This is why I prefer WW2OL to MMORPGs. In WW2OL, it's the individual's skill that matters, and player rank just adds small things like binoculars once you're out of the lowest "greentag" ranks.
FTA: Q: What was your biggest surprise about working at Microsoft?
A: That they'd really just let me walk around with a camcorder without having a PR person or a lawyer along. Even after quitting I have the entire run of the place. That's not typical even in the technology world. At Apple my brother-in-law's badge only works in his building.
Sooo... they're taking the same lax attitude about computing security and applying it to physical security as well?
Not everyone should have admin, and not everyone should have all-building access.
Mine are particularly fond of jumping into the bedroom window, making a very distinctive "MRRFLLL!" sound, then dropping the live mouse (or one time, rat) on our bed while we're trying to sleep.
I get it, I get it, they're showing me what great little hunters they are... but yeesh.
The manufacturers could make multiple versions - one FCC compliant for sale in the US, and one for everywhere else.
They don't because that costs more and eats into profit margins.
Things like this are one of the reasons why "power bricks" are so popular. The highest regulation tends to be where the highest voltage is. By having the country-regulation specific wiring in a seperate power brick, the companies can mass-produce the main unit (Xbox, etc) and just have regionalized power bricks.
That's all well and good, right up until the point that the syphilis cure also causes a fatal allergic reaction in a small but significant percentage of the population.
Patches can break things. This is why disclosure of what it's touching is important, so you can properly test that everything it touched still works after the patch.
A friend of my wife's worked at Rockstar North on GTA, and has now moved back to Vancouver and is working at Rockstar Vancouver. Not sure if he's working on Bully though.
They charge for inbound calls, too, which you again have no control over. Sure, you may see the caller ID isn't somebody you recognize, but often you have to answer it anyways.
Can you run your MP3 player while it's inside a soft case AND in your leather jacket pocket, without putting your hands in your pocket, while wearing light gloves?
I can run my iPod that way (although I'll admit volume up/down gets a bit sketchy with that many layers). That's why the controls are so nice.
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Why do you hate America^Wbidets?
Somebody who pitches a hissy fit over the term "redneck".
So now there is San Andreas. It's supposed to be the best yet. I haven't tried it and I don't intend to.
This amuses me greatly, since SA is such a huge jump from it's predecessors, and it includes the Z-Targetting you've got your pants in a mess about.
This is why I prefer WW2OL to MMORPGs. In WW2OL, it's the individual's skill that matters, and player rank just adds small things like binoculars once you're out of the lowest "greentag" ranks.
I may have misread it but I don't believe it's 5,000 lines per day. I read it as 5,000 lines per year.
FTA:
Q: What was your biggest surprise about working at Microsoft?
A: That they'd really just let me walk around with a camcorder without having a PR person or a lawyer along. Even after quitting I have the entire run of the place. That's not typical even in the technology world. At Apple my brother-in-law's badge only works in his building.
Sooo... they're taking the same lax attitude about computing security and applying it to physical security as well?
Not everyone should have admin, and not everyone should have all-building access.
Mine are particularly fond of jumping into the bedroom window, making a very distinctive "MRRFLLL!" sound, then dropping the live mouse (or one time, rat) on our bed while we're trying to sleep.
I get it, I get it, they're showing me what great little hunters they are... but yeesh.
There is one thing that the LCD will catch that the viewfinder won't.
My wife's goddamned finger. Until I turned the LCD on, half the pictures had her fingertip in them.
A lot of the Adobe sluggishness comes from the bajillion plugins it loads. If you pare back the plugins to only the essentials, it starts pretty fast.
Not quite "Period".
The manufacturers could make multiple versions - one FCC compliant for sale in the US, and one for everywhere else.
They don't because that costs more and eats into profit margins.
Things like this are one of the reasons why "power bricks" are so popular. The highest regulation tends to be where the highest voltage is. By having the country-regulation specific wiring in a seperate power brick, the companies can mass-produce the main unit (Xbox, etc) and just have regionalized power bricks.
I believe that's a subscriber-only option.
Or maybe it actually shows that he has what you truly lack...
a sense of humor.
That's all well and good, right up until the point that the syphilis cure also causes a fatal allergic reaction in a small but significant percentage of the population.
Patches can break things. This is why disclosure of what it's touching is important, so you can properly test that everything it touched still works after the patch.
Not exactly feasible in the wilderness, unless you're looking for a bumper crop of pre-cooked trackkill.
We're about to roll out the "new" data warehouse at work. It's gonna start at 60 TB. I pray to god we never have to restore the bloody thing.
It won't charge to receive calls.
So I don't have to pay for the calls I can't receive anyway, since the first part tells me that the calls have to initiate from the PC?
They're not quite that seperate.
A friend of my wife's worked at Rockstar North on GTA, and has now moved back to Vancouver and is working at Rockstar Vancouver. Not sure if he's working on Bully though.
Yup, and was recommended in the recently-reviewed Time Management for System Administrators.
They charge for inbound calls, too, which you again have no control over. Sure, you may see the caller ID isn't somebody you recognize, but often you have to answer it anyways.
Can you run your MP3 player while it's inside a soft case AND in your leather jacket pocket, without putting your hands in your pocket, while wearing light gloves?
I can run my iPod that way (although I'll admit volume up/down gets a bit sketchy with that many layers). That's why the controls are so nice.
Define a timeframe for "always", though.
If the timeframe is 200 years, then it may as well be "forever" for the people that live through it.
Indeed. I have this vision of a spreadsheet behaving like the Fridge Magnet site, with letters constantly getting yanked out from underneath you.
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http://web.okaygo.co.uk/apps/letters/flashcom/ind
Other than the part where they talk about switching to UPS because FedEx increased their rates?
Yup. By trading with them, you give them money and material to directly suppress dissidents.
If you want a keyboard with macros, you can always get the Logitech G15 gaming keyboard. 18 "G-keys" which are macro keys, and three mode switchers.