Ya obviously TFA-author has never taken apart a 3.5".. they are still floppies to me because of the internal media isn't rigid, at least last I checked.
As for use, I've used them in the last couple years to: - Install drivers on a Win box during install.. (WHY does VMware need a WINDOWS vCenter box?! Why can't it just be a thin-OS like ESX is?! it makes no sense!) - Update BIOS firmware drivers on some older servers (at the time it was easier then doing it via CD, although it did take me a short wihle to find a 3.5" disk that wasn't corrupt!)
Sorry.. I mean.. if you are getting real 100mbps on a home connection, and it's important to get the full thing, then perhaps one should look into getting some real network h/w that can handle 100mbps at line-rate. I'd suggest you can pick up some used older Cisco kit for fairly inexpensive, but most of that stuff can't do IPv6 in H/W, although for home that might be ok in running in s/w. I'd probably say spring the cost of your TV and buy a Cisco1800 or something similar. Alternatively you could build your own *nix based router, but you should invest in getting real network cards for it since that is where most computers fail.
Nah, there will be 'IPv4 Retrospectives' and definitely announcements when 'Big Organization X no longer supports IPv4'. Also probably something conspiracy theorist-like from one of the resident slashdot-wacko about IPv6 causes cancer, and we didn't have that problem with IPv4.
A) they were there first.. before CIDR people got assigned Classful-boundry address space if they were big companies (in this case, Class A space). It's just how it was. Some time later, BGP4 was created and now it's much easier to deal with more abstract addressing. B) life isn't fair. C) and yes, i do know how hard it is to get more space.
> So if the iPad was in violation then Israel should be confiscating all US made laptops at the border.
Jokes on you.. I don't think there are any laptops made in the US, then again, neither is the iPad
[Yeah, I'm sure there is probably at least 1 brand that IS actually made in the US.. if you're reading the above line and getting upset, you need to find something better get worked up over]
There are scores of profitable websites out there that will walk you through how to configure your router for bit torrent -- clearly there's a need for Something Better.
[Citation Needed]
I can agree with the overall point..many non-net-tech users could prob use something like that.. but that's why they invented PnP.. the problem will arise if there's a file that people don't ever look at, I could inject something malicious. (like opening 135/tcp on into your network).
Perhaps a plain-text format mechanism where you can just copy-and-paste it into a box in your Soho router instead of filling out text form fields. I'm sure one of the open-WRT guys can do that.
Give it time.. the $/GB price will go down.. SSDs are only a few years old and they are still working on achieving density comparable to spinning-disks, instead of focusing on cost reduction.
If you're in a tizzy because SSDs are expensive, then continue to use tried-and-true conventional disk until they meet your price point.
I'm sure there are other considerations.. prob some monopoly on NAND manufacturing or something.. but that'll eventually sort itself out and cost will go down. Not like you can open a new NAND fab overnight or anything.
I dunno, if I was forced to exercise 8 hours a day, I probably wouldn't be all that happy... especially if it was on a treadmill where I couldn't actually GET anywhere.
If you're gonna use happy and animals together.. you can't do it while they are penned up forcing them them to do labour all day.
That said, I don't object in to penning animals in general, after all I like their tasty flesh and white milk and cream.. and eggs.. man I love eggs.
PPCs? If you have Particle Projection Cannons, why not just march your BattleMechs into Parliament and show them who is boss?
OOohh ok.. For the UK-Politics Impaired, like me, PPCs are Prospective Parliamentary Candidates. I guess that makes more sense.. but I like my idea more.
Anyone whose empathy has been so destroyed that they can laugh at another person's mortal suffering is too messed up to fit into normal society.
I'd actually say that's societies fault.. Society, especially American/Western has removed the daily activity of death and dying from the average person. Showing dead bodies on TV is no longer common place in American news, or it's branded as 'Too Disturbing'.. it's not disturbing.. it's how the friggen universe works.. people die.. get over it.
You don't think Undertakers and Medical Examiners laugh at mortality too? They just happen to work with it all day long.. People that work with food all day long laugh about hair in your food.. I'm work in computing..and you don't think I don't laugh about people that can't do what I consider 'simple things'?
According to Steam's H/W Survey, 39.33% of machines are running either XP or Win2k. That means no DX10 or newer.
As Pentium100 stated, why would a game company purposely close itself off to nearly 40% of the active gamer market? That's dumb. There are exceptions and a few DX10 only titles (FutureMark's game, "Shattered Horizons" for example, but what else would you expect from a benchmark company?).
As for consoles, I've never developed for them, but known a few people that have, and the other people pointing out the ease of developing for a uniform h/w platform is god. As such, I can't decry developers leaning towards Console titles. For evidence, look at almost every PC game now, there will be issues with some people not able to play the game.. either because of old drivers, incompatibilities, crappy hardware, and a myrid of interfering applications that might be installed on the box.
if like Elite, EVE had actually piloting your ship instead of point-and-click your ship and auto-firing weapons.. then I actually have played more then a few hours I did of the demo.
If you mean they are the same because 'They are in space.. you can trade goods, and upgrade you ship', then yes, they are the same, but your basically comparing box backs for that and not the actual implementation of the game.
Looking at whether math is necessary to be a good programmer could be like putting the cart before the horse. I think it's more likely that good programmers are usually good at math because that's they way their brain works.
Negative Ghost Rider.
The logical order my brain works (which I'd argue makes me a decent programmer and a pretty good trouble-shooter) wasn't developed from math.. in fact the reason I didn't end up in the Marines is because I failed Algrebra ][ in high school.. (that summer, I took Geometry and aced it though.. I blame my Algebra on two things: a- I don't do homework unless it's trying to solve a problem, in which case it's called 'research'. b- My math teacher at the time was also one of the schools head coaches.. so his teaching style (which since I don't do homework, I learn from instruction better) was lacking.
I attribute the fact that I basically started `having to program` at an early age, both on a computer (1983 generation C=64s with a tape deck means you end up typing in alot of programs from Compute! and then realizing you can tweak this bit or that bit and make it do different things), and Legos/Linkin Logs/Erector sets, which definately teachs you to parts-of-the-sum style thinking.
I think aside from some college required stuff to get my AS, the highest math being a basic Stats course (which was all done on lab computers or calculators, so I didn't actually learn much math, rather I learned button pushing, which I was already proficient at).
Back to the OP: I think the level of math required for programming depends highly on what you are programming.. not all programming is equal. Now I mostly program tool set front ends and system scripting.. there's not alot of advanced math there. If I was developing a new physics engine for a 3d world space, that'd be more complicated, but most of the math has already been worked out these days. Obviously if you're programming for academia, the need will vary based on which school you're working for. (The English Lit department might not have a high math requirement, until they ask for you for some 1-off off-the-wall project).
I can't wait for Facebook group 'laptop drops' to simulate earth quakes.. the winner being hte person that can get the highest on the Richter scale w/o braking their laptops..
Agreed.. even the place I work with peers directly with Google (and thus by extension YouTube).. it saves us from having to spend commodity-internet dollars on traffic to Google, improves the customer experience since it's fewer hops, and we can leverage more direct control (which means less finger pointing when/if something breaks.. either its us or google.. we don't have to worry about if our upstream peers are broken); and of course it works the other way around too.
As for the cost of fiber and routers.. ya that's expensive.. but it's not the cost of bandwidth.. those are sunk costs or O&M generally.. I guess you could meter a per-bit charge for cooling and electricity, but there's only so many places to the right of the decimal point you can actually bill for.
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This is just a good reason to dislike the Match Making type concept instead of a proper mechanism that can permit you to 'Connect via Direct IP'.
Forcing either Match Making or Server-Browser only it just abusive.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if someone comes out with a Xbox1 compatible server emu.
Ya obviously TFA-author has never taken apart a 3.5".. they are still floppies to me because of the internal media isn't rigid, at least last I checked.
As for use, I've used them in the last couple years to:
- Install drivers on a Win box during install.. (WHY does VMware need a WINDOWS vCenter box?! Why can't it just be a thin-OS like ESX is?! it makes no sense!)
- Update BIOS firmware drivers on some older servers (at the time it was easier then doing it via CD, although it did take me a short wihle to find a 3.5" disk that wasn't corrupt!)
Heres a nickle kid.. get yourself a real router.
Sorry.. I mean.. if you are getting real 100mbps on a home connection, and it's important to get the full thing, then perhaps one should look into getting some real network h/w that can handle 100mbps at line-rate.
I'd suggest you can pick up some used older Cisco kit for fairly inexpensive, but most of that stuff can't do IPv6 in H/W, although for home that might be ok in running in s/w. I'd probably say spring the cost of your TV and buy a Cisco1800 or something similar.
Alternatively you could build your own *nix based router, but you should invest in getting real network cards for it since that is where most computers fail.
> They gave us a /29 saying that was the smallest they can do.
That's because that is the smallest block that ARIN permits you to report as reassigned
[ https://www.arin.net/resources/request/reassignments.html ]
Nah, there will be 'IPv4 Retrospectives' and definitely announcements when 'Big Organization X no longer supports IPv4'.
Also probably something conspiracy theorist-like from one of the resident slashdot-wacko about IPv6 causes cancer, and we didn't have that problem with IPv4.
A) they were there first.. before CIDR people got assigned Classful-boundry address space if they were big companies (in this case, Class A space). It's just how it was. Some time later, BGP4 was created and now it's much easier to deal with more abstract addressing.
B) life isn't fair.
C) and yes, i do know how hard it is to get more space.
I doubt it.. last I checked, the CCNA doesn't cover BGP.
> So if the iPad was in violation then Israel should be confiscating all US made laptops at the border.
Jokes on you.. I don't think there are any laptops made in the US, then again, neither is the iPad
[Yeah, I'm sure there is probably at least 1 brand that IS actually made in the US.. if you're reading the above line and getting upset, you need to find something better get worked up over]
If you know your boss is doing fraud, but didn't say anything about it.. either you're IN on it, or you should have already called the Feds.
PS: That's what backups are for.
> his guy was responsible for critical public infrastructure -- infrastructure that kept working for months after they fired him.
But he wasn't responsible for it after he was terminated.
There are scores of profitable websites out there that will walk you through how to configure your router for bit torrent -- clearly there's a need for Something Better.
[Citation Needed]
I can agree with the overall point..many non-net-tech users could prob use something like that.. but that's why they invented PnP.. the problem will arise if there's a file that people don't ever look at, I could inject something malicious. (like opening 135/tcp on into your network).
Perhaps a plain-text format mechanism where you can just copy-and-paste it into a box in your Soho router instead of filling out text form fields. I'm sure one of the open-WRT guys can do that.
Give it time.. the $/GB price will go down.. SSDs are only a few years old and they are still working on achieving density comparable to spinning-disks, instead of focusing on cost reduction.
If you're in a tizzy because SSDs are expensive, then continue to use tried-and-true conventional disk until they meet your price point.
I'm sure there are other considerations.. prob some monopoly on NAND manufacturing or something.. but that'll eventually sort itself out and cost will go down. Not like you can open a new NAND fab overnight or anything.
I dunno, if I was forced to exercise 8 hours a day, I probably wouldn't be all that happy... especially if it was on a treadmill where I couldn't actually GET anywhere.
If you're gonna use happy and animals together.. you can't do it while they are penned up forcing them them to do labour all day.
That said, I don't object in to penning animals in general, after all I like their tasty flesh and white milk and cream.. and eggs.. man I love eggs.
No, it should be treated better then the average superfund site.
Then again, most superfund sites should also be treated better then the average superfund site.
PPCs? If you have Particle Projection Cannons, why not just march your BattleMechs into Parliament and show them who is boss?
OOohh ok.. For the UK-Politics Impaired, like me, PPCs are Prospective Parliamentary Candidates. I guess that makes more sense.. but I like my idea more.
Anyone whose empathy has been so destroyed that they can laugh at another person's mortal suffering is too messed up to fit into normal society.
I'd actually say that's societies fault.. Society, especially American/Western has removed the daily activity of death and dying from the average person. Showing dead bodies on TV is no longer common place in American news, or it's branded as 'Too Disturbing'.. it's not disturbing.. it's how the friggen universe works.. people die.. get over it.
You don't think Undertakers and Medical Examiners laugh at mortality too? They just happen to work with it all day long.. People that work with food all day long laugh about hair in your food.. I'm work in computing..and you don't think I don't laugh about people that can't do what I consider 'simple things'?
I have to agree.. I know it's a Thinkgeek AF product, but I think they can/should actually make this one..
You want realism and you're playing on Arcade mode servers? Switch to hardcore mode, and turn off all the HUD junk.
The problem is everyone's opinion of 'realism' is different.. or rather, everyone's opinion of how to implement realism is.
Love them or hate the, Valve & Steam are supplying you with good info:
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
According to Steam's H/W Survey, 39.33% of machines are running either XP or Win2k. That means no DX10 or newer.
As Pentium100 stated, why would a game company purposely close itself off to nearly 40% of the active gamer market? That's dumb. There are exceptions and a few DX10 only titles (FutureMark's game, "Shattered Horizons" for example, but what else would you expect from a benchmark company?).
As for consoles, I've never developed for them, but known a few people that have, and the other people pointing out the ease of developing for a uniform h/w platform is god. As such, I can't decry developers leaning towards Console titles. For evidence, look at almost every PC game now, there will be issues with some people not able to play the game.. either because of old drivers, incompatibilities, crappy hardware, and a myrid of interfering applications that might be installed on the box.
if like Elite, EVE had actually piloting your ship instead of point-and-click your ship and auto-firing weapons.. then I actually have played more then a few hours I did of the demo.
If you mean they are the same because 'They are in space.. you can trade goods, and upgrade you ship', then yes, they are the same, but your basically comparing box backs for that and not the actual implementation of the game.
Looking at whether math is necessary to be a good programmer could be like putting the cart before the horse. I think it's more likely that good programmers are usually good at math because that's they way their brain works.
Negative Ghost Rider.
The logical order my brain works (which I'd argue makes me a decent programmer and a pretty good trouble-shooter) wasn't developed from math.. in fact the reason I didn't end up in the Marines is because I failed Algrebra ][ in high school.. (that summer, I took Geometry and aced it though.. I blame my Algebra on two things:
a- I don't do homework unless it's trying to solve a problem, in which case it's called 'research'.
b- My math teacher at the time was also one of the schools head coaches.. so his teaching style (which since I don't do homework, I learn from instruction better) was lacking.
I attribute the fact that I basically started `having to program` at an early age, both on a computer (1983 generation C=64s with a tape deck means you end up typing in alot of programs from Compute! and then realizing you can tweak this bit or that bit and make it do different things), and Legos/Linkin Logs/Erector sets, which definately teachs you to parts-of-the-sum style thinking.
I think aside from some college required stuff to get my AS, the highest math being a basic Stats course (which was all done on lab computers or calculators, so I didn't actually learn much math, rather I learned button pushing, which I was already proficient at).
Back to the OP:
I think the level of math required for programming depends highly on what you are programming.. not all programming is equal. Now I mostly program tool set front ends and system scripting.. there's not alot of advanced math there. If I was developing a new physics engine for a 3d world space, that'd be more complicated, but most of the math has already been worked out these days. Obviously if you're programming for academia, the need will vary based on which school you're working for. (The English Lit department might not have a high math requirement, until they ask for you for some 1-off off-the-wall project).
I can't wait for Facebook group 'laptop drops' to simulate earth quakes.. the winner being hte person that can get the highest on the Richter scale w/o braking their laptops..
comment modded -1 for "Missing the joke"
And you can block port 80 for anyone running a browser.. if you prevent outbound GET/POSTs, the server will never send a response ;]
Why should I?
The people that vote on it don't ever read the bills.. what would it matter if I do?
Agreed.. even the place I work with peers directly with Google (and thus by extension YouTube).. it saves us from having to spend commodity-internet dollars on traffic to Google, improves the customer experience since it's fewer hops, and we can leverage more direct control (which means less finger pointing when/if something breaks.. either its us or google.. we don't have to worry about if our upstream peers are broken); and of course it works the other way around too.
As for the cost of fiber and routers.. ya that's expensive.. but it's not the cost of bandwidth.. those are sunk costs or O&M generally.. I guess you could meter a per-bit charge for cooling and electricity, but there's only so many places to the right of the decimal point you can actually bill for.