Maybe it's just the way I parsed the parent's post, but I think that you're on a different wavelength. Running a red light doesn't necessarily mean blowing through the intersection at 50mph...
I feel completely justified when I run the red light by my house at 3AM and here's why:
That light *only* switches with sensors - it doesn't have a scheduled change pattern. It's also a "No Turn on Red" intersection. Problem is, it sometimes doesn't detect my little Miata.
The first couple months that I lived there, I would wait at the light until it changed. I once waited for 15 minutes until somebody in a truck pulled up behind me.
So, now I pull up to that light and sit for 3 minutes. If the light doesn't change I check and double check the intersection, then I run it.
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Bah! Apologies for the self-reply. Got a little overanxious to hit the submit button.
In the end, it's just an ad to draw a crowd. They want the largest possible crowd. That's why the names are there.
I've seen trailers that made their movies look amazing when they really sucked eggs and vice versa. It's that whole "can't judge a book by it's cover" bit applied to modern entertainment
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...must obviously suck. When a trailer for a CARTOON trumpets all the flesh-voices as the reason it's a "must-see", you KNOW a dog is waiting to bark off its reel.
Not true, methinks. Face it, most of the Joe Sixpacks in the world still view animation as material for children. Recognizeable names will interest those that would have passed it by, no matter how good the plot and story line looks
Also, your average parent gets bombarded with "I wanna see Shrek!!" or whatever the new pretty animation is. Most of the parental units I know would answer with "huh?" A quick pop to the Net, local advert, or movie poster will reveal 4 very recognizeable adult actors's voices.
Either way, it'll come down to "Let's see that movie with, um...what's her name? Oh yeah, Cameron Diaz!" Not, "Let's go see that cartoon with the ogre and the princess about the fairy tale, etc"
While being 21 years old and childless may not make the original poster an authority on raising children, they have very valid points. You may be a wonderful parent, but that doesn't invalidate anybody else's views or experiences.
Their post was not about knowing the "one answer." It was (at least the way I read it) for the most part about parents not knowing appropriate behavior or showing the proper respect in certain situations.
When a child is crying in public (ie a park) it's up to the parents' discretion (IMHO). When a child is crying at an event where silence is requested (church / movie / presentation) the parent(s) should respect the organizer's and the other attendees wish for such. In that situation, the parent(s) should remove the child from the situation and cope with them however is necessary.
Do I think that children will be quiet and respectful 100% of the time? Absolutely not! That's what the parental units are there for!
If you don't think that this childless 25-year-young person has any clue, take my uncle for example. He's been a father for 35 years and a grandfather for 12 years, raising 4 of his own kids, 3 that were not his and is working on raising 4 grandchildren. So, yes, he has even more experience than you. He's a Deacon and very religious. When the whole family went to the Easter "passion play" at the local church, his youngest grandchild (1 month) started fussing, both he and the child's father immediately took the child out of the church to comfort him. Neither never made it back, missing the whole event that they had been looking forward to for months.
IMNSHO, we need more parental units like this. I don't care if you decide to take your 2-year-old to see "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." That's your decision, not the MPAA's. But if your kid starts crying, get him the Hell out of that theater. I paid to see that movie with a silent audience - notice the "No Talking" bit in the beginning?
Also, just because someone doesn't actually have children doesn't mean that they don't know appropriate behavior in public.
How is it different when you copy a DVD than when your friend is creating a copy? If *you* create a copy and give it to your friend, CSS and all, why is it that they can't make another digital CSS copy?
The DeCSS'd copy is only easier to distribute if you compress it into a different format, like DivX.
It would have been totally worth it! It was playing at the AMC Empire 25, which has *really* nice seats and sound. Unfortunately, the last showing was thursday in NYC:-(
I heard that they were running it in LA after NY, though. Try heading that way.;-)
Whoah! I just started re-reading that series a week ago!:-) I picked up the fourth book and realized that waaaaay too much time had passed since I finished the first book.
They also called 'screeners' and go out to video rental stores (schlockbuster and the like) to help them preview new releases and calculate how many copies they want to order.
Screeners will vary their copy protection from title to title. IIRC, I saw the "Scream 2" screener a week after it opened in theatres and it simply switched from color to b&w every 20 minutes. (I used to work PT at a video store to get free rentals and a piddly secondary income)
I do believe that rconsole would do a system beep from within the NetWare menus on the remote machine. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong - it's been a few years.
While you couldn't get a script to beep every 2 sec, you could always kidnap a journalism major to tap an invalid key every 2 seconds...
Remote Console (rconsole??) would work. I used this many a time for admining a NetWare 3.12 WAN some years ago. If I remember right, it beeped on the remote machine even.
And why exactly does a microwave need a clock to operate properly? A VCR only needs a clock if you plan to set the timer to record.
These are *secondary* features. I can make my VCR function "properly" by inserting a tape and pushing play. I don't need to set the clock to accomplish this.
I own quite a few gadgets that don't save the time / date when dealing with more than 24 hours of power failure. The only one that *needs* the current time to function *properly* is my alarm clock.
Finally, assuming that you do need to navigate to the folder, the error potential is much higher in the command line case, since people frequently commit typographical and mnemonic errors when typing in directory names in a "cd" command.
There's a neat little trick in bash called Command Line Completion. Just type the beginning of the file / directory and hit tab. If you didn't type enough to get a unique match, just tap tab again and it will show you all the matching file / dirs.
Auto-completion not only decreases the chance for typos greatly, it speeds things up to the point where I *can* navigate through a dir structure faster than with a GUI. I haven't had to type an existing file / dir name in years.
I run a decent sized web site based on JSP and MySQL. To answer your question in a word, no. We currently have a small farm of Linux boxen (IBM's JDK 1.3, Allaire's JRun 3.0) doing our front end with a MySQL database server behind it all. It's able to handle many more hits than 10,000 / day.
However, our internal development server is a dinky little Celeron 333 / 156MB RAM with the whole mess on it (MySQL, Apache, Jrun, etc). It works fine for our dev staff, but if several heavy pages are requested too close to one another, the machine bogs down horribly. Could your P200 dish out 10,000 pages a day? Maybe - if every hit was evenly spaced out throughout the entire day. But hits never come like that. You'd need a REALLY fast disk subsystem to keep up with all the swapping you'd be doing. Money that would be better invested in more RAM.
In order to run a DB driven JSP site, RAM is God. If you can avoid it, don't run the DB server and your web / JSP engine on the same machine. They're both RAM hungry beasts and I find it easier to put together two cheapo machines from spare parts with 128MB of RAM each than one cheapo machine with 256MB.
The most important thing to keep in mind is that regardless of hardware, your code is what makes the biggest difference. Sloppy, inefficient code will kill you - fast!
Depending on your content, you might be able to get away with a Slashdot style cache system. You write your JSP to generate the content (a story, etc), then store that in a static file. You can then either serve the static file directly (having a scheduler run the JSP-updater) or include the file into another JSPs output
Is it just me or do all the latest controller designs suck? The only standard controller I've found 100% confortable is the PS{X,2}'s.
Dreamcast is a beautiful system, but the controllers are worthless. N64? Well, I was never very fond of the system itself, and the controllers were a big reason why (far from the only one, though).
Anyway, why do all the latest system designers (aside from Sony) believe that you have to have a MUCH bigger surface in order to add extra features? IMNOSHO, everybody should pay attention to how Sony went from the standard PSX controller to the Dual Shock configuration. They managed to add TWO thumb-sticks without making me grip the controller any differently. I want a controller I can wrap my pinkies and ringfingers around - and I don't have the hands of a 5-year-old!!!
The wireless IR controllers I have for my PSX put the original wireless pads for the NES to shame. They take AAA's, so they're a lot lighter and the design is very comfy.
I see, you just want to buy a fresh set of AA batteries for each of your four radio-enabled controllers every two months. Me, I prefer to flush my money down the toilet.
They're called NiMH rechargeable batteries. I use them in all of my IR controllers and remotes. They last about 2 months between charges for me and take and hour and a half to charge. I'm guessing that that's about 30-40 hours of gameplay.
A pair of AAA's will run about $5-$8 at your local Radio Shack. You can pick up a NiMH charger for $15-$25.
BS. Plain and simple. I haven't been unemployed for single a day in TEN years. I've never been fired. When I CHOOSE to leave, I'm not worried at all about my next job. My boss called me out of the blue to offer me my current job.
It's entirely based on who you know, what you know and where you are. Where am I looking? New York and the surrounding area. Not exactly an easy place to find jobs? hogwash. I've NEVER looked more than 2 weeks to find exactly the job I want (right environment, right tech, right pay). Top that off with the fact that alot of tech interviews can be done after hours (most of mine have been).
I've had interviews that started at 6 or 7pm and run on until 8 or 9pm. If they're really interested in you, they'll make time to meet with you.
Then I say we take Emacs, vi, cat, or any other view / edit utility and insert a DeCSS routine to it! I mean it's primary purpose is still text (data) viewing / manipulation, right?
As a consultant for a small firm (200 active clients) I had a {pager,cell phone} on 24/7. It was rarely used, but if I had to visit a client (or remain on site) after 5:30, I received 1.5*(hourly rate of salary) PLUS $50 for the first hour and $35 for every hour after. Phone support just got the $50/$35, although I was never on the phone for more than 15 minutes - anything over 15 minutes required a visit.;-)
I didn't mind the extra work because I was well copensated for my time. IIRC, the client had to pay the $50/$35 (in addintion to our normal rate) while my employer picked up the 1.5 factor.
I was fortunate enough to have an employer who Got It. If yours don't, then you may only be able to get to them with hard numbers on # of incidents expected, time spent / incident and the current amount of time being put in (eg how many hours over 40 for each tech). Then don't forget to mention both time/$$ in finding and training new employees to replace the ones you break!
The book was called 'Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors'. The Discovery channel actually did an episode of 'The FBI Files' on that book / story. Check it out if you can. I've seen it 3 or 4 times. The details of the story are some pretty scary stuff.
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Maybe it's just the way I parsed the parent's post, but I think that you're on a different wavelength. Running a red light doesn't necessarily mean blowing through the intersection at 50mph...
I feel completely justified when I run the red light by my house at 3AM and here's why:
That light *only* switches with sensors - it doesn't have a scheduled change pattern. It's also a "No Turn on Red" intersection. Problem is, it sometimes doesn't detect my little Miata.
The first couple months that I lived there, I would wait at the light until it changed. I once waited for 15 minutes until somebody in a truck pulled up behind me.
So, now I pull up to that light and sit for 3 minutes. If the light doesn't change I check and double check the intersection, then I run it.
Bah! Apologies for the self-reply. Got a little overanxious to hit the submit button.
In the end, it's just an ad to draw a crowd. They want the largest possible crowd. That's why the names are there.
I've seen trailers that made their movies look amazing when they really sucked eggs and vice versa. It's that whole "can't judge a book by it's cover" bit applied to modern entertainment
...must obviously suck. When a trailer for a CARTOON trumpets all the flesh-voices as the reason it's a "must-see", you KNOW a dog is waiting to bark off its reel.
Not true, methinks. Face it, most of the Joe Sixpacks in the world still view animation as material for children. Recognizeable names will interest those that would have passed it by, no matter how good the plot and story line looks
Also, your average parent gets bombarded with "I wanna see Shrek!!" or whatever the new pretty animation is. Most of the parental units I know would answer with "huh?" A quick pop to the Net, local advert, or movie poster will reveal 4 very recognizeable adult actors's voices.
Either way, it'll come down to "Let's see that movie with, um...what's her name? Oh yeah, Cameron Diaz!" Not, "Let's go see that cartoon with the ogre and the princess about the fairy tale, etc"
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While being 21 years old and childless may not make the original poster an authority on raising children, they have very valid points. You may be a wonderful parent, but that doesn't invalidate anybody else's views or experiences.
Their post was not about knowing the "one answer." It was (at least the way I read it) for the most part about parents not knowing appropriate behavior or showing the proper respect in certain situations.
When a child is crying in public (ie a park) it's up to the parents' discretion (IMHO). When a child is crying at an event where silence is requested (church / movie / presentation) the parent(s) should respect the organizer's and the other attendees wish for such. In that situation, the parent(s) should remove the child from the situation and cope with them however is necessary.
Do I think that children will be quiet and respectful 100% of the time? Absolutely not! That's what the parental units are there for!
If you don't think that this childless 25-year-young person has any clue, take my uncle for example. He's been a father for 35 years and a grandfather for 12 years, raising 4 of his own kids, 3 that were not his and is working on raising 4 grandchildren. So, yes, he has even more experience than you. He's a Deacon and very religious. When the whole family went to the Easter "passion play" at the local church, his youngest grandchild (1 month) started fussing, both he and the child's father immediately took the child out of the church to comfort him. Neither never made it back, missing the whole event that they had been looking forward to for months.
IMNSHO, we need more parental units like this. I don't care if you decide to take your 2-year-old to see "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." That's your decision, not the MPAA's. But if your kid starts crying, get him the Hell out of that theater. I paid to see that movie with a silent audience - notice the "No Talking" bit in the beginning?
Also, just because someone doesn't actually have children doesn't mean that they don't know appropriate behavior in public.
How is it different when you copy a DVD than when your friend is creating a copy? If *you* create a copy and give it to your friend, CSS and all, why is it that they can't make another digital CSS copy?
The DeCSS'd copy is only easier to distribute if you compress it into a different format, like DivX.
It would have been totally worth it! It was playing at the AMC Empire 25, which has *really* nice seats and sound. Unfortunately, the last showing was thursday in NYC :-(
;-)
I heard that they were running it in LA after NY, though. Try heading that way.
Well, I saw it in NYC last week on the big screen, if that's what you mean by re-released. ;-)
The DVD should be out around July 24th.
Whoah! I just started re-reading that series a week ago! :-) I picked up the fourth book and realized that waaaaay too much time had passed since I finished the first book.
Damnit, Jim....
Must use Preview next time...
They also called 'screeners' and go out to video rental stores (schlockbuster and the like) to help them preview new releases and calculate how many copies they want to order. Screeners will vary their copy protection from title to title. IIRC, I saw the "Scream 2" screener a week after it opened in theatres and it simply switched from color to b&w every 20 minutes. (I used to work PT at a video store to get free rentals and a piddly secondary income)
I do believe that rconsole would do a system beep from within the NetWare menus on the remote machine. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong - it's been a few years.
While you couldn't get a script to beep every 2 sec, you could always kidnap a journalism major to tap an invalid key every 2 seconds...
Remote Console (rconsole??) would work. I used this many a time for admining a NetWare 3.12 WAN some years ago. If I remember right, it beeped on the remote machine even.
And why exactly does a microwave need a clock to operate properly? A VCR only needs a clock if you plan to set the timer to record.
These are *secondary* features. I can make my VCR function "properly" by inserting a tape and pushing play. I don't need to set the clock to accomplish this.
I own quite a few gadgets that don't save the time / date when dealing with more than 24 hours of power failure. The only one that *needs* the current time to function *properly* is my alarm clock.
Finally, assuming that you do need to navigate to the folder, the error potential is much higher in the command line case, since people frequently commit typographical and mnemonic errors when typing in directory names in a "cd" command.
There's a neat little trick in bash called Command Line Completion. Just type the beginning of the file / directory and hit tab. If you didn't type enough to get a unique match, just tap tab again and it will show you all the matching file / dirs.
Auto-completion not only decreases the chance for typos greatly, it speeds things up to the point where I *can* navigate through a dir structure faster than with a GUI. I haven't had to type an existing file / dir name in years.
I run a decent sized web site based on JSP and MySQL. To answer your question in a word, no. We currently have a small farm of Linux boxen (IBM's JDK 1.3, Allaire's JRun 3.0) doing our front end with a MySQL database server behind it all. It's able to handle many more hits than 10,000 / day.
However, our internal development server is a dinky little Celeron 333 / 156MB RAM with the whole mess on it (MySQL, Apache, Jrun, etc). It works fine for our dev staff, but if several heavy pages are requested too close to one another, the machine bogs down horribly. Could your P200 dish out 10,000 pages a day? Maybe - if every hit was evenly spaced out throughout the entire day. But hits never come like that. You'd need a REALLY fast disk subsystem to keep up with all the swapping you'd be doing. Money that would be better invested in more RAM.
In order to run a DB driven JSP site, RAM is God. If you can avoid it, don't run the DB server and your web / JSP engine on the same machine. They're both RAM hungry beasts and I find it easier to put together two cheapo machines from spare parts with 128MB of RAM each than one cheapo machine with 256MB.
The most important thing to keep in mind is that regardless of hardware, your code is what makes the biggest difference. Sloppy, inefficient code will kill you - fast!
Depending on your content, you might be able to get away with a Slashdot style cache system. You write your JSP to generate the content (a story, etc), then store that in a static file. You can then either serve the static file directly (having a scheduler run the JSP-updater) or include the file into another JSPs output
Actually, the last time I checked out openBSD, they claimed "no remote root hacks in 3 years; no local root hacks in 2 years"
;-)
That was sometime early summer. (??) I guess they had a local root vuln since then
Is it just me or do all the latest controller designs suck? The only standard controller I've found 100% confortable is the PS{X,2}'s.
Dreamcast is a beautiful system, but the controllers are worthless. N64? Well, I was never very fond of the system itself, and the controllers were a big reason why (far from the only one, though).
Anyway, why do all the latest system designers (aside from Sony) believe that you have to have a MUCH bigger surface in order to add extra features? IMNOSHO, everybody should pay attention to how Sony went from the standard PSX controller to the Dual Shock configuration. They managed to add TWO thumb-sticks without making me grip the controller any differently. I want a controller I can wrap my pinkies and ringfingers around - and I don't have the hands of a 5-year-old!!!
The wireless IR controllers I have for my PSX put the original wireless pads for the NES to shame. They take AAA's, so they're a lot lighter and the design is very comfy.
I see, you just want to buy a fresh set of AA batteries for each of your four radio-enabled controllers every two months. Me, I prefer to flush my money down the toilet.
They're called NiMH rechargeable batteries. I use them in all of my IR controllers and remotes. They last about 2 months between charges for me and take and hour and a half to charge. I'm guessing that that's about 30-40 hours of gameplay.
A pair of AAA's will run about $5-$8 at your local Radio Shack. You can pick up a NiMH charger for $15-$25.
BS. Plain and simple. I haven't been unemployed for single a day in TEN years. I've never been fired. When I CHOOSE to leave, I'm not worried at all about my next job. My boss called me out of the blue to offer me my current job.
It's entirely based on who you know, what you know and where you are. Where am I looking? New York and the surrounding area. Not exactly an easy place to find jobs? hogwash. I've NEVER looked more than 2 weeks to find exactly the job I want (right environment, right tech, right pay). Top that off with the fact that alot of tech interviews can be done after hours (most of mine have been).
I've had interviews that started at 6 or 7pm and run on until 8 or 9pm. If they're really interested in you, they'll make time to meet with you.
My entertainment center is rigged with fans blowing 144cfm though it....I can never get away! ;-)
Then I say we take Emacs, vi, cat, or any other view / edit utility and insert a DeCSS routine to it! I mean it's primary purpose is still text (data) viewing / manipulation, right?
As a consultant for a small firm (200 active clients) I had a {pager,cell phone} on 24/7. It was rarely used, but if I had to visit a client (or remain on site) after 5:30, I received 1.5*(hourly rate of salary) PLUS $50 for the first hour and $35 for every hour after. Phone support just got the $50/$35, although I was never on the phone for more than 15 minutes - anything over 15 minutes required a visit. ;-)
I didn't mind the extra work because I was well copensated for my time. IIRC, the client had to pay the $50/$35 (in addintion to our normal rate) while my employer picked up the 1.5 factor.
I was fortunate enough to have an employer who Got It. If yours don't, then you may only be able to get to them with hard numbers on # of incidents expected, time spent / incident and the current amount of time being put in (eg how many hours over 40 for each tech). Then don't forget to mention both time/$$ in finding and training new employees to replace the ones you break!
The book was called 'Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors'. The Discovery channel actually did an episode of 'The FBI Files' on that book / story. Check it out if you can. I've seen it 3 or 4 times. The details of the story are some pretty scary stuff.