There are 18 million PS3 already worldwide with 14 million PSN accounts. So the massive amount of traffic on the Home servers yesterday was understandable. No other MMORPG or online world has ever been build to handle such a gigantic userbase.
And about 1% have even heard of Home.. and even then at 3am it was so full it was unusable.
Of course, give it a week or two and it'll be empty.
One gigantic party? LOL. Sounds like you've never even seen it. It's loads of people wandering around aimlessly using their 'hello' macro and looking at dumb psp adverts.
If it was more intuitive people wouldn't complain.. and Office 2007 is the *worst* example to use.. the UI is completely unintuitive (hiding the open menu in an unrelated icon that doesn't look like a menu? Great idea..).
It would, because the moment you licensed part of IOS under the GPL you'd be caught in the same trap - you couldn't distribute the whole of IOS without breaking the license on the GPL parts.
LGPL is a nice answer to this because it doesn't have this horrible linking clause.. if they LGPL the IOS parts they're compatible with both the GPL and the proprietary code.
The default for executable code is in program files. If a user wants to move it and they have permissions to do so then there's nothing stopping them.. but defaulting to the user profile is just plain wrong. Home users will have write access to the program files directory anyway. Business users (if they have permission to install things) will probably have quotas on their roaming profiles and this could send them over, using up valuable IT support time.
Windows doesn't have the concept of a per-user program files (which makes per-user installation somewhat of a fiction, alas). It's designed around installation being centrally controlled and managed The last place you want software installing is in the user profile, because then it gets uploaded with the roaming profiles (I can remember having horrible problems keeping login times down when people did stupid things like drop.iso files on their desktop.. took a lot of user training to remove that habit).
Running the code shouldn't require any particular permissions.. but installing? That's an admin task, not a user task.
They never tought functional languages at all in our course (if I'm getting your meaning of functional language correctly, anyway.. I can't even understand what the first sentence of the wikipedia page actually even *means* FFS). It doesn't look like a good starting language IMO - these are beginners not professors.
We learned Pascal, Ada, Cobol and 68000 machine code. All apparently chosen because nobody would know them before and would probably never use them again (except maybe cobol, although that's getting rarer).
This was a few years ago - before java existed.. although I don't think that's a good learning language anyway - too abstracted from what's really going on. C would be a good start although I think a good grounding in machine code is worth it for the knowledge of internals if gives you.
Or Cisco SDM, which is the java applet from hell (Windows only, and IIRC only the Microsoft VM even. On most of the others it'll appear to run but nothing will work).
Current ebay price of one of these things is £400, or $593.. about the same as the ship from google cost (although there isn't the risk of a nasty UPS tax of another $100 when they deliver it).
Yeah me too.. they let you get right through the signup then tell you that the shipping adds 50% of the cost to the phone, which means it isn't remotely the price they claimed it was.
Plus they use UPS, which I will *not* use - they charge extra fees and would easily add another $100+ to the cost.
The day a forum does this I stop posting on them. It's irritating enough having to register without having to wait 2 days for the post to arrive before I can reply.
I probably downloaded more music during the recovery for my transplant than at any other time in my life.. there's little else to do when you're stuck in a bed going 'ow' every few minutes (gotta love that morphine though:p).
100GB off peak cap (evenings/weekends), which is as good as unlimited, no throttling, no proxies, no phorm.. and they don't tell you to click on the start menu if you phone them up.
That's what DNS is for. It'll probably be on::1 anyway.
With ipv6 you don't have to muck around with multiple subnets and trying to work out just what the hell the IP address of your new router is. You plug it in and the entire network sees it and uses it for routing automatically, with zero configuration required.
The disagreement is only over when. The counter is currently at 821 days (a little over two years) however it fluctuates.. when I first started tracking it it was at 798 days. I've seen it over 1000 as well, when a large block was returned to the pool.
Because it's not dropping linearly - some weeks way more IP addresses will be returned to the pool than used - it's hard to predict a real date. I'm thinking we'll last 5 years, but it's just a guess.
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There are 18 million PS3 already worldwide with 14 million PSN accounts. So the massive amount of traffic on the Home servers yesterday was understandable. No other MMORPG or online world has ever been build to handle such a gigantic userbase.
And about 1% have even heard of Home.. and even then at 3am it was so full it was unusable.
Of course, give it a week or two and it'll be empty.
One gigantic party? LOL. Sounds like you've never even seen it. It's loads of people wandering around aimlessly using their 'hello' macro and looking at dumb psp adverts.
Most companies have at least a 5 year lifecycle and some much longer (we still have customers who are 'thinking' of rolling out XP for example).
If it was more intuitive people wouldn't complain.. and Office 2007 is the *worst* example to use.. the UI is completely unintuitive (hiding the open menu in an unrelated icon that doesn't look like a menu? Great idea..).
It would, because the moment you licensed part of IOS under the GPL you'd be caught in the same trap - you couldn't distribute the whole of IOS without breaking the license on the GPL parts.
LGPL is a nice answer to this because it doesn't have this horrible linking clause.. if they LGPL the IOS parts they're compatible with both the GPL and the proprietary code.
Why would a user give a shit about the code?
I don't hear people screaming they don't have the windows source code.. they just use it.
He's pointing out a bug in the installer.
The default for executable code is in program files. If a user wants to move it and they have permissions to do so then there's nothing stopping them.. but defaulting to the user profile is just plain wrong. Home users will have write access to the program files directory anyway. Business users (if they have permission to install things) will probably have quotas on their roaming profiles and this could send them over, using up valuable IT support time.
What do you do about the people who install software on their own PC at home then just copy the files to a USB drive
The usual response would be to get security to escort them to the exit.
Windows doesn't have the concept of a per-user program files (which makes per-user installation somewhat of a fiction, alas). It's designed around installation being centrally controlled and managed The last place you want software installing is in the user profile, because then it gets uploaded with the roaming profiles (I can remember having horrible problems keeping login times down when people did stupid things like drop .iso files on their desktop.. took a lot of user training to remove that habit).
Running the code shouldn't require any particular permissions.. but installing? That's an admin task, not a user task.
They turned it on, and it immediately broke (shouldn't have used the lowest bidder, folks!).
It won't be fixed until next year.
They never tought functional languages at all in our course (if I'm getting your meaning of functional language correctly, anyway.. I can't even understand what the first sentence of the wikipedia page actually even *means* FFS). It doesn't look like a good starting language IMO - these are beginners not professors.
We learned Pascal, Ada, Cobol and 68000 machine code. All apparently chosen because nobody would know them before and would probably never use them again (except maybe cobol, although that's getting rarer).
This was a few years ago - before java existed.. although I don't think that's a good learning language anyway - too abstracted from what's really going on. C would be a good start although I think a good grounding in machine code is worth it for the knowledge of internals if gives you.
Or Cisco SDM, which is the java applet from hell (Windows only, and IIRC only the Microsoft VM even. On most of the others it'll appear to run but nothing will work).
Hasn't stopped about half the existing phones on the planet having FM receivers... It's a solved problem.
Current ebay price of one of these things is £400, or $593.. about the same as the ship from google cost (although there isn't the risk of a nasty UPS tax of another $100 when they deliver it).
Yeah me too.. they let you get right through the signup then tell you that the shipping adds 50% of the cost to the phone, which means it isn't remotely the price they claimed it was.
Plus they use UPS, which I will *not* use - they charge extra fees and would easily add another $100+ to the cost.
The day a forum does this I stop posting on them. It's irritating enough having to register without having to wait 2 days for the post to arrive before I can reply.
That's going to go down well with colour blind users.
It's probably along the right lines though... use something that you need an english language parser to make sense of.
I probably downloaded more music during the recovery for my transplant than at any other time in my life.. there's little else to do when you're stuck in a bed going 'ow' every few minutes (gotta love that morphine though :p).
Being ill != unable to download.
Many, many statistical analysis have been done. Repeatedly it has been proven there is no link.
But the press still print any trash story they can make up, leading to people like you being unsure.
Gah.. sod.ms Try without the www.. Will tell them about that one.
(damn slashdot posting limits..)
Try AAISP (http://www.sod.ms)
100GB off peak cap (evenings/weekends), which is as good as unlimited, no throttling, no proxies, no phorm.. and they don't tell you to click on the start menu if you phone them up.
The blocking of one image isn't a problem.
Wikipedia is creating a problem by subsequently blocking the proxies. They are the ones doing the censorship, not the ISPs.
That's what DNS is for. It'll probably be on ::1 anyway.
With ipv6 you don't have to muck around with multiple subnets and trying to work out just what the hell the IP address of your new router is. You plug it in and the entire network sees it and uses it for routing automatically, with zero configuration required.
ipv4 addresses *are* running out.
The disagreement is only over when. The counter is currently at 821 days (a little over two years) however it fluctuates.. when I first started tracking it it was at 798 days. I've seen it over 1000 as well, when a large block was returned to the pool.
Because it's not dropping linearly - some weeks way more IP addresses will be returned to the pool than used - it's hard to predict a real date. I'm thinking we'll last 5 years, but it's just a guess.
We live the year 2008, is Unicode support too much to ask?
Given the topic.. is ipv6 support also too much to ask?
I've a feeling slashdot will be 7 bit ASCII ipv4 long after everyone else has moved on.
Technical point - Windows can do 3GB per application with the /3gb switch on boot.
No I don't know why that isn't the default by now either...