If he was black, the police would have just shot him.

LK

Where? They aren't here.

It actually doesn't play all PS1 games. A few games have issues or won't run at all. The PS3 has the same issue with those few PS1 games. X-Files graphical adventure game....I'm looking at you.

Sony wasn't willing. They believed that had no choice other than do what they did. At least give them some credit for supporting it in the first place. No other console maker has had official support for Linux in one console, let alone two of them.

I own a CECHE model PS3 that at one time had a YDL install on it. I was even a moderator over at the Yellow Dog Forum. I have said the following many many times.

The thing is, you have to agree to have the feature taken away, it won't be taken away without you agreeing to do so....twice.

The choice is yours, keep Linux and lose access to PSN because your PSN isn't "trusted" or keep access to PSN and lose Linux. Your choice.

Now perhaps Sony shouldn't have required you to make that choice, but they believed that Geohot gave THEM no choice and the final choice is yours.

THAT is your problem, switch it on more often. PS+ helps because then you can have it automatically download updates at say 5 in the morning.

slow internet and an older hard drive in that PS3?

You ever watch Mean Girls, where Regina George tells Gretchen Weiner to stop trying to make "fetch" happen?

Stop trying to make couch multiplayer on the PC happen, it's not going to happen.

This is what happens when a customer doesn't want to own the system they are buying. Like a lot of places they probably had MBAs at the top who took the whole "not our core competency" thing too far. Yet again. Sure hire a vendor or vendors. But Own The Fucking System. Don't just let the vendors do what they want. It is a licence to push out shit with no oversight. I don't know for certain that this was the case here but that would be my guess.

Oracle was hired to implement the system and are of course software vendors. Even if it would mean fitting a square peg to a round hole, they'll try to use an all Oracle solution. This was a big enough project that the project management and architecture teams could have been separate from the software vendors. They almost always should be. Them and systems analysts should have been able to keep things in line if it wasn't all run by Oracle. If the implementation team was independent, I think it more likely they would use the right tools for the job. Blame the PHBs in Oregon for hiring Oracle. This should serve as a cautionary tale (which of course will be ignored).

You're welcome. You earned it.

LK

I didn't see that show. But he started out in engineering. Looking it up on Wikipedia, it looks like he was already working at Boeing when they asked him to do some sketches on Almost Live.

Given their pay, royalties, and their appearance fees at just about any geek convention they wanted to go to (and probably still can for a while)... if they managed their money properly, they're probably set for life. Or would be in terms of what average folks try for.

I think they put Kerri and Tori on for personality reasons. And it worked for a good long while. Grant was probably because they actually needed a real engineer on the show to help build things, so why not put him on the air too. Bill Nye started as a Mechanical Engineer and studied at Cornell. One of his professors was Carl Sagan. He worked at Boeing before.

It should be understood that while her looks surely played a part in her getting cast on a permanent basis, that wasn't how she got in the door. They didn't post an ad looking for female models/actresses. She was an intern on the show, working there because she loved creating and wanted to work for M5. She got called on camera to help with a myth (by providing a mold of her butt) and that was what started it.

Skill got her the position with the show initially,

Also as you note, personality goes a long way, and she has a very good one for the screen. That is why Adam Savage is a part of the show. Mythbusters was originally pitched to Jamie Hyneman but he knew, correctly, that he wouldn't be able to carry a show like that alone because of his dry personality. So he suggested Savage, who he'd worked with in the past, in part because he's a goofball.

With a show like that it takes a combination of skill and presentation to make it a hit, and that was what the hosts had, Byron included.

I thought the NSA said the use of meta data was not too intrusive. That's sarcasm... of course it can be, most on Slashdot knows that. But maybe this is a good wake up for the average person on what accessing meta data can do. The problem would be explaining what shared memory is. :)

And he doesn't have nuclear weapons or expansionist plans. So while he might be working on a totalitarian state very similar to the USSR, no one around him needs to worry. Good to know his daughter will take over after him too. Those tzars! Keep it in the family, that's the royal way. It's all good. Thanks for clarifying that for us.

"What part of "FDR's expansion which started the modern day everything goes" is so difficult to understand?"
the part where it's factually wrong.