The root DNS servers just say, Oh you want.com then you go over here for that information.
The.com server says, oh you want google.com well that information is held on (or was) Akamai
Akamai says google is or in this case it failed and thus the site appeared to be missing from the internet.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the root DNS servers, it's simply a private DNS hosting company screwing up big time and probably loosing a large ammount of customers for themselves in the process.
I develop websites as a hobby and I can tell you both Gecko and IE are both right pains in the proverbial if you want to do anything slightly out of the normal... IE's working fine on HTML 4.01 Strict code generated by a XSLT, Mozilla has this annoying bug when I feed it XHTML 1.1 with the background not being applied down the whole viewable area, and when the content is longer than one page the background is clipped to the bottom of the page thus left blank from there on.
It's easy to develop to the standards though, just no one implements them 100%:)
Not that I'd like to slap the world again but 10 years ago RISC OS users were using both Spatial and non-spatial windows, it's fantastic really using a 3 button mouse left mouse opened in a new window, right mouse button opened it in the same window, flexibility, controll and i've never navigated as fast since.
ROX Filer Implements this system but with double middle mouse click to open in a new window, Though I still maintain it's not as good as the classical RISC OS filer since it lacks the ability to right-click on the close icon to open the previous window and instead requires a toolbar to facilitate this (issues with X11 mostly), it's still a lot better than most file browsers for Linux:)
I'm sure you can write a TCP/IP stack in a turing machine, but why bother it's only vain attempts at glorifying a language which was perfectly fine in the area it was designed for.
Routing lots and lots of seperate IP channels, the number of ADSL customers in the UK is vast, and yet every single one has his or her data connection routed over BT's network to there ISP...
Naturally it would be more efficient to off-load that data onto the internet before routing it accross there networks, definately could be a plus for P2P applications if they started using hop-count as a way of discriminating against peers, but the removal of low latancy circuit switched technology might cause more problems for people playing quake3 or other FPS's which desire really low latancies.
First on the list has to be available software, you can get virtually any program under the sun running on windows, for Linux that means fafing around with wine and god knows what else.
Second on the list, speed games like Neverwinter nights just don't give me the same responsiveness under Linux as they do on windows.
Thirdly, I can blame Bill if it crashes, if my system crashes under Linux it's always my fault:/
20 years, in that time if mores law holds the average processor will be 2^(20/1.5) times more powerful, which is to say 10321x more powerful than today, even if it doesn't hold true, I suspect were more likely to see ray-tracing in 10 years, after all 10 years ago, were talking 1994... we'd only just got Doom from ID, no one had dreamed yet of looking up in a FPS:)
Am I the only person who couln't give a damn about SLI and would rather have two dual-head cards in the system to power 4 flatpanels all with scrolling ccze'd logs so I can sit back in my huge leather chair and cackle with power while stroking my white cat?
by actually using the words instead of symbols? Also you neglect the::'s and:'s which is probably even more confusing when youve got IPv6 addresses thown in too:/
Sorry but VB really is on the same level as Logo to me, Really if you can't understand basic youre not going to be programming, mabie not visual basic, I always favored BBC Basic of which the Brandy Interpreter is a fine version, though the appearance is slightly dated and you'll never write a windows program in it the language itself is pretty rock solid:)
I'm not worried about the human interface, two people two keys, many guards etc, the part I worry about is the chance that the computers or the electrical device could send the launch singal, personally I'd have a keypad on the console with the code written above it, the code would never be stored on a computer, it would be decoded by a physcial interlock system so that only if the code was right, and the chances of the computer accidentally generating exactly the right code is increadably remote that the missles would ever concider launching.
I hate to think that mabie someone somewhere would have wanted a active-low launch singal with a resistor pulling it to +5v on the console side *shudder*
China, since a lot of our property was stolen from our Indians through treaty violations.
Strange, I would have thought the USA's controll of Hawaii would have been a closer analogy, forgive the sometimes heated points made but they do have a point Hawaii Nation
True it's annoying if some program got swaped to disk and it's taking a huge time to come back, but that program only got swaped out because something you did required a lot of ram, something you wouln't have been able to do if you didn't have swap, only time I really notice it is when I exit a game like quake3 which has been loading more textures than I can imagine.
Don't confuse China with the rest of Asia, you sure your electronics really came from china, so far counting up my items Japan 2, Tiwan 1, Germany 1, Singapore 4...
China gets my alarm clocks, my mobile phone battery and a microsoft branded mouse.
I ran my first browser on a machine with 2Mb of RAM you spoilt spoilt person you!:)
Though I do wish they had the target memory between 16Mb and 64Mb of ram, yes tricks may have to be pulled, disgarding extra detail from images to make them fit (after-all you don't need a huge image if your scaling it down to 50% so it fits the mini-screen) etc
Ive got a machine with an ARM processor in it sat beside me which only has 20Mb of RAM, Ive got a browser that works for it, a comercial embeded browser, and it doesn't take up anywhere near all 20Mb of system RAM when it runs, This browser wont't get anywhere until it looses a lot more weight.
It's not that computationally expensive, but yes if your sending or reciving milions of unique emails it could get to be quite a pain to process, lucklly for spammers as long as they keep most of there emails for that day identical they only have to hash it once say, but then they'd still need a valid domain to spam from.
The bigest problem is DoS attacks against mail servers by using crafted emails designed to be greater than normally dificult to hash and/or check the signature there-of. And of course if youre now processing data in emails instead of just passing them though there's plenty of chance that one or two security holes might creep into implementations to boot:(
Wouln't work here in the UK since there's already signals betwen the bands, well inbetween is a bit much since there isn't any space, the NICAM digital audio signal is actually on a carrier which puts it inside the vestiage of the next channel's video component. They get away with this because say ITV is on channel 22, channel 23 is not used within the range of the local transmitter, when the component of channel 22 reaches a area which uses channel 23 the carrier for the NICAM signal for channel 22 has been attenuated enough not to be of a major concirn.
Also explains how they got around the need for guard bands, though occasionally at the south of england we get french TV, ahh the wonders of coastlines on radio propergation:)
Doh, that's what you get for modifying posts to much, You can put it on a FPGA, but you wouln't want to outside of development, if you look at the picture on the article, there's 2500 dolars worth of FPGA there, and the whole unit, probably looking at 10,000, and it's a tad big, put it on the intended final target, a silicon chip and youve got something which will fit in the tiny space behind the battery in your mobile phone.
I'm not sure how to tell you this, but youre virtually totally wrong one very point.
Synthisiable to Silicon, for ASIC's mostly though people like Philips turn them into micro-controllers and Intel make a few Micro-processors, the idea mostly is you can put a LCD controller, SIM Card reader, DSP, etc all on one lump of silicon with an ARM processor and put it in your mobile phone.
And you don't licence a PowerPC core to put in a FPGA, you get a PowerPC chip actually inside the FPGA (Vertex2 Pro), any IP-Cores you see in the core-gen are simply the hooks into these devices that are already there, similar to the GCM's.
And the big plus of this... well I don't really know but depending on how much number crunching it can do, and how much heat it generates when it does it, it could see all manner of applications.
It's not quite as clear cut as 'wider bus' since PCIe is actually a lot narrower as it's a serial bus as oposed to the classic parrell PCI and AGP busses, the version for Graphics cards is 16x PCIe, which is essentially 16 serial busses wired into the graphics card, which gives a preformance somewhere between mind boggling and insane.
Realistically, at twice the speed of AGP 8x, which apart from loading textures onto the graphics card memory, that bandwitdh isn't even touched in modern systems most of the time the cards are running, so it should last us a long time to come.
I'm curious if the 'Quake3 Linux Sales' is derived from the number of users who are playing games using Linux, or the number of users who went out and bought a specilised Linux CD.
I bought a windows CD version, but I play my games purely under linux... bet there's quite a few like me.
Wether it sucks or not is accademic, no one will use it though.
I like my URL's encoded in written words, you can read them with these 'eyeballs', and record them using 'your memory' or for long term storage you can 'write them on a bit of paper', the key to this technology is that it's cheep, and universally available, unlike expensive mobile phones with cameras and 2d barcode readers.
And people providing URL's with ?resource=5309823... should just be shot anyway:)
There are many ways to make sure this doesn't happen, and inteligent use of P2P systems means it's very dificult.
Though it would be nice to be able to hear parts of a track as soon as a slice of 10 or more seconds is available to judge if it's total noise, and if there are bad parts to be able to mark that secion of the music as bad.
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The root DNS servers just say, Oh you want .com then you go over here for that information.
.com server says, oh you want google.com well that information is held on (or was) Akamai
The
Akamai says google is or in this case it failed and thus the site appeared to be missing from the internet.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the root DNS servers, it's simply a private DNS hosting company screwing up big time and probably loosing a large ammount of customers for themselves in the process.
I develop websites as a hobby and I can tell you both Gecko and IE are both right pains in the proverbial if you want to do anything slightly out of the normal... IE's working fine on HTML 4.01 Strict code generated by a XSLT, Mozilla has this annoying bug when I feed it XHTML 1.1 with the background not being applied down the whole viewable area, and when the content is longer than one page the background is clipped to the bottom of the page thus left blank from there on.
:)
It's easy to develop to the standards though, just no one implements them 100%
Not that I'd like to slap the world again but 10 years ago RISC OS users were using both Spatial and non-spatial windows, it's fantastic really using a 3 button mouse left mouse opened in a new window, right mouse button opened it in the same window, flexibility, controll and i've never navigated as fast since.
:)
ROX Filer Implements this system but with double middle mouse click to open in a new window, Though I still maintain it's not as good as the classical RISC OS filer since it lacks the ability to right-click on the close icon to open the previous window and instead requires a toolbar to facilitate this (issues with X11 mostly), it's still a lot better than most file browsers for Linux
I'm sure you can write a TCP/IP stack in a turing machine, but why bother it's only vain attempts at glorifying a language which was perfectly fine in the area it was designed for.
Routing lots and lots of seperate IP channels, the number of ADSL customers in the UK is vast, and yet every single one has his or her data connection routed over BT's network to there ISP...
Naturally it would be more efficient to off-load that data onto the internet before routing it accross there networks, definately could be a plus for P2P applications if they started using hop-count as a way of discriminating against peers, but the removal of low latancy circuit switched technology might cause more problems for people playing quake3 or other FPS's which desire really low latancies.
First on the list has to be available software, you can get virtually any program under the sun running on windows, for Linux that means fafing around with wine and god knows what else.
:/
Second on the list, speed games like Neverwinter nights just don't give me the same responsiveness under Linux as they do on windows.
Thirdly, I can blame Bill if it crashes, if my system crashes under Linux it's always my fault
fgrep -r 'todo' *
:)
wow, good job no one's ever done anything like that before
20 years, in that time if mores law holds the average processor will be 2^(20/1.5) times more powerful, which is to say 10321x more powerful than today, even if it doesn't hold true, I suspect were more likely to see ray-tracing in 10 years, after all 10 years ago, were talking 1994... we'd only just got Doom from ID, no one had dreamed yet of looking up in a FPS :)
Am I the only person who couln't give a damn about SLI and would rather have two dual-head cards in the system to power 4 flatpanels all with scrolling ccze'd logs so I can sit back in my huge leather chair and cackle with power while stroking my white cat?
by actually using the words instead of symbols? Also you neglect the ::'s and :'s which is probably even more confusing when youve got IPv6 addresses thown in too :/
Wish people would think before they write news article headings, espically in the modern world of RSS feeds.
Sorry but VB really is on the same level as Logo to me, Really if you can't understand basic youre not going to be programming, mabie not visual basic, I always favored BBC Basic of which the Brandy Interpreter is a fine version, though the appearance is slightly dated and you'll never write a windows program in it the language itself is pretty rock solid :)
:)
FOR i=0 TO 10
PRINT "Hello World"
NEXT
It teaches you the basics
I'm not worried about the human interface, two people two keys, many guards etc, the part I worry about is the chance that the computers or the electrical device could send the launch singal, personally I'd have a keypad on the console with the code written above it, the code would never be stored on a computer, it would be decoded by a physcial interlock system so that only if the code was right, and the chances of the computer accidentally generating exactly the right code is increadably remote that the missles would ever concider launching.
I hate to think that mabie someone somewhere would have wanted a active-low launch singal with a resistor pulling it to +5v on the console side *shudder*
China, since a lot of our property was stolen from our Indians through treaty violations.
Strange, I would have thought the USA's controll of Hawaii would have been a closer analogy, forgive the sometimes heated points made but they do have a point Hawaii Nation
So why not have it :)
True it's annoying if some program got swaped to disk and it's taking a huge time to come back, but that program only got swaped out because something you did required a lot of ram, something you wouln't have been able to do if you didn't have swap, only time I really notice it is when I exit a game like quake3 which has been loading more textures than I can imagine.
Don't confuse China with the rest of Asia, you sure your electronics really came from china, so far counting up my items Japan 2, Tiwan 1, Germany 1, Singapore 4...
China gets my alarm clocks, my mobile phone battery and a microsoft branded mouse.
I ran my first browser on a machine with 2Mb of RAM you spoilt spoilt person you! :)
Though I do wish they had the target memory between 16Mb and 64Mb of ram, yes tricks may have to be pulled, disgarding extra detail from images to make them fit (after-all you don't need a huge image if your scaling it down to 50% so it fits the mini-screen) etc
Ive got a machine with an ARM processor in it sat beside me which only has 20Mb of RAM, Ive got a browser that works for it, a comercial embeded browser, and it doesn't take up anywhere near all 20Mb of system RAM when it runs, This browser wont't get anywhere until it looses a lot more weight.
It's not that computationally expensive, but yes if your sending or reciving milions of unique emails it could get to be quite a pain to process, lucklly for spammers as long as they keep most of there emails for that day identical they only have to hash it once say, but then they'd still need a valid domain to spam from.
:(
The bigest problem is DoS attacks against mail servers by using crafted emails designed to be greater than normally dificult to hash and/or check the signature there-of. And of course if youre now processing data in emails instead of just passing them though there's plenty of chance that one or two security holes might creep into implementations to boot
Wouln't work here in the UK since there's already signals betwen the bands, well inbetween is a bit much since there isn't any space, the NICAM digital audio signal is actually on a carrier which puts it inside the vestiage of the next channel's video component. They get away with this because say ITV is on channel 22, channel 23 is not used within the range of the local transmitter, when the component of channel 22 reaches a area which uses channel 23 the carrier for the NICAM signal for channel 22 has been attenuated enough not to be of a major concirn.
:)
Also explains how they got around the need for guard bands, though occasionally at the south of england we get french TV, ahh the wonders of coastlines on radio propergation
Doh, that's what you get for modifying posts to much, You can put it on a FPGA, but you wouln't want to outside of development, if you look at the picture on the article, there's 2500 dolars worth of FPGA there, and the whole unit, probably looking at 10,000, and it's a tad big, put it on the intended final target, a silicon chip and youve got something which will fit in the tiny space behind the battery in your mobile phone.
I'm not sure how to tell you this, but youre virtually totally wrong one very point.
Synthisiable to Silicon, for ASIC's mostly though people like Philips turn them into micro-controllers and Intel make a few Micro-processors, the idea mostly is you can put a LCD controller, SIM Card reader, DSP, etc all on one lump of silicon with an ARM processor and put it in your mobile phone.
And you don't licence a PowerPC core to put in a FPGA, you get a PowerPC chip actually inside the FPGA (Vertex2 Pro), any IP-Cores you see in the core-gen are simply the hooks into these devices that are already there, similar to the GCM's.
And the big plus of this... well I don't really know but depending on how much number crunching it can do, and how much heat it generates when it does it, it could see all manner of applications.
It's not quite as clear cut as 'wider bus' since PCIe is actually a lot narrower as it's a serial bus as oposed to the classic parrell PCI and AGP busses, the version for Graphics cards is 16x PCIe, which is essentially 16 serial busses wired into the graphics card, which gives a preformance somewhere between mind boggling and insane.
Realistically, at twice the speed of AGP 8x, which apart from loading textures onto the graphics card memory, that bandwitdh isn't even touched in modern systems most of the time the cards are running, so it should last us a long time to come.
I'm curious if the 'Quake3 Linux Sales' is derived from the number of users who are playing games using Linux, or the number of users who went out and bought a specilised Linux CD.
I bought a windows CD version, but I play my games purely under linux... bet there's quite a few like me.
Wether it sucks or not is accademic, no one will use it though.
:)
I like my URL's encoded in written words, you can read them with these 'eyeballs', and record them using 'your memory' or for long term storage you can 'write them on a bit of paper', the key to this technology is that it's cheep, and universally available, unlike expensive mobile phones with cameras and 2d barcode readers.
And people providing URL's with ?resource=5309823... should just be shot anyway
There are many ways to make sure this doesn't happen, and inteligent use of P2P systems means it's very dificult.
Though it would be nice to be able to hear parts of a track as soon as a slice of 10 or more seconds is available to judge if it's total noise, and if there are bad parts to be able to mark that secion of the music as bad.