Funny, I read "bust out the shot glass" instead of "bust out the slashdot article I guess". Sounds like a new drinking game. Everytime somebody mentions "3rd party software" causing a problem in Leopard, take a shot. Drunk in 3... 2... 1..
There is a correlation between those who download and lost revenue. It's not zero but it's also far from the $19.99 DVD they would claim.
Just for the ease of calculation, says you pay $28/month ($1/day) for your connection and it takes you an hour to download... that's about $.04, and that's on the cheap side. Even if you triple it (takes longer to download, more expensive connection) and burn it to a blank DVD, $.30 to play on the player downstairs (maybe you don't have some mo-funky fresh system that can handle a digital file). So it more like it's worth $.42:-)
While it's often dissed here. Live is truely fantastic and next-gen in service and application."
I agree with you that Live is well done but the dissing is appropriate here. It's another Microsoft proprietary world full of DRM on a subscription model. Basically a Microsoft dream come true. I love the privacy note you added... what you are missing is the fact that you are trusting Microsoft with that privacy. What I don't like is that I am already paying for my internet connection and I have to pay XBL on top of that. What would be great is some open version on MBL. Don't get me wrong... I love playing on MBL but it is evil!
Amen brother! I remember working with designers at my old job that would scan things at overkill resolutions and this was mostly FPO (for placement only) work where the print shop was going to do the final scans. They would always complain about how long it took to print, copy, open files. Would they do anything about it... nope. People get lazy. Print resolution requirements hasn't changed much over the years (200lpi/400ppi tops!) and yet the designers keep making bigger and bigger files. Yes, yes... I know designers have more freedom to make variations and you can have things that are layered but it shouldn't be that much, especially for FPO. Files used to fit on a single Syquest/Bernoulli/Zip disk (44-250Mb), now they need a full CD or sometime a DVD (15-16x increase). When I upgraded the network from 10 to 100... nobody noticed. The server storage mushroomed 18GB to 500GB. Most of the advancements in tech have been eaten up by their laziness (business process). Grumble... grumble... "Get off my lawn!"
Interesting... I average 22-25fps in DM at 800x600 (lowest detail settings, of course). The lowest it got was 14 fps when I had a lot of action going on. But I also experienced random freezes. Sometimes it would come out of the freeze and other times I had to kill it. The bummer with killing it was I would have to restart in order to get it to launch again. Well it is a beta!:) The freezes are the worst part. The graphics at the lowest setting reminds me of the days of doom- mmm.... big blocky pixels.
I can't wait to try it out on my smokin' 2.4Ghz P4, 1GB RAM, 256MB 9600 Pro !!!
[sniff]
Seriously though, I'll post some low/minimal data when I've got it... just for ha ha's.
The other big problem with USB is that it requires the computer to act as the controller. Firewire allows for direct transfers between devices without the computer having to act as a relay.
The site is geared to educators, students and self-learners. So it is more of a Joe Public site than a necessarily tech literate aimed site. That being said, all of the stuff on the site is published under a 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, so it might attract a few more tech literate folks than a regular site would.
Here's some hard browser numbers from a site that I work on that gets about a million visits a month:
Past 90 days ending September 6th
Browser Stats
Browser version breakdown was only significant for IE.
IE 6.x 46.01%
Firefox 28.26%
IE 7.x 17.69%
Opera 2.36%
Safari 2.31%
Mozilla 1.95%
Unknown 0.03%
All others 1.39%
The interesting thing is that IE is slowly going down (IE -2.7%) and Firefox (+2.5%), Opera (+.6%), and Mozilla (+.9% crazy, right??) are gaining. Safari is currently staying about the same (-.6%). [-.7% other] This is in the past 3 months.
Traffic numbers
I don't have the August traffic numbers handy but here are the numbers up to July 2007.
Unique Visitors
12-Month Rolling Average
736,410
Total Visits
12-Month Rolling Average
976,840
Most Use by Country/Region, July 2007
United States- 354,185
India- 112,769
China- 67,188
South Korea- 55,666
Canada- 27,487
United Kingdom- 24,718
Portugal- 22,818
Germany- 21,634
Brazil- 16,668
Philippines- 15,555
One of the things that I use KisMAC for is to see which channel range has the least amount congestion, especially since you can get a lot of WiFi networks on the same channel when people just use the router defaults. I live in a very dense area and I find I can really improve my network performance greatly by optimizing my channel. I have helped a number of friends and family optimize their WiFi networks this way. Now it sounds like something basic like this could be illegal in Germany! That's pretty messed up.
If you are going to do Cat5e and Coax, might I suggest Belden Banana Cable http://www.broadbandutopia.com/belhombanpee.html. It's 2x2 Cat5e and RG6 (needed for digital video). And if you want to go the extra bit, you can get it also with 2 fiber optic cables. It comes in 500ft and 1000ft reels.
Not to mention that if you have other folks with wifi operating on similiar channels that you will have a drop in bandwidth since the different wifi network need to take turns transmitting.
You know that there will be some sort of biological trade-off for this. Our bodies are complex systems and it is almost never a simple case of 'turn-this-gene-on-and everybody-lives-longer'. Since this seems to be related to diet, I can't imagine how bad things will turn out for the way some people eat now. We already have people that are obese without some longevity gene in the mix! (INAGBIPOOSD- INA geneticist but I play one on \.)
Slashdot Mirror
Funny, I read "bust out the shot glass" instead of "bust out the slashdot article I guess". Sounds like a new drinking game. Everytime somebody mentions "3rd party software" causing a problem in Leopard, take a shot. Drunk in 3... 2... 1..
There is a correlation between those who download and lost revenue. It's not zero but it's also far from the $19.99 DVD they would claim.
Just for the ease of calculation, says you pay $28/month ($1/day) for your connection and it takes you an hour to download... that's about $.04, and that's on the cheap side. Even if you triple it (takes longer to download, more expensive connection) and burn it to a blank DVD, $.30 to play on the player downstairs (maybe you don't have some mo-funky fresh system that can handle a digital file). So it more like it's worth $.42 :-)
I agree with you that Live is well done but the dissing is appropriate here. It's another Microsoft proprietary world full of DRM on a subscription model. Basically a Microsoft dream come true. I love the privacy note you added... what you are missing is the fact that you are trusting Microsoft with that privacy. What I don't like is that I am already paying for my internet connection and I have to pay XBL on top of that. What would be great is some open version on MBL. Don't get me wrong... I love playing on MBL but it is evil!
And not to mention how 850*77.1=100,000 :P
Amen brother! I remember working with designers at my old job that would scan things at overkill resolutions and this was mostly FPO (for placement only) work where the print shop was going to do the final scans. They would always complain about how long it took to print, copy, open files. Would they do anything about it ... nope. People get lazy. Print resolution requirements hasn't changed much over the years (200lpi/400ppi tops!) and yet the designers keep making bigger and bigger files. Yes, yes... I know designers have more freedom to make variations and you can have things that are layered but it shouldn't be that much, especially for FPO. Files used to fit on a single Syquest/Bernoulli/Zip disk (44-250Mb), now they need a full CD or sometime a DVD (15-16x increase). When I upgraded the network from 10 to 100... nobody noticed. The server storage mushroomed 18GB to 500GB. Most of the advancements in tech have been eaten up by their laziness (business process). Grumble... grumble... "Get off my lawn!"
Interesting... I average 22-25fps in DM at 800x600 (lowest detail settings, of course). The lowest it got was 14 fps when I had a lot of action going on. But I also experienced random freezes. Sometimes it would come out of the freeze and other times I had to kill it. The bummer with killing it was I would have to restart in order to get it to launch again. Well it is a beta! :) The freezes are the worst part. The graphics at the lowest setting reminds me of the days of doom- mmm.... big blocky pixels.
I can't wait to try it out on my smokin' 2.4Ghz P4, 1GB RAM, 256MB 9600 Pro !!! [sniff] Seriously though, I'll post some low/minimal data when I've got it... just for ha ha's.
The other big problem with USB is that it requires the computer to act as the controller. Firewire allows for direct transfers between devices without the computer having to act as a relay.
It's called aluminum siding. :)
The site is geared to educators, students and self-learners. So it is more of a Joe Public site than a necessarily tech literate aimed site. That being said, all of the stuff on the site is published under a 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, so it might attract a few more tech literate folks than a regular site would.
Here's some hard browser numbers from a site that I work on that gets about a million visits a month:
Past 90 days ending September 6th
Browser Stats
Browser version breakdown was only significant for IE.
IE 6.x 46.01%
Firefox 28.26%
IE 7.x 17.69%
Opera 2.36%
Safari 2.31%
Mozilla 1.95%
Unknown 0.03%
All others 1.39%
The interesting thing is that IE is slowly going down (IE -2.7%) and Firefox (+2.5%), Opera (+.6%), and Mozilla (+.9% crazy, right??) are gaining. Safari is currently staying about the same (-.6%). [-.7% other] This is in the past 3 months.
Traffic numbers
I don't have the August traffic numbers handy but here are the numbers up to July 2007.
Unique Visitors
12-Month Rolling Average
736,410
Total Visits
12-Month Rolling Average
976,840
Most Use by Country/Region, July 2007
United States- 354,185
India- 112,769
China- 67,188
South Korea- 55,666
Canada- 27,487
United Kingdom- 24,718
Portugal- 22,818
Germany- 21,634
Brazil- 16,668
Philippines- 15,555
One of the things that I use KisMAC for is to see which channel range has the least amount congestion, especially since you can get a lot of WiFi networks on the same channel when people just use the router defaults. I live in a very dense area and I find I can really improve my network performance greatly by optimizing my channel. I have helped a number of friends and family optimize their WiFi networks this way. Now it sounds like something basic like this could be illegal in Germany! That's pretty messed up.
What?? Hasn't everyone at least hammered the drive head at least once?! I guess I shouldn't shake the drive like that when the red light is one :)
If you are going to do Cat5e and Coax, might I suggest Belden Banana Cable http://www.broadbandutopia.com/belhombanpee.html. It's 2x2 Cat5e and RG6 (needed for digital video). And if you want to go the extra bit, you can get it also with 2 fiber optic cables. It comes in 500ft and 1000ft reels.
Not to mention that if you have other folks with wifi operating on similiar channels that you will have a drop in bandwidth since the different wifi network need to take turns transmitting.
You know that there will be some sort of biological trade-off for this. Our bodies are complex systems and it is almost never a simple case of 'turn-this-gene-on-and everybody-lives-longer'. Since this seems to be related to diet, I can't imagine how bad things will turn out for the way some people eat now. We already have people that are obese without some longevity gene in the mix! (INAGBIPOOSD- INA geneticist but I play one on \.)
Anybody else remember playing Spaceward Ho!? http://www.deltatao.com/ho/
:)
I think I'll have to dig it out again