The general theory is that if a component is going to fail, it'll do so within the first few months. I have drives and mobos that date back to the 486 days that still run without any problems at all.
The point is that you want to take a brand new part and stress it as much as possible. If it fails under a week of testing at full utilization, then it would probably have failed after a few months in your production system.
Better for both you and the vendor that you find problems early.
RS-232 may seem to be dying, but it's far from gone. Just about any telecom system that needs to be configured is interfaced through a 232 serial port. Not to mention there's tons of stuff still using RS-530 and RS-449.
While it may seem confusing to a relative outsider, RS-232 is beautiful to thoes working in the WAN/campus portions of the IT field.
232 is usually DCE if it's female; DTE if it's male. A straight-through cable will fit most people's needs. If you enter into the world of crossover cables, then things like control leads and timing need to be examined on a case by case basis. Sure, you may pick up a cable at Radio Shack that works, but not always.
In any event, working around rs-232 for 10+ years has given me a ton of respect for the people who designed it. It's as simple as can be yet powerful enough to still be implemented to this day.
That excuse always seems like a cop-out. I've got an idea: release what you can and add detailed comments about what's left out. That way, someone will come along and read the comments and decide if it's worth it to code the missing sections back in. To me, it seems really easy. There are always issues with art and code. To say you won't release 90% of a project because 10% is licensed is crap.
Yes it does pad itself. I ran it. It detected eMule and Kazaa Lite as spyware. It also missed an Alexia tracking cookie that AdAware picked up.
Also, I have an icon in my taskbar. I've tried to close this program for about 4 days. It won't close. Every time I close it, it launches itself back up a few minutes later.
You seem to forget that the BSA/**AA represent companies. These companies employ people. These people live off of the profits from copyrighted works. The BSA is lobying on behalf of all these people.
If they have no reason to hate us, then we shouldn't care if they have a bomb. The US is like a fucking child; "The bomb is our toy and only we can handle the true weight of the decision to either use or not use it." Get over yourself. Stop pissing off the rest of the world and you would never have to worry about the bomb.
You've got it all wrong. Rather than have USians dying all over the world, make the world take care of itself.
If you want Iran to be free(er), then threaten to embargo Saudia Arabia, Qutar, and other countries in the area. Have the UN literally shut down all trade with them until the problem is taken care of.
You'd have to make some serious cutbacks on your usage of gasoline for a bit. But I can almost guarentee that the fucking rich shieks like bling-bling more than oil. As soon as they launch an offensive into Iran, we'd resume trade at a lower level. Once Iran was free(er), everything would be back to normal.
I supose you could use HAM radio and just blanket the entire country with access over the airwaves. Distribute some dinky fliers on how to make a tranceiver and you'd be golden.
Until the Iranians started killing their own people just to teach them a lesson. Then we'd be back at square one; bad dictator and oppressed people. Why screw around with anything other than directed miliraty force?
At the very least, do a Berlin Airlift type action where we actively fly MCI in there to set up a MAE-Mid-East and then dare anyone to shoot at us.
Actually, it's a good plan. There are quite a few people working who are also Guard and Reserve. No better way to create jobs than to activate thoes people and move them to Iraq. If they die, even better; no worry about them coming back for their jobs.
So, is it worth killing and dying to get these people their rights back? GWB already has a hardon for the arabs; this might be a good excuse. Now all we need is some satalite imagery of packets being blocked.
Let's send the kids of poor people over to Iran to die and free thoes packets! GWB already loves sequels; look at Gulf War 2 as an example. He could go talk to Sadam and figure out how he fucked up in the Iran/Iraq war. Then GWB could launch an invasion of Iran from Iraq. It'll be just like the 80s agian. Only this time, USians will be dying.
I never really understood how a MMO would work if based off a "super hero" world. Basicly, this MMO will be set in an alternative world of a godlike Joseph Smith. What's the angle; everyone starts their own church? Can we all sit around and translate plates hidden in a hat? Are we suposed to work together to cross Hatrack River or cut diseased bone from Joseph's (excuse me, Alvin's) leg?
Seriously, why do people buy into Alvin's story? It's just a fantasized retelling of Joseph Smith's life.
And OSC's Homecoming Series was basicly a rewritten account of The Book of Mormon.
If you are from the US, "American" does not work. It doesn't matter how many USians call themselves what; they are USians.
For instance, a Native American could call himself an American. But what does the recent imigrant call himself?
Honestly, it's like the USian facination with using inches, feet, and miles. It's wrong and needs to be changed. Basicly, the inhabitants of 2 continents are tired of being wrapped up with the likes of the USians.
BTW, I call most Europeans EUians. The French, German, Italians, etc are not, in fact, Europeans any longer. They have aligned themselves to the new nationalism and have become EUians. They no longer care for Europe; only the EU.
Same for USians. They don't care about wetbacks and canuks. Fucking close the borders to thoes damn muslims. Fingerprint everyone and take pictures. Hell, get everyone's DNA too.
The thing about USian corporate culture is that even if you are technicaly right, you are still wrong. Your boss could be setting baby kittens on fire and you could be the whistleblower that puts him away. The next week, you get fired for abusing the copy machine.
This once happened to me. A router in my area lost its config. They claimed I did it. I replied that it could have been a lazy admin never doing a "wr mem". They told me that I could either sign a confession or they'd reassign me to an outside work area while they "investigated". My boss outright told me the investigation would take months while they bounced me from area to area and shift to shift.
Given that kind of culture, the employee always loses.
I'd like to add that the majority of *useful* packages on *nix are controlled through the command line. In Windows, unless you have physical access to the box, you are screwed. Sure, you can do VNC once you are up and running, but you still can't configure DNS, IIS, or a hundred other parameters unless you have a mouse.
Compare that to Linux where virtually every graphical way to accomplish something is usually a wrapper still reading and writing text files behind the scene.
2. The accuracy required to "catch a ball" is astounding. This is the kind of test that prototype robots fails routinly.
Sure, it may be hard for a computer to trach a moving target, But I can do it easily. This isn't about people zapping airliners at FL30, it's about pranksters zapping them as they land. People sit on parking decks or stand near the perimeter fence and try to "hit" airplanes as they land.
Another example: Where I work, we have people "shoot" our guards at least twice a day. These guys and girls are just trying to do their job and they see a red dot on their chest. How would you react?
Even the trackers are iffy, at best. Basicly, the tracker just holds a database of everyone who has started the torrent. The files themselves are hosted on someone's computer.
So, is listing people who download illegal content bad? Is sharing that list with your friends bad?
Loki does not distribute copyrighted content. Well, someone said they *may* be running a tracker, but who knows.
In any event, I've seen everything from OS updates to Linux distros on there. A lot of people have picked up their first linux distro while browsing Loki or SuperNova.
If Loki is doing something bad, then Kazaa, EMule and pretty much every other p2p app (including WinXP's Network Neighborhood) is also at risk.
Basicly, What Loki is doing has the potential to set a precidence that will affect every person in America. This is about more than just piracy. This is about my right to tell you information; and the rights of the people who want that information to remain hidden. If Loki is found to be at fault, then Google (google for 'filetype:torrent paris hilton') is probably next. After that, probably sites that link to documents that *they* don't want you to read.
Keep your money at home. Take care of what's close to you. If you want to change something, at least make it something that may someday affect your life.
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The general theory is that if a component is going to fail, it'll do so within the first few months. I have drives and mobos that date back to the 486 days that still run without any problems at all.
The point is that you want to take a brand new part and stress it as much as possible. If it fails under a week of testing at full utilization, then it would probably have failed after a few months in your production system.
Better for both you and the vendor that you find problems early.
RS-232 may seem to be dying, but it's far from gone. Just about any telecom system that needs to be configured is interfaced through a 232 serial port. Not to mention there's tons of stuff still using RS-530 and RS-449.
While it may seem confusing to a relative outsider, RS-232 is beautiful to thoes working in the WAN/campus portions of the IT field.
232 is usually DCE if it's female; DTE if it's male. A straight-through cable will fit most people's needs. If you enter into the world of crossover cables, then things like control leads and timing need to be examined on a case by case basis. Sure, you may pick up a cable at Radio Shack that works, but not always.
In any event, working around rs-232 for 10+ years has given me a ton of respect for the people who designed it. It's as simple as can be yet powerful enough to still be implemented to this day.
That excuse always seems like a cop-out. I've got an idea: release what you can and add detailed comments about what's left out. That way, someone will come along and read the comments and decide if it's worth it to code the missing sections back in. To me, it seems really easy. There are always issues with art and code. To say you won't release 90% of a project because 10% is licensed is crap.
Yes it does pad itself. I ran it. It detected eMule and Kazaa Lite as spyware. It also missed an Alexia tracking cookie that AdAware picked up.
Also, I have an icon in my taskbar. I've tried to close this program for about 4 days. It won't close. Every time I close it, it launches itself back up a few minutes later.
You seem to forget that the BSA/**AA represent companies. These companies employ people. These people live off of the profits from copyrighted works. The BSA is lobying on behalf of all these people.
I actually had to look this up before I got it. How could I ever forget about the Danites? That rocked.
Basicly, they were excommunicated mormons who were told that if they kill prospectors in Utah, they could get back into heaven.
Hmm, wonder where Osama got that idea from?
If they have no reason to hate us, then we shouldn't care if they have a bomb. The US is like a fucking child; "The bomb is our toy and only we can handle the true weight of the decision to either use or not use it." Get over yourself. Stop pissing off the rest of the world and you would never have to worry about the bomb.
You've got it all wrong. Rather than have USians dying all over the world, make the world take care of itself.
If you want Iran to be free(er), then threaten to embargo Saudia Arabia, Qutar, and other countries in the area. Have the UN literally shut down all trade with them until the problem is taken care of.
You'd have to make some serious cutbacks on your usage of gasoline for a bit. But I can almost guarentee that the fucking rich shieks like bling-bling more than oil. As soon as they launch an offensive into Iran, we'd resume trade at a lower level. Once Iran was free(er), everything would be back to normal.
Hell, we already have that.
I supose you could use HAM radio and just blanket the entire country with access over the airwaves. Distribute some dinky fliers on how to make a tranceiver and you'd be golden.
Until the Iranians started killing their own people just to teach them a lesson. Then we'd be back at square one; bad dictator and oppressed people. Why screw around with anything other than directed miliraty force?
At the very least, do a Berlin Airlift type action where we actively fly MCI in there to set up a MAE-Mid-East and then dare anyone to shoot at us.
Actually, it's a good plan. There are quite a few people working who are also Guard and Reserve. No better way to create jobs than to activate thoes people and move them to Iraq. If they die, even better; no worry about them coming back for their jobs.
No, the vapour is that it won't be online. :)
So, is it worth killing and dying to get these people their rights back? GWB already has a hardon for the arabs; this might be a good excuse. Now all we need is some satalite imagery of packets being blocked.
Let's send the kids of poor people over to Iran to die and free thoes packets! GWB already loves sequels; look at Gulf War 2 as an example. He could go talk to Sadam and figure out how he fucked up in the Iran/Iraq war. Then GWB could launch an invasion of Iran from Iraq. It'll be just like the 80s agian. Only this time, USians will be dying.
I never really understood how a MMO would work if based off a "super hero" world. Basicly, this MMO will be set in an alternative world of a godlike Joseph Smith. What's the angle; everyone starts their own church? Can we all sit around and translate plates hidden in a hat? Are we suposed to work together to cross Hatrack River or cut diseased bone from Joseph's (excuse me, Alvin's) leg?
Seriously, why do people buy into Alvin's story? It's just a fantasized retelling of Joseph Smith's life.
And OSC's Homecoming Series was basicly a rewritten account of The Book of Mormon.
Actually, it's nobody's problem.
If you are from the US, "American" does not work. It doesn't matter how many USians call themselves what; they are USians.
For instance, a Native American could call himself an American. But what does the recent imigrant call himself?
Honestly, it's like the USian facination with using inches, feet, and miles. It's wrong and needs to be changed. Basicly, the inhabitants of 2 continents are tired of being wrapped up with the likes of the USians.
BTW, I call most Europeans EUians. The French, German, Italians, etc are not, in fact, Europeans any longer. They have aligned themselves to the new nationalism and have become EUians. They no longer care for Europe; only the EU.
Same for USians. They don't care about wetbacks and canuks. Fucking close the borders to thoes damn muslims. Fingerprint everyone and take pictures. Hell, get everyone's DNA too.
USians are crazy. Americans are sane.
Well, it would be someone from the US. I don't like the term "American". It includes everyone from Canada to Chile. USian is much more definitive.
The thing about USian corporate culture is that even if you are technicaly right, you are still wrong. Your boss could be setting baby kittens on fire and you could be the whistleblower that puts him away. The next week, you get fired for abusing the copy machine.
This once happened to me. A router in my area lost its config. They claimed I did it. I replied that it could have been a lazy admin never doing a "wr mem". They told me that I could either sign a confession or they'd reassign me to an outside work area while they "investigated". My boss outright told me the investigation would take months while they bounced me from area to area and shift to shift.
Given that kind of culture, the employee always loses.
"Tabbing" four-thousand times does not make something keyboard-friendly.
I'd like to add that the majority of *useful* packages on *nix are controlled through the command line. In Windows, unless you have physical access to the box, you are screwed. Sure, you can do VNC once you are up and running, but you still can't configure DNS, IIS, or a hundred other parameters unless you have a mouse.
Compare that to Linux where virtually every graphical way to accomplish something is usually a wrapper still reading and writing text files behind the scene.
Supply and Demand.
Demand for helicopters is low; supply is low. Therefore, price is high.
Demand for cars is high; supply is high. Therefore, price is low.
Basicly, if everyone knew how to fly, then one could buy a helicopter for ~$50k. Maybe less.
2. The accuracy required to "catch a ball" is astounding. This is the kind of test that prototype robots fails routinly.
Sure, it may be hard for a computer to trach a moving target, But I can do it easily. This isn't about people zapping airliners at FL30, it's about pranksters zapping them as they land. People sit on parking decks or stand near the perimeter fence and try to "hit" airplanes as they land.
Another example: Where I work, we have people "shoot" our guards at least twice a day. These guys and girls are just trying to do their job and they see a red dot on their chest. How would you react?
Even the trackers are iffy, at best. Basicly, the tracker just holds a database of everyone who has started the torrent. The files themselves are hosted on someone's computer.
So, is listing people who download illegal content bad? Is sharing that list with your friends bad?
Loki does not distribute copyrighted content. Well, someone said they *may* be running a tracker, but who knows.
In any event, I've seen everything from OS updates to Linux distros on there. A lot of people have picked up their first linux distro while browsing Loki or SuperNova.
If Loki is doing something bad, then Kazaa, EMule and pretty much every other p2p app (including WinXP's Network Neighborhood) is also at risk.
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Basicly, What Loki is doing has the potential to set a precidence that will affect every person in America. This is about more than just piracy. This is about my right to tell you information; and the rights of the people who want that information to remain hidden. If Loki is found to be at fault, then Google (google for 'filetype:torrent paris hilton') is probably next. After that, probably sites that link to documents that *they* don't want you to read.
Keep your money at home. Take care of what's close to you. If you want to change something, at least make it something that may someday affect your life.