The funny thing is that there is already a solution to their problem out there. Raptor Networks Technologies already has their ethernet switches in a bunch of places and have (so far) proven that their distributed network technology runs circles around Cisco's (and others) centralized architecture and costs even less. They could probably keep up with the needs of these data centers. I've spoken to guys who use their hardware and they all say 'wow.' This sounds like a perfect network for Raptor's hardware. Anyone else ran into it?
My apologies, then... You made me think you were arguing, and that I had poo-pood the development. Such is the lot of those who type instead of speak.
It is pretty cool tho:)
From what I understand, underage drinking is legal in the States too if a beverage is given to an underage child by it's parent. And this goes for in a resaturant (or other public place) as well. I haven't seen the law myself, but I've seen it done enough and it's been my experience as well (when I was underage).
Holy crap, this is just getting worse. I was doing this on my website for restaurant reviews before anyone ever heard of amazon. Sheesh. what's next, they patent the use of a keyboard to initiate a transaction?
Have you tried kefir?
Many folks have had success, in fact Dom's Kefir in-site has a bit more in this as well. Yoghurt is technically pro-biotic, but it's effects are only temporary while Kefir can actually repopulate the mucosal lining of your GI tract with beneficial bacteria (which people often mistake yoghurt with doing) and many people have found kefir to help them in sundry ways. The only problem is that almost all store bought kefir is not made from scratch and therefore not nearly as potent as the home-made stuff. Give it a try, it couldn't hurt!
I actually acknowledge the convenience of Steam for some folks, but requiring Steam-based activation is abhorrent. While I am supportive of any company trying the counter piracy, there are limits to what they should require of customers. I know it's easy to sit here and complain without offering another solution, but it's not my job to come up with a solution that makes customers happy, it is the developer's/publisher's and they would be much better of if they were to work out a more sensible solution. I bought HL2 and I'll probably pay for the addon, but if there were a method that did not require Steam (and were legal) I would use it in a heartbeat. But it is really not all bad, when I reformatted my machine and reinstalled HL2, I only needed to reinstall Steam and Steam did the rest. Now I can play HL2 without the CD and without using a no-cd crack, so I have done nothing immoral/illegal. So it's in interesting blend of freedom and restriction, in my opinion.
This is exactly what happened to me, although it was at an electronics store locally, a big chain though (perhaps that's why they went out of business a few years ago?). Identical situation and I still tell the story because it really amazed me that such a thing could actually happen.
Althought when I was a university student I used to sign my credit card receipts with a sperm-like design in the signature field. While most merchants didn't look twice, those that actually looked at the back of the card found, perhaps much to their surprise, the same sperm-like design in the cardholder signature field. Hey!... It matched!
What I'd like is for Google to stop sending my 'good' mail into the spam box, I seem to be getting a tremendous amount of false positives the more I use the account. One would think the opposite would happen as it click the 'not spam' button, but It's beginning to get frustrating and emails to Google meet with no response.
So we get lava surfing in SW:E3 and stair surfing in LOTR:RoK, what can we expect next...? I think some of our favourite franchises are setting an annoying precedent.
No wonder you hide behind the 'anonymous coward' username. Since you are so against privacy, why not post under your real username instead of an anonymous one?
It's too bad that angry people like you make the rest of us suffer your ignorance....
Perhaps *you* do, but most of us probably just like to think we are not being spied on all the time. It makes me somewhat uncomfortable to be 'on camera,' so to speak, all the time. And the less privacy we have as a society the more danger there is to those of us who can be victimized by an admittedly small group of crimminal offenders. I would like my children to be safe, but there has to be a balance.
I understand you reasoning but that's still no excuse for a police state (which, by the way, violates the very concept of freedom which our forefathers were trying to obtain when they left their respective countries). If you don't trust my children then it is your responsibility to keep *your* children away from *mine*. I pay taxes and have a right to send my children to public school (if i choose to) and it's ignorant to think that by video taping and tracking every child one can prevent bad things from happening. All it does is tell you who did it and where. We need to devise systems to educate our children properly, as well as others.
So go ahead, spy on you own kids all you want (they will love you for it, I'm sure), but if you spy on mine I'm going to be taking you to court.
Endorse it? How about you endorse it for your own kid but leave mine the fuck alone (while you are at it perhaps you should have your kid branded as well?). There is no way in hell that I will let a school do this to my son, and they day they try is the day they will wish they never tried to Big Brotherify my family's life.
I've always been rather partial to using "Pastor of Muppets" as my character name in all the online shooters, even if i get the question "you like metallica?" every 3 seconds. I've never figured out who this metallica guy is, though....
Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Or the whole series if you have the time. This guy pulls out everything from Canturbury Tales to cyberfreakiness in this work. Definitely a well-rounded read and incredibly absorbing. If you enjoyed any of the books you mentioned then you should like the Hyperion Cantos.
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The funny thing is that there is already a solution to their problem out there. Raptor Networks Technologies already has their ethernet switches in a bunch of places and have (so far) proven that their distributed network technology runs circles around Cisco's (and others) centralized architecture and costs even less. They could probably keep up with the needs of these data centers. I've spoken to guys who use their hardware and they all say 'wow.' This sounds like a perfect network for Raptor's hardware. Anyone else ran into it?
My apologies, then... You made me think you were arguing, and that I had poo-pood the development. Such is the lot of those who type instead of speak. It is pretty cool tho :)
I can only assume that puns are over your head, you silly person.
That's cool (sorry).
From what I understand, underage drinking is legal in the States too if a beverage is given to an underage child by it's parent. And this goes for in a resaturant (or other public place) as well. I haven't seen the law myself, but I've seen it done enough and it's been my experience as well (when I was underage).
Holy crap, this is just getting worse. I was doing this on my website for restaurant reviews before anyone ever heard of amazon. Sheesh. what's next, they patent the use of a keyboard to initiate a transaction?
Have you tried kefir? Many folks have had success, in fact Dom's Kefir in-site has a bit more in this as well. Yoghurt is technically pro-biotic, but it's effects are only temporary while Kefir can actually repopulate the mucosal lining of your GI tract with beneficial bacteria (which people often mistake yoghurt with doing) and many people have found kefir to help them in sundry ways. The only problem is that almost all store bought kefir is not made from scratch and therefore not nearly as potent as the home-made stuff. Give it a try, it couldn't hurt!
It's to join the 200 mile high club!
I actually acknowledge the convenience of Steam for some folks, but requiring Steam-based activation is abhorrent. While I am supportive of any company trying the counter piracy, there are limits to what they should require of customers. I know it's easy to sit here and complain without offering another solution, but it's not my job to come up with a solution that makes customers happy, it is the developer's/publisher's and they would be much better of if they were to work out a more sensible solution. I bought HL2 and I'll probably pay for the addon, but if there were a method that did not require Steam (and were legal) I would use it in a heartbeat. But it is really not all bad, when I reformatted my machine and reinstalled HL2, I only needed to reinstall Steam and Steam did the rest. Now I can play HL2 without the CD and without using a no-cd crack, so I have done nothing immoral/illegal. So it's in interesting blend of freedom and restriction, in my opinion.
Didn't Rambus do a similar thing? God, when will corporate @ssholes stop being such @ssholes. (Never, I know, but a man can dream)
This is exactly what happened to me, although it was at an electronics store locally, a big chain though (perhaps that's why they went out of business a few years ago?). Identical situation and I still tell the story because it really amazed me that such a thing could actually happen. Althought when I was a university student I used to sign my credit card receipts with a sperm-like design in the signature field. While most merchants didn't look twice, those that actually looked at the back of the card found, perhaps much to their surprise, the same sperm-like design in the cardholder signature field. Hey!... It matched!
What I'd like is for Google to stop sending my 'good' mail into the spam box, I seem to be getting a tremendous amount of false positives the more I use the account. One would think the opposite would happen as it click the 'not spam' button, but It's beginning to get frustrating and emails to Google meet with no response.
So we get lava surfing in SW:E3 and stair surfing in LOTR:RoK, what can we expect next...? I think some of our favourite franchises are setting an annoying precedent.
Eh, thats BS... 48% of all statistics are made up anyway....
Another TSR. What's one more when you have 30 I guess...
Does it play Ogg?
On Soviet Red Planet, sea waters you!
No wonder you hide behind the 'anonymous coward' username. Since you are so against privacy, why not post under your real username instead of an anonymous one? It's too bad that angry people like you make the rest of us suffer your ignorance....
Perhaps *you* do, but most of us probably just like to think we are not being spied on all the time. It makes me somewhat uncomfortable to be 'on camera,' so to speak, all the time. And the less privacy we have as a society the more danger there is to those of us who can be victimized by an admittedly small group of crimminal offenders. I would like my children to be safe, but there has to be a balance.
I understand you reasoning but that's still no excuse for a police state (which, by the way, violates the very concept of freedom which our forefathers were trying to obtain when they left their respective countries). If you don't trust my children then it is your responsibility to keep *your* children away from *mine*. I pay taxes and have a right to send my children to public school (if i choose to) and it's ignorant to think that by video taping and tracking every child one can prevent bad things from happening. All it does is tell you who did it and where. We need to devise systems to educate our children properly, as well as others. So go ahead, spy on you own kids all you want (they will love you for it, I'm sure), but if you spy on mine I'm going to be taking you to court.
Endorse it? How about you endorse it for your own kid but leave mine the fuck alone (while you are at it perhaps you should have your kid branded as well?). There is no way in hell that I will let a school do this to my son, and they day they try is the day they will wish they never tried to Big Brotherify my family's life.
I've always been rather partial to using "Pastor of Muppets" as my character name in all the online shooters, even if i get the question "you like metallica?" every 3 seconds. I've never figured out who this metallica guy is, though....
Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Or the whole series if you have the time. This guy pulls out everything from Canturbury Tales to cyberfreakiness in this work. Definitely a well-rounded read and incredibly absorbing. If you enjoyed any of the books you mentioned then you should like the Hyperion Cantos.
No kidding, I can feel my social skills beginning to atrophy already....
You mean they can see my Kenny G. pr0n screensaver?!?!?!?