normally when people are serious about not being called a troll they will include citations to back up what they are saying. Thus far you are totally trolling. Citations please?
Not when about 90% of police stops include a camera in the police car that cannot be turned off as long as the police lights are flashing. Most recording equipment in police cars are only re-viewable by the officer (as opposed to erasable), The officer has no say in whether or not the equipment is actually running as long as the car is in any sort of emergency mode.
So you're taking Google's word then? 6 outages in 8 months does *not* equal 99.9 uptime for a year. I currently provide 99.99% with one Exchange server in a VM and previously it was 99.999% for two consecutive years as a cluster.
In my company's business there's a huge difference between three and five nines of uptime.
I am far more likely to believe googles exec about his uptime than I am to believe you about yours.
does HIPAA even apply to anything beside health related services? I suppose you could argue that it would include lawyers working health related cases where medical records are required for litigation. but that all seems kinda niche to me and not representative of the majority of corporate interests. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
"All Considered...
It may sound bad, but Gmail does appear to have a reasonable amount of uptime, all considered. Following last fall's series of outages, a Google rep told the IDG News Service that Gmail suffers only about 10 to 15 minutes of downtime per month, giving it an average uptime rate of 99.9 percent. He noted that, according to some independent reports, on-premise e-mail systems tend to see twice the amount of offline time--anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes, on average, every 30 days."
If you are going to post a link to support an argument then at least read the whole thing first. I said almost and I think that 99.9% fulfills almost.
Well actually... since google has almost perfect uptime and availability moving to gmail servers should make alot of sense. Unless of course you are committing crimes as a corporation and need to be able to delete large chunks of emails in a hurry before the federal investigators get ahold of it... then I would have to agree that google is a bad choice.
There is one really good reason though that I can see for keeping internal mail exchangers. if your internet goes down then your intranet mail does as well. However in a large multi location operation that can happen anyway.
There is direct linkage between the wheels and the propeller. the motion of the cart turning the wheels is transferred into the propeller which when spun fast enough will in turn push back against the tailwind to push the cart steadily faster than the wind itself.
Growing up in Houston I always called it "The Armpit of Texas". But now I live in Maine. So that's almost the armpit of Canada... Oh wait, Canada already has an armpit! That's Quebec!
(I will accept no flames to this post that are not in French!)
You're throwing lingo around. "reprisal in Empire" I assume is space controlled by the server (aka. NPCs)?
What I'm getting at is that in Eve, when I played it, you are just a peon trading goods for corporations and it carries the same politics and statures that real life carries. I didn't see the fun in it. I went out looking for some NPC Pirates to kill to get weapon drops or rewards for keeping the asteroids safe and found none of it. I found that the only way to advance in the game was to join a corporation and ferry goods around space while dodging pirates or keeping to safe space. There was no "solo" track to making it.
Now you're going to complain that it's an MMO and: "Why would someone play an MMO if they want to solo?" Because Eve struck me as an interesting economy where other people determine the price of goods and I could just chase enemies and loot the rewards to sell on the market. I wouldn't have to set prices on my goods, only chase the rewards for taking out something that is in demand... but finding the enemies that needed taken out were minimal.
I am guessing then that you did not really play long enough to "get it". There are many solo tracks in eve. and trading is only a tiny fragment of the game. In fact it's so tiny that most people don't trade in any signifigant fashion (or at least any more than they need to in order to mission or kill other players)
"Beer busts, beer blasts, keggers, stein hoists, A.A. meetings, beer nights..." It's wonderful, Marge! I've never felt so accepted in all my life. These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined.
not that I necessarily agree with this concept, but the idea is that a copy is made when an API call pulls a function off of the storage medium (hard drive for instance) and places the working copy of it linked into memory. That _is_ a copy, however volatile it might be.
REal solution? 2 guys in flack jackets with fully automatic machine guns. get up and threaten anyone you get a face full of bullets. Even if you had 8 terrorists on a plane they will NOT try to take it if they see two fully armored and armed military experts on the plane. Good idea... then you just have to trust the two asshats with guns. but how about this... just give everyone on board a gun fastened under the seat between the padding and the flotation device and advertise that fact in the in flight safety brochure. Anytime you can add guns or military force to a situation it automatically makes everything all better. So add _alot_ of guns and make it a picnic!
Well even though I live in Maine now... I grew up in Texas. And I have heard that "joke" told as a "true story". So personally I believe that elevates it to Myth status:) But I have been wrong before.
"He needed killin'" is an acceptable defense. At least, ya know, in some of the southerns states of the USA.
The mythical Texas "Needed Killing" law... is just that... a myth. There was never an official law on the books anywhere in the US that allowed one person to kill another, just because you could get enough people together that agreed the person in question "Needed Killing"
No Offence QuantumG... but I cannot see how that post gets an "Insightful"
Now, military coups in established democracies are remarkably absent, probably because in a functioning democracy it's unnecessary.
I could not have said it better myself. However since the current administration seems to be openly ignoring the will of the people, it only stands to reason that the US is no longer a "functioning democracy".
Assuming George Bush is the evil power grubbing wannabe dictator your first paragraph would predict (if government attracts bad people then the top job of the most powerful government in the world should attract the worst of the worst, right?), why did he take the chance of being defeated in the last presidential election? What do you suppose would happen if he issued a presidential order that the next election was to be cancelled? I suspect the secret service would quietly take him into custody. If they didn't, the military would.
Many Americans now believe that he did not take any signifigant chances because the last two presidential elections have been rigged. (another example of a non funtioning democracy). As have many house and senate elections.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
* John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, (1962)
Absolutely... a great first post... but you forgot to say FIRST POST! anywhere... so it does not count as a first post:). The real first post would go to the guy right behind you loudly proclaiming FIRST POST! with no other message content. unfortunatly with no one providing this thread with a "real" first post, we will have to erase all these messages and start over.
Just because someone expresses an unpopular viewpoint (in this case that they believe in god perhaps?) does not make them automagically troll. the parent is a well thought out statement of position. NOT A TROLL!
Tell us how often someone shoots an abortion doctor, or blows up a clinic. What, once every 3 years or so?
And how often are christians violently repressed in the US? They only control the House, the Senate, The White House, and now the supreme court. Here's an idea if christians want to mix their religion into politics then maybe we should start taxing churches.
Maybe you are looking for the abortion clinic bombers and doctor murderers, I believe they are fundementalists. And the Muslum world (By and large) condems terrorism as well, even though extremists still perpetrate violence. Very little difference.
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normally when people are serious about not being called a troll they will include citations to back up what they are saying. Thus far you are totally trolling. Citations please?
Not when about 90% of police stops include a camera in the police car that cannot be turned off as long as the police lights are flashing. Most recording equipment in police cars are only re-viewable by the officer (as opposed to erasable), The officer has no say in whether or not the equipment is actually running as long as the car is in any sort of emergency mode.
So you're taking Google's word then? 6 outages in 8 months does *not* equal 99.9 uptime for a year. I currently provide 99.99% with one Exchange server in a VM and previously it was 99.999% for two consecutive years as a cluster.
In my company's business there's a huge difference between three and five nines of uptime.
I am far more likely to believe googles exec about his uptime than I am to believe you about yours.
does HIPAA even apply to anything beside health related services? I suppose you could argue that it would include lawyers working health related cases where medical records are required for litigation. but that all seems kinda niche to me and not representative of the majority of corporate interests. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
and BTW you are quite right about the trade secrets.
FTA:
"All Considered...
It may sound bad, but Gmail does appear to have a reasonable amount of uptime, all considered. Following last fall's series of outages, a Google rep told the IDG News Service that Gmail suffers only about 10 to 15 minutes of downtime per month, giving it an average uptime rate of 99.9 percent. He noted that, according to some independent reports, on-premise e-mail systems tend to see twice the amount of offline time--anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes, on average, every 30 days."
If you are going to post a link to support an argument then at least read the whole thing first. I said almost and I think that 99.9% fulfills almost.
Well actually... since google has almost perfect uptime and availability moving to gmail servers should make alot of sense. Unless of course you are committing crimes as a corporation and need to be able to delete large chunks of emails in a hurry before the federal investigators get ahold of it... then I would have to agree that google is a bad choice. There is one really good reason though that I can see for keeping internal mail exchangers. if your internet goes down then your intranet mail does as well. However in a large multi location operation that can happen anyway.
There is direct linkage between the wheels and the propeller. the motion of the cart turning the wheels is transferred into the propeller which when spun fast enough will in turn push back against the tailwind to push the cart steadily faster than the wind itself.
Growing up in Houston I always called it "The Armpit of Texas". But now I live in Maine. So that's almost the armpit of Canada... Oh wait, Canada already has an armpit! That's Quebec! (I will accept no flames to this post that are not in French!)
TPB is back up again already.
Yeah but MS didn't get XP right till august of 2004. and why was the parent modded funny? Are mods modding based on sigs now??
You're throwing lingo around. "reprisal in Empire" I assume is space controlled by the server (aka. NPCs)?
What I'm getting at is that in Eve, when I played it, you are just a peon trading goods for corporations and it carries the same politics and statures that real life carries. I didn't see the fun in it. I went out looking for some NPC Pirates to kill to get weapon drops or rewards for keeping the asteroids safe and found none of it. I found that the only way to advance in the game was to join a corporation and ferry goods around space while dodging pirates or keeping to safe space. There was no "solo" track to making it.
Now you're going to complain that it's an MMO and: "Why would someone play an MMO if they want to solo?" Because Eve struck me as an interesting economy where other people determine the price of goods and I could just chase enemies and loot the rewards to sell on the market. I wouldn't have to set prices on my goods, only chase the rewards for taking out something that is in demand... but finding the enemies that needed taken out were minimal.
I am guessing then that you did not really play long enough to "get it". There are many solo tracks in eve. and trading is only a tiny fragment of the game. In fact it's so tiny that most people don't trade in any signifigant fashion (or at least any more than they need to in order to mission or kill other players)
"Beer busts, beer blasts, keggers, stein hoists, A.A. meetings, beer nights..." It's wonderful, Marge! I've never felt so accepted in all my life. These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined.
Wow, I had no idea our textbooks had drifted so far to the left.
Reality has a well known liberal bias. --Stephen Colbert
not that I necessarily agree with this concept, but the idea is that a copy is made when an API call pulls a function off of the storage medium (hard drive for instance) and places the working copy of it linked into memory. That _is_ a copy, however volatile it might be.
am I the only one that sees the irony of labeling a first post as redundant?
Well even though I live in Maine now... I grew up in Texas. And I have heard that "joke" told as a "true story". So personally I believe that elevates it to Myth status :) But I have been wrong before.
"He needed killin'" is an acceptable defense. At least, ya know, in some of the southerns states of the USA.
The mythical Texas "Needed Killing" law... is just that... a myth. There was never an official law on the books anywhere in the US that allowed one person to kill another, just because you could get enough people together that agreed the person in question "Needed Killing" No Offence QuantumG... but I cannot see how that post gets an "Insightful"
you speak words I think we can almost all agree on. thank you for that sentiment.
Now, military coups in established democracies are remarkably absent, probably because in a functioning democracy it's unnecessary.
I could not have said it better myself. However since the current administration seems to be openly ignoring the will of the people, it only stands to reason that the US is no longer a "functioning democracy".
Assuming George Bush is the evil power grubbing wannabe dictator your first paragraph would predict (if government attracts bad people then the top job of the most powerful government in the world should attract the worst of the worst, right?), why did he take the chance of being defeated in the last presidential election? What do you suppose would happen if he issued a presidential order that the next election was to be cancelled? I suspect the secret service would quietly take him into custody. If they didn't, the military would.
Many Americans now believe that he did not take any signifigant chances because the last two presidential elections have been rigged. (another example of a non funtioning democracy). As have many house and senate elections.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
* John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, (1962)
Absolutely... a great first post... but you forgot to say FIRST POST! anywhere... so it does not count as a first post :). The real first post would go to the guy right behind you loudly proclaiming FIRST POST! with no other message content. unfortunatly with no one providing this thread with a "real" first post, we will have to erase all these messages and start over.
Just because someone expresses an unpopular viewpoint (in this case that they believe in god perhaps?) does not make them automagically troll. the parent is a well thought out statement of position. NOT A TROLL!
Tell us how often someone shoots an abortion doctor, or blows up a clinic. What, once every 3 years or so?
And how often are christians violently repressed in the US? They only control the House, the Senate, The White House, and now the supreme court. Here's an idea if christians want to mix their religion into politics then maybe we should start taxing churches.
Maybe you are looking for the abortion clinic bombers and doctor murderers, I believe they are fundementalists. And the Muslum world (By and large) condems terrorism as well, even though extremists still perpetrate violence. Very little difference.