I work at a major hospital in New York City. We lost all power for about five minutes, while the facilities crew were making sure that the clinical areas didn't lose it for even a second. (We were covered in the meantime by garden variety UPS's.) After we got emergency power back, it was no different than any other day. Our Internet service was up and running fine. I was reading Slashdot again in minutes.:)
Actually, goatse.cx is a picture from an episode of Trading Spaces. Doug's designs are sometimes too avant garde for conservative tastes, but I applaud his use of forced anal perspective
And if "advertising" bothers you as yet another euphemism for "piracy", perhaps you can explain to me how Clearchannel differs from your typical pickpocket-on-the-street.
Pickpockets-on-the-street typically don't sign licensing agreements with ASCAP and BMI.
To address your first point, any such situation whereby people can make, through tradeskills, an item that sells to vendors for more than the cost of materials, the players flock to it like flies to shit, and EQ nerfs it within days.
As for SOE actually creating plat to sell, well, I don't think that's quite viable. Plat inflation would quickly kill this scheme. As plat become less valuable, people who play the game legitimately (I'll give you 1 sp for this wolf pelt! Yay!) will become frustrated en masse and quit. It's in SOE's interests to ensure that plat remains rare and valuable.
If a GM tried to do this as a lucrative "side business" they'd quickly be caught. Item creations are logged, and giving 100Kpp to a player without any explanation is the kind of thing that raises red flags.
When I registered my copy of After Dark (via business reply mail card), in the "Company" field, I entered a fictious, silly name that some friends in high school had made up: Snap Dog on a Frosty Tart Enterprises.
A few days later I got a call from Berekely Softworks (was that the name of the company?) asking what the heck that company did! They were disappointed to hear it was just a silly name.
Ah, memories...
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It's true! War protesters in New York were heard shouting, "No War for Energon Cubes!"
It's true, yes, but how often do you do full restores? The vast majority of restores we get (and I'm sure this isn't unique to TSM) is "I just screwed up this one file, can you get it for me?"
If you do have a server that you think you'll want to do a full restore on, then do a GENERATE BACKUPSET and you'll have all the data in one place, on the media of your choice. Yank that media offsite and you won't even need to touch the TSM server to get the data back. You can also do data colocation, if you have the tapes and the drives to burn. It depends if you want to optimize backups or restores. TSM gives you that flexibility.
TSM is a tough nut to crack, but once you do, the power is amazing.
I've done you the courtesy of making you a criminal, by downloading these instructions in the United States, thus establishing your business presence here. I may even follow them this evening... (mmm... peer to peer joint network... *drool*)
I've been a unix system administrator for about 10 years now. In fact, I've never had another professional job outside of system administration. And I owe *all* of it to O'Reilly. Their books launched my career, and made me what I am today. I've paid full cover price for my entire library several times over (new editions, you know) but they deserve a larger chunk of my salary than that.
Congratulations, and keep up the good work!
iTunes is a dream to use.
Creative PlayCenter 3 is standing on the pitchers mound in front of a sellout crowd at Yankee Stadium while naked with a microphone when you just forgot the words to "The Star Spangled Banner."
Well, 50kW and 100kW may be a bit of overkill, unless you want to be a big commercial player in a major market. That's a LOT of power!
I worked for a 3000W station that covered most of Broward County, Florida (the Ft. Lauderdale area) and a... (er, how much was that again?) 1200W(?) station that covered a fair chunk of the Pittsburgh area.
That being said, even at those levels, and even with that level of license, transmitters ain't cheap, antennae ain't cheap, and fees to ASCAP and BMI (the groups that license music for radio broadcast) ain't cheap. Depending on the type of educational institution you work for, the expertise to set it all up may be monitarily cheap, but you're going to have to have a few, really dedicated people who share your vision to set everything up.
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I work at a major hospital in New York City. We lost all power for about five minutes, while the facilities crew were making sure that the clinical areas didn't lose it for even a second. (We were covered in the meantime by garden variety UPS's.) After we got emergency power back, it was no different than any other day. Our Internet service was up and running fine. I was reading Slashdot again in minutes. :)
Or maybe I did buy the ten millionth song, and they didn't want to admit that it was "Sexy Motherfucker" by Prince...
Actually, goatse.cx is a picture from an episode of Trading Spaces. Doug's designs are sometimes too avant garde for conservative tastes, but I applaud his use of forced anal perspective
Pickpockets-on-the-street typically don't sign licensing agreements with ASCAP and BMI.
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Spammers haiku you.
Prepare media for ludicrous density!
"My Neighbor Totoro," a beautiful, heartfelt masterpiece. I can't wait to have children so that I can show them "Totoro" followed by "Spirited Away."
As for SOE actually creating plat to sell, well, I don't think that's quite viable. Plat inflation would quickly kill this scheme. As plat become less valuable, people who play the game legitimately (I'll give you 1 sp for this wolf pelt! Yay!) will become frustrated en masse and quit. It's in SOE's interests to ensure that plat remains rare and valuable.
If a GM tried to do this as a lucrative "side business" they'd quickly be caught. Item creations are logged, and giving 100Kpp to a player without any explanation is the kind of thing that raises red flags.
A few days later I got a call from Berekely Softworks (was that the name of the company?) asking what the heck that company did! They were disappointed to hear it was just a silly name.
Ah, memories...
It's true! War protesters in New York were heard shouting, "No War for Energon Cubes!"
If you do have a server that you think you'll want to do a full restore on, then do a GENERATE BACKUPSET and you'll have all the data in one place, on the media of your choice. Yank that media offsite and you won't even need to touch the TSM server to get the data back. You can also do data colocation, if you have the tapes and the drives to burn. It depends if you want to optimize backups or restores. TSM gives you that flexibility.
TSM is a tough nut to crack, but once you do, the power is amazing.
I think it would be utterly terrifying to meet a gay marine engineer. Hello, sailor!
Ah! So *that's* why the second book was entitled, "Rendezvous with Rama II: The Search for More Money."
I've done you the courtesy of making you a criminal, by downloading these instructions in the United States, thus establishing your business presence here. I may even follow them this evening... (mmm... peer to peer joint network... *drool*)
I've been a unix system administrator for about 10 years now. In fact, I've never had another professional job outside of system administration. And I owe *all* of it to O'Reilly. Their books launched my career, and made me what I am today. I've paid full cover price for my entire library several times over (new editions, you know) but they deserve a larger chunk of my salary than that. Congratulations, and keep up the good work!
iTunes is a dream to use. Creative PlayCenter 3 is standing on the pitchers mound in front of a sellout crowd at Yankee Stadium while naked with a microphone when you just forgot the words to "The Star Spangled Banner."
Well, 50kW and 100kW may be a bit of overkill, unless you want to be a big commercial player in a major market. That's a LOT of power! I worked for a 3000W station that covered most of Broward County, Florida (the Ft. Lauderdale area) and a... (er, how much was that again?) 1200W(?) station that covered a fair chunk of the Pittsburgh area. That being said, even at those levels, and even with that level of license, transmitters ain't cheap, antennae ain't cheap, and fees to ASCAP and BMI (the groups that license music for radio broadcast) ain't cheap. Depending on the type of educational institution you work for, the expertise to set it all up may be monitarily cheap, but you're going to have to have a few, really dedicated people who share your vision to set everything up.