"Crew: Many of the functions performed by crews on conventional destroyers will be automated on the DD(X). That means a reduction in crew size - 330 fewer sailors than the Spruance class destroyers and 200 fewer sailors than the Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates. The crew will also focus on fighting versus ship maintenance."
"Part of the 1,200-man reduction in the size of a carrier crew planned for the CVN 21 next-generation carrier will be accomplished by installation of the new launching system and arresting gear."
I've had DishNetwork for years, and loved it. But from what I can find online, there are no indications that Dish will pick up Universal HD (or BravoHD, which is a variant of it I believe)
I've read that Dish won't be picking up any new HD channels until they switch to MPEG4.
Anyone know if this is true? If so, I may drop Dish and switch to DirecTV.
Also Voom, which was an all-HD network, appears to be defunct now.
The telecom/automotive/airline/etc/etc/etc industries are NOT struggling. last time i checked (about 10 seconds ago) these industries are BOOMING.
look around you. everyone has wheels/multiple cell phones/flies everywhere for the holidays/etc/etc.
the problem is that even though everyone (almost) on this planet esposes global markets and free competition, if -their- company ends up on the short end of the stick (mainly due to the upper management of the worst run of these companies collecting millions in compensation for lackluster performace), they cry to the government for a bailout. fuck that.
half the telecom/auto/airlines NEED TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS, and let the better run companies in these markets take over. simple as that.
Maybe someone from Blizzard can come and give a class there on how to do multiplayer RTS games. Battle for Middle Earth is probably the worst multiplayer setup I've ever come across.
Plagued with NAT errors, DCers, no port forwarding instructions in the readme, and huge balance problems.
I mean come on, Warcraft3 has an incredibly solid multiplayer setup, and it's been around for -years-.
How EA can pour millions into an awesome game, and then completely wreck it with some half-assed effort at a multiplayer setup, and get away with it (Tolkien enterprises would be -pissed- if they had any idea how horrible the multiplayer is in BFME) is beyond me.
Talk about pissing away the Lord of the Rings game franchise. EA has pretty much blown it on every title that's come out under LOTR. Incredibly weak...
Re:One reason why I'm still using Window Maker....
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well said. windowmaker is very clean/fast/non-bloated. you don't need 800 libs and 400 extra processess running in the background to keep it happy, unlike kde/gnome.
i imagine the day windowmaker is 100% dropped from any development, there will still be plenty of people using it 10 years later. it's just fast and solid.
that said, i'm fooling with ion3 at the moment. worth looking into if you like fast/minimalist desktops.
he was pointing out a better solution, for the original poster's stupid: " Personally, I still like 'find / > index' in a cron script, then just grep 'index'...." comment. which makes the comment fully relative.
so wait, your management and environment forces you to use iPlanet, and you havn't bothered to even try compiling a more recent version of samba to see if it works, and this is somehow all samba's fault?
oh wait, i see here the first sentence in your reply:
Well, you see, that's the problem... Management refuses to let me implement a solution that's not supported
maybe you should try looking here: http://us1.samba.org/samba/support/ instead of whining on slashdot. better yet, give iPlanet support a call, or (and this is pretty crazy i know) try, just try, compiling a more recent version than than the ancient version shipped with RHEL, to see if that works. maybe you'll learn something.
also how are you getting away with using iPlanet , if as you say, you only are supported when using openLDAP with Redhat?
and not bothering to file a bug, but bitching loudly about it on slashdot, and investing 6 months of your time trying to get around the bug, says a lot
code name for this project 'SkyNet' by any chance?
Re:No room to complain
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NYT on EA Games
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like pretty much every other large tech company, they have a sweet stock purchase program.
and in case you havn't noticed, their stock has more than quadrupled in the last 4 years.
so yeah, it must be rough working your ass off as a 'young programmer' making -video games-, for an incredibly sucessful, profitable, tech company in silicon valley these days....
It's thanks to the wonders of genetic engineering that soon there will be an end to hunger, disease, pollution, even war. I have created things that will change the world for the better. For instance, here is a monkey with four asses.
which 'monthly software update' did they get?
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Paypal Grinds To A Halt
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who's software would paypal use at the core that doles out monthly updates?
the reason why there are now such crap ads on TV is because of the proliferation of channels. there are so many channels that are hurting for advertising revenue, that they'll put anything on.
flying is a priviledge, not a right, you toolsheds.
doing random spot checks and whatever they've been doing up until now OBVIOUSLY doesn't work. doing even a basic background check on flyers is beyond the scope of our cheapo airline systems, hence the government steps in to do it for them. the airlines (and their insurers) WANT this.
what would you have them do? nothing? sure, climb aboard the next-missle-into-american-icon-express! don't forget your boxcutters!
the government requires checking you out for everything from getting a drivers license to purchasing explosives. why shouldn't they check you out when you climb onto a potential weapon of mass destruction?
i say check them twice. i know i'll feel better knowing at least SOMETHING is being done to at least attempt to keep my plane (or any of the thousands of others that fly daily) from dive bombing into disneyland or wherever.
all these tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorists crying about how this somehow impinges upon their rights somehow makes me sick.
YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO FLY.
you are ALLOWED to fly, out of the goodness that is the American airline system, which has now officially been majorly abused.
this is, (in a juvenile analogy that some of you whining morons might relate to) the equivalent of turning off open SMTP gateways with regard to spam.
the free ride is ending, with regard to airline safety. just as it has been with so many other previously open and insecure systems, that are being locked up over time. as it should.
these safeguards should have been in place long ago. lives would have been saved.
WHY? THEY ARE GOING OUT OF BUSINESS.
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Salon Asks for Help
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it's too late. your $30 will go right into the keg and coke fund for the 'going out of business' party they'll no doubt throw.
they BLEW $80 million. you honestly think, even if they get another 50,000 subscribers tomorrow, that these morons can run a sucessful online company, and be on the air long enough to get your money's worth of reading back?
why would i throw $30 at these guys (no matter how good their content is) if they'll flush it down the drain like it's water?
Slashdot Mirror
keep dreaming...
http://www.navy.com/navyofthefuture/ddx
"Crew: Many of the functions performed by crews on conventional destroyers will be automated on the DD(X). That means a reduction in crew size - 330 fewer sailors than the Spruance class destroyers and 200 fewer sailors than the Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates. The crew will also focus on fighting versus ship maintenance."
http://www.navyleague.org/sea_power/apr_05_46.php
"Part of the 1,200-man reduction in the size of a carrier crew planned for the CVN 21 next-generation carrier will be accomplished by installation of the new launching system and arresting gear."
I've had DishNetwork for years, and loved it. But from what I can find online, there are no indications that Dish will pick up Universal HD (or BravoHD, which is a variant of it I believe)
I've read that Dish won't be picking up any new HD channels until they switch to MPEG4.
Anyone know if this is true? If so, I may drop Dish and switch to DirecTV.
Also Voom, which was an all-HD network, appears to be defunct now.
The telecom/automotive/airline/etc/etc/etc industries are NOT struggling. last time i checked (about 10 seconds ago) these industries are BOOMING.
look around you. everyone has wheels/multiple cell phones/flies everywhere for the holidays/etc/etc.
the problem is that even though everyone (almost) on this planet esposes global markets and free competition, if -their- company ends up on the short end of the stick (mainly due to the upper management of the worst run of these companies collecting millions in compensation for lackluster performace), they cry to the government for a bailout. fuck that.
half the telecom/auto/airlines NEED TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS, and let the better run companies in these markets take over. simple as that.
so from your groovy directory layout, how are you supposed to find, say, all JPEG images older than a certain date, or larger than a certain size?
i believe that's the kind of search functionality (among other things) that WinFS will provide.
your C:\PICS dir might narrow things down a bit, but it's usefulness ends right there, when your looking for something in particular.
the chewbacca defense might also work. hard to tell though.
man why bother with this coral stuff? it never works worth a damm...
Maybe someone from Blizzard can come and give a class there on how to do multiplayer RTS games. Battle for Middle Earth is probably the worst multiplayer setup I've ever come across.
Plagued with NAT errors, DCers, no port forwarding instructions in the readme, and huge balance problems.
I mean come on, Warcraft3 has an incredibly solid multiplayer setup, and it's been around for -years-.
How EA can pour millions into an awesome game, and then completely wreck it with some half-assed effort at a multiplayer setup, and get away with it (Tolkien enterprises would be -pissed- if they had any idea how horrible the multiplayer is in BFME) is beyond me.
Talk about pissing away the Lord of the Rings game franchise. EA has pretty much blown it on every title that's come out under LOTR. Incredibly weak...
well said. windowmaker is very clean/fast/non-bloated. you don't need 800 libs and 400 extra processess running in the background to keep it happy, unlike kde/gnome.
i imagine the day windowmaker is 100% dropped from any development, there will still be plenty of people using it 10 years later. it's just fast and solid.
that said, i'm fooling with ion3 at the moment. worth looking into if you like fast/minimalist desktops.
when i say FUCK THAT.
he was pointing out a better solution, for the original poster's stupid: " Personally, I still like 'find / > index' in a cron script, then just grep 'index'...." comment. which makes the comment fully relative.
so wait, your management and environment forces you to use iPlanet, and you havn't bothered to even try compiling a more recent version of samba to see if it works, and this is somehow all samba's fault?
oh wait, i see here the first sentence in your reply:
Well, you see, that's the problem... Management refuses to let me implement a solution that's not supported
maybe you should try looking here: http://us1.samba.org/samba/support/ instead of whining on slashdot. better yet, give iPlanet support a call, or (and this is pretty crazy i know) try, just try, compiling a more recent version than than the ancient version shipped with RHEL, to see if that works. maybe you'll learn something.
also how are you getting away with using iPlanet , if as you say, you only are supported when using openLDAP with Redhat?
and not bothering to file a bug, but bitching loudly about it on slashdot, and investing 6 months of your time trying to get around the bug, says a lot
code name for this project 'SkyNet' by any chance?
like pretty much every other large tech company, they have a sweet stock purchase program.
and in case you havn't noticed, their stock has more than quadrupled in the last 4 years.
so yeah, it must be rough working your ass off as a 'young programmer' making -video games-, for an incredibly sucessful, profitable, tech company in silicon valley these days....
very rough indeed.
It's thanks to the wonders of genetic engineering that soon there will be an end to hunger, disease, pollution, even war. I have created things that will change the world for the better. For instance, here is a monkey with four asses.
who's software would paypal use at the core that doles out monthly updates?
actually that should have read:
no shit????
if we were talking about Real hacking a Microsoft player/DRM, people around here would be partying in the streets...
as in, this backlash has -everything- to do with it being Apple's DRM being hacked, never mind it's Real (who sucks) doing the hacking.
no shit. if we were talking about Real hacking a Microsoft player/DRM, people around here would be partying in the streets...
my boss from england enlightened me to this.
the reason why there are now such crap ads on TV is because of the proliferation of channels. there are so many channels that are hurting for advertising revenue, that they'll put anything on.
time passes, records break.
imagine that!
so where's the torrent?
(though i'm a big fan of big databases anyway)
this is something that should have been done long ago.
As long as they don't fuck with Xplay...
like the fine people who put floride in our water for us??
flying is a priviledge, not a right, you toolsheds.
doing random spot checks and whatever they've been doing up until now OBVIOUSLY doesn't work. doing even a basic background check on flyers is beyond the scope of our cheapo airline systems, hence the government steps in to do it for them. the airlines (and their insurers) WANT this.
what would you have them do? nothing? sure, climb aboard the next-missle-into-american-icon-express! don't forget your boxcutters!
the government requires checking you out for everything from getting a drivers license to purchasing explosives. why shouldn't they check you out when you climb onto a potential weapon of mass destruction?
i say check them twice. i know i'll feel better knowing at least SOMETHING is being done to at least attempt to keep my plane (or any of the thousands of others that fly daily) from dive bombing into disneyland or wherever.
all these tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorists crying about how this somehow impinges upon their rights somehow makes me sick.
YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO FLY.
you are ALLOWED to fly, out of the goodness that is the American airline system, which has now officially been majorly abused.
this is, (in a juvenile analogy that some of you whining morons might relate to) the equivalent of turning off open SMTP gateways with regard to spam.
the free ride is ending, with regard to airline safety. just as it has been with so many other previously open and insecure systems, that are being locked up over time. as it should.
these safeguards should have been in place long ago. lives would have been saved.
it's too late. your $30 will go right into the keg and coke fund for the 'going out of business' party they'll no doubt throw.
they BLEW $80 million. you honestly think, even if they get another 50,000 subscribers tomorrow, that these morons can run a sucessful online company, and be on the air long enough to get your money's worth of reading back?
why would i throw $30 at these guys (no matter how good their content is) if they'll flush it down the drain like it's water?