Raid 0/1 can be fairly cheap. You can get a IDE raid controller for $20 from Frys, so you could build a hardware RAID for $20 plus the cost of a second drive.
Oh please. When was the last time you actually saw this happen outside of some TV show or movie? It's the kind of thing that is used as a scare tactic by the gun control crowd but virtually never happens in reality. I'm sure that somewhere it has happened but it's not something that happens every day or week, or month. Anti gunners said blood would run in the street when Florida passed laws allowing people to carry guns, it didn't happen but violent crime went down. They said the same thing before Minnesota recently passed a similar law, and again it didn't happen.
Sure, in a biathlon (or insert your favorite sporting event), you're shooting paper targets -- but why not use rubber/nonlethal bullets? (which goes back to my tongue-in-cheek point before...but a little more seriously) -- if guns are such great sporting tools, why not regulate the bullets? Why not make sporting bullets nonlethal? Will it decrease their sporting effectiveness?
Yes it will decrease their sporting effectiveness because a rubber bullet won't be as accurate, especially at long ranges as a lead alloy bullet. It won't withstand the pressures required for high velocity required for longer ranges, and won't have the momentum to carry the distance. You could argue that the ranges should be decreased then, but that would also reduce the challenge which is the point of competition.
Attempts have been made to regulate bullets, some cities (usually in California) try to pass extra taxs on bullets and ban the sale of certain bullet types. It does nothing positive, but they still do it.
You're partially right. Guns are a tool - period. They can be used to kill and/or maim things but so can anything else that you can pick up or drive as you pointed out. Many guns are designed without any regard for how well they might be used to kill or maim. Have you seen a competition pistol or rifle? Hardly designed with killing people in mind.
You're falling victem to the gun control lobby by believing that guns are all designed with one purpose in mind.
Guns are designed to fire a bullet, no more, no less. You may be to narrow minded or have watched to much TV to see any use beyond killing people but real life is not "Lethal Weapon" or "The Matrix".
If the only way you'd seen a baseball bat used was smashing peoples skulls open would you envison people plaing a game with it?
More anti gun bullshit. Guns are not designed to kill. People use guns to kill, just like they use knives, bats, cars, bricks and a million other things to kill. Gun manufacturers do not profit from death any more than Gerber does from selling knives.
Stopping all speeding would sound pretty good to them.
Maybe to some but not to the people in charge. If they were able to stop all speeding their budgets would be massively reduced from the lack of income generated by speeding tickets and they'd find some other way to harrass people to generate income. Speeding tickets are big money to most police agencies.
http://money.cnn.com/2002/05/22/news/q_speed_cost/ Indeed, for many towns, traffic tickets provide a substantial source of their revenue. The town of Waldo, Fla., for example, home of a notorious speeding trap on Route 301 between Tampa and Jacksonville, gets nearly 33.5 percent of its income from traffic tickets, according to Shir Lee Cox, a division manager for the American Automobile Association in Miami. The town of Lawtey, Fla., earns nearly 68.2 percent through traffic fines.
Yet there are plenty of books out there that teaches one how to use MacOS and Windows. So by that logic, all desktop OSes are difficult to use.
They are all difficult to use. Have you ever participated in any usability studies with people who have no computer experience? There is nothing intuititive about using a computer. There are things that seem intutitive after years of using a computer, but to someone with no background they're all overly difficult to use.
Cable and DSL providers should start renting modems with firewalls built in, or rent both the modem and a hardware router/firewall as a package. Most of them already rent the customer the modem and install it for them, it wouldn't be that much harder to include a router in the package.
I agree, it's definately good news. Our tax dollars can be much better spent on other things than buying a Cray when the same level of performance can be had for much less by building a cluster.
Google bought Dejanews, they didn't innovate the news search.
Caching a copy of the web was a good idea, I don't know how many times I've viewed a cached version of a page because the owner took down the original.
Not at all, but your comment makes me wonder if you understand what communism is.
Benchmarks don't really mean all that much, they just another kind of statistic and you know the old saying about statistics "lies, damn lies and statistics".
Right. It can't ever come out. It's been so hyped, and so delayed, that the expectation will be too high if it ever does come out. It will not only have to be the best game anyone has ever seen, it will have to be better than anything even hinted at from other companies, or it will disappoint, and flop massively.
Just like what happened to Daikatana. Did they (Ion Storm, right?) ever come out with anything else?
The features they have planned for Longhorn are merely an huge extension of that bet. A well-executed enterprise-wide search/filesystem integration would indeed be a useful addition, but will hardly be a must-have in 2008, if the trend towards somewhat-on-the-corpnet machines like laptops and wireless PDA's persists.
Not only that but it seems Google is going to be getting in on desktop searchs. It won't be much of a stretch from there to enterprise wide filesystem searchs. Today comparing Googles search results with Microsofts search results I'd bet on Googles enterprise search trouncing Microsofts even if it is embedded in the OS.
3 or 4 years ago when I worked on the IE team there were nearly 400 people total on the team. That included devs, testers and program managers and various other levels of management. I don't remember how many where actually developers but 100+ wouldn't surprise me.
Didn't MS patch windows to intentionally break other browers at one point in time, maybe in the 3.1 days?
MS didn't have a browser in the days when 3.1 was popular. They didn't come out with one until Win95 was released, then developed a Win16 browser but it didn't break Netscape or Mosaic.
Try to get your city to put speed bumps on your street, if it's residential they may well do it. People won't cruise streets with speed bumps, no one likes them, and they'll go drive up and down someone elses block.
It's called term limits, people have been trying to get them passed in the US for years without success. The politicans certainly aren't passing laws to put them out of a cushy high paid job.
1: it is very very slow, unless they switch to a massive cluster of *nix boxes like google they have no chance of being as quick (or even in the same league)
I think it's deliberate. Try searching for "microsoft" it returns who knows how many hits (hard to tell since they don't tell you like Google) several pages worth, in under 1 second. Search for anything else and it's slow as hell.
I know I'm feeding a troll here... but, um, last time I checked it was still legal to carry guns in America, even assault weapons if you don't conceal them. The hippy leftist scum tried to disarm you and failed.
That depends on which part of America you happen to be in. It is not legal to carry guns in every part of the country, or even buy them in some parts.
Bullets can't stop missiles, that's correct. You're dead wrong that civilians with small arms can't stop a large military though. Did you happen to see how well the people in Afganistan did against the Soviets for so many years? Why because the people didn't want them (the Soviets) there.
How can a post that's blatently incorrect be "Insightful"?
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Raid 0/1 can be fairly cheap. You can get a IDE raid controller for $20 from Frys, so you could build a hardware RAID for $20 plus the cost of a second drive.
Oh please. When was the last time you actually saw this happen outside of some TV show or movie? It's the kind of thing that is used as a scare tactic by the gun control crowd but virtually never happens in reality. I'm sure that somewhere it has happened but it's not something that happens every day or week, or month. Anti gunners said blood would run in the street when Florida passed laws allowing people to carry guns, it didn't happen but violent crime went down. They said the same thing before Minnesota recently passed a similar law, and again it didn't happen.
Yes it will decrease their sporting effectiveness because a rubber bullet won't be as accurate, especially at long ranges as a lead alloy bullet. It won't withstand the pressures required for high velocity required for longer ranges, and won't have the momentum to carry the distance. You could argue that the ranges should be decreased then, but that would also reduce the challenge which is the point of competition.
Attempts have been made to regulate bullets, some cities (usually in California) try to pass extra taxs on bullets and ban the sale of certain bullet types. It does nothing positive, but they still do it.
You're falling victem to the gun control lobby by believing that guns are all designed with one purpose in mind.
If the only way you'd seen a baseball bat used was smashing peoples skulls open would you envison people plaing a game with it?
You're an idiot.
How many Nascar winners are from Europe again? None?
Maybe to some but not to the people in charge. If they were able to stop all speeding their budgets would be massively reduced from the lack of income generated by speeding tickets and they'd find some other way to harrass people to generate income. Speeding tickets are big money to most police agencies.
They are all difficult to use. Have you ever participated in any usability studies with people who have no computer experience? There is nothing intuititive about using a computer. There are things that seem intutitive after years of using a computer, but to someone with no background they're all overly difficult to use.
Cable and DSL providers should start renting modems with firewalls built in, or rent both the modem and a hardware router/firewall as a package. Most of them already rent the customer the modem and install it for them, it wouldn't be that much harder to include a router in the package.
Except Kerry wouldn't actually be hunting, and would fake shooting the 12-gauge while causing a self inflicted wound to brag about later.
I agree, it's definately good news. Our tax dollars can be much better spent on other things than buying a Cray when the same level of performance can be had for much less by building a cluster.
Google bought Dejanews, they didn't innovate the news search.
Caching a copy of the web was a good idea, I don't know how many times I've viewed a cached version of a page because the owner took down the original.
Not at all, but your comment makes me wonder if you understand what communism is.
Benchmarks don't really mean all that much, they just another kind of statistic and you know the old saying about statistics "lies, damn lies and statistics".
Just like what happened to Daikatana. Did they (Ion Storm, right?) ever come out with anything else?
Not only that but it seems Google is going to be getting in on desktop searchs. It won't be much of a stretch from there to enterprise wide filesystem searchs. Today comparing Googles search results with Microsofts search results I'd bet on Googles enterprise search trouncing Microsofts even if it is embedded in the OS.
3 or 4 years ago when I worked on the IE team there were nearly 400 people total on the team. That included devs, testers and program managers and various other levels of management. I don't remember how many where actually developers but 100+ wouldn't surprise me.
MS didn't have a browser in the days when 3.1 was popular. They didn't come out with one until Win95 was released, then developed a Win16 browser but it didn't break Netscape or Mosaic.
Try to get your city to put speed bumps on your street, if it's residential they may well do it. People won't cruise streets with speed bumps, no one likes them, and they'll go drive up and down someone elses block.
It's called term limits, people have been trying to get them passed in the US for years without success. The politicans certainly aren't passing laws to put them out of a cushy high paid job.
I think it's deliberate. Try searching for "microsoft" it returns who knows how many hits (hard to tell since they don't tell you like Google) several pages worth, in under 1 second. Search for anything else and it's slow as hell.
Coincidence?
You're obviously a moron, maybe you should go back to using a pen and paper and leave computers to those who have a fucking clue.
Wouldn't that leave the private key vulnerable to anyone who either had access to the server or could somehow gain access?
Did you script the changes you made so the next time, because there's always a next time especially with Windows, you don't have to do it all by hand?
A simle WSH script to automate those registry changes might save you a bunch of time and headachs next time around.
That depends on which part of America you happen to be in. It is not legal to carry guns in every part of the country, or even buy them in some parts. Bullets can't stop missiles, that's correct. You're dead wrong that civilians with small arms can't stop a large military though. Did you happen to see how well the people in Afganistan did against the Soviets for so many years? Why because the people didn't want them (the Soviets) there. How can a post that's blatently incorrect be "Insightful"?