As much as I agree, and many of those statements are true, the "going after video games" trend is a bi-partistan thing. One of the heads of the inquest recently over Hot Coffee was Hillary Clinton. Both sides want to be seen as "making the world safe for our children" and moreover, don't want to be labeled as "wanting to make the world unsafe for our children" in political ads.
It's sad, but in the end the uninformed, uncaring voters are to blame.
We JUST looked at a solution for this at work. EMC has an archiving software that plugs into exchange. Messages are plucked out of the store and moved to and EMC storage cabinet. When the user looks for it, they have to wait 4-5 seconds while it is restored quickly.
This way you can move all mail more than 4-5 months (weeks if you want) old to the archive and keep your mail stores svelte.
There is another company out there that does the same thing (on any hardware I think) too...
Pretty easily. Recorded concerts are done two ways:
1 - A guy with a mic in the audience. This will 99% of the time sound like garbage because of all of the ambient noise overriding the fidelity of the experience.
2 - A soundboard recording, which is just pure Drum track + guitar 1 + guitar 2 + singer 1 + background singers, etc.
In the case of the second instance, you get the sound that was going to the concert amps, that was going to the concert speakers, that was getting bounced around the hall, that then hit your ears. With the tube amp, the 'tube's natural distortion more closely matches the distortion put in by the concert systems. Thus, it will sound better than a 'perfect reproduction' of what is on the tape.
Thus, we grow 'DSP Modes' where it is hard to strike a balance. You use 'concert' mode and you get a ton of echo and stage depth, but no warmth. Or "jazz hall" setting where the top end gets muted.
Thus, to most, the cleanly distorted sound of the tubes will most closely represent the audio experience of being a person in the original concert performance.
IF he is, the gov't wouldn't tell us... you think they're mature enough to swallow their pride and say, 'oh, you know that 'bad for america' thing we spouted for a while? well, now he is good for america...'
however, his spirit is definitely in those chairs... I am sure No Such Agency has recruited a small army of hackers/crackers/deviant engineers that all have learned from or been inspired by Kevin, 2600 and all the organizations that the gov't watches regularly...
so, if his physical being is not there, I am sure many of his tools and his soul are partially there...
-Kelt
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Now my woman has to re-do her whole wardrobe in a new uber-black color... great...
An the comment about VCR's? How much money do the pigs make from selling videos? I think in most cases it's more than the theatre run.
I can't believe we have reached such a level of unaccountability across the board. We have *CENSORED* here at work that make up facts and figures too. And you call them out on it. Then YOU get yelled at for not helping to solve the problem. Jack Valenti and his cohorts can make up facts and figures about how the new digital age is fsck'in em in da wazoo, but somehow I don't see him taking a pay cut because of lost profitability.
This is where I am torn... It used to be I'd print a howto or manual for parousing in the o'l loo... No better reading time than the evening constitutional.. However, since the dawn of PDA's...
Now it's just so much easier to move the doc to my iPaq and read it there. It has the search functions paper is missing, and it doesn't get all crinkled if I leave it there when I am done...
'Embedded Linux on Segway: IT runs Linux!'... With a full SNMP MIB stack for monitoring your battery life from NetSaint (or whatever they're called now)... Maybe a webcam on the front and a copy of apache so that you can 'journal' your travels...
C'mon, you are removing the worlds first network adapter (before you realized there was such a thing as a network...) When a Concentrator was the guy watching for the light to blink out the last time so he can move the floppy to the next system quicker... ahh...
I spoke to the CEO of Addonics once, and he and the tech with him said that they were working on a way to get the BIOS on a box to boot to a USB device (hard drive was the focus of conversation then)... Imagine the utility for a service tech!
Dell is like that for a lot of their drivers.. and I remember some old NEC boxes did that too...
Also, Doesn't Nero need an image of a floppy that is bootable to make a bootable CD? Thus you still have to build your floppy copy all the files you want to it (CD-ROM, NIC drivers, TCP/IP Stack with DHCP or BOOTP usually)... At least the last time... I have recycled the NIC from the last boot CD I made so they follow my main system from upgrade to upgrade to upgrade... works great, only made once...
...I had no problem on 9/11 getting to MSNBC.com, but cnn.com was a IP black hole. That was until speakeasy's NYC POP ran out of diesel for the generator. Then I couldn't get to any.com except my own.
They are making their money off of consultants they hire out. If you wait for an account for you, you are costing them money and with the current times you are likely to get cut. So, before you move, make sure you are covered for a good while before you 'move on to another project' and end up weighting down a bench.
See if you can get your 'years of service' in your current company moved to worldcom (hard since its not a buy out) because there are certain benefits that will only kick in with extended time behind out.
As for worldcom themselves as an ISP, they aren't the best, but definitely not the worst.
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can we get a +1 insightful for this post?
Ummm... are you new? Why would you ever buy a MS 1.0 product? I avoid most "first implementations" but especially ones from Microsoft.
Hey baby, what's your SYN?
DING DING DING! Get this man a donut. And a mod of +1 a couple of times.
As much as I agree, and many of those statements are true, the "going after video games" trend is a bi-partistan thing. One of the heads of the inquest recently over Hot Coffee was Hillary Clinton. Both sides want to be seen as "making the world safe for our children" and moreover, don't want to be labeled as "wanting to make the world unsafe for our children" in political ads.
It's sad, but in the end the uninformed, uncaring voters are to blame.
-Kelt
We JUST looked at a solution for this at work. EMC has an archiving software that plugs into exchange. Messages are plucked out of the store and moved to and EMC storage cabinet. When the user looks for it, they have to wait 4-5 seconds while it is restored quickly.
This way you can move all mail more than 4-5 months (weeks if you want) old to the archive and keep your mail stores svelte.
There is another company out there that does the same thing (on any hardware I think) too...
-Kelt
Can we say "Forgotten Hope" or "Desert Combat"? And those are only two examples for FPS.
If RPGs are your game of choice, how about some of the user made content for Neverwinter Nights? that was spectacular!
There were more than a few games that started as mods. Those mods are what got people buying the games later into their life.
open the door, get on the floor, everybody clone the dinosaur
-Kelt
(must credit the wife for that one)
Pretty easily. Recorded concerts are done two ways:
1 - A guy with a mic in the audience. This will 99% of the time sound like garbage because of all of the ambient noise overriding the fidelity of the experience.
2 - A soundboard recording, which is just pure Drum track + guitar 1 + guitar 2 + singer 1 + background singers, etc.
In the case of the second instance, you get the sound that was going to the concert amps, that was going to the concert speakers, that was getting bounced around the hall, that then hit your ears. With the tube amp, the 'tube's natural distortion more closely matches the distortion put in by the concert systems. Thus, it will sound better than a 'perfect reproduction' of what is on the tape.
Thus, we grow 'DSP Modes' where it is hard to strike a balance. You use 'concert' mode and you get a ton of echo and stage depth, but no warmth. Or "jazz hall" setting where the top end gets muted.
Thus, to most, the cleanly distorted sound of the tubes will most closely represent the audio experience of being a person in the original concert performance.
-Kelt
I want to see the first person selling Anti-Virus for a refridgerator or reciever.
I should go into business selling whole-home anti-virus licenses. Good for 10 communicating devices per license. Renewable monthly.
-Kelt
Also, if Apple gets into lower money situations, it can go into porting OS/X onto x86 platforms, including the new 64-bit chips coming out.
I'd get it if I could run it on non-overpriced Apple hardware.
-Kelt
Kerry is already talking about fixing some of the egregious offences in the Patriot Act.
-Kelt
IF he is, the gov't wouldn't tell us... you think they're mature enough to swallow their pride and say, 'oh, you know that 'bad for america' thing we spouted for a while? well, now he is good for america...'
however, his spirit is definitely in those chairs... I am sure No Such Agency has recruited a small army of hackers/crackers/deviant engineers that all have learned from or been inspired by Kevin, 2600 and all the organizations that the gov't watches regularly...
so, if his physical being is not there, I am sure many of his tools and his soul are partially there...
-Kelt
Now my woman has to re-do her whole wardrobe in a new uber-black color... great...
-Kelt
An the comment about VCR's? How much money do the pigs make from selling videos? I think in most cases it's more than the theatre run.
I can't believe we have reached such a level of unaccountability across the board. We have *CENSORED* here at work that make up facts and figures too. And you call them out on it. Then YOU get yelled at for not helping to solve the problem. Jack Valenti and his cohorts can make up facts and figures about how the new digital age is fsck'in em in da wazoo, but somehow I don't see him taking a pay cut because of lost profitability.
fsking asshat.
-Kelt
This is where I am torn... It used to be I'd print a howto or manual for parousing in the o'l loo... No better reading time than the evening constitutional.. However, since the dawn of PDA's...
Now it's just so much easier to move the doc to my iPaq and read it there. It has the search functions paper is missing, and it doesn't get all crinkled if I leave it there when I am done...
-Kelt
'Embedded Linux on Segway: IT runs Linux!'... With a full SNMP MIB stack for monitoring your battery life from NetSaint (or whatever they're called now)... Maybe a webcam on the front and a copy of apache so that you can 'journal' your travels...
-Steve
okay... so I liked the car analogy... but the South Park Underwear Gnome logic joke is freekin heeelarious...
-Kelt
NO!!!!
VNC is no longer supported by bell labs.
VNC has no encryption, so anyone can sniff yer packets away.
VNC has some good security holes in it.
-Kelt
C'mon, you are removing the worlds first network adapter (before you realized there was such a thing as a network...) When a Concentrator was the guy watching for the light to blink out the last time so he can move the floppy to the next system quicker... ahh...
-Kelt
I spoke to the CEO of Addonics once, and he and the tech with him said that they were working on a way to get the BIOS on a box to boot to a USB device (hard drive was the focus of conversation then)... Imagine the utility for a service tech!
-Kelt
Dell is like that for a lot of their drivers.. and I remember some old NEC boxes did that too...
Also, Doesn't Nero need an image of a floppy that is bootable to make a bootable CD? Thus you still have to build your floppy copy all the files you want to it (CD-ROM, NIC drivers, TCP/IP Stack with DHCP or BOOTP usually)... At least the last time... I have recycled the NIC from the last boot CD I made so they follow my main system from upgrade to upgrade to upgrade... works great, only made once...
-Kelt
99.999% of all women are unexplained, or unexplainable... but then again, most of them do not need an explanation, they just are.
-Kelt
...I had no problem on 9/11 getting to MSNBC.com, but cnn.com was a IP black hole. That was until speakeasy's NYC POP ran out of diesel for the generator. Then I couldn't get to any .com except my own.
-Kelt
(My intelligence insults itself.)
They are making their money off of consultants they hire out. If you wait for an account for you, you are costing them money and with the current times you are likely to get cut. So, before you move, make sure you are covered for a good while before you 'move on to another project' and end up weighting down a bench.
See if you can get your 'years of service' in your current company moved to worldcom (hard since its not a buy out) because there are certain benefits that will only kick in with extended time behind out.
As for worldcom themselves as an ISP, they aren't the best, but definitely not the worst.
-Kelt