The people at Penny Arcade act like they are investigating a space shuttle disaster. It would be nice to see what level of respect the people who play games 24/7 and actually care about intermittent downtime would give a customer paying them $14 / month. I bet most of them would tell the customer to "F off you n00b". It is a $14 a month service for unlimited entertainment, you can't expect that every single kink will be ironed out at launch.
Real world devices have real world problems, and a whole host of gamers, like Tycho fail to realize that. Imagine if Tycho had to deal with 100,000's of people complaining that one stroke in one particular comic was 1 pt off.
The problem is that if Blizzard put the resources into making the game so that there were no problems at launch and that they had the server infrastructure to support the entire planet logging into same screen all at once the subscription fee would be so incredibly expensive that no one would play the game.
Manufacturing defects are a trade off, yes Blizzard could build a game with no bugs, but how many players would want to pay $5,000 for a copy, and $1,000 a month?
Umm... considering that the center is where the fusion is occuring and that is a result of the crushing weight of 98% of the solar system, I would hazard a guess that a fusion reactor core has similar temperatures to the center of the sun.
If the project is important enough to warrant an external PCI card surely it is worth $1000 to buy an adapter?
You've probably wasted more money by waiting for/. to respond.
On/. everyone wants 100K / year in order to work but doesn't think anyone elses time is worth more then $2.50 / hour.
I know this may confuse some/. readers but time is worth money, at least, my time is worth money.
Why not just get a daisy wheel printer from the 80s and hook it up to a usb to parallel/serial adapter?
IBM also made some printers with ball type print heads.
Why should the public be unable to compete with private industry?
If the private network is such a great thing than it will win out.
The fact that people might be willing to vote for a gov't that will make telcom public infrastructure is telling of the crappy service and high prices the telecom industry provides.
The legislation is anti-competitive. What you have is the competition between public infrastructure and private infrastructure. If the taxes levied for the public infrastructure outweight the benefit the public can always vote in someone who will change that in 4 years.
MySQL is fine for load/store operations or other places where complex operations on set are not required. MySQL is not suitable for complex queries.
MySQL is a bit like Windows 98 vs. a multi-user OS with virtual memory. Most people just need a single user computer that holds their email and lets them play games. However, for those who need the features a multi-user OS they cannot simply hack on those features to Windows 98. It isn't that MySQL isn't a real database it is just that its feature set severely restricts the tasks it is able to do well. Yes, you COULD build a bank on MySQL just like Diebold makes Windows 98 based ATM machines.
Whether it is a better idea to simply build your bank on Postgresql or Oracle and pay higher machine / licensing costs is an excersize for the reader.
There are spots where Win98 and MySQL are well suited however, there are a lot of cases where it is completely out classed by other products.
Myself, I'd much rather not use all the features of Postgresql and have them available later than build on Mysql and if I need the feature have to port the application. If I run up against performance limitations of Postgresql I simply buy better hardware.
Not everyones SQL usage is limited to "SELECT * from comments were story_id = 23456"
Hardware is almost always cheaper than a programmer's time.
If breaking a contract was legal how would a court impose penalties for doing so?
The fact that a court can impose a penalty means that it was against the law. If it was not against the law to break the contract there would be no way a court could enforce the document.
2) Alarms don't work properly if Evolution runs past midnight
Yeah. That is such an uncommon situation. I can't imagine the lack of forethought that went into the code to allow that bug to ship for a major version release.
A PBX. Seriously, any PBX that allows ANI generation will let you do this. The phone companies switches just forward an ANI if there is one present. When you pick up your phone and make a call the CO generates an ANI for you with your name and phone number now when it calls where ever it keeps fowarding it. You can also spoof an ANI with some calling card services. Basically, you can think of an ANI as being as secure as the proposed DDOS flag on TCP packets.
Use the windows backup program to have windows make the backups then have Windows copy them to the debian box via scp.
Or.... put Samba on the Debian box, use port forwarding and the loopback adapter to create a tunnel to the samba box and have the windows backup program write to the samba share which is only listens on 127.0.1.1
setup on windows box: Loopback IP: 172.168.254.1 Real IP: XX.XX.XX.XX SSH port forward from Local 172.168.254.1:139 to remote 127.0.0.1:139
Create an account for each machine on the debian box.
I hear the comparison to Netscape and I think to myself why I switched to IE 4 from Netscape 4, because Netscape 4 crashed about every 20 minutes and supported even less than IE 4. Netscape died because they put out a crappy product for 2 years.
Uh oh they have an agenda. Have you look around at sucessful people? Generally you can find an agenda. Good things just don't stumble upon people at random.
I just got my copy of the gay agenda the other day. It is a really good read.
An aborted child? I've never heard of such a thing. Children aren't aborted legally. Foetuses are. Psst... there are no factories where foetuses are grown and then aborted to create stem cells. Abortions happen and then they use the remains for stem cells. There aren't armies of doctors out there breeding foetuses for stem cell use. And the mother can decide what happens with the remains.
Foetuses are generally parasitic, in fact it is quite common for foetuses to leech the calcium out of the bones from their mothers. I don't think there is a description more apt than parasite.
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The people at Penny Arcade act like they are investigating a space shuttle disaster. It would be nice to see what level of respect the people who play games 24/7 and actually care about intermittent downtime would give a customer paying them $14 / month. I bet most of them would tell the customer to "F off you n00b".
It is a $14 a month service for unlimited entertainment, you can't expect that every single kink will be ironed out at launch.
Real world devices have real world problems, and a whole host of gamers, like Tycho fail to realize that.
Imagine if Tycho had to deal with 100,000's of people complaining that one stroke in one particular comic was 1 pt off.
The problem is that if Blizzard put the resources into making the game so that there were no problems at launch and that they had the server infrastructure to support the entire planet logging into same screen all at once the subscription fee would be so incredibly expensive that no one would play the game.
Manufacturing defects are a trade off, yes Blizzard could build a game with no bugs, but how many players would want to pay $5,000 for a copy, and $1,000 a month?
Umm... considering that the center is where the fusion is occuring and that is a result of the crushing weight of 98% of the solar system, I would hazard a guess that a fusion reactor core has similar temperatures to the center of the sun.
But that isn't a driver. Well, technically it is a BIOS driver, but the point is moot. And anyways the code that accesses the BIOS has to be 64 bit.
If the project is important enough to warrant an external PCI card surely it is worth $1000 to buy an adapter? You've probably wasted more money by waiting for /. to respond.
On /. everyone wants 100K / year in order to work but doesn't think anyone elses time is worth more then $2.50 / hour.
I know this may confuse some /. readers but time is worth money, at least, my time is worth money.
While certainly not all of these people are customers, I think that they may be pissing off a potentially large base of customers.
Why not just get a daisy wheel printer from the 80s and hook it up to a usb to parallel/serial adapter? IBM also made some printers with ball type print heads.
Of course, you can't sell an item that belongs to blizzard.
You are merely charging them a fee for transfering the item to their player.
It doesn't violate the TOS, and it doesn't infringe on Blizzards claim of item ownership.
The problem with libel laws is that it is not libel if you aren't lying. Saying that something sucks is an opinion.
Why should the public be unable to compete with private industry? If the private network is such a great thing than it will win out. The fact that people might be willing to vote for a gov't that will make telcom public infrastructure is telling of the crappy service and high prices the telecom industry provides. The legislation is anti-competitive. What you have is the competition between public infrastructure and private infrastructure. If the taxes levied for the public infrastructure outweight the benefit the public can always vote in someone who will change that in 4 years.
I believe they are called Publishers.
I thought RMS was a big LISP fan. I've always sensed that he regarded C as primative as ASM.
But then MySQL is just as slow as Postgresql. Except you are missing 99% of the features.
MySQL is fine for load/store operations or other places where complex operations on set are not required. MySQL is not suitable for complex queries.
MySQL is a bit like Windows 98 vs. a multi-user OS with virtual memory. Most people just need a single user computer that holds their email and lets them play games.
However, for those who need the features a multi-user OS they cannot simply hack on those features to Windows 98.
It isn't that MySQL isn't a real database it is just that its feature set severely restricts the tasks it is able to do well.
Yes, you COULD build a bank on MySQL just like Diebold makes Windows 98 based ATM machines.
Whether it is a better idea to simply build your bank on Postgresql or Oracle and pay higher machine / licensing costs is an excersize for the reader.
There are spots where Win98 and MySQL are well suited however, there are a lot of cases where it is completely out classed by other products.
Myself, I'd much rather not use all the features of Postgresql and have them available later than build on Mysql and if I need the feature have to port the application. If I run up against performance limitations of Postgresql I simply buy better hardware.
Not everyones SQL usage is limited to "SELECT * from comments were story_id = 23456"
Hardware is almost always cheaper than a programmer's time.
The Power processors implement the PowerPC instruction set.
What you are saying is like saying Pentium 4 != x86
You can run OS X on POWER processors through Mac on Linux. And the PPC 970FX is a derivative of the POWER4 processor.
Basically, the PPC 970 is a POWER 4 with a better SIMD unit.
If people spent half the time improving what is there as they do creating new distros Linux would far surpass Windows and OS X on the desktop.
holy spell check batman.
Do you mean Christopher REEVE?
If breaking a contract was legal how would a court impose penalties for doing so?
The fact that a court can impose a penalty means that it was against the law. If it was not against the law to break the contract there would be no way a court could enforce the document.
Yeah. That is such an uncommon situation. I can't imagine the lack of forethought that went into the code to allow that bug to ship for a major version release.
A PBX. Seriously, any PBX that allows ANI generation will let you do this. The phone companies switches just forward an ANI if there is one present. When you pick up your phone and make a call the CO generates an ANI for you with your name and phone number now when it calls where ever it keeps fowarding it. You can also spoof an ANI with some calling card services. Basically, you can think of an ANI as being as secure as the proposed DDOS flag on TCP packets.
Services For Unix is now free.
Use the windows backup program to have windows make the backups then have Windows copy them to the debian box via scp.
Or.... put Samba on the Debian box, use port forwarding and the loopback adapter to create a tunnel to the samba box and have the windows backup program write to the samba share which is only listens on 127.0.1.1
setup on windows box:
Loopback IP: 172.168.254.1
Real IP: XX.XX.XX.XX
SSH port forward from Local 172.168.254.1:139 to remote 127.0.0.1:139
Create an account for each machine on the debian box.
Windows backs up to \\172.168.254.1\MACHINENAME
I hear the comparison to Netscape and I think to myself why I switched to IE 4 from Netscape 4, because Netscape 4 crashed about every 20 minutes and supported even less than IE 4. Netscape died because they put out a crappy product for 2 years.
SQL Ledger Perhaps this might work? It seems to be more oriented towards billing things rather than maintaining a contact list.
Uh oh they have an agenda. Have you look around at sucessful people? Generally you can find an agenda. Good things just don't stumble upon people at random. I just got my copy of the gay agenda the other day. It is a really good read. An aborted child? I've never heard of such a thing. Children aren't aborted legally. Foetuses are. Psst... there are no factories where foetuses are grown and then aborted to create stem cells. Abortions happen and then they use the remains for stem cells. There aren't armies of doctors out there breeding foetuses for stem cell use. And the mother can decide what happens with the remains. Foetuses are generally parasitic, in fact it is quite common for foetuses to leech the calcium out of the bones from their mothers. I don't think there is a description more apt than parasite.