There's the waste disposal cost and the decommissioning cost to add to that as well. Nuclear waste is hellishly expensive to transport and dispose of... offseting the gains you get from the cheaper power generation. Decomissioning can eat up more money than building the thing in the first place.
Even to transport the waste you need cannisters that can survice things like high speed collissions with trains and similar impacts. Oh and good luck getting planning permission to build one of these suckers.. there's a reason they're all situated miles from populations - it's not just what would happen if they went boom (the tiny distances involved wouldn't save you anyway) it's the fact that nobody wants one around them.
Horizon is the worst for sensationalising pseudo-science. Many years ago it was a serious science documentary series.. not it's just unwatchable trash.
Well if someone's sending you the packets then either you requested them or something odd is going on.
Like nearly all ISPs they meter the usage at their routers.. they have no idea whether you requested it or not (theoretically they could maintain state but spread across a couple of thousand users that would never be cost effective in hardware terms).
It works for the rest of the world.. unmetered doesn't exist even if the ISP says it does. Some don't have hard and fast limits but they all have clauses in there that give them the right to kill your connection if your usage 'interferes' with other users... and for that to stick they'll need numbers.
Bigpond decided to stop subsidizing the cost of distributing OpenOffice.org. I don't see the problem here. If you don't like it, change your plan to un-metered, change your ISP, or go to the library with your USB memory stick.
Yeah that's going to work in Australia...
Telstra own all the infrastructure anyway.. everyone pretty much charges the same. As far as 'Go to the Library' goes.. have you *any* idea how spread out Australia is once you get outside the major cities? It's not exactly like wandering down the street.
although they used to have some that were called unlimited, until our equivalent of the FCC told them to stop it.
You mean you can't have '***UNLIMITED DOWNLOADS!!!*** $0.50/month (subject to fair use limit of 1mb a week)' type advertising over there?
You're more progressive than I thought. OTOH in the UK we have Ofcom, who don't so much regulate as sit on their fat arses drinking expensive wine and telling all the telcos what a great job their doing...
OTOH you did get ADSL2 pretty much before anyone else and have SDSL at stupidly cheap prices (I'm green with envy my boss gets a 2mb SDSL line for less than I pay for my ADSL one in the UK.. and for me to get SDSL I'd be looking at £300/month).
There's no reason whay a botnet needs admin privileges.. if you can open an outgoing connection on port 25 you can send mail for example.
btw. 'UAC only pops up when you expect it to'. Yeah... and I've got a bridge to sell you:p SP1 reduces some of the more stupid popups so the statement is nearly true, but it still surprises you at regular intervals.
(there's also a vulnerability in SP1 - its domain prefix code is broken, so if you have a server in 'foo.com' called 'fred' and you type 'ping fred' it tries 'fred.com' first rather than 'fred.foo.com'. Do that with ssh/email/anything critical and you just gave away your password to the owner of fred.com).
Standard wisdom is it's inevitable, but I'm not sure that it will. Joe public come to us, the geeks, for advice.. and the advice is - don't get vista (yet).
MS are trying to improve it I'm sure... SP1 is an improvement but it just isn't there yet - there are too many stupid bugs that didn't make it into that upgrade.. things that work fine with XP.
If they take too long it may just end up being another Win ME - buried in history by the next upgrade.
It's a pain in the neck that MS did that.. nobody with any sense casts pointers to integers so that's not an issue. The issue comes with arithmetic. pointera-pointerb is now a 64bit value but doesn't store in either an int or a long.. it needs an extra *completely non standard* arithmetic type __int64 to store it - so all your headers need #ifdef _WIN32 all over them to setup the typedefs.
You also get stupid warning all over the place about DWORDs because MS made the DWORD_PTR type that can be 32 or 64 bit.. and if you compile your app in 32 bit you get a compiler warning that the type *might* be 64bit.
Well... Vista 32bit - detects almost all the hardware on this laptop except the inbuilt camera. Vista 64bit - detects almost none of the hardware.. not even the network card so you're having to use another machine to hunt down drivers.
Every now and then I try vista. Even tried the full SP1 installed straight from MSDN.
Sorry, it sucks. The networking is totally screwed. Its raw transfer speed is slower than XP by a long way, and you can forget network shares.. 10Kbps over a gigabit LAN? WTF? (and before anyone says anything, the exact same hardware running on XP can transfer off the exact same shares at around 500Mpbs).
SP1 *is* better - they've even made UAC tolerable (almost) but it's a long way from a release quality OS even now.
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There's the waste disposal cost and the decommissioning cost to add to that as well. Nuclear waste is hellishly expensive to transport and dispose of... offseting the gains you get from the cheaper power generation. Decomissioning can eat up more money than building the thing in the first place.
Even to transport the waste you need cannisters that can survice things like high speed collissions with trains and similar impacts.
Oh and good luck getting planning permission to build one of these suckers.. there's a reason they're all situated miles from populations - it's not just what would happen if they went boom (the tiny distances involved wouldn't save you anyway) it's the fact that nobody wants one around them.
Wasn't Cario Windows 95?
That was actually my first thought
"IE 8 Passes Acid 2 test"
"In other news, Acid 2 test updated to be 'more standards compliant', and hosted on microsoft.com"
Rear projection... most projectors can be setup for this (by allowing them to project a mirror image).
It looks like an insanely cool hack, and using things you have lying around the house too.
Or.. the first thing any half decent penetration tester would try to pull.
Aside: WTF is going on with these HP dropdown flash ads filling up half my screen when I'm trying to type?
While statemets? pah. setjmp and longjmp ftw.
I always though of Parrot as of a project that was born dead.
You *know* what kind of responses you are asking for when you write something like that don't you....
Dammit that almost certainly means it's untrue :p
Horizon is the worst for sensationalising pseudo-science. Many years ago it was a serious science documentary series.. not it's just unwatchable trash.
Well if someone's sending you the packets then either you requested them or something odd is going on.
Like nearly all ISPs they meter the usage at their routers.. they have no idea whether you requested it or not (theoretically they could maintain state but spread across a couple of thousand users that would never be cost effective in hardware terms).
It works for the rest of the world.. unmetered doesn't exist even if the ISP says it does. Some don't have hard and fast limits but they all have clauses in there that give them the right to kill your connection if your usage 'interferes' with other users... and for that to stick they'll need numbers.
$0.15/mb
So 100mb is $15.
Bigpond decided to stop subsidizing the cost of distributing OpenOffice.org. I don't see the problem here. If you don't like it, change your plan to un-metered, change your ISP, or go to the library with your USB memory stick.
Yeah that's going to work in Australia...
Telstra own all the infrastructure anyway.. everyone pretty much charges the same.
As far as 'Go to the Library' goes.. have you *any* idea how spread out Australia is once you get outside the major cities? It's not exactly like wandering down the street.
although they used to have some that were called unlimited, until our equivalent of the FCC told them to stop it.
You mean you can't have '***UNLIMITED DOWNLOADS!!!*** $0.50/month (subject to fair use limit of 1mb a week)' type advertising over there?
You're more progressive than I thought. OTOH in the UK we have Ofcom, who don't so much regulate as sit on their fat arses drinking expensive wine and telling all the telcos what a great job their doing...
OTOH you did get ADSL2 pretty much before anyone else and have SDSL at stupidly cheap prices (I'm green with envy my boss gets a 2mb SDSL line for less than I pay for my ADSL one in the UK.. and for me to get SDSL I'd be looking at £300/month).
There's no reason whay a botnet needs admin privileges.. if you can open an outgoing connection on port 25 you can send mail for example.
:p SP1 reduces some of the more stupid popups so the statement is nearly true, but it still surprises you at regular intervals.
btw. 'UAC only pops up when you expect it to'. Yeah... and I've got a bridge to sell you
(there's also a vulnerability in SP1 - its domain prefix code is broken, so if you have a server in 'foo.com' called 'fred' and you type 'ping fred' it tries 'fred.com' first rather than 'fred.foo.com'. Do that with ssh/email/anything critical and you just gave away your password to the owner of fred.com).
If an exploit was running on vista slowing it down... ... how would you tell?
though I don't know how his voice box says it.
Since hackers got at it, it now pronounces it as 'penis'.
Who said physics was boring?
Standard wisdom is it's inevitable, but I'm not sure that it will. Joe public come to us, the geeks, for advice.. and the advice is - don't get vista (yet).
MS are trying to improve it I'm sure... SP1 is an improvement but it just isn't there yet - there are too many stupid bugs that didn't make it into that upgrade.. things that work fine with XP.
If they take too long it may just end up being another Win ME - buried in history by the next upgrade.
Not true.
This laptop has vista compatible logos all over it. There are no vendor supported vista drivers.
It's a pain in the neck that MS did that.. nobody with any sense casts pointers to integers so that's not an issue. The issue comes with arithmetic. pointera-pointerb is now a 64bit value but doesn't store in either an int or a long.. it needs an extra *completely non standard* arithmetic type __int64 to store it - so all your headers need #ifdef _WIN32 all over them to setup the typedefs.
You also get stupid warning all over the place about DWORDs because MS made the DWORD_PTR type that can be 32 or 64 bit.. and if you compile your app in 32 bit you get a compiler warning that the type *might* be 64bit.
Well...
Vista 32bit - detects almost all the hardware on this laptop except the inbuilt camera.
Vista 64bit - detects almost none of the hardware.. not even the network card so you're having to use another machine to hunt down drivers.
Until that changes 32bit is the only option.
I'm a bit surprised that an ex Solaris admin would boast about 30 days of uptime.. Solaris boxes normally measure their uptime in years.
Even my crusty old linux nameserver which is on dodgy hardware has 130 days.
Every now and then I try vista. Even tried the full SP1 installed straight from MSDN.
Sorry, it sucks. The networking is totally screwed. Its raw transfer speed is slower than XP by a long way, and you can forget network shares.. 10Kbps over a gigabit LAN? WTF? (and before anyone says anything, the exact same hardware running on XP can transfer off the exact same shares at around 500Mpbs).
SP1 *is* better - they've even made UAC tolerable (almost) but it's a long way from a release quality OS even now.
They seem to glitch out for some reason. Move the slider just past the glitch and they start again.
Two ways:
1. gnash works fine on 64bit.
2. ndispluginwrapper.