Yeah, or I could just keep my Optimum Boost: 30Mbps down, 5Mbps up, 1GB web hosting space, domain registration included, dyndns support, NO blocked ports and the legal ability to run your own servers....I believe I'm paying $60/month. It's definitely not more than $75 if you happen to get your TV from somewhere else. I may be missing out on 15Mbps up (theorectical) but I can do whatever I damn well please with my connection.
I've measured and get at *least* what they say I should - when I first signed up it was only 2Mbps up and I was able to see 3Mbps to my machine.
T-Mobile will give you the unlock code after you have been a customer for more than 90 days. I have had multiple phones from them over the 5 years I have been a customer and they have unlocked every one as soon as I get it - while in contract or month-to-month. You just have to ask.
ok, I unplugged for the weekend and wasn't going to respond, but I've heard this argument from so many people it's apparent that many believers fail to see the problems with it.
If you believe in the relion and dogmas associated with that religion, you have to believe in The Book that laid down those laws. The Abrahamic religions all claim that The Book is the Word of God, delivered through a heavenly messenger (typical an (arch)?angel). This is how the justification is made for these laws - "one cannot go against the Word of God".
The problem is that most modern versions of these belief systems play with a "moral buffet" that allows them to discount the strict practices laid out in those ancient times. Specifically, nearly all the laws set forth in Deuteronomy and Leviticus cause major problems when trying to reconcile them with modern society. So, the religious heads leave them out of the required practices.
If you're going to play the buffet game and only follow the laws you believe are "Just", then you are no longer part of that religion. Period. You have built your own religion to an extant. More over, since you believe in the book at all, you must accept that it is the Word of God to truly believe in it. If you discount any portion, then you clearly don't believe that. Since it has been shown time and again that The Book was written by man, edit by man and delivered by man, (with the stories often written *centuries* after the events the described) the only way to accept the teachings is through faith that it is the Word of God.
If you're taking only the basic moral code from The Book, you don't need the book. Simple moral codes can be laid out sans-dogma and can adapt over time. Religions, by their very nature, cannot adapt. Once the Word of God has been laid down, it can never be changed else your god is falible which opens up a huge hole in the belief system.
In short, if you do not feel that it is just to stone your neighbor, son, daughter, wife or stranger for not believing in your god, you are not a true adherent to the Abrahamic religions (Deuteronomy 13:6-11).
Check out The End of Faith by Sam Harris for a great commentary on moderate religions.
he pyschological damaging of millions of people, the death of even more millions, the cause of untold wars,
No, no, no! These things have been done in the name of religion by dangerous, misguided humans forever.
It appears that you have not read the "source" of these religions: their books. All three of the main monotheistic "bibles" contain brutal laws, (homi|fratri|fili)cidal orders, selling of not just people - but family members - into slavery and "gang bangs" as well as genocidal decrees - all direct from god or one of his representative angels.
In fact, this whole "war" between science and religion is doing horrendous things to both sides. Let science be science and let religion be religion.
Actually, the "war" is not doing bad things to "science". It only does bad things to religion and society.
Science debunking clearly inaccurate statements made by religious texts or dogmas only hurts the religion.
Religion attacking science with circular logic and flat-out fallacies does nothing but eat at the surrounding society by confusing the issues.
Science makes statements based upon the results of repeated observations. Those statements can undermine religion itself. Religion can do nothing to harm the scientific truths we have found through empirical evidence. Adherents of religious beliefs can retard the advancement of science in various way from politics to execution, but the science itself remains.
Accused of unleashing a terrible weapon on humanity, he maintained until his death that he always intended to have the device save the life of the user, and because of its terrible efficiency, make war itself obsolete.
Pick one of those up, walk through he simple web-based wizard that asks straight forward questions like "when watching DVD, which device do you wan to control the volume: Surround Receiver or TV". Download the config to remote.
Playboy's resident tech nerds would like to thank the authors, contributors, bug testers, and everyone else involved in the Open Source software we use on a daily basis. THANK YOU!
I've worked with the tech guys at playboy.com almost daily for about 3 years now. They are some of the brightest, hardest-working and funniest guys I've had the pleasure to deal with.
The PS3 will be able to read SD, mem stick, CF and USB flash, IIRC. Hopefully, Sony just made the storage API generic this time so that all games can save/load from any storage device.
Driving is *NOT* a right. You have to prove your ability to handle the 1+ ton mass of metal at speed before you're allowed to do so unsupervised in public.
Your bogus argument is the reason that our nation's testing practices are a joke and a direct cause of our higher accident rates than the rest of the world...
I agree. Most of these convergence devices are just too large. However, I just picked up a Motorola E680 a few weeks ago and I love it. It's not much larger than my old T610 and it's smaller than my iPods. It was also cheaper than the Treo - even without the contract.
The parent is right. Set the rates for any post-FT work up front and for what *you* want. The parent's numbers are spot on (although I'd go with a 1-2 hour min).
If you offered 4 weeks and they demanded 6, re-offer 4 firmly. If they hem or haw at all, drop it to 3 weeks, then 2, etc. Yes, a good reference will help you secure a better position, but at what cost? If you burn this bridge, the worst that they will be able to do is confirm start/end dates of employment and salary - it is *illegal* to badmouth you to any prospective employer.
I've burnt a bridge or two in my life. During a takeover that I worked through once, the new owners reassigned me to the corp HQ. Within 4 weeks, I knew this new position wasn't for me even though it was a step up. The management was clueless and made crazy demands. When I gave my notice, they pulled something similar to what you're going through. My response was "2 weeks and those are in my original office working for my old boss or I walk now".
The Blockbuster I worked in didn't function that way...We bought X number of Y title and had to rent it Z times before we covered the loss. The price of getting said title if not a "public" release was absurd $60-$120. If a movie was released "priced to own", we bought it at the standard wholesale price of the street price (street =~ $15-$20).
Of course, this was 8 years ago; we didn't do DVDs and we had a decent lead time on most titles over the "street date".
Look, I'm the farthest thing from a mac fanboy, but I did buy a mini the day of the expo and owned a G3 500 iBook before that.
1) >64MB VRAM for Tiger? reference? 32MB isn't enough for the latest games...but this isn't a game station, is it?
2) Horse Puckey. I wouldn't want to live with 256MB (which is why I went to 512 on the mini and 384 on the ibook). Of course, I work in IT and code for a living so I want certain performance. You know what...I always have > 100MB of RAM free on the iBook; twice that on the mini. Even running casual apps like Preview, Safari, X11, Mail. I would call 256MB on OS X "adequate" for the casual user. For anyone that wants extra zippyness or bigger apps, 512 is comfy and a cheap upgrade from apple.
3) That also would increase the heat levels in the case. Not to mention that a 3.5" HD would be a *significant* portion of the available volume...
4) They should? why? I'd want them, but look at the features in the base model and compare that to a PC in the same footprint...it's *already* a win. Their bluetooth / aitport upgrade price is cheap, too. I paid $70 for a bluetooth dongle last year and wireless cards run from $30-$70 depending on form factor, etc. Apple's bundle is $99 for an 'invisible' option...
5) If you're willing to take the chance of static zapping youre hardware, you should be fine with a 20 second putty knife process.
I wish people would stop looking at the mini as something it's not. "It doesn't play the newest games at 1600x1280@150fps" - duh, it's not a $2,000 game station. "You can't mod it" - neither is it a "custom" PC. The mini is about getting a small, silent, zippy (not blazing fast) PC for very little money. It's a decent desktop, a nice little headless SOHO server and a sexy paperweight. Leave it at that, please.
They don't have to call. A cow-orker of mine ordered his with bluetooth/airoprt the day after the expo and has a ship date of Feb 11th. Apple sent him email yesterday letting him know that his account had been credited $30.
For the "size" of the customer, two things matter. One, what support plan has they chosen? I think it's pretty safe to say that they have a 4 hour response plan as that's pretty typical. That means they can have a rep on site to repair / replace in 4 hours.
Two, how much do they spend. Blizzard may be running on smaller hardware and not spend as much as eBay or UPS, but $6M/month from these machines is enough to shake people up.
Another thing to consider is whether the fact that Blizzard is managing the hardware themselves or if they outsource the whole bit to an MSP. That MSP may have a much larger buying position than Blizzard.
Considering the points above, if this were a problem that could be solved by throwing hardware at it, it would have been. The main problem with "backend DBs" is that they tend not to scale horizontally very well. That means that hardware often won't fix the problem - it will only delay the problem. Often that delay isn't appreciable. It's more likely that it's a software bug. Either queries that need tuning or a bit O' code that need a work over.
I'm curious, what benefits does the SMT scheduler claim? I thought it simply recognized logical vs physical processors so that the kernel evenly split the workload between physical processors to maximize cache efficiency.
... I only have to get your login name, secuid key chain and guess what your 4 digit pin is.
SecurID's are not limited to a 4 digit PIN. I have to use them to log into various client machines and my PINs are always 7+ chars that are alpha/numeric. You type in the PIN - which is really a password at this point - and follow it with the 6 digit number on the SecurID.
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Yeah, or I could just keep my Optimum Boost: 30Mbps down, 5Mbps up, 1GB web hosting space, domain registration included, dyndns support, NO blocked ports and the legal ability to run your own servers....I believe I'm paying $60/month. It's definitely not more than $75 if you happen to get your TV from somewhere else. I may be missing out on 15Mbps up (theorectical) but I can do whatever I damn well please with my connection.
I've measured and get at *least* what they say I should - when I first signed up it was only 2Mbps up and I was able to see 3Mbps to my machine.
The Crossbow Project. Because the best defense is a good offense. ....Now where's my popcorn?
T-Mobile will give you the unlock code after you have been a customer for more than 90 days. I have had multiple phones from them over the 5 years I have been a customer and they have unlocked every one as soon as I get it - while in contract or month-to-month. You just have to ask.
ok, I unplugged for the weekend and wasn't going to respond, but I've heard this argument from so many people it's apparent that many believers fail to see the problems with it.
If you believe in the relion and dogmas associated with that religion, you have to believe in The Book that laid down those laws. The Abrahamic religions all claim that The Book is the Word of God, delivered through a heavenly messenger (typical an (arch)?angel). This is how the justification is made for these laws - "one cannot go against the Word of God".
The problem is that most modern versions of these belief systems play with a "moral buffet" that allows them to discount the strict practices laid out in those ancient times. Specifically, nearly all the laws set forth in Deuteronomy and Leviticus cause major problems when trying to reconcile them with modern society. So, the religious heads leave them out of the required practices.
If you're going to play the buffet game and only follow the laws you believe are "Just", then you are no longer part of that religion. Period. You have built your own religion to an extant. More over, since you believe in the book at all, you must accept that it is the Word of God to truly believe in it. If you discount any portion, then you clearly don't believe that. Since it has been shown time and again that The Book was written by man, edit by man and delivered by man, (with the stories often written *centuries* after the events the described) the only way to accept the teachings is through faith that it is the Word of God.
If you're taking only the basic moral code from The Book, you don't need the book. Simple moral codes can be laid out sans-dogma and can adapt over time. Religions, by their very nature, cannot adapt. Once the Word of God has been laid down, it can never be changed else your god is falible which opens up a huge hole in the belief system.
In short, if you do not feel that it is just to stone your neighbor, son, daughter, wife or stranger for not believing in your god, you are not a true adherent to the Abrahamic religions (Deuteronomy 13:6-11).
Check out The End of Faith by Sam Harris for a great commentary on moderate religions.
It appears that you have not read the "source" of these religions: their books. All three of the main monotheistic "bibles" contain brutal laws, (homi|fratri|fili)cidal orders, selling of not just people - but family members - into slavery and "gang bangs" as well as genocidal decrees - all direct from god or one of his representative angels.
And Richard Dawkins wrote a brilliant counter to that piece in The God Delusion. Others with similar veins include Sam Harris' The End of Faith and Christopher Hitchens god is not Great.
In fact, this whole "war" between science and religion is doing horrendous things to both sides. Let science be science and let religion be religion.
Actually, the "war" is not doing bad things to "science". It only does bad things to religion and society.
Science debunking clearly inaccurate statements made by religious texts or dogmas only hurts the religion.
Religion attacking science with circular logic and flat-out fallacies does nothing but eat at the surrounding society by confusing the issues.
Science makes statements based upon the results of repeated observations. Those statements can undermine religion itself. Religion can do nothing to harm the scientific truths we have found through empirical evidence. Adherents of religious beliefs can retard the advancement of science in various way from politics to execution, but the science itself remains.
Accused of unleashing a terrible weapon on humanity, he maintained until his death that he always intended to have the device save the life of the user, and because of its terrible efficiency, make war itself obsolete.
3 words: Logitech Harmony 880.
Pick one of those up, walk through he simple web-based wizard that asks straight forward questions like "when watching DVD, which device do you wan to control the volume: Surround Receiver or TV". Download the config to remote.
It Just Works(tm)
Peapod is the online arm of Stop n Shop in New England. Still functional and well advertised.
You can get more than Perl mods: http://mirrors.playboy.com/
From their site:
Playboy's resident tech nerds would like to thank the authors, contributors, bug testers, and everyone else involved in the Open Source software we use on a daily basis. THANK YOU!
I've worked with the tech guys at playboy.com almost daily for about 3 years now. They are some of the brightest, hardest-working and funniest guys I've had the pleasure to deal with.
My new Sony DVD player has a 40 disc memory for this; I'd like to think the same thing will make its way to car decks if it's not already there.
He had ot leave it out to hit the 3) Profit!!!!!!
The PS3 will be able to read SD, mem stick, CF and USB flash, IIRC. Hopefully, Sony just made the storage API generic this time so that all games can save/load from any storage device.
Driving is *NOT* a right. You have to prove your ability to handle the 1+ ton mass of metal at speed before you're allowed to do so unsupervised in public.
Your bogus argument is the reason that our nation's testing practices are a joke and a direct cause of our higher accident rates than the rest of the world...
Heh, you'd *HATE* my fluxbox config.
alt+tab - shift between window groups
win+tab - shift between windows in current group
ctl+tab - shift between tabs in firefox, etc
I agree. Most of these convergence devices are just too large. However, I just picked up a Motorola E680 a few weeks ago and I love it. It's not much larger than my old T610 and it's smaller than my iPods. It was also cheaper than the Treo - even without the contract.
:^D
Oh yeah - and it runs Linux
Did you ever use the old Sega Master System? The LCD shutter glasses were fairly large, IIRC. Dunno if they would fit over eyeglasses or not...
The parent is right. Set the rates for any post-FT work up front and for what *you* want. The parent's numbers are spot on (although I'd go with a 1-2 hour min).
If you offered 4 weeks and they demanded 6, re-offer 4 firmly. If they hem or haw at all, drop it to 3 weeks, then 2, etc. Yes, a good reference will help you secure a better position, but at what cost? If you burn this bridge, the worst that they will be able to do is confirm start/end dates of employment and salary - it is *illegal* to badmouth you to any prospective employer.
I've burnt a bridge or two in my life. During a takeover that I worked through once, the new owners reassigned me to the corp HQ. Within 4 weeks, I knew this new position wasn't for me even though it was a step up. The management was clueless and made crazy demands. When I gave my notice, they pulled something similar to what you're going through. My response was "2 weeks and those are in my original office working for my old boss or I walk now".
I finished in the old office under my old boss.
The Blockbuster I worked in didn't function that way...We bought X number of Y title and had to rent it Z times before we covered the loss. The price of getting said title if not a "public" release was absurd $60-$120. If a movie was released "priced to own", we bought it at the standard wholesale price of the street price (street =~ $15-$20).
Of course, this was 8 years ago; we didn't do DVDs and we had a decent lead time on most titles over the "street date".
Look, I'm the farthest thing from a mac fanboy, but I did buy a mini the day of the expo and owned a G3 500 iBook before that.
1) >64MB VRAM for Tiger? reference? 32MB isn't enough for the latest games...but this isn't a game station, is it?
2) Horse Puckey. I wouldn't want to live with 256MB (which is why I went to 512 on the mini and 384 on the ibook). Of course, I work in IT and code for a living so I want certain performance. You know what...I always have > 100MB of RAM free on the iBook; twice that on the mini. Even running casual apps like Preview, Safari, X11, Mail. I would call 256MB on OS X "adequate" for the casual user. For anyone that wants extra zippyness or bigger apps, 512 is comfy and a cheap upgrade from apple.
3) That also would increase the heat levels in the case. Not to mention that a 3.5" HD would be a *significant* portion of the available volume...
4) They should? why? I'd want them, but look at the features in the base model and compare that to a PC in the same footprint...it's *already* a win. Their bluetooth / aitport upgrade price is cheap, too. I paid $70 for a bluetooth dongle last year and wireless cards run from $30-$70 depending on form factor, etc. Apple's bundle is $99 for an 'invisible' option...
5) If you're willing to take the chance of static zapping youre hardware, you should be fine with a 20 second putty knife process.
I wish people would stop looking at the mini as something it's not. "It doesn't play the newest games at 1600x1280@150fps" - duh, it's not a $2,000 game station. "You can't mod it" - neither is it a "custom" PC. The mini is about getting a small, silent, zippy (not blazing fast) PC for very little money. It's a decent desktop, a nice little headless SOHO server and a sexy paperweight. Leave it at that, please.
They don't have to call. A cow-orker of mine ordered his with bluetooth/airoprt the day after the expo and has a ship date of Feb 11th. Apple sent him email yesterday letting him know that his account had been credited $30.
For the "size" of the customer, two things matter. One, what support plan has they chosen? I think it's pretty safe to say that they have a 4 hour response plan as that's pretty typical. That means they can have a rep on site to repair / replace in 4 hours.
Two, how much do they spend. Blizzard may be running on smaller hardware and not spend as much as eBay or UPS, but $6M/month from these machines is enough to shake people up.
Another thing to consider is whether the fact that Blizzard is managing the hardware themselves or if they outsource the whole bit to an MSP. That MSP may have a much larger buying position than Blizzard.
Considering the points above, if this were a problem that could be solved by throwing hardware at it, it would have been. The main problem with "backend DBs" is that they tend not to scale horizontally very well. That means that hardware often won't fix the problem - it will only delay the problem. Often that delay isn't appreciable. It's more likely that it's a software bug. Either queries that need tuning or a bit O' code that need a work over.
I'm curious, what benefits does the SMT scheduler claim? I thought it simply recognized logical vs physical processors so that the kernel evenly split the workload between physical processors to maximize cache efficiency.
... I only have to get your login name, secuid key chain and guess what your 4 digit pin is.
SecurID's are not limited to a 4 digit PIN. I have to use them to log into various client machines and my PINs are always 7+ chars that are alpha/numeric. You type in the PIN - which is really a password at this point - and follow it with the 6 digit number on the SecurID.