It's the standard way of describing bandwidth worldwide... however it's not used much for things like DSL because consumers don't understand the difference between average and burst bandwidths.
There's also CAR but I forget the exact application (Committed Access Rate?).
If you were buying a leased line and the salesman didn't understand CIR then you'd not run to the nearest exit.. you'd throw him through it and slam the door.
The worst virtualisation experience I ever had was on Virtuozzo. I was with a host that was running UML. Everything worked fine, no issues with it.
Logged in one day and nothing worked. The host had changed to Virtuozzo. They tried to sell us on the advantages 'look it has a cool web based frontend' they said. It sucked. It had lower bandwidth, lower memory available and was as slow as molasses (like the load average never went below 4 on an idle system running nothing else).
We coped with that for about 3 hours, ditched them and went to a xen host which has been 100% fine ever since. It will be a cold day in hell before virtuozzo ever gets another chance around here.
And the BBC will just put two fingers up at that. They have nothing to worry about as long as they give both sides a chance to state their case. What are the COS going to do? Sue the BBC? And get a hefty bill when they lose (and they will lose). Over here the loser picks up the bill... so all the BBC would lose is a bit of inconvenience and will gain lots of publicity.
On the internet perfect knowledge is (nearly) attainable - and that scares the advertisers silly.
Whereas before you had maybe 3 or 4 shops to try, all charging the same basically because they could, I can now go online and select from thousands of retailers.. find the cheapest/best price and buy online.
That's why often the web stores of major shops charge 25-50% less than the physical shops - because they can't get away with the local price cartels any more.
If a retailer rips *anyone* off anyone can find out about it. Before it was limited to his immediate friends. If they rip a *lot* of people off then everyone knows this and the store finds its business collapsing - no need for 'watchdog' type TV programmes any more to do this (who could pick off a few of the major ones but never covered the majority of poor businesses). On the flipside if a store has good service everyone finds out about it and they get more customers. This is independent of advertising (many of the online stores I regularly use have never advertised to my knowledge, beyond appearing in a google search).
It also doesn't work, because people don't understand.
'Internet explorer wants to connect to the internet'. Well yes, that's what its for. User clicks 'yes'.
*however* that's not what the popup is about. It's trying to say that an application (in this case java running cisco SDM, but it could easily by spyware) is trying to open a listening port.
Click 'yes' and Windows allows the IE application to open ports - because that's what you've told it. Firewall rendered useless ready for the machine to fill with crapware and ultimately become a zombie.
IPv4 sites can be accessed with IPv6; IPv6 addresses include IPv4 addresses as a subset.
I hear this every time this discussion is rehashed on slashdot but it's total bull.
So what if you can ping from 2001:8b0:178:1:4c0:7a76:5b44:af81 to 2002:4223:fa96::
Firstly the slashdot server wouldn't even receive the packet unless it has an ipv6 capable stack at that end. Secondly - *even if it could* then it couldn't reply, because 2001:8b0:178:1:4c0:7a76:5b44:af81 is not an ipv4 address nor does it map one.
Temporary addresses is just NAT in new clothing. Instead of one IP you're randomly generating different ones every few hours. It has exactly the same problems and offers no new solutions.
want to also mention it maybe a bit more difficult for a man on the inside to port scan the LAN if you are using IPv6 due to the range of possible addresses.
Not at all. Just get one of them to respond to something - send out a nebios request, an LLMNR request, anything - any you have an instant list of usable IP addresses.
NAT stops these getting *outside* the firewall thus increasing the security. Not by much, but it is definately there - I've been in many companies where they have public IPs for their network and *still* NAT at the firewall to stop information leak. ipv6 won't change this.
NAT adds an important layer of security to the firewall - you can't tell what machines are behind it. Even how many, much less what their address ranges are.
A NAT box on its own will provide an effective firewall (provided it's coded to not allow inward routing, which it will be unless the programmer that designed it is totally retarded). It never is on its own, of course.. if you implement that you might as well have a stateful firewall because it's very similar code.
If (and it's a really big if) the major providers ever support ipv6 it's odds on they'll give you *one* ipv6 address then charge for larger blocks, just like they do now. NAT will still be absolutely essential - that's why off the shelf cisco routers support NAT over ipv6 even now.
Good luck using UDP at all without a stateful firewall.
(I also don't see what IPV6 has to do with it.. IPV6 has NAT - in fact I'm glad it does - allowing your internal IPs to leak onto the internet is an information leak most companies simply wouldn't allow).
If anything it should.bank.us - banks don't operate globally (they may exist globally but have completely separate operations in each country) - we don't need any more global TLDs... the.com/.org mess is bad enough.
1. Either make me pay a monthly fee, or make me pay for the client, not both. Charging for both makes it seem like you're not convinced I'll want to keep playing. By all means have a CD distributed in stores at a price that covers costs; it's just the phenomenon of paying $50 for the chance to pay another $10 that doesn't make sense.
Wow is sold for the same price as the first months' fee, with the first month free. You can choose to interpret that as the game being free if you like.
2. If you can't make the client free, make it transferable, so I can sell it if I decide I don't want to keep playing. There's no way I'm going to spend $50 on a game I may not even like, if I can't resell it to get back some of the cash.
Nobody is going to do that... currently you can't pirate an MMORPG client because it would be useless. That's a huge advantage to the publishers.
3. Include Mac and Linux. I don't run Windows and won't run Windows. There are millions of us, and we have very few MMORPG choices right now, so it's an easier niche for you to get into than the more saturated Windows market.
Wow has a mac client (all 5 people that use linux for gaming probably have cedega anyway).
4. Make it possible to play the entire game in cooperative mode. I have zero interest in deathmatches.
The Roleplaying servers on wow are fully cooperative, if you ignore the noobs (which you can since the game mechanics require you to specifically enable pvp).
5. I prefer SF to fantasy, yet most RPGs are fantasy. I guess it's easier to artificially limit the players and work around plot issues when you have magic around and a lack of fast long distance transport and communication technologies.
There is a space based MMORPG I forget the name - you can go hours not seeing another person because, well, space if big. There's also SWG of course which hasn't had good reviews at all.
6. Don't riddle the game with spyware and have an abusive EULA. Yeah, WoW got away with it, but that's no excuse.
Spyware? Since when? Never heard of any MMORPG doing that.
7. Don't require bleeding-edge hardware. My next machine is probably going to be a laptop with Intel graphics.
In fact pretty much all MMORPGs run fine on rather modest hardware.
EQ had these, as did FFXI (in fact that had a far more immersive storyline as they were all interrelated, unlike wow which tend to be chains of unrelated quest).
What wow added was the ability to play the game quickly.. short quests, double XP if you didn't play for a while, less of the waiting around for stuff to happen.
Well you could probably extradite most of the western governments to the middle east on the basis that they drink alcohol which is illegal in many arab countries..
*bad* precedent. At least with Skylarov they waited until he decided to travel to the US before arresting him for not breaking any laws..
I believe that only works if there's a reasonable chance that he would be tortured, not that they torture other prisoners. He's not of middle eastern or african descent so little chance of that happening.
"Honestly, whatever the South African government has done on a social level has NOTHING to do with the technical merits/achievements of South Africa, and we should not divest ourselves of South African stocks, bonds, or Krugerrands just because they are keeping blacks in near-slavery through Apartheid laws."
Y'know that sentence would work much better with Nazi Germany as its target (who were techincally advanced for the time) unfortunately I'd immediately get godwinned if I tried it...
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'interface with customers'?
Talking gone out of fashion now... we have to write SOAP plugins?
Yes.
Symantec are a large and profitable company. They can afford to do that kind of testing.
$90? You're about a factor of 10 out there... $9 is a decent cable with HDMI.
It's the standard way of describing bandwidth worldwide... however it's not used much for things like DSL because consumers don't understand the difference between average and burst bandwidths.
There's also CAR but I forget the exact application (Committed Access Rate?).
If you were buying a leased line and the salesman didn't understand CIR then you'd not run to the nearest exit.. you'd throw him through it and slam the door.
The worst virtualisation experience I ever had was on Virtuozzo. I was with a host that was running UML. Everything worked fine, no issues with it.
Logged in one day and nothing worked. The host had changed to Virtuozzo. They tried to sell us on the advantages 'look it has a cool web based frontend' they said. It sucked. It had lower bandwidth, lower memory available and was as slow as molasses (like the load average never went below 4 on an idle system running nothing else).
We coped with that for about 3 hours, ditched them and went to a xen host which has been 100% fine ever since. It will be a cold day in hell before virtuozzo ever gets another chance around here.
And the BBC will just put two fingers up at that. They have nothing to worry about as long as they give both sides a chance to state their case. What are the COS going to do? Sue the BBC? And get a hefty bill when they lose (and they will lose). Over here the loser picks up the bill... so all the BBC would lose is a bit of inconvenience and will gain lots of publicity.
That's a client setting.. can be changed in about 3 seconds.
On the internet perfect knowledge is (nearly) attainable - and that scares the advertisers silly.
Whereas before you had maybe 3 or 4 shops to try, all charging the same basically because they could, I can now go online and select from thousands of retailers.. find the cheapest/best price and buy online.
That's why often the web stores of major shops charge 25-50% less than the physical shops - because they can't get away with the local price cartels any more.
If a retailer rips *anyone* off anyone can find out about it. Before it was limited to his immediate friends. If they rip a *lot* of people off then everyone knows this and the store finds its business collapsing - no need for 'watchdog' type TV programmes any more to do this (who could pick off a few of the major ones but never covered the majority of poor businesses). On the flipside if a store has good service everyone finds out about it and they get more customers. This is independent of advertising (many of the online stores I regularly use have never advertised to my knowledge, beyond appearing in a google search).
It also doesn't work, because people don't understand.
'Internet explorer wants to connect to the internet'. Well yes, that's what its for. User clicks 'yes'.
*however* that's not what the popup is about. It's trying to say that an application (in this case java running cisco SDM, but it could easily by spyware) is trying to open a listening port.
Click 'yes' and Windows allows the IE application to open ports - because that's what you've told it. Firewall rendered useless ready for the machine to fill with crapware and ultimately become a zombie.
IPv4 sites can be accessed with IPv6; IPv6 addresses include IPv4 addresses as a subset.
I hear this every time this discussion is rehashed on slashdot but it's total bull.
So what if you can ping from 2001:8b0:178:1:4c0:7a76:5b44:af81 to 2002:4223:fa96::
Firstly the slashdot server wouldn't even receive the packet unless it has an ipv6 capable stack at that end.
Secondly - *even if it could* then it couldn't reply, because 2001:8b0:178:1:4c0:7a76:5b44:af81 is not an ipv4 address nor does it map one.
Temporary addresses is just NAT in new clothing. Instead of one IP you're randomly generating different ones every few hours. It has exactly the same problems and offers no new solutions.
Put a firewall up and don't allow devices that you don't want to be seen in the internet. Problem solved.
and the outgoing connections.. oh you've got to hide those - perhaps by changing the address... like.. um... NAT?
Or make your main machine a proxy and every other device in your network talks thru it.
You misspelled 'router'.
Send out an LLMNR broadcast. Instant topology. That's the whole purpose of it, so you can discover network services on an ipv6 network.
want to also mention it maybe a bit more difficult for a man on the inside to port scan the LAN if you are using IPv6 due to the range of possible addresses.
Not at all. Just get one of them to respond to something - send out a nebios request, an LLMNR request, anything - any you have an instant list of usable IP addresses.
NAT stops these getting *outside* the firewall thus increasing the security. Not by much, but it is definately there - I've been in many companies where they have public IPs for their network and *still* NAT at the firewall to stop information leak. ipv6 won't change this.
Just run an ipv6 nat.
It won't be an issue though - ipv4 isn't going anywhere, despite what some would have you believe.
NAT adds an important layer of security to the firewall - you can't tell what machines are behind it. Even how many, much less what their address ranges are.
A NAT box on its own will provide an effective firewall (provided it's coded to not allow inward routing, which it will be unless the programmer that designed it is totally retarded). It never is on its own, of course.. if you implement that you might as well have a stateful firewall because it's very similar code.
If (and it's a really big if) the major providers ever support ipv6 it's odds on they'll give you *one* ipv6 address then charge for larger blocks, just like they do now. NAT will still be absolutely essential - that's why off the shelf cisco routers support NAT over ipv6 even now.
Good luck using UDP at all without a stateful firewall.
(I also don't see what IPV6 has to do with it.. IPV6 has NAT - in fact I'm glad it does - allowing your internal IPs to leak onto the internet is an information leak most companies simply wouldn't allow).
If anything it should .bank.us - banks don't operate globally (they may exist globally but have completely separate operations in each country) - we don't need any more global TLDs... the .com/.org mess is bad enough.
1. Either make me pay a monthly fee, or make me pay for the client, not both. Charging for both makes it seem like you're not convinced I'll want to keep playing. By all means have a CD distributed in stores at a price that covers costs; it's just the phenomenon of paying $50 for the chance to pay another $10 that doesn't make sense.
Wow is sold for the same price as the first months' fee, with the first month free. You can choose to interpret that as the game being free if you like.
2. If you can't make the client free, make it transferable, so I can sell it if I decide I don't want to keep playing. There's no way I'm going to spend $50 on a game I may not even like, if I can't resell it to get back some of the cash.
Nobody is going to do that... currently you can't pirate an MMORPG client because it would be useless. That's a huge advantage to the publishers.
3. Include Mac and Linux. I don't run Windows and won't run Windows. There are millions of us, and we have very few MMORPG choices right now, so it's an easier niche for you to get into than the more saturated Windows market.
Wow has a mac client (all 5 people that use linux for gaming probably have cedega anyway).
4. Make it possible to play the entire game in cooperative mode. I have zero interest in deathmatches.
The Roleplaying servers on wow are fully cooperative, if you ignore the noobs (which you can since the game mechanics require you to specifically enable pvp).
5. I prefer SF to fantasy, yet most RPGs are fantasy. I guess it's easier to artificially limit the players and work around plot issues when you have magic around and a lack of fast long distance transport and communication technologies.
There is a space based MMORPG I forget the name - you can go hours not seeing another person because, well, space if big. There's also SWG of course which hasn't had good reviews at all.
6. Don't riddle the game with spyware and have an abusive EULA. Yeah, WoW got away with it, but that's no excuse.
Spyware? Since when? Never heard of any MMORPG doing that.
7. Don't require bleeding-edge hardware. My next machine is probably going to be a laptop with Intel graphics.
In fact pretty much all MMORPGs run fine on rather modest hardware.
EQ had these, as did FFXI (in fact that had a far more immersive storyline as they were all interrelated, unlike wow which tend to be chains of unrelated quest).
What wow added was the ability to play the game quickly.. short quests, double XP if you didn't play for a while, less of the waiting around for stuff to happen.
Well you could probably extradite most of the western governments to the middle east on the basis that they drink alcohol which is illegal in many arab countries..
*bad* precedent. At least with Skylarov they waited until he decided to travel to the US before arresting him for not breaking any laws..
I believe that only works if there's a reasonable chance that he would be tortured, not that they torture other prisoners. He's not of middle eastern or african descent so little chance of that happening.
Yes. I routinely ran a program on our network and got a list of weak passwords... the offenders where then given a LART.
I had to time limit that program because if you just let it process overnight it found *every* password including the 'secure' admin one...
"Honestly, whatever the South African government has done on a social level has NOTHING to do with the technical merits/achievements of South Africa, and we should not divest ourselves of South African stocks, bonds, or Krugerrands just because they are keeping blacks in near-slavery through Apartheid laws."
Y'know that sentence would work much better with Nazi Germany as its target (who were techincally advanced for the time) unfortunately I'd immediately get godwinned if I tried it...