Very good advice, another good trick is -- once you've identified the files... load the recovery console off the CD and remove them. I had to do that with a particular nasty bug which had several mechanisms which replaced its files.
Also, IIRC NT4 allows you to rename a locked file from the console. So you can rename all the files, reboot, and delete them.
but collectively.. that leaves a lot to be debated.
You're exactly right of course, and the reason is the "people" who represent us, DON'T REPRESENT US. I could walk into a grocery store, throw a fistfull of M&Ms, and hit more sensible then there are in congress right now.
We have our share of dumbasses no doubt. The problem is they're running the place right now.
The trolling is actually *MUCH* better than it used to be. I've actually "come back" to slashdot after having given up. The real abuse on slashdot right now is the modding system. People are using the modding system to attack opinions they don't like. Try even the most polite and well reasoned critisism of apple, and youre gone.
I lost my job eight months ago. Guess what, I was re-hired - with a substantial raise by the end of the year. Guess what? I had the foresight to save money for such a situation. Guess what? Just because I might lose my job doesn't give me the right to expect to be given work just because I exist - nor to demand any specific type of pay or compensation that is not directly related to my value and productive capability.
And do you have any idea what would have happened to you if you had gotten in a car wreck in those 8 months you didnt have health insurance? Can you pay a 300k hospital bill?
You are A: very young, or B: Haven't seen hard times in your life. Someday you are going to loose your job, or get sick, and you're going to loose your house, and possibly your family, and then you'll understand the foolishness of what you have just said.
Its *VERY* cheap to integrate this stuff onto the motherboards. All of those functions are handled by one or two chips which probably costs on the order of 5 - 10$.
Onboard video is usually pretty terrible (unless you're buying an nForce board), and if you are an audiophile like me, you'll want the 500$ sound card with the 120db DNR:) But in reality, it almost doesn't matter who made your NIC, your USB transcever, etc etc.
Lowtax is pretty strange, and extremely lazy. Hes into music in his spare time, and posts on SA asking about how to work a ceartin synth, well I own the yahoo group for this synth, I tell him go to my group and pose the question and im sure someone will answer you. Anyways he acted like it was a big deal to do that and couldn't I just do it all for him... hes probably still futzing with it
The MiniDisc's huge success is a testament to the popularity of formats like this.
Mini Discs huge success? Might I ask where this success is? In southern california I dont know a single person who owns a MD player. None of the stores carry it although I remember seeing a Sting MD at sam goody once. Did it take better in other parts of the world?
Weird, Tiger Woods does advertisements for a local Lasik center here on KFI (640AM) in southern california. (and for the flames coming -- I only listen to john and ken, not that conservative bullshit -- dr laura, rush, Im looking at you)
Sony launches new formats constantly in an attempt to monopolize the market. I dont know WHY they think people want to eat their shit, but they think that. You left out SACD, Betamax, and their custom MP3 format whose name I don't recall. And probably some others. The only way to win that game is not to play.
a "living wage" is easy to define. Its whatever ammoutn of money it takes you to not fear for your life if you loose your job. IE: you can afford, food, shelter, and medical care.
Welcome to the world economy Europe. Thats been going on in the US since the 80s. It SUCKS. We can't figure out a better system, why don't you guys work on it for awhile and get back to us with something. Whats your hourly fee again?
You are right about everything you said... but the credit companies make the rules, and they've structured them in such a way that their mistakes are YOUR problem.
I respect your opinion but Im sticking with my story:) And yes I realize I bunged the name and I do mean planeshift. When I offered to give them an irrevokable license to use my music -- but allow me to keep the copyright, they still found that unacceptable. I really think they're up to some funny business.
Reminds me exactly of planescape. Its an "open source" role playing game. I am a programmer by day and compser by night. They were looking for composers, I thought it would be a lot of fun...
Long story short, the *CODE* for the RPG was all GPL, but all the game content, was curiously licensced under the planeshift license, which was bascially, "we o3n jou!" I started asking people, hey, why shoudl I as a musician assign my copyrights to you again? Why do you need that in an open source game? The were bullheaded and said basically "thats how it is."
Like a year later it leaked that the top brass had secret plans to sell the game all along, and were basically harnessing open source enthusiasts and naieve artists/musicians/writers to develop a proprietary game for them. I confronted one of them about it and all they had to say in their defense was "we never said we WEREN'T going to sell it."
AMD processors are better, but the best thing about Intel is ICC. The Intel C Compiler. If you do number crunching and what not, ICC is a fabulous compiler. Does AMD have anything similar?
If AMD had some brains they would hire a few engineers to submit optimization patches to gcc for AMD processors. They could get an edge OVER intel by having the best compiler technology avaliable publicly as opposed to ICC which is difficult to integrate into open source projects as GCC is pretty much the standard.
Ill leave the heavy crime and punnishment stuff to someone else, but who can be labeled a sex offender is ludicrious. I knew a lawyer who defended a guy the government was prosecuting as a sex offender for the following:
Guy got drunk, drove drunk, stopped on the highway to pee on the side of a road at 2:00am.
The reasoning went something like, "well, if he's peeing in public, hes exposing himself in public, therefore he's a sex offender."
Yep, you read it here first. Nobody *EVER* cared about "virtual reality". It was media manufactured hype reinforced by a couple terrible movies and books.
"Virtual Reality" was a grossly inaccurate prediction of the future of entertainment. As it turns out it is completely impractical, and more then that people are generally happy with plain old boring 2d entertainment in the first place.
In Southern California the closest thing we have is called the "Metro" train. Which takes you to a lot of LA and surrounding counties like orange and parst of riverside. The problem is the vast distances california covers. The closest Metro station to my residence is *40* miles away. Which leaves all sorts of nasty last mile issues. We do have various county-wide bus systems (such as RTA in riverside), and they're cheap as a dollar a ride in some places!
But there are several
#1 is the afforementioned car-culture issue
#2 is the demands PLACED on people by modern life, in CA most people commute 30 - 40 miles to work in slow traffic becuase of outrageous realestate costs. So you work 9 hours, spend 2 on the road, it takes you an hour to get ready for work int he morning, that leaves 4 hours each night for you to actually "live." Do you want to spend that time waiting for a BUS to buy groceries?
#3, last but not least, have you SEEN the people on public transportation? I dont know about where you are, but here its pretty scary. An x-g/f of mine used to take the bus to school each morning and was harassed constantly by all sorts of riffraff.
I just got out of a screening about an hour ago. Let me advance another theory. The books simply aren't that good. Most of the books humor is based on long and winding asides, and almost no story telling. I'm not saying the douglas books are bad, just that people idolize them as some example of perfection and they're not. People do the same thing with Star Wars and it drives me nuts:)
Story telling is exactly what movies are supposed to be about, and long winding asides is exactly what movies aren't supposed to be about.
My point is, the books are funny in a way that movies can't be funny, and the books are only marginally funny at that. Douglas usually gets 5 or 6 REALLY good jokes in per book and the rest is pretty marginal -- it works becuase the book gets you on a roll which lightents your expectations -- which the movie never did.
I think the movie did an excellent job of bringing material not suitable for film -- to film. That being said, the delivery of the jokes was simply off, as you say. They spoke much too deliberately -- you can't deliver quick witted comments slowly.
Not to worry. The sun has set on perl a LONG time ago. Notice how all the exciting stuff is in Python now? Soon it will be Pythons time to be the old and busted language. (sniffles)
Seriously though, perl was a good language *AT THE TIME* it was made. However, as im sure you're aware, its hellish to maintain. I can work on some perl, go have a bit of lunch, then come back and have no idea what I just wrote does -- its that terse. I personally find that somehow python mirrors my *thought* process, and with pyscho python is pretty fast. Although, I think thats only for x86 platforms right now.
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Thats a very interesting thought.
Also, IIRC NT4 allows you to rename a locked file from the console. So you can rename all the files, reboot, and delete them.
You're exactly right of course, and the reason is the "people" who represent us, DON'T REPRESENT US. I could walk into a grocery store, throw a fistfull of M&Ms, and hit more sensible then there are in congress right now.
We have our share of dumbasses no doubt. The problem is they're running the place right now.
The trolling is actually *MUCH* better than it used to be. I've actually "come back" to slashdot after having given up. The real abuse on slashdot right now is the modding system. People are using the modding system to attack opinions they don't like. Try even the most polite and well reasoned critisism of apple, and youre gone.
Pearch on brother!! My grandfather into his *80s* hunted his food with a *BOW AND ARROW*. He felt "guns didnt give the animal a chance".
And do you have any idea what would have happened to you if you had gotten in a car wreck in those 8 months you didnt have health insurance? Can you pay a 300k hospital bill?
You are A: very young, or B: Haven't seen hard times in your life. Someday you are going to loose your job, or get sick, and you're going to loose your house, and possibly your family, and then you'll understand the foolishness of what you have just said.
I have the E-mu 1820M and all the equipment that implies, and then some :) Similiar to the layla in many respects.
Onboard video is usually pretty terrible (unless you're buying an nForce board), and if you are an audiophile like me, you'll want the 500$ sound card with the 120db DNR:) But in reality, it almost doesn't matter who made your NIC, your USB transcever, etc etc.
Lowtax is pretty strange, and extremely lazy. Hes into music in his spare time, and posts on SA asking about how to work a ceartin synth, well I own the yahoo group for this synth, I tell him go to my group and pose the question and im sure someone will answer you. Anyways he acted like it was a big deal to do that and couldn't I just do it all for him... hes probably still futzing with it
Mini Discs huge success? Might I ask where this success is? In southern california I dont know a single person who owns a MD player. None of the stores carry it although I remember seeing a Sting MD at sam goody once. Did it take better in other parts of the world?
Weird, Tiger Woods does advertisements for a local Lasik center here on KFI (640AM) in southern california. (and for the flames coming -- I only listen to john and ken, not that conservative bullshit -- dr laura, rush, Im looking at you)
Sony launches new formats constantly in an attempt to monopolize the market. I dont know WHY they think people want to eat their shit, but they think that. You left out SACD, Betamax, and their custom MP3 format whose name I don't recall. And probably some others. The only way to win that game is not to play.
a "living wage" is easy to define. Its whatever ammoutn of money it takes you to not fear for your life if you loose your job. IE: you can afford, food, shelter, and medical care.
Welcome to the world economy Europe. Thats been going on in the US since the 80s. It SUCKS. We can't figure out a better system, why don't you guys work on it for awhile and get back to us with something. Whats your hourly fee again?
You are right about everything you said ... but the credit companies make the rules, and they've structured them in such a way that their mistakes are YOUR problem.
I respect your opinion but Im sticking with my story :) And yes I realize I bunged the name and I do mean planeshift. When I offered to give them an irrevokable license to use my music -- but allow me to keep the copyright, they still found that unacceptable. I really think they're up to some funny business.
Long story short, the *CODE* for the RPG was all GPL, but all the game content, was curiously licensced under the planeshift license, which was bascially, "we o3n jou!" I started asking people, hey, why shoudl I as a musician assign my copyrights to you again? Why do you need that in an open source game? The were bullheaded and said basically "thats how it is."
Like a year later it leaked that the top brass had secret plans to sell the game all along, and were basically harnessing open source enthusiasts and naieve artists/musicians/writers to develop a proprietary game for them. I confronted one of them about it and all they had to say in their defense was "we never said we WEREN'T going to sell it."
If AMD had some brains they would hire a few engineers to submit optimization patches to gcc for AMD processors. They could get an edge OVER intel by having the best compiler technology avaliable publicly as opposed to ICC which is difficult to integrate into open source projects as GCC is pretty much the standard.
Guy got drunk, drove drunk, stopped on the highway to pee on the side of a road at 2:00am.
The reasoning went something like, "well, if he's peeing in public, hes exposing himself in public, therefore he's a sex offender."
"Virtual Reality" was a grossly inaccurate prediction of the future of entertainment. As it turns out it is completely impractical, and more then that people are generally happy with plain old boring 2d entertainment in the first place.
What are you talking about man? The first episode is *very* funny an the rest of it drags on forever.
But there are several
#1 is the afforementioned car-culture issue
#2 is the demands PLACED on people by modern life, in CA most people commute 30 - 40 miles to work in slow traffic becuase of outrageous realestate costs. So you work 9 hours, spend 2 on the road, it takes you an hour to get ready for work int he morning, that leaves 4 hours each night for you to actually "live." Do you want to spend that time waiting for a BUS to buy groceries?
#3, last but not least, have you SEEN the people on public transportation? I dont know about where you are, but here its pretty scary. An x-g/f of mine used to take the bus to school each morning and was harassed constantly by all sorts of riffraff.
Story telling is exactly what movies are supposed to be about, and long winding asides is exactly what movies aren't supposed to be about.
My point is, the books are funny in a way that movies can't be funny, and the books are only marginally funny at that. Douglas usually gets 5 or 6 REALLY good jokes in per book and the rest is pretty marginal -- it works becuase the book gets you on a roll which lightents your expectations -- which the movie never did.
I think the movie did an excellent job of bringing material not suitable for film -- to film. That being said, the delivery of the jokes was simply off, as you say. They spoke much too deliberately -- you can't deliver quick witted comments slowly.
Seriously though, perl was a good language *AT THE TIME* it was made. However, as im sure you're aware, its hellish to maintain. I can work on some perl, go have a bit of lunch, then come back and have no idea what I just wrote does -- its that terse. I personally find that somehow python mirrors my *thought* process, and with pyscho python is pretty fast. Although, I think thats only for x86 platforms right now.