When the first.com I worked for was augering in, Ever payday I called the bank to make sure direct deposit had cleared before I even went in. If it hadn't cleared, there was NOTHING that could have gotten me to go to the office, unless it was to clean out my desk.
As an escapee from CompUSA, let me just say that my experience was that the average employee didn't want to bother with such, because he was busy setting up his own heist.
Virtually everone screws CompUSA, and Fry's for anything they can get. Employees, and customers. The store managers so stuff, that would make an Enron VP blush. And plenty of the staff have machines far outside the capabilities of their salaries.
Would be to replace the 4 controllers, and the monster case. Use a more "standard" chassis. Slap a regular SCSI card in it. And then for the drives themselves, use an UltraTrak100 TX8
to hold the drives.
It just seems like a far cleaner solution. Not to mention FAR more expandable. And works out to be about the same price.
Ground pounders are still absolutely critical
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The Drone War
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Jon seems to have completely overlooked one salient point.
Sure the US hasn't had significant casualties on the ground. Because we've let the Indig's do all the heavy lifting.
It hasn't been a drone war at all. We just have let our share of it, be contained to the safer portions of the fight. And we're letting the locals do all the to-to-toe fighting.
Cringe's articles, are available as a slashbox. Coincidentally, one that I have as a default for my account.
Why is it, that we "need" every weekly article of his, posted as a front page story. Don'tcha think that the people that want to read him already are anyhow?
It's a downstream media. No upstream at all. So you can hack a conection, theoretically, but you won't have anywhere to dial in, to send requests. So you can browse the web, but only what someone else is browsing at that moment. Not veyr useful in my book.
There is no way the FAA would EVER allow 802.11x on a plane. The airline industry, is terrified of any kind of wireless communications causing a wreck.
Interestingly enough
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That's more or less what Forever War is, as well. Both books, are colored by the 2 very different authors perceptions of the government, and by their different time periods in which they grew up, and formed most of their philosophical underpinnings.
How does releasing the product as a non-commercial, open source game, suddenly make it legal to violate the trademarks, and copyrights that Hasbro holds on the AD&D gaming system?
Just because you're not charging for it, doesn't mean you can steal someone elses works to include. Just try and include some Metallica MP3's, in an open source projet of some sort, and see how well that flies.
"Employees ought to have between three and six months' notice before they're laid off, time enough to look for other work in a sane, secure way."
That's got to be one of the most absurd statements I've heard, even from Katz. Part of the modern economy, is that companies need to react quickly. We're moving to a system, where companies like Dell plan their inventories to be at less than a weeks worth of goods. In the modern economy, companies simply don't have long periods of time to mull decisions. In 6 months, a company can be gone. I've worked for companies that the company lasted less than a year from inception to closure.
I particularly like, how 2 paragraphs later, Jon is even suggesting that no employer can predict what staff they'll need in 6 months. So he doesn't even agree with himself.
If you're going to suggest nonsense like this, it seems only fair, that employees give 6 months of notice when they intend to leave for somewhere else.
At least in California, it's made very clear when you're hired, that you're hired "at will". That's good enough for me, I know that I could be curbed at any time. And I accept, and embrace that state.
"Employees who have been with a corporation any length of time at all -- I'd say six months -- ought to keep their health benefits until they find new work, a guarantee not even COBRA provides."
And where in gods name do you suggest the money for something as insanely expensive as this, is going to come from?
Is that the US markets have proven far more flexible then the European ones over the last decade. American companies have had the option to size their staffs as necessary. And over that same period, the US economy has created far more money, which has flowed down virtually to level of the economy.
There are distinct advantages to flexibility, and the momentary pain that the US is suffering right now, is NO reason to trash a system that has worked phenomenally well recently.
The problem with too many companies, and too many technologies, is that roaming and "nationwide plans" are fraught with problems.
I'm not advocating a single company controlling it all. Or even a single unified technology necessarily. But Consolidating down, so there are a few large nationwide carriers would go a long ways towards making the system work alot better.
Realistically, there are 3 major long distance providers, and look at the price cutting that has gone on in that market since the 80's.
Dolby has invested sweat, and regular equity in this system. It is entirely their perrogative, to control who can use it.
If you object to having to have a "licensed" playback device to use this media, by all means don't buy anything that uses this scheme.
Timothy phrased his comments such, that it sounds like the content creator is trying to limit playback on FreeBSD, which is completely wrong. This simply is a developer exercising their right to control how their code is used. I bet/. would be up in arms, if MS could be proven to use open source code in one of their products in violation of the license. Why is Dolby being held to a different standard?
You put up your post, in a public forum, fully aware that it would be read, in such a manner.
Sun released their source code, under very specific guidelines. Which included not re-distributing it.
If you are going to insist, that companies like MS not hijack open source code, and repackage it as their own. Then you should allow them to use those same laws in the opposite manner. IP laws, are a two way street.
Maximum PC had an article about PC Pranks last week. And they drove one editor nuts by hooking a cordless mouse to his system as the primary pointing device, and driving his machine from across the room.
So once again this week, we've got the editors of/. reviewing a PC game.
Isn't this the same group that as recently as a year ago, refused to view certain multimedia clips that were related to submissions, because they didn't want to have to boot their machines in Windows? The same group, that foams at the mouth over everything that MS does?
One would think that by now, there would be comprehensive reviews of every Loki product. As well as lots of reviews of every other game that someone released for Linux.
I went to see a radio screening. And the movie is PACKED with jabs at Disney. Along with stuff from Matrix, and others.
There is enough visual stuff in the movie, to keep children totally wrapped up in things. But I was with a group of 4 adults, and we were all rolling on the floor laughing. There is so much in the movie, that's just perfectly written. Brilliant movie.
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They never complained about being linked to. They complained about specific info being linked, in a specific way.
As the creators of the content, they should have the right to control how and when that content is made available. And to whom.
When the first .com I worked for was augering in, Ever payday I called the bank to make sure direct deposit had cleared before I even went in. If it hadn't cleared, there was NOTHING that could have gotten me to go to the office, unless it was to clean out my desk.
As an escapee from CompUSA, let me just say that my experience was that the average employee didn't want to bother with such, because he was busy setting up his own heist.
Virtually everone screws CompUSA, and Fry's for anything they can get. Employees, and customers. The store managers so stuff, that would make an Enron VP blush. And plenty of the staff have machines far outside the capabilities of their salaries.
Someone making sideways critiques of Cmdr. Taco's punctuation, while misspelling fiancee in the same sentence.
Would be to replace the 4 controllers, and the monster case. Use a more "standard" chassis. Slap a regular SCSI card in it. And then for the drives themselves, use an UltraTrak100 TX8
to hold the drives.
It just seems like a far cleaner solution. Not to mention FAR more expandable. And works out to be about the same price.
Jon seems to have completely overlooked one salient point.
Sure the US hasn't had significant casualties on the ground. Because we've let the Indig's do all the heavy lifting.
It hasn't been a drone war at all. We just have let our share of it, be contained to the safer portions of the fight. And we're letting the locals do all the to-to-toe fighting.
Cringe's articles, are available as a slashbox. Coincidentally, one that I have as a default for my account.
Why is it, that we "need" every weekly article of his, posted as a front page story. Don'tcha think that the people that want to read him already are anyhow?
It's a downstream media. No upstream at all. So you can hack a conection, theoretically, but you won't have anywhere to dial in, to send requests. So you can browse the web, but only what someone else is browsing at that moment. Not veyr useful in my book.
Who cares where the plane is? How would that possibly help a terrorist?
There is no way the FAA would EVER allow 802.11x on a plane. The airline industry, is terrified of any kind of wireless communications causing a wreck.
That's more or less what Forever War is, as well. Both books, are colored by the 2 very different authors perceptions of the government, and by their different time periods in which they grew up, and formed most of their philosophical underpinnings.
How does releasing the product as a non-commercial, open source game, suddenly make it legal to violate the trademarks, and copyrights that Hasbro holds on the AD&D gaming system?
Just because you're not charging for it, doesn't mean you can steal someone elses works to include. Just try and include some Metallica MP3's, in an open source projet of some sort, and see how well that flies.
And just a classic, would be the Anti-trust action brought against them, if they did this.
"Employees ought to have between three and six months' notice before they're laid off, time enough to look for other work in a sane, secure way."
That's got to be one of the most absurd statements I've heard, even from Katz. Part of the modern economy, is that companies need to react quickly. We're moving to a system, where companies like Dell plan their inventories to be at less than a weeks worth of goods. In the modern economy, companies simply don't have long periods of time to mull decisions. In 6 months, a company can be gone. I've worked for companies that the company lasted less than a year from inception to closure.
I particularly like, how 2 paragraphs later, Jon is even suggesting that no employer can predict what staff they'll need in 6 months. So he doesn't even agree with himself.
If you're going to suggest nonsense like this, it seems only fair, that employees give 6 months of notice when they intend to leave for somewhere else.
At least in California, it's made very clear when you're hired, that you're hired "at will". That's good enough for me, I know that I could be curbed at any time. And I accept, and embrace that state.
"Employees who have been with a corporation any length of time at all -- I'd say six months -- ought to keep their health benefits until they find new work, a guarantee not even COBRA provides."
And where in gods name do you suggest the money for something as insanely expensive as this, is going to come from?
Is that the US markets have proven far more flexible then the European ones over the last decade. American companies have had the option to size their staffs as necessary. And over that same period, the US economy has created far more money, which has flowed down virtually to level of the economy.
There are distinct advantages to flexibility, and the momentary pain that the US is suffering right now, is NO reason to trash a system that has worked phenomenally well recently.
The problem with too many companies, and too many technologies, is that roaming and "nationwide plans" are fraught with problems.
I'm not advocating a single company controlling it all. Or even a single unified technology necessarily. But Consolidating down, so there are a few large nationwide carriers would go a long ways towards making the system work alot better.
Realistically, there are 3 major long distance providers, and look at the price cutting that has gone on in that market since the 80's.
Forbes magazine had an article last month, showing just how consolidation would help the industry, and the consumers in the US.
Basically, there are too many companies, chasing too many incompatible technologies.
Dolby has invested sweat, and regular equity in this system. It is entirely their perrogative, to control who can use it.
/. would be up in arms, if MS could be proven to use open source code in one of their products in violation of the license. Why is Dolby being held to a different standard?
If you object to having to have a "licensed" playback device to use this media, by all means don't buy anything that uses this scheme.
Timothy phrased his comments such, that it sounds like the content creator is trying to limit playback on FreeBSD, which is completely wrong. This simply is a developer exercising their right to control how their code is used. I bet
You put up your post, in a public forum, fully aware that it would be read, in such a manner.
Sun released their source code, under very specific guidelines. Which included not re-distributing it.
If you are going to insist, that companies like MS not hijack open source code, and repackage it as their own. Then you should allow them to use those same laws in the opposite manner. IP laws, are a two way street.
Because those are free resources.
MSDN Subscriber downloads, are not. They are something that is a SUBSCRIPTION, that you pay for.
Maximum PC had an article about PC Pranks last week. And they drove one editor nuts by hooking a cordless mouse to his system as the primary pointing device, and driving his machine from across the room.
So once again this week, we've got the editors of /. reviewing a PC game.
Isn't this the same group that as recently as a year ago, refused to view certain multimedia clips that were related to submissions, because they didn't want to have to boot their machines in Windows? The same group, that foams at the mouth over everything that MS does?
One would think that by now, there would be comprehensive reviews of every Loki product. As well as lots of reviews of every other game that someone released for Linux.
Actually seems to love trashing bad products.
"This hammer could be used for dangerous purposes -- can you prove there are good uses for it?"
Actually the current state of things, is...
"This hammer has been used for all manner of illegal purposes -- can you provide one legal example of how it has been used?"
I went to see a radio screening. And the movie is PACKED with jabs at Disney. Along with stuff from Matrix, and others.
There is enough visual stuff in the movie, to keep children totally wrapped up in things. But I was with a group of 4 adults, and we were all rolling on the floor laughing. There is so much in the movie, that's just perfectly written. Brilliant movie.