We attempting to be "good stewards" by equipping them with a potentially advantageous mental ability compared to their lesser siblings/cousins. I say potentially, because they might take to sitting around eating pizza, drinking soft drinks, and playing video games.
Central Point had a replacement desktop for Windows 3.x that had virtual desktops sometime in the early 90's. So even MS can't say this is new for the Windows world...
You can get to a virtual host by adding the full entry to your host file. Then configure your webserver to check the headers and route as needed. All of these can be on the same server just fine...
Maybe, Maybe not... But it sure makes it easy for "average joe's" brother-in-law to get hands on with "grandma's" pc when there is something wrong, some procedure needs testing before teaching her how to do it, or such. All without going to going to grandma-in-law's house and dealing with her 15 cats and the special cookies she baked you that seem to taste like the ashes of the last three packs of cigarettes she smoked....
No, but he did do the next best thing by using all that speaker cable. Or is it lamp cord? A true, uhm, pro.
In highschool I had an old Ford(Mazda) Courior Pickup and it had plastic ball joints in the throttle linkage. One fine day as I was driving out in the boonies the plastic gives way and I have to find something to fix it with. Well, I had to drive back home listening to the left channel only, but the truck made it another 100k miles on speaker cable wrapped throttle linkage...
You can't do that, people might feel peer pressure when they see the smudges and scratches all over one candidates name. That would not be fair! Just imagine you are in the booth and the weight of thousands before you bearing down upon you to just touch the icky spot on the screen just like they did... How disturbing...
That reminds me of the trouble I got into for duplicating an "expirement" from on of those books. It involved weaving together toothpics and then lighting a corner of the device.
I think it was called "Toothpick TNT" or some such thing. Results were as follows:
-Flat toothpics make for easy assembly but have no boom.
-Round tooth pics take forever to assemble, many will break, and when if you ignite it make sure there is nothing your parents care about within a large radius.
I heard a Wilhem and then something like "my carpet" and then "get a belt"
I don't see why this would be too terribly difficult. The xbox is after all x86 with fixed ROM and hardware specs. One would think the folks like Bochs, VMWare, VirtualPC should be able to tweak some code to make it work. Drivers would need to be written and the ROM hacked, but that should be nothing to the xbox community. Actually if the guys at Plex86 could make it work it would be better, fake the proprietary stuff and let x86 calls run native.
I would tend to agree. I guess I was thinking most of the people who want to be pop (gag) stars are not really as into long term investments as they are bling bling. For some the record company may have been the only reason they did not self-destruct. Not that I would mind a bunch of boy band and teen starlets going bye-bye.
The only thing you might want to consider is the BIG FAT CHECK NOW factor. I would love to think that selling my goods on my website would be great and gravy, but I think that once I am offered a bunch of $$$$ now and a whole PR/Marketing engine all for a piece of my potential future earnings - I think the call gets much harder to make....
-Wade
While I feel for this guy and his hard choices - I would rather work in a sweatshop (all athlons - no A/C) in a third world country than work in a unionized workplace. I write code because I love to write code. I may hate getting laid off because someone will work cheaper even after the H1B is taken care of, but it happens and it IS fair. My replacement may choose not to be a slave to the worship of new cars/tvs/clothes/homes/boats/etc, may live with all living members of his/hers extended family, or some other lifestyle simplification that negates the need for massive $$$ every paycheck, but that is just the way it goes. Someone will always work cheaper/harder/smarter/longer and employers will exploit such as business demands. I may not like it, you may not like it, but it is how it works.
If I were in this guys position I would state the same points to the boss/his boss/his boss and then be willing to stand by those convictions. I am not one much to cower back into my cube, but then during my last layoff I was making about as much working as a handyman. Also, it was damn nice not to be tied to a chair all day. So maybe having some kind of fall back plan might be in order.
I am not sure I would use this particular feature, but I can see that it might be of use to support personnel who might get alerted to some type of incident via the methods listed. I know that in the past I have been tasked with aggregating data to be inserted into an incident tracking system, and coding for these things (yahoo, aim, icq, yada yada yada...) can be like hitting a moving target blindfolded...
Just last week I was digging in the through a pile of old hardware in my closet and found a 120MB Maxtor HD. For grins I popped it in a spare PC to see what was on it. Well let me tell you that while the P3/500 is very happy with linux, it absolutely screams running Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and Wolfenstein made my head spin on it...
Alas, I tucked the drive back in it's shoe box and maybe ten years from now I will find it again. I just wonder if I will be able to find an IDE interface in ten years...
I am sure that any performance hit that OSX has is more than offset by robust features, stability, usability, and shear eye appeal...
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Wouldn't a leap minute every couple of generations be better than being close to an hour off base for a hundred years or so?
just make a 30ish hour new years day and be done with it....
We poor bastards who live in countries that abuse us with daylight savings already accept having our light/dark cycle screwed up anyways.
We attempting to be "good stewards" by equipping them with a potentially advantageous mental ability compared to their lesser siblings/cousins. I say potentially, because they might take to sitting around eating pizza, drinking soft drinks, and playing video games.
-Wade
Central Point had a replacement desktop for Windows 3.x that had virtual desktops sometime in the early 90's. So even MS can't say this is new for the Windows world...
You can get to a virtual host by adding the full entry to your host file. Then configure your webserver to check the headers and route as needed. All of these can be on the same server just fine...
65.49.199.172 genericwebserver
65.49.199.172 my.realgoofyaddy.com
65.49.199.172 www.studentprogress.info
65.49.199.172 your.realgoofyaddy.com
-Wade
Maybe, Maybe not... But it sure makes it easy for "average joe's" brother-in-law to get hands on with "grandma's" pc when there is something wrong, some procedure needs testing before teaching her how to do it, or such. All without going to going to grandma-in-law's house and dealing with her 15 cats and the special cookies she baked you that seem to taste like the ashes of the last three packs of cigarettes she smoked....
-Wade
No, but he did do the next best thing by using all that speaker cable. Or is it lamp cord? A true, uhm, pro.
In highschool I had an old Ford(Mazda) Courior Pickup and it had plastic ball joints in the throttle linkage. One fine day as I was driving out in the boonies the plastic gives way and I have to find something to fix it with. Well, I had to drive back home listening to the left channel only, but the truck made it another 100k miles on speaker cable wrapped throttle linkage...
-Wade
You can't do that, people might feel peer pressure when they see the smudges and scratches all over one candidates name. That would not be fair! Just imagine you are in the booth and the weight of thousands before you bearing down upon you to just touch the icky spot on the screen just like they did... How disturbing...
-Wade
That reminds me of the trouble I got into for duplicating an "expirement" from on of those books. It involved weaving together toothpics and then lighting a corner of the device.
I think it was called "Toothpick TNT" or some such thing. Results were as follows:
-Flat toothpics make for easy assembly but have no boom.
-Round tooth pics take forever to assemble, many will break, and when if you ignite it make sure there is nothing your parents care about within a large radius.
I heard a Wilhem and then something like "my carpet" and then "get a belt"
YMMV
-Wade
I hear the Shrill Tone of Death is a real pisser....
I don't see why this would be too terribly difficult. The xbox is after all x86 with fixed ROM and hardware specs. One would think the folks like Bochs, VMWare, VirtualPC should be able to tweak some code to make it work. Drivers would need to be written and the ROM hacked, but that should be nothing to the xbox community. Actually if the guys at Plex86 could make it work it would be better, fake the proprietary stuff and let x86 calls run native.
My $.02
-Wade
. o 0 (two distros at maximum speed....whoa down boy...)
I would tend to agree. I guess I was thinking most of the people who want to be pop (gag) stars are not really as into long term investments as they are bling bling. For some the record company may have been the only reason they did not self-destruct. Not that I would mind a bunch of boy band and teen starlets going bye-bye.
-Wade
The only thing you might want to consider is the BIG FAT CHECK NOW factor. I would love to think that selling my goods on my website would be great and gravy, but I think that once I am offered a bunch of $$$$ now and a whole PR/Marketing engine all for a piece of my potential future earnings - I think the call gets much harder to make.... -Wade
While I feel for this guy and his hard choices - I would rather work in a sweatshop (all athlons - no A/C) in a third world country than work in a unionized workplace. I write code because I love to write code. I may hate getting laid off because someone will work cheaper even after the H1B is taken care of, but it happens and it IS fair. My replacement may choose not to be a slave to the worship of new cars/tvs/clothes/homes/boats/etc, may live with all living members of his/hers extended family, or some other lifestyle simplification that negates the need for massive $$$ every paycheck, but that is just the way it goes. Someone will always work cheaper/harder/smarter/longer and employers will exploit such as business demands. I may not like it, you may not like it, but it is how it works.
If I were in this guys position I would state the same points to the boss/his boss/his boss and then be willing to stand by those convictions. I am not one much to cower back into my cube, but then during my last layoff I was making about as much working as a handyman. Also, it was damn nice not to be tied to a chair all day. So maybe having some kind of fall back plan might be in order.
Ok, rant over.
-Wade
vb/vbscript and sendkeys for you Windows users....
-Wade
I am not sure I would use this particular feature, but I can see that it might be of use to support personnel who might get alerted to some type of incident via the methods listed. I know that in the past I have been tasked with aggregating data to be inserted into an incident tracking system, and coding for these things (yahoo, aim, icq, yada yada yada...) can be like hitting a moving target blindfolded...
Just my $.02
Only for Monet...
My bet is that as we kill the reefs we offset any new drag so we are most likely in balance or near to it... hehehe
Private p0rn!!!!
Just last week I was digging in the through a pile of old hardware in my closet and found a 120MB Maxtor HD. For grins I popped it in a spare PC to see what was on it. Well let me tell you that while the P3/500 is very happy with linux, it absolutely screams running Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and Wolfenstein made my head spin on it...
Alas, I tucked the drive back in it's shoe box and maybe ten years from now I will find it again. I just wonder if I will be able to find an IDE interface in ten years...
I am sure that any performance hit that OSX has is more than offset by robust features, stability, usability, and shear eye appeal...