Increased usefulness? So the ultimate Upgrade is Win2k? I already knew that. I just wish they would release the damn 64-bit patch instead of keeping it Enterprise-only.
Actually it's the same as Sergeant Major (E9), rankwise. in practice it's different, A Navy command Master Chief is differed to by everyone but the actual Officer in charge of the command, and they will be darned polite.
Navy also has warrant ranks, the only difference is in the navy you have to be a Chief (E7+) before you make warrant, while in the Army you can get there from E5+.
It never confused me at all; I'm ex-Navy and it made perfect sense to make the main hero a Master Chief. They are godlike characters, answerable to no one; they can not be busted in rank in any normal fashion, Officers fear them, enlisted both fear them and are protected by them.
As a subscriber to ITG magazine, I have to say that real martial arts does look like DOA sometimes. The problem is that most citizens of the US think that Tae Kwan Do is a martial art, when actually its more of a conceptual dance thing mixed with boxing; in a real martial art, such as Shotokan, Aikido, or, I would imagine actual Kung Foo (not what passes for it in the majority of western dojos) you train to execute your movements to be as close to the ideal as possible; the more you have trained, the more your movements in sparring will resemble those you practice in Kata. If you do not believe this, find a Dojo that advertises its self as a tradition aikido school, and ask to watch someone testing for 1st Dan.
I've thought about doing this sort of things a few times; i live in Paris, TN these days and light pollution is effectively zero. What i considered doing for a while was using cheap scopes, webcams and software like astrostack to composite the images; I've seen images on the net that were produced with less than $500 total worth of hardware that are truly phenomenal, created by compositing the output of 4 60mm meade telescopes. The nice thing is that all you have to do to make your images better is add more cheap scopes and cams.
I have some slightly different proportions. 70% hype, 10% immature technologies, and 20% rounded corners. When A friend of mine started going on, and on, and on about how cool his Ajax class was it took me a while to figure out just what he was talking about; when I did, I pointed him at a ASP & Perlscript site I did in '97. pretty much indistinguishable in appearance, form & function from the latest & greatest Web 2.0 / Ajax BS. In case their are any venture capitalists reading/. tonight, if someone is bringing you a business plan which has as it's major component anything referencing "Web 2.0" or "Ajax", please understand that they are either 1) Morons or 2) counting on you being a Moron.
I go out of my way to spend money at Baen; a lot of the stuff i read comes from them anyway, but they are just so flipping COOL about things I feel bad when I don't give them my money; when I'm buying at brick & mortar stores, that is one of the things I use as a tie breaker.
My damn cats modded you redundant; I'm terribly sorry for that, you had a +1 insightful in my book. You just can't count on Cats to mod properly. (which is why I'm posting, to undue the mod)
this might be a good comparison. I worked at bellsouth in '97; 1 of the midrange systems I was responsible for was a freaking ancient magnetic core drum & reel to reel monster that ran the switches that "a critical emergency system" used. yes, you could replace the hardware components with something a little more modern, but you would have to be absolutely certain that the replacement component was exactly 100% the same as the legacy hardware, down to once-every-3rd-monday bugs; otherwise you could damage the system. why not replace the whole thing? the company that made the system was out of business since the late 70's; no source for the software it was running was available, no complete logic diagram of the workings of the system. maybe it would have been possible, maybe not, but you are talking about a system that had been running without flaw for about 25 years. why replace it? to the best of my knowledge, it's still running.
Hopefully, the company will release the server & client code as open source; they can then watch in frustration as dozens of servers & tens of thousands of players jump on it. I guess if it was me I would just open source the client, and release the server as a binary; that way you could still, in theory, make money by providing new material while getting away from hosting, hardware & advertising costs. hmmm.
Bill! you made it to/. again?
Dude, Dudette, whatever you are... there is no way it is possible for Vista to run faster on the same harder as XP. totally, completely impossible. it uses too great a percentage of the systems resources.
The ONLY way it is going to be possible is to pull a win2k / XP trick, and get intel or AMD to release a CPU that is not completely compatible with Win2k/WinXP while releasing a Vista patch to make Vista compatible
This worked great last time; the 64-bit CPU's came out, and MS used Win2k to develop the 64-bit patch...then refused to release it on win2k, only making a 64-bit version of XP possible.
And, of course, all the games that say they won't install on Win2k, only XP or Vista. of course every single one of those games has been patched to run, and run better, on win2k.
if your post was intended as Sarcasm, forgive me; I've been awake too long.
not having IE7 on the SP3 makes me nervous; I thought it was safe. But the WMP11 being left off makes a lot of sense as it breaks a lot of content in WinXP media Center Edition, and I'm pretty certain the new DRM system has been ID'd as the responsible party for everything from massive overheating to LAN slowdowns and security breaches. Any chance what you have is a government contracting SP3 beta?
going to dslreports, i see nothing but horror stories from VSAT; the latency and poor upload speed would probably end up being inferior to ISDN for VPN use. 128k uncompressed beats the 64-96k upload speed that seems to be common.
I wish I could afford a T1. I moved to the backside of anywhere for two reasons; because the school my kids were being forced to go to sucked so bad it failed no child left behind 3 years running, with drug dogs coming weekly to a Junior High, and because my Ex inherited a house and some acreage in the town she grew up in. My kids are now in a totally great school system. But I'm in Rural TN. up until 6 months ago, the only option aside from a T1 ($900+ monthly) was ISDN, which I immediately got. 6 months ago, a WISP started up, and i jumped on that, but they do NAT and heavy filtering, so i have problems doing a VPN to consulting gigs unless I use the ISDN. I'm not complaining too much; my first priority was to raise my kids in a place where they wouldn't become little gangsters in order to fit in, and I accomplished that. But it would be nice if I could get broadband.
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That was me in the late 90's. I had been a computer geek in the Navy, a Solaris/NIX admin for bellsouth, a router tech for Nortel, ran my own shop for a while. even got some Novell experience in somewhere. I just got lucky on the obscure questions they asked, they actually picked something that it was possible to come across in the real world (like, what command do you use to change a NT server to NT workstation?) However I could swear I lost ability when i got my MCSE; so much of the stuff they test for is Microsoft "truthiness" that it causes confusion when you come across similar circumstances in the real world; if you are working with or for people who are Microsoft trained, you have to find some way to spin the real solutions so that it doesn't violate MS canon law. Never did get my CNE; that was my next step until I decided to retire instead (I couldn't get a job doing anything fun, due to age barrier, my lack of desire to be management & everyone thinking I wouldn't be happy taking a pay & power cut from my previous job).
Win2k AS had terminal server, and ms-netmeeting has remote desktop sharing. Anyone not capable of installing zonealarm or tiny personal firewall is going to get hacked, it's just a matter of time, integrated firewall or not. The only actual "Upgrades" since win2k are slightly better support for virtual multicore cpu's and the 64-bit cpu support which they designed on win2k, but didn't release for it, making sure that the One True OS would eventually die. Everything else is essentially a "Plus Pack" for win2k, or things that should have been released in Service Pack 5.
Whether we like it or not. we have entered an age when our "leaders" rule by fiat or executive order; the legislative & judicial branches are losing their teeth. I'm not concerned about the grassroots; people who get it, get it. people who don't either will read enough to get it, or die, or are hopeless. Whoever gets into office WILL lie, cheat & steal. But they are unlikely to directly go against their primary base if they can help it, in order to not change the image in the minds of we, the sheeple.
What about one position voters, like me? I will vote for whoever is against gun control that has a good chance of winning, or against which ever candidate supports gun control and looks like they are probably going to win, which ever lets me vote for the least Evil Candidate.
I would really like to vote for Ron Paul, but each of the 3 top Dem's has a strong "I will not read anything the founding fathers wrote about the 2nd amendment that fully explains what it means" mindset; I HAVE to vote for whoever is not a Dem and has the best shot at winning. Unless it's a Bush or a Cheney, of course. I have a 16 year old son, and don't want him getting drafted... if it came to that, I'd probably consider moving to Canada, for reals, if they "won".
It really, really sucks. I can understand what the dems are doing, they know that they are a sure thing for one of their candidates to get in after 7 years of Evil, inc in office, thats the only reason the top 3 dem candidates have a shot in hell at getting elected; Even most KKK-lite types would have a hard time not voting for Obama if Cheney or Jeb Bush showed good in the polls right before the election.
By the way, if you think this is a Troll, or a flame.. please think about it a little bit before you mod me down. I honestly am a primarily Dem-leaning independent, and would vote for a Dem who showed an actual understanding of the 2nd amendment as placed in historical context.
You know what freaks me out? I can easily see, in the light of this type of story, a time when your post would flag you for investigation. It's not clear, or the obvious path, and I don't think it will happen. Pure, utter disregard for the Constitution and Justice like this makes me see it as a possibility, though. I also don't think the next election will make much of a difference, unless everyone running for president except Ron Paul dies the week before the election.
If they even think about going further with this, I think it is safe to say that they will regret it. The proposal would totally piss off a class of computer users that, to date, they have only managed to greatly annoy. yup, I'm saying this would be a Pearl Harbor type event to anyone who is capable of doing what they are trying to cash in on.
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So the ultimate Upgrade is Win2k? I already knew that. I just wish they would release the damn 64-bit patch instead of keeping it Enterprise-only.
He's the guy who invented the Water Bed, The Waldo, and Grok.
He wrote some on the side, also.
Actually it's the same as Sergeant Major (E9), rankwise. in practice it's different, A Navy command Master Chief is differed to by everyone but the actual Officer in charge of the command, and they will be darned polite.
Navy also has warrant ranks, the only difference is in the navy you have to be a Chief (E7+) before you make warrant, while in the Army you can get there from E5+.
It never confused me at all; I'm ex-Navy and it made perfect sense to make the main hero a Master Chief.
They are godlike characters, answerable to no one; they can not be busted in rank in any normal fashion, Officers fear them, enlisted both fear them and are protected by them.
As a subscriber to ITG magazine, I have to say that real martial arts does look like DOA sometimes.
The problem is that most citizens of the US think that Tae Kwan Do is a martial art, when actually its more of a conceptual dance thing mixed with boxing; in a real martial art, such as Shotokan, Aikido, or, I would imagine actual Kung Foo (not what passes for it in the majority of western dojos) you train to execute your movements to be as close to the ideal as possible; the more you have trained, the more your movements in sparring will resemble those you practice in Kata.
If you do not believe this, find a Dojo that advertises its self as a tradition aikido school, and ask to watch someone testing for 1st Dan.
Damned good thing that U.S. Satellites have a built-in immunity to Iocaine powder.
I've thought about doing this sort of things a few times; i live in Paris, TN these days and light pollution is effectively zero.
What i considered doing for a while was using cheap scopes, webcams and software like astrostack to composite the images; I've seen images on the net that were produced with less than $500 total worth of hardware that are truly phenomenal, created by compositing the output of 4 60mm meade telescopes.
The nice thing is that all you have to do to make your images better is add more cheap scopes and cams.
I have some slightly different proportions. /. tonight, if someone is bringing you a business plan which has as it's major component anything referencing "Web 2.0" or "Ajax", please understand that they are either 1) Morons or 2) counting on you being a Moron.
70% hype, 10% immature technologies, and 20% rounded corners.
When A friend of mine started going on, and on, and on about how cool his Ajax class was it took me a while to figure out just what he was talking about; when I did, I pointed him at a ASP & Perlscript site I did in '97. pretty much indistinguishable in appearance, form & function from the latest & greatest Web 2.0 / Ajax BS.
In case their are any venture capitalists reading
I go out of my way to spend money at Baen; a lot of the stuff i read comes from them anyway, but they are just so flipping COOL about things I feel bad when I don't give them my money; when I'm buying at brick & mortar stores, that is one of the things I use as a tie breaker.
My damn cats modded you redundant; I'm terribly sorry for that, you had a +1 insightful in my book.
You just can't count on Cats to mod properly.
(which is why I'm posting, to undue the mod)
Nice 'Shrooms.
Yeah, it's hard being unique. REALLY hard to find someone to vote for.
this might be a good comparison.
I worked at bellsouth in '97; 1 of the midrange systems I was responsible for was a freaking ancient magnetic core drum & reel to reel monster that ran the switches that "a critical emergency system" used.
yes, you could replace the hardware components with something a little more modern, but you would have to be absolutely certain that the replacement component was exactly 100% the same as the legacy hardware, down to once-every-3rd-monday bugs; otherwise you could damage the system.
why not replace the whole thing? the company that made the system was out of business since the late 70's; no source for the software it was running was available, no complete logic diagram of the workings of the system. maybe it would have been possible, maybe not, but you are talking about a system that had been running without flaw for about 25 years. why replace it?
to the best of my knowledge, it's still running.
Ok. then just release the binaries.
That would, i'm sure, be a MASSIVE bitch when it comes to the server side of things.
Hopefully, the company will release the server & client code as open source; they can then watch in frustration as dozens of servers & tens of thousands of players jump on it.
I guess if it was me I would just open source the client, and release the server as a binary; that way you could still, in theory, make money by providing new material while getting away from hosting, hardware & advertising costs.
hmmm.
Bill! you made it to /. again?
Dude, Dudette, whatever you are... there is no way it is possible for Vista to run faster on the same harder as XP. totally, completely impossible. it uses too great a percentage of the systems resources.
The ONLY way it is going to be possible is to pull a win2k / XP trick, and get intel or AMD to release a CPU that is not completely compatible with Win2k/WinXP while releasing a Vista patch to make Vista compatible
This worked great last time; the 64-bit CPU's came out, and MS used Win2k to develop the 64-bit patch...then refused to release it on win2k, only making a 64-bit version of XP possible.
And, of course, all the games that say they won't install on Win2k, only XP or Vista. of course every single one of those games has been patched to run, and run better, on win2k.
if your post was intended as Sarcasm, forgive me; I've been awake too long.
not having IE7 on the SP3 makes me nervous; I thought it was safe. But the WMP11 being left off makes a lot of sense as it breaks a lot of content in WinXP media Center Edition, and I'm pretty certain the new DRM system has been ID'd as the responsible party for everything from massive overheating to LAN slowdowns and security breaches.
Any chance what you have is a government contracting SP3 beta?
going to dslreports, i see nothing but horror stories from VSAT; the latency and poor upload speed would probably end up being inferior to ISDN for VPN use. 128k uncompressed beats the 64-96k upload speed that seems to be common.
I wish I could afford a T1.
I moved to the backside of anywhere for two reasons; because the school my kids were being forced to go to sucked so bad it failed no child left behind 3 years running, with drug dogs coming weekly to a Junior High, and because my Ex inherited a house and some acreage in the town she grew up in.
My kids are now in a totally great school system. But I'm in Rural TN. up until 6 months ago, the only option aside from a T1 ($900+ monthly) was ISDN, which I immediately got. 6 months ago, a WISP started up, and i jumped on that, but they do NAT and heavy filtering, so i have problems doing a VPN to consulting gigs unless I use the ISDN.
I'm not complaining too much; my first priority was to raise my kids in a place where they wouldn't become little gangsters in order to fit in, and I accomplished that.
But it would be nice if I could get broadband.
Bingo.
That was me in the late 90's. I had been a computer geek in the Navy, a Solaris/NIX admin for bellsouth, a router tech for Nortel, ran my own shop for a while. even got some Novell experience in somewhere.
I just got lucky on the obscure questions they asked, they actually picked something that it was possible to come across in the real world (like, what command do you use to change a NT server to NT workstation?)
However I could swear I lost ability when i got my MCSE; so much of the stuff they test for is Microsoft "truthiness" that it causes confusion when you come across similar circumstances in the real world; if you are working with or for people who are Microsoft trained, you have to find some way to spin the real solutions so that it doesn't violate MS canon law.
Never did get my CNE; that was my next step until I decided to retire instead (I couldn't get a job doing anything fun, due to age barrier, my lack of desire to be management & everyone thinking I wouldn't be happy taking a pay & power cut from my previous job).
Win2k AS had terminal server, and ms-netmeeting has remote desktop sharing.
Anyone not capable of installing zonealarm or tiny personal firewall is going to get hacked, it's just a matter of time, integrated firewall or not.
The only actual "Upgrades" since win2k are slightly better support for virtual multicore cpu's and the 64-bit cpu support which they designed on win2k, but didn't release for it, making sure that the One True OS would eventually die. Everything else is essentially a "Plus Pack" for win2k, or things that should have been released in Service Pack 5.
Whether we like it or not. we have entered an age when our "leaders" rule by fiat or executive order; the legislative & judicial branches are losing their teeth.
I'm not concerned about the grassroots; people who get it, get it. people who don't either will read enough to get it, or die, or are hopeless.
Whoever gets into office WILL lie, cheat & steal. But they are unlikely to directly go against their primary base if they can help it, in order to not change the image in the minds of we, the sheeple.
What about one position voters, like me?
I will vote for whoever is against gun control that has a good chance of winning, or against which ever candidate supports gun control and looks like they are probably going to win, which ever lets me vote for the least Evil Candidate.
I would really like to vote for Ron Paul, but each of the 3 top Dem's has a strong "I will not read anything the founding fathers wrote about the 2nd amendment that fully explains what it means" mindset; I HAVE to vote for whoever is not a Dem and has the best shot at winning.
Unless it's a Bush or a Cheney, of course. I have a 16 year old son, and don't want him getting drafted... if it came to that, I'd probably consider moving to Canada, for reals, if they "won".
It really, really sucks. I can understand what the dems are doing, they know that they are a sure thing for one of their candidates to get in after 7 years of Evil, inc in office, thats the only reason the top 3 dem candidates have a shot in hell at getting elected; Even most KKK-lite types would have a hard time not voting for Obama if Cheney or Jeb Bush showed good in the polls right before the election.
By the way, if you think this is a Troll, or a flame.. please think about it a little bit before you mod me down. I honestly am a primarily Dem-leaning independent, and would vote for a Dem who showed an actual understanding of the 2nd amendment as placed in historical context.
You know what freaks me out? I can easily see, in the light of this type of story, a time when your post would flag you for investigation.
It's not clear, or the obvious path, and I don't think it will happen. Pure, utter disregard for the Constitution and Justice like this makes me see it as a possibility, though.
I also don't think the next election will make much of a difference, unless everyone running for president except Ron Paul dies the week before the election.
If they even think about going further with this, I think it is safe to say that they will regret it.
The proposal would totally piss off a class of computer users that, to date, they have only managed to greatly annoy.
yup, I'm saying this would be a Pearl Harbor type event to anyone who is capable of doing what they are trying to cash in on.