If you hate slashdot that much piss off and stop wasting your time reading it.
I on the other hand had not heard of Shadow Copy or Transactional NTFS so I found it quite interesting. I do not use vista but at some point I probably will, and the first thing I will do it turn off Shadow Copy or change the space it has allocated to it. The default seems to be to keep 15% of every volume for old files. I would much rather set that to a much lower value, especially since alot of programs (MS Word for instance) already track changes to files and can let you rollback to previous versions anyway.
Also, you point about losing work by accidentally deleting something is a bit stupid as this is already dealt with by the Recycle bin. Shadow copy would protect you if you made a change to a file then needed to revert back to the old version for some reason.
It seems that between the Recycle bin and Shadow copy you are probably wasting as much as 25% of every Hard disk for keeping previous versions of files or stuff you have chosen to delete. Wasting a quarter of every volume strikes me as overkill.
If your files are actually that important you should be using a decent daily backup solution (Tape Drive) and keeping copies in secure off site storage.
So you keep them on a seperate physical network, good for you. But I presume the laptops are still alowed to connect to a server of somekind or you might as well leave them unplugged. Assuming they can still connect to a server then you are still reliant on a firewall for security, chances are the one on the server.
You could have a seperate firewall and keep the laptops in a DMZ but alot of people want to use windows shares so end up exposing the worst protocols via TCP anyway. Maybe you do not need to do this but alot of places do since windows networking has knocked novell netware has disappeared. For mounting shared drive resources what other software is there that is as welll known?
I know there is NFS but alot of places would rather use windows as this is the technology they are used to. I don't like this (I am a unix admin and coder) but I know there are more.NET jobs out there than LAMP ones at present from past experience.
Nobody who releases stuff under creative commons licences is going to sue. Even if they do how much can they actually sue for? Much less then micorsoft will make off this venture anyway so they still come out in the black.
Welcome to capitalism. It doesn't matter if you break a few laws providing that the worst you get is a fine less than your profits.
Can you do anything about it if they get your bill wrong? Can you prove that you didnt make the calls in question or do they just get to insist you made them and charge you anyway?
My main point you seem to have ignored so I will repeat it just in case you missed it:
You tried to brush off his opinion as being that of someone much younger than yourself without the slightest bit of research and contrary to the evidence that was staring you in the face (His very low UID). That made you look silly. Is that blunt enough yet?
The use of a 360 degree system was also much more user friendly to the average person who didn't have a decimal system and it is easier to work with than an irrational number like pi.
Why? Apart from just the fact that it is the system people are used to using. Personally I would find it easier it there were 10 or 100 to make it more like the decimal system if it was going to be an arbitrary number. I also still maintain that the choice of 360 is arbritary as it was not chosen for any logical reason other than it was close to the number of days in a year. If it was exactly the number of days it would be less arbitrary, but it it is not.
Don't know why this has been modded insightful. Regardless of where the laptops are physically they would probably be connected to the same network or subnet anyway. It's not like where a PC is physically located has any bearing on what network you would connect it to nowadays.
Not sure what your point was I afraid. Any chance of a more in depth explanation.
I did on the other hand look grad up on wikipedia for amusement. I have never had to work in gradians since I do not know of any field that uses them. I was however aware that there were 2pi radians in a circle since you would be hard pressed to study physics and not get that hammered into you.
You don't know me either and if you did you may possibly call me old and out of touch instead so I can't win this silly game - I only had your writing style and rapid jumps to odd conclusions to make me jump to the conclusion that I was talking to someone with little clue - and I generously put it down to a young age and little experience. I recommend that before suggesting people on slashdot are young you look at their UID or even better would be their journal / homepage. It only takes a few moments to try and research what you post. Not doing so and getting caught out as obviously as you did (it tells you his uid in his post) just makes you look a bit foolish.
You cannot tell that someone with a high uid is young. However to have a uid that low means he has been a member for alot longer than me or you since they are handed out incrementally. The only way someone could have a uid that low and not have joined the workforce is if they used someone elses account. Please lets avoid getting into an argument about whether he did create the account himself as it would be purely speculative on our part.
Also, I did think your original reply to him was more than a little patronising. Your reply above is even worse. To be impartial, he was also a bit insulting but just because some people out here have been around the block a few times but are still paranoid about governments should not really come as any big surprise.
I did not think that the conclusion he came to was that odd actually. I personally would rather think that governments do some things deliberately rather than think they are incompetent.
What I find amusing is that some bunch of morons have modded up the post he is trying to retract. Are all slashdot moderators and posters that stupid or does someone have a brain out there?
(People can mod this up or down for all I care, but please try reading it first)
Wow, so it is pretty far from being a prime number.
But it still has not basis in the physical world or in geometry. The radian on the other hand actually relates to pi so is thoroughly based in pythagorean geometry.
Also, I found the following page on wikipedia which suggests that the persian calendar was pretty imprecise and does not always contain the same number of days in a year:
So by your logic maybe we should have used 365.242199 degrees to make up a circle instead.
The fact is the radians actually have a meaning and are thoroughly useful. That fact that most people stop learning long before they need them is pretty irrelevant to those people who cannot do without them. It's like saying that mph is an acceptable measure of speed in relation to light in a vacuum.
When I studied Physics at Uni we did everything in Radians. Our advice was to set your calculator into radian mode and then never change it.
The SI dirived unit of measurement for angles is the Radian. This is because it has a logical meaning. See this link for the definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_derived_unit
Degrees of an ark however are an arbritary unit. Someone decided there would be 360 degrees in a circle but they could just as easily have decided that there were 400 or 64.
When america is asleep you get who ever is awake unfortunately. Playing first thing in the morning over here in europe America Army is not so popular and I often started before 9am. At that time its 4 in the morning in the US.
I prefer decent players as I still improve when faced with some good opposition and I like a challenge.
Actually I think you might find that without the GPL you could argue that the entire code was in the public domain, and hence fair game. This could be due to it not being fixed in a tangaible medium by a single identifiable author.
Even if it is not in the public domain, who holds the copyright to stop you using the code? Would it all miraculously end up being property of the FSF for them to do with as they saw fit? Could they then decide to sell it to the highest bidder against the will of the people actually wrote it? Would each chunk of code still remain the copyright of each original author? If this is the case what about the code that was written by one person but has been amended by several different people since?
If the GPL was struck down it may make it impossible to distribute any version of linux commercially as it suddenly became the intellectual property thousands of different people all over the world. If Apple have no right to use the code how would RedHat be any different?
I am not a lawyer so I do not know the answer to any of these questions, but I do know that the situation is alot more complicated than most people seem to think.
How on earth can a nation with such ridiculous laws still consider itself free?
Russia has more sensible laws now that they have embraced democracy.
The truth is that the US is no longer about freedoms except the freedom for companies to make as much profit as possible.
Maybe we need a revolution to take power back from the corrupt government system that has taken over. After all, both the main democratic candidates (Hillary and Barrack) have taken money from the MPAA / RIAA so we cannot expect any change in the next administration.
You can not even take to the streets to protest as this is illegal. Actually I am not sure about this, But after seeing footage from the Seatle WTO or anti-vietnam demonstrations where the Police would spray teargas or CS at people peacefully sitting in the road it might as well be.
What good is bill of rights when the government are allowed to trample all over it with impunity? They might not be able to pass law the contravenes it but they can get away with ignoring it in thier actions? Or even in the worst case they just pardon their chums who openly break the law after the courts have found them guilty? Is that what our forefathers intended our legal process to turn into?
Then you were a bunch of sad little shits. Go get a life.
Seriously, why bother playing online at all? Why not just play against a computer if all you ever want to do is win without facing any decent opposition?
Just play a single player version of the game with all the settings on super easy.
There is another supposition that this entire discussion relies on:
That the GPL or LGPL or whatever wont just get chucked in the bin by the first court that look at it. All it will takes is one company with deep pockets to chellenge it in their local court where the judge knows deciding against the company may cost alot of his constituents jobs. Chances are that he will side with business rather than some licence which many people view as trying to enforce a non-capitalist ethic. All the company have to do it plant a few stories in the media showing Richard Stallman's picture and it will turn off people in droves. I am not saying this is a good situation, but lets face it, he is not really that photogenic (read well groomed). It would be very easy to portray him as some 60's drop out to most of middle america.
The fact is that until the GPL gets challenged in the supreme court and the FSF win, there will always be some doubt as to how well it can hold up to a multi-million dollar legal suite.
After all, stupid people breed LESS, right? Actually I reckon they breed more. But the kids probably dont do very well with DNA from both a brother and sister combined.
I play americas army alot on the net. At one point I was out of work and pretty much played full time for 2-3 months. By then end of that period I got more hacking acusations than you can shake a stick at. I even got banned from a few servers. I have never cheated. The truth is that really good players get headshots first time, almost every time.
In the end I settled on playing on one or two public servers run clans. That way they knew who I was, trusted me not to be cheating and let me carve through people when I was on a good run. That way admin would usually explain to noobs I wasnt a cheat when the acusations started to fly.
I also changed my name to Nohax for a laugh but that was only after I got the hacking acusations.
The truth is though that human admins are the best anti hack method. If you got caught cheating on their servers you would probably get a lifetime hardware ban. That means your PC gets banned, not you account name or anything. I don't know how it works but it is effective as I have heard people complaining they downloaded a hack for a laugh and then could never play again until they bought a new PC.
Or maybe build something into the new discussion system so that we can see who moderates each message. Anyone who thinks the parent is flamebait is quite obviously both stupid and insane.
haha, what the fuck are they waiting for legal approval for? They are probably waiting to see if the GPL is actually enforcable in court. They have probably put this in the hands of their lawyers who are probably studying the GPL to see if they can find a loophole or a reason that it might be invalid.
The question for me is why should these regimes fall?
Lets not forget that before Castro the country was still a corrupt dictatorship. It was just a corrupt dictatorship that was friends with the US and the Mafia.
Why not actually allow other countries to determine their own destiny and leadership without meddling or trying to cut them off from the rest of the world?
Maybe when the US learns to mind its own business an not meddle in the affairs of other sovereign nations it will regain the respect of the rest of the world. Until then it will just be feared for it huge armed forces and willingness to ignore the will of the international community.
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If you hate slashdot that much piss off and stop wasting your time reading it.
I on the other hand had not heard of Shadow Copy or Transactional NTFS so I found it quite interesting. I do not use vista but at some point I probably will, and the first thing I will do it turn off Shadow Copy or change the space it has allocated to it. The default seems to be to keep 15% of every volume for old files. I would much rather set that to a much lower value, especially since alot of programs (MS Word for instance) already track changes to files and can let you rollback to previous versions anyway.
Also, you point about losing work by accidentally deleting something is a bit stupid as this is already dealt with by the Recycle bin. Shadow copy would protect you if you made a change to a file then needed to revert back to the old version for some reason.
It seems that between the Recycle bin and Shadow copy you are probably wasting as much as 25% of every Hard disk for keeping previous versions of files or stuff you have chosen to delete. Wasting a quarter of every volume strikes me as overkill.
If your files are actually that important you should be using a decent daily backup solution (Tape Drive) and keeping copies in secure off site storage.
So you keep them on a seperate physical network, good for you. But I presume the laptops are still alowed to connect to a server of somekind or you might as well leave them unplugged. Assuming they can still connect to a server then you are still reliant on a firewall for security, chances are the one on the server.
.NET jobs out there than LAMP ones at present from past experience.
You could have a seperate firewall and keep the laptops in a DMZ but alot of people want to use windows shares so end up exposing the worst protocols via TCP anyway. Maybe you do not need to do this but alot of places do since windows networking has knocked novell netware has disappeared. For mounting shared drive resources what other software is there that is as welll known?
I know there is NFS but alot of places would rather use windows as this is the technology they are used to. I don't like this (I am a unix admin and coder) but I know there are more
Who cares?
Nobody who releases stuff under creative commons licences is going to sue. Even if they do how much can they actually sue for? Much less then micorsoft will make off this venture anyway so they still come out in the black.
Welcome to capitalism. It doesn't matter if you break a few laws providing that the worst you get is a fine less than your profits.
Can you do anything about it if they get your bill wrong? Can you prove that you didnt make the calls in question or do they just get to insist you made them and charge you anyway?
How are old are you saying your kayboard is?
Minimum age to have been in the workforce for 10 years: 26
(Assuming you join workforce at 16, which is pretty young for full time work.)
So is your keyboard older than 26 years?
Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary
My main point you seem to have ignored so I will repeat it just in case you missed it:
You tried to brush off his opinion as being that of someone much younger than yourself without the slightest bit of research and contrary to the evidence that was staring you in the face (His very low UID). That made you look silly. Is that blunt enough yet?
The use of a 360 degree system was also much more user friendly to the average person who didn't have a decimal system and it is easier to work with than an irrational number like pi.
Why? Apart from just the fact that it is the system people are used to using. Personally I would find it easier it there were 10 or 100 to make it more like the decimal system if it was going to be an arbitrary number. I also still maintain that the choice of 360 is arbritary as it was not chosen for any logical reason other than it was close to the number of days in a year. If it was exactly the number of days it would be less arbitrary, but it it is not.
Don't know why this has been modded insightful. Regardless of where the laptops are physically they would probably be connected to the same network or subnet anyway. It's not like where a PC is physically located has any bearing on what network you would connect it to nowadays.
Not sure what your point was I afraid. Any chance of a more in depth explanation.
I did on the other hand look grad up on wikipedia for amusement. I have never had to work in gradians since I do not know of any field that uses them. I was however aware that there were 2pi radians in a circle since you would be hard pressed to study physics and not get that hammered into you.
You cannot tell that someone with a high uid is young. However to have a uid that low means he has been a member for alot longer than me or you since they are handed out incrementally. The only way someone could have a uid that low and not have joined the workforce is if they used someone elses account. Please lets avoid getting into an argument about whether he did create the account himself as it would be purely speculative on our part.
Also, I did think your original reply to him was more than a little patronising. Your reply above is even worse. To be impartial, he was also a bit insulting but just because some people out here have been around the block a few times but are still paranoid about governments should not really come as any big surprise.
I did not think that the conclusion he came to was that odd actually. I personally would rather think that governments do some things deliberately rather than think they are incompetent.
What I find amusing is that some bunch of morons have modded up the post he is trying to retract. Are all slashdot moderators and posters that stupid or does someone have a brain out there?
(People can mod this up or down for all I care, but please try reading it first)
Wow, so it is pretty far from being a prime number.
But it still has not basis in the physical world or in geometry. The radian on the other hand actually relates to pi so is thoroughly based in pythagorean geometry.
Also, I found the following page on wikipedia which suggests that the persian calendar was pretty imprecise and does not always contain the same number of days in a year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_calendar
So by your logic maybe we should have used 365.242199 degrees to make up a circle instead.
The fact is the radians actually have a meaning and are thoroughly useful. That fact that most people stop learning long before they need them is pretty irrelevant to those people who cannot do without them. It's like saying that mph is an acceptable measure of speed in relation to light in a vacuum.
When I studied Physics at Uni we did everything in Radians. Our advice was to set your calculator into radian mode and then never change it.
The SI dirived unit of measurement for angles is the Radian. This is because it has a logical meaning. See this link for the definition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_derived_unit
Degrees of an ark however are an arbritary unit. Someone decided there would be 360 degrees in a circle but they could just as easily have decided that there were 400 or 64.
When america is asleep you get who ever is awake unfortunately. Playing first thing in the morning over here in europe America Army is not so popular and I often started before 9am. At that time its 4 in the morning in the US.
I prefer decent players as I still improve when faced with some good opposition and I like a challenge.
Actually I think you might find that without the GPL you could argue that the entire code was in the public domain, and hence fair game. This could be due to it not being fixed in a tangaible medium by a single identifiable author.
Even if it is not in the public domain, who holds the copyright to stop you using the code? Would it all miraculously end up being property of the FSF for them to do with as they saw fit? Could they then decide to sell it to the highest bidder against the will of the people actually wrote it? Would each chunk of code still remain the copyright of each original author? If this is the case what about the code that was written by one person but has been amended by several different people since?
If the GPL was struck down it may make it impossible to distribute any version of linux commercially as it suddenly became the intellectual property thousands of different people all over the world. If Apple have no right to use the code how would RedHat be any different?
I am not a lawyer so I do not know the answer to any of these questions, but I do know that the situation is alot more complicated than most people seem to think.
How on earth can a nation with such ridiculous laws still consider itself free?
Russia has more sensible laws now that they have embraced democracy.
The truth is that the US is no longer about freedoms except the freedom for companies to make as much profit as possible.
Maybe we need a revolution to take power back from the corrupt government system that has taken over. After all, both the main democratic candidates (Hillary and Barrack) have taken money from the MPAA / RIAA so we cannot expect any change in the next administration.
You can not even take to the streets to protest as this is illegal. Actually I am not sure about this, But after seeing footage from the Seatle WTO or anti-vietnam demonstrations where the Police would spray teargas or CS at people peacefully sitting in the road it might as well be.
What good is bill of rights when the government are allowed to trample all over it with impunity? They might not be able to pass law the contravenes it but they can get away with ignoring it in thier actions? Or even in the worst case they just pardon their chums who openly break the law after the courts have found them guilty? Is that what our forefathers intended our legal process to turn into?
Then you were a bunch of sad little shits. Go get a life.
Seriously, why bother playing online at all? Why not just play against a computer if all you ever want to do is win without facing any decent opposition?
Just play a single player version of the game with all the settings on super easy.
Funnily enough I have been kicked a few times for taking the piss too much. Admins have always let me back on providing I appologised.
There is another supposition that this entire discussion relies on:
That the GPL or LGPL or whatever wont just get chucked in the bin by the first court that look at it. All it will takes is one company with deep pockets to chellenge it in their local court where the judge knows deciding against the company may cost alot of his constituents jobs. Chances are that he will side with business rather than some licence which many people view as trying to enforce a non-capitalist ethic. All the company have to do it plant a few stories in the media showing Richard Stallman's picture and it will turn off people in droves. I am not saying this is a good situation, but lets face it, he is not really that photogenic (read well groomed). It would be very easy to portray him as some 60's drop out to most of middle america.
The fact is that until the GPL gets challenged in the supreme court and the FSF win, there will always be some doubt as to how well it can hold up to a multi-million dollar legal suite.
I play americas army alot on the net. At one point I was out of work and pretty much played full time for 2-3 months. By then end of that period I got more hacking acusations than you can shake a stick at. I even got banned from a few servers. I have never cheated. The truth is that really good players get headshots first time, almost every time.
In the end I settled on playing on one or two public servers run clans. That way they knew who I was, trusted me not to be cheating and let me carve through people when I was on a good run. That way admin would usually explain to noobs I wasnt a cheat when the acusations started to fly.
I also changed my name to Nohax for a laugh but that was only after I got the hacking acusations.
The truth is though that human admins are the best anti hack method. If you got caught cheating on their servers you would probably get a lifetime hardware ban. That means your PC gets banned, not you account name or anything. I don't know how it works but it is effective as I have heard people complaining they downloaded a hack for a laugh and then could never play again until they bought a new PC.
Can we please start shooting moderators?
Or maybe build something into the new discussion system so that we can see who moderates each message. Anyone who thinks the parent is flamebait is quite obviously both stupid and insane.
The question for me is why should these regimes fall?
Lets not forget that before Castro the country was still a corrupt dictatorship. It was just a corrupt dictatorship that was friends with the US and the Mafia.
Why not actually allow other countries to determine their own destiny and leadership without meddling or trying to cut them off from the rest of the world?
Maybe when the US learns to mind its own business an not meddle in the affairs of other sovereign nations it will regain the respect of the rest of the world. Until then it will just be feared for it huge armed forces and willingness to ignore the will of the international community.