90%+ marketshare) until you realize that MS can fork it, and continue to embrace, extend, and extinguish it as their own while providing updates through their channels (getting around GPL because most people just don't care and will let the computer do anything for them automatically that it can, having the upgrade channels is a powerful thing) with most nontechy people never knowing.
I can't even imagine the scenario if the Linux trademark was like that as well.
The BSA doesn't go by discs or keys, but by invoices. Last I heard, if you don't have an official one, they consider it pirated. Now, I don't consider them good, just that they have more than enough money to make 99.999% of people settle on their terms (but this is something only business have to worry about...)
Goddamned, I'm sick of people parading around their lack of experience with guns as if it were a fucking virtue. The second amendment was written specifically to have an armed populace so the government wouldn't get oppressive. Now it's chic to never have touched a gun, good job, the government fucking loves you and can send in the swat teams without any worry.
What if this guy didn't have a gun?
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/19365762/detail.html
I don't care if they never handled guns, but the way some people go around telling others they never had a gun as if they never "sullied" themselves with one. Yes good citizen, good job.
This move by Germany is stupid beyond all belief. They don't have real freedom of speech, they are locking down on guns, etc. The whole reason oppressive regimes rise up isn't because the people have too many freedoms but because of these ever more powerful and centralized states and the worship of the idea of the all-knowing state. Just look at the number of police they have, insane beyond all reason and armed with light tanks, armored personnell carriers, etc.
They should take some instructions from Switzerland, where the populace is well-armed (and trained).
Unfortunately, by itself, having fun does not pay the bills.
Even a generous company like google, where 20% of your time goes into a project of your choosing, looks like it requires you to do something with that 80% of the time.
Whatever it was, just way, way too much. It will (or has long already?) become the prime example for developers why one should eventually just product out the door. Like a chef repeatedly fiddling with his concoction too much, the built up anticipation of changed recipes and of just the endless waiting meant the game just would have never lived up to the hype. Ever.
Years ago, the best they could have done was scrap the project in name without announcing it, and use whatever art and code they had as the foundation for another (officially unrelated) Duke Nukem Game while promising DNF would come out later. Once it was out for a while, just announce pulling the plug. It made the DaiKatana team seem to be on top of their game.
I was watching a program last night about the evolution of the planet, something about vulcanic activity and the superplume, and other things, as well as the evolution of the first landwalkers (tulogs?) that basically looked like a cross between crocodiles and fish, among all the changes in the environment, as well as mass ocean pollution (millions of years ago) killing a vast number of species.
When someone says nature is wise, they probably are romantizing how much "nature"/god? cares about our survival as a species but also don't want to be at the short end of the evolutionary stick when nature shows it' uncaring side and things change. I'm sure a man-made solutions to various things would be welcomed with open arms then.
I read a while ago about a German guy who invented a way to make farmable land out of desert:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,551152,00.html
(He moved on to make a radar camoflaging paint):
"The project seemed promising at first, as cucumbers, radishes and beans thrived on Nickel's test fields on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. But the project also consumed vast numbers of worms -- 3,000 per square meter, to be exact -- which eventually made the project too costly for its sponsors."
I wonder what the costs between the two projects are or if they could be used in conjuction with each other (to lower costs) somehow.
You can buy gasoline for those applications where they are not used for the road. It is dyed (taxed gasoline is undyed, so they can do a quick tank check) and farmers buy it all the time for their tractors.
At least that's how it used to be.
Gas tax on gasoline to support roads is a generally fair excise tax, you pay what you use. Heavier vehicles do more damage to the roads but also get less mpg in general.
Depending on the country, even if you never watch state subsidized channels, you still have to pay "TV tax". Also demanding a TV tax on a computer seems akin to demanding a newspaper tax on computers (since the newspaper industry is suffering).
Either sell advertising to cover the cost and charge people who do watch it online through the website.
Besides that government is only a means to an end, something many people forget all to often in this economic crisis...
I have to wonder what the growth rate of the economy would be at 65%? And I mean everyone at 65%, because I know they had above that rate "progressively" earlier last century. So what are the long term effects of that rate?
Would a lower rate bring in more long term? Or is high growth possible at the 65% end?
Inherent in that argument is that maximizing revenue is desirable for the government. Perhaps that is true in a time of war, but government is not a business, minimization, not maximization should be it's goal imo.
Abolish the 16th (and the idea that government owns and what you make, deigning what % you can keep yourself) and use something like apt-tax which is effectively an excise tax on currency as I understand it:
http://www.apttax.com/
Wouldn't that mean Bill Gates would have to give most of his money back and be in jail for eons - seems a bit harsh :(
Boot the CD from VirtualBox?
It's called advertising and revenue sharing.
Conversely, there should be an option where you don't see any ads, but pay a small amount per video watched that then gets shared with the uploader.
Of course, then comes the problem with uploaders not being the original person who uploaded the video in the first place (thinking of all those AMVs that are copied and uploaded 20 times over)....
That's what I would like to know. Just a short while ago, if you opted for the linux version of one of their models, eeePC gave a nice SSD upgrade on their line of computers in lieu of Windows.
Now, the newer models don't have a Linux option (1000he and 1000hae). So I can't even get linux if I'm willing to pay (more than willing).
Right-sizing is usually the evolution of the word down-sizing on the euphemism treadmill:
http://www.wordspy.com/words/rightsizing.asp
I guess the guy is just using it wrong.
Well, strictly not if that calculator gives you decimals instead of a remainder besides the whole number and that number has to be carried over elsewhere.
He obviously meant that one should beckon him a disciple of AOL, just like one would call a cab. But I don't find any AOL disciples in the phone book. Maybe if I check under frisbee...
It's been a while since I used mandriva, here's a review of the latest:
http://adventuresinopensource.blogspot.com/2008/11/distro-review-mandriva-one-2009.html
And more timely reviews here under 2009:
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mandriva
It gets buried properly, it gets inserted into the Duke Nukem Forever project.
That analysis makes no sense because a bunch of war games were already made with a fun factor and thus they all dishonored the soldiers in those wars. And I read wikipedia and I don't see mention of the game using real soldier's name, unless that's the case, I don't see the difference here other than the memory is too raw in the collective public's mind.
I don't see why companies shy away from controversy, that's usually what sells something.