Sounds like they'd be more than happy to be fired by you.
The HVAC technician didn't take the job to answer your questions and give you the benefit of his training. That's a terrible value proposition. In the technician's shoes in your little example, I'd gladly be beheaded in your royal highnesses' court so long as it meant your AC would not function for at least several fortnights (or until you found a suitable technician amongst the proles).
It probably hasn't occurred to you that those roadblocks actually exist. Sometimes its for a good reason (like you not having administrative privileges, or actual justification)
More often than not these roadblocks actually stem from a systemic misunderstanding (which is horribly contagious I might add) within the organization of this American legislation:
The open source stuff is great, but you have to be prepared to do some major scripting! Netbackup is truly awesome though and very extensible. I suggest you give it a try, you can license a master and media server for about 6000$ and ~600$ per agent.
Again I've never had problems with BE and Exchange requiring restarts. The worst thing of course that happens with BE is the device and config databases corrupt themselves on a regular basis:) I can't agree more BE is a POS and waste of money.
I've supported Netbackup across a global enterprise since 3.4 and I've seen very few cases of a Netbackup Agent actually crashing a server. Sure the service crashes sometimes, but a reboot is rarely necessary as a result of the Backup Agent. I'd hazard to say that 90% of backup agent issues I encounter are related to a misconfiguration of the kernel or system properties of the client host.
Sure Netbackup has its issues, but when you are a hodge podge of 30 year old products slapped together, attempting to support a wide variety of cases, features and kernels, you are going to have some issues like encryption+mtime incrementals.
Don't get me started on BackupExec. That was crap when Seagate owned it, and its even crappier today now that Veritas and Symantec have gotten their grubby dev-paws all over it.
But please, please don't hate on the Netbackup until you've tried some of the other so called solutions out there at the enterprise level. It might be easy to blame Symantec, but I think many of these problems are par for the course. Many are a direct result of past devlopment decisions and requirements prior to the Symantec purchase.
Just my two-cents
This is not practical when you are running multiple VMs on a single host (usually the case).
Backup software such as Netbackup can take 10-15% off the top during incremental backups alone. Soon the cluster or vmware host is brought to its knees.
Running file level backups in a VM, is actually the worst choice you can make (according to VMware AND my experience). Read the VCB docs if you're curious as to what VMWare recommends (other than VCB for ESX)
As a gamer, and fellow/. 6-digiter, I find your opinion incredibly insulting to my intelligence and morality as a person and a serious gamer.
Social organization occurs in games specifically to combat the type of bad socialization you speak of. In fact, in these types of sophisticated gaming-societies, there is no need for moral behavior enforcement.
That said, obviously it is a bad idea, as long as people like you judge morality on the basis of the lowest common denominator. I also suggest you stop using Halo matches or whatever it is you gleaned this opinion from, as your barometer of the average gamer, let alone a highly organized and serious gamer.
It sounds to me like you've simply experienced playing Halo or something else with a bunch of 15 year olds. But its not right to equate those experiences as they are considered a minority community now (gamers 18 years)
wussies. =) It seriously doesn't get that cold. The only people I feel bad for in the winter, are ones without a proper jacket and mittens. Feels like summer, when you are dressed for the weather.
I live in Ottawa, and at most we get one or two weeks yearly of 0F weather. Usually the coldest we get is in the mid 20s. Now if we're talking the Dakotas, then I understand, its pretty much cold there all winter (plains)
Wow are you two ever a waste of breath. Go back to sleep hurling yand hope you still have civil liberties left when you all wake up. If you do read this you might want to let me know what I've lied about...what untruths do I speak of?
No FUD here, just watching my fellow citizen's backs. If you don't see your liberties eroding in realtime than I'm not going to be able to convince you otherwise.
Here's some truth: The sky's not falling by design, which is why you must be eternally vigilant. But things change, and politics is a pendulum that always swings back in either direction. This gives me fear and hope at the same time. Good day.
I hope you find evidence of one of these events yourself, rather than pestering people fighting for your intellectual mindshare in what could be the most important political battle of the 21st century in the west.......right after the FBI notifies you that they've been perusing your library records without your knowledge just because they can. Or some other clandestine attack on your liberties. The key word here is clandestine.
Point being, your argument is incredibly weak considering if it did happen, you know full well that very few would know about it or be compelled to speak out for fear of further retribution.
But I suspect you're trolling if you're smart enough to come to that realization. Pity if I've just come to that realization after reading your own words.
Sorry perhaps I was the victim of propoganda just like you are here, but that does not negate my point. Middle of the road in america is not exactly rich. In fact your own data shows this quite clearly. It also does not refernce the cost of living which is required to qualify ANY of inference.
This is lower middle class. 40k per year is like two parents working at Walmart. But as usual, there is much nitpicking on slashdot: have you BEEN TO MICHIGAN LATELY?
So back to the real topic at hand *sigh* Community Living Standards is something they should be caring more about. Not community censorship standards. What a waste of democracy.
I think the point is he is asking for equal treatment. Media is Media. singling out games is ridiculous and counter productive. The industry has already taken responsibility, and the government should have nothing to do with what media we consume in a free democratic society or you risk the erosion of an informed public: a tenant of both freedom and democracy.
There is a rating system in place that is more than adequate and quite easy to make assumptions based on (ie you do not need to know the specifics of each rating to make an informed choice, although that information is readily available and advertised clearly on each box).
For once Dougie-boy is right, and politicians as usual, are demonstrating they are experts at wasting time, money and bugling what should be common sense.
While you harp on about community standards, do you really think a place like MICHIGAN is worried about community media standards? I think they have bigger problems such as COMMUNITY LIVING standards in one of the poorest american states.
That said, this is america. You can sue anyone you want right or wrong. I am making this general statement to aviod people distorting our discussion.
No, they didn't. The 'core' system was simply the system, power supply, RF adapter, and a controller. As for no-pack in game, this has been a standard gotcha for years. It may be a misstep, but Sony is going to make the same misstep. I'd normally say Nintendo would make that mistake, too, but they're offering the download service for their classic games.
Uh....yeah they did. All three systems lauched with two controllers and a game in the core system. "Basic packs" (single controller, game/nogame) came later on in the lifecycle (1 year later). This is really a bizarre comment- not only is it factually wrong, but how is any of this a misstep for sony or nintendo?
It would make sense to put values ahead of shopping if he had an agenda to end slave labour and didn't need to shop. Or if he was not considered "working poor" and had no choice but to stop consuming things made out of plastic, textiles or processed food.
You point out yourself this is not practical.
However, putting your values ahead of entertainment is - we are being ripped off, and it is perfectly practical to not buy luxury items in protest.
Yes all are evil, but its also not wise to bite the hand that feeds...
Entertaining if you can get past the long drawn out character sketches. BeauSeigneur obviously has researched both his conspiracy and biblical theory and woven a creative tale incorporating the two. Like any tale of this magnititude, the story weakens as the finely woven threads come together, but still, this series is an accomplishment in consolidating conspiracy and the bible without completely disrespecting true believers.
Much of it is pre-rendered. However, some of what Sony showed yesterday was in game stuff, and well if you have any doubt, please take a look at the realtime FFVII render.
Was killzone prerendered? Maybe, but did you notice the mouths didn't synch at all and how osme of the explosions looked "optimized"? To me it just looks like a well thought out level, with minimal models (read high poly), and multi-passes on every texture.
the key to telling the difference these days is usually physics.
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No, I will not get off your lawn, 2406.
Try being migrated from Outlook to Notes. That's the closest thing to 'a woman's pain'.
Zappa ~ Zap media?
Sounds like they'd be more than happy to be fired by you. The HVAC technician didn't take the job to answer your questions and give you the benefit of his training. That's a terrible value proposition. In the technician's shoes in your little example, I'd gladly be beheaded in your royal highnesses' court so long as it meant your AC would not function for at least several fortnights (or until you found a suitable technician amongst the proles).
I think you'll find a hard time finding anyone here with an IQ 100 or above who disagrees with that statement.
It probably hasn't occurred to you that those roadblocks actually exist. Sometimes its for a good reason (like you not having administrative privileges, or actual justification)
More often than not these roadblocks actually stem from a systemic misunderstanding (which is horribly contagious I might add) within the organization of this American legislation:
http://www.soxlaw.com/
There is no such DVD levy. Check it out for yourself or ask at the store.
The open source stuff is great, but you have to be prepared to do some major scripting! Netbackup is truly awesome though and very extensible. I suggest you give it a try, you can license a master and media server for about 6000$ and ~600$ per agent.
:) I can't agree more BE is a POS and waste of money.
Again I've never had problems with BE and Exchange requiring restarts. The worst thing of course that happens with BE is the device and config databases corrupt themselves on a regular basis
I've supported Netbackup across a global enterprise since 3.4 and I've seen very few cases of a Netbackup Agent actually crashing a server. Sure the service crashes sometimes, but a reboot is rarely necessary as a result of the Backup Agent. I'd hazard to say that 90% of backup agent issues I encounter are related to a misconfiguration of the kernel or system properties of the client host. Sure Netbackup has its issues, but when you are a hodge podge of 30 year old products slapped together, attempting to support a wide variety of cases, features and kernels, you are going to have some issues like encryption+mtime incrementals. Don't get me started on BackupExec. That was crap when Seagate owned it, and its even crappier today now that Veritas and Symantec have gotten their grubby dev-paws all over it. But please, please don't hate on the Netbackup until you've tried some of the other so called solutions out there at the enterprise level. It might be easy to blame Symantec, but I think many of these problems are par for the course. Many are a direct result of past devlopment decisions and requirements prior to the Symantec purchase. Just my two-cents
This is not practical when you are running multiple VMs on a single host (usually the case).
Backup software such as Netbackup can take 10-15% off the top during incremental backups alone. Soon the cluster or vmware host is brought to its knees.
Running file level backups in a VM, is actually the worst choice you can make (according to VMware AND my experience). Read the VCB docs if you're curious as to what VMWare recommends (other than VCB for ESX)
As a gamer, and fellow /. 6-digiter, I find your opinion incredibly insulting to my intelligence and morality as a person and a serious gamer.
Social organization occurs in games specifically to combat the type of bad socialization you speak of. In fact, in these types of sophisticated gaming-societies, there is no need for moral behavior enforcement.
That said, obviously it is a bad idea, as long as people like you judge morality on the basis of the lowest common denominator. I also suggest you stop using Halo matches or whatever it is you gleaned this opinion from, as your barometer of the average gamer, let alone a highly organized and serious gamer.
It sounds to me like you've simply experienced playing Halo or something else with a bunch of 15 year olds. But its not right to equate those experiences as they are considered a minority community now (gamers 18 years)
wussies. =) It seriously doesn't get that cold. The only people I feel bad for in the winter, are ones without a proper jacket and mittens. Feels like summer, when you are dressed for the weather.
I live in Ottawa, and at most we get one or two weeks yearly of 0F weather. Usually the coldest we get is in the mid 20s. Now if we're talking the Dakotas, then I understand, its pretty much cold there all winter (plains)
Wow are you two ever a waste of breath. Go back to sleep hurling yand hope you still have civil liberties left when you all wake up. If you do read this you might want to let me know what I've lied about...what untruths do I speak of? No FUD here, just watching my fellow citizen's backs. If you don't see your liberties eroding in realtime than I'm not going to be able to convince you otherwise. Here's some truth: The sky's not falling by design, which is why you must be eternally vigilant. But things change, and politics is a pendulum that always swings back in either direction. This gives me fear and hope at the same time. Good day.
I hope you find evidence of one of these events yourself, rather than pestering people fighting for your intellectual mindshare in what could be the most important political battle of the 21st century in the west.... ...right after the FBI notifies you that they've been perusing your library records without your knowledge just because they can. Or some other clandestine attack on your liberties. The key word here is clandestine.
Point being, your argument is incredibly weak considering if it did happen, you know full well that very few would know about it or be compelled to speak out for fear of further retribution.
But I suspect you're trolling if you're smart enough to come to that realization. Pity if I've just come to that realization after reading your own words.
Wah pirates beat us to market, wah wah what will we do? WAH
Hmmm maybe this is an indiciation that your business model has failed. When pirates beat you at the old game, isn't it time to change the game?
No pun intended above, but maybe half the impact of piracy would go away if they just stopped releasing these things at retail. HL2 anyone?
Right, driving slow never killed anyone.
I apologize, murphy's law dictates, that when you say something like that HAVE YOU BEEN TO MICHIGAN LATELY, it will bite you! :)
I'm glad we agree on the main theme, and I concede to your first hand experience.
Sorry perhaps I was the victim of propoganda just like you are here, but that does not negate my point. Middle of the road in america is not exactly rich. In fact your own data shows this quite clearly. It also does not refernce the cost of living which is required to qualify ANY of inference.
This is lower middle class. 40k per year is like two parents working at Walmart. But as usual, there is much nitpicking on slashdot: have you BEEN TO MICHIGAN LATELY?
So back to the real topic at hand *sigh*
Community Living Standards is something they should be caring more about. Not community censorship standards. What a waste of democracy.
I think the point is he is asking for equal treatment. Media is Media. singling out games is ridiculous and counter productive. The industry has already taken responsibility, and the government should have nothing to do with what media we consume in a free democratic society or you risk the erosion of an informed public: a tenant of both freedom and democracy.
There is a rating system in place that is more than adequate and quite easy to make assumptions based on (ie you do not need to know the specifics of each rating to make an informed choice, although that information is readily available and advertised clearly on each box).
For once Dougie-boy is right, and politicians as usual, are demonstrating they are experts at wasting time, money and bugling what should be common sense.
While you harp on about community standards, do you really think a place like MICHIGAN is worried about community media standards? I think they have bigger problems such as COMMUNITY LIVING standards in one of the poorest american states.
That said, this is america. You can sue anyone you want right or wrong. I am making this general statement to aviod people distorting our discussion.
I don't know about you, but I will be playing:
Blitz: the League by Midway
No, they didn't. The 'core' system was simply the system, power supply, RF adapter, and a controller. As for no-pack in game, this has been a standard gotcha for years. It may be a misstep, but Sony is going to make the same misstep. I'd normally say Nintendo would make that mistake, too, but they're offering the download service for their classic games.
Uh....yeah they did. All three systems lauched with two controllers and a game in the core system. "Basic packs" (single controller, game/nogame) came later on in the lifecycle (1 year later). This is really a bizarre comment- not only is it factually wrong, but how is any of this a misstep for sony or nintendo?
It would make sense to put values ahead of shopping if he had an agenda to end slave labour and didn't need to shop. Or if he was not considered "working poor" and had no choice but to stop consuming things made out of plastic, textiles or processed food.
You point out yourself this is not practical.
However, putting your values ahead of entertainment is - we are being ripped off, and it is perfectly practical to not buy luxury items in protest.
Yes all are evil, but its also not wise to bite the hand that feeds...
Sorry just my two cents.
If you want a good laugh read:
Christ Clone Trilogy by James BeauSeigneur
Entertaining if you can get past the long drawn out character sketches. BeauSeigneur obviously has researched both his conspiracy and biblical theory and woven a creative tale incorporating the two. Like any tale of this magnititude, the story weakens as the finely woven threads come together, but still, this series is an accomplishment in consolidating conspiracy and the bible without completely disrespecting true believers.
Both parent posts should check it out!
Much of it is pre-rendered. However, some of what Sony showed yesterday was in game stuff, and well if you have any doubt, please take a look at the realtime FFVII render.
Was killzone prerendered? Maybe, but did you notice the mouths didn't synch at all and how osme of the explosions looked "optimized"? To me it just looks like a well thought out level, with minimal models (read high poly), and multi-passes on every texture.
the key to telling the difference these days is usually physics.
Do I smell yet another Star Wars re-re-release?
Do I hear a "ONE 'RING' TO RULE THEM ALL"?!