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Perfect tools for watching behavior of your employees, isn't it?
Don't think that your bosses don't already have this.
However, as an employee, you aren't privy to exactly how much they know. Something like this could help an employee to track his own net access and better curb his behavior.
Most businesses though won't allow employees to install such monitoring software or hardware for themselves.
The weapon that proves the video game connection beyond a doubt? Baseball bats, a Rockstar Games exclusive weapon!
You know, there is a small point there. With so many baseball bats around, there should at least be a baseball park where you can play a minigame. Nice, wholesome American sport, too, even if you are racing around the diamond in a stolen cement truck. And it might get them more penetration into the Japanese market.
"Pinch hitting for Pedro Borbon... Tommy Vercetti... Vercetti... Vercetti."
How about a bunch of handles around the interior that you can hold on to and include little braille display pads that reconfigure to identify which deck you're on.
But no having to twist that handle to activate the lift. That would be silly.
If the elevator had no other calls in either direction, some will clear the call in one direction, reverse their direction, then answer the call on the same floor, so your doors close then reopen then close again before you can go anywhere. The same cars tend also to cancel all destinations whenever they reverse direction, so you'd have to choose your floor again.
Now if the call buttons were stateful where pressing a lit button would cancel the call, then you'd have less instances of some kid pressing all the buttons in the car and getting off.
No, it would work the same way as the elevators do now. The more you press the button, the faster it comes.:)
Indeed, I've encountered systems where this was in fact true, but only if the elevator car was stopped on a floor with its doors open. Calling it from another floor would trigger the doors to close as if you had hit the door close button from inside the car, so the car spent less time waiting for people to get on.
This is of course countered by someone pressing the (correct) call button on the same floor as the car, which would trigger the doors to open. A close sequence could be interrupted, but not an open one.
The concern of myself and many other mac users is the Photoshop/Illustrator/Final Cut/Shake performance.
Regarding Final Cut:
Some reportedly won't launch at all, like Final Cut Pro 5 and Logic 7. I tried launching FCP 4.5 and it wouldn't run, saying that I needed an AGP card. I tried to tell it that PCIe video cards are much better, but it wouldn't listen.
There are ways to make it install and allow itself to be run, but I wouldn't be confident it would run smoothly until a Universal Binary is built. Reports have it that not everything will run under Rosetta.
No, because a baking thermometer does not track progress.
It tracks the progress of the pre-heating of the oven.
Other progress bars track the progress of rainfall or the progress of evaporation. They track the filling of a graduated cylinders and beakers. The filling of a test tube of blood visually indicates the progress of its being filled, and of a syringe the progress of it emptying. So does the filling of any transparent beverage container, and its subsequent emptying.
Why not? A few 250GB drives in external... enclosures
Are you sure you'll be able to get more identical 250 GB drives in the future? Do you want to waste 75% of the storage of the future minimum 1 TB drives to preserve your 250 GB * x RAID?
A RAID system that doesn't require identical drives is better for future investments. Have two RAID striped arrays, one mirrored to the other, and make them extensible. When a drive fails in one, you buy two drives. Replace the failed drive in one and expand that array to use the full capacity, then copy the non-failed array to it. Then replace the matching drive in the other array, and copy back. The non-failed replaced drive is then put to use as a scratch drive, perhaps expanding/tmp, or use it as swap space, or in some other way that compliments the security of the twin arrays.
And in their last run of the series, they'll stop showing episodes just before the end, because when it comes time to change up their schedule they don't give a damn about where in each run each non-original series is.
I called up the passport office to ask what would happen if I was in a foreign country and the chip failed, the answer:
"It will not happen".
If you are barred from leaving your country/entering a foreign country, that statement would be true. How that could be so may be because you ask too many questions about passport security devices.
Of course, the number is actually 616 (as determined by later-recovered copies of earlier instances of the text).
Well the people of Michigan cities Holland, Grand Haven, Greenville, Grand Rapids, and Ionia have been living with 616 as their area code for quite some time. (Kalamazoo, Saugatuck, Hastings, Battle Creek, and Sturgis to Lake Michigan to a lesser degree, splitting out to become 269.)
2. [common] An intended property or behavior (as of a program). Whether it is good or not is immaterial (but if bad, it is also a misfeature).
So yes, it's a feature, but it isn't a good feature. It would be a misfeature, but I suggest that good and bad aren't sufficient to fully describe this. You need good, bad, and evil. Thus I suggest a new term for evil features like this: malfeature.
And that one can have "mismalfeatures", though I'd rather make that into "dismalfeatures".
I can definitely agree with him that Take-Two should not be marketing towards minors, but in all honestly I can't recall them doing so and would love to see examples of such.
I believe he feels violent games are marketed to children in the same way that cigarettes aren't: by having ads for them on television. He'll push to ban televised game ads and restrict game advertising to adult print media.
Then expect a series of anti-gaming ads to come out similar to the anti-smoking ads. Rebuttal ads will either be generic "play responsibly" fare or fall under the ban.
A proper HTPC setup separates the silent and small head-end from the noisy back-end stored in a suitably baffled and ventilated closet somewhere, feeding all the data to the head over a single gigabit-or-better ethernet connection dedicated to feeding video to every room (smaller installations may get by with 100Base-T).
The noisiest thing in the head should be a single DVD drive, and that will only make noise when used to rip data to the server room or record disks. No local hard drive; just boot off a USB thumbdrive mounted as read-only behind a panel.
Get the network protocols standardized and you might even get dedicated heads built by companies able to shrink electronics further and provide swappable output daughterboards and rear bezels. With no recording going on in the head, it could even be built to support both DRM'd and DRM-less data. IR control is fed back to the back-end over the network.
Wow, did you make yourself out to be a pathetic Sony hating loser with that post.
Well Sony has done much to deserve hatred lately. Even before the CD rootkits and the ActiveX controls to remove them that opened even bigger holes in your system, they used to design many of their CD and DVD players to refuse to play burned music off of anything other than Music CD-R media (with attached RIAA tithe). They continue to try to lock consumers into their closed proprietary media where open unencumbered media already exists.
The last time I heard Sony did something right for the consumer was taking Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios to the Supreme Court and winning.
OK, so they settled the rootkit case, but doing right just because you got caught doing wrong doesn't make you noble. And the settlement is to give away stuff that costs them little or nothing? How's that a penalty? What ever happened to cash settlements where the CEO has to write out a check to each person by hand, "Pay to the order of: Mrs. Wilbur Stark, one dollar and NINE CENTS!"
Disclaimer: I just bought one of their 400-disc DVD players.
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Perfect tools for watching behavior of your employees, isn't it?
Don't think that your bosses don't already have this.
However, as an employee, you aren't privy to exactly how much they know. Something like this could help an employee to track his own net access and better curb his behavior.
Most businesses though won't allow employees to install such monitoring software or hardware for themselves.
The weapon that proves the video game connection beyond a doubt? Baseball bats, a Rockstar Games exclusive weapon!
You know, there is a small point there. With so many baseball bats around, there should at least be a baseball park where you can play a minigame. Nice, wholesome American sport, too, even if you are racing around the diamond in a stolen cement truck. And it might get them more penetration into the Japanese market.
"Pinch hitting for Pedro Borbon... Tommy Vercetti... Vercetti... Vercetti."
How about a bunch of handles around the interior that you can hold on to and include little braille display pads that reconfigure to identify which deck you're on.
But no having to twist that handle to activate the lift. That would be silly.
If the elevator had no other calls in either direction, some will clear the call in one direction, reverse their direction, then answer the call on the same floor, so your doors close then reopen then close again before you can go anywhere. The same cars tend also to cancel all destinations whenever they reverse direction, so you'd have to choose your floor again.
Now if the call buttons were stateful where pressing a lit button would cancel the call, then you'd have less instances of some kid pressing all the buttons in the car and getting off.
No, it would work the same way as the elevators do now. The more you press the button, the faster it comes. :)
Indeed, I've encountered systems where this was in fact true, but only if the elevator car was stopped on a floor with its doors open. Calling it from another floor would trigger the doors to close as if you had hit the door close button from inside the car, so the car spent less time waiting for people to get on.
This is of course countered by someone pressing the (correct) call button on the same floor as the car, which would trigger the doors to open. A close sequence could be interrupted, but not an open one.
Regarding Final Cut:
There are ways to make it install and allow itself to be run, but I wouldn't be confident it would run smoothly until a Universal Binary is built. Reports have it that not everything will run under Rosetta.
I've seen 160 GB Seagate ATA drives for $10 after rebates.
No, because a baking thermometer does not track progress.
It tracks the progress of the pre-heating of the oven.
Other progress bars track the progress of rainfall or the progress of evaporation. They track the filling of a graduated cylinders and beakers. The filling of a test tube of blood visually indicates the progress of its being filled, and of a syringe the progress of it emptying. So does the filling of any transparent beverage container, and its subsequent emptying.
The world is ending on one end while the U.S. government isn't too concerned with it at the time....
Who do we believe?
History says you believe the one for whom the consequences are greater if you don't. See "God, Wrath of".
Why not? A few 250GB drives in external... enclosures
/tmp, or use it as swap space, or in some other way that compliments the security of the twin arrays.
Are you sure you'll be able to get more identical 250 GB drives in the future? Do you want to waste 75% of the storage of the future minimum 1 TB drives to preserve your 250 GB * x RAID?
A RAID system that doesn't require identical drives is better for future investments. Have two RAID striped arrays, one mirrored to the other, and make them extensible. When a drive fails in one, you buy two drives. Replace the failed drive in one and expand that array to use the full capacity, then copy the non-failed array to it. Then replace the matching drive in the other array, and copy back. The non-failed replaced drive is then put to use as a scratch drive, perhaps expanding
I think we need to see this one go away.
Some would say the Sci-Fi Channel died when they showed Braveheart.
I know. "...and solves crimes!" is just such a lazy excuse for a series idea.
So how did you feel about Profit?
And in their last run of the series, they'll stop showing episodes just before the end, because when it comes time to change up their schedule they don't give a damn about where in each run each non-original series is.
I called up the passport office to ask what would happen if I was in a foreign country and the chip failed, the answer:
"It will not happen".
If you are barred from leaving your country/entering a foreign country, that statement would be true. How that could be so may be because you ask too many questions about passport security devices.
Perhaps you found out more than you'd intended.
Of course, the number is actually 616 (as determined by later-recovered copies of earlier instances of the text).
Well the people of Michigan cities Holland, Grand Haven, Greenville, Grand Rapids, and Ionia have been living with 616 as their area code for quite some time. (Kalamazoo, Saugatuck, Hastings, Battle Creek, and Sturgis to Lake Michigan to a lesser degree, splitting out to become 269.)
BTW: 6.100.60.6 == IP address of the Beast
That spelling was lifted from the linked site.
So yes, it's a feature, but it isn't a good feature. It would be a misfeature, but I suggest that good and bad aren't sufficient to fully describe this. You need good, bad, and evil. Thus I suggest a new term for evil features like this: malfeature.
And that one can have "mismalfeatures", though I'd rather make that into "dismalfeatures".
"Video gaming is an escapist activity"
"You will be the one escaping!"
I can definitely agree with him that Take-Two should not be marketing towards minors, but in all honestly I can't recall them doing so and would love to see examples of such.
I believe he feels violent games are marketed to children in the same way that cigarettes aren't: by having ads for them on television. He'll push to ban televised game ads and restrict game advertising to adult print media.
Then expect a series of anti-gaming ads to come out similar to the anti-smoking ads. Rebuttal ads will either be generic "play responsibly" fare or fall under the ban.
A proper HTPC setup separates the silent and small head-end from the noisy back-end stored in a suitably baffled and ventilated closet somewhere, feeding all the data to the head over a single gigabit-or-better ethernet connection dedicated to feeding video to every room (smaller installations may get by with 100Base-T).
The noisiest thing in the head should be a single DVD drive, and that will only make noise when used to rip data to the server room or record disks. No local hard drive; just boot off a USB thumbdrive mounted as read-only behind a panel.
Get the network protocols standardized and you might even get dedicated heads built by companies able to shrink electronics further and provide swappable output daughterboards and rear bezels. With no recording going on in the head, it could even be built to support both DRM'd and DRM-less data. IR control is fed back to the back-end over the network.
I can think of one marketing opportunity for flourescent green pigskin: American football. Especially for night games.
Wow, did you make yourself out to be a pathetic Sony hating loser with that post.
Well Sony has done much to deserve hatred lately. Even before the CD rootkits and the ActiveX controls to remove them that opened even bigger holes in your system, they used to design many of their CD and DVD players to refuse to play burned music off of anything other than Music CD-R media (with attached RIAA tithe). They continue to try to lock consumers into their closed proprietary media where open unencumbered media already exists.
The last time I heard Sony did something right for the consumer was taking Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios to the Supreme Court and winning.
OK, so they settled the rootkit case, but doing right just because you got caught doing wrong doesn't make you noble. And the settlement is to give away stuff that costs them little or nothing? How's that a penalty? What ever happened to cash settlements where the CEO has to write out a check to each person by hand, "Pay to the order of: Mrs. Wilbur Stark, one dollar and NINE CENTS!"
Disclaimer: I just bought one of their 400-disc DVD players.
That's great Symantec. But when are you going to fix this other flaw that affects RAR files?
Indeed, I'm puzzled why we haven't heard anything more about that problem beyond the initial report. It has been nearly three weeks.
Have you considered introducing her to Jack Thompson as a form of radical intervention?
Una Amiga con beneficios?
(I'd punctuate it correctly, but slashcode won't let me use ¿.)