How are you going to tell a fake RST from a real one (and no, I haven't RTFA)? Just a guess, but if the server on the other side still is sending data after the RST hits you, it's a sign that it didn't send the RST.
Actually, if someone came to Earth with super-tech, we'd assume it was super-tech because that's what our stories say things are. If they kept insisting, "No, it's magic, our society advanced beyond physical laws and prays to supernatural beings to do these things." We'd say "Yeah, sure, it's just a type of science we can't understand yet", and set to work trying to mimic their hand-wavings and chantings... but without the true belief necessary to make it work.
I always use wget -c <URL> to download large files. Even when your ISP is on the up and up, you'll get a RST occasionally if the remote computer sends it. Using wget to continue an almost completed download of an iso or XPSP3 is really handy.
A kitten dies every time a story is tagged "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense." Don't announce this; the RIAA will be tagging everything "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense" now.
How the hell did the Wachowskis take a character that was a bomb-making anarchist and make a liberal out of him? They used an integer with too few bits for his level of hatred for government. His hatred for government flipped back into the negative, so he wanted government to grow?
You probably get to buy ammo, grenades, or perhaps special items with real cash. When it turns into a MMOFPK(nifer), they'll have free-ammo days where they give 3-4 guys free ammo as a lottery, then let the other people buy ammo to stay alive.
Your wrong. In the days of you're, yore common weigh of remembering yore, your, and you're, was much harder because people couldn't reed or right. Many peephole spelled awl three as "X".
Doesn't work when you're trying to figure out how to balance Street Fighter with Darkstalkers. I'd like to see the puny humans stand up to the robots from One Must Fall 2097.
What they need is a fighting game that uses four controllers and four nunchucks, it would come with straps to put the nunchucks on your thighs and upper arms. Of course your opponent would have to be on another Wii.
It doesn't even do that. With gnash, I can't visit slashdot without routinely typing "killall gtk-gnash" into a root terminal. gnash isn't ready for any level of usage.
Which will equate to servers and workstations dying in three-four years, and business shutting down for a day or two while backups get restored to a new "server" purchased from your neighborhood brick and mortar.
If the loss of revenue is less than the cost of replacing those machines, then your PHB is a genius. I'm not a gambling man, though.
Everything else is a matter of hardware upgrades most people do themselves anyway: video, hard drive, CD drives, sound card. Perhaps most people that are one degree of separation from you or me, but not _most_ people. Most people upgrade one piece by buying a whole new machine.
Running out of space on your 10 year old 10GB HDD? Buy a new machine.
Can't play Doom III on your 8 year old graphics card? Buy a new machine.
Need a DVD burner? Okay, buy an external USB DVD burner... Then buy a new machine when your taskbar keeps prompting you that you plugged a USB 2.0 device into a USB 1.1 port and it takes forever to burn the DVDs.
And I'd only fault someone for the third one, because the first two cases likely had 8+ year old hardware throughout the machine. Case three could have easily taken the external and made it internal, but most people never crack open their machines.
Well, Peter did attempt to damage one of the high priest's slaves when they came after Jesus, but Jesus healed the slave. That's when the raid broke down. Heck, one of the raid party ran away naked.
Why is ubuntu the only linux distro that has drivers for my wireless card? You would think something that simple wouldn't be hard to get drivers for. Why didn't any version of linux have drivers for winmodems for a long time?
Because the Manufacturers didn't write an Open Source driver? Because the Manufacturers didn't write a binary blob driver? Because most of the hardware was emulated on the CPU and wasn't part of the released hardware spec? Because there wasn't a released hardware spec?
Tell me why we shouldn't save our species by boosting the rate of evolution? Because humans are faddish creatures. Ever notice how names run in waves within generations? Just wait until a wave of soccer moms decides to tailor some Taylors that have a genetic predisposition towards clothes tailoring. Most of these children grow up to find that the tailoring business has a glut, they'll end up either unhappy in another job or working for peanuts. Also, this common gene sequence might make them susceptible to a new virus down the road (which would ultimately be good for society overall if it's a fatal virus).
(Here's another hint from the fairy tales: if the Xbox doesn't turn into a beautiful princess after the first kiss, stop kissing it. I don't know what it means, but it seemed relevant.)
Peter: So you understand all these gifts were supposed to be for my family. It was just some crazy mix-up.
Hick Mother: Kill 'em.
Hick Father: [Pumps shotgun]
Peter: No, no, no. It's true. You see, that remote control cow was for my son. And those barrettes were for my daughter. And, uh.... Hey, where's my VCR?
Hick Child 1: Dang it, Buck. It's my turn to use the sex box!
A generic "white" box could easily be had for under $200 And you can buy an Xbox for $50 from someone that just upgraded to an X-Box 360. Chances are this was a donation to the school (tax deductable). I don't imagine the philosophy department gets a lot of funding for hardware, so they'll use whatever they can get for free.
Okay, sneering at the wage-slaves was petty on my part. But the manager situation was quite different from how you interpreted it.
The manager watched me _buy_ an item, it got put into the bag, which was provided by the check-out clerk, then proceeded to block my path as I was attempting to leave the store with _my_ property. The guy was being an @ss about their "policy", and was keeping me in the store because he'd seen me walk out without being checked before. The distance between check-out and the door was about fifteen feet, so he _knew_ I didn't come in with the bag.
I threatened him with the police because I _felt_ threatened. When someone puts their arms out, blocking off exit, tell me your adrenaline doesn't start pumping. Thankfully that manager didn't last long. Someone (not me) must have complained about him, or maybe store sales dropped low because other people stopped shopping there.
Please thoroughly read posts before insulting the poster.
I do have a question though:
Whatever method they can use to deter other shoplifters is fine by me. I'm guessing that this is an exaggeration, and that you have a line you won't let someone cross to invade your personal rights. Where is that line for you?
http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
It needs some command lines to make it use the PC menu and sounds, but it's much better than using the old binaries in dosbox. Supermelee works with other humans over network, and you can change the default random seed for the galaxy creation to play a "new" game.
Slashdot Mirror
If it turns most of the html into one big gif and an image map then it should "work". Bonus for being just like the 90's!
Actually, if someone came to Earth with super-tech, we'd assume it was super-tech because that's what our stories say things are. If they kept insisting, "No, it's magic, our society advanced beyond physical laws and prays to supernatural beings to do these things." We'd say "Yeah, sure, it's just a type of science we can't understand yet", and set to work trying to mimic their hand-wavings and chantings... but without the true belief necessary to make it work.
"Sign us up! How many Planets are in your... our Federation?"
"Just this one, but we expect to get a lot more by using this warp drive you invented!"
I always use
wget -c <URL>
to download large files. Even when your ISP is on the up and up, you'll get a RST occasionally if the remote computer sends it. Using wget to continue an almost completed download of an iso or XPSP3 is really handy.
I own the Dragons of Autumn Twilight movie. I can watch anything.
Too bad Phil's not around to play a Cloned Viking Lawyer.
Yeah, I remember people standing in line to buy it, and no one really complained about it until Win98se came out (Vista=XP=2000>NT4>98se>ME>95>98>3.1)
You probably get to buy ammo, grenades, or perhaps special items with real cash. When it turns into a MMOFPK(nifer), they'll have free-ammo days where they give 3-4 guys free ammo as a lottery, then let the other people buy ammo to stay alive.
Your wrong. In the days of you're, yore common weigh of remembering yore, your, and you're, was much harder because people couldn't reed or right. Many peephole spelled awl three as "X".
What they need is a fighting game that uses four controllers and four nunchucks, it would come with straps to put the nunchucks on your thighs and upper arms. Of course your opponent would have to be on another Wii.
It doesn't even do that. With gnash, I can't visit slashdot without routinely typing "killall gtk-gnash" into a root terminal. gnash isn't ready for any level of usage.
Which will equate to servers and workstations dying in three-four years, and business shutting down for a day or two while backups get restored to a new "server" purchased from your neighborhood brick and mortar.
If the loss of revenue is less than the cost of replacing those machines, then your PHB is a genius. I'm not a gambling man, though.
Running out of space on your 10 year old 10GB HDD? Buy a new machine.
Can't play Doom III on your 8 year old graphics card? Buy a new machine.
Need a DVD burner? Okay, buy an external USB DVD burner... Then buy a new machine when your taskbar keeps prompting you that you plugged a USB 2.0 device into a USB 1.1 port and it takes forever to burn the DVDs.
And I'd only fault someone for the third one, because the first two cases likely had 8+ year old hardware throughout the machine. Case three could have easily taken the external and made it internal, but most people never crack open their machines.
Well, Peter did attempt to damage one of the high priest's slaves when they came after Jesus, but Jesus healed the slave. That's when the raid broke down. Heck, one of the raid party ran away naked.
Because the Manufacturers didn't write an Open Source driver? Because the Manufacturers didn't write a binary blob driver? Because most of the hardware was emulated on the CPU and wasn't part of the released hardware spec? Because there wasn't a released hardware spec?
Yes.
Peter: So you understand all these gifts were supposed to be for my family. It was just some crazy mix-up.
Hick Mother: Kill 'em.
Hick Father: [Pumps shotgun]
Peter: No, no, no. It's true. You see, that remote control cow was for my son. And those barrettes were for my daughter. And, uh.... Hey, where's my VCR?
Hick Child 1: Dang it, Buck. It's my turn to use the sex box!
Buck: It's my sex box! And her name is "Sony."
I threatened him with the police because I _felt_ threatened. When someone puts their arms out, blocking off exit, tell me your adrenaline doesn't start pumping. Thankfully that manager didn't last long. Someone (not me) must have complained about him, or maybe store sales dropped low because other people stopped shopping there.
Please thoroughly read posts before insulting the poster.
I do have a question though: Whatever method they can use to deter other shoplifters is fine by me. I'm guessing that this is an exaggeration, and that you have a line you won't let someone cross to invade your personal rights. Where is that line for you?
Elian!
http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
It needs some command lines to make it use the PC menu and sounds, but it's much better than using the old binaries in dosbox. Supermelee works with other humans over network, and you can change the default random seed for the galaxy creation to play a "new" game.