if you bought OR sold the used game on eBay, is my point.
Used cars are one thing. Used books even. They take up space and you have to spend a lot of money up front. The seller also nets a SIGNIFICANT percentage of the market value for each of those items to nearly anyone they sell it to. But used video games? You rarely get more than 2/3ds the market price, and usually the only reason why a gamer would sell a game is to get money to buy more games, usually at the same establishment. The retailer is cashing in on the buyers' laziness. That's what's dumb about it.
If you can't exchange 3 good, old games for 2 new ones (and maybe five bucks in cash), you're getting ripped off. You can buy 2 new TEXTBOOKs for what you get back for 3 used ones. What makes games so high risk that they deserve a 100% markup for a used sale? That's fucking crazy!
I'm not against secondhand sales. I'm against uninformed customers.
Don't give the retailer any more money than they deserve. They are just a free rider on the secondhand game market.
Look, that's not what's being argued here. The problem is when a retailer sells the same game used that it is also selling retail. This is not about games that are no longer in release. The retailer knows that it can make a lot of money by placing title "XYZ" used for $45 next to "XYZ" retail for $50, while only giving the seller of the used title a pittance in exchange. That markup is pure profit for the retailer, which helps neither game producer or player.
Here's my test to know whether your money is going to the right place:
1) If a used game is being sold for more than 75% the retail price, STOP, buy the game retail. 2) Ask the clerk how much the store would give you if you SOLD them a copy of that game. If the difference between that price and the used price is more than 50% of the retail price, STOP! Buy the game retail. 3) If the game isn't available retail, then it doesn't matter, buy it used.
The tests in 1 and 2 make sure that the store isn't ripping you and the publisher off. You'd be better off looking through ebay listings for that kind of markup.
That sodomy is something that goes on in hell, according to these people, as so it's a kind of punishment. If you're in jail (and not wrongly convicted), they have no pity for you. If you're in jail and you're doing the raping, then you're going to hell, so they don't care either way.
This is lazy people's thinking/rationale (roughly). And, yes, most Americans are lazy.
Not only a plumber would care a lot about plumbing when buying a house, but anyone whose home has been flooded and their property damaged.
The "blame" lies somewhere in the middle here.
Home buyers who don't care about the quality of the plumbing are just asking to learn the hard way. People who want a website but want it quick (and without any maintenance system behind the scenes) are asking for trouble later when they can't keep it updated.
like fixing the page cache and swapping behaviors so that the page cache doesn't force sleeping processes out of memory. You know, little things like that.
Having to buy 2GB of RAM for a single machine is one thing. Having to buy 2GB for each of 64 machines is a different story.
There is no GUI running on any of the processing nodes. They boot up into a multiuser mode off the network, and stop short of starting up Aqua or anything like that. Then they do their thing.
You need external boxes running OSX and local applications that provide a GUI.
They manufacture very little. The cases are AOpen (IIRC). Intel does the MBs. Add-in cards are rebaged OEMs from various familiarly-named vendors. Dell just draws up some designs (which are actually pretty good, to their credit), then mass-assembles and tests them.
The printers, PDAs, and MP3 players are all complete rebadges.
But Dell does not roll any steel, nor stamp any aluminum, nor mold any plastic, or any of these traditionally regarded manufacturing processes. They are the kings of contracting out work. But they are damn good at it, and they are high volume enough to demand their own extra touches.
If the API for a certain kernel module becomes so complete that it amounts to message passing, then the kernel module might as well be outside the kernel. I understand the VFS implementation layer is pretty clean in this respect. (That is the well-behaved FS modules which don't reach into the kernel and do weird things)
Just having them in the same address space is a convienence to not have to actually handle details about passing messages.
Taking your CREDIT CARD out of your WALLET in your suit pocket to pay for the fucking gasoline. Maybe your hand would jostle a rare ivory pen in there at the same time. HORRORS!
And I've never been able to statically charge my cell phone (or any cell phone) rubbing it on fabric. It's not the right kind of material to really retain a static charge.
You'd better be prepared to extend the API with a URL handler...
There's no point adding http:// support without also adding ftp:// URL support. FTP supports range fetching as well.
So you have handlers for http:// URLs, ftp:// URLs, and file:// URLs.
Then you'd have to map all the old (compatibility) file-oriented APIs into the new function handlers for file://. (Or maybe the opposite, map file:// into the old API, leaving the old implementation intact)
if he removed a COMB from his pocket. Should they ban combs from gas stations?
Your point is taken, however. I don't think you can blame the cell phone, however. It was the act of getting out of the car and not GROUNDING himself that caused the problem. I always touch the gas pump or the vehicle when I get out at a gas station... not dead yet.
Sure, it's the same thing that's used to light propane grills. But 1) in reverse 2) encased in plastic 3) I can't think of any conceivable way that you could somehow deform the speaker enough to build up enough potential to create a spark even if the speaker already wasn't permanently attached to the cell phone's wiring.
You should consider basing it on DKMS. This is a Dell sponsored project to help manage the multiple kernel/source vs. binary/multiple driver versions mess that can result.
You can turn a DKMS-ized driver package into an RPM or SRPM too. You could then just shunt it off to RPM or YUM or APT to handle keeping track of them at a package level, using the distro's built in package system. (It'd still require DKMS to be installed for RPM to call the scripts that work the magic)
But having a central repository (or just running a service to point to where drivers would be, and offer to do that other stuff if possible) can not be a bad thing.
But there is resistance for the following reasons: 1) Encourages companies to release binary-only drivers, which hampers porting efforts and slows debugging (no better than windows) 2) Sometimes changes to the kernel are far reaching and make certain assumed behaviors incorrect (even if certain APIs didn't change). Memory leaks are the least of your worries here.
So then the only other option is to have all the drivers in source form, and built right at the time the kernel is built, all in one shot.
I think the hybrid approach NVidia and Dell are taking is the right idea. That infrastructure should be standardized (where the drivers are ALWAYS built during the install phase, or at least LINKED) And each driver would be versioned and attached to one kernel (perhaps call it a "profile"). You could use the same system across x86 and PPC and such, which would be ideal (esp for USB devices and stuff which should work everywhere without firmware, etc.)
on a KVM switch. And if you're doing anything with networked services, anything BESIDES windows is what you want. Not that I think Windows is inheritely less secure if properly set up, but that because they want you to pay for and license anything that can get you to... ICS, IIS, SQL, mail, file sharing with more than 10 people, etc. That's bullshit.
You may or may not know, but that site is being hosted on one of those (originally) free web hosting packages offered by 1and1.net. The server itself is actually a user-mode linux box hosting a ton of other sites using virtual hosts. If you attack that box, you will be breaking into a node in 1and1's web cluster. And undoing the damage is as simple as restarting the image (web data is hosted on a SAN)
They'll probably send the FBI after you. They're not idiots.
Let's not abuse what is otherwise a nice service (I have an account, it's great)
A lot of athiests and agnostics came around to their beliefs on their own (I know I did). And this is after having been fairly firm believers, impressed upon by family and friends. It's not a faddish thing... it's something you come to terms with and attempt to reconcile.
I don't really see outward bashing of the beliefs of Christianity at all in the media and in the workplace. Criticism is one thing (and it is rightly deserved), and I think all religions' foibles are fair game for comedy. It's not fashionable. In fact, recently, with the Bush administration, it's become "unpatriotic" and those who might have openly disagreed before keep quiet now.
Sorry your crisis of faith didn't shake you to the foundations.
People who take this athiestic position believe an additional assumption:
"If I have no independant evidence of something, it doesn't exist."
Of course, you could ask them to clarify that... because there are lots of things that you have no evidence for that you probably believe, like that there's 12 protons in a carbon atom.
Did you count?
So you read books and listen to people you trust. So the assumption changes:
"If I have no independant evidence of something, and someone claims it does exist but cannot demonstrate independant evidence, or they have not gained my trust, then they have unknown reasons to tell me this and I should reject their assertion."
God fits right in there, if it isn't already "obvious" to you because someone you trust told you so.
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if you bought OR sold the used game on eBay, is my point.
Used cars are one thing. Used books even. They take up space and you have to spend a lot of money up front. The seller also nets a SIGNIFICANT percentage of the market value for each of those items to nearly anyone they sell it to.
But used video games?
You rarely get more than 2/3ds the market price, and usually the only reason why a gamer would sell a game is to get money to buy more games, usually at the same establishment. The retailer is cashing in on the buyers' laziness. That's what's dumb about it.
If you can't exchange 3 good, old games for 2 new ones (and maybe five bucks in cash), you're getting ripped off. You can buy 2 new TEXTBOOKs for what you get back for 3 used ones. What makes games so high risk that they deserve a 100% markup for a used sale? That's fucking crazy!
I'm not against secondhand sales. I'm against uninformed customers.
Don't give the retailer any more money than they deserve. They are just a free rider on the secondhand game market.
Look, that's not what's being argued here. The problem is when a retailer sells the same game used that it is also selling retail.
This is not about games that are no longer in release.
The retailer knows that it can make a lot of money by placing title "XYZ" used for $45 next to "XYZ" retail for $50, while only giving the seller of the used title a pittance in exchange. That markup is pure profit for the retailer, which helps neither game producer or player.
Here's my test to know whether your money is going to the right place:
1) If a used game is being sold for more than 75% the retail price, STOP, buy the game retail.
2) Ask the clerk how much the store would give you if you SOLD them a copy of that game. If the difference between that price and the used price is more than 50% of the retail price, STOP! Buy the game retail.
3) If the game isn't available retail, then it doesn't matter, buy it used.
The tests in 1 and 2 make sure that the store isn't ripping you and the publisher off. You'd be better off looking through ebay listings for that kind of markup.
to someone who only cares about the way the site looks and isn't a strong enough coder to use PHP to help themselves out.
IE a graphic artist. Who has a windows or mac box already.
I mean, WTF? Dreamweaver is the last media creation application I want someone to spend time porting to non-OSX Unix.
That sodomy is something that goes on in hell, according to these people, as so it's a kind of punishment. If you're in jail (and not wrongly convicted), they have no pity for you. If you're in jail and you're doing the raping, then you're going to hell, so they don't care either way.
This is lazy people's thinking/rationale (roughly). And, yes, most Americans are lazy.
Not only a plumber would care a lot about plumbing when buying a house, but anyone whose home has been flooded and their property damaged.
The "blame" lies somewhere in the middle here.
Home buyers who don't care about the quality of the plumbing are just asking to learn the hard way.
People who want a website but want it quick (and without any maintenance system behind the scenes) are asking for trouble later when they can't keep it updated.
like fixing the page cache and swapping behaviors so that the page cache doesn't force sleeping processes out of memory.
You know, little things like that.
Having to buy 2GB of RAM for a single machine is one thing.
Having to buy 2GB for each of 64 machines is a different story.
There is no GUI running on any of the processing nodes. They boot up into a multiuser mode off the network, and stop short of starting up Aqua or anything like that. Then they do their thing.
You need external boxes running OSX and local applications that provide a GUI.
Attention shadfc!
The site you were looking for was NOT ask.slashdot.org, but DSL Reports (Cox HSI forums)
Thank you for your cooperation.
They manufacture very little. The cases are AOpen (IIRC). Intel does the MBs. Add-in cards are rebaged OEMs from various familiarly-named vendors. Dell just draws up some designs (which are actually pretty good, to their credit), then mass-assembles and tests them.
The printers, PDAs, and MP3 players are all complete rebadges.
But Dell does not roll any steel, nor stamp any aluminum, nor mold any plastic, or any of these traditionally regarded manufacturing processes. They are the kings of contracting out work. But they are damn good at it, and they are high volume enough to demand their own extra touches.
Braa, dis rabbit a go SKEWER them hares wif dis macca, not splitten 'dem! Sweet...
If the API for a certain kernel module becomes so complete that it amounts to message passing, then the kernel module might as well be outside the kernel. I understand the VFS implementation layer is pretty clean in this respect. (That is the well-behaved FS modules which don't reach into the kernel and do weird things)
Just having them in the same address space is a convienence to not have to actually handle details about passing messages.
Taking your CREDIT CARD out of your WALLET in your suit pocket to pay for the fucking gasoline. Maybe your hand would jostle a rare ivory pen in there at the same time. HORRORS!
And I've never been able to statically charge my cell phone (or any cell phone) rubbing it on fabric. It's not the right kind of material to really retain a static charge.
You'd better be prepared to extend the API with a URL handler...
There's no point adding http:// support without also adding ftp:// URL support. FTP supports range fetching as well.
So you have handlers for http:// URLs, ftp:// URLs, and file:// URLs.
Then you'd have to map all the old (compatibility) file-oriented APIs into the new function handlers for file://. (Or maybe the opposite, map file:// into the old API, leaving the old implementation intact)
where it demonstrates how you can generate a spark in a passive conductor with even as generous as a 10 watt signal at 1 centimeter.
That has nothing to do with the computer, but with the long unshielded audio cables that act as great antennas.
if he removed a COMB from his pocket.
Should they ban combs from gas stations?
Your point is taken, however. I don't think you can blame the cell phone, however. It was the act of getting out of the car and not GROUNDING himself that caused the problem. I always touch the gas pump or the vehicle when I get out at a gas station... not dead yet.
Sure, it's the same thing that's used to light propane grills. But 1) in reverse 2) encased in plastic 3) I can't think of any conceivable way that you could somehow deform the speaker enough to build up enough potential to create a spark even if the speaker already wasn't permanently attached to the cell phone's wiring.
You should consider basing it on DKMS. This is a Dell sponsored project to help manage the multiple kernel/source vs. binary/multiple driver versions mess that can result.
You can turn a DKMS-ized driver package into an RPM or SRPM too. You could then just shunt it off to RPM or YUM or APT to handle keeping track of them at a package level, using the distro's built in package system. (It'd still require DKMS to be installed for RPM to call the scripts that work the magic)
But having a central repository (or just running a service to point to where drivers would be, and offer to do that other stuff if possible) can not be a bad thing.
But there is resistance for the following reasons:
1) Encourages companies to release binary-only drivers, which hampers porting efforts and slows debugging (no better than windows)
2) Sometimes changes to the kernel are far reaching and make certain assumed behaviors incorrect (even if certain APIs didn't change). Memory leaks are the least of your worries here.
So then the only other option is to have all the drivers in source form, and built right at the time the kernel is built, all in one shot.
I think the hybrid approach NVidia and Dell are taking is the right idea. That infrastructure should be standardized (where the drivers are ALWAYS built during the install phase, or at least LINKED) And each driver would be versioned and attached to one kernel (perhaps call it a "profile"). You could use the same system across x86 and PPC and such, which would be ideal (esp for USB devices and stuff which should work everywhere without firmware, etc.)
on a KVM switch.
And if you're doing anything with networked services, anything BESIDES windows is what you want. Not that I think Windows is inheritely less secure if properly set up, but that because they want you to pay for and license anything that can get you to... ICS, IIS, SQL, mail, file sharing with more than 10 people, etc.
That's bullshit.
You may or may not know, but that site is being hosted on one of those (originally) free web hosting packages offered by 1and1.net. The server itself is actually a user-mode linux box hosting a ton of other sites using virtual hosts. If you attack that box, you will be breaking into a node in 1and1's web cluster. And undoing the damage is as simple as restarting the image (web data is hosted on a SAN)
They'll probably send the FBI after you. They're not idiots.
Let's not abuse what is otherwise a nice service (I have an account, it's great)
A lot of athiests and agnostics came around to their beliefs on their own (I know I did). And this is after having been fairly firm believers, impressed upon by family and friends.
It's not a faddish thing... it's something you come to terms with and attempt to reconcile.
I don't really see outward bashing of the beliefs of Christianity at all in the media and in the workplace. Criticism is one thing (and it is rightly deserved), and I think all religions' foibles are fair game for comedy. It's not fashionable. In fact, recently, with the Bush administration, it's become "unpatriotic" and those who might have openly disagreed before keep quiet now.
Sorry your crisis of faith didn't shake you to the foundations.
People who take this athiestic position believe an additional assumption:
"If I have no independant evidence of something, it doesn't exist."
Of course, you could ask them to clarify that... because there are lots of things that you have no evidence for that you probably believe, like that there's 12 protons in a carbon atom.
Did you count?
So you read books and listen to people you trust. So the assumption changes:
"If I have no independant evidence of something, and someone claims it does exist but cannot demonstrate independant evidence, or they have not gained my trust, then they have unknown reasons to tell me this and I should reject their assertion."
God fits right in there, if it isn't already "obvious" to you because someone you trust told you so.