It's not a matter of more or less important. It's a matter of how latency sensitive a particular application is. I want my ssh sessions to have < 25ms RTT, but I would be fine if I was only allowed to use 5 GB/month at that latency. I don't give two shits if my torrents have hundreds of milliseconds of latency because, after all, they're going to take a couple hours to finish anyway. A transfer cap, however, would be very constraining. HTTP and HTTPS are slightly less latency sensitive than ssh or VOIP, but on a fast connection the ping time doesn't have to get very large before most of the time to load a webpage is waiting for connections to be set up (this is one of the reasons to use adblock).
The efficient way to do things would be for ISPs to respect the QoS headers, and use metered pricing for low latency and flat rate for best-effort.
That's already an exorbitant charge. $1/GB is in the same order of magnitude as going to Walmart and buying DVDs from the bargain bin. Half the cost of buying something on Steam would be the bandwidth to download it. We should be able to do a lot better with first world infrastructure. I would accept $0.02-0.05/GB.
It is recognized as an artist/creators right to restrict access to what they have created.
Not yet it isn't. It is recognized as an an artist/creators right to only disseminate what they have created to people of their choosing, but what happens afterwards is out of the creator's control in many ethical frameworks. Those who stand to benefit would like you to use the term "intellectual property" so as to conflate the utilitarian copyright/patent legal engine with the private property of libertarian idolatry.
1920x1080 video decoding is not impressive. I have a core2 duo laptop with a Graphics My Ass 4500MHD that can do it. Of course, it gets pretty choppy trying to run compiz on my 3520x1200 X screen.
Actually, the size is quite important. The complexity of the address decoding logic and the capacitance of the bit lines on the memory array scale with the capacity. You can mitigate it somewhat by making the array wider (say, each access grabs 128 bytes instead of 64), but that increases power consumption and the complexity of the logic required to select the desired word from the big chunk you just pulled down.
No. If you access something new and unexpected, it just throws away prefetched data. The cached data is already on disk, so there's no need to swap it out.
Windows Vista/7 will run without swap on 4 GiB of ram if you are a light user. You do want 16 if you do more than web browsing and editing text files though. And apparently some programs (such as Photoshop) will bitch if you don't have any swap.
Central in the sense of being handled by a package manager. Windows users are accustomed to downloading executables from the internet and running them with superuser privileges to install software. It should be obvious why this is a problem.
If it is anti-business to say that businesses who profit from free software without passing that freedom on to their end-users can go fuck themsleves, then I am anti-business.
You have a presentation to give tomorrow? You better make sure it works on that Windows/Office computer that is connected to the overhead projector. Fuck ups in document formatting/compatibility will not be acceptable.
PDF. It's the more reliable choice even if you made the presentation in PowerPoint.
My wife is a recruiter and if people submit their resumes in anything other then.doc(x) i tell her to push back to the candidate and get a properly formatted resume.
PDF is far more standard than Microsoft's proprietary BS. You represent about 20% of what's wrong with this planet. We all long for the day that your wife realizes how much of a dumbass you are.
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Unless your data structures have pointers in them.
Trees, linked lists, pretty much every object-oriented language ever...
were not over protective
webwatcher monitoring software
Yes they were.
The thing is, we don't have that speed in our cities either.
It's not a matter of more or less important. It's a matter of how latency sensitive a particular application is. I want my ssh sessions to have < 25ms RTT, but I would be fine if I was only allowed to use 5 GB/month at that latency. I don't give two shits if my torrents have hundreds of milliseconds of latency because, after all, they're going to take a couple hours to finish anyway. A transfer cap, however, would be very constraining. HTTP and HTTPS are slightly less latency sensitive than ssh or VOIP, but on a fast connection the ping time doesn't have to get very large before most of the time to load a webpage is waiting for connections to be set up (this is one of the reasons to use adblock).
The efficient way to do things would be for ISPs to respect the QoS headers, and use metered pricing for low latency and flat rate for best-effort.
That's already an exorbitant charge. $1/GB is in the same order of magnitude as going to Walmart and buying DVDs from the bargain bin. Half the cost of buying something on Steam would be the bandwidth to download it. We should be able to do a lot better with first world infrastructure. I would accept $0.02-0.05/GB.
In this case, it is possible to achieve exactly the same effect without sacrificing (well, no more than a few GB a month anyhow). Nice, eh?
It is recognized as an artist/creators right to restrict access to what they have created.
Not yet it isn't. It is recognized as an an artist/creators right to only disseminate what they have created to people of their choosing, but what happens afterwards is out of the creator's control in many ethical frameworks. Those who stand to benefit would like you to use the term "intellectual property" so as to conflate the utilitarian copyright/patent legal engine with the private property of libertarian idolatry.
I prefer the philosophy of "Wget it. Forget it." myself.
And vsync.
Encrypt your disks, and that won't be a problem.
1920x1080 video decoding is not impressive. I have a core2 duo laptop with a Graphics My Ass 4500MHD that can do it. Of course, it gets pretty choppy trying to run compiz on my 3520x1200 X screen.
sites are blocked at the firewall
Please tell us which school this is, so that we may avoid attending it and so that any alumni may stop donating money.
If there are any out-of-copyright movies in the United States, they don't have sound.
Oh shit, you're serious aren't you?
No. The vast majority of retirees were supposed to die in 6 years, rather than living another 20 or 25.
13 inches is perfect... at 2560x1600.
Actually, the size is quite important. The complexity of the address decoding logic and the capacitance of the bit lines on the memory array scale with the capacity. You can mitigate it somewhat by making the array wider (say, each access grabs 128 bytes instead of 64), but that increases power consumption and the complexity of the logic required to select the desired word from the big chunk you just pulled down.
No. If you access something new and unexpected, it just throws away prefetched data. The cached data is already on disk, so there's no need to swap it out.
Windows Vista/7 will run without swap on 4 GiB of ram if you are a light user. You do want 16 if you do more than web browsing and editing text files though. And apparently some programs (such as Photoshop) will bitch if you don't have any swap.
Central in the sense of being handled by a package manager. Windows users are accustomed to downloading executables from the internet and running them with superuser privileges to install software. It should be obvious why this is a problem.
So was Supernova. People moved on.
I won't buy a laptop or PC if it doesn't include the player.
I might understand on a desktop, but latop optical drives are loud power hogs that occupy tremendous internal volume and tend to break.
Just play whatever it is off your hard disk.
The distinction between a federal and state prohibition of homosexual marriage, abortion, marijuana, etc. is academic.
If it is anti-business to say that businesses who profit from free software without passing that freedom on to their end-users can go fuck themsleves, then I am anti-business.
You have a presentation to give tomorrow? You better make sure it works on that Windows/Office computer that is connected to the overhead projector. Fuck ups in document formatting/compatibility will not be acceptable.
PDF. It's the more reliable choice even if you made the presentation in PowerPoint.
My wife is a recruiter and if people submit their resumes in anything other then .doc(x) i tell her to push back to the candidate and get a properly formatted resume.
PDF is far more standard than Microsoft's proprietary BS. You represent about 20% of what's wrong with this planet. We all long for the day that your wife realizes how much of a dumbass you are.