I think it's perfectly ok thing to do. My company often runs a credit check on possible customers, which is a sane thing to do. I hope you agree on that one. Doing it on a possible employee seems like a even more sane thing to do.
What you suggested didn't do anything at all... It only took several minutes to try out, since every time you change something and press "ok" or "apply", you have to wait for WinXP to "do it's thing". Whatever that is?
My WinXP hasn't crashed on me neither. But right now I'm trying to find out why my computer with WinXP is telling me that I have "Limited or no connectivity" from my network. A network which worked flawlessly last night. Works with my MacBook Pro. Even using the same ethernet cable for my WinXP computer in the MacBook works. But still my WinXP tells me that my cable might be unplugged (I did remember to put it back in) or that my gateway/router is not configured right.
How fucked up can Windows XP be?! The network is working perfectly. The cables are connected correctly. I can use either cable in my Mac and it works. Put either cable in the WinXP box and I get "Limited or no connectivity"...
I'm going to cry.
And don't get me going on WinXP's handling of wireless networks.
*runs off to kill some MS programmers*
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WoW also have the technical aspects right. The interface is just beautiful and robust, while still being easy to customize to your liking. They also made it extremely easy for people to create custom controls/interfaces and have control over these. Downloading and installing patches is a breeze. Latency handling is handled in a good way. WoW also have "ninja graphics", even on low end hardware, good sound effects and great music.
Their customer support, warrenty options and very stable computers/servers, are the reasons for why we (my company) has chosen Dell again and again. It doesn't hurt that they are extremely cheap; you can actually haggle with them:p
"They must be either atheists or fools to not fear the cost of abusing the bereaved for profit upon their souls." What? So people who are into one or another idiotic religion wouldn't act like this? Ah.. I forgot. Religion has never been about money, power and glory. Silly me.
Magic Carpet 1 & 2 was just SO much fun in multiplayer. And they had fully deformable terrain. There has been a few other games with the same features, but none as good as MC. The technology: free code for deformable 3D terrain has been available for several several years. Many like the terrain seen in MC.
Would be nice if people with similar tips could post some follow ups to parent.
Other books, albeit not free (to my knowledge): -Design patterns : elements of reusable object-oriented software, Erich Gamma, ISBN: 0201633612 -Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Martin Fowler, ISBN: 0321127420
I can think of ONE feature an mmorpg mouse should have. The ability to compensate for the infamous lag which always come with mmorpgs. If the mouse has the ability to sense my next movement/click 500-5000ms into the future, I'll buy it right now!
Why don't we see those people fighting in Vale Tudo, Pride, UFC or similar tournaments? Why? Because they don't have a chance in hell of beating people -trained- to fight in an effective way. If you include weapons, well, a gun will probably beat you every time.
I would love to see a 76 year old asian guy square it off with Tito Ortiz, Andrei Arlovski, Frank Mir, Matt Huges, Rich Franklin, Emelianenko Fedor or Wanderlei Silva.
At a demonstration I sponsored in June, she was able to show quite convincingly how a very small woman is able to take down, bind and otherwise incapacitate an assailant a foot taller, and several tens of pounds heavier. The assailant in this case was a student of classical Okinawan karate with an aproximately equal skill level. -That is just so much bullshit... I just have to ask you: Why do you think the have weight classes in -real- fighting sports? Like in the UFC? Just think about it... It's because when people of EQUAL skills fight, the only thing which makes a difference is the size! And here we have you claiming otherwise. That there is some form of super secret super ultra techniques which completely invalidates what everyone else knows and experiences. I've trained different forms of martial arts for 6-7 years now, and also MMA! A small woman, fighting anyone heavier/bigger who's also well trained in -fighting-, will become completely obliterated. Anything else would be science fiction!
(3) "MySQL has transactions" * Not in MyISAM, which means no full text indexing.
I kind of fail to see what problem you have with that... Why not have MyISAM-table for text queries and link back to the main tables? Would give you an opportunity to choose which fields to add text data from before indexing too. You can use InnoDB for everything else. The full text indexes get pretty huge, pretty fast. Using them on a huge product table wouldn't be very wise at all.
Some of the greatest minds in history from musicians, artists, poets, scientists, to engineers have said that the use of different drugs/alcohol helped them stimulate their thougts, come up with new and unique ideas or unique solutions to old problems or that the use of for example LSD was one of their greatest and most important experiences ever.
4) Surgical Strike weapon par excellence. Reflected back to earth via large space-based mirrors allows you to wave the thing in a decreasing spiral which will turn your neighbours house to molten slag, but barely singe your fence.
I'm pretty sure that a documentary I saw about laser weapons in the Regan-area, included one test done with a pretty powerful laser against a house like structure. What happened is that it did not melt, but blew up quite "nicely". Adding power to the laser would most likely make it even more of a violent explosion. Wood/bricks/concrete doesn't seem to heat up that well, and would rather try to brake apart in a kind of violent way...
Would be a pitty to hit a very polished window? Wouldn't there be a possibility that for a brief moment the laser would reflect or at least scatter off some of it's energy?
But there has been major changes in the company behind Trustix as of lately. It was originally developed and maintained by several hard working people in the Comodo branch in Trondheim, Norway (E.Midttun, O.Viggen, C.H.Toldnes). Then not so long ago, I saw one of the workers at Comodo carrying several computers from their office. Turned out that everyone had been laid off and the Norwegian branch was closed down. At the same time this happened and for some time there was no information given about the status of Trustix: http://www.mail-archive.com/tsl-discuss@lists.trus tix.org/msg03396.html
We still have a few servers running Trustix, but are currently moving over to other distributions.
How will the rocket find and aquire it's target? Either it must be wire controlled from a remote location, which again is using sattelites, radar or something else to keep track of the target, or else it must have a radar of it's own. Anyway... This totally destroyes your reasoning.
Tomahawk missiles, which are cruise missiles, and almost undetectable, can only hit discovered and known stationary targets.
Nobody cares if a game REQUIRES that much power... BF2 (Battlefield 2) doesn't REQUIRE that much power, but that much power get you a very smooth ride! I upgraded my computer with a 7800GTX and 2GB DDR2 memory just to play BF2 at high settings, 1600x1200 with AA and AF without any huge slowdowns.
"The point is that as soon as games come out that need next generation GPU's, your SLI system is obsolete because it likely won't have HARDWARE features to perform next-generation effects." WTF? Then we'll just buy some better graphics cards..... -DOH! I really really have to wonder what you are thinking.
You are both wrong... It really bothers me that every time someone mentions fps, someone will come with the clueless statement about how ~30fps is what we are able to perceive.
For computer generated graphics, without -motion blur-, ~72 fps is what you should aim for. Why 72 fps? Google it up on the net. (Wikipedia doesn't seem to be quite so good on this) It's all down to how fast signals from the screen, hits your eyes, signals from eyes reach your brain and your brain interprets the signals as an image. Anything -above- 72fps will only add to the perception of smooth motion.
This is really not hard to try out for yourself either. Since I find it extremely easy to see the difference between 30fps and say 70fps or 100fps. Or look at those small led lights on most electronic equipment like a heater. It operates at 50Hz (60Hz in US). It's really easy to see the light flicker. So why wouldn't it be the same for a computerscreen? (remember that the even TV has the same refresh rate, but a only shows a new frame at around 25fps).
The money they recieved were from donations. Not a penny was from someone who didn't want Drupal to have that money.
"Donations like this should be going to people doing things worth being done"
This is the stupidest thing I've read in a long time... Donations are given to people/projects which the donators think are doing something worthwhile, hence the donation! I can't think of a singel thing to better prove if something is of value than other people giving money to support the continued development.
*shakes head*
It is so simple really. You don't think Drupal is good? -Don't donate! If someone else think it's good and they donate, don't bitch and whine about it. Clearly they feel that Drupal is WORTH IT!!
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Illegal?
I think it's perfectly ok thing to do.
My company often runs a credit check on possible customers, which is a sane thing to do. I hope you agree on that one.
Doing it on a possible employee seems like a even more sane thing to do.
What you suggested didn't do anything at all...
It only took several minutes to try out, since every time you change something and press "ok" or "apply", you have to wait for WinXP to "do it's thing". Whatever that is?
Dunno what you want to prove.
No.
This is a problem with corrupt IP stack in Windows XP.
sub-human to fall for that.
Nah...
My WinXP hasn't crashed on me neither. But right now I'm trying to find out why my computer with WinXP is telling me that I have "Limited or no connectivity" from my network. A network which worked flawlessly last night. Works with my MacBook Pro. Even using the same ethernet cable for my WinXP computer in the MacBook works. But still my WinXP tells me that my cable might be unplugged (I did remember to put it back in) or that my gateway/router is not configured right.
How fucked up can Windows XP be?!
The network is working perfectly. The cables are connected correctly. I can use either cable in my Mac and it works. Put either cable in the WinXP box and I get "Limited or no connectivity"...
I'm going to cry.
And don't get me going on WinXP's handling of wireless networks.
*runs off to kill some MS programmers*
WoW also have the technical aspects right.
The interface is just beautiful and robust, while still being easy to customize to your liking. They also made it extremely easy for people to create custom controls/interfaces and have control over these. Downloading and installing patches is a breeze. Latency handling is handled in a good way.
WoW also have "ninja graphics", even on low end hardware, good sound effects and great music.
WoW just feel so "solid".
I've never experienced bad support from Dell.
:p
Their customer support, warrenty options and very stable computers/servers, are the reasons for why we (my company) has chosen Dell again and again.
It doesn't hurt that they are extremely cheap; you can actually haggle with them
I predict that you are 35% right, 84% wrong and 29% just a little off...
"They must be either atheists or fools to not fear the cost of abusing the bereaved for profit upon their souls."
What?
So people who are into one or another idiotic religion wouldn't act like this?
Ah.. I forgot. Religion has never been about money, power and glory. Silly me.
Mod parent up!
Magic Carpet 1 & 2 was just SO much fun in multiplayer. And they had fully deformable terrain. There has been a few other games with the same features, but none as good as MC.
The technology: free code for deformable 3D terrain has been available for several several years. Many like the terrain seen in MC.
Would be nice if people with similar tips could post some follow ups to parent.
Other books, albeit not free (to my knowledge):
-Design patterns : elements of reusable object-oriented software, Erich Gamma, ISBN: 0201633612
-Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Martin Fowler, ISBN: 0321127420
Would really enjoy some more free information.
I can think of ONE feature an mmorpg mouse should have. The ability to compensate for the infamous lag which always come with mmorpgs.
If the mouse has the ability to sense my next movement/click 500-5000ms into the future, I'll buy it right now!
This is just so ignorant and make believe...
Why don't we see those people fighting in Vale Tudo, Pride, UFC or similar tournaments?
Why? Because they don't have a chance in hell of beating people -trained- to fight in an effective way. If you include weapons, well, a gun will probably beat you every time.
I would love to see a 76 year old asian guy square it off with Tito Ortiz, Andrei Arlovski, Frank Mir, Matt Huges, Rich Franklin, Emelianenko Fedor or Wanderlei Silva.
At a demonstration I sponsored in June, she was able to show quite convincingly how a very small woman is able to take down, bind and otherwise incapacitate an assailant a foot taller, and several tens of pounds heavier. The assailant in this case was a student of classical Okinawan karate with an aproximately equal skill level.
-That is just so much bullshit...
I just have to ask you: Why do you think the have weight classes in -real- fighting sports? Like in the UFC? Just think about it...
It's because when people of EQUAL skills fight, the only thing which makes a difference is the size! And here we have you claiming otherwise. That there is some form of super secret super ultra techniques which completely invalidates what everyone else knows and experiences.
I've trained different forms of martial arts for 6-7 years now, and also MMA! A small woman, fighting anyone heavier/bigger who's also well trained in -fighting-, will become completely obliterated. Anything else would be science fiction!
Crap!!
(3) "MySQL has transactions"
* Not in MyISAM, which means no full text indexing.
I kind of fail to see what problem you have with that...
Why not have MyISAM-table for text queries and link back to the main tables? Would give you an opportunity to choose which fields to add text data from before indexing too. You can use InnoDB for everything else.
The full text indexes get pretty huge, pretty fast. Using them on a huge product table wouldn't be very wise at all.
Some of the greatest minds in history from musicians, artists, poets, scientists, to engineers have said that the use of different drugs/alcohol helped them stimulate their thougts, come up with new and unique ideas or unique solutions to old problems or that the use of for example LSD was one of their greatest and most important experiences ever.
4) Surgical Strike weapon par excellence. Reflected back to earth via large space-based mirrors allows you to wave the thing in a decreasing spiral which will turn your neighbours house to molten slag, but barely singe your fence.
I'm pretty sure that a documentary I saw about laser weapons in the Regan-area, included one test done with a pretty powerful laser against a house like structure. What happened is that it did not melt, but blew up quite "nicely". Adding power to the laser would most likely make it even more of a violent explosion.
Wood/bricks/concrete doesn't seem to heat up that well, and would rather try to brake apart in a kind of violent way...
Would be a pitty to hit a very polished window? Wouldn't there be a possibility that for a brief moment the laser would reflect or at least scatter off some of it's energy?
But there has been major changes in the company behind Trustix as of lately. It was originally developed and maintained by several hard working people in the Comodo branch in Trondheim, Norway (E.Midttun, O.Viggen, C.H.Toldnes).s tix.org/msg03396.html
Then not so long ago, I saw one of the workers at Comodo carrying several computers from their office. Turned out that everyone had been laid off and the Norwegian branch was closed down.
At the same time this happened and for some time there was no information given about the status of Trustix:
http://www.mail-archive.com/tsl-discuss@lists.tru
We still have a few servers running Trustix, but are currently moving over to other distributions.
How will the rocket find and aquire it's target?
Either it must be wire controlled from a remote location, which again is using sattelites, radar or something else to keep track of the target, or else it must have a radar of it's own. Anyway... This totally destroyes your reasoning.
Tomahawk missiles, which are cruise missiles, and almost undetectable, can only hit discovered and known stationary targets.
Really liked your post! :)
the day I started using Dspam ( http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/ )
"I'm thinking that we should "remind" our foreign allies that a country with our military might cannot and will not be forced. "
Like a kid arguing about a piece of candy in the schoolyard.
Is military might and brain capacity mutually exlusive?
Why mod such crap as informative?
Nobody cares if a game REQUIRES that much power... BF2 (Battlefield 2) doesn't REQUIRE that much power, but that much power get you a very smooth ride!
I upgraded my computer with a 7800GTX and 2GB DDR2 memory just to play BF2 at high settings, 1600x1200 with AA and AF without any huge slowdowns.
"The point is that as soon as games come out that need next generation GPU's, your SLI system is obsolete because it likely won't have HARDWARE features to perform next-generation effects."
WTF? Then we'll just buy some better graphics cards..... -DOH! I really really have to wonder what you are thinking.
You are both wrong... It really bothers me that every time someone mentions fps, someone will come with the clueless statement about how ~30fps is what we are able to perceive.
For computer generated graphics, without -motion blur-, ~72 fps is what you should aim for.
Why 72 fps?
Google it up on the net. (Wikipedia doesn't seem to be quite so good on this)
It's all down to how fast signals from the screen, hits your eyes, signals from eyes reach your brain and your brain interprets the signals as an image. Anything -above- 72fps will only add to the perception of smooth motion.
This is really not hard to try out for yourself either. Since I find it extremely easy to see the difference between 30fps and say 70fps or 100fps.
Or look at those small led lights on most electronic equipment like a heater. It operates at 50Hz (60Hz in US). It's really easy to see the light flicker. So why wouldn't it be the same for a computerscreen? (remember that the even TV has the same refresh rate, but a only shows a new frame at around 25fps).
Hope that helps!
"..., I'm going pay $50K to obtain the ability to burn hydrogen."
No, -you- are not going to pay $50K but someone else with more money probably will. So what's your point?
OMG!
The money they recieved were from donations. Not a penny was from someone who didn't want Drupal to have that money.
"Donations like this should be going to people doing things worth being done"
This is the stupidest thing I've read in a long time... Donations are given to people/projects which the donators think are doing something worthwhile, hence the donation!
I can't think of a singel thing to better prove if something is of value than other people giving money to support the continued development.
*shakes head*
It is so simple really.
You don't think Drupal is good? -Don't donate!
If someone else think it's good and they donate, don't bitch and whine about it. Clearly they feel that Drupal is WORTH IT!!