You are obviously not a computer engineer. You try to do memory allocations in increments of base 10. Anyone who understands computers know that it isn't just "annoying", it is something that doesn't work correctly. Forcing base 10 onto a computer that works in base 2 is a logical fallacy.
I know, lets use the floating point unit to address memory!/derp
I was going to say, the physical world doesn't really care which base unit we used to count with, but computers are very particular about using base 2. When a computer is using integer math to calculate memory addresses in base two and you have a base 10 amount of memory, bad stuff will happen.
Memory is allocated in increments of at least 4096 bytes and a maximum of 1,073,741,824 bytes. Please explain to me how a 1GB page cannot fit into 1GB of memory and why we would allow for the abomination of 244,140.625 4KB pages in 1GB of memory. How does the computer even handle fractional pages, is that even defined?
Screw the decimal system for computers. Using decimal for computer is as annoying as trying to figure out how many degrees Ferinheight one pound of water will increase if you apply one joule of energy.
"Agile" It does not mean what you think it means. It is not perfect and may not apply to ever case, but 80% of the time, it is the best way to handle projects.
Funny thing is the book I've been reading about TDD stated in the first few pages (paraphrased) "Your entire team must use agile or not use it. If even one person does not use it, it will not work and you're better off not using it at all."
When I'm not working for money, I'm working for free, because I'm an industrious person by nature who takes responsibility
Just not for your family. There are people who work to live and those who live to work. The later do not take responsibility for the greatest responsibility in their life, their family.
GPUs are not the bottleneck for modern games. My 3 y/o GPU sits around 10%-15% load at 1080p with 8xAA and ultra graphics while getting 60 fps and my CPU is mostly idle.
I know I'm not being sensible, but Linux didn't run one of my games properly 10 years ago, it fck'd up and I will never use Linux and will advise people away from it./sarc
Samsung is one of the best companies out there for quality and support. They made a mistake and are working to fix it. Hopefully they will learn from this lesson and put in some proper Linux tests before shipping.
People make mistakes, but only the truly good learn from those mistakes.
Secure boot is an open standard that was created by Intel without Microsoft because end users, like IT/admins, wanted it. Microsoft only decided to make use of an existing standard and later gave feedback.
If you don't like secure boot, disable it, or better yet, pressure hardware manufactures to include a cert that is managed by the OpenSource community. You could always just load your own cert as most UEFI setups support that because Microsoft requires the ability to manually load certs in order to be a certified PC Win8 machine.
Save your time and go complain about MS's requirements of Secure Boot on ARM, as MS requires a closed system for that platform.
"We're still better off than X" is just another argument that would cause a race to the bottom. Kind of like if the police broke into your house, stole all of your stuff, and said "At least you have a house". Just because we have it better off than others doesn't mean we can't have a higher expectation than "not corrupt".
From the sound of the wiki article, DNSCurve only secures the channel communicating to the DNS server, while DNSSEC secures channel and the actual DNS records.
We need both secure communications and validation that the returned entries haven't been modified by the server itself.
It's a "war" you'll never win. You're better off accepting them and taxing them. What do you plan on doing them anyway? Send them to prison where it costs us $60k/year to house them, let them work tax free and force them into an underground world of drugs, violence, and gun trafficking?
In the real world, desperate people will do ANYTHING to survive. Making something illegal won't stop someone who has a will to live.
From what I've read, smaller ISPs have more legal hoops to jump through. They have more red tape and higher costs, but can offer lower prices and better service than incumbents, while turning over enough profit to pay off their infrastructure in ~5 years.
There have been several case studies in the past few years where an ISP went out to a rural farm area where cable/dsl was not offered, installed fiber, gave higher speeds and lower prices than an inter-city cable/telephone company. To top it off, with-in 2-3 years, they typically crank up their speeds even more.
How does a start-up ISP move into farm area and offer cheaper and better services than a cable/telephone company that has had decades of paid-off infrastructure in a city while having the benefit of bulk pricing.
The only conclusion is that incumbents are making massive amounts of money while complaining about being poor.
Apps know there's NAT, and cannot assume end-to-end connectivity. With IPv6, determining if there's end to end connectivity is much hardware because firewalls are transparent
UPNP works well with any good IPv6 firewall. Just like UPNP with IPv4+NAT.
Actually, I messed up my explanation. 95th percentile charges based on average "peak" usage. Bursting is actually cheaper. Based on the average end-user usage pattern, it's easier on the network to burst 100Mb/s for 1 second than it is to drag out 1Mb/s over 100 seconds. The problem is streaming data puts constant strain on the network, unless you build out your infrastructure to be able to handle higher speeds, then it suddenly get bursty again and the network start working well.
Time and time again, I hear that Internet Backbone bandwidth keeps dropping in price because supply is out-pacing demand. Every year backbone bandwidth increases 50% and prices drop 50%.
Another fun thing to think about is that for an ISP, the majority of the cost is not the Internet connection, but the last mile. Once you have a fiber connection to an upstream provider, increasing bandwidth is cheap and easy. Assuming your last mile doesn't have bottlenecks, like current poorly implemented cable networks with most of the bandwidth reserved for channels, but instead have a fiber network, then purchasing more bandwidth to supply your customers is quite easy.
There are already many stories of small start-up ISPs rolling out fiber, offering prices like 50Mb for $100, then 2-3 years later offer 250Mb for $100 because bandwidth is so freaking cheap.
1) Netflix offers a "free" caching server, which they maintain.
2) Server downloads primarily at night to avoid peak congestion when possible
3) There is no "dedicated" line. Netflix only asks for a peering agreement at any of the many Internet Exchanges that they have access to.
So to recap. CDN supplied by Netflix to save bandwidth for the ISP, Off-peak caching, and a peering agreement at an IX.
Netflix is offering this service free of charge. If an ISP doesn't like it, then they shouldn't get it. Netflix is trying to reduce backbone traffic.
Too bad OpenGL doesn't support Multi-threading like DX11 does, not that it matters since almost no games support it../cry Civ5 gets a huge boost from threading with DX11.
Slashdot Mirror
You are obviously not a computer engineer. You try to do memory allocations in increments of base 10. Anyone who understands computers know that it isn't just "annoying", it is something that doesn't work correctly. Forcing base 10 onto a computer that works in base 2 is a logical fallacy.
/derp
I know, lets use the floating point unit to address memory!
I was going to say, the physical world doesn't really care which base unit we used to count with, but computers are very particular about using base 2. When a computer is using integer math to calculate memory addresses in base two and you have a base 10 amount of memory, bad stuff will happen.
Memory is allocated in increments of at least 4096 bytes and a maximum of 1,073,741,824 bytes. Please explain to me how a 1GB page cannot fit into 1GB of memory and why we would allow for the abomination of 244,140.625 4KB pages in 1GB of memory. How does the computer even handle fractional pages, is that even defined?
Screw the decimal system for computers. Using decimal for computer is as annoying as trying to figure out how many degrees Ferinheight one pound of water will increase if you apply one joule of energy.
Funny thing is the book I've been reading about TDD stated in the first few pages (paraphrased) "Your entire team must use agile or not use it. If even one person does not use it, it will not work and you're better off not using it at all."
When I'm not working for money, I'm working for free, because I'm an industrious person by nature who takes responsibility
Just not for your family. There are people who work to live and those who live to work. The later do not take responsibility for the greatest responsibility in their life, their family.
On the other hand, I've been sweating over a hot computer since about 1975
Intel P4s didn't exist back then.
no MPEG-2/4 AVC acceleration
Of course not, that would be illegal.
GPUs are not the bottleneck for modern games. My 3 y/o GPU sits around 10%-15% load at 1080p with 8xAA and ultra graphics while getting 60 fps and my CPU is mostly idle.
I know I'm not being sensible, but Linux didn't run one of my games properly 10 years ago, it fck'd up and I will never use Linux and will advise people away from it. /sarc
Samsung is one of the best companies out there for quality and support. They made a mistake and are working to fix it. Hopefully they will learn from this lesson and put in some proper Linux tests before shipping.
People make mistakes, but only the truly good learn from those mistakes.
Secure boot is an open standard that was created by Intel without Microsoft because end users, like IT/admins, wanted it. Microsoft only decided to make use of an existing standard and later gave feedback.
If you don't like secure boot, disable it, or better yet, pressure hardware manufactures to include a cert that is managed by the OpenSource community. You could always just load your own cert as most UEFI setups support that because Microsoft requires the ability to manually load certs in order to be a certified PC Win8 machine.
Save your time and go complain about MS's requirements of Secure Boot on ARM, as MS requires a closed system for that platform.
"We're still better off than X" is just another argument that would cause a race to the bottom. Kind of like if the police broke into your house, stole all of your stuff, and said "At least you have a house". Just because we have it better off than others doesn't mean we can't have a higher expectation than "not corrupt".
As far as I can tell, scanning ports is not illegal unless you do so in a manner that can DOS them.
From the sound of the wiki article, DNSCurve only secures the channel communicating to the DNS server, while DNSSEC secures channel and the actual DNS records.
We need both secure communications and validation that the returned entries haven't been modified by the server itself.
Protecting the stupid from themselves is just enabling them to continue to be stupid. Let them learn from their mistakes or let Darwin take over.
It's a "war" you'll never win. You're better off accepting them and taxing them. What do you plan on doing them anyway? Send them to prison where it costs us $60k/year to house them, let them work tax free and force them into an underground world of drugs, violence, and gun trafficking?
In the real world, desperate people will do ANYTHING to survive. Making something illegal won't stop someone who has a will to live.
I was going to say.. Around here, 6 months is "fast", 1 year is more typical.
From what I've read, smaller ISPs have more legal hoops to jump through. They have more red tape and higher costs, but can offer lower prices and better service than incumbents, while turning over enough profit to pay off their infrastructure in ~5 years.
There have been several case studies in the past few years where an ISP went out to a rural farm area where cable/dsl was not offered, installed fiber, gave higher speeds and lower prices than an inter-city cable/telephone company. To top it off, with-in 2-3 years, they typically crank up their speeds even more.
How does a start-up ISP move into farm area and offer cheaper and better services than a cable/telephone company that has had decades of paid-off infrastructure in a city while having the benefit of bulk pricing.
The only conclusion is that incumbents are making massive amounts of money while complaining about being poor.
We don't have enough for Earth yet alone our solar system: http://xkcd.com/865/
Apps know there's NAT, and cannot assume end-to-end connectivity. With IPv6, determining if there's end to end connectivity is much hardware because firewalls are transparent
UPNP works well with any good IPv6 firewall. Just like UPNP with IPv4+NAT.
Actually, I messed up my explanation. 95th percentile charges based on average "peak" usage. Bursting is actually cheaper. Based on the average end-user usage pattern, it's easier on the network to burst 100Mb/s for 1 second than it is to drag out 1Mb/s over 100 seconds. The problem is streaming data puts constant strain on the network, unless you build out your infrastructure to be able to handle higher speeds, then it suddenly get bursty again and the network start working well.
Time and time again, I hear that Internet Backbone bandwidth keeps dropping in price because supply is out-pacing demand. Every year backbone bandwidth increases 50% and prices drop 50%.
Another fun thing to think about is that for an ISP, the majority of the cost is not the Internet connection, but the last mile. Once you have a fiber connection to an upstream provider, increasing bandwidth is cheap and easy. Assuming your last mile doesn't have bottlenecks, like current poorly implemented cable networks with most of the bandwidth reserved for channels, but instead have a fiber network, then purchasing more bandwidth to supply your customers is quite easy.
There are already many stories of small start-up ISPs rolling out fiber, offering prices like 50Mb for $100, then 2-3 years later offer 250Mb for $100 because bandwidth is so freaking cheap.
I agree, that $20 800watt PSU is so much better than that other $120 600watt PSU.
1) Netflix offers a "free" caching server, which they maintain.
2) Server downloads primarily at night to avoid peak congestion when possible
3) There is no "dedicated" line. Netflix only asks for a peering agreement at any of the many Internet Exchanges that they have access to.
So to recap. CDN supplied by Netflix to save bandwidth for the ISP, Off-peak caching, and a peering agreement at an IX.
Netflix is offering this service free of charge. If an ISP doesn't like it, then they shouldn't get it. Netflix is trying to reduce backbone traffic.
ohhh noes $5,000/month to save how much bandwidth with a CDN?
"Get BGP+IPv6+IPv4 for $1/Mbps!" I wish I could get dedicated Internet backbone bandwidth this cheap, but I can't afford the 10Gb increments.
This is about a dedicated high speed connection only between the ISP and Netflix.
And where did you read that? All I read was that Netflix requires that the ISP peers with Netflix. You can peer with someone without a direct dedicated connection. My guess is they required this because of companies like Comcast, who abused monopolistic powers to pervert the definition of "peering". http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/timewarner-net-neutrality-foes-cry-foul-netflix-requirements-for-super-hd/
Backbone doesn't charge by data used, but uses 95th percentile which is based on burst rates.
Too bad OpenGL doesn't support Multi-threading like DX11 does, not that it matters since almost no games support it.. /cry Civ5 gets a huge boost from threading with DX11.