Check out the Linux Game Tome. Look for games with a rating of 4 (out of 5), or 5 with a lot of votes. (those with a few votes of 5 normally are idiots who don't know how to rank a game... Xbill is cool, but the design isn't worth a 5)
I don't have a windows license, and don't want one. Wine sometimes works, but not always. (Pay versions are better) I also don't like to reboot my machine. (BIOS takes over a minute to initialize before the OS load starts) I also know people who run webservers from their machine and can't reboot, but a game won't take enough CPUs to bother a site with as few hits as they get. I used to run in an enviorment where everyone had only Xservers on their desk, the CPUs where behind locked doors in IS, games could still run (not 3-D or extreem action, but simple ones worked fine) but you had no choice of OS.
Just a few reasons that someone might not want to run windows. It also happens that there are some great linux games. Not nearly as many as Windows has, but I've stumbled on more than one myself only to discover it has been out for years and I just hadn't heard of it.
Unless you live in a strange area (where laws let you do things you can safely do...) you legally have to call an electrition to do this. Your facilities guys cannot do this, so they won't help.
I've I've always wondered about the fascination metric people have with base 10. Sure we have 10 fingers, but for ever other use 10 is a bad number system, it doesn't divide 3 or 4 easially, and you often need to do that in the real world.
Not that the other system of various bases is better for all purposes, but those units were often designed for the things you do with them. Things that are dividable by 3 are often divided into thirds, and so on.
Your problem is you want fast, cheap, and safe. I know of no commercial system that isn't safe, but you can exchange speed for cheap. In my case it is often cheaper to go from Minneapols-NY with a stop in Paris, France, than a direct flight. If you think outside the box like this, you may too come up with ways to save a lot of money on your flight for just a little cost of time. (and you might even manage to plan your flight to give you a few hours to enjoy france)
No safe way to dispose of nuclear waste? A non-issue, you don't dispose of it you recycle it, which is safe. Why dispose of it?
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Columbia was traveling at orbit speeds. It used the atmosphere to slow down. You can instead slow down to below orbit speeds above the atmosphere, and then decend into the atmosphere (you have to "hover" like a helocopter but with rocket). I have no clue how you would get that much fuel into orbit, but you if you did, you would have no heat problem on re-entry.
It is possible that this plane wouldn't even reach orbit speeds, I'm not sure if a normal human body can take the acceleration needed to go NY-LA while reaching orbit speeds.
P.S. Technially the Space shuttle doesn't get outside the earth's atmosphere, but there is so little that it isn't useful for anything other than a lot of drag if you try to stay up there for a while (read ISS has lots of problems from the atmosphere, but it is useless for wings or breathing). Hard to define where the Earth's atmosphere ends though, as it just tappers off.
Where do you get that idea? Howard Dead is the currnet leading canidate for president from the Democratic party, and he is campaining against this war. Come 2004 eithe GWB will be re-elected, for Dead with be elected (there is a possibility of a different canidate from either party, but right now that seems unlikely, and no other party as a reasonable chance). Americans are not all in favor of this. However we are intelligent enough to know that we cannot be presented with all the information for security reasons, and we are not going to let the troops down. (Many remember who Vietnam soliders were treated with horror, and won't repeat that no matter what their other thoughts are)
I'd like to see evidence too, but unfortunaly most of it cannot be given to me without giving away to the bad guys just who the spys getting this information is.
So I end up having to trust leaders who may or may not tell the truth. I don't like it, but I don't see an alternative. For a moment assume your are president, given the latest intelligence, knowing that now all of it is reliable (which is presented to you) and told to make a decision. Waiting is a decision that if your information is true will get people killed.
Fortunatly for Abe, the Gerrysburg address was written on the train there. The organizers didn't want to invite him, but couldn't come up with a good reason not to invite the president to an event so close to where he was. The key speaker that day spoke for two hours, and is forgotten (I'm to understand he was a good speaker), while Abe spoke for the couple minutes they gave him and said something that is still memorized today.
In other words, they might have required powerpoint, but Abe wouldn't have been given a chance to use the technology because that would be reserved for other speakers. In any case he wouldn't have had time to prepare his slides.
You forgot: blackboards where the presenter writes the details on the board as he goes. Powerpoint, or any pre-prepared slide is much worse for this situation. I've only seen a few cases where someone can use pre-prepared slides (powerpoint or not) as the content of their talk and pull it off.
So close to right on, yet still completely wrong. Verbal is what a presentation is all about. Unfortunatly verbal is a bad way to present information.
The first problem is I'm a poor listener, after a few mintues I start to doze off or my mind wonders, I start staring at the cute girl in class, or I get called away on an emergency (doesn't matter if I'm the only one who knows CPR, or the network is down, I've gotta leave no matter how important your presentation is). Psycologist have stuided this - I'm just like everyone else, the details change, but it is unlikly that anyone will pay attention to every word in your speach even if they truely want to learn.
The next problem is I have a poor memory. I can take notes, but while I write one point, you are onto the next. Even if you distribute your slides, I still need to write notes on the slides or they end up meaningless a year latter when I need the information.
Skip several other important points because I don't want to write all night...
Last, I'm busy. Something written down can be read when I have time, I can skip the parts I don't care about, and I can even read a little at a time. If my mind wonders I can trun back to the point where I was last paying attention and start over. (I might be weird this way, but I've more than once found myself having read several pages of a book while day dreaming about something completely different, just like some people tune out the TV while watching I can tune out a book while reading.)
I've been to good presentations. I wouldn't want to learn SCSI by reading the standards, but once I took a class that went over each command in detail and showed me how to interpurt everything and I now understand the standards. It worked because the guy who presented knew his stuff (in this case was on the committe) and slowed us down to the point where we could understand very dry material.
Most people don't need that level of detail very often, but want to know something. What those senior managers are saying is your information is important, but they don't really need it in depth, so prepare something that will sumerize it quick. (Unfortunatly you don't often get the budget to do that)
Woah there. I'm not a big fan of the train, but it does polute less per passanger mile. A train may have a diesel engine burning 4 gallons of fuel per mile (I have no idea what the true number is, so don't do math based on this) but if there are 100 cars to the train, and 20 people in each car, you need to divide that out. Compare a bunch of cars with 4 people in it getting 30 mpg, and the train already is looking better, then remember that most cars have just one person in them.
Thats because in Europe you tax fuel a lot more. And don't point out that gas tax doesn't pay for road maintaince (which I'm not sure of if you ignore local roads which are not paid for from gas tax) because the gas tax in Europe is far more than what is needed to maintain roads far better than the ones in the US.
Americans have a car culture? Then why did my Chinese roommate have to get a car within a month of coming to the US? He lived next to campus close enough to everything you could need for life. The local bus system worked just fine and would get him to any store he wanted. He didn't have a job (his student visa didn't allow him to work) so we can discount needing to be somewhere where the bus system didn't work. (in that city the bus system was terrible, but campus was the one area well served by it)
Answer: he wanted one, so he got one. I rarely drove it, but when he wanted to go someplace he did. He didn't have the government telling him the car was bad, and so he got one for the couple time it was nice to have.
Don't blame americans. Truth is everyone who has access to a car wants one. Where there is good public transportation they will use it, and often the expense of a car is more than the gain. However they all want one because it means freedom to get from where you are to where you want to be when you want to.
Your answer has nothing to do with the question. He already knows who is sending this, likely he shoped at their store once, entered a contest where they notify by email, and then started getting their advertising flyers in his email. On all levels it checks out as them - they own the domain it is from, the spam, when opened (often it is some windows only format though) looks just like the one they send with the local newspaper. It is clear exactly who sent it. So you try the opt-out address, and it doesn't work.
So, how does your post help them at all? You can filter on the sender just as easially as who it is to.
I'm 5 years out of that class, and only remember the result, not the exact problem. The homework and tests I did save were destroyed in the flood last summer. It was in logic, I remember that much, though I'm sure most math studies can bring up a similear problem..
int was defined in K&R1 to the best size for the CPU to deal with. Short and char could be shorter, long could be longer. Then they had a chart showing how several "common" machines implimented it, which included one machine that implimented all of the above types with 36 bits.
I still think that int should be the easiest size for the machine to deal with. If your intiger math is all 64 bits, when I say int I mean that I don't want you take an extra step to make the result fit into 32 bits. If your CPU is 16 bits, then by int I mean don't go through the extra effort to do 32 bit addition.
Would you go back and explain that to the math professor who game me a zero on one problem I proved by induction? There was no mistake in my proff, the initial condition was right, as was the induction step, and about half the class got exactly the same answer (ignoring a few trivial mistakes).
Seems that induction, for all its power isn't perfect, and it took less than 1 minute to demonstrat a contradiction (which was obvious to the other half of the class).
As we were then reminding, induction is not a mythod to prove things, it is a mythod to understand and communicate your proof after you have proved it a better way. Once someone has [correctly] proved something the hard way, induction is a valid way to re-prove it for yourself.
Got a source for that? Last I checked a private pilot can fly pretty much anywhere in the US with or without a flight plan. You can even file a flight plan and then go elsewhere, though you are expected to notify athorities as soon as you land so they don't start a search and rescue for you.
There is "restricted airspace" near airports and military testing grounds, but the total amount of this is very small, and it is all well marked on maps. Part of learning to fly is learning to read these maps, so crys that they are complex and hard to read (though very true) are not excuses. You also cannot fly too high, but in general this is above the level of a small plane anyway.
Last time I went in the distch I didn't ask permission in advance of my trip if it was okay to use the phone of the nearest house. I had to wake someone up at 2am, which is impolite. My plan was to not go in the ditch, but I miss judged the roads which had one slippery spot.
Or is that good practice? If it weren't for the idiots attempting to sail around the world without knowing what they are doing the military would have to send a second group of their own guys out in the middle of the ocean to drift for a while so they can practice search and rescuse missions?
I know that more than one search and rescue group has stated that they would be hiring people to do stupid things so they can rescue them if it weren't for those who do it. And those who do the stupid things on their own generally are really in trouble, which is more urgent and better practice than some actor pretending to be in trouble, but really just fine. (someone with a broken leg can't get into your strecher if your mess up the rescue a little bit, while a faker may 'assist' in that way.
I've looked at started such a company, it sounds like a good idea. However...
Make sure management understands the risks. I know of more than one company no longer in buisness because the outsourced accounting/HR to someone who took their tax money and ran. The IRS put them out of buisness when the money that was supposed to go to the IRS went to some crooks no longer in the country. The same situation can happen to data. Then there is the risk that your data will be sold to someone else. Maybe not a problem for a non-profit, but corporate spys exist, how do you know your provider doesn't make side money selling your secerts to someone else?
Assuming you evaluate the above risks and decide to do it anyway (and despite the above it isn't a bad idea), test everything. Randomly decide one system is dead, pull the harddrive, and request a restore to a new drive. Latter, randomly decide some file was accidently deleted, rename it, and request a restore of just that once file. Do the above at least once a year. (unless you have real incidents that cover the above)
The UN was intended to be a League of Nations that worked. The League of Nations didn't act to stop WWII before it was too late, the US isn't going to let the UN not act to prevent WWIII before it is too late, even if it means acting along. (though other countries to agree with the US)
I don't know if the Iraq decision was right or not, but what the UN did was wrong, leading everyone to belive they would do something and then doing nothing. Proves the UN is worthless.
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Check out the Linux Game Tome. Look for games with a rating of 4 (out of 5), or 5 with a lot of votes. (those with a few votes of 5 normally are idiots who don't know how to rank a game... Xbill is cool, but the design isn't worth a 5)
I don't have a windows license, and don't want one. Wine sometimes works, but not always. (Pay versions are better) I also don't like to reboot my machine. (BIOS takes over a minute to initialize before the OS load starts) I also know people who run webservers from their machine and can't reboot, but a game won't take enough CPUs to bother a site with as few hits as they get. I used to run in an enviorment where everyone had only Xservers on their desk, the CPUs where behind locked doors in IS, games could still run (not 3-D or extreem action, but simple ones worked fine) but you had no choice of OS.
Just a few reasons that someone might not want to run windows. It also happens that there are some great linux games. Not nearly as many as Windows has, but I've stumbled on more than one myself only to discover it has been out for years and I just hadn't heard of it.
There are also plenty of
VNC will do just fine as a KVM switch replacement. You don't run games under VMWare, or through VNC, so the limits should affect you.
Don't forget too that a mini-ITX system will handle load better because you have a second CPU.
Unless you live in a strange area (where laws let you do things you can safely do...) you legally have to call an electrition to do this. Your facilities guys cannot do this, so they won't help.
I've I've always wondered about the fascination metric people have with base 10. Sure we have 10 fingers, but for ever other use 10 is a bad number system, it doesn't divide 3 or 4 easially, and you often need to do that in the real world.
Not that the other system of various bases is better for all purposes, but those units were often designed for the things you do with them. Things that are dividable by 3 are often divided into thirds, and so on.
Your problem is you want fast, cheap, and safe. I know of no commercial system that isn't safe, but you can exchange speed for cheap. In my case it is often cheaper to go from Minneapols-NY with a stop in Paris, France, than a direct flight. If you think outside the box like this, you may too come up with ways to save a lot of money on your flight for just a little cost of time. (and you might even manage to plan your flight to give you a few hours to enjoy france)
No safe way to dispose of nuclear waste? A non-issue, you don't dispose of it you recycle it, which is safe. Why dispose of it?
Columbia was traveling at orbit speeds. It used the atmosphere to slow down. You can instead slow down to below orbit speeds above the atmosphere, and then decend into the atmosphere (you have to "hover" like a helocopter but with rocket). I have no clue how you would get that much fuel into orbit, but you if you did, you would have no heat problem on re-entry.
It is possible that this plane wouldn't even reach orbit speeds, I'm not sure if a normal human body can take the acceleration needed to go NY-LA while reaching orbit speeds.
P.S. Technially the Space shuttle doesn't get outside the earth's atmosphere, but there is so little that it isn't useful for anything other than a lot of drag if you try to stay up there for a while (read ISS has lots of problems from the atmosphere, but it is useless for wings or breathing). Hard to define where the Earth's atmosphere ends though, as it just tappers off.
Where do you get that idea? Howard Dead is the currnet leading canidate for president from the Democratic party, and he is campaining against this war. Come 2004 eithe GWB will be re-elected, for Dead with be elected (there is a possibility of a different canidate from either party, but right now that seems unlikely, and no other party as a reasonable chance). Americans are not all in favor of this. However we are intelligent enough to know that we cannot be presented with all the information for security reasons, and we are not going to let the troops down. (Many remember who Vietnam soliders were treated with horror, and won't repeat that no matter what their other thoughts are)
I'd like to see evidence too, but unfortunaly most of it cannot be given to me without giving away to the bad guys just who the spys getting this information is.
So I end up having to trust leaders who may or may not tell the truth. I don't like it, but I don't see an alternative. For a moment assume your are president, given the latest intelligence, knowing that now all of it is reliable (which is presented to you) and told to make a decision. Waiting is a decision that if your information is true will get people killed.
Fortunatly for Abe, the Gerrysburg address was written on the train there. The organizers didn't want to invite him, but couldn't come up with a good reason not to invite the president to an event so close to where he was. The key speaker that day spoke for two hours, and is forgotten (I'm to understand he was a good speaker), while Abe spoke for the couple minutes they gave him and said something that is still memorized today.
In other words, they might have required powerpoint, but Abe wouldn't have been given a chance to use the technology because that would be reserved for other speakers. In any case he wouldn't have had time to prepare his slides.
You forgot: blackboards where the presenter writes the details on the board as he goes. Powerpoint, or any pre-prepared slide is much worse for this situation. I've only seen a few cases where someone can use pre-prepared slides (powerpoint or not) as the content of their talk and pull it off.
So close to right on, yet still completely wrong. Verbal is what a presentation is all about. Unfortunatly verbal is a bad way to present information.
The first problem is I'm a poor listener, after a few mintues I start to doze off or my mind wonders, I start staring at the cute girl in class, or I get called away on an emergency (doesn't matter if I'm the only one who knows CPR, or the network is down, I've gotta leave no matter how important your presentation is). Psycologist have stuided this - I'm just like everyone else, the details change, but it is unlikly that anyone will pay attention to every word in your speach even if they truely want to learn.
The next problem is I have a poor memory. I can take notes, but while I write one point, you are onto the next. Even if you distribute your slides, I still need to write notes on the slides or they end up meaningless a year latter when I need the information.
Skip several other important points because I don't want to write all night...
Last, I'm busy. Something written down can be read when I have time, I can skip the parts I don't care about, and I can even read a little at a time. If my mind wonders I can trun back to the point where I was last paying attention and start over. (I might be weird this way, but I've more than once found myself having read several pages of a book while day dreaming about something completely different, just like some people tune out the TV while watching I can tune out a book while reading.)
I've been to good presentations. I wouldn't want to learn SCSI by reading the standards, but once I took a class that went over each command in detail and showed me how to interpurt everything and I now understand the standards. It worked because the guy who presented knew his stuff (in this case was on the committe) and slowed us down to the point where we could understand very dry material.
Most people don't need that level of detail very often, but want to know something. What those senior managers are saying is your information is important, but they don't really need it in depth, so prepare something that will sumerize it quick. (Unfortunatly you don't often get the budget to do that)
Woah there. I'm not a big fan of the train, but it does polute less per passanger mile. A train may have a diesel engine burning 4 gallons of fuel per mile (I have no idea what the true number is, so don't do math based on this) but if there are 100 cars to the train, and 20 people in each car, you need to divide that out. Compare a bunch of cars with 4 people in it getting 30 mpg, and the train already is looking better, then remember that most cars have just one person in them.
Thats because in Europe you tax fuel a lot more. And don't point out that gas tax doesn't pay for road maintaince (which I'm not sure of if you ignore local roads which are not paid for from gas tax) because the gas tax in Europe is far more than what is needed to maintain roads far better than the ones in the US.
Americans have a car culture? Then why did my Chinese roommate have to get a car within a month of coming to the US? He lived next to campus close enough to everything you could need for life. The local bus system worked just fine and would get him to any store he wanted. He didn't have a job (his student visa didn't allow him to work) so we can discount needing to be somewhere where the bus system didn't work. (in that city the bus system was terrible, but campus was the one area well served by it)
Answer: he wanted one, so he got one. I rarely drove it, but when he wanted to go someplace he did. He didn't have the government telling him the car was bad, and so he got one for the couple time it was nice to have.
Don't blame americans. Truth is everyone who has access to a car wants one. Where there is good public transportation they will use it, and often the expense of a car is more than the gain. However they all want one because it means freedom to get from where you are to where you want to be when you want to.
Your answer has nothing to do with the question. He already knows who is sending this, likely he shoped at their store once, entered a contest where they notify by email, and then started getting their advertising flyers in his email. On all levels it checks out as them - they own the domain it is from, the spam, when opened (often it is some windows only format though) looks just like the one they send with the local newspaper. It is clear exactly who sent it. So you try the opt-out address, and it doesn't work.
So, how does your post help them at all? You can filter on the sender just as easially as who it is to.
I'm 5 years out of that class, and only remember the result, not the exact problem. The homework and tests I did save were destroyed in the flood last summer. It was in logic, I remember that much, though I'm sure most math studies can bring up a similear problem..
int was defined in K&R1 to the best size for the CPU to deal with. Short and char could be shorter, long could be longer. Then they had a chart showing how several "common" machines implimented it, which included one machine that implimented all of the above types with 36 bits.
I still think that int should be the easiest size for the machine to deal with. If your intiger math is all 64 bits, when I say int I mean that I don't want you take an extra step to make the result fit into 32 bits. If your CPU is 16 bits, then by int I mean don't go through the extra effort to do 32 bit addition.
Would you go back and explain that to the math professor who game me a zero on one problem I proved by induction? There was no mistake in my proff, the initial condition was right, as was the induction step, and about half the class got exactly the same answer (ignoring a few trivial mistakes).
Seems that induction, for all its power isn't perfect, and it took less than 1 minute to demonstrat a contradiction (which was obvious to the other half of the class).
As we were then reminding, induction is not a mythod to prove things, it is a mythod to understand and communicate your proof after you have proved it a better way. Once someone has [correctly] proved something the hard way, induction is a valid way to re-prove it for yourself.
Got a source for that? Last I checked a private pilot can fly pretty much anywhere in the US with or without a flight plan. You can even file a flight plan and then go elsewhere, though you are expected to notify athorities as soon as you land so they don't start a search and rescue for you.
There is "restricted airspace" near airports and military testing grounds, but the total amount of this is very small, and it is all well marked on maps. Part of learning to fly is learning to read these maps, so crys that they are complex and hard to read (though very true) are not excuses. You also cannot fly too high, but in general this is above the level of a small plane anyway.
Last time I went in the distch I didn't ask permission in advance of my trip if it was okay to use the phone of the nearest house. I had to wake someone up at 2am, which is impolite. My plan was to not go in the ditch, but I miss judged the roads which had one slippery spot.
Or is that good practice? If it weren't for the idiots attempting to sail around the world without knowing what they are doing the military would have to send a second group of their own guys out in the middle of the ocean to drift for a while so they can practice search and rescuse missions?
I know that more than one search and rescue group has stated that they would be hiring people to do stupid things so they can rescue them if it weren't for those who do it. And those who do the stupid things on their own generally are really in trouble, which is more urgent and better practice than some actor pretending to be in trouble, but really just fine. (someone with a broken leg can't get into your strecher if your mess up the rescue a little bit, while a faker may 'assist' in that way.
I've looked at started such a company, it sounds like a good idea. However...
Make sure management understands the risks. I know of more than one company no longer in buisness because the outsourced accounting/HR to someone who took their tax money and ran. The IRS put them out of buisness when the money that was supposed to go to the IRS went to some crooks no longer in the country. The same situation can happen to data. Then there is the risk that your data will be sold to someone else. Maybe not a problem for a non-profit, but corporate spys exist, how do you know your provider doesn't make side money selling your secerts to someone else?
Assuming you evaluate the above risks and decide to do it anyway (and despite the above it isn't a bad idea), test everything. Randomly decide one system is dead, pull the harddrive, and request a restore to a new drive. Latter, randomly decide some file was accidently deleted, rename it, and request a restore of just that once file. Do the above at least once a year. (unless you have real incidents that cover the above)
The UN was intended to be a League of Nations that worked. The League of Nations didn't act to stop WWII before it was too late, the US isn't going to let the UN not act to prevent WWIII before it is too late, even if it means acting along. (though other countries to agree with the US)
I don't know if the Iraq decision was right or not, but what the UN did was wrong, leading everyone to belive they would do something and then doing nothing. Proves the UN is worthless.