Any good developer/architect will have already worked out the server load months in advance of any beta period starting. They will have profiled the code and performed simulations to determine server load per user. The beta period is usually to check the *entire* product is stable, but by the time you reach beta you should have a stable product and a server farm to support it. I think I'll wait for a company that can get it's servers up and running, and with a history of good service...
Due to loose gun laws in the USA there is a reasonble chance your intruder will be armed. By carrying a weapon or keeping one in the house you force them into a stand off. Whereas they might have been able to simply threaten you with violence, now they have the either incapacitate you (using the easiest method that comes to hand, their pistol) or kill you in order to safely avoid being captured.
In both New Zealand and the UK the police forces do not generally carry weapons. I asked a cop friend about it and he said that since they didn't carry weapons, the criminals didn't have to either. It led to less gun related crime in general.
That's fine for you. Now suppose you are responsible for several small children. What do you do now, genius?
Well I certainly wouldn't idiotically whip out a gun and wave it in my attackers face, thereby putting both myself *and* my children in mortal jeopardy. You're not getting it are you. The statistics of actual crime, not fantasy TV crime, state that you are in more danger with a gun than without i.e. in an otherwise identical gun based robbery of your person the person who carried a weapon is something like 8x (IIRC) more likely to be shot or injured. I'll take my chances (8x less than yours) of being shot whilst not carrying a weapon.
Then you own a gun for the wrong reason. Police studies indicated you have a vastly increased chance of being killed with a gun if you keep a gun in the house. If you really want to protect yourself, throw the gun away, then you won't have a simple robbery escalate into a gunfight in your own home...you know the place...where your family lives. Your possessions are just stuff and insurance will replace them.
I keep a pair of trainers for self defense. When threated I am able to use them to run away, thus defending myself by using the other half of the fight/flight survival decision.
Guns don't kill people, people *with* guns kill people.
That sounds really terrific. And if the government doesn't approve of our thinking and tests results they should be allowed to imprison and/or drug/lobotomise us. Fuck that. The government has no business mandating how people are allowed to think or behave until *after* they have committed a crime.
You suspect wrong. I recall seeing a documentary on a soldier in the Falklands war who got a bullet through the brain, removing much of it. The surgeons decided to remove that half of the brain entirely, slicing it down the centre first. He went on to live a very normal life, able to walk, run, speak, all the usual things. There's redundancy in there, and functions can move or be taken over by other parts of the brain, but you're always going to be losing something if you lose half a brain...as well as opening yourself up to slew of bad jokes.
It was across the range of equipment. The problems were mainly with the servers, which ran the gamut from dual proc web servers with RAID5 up to some beefy quad proc machines for SQL duties. The workstations were by and large of OK quality, when they remembered to put on the heatsinks, and while they weren't either not sending them, or sending ones we didn't order.
I used to work for a company that supplied Dell servers for the web sites we created. We had maybe 20 of these machines, and at least five of them had major issues in the first few years. One broke down so many times that eventually every single part of it had been replaced several times except the case, which I was threatening to smash in order to force them to replace this awful machine. And yeh, it was a critical production machine.
When I got a new workstation from Dell it took them 56 days to get a working one delivered to me after I told them the one they first delivered was broken. That's two fucking months!!! The reason it was broken, for the curious, is because they put the heatsink on top of the CPU but didn't strap it into place, so it wasn't doing any heat sinking at all.
I'm sure there are people out there who haven't had trouble with Dell, but for me it's always going to be a reputable company like IBM or HP in future, Dell is cheap (but costly) rubbish.
Maybe it's because they're so damned sexy....woof woof! But more likely it's because they are often intelligent, can hold a decent coversation, are into computers and games, and sexually confident. What's not to like about that?
i have never once had Windows XP crash, and i've been using it continuously since the beta versions
You're just not trying hard enough. I see WinXP bluescreen once in a while (every six months or so), and I see no end of applications crash out. I've seen it do this on every sort of hardware out there, so it's not _just_ a driver issue. My main Linux server, by comparison, hasn't ever crashed. In fact, I've only ever seen Linux crash once in the four or so years I've been using it. There's the occassional application crash, but that's about it. Also interesting to note, FireFox on Windows crashes on me fairly regularly, but it doesn't on Linux.
Sealand has had it's sovereignty tested in the UK courts on several occassions and has been found to be an independant country. That's all there in the link if you'd care to read it. It has passports and a royal family too. It's been subjected to several hostile takeover attempts and been successfully defended with arms (a rifle). Also, oil rigs are still subject to international law.
This is defintely a case where the services of Sealand and their hosting services would be useful. It's sickening to see how these corporate bandits can lift stories from the wealth of the public domain, exploit them, then not ever have to contribute back their own derived works (think Disney, Snow White, etc).
This plan is not likely to happen in the way people are imagining. Remember, the Xbox has only 64MB of RAM, and Windows XP doesn't run too well on that, let alone opening up a huge memory hungry application like Office.
Perhaps the XBox 2 would be fast enough to run decent software, but it's unlikely, since they need to keep the costs way down to sell to the primary market - console gamers.
Just wait until they show off the BFG in Doom The Movie by firing a shot down a long hallway, then running into a small room and herding the poor demons around the room while waiting for the BFG shot to hit the end of the hallway, then blat, they all fall dead for *no apparent reason*:-)
PXE boot the machine, and have it connect to an online source for the OS. It's being done already. In simple terms, your network card has a loader on it that can load the OS boot loader from the network rather than the hard drive. From there, it's the usual bootstrapping fun and games.
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Hahah, the fools. I'm straight to the copyright office now to assert my rights over the boilerplate text that laywers use on their contracts and letters. Those bastards will have to pay me eveytime they say "without prejudice" now...oh the delicious, but not quite ironicness of it all.
It's even worse than just that. Record companies can force their artists to use expensive packaging, put them into promo's they don't want to be part of, force them to make stupidly expensive videos, and all of this comes from the artists cut. They can charge you to place your CD is a fancy paper case with foldouts and hollograms on the front, then give that away in a promo, and since their giveaways you don't get any income from them...but still pay for their manufacture, and IIRC pay a royalty to the RIAA anyway.
If everyone did that and the producers received no money to pay for the cost of making the movie what would they use to finance the sequel?
Brilliant thinking! We can prevent Hollywood from churning out turgid sequels by simply not paying to see the original. I think I've only seen 1 or 2 sequels that were worth the time it took to watch, the rest have been absolute clam chunder.
Sure, c# is free, but fuck me, you try and code those web forms without a designer and you will know pain. Not as much pain as doing MFC/ATL or strings under Windows (char [], char*, SHORT*, BSTR, t_bstr, etc) but pain none the less.
Being a 36 year old programmer I can at least assure people younger than that there is still plenty of vim left in your programming fingers at this age. I do prefer to design and architect more now if possible, rather than churning template code, but still enjoy the actual act of creation that is coding.
All you older programmers shout out, so we know how old the programming community is...
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Any good developer/architect will have already worked out the server load months in advance of any beta period starting. They will have profiled the code and performed simulations to determine server load per user. The beta period is usually to check the *entire* product is stable, but by the time you reach beta you should have a stable product and a server farm to support it. I think I'll wait for a company that can get it's servers up and running, and with a history of good service...
In both New Zealand and the UK the police forces do not generally carry weapons. I asked a cop friend about it and he said that since they didn't carry weapons, the criminals didn't have to either. It led to less gun related crime in general.
Well I certainly wouldn't idiotically whip out a gun and wave it in my attackers face, thereby putting both myself *and* my children in mortal jeopardy. You're not getting it are you. The statistics of actual crime, not fantasy TV crime, state that you are in more danger with a gun than without i.e. in an otherwise identical gun based robbery of your person the person who carried a weapon is something like 8x (IIRC) more likely to be shot or injured. I'll take my chances (8x less than yours) of being shot whilst not carrying a weapon.
I keep a pair of trainers for self defense. When threated I am able to use them to run away, thus defending myself by using the other half of the fight/flight survival decision.
Guns don't kill people, people *with* guns kill people.
That sounds really terrific. And if the government doesn't approve of our thinking and tests results they should be allowed to imprison and/or drug/lobotomise us. Fuck that. The government has no business mandating how people are allowed to think or behave until *after* they have committed a crime.
You suspect wrong. I recall seeing a documentary on a soldier in the Falklands war who got a bullet through the brain, removing much of it. The surgeons decided to remove that half of the brain entirely, slicing it down the centre first. He went on to live a very normal life, able to walk, run, speak, all the usual things. There's redundancy in there, and functions can move or be taken over by other parts of the brain, but you're always going to be losing something if you lose half a brain...as well as opening yourself up to slew of bad jokes.
The workstations were mainly Dimensions, with a couple of precisions.
It was across the range of equipment. The problems were mainly with the servers, which ran the gamut from dual proc web servers with RAID5 up to some beefy quad proc machines for SQL duties. The workstations were by and large of OK quality, when they remembered to put on the heatsinks, and while they weren't either not sending them, or sending ones we didn't order.
When I got a new workstation from Dell it took them 56 days to get a working one delivered to me after I told them the one they first delivered was broken. That's two fucking months!!! The reason it was broken, for the curious, is because they put the heatsink on top of the CPU but didn't strap it into place, so it wasn't doing any heat sinking at all.
I'm sure there are people out there who haven't had trouble with Dell, but for me it's always going to be a reputable company like IBM or HP in future, Dell is cheap (but costly) rubbish.
If it's in black and white it's art, if it's in colour it's porn.
Maybe it's because they're so damned sexy....woof woof! But more likely it's because they are often intelligent, can hold a decent coversation, are into computers and games, and sexually confident. What's not to like about that?
You're just not trying hard enough. I see WinXP bluescreen once in a while (every six months or so), and I see no end of applications crash out. I've seen it do this on every sort of hardware out there, so it's not _just_ a driver issue. My main Linux server, by comparison, hasn't ever crashed. In fact, I've only ever seen Linux crash once in the four or so years I've been using it. There's the occassional application crash, but that's about it. Also interesting to note, FireFox on Windows crashes on me fairly regularly, but it doesn't on Linux.
Sealand has had it's sovereignty tested in the UK courts on several occassions and has been found to be an independant country. That's all there in the link if you'd care to read it. It has passports and a royal family too. It's been subjected to several hostile takeover attempts and been successfully defended with arms (a rifle). Also, oil rigs are still subject to international law.
This is defintely a case where the services of Sealand and their hosting services would be useful. It's sickening to see how these corporate bandits can lift stories from the wealth of the public domain, exploit them, then not ever have to contribute back their own derived works (think Disney, Snow White, etc).
Perhaps the XBox 2 would be fast enough to run decent software, but it's unlikely, since they need to keep the costs way down to sell to the primary market - console gamers.
Just wait until they show off the BFG in Doom The Movie by firing a shot down a long hallway, then running into a small room and herding the poor demons around the room while waiting for the BFG shot to hit the end of the hallway, then blat, they all fall dead for *no apparent reason* :-)
Surely they would rather have the fine floating eye from "Big Trouble in Little China". Please don't tell his boss he's been sleeping.`
PXE boot the machine, and have it connect to an online source for the OS. It's being done already. In simple terms, your network card has a loader on it that can load the OS boot loader from the network rather than the hard drive. From there, it's the usual bootstrapping fun and games.
Hahah, the fools. I'm straight to the copyright office now to assert my rights over the boilerplate text that laywers use on their contracts and letters. Those bastards will have to pay me eveytime they say "without prejudice" now...oh the delicious, but not quite ironicness of it all.
It's even worse than just that. Record companies can force their artists to use expensive packaging, put them into promo's they don't want to be part of, force them to make stupidly expensive videos, and all of this comes from the artists cut. They can charge you to place your CD is a fancy paper case with foldouts and hollograms on the front, then give that away in a promo, and since their giveaways you don't get any income from them...but still pay for their manufacture, and IIRC pay a royalty to the RIAA anyway.
That's what's up with that. Since people are willing to pay that amount, that is the amount they will charge.
Brilliant thinking! We can prevent Hollywood from churning out turgid sequels by simply not paying to see the original. I think I've only seen 1 or 2 sequels that were worth the time it took to watch, the rest have been absolute clam chunder.
I thought that was the pope's job. Isn't Bush's job to run a country?
Sure, c# is free, but fuck me, you try and code those web forms without a designer and you will know pain. Not as much pain as doing MFC/ATL or strings under Windows (char [], char*, SHORT*, BSTR, t_bstr, etc) but pain none the less.
All you older programmers shout out, so we know how old the programming community is...