In Minnesota we have "Whiskey Plates". You can easily tell (they start with a W, then another letter, then 4 digits and the plate itself is plain white which is different than the standard one) if somebody has had a DUI. Not everybody gets them, but they are very visible and once you know about them it's scary to see the number of them on the freeway.
You can, however, replace it with a different one and refill it with $20 for 20 lb CO2. Cost about $100 to get the equipment, but pays for itself after one full CO2 container. Simple and passes the wife acceptance test.
Since you get to post anecdotal evidence as "proof"...
My electrical is underground (so is my cable). In the last 18 months or so, our power has gone out 3 times. Every time it was due to the above ground wiring before it got to our neighborhood where it went underground. It's about 2 blocks away, but above ground. As soon as they fixed that (mostly due to trees falling during a storm), my power came back on without any intervention in my neighborhood.
That suggests to me that above ground lines are not necessarily more reliable.
Except that auto-vacuuming has been in place since 8.4 or so, which came out years ago. You don't have to vacuum by hand unless you want to (and most of the time you don't need to).
They switched pumps to liters in the 70s due to the oil crisis driving prices up. Most pumps at the time couldn't show more than $0.999 per gallon, so they switched to liters (or half gallons) to keep the pumps working.
(and the crappy stop-motion Terminator endoskeleton appears for about 30 seconds total).
It was made for $6.4 million, in 1984. At the time (I saw it when it came out) it was terrifying and very new and well done (comparatively). You're comparing a 30 year old movie to what could be done today. Watching it today is kind of cheesy (mono soundrack and all), but at the time it was great (and the story is still good today).
I do on my laptop because at work I use a docking station and things get wonky if I try to undock. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it's basically just easier to shutdown.
I'm going to repeat what the AC posted so others can see it. Evidently nobody else reads the other posts (shocking, I know) since this question has been asked about 10 times already, so one dupe on an answer should be OK.
I live in Minnesota. Those same 8 months you're talking about my asphalt singled roof is covered in snow. It doesn't matter what color it is.
Sorry you live in an area that has crappy theaters. Tons of theaters in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area has stadium style seating now. Lots of room in comfy seats. People can walk in your row right in front of you and you don't even have to move (I'm 6').
I've been using Harmony remotes (550s) with my 2 XMBC installs (one Mac, one Windows) for about 2 years and have yet to touch a keyboard.xml file. If you select a Windows Media Center setup for the Windows one it just works. The only thing that doesn't seem to work is "page up"/"page down" (which does work on the Mac, but I don't remember what I have that setup as).
Wow, I guess by some definition, yes, but what you're paying for is the subscription, which is different IMHO. WoW isn't WoW without the 2 M's in MMORPG. Those servers have to keep running somehow. I sure don't look at my WoW subscriptions as DRM, I look at it as a way to keep the games going. DRM is a way to prevent you from installing and running the game. I can take my WoW discs to anybody else and install them and they'll run just fine. Of course, unless you have a valid account, you can't do much, but it's not preventing anybody from running the game.
I'm not sure why you make the comment about Java. Java has nothing to do with the slowness of something like this. A Java based server application would have no trouble handling this. The fact that their hardware and network may not be able to handle the onslaught has little to do with the back end language if things are configured correctly.
Maybe if everybody didn't have 5 windows open (each probably trying multiple connections to separately load images and such) the servers could handle it. Maybe not, but it probably didn't help at all.
The key word here is "substitute". He's not good enough to keep a steady ride since he lost his ride in Champ Car. He's not bad, but like you said, 5.5mph is huge. He needs great pit stops, attrition at the top, and some luck. It is, however, good to see an underfunded privateer team make the field, even though Indy is nothing compared to the old days (they almost didn't have enough cars to fill the 33 car field regardless of qualifying this year). Tony George must go.
I play WoW and SL, and one big difference is that WoW is sharded. There may be 200,000 people online at once, but they are spread across X number of independent servers (called realms). Each realm has it's own copy of "WoW". SL, on the other hand, is one big world. Each "sim" runs on a server (not a 1:1 ratio though), but they all share the same backend inventory system and a bunch of other info to make crossing sim borders possible.
Don't get me wrong, SL needs to figure out the capacity issue, but it is a different system than WoW (and probably other MMOs).
I spent a significant amount of time in SL for a while. It was with what you described as a "social group". We had meetings, classes, etc. It was a good time and I enjoyed it a lot. Due to some infighting I'm not associated with them anymore, but the concept was great and it worked well.
The big downside to SL IMHO is the stupid limits on number of avs on a sim. 30 people max? Unacceptable. Our group would sometimes hit that and we had people not go to meetings because it would be full. During a meeting/class, people can get by without full frame rates, but you should be able to get more than 30 people onto a sim. The asset server, like you said, is in bad shape too.
The upside to SL over anything else is that LL is hands off. You can create anything you want. In fact, you have to (or somebody has to) because LL doesn't provide anything other than the tools to do so. There's also a group for every interest you could possibly think of. My wife has a few stores and creates content and makes enough to pay for her land tier, so it is possible to do it even on a small scale.
The fact that it's not sharded is good IMHO. It frustrates me to find friends who play WoW, but are on a different server than me. We'd like to play together, but neither wants to transfer.
You honestly cannot get a good feel for SL by just downloading it and spending 30 minutes in it. You have to take some time and find things that interest you. Trust me, it's there somewhere. Just remember that it's not a FPS where your computer has all the graphics pre-loaded, it has to stream everything to you. It's really pretty amazing how well it does work when you consider all of that.
Looking at PhD's and PhD students means nothing. They are no more "smart" in this area than anybody else. I know many Master's and above degree holders and they don't know anything about their cell phone or how it compares to anything else, they just want it to work. They are very smart in their field, but being "smart" doesn't mean that you're smart in everything.
Your own argument is probably why most of them (and probably a lot of people in the NE) have VZN: best coverage. That has nothing to do with being a PhD or even "smart", it's just a matter of either trial and error or asking others.
Hmm...I better tell my wife that the money she's making in SL isn't real (enough to make a profit over her shop rentals and land tier, all for something that she does for fun anyway). Or the other person I know who brings in 4 figures a month as a side project to his real job.
As somebody else said, SL isn't a game. While you're concerned with "VRML-like" models, many people are there to form communities and make friends. If you're concerned about looks, buy a better avatar, it's really not hard or that expensive.
Umm...that's a feature of IMAP and has nothing to do with TB itself. While I agree that maybe this should be on by default it's not really the fault of the client. Outlook can do this too.
It's not necessarily a personal thing to walk people out immediately, it's a liability thing. Depending on the job, you may have access to sensitive information (systems, etc.) that are "at risk" if you are no longer employeed there. It's in the company's best interest to just pay you and prevent your access to the systems. You are totally correct when you say "it's just business".
That's why it's really important to do your hard drive cleaning, office supply stealing, etc. BEFORE you quit:)
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In Minnesota we have "Whiskey Plates". You can easily tell (they start with a W, then another letter, then 4 digits and the plate itself is plain white which is different than the standard one) if somebody has had a DUI. Not everybody gets them, but they are very visible and once you know about them it's scary to see the number of them on the freeway.
You can, however, replace it with a different one and refill it with $20 for 20 lb CO2. Cost about $100 to get the equipment, but pays for itself after one full CO2 container. Simple and passes the wife acceptance test.
Since you get to post anecdotal evidence as "proof"...
My electrical is underground (so is my cable). In the last 18 months or so, our power has gone out 3 times. Every time it was due to the above ground wiring before it got to our neighborhood where it went underground. It's about 2 blocks away, but above ground. As soon as they fixed that (mostly due to trees falling during a storm), my power came back on without any intervention in my neighborhood.
That suggests to me that above ground lines are not necessarily more reliable.
Except that auto-vacuuming has been in place since 8.4 or so, which came out years ago. You don't have to vacuum by hand unless you want to (and most of the time you don't need to).
They switched pumps to liters in the 70s due to the oil crisis driving prices up. Most pumps at the time couldn't show more than $0.999 per gallon, so they switched to liters (or half gallons) to keep the pumps working.
But it's not even the best for *nix because Intellij Idea exists.
Poor Little Tink Tink
(and the crappy stop-motion Terminator endoskeleton appears for about 30 seconds total).
It was made for $6.4 million, in 1984. At the time (I saw it when it came out) it was terrifying and very new and well done (comparatively). You're comparing a 30 year old movie to what could be done today. Watching it today is kind of cheesy (mono soundrack and all), but at the time it was great (and the story is still good today).
I do on my laptop because at work I use a docking station and things get wonky if I try to undock. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it's basically just easier to shutdown.
I'm going to repeat what the AC posted so others can see it. Evidently nobody else reads the other posts (shocking, I know) since this question has been asked about 10 times already, so one dupe on an answer should be OK.
I live in Minnesota. Those same 8 months you're talking about my asphalt singled roof is covered in snow. It doesn't matter what color it is.
Really? Because almost everybody I know on G+ has basically abandoned Facebook.
Only thing really holding some back is an API so that things like Wordpress can automatically push updates to it.
Sorry you live in an area that has crappy theaters. Tons of theaters in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area has stadium style seating now. Lots of room in comfy seats. People can walk in your row right in front of you and you don't even have to move (I'm 6').
Tell me about it...
I've been using Harmony remotes (550s) with my 2 XMBC installs (one Mac, one Windows) for about 2 years and have yet to touch a keyboard.xml file. If you select a Windows Media Center setup for the Windows one it just works. The only thing that doesn't seem to work is "page up"/"page down" (which does work on the Mac, but I don't remember what I have that setup as).
Wow, I guess by some definition, yes, but what you're paying for is the subscription, which is different IMHO. WoW isn't WoW without the 2 M's in MMORPG. Those servers have to keep running somehow. I sure don't look at my WoW subscriptions as DRM, I look at it as a way to keep the games going. DRM is a way to prevent you from installing and running the game. I can take my WoW discs to anybody else and install them and they'll run just fine. Of course, unless you have a valid account, you can't do much, but it's not preventing anybody from running the game.
Opps, I forgot, this is Slashdot, facts are optional here.
I'm not sure why you make the comment about Java. Java has nothing to do with the slowness of something like this. A Java based server application would have no trouble handling this. The fact that their hardware and network may not be able to handle the onslaught has little to do with the back end language if things are configured correctly.
Maybe if everybody didn't have 5 windows open (each probably trying multiple connections to separately load images and such) the servers could handle it. Maybe not, but it probably didn't help at all.
The key word here is "substitute". He's not good enough to keep a steady ride since he lost his ride in Champ Car. He's not bad, but like you said, 5.5mph is huge. He needs great pit stops, attrition at the top, and some luck. It is, however, good to see an underfunded privateer team make the field, even though Indy is nothing compared to the old days (they almost didn't have enough cars to fill the 33 car field regardless of qualifying this year). Tony George must go.
I play WoW and SL, and one big difference is that WoW is sharded. There may be 200,000 people online at once, but they are spread across X number of independent servers (called realms). Each realm has it's own copy of "WoW". SL, on the other hand, is one big world. Each "sim" runs on a server (not a 1:1 ratio though), but they all share the same backend inventory system and a bunch of other info to make crossing sim borders possible.
Don't get me wrong, SL needs to figure out the capacity issue, but it is a different system than WoW (and probably other MMOs).
I spent a significant amount of time in SL for a while. It was with what you described as a "social group". We had meetings, classes, etc. It was a good time and I enjoyed it a lot. Due to some infighting I'm not associated with them anymore, but the concept was great and it worked well.
The big downside to SL IMHO is the stupid limits on number of avs on a sim. 30 people max? Unacceptable. Our group would sometimes hit that and we had people not go to meetings because it would be full. During a meeting/class, people can get by without full frame rates, but you should be able to get more than 30 people onto a sim. The asset server, like you said, is in bad shape too.
The upside to SL over anything else is that LL is hands off. You can create anything you want. In fact, you have to (or somebody has to) because LL doesn't provide anything other than the tools to do so. There's also a group for every interest you could possibly think of. My wife has a few stores and creates content and makes enough to pay for her land tier, so it is possible to do it even on a small scale.
The fact that it's not sharded is good IMHO. It frustrates me to find friends who play WoW, but are on a different server than me. We'd like to play together, but neither wants to transfer.
You honestly cannot get a good feel for SL by just downloading it and spending 30 minutes in it. You have to take some time and find things that interest you. Trust me, it's there somewhere. Just remember that it's not a FPS where your computer has all the graphics pre-loaded, it has to stream everything to you. It's really pretty amazing how well it does work when you consider all of that.
Looking at PhD's and PhD students means nothing. They are no more "smart" in this area than anybody else. I know many Master's and above degree holders and they don't know anything about their cell phone or how it compares to anything else, they just want it to work. They are very smart in their field, but being "smart" doesn't mean that you're smart in everything.
Your own argument is probably why most of them (and probably a lot of people in the NE) have VZN: best coverage. That has nothing to do with being a PhD or even "smart", it's just a matter of either trial and error or asking others.
There are patches for Solaris 8 already. Anybody can get them with registration at Sun.
Hmm...I better tell my wife that the money she's making in SL isn't real (enough to make a profit over her shop rentals and land tier, all for something that she does for fun anyway). Or the other person I know who brings in 4 figures a month as a side project to his real job.
As somebody else said, SL isn't a game. While you're concerned with "VRML-like" models, many people are there to form communities and make friends. If you're concerned about looks, buy a better avatar, it's really not hard or that expensive.
Umm...that's a feature of IMAP and has nothing to do with TB itself. While I agree that maybe this should be on by default it's not really the fault of the client. Outlook can do this too.
It's not necessarily a personal thing to walk people out immediately, it's a liability thing. Depending on the job, you may have access to sensitive information (systems, etc.) that are "at risk" if you are no longer employeed there. It's in the company's best interest to just pay you and prevent your access to the systems. You are totally correct when you say "it's just business".
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That's why it's really important to do your hard drive cleaning, office supply stealing, etc. BEFORE you quit