NAT does work for most stuff normal users do (browse, play online games) since there are 65535 possible source ports, and people don't necessarily go all to the same place at the same time.
Yes it doesn't work well for P2P or servers.
But for some organizations and governments that's considered a feature - it means better control over information.
You can't see ships past the YOUR horizon, but those ships could certainly see other ships that you can't see that are beyond YOUR horizon, but not theirs.
I think many game companies will want to try to avoid the extra regulation that comes when you start allowing things that make the "real world" illegal stuff easier.
You don't need more or less regulations. You need better regulations.
You don't need more or less government, you need better government. Code quality is not strongly correlated to the number of lines of code.
Less regulation does not mean a better state of things (nor does more regulation either).
For instance, if it were up to me, I'd have imposed a "Bailout Tax" or levy on all companies in the financial industry during the good times. The money goes to a Bailout Fund.
Then during the bad times, the Bailout Fund is used to bail out companies. If the fund is not enough, the bailout tax is increased. If bailouts aren't needed after a few decades and the industry "grows up", the tax is reduced/removed, (but the fund is still kept just in case).
The other industries seem to manage themselves better and not have to run to "Mama" every decade. So as long as they haven't grown up, they need extra rules.
During the good times, they get all the money, and during the bad times the taxpayers have to pay? Yes there are already corporate taxes, but do they really cover the bailouts?
As someone said, what we have here is: privatize the gain and socialize the pain.
It's not quantity of regulation that you want, it's quality.
Maybe the government shouldn't use a heavy hand but a good hand instead?
After all the heavy hand of government is handing out taxpayer money to the companies involved in the recent financial crisis.
Sure it may be necessary.
But perhaps the hand of the government should have skimmed off profits from all those financial companies during the good times, and kept that money in a Bailout Fund to be used for bailing them out. That'll be fairer right? Every 10 years they go bust, and they keep saying "No you shouldn't regulate us" and "You have to bail us out". Yeah right.
I suspect that most practical mainframe COBOL programs in use will assume a mainframe environment.
Even if you have a JVM that runs COBOL it doesn't mean the COBOL programs will work usefully. I assume those guys haven't done the "virtual mainframe" part yet.
If I take a bash script that assumes an Ubuntu/Debian environment, there's a high chance that it won't work on Suse or Redhat, even if bash is available.
If the porting effort is high enough (rewrites, retests etc), one might as well just rewrite in a different language.
Who really wants to work for an employer who won't hire you just because you've been drunk after hours? Or even just holding a mug of beer with friends doing silly but fairly harmless stuff?
The upcoming generation seem to take a lot of pictures (often unflattering or just silly) of themselves and their friends, and post them straight to their blogs or other pages. So it seems to me the future bunch of CEOs and bosses would probably have plenty of pictures of them passed out/drunk on such sites, maybe even with youtube videos.
Maybe some might figure the passed out person with a good portfolio would still be a good worker AND be good fun for the rest of the company.
They might even be suspicious of people without evidence of any friends - antisocial, bad fit for the company etc.
Well maybe someone should port COBOL onto a JVM, and also the rest of the mainframe style environment it needs.
IBM might even do that - so it can add X more choices to the billions of choices it gives to prospective customers (so that they can pay IBM more $$$ to help them decide which is "right for them").
I'm no pro but I record stuff live regularly at my church (it's interesting that the recordings we do via a PC's "onboard sound card" don't really have that much noise).
I'm not really against compression - if it's techno music, you can use compression on some parts as an effect. Same goes for making a speech easier to listen to.
It's a shame though - the tech is there to have really good recordings (>=120dB range), but nowadays we're not even getting 96dB "CD quality".
The thing is, seems a fair number of the youth in my church are half deaf already. Some probably due to playing in a band without ear protection[1], and some probably due to listening to music at high volumes.
When they use the headphones to listen at the mixer - they turn the volume knob up to half way (or even more!), whereas 30% is loud enough for me. Their 50% setting is too loud for me.
So maybe the "pop" music is louder to cater for these "deaf" teenagers. And maybe the mixing is influenced by veterans in the industry who are already rather deaf themselves.
[1] I recently bought myself (and others) "musician ear plugs" - these cut the volume in a vaguely flat manner so things sound closer to "quieter" rather than "muffled". They're good for places where the music is too loud etc.
So many people keep saying or implying Bush is stupid.
If he's smart enough to get reelected, how stupid is he? The election was rigged? If it was, so what, anyone in jail for that? No? So how stupid is he?
If he's smart enough that his current party still has a convincing chance of retaining power, that's even better. Seriously, can you say the odds are < 20%?
And this is despite his party doing all sorts of bad things to the country (and other countries).
So who really are the stupid ones?
Funny how so many people keep thinking they're so smart and the president is so dumb, when the president (and gang) has screwed them so badly and is getting away with it.
Maybe they're in denial and it's just a way of comforting themselves - especially since there's a high chance they're in for a third round.
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So you're going to vote republican again?
Just like to remind you all that this isn't prowrestling, even though it seems like it sometimes (support your fav side no matter what etc).
The Gov you elect will control nukes and has a military budget about as much as the rest of the world combined.
You're surrounded by voters ;).
Good luck to the world and the US of A.
Does the Bible mention shellfish?
Anyway if you read the Bible the Jews/Israelites aren't supposed to eat shellfish and do a lot of other things.
That works out to about 77 per IP. No big deal.
NAT does work for most stuff normal users do (browse, play online games) since there are 65535 possible source ports, and people don't necessarily go all to the same place at the same time.
Yes it doesn't work well for P2P or servers.
But for some organizations and governments that's considered a feature - it means better control over information.
So that you have a better chance of brainwashing them, and also giving them "culture".
Of course it seems the US high school culture is mostly crap. So probably that's not a good idea.
Quite a waste. Just like you need to domesticate dogs so that they can live usefully in modern society, you also need to domesticate humans.
They don't just pop out of their mom's ready to go.
You can't see ships past the YOUR horizon, but those ships could certainly see other ships that you can't see that are beyond YOUR horizon, but not theirs.
No surprise a lot end up hiring:
a) liars
b) people who can barely read.
c) people who don't care
They're selecting against people who can read, actually care and prefer not to work in a company where the incompetence is clearly showing.
Money laundering?
I think many game companies will want to try to avoid the extra regulation that comes when you start allowing things that make the "real world" illegal stuff easier.
You don't need more or less regulations. You need better regulations.
You don't need more or less government, you need better government. Code quality is not strongly correlated to the number of lines of code.
Less regulation does not mean a better state of things (nor does more regulation either).
For instance, if it were up to me, I'd have imposed a "Bailout Tax" or levy on all companies in the financial industry during the good times. The money goes to a Bailout Fund.
Then during the bad times, the Bailout Fund is used to bail out companies. If the fund is not enough, the bailout tax is increased. If bailouts aren't needed after a few decades and the industry "grows up", the tax is reduced/removed, (but the fund is still kept just in case).
The other industries seem to manage themselves better and not have to run to "Mama" every decade. So as long as they haven't grown up, they need extra rules.
During the good times, they get all the money, and during the bad times the taxpayers have to pay? Yes there are already corporate taxes, but do they really cover the bailouts?
As someone said, what we have here is: privatize the gain and socialize the pain.
We need better regulation than that.
It's not quantity of regulation that you want, it's quality.
Maybe the government shouldn't use a heavy hand but a good hand instead?
After all the heavy hand of government is handing out taxpayer money to the companies involved in the recent financial crisis.
Sure it may be necessary.
But perhaps the hand of the government should have skimmed off profits from all those financial companies during the good times, and kept that money in a Bailout Fund to be used for bailing them out. That'll be fairer right? Every 10 years they go bust, and they keep saying "No you shouldn't regulate us" and "You have to bail us out". Yeah right.
"You guys have got it all wrong. What we need is a really thick line..."
:).
Mod parent up
That's only the first part.
I suspect that most practical mainframe COBOL programs in use will assume a mainframe environment.
Even if you have a JVM that runs COBOL it doesn't mean the COBOL programs will work usefully. I assume those guys haven't done the "virtual mainframe" part yet.
If I take a bash script that assumes an Ubuntu/Debian environment, there's a high chance that it won't work on Suse or Redhat, even if bash is available.
If the porting effort is high enough (rewrites, retests etc), one might as well just rewrite in a different language.
Yeah, but I was aiming for just one line, and folding works for that.
I wonder if you're allowed to fold the paper... ;)
After all we're talking about tents.
"media error warnings"
If I were the boss, I'd change the people first, and not just the affected hardware.
"If I punch you in the nose, you call the cops and have me charged with assault"
;).
I thought in the USA what happens next was you draw your gun to defend yourself - since the cops will take ages etc etc.
I keep hearing that sort of thing on Slashdot after all.
What if they consider the xml sensitive as well?
If you encrypt on a per drive basis, it also means you'd decrypt the entire flashdrive when trying to access the xml.
So that wouldn't help as well.
Better to use one flash drive for private data (use encryption if you want), and use other drives for other stuff.
Mixing stuff like that is just bad hygiene.
Who really wants to work for an employer who won't hire you just because you've been drunk after hours? Or even just holding a mug of beer with friends doing silly but fairly harmless stuff?
The upcoming generation seem to take a lot of pictures (often unflattering or just silly) of themselves and their friends, and post them straight to their blogs or other pages. So it seems to me the future bunch of CEOs and bosses would probably have plenty of pictures of them passed out/drunk on such sites, maybe even with youtube videos.
Maybe some might figure the passed out person with a good portfolio would still be a good worker AND be good fun for the rest of the company.
They might even be suspicious of people without evidence of any friends - antisocial, bad fit for the company etc.
Well maybe someone should port COBOL onto a JVM, and also the rest of the mainframe style environment it needs.
IBM might even do that - so it can add X more choices to the billions of choices it gives to prospective customers (so that they can pay IBM more $$$ to help them decide which is "right for them").
128 bytes of RAM and up to 4K of ROM (without tricks like bank switching).
4K of ROM isn't that cramped if you're doing 6507 stuff.
"A Predator UCAV (Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle) costs a mere $8 million"
:).
Just wait for the far cheaper Chinese knock-offs
Trouble is lots of young people (and old musicians) are _deaf_ or half deaf nowadays.
Deaf as in can't hear well.
So maybe that's one reason why they are making the music louder. Otherwise they can't hear the music.
I'm sure you've heard at least one anecdote about some musician not being able to hear himself even though the monitor has been set to max.
It's a shame ear protection isn't as popular. The young musicians I know don't seem keen on it.
Pro bikers wear helmets, but musicians don't seem to think ear protection is desirable.
I'm no pro but I record stuff live regularly at my church (it's interesting that the recordings we do via a PC's "onboard sound card" don't really have that much noise).
I'm not really against compression - if it's techno music, you can use compression on some parts as an effect. Same goes for making a speech easier to listen to.
It's a shame though - the tech is there to have really good recordings (>=120dB range), but nowadays we're not even getting 96dB "CD quality".
The thing is, seems a fair number of the youth in my church are half deaf already. Some probably due to playing in a band without ear protection[1], and some probably due to listening to music at high volumes.
When they use the headphones to listen at the mixer - they turn the volume knob up to half way (or even more!), whereas 30% is loud enough for me. Their 50% setting is too loud for me.
So maybe the "pop" music is louder to cater for these "deaf" teenagers. And maybe the mixing is influenced by veterans in the industry who are already rather deaf themselves.
[1] I recently bought myself (and others) "musician ear plugs" - these cut the volume in a vaguely flat manner so things sound closer to "quieter" rather than "muffled". They're good for places where the music is too loud etc.
Maybe he "married her" and still has the relevant tattoos to prove it ;).
Maybe he's even had to pay alimony via the RIAA.
So many people keep saying or implying Bush is stupid.
If he's smart enough to get reelected, how stupid is he? The election was rigged? If it was, so what, anyone in jail for that? No? So how stupid is he?
If he's smart enough that his current party still has a convincing chance of retaining power, that's even better. Seriously, can you say the odds are < 20%?
And this is despite his party doing all sorts of bad things to the country (and other countries).
So who really are the stupid ones?
Funny how so many people keep thinking they're so smart and the president is so dumb, when the president (and gang) has screwed them so badly and is getting away with it.
Maybe they're in denial and it's just a way of comforting themselves - especially since there's a high chance they're in for a third round.