Microsoft has brought Foxpro light years from what it started as...and it would probably have replaced Access, if not for the fact that everybody saw MS buy Foxpro way back when and decided that Foxpro was dead.
After more than 10 years of massively extending and improving the product, it looks like MS is finally throwing in the towel against this self fulfilling prophecy.
IMHO, this premature burial syndrome is as much a threat to MySql as Oracle deliberately killing it.
Maybe you could send multiple discs in the same package to save on postage for the folks that rent a lot?
Not sure what the postage breakdown on that is, but I know I send two discs back in the same package fairly often, and it seems to work.
Hey, I'm an idea guy. No need to thank me, but I DO graduate this fall, and will be available for conspicuously renumerative consulting or employment gigs...
All I have heard about aeroglass is that it makes the windows desktop look like the OSX desktop. Why does that take so much horsepower? I'm running OSX on an old Imac G3 450.
Why does the desktop requre more graphics calculations than a modern video game? Somebody please whack me with the cluebat.
From talking to partisans about political stuff, I've known for a long time that they don't think about anything you tell them if it conflicts with what they believe.
What really surprises me is the scans revealed any brain activity at ALL.
Sad news though...Psychonauts was one of the very best games I have ever played. Hopefully the folks responsible for it will find a way to continue producing games.
Since it sounds like home data, and it is not disasterous to have it go offiline for a while, I'd suggest you do what I do.
I have an old P3 something-or-other box running debian/samba, with a single 100gb drive in it (capacaty can be adjusted to your needs, obviously.) This drive has a share on it for my music, and serves as a target for rsync backups from various boxen about the house.
Sitting on top of it are 2 200mb IDE drives in USB 2.0 enclosures. I have a cron job that runs rsync to copy everything from the internal drive to whichever drive happens to be plugged in at the time.
Whenever I think of it, I unplug one usb drive and plug in the other one.
(For those not familiar with rsync, its a cool little program that copies only data that has changed...which makes it practical to do huge backups daily.)
The benefits of this system are:
At any time I have 3 separate copies of most of my data.
Every time the cron job runs, I have 2 separate copies of all my data.
If I should do something blindingly stupid with rm, or a massive power surge should fry my box and all within, I still have a drive offline to restore my files from.
If you have an elaborate installation on the server that you want to make an image of, you can boot with a live cd and dd the relevant partitions onto your USB disks.
Not sure what pricing is these days on this stuff, but you basically dig a junker out of the pile, install drives to capacity, and you're on. I would imagine you could do it for under 500 bucks.
You get all that, plus the fun of dweebing with rsync for a few hours. What could be better?
I'm thinking of doing some PS3 scalping myself...the guy that sold me my 360 had sold another one a couple weeks before for $900.
Us GenXers got the cash now, and still love dem games.
...the damn thing rocks. No problems, stunning graphics...and its a pretty bitchen mp3 player if you plug a USB hard drive plugged into it, which kind of makes up for them trying to lock you into windows boxen by not supporting smb, in favor of some doubtless cheesy and unreliable streaming server software on your XP computer.
Sure it gets hot...its a goddam supercomputer in a breadbox.
It will eat disks if you wobble it while its on, but with the rotational velocity of that disk at howevermany rpms its spinning, thats not surprising. I find very little need to wobble it while its on, so this is not a problem for me.
I run linux, and agree that Microsoft is the devil, but at 720p on my old projector, the 360 games are so beautiful that it brings just a tear to my eye.
Oh, and I got mine off ebay, for $625, with shipping. Just because I wanted it, now, and didn't feel like waiting in line. I'd have paid it at the store if there were no lines...it really is worth it to me...but I have a lot of disposable income for such foolishness, so I suppose I'm atypical.
Meanwhile, YOU, Mr. Anonymous economically disadvantaged troll, are playing on some newly sucky old system, or dropped 2 grand on a hot gaming pc, which you can't wobble while you have the dvd spinning, either.
Therefore, u R teh SUX0RS. I shall now perform an interperative dance of mockery in your general direction. Woo! Woo!.... Woo! Woo!
I had mine standing on end when I set it up at my inlaws house (who were very impressed by a 39 year old man trembling with excitement as he set up his new video game system, I can tell you).
I bumped it once while it was on, and could hear the disk go kerwhackata in there as the console rocked back and forth. The console sits on its belly now...as all consoles should.
I gotta admit, the thing looks cool standing on end, but its foolish to use it that way. I guess you could fault MS for putting feet on the side, and picturing it that way in the promotions.
The only way they are going to plug this Analog Hole is to install chips in our brains to decrypt the encrypted audio that comes out of our speakers.
It could be a real boon to the industry...they could make everybody in the room pay separately to listen to your stereo. If they don't pay, all they hear is annoying noise...something along the lines of Wilson Phillips set to a polka beat.
I have more fiendish ideas along these lines...I want to be Sony's Evil Minion when I grow up.
...I had to mentor a couple freshmen for a Computer Engineering course...the class had about 200 guys in it, and one girl...who was also the only black person in the room.
All through my college career, there have never been more than 1 or 2 females, if any, in any of my tech classes, which have between 20-30 students.
One of my professors was always encouraging us to take something in the Agriculture department...he said the hog butchery class he was taking was FULL of chicks. That mental image makes me contemplate a lifetime of celibacy.
"Seriously, wait 18 months and the price of this rig drops by 50%"...had I heeded it, I would still be waiting for the successor to the successor to the successor^n of the VIC20 whilst trying to get my programs to load off tape into my ZX80.
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Microsoft has brought Foxpro light years from what it started as...and it would probably have replaced Access, if not for the fact that everybody saw MS buy Foxpro way back when and decided that Foxpro was dead.
After more than 10 years of massively extending and improving the product, it looks like MS is finally throwing in the towel against this self fulfilling prophecy.
IMHO, this premature burial syndrome is as much a threat to MySql as Oracle deliberately killing it.
Maybe you could send multiple discs in the same package to save on postage for the folks that rent a lot?
Not sure what the postage breakdown on that is, but I know I send two discs back in the same package fairly often, and it seems to work.
Hey, I'm an idea guy. No need to thank me, but I DO graduate this fall, and will be available for conspicuously renumerative consulting or employment gigs...
I am enlightened! Thanks Slashdot Poster Guys!
All I have heard about aeroglass is that it makes the windows desktop look like the OSX desktop. Why does that take so much horsepower? I'm running OSX on an old Imac G3 450.
Why does the desktop requre more graphics calculations than a modern video game? Somebody please whack me with the cluebat.
...I must thank Cmdr Taco for slaying the Magic Tortise Scale Dragon. It was becoming a major PITA in these parts.
...until I will be able to aquire my life time consumer electronic dream:
The web enabled toilet paper roll!
YES!
From talking to partisans about political stuff, I've known for a long time that they don't think about anything you tell them if it conflicts with what they believe.
What really surprises me is the scans revealed any brain activity at ALL.
...Majesco has jumped the shark?
BaddaBing!
Sad news though...Psychonauts was one of the very best games I have ever played. Hopefully the folks responsible for it will find a way to continue producing games.
Since it sounds like home data, and it is not disasterous to have it go offiline for a while, I'd suggest you do what I do.
I have an old P3 something-or-other box running debian/samba, with a single 100gb drive in it (capacaty can be adjusted to your needs, obviously.) This drive has a share on it for my music, and serves as a target for rsync backups from various boxen about the house.
Sitting on top of it are 2 200mb IDE drives in USB 2.0 enclosures. I have a cron job that runs rsync to copy everything from the internal drive to whichever drive happens to be plugged in at the time.
Whenever I think of it, I unplug one usb drive and plug in the other one.
(For those not familiar with rsync, its a cool little program that copies only data that has changed...which makes it practical to do huge backups daily.)
The benefits of this system are:
At any time I have 3 separate copies of most of my data.
Every time the cron job runs, I have 2 separate copies of all my data.
If I should do something blindingly stupid with rm, or a massive power surge should fry my box and all within, I still have a drive offline to restore my files from.
If you have an elaborate installation on the server that you want to make an image of, you can boot with a live cd and dd the relevant partitions onto your USB disks.
Not sure what pricing is these days on this stuff, but you basically dig a junker out of the pile, install drives to capacity, and you're on. I would imagine you could do it for under 500 bucks.
You get all that, plus the fun of dweebing with rsync for a few hours. What could be better?
Maybe it isn't the monitor that's causing your eye problems, but what you are 'looking' at on it.
I'd do it again!
(click)
BAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!
I'm thinking of doing some PS3 scalping myself...the guy that sold me my 360 had sold another one a couple weeks before for $900. Us GenXers got the cash now, and still love dem games.
...the damn thing rocks. No problems, stunning graphics...and its a pretty bitchen mp3 player if you plug a USB hard drive plugged into it, which kind of makes up for them trying to lock you into windows boxen by not supporting smb, in favor of some doubtless cheesy and unreliable streaming server software on your XP computer.
.... Woo! Woo!
Sure it gets hot...its a goddam supercomputer in a breadbox.
It will eat disks if you wobble it while its on, but with the rotational velocity of that disk at howevermany rpms its spinning, thats not surprising. I find very little need to wobble it while its on, so this is not a problem for me.
I run linux, and agree that Microsoft is the devil, but at 720p on my old projector, the 360 games are so beautiful that it brings just a tear to my eye.
Oh, and I got mine off ebay, for $625, with shipping. Just because I wanted it, now, and didn't feel like waiting in line. I'd have paid it at the store if there were no lines...it really is worth it to me...but I have a lot of disposable income for such foolishness, so I suppose I'm atypical.
Meanwhile, YOU, Mr. Anonymous economically disadvantaged troll, are playing on some newly sucky old system, or dropped 2 grand on a hot gaming pc, which you can't wobble while you have the dvd spinning, either.
Therefore, u R teh SUX0RS. I shall now perform an interperative dance of mockery in your general direction. Woo! Woo!
I had mine standing on end when I set it up at my inlaws house (who were very impressed by a 39 year old man trembling with excitement as he set up his new video game system, I can tell you).
I bumped it once while it was on, and could hear the disk go kerwhackata in there as the console rocked back and forth. The console sits on its belly now...as all consoles should.
I gotta admit, the thing looks cool standing on end, but its foolish to use it that way. I guess you could fault MS for putting feet on the side, and picturing it that way in the promotions.
Plus 100 on games, 50 on a second wireless controller.
But it does verily rock!
One nice thing about being classified as an adult is that I have the money to blow on kid stuff.
...large scale piracy continues unabated.
Techies have sold these people a load of crap if they believe anything they can do will stop determined pirates.
I am not totally convinced about evolution, as it does seem far fetched (to my tiny little mind) that all this complexity 'just happened'.
HOWEVER, ID presupposes that a being with the power to manufacture all this complexity 'just happened all at once', which I think is even less likely.
Sounds like YOUR problem to me :)
Were the infrastructure to go away, so would the interferance. I'm guessing that you are thinking of emergency situations.
...you could have your knobs and antennas and all that fun gear, but packetize the output and route it over your cheap broadband.
At some point, old tech has to make way for new.
The only way they are going to plug this Analog Hole is to install chips in our brains to decrypt the encrypted audio that comes out of our speakers.
It could be a real boon to the industry...they could make everybody in the room pay separately to listen to your stereo. If they don't pay, all they hear is annoying noise...something along the lines of Wilson Phillips set to a polka beat.
I have more fiendish ideas along these lines...I want to be Sony's Evil Minion when I grow up.
...I had to mentor a couple freshmen for a Computer Engineering course...the class had about 200 guys in it, and one girl...who was also the only black person in the room.
All through my college career, there have never been more than 1 or 2 females, if any, in any of my tech classes, which have between 20-30 students.
One of my professors was always encouraging us to take something in the Agriculture department...he said the hog butchery class he was taking was FULL of chicks. That mental image makes me contemplate a lifetime of celibacy.
If the ISP's have to keep all the data I transmit, I can use them as my backup. Thank you, Big Brother!
Maybe this is just the beginning P.R. for a plan like the one described in Kornbluth's classic story "The Marching Morons".
I wonder if the soap-root is indeed 'soapy'...
Its past time for this, IMHO.
"Seriously, wait 18 months and the price of this rig drops by 50%" ...had I heeded it, I would still be waiting for the successor to the successor to the successor^n of the VIC20 whilst trying to get my programs to load off tape into my ZX80.