Actually, 90% of their business is in Washington, but way to spin in like Cheney does. Contracts do not get awarded in the Middle East, they get inked in DC.
System administrators are going to do what is right for the company, not what is right for the open source community. In the end, Red Hat and/or SLES have proven themselves to be viable server solutions in a wide vareity of environments. The day an administrator switches his servers over to a "less supported" solution, is the day that he adds monster.com to his delicious account. In the end it comes down to suppport and marktet penetration...
=>Hexzero
Cease and desist letters can be considered a letter of intet. A warning if you will... The calm before the storm... Push him a little before we start flexing our financial litigation muscles.
Sometimes media attention and a little/.ing is all it takes for a travesty to come to the mainstream. A charter school that wastes its time and financial resources on a lawsuite that can be considered frivoulous at best, should not be recieving state and gov't funds. Just another crap use for the joke the gov't calls no child left behind. Yeah, I am sure the funds are not connected. ERate is that perfect.... How much is a retainer for a medium-sized firm? Lets deduct that from the per head dollar amount the school gets from the state. Could that money have been used more efficiently? Probably...
Perhaps we can get the government involved next. Senate hearings on closing the website down... Sounds like a viable option in todays government...
I understand where you are coming from. Perhaps I should of said replayability is not so good, or maybe the graphics were half decent but the overall game could of been better. THank goodness I am not a true reviewer. This was painfully done over two remote connections....Just so i remember to apologize for my crapppy writing.
All i wanted was to play....
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Review: Half-Life 2
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· Score: 1, Interesting
Talk about a good place to finally shout, rant and scream. I was not planning on buying the game, but that changed when I saw a couple screenshots in a review a couple days before release.
*edit*(Yes I know the code was stolen and authentication was needed)
Two quick points-
1. Valve/Steam authentication Sucked! The servers were completely bogged down and I had problems for more then 26 hours after purchasing the game online. Why didn't I just buy the game at the store? Well, I would of had to authenticate through Steam/Valve anyway, so I though I was cutting out the middle Man. Turns out the man didn't care to much about it's customers. Read through the forums on their website and you will see that there were problems galore. Halo2 didn't run into server problems on their big release. Why? Because they anticipated the number of servers that would of been required based on presales numbers. Microsoft did something correct for once....
Point #2
The game has some great graphics! Facial animations are done to perfection. The storyline is half decent.. Outside of that, there is not much more to the game. I beat it in a couple days of playing off and on when bored or between football games. The only thing I have to look forward to is the spam I have been spraying on Valve/Steam's boards....
Mods will be the only thing that make this engine truely great!
Final Conclusion: Save your money until Mods are released. The game is great, but there will be better on the horizon.
*(Laugh)* Leave it to an administrator to be so shortsighted. Every bad idea starts somewhere and eventually becomes an accepted standard based on those with narrow minds. While there are some benefits to RFID, the problems it will cause will be far worse. Just like every system, the RFID will be misused even at a public school system. Singling out students on a query to find out if they are in the right class is just a small-scale beta form of what Big Brother is all about. Think twice before you decide to back this system. If you want to know what it feels like, then cameras need to be installed in the classrooms, so that parents can monitor teacher/student interactions and check in on how the students are being taught. I helped install the systems at a local University around the corner. The professors do not like the idea of their lectures being critiqued by anyone and everyone.....24 hours a day. (Everything is on a loop when live programming is not available)
There are other ways to keep track of students in the event of fire...
Whats next...Yellow Stars on certain students, Black stars on others....Orange stars for those that are known trouble makers? Now when they are monitored, they show up on your displays as groups? All easy to do... While the students may not be wearing true stars, the computer will have them in groups before you know it.
They are just begging for those lawsuits to come rolling in.
The only place I can see this type of software being useful would be corporate networks, where the user has no rights to the boxes they work on.
Sometimes it is not smart to be the first.....
AGREED.....
All those replies and not one person mentioned how hot ST. Paulies Girl was!
Whats wrong with you people. Hey, great costume, but come on.....
Man...Nothing for nothing, but the link shoots to a funny site, but it is littered with tits everywhere. Not really a big cause for concern, but I am at work. Can we say yet another moron post. Use some common sense.
Okay...so what page does the story end on. The last part i read was when he needed closure and decided to go back. I get to page11.html and its 404. Blah...it is like reading a book and having someone throw away the last chapter. Tell me the giant clump of rocks was a pissed of tortoise!
Seriously....wtf happened. Rofl
Yet another site that has been crashed by being Slashdotted! The one hand keyboard has been around for a very very long time. Someone just made the hardware to fit the situation, so to speak.
What you need to ask yourself is what happened to the old CIO and what idealogies did the new CIO get hired?
I am willing to bet you that this new CIO is probably trying to gain some quick points by lowering his monthly budget thus making a quick impact impression with the other "shirts". This will probably be shortlived. When a server dies and you do not repsond because the latency of your dial-up connection is crap, you can be damn sure that the blame will be placed on the fool that cut your connection.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, 90% of their business is in Washington, but way to spin in like Cheney does. Contracts do not get awarded in the Middle East, they get inked in DC.
-Hex
System administrators are going to do what is right for the company, not what is right for the open source community. In the end, Red Hat and/or SLES have proven themselves to be viable server solutions in a wide vareity of environments. The day an administrator switches his servers over to a "less supported" solution, is the day that he adds monster.com to his delicious account. In the end it comes down to suppport and marktet penetration... =>Hexzero
Looks like a damn Xbox with a colostomy bag.... >>> Can the articles get any worse? Do duplicate articles belong on /.? Get a clue
Cease and desist letters can be considered a letter of intet. A warning if you will... The calm before the storm... Push him a little before we start flexing our financial litigation muscles.
Sometimes media attention and a little /.ing is all it takes for a travesty to come to the mainstream. A charter school that wastes its time and financial resources on a lawsuite that can be considered frivoulous at best, should not be recieving state and gov't funds. Just another crap use for the joke the gov't calls no child left behind. Yeah, I am sure the funds are not connected. ERate is that perfect.... How much is a retainer for a medium-sized firm? Lets deduct that from the per head dollar amount the school gets from the state. Could that money have been used more efficiently? Probably...
Perhaps we can get the government involved next. Senate hearings on closing the website down... Sounds like a viable option in todays government...
Yet for years we were able to copy VHS and audio tapes with no consequences....
Now the quality is better... And the greedy get greedier! (More Greedy)
I understand where you are coming from. Perhaps I should of said replayability is not so good, or maybe the graphics were half decent but the overall game could of been better. THank goodness I am not a true reviewer. This was painfully done over two remote connections....Just so i remember to apologize for my crapppy writing.
Talk about a good place to finally shout, rant and scream. I was not planning on buying the game, but that changed when I saw a couple screenshots in a review a couple days before release. *edit*(Yes I know the code was stolen and authentication was needed) Two quick points- 1. Valve/Steam authentication Sucked! The servers were completely bogged down and I had problems for more then 26 hours after purchasing the game online. Why didn't I just buy the game at the store? Well, I would of had to authenticate through Steam/Valve anyway, so I though I was cutting out the middle Man. Turns out the man didn't care to much about it's customers. Read through the forums on their website and you will see that there were problems galore. Halo2 didn't run into server problems on their big release. Why? Because they anticipated the number of servers that would of been required based on presales numbers. Microsoft did something correct for once.... Point #2 The game has some great graphics! Facial animations are done to perfection. The storyline is half decent.. Outside of that, there is not much more to the game. I beat it in a couple days of playing off and on when bored or between football games. The only thing I have to look forward to is the spam I have been spraying on Valve/Steam's boards.... Mods will be the only thing that make this engine truely great! Final Conclusion: Save your money until Mods are released. The game is great, but there will be better on the horizon.
*(Laugh)* Leave it to an administrator to be so shortsighted. Every bad idea starts somewhere and eventually becomes an accepted standard based on those with narrow minds.
While there are some benefits to RFID, the problems it will cause will be far worse. Just like every system, the RFID will be misused even at a public school system. Singling out students on a query to find out if they are in the right class is just a small-scale beta form of what Big Brother is all about. Think twice before you decide to back this system.
If you want to know what it feels like, then cameras need to be installed in the classrooms, so that parents can monitor teacher/student interactions and check in on how the students are being taught.
I helped install the systems at a local University around the corner. The professors do not like the idea of their lectures being critiqued by anyone and everyone.....24 hours a day. (Everything is on a loop when live programming is not available)
There are other ways to keep track of students in the event of fire...
Whats next...Yellow Stars on certain students, Black stars on others....Orange stars for those that are known trouble makers? Now when they are monitored, they show up on your displays as groups? All easy to do...
While the students may not be wearing true stars, the computer will have them in groups before you know it.
They are just begging for those lawsuits to come rolling in. The only place I can see this type of software being useful would be corporate networks, where the user has no rights to the boxes they work on. Sometimes it is not smart to be the first.....
AGREED..... All those replies and not one person mentioned how hot ST. Paulies Girl was! Whats wrong with you people. Hey, great costume, but come on.....
Nods.... Thought it was amusing myself.
Man...Nothing for nothing, but the link shoots to a funny site, but it is littered with tits everywhere. Not really a big cause for concern, but I am at work. Can we say yet another moron post. Use some common sense.
Man.... Nods, i raed the .pdf posted as well. Slow day at work thank god.
Would of rather seen a better ending...
Okay...so what page does the story end on. The last part i read was when he needed closure and decided to go back. I get to page11.html and its 404. Blah...it is like reading a book and having someone throw away the last chapter. Tell me the giant clump of rocks was a pissed of tortoise! Seriously....wtf happened. Rofl
Yet another site that has been crashed by being Slashdotted! The one hand keyboard has been around for a very very long time. Someone just made the hardware to fit the situation, so to speak.
What you need to ask yourself is what happened to the old CIO and what idealogies did the new CIO get hired? I am willing to bet you that this new CIO is probably trying to gain some quick points by lowering his monthly budget thus making a quick impact impression with the other "shirts". This will probably be shortlived. When a server dies and you do not repsond because the latency of your dial-up connection is crap, you can be damn sure that the blame will be placed on the fool that cut your connection.