Exactly what I was thinking.. Wasn't it our tax dollars funding research that led to the modern Internet? Doesn't that kinda mean... I dunno, that it's ours?
I just did a rollout on about 400 XP Pro (SP2) machines and only about 2% of them had that Office issue. All it took was pointing that dialogue box to our network installation source and viola! No more problems. It's actually gone surprisingly smooth given the very random assortment of hardware we have.
We have remote offices too and we VNC or RDC over the WAN. It's slowish, but I think having the Office installation on a network share would alleviate many of the submitters woes. It's helped us big time...
Ok, I'll bite. How exactly does one sieze source code that's publicly available with thousands upon thousands of untraceable copies? If you can figure out how to eradicate the world of all linux source code in the first place, you have a very promising career ahead of you. As it stands now, you're just a blithering idiot.
No no no, see. It's just a typo. Slashdot is missing a comma. It *should* read, "Your rights, Online" meaning that it's talking about your rights - it just happens to be talking online. See? Now take your head out of your ass, read the stories you want to read about, and ignore the rest instead of having a hissy fit. While you're at it, stop telling Slashdot how to run their website.
The problem with that is the same as the original study - you can make it sound any way you want just by changing a few key assumptions up front. All your study would do is make some research firm some dough.
I wouldn't go that far. Simpsons has evolved, but I wouldn't say it's stopped being funny. There's a reason it's still around. It's because people watch it and are entertained by it. Matt Groening has had the foresight to keep the Simpsons a "living" thing by changing it slightly with the times. I think a movie has big potential as long as they don't let someone else take the reigns.
I tried the illusion they referenced at http://www.uq.edu.au/nuq/jack/bonneh.html and my "self reported" results were on par with the monks. If I blink, I lose the focus and see the other 2 dots, but I can stave off the other two as long as I can hold off blinking. Anyone else?
If you had read the summary you would have answered your own question. RT linux handles interrupts much faster than any other OS. If they lose control of the laser, they have to start over.
So explain how text- and stick figure-based games like Kingdom of Loathing have over 500,000 players? This and many other games of it's ilk are incredibly popular because the rely soley on game play. Not on shiny polygons.
The hotfix is the same as always. Backup data, use your restore disk. Rinse, lather, repeat.
I hate to nitpick, but it's not rinse, lather, repeat. First you lather, THEN you rinse. Repeat as desired. Maybe that's why you could never get the shine and manageability that you see in the commercials.
Since when is the SETI program for-profit? Last I checked, they were a money hole and are constantly asking for more funding? Granted, I agree that you should run SETI on any machines you don't own (in the monetary sense, not the quaint 'hacker' jargon) but SETI is far from a for-profit project. Hell, I know people would would gladly pay $5 a month to run SETI on another 100 computers under their team or user name.
Instead of the child saying "Mom, give me $50," I would rather the parent be forced (not literally, mind you) to purchase the game for the child. This would promote an active interest in the child and their activities. This gives the parents a chance to DO THEIR JOBS by monitoring their own children's stimuli and if they object on their own moral grounds, they can exhert themselves.
I'm not saying that the government or religious groups should tell parents what to let their kids do or not do. I'm saying the parents should know what their children are doing and if this legislation makes it easier to do that without sacrificing any constitutional freedoms, let's do it! America's parents (in general) are lazy and aren't doing their jobs. I'd love to see that change. That has NOTHING to do with the separation of church and state.
ESRB is there to provide the OPTION to restrict the sale to ANYONE the store wants to. Many retail stores don't carry games "beyond" a certain rating. All this bill does, if I read it correctly, is create penalties for any store that sells games beyond a certain threshold (sexualy or violently, or both if you like it like that) to minors.
I understand some of the hooplah about this, but why is everyone so pissed that minors now have to get their parents to buy a Doom 3 or the next Leisure Suit Larry? Granted, I'm in my early 20's so take all this crap about parenting with a grain of salt, but I'm all for parents getting more involved with their children and what they do with their free time. I would MUCH rather force a parent (or, some might argue, older sibling or older friend but it's the same story with alcohol/tobacco) to buy this game for the child. They'll (hypothetically) be more interested in the game to see what their $50 just bought. If it's outside of their comfort zone as a parent, they can stop the child from playing it.
On a very high level, how is this different than restricting the sale of smoe of the more risque tatoo magazines, pornography, tobacco and alcohol to minors?
It's not just a stupid piece of paper when that one shred is the only thing between a working software package and a buch of useless 1's and 0's on your HDD. Like I mentioned before, in my situation it was worth getting the legal council involved because of the cost fo the equipment. If the software is expensive enough, go for it. If it's not, suck it up and move on.
Or have your lawyer send a nice little letter... Depending on the cost of the software, some legalese might be in order. I've sent bills to former sales reps in my company for damaged and lost equipment. If they didn't pay, I sent it on to our legal council and we got our money sooner or later. Granted I'm talking about $2,000 laptops and $400 printer/faxes and $300 cell phones. If this is a $50 piece of software, it's hardly worth it.
Send a bill to your predecessor for the cost of a new license. It was his responsibility. It was a company asset. He lost it. Would it be any different if he had a company laptop and "lost" it before he quit/was let go?
A friend of mine and I did this a few years back (still trying to find the pictures) but we used an Igloo cooler and a window air conditioner. The smaller of the radiators was submersed in the synthetic motor oil with the mobo while the larger of the two was outside attached to a box fan. Sure it was loud as hell and nearly blew the breaker every time it kicked on, but we could get everything in the cooler (mobo, ram, vid card, etc) to -100 Fahrenheit.
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Good call - my college had an intro class that used this kind of stuff all the time for a kind of hands-on museum display...
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Exactly what I was thinking.. Wasn't it our tax dollars funding research that led to the modern Internet? Doesn't that kinda mean... I dunno, that it's ours?
I just did a rollout on about 400 XP Pro (SP2) machines and only about 2% of them had that Office issue. All it took was pointing that dialogue box to our network installation source and viola! No more problems. It's actually gone surprisingly smooth given the very random assortment of hardware we have.
We have remote offices too and we VNC or RDC over the WAN. It's slowish, but I think having the Office installation on a network share would alleviate many of the submitters woes. It's helped us big time...
No... everyone's just going to the Thinkgeek t-shirt section.
Ok, I'll bite. How exactly does one sieze source code that's publicly available with thousands upon thousands of untraceable copies? If you can figure out how to eradicate the world of all linux source code in the first place, you have a very promising career ahead of you. As it stands now, you're just a blithering idiot.
No no no, see. It's just a typo. Slashdot is missing a comma. It *should* read, "Your rights, Online" meaning that it's talking about your rights - it just happens to be talking online. See? Now take your head out of your ass, read the stories you want to read about, and ignore the rest instead of having a hissy fit. While you're at it, stop telling Slashdot how to run their website.
The problem with that is the same as the original study - you can make it sound any way you want just by changing a few key assumptions up front. All your study would do is make some research firm some dough.
I wouldn't go that far. Simpsons has evolved, but I wouldn't say it's stopped being funny. There's a reason it's still around. It's because people watch it and are entertained by it. Matt Groening has had the foresight to keep the Simpsons a "living" thing by changing it slightly with the times. I think a movie has big potential as long as they don't let someone else take the reigns.
I tried the illusion they referenced at http://www.uq.edu.au/nuq/jack/bonneh.html and my "self reported" results were on par with the monks. If I blink, I lose the focus and see the other 2 dots, but I can stave off the other two as long as I can hold off blinking. Anyone else?
Funny, I delete all of my visitors as soon as they show up. I figure if it's important, I'll get an e-mail.
I couldn't resist, I'm sorry. *hangs head in shame*
If you had read the summary you would have answered your own question. RT linux handles interrupts much faster than any other OS. If they lose control of the laser, they have to start over.
So explain how text- and stick figure-based games like Kingdom of Loathing have over 500,000 players? This and many other games of it's ilk are incredibly popular because the rely soley on game play. Not on shiny polygons.
The hotfix is the same as always. Backup data, use your restore disk. Rinse, lather, repeat.
I hate to nitpick, but it's not rinse, lather, repeat. First you lather, THEN you rinse. Repeat as desired. Maybe that's why you could never get the shine and manageability that you see in the commercials.
Since when is the SETI program for-profit? Last I checked, they were a money hole and are constantly asking for more funding? Granted, I agree that you should run SETI on any machines you don't own (in the monetary sense, not the quaint 'hacker' jargon) but SETI is far from a for-profit project. Hell, I know people would would gladly pay $5 a month to run SETI on another 100 computers under their team or user name.
Every woman will have not one G-spot but four, one of which will be at the back of the throat.
That cracks me up... I wish it would happen in my lifetime.
You've been reading Diamond Age again, haven't you...
Waaaaay OT, but you're not by any chance the Pope Benedict XVI from KoL are you?
don't abuse yorself
Hear that? That's the sound of thousands of masochists wailing in agony. You just ruined their lives but made their day!
Wow, did you take that out of context or what...
Instead of the child saying "Mom, give me $50," I would rather the parent be forced (not literally, mind you) to purchase the game for the child. This would promote an active interest in the child and their activities. This gives the parents a chance to DO THEIR JOBS by monitoring their own children's stimuli and if they object on their own moral grounds, they can exhert themselves.
I'm not saying that the government or religious groups should tell parents what to let their kids do or not do. I'm saying the parents should know what their children are doing and if this legislation makes it easier to do that without sacrificing any constitutional freedoms, let's do it! America's parents (in general) are lazy and aren't doing their jobs. I'd love to see that change. That has NOTHING to do with the separation of church and state.
ESRB is there to provide the OPTION to restrict the sale to ANYONE the store wants to. Many retail stores don't carry games "beyond" a certain rating. All this bill does, if I read it correctly, is create penalties for any store that sells games beyond a certain threshold (sexualy or violently, or both if you like it like that) to minors.
I understand some of the hooplah about this, but why is everyone so pissed that minors now have to get their parents to buy a Doom 3 or the next Leisure Suit Larry? Granted, I'm in my early 20's so take all this crap about parenting with a grain of salt, but I'm all for parents getting more involved with their children and what they do with their free time. I would MUCH rather force a parent (or, some might argue, older sibling or older friend but it's the same story with alcohol/tobacco) to buy this game for the child. They'll (hypothetically) be more interested in the game to see what their $50 just bought. If it's outside of their comfort zone as a parent, they can stop the child from playing it.
On a very high level, how is this different than restricting the sale of smoe of the more risque tatoo magazines, pornography, tobacco and alcohol to minors?
It's not just a stupid piece of paper when that one shred is the only thing between a working software package and a buch of useless 1's and 0's on your HDD. Like I mentioned before, in my situation it was worth getting the legal council involved because of the cost fo the equipment. If the software is expensive enough, go for it. If it's not, suck it up and move on.
Or have your lawyer send a nice little letter... Depending on the cost of the software, some legalese might be in order. I've sent bills to former sales reps in my company for damaged and lost equipment. If they didn't pay, I sent it on to our legal council and we got our money sooner or later. Granted I'm talking about $2,000 laptops and $400 printer/faxes and $300 cell phones. If this is a $50 piece of software, it's hardly worth it.
Send a bill to your predecessor for the cost of a new license. It was his responsibility. It was a company asset. He lost it. Would it be any different if he had a company laptop and "lost" it before he quit/was let go?
My apologies - that should read -10 degrees (F). I'm an idiot. Makes a little more sense now, huh?
A friend of mine and I did this a few years back (still trying to find the pictures) but we used an Igloo cooler and a window air conditioner. The smaller of the radiators was submersed in the synthetic motor oil with the mobo while the larger of the two was outside attached to a box fan. Sure it was loud as hell and nearly blew the breaker every time it kicked on, but we could get everything in the cooler (mobo, ram, vid card, etc) to -100 Fahrenheit.
Good call - my college had an intro class that used this kind of stuff all the time for a kind of hands-on museum display...
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By the way, nice sig