However, I also respect the right of restauranteurs to choose whether or not to allow smoking in their establishment.
I couldn't agree more. In the Durham region of Ontario, when the smoking ban hit it did exactly what smokers and restaurant owners predicted it would do; it caused the closure of no less than twenty restaurants/bars in the region. This led to near financial ruin for the owners as well as unemployment for hundreds of employees, lost revenue for suppliers, etc. Non-smokers claimed they would file to these establishments in droves when the ban hit. They did not, and a year later they still have not.
I can recall many a night where I've been at the bar for a pint after work and found myself standing outside with the entire crowd plus the entire staff having a cigarette. It lends itself to a very important question; if 100% of the people at the establishment smoke, why are we standing outside in the cold?!? Where are the non-smokers, and why haven't they fulfilled their promise to support local entrepreneurs in these very difficult times?
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Buddy, you don't know problems until you have trouble breathing, or an unknown illness possibly triggered by cigarette smoke. There's nothing more important to life than the immediate need to breathe, tempurature/pressure, then water, food, etc. When smokers mess with my right to life and even my enjoyment of it just so they can satisfy a needless drug addiction, it makes me think they are a bit nuts, insensitive, junkies, whatever yeah.
Judging by the context of this thread, it sounds as if you're opposed to smokers lighting up outside. Is that correct? If so, either purchase a breathing apparatus, stop going outside, or lighten up. The outdoors is a big place, and there are a lot of toxic fumes far worse than factories (like the tens of millions of cars in North America) that create odorous/toxic gasses. If you have a problem with a smoker in the outdoors, stand upwind or stand away.
A hint for you; so many non-smokers believe they have the right to a 100 metre smoke free radius around them at all times. This is simply not the case. These types tend to be the ones who demand (not ask) smokers to butt-out NOW! This will accomplish nothing more than starting an argument. If you don't want someone smoking around you, perhaps at a bus stop you were at first, if you can't avoid being in the smoke ask the person nicely if they wouldn't mind moving away or butting out. Sometimes you will get a hostile response, or ignored, but smokers being humans too; you'll often get a positive response.
Nobody likes to be told what to do, especially by strangers. Regardless of your medical condition, keep that in mind next time you demand something of another human being.
You're part of the public. You're paying for your extra healthcare (which includes the entire infrastructure, including extra medical school, extra research, extra health research and warnings), and extra legislation/litigation.
Ok, so I'm stimulating the economy. You've made my point very eloquently for me.
And all kinds of other economic damage from your smoking, including the loss of labor when you die early,
Smokers tend to die early into their retirement. They (those that die) don't draw from the pension fund they contribute to for their entire working life. Also, for every "lost" smoker, there are five cigarette company employees who have jobs.
Dare to say my post is a troll, but you really don't know what a troll is. No surprise from someone irrational enough to smoke, now that it's so hard to deny all its costs.
Smoking is one of the few vices I currently enjoy. Depending on how puritanical you want to be, I'm sure I could find a dozen things about your lifestyle that are of little to no benefeit. So what? I smoke, I'll die somewhere between 60 and 80. If I don't smoke, in all likelyhood I'll die somewhere between 60 and 80. I could also get hit by a bus, be shot/stabbed, or fall to a terminal illness in the next 5 years. People in perfect health die suddenly all the time. I'd rather enjoy life than count calories and inspect my HEPA filters.
Smoking is something I enjoy, and yes, that I am addicted to. That you are so pompous as to condemn me for it speaks volumes for your character. Live and let live. If you don't like smokers, don't associate with them. Fin.
but in my experience, many programmers prefer the informal atmosphere where they can blow off steam by playing video games in the break room, wear whatever they feel like at work and come in at noon and leave whenever. Clearly, most work long hard hours, but at the same time they scoff at the idea that they should even look presentable,
This is touted by so many as a desired "right" of programmers / IT staff. Hogwash. In a business atmosphere you should look presentable. There's no reason any employee in an office environment should be permitted to wear cargo pants, a ripped Marilyn Manson t-shirt and a bandana. Employees should bathe regularly and look presentable enough for clients, business partners, marketting staff or anyone from outside the company should they visit the production area.
I'm not advocating shirts and ties for all employees by any stretch, but what's wrong with a nice pair of dockers and a golf shirt? It's comfortable, it breathes, it's very low maintainance (you can sleep in dockers and wake up presentable) and it's not an expensive outfit to put together.
As for long hours; I'm currently in sales. I come from an IT background (networks primarily). I work long hours if required to meet my targets; I'm no stranger to 84+ hour weeks. You have stress, I have stress. You have deadlines, I have deadlines. You have a multitute of managers, so do I. I, however, come in on schedule, leave no earlier than the end of my shift, dress professionally every single day, do not have access to video games, do not have an enclosed office but I'm here every day doing my job rather than complaining about it.
All this talk in this thread about "special treatment" for sales staff, management, etc. yet you want programmers to make their own hours, dress like slobs and play video games whenever they feel like it? Hello? If you want to be treated (and compensated) like a professional - stop acting like spolied children! Your job can be outsourced to $foreign_country for less than half the cost of paying and providing benefeits to you. Give them a reason to keep you, not an excuse to get rid of you.
And since we should expect the analyst to have some training already, I fail to see why we shouldn't expect them to have the training necessary to use real analysis software.
Let's see, I want to create a graph of how many units we sold each month this year. Which college should I attend in order to learn the complex skillset required to accomplish this task?
I followed your "Kill Your Browser" link clicked on everything. And this is the same window that was supposed to be killed... I dunno but those must be Windows specific, I am running Gentoo with FF 1.0.7
If you follow the README URL, you'll notice that the bugs referenced were confirmed agianst 1.0.4 and older, but are all fixed in 1.0.7.
Try to keep the suppositions about Windows bugs to yourself unless you have even some inkling of understanding of the situation. It makes us all look bad.
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I'm just curious, while I know most young kids out there in school and college use IM quite a lot, what about those of you out there in the 'earning a living' category? Do you IM very much?
Not as a matter of course, no. I do use e-mail quite frequently as it also helps me communicate with many of my clients. People at work full-time just don't have the time to sit down at their PC and monitor a real-time messenger client. In effect, it becomes merely background noise.
The problem being, so many younger people are latching onto IM software and slowly creeping into the working world. In my job (sales) I can't be tied down to my computer. I talk to people all day long and oft times ignore my PC for hours on end. The first time I saw a nudge come across my screen from an impatient friend I disabled the functionality and set myself to always busy (with a message of "I'm at work, I'm probably away from my PC or busy with a client. I'll get back to you when I get a chance.")
The thing that worrys me about young people, IMs, and professional atmospheres is the IM-speek they develop. If I'm communicating with a client, I can't very well ask them if they r going 2 come 2 see me 2nite; but it's become such a natural rythm to these people (many of whom learn how to speek IM before they learn proper English) that it's going to take over their communications style. Be it 14 or 41, when I see somebody typing in IM it gives me the impression of an uneducated child.
To the security aspect, yes, I aboslutely agree. IMs are very dangerous tools when in the hands of the uneducated. With a plethora of trojans/viruses floating around that automatically spread to one's entire contact list it wouldn't take long to bring an entire office network to its knees. For what? The convenience of not having to walk across the room? Not dialing an extension? Not waiting 5-10 minutes for an e-mail response?
In the same way the banks can't protect stupid people who give out their personal information to people who send them unsolicited emails with poor spelling. Banks can and should educate their customers about the dangers that exist in sharing any information, and they should take every precaution to make sure they aren't the source of a leak of their customers information, but this is clearly, too far.
Have you received (m)any phishing e-mails lately? They don't contain any poor spelling; they're most often a perfect replica of the bank's website and/or bulletins! People aren't giving their information to Mohhammed from Nigeria; they think they're confirming it with their own bank/credit union.
They click the provided link, it all looks like their bank's site (including actual links to their actual banks' actual web sites, including privacy policies, FAQs, help, Contact Us, branch locator, etc.) - even with authenticated SSL certificates! Sure, it's not to their bank, but the little padlock closes telling the person that the data they submit is secure and can't be intercepted by a third party.
These people are making tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars and it shows. They are determined, professional, and meticulous. I often click on the links to see what's new in the world of phish and am continually astounded at the fine level of detail these people go to to fool people. Embarassingly enough, the Minister of Consumer Affairs of Canada was recently hit by a phisher.
What needs to happen is massive consumer education. When anybody signs up for, renews, replaces a card we need to get out of the convenience and speed factors and get back to personalized service. We need a bank representitive to inform people they they will never be requested to confirm personal account details online. There needs to be informational/educational literature drawn up and readily available at all financial institutions with regards to how to safeguard their data. Banks should also educate people on proper document destruction methods, and instead of offering portable radios and stuffed dolls they should offer cross-cut paper shredders as prizes for large deposits, GIC investments, etc.
The problem is the fact that, much like a battleship, large corporate banks take a long time to turn. Phishing groups are small and well orchestrated. They turn thrice before the banks even move their rudders.
It seems to me from the tone of the article that the gummint is trying to force the banks to enact better privacy and security policies. Similar to when FORD didn't recall the Pinto; they decided the cost of the recall would outweigh the cost of the potential lawsuits. Legislation in that case meant that all recalls, no matter how minor, were dealt with decisively (eg. 237 units of 2006MY... were recalled due to the POSSIBILITY of tread separation. All owners of same were sent an informational letter urging them to have their vehicle inspected FREE of charge as a safeguard against possible problem).
Right now you're trying to eat your cake and have it too.. they're evil and yet you're willing to use their product but you're just not paying for it?
That's a sticky widget. It's not their product, it's that of the musician(s) who created it. It only becomes partially the product of the RIAA in a legal sense because they control the mainstream distribution channels and it behooves the musician to sign over certain rights in order to be published / reach a higher level of fame (and, in many cases, fortune).
The RIAA's product is the physical CD it's pressed into, the jewel case it came in and the accompanying liner notes. If you download the music from the Internet you circumvent the RIAA's product. The Internet is an alternative form of distribution which falls outside the spectrum of the RIAA's regular distribution channels. Of course many musicians are utilizing this channel for their own, low cost distribution of new product.
Purely for interests sake; what sized DB do you administer, what type/frequency/size queries does it handle, and what DB software are you using presently? What are your (professional) experiences with other packages? How did they scale, and how much hardware is/was in use at the time?
Perhaps I'm over-simplifying, but uncompressed WAV data (2-channel, 44.1khz, 16-bits-per-channel) is only 1.411 Mbps. For the network itself, a 100 Mbps switched Ethernet should provide plenty of bandwidth and dramatically reduce latency.
That's what came to my mind when I read the article. When transferring data @ 100Mb/sec in full-duplex mode the bottleneck typically becomes the hard drive. For that, you'd have to upgrade the RAM in the high-bandwidth using machines to max your disk cacheing.
I'd be more concerned about the ability of Win98 boxen to stream/process realtime data without hiccups, but I assume you've already got that solved.
As would I. However if you leave the machines stripped down, don't install extraneous applications, leave your startup items absolutely minimal, preferrably keep them off the web and you should be alright. Win'98 can work really well for a dedicated application but it's extremely fragile.
I'd further reccomend partitioning your OS and your data separately and storing an image of a freshly installed, up-to-date install of the OS with all drivers and requisite software. If anything starts to go haywire simply re-image the partition. It's far more time effective than trouble shooting reams of registry and DLL corruption.
What are the load times like? They are looooooooong in Burnout 3 on the PS2. You wait to load the level (even a small "Crash" Level), you wait to see your replay, you wait to get your bonus car, &c.
Played on the XBox, the level load times seem a tad longer to load than BO3 but once you're in it's quick. The only complaint I have is the "rewind" camera view in crash mode. When you pan forward through the track, it gives you the same picture only flying in reverse. As far as I can tell there's no way to disable it, either.
As for the between load times, I only use the HDD so I have no basis for comparison between platforms, but overall they seem to be fairly quick.
It doesn't take that much to take it down, but there seem to be plenty of people who can get it back up again. You would have to assume that they were all killed, or something.
Yes, mainstream, large-scale power generation is fragile and has relatively limited people who can manage it. However, the knowledge required to create a battery from something as simple as a lemon carries down from generation to generation. I'm sure we'll always be able to create some form of electricity even in a post-apocalyptic future.
When are they going to open source the conservation principle defying karma algorithm? I have a couple hundred posts under my belt. Without a detailed statistical analysis I hit a +5 every 5 or 6 posts with many making +3 or +4. I regularly metamoderate...
You probably post too frequently or not frequently enough. Myself, I MM about 1-2 times/month when I'm bored. I read/. daily and post only occasionally, usually in a week I'll have a day where I'll post 4-5 comments then no more. I also have Excellent Karma and 95% positive MM score. I get mod points probably twice a month if not more.
This is mostly detailed in the FAQ, but basically they have a profile of their ideal moderator and apparently I'm it.:)
As written, that link is invalid. You need to delete the space before the final 7 for it to work.
The link is fine, Slashdot's automagic line-wrap code took over and doesn't allow long lines of text to cause horizontal scrolling. If you hover over the link, perhaps if you right-click-copy the link location you'll find that it is, in fact, correctly written.
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Hmmm, we went over all of this with the dealer. At the time it actually was cheaper to buy the car outright, rather than lease, over the long term.
Of course, we keep cars longer than a lease agreement....
While your car payments may be cheaper, many people find the increase in maintainance (brakes, tires, fluids, wipers, and major components out of warranty) become more expensive in the long term. On paper, yes, quite often it does work out to be cheaper to finance than to lease but it's not neccesarily due to the mileage alone.
Interest rates and residuals play a major part in your decision. Now, for example, is the best time of year to lease a new car. 2006 models are just hitting the lot so their residual values are at their highest. Every quarter they will drop which raises your monthly payment.
On a similar note, financing a new 2005 model right now is highly advantageous because all major manufacturers want to clear out old inventory. As a result, interest rates and prices tend to drop.
Look at any lease agreement and you will see milage limitations. Since I commute about 100 Km (60 miles) per day, I am way above the lease limitations.
So I must pay more for the car.
No, you pay for the portion of the car's depreciation you utilize. You'd be in the same (if not worse) boat if you financed the car instead. Pay $30,000 for a car, trade it in 4 years later valued at $10,000 and you've spent $5,000/year. You've also paid taxes and interest on that $10,000 whereas in a lease you only pay tax on the depreciation.
If you calculate your actual mileage requirements when leasing a vehicle you can build them into the lease and save money in the end (opposed to paying $0.xx/km when you turn the vehicle in).
Me? I'm waiting for the class action against TiVo so I can join in.
Class action? Sue? Why? Isn't TiVo a commercial entity? Are you forced to use their product? Does it impact your live negatively if you can't record a Family Guy episode to watch at your leisure?
Build a DiY system, rally behind another company to create an open system (or create one yourself) but sue them? Why not just cancel your service and tell everyone you talk to how horrible they are instead?
so full disclosure is good but not when its Mozilla ? no wait, maybe my sarcasm filter is broken.
As with any extreme, neither full or lack of disclosure is good. The better solution lies somewhere in the middle. Disclose the vulnerability to the controlling entity first, work with them to find a solution. If a temporary fix is available advise the public accordingly. Disclose the vulnerability immediately when a patch is available.
What good does it do to fully disclose the bug? Only a small percentage of users will notice the disclosure and only a percentage of them will do anything about it. That leaves the rest of the userbase in peril because every malcontent out there will be racing to exploit before a fix is issued.
We have thousands of years of climatological data due to techniques like ice core sampling. The science behind global warming is not just based on what the local weatherman has been saying for the past 100 years.
So is that to say that "Global Warming" is part of a grand pattern spanning millenia rather than the fault of 300-odd years' worth of industry?
What I'm failing to understand is why diagram the switches to this fine detail in the first place? At the last network I administered we had our MDF, four IDFs and each lab had x number of drops run. Connect a printer? Find an available port on the wall. Any VLAN segregation was done with colour-coded boots. If the computers in the lab are connected to blue and you connect a printer to red, well, you're going to have a problem printing.
10/100 switches are extremely inexpensive nowadays; even managed switches with VLAN support. Buy some extra switches, run extra drops per VLAN, label the drops at each end and describe textually (in your *DF) which drop connects to which port. De-activate unused ports if you must and activate them on demand.
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I couldn't agree more. In the Durham region of Ontario, when the smoking ban hit it did exactly what smokers and restaurant owners predicted it would do; it caused the closure of no less than twenty restaurants/bars in the region. This led to near financial ruin for the owners as well as unemployment for hundreds of employees, lost revenue for suppliers, etc. Non-smokers claimed they would file to these establishments in droves when the ban hit. They did not, and a year later they still have not.
I can recall many a night where I've been at the bar for a pint after work and found myself standing outside with the entire crowd plus the entire staff having a cigarette. It lends itself to a very important question; if 100% of the people at the establishment smoke, why are we standing outside in the cold?!? Where are the non-smokers, and why haven't they fulfilled their promise to support local entrepreneurs in these very difficult times?
Judging by the context of this thread, it sounds as if you're opposed to smokers lighting up outside. Is that correct? If so, either purchase a breathing apparatus, stop going outside, or lighten up. The outdoors is a big place, and there are a lot of toxic fumes far worse than factories (like the tens of millions of cars in North America) that create odorous/toxic gasses. If you have a problem with a smoker in the outdoors, stand upwind or stand away.
A hint for you; so many non-smokers believe they have the right to a 100 metre smoke free radius around them at all times. This is simply not the case. These types tend to be the ones who demand (not ask) smokers to butt-out NOW! This will accomplish nothing more than starting an argument. If you don't want someone smoking around you, perhaps at a bus stop you were at first, if you can't avoid being in the smoke ask the person nicely if they wouldn't mind moving away or butting out. Sometimes you will get a hostile response, or ignored, but smokers being humans too; you'll often get a positive response.
Nobody likes to be told what to do, especially by strangers. Regardless of your medical condition, keep that in mind next time you demand something of another human being.
Ok, so I'm stimulating the economy. You've made my point very eloquently for me.
Smokers tend to die early into their retirement. They (those that die) don't draw from the pension fund they contribute to for their entire working life. Also, for every "lost" smoker, there are five cigarette company employees who have jobs.
Smoking is one of the few vices I currently enjoy. Depending on how puritanical you want to be, I'm sure I could find a dozen things about your lifestyle that are of little to no benefeit. So what? I smoke, I'll die somewhere between 60 and 80. If I don't smoke, in all likelyhood I'll die somewhere between 60 and 80. I could also get hit by a bus, be shot/stabbed, or fall to a terminal illness in the next 5 years. People in perfect health die suddenly all the time. I'd rather enjoy life than count calories and inspect my HEPA filters.
Smoking is something I enjoy, and yes, that I am addicted to. That you are so pompous as to condemn me for it speaks volumes for your character. Live and let live. If you don't like smokers, don't associate with them. Fin.
I live in Ontario, Canada. I'm a smoker. I contribute to the $6 billion that's pumped into the health care system annually.
Sorry, chum, but it's smokers who pay for your medical treatment.
I dare say it is your troll that has failed.
This is touted by so many as a desired "right" of programmers / IT staff. Hogwash. In a business atmosphere you should look presentable. There's no reason any employee in an office environment should be permitted to wear cargo pants, a ripped Marilyn Manson t-shirt and a bandana. Employees should bathe regularly and look presentable enough for clients, business partners, marketting staff or anyone from outside the company should they visit the production area.
I'm not advocating shirts and ties for all employees by any stretch, but what's wrong with a nice pair of dockers and a golf shirt? It's comfortable, it breathes, it's very low maintainance (you can sleep in dockers and wake up presentable) and it's not an expensive outfit to put together.
As for long hours; I'm currently in sales. I come from an IT background (networks primarily). I work long hours if required to meet my targets; I'm no stranger to 84+ hour weeks. You have stress, I have stress. You have deadlines, I have deadlines. You have a multitute of managers, so do I. I, however, come in on schedule, leave no earlier than the end of my shift, dress professionally every single day, do not have access to video games, do not have an enclosed office but I'm here every day doing my job rather than complaining about it.
All this talk in this thread about "special treatment" for sales staff, management, etc. yet you want programmers to make their own hours, dress like slobs and play video games whenever they feel like it? Hello? If you want to be treated (and compensated) like a professional - stop acting like spolied children! Your job can be outsourced to $foreign_country for less than half the cost of paying and providing benefeits to you. Give them a reason to keep you, not an excuse to get rid of you.
Let's see, I want to create a graph of how many units we sold each month this year. Which college should I attend in order to learn the complex skillset required to accomplish this task?
If you follow the README URL, you'll notice that the bugs referenced were confirmed agianst 1.0.4 and older, but are all fixed in 1.0.7.
Try to keep the suppositions about Windows bugs to yourself unless you have even some inkling of understanding of the situation. It makes us all look bad.
Not as a matter of course, no. I do use e-mail quite frequently as it also helps me communicate with many of my clients. People at work full-time just don't have the time to sit down at their PC and monitor a real-time messenger client. In effect, it becomes merely background noise.
The problem being, so many younger people are latching onto IM software and slowly creeping into the working world. In my job (sales) I can't be tied down to my computer. I talk to people all day long and oft times ignore my PC for hours on end. The first time I saw a nudge come across my screen from an impatient friend I disabled the functionality and set myself to always busy (with a message of "I'm at work, I'm probably away from my PC or busy with a client. I'll get back to you when I get a chance.")
The thing that worrys me about young people, IMs, and professional atmospheres is the IM-speek they develop. If I'm communicating with a client, I can't very well ask them if they r going 2 come 2 see me 2nite; but it's become such a natural rythm to these people (many of whom learn how to speek IM before they learn proper English) that it's going to take over their communications style. Be it 14 or 41, when I see somebody typing in IM it gives me the impression of an uneducated child.
To the security aspect, yes, I aboslutely agree. IMs are very dangerous tools when in the hands of the uneducated. With a plethora of trojans/viruses floating around that automatically spread to one's entire contact list it wouldn't take long to bring an entire office network to its knees. For what? The convenience of not having to walk across the room? Not dialing an extension? Not waiting 5-10 minutes for an e-mail response?
Have you received (m)any phishing e-mails lately? They don't contain any poor spelling; they're most often a perfect replica of the bank's website and/or bulletins! People aren't giving their information to Mohhammed from Nigeria; they think they're confirming it with their own bank/credit union.
They click the provided link, it all looks like their bank's site (including actual links to their actual banks' actual web sites, including privacy policies, FAQs, help, Contact Us, branch locator, etc.) - even with authenticated SSL certificates! Sure, it's not to their bank, but the little padlock closes telling the person that the data they submit is secure and can't be intercepted by a third party.
These people are making tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars and it shows. They are determined, professional, and meticulous. I often click on the links to see what's new in the world of phish and am continually astounded at the fine level of detail these people go to to fool people. Embarassingly enough, the Minister of Consumer Affairs of Canada was recently hit by a phisher.
What needs to happen is massive consumer education. When anybody signs up for, renews, replaces a card we need to get out of the convenience and speed factors and get back to personalized service. We need a bank representitive to inform people they they will never be requested to confirm personal account details online. There needs to be informational/educational literature drawn up and readily available at all financial institutions with regards to how to safeguard their data. Banks should also educate people on proper document destruction methods, and instead of offering portable radios and stuffed dolls they should offer cross-cut paper shredders as prizes for large deposits, GIC investments, etc.
The problem is the fact that, much like a battleship, large corporate banks take a long time to turn. Phishing groups are small and well orchestrated. They turn thrice before the banks even move their rudders.
It seems to me from the tone of the article that the gummint is trying to force the banks to enact better privacy and security policies. Similar to when FORD didn't recall the Pinto; they decided the cost of the recall would outweigh the cost of the potential lawsuits. Legislation in that case meant that all recalls, no matter how minor, were dealt with decisively (eg. 237 units of 2006MY ... were recalled due to the POSSIBILITY of tread separation. All owners of same were sent an informational letter urging them to have their vehicle inspected FREE of charge as a safeguard against possible problem).
That's a sticky widget. It's not their product, it's that of the musician(s) who created it. It only becomes partially the product of the RIAA in a legal sense because they control the mainstream distribution channels and it behooves the musician to sign over certain rights in order to be published / reach a higher level of fame (and, in many cases, fortune).
The RIAA's product is the physical CD it's pressed into, the jewel case it came in and the accompanying liner notes. If you download the music from the Internet you circumvent the RIAA's product. The Internet is an alternative form of distribution which falls outside the spectrum of the RIAA's regular distribution channels. Of course many musicians are utilizing this channel for their own, low cost distribution of new product.
Thanks!
That's what came to my mind when I read the article. When transferring data @ 100Mb/sec in full-duplex mode the bottleneck typically becomes the hard drive. For that, you'd have to upgrade the RAM in the high-bandwidth using machines to max your disk cacheing.
As would I. However if you leave the machines stripped down, don't install extraneous applications, leave your startup items absolutely minimal, preferrably keep them off the web and you should be alright. Win'98 can work really well for a dedicated application but it's extremely fragile.
I'd further reccomend partitioning your OS and your data separately and storing an image of a freshly installed, up-to-date install of the OS with all drivers and requisite software. If anything starts to go haywire simply re-image the partition. It's far more time effective than trouble shooting reams of registry and DLL corruption.
Actually, those are in-game takedown shots. The first one is basically driver view, the rest are the slo-mo shots you see when you takedown a car.
Make no mistake; the graphics in this game are phenominal.
Played on the XBox, the level load times seem a tad longer to load than BO3 but once you're in it's quick. The only complaint I have is the "rewind" camera view in crash mode. When you pan forward through the track, it gives you the same picture only flying in reverse. As far as I can tell there's no way to disable it, either.
As for the between load times, I only use the HDD so I have no basis for comparison between platforms, but overall they seem to be fairly quick.
My point exactly. In a browser that's supposed to prevent pop-ups I have to install two additional packages in order to prevent them.
The advertisers found a way to beat Firefox, now Firefox must find a way to beat them once again.
Better than Firefox? I went there using the latest version and I still got a pop-up.
Advocacy is great, but we must also acknowledge our faults in order to improve upon them.
Yes, mainstream, large-scale power generation is fragile and has relatively limited people who can manage it. However, the knowledge required to create a battery from something as simple as a lemon carries down from generation to generation. I'm sure we'll always be able to create some form of electricity even in a post-apocalyptic future.
You probably post too frequently or not frequently enough. Myself, I MM about 1-2 times/month when I'm bored. I read /. daily and post only occasionally, usually in a week I'll have a day where I'll post 4-5 comments then no more. I also have Excellent Karma and 95% positive MM score. I get mod points probably twice a month if not more.
This is mostly detailed in the FAQ, but basically they have a profile of their ideal moderator and apparently I'm it. :)
The link is fine, Slashdot's automagic line-wrap code took over and doesn't allow long lines of text to cause horizontal scrolling. If you hover over the link, perhaps if you right-click-copy the link location you'll find that it is, in fact, correctly written.
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While your car payments may be cheaper, many people find the increase in maintainance (brakes, tires, fluids, wipers, and major components out of warranty) become more expensive in the long term. On paper, yes, quite often it does work out to be cheaper to finance than to lease but it's not neccesarily due to the mileage alone.
Interest rates and residuals play a major part in your decision. Now, for example, is the best time of year to lease a new car. 2006 models are just hitting the lot so their residual values are at their highest. Every quarter they will drop which raises your monthly payment.
On a similar note, financing a new 2005 model right now is highly advantageous because all major manufacturers want to clear out old inventory. As a result, interest rates and prices tend to drop.
No, you pay for the portion of the car's depreciation you utilize. You'd be in the same (if not worse) boat if you financed the car instead. Pay $30,000 for a car, trade it in 4 years later valued at $10,000 and you've spent $5,000/year. You've also paid taxes and interest on that $10,000 whereas in a lease you only pay tax on the depreciation.
If you calculate your actual mileage requirements when leasing a vehicle you can build them into the lease and save money in the end (opposed to paying $0.xx/km when you turn the vehicle in).
Class action? Sue? Why? Isn't TiVo a commercial entity? Are you forced to use their product? Does it impact your live negatively if you can't record a Family Guy episode to watch at your leisure?
Build a DiY system, rally behind another company to create an open system (or create one yourself) but sue them? Why not just cancel your service and tell everyone you talk to how horrible they are instead?
As with any extreme, neither full or lack of disclosure is good. The better solution lies somewhere in the middle. Disclose the vulnerability to the controlling entity first, work with them to find a solution. If a temporary fix is available advise the public accordingly. Disclose the vulnerability immediately when a patch is available.
What good does it do to fully disclose the bug? Only a small percentage of users will notice the disclosure and only a percentage of them will do anything about it. That leaves the rest of the userbase in peril because every malcontent out there will be racing to exploit before a fix is issued.
So is that to say that "Global Warming" is part of a grand pattern spanning millenia rather than the fault of 300-odd years' worth of industry?
10/100 switches are extremely inexpensive nowadays; even managed switches with VLAN support. Buy some extra switches, run extra drops per VLAN, label the drops at each end and describe textually (in your *DF) which drop connects to which port. De-activate unused ports if you must and activate them on demand.