Considering gamers still use the words 'fag', 'gay' and 'homo' in order to insult each other online
It isn't just gamers, it is young men that are involved in healthy competition. Do you know how many times I was called honky, redneck, or cracker on a football field? Do you know how many times I fired back with an appropriate racial or socioeconomic slurs for my competition? You don't have time to craft a well formed retort to the jackass across the line from you, so you call him a c--ksucker, n---er, or motherf--ker, or when you grow up and play politics, you call the competition liars, "Republican Attack Machine", captain of the Submarine Chappaquiddick, tax and spend liberal, or pinko. Yeah it isn't highbrow, but it gets your point across.
...just a suggestion, if you have one or two apps that us seem to be compiling weekly, offer to be that application's build maintainer for your architecture, I'm sure the developers would be glad to have contributed binaries.
The first wave was the top 100 MSA's (Metro Service Area), so if you are moving from, say, Louisville KY to one of the outlying RSA's (Rural Service Area) or even another MSA in KY, you would be in a different area code and the number portability would be rejected.
As for the posters argument that there should be no problem since you are going from one provider's nationwide plan to another, there is no such thing as "Free long distance" or "Free Roaming", someone has to pay for the towers, radios, switches, and the fiber connecting them. Your provider is constantly analyzing if they can turn a profit on the average user, with average usage per month, at whatever price point we're talking about. The trucker on a $100/month nationwide plan that uses $110 of service will be ballanced out by that persone who buys a 400 minute anytime plan for 40 a month but never leaves your towers/fiber ring/switches.
From the tone of your post I gathered you had at least some libertarian touches in there, just trying to smoke out whether it was a good troll (you got me) or genuine thought.
The question is still open to the statists around here, why was the solution to Watts more handouts?
32,256 DS0's to a OC-48, those are uncompressed raw 64kbs voice channels, but finding (and constructing) sound file with 32,000 voices trampling all over each other is going to be tough.
The company I work for end up with a motley crew of turbolinux machines that had daemontools put on them, I did not like it, but some people swear by being able to do a svc -u/service/apache instead of a/etc/init.d/apache start, I guess it comes down to what you are comfortable with, but I've gotten used to/etc/rc.X/S* start|stop|restart from solaris, just pick one and stay with it.
IIRC SMB3 wasn't bundled with the NES until the SNES had arrived or soon before, maybe not even until they switched to the snes style cart slot. Lots of people shelled out $50 for SMB3 at retail, whereas SMB1/GB tetris/Solitare is/was bundled.
Let me go on record that of my three months of working in shipping at a magazine plant, the days when we handled canadian mail were the absolute worst. For US mail, we sorted mail by bundle and pallet, for canadian, we sorted by pallets of some of the nastiest canvas bags I have ever seen in my entire life. Empty, the bags weighed in ~15 pounds, plus up to 50 pounds of magazines, but in most cases, you put one or 2 mags in a bag, tagged it and threw it on a pallet. So its 90-105 degrees, you've got a machine shoving 10000 loose magazines an hour at you and you have to sort their mail down by zip code (its canadian equivalent). When we dealt with US bag mail, we had lightweight plastic jobs that were absolutely perfect, and shock shock, would lay flat so your Esquire or Brides didn't come in mangled. Canada Post sucks!
Last I heard a silicon fab wasn't exactly the greenest industry on the planet, and frankly, has anyone sucessfuly generated enough electricity out of a solar farm to run the fab to make the cells. I say go nuclear, the true green energy source.
I realize that this is civil and not criminal court, but doesn't IBM have a right to see the evidence against it so they can mount a defense. SCO would have to present a section of code, then IBM would have to rush to produce documentation of the lineage of that section, whether it came from "Ancient" (pre-V7/32V) AT&T UNIX, CSRG/Berkley/BSD, SysV or minix/linux/*BSD and whether the code is "known" (ie Lion's book, Pre-92 BSD sources, K&R, et al). Such a proceedure would cause a very slow, stop/start trial that could carry on forever.
The only logical explanation I can come up with is that it was used for performance, Win2k and NT4 used raw sockets. Don't blame the networking team at microsoft for the supposed failures of the security team. It is a big company (the OS division by itself), from most accounts the UI, Netowrking, Security, and Filesystem teams don't have a lot of contact with each other below the assistant os division director level, so I'm gueesing Tom in Networking and Dick and Harry from Security get together for lunch that often.
As a sysadmin at a regional ISP our CSR's also recomend Spybot/AdAware for users that have see their browser hijacked, just wish they were a little smaller, they can take awhile on dialup to get down. I've been thinking of trying to get our partners to have a CD of useful software for distribution, I think I'm going to submit a Ask Slashdot on this subject.
Microsoft's Automatic Updater does not ask you 98, 98SE, ME, and XP (pro and home) all asked if I wanted to enable auto updates (I didn't), the choice was all or nothing for critical updates (as it should be frankly). The common internet user (and a whole lot of paper MCSE's) have demonstrated that they won't update their systems on their own. If auto-updates (or dilligent NT/2000 admins) had been used, Code Red and Nimda would have not worked at all, as microsft had IIS patched 2-3 months before the exploit hit.
They have used the media player to push this EULA and DRM in general to all versions of their software. Sorry Charlie, read your licenses, and those items are not auto-updated, so you get a fresh copy of the EULA when you upgrade. If you don't like a license, don't use the program. This is not a debate on the legality of a click-through lic (thats for the courts to decide). Use winamp, quicktime, realplayer or some other media player if you don't like WMP.
CPU unique identifiers bzzt, wrong, call intel on that one, but barring that, the 20-25 PIII/P4's that I've had down to the bios have this feature turned off, from homebuilts on abit and asus boards to HP, Compaq, Dell, IBM, and Micron PC's. Use Via, AMD, or Transmetta X86 chips that do not have this feature
Media Player keeping lists of every song and movie you play
Care to provide linkage, never heard of that one, I'm sure the spys at Microsft are loving that Paris Hilton tape I watched Sat using WMP9
Other companies do the same thing as M$ does because DLL hell does not and can not prevent it Then don't use a MSFT OS if you aren't happy with their performance, security, or stability, Apple and many commercial unix vendors would be glad to have your cash and there are plenty of free OSes for X86 like Linux, *BSD, or BeOS if you don't want to pay for another OS.
I'm not going to go into why mshtml.dll, explorer.exe, and friends are trying to reach the rest of the internet when you are using Opera (or mozilla), but it basically boils down to microsoft's active desktop subsystem. Do a tcpdump and you'll find the packets are harmless. As for raw tcp sockets, microsoft standardized on a BSD based (borrowed) TCP stack for all OSes (thank goodness), but XP home's security model is differnet than POSIX (or even the quasi POSIX models of XP PRO/2000/2003), yeah it was brain-dead, but Gibson bitched about this the summer before XP was released and I have yet to see one of the big worms/trojans/virri use this yet (Nachi/Blaster, Klez, rpc-a-go-go). There are plenty of other holes in the swiss cheese that is MSFT's security and RPC models that futzing with a fast, high performance TCP stack isn't worth it to a script kiddie.
What spyware in XP, are you talking about automated error reporting? Or perhaps automatic windows updates. Both of those warn the user before they are used, msft is deplorable for many of their actions, but automated windows update is good for the grannies and youngsters on the internet, and if centralized automated error reporting is "spyware", then mozilla and NS7 need to be called out for having similar functionality.
ummm, hypertransport is hypertransport, the fast memory or PCI bus interconnects will be the same as a dell, hp, or homebrew box, and sun's already use (semi)-standard pci ethernet, scsi and video controllers, so you aren't going to see performance improvements there. If Sparc can't stack up against the opteron, so be it, let it die but 4 and 8 way boxes are not the be all and end all of computing.
Thank you, that is where people on the purely industrial hemp side of the debate (like myself) get royally screwed. With modern science, we can grow sterile hemp plants, no bud, negligible thc content, but Uncle Sam won't let my family go back to growing it like we did pre-45.
Funny story about hemp production, my great-grandfather stopped growing after the 1937 season, since uncle sam said he couldn't anymore legally, fast forward 4 years and the here comes the tax man saying "grow the hell out of it, we need the rope for the war effort." so he did, 1945 was the last crop that was raised legally anywhere in the US, and he switched to tobacco and beef production until he died.
I have to take issue with that, when right to carry/concealed carry laws are on the books, violent crime is decreased in those locales, if it works in suburban and rural areas, why not give it a shot in urban areas. The criminals will have guns anyways, why not give the populace a chance to defend themselves by force or by threat of force. CCW laws typically require a written and field (range) test so its not like you have a bunch of untrained idiots running around armed to the teeth.
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Considering gamers still use the words 'fag', 'gay' and 'homo' in order to insult each other online
It isn't just gamers, it is young men that are involved in healthy competition. Do you know how many times I was called honky, redneck, or cracker on a football field? Do you know how many times I fired back with an appropriate racial or socioeconomic slurs for my competition? You don't have time to craft a well formed retort to the jackass across the line from you, so you call him a c--ksucker, n---er, or motherf--ker, or when you grow up and play politics, you call the competition liars, "Republican Attack Machine", captain of the Submarine Chappaquiddick, tax and spend liberal, or pinko. Yeah it isn't highbrow, but it gets your point across.
Perhaps redhat should buy the people that make deer hunter, that is the most popular game ever, right?
...just a suggestion, if you have one or two apps that us seem to be compiling weekly, offer to be that application's build maintainer for your architecture, I'm sure the developers would be glad to have contributed binaries.
Up until Ma Bell's breakup in the 80's, most residential customers didn't own their landline phones, they were leased!
The first wave was the top 100 MSA's (Metro Service Area), so if you are moving from, say, Louisville KY to one of the outlying RSA's (Rural Service Area) or even another MSA in KY, you would be in a different area code and the number portability would be rejected.
As for the posters argument that there should be no problem since you are going from one provider's nationwide plan to another, there is no such thing as "Free long distance" or "Free Roaming", someone has to pay for the towers, radios, switches, and the fiber connecting them. Your provider is constantly analyzing if they can turn a profit on the average user, with average usage per month, at whatever price point we're talking about. The trucker on a $100/month nationwide plan that uses $110 of service will be ballanced out by that persone who buys a 400 minute anytime plan for 40 a month but never leaves your towers/fiber ring/switches.
How about LA style hair metal and derivatives, G-N-R, Motley Crue, Poison, Ratt and Warrant, it would be teh rulest!
From the tone of your post I gathered you had at least some libertarian touches in there, just trying to smoke out whether it was a good troll (you got me) or genuine thought.
The question is still open to the statists around here, why was the solution to Watts more handouts?
Then why was the solution to the Watts and L.A. Riots more government intervention and more taxes? Here's to hoping you get an A on the paper.
32,256 DS0's to a OC-48, those are uncompressed raw 64kbs voice channels, but finding (and constructing) sound file with 32,000 voices trampling all over each other is going to be tough.
The company I work for end up with a motley crew of turbolinux machines that had daemontools put on them, I did not like it, but some people swear by being able to do a svc -u /service/apache instead of a /etc/init.d/apache start, I guess it comes down to what you are comfortable with, but I've gotten used to /etc/rc.X/S* start|stop|restart from solaris, just pick one and stay with it.
IIRC SMB3 wasn't bundled with the NES until the SNES had arrived or soon before, maybe not even until they switched to the snes style cart slot. Lots of people shelled out $50 for SMB3 at retail, whereas SMB1/GB tetris/Solitare is/was bundled.
...Via executives were heard chuckling in the background while using their cyrix derived eden SFF PC's.
And who makes money on hardware in the games industry? It is not Nintendo or MSFT, not sure about Sony but I'm going to guess they aren't either.
Let me go on record that of my three months of working in shipping at a magazine plant, the days when we handled canadian mail were the absolute worst. For US mail, we sorted mail by bundle and pallet, for canadian, we sorted by pallets of some of the nastiest canvas bags I have ever seen in my entire life. Empty, the bags weighed in ~15 pounds, plus up to 50 pounds of magazines, but in most cases, you put one or 2 mags in a bag, tagged it and threw it on a pallet. So its 90-105 degrees, you've got a machine shoving 10000 loose magazines an hour at you and you have to sort their mail down by zip code (its canadian equivalent). When we dealt with US bag mail, we had lightweight plastic jobs that were absolutely perfect, and shock shock, would lay flat so your Esquire or Brides didn't come in mangled. Canada Post sucks!
Last I heard a silicon fab wasn't exactly the greenest industry on the planet, and frankly, has anyone sucessfuly generated enough electricity out of a solar farm to run the fab to make the cells. I say go nuclear, the true green energy source.
I realize that this is civil and not criminal court, but doesn't IBM have a right to see the evidence against it so they can mount a defense. SCO would have to present a section of code, then IBM would have to rush to produce documentation of the lineage of that section, whether it came from "Ancient" (pre-V7/32V) AT&T UNIX, CSRG/Berkley/BSD, SysV or minix/linux/*BSD and whether the code is "known" (ie Lion's book, Pre-92 BSD sources, K&R, et al). Such a proceedure would cause a very slow, stop/start trial that could carry on forever.
Admitedly, I'm not a hardcore C hacker, but how does BeOS handle this, it is a single-user OS, so everyone would be "root" just like XP home, right?
The only logical explanation I can come up with is that it was used for performance, Win2k and NT4 used raw sockets. Don't blame the networking team at microsoft for the supposed failures of the security team. It is a big company (the OS division by itself), from most accounts the UI, Netowrking, Security, and Filesystem teams don't have a lot of contact with each other below the assistant os division director level, so I'm gueesing Tom in Networking and Dick and Harry from Security get together for lunch that often.
As a sysadmin at a regional ISP our CSR's also recomend Spybot/AdAware for users that have see their browser hijacked, just wish they were a little smaller, they can take awhile on dialup to get down. I've been thinking of trying to get our partners to have a CD of useful software for distribution, I think I'm going to submit a Ask Slashdot on this subject.
Microsoft's Automatic Updater does not ask you
98, 98SE, ME, and XP (pro and home) all asked if I wanted to enable auto updates (I didn't), the choice was all or nothing for critical updates (as it should be frankly). The common internet user (and a whole lot of paper MCSE's) have demonstrated that they won't update their systems on their own. If auto-updates (or dilligent NT/2000 admins) had been used, Code Red and Nimda would have not worked at all, as microsft had IIS patched 2-3 months before the exploit hit.
They have used the media player to push this EULA and DRM in general to all versions of their software.
Sorry Charlie, read your licenses, and those items are not auto-updated, so you get a fresh copy of the EULA when you upgrade. If you don't like a license, don't use the program. This is not a debate on the legality of a click-through lic (thats for the courts to decide). Use winamp, quicktime, realplayer or some other media player if you don't like WMP.
CPU unique identifiers
bzzt, wrong, call intel on that one, but barring that, the 20-25 PIII/P4's that I've had down to the bios have this feature turned off, from homebuilts on abit and asus boards to HP, Compaq, Dell, IBM, and Micron PC's. Use Via, AMD, or Transmetta X86 chips that do not have this feature
Media Player keeping lists of every song and movie you play
Care to provide linkage, never heard of that one, I'm sure the spys at Microsft are loving that Paris Hilton tape I watched Sat using WMP9
Other companies do the same thing as M$ does because DLL hell does not and can not prevent it
Then don't use a MSFT OS if you aren't happy with their performance, security, or stability, Apple and many commercial unix vendors would be glad to have your cash and there are plenty of free OSes for X86 like Linux, *BSD, or BeOS if you don't want to pay for another OS.
I'm not going to go into why mshtml.dll, explorer.exe, and friends are trying to reach the rest of the internet when you are using Opera (or mozilla), but it basically boils down to microsoft's active desktop subsystem. Do a tcpdump and you'll find the packets are harmless. As for raw tcp sockets, microsoft standardized on a BSD based (borrowed) TCP stack for all OSes (thank goodness), but XP home's security model is differnet than POSIX (or even the quasi POSIX models of XP PRO/2000/2003), yeah it was brain-dead, but Gibson bitched about this the summer before XP was released and I have yet to see one of the big worms/trojans/virri use this yet (Nachi/Blaster, Klez, rpc-a-go-go). There are plenty of other holes in the swiss cheese that is MSFT's security and RPC models that futzing with a fast, high performance TCP stack isn't worth it to a script kiddie.
What spyware in XP, are you talking about automated error reporting? Or perhaps automatic windows updates. Both of those warn the user before they are used, msft is deplorable for many of their actions, but automated windows update is good for the grannies and youngsters on the internet, and if centralized automated error reporting is "spyware", then mozilla and NS7 need to be called out for having similar functionality.
ummm, hypertransport is hypertransport, the fast memory or PCI bus interconnects will be the same as a dell, hp, or homebrew box, and sun's already use (semi)-standard pci ethernet, scsi and video controllers, so you aren't going to see performance improvements there. If Sparc can't stack up against the opteron, so be it, let it die but 4 and 8 way boxes are not the be all and end all of computing.
Thank you, that is where people on the purely industrial hemp side of the debate (like myself) get royally screwed. With modern science, we can grow sterile hemp plants, no bud, negligible thc content, but Uncle Sam won't let my family go back to growing it like we did pre-45.
Funny story about hemp production, my great-grandfather stopped growing after the 1937 season, since uncle sam said he couldn't anymore legally, fast forward 4 years and the here comes the tax man saying "grow the hell out of it, we need the rope for the war effort." so he did, 1945 was the last crop that was raised legally anywhere in the US, and he switched to tobacco and beef production until he died.
I have to take issue with that, when right to carry/concealed carry laws are on the books, violent crime is decreased in those locales, if it works in suburban and rural areas, why not give it a shot in urban areas. The criminals will have guns anyways, why not give the populace a chance to defend themselves by force or by threat of force. CCW laws typically require a written and field (range) test so its not like you have a bunch of untrained idiots running around armed to the teeth.