"Yet this GTA comes out and people are practically wetting themselves over what is going to be the same thing but shiny?"
It might be the same basic idea, but it's the details, not the basic idea, that makes a game great. The details in this game are going to be very different from the details of the previous games.
You could ask yourself the same question about people buying new cars, new computers, new TVs - They serve the same basic purpose as their old ones, but you get them for the quality and the new features.
That's like dismissing the entire concept of border security because there are illegal immigrants in the country already. That's pretty stupid in any way you look at it. If you want network security to work, you need your domain to have clearly marked perimiters that you can effectively control.
Suggesting that government contracts stifle innovation simply because of their size is also ridiculous. The government is a large entity, but by no means the only one. In fact, consolidating and centralising capacity and expenditures, is exactly what the government should do. It lowers cost for the private sector, and it'll lower cost for the government. You don't want a wasteful government.
What's with people like you who feel the need to deem everyone to be sheep or brainwashed if they're fine with something that you, for whatever reason, don't agree with? Is it self-esteem?
When you sign up with us, you can get a residential connection that will typically offer you 99.9% availability. If you want more, we can provide, but it'll cost you more. Why? Because we cannot afford to put a sufficiently large UPS in each of our locations when we serve on average around 50 residential customers per location. It's not economically viable with our residential pricing, and it never will be.
99.9% availability is something most would consider excellent on a symmetrical 25Mbps link for $50/month. If you expect five nines, I hope you're smarter than to go with residential products for your connectivity needs.
After reading through endless fields of stupidity, I've adopted a policy of ignoring people who make outrageous, yet unsubstantiated claims about technology y while casually associating these outlooks with irrelevant quantities of x.
If you're going to predict the death of the most ubiquitous layer 2 technology, you damn well better have something more to present than "In the future we'll all be on the Internet directly and it'll be like really fast". What relevance does a pointless and, quite frankly, ignorant claim like "gigabit speeds" have to do with the death of Ethernet?
If you have any more vague, unsubstantiated predictions to make, let me know so that I can skip reading slashdot and consult a fortune cookie for my daily news instead.
Actually, it's a very considerable amount of people all over the world against the entire rural population of Australia, and I'm not really sure what you're trying to get at with that example. A misguided rollout of a technology in a part of the world with sparsely populated towns separated by endless fields of desolace is hardly an argument for the technology being unwanted or a failure, as it is hardly indicative of the typical geography in which these systems would be implemented.
Well, 3G phones and networks are targeted and advertised towards people who -do- care, and that's actually quite a lot of people. The on-demand media content leveraging 3G technologies see considerable use here in Denmark.
If you don't like 3G, and if you're feeling like you're paying a premium for the rollout of the service, simply switch providers. You aren't typically forced to stick to something you don't like.
It depends, of course. If I have a lot of downtime, I find myself doing something related to work in one way or another. If we're just talking about the fifteen minutes you sometimes get in an otherwise hectic workday, I relax read the sites I usually read on my free time. Great for maintaining your sanity, not so great if it happens to be the only time during the day your supervisor checks in to see how you're doing with y on project x.
That, or it's just a convenient way to group people who feel that it's better to treat a thousand people for cancer just a little worse than they could treat ten people with the same money.
but what's the motivation for posting a story with a summary sounding like it came from the fingers of some angry, frustrated teen who just compiled his kernel?
You want to use SNMP for hardware-to-hardware capability querying? Sounds like it'd make more sense to develop some sort of low-overhead SCMP (yeah, you got it right) that SNMP could leverage.
No, I'm not saying that at all. I had no incorrect assumption. I knew what I was buying. I still didn't like it though. If the drive is only 150GB, they should label it so. The fact that their measurement could be considered correct does not negate the fact that they were being intentionally misleading. The fact that I knew this beforehand does not negate the fact that I dislike this practice.
When a drive is 150GB, they label it as such. A gigabyte is one billion bytes. Regular SI units. If you had one party telling you that a kilometre is 1000 metres, and another telling you that a kilometre is 1024 metres, who would you consider right? The officially recognised one, of course. When you're talking about kilometres, you're using SI units. Why shouldn't you insist on SI units when talking about kilobyte? There's kilo, and there's kibi. As much as you seem to dislike it, base 2 is kibi, and base 10 is kilo.
It is more like I wanted a cow, and went to the cow store, and all they had were chickens labeled as "cows." I was already there, and the prices were reasonable, so I bought a chicken for dinner instead. Two years later, due to a court settlement, I am entitled to a refund, and I will take it to encourage chicken-sellers to not intentionally mislabel their stock for profit.
The problem here is that the ones labeling the chickens as cows are the OS manufacturers. Not the disk drive manufacturers. You aren't entitled for a refund when you buy a product advertised as having 160 billion bytes of storage capacity if you get a drive that DOES have 160 billion bytes of storage capacity. Kilo, mega and giga are base 10 SI units. Just because you have a piece of software telling you that they aren't, you aren't justified in seeking refunds from the company that sold you the disk.
There's absolutely no "intentional misleading" practices here as you seem so intent on. These are decades long industry standards that are followed by everyone. The ignorance of users isn't an excuse.
So you're saying that you feel mislead because you based your purchase of their product on an incorrect assumption, instead of actually getting to know the readily available details of product that you're buying?
It's like buying "one chicken" and complaining about it not being as big as "one cow", on the grounds that it's still "one", and you're used to buying cows.
You're actually suggesting that incompetence on behalf of the user justifies ripping off a company?
No customers were mislead here. Base 10 is the industry standard. No (at least major) permanent storage device manufacturer sizes their drives in base 2. Storage space in base 2 is a common misconception that's being perpetuated by OS developers. If anything, sue them.
Not understanding the product that you're purchasing does not mean that you were mislead.
I must be eligible for at least $100 over all the Seagate gear I bought in that period, but it'll be a cold day on the sun before I demand money from any corporation for the ignorance of other people.
Seagate has produced great drives for a long time, and they've never strayed from industry standard definitions to advertise the storage capacity. Anyone taking advantage of this settlement is either morally dishonest or technologically incompetent.
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I'm currently campaigning to make the "fucktonne" an official SI unit.
"Yet this GTA comes out and people are practically wetting themselves over what is going to be the same thing but shiny?"
It might be the same basic idea, but it's the details, not the basic idea, that makes a game great. The details in this game are going to be very different from the details of the previous games.
You could ask yourself the same question about people buying new cars, new computers, new TVs - They serve the same basic purpose as their old ones, but you get them for the quality and the new features.
That's like dismissing the entire concept of border security because there are illegal immigrants in the country already. That's pretty stupid in any way you look at it. If you want network security to work, you need your domain to have clearly marked perimiters that you can effectively control.
Suggesting that government contracts stifle innovation simply because of their size is also ridiculous. The government is a large entity, but by no means the only one. In fact, consolidating and centralising capacity and expenditures, is exactly what the government should do. It lowers cost for the private sector, and it'll lower cost for the government. You don't want a wasteful government.
How often do you really see fully equipped modular networking hardware at the distribution layer?
Excluding certain taxpayer sponsored behemoths, operating communications services most anywhere is more about managing losses than making a profit.
What's with people like you who feel the need to deem everyone to be sheep or brainwashed if they're fine with something that you, for whatever reason, don't agree with? Is it self-esteem?
Because average consumers don't pay for more.
When you sign up with us, you can get a residential connection that will typically offer you 99.9% availability. If you want more, we can provide, but it'll cost you more. Why? Because we cannot afford to put a sufficiently large UPS in each of our locations when we serve on average around 50 residential customers per location. It's not economically viable with our residential pricing, and it never will be.
99.9% availability is something most would consider excellent on a symmetrical 25Mbps link for $50/month. If you expect five nines, I hope you're smarter than to go with residential products for your connectivity needs.
I've gotta go with AT&T on this one. Allowing people to use their connections without restrictions would create a need for needless capacity upgrades.
After reading through endless fields of stupidity, I've adopted a policy of ignoring people who make outrageous, yet unsubstantiated claims about technology y while casually associating these outlooks with irrelevant quantities of x.
If you're going to predict the death of the most ubiquitous layer 2 technology, you damn well better have something more to present than "In the future we'll all be on the Internet directly and it'll be like really fast". What relevance does a pointless and, quite frankly, ignorant claim like "gigabit speeds" have to do with the death of Ethernet?
If you have any more vague, unsubstantiated predictions to make, let me know so that I can skip reading slashdot and consult a fortune cookie for my daily news instead.
Actually, it's a very considerable amount of people all over the world against the entire rural population of Australia, and I'm not really sure what you're trying to get at with that example. A misguided rollout of a technology in a part of the world with sparsely populated towns separated by endless fields of desolace is hardly an argument for the technology being unwanted or a failure, as it is hardly indicative of the typical geography in which these systems would be implemented.
Well, 3G phones and networks are targeted and advertised towards people who -do- care, and that's actually quite a lot of people. The on-demand media content leveraging 3G technologies see considerable use here in Denmark.
If you don't like 3G, and if you're feeling like you're paying a premium for the rollout of the service, simply switch providers. You aren't typically forced to stick to something you don't like.
Consumers don't care about 3G? I'm extremely satisfied with my HSDPA USB modem, and everyone I know to have 3G phones are happy with their service.
It depends, of course. If I have a lot of downtime, I find myself doing something related to work in one way or another. If we're just talking about the fifteen minutes you sometimes get in an otherwise hectic workday, I relax read the sites I usually read on my free time. Great for maintaining your sanity, not so great if it happens to be the only time during the day your supervisor checks in to see how you're doing with y on project x.
That, or it's just a convenient way to group people who feel that it's better to treat a thousand people for cancer just a little worse than they could treat ten people with the same money.
Heh, that's a great mentality. If we're ever accused of doing anything wrong, it must be enemy propaganda.
Sorry, my town center only holds 10 workers, and they're terrible archers.
Hayden Christensen. Seriously. I cannot watch the last two movies. It's too sappy for me, and that actor is just infuriating.
but what's the motivation for posting a story with a summary sounding like it came from the fingers of some angry, frustrated teen who just compiled his kernel?
What if you, like me, exclusively sail under the Jolly Roger?
You want to use SNMP for hardware-to-hardware capability querying? Sounds like it'd make more sense to develop some sort of low-overhead SCMP (yeah, you got it right) that SNMP could leverage.
When a drive is 150GB, they label it as such. A gigabyte is one billion bytes. Regular SI units. If you had one party telling you that a kilometre is 1000 metres, and another telling you that a kilometre is 1024 metres, who would you consider right? The officially recognised one, of course. When you're talking about kilometres, you're using SI units. Why shouldn't you insist on SI units when talking about kilobyte? There's kilo, and there's kibi. As much as you seem to dislike it, base 2 is kibi, and base 10 is kilo.
The problem here is that the ones labeling the chickens as cows are the OS manufacturers. Not the disk drive manufacturers. You aren't entitled for a refund when you buy a product advertised as having 160 billion bytes of storage capacity if you get a drive that DOES have 160 billion bytes of storage capacity. Kilo, mega and giga are base 10 SI units. Just because you have a piece of software telling you that they aren't, you aren't justified in seeking refunds from the company that sold you the disk.
There's absolutely no "intentional misleading" practices here as you seem so intent on. These are decades long industry standards that are followed by everyone. The ignorance of users isn't an excuse.
So you're saying that you feel mislead because you based your purchase of their product on an incorrect assumption, instead of actually getting to know the readily available details of product that you're buying?
It's like buying "one chicken" and complaining about it not being as big as "one cow", on the grounds that it's still "one", and you're used to buying cows.
You're actually suggesting that incompetence on behalf of the user justifies ripping off a company?
No customers were mislead here. Base 10 is the industry standard. No (at least major) permanent storage device manufacturer sizes their drives in base 2. Storage space in base 2 is a common misconception that's being perpetuated by OS developers. If anything, sue them.
Not understanding the product that you're purchasing does not mean that you were mislead.
So I'm morally dishonest and technologically incompetent because lawyers make money off of litigation?
How on Earth does that work?
I must be eligible for at least $100 over all the Seagate gear I bought in that period, but it'll be a cold day on the sun before I demand money from any corporation for the ignorance of other people.
Seagate has produced great drives for a long time, and they've never strayed from industry standard definitions to advertise the storage capacity. Anyone taking advantage of this settlement is either morally dishonest or technologically incompetent.