What really sucks is that while being squeezed by bankruptcy you'll be forced by exigent circumstances to get rid of your receivables at fire sale prices to a shark who will later, in due time, likely take down a windfall when the debt becomes due.
Reinventing the wheel is just fine if the first wheel isn't actually round enough...or has proprietary axle interfaces such that only one kind of wagon can be put on them.
If it's being properly cached then it shouldn't ask the server about it AT ALL, assuming of course that proper cacheability directives have been placed on the response.
CSS can make things shorter and faster if they just remember to link to it as a static file.
You can't cache something that changes, and anything, like CSS and Javascript, that's caught in the on-the-fly generation of dynamic and uncacheable text in spite of actually being static, is just going to clog up the tubes.
In fact, thanks to slashdot's no-edits-allowed policy, each comment itself is a static unchangeable snippet of text. Why not cache those?
Sending only the stuff that changes is usually a good optimization no matter what you're doing.
CSS and javascript themselves aren't bad. Failing to offlink and thus cacheable-ize them however, is.
Speaking seriously, once the main page of HTML is downloaded you pretty much know already where everything goes.
Just stub it out with "loading" boxes in spots where you don't have all the content. Especially if parameters like width= and height= already fix how big the final image is going to be.
When something finishes loading, just update the layout.
I was under the impression that MS was preventing you from putting your own homebrew games on your machine...at least until you pay MS the sdk tax or whatever.
Sorta like how a tivo uses signatures to prevent third party code from executing.
I see prohibition as a failed attempt at market regulation.
If people want booze, they are going to get it by hook or by crook even if they have to get it at the black market
Same thing with pot.
If you make selling pot a crime, then only criminals will sell pot.
As long as there is a demand, there will be a supply. May as well level the playing field and let the good guys take a piece of the pie...and pay taxes on it...and be subject to consumer recourse if things go sour...
They might however be unauthorized derived works of the material whose hashes they contain.
For sure though once a tracker has knowledge that one of their torrents is being used to facilitate copyright infringement they become an accessory if they fail to remove it.
Copyright infringment is BS. Aiding and abetting, however, I'd be more apt to buy.
Once you've paid for your box, it's yours, and MS has no business sneaking inside and disabling crap just because you ran afoul of the TOS for something else, i.e. XBL.
It's the fault of the previous owner for selling you a bum box.
I.e., the sort of thing that commercial vendors offer warranties for.
In fact, someone selling you a used xbox might be doing so to try to palm off a banned box. You should always be suspicious of why they are trying to sell it anyway.
Anyone who seriously wishes to buy a quality used machine, in spite of the almost inherent contradictino in terms, should write up a good contract and force the original owner to at least offer some form of warranty protection.
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you could always pipeline the requests.
The one who has the gold makes the rules. ...And the one who makes the rules gets the gold.
What really sucks is that while being squeezed by bankruptcy you'll be forced by exigent circumstances to get rid of your receivables at fire sale prices to a shark who will later, in due time, likely take down a windfall when the debt becomes due.
As the entire issue is completely internal to the United States, the international community has no jurisdiction whatsoever.
A pity though that the only folks who DO have jurisdiction have already been bought.
Survival of the fittest, where it's not against the rules to fight dirty.
Reinventing the wheel is just fine if the first wheel isn't actually round enough...or has proprietary axle interfaces such that only one kind of wagon can be put on them.
How is the separate GET slower?
If it's being properly cached then it shouldn't ask the server about it AT ALL, assuming of course that proper cacheability directives have been placed on the response.
CSS can make things shorter and faster if they just remember to link to it as a static file.
You can't cache something that changes, and anything, like CSS and Javascript, that's caught in the on-the-fly generation of dynamic and uncacheable text in spite of actually being static, is just going to clog up the tubes.
In fact, thanks to slashdot's no-edits-allowed policy, each comment itself is a static unchangeable snippet of text. Why not cache those?
Sending only the stuff that changes is usually a good optimization no matter what you're doing.
CSS and javascript themselves aren't bad. Failing to offlink and thus cacheable-ize them however, is.
Speaking seriously, once the main page of HTML is downloaded you pretty much know already where everything goes.
Just stub it out with "loading" boxes in spots where you don't have all the content. Especially if parameters like width= and height= already fix how big the final image is going to be.
When something finishes loading, just update the layout.
I was under the impression that MS was preventing you from putting your own homebrew games on your machine...at least until you pay MS the sdk tax or whatever.
Sorta like how a tivo uses signatures to prevent third party code from executing.
And exactly WHOSE payroll is the judge on?
The proper recourse in that case would be to have your dog properly licensed.
Now, the fact that your pest control dude let it escape in the first place means that mr RoachBGone probably needs to chip in on your loss as well.
I see prohibition as a failed attempt at market regulation.
If people want booze, they are going to get it by hook or by crook even if they have to get it at the black market
Same thing with pot.
If you make selling pot a crime, then only criminals will sell pot.
As long as there is a demand, there will be a supply. May as well level the playing field and let the good guys take a piece of the pie...and pay taxes on it...and be subject to consumer recourse if things go sour...
Which is why we have things known as warrants.
All opinions are statements of fact.
The fact being asserted, however, is that you have a given opinion.
"I think you suck donkey dick"
I am stating for a fact that I think so.
I am NOT stating that you actually do.
At least in theory. In the real world, many things can simply be imputed.
How does remus handle things if it mispredicts the packets?
Supposing that it sends packet X, crashes, and then when it's restored from checkpoint it decides to send packet Y instead?
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Actually, that would satisfy the shrinkwrap issue.
It would run afoul of unconscionability instead.
Hey that's right!
Blizzard might actually be a big bad corporation on OUR side here.
If ISPs start interfering with WoW's ability to update itself...
Torrents themselves do not infringe copyrights.
They might however be unauthorized derived works of the material whose hashes they contain.
For sure though once a tracker has knowledge that one of their torrents is being used to facilitate copyright infringement they become an accessory if they fail to remove it.
Copyright infringment is BS. Aiding and abetting, however, I'd be more apt to buy.
Not directly, no.
But having something you can resell later makes it more valuable now.
I'd even fancy that resale value cascades back up to the original sale by making it a more attractive purchase in the first place.
And that's ALL they have the right to do.
If MS also fucked up their boxes, by accident or on purpose, then that's not cool.
Banning you from XBL for modding your console is good and fine.
Partially bricking your hardware is NOT ok.
I'd still read the XBL ToS closely though...it might include giving MS the right to hose your box if they catch you using bad hardware.
Once you've paid for your box, it's yours, and MS has no business sneaking inside and disabling crap just because you ran afoul of the TOS for something else, i.e. XBL.
And yet that isn't MS's fault.
It's the fault of the previous owner for selling you a bum box.
I.e., the sort of thing that commercial vendors offer warranties for.
In fact, someone selling you a used xbox might be doing so to try to palm off a banned box. You should always be suspicious of why they are trying to sell it anyway.
Anyone who seriously wishes to buy a quality used machine, in spite of the almost inherent contradictino in terms, should write up a good contract and force the original owner to at least offer some form of warranty protection.
Did those "terms of service" also permit MS to partially brick your box even when offline?
Banning a console from XBL is one thing. Disabling parts of the offline features that you already had before you signed up for XBL is something else.
We already had a big shenanigan with apple doing that to the iPhone.