Let me evolve that idea just a bit, I'm kind of worried about a passenger getting a little trigger happy and putting the plane into an irreversible landing when nothing was wrong, pissing off the other passengers and the ground response. Maybe a vote of passengers with the "land now" button in front of them. Over 50% of the people in flight have pushed the button, the plane is irreversibly landing. Thoughts?
...we've proven that a piece of paper alone can't stop crime, pollution, educate our kids, etc. it is only the enforcement thereof, or in the case of ID theft, steps to prevent such crime that will ultimately solve our problems.
Long story short, let's move along and work to end the problem, not just write paper against it.
Concur with your sentiment, Win98SE was Win95 done right finally. I remember keeping that dual booted with XP for a long time after XP came out.
But in Vista's (sort of) defense I'm typing this post on it as we speak. While it does crash nearly every game I've ever run on it everything else runs decently, Office 2007 and Visual Studio 2008 in particular are a dream to use. Microsoft needs to go to the drawing board though for their next version of Windows and think about how to better balance security with ease of use (and not make every game crash dammit!)
heh, that's just my typical way of c*ns*r*ng myself pulling out the vowels. Didn't mean to inadvertently non-offend anyone:-p. My main reason for this was just to work around crap-filters which sometimes look for bad words, but seeing as you managed to post asshole I see it was an un-needed measure. Thanks for the enlightenment!
Is Wallace really just trying to earn the title of "biggest single-person *ssh*l* on the Internet?" he's getting ready to look worse than Greg Thompson or Darl McBride these days...
I would honestly hope that in large systems that can afford such systems as Tandem would honestly take the time to document controlled power down/up procedures as well as crash power up procedures, just in case something like this happened...documentation is cheap, downtime isn't...
Well I can see the heat not being an issue, granted that there probably was the shuttle material protecting the hard drive until it was a bit lower in the atmosphere, but IANAPhysicist.
I still can't explain though how the drive stayed in one piece from a free fall a couple miles up, granted I've had a drive take a 12 foot fall to hard tile and be irrecoverable by even professionals (true story!)...that was certainly not a soft landing...
"Ladies and Gentleman of the supposed court, I know my clients lawsuit has been rendered ashes by you fine people; but you see here this is Chewbacca..."
Well yeah but...commercial space travel to the moon or Mars? We just barely got those commercial rockets into suborbital space...4 more years and they might finally hit orbital travel...
I'm not saying that commercial travel isn't feasible for the U.S., but just not in a 4 year timeframe that you think...
Out here in Southern California, there's been a local scandal about 1 million plus people being issued secret plates that send cameras a message to ignore the picture, in effect giving them the right to run the light. It's also been used to violate tolls out here, etc...it's just such a disgusting system now.
Notwithstanding the company behind it, I imagined SCO Unix variants to be fairly reliable, while probably not a caliber of say Solaris or Linux, I figured it was better than windows...but IANAUnix Guru so feel free to enlighten me...
On codesweeper? I doubt I would notice the difference if you did. It gets heavily spammed as is, but with heavy spam armoring the vital stuff still manages to get through. Codesweeper is my "public facing email" with my work ones and private ones (only family and close friends need apply) getting no spam at all so far. That's why I'm not afraid of posting codesweeper@codesweep.com on Slashdot however I use tekieg1-slashdot@yahoo.com on slashdot as a gauge of how much spam traffic comes in from Slashdot mostly out of curiousity, though it gets routine Spam filters as well, but seeing as most of the traffic is Spam on tekieg1-slashdot, maybe I'll try and rig it as a honeypot benefiting codesweeper:-) .
1) Disabled all filtering (this was created at Yahoo, and they have an option to disable all filtering that should let everything through, I suppose it's still possible they're filtering though)
2) And yes I tested the account sending something from my main email, codesweeper@codesweep.com, received email.
The inner conspiracy theorist in me is saying "What accident? The cover was blown!". While definitely remote speculation I wonder how likely this is...
true true...ideally I'd go for online hosting and save a bundle on the majority of those costs (though even there I suspect plenty of inflation), but some people out there still buy CD's else Wal-Mart wouldn't be selling them, your mileage may vary...
I think the fact that the record company is starting to realize it's a commodity product is the point of the article, they're keeping awake at night now because they just realized they're on the shelves because of Wal-Mart's good graces...this may not be anyore at least according to Wal-Mart...
$0.17 Musicians' unions - keep this, someone needs to be a voice for the artists
$0.80 Packaging/manufacturing - eliminate some of the paper involved, betcha I could find a dime there so now 70 cents
$0.82 Publishing royalties - first thing to go, we'll halve this to 41 cents safely I imagine
$0.80 Retail profit - Wal Mart has to do it's share, take 60 cents per CD
$0.90 Distribution - that's fairly tight...transportation and all with oil prices being what they are, no change
$1.60 Artists' royalties - mega artists can get skimpier - down to $1 a CD even
$1.70 Label profit - worse than the artists, 80 cents a CD now
$2.40 Marketing/promotion - do we really need so much hype $1.20 a CD
$2.91 Label overhead - pinch a little, 2.60 cents a CD Now
$3.89 Retail overhead - pinch a little, 3.70 a CD (retail is tougher to save overhead, they run thin as it is)
New Cost: 11.35 (though double check my math)
Well better than 15.99 but maybe someone here can be more creative still and get it below the $10 mark, I'm sure someone here will try:-)
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Let me evolve that idea just a bit, I'm kind of worried about a passenger getting a little trigger happy and putting the plane into an irreversible landing when nothing was wrong, pissing off the other passengers and the ground response. Maybe a vote of passengers with the "land now" button in front of them. Over 50% of the people in flight have pushed the button, the plane is irreversibly landing. Thoughts?
...we've proven that a piece of paper alone can't stop crime, pollution, educate our kids, etc. it is only the enforcement thereof, or in the case of ID theft, steps to prevent such crime that will ultimately solve our problems.
Long story short, let's move along and work to end the problem, not just write paper against it.
Concur with your sentiment, Win98SE was Win95 done right finally. I remember keeping that dual booted with XP for a long time after XP came out.
But in Vista's (sort of) defense I'm typing this post on it as we speak. While it does crash nearly every game I've ever run on it everything else runs decently, Office 2007 and Visual Studio 2008 in particular are a dream to use. Microsoft needs to go to the drawing board though for their next version of Windows and think about how to better balance security with ease of use (and not make every game crash dammit!)
Great idea...now let's see you enforce it as I'm somehow never able to do here...
until some renegade security geek disables the electric fence, and T-Rex's start eating attorneys everywhere...
oh wait...let 'em run free then
heh, that's just my typical way of c*ns*r*ng myself pulling out the vowels. Didn't mean to inadvertently non-offend anyone :-p. My main reason for this was just to work around crap-filters which sometimes look for bad words, but seeing as you managed to post asshole I see it was an un-needed measure. Thanks for the enlightenment!
Is Wallace really just trying to earn the title of "biggest single-person *ssh*l* on the Internet?" he's getting ready to look worse than Greg Thompson or Darl McBride these days...
I would honestly hope that in large systems that can afford such systems as Tandem would honestly take the time to document controlled power down/up procedures as well as crash power up procedures, just in case something like this happened...documentation is cheap, downtime isn't...
Well I can see the heat not being an issue, granted that there probably was the shuttle material protecting the hard drive until it was a bit lower in the atmosphere, but IANAPhysicist.
I still can't explain though how the drive stayed in one piece from a free fall a couple miles up, granted I've had a drive take a 12 foot fall to hard tile and be irrecoverable by even professionals (true story!)...that was certainly not a soft landing...
"Ladies and Gentleman of the supposed court, I know my clients lawsuit has been rendered ashes by you fine people; but you see here this is Chewbacca..."
Well yeah but...commercial space travel to the moon or Mars? We just barely got those commercial rockets into suborbital space...4 more years and they might finally hit orbital travel...
I'm not saying that commercial travel isn't feasible for the U.S., but just not in a 4 year timeframe that you think...
Ok maybe I should RTFA a little more, tanx for the clarification :-)
Out here in Southern California, there's been a local scandal about 1 million plus people being issued secret plates that send cameras a message to ignore the picture, in effect giving them the right to run the light. It's also been used to violate tolls out here, etc...it's just such a disgusting system now.
Obligatory:
Bite my shiny metal *ss
Notwithstanding the company behind it, I imagined SCO Unix variants to be fairly reliable, while probably not a caliber of say Solaris or Linux, I figured it was better than windows...but IANAUnix Guru so feel free to enlighten me...
On codesweeper? I doubt I would notice the difference if you did. It gets heavily spammed as is, but with heavy spam armoring the vital stuff still manages to get through. Codesweeper is my "public facing email" with my work ones and private ones (only family and close friends need apply) getting no spam at all so far. That's why I'm not afraid of posting codesweeper@codesweep.com on Slashdot however I use tekieg1-slashdot@yahoo.com on slashdot as a gauge of how much spam traffic comes in from Slashdot mostly out of curiousity, though it gets routine Spam filters as well, but seeing as most of the traffic is Spam on tekieg1-slashdot, maybe I'll try and rig it as a honeypot benefiting codesweeper :-) .
1) Disabled all filtering (this was created at Yahoo, and they have an option to disable all filtering that should let everything through, I suppose it's still possible they're filtering though)
2) And yes I tested the account sending something from my main email, codesweeper@codesweep.com, received email.
The inner conspiracy theorist in me is saying "What accident? The cover was blown!". While definitely remote speculation I wonder how likely this is...
Actually I still have plenty left, one night later and I haven't gotten any spam addressed to the email I used. Pathetic, :-)
I'm so curious to see if this works actually I created a throwaway account and let's see the results here in just a few min :-)
Amen brutha :-)
true true...ideally I'd go for online hosting and save a bundle on the majority of those costs (though even there I suspect plenty of inflation), but some people out there still buy CD's else Wal-Mart wouldn't be selling them, your mileage may vary...
Well, the union is only asking for 17 cents, a pittance compared to the rest of them...they seemed like the "little guy" if you will...
I think the fact that the record company is starting to realize it's a commodity product is the point of the article, they're keeping awake at night now because they just realized they're on the shelves because of Wal-Mart's good graces...this may not be anyore at least according to Wal-Mart...
Proposed new budget (in my opinion):
:-)
$0.17 Musicians' unions - keep this, someone needs to be a voice for the artists
$0.80 Packaging/manufacturing - eliminate some of the paper involved, betcha I could find a dime there so now 70 cents
$0.82 Publishing royalties - first thing to go, we'll halve this to 41 cents safely I imagine
$0.80 Retail profit - Wal Mart has to do it's share, take 60 cents per CD
$0.90 Distribution - that's fairly tight...transportation and all with oil prices being what they are, no change
$1.60 Artists' royalties - mega artists can get skimpier - down to $1 a CD even
$1.70 Label profit - worse than the artists, 80 cents a CD now
$2.40 Marketing/promotion - do we really need so much hype $1.20 a CD
$2.91 Label overhead - pinch a little, 2.60 cents a CD Now
$3.89 Retail overhead - pinch a little, 3.70 a CD (retail is tougher to save overhead, they run thin as it is)
New Cost: 11.35 (though double check my math) Well better than 15.99 but maybe someone here can be more creative still and get it below the $10 mark, I'm sure someone here will try