So because I run a game server, an IRC server, and a voice chat server on my home system and consume bandwidth that gives the RIAA the right to have my information disclosed to them, by an entity they have no fucking business regultating in the first place!
That's the last fucking straw. All the music files on my home computers I have a hardcopy store bought disk for, and I have made a backup to my network server my right under fair use. They can come to my house, but I will absolutely not buy another fucking record from these insufferable bastards!
I use a two pound sledge hammer. No shit, that is my deletion process 5 good whacks and the platters are exposed another 6 and all thats left are the broken pieces of the platters, if someone can recover data from that they are more than welcome to it.
Get digital cable and bug the hell out of them to broadcast BBCAmerica. It's well worth it, as many of the British shows are far superior to our copycat reality tv shows and been there done that tv station mentality.
Those responsible for sacking those responsible for saying that the person who was sacked was fired, have been sacked, as well as those doing the afore mentioned sacking.
And I myself have been officially sacked for posting the sackings sayings...
[blockquote]As we develop IE we go through very thorough and stringent security reviews to ensure that every change is secure and does not expose the user to attack.[/blockquote]
Yet somehow the security flaws still find to expose the user. DAMN SECURITY FLAWS!
You all should have quit in protest, management would have found out when no new techs applied ( from having heard that they sue recruiters ) have em can his ass, then get back to work.
Yeah, before you flame me I know it's nice in theory and looks good in print, but life doesn't work that way.
Ask them to draft a contract stating the 3 month period of tech support, have it state a 24 hour response time, plus a fee paid to you on a per call basis, IE regular phone call $20, if you have to show up a $40 service call and $20/hr charge minimum of 2 hour charge even if your there 10 mins.
In all honesty you have other offers, you owe them nothing. The other developers left for a reason, the reason was most likely due to unreasonable managment.
Don't think that they can dictate what you can do or let them tell you what you will do. They can't do that. You are leaving them, they are worried they will be stuck high and dry. Ensure that by agreeing to offer your services that you will be compensated a reasonable rate and that you are not going to jump when they call. You never know your new job may prevent you from honoring any agreement with them for bieng "on-call", thus the 24 hour response time.
You have them by the short n curlies, don't think they have you.
Please protect yourself and get it in writing. You can do this for them if you choose, but do it because you want to and on your terms, don't let them bully you into it.
I can't tell the difference in picture between HDTV and Digital. The pictures look the same to my eye, even when I wear my reading glasses, though it seems everyone swears they can "see" a difference.
Pop in to your local Radio Shack and ask a clerk there what they recommend. I bet you don't walk away with any MONSTER cables.
As another poster stated, anything with addequate shielding will do, but to the human ear, especially one not musically trained you could go with the lesser expensive cables and never audibly tell a difference.
More expensive doesn't always mean better quality nor does it mean more.
This "Political Correctness" is complete bullshit. Why is it that free thought has to suffer, I hear that in schools now they can not teach about Darwin's theories of evolution. Sound like our kids are bieng programmed. I am not by any stretch of the imagination a religious person. I was raised in a Baptist household, and have studied the bible and several other religious teachings. The evidence of evolution is as real as the sun. There is a ton more evidence to support the fact that life evolved from single celled creatures, than to support the Adam and Eve teachings of the bible.
The main argument bieng, if Adam and Eve were the first people, then how over time did we avoid genetic defects from inbreeding, which is a proven fact of nature.
I realize it all comes down to faith, but are we all not so intelligent and open minded to teach all philosophies and let people make up their own minds?
I want my daughter to know what is out there, and let her make her own informed and educated decision as to what she believes is truth.
Does this mean if I get in touch with a freind in Loudoun I have and have her send this Judge, and his kids and grand kids unsoliceted porn spam I can not be convicted of sending spam? Enter the double standard that is our penal system. Some back woods ass hick of a Judge, overturns a ruling. My guess bieng from Leesburg, he thinks the internet is a new type of fishing net.
It isn't so much that fact, because one day it may be common place for a cyborg nanny to keep the little ones out of trouble, my question is, do you want this thing watching your children? I'm sure MS will no doubt add some sort of wireless beaming technology to update firmware, and for on the fly programming updates, paving the way for your robo-sitter to become infected with a virus that makes the thing murderous. Runaway motif anyone?
My vote is this turns out to be pilot error, and he has been flying with the fan blades improperly feathered. Or running the mixture wrong for his altitude.
My philosophy is if you have all the degrees from a lifetime of higher learning and earn $5 an hr washing dishes and are happy then you aren't wasting your time.
There is no reason you should be obligated to work anywhere doing anything that doesn't make you happy.
I have a friend who is quadrapalegic, and I have often wondered how to get her into FPS games. The headmouse was an option but there was still the question of movement. For firing a simple bit ( as in goes in the mouth and bitten ) device whereby the user would simply apply jaw pressure to fire the primary weapon. The movement poses a different problem, she does have partial use of her arms but can not hold a mouse or depress buttons. The solution here could be something as simple as a single two axis stick ( the kind found on powered wheelchairs ) stick forward move foreward back is back left and right to strafe.
All this could be wired in through a gameport and possibly hooked to the same port, and you would only need some simple drivers.
This doesn't seem like much work and if you have a technical friend or if you yourself are technical enough to talk someone through it, it would be an excellent project.
I'm sure there are many others out there with disabilities that would love the opportunity to "get into a game".
I still find it odd that/. reported this story http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/1 8/0027246&tid=14
then this one on "could they make a bomb"
but how are they compiling this data? I imagine they can measure the current amount of green house gases and make the correlation between industrialization and pollution. But where is their control data? The tens of thousands of years of data recording past climate shifts. This would support their findings that humans are the cause, otherwise it isn't a finding it's an assumption or at best an educated guess. I don't think we have kept track of our climate long enough to make the distinction between a naturally occurring shift in climate, or mans outright destruction of our planet.
What of dirty bombs made with depleted uranium? Older X-Ray machines have a readily available supply which could be obtained cheaply and realatively inexpensively. And what of Korea? They have already refused to agree to the UN treaty barring nations from actively developing nuclear weapons, I'm sure Korea would be more than happy to supply a few terrorist groups with some lower grade weapons.
A device would not have to be very large or have a 12 kiloton yield to do alot of damage. Property would most likely be lost at ground zero, the real threat would be the iradiated area and secondary fallout carried on wind currents. Imagine one going off in Central Park large enough to iradiate the total area of the park. How many residents would be in that area at any given time?
This worries me more than bieng caught in the blast from an ICBM, at least then it flash, your dust. But a death from radiation poisoning, that is terrifying.
GTA is an excellent title. You can play GTA all day and work off alot of real world agression.
It's time people took responsability for their own actions. And stop blaming others.
Personally I attribute many people still having their lives because GTA offered me an outlet to go on mad killing sprees and freed me from the need to pop into a 7-11 and start blasting.
I think his parents should have taken more of an interest in his hobbies. Had they done that then perhaps this never would have happened.
Now for the flames to come in. I have a 7 year old child, whom I play GTA: San Andreas with on a regular basis. True it has violent content, but it also teaches. It shows her that each action in the game has a consequence. Steal a car, you are arrested. Kill someone, police chase you and you are most likely killed. It also gives me the opportunity to teach her morality and values she can use in the real world but in a virtual setting. Walking down the street she shoots someone at random, I ask her why she just shot that person. She then explains, that "they told me to get out of their way", I tell her that it's not right to take that course of action and ask why she didn't just walk away, she replies it's just a game, then I ask what she would do on the street in real life if it happened, she replies, I don't know. Then I can offer her other solutions other than a mad killing spree. You can bitch at me for letting her play this game say it's morally wrong, but fact is it's a game, and she plays with my supervision, she isn't allowed to play on her own. I take an interest in what she does, and what she is learning. You would be afraid of what you child is learning outside of your reach and away from you. Through this game I have found a way to probe her mind and find out what she is learning from others, and attempt to correct that which I see is wrong.
So does this mean that the chips in our DVD's need to be faster in order to handle the massive processor load of a routine scanning each individual frame of a movie for a digital fingerprint? And what of seeding? Let's say using torrent two versions of the same film come out but seeds from each host are intertwined together, will the movie not play because the finger print is corrupted? Yes I know torrent does not work that way, but imagine. Today the two AA's have as much power and control over people as the FBI, I mean the MPAA not too long ago mobilised a foriegn police force to arrest torrent site hosters. Thats fuckin bizaar.
Wake me when I need to have my retina scanned to watch a DVD so that the MPAA software can verify that I am the one who purchased the video. The would probly be a hell of a lot cheaper to incorporate.
I have never made that connection even though it has happened to me on more than one occasion. It is funny though. 30+ mins for them to bring the box to you vs. 3 - 4 hours of me away from home with my wife calling every 5 mins "are you done yet?, How much longer? FINE!"
I think I would seriously rethink your whole "cheap laptop" idea.
In those kinds of extremes it would be better to spend the extra cash on several "made for outdoors" type latops than several cheap ones, then replacing them every year / few years.
For your needs, I think the mesh network mentioned earlier would suit your purpose and be scalable enough to not require major changes later on.
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So because I run a game server, an IRC server, and a voice chat server on my home system and consume bandwidth that gives the RIAA the right to have my information disclosed to them, by an entity they have no fucking business regultating in the first place!
That's the last fucking straw. All the music files on my home computers I have a hardcopy store bought disk for, and I have made a backup to my network server my right under fair use.
They can come to my house, but I will absolutely not buy another fucking record from these insufferable bastards!
I use a two pound sledge hammer. No shit, that is my deletion process 5 good whacks and the platters are exposed another 6 and all thats left are the broken pieces of the platters, if someone can recover data from that they are more than welcome to it.
Good point
Get digital cable and bug the hell out of them to broadcast BBCAmerica. It's well worth it, as many of the British shows are far superior to our copycat reality tv shows and been there done that tv station mentality.
How did it go from Dr. Who to posting a Monty Python skit?
Those responsible for sacking those responsible for saying that the person who was sacked was fired, have been sacked, as well as those doing the afore mentioned sacking.
And I myself have been officially sacked for posting the sackings sayings...
[blockquote]As we develop IE we go through very thorough and stringent security reviews to ensure that every change is secure and does not expose the user to attack.[/blockquote] Yet somehow the security flaws still find to expose the user. DAMN SECURITY FLAWS!
You all should have quit in protest, management would have found out when no new techs applied ( from having heard that they sue recruiters ) have em can his ass, then get back to work.
Yeah, before you flame me I know it's nice in theory and looks good in print, but life doesn't work that way.
Ask them to draft a contract stating the 3 month period of tech support, have it state a 24 hour response time, plus a fee paid to you on a per call basis, IE regular phone call $20, if you have to show up a $40 service call and $20/hr charge minimum of 2 hour charge even if your there 10 mins.
In all honesty you have other offers, you owe them nothing. The other developers left for a reason, the reason was most likely due to unreasonable managment.
Don't think that they can dictate what you can do or let them tell you what you will do. They can't do that. You are leaving them, they are worried they will be stuck high and dry. Ensure that by agreeing to offer your services that you will be compensated a reasonable rate and that you are not going to jump when they call. You never know your new job may prevent you from honoring any agreement with them for bieng "on-call", thus the 24 hour response time.
You have them by the short n curlies, don't think they have you.
Please protect yourself and get it in writing. You can do this for them if you choose, but do it because you want to and on your terms, don't let them bully you into it.
I can't tell the difference in picture between HDTV and Digital. The pictures look the same to my eye, even when I wear my reading glasses, though it seems everyone swears they can "see" a difference.
Pop in to your local Radio Shack and ask a clerk there what they recommend. I bet you don't walk away with any MONSTER cables.
As another poster stated, anything with addequate shielding will do, but to the human ear, especially one not musically trained you could go with the lesser expensive cables and never audibly tell a difference.
More expensive doesn't always mean better quality nor does it mean more.
#usr@p322$ less == more!
This "Political Correctness" is complete bullshit. Why is it that free thought has to suffer, I hear that in schools now they can not teach about Darwin's theories of evolution.
Sound like our kids are bieng programmed. I am not by any stretch of the imagination a religious person. I was raised in a Baptist household, and have studied the bible and several other religious teachings. The evidence of evolution is as real as the sun. There is a ton more evidence to support the fact that life evolved from single celled creatures, than to support the Adam and Eve teachings of the bible.
The main argument bieng, if Adam and Eve were the first people, then how over time did we avoid genetic defects from inbreeding, which is a proven fact of nature.
I realize it all comes down to faith, but are we all not so intelligent and open minded to teach all philosophies and let people make up their own minds?
I want my daughter to know what is out there, and let her make her own informed and educated decision as to what she believes is truth.
Does this mean if I get in touch with a freind in Loudoun I have and have her send this Judge, and his kids and grand kids unsoliceted porn spam I can not be convicted of sending spam?
Enter the double standard that is our penal system. Some back woods ass hick of a Judge, overturns a ruling. My guess bieng from Leesburg, he thinks the internet is a new type of fishing net.
It isn't so much that fact, because one day it may be common place for a cyborg nanny to keep the little ones out of trouble, my question is, do you want this thing watching your children? I'm sure MS will no doubt add some sort of wireless beaming technology to update firmware, and for on the fly programming updates, paving the way for your robo-sitter to become infected with a virus that makes the thing murderous. Runaway motif anyone?
My vote is this turns out to be pilot error, and he has been flying with the fan blades improperly feathered. Or running the mixture wrong for his altitude.
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My philosophy is if you have all the degrees from a lifetime of higher learning and earn $5 an hr washing dishes and are happy then you aren't wasting your time.
There is no reason you should be obligated to work anywhere doing anything that doesn't make you happy.
Life is too short.
How does this affect the outcome of the EU lawsuits against MS?
Will it have an impact on future MS trade in Europe?
My guess would be because too many people get a piece of that $50/barrell cost.
I have a friend who is quadrapalegic, and I have often wondered how to get her into FPS games. The headmouse was an option but there was still the question of movement. For firing a simple bit ( as in goes in the mouth and bitten ) device whereby the user would simply apply jaw pressure to fire the primary weapon. The movement poses a different problem, she does have partial use of her arms but can not hold a mouse or depress buttons. The solution here could be something as simple as a single two axis stick ( the kind found on powered wheelchairs ) stick forward move foreward back is back left and right to strafe.
All this could be wired in through a gameport and possibly hooked to the same port, and you would only need some simple drivers.
This doesn't seem like much work and if you have a technical friend or if you yourself are technical enough to talk someone through it, it would be an excellent project.
I'm sure there are many others out there with disabilities that would love the opportunity to "get into a game".
I still find it odd that /. reported this story http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/1 8/0027246&tid=14
then this one on "could they make a bomb"
but how are they compiling this data? I imagine they can measure the current amount of green house gases and make the correlation between industrialization and pollution. But where is their control data? The tens of thousands of years of data recording past climate shifts. This would support their findings that humans are the cause, otherwise it isn't a finding it's an assumption or at best an educated guess.
I don't think we have kept track of our climate long enough to make the distinction between a naturally occurring shift in climate, or mans outright destruction of our planet.
What of dirty bombs made with depleted uranium? Older X-Ray machines have a readily available supply which could be obtained cheaply and realatively inexpensively. And what of Korea? They have already refused to agree to the UN treaty barring nations from actively developing nuclear weapons, I'm sure Korea would be more than happy to supply a few terrorist groups with some lower grade weapons.
A device would not have to be very large or have a 12 kiloton yield to do alot of damage. Property would most likely be lost at ground zero, the real threat would be the iradiated area and secondary fallout carried on wind currents. Imagine one going off in Central Park large enough to iradiate the total area of the park. How many residents would be in that area at any given time?
This worries me more than bieng caught in the blast from an ICBM, at least then it flash, your dust. But a death from radiation poisoning, that is terrifying.
GTA is an excellent title. You can play GTA all day and work off alot of real world agression.
It's time people took responsability for their own actions. And stop blaming others.
Personally I attribute many people still having their lives because GTA offered me an outlet to go on mad killing sprees and freed me from the need to pop into a 7-11 and start blasting.
I think his parents should have taken more of an interest in his hobbies. Had they done that then perhaps this never would have happened.
Now for the flames to come in. I have a 7 year old child, whom I play GTA: San Andreas with on a regular basis. True it has violent content, but it also teaches. It shows her that each action in the game has a consequence. Steal a car, you are arrested. Kill someone, police chase you and you are most likely killed. It also gives me the opportunity to teach her morality and values she can use in the real world but in a virtual setting. Walking down the street she shoots someone at random, I ask her why she just shot that person. She then explains, that "they told me to get out of their way", I tell her that it's not right to take that course of action and ask why she didn't just walk away, she replies it's just a game, then I ask what she would do on the street in real life if it happened, she replies, I don't know. Then I can offer her other solutions other than a mad killing spree. You can bitch at me for letting her play this game say it's morally wrong, but fact is it's a game, and she plays with my supervision, she isn't allowed to play on her own. I take an interest in what she does, and what she is learning. You would be afraid of what you child is learning outside of your reach and away from you. Through this game I have found a way to probe her mind and find out what she is learning from others, and attempt to correct that which I see is wrong.
So does this mean that the chips in our DVD's need to be faster in order to handle the massive processor load of a routine scanning each individual frame of a movie for a digital fingerprint? And what of seeding? Let's say using torrent two versions of the same film come out but seeds from each host are intertwined together, will the movie not play because the finger print is corrupted? Yes I know torrent does not work that way, but imagine. Today the two AA's have as much power and control over people as the FBI, I mean the MPAA not too long ago mobilised a foriegn police force to arrest torrent site hosters. Thats fuckin bizaar.
Wake me when I need to have my retina scanned to watch a DVD so that the MPAA software can verify that I am the one who purchased the video. The would probly be a hell of a lot cheaper to incorporate.
I have never made that connection even though it has happened to me on more than one occasion. It is funny though. 30+ mins for them to bring the box to you vs. 3 - 4 hours of me away from home with my wife calling every 5 mins "are you done yet?, How much longer? FINE!"
Ever hear that one?
I think I would seriously rethink your whole "cheap laptop" idea.
In those kinds of extremes it would be better to spend the extra cash on several "made for outdoors" type latops than several cheap ones, then replacing them every year / few years.
For your needs, I think the mesh network mentioned earlier would suit your purpose and be scalable enough to not require major changes later on.