How do you handle some jackass blocking the door, thereby preventing the train from leaving until security removes the blockage from the doorway?
It might not even be a person blocking the door, a sticker on the door sensors making optical sensors think there is a blockage, and/or a sticky rubber bumped on the mechanical sensors is enough to put a train 2 minutes behind schedule.
Now if you're traveling over a long distance and don't normally travel at 100% of your safe travel speed it's not that hard to make up the time, but in my city the longest you go is 2-4 minutes between stops and the trains run very close to 100% of their safe speed, which doesn't allow much room to make up lost time.
For me, I play games for the (and I know this will be a shocker) gameplay, not the storyline, so there isn't really much you can spoil in a review unless the knowledge you're granting me would change how I'd play the game.
That being said, I mostly just play games that involve killing things.
Sure, there might be some underlying "rescue the hostage" plotline, but usually that just means you kill things to get to a destination, walk up to the target and press "x" and pee while a cut-scene plays, then kill things to get to the next destination, I don't get emotionally involved enough in the hostage's well-being to care either way, and you can be sure that knowing he'll betray me in a cut-scene later won't change anything if the game won't let me proceed unless I rescue him and avoid shooting him too much for now.
I enjoyed BioShock which had more of a storyline then most of the games I've played in the past (I'm sure SOCOM had a story, but ultimately, the gameplay wouldn't change at all if the entire story disappeared, so the storyline is just filler to me) so I'm not entirely story-adverse.
What ruins a game for me is when a game makes me sit through multiple cut scenes or witless dialog (I'm looking at you Gears of War) over and over without offering a way to skip them after restarting a difficult mission. I can live with a game making me sit through the story once, but when a mission is intentionally difficult, put the damn checkpoint AFTER the "oh my god, that guy looks like he might smell bad" discussion and the cut-scene showing my heavy-on-the-A-lacking-on-the-I AI companions peeing their pants.
I've had really good luck with Maxtor, I've yet to have one die in service, although I have had a few die in the storage closet after being pulled out of service.
I have a number of WD drives in my dead stack, I'd be happy to ship them to you if you'd like to ship me Seagate drives of the same vintage in exchange...
In order to get the Zune working again, it was apparently necessary to let it drain completely so that the clock loses it's time.
At this point it might have been possible for a software update to be installed before the time synchronization occurred, especially if the time-synchronization only happens as part of a connection to the desktop.
That being said it would likely take more then 24-hours for a fix+QA, so it makes sense to not even attempt to address the issue on the day of the incident, Microsoft now has 4 years to issue a fix, if anyone believes that there will be enough devices out there for anyone to care in 4 years from now.
Until a month ago, I had similar results, never a Seagate failure, although a number of WD and Samsung failures over the years.
I've never personally had a Maxtor fail while in service either, although I had several that were not reporting errors when pulled out of service for upgrades, but failed to pass diagnostics when I pulled them out of the storage bin months later for a project that could use smaller drives.
I've had two Seagate failures as of late, although none fitting this description (mine were still online and largely recoverable, but with new bad sectors appearing daily), one was a nice slick warranty exchange, the other was just shipped last week.
I've been buying almost exclusively Seagate due not only to the fact that I haven't had any failures (until last month), but also due to the 5 year warranty. If Seagate's quality is dropping to the point where they no longer stand behind their products for 5 years, then I'll assume they know something I don't, take their opinion at it's word and look elsewhere.
In my experience when buying products that are otherwise equal, the one with a longer warranty will almost always be more reliable.
If you're using a RAID controller that can perform online expansion and migration you can largely eliminate any risk by adding drives slowly, starting with a RAID-1 array and only moving up to RAID-5 once needed.
What I do here is to put three drives in RAID-1 initially with the third as a hot-spare (which stays powered off until needed), then after 2-3 months, migrate over to the third and make one of the originals a hot-spare. After that when capacity is needed, either add another drive for RAID-10, or migrate to RAID-5. As long as you plan out enough initial capacity for those first 4-6 months you'll help skew the failures to give you enough time to perform a swap once one fails before it's siblings die.
If you'll supply the model and serial numbers and ship them for me, I'll take any and all dead drives still under warranty off your hands, as well as cover the cost of shipping and your time.
(I'd just get you to ship them direct to the manufacturer, with my name on the return address for the RMA)
Some of us don't really mind unreliable drives, between distributed data and RAID hot-spares it takes a minimum of four simultaneous drive failures before I even think pulling data from the off-site backup, those failures would need to occur within 24 hours or so otherwise the hot-spares will be up to speed and/or an alternate will have taken over.
True -- I was thinking the "citing copyright violation" comment was from the original article, but rereading the original article I don't see that wording anywhere other then the/. article.
Even then, the responsibility to notify the host of the specific infringing item is still on the part of the mark holder.
Sure, but the host isn't the alleged infringer in the first place, and the DMCA offers a safe harbor mechanism to protect the host, as well as offering a remedy to the company who's rights were infringed upon.
My guess is that the complainer doesn't want to file DMCA complaints because the complaint is made under penalty of perjury and they know that the copyright ownership belongs to the photographer, so claiming to own the copyright would expose them to perjury charges.
The onus is on the poster of the image to ensure it isn't infringing.
As long as the host responds to DMCA complaints (and the other terms of the DMCA, including having a registered agent) then the host is indemnified and can ignore complaints which are not DMCA compliant.
As far as the actual copyright issue goes, there very likely isn't one as fair use would apply.
There may be a trademark issue due to the photo resembling a trademark owned by the car company, but trademark cases are much more difficult if the photos aren't competing with the trademark holder's business interests and/or attempting to cause any form of consumer confusion.
Have you read the particular paragraph you're bitching about, or are you just bitching?
By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display.
If you were to upload content but retain all rights, Google doesn't have the right to show said content to the world. In other words, it's a 100% private content.
Google must have the right to reproduce your work to display it at all, adapt/modify allows them to add their ads.
What exactly is the problem here? Google is doing *exactly* what you ask them to do, and they're not taking on ownership in any way.
I've bumped into a few problems, mostly with companies that have their own online billing system as well as ePost.
Rogers is the worst for this, some of their features are free to eBilling customers, but not to ePost customers, but when you try to move from ePost to eBilling, the system refuses as you're already on a non-paper-billing method.
It's not about payments being a problem, but rather, when a company makes a mistake.
The mistake can be part of the automatic payment process, or simply a billing error elsewhere.
Sign up for a new mobile phone contract that includes unlimited mobile to mobile minutes and the rep forgets to add the unlimited mobile to mobile code, you could have a $1000+ bill that drops to $40 once the error is fixed, but in the mean time, prying the $960 refund out of the company isn't always trivial, nor is it fun having your mortgage/rent and other bills decline in the mean time.
It's less of an issue with a credit card as it's easier for a merchant to issue a refund, plus the card holder has some control, whereas with a bank based withdrawal, you're more or less on your own.
That's a perk of paying with credit cards, in the event of a dispute, you can initiate the refund process yourself, so the particular detail of who has the money right now is less important.
I'm not sure that grammar in the sense of our language structure is required, or even whether it's technically language or not is relevant. At least to me, it's more about the level of communication involved then the particular details or method.
The difference between humans and other animals, at least to me, is the ability to communicate an ordered list of steps to accomplish a goal.
Take a look at the Crow Vending Machine. The crows learn quickly, and teach by example, allowing learned behaviours to propagate repidly.
However, what they can't do is explain to another crow how to get a peanut without providing a demonstration.
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How do you handle some jackass blocking the door, thereby preventing the train from leaving until security removes the blockage from the doorway?
It might not even be a person blocking the door, a sticker on the door sensors making optical sensors think there is a blockage, and/or a sticky rubber bumped on the mechanical sensors is enough to put a train 2 minutes behind schedule.
Now if you're traveling over a long distance and don't normally travel at 100% of your safe travel speed it's not that hard to make up the time, but in my city the longest you go is 2-4 minutes between stops and the trains run very close to 100% of their safe speed, which doesn't allow much room to make up lost time.
Perhaps. Recommend a game?
For me, I play games for the (and I know this will be a shocker) gameplay, not the storyline, so there isn't really much you can spoil in a review unless the knowledge you're granting me would change how I'd play the game.
That being said, I mostly just play games that involve killing things.
Sure, there might be some underlying "rescue the hostage" plotline, but usually that just means you kill things to get to a destination, walk up to the target and press "x" and pee while a cut-scene plays, then kill things to get to the next destination, I don't get emotionally involved enough in the hostage's well-being to care either way, and you can be sure that knowing he'll betray me in a cut-scene later won't change anything if the game won't let me proceed unless I rescue him and avoid shooting him too much for now.
I enjoyed BioShock which had more of a storyline then most of the games I've played in the past (I'm sure SOCOM had a story, but ultimately, the gameplay wouldn't change at all if the entire story disappeared, so the storyline is just filler to me) so I'm not entirely story-adverse.
What ruins a game for me is when a game makes me sit through multiple cut scenes or witless dialog (I'm looking at you Gears of War) over and over without offering a way to skip them after restarting a difficult mission. I can live with a game making me sit through the story once, but when a mission is intentionally difficult, put the damn checkpoint AFTER the "oh my god, that guy looks like he might smell bad" discussion and the cut-scene showing my heavy-on-the-A-lacking-on-the-I AI companions peeing their pants.
I've had really good luck with Maxtor, I've yet to have one die in service, although I have had a few die in the storage closet after being pulled out of service.
I have a number of WD drives in my dead stack, I'd be happy to ship them to you if you'd like to ship me Seagate drives of the same vintage in exchange...
In order to get the Zune working again, it was apparently necessary to let it drain completely so that the clock loses it's time.
At this point it might have been possible for a software update to be installed before the time synchronization occurred, especially if the time-synchronization only happens as part of a connection to the desktop.
That being said it would likely take more then 24-hours for a fix+QA, so it makes sense to not even attempt to address the issue on the day of the incident, Microsoft now has 4 years to issue a fix, if anyone believes that there will be enough devices out there for anyone to care in 4 years from now.
Until a month ago, I had similar results, never a Seagate failure, although a number of WD and Samsung failures over the years.
I've never personally had a Maxtor fail while in service either, although I had several that were not reporting errors when pulled out of service for upgrades, but failed to pass diagnostics when I pulled them out of the storage bin months later for a project that could use smaller drives.
I've had two Seagate failures as of late, although none fitting this description (mine were still online and largely recoverable, but with new bad sectors appearing daily), one was a nice slick warranty exchange, the other was just shipped last week.
I've been buying almost exclusively Seagate due not only to the fact that I haven't had any failures (until last month), but also due to the 5 year warranty. If Seagate's quality is dropping to the point where they no longer stand behind their products for 5 years, then I'll assume they know something I don't, take their opinion at it's word and look elsewhere.
In my experience when buying products that are otherwise equal, the one with a longer warranty will almost always be more reliable.
He's the only tech, so they let him pick his own title.
If you're using a RAID controller that can perform online expansion and migration you can largely eliminate any risk by adding drives slowly, starting with a RAID-1 array and only moving up to RAID-5 once needed.
What I do here is to put three drives in RAID-1 initially with the third as a hot-spare (which stays powered off until needed), then after 2-3 months, migrate over to the third and make one of the originals a hot-spare. After that when capacity is needed, either add another drive for RAID-10, or migrate to RAID-5. As long as you plan out enough initial capacity for those first 4-6 months you'll help skew the failures to give you enough time to perform a swap once one fails before it's siblings die.
Dang man...
If you'll supply the model and serial numbers and ship them for me, I'll take any and all dead drives still under warranty off your hands, as well as cover the cost of shipping and your time.
(I'd just get you to ship them direct to the manufacturer, with my name on the return address for the RMA)
Some of us don't really mind unreliable drives, between distributed data and RAID hot-spares it takes a minimum of four simultaneous drive failures before I even think pulling data from the off-site backup, those failures would need to occur within 24 hours or so otherwise the hot-spares will be up to speed and/or an alternate will have taken over.
Maybe we can just call this generation "the 'childrens do learn' generation"
True -- I was thinking the "citing copyright violation" comment was from the original article, but rereading the original article I don't see that wording anywhere other then the /. article.
Even then, the responsibility to notify the host of the specific infringing item is still on the part of the mark holder.
Sure, but the host isn't the alleged infringer in the first place, and the DMCA offers a safe harbor mechanism to protect the host, as well as offering a remedy to the company who's rights were infringed upon.
My guess is that the complainer doesn't want to file DMCA complaints because the complaint is made under penalty of perjury and they know that the copyright ownership belongs to the photographer, so claiming to own the copyright would expose them to perjury charges.
The onus is on the poster of the image to ensure it isn't infringing.
As long as the host responds to DMCA complaints (and the other terms of the DMCA, including having a registered agent) then the host is indemnified and can ignore complaints which are not DMCA compliant.
As far as the actual copyright issue goes, there very likely isn't one as fair use would apply.
There may be a trademark issue due to the photo resembling a trademark owned by the car company, but trademark cases are much more difficult if the photos aren't competing with the trademark holder's business interests and/or attempting to cause any form of consumer confusion.
Yeah... "I gimped Bob into the company photo" will go over real well.
Have you read the particular paragraph you're bitching about, or are you just bitching?
If you were to upload content but retain all rights, Google doesn't have the right to show said content to the world. In other words, it's a 100% private content.
Google must have the right to reproduce your work to display it at all, adapt/modify allows them to add their ads.
What exactly is the problem here? Google is doing *exactly* what you ask them to do, and they're not taking on ownership in any way.
I've bumped into a few problems, mostly with companies that have their own online billing system as well as ePost.
Rogers is the worst for this, some of their features are free to eBilling customers, but not to ePost customers, but when you try to move from ePost to eBilling, the system refuses as you're already on a non-paper-billing method.
It's not about payments being a problem, but rather, when a company makes a mistake.
The mistake can be part of the automatic payment process, or simply a billing error elsewhere.
Sign up for a new mobile phone contract that includes unlimited mobile to mobile minutes and the rep forgets to add the unlimited mobile to mobile code, you could have a $1000+ bill that drops to $40 once the error is fixed, but in the mean time, prying the $960 refund out of the company isn't always trivial, nor is it fun having your mortgage/rent and other bills decline in the mean time.
It's less of an issue with a credit card as it's easier for a merchant to issue a refund, plus the card holder has some control, whereas with a bank based withdrawal, you're more or less on your own.
That's a perk of paying with credit cards, in the event of a dispute, you can initiate the refund process yourself, so the particular detail of who has the money right now is less important.
And what about bees? They transmit directions and recruit help without demonstrations, and i KNOW that a freaking bee is not a human being. see here.
Oh I wouldn't worry about bees, they'll be gone soon, neatly removing the issue of having to worry about it.
So what is a better answer then? Is there one? Or are we asking the wrong question?
Overrated? Awww, did I hurt some fanboi's feels?
I'm not sure that grammar in the sense of our language structure is required, or even whether it's technically language or not is relevant. At least to me, it's more about the level of communication involved then the particular details or method.
The difference between humans and other animals, at least to me, is the ability to communicate an ordered list of steps to accomplish a goal.
Take a look at the Crow Vending Machine. The crows learn quickly, and teach by example, allowing learned behaviours to propagate repidly.
However, what they can't do is explain to another crow how to get a peanut without providing a demonstration.
Looking at your second paragraph, all of those things were enabled by language, no?
So what of apes that have learned sign language, and teach it to other apes?
Your grandpa was molting?
This is why god invented beta testing.