I'd mod you +10 insightful if I could. Stern senior was a thief and a bottom feeder. He let everyone else innovate, stole their ideas, low-balled them and ended up as the sole survivor of the pinball wars as he bought up the competition one bankruptcy at a time.
Now that there's no one to rip off, its taken Stern almost a decade to produce their first real original design (and I call it original only because I have yet to see who they plagiarized).
Pinball's final golden era ended with the last Bally Williams systems of the '90s. I doubt we will ever see the quality and originality that they brought; partly because the game crowd has moved on, and partly because IP laws are now on the side of the Stern empire.
Pinball in the arcade is all but dead, the home is now where it belongs as the original lovers have grown up and have the means to possess their treasured favorites.
The only people who don't love TNG pinball are the poor saps who have to keep the bastard running. I praised the pinball gods when we sold our last one to a home.
The combination of horrendous under-playfield ball storage, shearing joints with wires passed through them, buggy software, and a single fragile drop target that crippled the machine when broken made for a maintenance nightmare. Don't get me started on the ball trough opto channel that would warp its own PCB from overheated resistors, or the power supply that was so underpowered that you had to configure the transformer for 100 volt operation to get enough juice to keep the thing from rebooting in multiball.
Don't get me wrong, when the game is running it's one of the more entertaining games from the golden era of Williams pinballs. Unfortunately, it was far too much innovation shoehorned onto a platform that just wasn't up to the task.
You want to see perfection? Go play a Medieval Madness or a Twilight Zone.
I'll save my thoughts on the Stern family for another rant.
If you read the follow up you'll see that that is not a feature of Leopard, but the result of sub-pixel rendering. It's a technique for making text look better on LCDs.
Steve Gibson has an interesting article on it here:
The company with the PCI chip that you mentioned was Ensoniq.
I own a few pieces of Ensoniq's finest work and to this day, in spite of the ISA bus, they are superior to just about any sound card you can buy. Creative bought the company, raided their IP chest for a few gems, and buried the carcass.
Who knows what beauty could have been if not for Creative's greed?
The reason for the Florida incorporation is because of the extremely corporate-friendly laws present in FL. Why do you think all of the infomercial, telemarketing, most scam time-shares, and just about every other ne'er do well incorporate there?
If you ever get a call from someone trying to sell you something that sounds shady, ask them where they're based. If they don't hang up on you, the answer you'll likely get is Florida.
Agreed, but my bullshit alarm went off as soon as I read the word Haliburton. The current litmus test for conspiracy freaks seems to be how quickly they use the word Haliburton in their arguments. I'm surprised he didn't work out a way to work in Roswell, the Illuminati, the Black Chamber, the Masons, the Vatican and the Jewish High Council. Watch this author of this article's space for further updates...
Deterrence is a word used by people who have been cowed into believing that they need to somehow justify a suitable punishment.
It's simple: if you commit particularly heinous crimes*, you are a cancer on society and need to be removed permanently.
*Murder, commission of murder, rape, and child molestation, to name the top candidates.
Wow, it's far more resilient than I thought. There were dire warnings about it when I first learned to handle MySQL, but that was version 3.something. I suppose endianness is/was the source of their concerns...
It usually works as long as you're staying on the same architecture.
I successfully pulled this off when a client's DB server died horribly with no functional backups in sight. I salvaged the vast majority of the binary tables and dropped them into a fresh install of MySQL. After the migration of the binaries I renamed the tables to *_bak and told MySQL to dump the contents into freshly created data files. Then I set my client on the task of assessing damage to the data.
I would only recommend this tactic if you're doing crash recovery on a borked system, as there are risks.
P.S.
Have you hugged your backups today?
This article reminds me of a famous editorial in the NYT. It took them almost 50 years to print a correction. Excerpted from Wikipedia:
On January 13, 1920, a New York Times editorial on page 12 entitled "A Severe Strain on Credulity" ridiculed Robert Goddard and his claim that a rocket would work in space:
That Professor Goddard, with his "chair" in Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react - to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.
Seconded on the 5si. I have one with all the bells and whistles that I picked up from the local university's surplus sale for $20. Add another $15 for the new pickup rollers and an afternoon's work and I have a workhorse I know I can trust. The damn thing has over a million prints on the meter and still purrs like a kitten.
That's why I carry my trusty 33s. I've sold many of my co-workers and associates on RPN just by running circles around them on complex calculations. They're parsing parentheses and I'm writing numbers. It is sad that yet another part of HP that made it great is all but dead. HP is dead, long live Agilent. (though I can't complain about my LaserJet 5si)
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I'd mod you +10 insightful if I could. Stern senior was a thief and a bottom feeder. He let everyone else innovate, stole their ideas, low-balled them and ended up as the sole survivor of the pinball wars as he bought up the competition one bankruptcy at a time.
Now that there's no one to rip off, its taken Stern almost a decade to produce their first real original design (and I call it original only because I have yet to see who they plagiarized).
Pinball's final golden era ended with the last Bally Williams systems of the '90s. I doubt we will ever see the quality and originality that they brought; partly because the game crowd has moved on, and partly because IP laws are now on the side of the Stern empire.
Pinball in the arcade is all but dead, the home is now where it belongs as the original lovers have grown up and have the means to possess their treasured favorites.
Bummer, we just sold our last one. Yes, Addams Family was an excellent pinball as long as you installed fuses on the under-playfield magnets.
The only people who don't love TNG pinball are the poor saps who have to keep the bastard running. I praised the pinball gods when we sold our last one to a home.
The combination of horrendous under-playfield ball storage, shearing joints with wires passed through them, buggy software, and a single fragile drop target that crippled the machine when broken made for a maintenance nightmare. Don't get me started on the ball trough opto channel that would warp its own PCB from overheated resistors, or the power supply that was so underpowered that you had to configure the transformer for 100 volt operation to get enough juice to keep the thing from rebooting in multiball.
Don't get me wrong, when the game is running it's one of the more entertaining games from the golden era of Williams pinballs. Unfortunately, it was far too much innovation shoehorned onto a platform that just wasn't up to the task.
You want to see perfection? Go play a Medieval Madness or a Twilight Zone.
I'll save my thoughts on the Stern family for another rant.
Not only could you swap VMS kernels on the fly, if you had an Alpha system you could actually hot-swap processors.
VMS and the Vaxen were remarkable systems; almost as remarkable as the men and women who kept them running.
If you read the follow up you'll see that that is not a feature of Leopard, but the result of sub-pixel rendering. It's a technique for making text look better on LCDs.
Steve Gibson has an interesting article on it here:
http://www.grc.com/ct/ctwhat.htm
The Federal Reserve is as 'federal' as Federal Express.
When American liberals say they want freedom of choice, that they really mean is that they want to kill babies.
And this explains many of the contradictions of their 'ideology'.
Your statement made about as much sense as my paraphrase. This concludes my karma burn for the day. Thank you.
Mod parent up for "getting it".
The company with the PCI chip that you mentioned was Ensoniq.
I own a few pieces of Ensoniq's finest work and to this day, in spite of the ISA bus, they are superior to just about any sound card you can buy. Creative bought the company, raided their IP chest for a few gems, and buried the carcass.
Who knows what beauty could have been if not for Creative's greed?
IBM doubts the future of the "personal computer"
Buggy manufacturers poo-poo the new horseless carriage
etc, etc.
I've seen it in use. Reminds me of pessimum.
I'm tired of being mugged by the IRS. At least with a street thug you have some small chance of fighting back.
My personal favorite is:
A liberal is a conservative who's never been mugged.
Must fight... urge... to feed.. troll.....
>>What is the lowest animal life that could be trained to log into Yahoo?
I hear that there are a few forums visited by lawyers, so there ya go.
The reason for the Florida incorporation is because of the extremely corporate-friendly laws present in FL. Why do you think all of the infomercial, telemarketing, most scam time-shares, and just about every other ne'er do well incorporate there?
If you ever get a call from someone trying to sell you something that sounds shady, ask them where they're based. If they don't hang up on you, the answer you'll likely get is Florida.
Agreed, but my bullshit alarm went off as soon as I read the word Haliburton. The current litmus test for conspiracy freaks seems to be how quickly they use the word Haliburton in their arguments. I'm surprised he didn't work out a way to work in Roswell, the Illuminati, the Black Chamber, the Masons, the Vatican and the Jewish High Council. Watch this author of this article's space for further updates...
Deterrence is a word used by people who have been cowed into believing that they need to somehow justify a suitable punishment. It's simple: if you commit particularly heinous crimes*, you are a cancer on society and need to be removed permanently. *Murder, commission of murder, rape, and child molestation, to name the top candidates.
Wow, it's far more resilient than I thought. There were dire warnings about it when I first learned to handle MySQL, but that was version 3.something. I suppose endianness is/was the source of their concerns...
It usually works as long as you're staying on the same architecture. I successfully pulled this off when a client's DB server died horribly with no functional backups in sight. I salvaged the vast majority of the binary tables and dropped them into a fresh install of MySQL. After the migration of the binaries I renamed the tables to *_bak and told MySQL to dump the contents into freshly created data files. Then I set my client on the task of assessing damage to the data. I would only recommend this tactic if you're doing crash recovery on a borked system, as there are risks. P.S. Have you hugged your backups today?
This article reminds me of a famous editorial in the NYT. It took them almost 50 years to print a correction. Excerpted from Wikipedia: On January 13, 1920, a New York Times editorial on page 12 entitled "A Severe Strain on Credulity" ridiculed Robert Goddard and his claim that a rocket would work in space: That Professor Goddard, with his "chair" in Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react - to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.
Seconded on the 5si. I have one with all the bells and whistles that I picked up from the local university's surplus sale for $20. Add another $15 for the new pickup rollers and an afternoon's work and I have a workhorse I know I can trust. The damn thing has over a million prints on the meter and still purrs like a kitten.
That's why I carry my trusty 33s. I've sold many of my co-workers and associates on RPN just by running circles around them on complex calculations. They're parsing parentheses and I'm writing numbers. It is sad that yet another part of HP that made it great is all but dead. HP is dead, long live Agilent. (though I can't complain about my LaserJet 5si)
Holy crap there are a lot of /b/tards on Slashdot. I never knew!
In b4 offtopic mod.
Thank you, I've needed a new sig for a while.