Well you'll be dead in 2098, sure but technological advances such as they are we could have an exact date/time/place in 20 or 30. Maybe we'll start seeing government policy written with the impending impact as the rationalization. Even if you don't survive that long it could very well have an effect on your life.
I worked in an IT department for a major telco around 2006 and picked up a few things. For starters, and I haven't seen this mentioned yet, the telco I worked for as well as all the others in the industry are all unionized. That means the unions don't want anything too radical to happen to competition or whatever else that could affect their pensions/retirements/existing contracts. So the major corporation makes donations to one party whilst the unions make donations to the other. I don't think either party is really going to mess with the status quo.
In support of this was a TV/radio spot that was running around 2008 I believe in my area (Northern California). There was some kind of reform bill coming up that would have done something to further open broadband to competition. So this ad was running that absolutely no sense obviously aimed at union members of the various companies (all I remember of the ad was a lady mentioning the bill and saying something like "it's supposed bring...*choice* to Californians"...then the rest of it was very much against the bill but less than specific as to why said "choice" is bad).
Anyway my thesis remains the unions of the comcasts/verizons/(insert large telco here) of the world have as much to do with this as anything else I think.
I guess it's odd on my part but I saw that headline about a funeral at the launch and assumed it must be for windows mobile 6.5 and earlier which 7 is effectively retiring. I don't know that 7 is supposed to be backwards compatible, probably not if I had to guess. And I thought it odd MS would formalize the death of their product. But it's a "funeral" for the iPhone. That makes slightly more sense. I guess.
If you happen to have the right generation of PSP with the right firmware version PSPs can be "jail broken" for lack of better term through software. Eventually the firmware made software hacks impossible. At least that is the last thing I read about six months ago when I last checked. And I don't think anyone has even bothered to mod the PSPGo.
I thought "google goggles" was kind of like a tri-corder. Just take a pic of a business or product or whatever and it searches google for it. Or attempts to. Well in concept if not literally what the tri-corder did.
Not as creative as the SPARCplug, but similarly there's the Artigo mini-computer. It runs on a VIA x86 (or x64) processor and originally at least it was made to fit in a 5 1/4" bay. Integrating it with the main OS of the desktop would probably take more effort than the sparc since it looks like the sparc has that in mind.
Okay so maybe I'm missing something obvious here but I don't actually see a download link for the PSP port any where on the site. Is it one of those compile the source yourself sorts of things? I don't see anybody else asking so I must be missing something obvious...?
I don't know if this is consistent with the conversation but I always preferred Faith. The one place the acting ability (or lack there of) of that actress really worked. Also, she's hot.
This seems like the iPhone bubble: it's where a lot of people are swarming to stand in line to be and that high demand gives Apple a lot of power. Like most bubbles I assume it will burst, leaving Apple with overly restrictive policies developers have abandoned. I can't blame them for cashing in during the bubble though.
I don't think anyone has yet mentioned that games from Bethesda and Bioware have seem to have little DRM outside of a disc check. Games like Oblivion, FO3 and Dragon Age all seem to lack this crippling DRM. And yet they're still in business happily producing games. Maybe it's not enough to simply not buy games that have crippling DRM. Maybe we should also go out of our way to also buy games that are so lacking in DRM even if it would be trivial to get it for free. I think sending these non-DRM (relatively) developers my $50 or $60 is worth it just to support the idea.
What do you mean exactly about the stability? I have been using the RTM of 7 since August (and the RC for more than a month before that) and have never had it freeze or crash even once in that time. Perhaps you could elaborate on the stability issues? Are you sure it wasn't the RAM or a bad sector on the HDD? Are you just referring to software crashes? That wouldn't really be the fault of the OS...
The O!Play is going for ~$100US right now (cheaper if you shop around. It has linux on it with full root access (telnet deamon, root w/no password). It has a MIPS CPU and there's already a large number of ipkgs that will install on it. Attach a hard drive of your choice and you can install packages share files/stream content all you want. Not sure you'd be able to install a full X on it. And I'm not sure about the optical drive although being linux I assume ISOs can be mounted anyway. And it has convenient HDMI output you could hook it to a TV if you needed to (for non-video stream I'm not sure why you would need to).
So if Star Wars could work as a Tolkien-style fantasy maybe the show Damages could be a sci-fi.
I don't know why, it just always struck me as a very sci-fi like show despite the total and complete lack of any actual science fiction elements. Anybody know what I mean? (Assuming anyone has even heard of Damages...)
I have a one day 1099 job coming up as well as some web sites I can make a little money on I'm trying to start on so I thought I would like this up for California.
In the first Age of Empire I would set the the number of AI opponents to maximum and the map size to the smallest (I think there was some kind of battle/skimish mode, it's been a couple years). The games didn't last long and I never won but it was certainly hectic having everybody firing at everyone else all at once!
In Morrowind I remember having to fight to become the leader of the imperial army: I used a pair of boots enchanted with "+1 levitate constant effect" to float above the opponent and continously fire arrows at him until he died. I don't know if that counts but I thought it was creative and fun.
In Bioshock, which I'm only just now finally playing, I was on a section which the game told me had two little sisters with accompanying big daddies. I hypnotized one and when I found the second attacked it. Then I got to watch a brawl between two big daddies (which was fun) and the winner had that much lesser life so he was easy to kill. Now if only I could find the little sisters...
In farcry, what with AI friendly fire, I used enemy rockets to kill other enemies for me. Which was good because I have no idea how else I would have killed the giants with rocket launchers for arms.
I'm obviously not even close to as creative as you all!
By coincidence I've just spent more hours than I'd care to admit adding mods to Oblivion. Hopefully I won't get sick of that before I actually PLAY Oblivion.
There are so many mods for oblivion to switch everything up, change the leveling system, the UI, the monsters, the mounts (like a flying dragon), the magic system, add lots of weapons/armor/accessories/towns/islands and everything else I don't think a console player would even recognize it. It does take some patience to set it all up (lets just say OBMM is your friend). So many dependencies and compatibility issues to keep track of it's like "RPM Hell" from linux (back when that was an issue). And Wrye Bash? Don't get me started...
Anyway I hope someone figures out some way to adapt a version of this game to Oblivion. That would be cool.
The Windows-based solution, since you asked (possibly rhetorically), is a Windows Home Server. I haven't studied how normal Server 2003 functionality work yet so I don't know the terminology but it what I can only describe as a software-based "RAID" for lack of a better term. Although you can use as many or as few drives as you like of any capacity. Through the special interface (intended to be accessed only from clients via web browser) shares can be set up along with a "folder duplication" flag which will make the data available on more than one physical drive. All drives/available space you designate is put into one big storage pool as one drive letter (D: in my case). Any physical drive can be removed through the interface at any time: the software will copy everything to the other drives if there's space. You then can add a different drive and have it merged into the storage pool.
For backups some client software is installed, with the normal time increments available. When a restore is necessary there is a bootable CD available which will connect to the server and restore the whichever backup you point it to. It's very, very slick. It'd be incredibly smooth for a several releases old product never mind a first release product. It's not perfect of course. It's almost all plug-it-in-and-go but there can be hiccups (like the rescue disk not recognizing your NIC for instance. Doh.) And for the record the HP units you can buy adds Mac client support.
The poster didn't say anything about scripting but I have noticed that the pro version of teracopy has a original/destination CRC value listed next to each file copied. I don't actually have the pro version and you'd have to get creative with script host (or whatever) to script it but this could very well fullfill your requirements.
Also, XCOPY has a "verify" flag...better than nothing I suppose...
I must be the only one that thinks PXE booting should be a standard feature on all these kinds of little devices. Why use a big PC for such a task if it's so easy to use such a tiny device like this? Seems like it would be gaining popularity with all the CD-less netbooks floating around.
Isn't this generally solved with the age old rule of "gaining agreement with the customer" and "asking probing questions"?
I remember once I was trying to figure out a customer's issue with email over the phone. I had to ask her to describe the icon she used to check her email when the computer first started. Eventually I learned she was actually using the web mail, not an actual desktop client. The other support people hadn't figured that part out for some reason. Since you can't get the user to come up to your level you have to go down to theirs. That means finding out not only what the issue is but *WHAT* exactly they are having an issue with.
Course having to follow up on tickets "written" but people who apparently don't know much more than the actual users makes it so much more fun. Sometimes I don't know if I should be mad at them or feel sorry for them. Please don't tell me the help desk was so over loaded that instead of closing the ticket by telling the user "turn off the num lock" the ticket was transferred to local support. I'm just not buying it. Yes that was an actual ticket in my queue. "The letter "K" produces the number "2". From the help desk, not a user. Not that I'm bitter. I don't yet have a ponytail, a beard and a love of sarcasm but I'm getting there...
to encourage the OP, irregardless of the decision, to write down all the associated feelings, passions, hesitations etc. Because, you know, he could be in megacorp's position 30 years from now buying out some other startup run by a bunch of 20-somethings.
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Well you'll be dead in 2098, sure but technological advances such as they are we could have an exact date/time/place in 20 or 30. Maybe we'll start seeing government policy written with the impending impact as the rationalization. Even if you don't survive that long it could very well have an effect on your life.
Actually it's a switch built in to routers, firewalls, DSL modems... Switches and hubs are not the same. Don't get them mixed up!
I worked in an IT department for a major telco around 2006 and picked up a few things. For starters, and I haven't seen this mentioned yet, the telco I worked for as well as all the others in the industry are all unionized. That means the unions don't want anything too radical to happen to competition or whatever else that could affect their pensions/retirements/existing contracts. So the major corporation makes donations to one party whilst the unions make donations to the other. I don't think either party is really going to mess with the status quo.
In support of this was a TV/radio spot that was running around 2008 I believe in my area (Northern California). There was some kind of reform bill coming up that would have done something to further open broadband to competition. So this ad was running that absolutely no sense obviously aimed at union members of the various companies (all I remember of the ad was a lady mentioning the bill and saying something like "it's supposed bring...*choice* to Californians" ...then the rest of it was very much against the bill but less than specific as to why said "choice" is bad).
Anyway my thesis remains the unions of the comcasts/verizons/(insert large telco here) of the world have as much to do with this as anything else I think.
I guess it's odd on my part but I saw that headline about a funeral at the launch and assumed it must be for windows mobile 6.5 and earlier which 7 is effectively retiring. I don't know that 7 is supposed to be backwards compatible, probably not if I had to guess. And I thought it odd MS would formalize the death of their product. But it's a "funeral" for the iPhone. That makes slightly more sense. I guess.
If you happen to have the right generation of PSP with the right firmware version PSPs can be "jail broken" for lack of better term through software. Eventually the firmware made software hacks impossible. At least that is the last thing I read about six months ago when I last checked. And I don't think anyone has even bothered to mod the PSPGo.
I thought "google goggles" was kind of like a tri-corder. Just take a pic of a business or product or whatever and it searches google for it. Or attempts to. Well in concept if not literally what the tri-corder did.
Here's the artigo page: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/artigo/
Okay so maybe I'm missing something obvious here but I don't actually see a download link for the PSP port any where on the site. Is it one of those compile the source yourself sorts of things? I don't see anybody else asking so I must be missing something obvious...?
I don't know if this is consistent with the conversation but I always preferred Faith. The one place the acting ability (or lack there of) of that actress really worked. Also, she's hot.
This seems like the iPhone bubble: it's where a lot of people are swarming to stand in line to be and that high demand gives Apple a lot of power. Like most bubbles I assume it will burst, leaving Apple with overly restrictive policies developers have abandoned. I can't blame them for cashing in during the bubble though.
I get it.
I don't think anyone has yet mentioned that games from Bethesda and Bioware have seem to have little DRM outside of a disc check. Games like Oblivion, FO3 and Dragon Age all seem to lack this crippling DRM. And yet they're still in business happily producing games. Maybe it's not enough to simply not buy games that have crippling DRM. Maybe we should also go out of our way to also buy games that are so lacking in DRM even if it would be trivial to get it for free. I think sending these non-DRM (relatively) developers my $50 or $60 is worth it just to support the idea.
The proper thing to do is to remove this story from the front page to deny that traffic to him.
I have permission to make lots of definitive posts without reading TFA then...?
What do you mean exactly about the stability? I have been using the RTM of 7 since August (and the RC for more than a month before that) and have never had it freeze or crash even once in that time. Perhaps you could elaborate on the stability issues? Are you sure it wasn't the RAM or a bad sector on the HDD? Are you just referring to software crashes? That wouldn't really be the fault of the OS...
The O!Play is going for ~$100US right now (cheaper if you shop around. It has linux on it with full root access (telnet deamon, root w/no password). It has a MIPS CPU and there's already a large number of ipkgs that will install on it. Attach a hard drive of your choice and you can install packages share files/stream content all you want. Not sure you'd be able to install a full X on it. And I'm not sure about the optical drive although being linux I assume ISOs can be mounted anyway. And it has convenient HDMI output you could hook it to a TV if you needed to (for non-video stream I'm not sure why you would need to).
I don't know why, it just always struck me as a very sci-fi like show despite the total and complete lack of any actual science fiction elements. Anybody know what I mean? (Assuming anyone has even heard of Damages...)
Some how I found a site, not quite what I was looking for, that mentions submitting filings on IBM 3480 or 3490 tape cartridge. Perfect!
I think I'd like to do this just to see the look on the face of the state employee that has to take such a cartridge...
Let it never be said California is some how behind the times technologically!
Ok Perhaps I'm missing something obvious...
In Morrowind I remember having to fight to become the leader of the imperial army: I used a pair of boots enchanted with "+1 levitate constant effect" to float above the opponent and continously fire arrows at him until he died. I don't know if that counts but I thought it was creative and fun.
In Bioshock, which I'm only just now finally playing, I was on a section which the game told me had two little sisters with accompanying big daddies. I hypnotized one and when I found the second attacked it. Then I got to watch a brawl between two big daddies (which was fun) and the winner had that much lesser life so he was easy to kill. Now if only I could find the little sisters...
In farcry, what with AI friendly fire, I used enemy rockets to kill other enemies for me. Which was good because I have no idea how else I would have killed the giants with rocket launchers for arms.
I'm obviously not even close to as creative as you all!
By coincidence I've just spent more hours than I'd care to admit adding mods to Oblivion. Hopefully I won't get sick of that before I actually PLAY Oblivion.
There are so many mods for oblivion to switch everything up, change the leveling system, the UI, the monsters, the mounts (like a flying dragon), the magic system, add lots of weapons/armor/accessories/towns/islands and everything else I don't think a console player would even recognize it. It does take some patience to set it all up (lets just say OBMM is your friend). So many dependencies and compatibility issues to keep track of it's like "RPM Hell" from linux (back when that was an issue). And Wrye Bash? Don't get me started...
Anyway I hope someone figures out some way to adapt a version of this game to Oblivion. That would be cool.
The Windows-based solution, since you asked (possibly rhetorically), is a Windows Home Server. I haven't studied how normal Server 2003 functionality work yet so I don't know the terminology but it what I can only describe as a software-based "RAID" for lack of a better term. Although you can use as many or as few drives as you like of any capacity. Through the special interface (intended to be accessed only from clients via web browser) shares can be set up along with a "folder duplication" flag which will make the data available on more than one physical drive. All drives/available space you designate is put into one big storage pool as one drive letter (D: in my case). Any physical drive can be removed through the interface at any time: the software will copy everything to the other drives if there's space. You then can add a different drive and have it merged into the storage pool.
For backups some client software is installed, with the normal time increments available. When a restore is necessary there is a bootable CD available which will connect to the server and restore the whichever backup you point it to. It's very, very slick. It'd be incredibly smooth for a several releases old product never mind a first release product. It's not perfect of course. It's almost all plug-it-in-and-go but there can be hiccups (like the rescue disk not recognizing your NIC for instance. Doh.) And for the record the HP units you can buy adds Mac client support.
The poster didn't say anything about scripting but I have noticed that the pro version of teracopy has a original/destination CRC value listed next to each file copied. I don't actually have the pro version and you'd have to get creative with script host (or whatever) to script it but this could very well fullfill your requirements.
Also, XCOPY has a "verify" flag...better than nothing I suppose...
I must be the only one that thinks PXE booting should be a standard feature on all these kinds of little devices. Why use a big PC for such a task if it's so easy to use such a tiny device like this? Seems like it would be gaining popularity with all the CD-less netbooks floating around.
I don't know if this is related to the story but I was wondering if anyone had read the novel adaption and now it compares to the movie?
Probe-Analyze-Isolate-Resolve...
Isn't this generally solved with the age old rule of "gaining agreement with the customer" and "asking probing questions"?
I remember once I was trying to figure out a customer's issue with email over the phone. I had to ask her to describe the icon she used to check her email when the computer first started. Eventually I learned she was actually using the web mail, not an actual desktop client. The other support people hadn't figured that part out for some reason. Since you can't get the user to come up to your level you have to go down to theirs. That means finding out not only what the issue is but *WHAT* exactly they are having an issue with.
Course having to follow up on tickets "written" but people who apparently don't know much more than the actual users makes it so much more fun. Sometimes I don't know if I should be mad at them or feel sorry for them. Please don't tell me the help desk was so over loaded that instead of closing the ticket by telling the user "turn off the num lock" the ticket was transferred to local support. I'm just not buying it. Yes that was an actual ticket in my queue. "The letter "K" produces the number "2". From the help desk, not a user. Not that I'm bitter. I don't yet have a ponytail, a beard and a love of sarcasm but I'm getting there...
to encourage the OP, irregardless of the decision, to write down all the associated feelings, passions, hesitations etc. Because, you know, he could be in megacorp's position 30 years from now buying out some other startup run by a bunch of 20-somethings.