Pretty good graphics. Has several solutions for you. It's an Age of Empires clone but is unique in its own right. 1. Cooperative play. The two of you can share the resources and control of a single civilization. 2. Handicap. In multiplayer (and single-player) you define the handicap from newbie to game god. You can be either allied or head-on or free-for-all with computer ai, etc. 3. Adjustable ai skill (easiest to hardest).
This will sound stupid but I'll say it anyway.
1. Author of parent story was my old roommate.
2. That's my dremel and tools.
3. That's the table I took with me when I left the rental house.
4. He copied my half-assed attempt and did a good job (so subtract 2 weeks to the posting date of that one). To quote: "Finally, I would also like to say thanks to my roommates Mark and Ben, because with them they made this mod a whole lot easier. Originally this was Mark's idea, and he got some ideas from someplace online that isn't there anymore [NOTE: BP6.com did this awhile ago], so I would like to give credit to my roommate and whoever has done this before. If you have any other questions, feel free to Email me."
If I hit the chat key in a game, it should show me the regular letters and when I hit enter or escape, go back to the symbols. I usually get myself killed when I'm in the middle of typing and someone jumps in front of me. I would have plenty of time to avoid dying if it weren't for the stupid chat console.
I'd give it them an 8. Their local, but they cover a pretty decent chunk of Texas and New Mexico.
Upsides:
1. $50/mo gets me 5mbit up AND DOWN via 802.11a.
2. Decent reliability (only 1 significant outage I can remember and it was core router).
3. Pretty low latency (20-70ms to the internet at large).
4. Weather doesn't effect my connection (even the tornado filled storms we get).
Downsides:
1. Tech support. Decent hours, but not 24/7. Relatively useless as well.
2. Owner's a PITA.
3. Install fees were pretty steep when I signed my contract, but they aren't too bad now. Still shows 1mbt/$50 but I'm pretty sure it's 5mbt all around.
I happen to work for a Sprint PCS Affiliate and we are looking to install WiFi in our Corporate locations for exactly the scenario you propose.
The idea is that you can save on PCS equipment in high-usage areas and improve reception/call quality. You look at it from the wrong direction.
Sprint: You mean users won't have to be on our network but we still get to charge them minutes? And we get more bang out of our Network buck and better coverage in buildings with no work on our part? Yeah, that sounds like a pretty good deal, let's do that.
More likely, Palm said (?!?!?!?) nah, let's not include that for XXXXX reason.
Almost got it. CALs, these days, are per-client, not per-connection. So your first scenario, 100 clients, 1 server, 100 CALs is right, but your second scenario is 100 clients, 10 servers, 100 CALs because Windows decided to move that way.
Why they even charge for CALs when you typically run Windows Clients when connecting to a Windows Server is beyond me. I think it's f'ing dumb. I guess it's just one more way to fsck us as a customer.
Alright, I DID RTFA, and basically what this describes is just another way to authenticate that the user is from that domain. Isn't that the same thing SPF does? They both seem to accomplish the same task, but SPF appears to be easier to manage and easier to support. My personal (commercial) mail server already supports SPF, sendmail et al. support it (via external component), and my Barracudas (awesome product!) are beta testing spf support right now.
Oh yeah, and gmail already support SPF. Why promote different standards that are apparently identical in purpose?
The US (and to some extent, the EU) are facing mounting issues from Software Patents (The idea of patenting an idea opposed to an implementation). What do you think about the current state of Intellectual Property laws?
What limits should be placed on Software Patents? Should they be eliminated entirely? Should all patents be moved to a trademark like system where if they are not enforced, the holder loses the trademark?
What is the fix and what is needed to make it happen? Will it ever be fixed?
I gave an old AMD k6-300 w/ 64MB ram to someone who has never had a computer. I loaded it w/ XP and it runs HAPPILY. I didn't have to do any tuning to get it running in an acceptable manner. That's not to say I didn't do a few tweaks, but nothing significant and certainly nothing like adjusting hard drive parameters or compiling ANYTHING. I do plenty of PC repairing as well and I disagree with your opinion on the usable system requirements of XP.
This is why I don't use Linux past my personal file server and firewall. It is still far too complicated to get a computer running. I've tried probably 6 or 8 distros so far and none of them I would call good when it comes to installation and setup.
When Linux installs on an "average" computer (Think 300mhz and 64mb ram like probably most "average" users have), and works properly and quickly without too much effort, then call me.(Unfortunately, by the time Linux reaches that point, average will probably 1Ghz and 256MB which is sad to say.)
I think they are being very reasonable with their licensing structures. 1: The Format is fee-free provided you follow the license 2: The software is not free/OS. SO? Not everything should be free. I am ALL about OO.o and Linux, and whatnot, but trying to claim that all software should be free is just stupid, and giving list "unfortunate limitations" jab is unfair.
Would you prefer the XML format they designed to be GPLed? Wouldn't that make it useless? Everyone could modify the format and then you wouldn't have a standard format?
I'm sorry, I use my PDA many many times a day. For the basics, ya know, address book, calendar. I don't use it for much beyond that, other than games, a convenient subnet calculator, etc. But saying that PDAs are a solution waiting for a problem is obviously someone who has never really had one. I'd love an easy to use method to get phone numbers into my phone so I only had to put them one place (NOT going to get a PDA/phone, no way), but other than that, could not LIVE without my PDA.
-lv
DVDs will forever READ both +R and -R. If -R were to win right now, in 1-2 years you wouldn't be able to buy DVD+R discs. That means you'd have to buy a new drive. That's not unreasonable for 1-2 years.
Good set of basic laws. However, if we were to truly create sentience (I hope I never see it in a computer), we would build multiple. Simply because we aren't happy with one of anything. And by building multiple, they would be different because they would learn differently and learn different "morals". That means that eventually 1 2 and 3 would all fail. Just as humans injure other humans, robots would begin to injure other robots and then other humans.
No company in their right mind is going to purchase SCO at this point.
What about 2 years from now, after all of this has blown over, been forgotten, buried in the sand, and found after some great archeological dig?
My predicition: 2-3 years from now, in a very quiet Press Release, IBM will announce that it has purchased the UNIX rights from SCO for hundreths of pennies on the dollar.
of course, SCO may not be the owner, or it might have some other name.
They might even GPL it. hehehe, wouldn't that be a kick in the groin to SCO?
When do we get the made for tv movie?
Or a book? Is Darl gonna sell a book deal for millions to refloat the company. "How I took on Big Blue... and Lost." or "How I fought Linux... for Nothing." Can't wait.
In fact, unless reversible computing is achieved, computer chips are expected to reach their maximum performance capabilities within the next three decades...
Ok, lets look back at personal computing 30 years ago. Oh, we can't. How can they predict what is going to happen in 3 decades? We can't predict the state of computing in 3 YEARS. He says
reversible computing is absolutely the only possible way to beat this limit
This is absolute BS and is FUD on the scale of MS and SCO. He's just trying to bump his research grants up. ignore him.
"reduce substantially the level and amount of criticism from computer scientists and other security experts about the fallibility of electronic voting systems."
They aren't saying, "We want to make our software more secure." They're just saying, "We don't want to hear about how it isn't secure."
I don't think there is anything wrong with electronic voting. I just think there is something wrong with the current companies that do it.
Funny though, I don't know anything about any company except Diebold. Does this mean that the others aren't as bad or just they haven't been caught?
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And would be useless because ESX includes no way to get to your virtual hosts on the local console.
Pretty good graphics. Has several solutions for you. It's an Age of Empires clone but is unique in its own right.
1. Cooperative play. The two of you can share the resources and control of a single civilization.
2. Handicap. In multiplayer (and single-player) you define the handicap from newbie to game god. You can be either allied or head-on or free-for-all with computer ai, etc.
3. Adjustable ai skill (easiest to hardest).
This will sound stupid but I'll say it anyway.
1. Author of parent story was my old roommate.
2. That's my dremel and tools.
3. That's the table I took with me when I left the rental house.
4. He copied my half-assed attempt and did a good job (so subtract 2 weeks to the posting date of that one). To quote: "Finally, I would also like to say thanks to my roommates Mark and Ben, because with them they made this mod a whole lot easier. Originally this was Mark's idea, and he got some ideas from someplace online that isn't there anymore [NOTE: BP6.com did this awhile ago], so I would like to give credit to my roommate and whoever has done this before. If you have any other questions, feel free to Email me."
There, I feel special.
-lv
Take is a small step further.
If I hit the chat key in a game, it should show me the regular letters and when I hit enter or escape, go back to the symbols. I usually get myself killed when I'm in the middle of typing and someone jumps in front of me. I would have plenty of time to avoid dying if it weren't for the stupid chat console.
Odd, I had no problem getting to it, must have been lucky.
N HD
Here's a BitTorrent Magnet for the Windows (only) version:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:TJBW4VRKRAYRSNDXARL2ILY7HLVC5
Don't kill me, and please share out. I'll probably kill it in a few hours.
And as one of my old high school teachers taught me, it should be called Texas University. It isn't like it's the only University in Texas. :)
Oh yeah, go Raiders!
The Door ;)
Careful, not door.com
I'd give it them an 8. Their local, but they cover a pretty decent chunk of Texas and New Mexico.
Upsides:
1. $50/mo gets me 5mbit up AND DOWN via 802.11a.
2. Decent reliability (only 1 significant outage I can remember and it was core router).
3. Pretty low latency (20-70ms to the internet at large).
4. Weather doesn't effect my connection (even the tornado filled storms we get).
Downsides:
1. Tech support. Decent hours, but not 24/7. Relatively useless as well.
2. Owner's a PITA.
3. Install fees were pretty steep when I signed my contract, but they aren't too bad now. Still shows 1mbt/$50 but I'm pretty sure it's 5mbt all around.
That "Other Cell Provider" would be Sprint PCS.
I happen to work for a Sprint PCS Affiliate and we are looking to install WiFi in our Corporate locations for exactly the scenario you propose.
The idea is that you can save on PCS equipment in high-usage areas and improve reception/call quality. You look at it from the wrong direction.
Sprint: You mean users won't have to be on our network but we still get to charge them minutes? And we get more bang out of our Network buck and better coverage in buildings with no work on our part? Yeah, that sounds like a pretty good deal, let's do that.
More likely, Palm said (?!?!?!?) nah, let's not include that for XXXXX reason.
Almost got it. CALs, these days, are per-client, not per-connection. So your first scenario, 100 clients, 1 server, 100 CALs is right, but your second scenario is 100 clients, 10 servers, 100 CALs because Windows decided to move that way.
Why they even charge for CALs when you typically run Windows Clients when connecting to a Windows Server is beyond me. I think it's f'ing dumb. I guess it's just one more way to fsck us as a customer.
nymph er NIMF for short.
Coincidence? I think NOT!
Alright, I DID RTFA, and basically what this describes is just another way to authenticate that the user is from that domain. Isn't that the same thing SPF does? They both seem to accomplish the same task, but SPF appears to be easier to manage and easier to support. My personal (commercial) mail server already supports SPF, sendmail et al. support it (via external component), and my Barracudas (awesome product!) are beta testing spf support right now.
Oh yeah, and gmail already support SPF. Why promote different standards that are apparently identical in purpose?
The US (and to some extent, the EU) are facing mounting issues from Software Patents (The idea of patenting an idea opposed to an implementation). What do you think about the current state of Intellectual Property laws?
What limits should be placed on Software Patents? Should they be eliminated entirely? Should all patents be moved to a trademark like system where if they are not enforced, the holder loses the trademark?
What is the fix and what is needed to make it happen? Will it ever be fixed?
I for one welcome our border collie overlords.
Why should I have to properly tune it?
I gave an old AMD k6-300 w/ 64MB ram to someone who has never had a computer. I loaded it w/ XP and it runs HAPPILY. I didn't have to do any tuning to get it running in an acceptable manner. That's not to say I didn't do a few tweaks, but nothing significant and certainly nothing like adjusting hard drive parameters or compiling ANYTHING. I do plenty of PC repairing as well and I disagree with your opinion on the usable system requirements of XP.
This is why I don't use Linux past my personal file server and firewall. It is still far too complicated to get a computer running. I've tried probably 6 or 8 distros so far and none of them I would call good when it comes to installation and setup.
When Linux installs on an "average" computer (Think 300mhz and 64mb ram like probably most "average" users have), and works properly and quickly without too much effort, then call me.(Unfortunately, by the time Linux reaches that point, average will probably 1Ghz and 256MB which is sad to say.)
I think they are being very reasonable with their licensing structures.
1: The Format is fee-free provided you follow the license
2: The software is not free/OS. SO? Not everything should be free. I am ALL about OO.o and Linux, and whatnot, but trying to claim that all software should be free is just stupid, and giving list "unfortunate limitations" jab is unfair.
Would you prefer the XML format they designed to be GPLed? Wouldn't that make it useless? Everyone could modify the format and then you wouldn't have a standard format?
-lv
p.s. Here come the GPL flames. Bring it on!!!!
Let me know when they make "!froogle.google.com" Most of the time I want to search for pages that ARE NOT trying to sell me something.
-lv
I'm sorry, I use my PDA many many times a day. For the basics, ya know, address book, calendar. I don't use it for much beyond that, other than games, a convenient subnet calculator, etc. But saying that PDAs are a solution waiting for a problem is obviously someone who has never really had one. I'd love an easy to use method to get phone numbers into my phone so I only had to put them one place (NOT going to get a PDA/phone, no way), but other than that, could not LIVE without my PDA.
-lv
DVDs will forever READ both +R and -R. If -R were to win right now, in 1-2 years you wouldn't be able to buy DVD+R discs. That means you'd have to buy a new drive. That's not unreasonable for 1-2 years.
So presumably they had to split the beer atom right?
Good set of basic laws. However, if we were to truly create sentience (I hope I never see it in a computer), we would build multiple. Simply because we aren't happy with one of anything. And by building multiple, they would be different because they would learn differently and learn different "morals". That means that eventually 1 2 and 3 would all fail. Just as humans injure other humans, robots would begin to injure other robots and then other humans.
My predicition: 2-3 years from now, in a very quiet Press Release, IBM will announce that it has purchased the UNIX rights from SCO for hundreths of pennies on the dollar.
of course, SCO may not be the owner, or it might have some other name.
They might even GPL it. hehehe, wouldn't that be a kick in the groin to SCO?
Let's face it people, GNUs don't kill SCO, SCO kills SCO. That is all.
When do we get the made for tv movie? Or a book? Is Darl gonna sell a book deal for millions to refloat the company. "How I took on Big Blue... and Lost." or "How I fought Linux... for Nothing."
Can't wait.
Ok, lets look back at personal computing 30 years ago. Oh, we can't. How can they predict what is going to happen in 3 decades? We can't predict the state of computing in 3 YEARS. He says
This is absolute BS and is FUD on the scale of MS and SCO. He's just trying to bump his research grants up. ignore him.
-lv
"reduce substantially the level and amount of criticism from computer scientists and other security experts about the fallibility of electronic voting systems."
They aren't saying, "We want to make our software more secure." They're just saying, "We don't want to hear about how it isn't secure."
I don't think there is anything wrong with electronic voting. I just think there is something wrong with the current companies that do it.
Funny though, I don't know anything about any company except Diebold. Does this mean that the others aren't as bad or just they haven't been caught?