Of course they also assume nothing will ever happen to closed-source software to require you to re-train your employees. Stuff like, say, that "ribbon" thingy that MS put in Office a couple of years back.
With open-source software, you could safely ignore such a stupidly radical change.
With Microsoft, staying with an older version means you won't be able to read documents created by anyone else, since Microsoft always changes the document format with every major new version, and saves documents in the new format by default.
Sports is the only good reason to pay for cable/satellite TV these days. While I enjoy those Sunday morning marathons on History Channel when I'm at my mom's place, I get by with an OTA antenna just fine at home. She, on the other hand, is a fan of the local pro/college football and pro basketball teams, and many of the games are on "super basic" cable and not OTA.
But that's not an inherent problem with ATSC. If anything, it was picture quality problems with NTSC that enabled pay TV to become important enough that sports games moved off the OTA networks.
After reading TFSeries, the problem is excessive buffering (as in 1-10 or more seconds worth of data) screwing up TCP/IP's automatic bandwidth detection. QoS helps a little bit by getting the important packets (especially ACKs) through, but high-bandwidth TCP connections are still going nuts when they hit a slower link with excessive buffering.
And one of the major offenders is Linux commonly defaulting to a txqueuelen of 1000.
Actually, I blame the submitter. It is well known that Slashdot "editors" don't edit. They merely choose the least worthless articles out of the slush pile and push the button, sometimes using copy and paste to combine two similar submissions. Even my above link was still to the middle of the story, but it explains the core concept best.
I also place a teensy bit of blame on the blogger, for not linking the first use of the word to the previous article. But he couldn't expect to get linked into the middle of the series.
For what it's worth, TFS seems to be linking into the middle of the story, so maybe that's part of my problem. Still, it's really annoying to be told about this new problem with new jargon word, that's going to make the sky fall any day now, without knowing just what the hell it is.
I like it. 2GHz dual-core DX10 phones with 2GB RAM and a uSD slot for another 128G, 4.5" AMOLED screens and 1080p HDMI out? All I need now is to find a table at the Starbucks with the Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and the 21" display, and I'm rockin.
Don't forget the fanny pack to hold the battery that powers all this for more than an hour per charge.
Can someone tell me exactly when Yahoo stopped being synonymous with vile and savage creatures, with filthy and with unpleasant habits, and became an expression of glee?
Maybe you don't find tellurium in sulfur, but it sure can take the place of Sulfur. Selenium can give you some pretty bad breath if it gets into your body chemistry, but if you get tellurium into your body, you'll have the worst kind of body odor ever, and it takes months for it to wear off.
I always wished that someone would do a parody of Forbidden Planet with him in the starring role. It would have been awesome. I thought a good name for it would be "Prohibited Planet".
As someone who is partially color blind, and has taken the "paint pots" test, I can tell you that it effectively only affects shades of brown. In other words, colors that we don't normally have names for.
The paint pots test is where they put 30 or so 1 inch round thingies on the table with a color sample on top, and you have to arrange them in order of slightly changing color. There are two points around the circle where brownish colors will be the same for those with partial (protanomaly or deuteranomaly) color blindness, or at least that's how it went for whatever form I have. Two of them seemed identical to me, so I think I ended up making a lopsided figure eight.
And someone who has been blind all their life will have had that part of their brain repurposed to increase the other senses, and have no experience with eyesight, so they probably won't even be able to process the visual cues that let you easily identify depth in a photograph.
And don't forget the ones that make freaking noise when I've loaded the page into another tab to be read a few minutes later. Those are the ones that will get me to stop what I'm doing and update my custom ad blocker configuration (I use a hand-edited CSS configuration for blocking) so that nothing from the domain that served the ads (as in doubleclick, etc.) will ever be loaded by my browser ever again.
In fact, I find it both interesting and amusing when I get an ad that isn't blocked, and isn't annoying either.
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Oh, and one more thing... (pulls out BFG and mows down audience)
Hail to the king, baby.
Rod Serling? How about Allen Funt?
Of course they also assume nothing will ever happen to closed-source software to require you to re-train your employees. Stuff like, say, that "ribbon" thingy that MS put in Office a couple of years back.
With open-source software, you could safely ignore such a stupidly radical change.
With Microsoft, staying with an older version means you won't be able to read documents created by anyone else, since Microsoft always changes the document format with every major new version, and saves documents in the new format by default.
Sports is the only good reason to pay for cable/satellite TV these days. While I enjoy those Sunday morning marathons on History Channel when I'm at my mom's place, I get by with an OTA antenna just fine at home. She, on the other hand, is a fan of the local pro/college football and pro basketball teams, and many of the games are on "super basic" cable and not OTA.
But that's not an inherent problem with ATSC. If anything, it was picture quality problems with NTSC that enabled pay TV to become important enough that sports games moved off the OTA networks.
So is this the infamous Sony DADC plant that was a prime source of laserdiscs with Laser Rot problems?
If so, then good riddance.
Yeah, it could end up something like this.
Nope, the MC-10 used a 6803, which was a 6800 variant.
After reading TFSeries, the problem is excessive buffering (as in 1-10 or more seconds worth of data) screwing up TCP/IP's automatic bandwidth detection. QoS helps a little bit by getting the important packets (especially ACKs) through, but high-bandwidth TCP connections are still going nuts when they hit a slower link with excessive buffering.
And one of the major offenders is Linux commonly defaulting to a txqueuelen of 1000.
Actually, I blame the submitter. It is well known that Slashdot "editors" don't edit. They merely choose the least worthless articles out of the slush pile and push the button, sometimes using copy and paste to combine two similar submissions. Even my above link was still to the middle of the story, but it explains the core concept best.
I also place a teensy bit of blame on the blogger, for not linking the first use of the word to the previous article. But he couldn't expect to get linked into the middle of the series.
For what it's worth, TFS seems to be linking into the middle of the story, so maybe that's part of my problem. Still, it's really annoying to be told about this new problem with new jargon word, that's going to make the sky fall any day now, without knowing just what the hell it is.
The previous article seems to explain things a little better: http://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/introducing-the-criminal-mastermind-bufferbloat/
I'm so glad the term has been defined so that I know what the hell we're talking about here. Oh wait, no it hasn't.
Okay, then I'll RTFA. Oh wait, two screens worth of text later and it still hasn't.
I'd like to change the topic now to the submarine that's sinking the English language: jargonbloat.
I like it. 2GHz dual-core DX10 phones with 2GB RAM and a uSD slot for another 128G, 4.5" AMOLED screens and 1080p HDMI out? All I need now is to find a table at the Starbucks with the Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and the 21" display, and I'm rockin.
Don't forget the fanny pack to hold the battery that powers all this for more than an hour per charge.
Because you need Block Transfer Computations to make it work.
Ha ha, fat chance.
Also the "Looking Out for Leaks" task force.
Have you ever heard of LAN play?
Can someone tell me exactly when Yahoo stopped being synonymous with vile and savage creatures, with filthy and with unpleasant habits, and became an expression of glee?
Only if you also line up the five or six people who post an xkcd link in every article.
Maybe you don't find tellurium in sulfur, but it sure can take the place of Sulfur. Selenium can give you some pretty bad breath if it gets into your body chemistry, but if you get tellurium into your body, you'll have the worst kind of body odor ever, and it takes months for it to wear off.
You do NOT want "tellurium breath".
How else are you going to upload files from Internet Explorer 6?
I always wished that someone would do a parody of Forbidden Planet with him in the starring role. It would have been awesome. I thought a good name for it would be "Prohibited Planet".
So would the "forth" box be where they play with their thread?
As someone who is partially color blind, and has taken the "paint pots" test, I can tell you that it effectively only affects shades of brown. In other words, colors that we don't normally have names for.
The paint pots test is where they put 30 or so 1 inch round thingies on the table with a color sample on top, and you have to arrange them in order of slightly changing color. There are two points around the circle where brownish colors will be the same for those with partial (protanomaly or deuteranomaly) color blindness, or at least that's how it went for whatever form I have. Two of them seemed identical to me, so I think I ended up making a lopsided figure eight.
And someone who has been blind all their life will have had that part of their brain repurposed to increase the other senses, and have no experience with eyesight, so they probably won't even be able to process the visual cues that let you easily identify depth in a photograph.
And don't forget the ones that make freaking noise when I've loaded the page into another tab to be read a few minutes later. Those are the ones that will get me to stop what I'm doing and update my custom ad blocker configuration (I use a hand-edited CSS configuration for blocking) so that nothing from the domain that served the ads (as in doubleclick, etc.) will ever be loaded by my browser ever again.
In fact, I find it both interesting and amusing when I get an ad that isn't blocked, and isn't annoying either.
...because in Soviet Russia, nuclear codes lose YOU!