..in europe (at least in the UK; but nescafe are a european brand, so I'm guessing the stuff spread), but it was *terrible*. The stuff tasted disgusting, and if your can of coffee was cold to start with (as opposed to room temperature), it warmed up lukewarm; as I discovered when woken up on a signals exercise at 3 in the morning; I just ended up binning half a dozen cans and falling back to redbull to get my caffeine hit for the morning.
If you really really want lukewarm reheated instant coffee for the price of a latte at starbucks, great. For the rest of us, thermos flasks suffice (Or if you require masochism in your life, simply carry around a flattened paper cup with a few single-serving packets of instant coffee; just add lukewarm tap water, and you're good to go - and for a fraction of the price!)
Some (enterprise-grade) applications require the use of SQL Server Desktop Engine (the anti-virus vendor Sophos, for one, use this - Veritas would be an example of another).
In many instances, this doesn't react well with software on Windows server builds (again, as examples, SQL Server proper and Terminal Services both are broken by and break these two products in particular).
Especially in the ranks of middle-sized organisations which don't feel like splashing out hundreds of dollars (or more) for copies of windows server simply to run veritas and sophos, there are plenty of organisations which run 'server' software and SQL desktop engine / SQL Server on workstation builds of windows.
..been consistantly less stable with each successive version after firefox 0.9.3, and firefox 1 is the worst. Tabbed pages constantly display content from the wrong tabs (usually parent tabs displaying content from other tabs which have been opened in the background), it locks up a *lot* and takes several minutes to become happy enough to work again, and is generally feeling a lot bloatier than previously.
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..how everyone who ever had a hand in making the coffee that was drunk by the person who thought about submitting the RFC for anything vaguely related to the internet's inception seems to be lauded as some sort of oracle, all-knowing of all-things internet.
But this bloke does have some ideas. And did invent DNS. So I guess that makes it ok.
Because your center of mass was further forward than your center of propulsion; hence the reason for fins - they drag the overall center of mass backwards to a point at which it's at or behind the center of propulsion, thus ensuring that ballistically, your rocket is more stable, and stuff like that doesn't happen.
..and not only is the site still up, but my cable modem is hitting the rate I'm capped out downloading the.avi off their site....*eerie*.....this server isn't normal.
You're right; they didn't engage in anything which could be specifically branded as slander - but it's just as possible to slander someone by careful wording and omission as it is to specifically make allegations about a company's staff; publications have the advantage over companies that they have a distribution medium with which to distribute whatever material *they* want which the companies don't have - litigious letters are the company's only recourse to articles like these (whether they're slanderous or not).
Ultimately, I don't think it's really fair that any rag with a grudge against a particular vendor can write a semi-slanderous article, and the best the vendor can do is spend money on a lawyer to draft a letter for them, only to have the letter ridiculed, and end up looking worse than they did to start with.
..from what I can see, hardOCP did indeed write an article which was deliberately set out to make Infinium come off badly; whether or not Infinium are a 'bad investment', as their lawyers put it (I don't know, and I don't really care), this clearly wasn't a fair article; it seems obvious that the writer/journalist(s) concerned had other motivations for penning it beside the truth (similarly, Infinium may have other motivations for writing the letter, and may have had problems with HardOCP in the last, but that doesn't justify it either way).
wow. Even a thread link has been slashdotted. '403.9 too many users..'
Your last link was without doubt the worst slashdot post ever. Rest assured that within minutes I was on slashdot registering my disgust throughout the thread;)
The theorists would disagree with you; computers are extremely good at assessing a *large* number of potential outcomes. Humans, however, are much better at pattern recognition and whilst they can only consciously assess a dozen or two moves, they have most of the work done for them by the functionality in the human brain which causes them to recognise patterns and possibilities far more efficiently than any computer we have now (or will in the forseeable future) will.
Computers can certainly give GM chess players a run for their money - no-one's disputing this; but ultimately, barring a total change of direction in programming/processor/logic/chess theory, they're still just applying what basically boils down to a probability-based brute force method to chess-playing - the human method is far more elegant.
Most university and department/faculty libraries keep several copies of course textbooks; however, in my experience, they keep them along with the high-demand short-loan items - ie. you can only borrow course textbooks for two days at a time (or less), and they're not renewable.
Some libraries *do* have copies of course textbooks in the main library, but because people do what you say, they're never, ever there. ever. Which is why most libraries resort to doing what I've just mentioned;)
you're right - the first things my friend modelled were mathematically-correct models of his and my house for heretic (which we spent months playing deathmatch over a serial cable with)..
..and I were very into doom/heretic level designing when we were students, and some of my most satisfying moments were when designing levels for those games. However, the level designing tool which I always liked the most was qoole, which was *the* de-facto quake level designer.
I used qoole in quake 1 and quake 2, and I found it extremely easy to put together 3d designs very quickly, and wasted many many hours of my time; qoole, as far as I'm aware, still exists, and is still free, so if you have a copy of quake 1 or 2 lying around, you might want to try it;) ((note: I haven't level designed for halflife or q3, or anything newer, so you might want to snoop around to see if there's any newer equivalent, since a cursory google has informed me that qoole doesn't seem to support q3))
I've had almost the same experiences with dell, prompting me to call someone high up (read: SVP) in the company, which eventually got me a new laptop.
In Dell's credit, I've been dealing with a few broken machines and more recently, their techs *have* been more helpful. Whilst a lot of them *are* still badly trained, and their 'follow this step. follow another step' computer system *is* still inane and badly thought out, they *do* have supervisors who know what they're doing.
imho they seem to be trying to stay in touch with their customers also; out of the last dozen times I've called dell, a quarter of those times I've been rung back or asked-to-be-transferred-to a 'customer service agent' in order to 'maintain the quality of our tech support' by 'answering a few short questions'. Granted, I told said agent that their tech support was dreadful, but two of the occasions on which I was transferred were when I'd spoken to a tech. who was genuinely helpful, and prepared to actually listen to me (and on those occasions, I went out of my way to praise the individual tech I'd just spoken to).
This is a problem endemic to *all* outsourced call centers; I've witnessed Dell, Cisco, and others *all* having this problem. The local Dell tech I had onsite yesterday to swapout a broken component said that he dreads cases where his hardware replacements don't solve the problem, because then *he* has to call dell, and this is the bane of his working existence (dell don't even give their onsite technicians their gold/corporate number, it seems, they just leave them to the mercy of the home support line).
I don't think that the article was intending to convey the same message as the slashdot summary.. but in essence, I think the idea would be that the US wants galileo to work on different frequencies so that a) it doesn't interfere with gps (obviously this would be a design configuration anyhow) and b) it's totally independent....so, for instance..
gps works on frequencies 1, 4, and 7. galileo works on 2, 3, and 4. In this for-instance, blocking galileo involves blocking a third of gps's available signallage, possibly diminishing the usefulness of the system. If galileo worked on 2, 3, and 5, then this wouldn't be a problem. Extend this to exclusive signals which naturally interfere with each other (harmonised signals and the like), and that's probably the essence of what you're asking.;)
It's similar now; I briefly worked as a projector at university. Films typically come in a box the size of a beer keg in which there are six or so reels; these all go onto one projector, since the projectionist will assemble (splice) the six or so reels into one, uberreel, which must be lifted onto the projector (this, in my experience, is one of the more challenging parts; the projectionists at the theater I was at actually had to have health and safety training to be able to legally lift that weight of film to the height of the projector.)
You do, however, still have cue marks on films.
And I see them too.;)
(http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/movie-pr oj ector2.htm is quite good, if anyone's particularly interested)
..we made something similar with the help of a friend of mine who's a metalsmith. A fairly hefty metal pipe of the type mentioned, a metal disk with a hole in the center welded onto the bottom, and a spark plug through the hole. Pour a small amount of petrol into the bottom of the pipe, drop in an empty (or full) tin can.. run off to hide, and touch the wires attached to the spark plug to a 12v car battery. Poof.;)
As I posted in another thread, the emphasis of the webcast was on the creative suite being the "only true cross-media solution". Adobe are big on the integration between their products; one of the presenters emphasised the fact that the suite is backed up by these applications; from his phraseology, I'm guessing that the suite isn't simply a bundling of the software - it looks like they have actually done a lot of work integrating these apps, for what it's worth.
According to the webcast, it's the "only true cross-media solution". I think the emphasis is meant to be on the *suite*, not the products. Numerous people have posted comments to the effect of 'nothing's new'. I disagree. From the webcast, it looks like they've done a lot of work closely integrating these products; it's the integration that is the selling of the 'creative suite', and integration saves money and time for designers who are already on tight schedules. *shrug*
"a 768k up/down line will set you back somewhere in the region of $80/month."
I'm quite aware that you can pay $50 a month for DSL; I was comparing it to *my* internet connection, which for $40 a month is 2.5mbit either way. There is *no* comparable price/service in the UK.
..the US is a veritable broadband paradise. In the UK, the uptake is even worse than the US; whilst 80% of the country is wired for "broadband", the phone companies have no intention of wiring the remaining 20% - and the 80% broadband is DSL at phenomenally expensive prices; a 768k up/down line will set you back somewhere in the region of $80/month. I currently pay $35 a month for 2.5mbit either way on my cable connection; and the customer service in the UK is similarly dreadful.
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As if that weren't bad enough.. you can configure Office 2007 to not use the new file formats! The cheek!
y /07946c8e-9311-42a6-979b-5bc89afb7a661033.mspx?mfr =true
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/librar
Wow. Actual critical thinking, on slashdot.
:)
Always nice to see. Well done, that man
..in europe (at least in the UK; but nescafe are a european brand, so I'm guessing the stuff spread), but it was *terrible*. The stuff tasted disgusting, and if your can of coffee was cold to start with (as opposed to room temperature), it warmed up lukewarm; as I discovered when woken up on a signals exercise at 3 in the morning; I just ended up binning half a dozen cans and falling back to redbull to get my caffeine hit for the morning.
If you really really want lukewarm reheated instant coffee for the price of a latte at starbucks, great. For the rest of us, thermos flasks suffice (Or if you require masochism in your life, simply carry around a flattened paper cup with a few single-serving packets of instant coffee; just add lukewarm tap water, and you're good to go - and for a fraction of the price!)
Some (enterprise-grade) applications require the use of SQL Server Desktop Engine (the anti-virus vendor Sophos, for one, use this - Veritas would be an example of another).
In many instances, this doesn't react well with software on Windows server builds (again, as examples, SQL Server proper and Terminal Services both are broken by and break these two products in particular).
Especially in the ranks of middle-sized organisations which don't feel like splashing out hundreds of dollars (or more) for copies of windows server simply to run veritas and sophos, there are plenty of organisations which run 'server' software and SQL desktop engine / SQL Server on workstation builds of windows.
..been consistantly less stable with each successive version after firefox 0.9.3, and firefox 1 is the worst. Tabbed pages constantly display content from the wrong tabs (usually parent tabs displaying content from other tabs which have been opened in the background), it locks up a *lot* and takes several minutes to become happy enough to work again, and is generally feeling a lot bloatier than previously.
I have more :p
..how everyone who ever had a hand in making the coffee that was drunk by the person who thought about submitting the RFC for anything vaguely related to the internet's inception seems to be lauded as some sort of oracle, all-knowing of all-things internet.
But this bloke does have some ideas. And did invent DNS. So I guess that makes it ok.
Because your center of mass was further forward than your center of propulsion; hence the reason for fins - they drag the overall center of mass backwards to a point at which it's at or behind the center of propulsion, thus ensuring that ballistically, your rocket is more stable, and stuff like that doesn't happen.
What?! It's just rocket science!
..and not only is the site still up, but my cable modem is hitting the rate I'm capped out downloading the .avi off their site. ...*eerie*... ..this server isn't normal.
You're right; they didn't engage in anything which could be specifically branded as slander - but it's just as possible to slander someone by careful wording and omission as it is to specifically make allegations about a company's staff; publications have the advantage over companies that they have a distribution medium with which to distribute whatever material *they* want which the companies don't have - litigious letters are the company's only recourse to articles like these (whether they're slanderous or not).
Ultimately, I don't think it's really fair that any rag with a grudge against a particular vendor can write a semi-slanderous article, and the best the vendor can do is spend money on a lawyer to draft a letter for them, only to have the letter ridiculed, and end up looking worse than they did to start with.
..from what I can see, hardOCP did indeed write an article which was deliberately set out to make Infinium come off badly; whether or not Infinium are a 'bad investment', as their lawyers put it (I don't know, and I don't really care), this clearly wasn't a fair article; it seems obvious that the writer/journalist(s) concerned had other motivations for penning it beside the truth (similarly, Infinium may have other motivations for writing the letter, and may have had problems with HardOCP in the last, but that doesn't justify it either way).
wow. Even a thread link has been slashdotted. '403.9 too many users..'
;)
Your last link was without doubt the worst slashdot post ever. Rest assured that within minutes I was on slashdot registering my disgust throughout the thread
The theorists would disagree with you; computers are extremely good at assessing a *large* number of potential outcomes. Humans, however, are much better at pattern recognition and whilst they can only consciously assess a dozen or two moves, they have most of the work done for them by the functionality in the human brain which causes them to recognise patterns and possibilities far more efficiently than any computer we have now (or will in the forseeable future) will.
Computers can certainly give GM chess players a run for their money - no-one's disputing this; but ultimately, barring a total change of direction in programming/processor/logic/chess theory, they're still just applying what basically boils down to a probability-based brute force method to chess-playing - the human method is far more elegant.
Most university and department/faculty libraries keep several copies of course textbooks; however, in my experience, they keep them along with the high-demand short-loan items - ie. you can only borrow course textbooks for two days at a time (or less), and they're not renewable.
;)
Some libraries *do* have copies of course textbooks in the main library, but because people do what you say, they're never, ever there. ever. Which is why most libraries resort to doing what I've just mentioned
you're right - the first things my friend modelled were mathematically-correct models of his and my house for heretic (which we spent months playing deathmatch over a serial cable with)..
..and I were very into doom/heretic level designing when we were students, and some of my most satisfying moments were when designing levels for those games. However, the level designing tool which I always liked the most was qoole, which was *the* de-facto quake level designer.
;) ((note: I haven't level designed for halflife or q3, or anything newer, so you might want to snoop around to see if there's any newer equivalent, since a cursory google has informed me that qoole doesn't seem to support q3))
I used qoole in quake 1 and quake 2, and I found it extremely easy to put together 3d designs very quickly, and wasted many many hours of my time; qoole, as far as I'm aware, still exists, and is still free, so if you have a copy of quake 1 or 2 lying around, you might want to try it
I've had almost the same experiences with dell, prompting me to call someone high up (read: SVP) in the company, which eventually got me a new laptop.
In Dell's credit, I've been dealing with a few broken machines and more recently, their techs *have* been more helpful. Whilst a lot of them *are* still badly trained, and their 'follow this step. follow another step' computer system *is* still inane and badly thought out, they *do* have supervisors who know what they're doing.
imho they seem to be trying to stay in touch with their customers also; out of the last dozen times I've called dell, a quarter of those times I've been rung back or asked-to-be-transferred-to a 'customer service agent' in order to 'maintain the quality of our tech support' by 'answering a few short questions'. Granted, I told said agent that their tech support was dreadful, but two of the occasions on which I was transferred were when I'd spoken to a tech. who was genuinely helpful, and prepared to actually listen to me (and on those occasions, I went out of my way to praise the individual tech I'd just spoken to).
This is a problem endemic to *all* outsourced call centers; I've witnessed Dell, Cisco, and others *all* having this problem. The local Dell tech I had onsite yesterday to swapout a broken component said that he dreads cases where his hardware replacements don't solve the problem, because then *he* has to call dell, and this is the bane of his working existence (dell don't even give their onsite technicians their gold/corporate number, it seems, they just leave them to the mercy of the home support line).
..and no comments. ;)
;)
:-D
I pity the poor webhost.
Article is: here.
Slashdottable large jpg files are: here and here.
There's another large file for you to sap the life out of this server: here.
I have to say, though, it does look rather good
I don't think that the article was intending to convey the same message as the slashdot summary.. but in essence, I think the idea would be that the US wants galileo to work on different frequencies so that a) it doesn't interfere with gps (obviously this would be a design configuration anyhow) and b) it's totally independent.. ..so, for instance..
;)
gps works on frequencies 1, 4, and 7. galileo works on 2, 3, and 4. In this for-instance, blocking galileo involves blocking a third of gps's available signallage, possibly diminishing the usefulness of the system. If galileo worked on 2, 3, and 5, then this wouldn't be a problem. Extend this to exclusive signals which naturally interfere with each other (harmonised signals and the like), and that's probably the essence of what you're asking.
It's similar now; I briefly worked as a projector at university. Films typically come in a box the size of a beer keg in which there are six or so reels; these all go onto one projector, since the projectionist will assemble (splice) the six or so reels into one, uberreel, which must be lifted onto the projector (this, in my experience, is one of the more challenging parts; the projectionists at the theater I was at actually had to have health and safety training to be able to legally lift that weight of film to the height of the projector.)
;)
r oj ector2.htm is quite good, if anyone's particularly interested)
You do, however, still have cue marks on films.
And I see them too.
(http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/movie-p
..we made something similar with the help of a friend of mine who's a metalsmith. A fairly hefty metal pipe of the type mentioned, a metal disk with a hole in the center welded onto the bottom, and a spark plug through the hole. Pour a small amount of petrol into the bottom of the pipe, drop in an empty (or full) tin can.. run off to hide, and touch the wires attached to the spark plug to a 12v car battery. Poof. ;)
As I posted in another thread, the emphasis of the webcast was on the creative suite being the "only true cross-media solution". Adobe are big on the integration between their products; one of the presenters emphasised the fact that the suite is backed up by these applications; from his phraseology, I'm guessing that the suite isn't simply a bundling of the software - it looks like they have actually done a lot of work integrating these apps, for what it's worth.
According to the webcast, it's the "only true cross-media solution". I think the emphasis is meant to be on the *suite*, not the products. Numerous people have posted comments to the effect of 'nothing's new'. I disagree. From the webcast, it looks like they've done a lot of work closely integrating these products; it's the integration that is the selling of the 'creative suite', and integration saves money and time for designers who are already on tight schedules. *shrug*
"a 768k up/down line will set you back somewhere in the region of $80/month."
I'm quite aware that you can pay $50 a month for DSL; I was comparing it to *my* internet connection, which for $40 a month is 2.5mbit either way. There is *no* comparable price/service in the UK.
..the US is a veritable broadband paradise. In the UK, the uptake is even worse than the US; whilst 80% of the country is wired for "broadband", the phone companies have no intention of wiring the remaining 20% - and the 80% broadband is DSL at phenomenally expensive prices; a 768k up/down line will set you back somewhere in the region of $80/month. I currently pay $35 a month for 2.5mbit either way on my cable connection; and the customer service in the UK is similarly dreadful.
;)
Maybe the US should count its blessings.