I'm a game programmer, and I'll gladly fight against any unionization attempts. Unions are for alleviating sweatshop conditions, dangerous working environment, dishonest employee-employer relationships and the likes. Unions aren't for wage extortion.
Right now, a lot of people work crazy long hours in game development, true. But we also get paid several times over what people doing similar kinds of work outside of game development earn. There's no sweatshop atmosphere, and there's certainly no shortage of similar jobs outside the industry so it's not like any of us are locked in.
The net result of unionizing game development would be a mass exodus of jobs, higher costs making things impossible for small startup developers, more government interference in my daily work as we're expected to align with whatever hellhole PACs the union bosses decide to align with, and higher development costs making for pricier games. To hell with all that.
The problems are somewhat bigger than they mention. MT performs some very heavy database activity to even get to the point of finding that comments have been disabled completely. Even without triggering the page rebuilds, several hundred requests coming in will grind the server to a halt. The problem is compounded if you're running a flat database backend like sqlite, which does huge memory allocations and can launch you into a swapfest.
Given that instances of mt-comments.cgi are expensive even when they net no change to your database or your blog pages, server load is unbearable when there are a large number of concurrent instances. Now, there is a problem with either apache or mt-comments.cgi that makes mod_throttle's per-IP connection limiter fail. The current popular comment vandal's script opens a connection, sends a GET request with the post instructions as CGI arguments, then closes immediately. mt-comments.cgi continues running even though the connection has been dropped, and it doesn't count against concurrent connections from that IP. I don't know if mt-comments is ignoring a sigpipe from apache, or if apache is failing to send it. Either way, the cgi keeps running even though it's not being counted anymore.
My solution was to add code to the head of each instance of mt-comments.cgi. It sleeps for a second, then checks for an unreasonable number of mt-comments.cgi running. If too many instances exist, it dies without getting to the expensive database access. Until Six Apart release a new MT, this may be helpful to you. Add this to the "eval" section:
sleep 1; $numrun = `ps ax |grep [m]t-comments |wc -l`; if ($numrun > 3 ) {
die "Too many mt-comments running"; }
Caveat: I'm not a perl programmer. Somebody else can write this more elegantly.
Free as in "nationalized for the good of the people," am I rite Comrade?
Seriously. You have to understand that it is never the job of the government to compete with business when business or community can deliver a service. This was part of the reason that the Post Office was privatized. Where it used to be impractical for business to compete in delivery across the entire nation, it became possible with newer transportation technology, and so the government forced the post office to become self-sustaining in part to keep it from being a subsidized program interfering with private enterprise. (Gosh, that was a long sentence.)
In the US, federal government belongs only where business or community cannot or will not provide a service necessary for supporting your rights. State governments can further build on these rights, but only to a limited degree.
Note that the NYTimes is reporting that it was merely a list of names that was stolen, as is Indymedia itself. Mirrors of the posts in question say otherwise.
Seeing which sites lie to cover and which ones don't will be somewhat informative.
Kerry and O'Neill were debating these same issues on TV back in 1971. O'Neill didn't merely appear out of nowhere.
The kind of deficits we're running are the same ones you've seen when recovering from any depression. To see why "voodoo economics" worked, one needs only look at the increase in the average Joe's paycheck under Reagan, as well as the tiny rate of inflaction. Contrast with rocketing unemployment, double-digit inflation, and wages plummeting under Carter.
There is all kinds of commercial software for the 48/49 series which is written in Saturn assembly. Targeting the new CPU directly would break these apps and substantially reduce the market for the calculator.
We're sitting on both sides of Iran, who are suddenly cooperating in quashing al-Qaeda. We're sitting on the Saudi Arabian border, and Saudi Arabia is suddenly cooperating in quashing al-Qaea as well.
Were we to invade Iran, it would be a nuclear incident. Were we to invade Saudi Arabia, it would wreck our economy.
In the mean time, we've squashed a government which was oppressing its people in Afghanistan. We've squashed Iran, who was firing on our planes which were enforcing its no fly zones while we waited for 15 years for them to get around to acting on things they had promised to the UN. Meanwhile, while we haven't proven the stockpiles of WMDs, we have proven that they were developing nuclear weaponry (google for iraq yellowcake) in violation of their treaties. And even now, more Iraqis have electricity, schools, and water than before we invaded.
For one, I can't think of how this could have been handled with better benefit for the US and the Iraqi people both.
I like the idea of the four button mini keyboard. I'm not sure how much demand there would be, unfortunately. I don't think many people are using tablets for art merely because of the cost. As far as the regular Wacoms go, there's usually a keyboard just a few inches away. Pretty much everyone I've seen using them at work sets up their desk so they can put the keyboard right behind the tablet.
Bush didn't make his war service the extent of his campaign. It's Kerry's entire platform, which is why it's being scrutinized.
Kerry spent all of 40 seconds on his 20 year political career during his 1 hour DNC speech. The majority of the speech was taken up by Vietnam and praise of his character. He only mentioned three things of substance.
1. He mentioned were committing to more troops in Iraq, which he has already reversed on.
2. A misrepresentation of Bush's position on stem cell research (we don't spend government money on the research, but we don't ban it).
3. Promise for national healthcare and some other miscellaneous new spending, funded by repealing the tax cuts for the people who are still paying 96% of the national income tax. Incidentally, it's been calculated that he's spent the repealed cuts nearly four times over with new spending announced before even making it into office.
There's no other substance there to criticize, because everything else is a transitive opinion or a promise of free money, the latter of which is always dangerous to deal with, because you can never get the popular news services to express even basic economics.
The only way to put an end to terrorism is through propoganda, rhetoric, covert ops, time and patience.
Yes, we all remember how supportive the libs were when they found that the US military had helped in something as minor as pulling down the statue of Saddam Hussein.
Sorry. That's a group that's going to find a reason to be unhappy no matter what. It's their basic nature.
I've been looking for a cheap one-handed keyboard for use with my tablet PC, hopefully something I could velcro onto the back for use while holding the tablet. Photoshop and Painter are tedious without tab, alt, shift and ctrl. This could be just the thing to provide those.
Take a look at what happened to the guys at Apple. They've started reworking and repackaging open source software for the OS, compiler, browser, etc, and if you search for those precious few unfilled jobs at http://jobs.apple.com...
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The article doesn't explain enough about how they came up with their figures.
As I see it, the difference is that more and more music trading has been pushed underground on encrypted networks and the likes, whereas you can still Google up movie and software torrents left and right. By design, even if you're part of many of the music sharing networks, you can't tell how many others are around, and can't get raw index lists of files to count.
If they're counting the people caught, the above still holds. Music swapping is more mature, and so it's tougher to catch folks.
Microwave pizzas, hot pockets, etc come with foil-backed cardboard underneath. That looks to be the same material -- I'd wager you could cobble something together with those as well. And you'd have something to eat while you're geeking out.
The first tip covered is securing mountpoints. Did you know you can mount some volums so that suid bits don't work on them, or so you can't even execute files on them?
This is a biggie. You can prevent users from creating code in/home if you want, and you can keep runnable stuff out of/tmp or/var.
Debian does a really great job of keeping those paths pure so that packages don't rely on them having runnable things. This means great strides in security if you mount with those options, save one terrible exception: dselect wants to run scripts in tmp:(
Your landlord will probably agree to a professional installation, and you can get those for free when you purchase the unit from many dealers.
If you're wondering whether they'll agree, there's a good chance your worries are unfounded. Rentals are at a long time low right now with Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac handing out home loans like candy, and most supers will bend over backwards to keep you happy.
Any collection of mailing lists or newsgroups are good candidates for inclusion. You've got a wealth of data in the headers, as well as a nice free-form body and a spaghetti maze of parent and child linkage.
Your web logs or even your system logs are good candidates as well, as are the package description and dependency databases for any given Linux distribution, and the bug reports for same. One cool project might be to load the Debian, RedHat, etc dependency databases and merge them together and report the differences. That's a good-sized project with the potential to benefit the free software community.
You owe the oracle * FROM wallet WHERE denomination > 20;
It doesn't surprise me that so many geeks collect action figures into adulthood, then show such a profound interest in the booth babes later... in both cases, all the interesting parts are plastic.
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Right now, a lot of people work crazy long hours in game development, true. But we also get paid several times over what people doing similar kinds of work outside of game development earn. There's no sweatshop atmosphere, and there's certainly no shortage of similar jobs outside the industry so it's not like any of us are locked in.
The net result of unionizing game development would be a mass exodus of jobs, higher costs making things impossible for small startup developers, more government interference in my daily work as we're expected to align with whatever hellhole PACs the union bosses decide to align with, and higher development costs making for pricier games. To hell with all that.
The problems are somewhat bigger than they mention. MT performs some very heavy database activity to even get to the point of finding that comments have been disabled completely. Even without triggering the page rebuilds, several hundred requests coming in will grind the server to a halt. The problem is compounded if you're running a flat database backend like sqlite, which does huge memory allocations and can launch you into a swapfest.
Given that instances of mt-comments.cgi are expensive even when they net no change to your database or your blog pages, server load is unbearable when there are a large number of concurrent instances. Now, there is a problem with either apache or mt-comments.cgi that makes mod_throttle's per-IP connection limiter fail. The current popular comment vandal's script opens a connection, sends a GET request with the post instructions as CGI arguments, then closes immediately. mt-comments.cgi continues running even though the connection has been dropped, and it doesn't count against concurrent connections from that IP. I don't know if mt-comments is ignoring a sigpipe from apache, or if apache is failing to send it. Either way, the cgi keeps running even though it's not being counted anymore.
My solution was to add code to the head of each instance of mt-comments.cgi. It sleeps for a second, then checks for an unreasonable number of mt-comments.cgi running. If too many instances exist, it dies without getting to the expensive database access. Until Six Apart release a new MT, this may be helpful to you. Add this to the "eval" section:
sleep 1;
$numrun = `ps ax |grep [m]t-comments |wc -l`;
if ($numrun > 3 )
{
die "Too many mt-comments running";
}
Caveat: I'm not a perl programmer. Somebody else can write this more elegantly.
Can you give me one reason, by your philosophy, why the US government shouldn't nationalize one or more of the airlines?
Seriously. You have to understand that it is never the job of the government to compete with business when business or community can deliver a service. This was part of the reason that the Post Office was privatized. Where it used to be impractical for business to compete in delivery across the entire nation, it became possible with newer transportation technology, and so the government forced the post office to become self-sustaining in part to keep it from being a subsidized program interfering with private enterprise. (Gosh, that was a long sentence.)
In the US, federal government belongs only where business or community cannot or will not provide a service necessary for supporting your rights. State governments can further build on these rights, but only to a limited degree.
Seeing which sites lie to cover and which ones don't will be somewhat informative.
The kind of deficits we're running are the same ones you've seen when recovering from any depression. To see why "voodoo economics" worked, one needs only look at the increase in the average Joe's paycheck under Reagan, as well as the tiny rate of inflaction. Contrast with rocketing unemployment, double-digit inflation, and wages plummeting under Carter.
There is all kinds of commercial software for the 48/49 series which is written in Saturn assembly. Targeting the new CPU directly would break these apps and substantially reduce the market for the calculator.
Were we to invade Iran, it would be a nuclear incident. Were we to invade Saudi Arabia, it would wreck our economy.
In the mean time, we've squashed a government which was oppressing its people in Afghanistan. We've squashed Iran, who was firing on our planes which were enforcing its no fly zones while we waited for 15 years for them to get around to acting on things they had promised to the UN. Meanwhile, while we haven't proven the stockpiles of WMDs, we have proven that they were developing nuclear weaponry (google for iraq yellowcake) in violation of their treaties. And even now, more Iraqis have electricity, schools, and water than before we invaded.
For one, I can't think of how this could have been handled with better benefit for the US and the Iraqi people both.
I like the idea of the four button mini keyboard. I'm not sure how much demand there would be, unfortunately. I don't think many people are using tablets for art merely because of the cost. As far as the regular Wacoms go, there's usually a keyboard just a few inches away. Pretty much everyone I've seen using them at work sets up their desk so they can put the keyboard right behind the tablet.
Kerry spent all of 40 seconds on his 20 year political career during his 1 hour DNC speech. The majority of the speech was taken up by Vietnam and praise of his character. He only mentioned three things of substance.
1. He mentioned were committing to more troops in Iraq, which he has already reversed on.
2. A misrepresentation of Bush's position on stem cell research (we don't spend government money on the research, but we don't ban it).
3. Promise for national healthcare and some other miscellaneous new spending, funded by repealing the tax cuts for the people who are still paying 96% of the national income tax. Incidentally, it's been calculated that he's spent the repealed cuts nearly four times over with new spending announced before even making it into office.
There's no other substance there to criticize, because everything else is a transitive opinion or a promise of free money, the latter of which is always dangerous to deal with, because you can never get the popular news services to express even basic economics.
Sorry. That's a group that's going to find a reason to be unhappy no matter what. It's their basic nature.
I've been looking for a cheap one-handed keyboard for use with my tablet PC, hopefully something I could velcro onto the back for use while holding the tablet. Photoshop and Painter are tedious without tab, alt, shift and ctrl. This could be just the thing to provide those.
Take a look at what happened to the guys at Apple. They've started reworking and repackaging open source software for the OS, compiler, browser, etc, and if you search for those precious few unfilled jobs at http://jobs.apple.com...
Searched for: software development
Results: 1 - 10 of about 2020
Great. Even our quotes are getting outsourced to India.
As I see it, the difference is that more and more music trading has been pushed underground on encrypted networks and the likes, whereas you can still Google up movie and software torrents left and right. By design, even if you're part of many of the music sharing networks, you can't tell how many others are around, and can't get raw index lists of files to count.
If they're counting the people caught, the above still holds. Music swapping is more mature, and so it's tougher to catch folks.
You can get Wi Fi Speed Spray for a few bucks less, and there's no overseas shipping to worry about.
Microwave pizzas, hot pockets, etc come with foil-backed cardboard underneath. That looks to be the same material -- I'd wager you could cobble something together with those as well. And you'd have something to eat while you're geeking out.
This is a biggie. You can prevent users from creating code in /home if you want, and you can keep runnable stuff out of /tmp or /var.
Debian does a really great job of keeping those paths pure so that packages don't rely on them having runnable things. This means great strides in security if you mount with those options, save one terrible exception: dselect wants to run scripts in tmp :(
If you're wondering whether they'll agree, there's a good chance your worries are unfounded. Rentals are at a long time low right now with Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac handing out home loans like candy, and most supers will bend over backwards to keep you happy.
Your web logs or even your system logs are good candidates as well, as are the package description and dependency databases for any given Linux distribution, and the bug reports for same. One cool project might be to load the Debian, RedHat, etc dependency databases and merge them together and report the differences. That's a good-sized project with the potential to benefit the free software community.
You owe the oracle * FROM wallet WHERE denomination > 20;
So... what are you doing this evening?
It doesn't surprise me that so many geeks collect action figures into adulthood, then show such a profound interest in the booth babes later... in both cases, all the interesting parts are plastic.
Edit: Of course. (Flash required)
In one scene, Spiderman is leaping and twirling like he's a male gymnast. Then in the next, he has a heterosexual love interest.