Fine; let me rephrase my statement to have exactly the same end result, but slightly different content.
"If you're using a mapping and driving direction service such as Google Maps or Microsoft Live anyway, you probably don't have any personal knowledge about the area, and therefore wouldn't have any idea about local traffic patterns and alternate routes, either."
Honestly, all they're doing is adding the fourth dimension to their mapping; it's perfectly valid to say that, for example, the 401 is a wonderful highway to take from Dixie to Keele at 2 PM in the afternoon on a weekday, but if your trip will be at 8 AM on a weekday, you'll want to take this alternate route instead.
Hells Bells, if it can get to the point of knowing local events; 'Normally we'd say DVP to Bloor, Bloor west turns into the Danforth, right on Woodbine, but holy crap this week is the Taste of the Danforth festival, and you'll not want to go anywhere near it unless you're looking to sample Greek culture and cuisine, so take Gerrard instead...
Sidenote: Crusing down the Danforth a year or three back, when Greece suddenly had an upset victory at some soccer/football game or other, and the streets went from normal weekend foot traffic to spontaneous street party in, literally, under a minute, was quite the experience. Kudos to Toronto PD's bike cops simply asking a passerby if this was a riot or a celebration, then calmly starting to close the Danforth and direct traffic to alternates.
Pretty much every major urban area has at least one station that will give you "traffic on the 9s" or whatever during peak hours.
Which does shit for you when you're not fully familiar with that city. Or, sometimes, even that part of the city.
680 News in Toronto, for example, has, as you say, 'Traffic on the Ones.' But it's often a confusing little thirty second block where the traffic guy rips through an incredible amount of data, using local nicknames, initials, and what not, and yeah, often suggests alternate routes, again, using local nicknames, initials, and what not. And if you're not already fully familiar with it all, the information is less than useless.
Given that if you're using a GPS you're already not familiar with the local streets, assuming that you're therefore not familiar with the traffic flows and alternate routes is a fair assumption to make.
No, the headline is inaccurate; it is purposefully misleading.
"Canadian ISPs are limiting speeds of BitTorrent and other P2P protocols during 'peak hours.'" Accurate.
"CBC has recently released *a* show via BitTorrent that a lot of people are talking about." Accurate.
"Due to this limiting of BitTorrent, downloading said show is slower than it would otherwise be." Accurate.
"Access to this CBC show is therefore impacted by a policy of various Canadian ISPs, but those policies are not directed specifically at the CBC or it's shows." Accurate.
"Canadian ISPs are limiting access to CBC shows." Inaccurate.
So if it DOES happen - you better be comfortable with being VERY close with those around you.
And when it's done, will everybody you've ever loved and hated stand around clapping and saying 'congradulations,' or will you try to strangle somebody?
200-odd years ago, a relative handful of colonists decided that they could no longer tolerate their Government, so they waged a revolutionary war and the U.S. was born. There are over 350 million Americans. It's really hard to feel sorry for the abuses of their government against them when they allow it. I don't care what the army is equipped with. There's no way they could stop 10 or 20 million of their own citizens from taking control of the government.
See, it's just not that easy. Do you think, for example, that the revolution would have worked had America been a few hundred miles from England, rather than across an ocean? Let alone that Chinese society simply doesn't have the history and social elements that allow, seriously, for that sort of action. Not yet, at least.
I'd remove the DNS entry on the domain and take the machines off the IPs, so that any client software using it registers a definite error that cannot be ignored under any but the most egregiously bad software.
This is what they did originally. The.org root level DNS servers were almost blown up responding to the constant hammering of requests from mailservers which are specifically set not to cache lookups, as that would be conterproductive when talking to a DNSBL. That's why they put it back up, returning 'alles gut' messages for all requests for the last year or two.
Could be something as simple as the upstream provider doesn't want to reclaim the IP block if thousands of mailservers are pelting it with connections all the time.
Bell installs the DSLAMs. The DSLAMs connect to the Bell network. Various ISPs connect their backhauls to the Bell network, and their DSL customer's PPPoE sessions hit the Bell DSLAM, then are popped over to the appropriate ISP's backhaul, and thence to their network.
What Bell is doing, more or less, is throttling at the DSLAM, rather than throttling at their own edge.
They're also hoping to catch any residue, accidental contamination, stuff like that. Signs of working with radioactives, not necessarily the radioactives themselves.
Of course, all your bomb makers have to do is travel with cancerous kitties....
Seconded; Lost Odyssey really is a Final Fantasy game. It's done in the 7/8/9 style; random battles, materia links, and so on, but with more modern sensabilities; no level grinding, for example.
Also, not to spoil anything, as you figure it out pretty damn quickly, as in the opening cutscene, but the main character is Immortal. And he's lost quite a bit of his memory. So, as you go through the game, he recalls memories, in the form of dreams.
If you choose to view the dream that he's just remembered (or later at an inn), you're presented with a text story. The text fades in on the screen in interesting ways, while the background is a gently animated still shot. A dream in a forest, for example, will have a subtle background with shaded hints of trees swaying in the breeze. There's music, and small sound effects, but no voice. This is in contrast to the cutscenes, which in proper modern Final Fantasy style, are prerendered movies with full sound and voice. It's a really nice throwback to the roots of the JRPG.
Sony usurped nintendo because nintendo made a dire mistake (didn't understand technology), in this "competition" it was quite artificial. I should have qualified the comment "Market economics does not necessarily apply", with 'it is more complex then 'simple' economics'.
No. Sony usurped Nintendo for exactly one reason: they remembered how the market and the business model works.
To make a long story short, the Nintendo model had these main points:
Games come on cartridges
We, Nintendo, make the cartridges
You, the developer, beg us to make cartridges for your games
Minimum order of X hundred thousand. Three to six month turn around time. And you can only have five games a year. Oh, and we, Nintendo, approve those games.
What this meant was that, for example, if your game did better than you thought, there'd be a three to six month lag before you could get more product on the shelf. If you wern't sure how a game was going to do, you couldn't test the waters with a small run.
In other words, Nintendo was being a fairly typical market big boy.
So Sony comes along, builds the Playstation, and says 'Hey, let's use CDs. More space, sure, but mainly, a) it's $.50/copy to press rather than $20 just to build the cart, b) you can crank out a few hundred thousand over a weekend, and c) lets ask the devs what they want!
It's the most amusing of irony that PS1 beat Nintendo, the PS2 turned Sony *into* Nintendo, and the PS3 was beaten by Microsoft in pretty much exactly the same way that Sony beat Nintendo. The Xbox is, and always has been, about the developers. The 360's capabilities were decided, in part, by screenshots of Gears of War at various processor/memory/gpu combinations beside cost figures.
It's actually all quite fascinating; if you're interested, read Game Over by David Scheff (I think that's the name spelling), Revolutionaries at Sony, and Opening the Xbox, and Inside the Xbox 360. In that order. I think those are the two Xbox titles; they're both by Dean Takahashi, so you should be able to find them. I think that's how you spell his name. You'll have to excuse me, the Lysdexia is strong with me today.
Kind of like Morbidity and Mortality discussions in Medical settings; you have to be free to discuss screwups to learn from them, without fear of reprisal.
Makes me miss the good ol' days when you didn't need a staff of hundreds and a multi-million dollar budget to make a good game. Back then one guy who didn't know anything could sit down and within a few months crank out a fun game for a popular console.
Well, nowadays, that's wht Xbox Live Arcade is for.
Catbert's evil is more personal. Dogbert hates people; Catbert hates *you*. Dogbert doesn't hate you specifically; you're just unimportant, there strictly for his own amusement or usage. Catbert, on the other hand, hates you. He might never have met you, but when he does, he'll hate you. And he'll want to hurt you. Specifically, you.
If I had 100 Million Dollars startup, I'd have a complete OS and New HW platform to run it on, without any legacy code bloat, ready (beta or RC) in 3 years max. I'd design everything from scratch having HW and SW teams working together to design tight integration of both WITH planned expandability and adaptability.
Be called, they'd like their (failed) business plan back.
Ok; you're Microsoft. You're working on a new version of IE that's capable of both standards mode, and capable of rendering all existing pages designed for IE 5/6 in a compatible way... how do you solve the problem?
Well, off the top of my head, look at the 'last modified' date of the html file, and if it's older than, say, six months (from the ship date of IE8) use the standards method. Put a big button on the toolbar that says 'This doesn't look right' and if the user clicks it, pop up a new window with the page rendered in the other method and a box saying 'Is this better? y/n' and keep track.
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Fine; let me rephrase my statement to have exactly the same end result, but slightly different content.
"If you're using a mapping and driving direction service such as Google Maps or Microsoft Live anyway, you probably don't have any personal knowledge about the area, and therefore wouldn't have any idea about local traffic patterns and alternate routes, either."
Honestly, all they're doing is adding the fourth dimension to their mapping; it's perfectly valid to say that, for example, the 401 is a wonderful highway to take from Dixie to Keele at 2 PM in the afternoon on a weekday, but if your trip will be at 8 AM on a weekday, you'll want to take this alternate route instead.
Hells Bells, if it can get to the point of knowing local events; 'Normally we'd say DVP to Bloor, Bloor west turns into the Danforth, right on Woodbine, but holy crap this week is the Taste of the Danforth festival, and you'll not want to go anywhere near it unless you're looking to sample Greek culture and cuisine, so take Gerrard instead...
Sidenote: Crusing down the Danforth a year or three back, when Greece suddenly had an upset victory at some soccer/football game or other, and the streets went from normal weekend foot traffic to spontaneous street party in, literally, under a minute, was quite the experience. Kudos to Toronto PD's bike cops simply asking a passerby if this was a riot or a celebration, then calmly starting to close the Danforth and direct traffic to alternates.
Which does shit for you when you're not fully familiar with that city. Or, sometimes, even that part of the city.
680 News in Toronto, for example, has, as you say, 'Traffic on the Ones.' But it's often a confusing little thirty second block where the traffic guy rips through an incredible amount of data, using local nicknames, initials, and what not, and yeah, often suggests alternate routes, again, using local nicknames, initials, and what not. And if you're not already fully familiar with it all, the information is less than useless.
Given that if you're using a GPS you're already not familiar with the local streets, assuming that you're therefore not familiar with the traffic flows and alternate routes is a fair assumption to make.
Yes, and the issue here is that Bell is throttling the connection *before* it gets handed off to the wholesale ISPs. And that's not right.
No, the headline is inaccurate; it is purposefully misleading.
"Canadian ISPs are limiting speeds of BitTorrent and other P2P protocols during 'peak hours.'" Accurate.
"CBC has recently released *a* show via BitTorrent that a lot of people are talking about." Accurate.
"Due to this limiting of BitTorrent, downloading said show is slower than it would otherwise be." Accurate.
"Access to this CBC show is therefore impacted by a policy of various Canadian ISPs, but those policies are not directed specifically at the CBC or it's shows." Accurate.
"Canadian ISPs are limiting access to CBC shows." Inaccurate.
And when it's done, will everybody you've ever loved and hated stand around clapping and saying 'congradulations,' or will you try to strangle somebody?
Maybe, but if they're not careful, Prokor Zakarov will send his terraformer pods to lower some mountains, and increase the rainfall.
200-odd years ago, a relative handful of colonists decided that they could no longer tolerate their Government, so they waged a revolutionary war and the U.S. was born. There are over 350 million Americans. It's really hard to feel sorry for the abuses of their government against them when they allow it. I don't care what the army is equipped with. There's no way they could stop 10 or 20 million of their own citizens from taking control of the government.
See, it's just not that easy. Do you think, for example, that the revolution would have worked had America been a few hundred miles from England, rather than across an ocean? Let alone that Chinese society simply doesn't have the history and social elements that allow, seriously, for that sort of action. Not yet, at least.
This is what they did originally. The .org root level DNS servers were almost blown up responding to the constant hammering of requests from mailservers which are specifically set not to cache lookups, as that would be conterproductive when talking to a DNSBL. That's why they put it back up, returning 'alles gut' messages for all requests for the last year or two.
Could be something as simple as the upstream provider doesn't want to reclaim the IP block if thousands of mailservers are pelting it with connections all the time.
REAL quick and dirty explanation:
Bell installs the DSLAMs. The DSLAMs connect to the Bell network. Various ISPs connect their backhauls to the Bell network, and their DSL customer's PPPoE sessions hit the Bell DSLAM, then are popped over to the appropriate ISP's backhaul, and thence to their network.
What Bell is doing, more or less, is throttling at the DSLAM, rather than throttling at their own edge.
Indeed; the correct phrases to use here would be, 'as-is,' 'unmodified,' 'in toto' or perhaps even 'all willy-nilly.'
They're also hoping to catch any residue, accidental contamination, stuff like that. Signs of working with radioactives, not necessarily the radioactives themselves.
Of course, all your bomb makers have to do is travel with cancerous kitties....
Ah. I stand corrected, or at least clarified, and the numbers, then, are as impressive as they look.
Just point out that Halo was released on a single console, while GTA3 and derivitives were released on at least three (PS2, Xbox, PC).
Seconded; Lost Odyssey really is a Final Fantasy game. It's done in the 7/8/9 style; random battles, materia links, and so on, but with more modern sensabilities; no level grinding, for example.
Also, not to spoil anything, as you figure it out pretty damn quickly, as in the opening cutscene, but the main character is Immortal. And he's lost quite a bit of his memory. So, as you go through the game, he recalls memories, in the form of dreams.
If you choose to view the dream that he's just remembered (or later at an inn), you're presented with a text story. The text fades in on the screen in interesting ways, while the background is a gently animated still shot. A dream in a forest, for example, will have a subtle background with shaded hints of trees swaying in the breeze. There's music, and small sound effects, but no voice. This is in contrast to the cutscenes, which in proper modern Final Fantasy style, are prerendered movies with full sound and voice. It's a really nice throwback to the roots of the JRPG.
No. Sony usurped Nintendo for exactly one reason: they remembered how the market and the business model works.
To make a long story short, the Nintendo model had these main points:
- Games come on cartridges
- We, Nintendo, make the cartridges
- You, the developer, beg us to make cartridges for your games
- Minimum order of X hundred thousand. Three to six month turn around time. And you can only have five games a year. Oh, and we, Nintendo, approve those games.
What this meant was that, for example, if your game did better than you thought, there'd be a three to six month lag before you could get more product on the shelf. If you wern't sure how a game was going to do, you couldn't test the waters with a small run.In other words, Nintendo was being a fairly typical market big boy.
So Sony comes along, builds the Playstation, and says 'Hey, let's use CDs. More space, sure, but mainly, a) it's $.50/copy to press rather than $20 just to build the cart, b) you can crank out a few hundred thousand over a weekend, and c) lets ask the devs what they want!
It's the most amusing of irony that PS1 beat Nintendo, the PS2 turned Sony *into* Nintendo, and the PS3 was beaten by Microsoft in pretty much exactly the same way that Sony beat Nintendo. The Xbox is, and always has been, about the developers. The 360's capabilities were decided, in part, by screenshots of Gears of War at various processor/memory/gpu combinations beside cost figures.
It's actually all quite fascinating; if you're interested, read Game Over by David Scheff (I think that's the name spelling), Revolutionaries at Sony, and Opening the Xbox, and Inside the Xbox 360. In that order. I think those are the two Xbox titles; they're both by Dean Takahashi, so you should be able to find them. I think that's how you spell his name. You'll have to excuse me, the Lysdexia is strong with me today.
To a large extent, it's there so that other people know that you've just taken a picture; subway, change room, locker room, stuff like that.
Kind of like Morbidity and Mortality discussions in Medical settings; you have to be free to discuss screwups to learn from them, without fear of reprisal.
Well, nowadays, that's wht Xbox Live Arcade is for.
Catbert's evil is more personal. Dogbert hates people; Catbert hates *you*. Dogbert doesn't hate you specifically; you're just unimportant, there strictly for his own amusement or usage. Catbert, on the other hand, hates you. He might never have met you, but when he does, he'll hate you. And he'll want to hurt you. Specifically, you.
One of the examples uses colored grid elements; the other uses an actual rasterization-type rendering system built into office.
If you wanted to get really fancy, you could probably have excel load DirectX objects one way or the other as well.
How's that for a slogan: "The US could go to Mars for a tenth of the cost of going to Iraq."
And this exact conversation was had with 'assembly' and 'c', and then again with 'c' and 'c++', and so on.
Be called, they'd like their (failed) business plan back.
Well, off the top of my head, look at the 'last modified' date of the html file, and if it's older than, say, six months (from the ship date of IE8) use the standards method. Put a big button on the toolbar that says 'This doesn't look right' and if the user clicks it, pop up a new window with the page rendered in the other method and a box saying 'Is this better? y/n' and keep track.