It also releases charged particles from the the water vapor and dust particles in the air reacting together.
Would you have a link for this assertion? Air with a high moisture content is actually LESS likely to hold a charge, not more.
Granted, wet air + dust can leave mud on your systems, which can be CONDUCTIVE (not charged), but if your server room air is that dirty you are going to have other problems.
Since a swamp cooler is drawing air through a filter media, it is more likely to be cleaner than dirtier.
Now, if you are confusing a swamp cooler with a mist cooler (in which water is sprayed from nozzles into a plenum in which the droplets evaporate) you might be correct in that the air will have a higher particulate count from the impurities in the water.
And of course, if you don't clean your swamp cooler, it will dirty up and start to stink (hence the name). If you don't clean your AC, it will stink. So what?
IF you are in a low-humidity environment, you might be able to use a swamp cooler (evaporative cooler) - this uses a small quantity of water trickled over absorbant pads plus forced air to cool the air via evaporation. In a low humidity environment it can cool air by 15-20 degrees C, and takes quite a bit less power than a compressor based air con unit.
I've been running Linux since the 0. days. I've been running Redhat since 4.x. I've been running Gnome for years. Why should I look in the "Basic skills" section, which is usually "This is how you click your mouse" level stuff.
In the old days, Gnome had the screen shooter applet, which lived on the menu bar. Logically, an experience person would look there first. There is no screen shooter applet now, nor is there a reference to where that functionality has gone.
OK, perhaps the applet ws confusing to people coming from Windows. Perhaps hotkeys are a better way to implement that. But at least either keep the old method around and mark it deprecated (i.e. have the applet come up and tell you "Hey, you can do this without me by....") or have a simple, easy to find info on the web (which, BTW, I had searched when I first encountered this problem.)
Don't get me wrong: I love the fact that RedHat is taking an interest in cleaning things up. But they've struck out in their own direction with Bluecurve, without trying to win the approval of the UN, so to speak.
We are talking about the same menu, are we not? I am talking about the Gnome (a.k.a. "Foot") menus on the panel.
Assuming that to be the case: Begin Rant.
Ahhh. Peachy. You are forced to use Nautilus - an overbloated excuse for a program. What every happened to the Unix Way: A small program to manage icons on the desktop, a program to view files and directories, etc.?
And how wonderfully intuitive - rather than doing "something" to the menu, like right-clicking, or dragging, or something, you go to a seemingly unrelated program and type a magic phrase to make changes.
As long as we continue to do things like this, the Mac UI folks will have every right to laugh at us.
And as for the print screen:
Does that save the screen to the clipboard a la Windows, or does it write a file to your home directory?
I like to make this point about ISO-9000: if they are not now ISO-9000 certified, McDonalds could be in about five minutes - they have a proceedure for everything. Does this mean that McD's good is "good quality"?
IF you have a proceedure, AND IF that proceedure included required analysis of failures, AND IF that proceedure requires improvements to the proceedures to correct the failures, THEN you MIGHT begin to approach quality over time.
However, far too many company's ISO proceedures fail to require analysis and actively discourage improvement to the proceedures ("You want to change the proceedure! OK, here's a ton of paperwork to fill out, and you will have to get the signatures of fourteen people who would rather not sign anything other than their own paychecks. Have Fun!").
ISO is really just a big peer-pressure MLM scam the way it is run now.
And yes, the company I work for is ISO 9001 qualified.
Sure, it is the airline's aircraft, the airline can do what it wants, and if you don't like it, don't fly on that airline.
And were the airline merely recording the flight, holding the recording a couple of days or so, then scrubbing it, I personally would not have a problem with it - there are many cases of air rage, gross stupidity, and so on that could best be handled with a tape ("You claim the flight attendants were needlessly violent in denying you your drink? Well, let's roll tape... Hmmm, seems you took a swing at them first. CASE DISMISSED!")
But while it is one thing to hold the video for a couple of days, to allow for any complaints or issues a chance to come out, it is quite another to hold the video for TEN YEARS! What possible logic would require a video to be held for ten years in the absence of a complaint?
What, do they expect some flight attendant to remember, after 8 years, "Oh yeah, that Mr. Tuttle in 3A pinched me, made lewd comments, and tried to steal the headphones - let's go get the tape and bust him!"?
This is a very clever ploy on Carmack's part to get into space:
1) Design games that force players to buy new hardware. 2) Collect kickbacks from nVidia, ATI, Intel, AMD. 3) Profit! 4) Build spacecraft with profit. 5) Go into space. 6) Profit!
There is a relatively simple change that could be made to slashcode to help solve the "editorializing in the story" bug:
Allow the story submitter one, and only one, post during the "Mysterious Future" period. When a story is accepted, email the submitter notifying them of that fact.
Thus, a person could post a factual story, knowing that they get first crack at commenting upon it.
This addresses a couple of problems: 1) Editors editorializing in their stories (Jamie and Michael spring to mind) - they could post the story, then have the first comment. 2) Eliminates the "frist psot" crap - somehow "first post after the submitter" doesn't seem to have the same ring to me (but then, I am not a troll).
Of course, like many problems this one has both a technical aspect and a societal aspect - the/. editors would have to stop accepting the flamebait stories and start accepting relatively straightforward stories. As somebody who has submitted a fair number of stories, I've seen several of my submissions rejected, and later the same item with a far more inflammatory spin accepted. I believe that these two items are correlated - in fact I believe there is a causal relationship between an absence of flamebait in the story and rejection.
(obcomment) This is "News for nerd - stuff that matters?" I don't think so, Tim.(/obcomment)
Try BRUSHING your teeth. Really brushing - if you spend less than 2 minutes you aren't doing it correctly. Go to your dentist and get some disclosing tablets - these are basically food coloring that will stick to the plaque on your teeth. Brush. Then chew up a tablet. Then look in the mirror at all the places you DIDN'T reach. Brush again.
I drink a fair amount of coffee (expresso, to boot). My teeth aren't unnaturally white - I don't look like I have liquid paper on my teeth, but they are whiter than most people's teeth.
Go to your dentist for routine prophy (cleaning) twice a year.
Make sure you are getting plenty of calcium in your diet, esp. if you drink lots of colas. The phosphoric acid in the cola has to be neutralized by the body, and guess what your body uses to do so: calcium.
If you do those things, you should have strong teeth that are properly BONE colored (yes, I know that bones aren't dentin and enamel.) Bones aren't naturally white - the only time you see bones that are white are bones that have been sun-bleached.
The rash of tooth-whitening ads you see on TV are due to the fact that the FDA has approved these products - that does not mean they WORK, or that they are GOOD for you, just that they aren't terribly BAD for you. But the idea that your teeth should be 0FFFFFF is just as much a media-implanted untruth as the idea that you MUST buy the latest boy-band's dreck.
Story time: once I was in for my routine prophy, and my dentist was training a new tech. He was using my teeth as an example - "Now, we COULD go in here, cap these teeth to releive the crowding here and here..." and so on. After a bit, I said "yes, but we both know there is one thing caps cannot do that what I have can, and that is self-repair." "Yes, that's true, and you're right. Your teeth are good enough, what I was discussing would be purely cosmetic."
I have to wonder what things will be like in 20 years, when the current crop of 20 somethings are 40 years old, wearing dentures because they burned their teeth out, running around saying "What? What did you say? Eh?" because of their ThunderThump3000 car stereos. I'm going to LAUGH at them!
I would say, from your message, that your mistake was not going to your customer FIRST, before walking. If you did so and I was mislead by your message, then I apologize.
However, there is a difference between quitting over shady business practices and sexual harrasement - sad but true. The former will get YOU blacklisted, the latter will get the offending company blacklisted, witch-hunted, and perp-walked on an ambush-journalism show.
Yes, it is sad that our society does not encourage personal responsiblity. But folks like you and me who are willing to pay the penalty for doing the right thing are the only barrier between us and the pit.
Your friend should go the the Human Resources department, and file a complaint.
Then, if your friend's contract is terminated without cause, he can bring a whistle-blower suit.
But I doubt that will happen. I think this is a more likely scenario:
Your Friend <knocks on doorframe> HR person: Hello, come in, how may I help you? YF: Well, it's like this - I'm a contractor, and my supervisor from this shop keeps hitting on me. I've asked her to stop, but she keeps doing it. Here's a copy of the last letter I wrote to her about it.... HR <snatching letter>: Let me see that. Hmmmmm, ummmhmmm. OK. Do you wish to file a formal complaint? YF: I'd like this to stop. If it stops without a complaint, that would be best, but.... HR: OK. Excuse me. I must go kill somebody now. <Exits office at warp speed.>
Believe me - IF your friend documents the request to stop the harrasment, they will be VERY careful about any action against him - even if they WERE going to terminate his contract for some other reason, they will make sure to have all their ducks, their friend's ducks, and any ducks that happen to be passing by on migration in a row before they do.
Whistle-blower suits cause a lot a pain and suffering to organizations....
Where are you getting that 500 kHz "bleed" value from?
I've looked at more FM radio spectra than I care to count, and they've all been well bounded to 200 kHz - in fact, show me an FM broadcast station that has more than -60 dBc more than 200 kHz away and I'll show you an FCC engineer writing a Notice of Violation.
Now, crappy old FM radio receivers may have had poor IF responses that wouldn't block an ajacent channel 500 kHz away, but that is poor design on the receiver, not a flaw of the format or of the transmitter. A modern system with a synthesized LO and crystal filters has no problem filtering signals at that spacing.
I have 2 ideas for FPS mods, one very silly, one serious.
The silly idea came to me when I was watching a friend of mine's dogs playing in his back yard:
Capture the Squeaky!
You are a dog, with other dogs. You get points for carrying the squeaky - every couple of seconds you bite down, it squeaks, and you get a point. No weapons other than biting the squeaky-carrier, which makes them drop it (and then a literal dogpile to see who can pick it up first!).
The more serious idea:
Pirate Radio
This is a combination of capture the flag and king of the hill. Each side has a record collection. One player at a time from each team may get a record from the collection, and try to get into the radio station to play it. The record carrier (or DJ) cannot use any weapons - his hands are occupied with the record. If he takes fire, the record accumulates damage - too much and it breaks, and it's back to the base to get another. (even more fun of course is that while your team is trying to protect you and get your record to the station, the other team(s) are doing the same. Or maybe just camping out by the station with rockets....)
Once in the station, you get points for every second your record is playing. Meanwhile, you and your teammates are trying to keep the other side from breaking in (or just firing enough rockets/grenades in to break the record.)
On could even extend the game to allow for RIAA - they get points any time the radio station ISN'T in the hands of the pirates.
It would be truly heinious if you could have each team choose their music (as MP3 or OGG files) and then actually have that play duing the game - imagine a bunch of Country&Western types squaring off against some emo fans....
If I had the time to learn game mod programming (as opposed to signal processing) and then to create these mods I would, but since I don't, I offer them up here for anybody who would create them. Just make sure you make the mod run under Linux.
While I normally don't comment publicly upon the moderation of my comments, I believe the moderation of the parent makes my point more eloquently than anything else.
To me, a threat is a statement intended to pressure somebody into doing something they would not otherwise do - "Give me the money or I will quit" is a threat.
If you are making a statement about what will happen, without the primary intent being to alter the person's actions, that is not a threat, just a statement of fact. "You do not currently give me adequate money. These guys will. I will work for those who give me adequate money" isn't so much a threat as a statement of fact.
True, in both cases you are conveying the same information, but as a chef would say "It's all in the presentation." In one you are bringing pressure to bear on the boss, directly and deliberately. In the other, you are informing the boss of the consequenses of his decision, but indicating that if he doesn't give you money it's "no hard feelings, I'm just looking after my own best interests, good day."
Remember that the industry is small (ANY industry is small, now-a-days). If you present your case to the boss logically, dispassionately, and fairly you are far less likely to be haunted by it than if you convey the impression that you are shaking the boss down.
In the first case, the constuctor for matrix3 will be elided and the hidden reference to the returned matrix will be passed directly into the operator +. In the second case, you MAY get an elided assignment operator but it is unlikely.
Tsk, Tsk. You've just violated rule #1 of the modern age, one that many/.'ers hold near and dear to their hearts:
Nobody is responsible for anything they do. Anybody who wants to hold them responsible is an authoritarian crypto-fascist bastard to be flamed into oblivion.
I agree - if ISPs would simple require, as a term of service, that users keep their machines virus free (by whatever means the user sees fit), and immediately disconnect anybody who fails to do so until they correct the problem, then many of these problems would go away.
However, the legions of Dr. Spock raised little brats who were told since childhood "Do whatever you want, because to deny you your right of freedom of expresssion will turn you into a homicidal maniac" you have just threatened everything they hold dear.
If you want proof, look over some of my older postings, and the flamings I've received.
You've clarified your points, let met clarify mine, as I don't really think we disagree that much.
I don't think saying "Well, OK, so you say I cannot get what I am worth here. OK, then I will have to consider my response to that" is wrong.
However, DON'T say that if you don't have some fallback plan. Have some offers in hand first.
If you don't have the offers in hand, don't threaten to quit, in any way.
If you do have the offers in hand, then you aren't threatening. You are stating a fact.
So with both of our clarifications, I don't think we disagree, we were just emphasizing different aspects of the situation.
To recap: don't threaten. If you are going to make any statements about leaving, have those offers IN HAND first. Otherwise you are risking a period of unemployment.
However, its utility for getting into orbit is somewhat less, as all a rockoon gets you is above some of the air resistance - to get to orbit requires speed, not just alititude.
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Would you have a link for this assertion? Air with a high moisture content is actually LESS likely to hold a charge, not more.
Granted, wet air + dust can leave mud on your systems, which can be CONDUCTIVE (not charged), but if your server room air is that dirty you are going to have other problems.
Since a swamp cooler is drawing air through a filter media, it is more likely to be cleaner than dirtier.
Now, if you are confusing a swamp cooler with a mist cooler (in which water is sprayed from nozzles into a plenum in which the droplets evaporate) you might be correct in that the air will have a higher particulate count from the impurities in the water.
And of course, if you don't clean your swamp cooler, it will dirty up and start to stink (hence the name). If you don't clean your AC, it will stink. So what?
IF you are in a low-humidity environment, you might be able to use a swamp cooler (evaporative cooler) - this uses a small quantity of water trickled over absorbant pads plus forced air to cool the air via evaporation. In a low humidity environment it can cool air by 15-20 degrees C, and takes quite a bit less power than a compressor based air con unit.
Hanging from the top of the cage - you mean, like a pull-up?
Turning backflips...
"Now this one's a strange case. She claim a machine from the future, called a Terminator, came back to kill her."
Hiya Doc. How's the knee.
Look at it like this:
I've been running Linux since the 0. days. I've been running Redhat since 4.x. I've been running Gnome for years. Why should I look in the "Basic skills" section, which is usually "This is how you click your mouse" level stuff.
In the old days, Gnome had the screen shooter applet, which lived on the menu bar. Logically, an experience person would look there first. There is no screen shooter applet now, nor is there a reference to where that functionality has gone.
OK, perhaps the applet ws confusing to people coming from Windows. Perhaps hotkeys are a better way to implement that. But at least either keep the old method around and mark it deprecated (i.e. have the applet come up and tell you "Hey, you can do this without me by....") or have a simple, easy to find info on the web (which, BTW, I had searched when I first encountered this problem.)
Don't get me wrong: I love the fact that RedHat is taking an interest in cleaning things up. But they've struck out in their own direction with Bluecurve, without trying to win the approval of the UN, so to speak.
OK, so IF I know that print-screen is under a hotkey of some sort, THEN I can find the help.
But IF I don't know printscreen is under a hotkey, then where it it listed in the help?
We are talking about the same menu, are we not? I am talking about the Gnome (a.k.a. "Foot") menus on the panel.
Assuming that to be the case:
Begin Rant.
Ahhh. Peachy. You are forced to use Nautilus - an overbloated excuse for a program. What every happened to the Unix Way: A small program to manage icons on the desktop, a program to view files and directories, etc.?
And how wonderfully intuitive - rather than doing "something" to the menu, like right-clicking, or dragging, or something, you go to a seemingly unrelated program and type a magic phrase to make changes.
As long as we continue to do things like this, the Mac UI folks will have every right to laugh at us.
And as for the print screen:
Does that save the screen to the clipboard a la Windows, or does it write a file to your home directory?
And again, where is that documented?
Have they added the ability to alter the Gnome menus in a fashion that does not require binary editing the inodes with a needle?
I have RH8 at home, and the there seems to be a decided lack of any way to add items to the menu structure.
There also seems to be no easy way to get a snapshot of the desktop or of an app window.
I like to make this point about ISO-9000: if they are not now ISO-9000 certified, McDonalds could be in about five minutes - they have a proceedure for everything. Does this mean that McD's good is "good quality"?
IF you have a proceedure, AND IF that proceedure included required analysis of failures, AND IF that proceedure requires improvements to the proceedures to correct the failures, THEN you MIGHT begin to approach quality over time.
However, far too many company's ISO proceedures fail to require analysis and actively discourage improvement to the proceedures ("You want to change the proceedure! OK, here's a ton of paperwork to fill out, and you will have to get the signatures of fourteen people who would rather not sign anything other than their own paychecks. Have Fun!").
ISO is really just a big peer-pressure MLM scam the way it is run now.
And yes, the company I work for is ISO 9001 qualified.
Sure, it is the airline's aircraft, the airline can do what it wants, and if you don't like it, don't fly on that airline.
And were the airline merely recording the flight, holding the recording a couple of days or so, then scrubbing it, I personally would not have a problem with it - there are many cases of air rage, gross stupidity, and so on that could best be handled with a tape ("You claim the flight attendants were needlessly violent in denying you your drink? Well, let's roll tape... Hmmm, seems you took a swing at them first. CASE DISMISSED!")
But while it is one thing to hold the video for a couple of days, to allow for any complaints or issues a chance to come out, it is quite another to hold the video for TEN YEARS! What possible logic would require a video to be held for ten years in the absence of a complaint?
What, do they expect some flight attendant to remember, after 8 years, "Oh yeah, that Mr. Tuttle in 3A pinched me, made lewd comments, and tried to steal the headphones - let's go get the tape and bust him!"?
This is a very clever ploy on Carmack's part to get into space:
1) Design games that force players to buy new hardware.
2) Collect kickbacks from nVidia, ATI, Intel, AMD.
3) Profit!
4) Build spacecraft with profit.
5) Go into space.
6) Profit!
To go Test Equity or RAG - you can get an IFR 1200Super for US$8,995, a IFR COM-120B for US$10,995>, or a Marconi 2945A for US$7,995, any of which will tune up a transmitter quite nicely.
US$30,000 would be more in the line of a IF 1600S or IFR 2975, which would be overkill for a simple broadcast FM transmitter alignment.
I should know - I'm the software lead on both the COM-120B and 2975 projects.
There is a relatively simple change that could be made to slashcode to help solve the "editorializing in the story" bug:
/. editors would have to stop accepting the flamebait stories and start accepting relatively straightforward stories. As somebody who has submitted a fair number of stories, I've seen several of my submissions rejected, and later the same item with a far more inflammatory spin accepted. I believe that these two items are correlated - in fact I believe there is a causal relationship between an absence of flamebait in the story and rejection.
Allow the story submitter one, and only one, post during the "Mysterious Future" period. When a story is accepted, email the submitter notifying them of that fact.
Thus, a person could post a factual story, knowing that they get first crack at commenting upon it.
This addresses a couple of problems:
1) Editors editorializing in their stories (Jamie and Michael spring to mind) - they could post the story, then have the first comment.
2) Eliminates the "frist psot" crap - somehow "first post after the submitter" doesn't seem to have the same ring to me (but then, I am not a troll).
Of course, like many problems this one has both a technical aspect and a societal aspect - the
Computer 1 <displays a BSOD>
*nix user <pointing at computer> "HA-HA!"
Computer 2: "User Nelson logged in".
(obcomment) This is "News for nerd - stuff that matters?" I don't think so, Tim.(/obcomment)
Try BRUSHING your teeth. Really brushing - if you spend less than 2 minutes you aren't doing it correctly. Go to your dentist and get some disclosing tablets - these are basically food coloring that will stick to the plaque on your teeth. Brush. Then chew up a tablet. Then look in the mirror at all the places you DIDN'T reach. Brush again.
I drink a fair amount of coffee (expresso, to boot). My teeth aren't unnaturally white - I don't look like I have liquid paper on my teeth, but they are whiter than most people's teeth.
Go to your dentist for routine prophy (cleaning) twice a year.
Make sure you are getting plenty of calcium in your diet, esp. if you drink lots of colas. The phosphoric acid in the cola has to be neutralized by the body, and guess what your body uses to do so: calcium.
If you do those things, you should have strong teeth that are properly BONE colored (yes, I know that bones aren't dentin and enamel.) Bones aren't naturally white - the only time you see bones that are white are bones that have been sun-bleached.
The rash of tooth-whitening ads you see on TV are due to the fact that the FDA has approved these products - that does not mean they WORK, or that they are GOOD for you, just that they aren't terribly BAD for you. But the idea that your teeth should be 0FFFFFF is just as much a media-implanted untruth as the idea that you MUST buy the latest boy-band's dreck.
Story time: once I was in for my routine prophy, and my dentist was training a new tech. He was using my teeth as an example - "Now, we COULD go in here, cap these teeth to releive the crowding here and here..." and so on. After a bit, I said "yes, but we both know there is one thing caps cannot do that what I have can, and that is self-repair." "Yes, that's true, and you're right. Your teeth are good enough, what I was discussing would be purely cosmetic."
I have to wonder what things will be like in 20 years, when the current crop of 20 somethings are 40 years old, wearing dentures because they burned their teeth out, running around saying "What? What did you say? Eh?" because of their ThunderThump3000 car stereos. I'm going to LAUGH at them!
Take every ethics course your university offers.
Take your business theory courses.
Then you know what to violate.
Unfortunately, that seems to be the way to become a manager in this world.
I would say, from your message, that your mistake was not going to your customer FIRST, before walking. If you did so and I was mislead by your message, then I apologize.
However, there is a difference between quitting over shady business practices and sexual harrasement - sad but true. The former will get YOU blacklisted, the latter will get the offending company blacklisted, witch-hunted, and perp-walked on an ambush-journalism show.
Yes, it is sad that our society does not encourage personal responsiblity. But folks like you and me who are willing to pay the penalty for doing the right thing are the only barrier between us and the pit.
Your friend should go the the Human Resources department, and file a complaint.
Then, if your friend's contract is terminated without cause, he can bring a whistle-blower suit.
But I doubt that will happen. I think this is a more likely scenario:
Your Friend <knocks on doorframe>
HR person: Hello, come in, how may I help you?
YF: Well, it's like this - I'm a contractor, and my supervisor from this shop keeps hitting on me. I've asked her to stop, but she keeps doing it. Here's a copy of the last letter I wrote to her about it....
HR <snatching letter>: Let me see that. Hmmmmm, ummmhmmm. OK. Do you wish to file a formal complaint?
YF: I'd like this to stop. If it stops without a complaint, that would be best, but....
HR: OK. Excuse me. I must go kill somebody now. <Exits office at warp speed.>
Believe me - IF your friend documents the request to stop the harrasment, they will be VERY careful about any action against him - even if they WERE going to terminate his contract for some other reason, they will make sure to have all their ducks, their friend's ducks, and any ducks that happen to be passing by on migration in a row before they do.
Whistle-blower suits cause a lot a pain and suffering to organizations....
Where are you getting that 500 kHz "bleed" value from?
I've looked at more FM radio spectra than I care to count, and they've all been well bounded to 200 kHz - in fact, show me an FM broadcast station that has more than -60 dBc more than 200 kHz away and I'll show you an FCC engineer writing a Notice of Violation.
Now, crappy old FM radio receivers may have had poor IF responses that wouldn't block an ajacent channel 500 kHz away, but that is poor design on the receiver, not a flaw of the format or of the transmitter. A modern system with a synthesized LO and crystal filters has no problem filtering signals at that spacing.
The silly idea came to me when I was watching a friend of mine's dogs playing in his back yard:
You are a dog, with other dogs. You get points for carrying the squeaky - every couple of seconds you bite down, it squeaks, and you get a point.
No weapons other than biting the squeaky-carrier, which makes them drop it (and then a literal dogpile to see who can pick it up first!).
The more serious idea:
This is a combination of capture the flag and king of the hill. Each side has a record collection. One player at a time from each team may get a record from the collection, and try to get into the radio station to play it. The record carrier (or DJ) cannot use any weapons - his hands are occupied with the record. If he takes fire, the record accumulates damage - too much and it breaks, and it's back to the base to get another. (even more fun of course is that while your team is trying to protect you and get your record to the station, the other team(s) are doing the same. Or maybe just camping out by the station with rockets....)
Once in the station, you get points for every second your record is playing. Meanwhile, you and your teammates are trying to keep the other side from breaking in (or just firing enough rockets/grenades in to break the record.)
On could even extend the game to allow for RIAA - they get points any time the radio station ISN'T in the hands of the pirates.
It would be truly heinious if you could have each team choose their music (as MP3 or OGG files) and then actually have that play duing the game - imagine a bunch of Country&Western types squaring off against some emo fans....
If I had the time to learn game mod programming (as opposed to signal processing) and then to create these mods I would, but since I don't, I offer them up here for anybody who would create them. Just make sure you make the mod run under Linux.
While I normally don't comment publicly upon the moderation of my comments, I believe the moderation of the parent makes my point more eloquently than anything else.
I guess we differ on the definition of "threat".
To me, a threat is a statement intended to pressure somebody into doing something they would not otherwise do - "Give me the money or I will quit" is a threat.
If you are making a statement about what will happen, without the primary intent being to alter the person's actions, that is not a threat, just a statement of fact. "You do not currently give me adequate money. These guys will. I will work for those who give me adequate money" isn't so much a threat as a statement of fact.
True, in both cases you are conveying the same information, but as a chef would say "It's all in the presentation." In one you are bringing pressure to bear on the boss, directly and deliberately. In the other, you are informing the boss of the consequenses of his decision, but indicating that if he doesn't give you money it's "no hard feelings, I'm just looking after my own best interests, good day."
Remember that the industry is small (ANY industry is small, now-a-days). If you present your case to the boss logically, dispassionately, and fairly you are far less likely to be haunted by it than if you convey the impression that you are shaking the boss down.
It would depend upon whether the whole construction is:
.... ....
matrix operator +(const matrix &a,const matrix &b);
matrix matrix3;
matrix3 = matrix1 + matrix2;
or
matrix operator +(const matrix &a,const matrix &b);
matrix matrix3;
matrix3 = foo();
matrix3 = matrix1 + matrix2;
In the first case, the constuctor for matrix3 will be elided and the hidden reference to the returned matrix will be passed directly into the operator +. In the second case, you MAY get an elided assignment operator but it is unlikely.
I agree - if ISPs would simple require, as a term of service, that users keep their machines virus free (by whatever means the user sees fit), and immediately disconnect anybody who fails to do so until they correct the problem, then many of these problems would go away.
However, the legions of Dr. Spock raised little brats who were told since childhood "Do whatever you want, because to deny you your right of freedom of expresssion will turn you into a homicidal maniac" you have just threatened everything they hold dear.
If you want proof, look over some of my older postings, and the flamings I've received.
You've clarified your points, let met clarify mine, as I don't really think we disagree that much.
I don't think saying "Well, OK, so you say I cannot get what I am worth here. OK, then I will have to consider my response to that" is wrong.
However, DON'T say that if you don't have some fallback plan. Have some offers in hand first.
If you don't have the offers in hand, don't threaten to quit, in any way.
If you do have the offers in hand, then you aren't threatening. You are stating a fact.
So with both of our clarifications, I don't think we disagree, we were just emphasizing different aspects of the situation.
To recap: don't threaten. If you are going to make any statements about leaving, have those offers IN HAND first. Otherwise you are risking a period of unemployment.
The technique is called
rockoon
and is often used for altitude records.
However, its utility for getting into orbit is somewhat less, as all a rockoon gets you is above some of the air resistance - to get to orbit requires speed, not just alititude.