I suspect the reason the websites are crashing is due to the fact that the sooner one applies in the week for unemployment, the sooner the next check arrives. This means that everyone logs on at the beginning of the week to file their claims for the past week. If there were a way to stagger the unemployment benefits so that people were given a different day of the week to apply, they might have better success with keeping their meager servers running. Then again, if your server keeps crashing, that has a way of throttling your net traffic too.:)
This current recession has been tough on techies. I'm grateful to have a new job, after ninemonths of jobloss due to bone-headed experiences with failing start-ups. My computer was useful in helping me search for jobs so that I qualified for unemployment benefits each week, and I used my email account as a common point of access and tracking all the job submissions and such, but ultimately my next job came from contacting a person (family member) who knew me well enough to get my resume' into the right hands.
--Ray
I thought it was obvious that Lawyers and litigation was a favorite of liberal politicians? That coupled with the love-affair that Hollywood and the Entertainment Business has with the president elect, this really should come as no surprise. If you vote for a rockstar, don't be surprised when the rockstar's legal team joins him on the ticket. (Shrug.)
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Well, the first problem is the assumption that power users of Linux even bother with the GUI.
--Ray
My first thought was of Makefiles too. I just can't imagine a show based upon that. Still. Make can be mysterious... and it scares most of the guys here... Kinda like the X-files... full of mysterious cross functionality just popping up from nowhere.
This is really about money. I've used Perforce and CVS and we actually ended up preferring CVS (despite many feature losses) because of the fact that proprietary licenses were just not worth the feature set, and as the project matured we developed enough scripts to compensate for the lack of features. So over time, a pay-for-Version Control system just doesn't seem worth it.
--Ray
The tags placed on this entry here at/. are always enjoyable, this one particularly brought a smile this morning. stopsayingmonetize Hehehehe. Talk about an overused buzzword of corporate speak.
Admittedly off topic today,
--Ray
So is the complaint that the bush administration has designated too much material to national archives, thus overflowing the system, or is it that Cheney is not giving the NY Times enough of his materials? I mean, you really can't have it both ways. Either you complain that there's too much stuff being stored, or you go after your boogeyman Cheney. I would think that the reason there is so much being stored is because of the grief that the administration has received about deleting ANY records, for the innuendo that it contained a smoking gun that would unveil the "ultimate evil". Good for Cheney for not playing that game.
Programming Perl (by O'Reilly) is a classic, imo. I know it's language specific, but it's also very funny and really defined the iconic symbol of the camel and Perl, and at least for me made O'Reilly a publisher worth its salt...
--Ray
Not much help, but fwiw, I use Word (I like the spell/grammar checking, mostly), but then I write stories, not code. It is then imported into pagemaker, combined with illustrations, fonts and such, and then exported to acrobat files that the printers use. --Ray
Maybe bush will declare martial law, and then when this space station breaks away from earth, and destroys our whole fleet by employing cybernetically altered telepaths, he'll turn the earth's defense grid against the earth, and it will be up to Obama to save us all by destroying all the platforms before they can create a scorched earth scenario......or...
Maybe he'll just be another elected official, like all the previous presidents, and isn't really an evil puppet as some people have tried to fantasize...
Wouldn't it be something if bush was just a normal guy?
--Ray
IMO, the adventure game became less challenging once it was just a matter of moving your mouse over images. You didn't have to think about an action. Text based adventure games required you to use language, but they had the limitation of a vocabulary. Also every action only had a limitted number of responses, which made the game somewhat boring. Only certain words worked. In order to be entertaining over a long period of time, you need to have a sense of humor, so that when the player does something unlikely, they're rewarded with an unlikely consequence. Ideally, like in a pen and paper role-playing game, you could create a course of actions from the language you were most familiar with, and the interpreter could apply those words to the environment as best it could. Even if it is ridiculous like "throw mashed potatoes on idol" and the response is, "The natives hail you as a god of modern art, but they still want to roast you for dinner."
...okay, so violence is out... but on the Bright Side, now that we know that games can affect brain activity, perhaps we can start researching means to create games that actually improve our brain's abilities, in a positive direction... --Ray
I remember when these same stories and arguments were being made for Table-top RPGs... yet I don't see much in terms of "leadership" touting the hours they played D&D. Though once we got out of Mom's basement... turns out there were all kinds of interesting reallife problems to solve.
Not to mention, with enough healing potions I was invulnerable...:) Videogames may teach some virtues, but they teach a bunch of crap too... if you're not gonna get all up in arms and pretend it doesn't teach violence or turn you into a High School shooter, perhaps we should shy away from the reverse of that argument... cuz they're both basically equivalent. --Ray
Don't get me wrong, I agree... but it's cute (imo) how there's a need to explain how gaming technology is benefitting the blind people in Africa.:) It's like deep inside every gamer, there's this need to apologize for having fun with technology, rather than solving all the world's problems.:) Game on!
--Ray
Don't you love it how gamers try to make themselves relevant to the rest of the world? I love gamers... they're so... important... to... um... well... Just keep playing, guys!!
"Interestingly, they split the operating system winners across two distributions, with CentOS winning for server OS and Ubuntu for desktop"
*Raising hand...* Um... exactly how is that interesting?
--Ray
I already knew all about this from the movie Pokemon 2000. What the article didn't mention was that this current is guarded by the mythical and mysterious pokemon known as Lugia, and that when the three powers of Fire, Ice and Thunder are awoken, the Guardian will awaken to quell the fighting--but alone the guardian will fail, so the earth will turn to Ash (Katchem)...
--Ray
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I suspect the reason the websites are crashing is due to the fact that the sooner one applies in the week for unemployment, the sooner the next check arrives. This means that everyone logs on at the beginning of the week to file their claims for the past week. If there were a way to stagger the unemployment benefits so that people were given a different day of the week to apply, they might have better success with keeping their meager servers running. Then again, if your server keeps crashing, that has a way of throttling your net traffic too. :)
This current recession has been tough on techies. I'm grateful to have a new job, after ninemonths of jobloss due to bone-headed experiences with failing start-ups. My computer was useful in helping me search for jobs so that I qualified for unemployment benefits each week, and I used my email account as a common point of access and tracking all the job submissions and such, but ultimately my next job came from contacting a person (family member) who knew me well enough to get my resume' into the right hands.
--Ray
I thought it was obvious that Lawyers and litigation was a favorite of liberal politicians? That coupled with the love-affair that Hollywood and the Entertainment Business has with the president elect, this really should come as no surprise. If you vote for a rockstar, don't be surprised when the rockstar's legal team joins him on the ticket. (Shrug.)
Well, the first problem is the assumption that power users of Linux even bother with the GUI. --Ray
My first thought was of Makefiles too. I just can't imagine a show based upon that. Still. Make can be mysterious... and it scares most of the guys here... Kinda like the X-files... full of mysterious cross functionality just popping up from nowhere.
.foo.bar:
tr '[A-Z][a-z]' '[N-Z][A-M][n-z][a-m]' < $< > $@
.c.o:
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $<
Yeah... I guess that's pretty Scary!!
--Ray
This is really about money. I've used Perforce and CVS and we actually ended up preferring CVS (despite many feature losses) because of the fact that proprietary licenses were just not worth the feature set, and as the project matured we developed enough scripts to compensate for the lack of features. So over time, a pay-for-Version Control system just doesn't seem worth it. --Ray
The tags placed on this entry here at /. are always enjoyable, this one particularly brought a smile this morning. stopsayingmonetize Hehehehe. Talk about an overused buzzword of corporate speak.
Admittedly off topic today,
--Ray
So is the complaint that the bush administration has designated too much material to national archives, thus overflowing the system, or is it that Cheney is not giving the NY Times enough of his materials? I mean, you really can't have it both ways. Either you complain that there's too much stuff being stored, or you go after your boogeyman Cheney. I would think that the reason there is so much being stored is because of the grief that the administration has received about deleting ANY records, for the innuendo that it contained a smoking gun that would unveil the "ultimate evil". Good for Cheney for not playing that game.
...and not just an HD, but smaller exes are also faster sent over a network, or over an I/O bus like a USB device...
Programming Perl (by O'Reilly) is a classic, imo. I know it's language specific, but it's also very funny and really defined the iconic symbol of the camel and Perl, and at least for me made O'Reilly a publisher worth its salt... --Ray
Not much help, but fwiw, I use Word (I like the spell/grammar checking, mostly), but then I write stories, not code. It is then imported into pagemaker, combined with illustrations, fonts and such, and then exported to acrobat files that the printers use. --Ray
Maybe bush will declare martial law, and then when this space station breaks away from earth, and destroys our whole fleet by employing cybernetically altered telepaths, he'll turn the earth's defense grid against the earth, and it will be up to Obama to save us all by destroying all the platforms before they can create a scorched earth scenario... ...or...
Maybe he'll just be another elected official, like all the previous presidents, and isn't really an evil puppet as some people have tried to fantasize...
Wouldn't it be something if bush was just a normal guy?
--Ray
Best game ever! I love this game... Great suggestion. --Ray
IMO, the adventure game became less challenging once it was just a matter of moving your mouse over images. You didn't have to think about an action. Text based adventure games required you to use language, but they had the limitation of a vocabulary. Also every action only had a limitted number of responses, which made the game somewhat boring. Only certain words worked. In order to be entertaining over a long period of time, you need to have a sense of humor, so that when the player does something unlikely, they're rewarded with an unlikely consequence. Ideally, like in a pen and paper role-playing game, you could create a course of actions from the language you were most familiar with, and the interpreter could apply those words to the environment as best it could. Even if it is ridiculous like "throw mashed potatoes on idol" and the response is, "The natives hail you as a god of modern art, but they still want to roast you for dinner."
--Ray
...okay, so violence is out... but on the Bright Side, now that we know that games can affect brain activity, perhaps we can start researching means to create games that actually improve our brain's abilities, in a positive direction... --Ray
The show sounds ideal for epidsode TeeVee... No need for character development, cuz it's wiped out at the end of the show. :)
--Ray
I remember when these same stories and arguments were being made for Table-top RPGs... yet I don't see much in terms of "leadership" touting the hours they played D&D. Though once we got out of Mom's basement... turns out there were all kinds of interesting reallife problems to solve.
:) Videogames may teach some virtues, but they teach a bunch of crap too... if you're not gonna get all up in arms and pretend it doesn't teach violence or turn you into a High School shooter, perhaps we should shy away from the reverse of that argument... cuz they're both basically equivalent. --Ray
Not to mention, with enough healing potions I was invulnerable...
Now if only Scientists could answer prayers...
Don't get me wrong, I agree... but it's cute (imo) how there's a need to explain how gaming technology is benefitting the blind people in Africa. :) It's like deep inside every gamer, there's this need to apologize for having fun with technology, rather than solving all the world's problems. :) Game on!
--Ray
Don't you love it how gamers try to make themselves relevant to the rest of the world? I love gamers... they're so... important... to... um... well... Just keep playing, guys!!
--Ray
You go Networking Time Protocol!! All those NTP servers out there, working hard to keep time... it's about time you lawyered up!!
--Ray
"Interestingly, they split the operating system winners across two distributions, with CentOS winning for server OS and Ubuntu for desktop" *Raising hand...* Um... exactly how is that interesting? --Ray
Here's a novel thought: How 'bout you just not do drugs?
If I were a terrorist, I'd support peace activists...
I already knew all about this from the movie Pokemon 2000. What the article didn't mention was that this current is guarded by the mythical and mysterious pokemon known as Lugia, and that when the three powers of Fire, Ice and Thunder are awoken, the Guardian will awaken to quell the fighting--but alone the guardian will fail, so the earth will turn to Ash (Katchem)... --Ray
I don't suppose this is an attempt to get more money?