I hear yah. Defunct processes are a pain in Linux, and the gam_server sometimes goes to 99% CPU when I am working with removable media. Sometimes defunct can not be kill, and the gam_server will just restart ( if you are running apps that need it ), but when it comes back it isn't using 99% CPU anymore.:)
You just need to configure your package manager better. Plus, if you cannot find something in Yum, then apt-get my find it. I haven't had to compile a single app on my Linux boxen in quite a while. I may be missing some performance gains from compiling, but I've saved myself a ton of time figuring out which of the 50+ options I should use when compiling the app.
And when you find that "stop" button grayed out, then what? This happened to a coworker of mine 2 weeks ago when she needed to stop Terminal service. Yep, she was local admin on the box, too.
Trust me, advertising is not globally expected as normal except by completely brain-washed. I am still waiting for pay-tv to become advertisement-free again ( they way it was originally ) before subscribing to that service.
Also, I have the same reaction that you do...advertising to me is a guarantee that I will not buy your product. Popup/under/sideways adverts make me want to do unspeakably evil things to your company. Btw, I am an employee at a media company that provides me free access to their pay-tv services, but I refuse it due to the advertising.
That people should be discriminating buyers is a given, going out and proactively researching a product should should be done before purchasing it, though there is still a margin for error. I've compared notes with coworkers, costudents, and friends, and they all have the same ethics, with few exceptions.
If a company wants my or my like-minded associates business, they need to 1) Allow their product to be thoroughly and objectively review. 2) Provide detailed information on their product. Including such things as dimensions,pictures, pro's, cons, known defects, warranty, return policy. 3) Be competitive in pricing and customer service, even if they are first to market/monopoly. 4) Not be restrictive of how they product may be used. e.g. do not be like Microsoft XBox, Apple Computers after the sale is done. After the product has been purchased, its none of their business what is done with it.
I could go on, but this post is already a bit too long. Thank you for reading.
Trust me, advertising is not globally expected as normal except by completely brain-washed. I am still waiting for pay-tv to become advertisement-free again ( they way it was originally ) before subscribing to that service.
Also, I have the same reaction that you do...advertising to me is a guarantee that I will not buy your product. Popup/under/sideways adverts make me want to do unspeakably evil things to your company. Btw, I am an employee at a media company that provides me free access to their pay-tv services, but I refuse it due to the advertising.
That people should be discriminating buyers is a given, going out and proactively researching a product should should be done before purchasing it, though there is still a margin for error. I've compared notes with coworkers, costudents, and friends, and they all have the same ethics, with few exceptions.
If a company wants my or my like-minded associates business, they need to 1) Allow their product to be thoroughly and objectively review. 2) Provide detailed information on their product. Including such things as dimensions,pictures, pro's, cons, known defects, warranty, return policy. 3) Be competitive in pricing and customer service, even if they are first to market/monopoly. 4) Not be restrictive of how they product may be used. e.g. do not be like Microsoft XBox, Apple Computers after the sale is done. After the product has been purchased, its none of their business what is done with it.
I could go on, but this email is already a bit too long. Thank you for reading.
Actually you can use XFS during the initial installation of Fedora Core 3 and 4 ( I haven't tried it with Fedora Core 1/2 ). At the installation menu, at the "boot" prompt, type "linux xfs", and when you get to the disk setup screen, you can now specify XFS format for partitions.
1) Load SafePeer IP filter plugin for Azureus bittorrent client 2) Get a request from an unauthorized IP address for piece of the file 3) Ignore request 4) Continue participating in the stream. 5) Enjoy your download.
Now they can't tell if you are participating or just watching the torrent just like they are.
A browser is a browser is a browser. Or 'a browser by any other name surfs just as well' - Shakespeare. To some people IE is an alternative browser, so how about we just call a browser a browser, unless you want to specify a particular one, then call it by its name.
Type 1 Diabetes is genetic, or caused by some physical malfunction. Type 2 is diet, and curable by fixing your diet. I f you read up on the South Beach diet, the same principle of its diet ( reducing the amount of sugar processed by the body at any given moment by slowing digestion/ingenstion of sugars ) applies to curing Type 2 diabetes, and inderectly applies to preventing heart disease, which is the problem the diet was originally designed to address.
What will suprise a lot of people is a lot of 'healthy foods', while nutritionally sound, contain starches and carbohydrates that quickly convert to sugar, and can lead to weight gain, Type 2 diabetes, and heart disease. Just compare the glycemic index of: Raw orange, peeled orange, orange juice and you will get my drift.
So, reducing the intake of sugars, starches( potatoes! ), and carbohydrates ( flour, orange juice, etc ) will go a long way to reducing the three problems I mentioned above. Besides reducing intake, you can impede their digestion with mono-unsaturated fats ( part-skim mozarella ), fiber ( almonds, whole-grain bread ), and certain oils ( canola, olive ).
That makes no sense. You automatically assume the only motivation to do anything is money. I disagree, strongly. Just take a project such as MythTV, mplayer, etc which can take video feeds and store them to hard drive, and I am barely scatching the surface. The 1TB part of the device is nothing new either, just use the same method you used for a smaller amount of storage and store it on a larger storage device/array.
As far as marketing something and making it popular, sure, that is only a step above building the device in your basement if you goal was to make it readily available in a pre-packaged format. If that wasn't your goal, then it isn't.
So, in the end, the 'story' of this device is not any new technology, but rather the popularization of something that was already possible ( and cheaply so ), but not widely known.
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I was working at the USAF Academy wondering why people were all excited over Windows 95. Later I was sent to training to support the OS on the military campus, and did learn quit a bit about how various components of it work as we migrated users from Windows 3.1 to Win95. Little tricks such as skipping the loading screen so you could see any errors that occured trying to load vxd/other files, getting the startup menu to come up, and so on and so forth. One interesting feature of Windows 95 was it popping up the "duplicate IP detected" on bootup. The network crew did not implement DHCP as they felt static IP's made it easier to track who was duing what ( like surfing porn ), so it was a common problem to try pinging IP addresses to see if it was in use ( at the moment ) and then assign it to a new system. Of course, pinging did not keep you from assigning an in-use IP address as it could not check computers that were powered off.
But hey, I wasn't in charge of the network, so I just dealt with it.
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I remember getting a Cease and Desist Letter from some porn company back in 2003. One of their P2P file monitoring monkeys flagged a file I was sharing via Gnutella as a matching the name of one of their porn videos. The file they claimed I was illegally sharing was a shareware version of a Jurassic Park game that was included on the Win95 CD. I thought it was totally hilarious that they put together a long legal threat that they sent to me in addition to contacting my ISP, who actually turned off my service for a day because of it.
A Muslim is a person who follow the religion of Islam. So nationality, ethnicity, etc. has nothing to do with being Muslim or not. It's determined by what you believe.
Good point. A company thinks long term. Jim Bob wants to code a new solution in Ruby because its fun. What happens when Jim Bob leaves the company? Or transfers to another department. Omg, now John Bob has to learn Ruby and support it. 90% of the apps in the company are in Java and Jim Bob's manager approved Ruby.
Now his manager's manager wants to know what the business case was for coding in a langauge that: 1) No one else knows. 2) Could have been done in Java. 3) Offers no benefits over other languages already in-use in the company. 4) Has not been tested in the heterogenous company enviroments 5) Has no standards in place for system and user acceptance testing,
OK, he is sweating the decision he made to allow Jim Bob to use Ruby. Looks like he should have first come up with a business case for moving to it and made sure it passed the 'ritual of fire' before creating a solution in Ruby.
I have a bit of insight into this as I support a Log analysis system. Marketers not only want to know what pages are hitting, but they are also concerned with the path a user takes through the site, and even where they leave. In one case, a Motorcyle parts site was not getting many sales, so they hired a consulting firm to use the same program I support to track the flow ( sequence of pages ). They discovered that most users were leaving after they hit the product search page. With this information, they analyzed their product search engine and discovered how bady it worked ( it hardly ever returned results that were related to the search keywords ), and their web site sales more than doubled because people coudl finally find what they were looking for.
Log files are good for this, but cookies ( and even better, page tags ) can often give you an idea of why you promotion or whatever isn't working. Does it take people too long to get to the page they want to find, to find the product they are looking for. Does your page tag tell you that people are clicking a link to google.com right before they leave your site ( meaning they can't find what they want on your site ).
Also, page caching can hide a lot of the more basic metrics such as page hits. Page tagging gets around this by embedding code in the page that reports it has been loaded to a Data Collector, regardless if it was loaded from the Web site or web cache.
Yes, I am all for privacy, and have my browser set to ask me about every single cookiek,and to remember my decision by setting cookie policies on a per site basis, but there are other less intrusive ways of getting the data.
Regardless of how the data is collected, the user needs to be made aware and given the opportunity to accept of deny whatever information is gathered client-side. And I don't mean a 50 page Eula, I mean a short "this site records information X using method Y and retains if for Z days ), if you don't like it, press the back button.:)
With the moon having an exactly 24 hour rotation around the earth, would it not be better to switch to a lunar calendar and not worry about leap years...ever? No calendar correction would ever be necessary ( unless a something messes with the moon's orbit, and that has not happened yet ).
Doesn't this 'keep it simple' approach sound better than 'keep bandaiding it'? Yes, it is a huge switch as opposed to a minor ajustment, but you would never have to adjust again, and all of your time-keeping processes would be simpler.
On second thought, people would never go for it, it's too easy.
I admit that I have been pissed at Amazon ever since they did the "one click shopping" patent, on the other hand, they are one of my main online shopping sites for items for my home, bath, and bedroom. Just recently I bought a new Bed mattress/pillow sham/etc set from them that was $300 less than where I found it locally. I think this is a problem many people face. I refuse to go to Walmart buy HP products, and will not buy Nike shoes ( though I have bought other products from them ).
Luckily, I found another online store that has the same line of bed 'dressings' for the same prices as Amazon, so I will order from them as I complete the set, instead of from Amazon.
However, there remains a whole slew of items from them that others cannot compete on price-wise and shipping speed wise ( or selection-wise ). I just may make a project out of finding alternative online sources for everything Amazon sells and throw the links onto a web site (with domain name ihateamazon.org, maybe? ). I will probably be hard pressed to find another online store that ships products to me in 2 days even when I select standard shipping, but its worth a shot.
I agree. No one I know has ever heard of this device. Actually, I have seen a lot of Blackberry devices and a few Treos's, and some Handheld PC's, but never a Zodiac. Most likely if did not really have a market segment to sell to, and also not enough marketing to convince people that they needed to buy one. Often just being good is not good enough. You have to create the impression/perception that your product is good.
Sorry you feel so strongly pro DRM. To many people, myself included, the first think think when I see "DRM" associated with a product is "Don't Buy It."
lol. I just spotted this article and was going to post the same thing. I am serious though. This year I reflected on what playing games was actually getting me. Entertainment, sure. Something to do, sure. But when compare it to other things such as sports, dining out with the opposite sex, etc, it is beaten by most things ( except watching television, staring at the wall, etc. ) so I decided to stop playing games altogether,even though I recently purchased several, they all hit the garbage can ( where there was physical media ) or the bit bucket ( where the game app was downloaded, such as Guildwars ).
All I can say is my social life is way up, my place looks better, I am doing better at pretty much everything.
Becoming a game designer can have its advantages, but to design games you have to play them, lots of them. You need to be available at all hours when Graphics artists, sound artists, developers, packagers, marketers, etc have questions about vision/philosophy of the game. Sure, you are getting a paycheck, but, what are you really contributing to society as a whole? Giving them something to waste time with? One can always argue there is something better to do with one's time ( than, say, posting on Slashdot ), but I say its the effects of ones action that are important.
There are good byproducts of the game industry, but there are other ways to get this besides designing games. Its the difference between a game and simulation in many cases.
Ok, I am done ranting. Hopefully anyone who reads this posts at least reflect on these words, no matter whether they agree or disagree with what has been said here.
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Not only that, ISP's will throttle ALL of your Internet traffic then, unless your router keeps changing its listening port.
Yes, this was a joke.
I hear yah. Defunct processes are a pain in Linux, and the gam_server sometimes goes to 99% CPU when I am working with removable media. Sometimes defunct can not be kill, and the gam_server will just restart ( if you are running apps that need it ), but when it comes back it isn't using 99% CPU anymore. :)
You just need to configure your package manager better. Plus, if you cannot find something in Yum, then apt-get my find it. I haven't had to compile a single app on my Linux boxen in quite a while. I may be missing some performance gains from compiling, but I've saved myself a ton of time figuring out which of the 50+ options I should use when compiling the app.
And when you find that "stop" button grayed out, then what? This happened to a coworker of mine 2 weeks ago when she needed to stop Terminal service. Yep, she was local admin on the box, too.
Trust me, advertising is not globally expected as normal except by completely brain-washed. I am still waiting for pay-tv to become advertisement-free again ( they way it was originally ) before subscribing to that service.
Also, I have the same reaction that you do...advertising to me is a guarantee that I will not buy your product. Popup/under/sideways adverts make me want to do unspeakably evil things to your company. Btw, I am an employee at a media company that provides me free access to their pay-tv services, but I refuse it due to the advertising.
That people should be discriminating buyers is a given, going out and proactively researching a product should should be done before purchasing it, though there is still a margin for error. I've compared notes with coworkers, costudents, and friends, and they all have the same ethics, with few exceptions.
If a company wants my or my like-minded associates business, they need to
1) Allow their product to be thoroughly and objectively review.
2) Provide detailed information on their product. Including such things as dimensions,pictures, pro's, cons, known defects, warranty, return policy.
3) Be competitive in pricing and customer service, even if they are first to market/monopoly.
4) Not be restrictive of how they product may be used. e.g. do not be like Microsoft XBox, Apple Computers after the sale is done. After the product has been purchased, its none of their business what is done with it.
I could go on, but this post is already a bit too long. Thank you for reading.
-Fortezza
Trust me, advertising is not globally expected as normal except by completely brain-washed. I am still waiting for pay-tv to become advertisement-free again ( they way it was originally ) before subscribing to that service.
Also, I have the same reaction that you do...advertising to me is a guarantee that I will not buy your product. Popup/under/sideways adverts make me want to do unspeakably evil things to your company. Btw, I am an employee at a media company that provides me free access to their pay-tv services, but I refuse it due to the advertising.
That people should be discriminating buyers is a given, going out and proactively researching a product should should be done before purchasing it, though there is still a margin for error. I've compared notes with coworkers, costudents, and friends, and they all have the same ethics, with few exceptions.
If a company wants my or my like-minded associates business, they need to
1) Allow their product to be thoroughly and objectively review.
2) Provide detailed information on their product. Including such things as dimensions,pictures, pro's, cons, known defects, warranty, return policy.
3) Be competitive in pricing and customer service, even if they are first to market/monopoly.
4) Not be restrictive of how they product may be used. e.g. do not be like Microsoft XBox, Apple Computers after the sale is done. After the product has been purchased, its none of their business what is done with it.
I could go on, but this email is already a bit too long. Thank you for reading.
-Fortezza
Actually you can use XFS during the initial installation of Fedora Core 3 and 4 ( I haven't tried it with Fedora Core 1/2 ). At the installation menu, at the "boot" prompt, type "linux xfs", and when you get to the disk setup screen, you can now specify XFS format for partitions.
Enjoy!
ROFL! That was funny and has more than just an element of truth to it. I wish I had some mod points.
1) Load SafePeer IP filter plugin for Azureus bittorrent client
2) Get a request from an unauthorized IP address for piece of the file
3) Ignore request
4) Continue participating in the stream.
5) Enjoy your download.
Now they can't tell if you are participating or just watching the torrent just like they are.
I think they meant the ever-so-common "pirate flag" that means it is ok to pirate this content.
A browser is a browser is a browser. Or 'a browser by any other name surfs just as well' - Shakespeare. To some people IE is an alternative browser, so how about we just call a browser a browser, unless you want to specify a particular one, then call it by its name.
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Type 1 Diabetes is genetic, or caused by some physical malfunction. Type 2 is diet, and curable by fixing your diet. I f you read up on the South Beach diet, the same principle of its diet ( reducing the amount of sugar processed by the body at any given moment by slowing digestion/ingenstion of sugars ) applies to curing Type 2 diabetes, and inderectly applies to preventing heart disease, which is the problem the diet was originally designed to address.
What will suprise a lot of people is a lot of 'healthy foods', while nutritionally sound, contain starches and carbohydrates that quickly convert to sugar, and can lead to weight gain, Type 2 diabetes, and heart disease. Just compare the glycemic index of:
Raw orange, peeled orange, orange juice
and you will get my drift.
So, reducing the intake of sugars, starches( potatoes! ), and carbohydrates ( flour, orange juice, etc ) will go a long way to reducing the three problems I mentioned above. Besides reducing intake, you can impede their digestion with mono-unsaturated fats ( part-skim mozarella ), fiber ( almonds, whole-grain bread ), and certain oils ( canola, olive ).
So if I complain about the $3.50 bottle of water I get at the movie theatre, it's ok? Not everyone gets soda/candy/popcorn at the theatre.
That makes no sense. You automatically assume the only motivation to do anything is money. I disagree, strongly. Just take a project such as MythTV, mplayer, etc which can take video feeds and store them to hard drive, and I am barely scatching the surface. The 1TB part of the device is nothing new either, just use the same method you used for a smaller amount of storage and store it on a larger storage device/array.
As far as marketing something and making it popular, sure, that is only a step above building the device in your
basement if you goal was to make it readily available in a pre-packaged format. If that wasn't your goal, then it isn't.
So, in the end, the 'story' of this device is not any new technology, but rather the popularization of something that was already possible ( and cheaply so ), but not widely known.
I was working at the USAF Academy wondering why people were all excited over Windows 95. Later I was sent to training to support the OS on the military campus, and did learn quit a bit about how various components of it work as we migrated users from Windows 3.1 to Win95. Little tricks such as skipping the loading screen so you could see any errors that occured trying to load vxd/other files, getting the startup menu to come up, and so on and so forth. One interesting feature of Windows 95 was it popping up the "duplicate IP detected" on bootup. The network crew did not implement DHCP as they felt static IP's made it easier to track who was duing what ( like surfing porn ), so it was a common problem to try pinging IP addresses to see if it was in use ( at the moment ) and then assign it to a new system. Of course, pinging did not keep you from assigning an in-use IP address as it could not check computers that were powered off.
But hey, I wasn't in charge of the network, so I just dealt with it.
I remember getting a Cease and Desist Letter from some porn company back in 2003. One of their P2P file monitoring monkeys flagged a file I was sharing via Gnutella as a matching the name of one of their porn videos.
The file they claimed I was illegally sharing was a shareware version of a Jurassic Park game that was included on the Win95 CD. I thought it was totally hilarious that they put together a long legal threat that they sent to me in addition to contacting my ISP, who actually turned off my service for a day because of it.
A Muslim is a person who follow the religion of Islam. So nationality, ethnicity, etc. has nothing to do with being Muslim or not. It's determined by what you believe.
Good point. A company thinks long term. Jim Bob wants to code a new solution in Ruby because its fun. What happens when Jim Bob leaves the company? Or transfers to another department. Omg, now John Bob has to learn Ruby and support it. 90% of the apps in the company are in Java and Jim Bob's manager approved Ruby.
Now his manager's manager wants to know what the business case was for coding in a langauge that:
1) No one else knows.
2) Could have been done in Java.
3) Offers no benefits over other languages already in-use in the company.
4) Has not been tested in the heterogenous company enviroments
5) Has no standards in place for system and user acceptance testing,
OK, he is sweating the decision he made to allow Jim Bob to use Ruby. Looks like he should have first come up with a business case for moving to it and made sure it passed the 'ritual of fire' before creating a solution in Ruby.
Another reason that Canada rules.
I have a bit of insight into this as I support a Log analysis system. Marketers not only want to know what pages are hitting, but they are also concerned with the path a user takes through the site, and even where they leave.
:)
In one case, a Motorcyle parts site was not getting many sales, so they hired a consulting firm to use the same program I support to track the flow ( sequence of pages ). They discovered that most users were leaving after they hit the product search page. With this information, they analyzed their product search engine and discovered how bady it worked ( it hardly ever returned results that were related to the search keywords ), and their web site sales more than doubled because people coudl finally find what they were looking for.
Log files are good for this, but cookies ( and even better, page tags ) can often give you an idea of why you promotion or whatever isn't working. Does it take people too long to get to the page they want to find, to find the product they are looking for. Does your page tag tell you that people are clicking a link to google.com right before they leave your site ( meaning they can't find what they want on your site ).
Also, page caching can hide a lot of the more basic metrics such as page hits. Page tagging gets around this by embedding code in the page that reports it has been loaded to a Data Collector, regardless if it was loaded from the Web site or web cache.
Yes, I am all for privacy, and have my browser set to ask me about every single cookiek,and to remember my decision by setting cookie policies on a per site basis, but there are other less intrusive ways of getting the data.
Regardless of how the data is collected, the user needs to be made aware and given the opportunity to accept of deny whatever information is gathered client-side. And I don't mean a 50 page Eula, I mean a short "this site records information X using method Y and retains if for Z days ), if you don't like it, press the back button.
With the moon having an exactly 24 hour rotation around the earth, would it not be better to switch to a lunar calendar and not worry about leap years...ever? No calendar correction would ever be necessary ( unless a something messes with the moon's orbit, and that has not happened yet ).
Doesn't this 'keep it simple' approach sound better than 'keep bandaiding it'? Yes, it is a huge switch as opposed to a minor ajustment, but you would never have to adjust again, and all of your time-keeping processes would be simpler.
On second thought, people would never go for it, it's too easy.
I admit that I have been pissed at Amazon ever since they
did the "one click shopping" patent, on the other hand, they are one of my main online shopping sites for items for my home, bath, and bedroom. Just recently I bought a new Bed mattress/pillow sham/etc set from them that was $300 less than where I found it locally. I think this is a problem many people face. I refuse to go to Walmart buy HP products, and will not buy Nike shoes ( though I have bought other products from them ).
Luckily, I found another online store that has the same line of bed 'dressings' for the same prices as Amazon, so I will order from them as I complete the set, instead of from Amazon.
However, there remains a whole slew of items from them
that others cannot compete on price-wise and shipping speed wise ( or selection-wise ). I just may make a project out of finding alternative online sources for everything Amazon sells and throw the links onto a web site (with domain name ihateamazon.org, maybe? ). I will probably be hard pressed to find another online store that ships products to me in 2 days even when I select standard shipping, but its worth a shot.
I agree. No one I know has ever heard of this device. Actually, I have seen a lot of Blackberry devices and a few Treos's, and some Handheld PC's, but never a Zodiac. Most likely if did not really have a market segment to sell to, and also not enough marketing to convince people that they needed to buy one.
Often just being good is not good enough. You have to create the impression/perception that your product is good.
Sorry you feel so strongly pro DRM. To many people, myself included, the first think think when I see "DRM" associated with a product is "Don't Buy It."
lol. I just spotted this article and was going to post the same thing. I am serious though. This year I reflected on what playing games was actually getting me. Entertainment, sure. Something to do, sure. But when compare it to other things such as sports, dining out with the opposite sex, etc, it is beaten by most things ( except watching television, staring at the wall, etc. ) so I decided to stop playing games altogether,even though I recently purchased several, they all hit the garbage can ( where there was physical media ) or the bit bucket ( where the game app was downloaded, such as Guildwars ).
All I can say is my social life is way up, my place looks better, I am doing better at pretty much everything.
Becoming a game designer can have its advantages, but to design games you have to play them, lots of them. You need to be available at all hours when Graphics artists, sound artists, developers, packagers, marketers, etc have questions about vision/philosophy of the game.
Sure, you are getting a paycheck, but, what are you really contributing to society as a whole? Giving them something to waste time with? One can always argue there is something better to do with one's time ( than, say, posting on Slashdot ), but I say its the effects of ones action that are important.
There are good byproducts of the game industry, but there are other ways to get this besides designing games. Its the difference between a game and simulation in many cases.
Ok, I am done ranting. Hopefully anyone who reads this posts at least reflect on these words, no matter whether they agree or disagree with what has been said here.
-Fortezza