It would be infinitely more convenient if I could just add them to my hulu queue and go. Videos scattered all over the web are a no go for a multimedia PC. HuluDesktop, meanwhile, works pretty well, despite the bugs
Haven't people realized that rather than showing support for things they like and want, they should just shut up and take what's given to them?
Except with crowd funding, you don't find out if you "like and want" the product until AFTER you've spent your money on it, when it's too late. You're just throwing money at a name...
With crowd funding, there's no motivation to make a good product, just one that barely meets the promised specifications, while spending as little of that advance money as possible.
The only places crowd funding make sense is where the traditional investment or bank loan options don't work... Products with a very small following that will only barely turn a profit NEED crowd funding to reduce the risk of a failure.
It's very easy to spout stupid crap, and only aggravated by announcing that you're completely ignorant of the topic and hand, having no experience, and yet believe yourself to be an expert.
It's terribly time consuming to do point-by-point rebuttals. Nobody is paying me to do so, and I can't see any reason why your run of the mill stupid comment is important or noteworthy, and therefore somehow worth the effort.
If they want a real opinion of teachers, ask the students and then fire accordingly.
The teachers with the easiest curriculum will be the most highly rated, while those who challenge their students will get very poor marks by a number of students, along the lines of "I'm not really learning anything" even when quite the opposite is visibly true.
One of the best teachers I had did almost nothing but play movies every day. A friend of mine transferred out, saying they felt they weren't learning anything. Yet the movies were all on topic, and a much faster way to convey that information than assigning dry text book reading on the subject. Despite never having use for that subject, I've still got much of that info burned into my brain, decades later, and sound like an expert to most people... I firmly believe subjects you HATE should still be fun, entertaining, and easy to comprehend.
Youtube is pretty light on full-length movies and TV episodes, and it's still not extremely common that their videos are available in high definition.
Netflix and Hulu both have much more multi-hour content, higher-quality content that more people are likely to want to watch, and they have most of it in highdef, eating up the pipes. I've ever considered Hulu as a free, viable replacement for live TV, now that their offerings are so extensive, and even includes nightly news programs (only glaring exception is up-to-date PBS programming like NOVA, Frontline, American Experience, Secrets of the Dead, Nature, This Old House, etc.), but both myself and my ISP are quite happy that I find an OTA antenna a superior option for the foreseeable future.
I find it very hard to believe that Youtube is so massively beating out all the higher quality video providers, and can only conclude that the data is massively flawed, as TFA starts suggesting about half-way through.
A bit offtopic, roughtly 10 years ago I came to/. and was amazed by the technological insight/information in the comments here.
Yes, all the comments about pouring hot grits on a naked and petrified Natalie Portman had really superb mathematical proofs backing them up...
FWIW, you're absolutely correct. Before/. tried to become digg, and then reddit, and then a flamefest of AGW/evolution/etc. supporters and deniers, there was a much more vibrant community with a tremendous number of experts in fields from mathematics and physics to biology and psychology, always chiming in on the topic of the day, and providing incredible insight into the field and the specific topic that one wouldn't find anywhere else.
It seems that model didn't result in enough ad impressions and profits for the parent company, so flamefests it is./. has only recently backed off of editors posting complete and total crap, so my belated plans to drop this site entirely were aborted, and I remain. These days, there really are only a handful of folks who provide real insightful comments across many articles. It's easy to spot them if you read this site regularly, and it's such a small group I could rattle off a list of names from memory.
The only reason/. has any relevancy today, and the audience hasn't completely disappeared, is that all other tech sites have HORRIBLE comment/discussion systems that make it hard to follow the discussion, and do not really promote good comments to a wider readership than the first-post crap.
Networks are ALREADY SOFTWARE DEFINED and ALWAYS HAVE BEEN.
Don't bitch at me just because you don't know what a common term actually MEANS.
You seem to think running software on your software that runs on your hardware is magically and unintuitively going to work better than software on hardware.
There's no magic about it. Having lower-level, centralized control of network equipment can be a huge improvement over the current mess. A fringe benefit is that works the same from vendor to vendor, across different models of equipment from the same vendor, and eliminates the need for all the higher-layer crap, bypassing a huge number of those firmware bugs.
They mostly come across as a bit OpenBSD-mailing-list if you see what I mean. They are defensive as hell, maybe their jobs make them that way.
Imagine running your company's entire IT infrastructure off of a random assortment of Android cell phones... That's basically the job of a Network Administrator.
Despite running the most critical piece of infrastructure, they can't peer into the base system at all, to see how it's going to behave in edge cases. The monitoring and management tools available are shockingly poor, and offer little utility.
They're forced to use a random mix of different network hardware, which all behaves differently, and each has a list of errata 100 pages long. Updates are huge monolithic firmware blobs, guaranteed to have bugs, leading you to choose between dealing with the awful but barely manageable bugs you have now, or updating and dealing with a whole new set of bugs, and potentially some so bad they'll take the system down, and there's relatively little you can do to test this, even if you have a rather large testing network (which most do not).
Software Defined Networking and OpenFlow look like they might finally start changing this, and Network Admins will be able to understand how these complex systems work, and even define the behavior they want. But in the mean time, your Network Admin remains the Prime Minister of the insane asylum.
You should also read the FAQ to get an idea of the RAM limitation associated with a large cache.
Except that's not a RAM limitation at all. They call it "memory" and I would get more specific and call it "virtual memory". You don't need to use any RAM for the job if you have fast enough swap, and a swap file or partition on an SSD will do.
It's time for Google to engage in some "malicious compliance".
They should have done as requested, and taken down all links to hbo.com, mtv.com, and the rest, and refuse to relist them until the guy who signed the DMCA takedown was successfully convicted of perjury for the incident (the stated legal penalty for a false DMCA takedown notice).
would a lightweight distro with a windows-like interface do the job?
Elderly folks are going to be more likely to need to use the Windows-only coupon printing software some coupon sites require, and boy will they be confused when they click the link, and their downloaded exe doesn't print out their coupons for them.
SUN's products were pretty bulletproof and once you had one configured for what it needed to do it did it. That combined with the bubble of 2000 where SUN was overextended on several fronts is what tore the company apart.
AMD's x86-64 and Linux are what killed Sun. Their hardware and OS was the core of their business, and that got undermined at exactly the same time as all the other proprietary Unix vendors. When the Itanium and AMD's x86-64 came out, proprietary hardware crashed big time, and only those with other massively profitable businesses were able to survive the crash. Namely, IBM and HP, though HP has been discontinuing proprietary platforms and OSes left and right ever since then.
SGI, like Sun, had all their eggs in that one basket, and nothing valuable enough in their portfolio to convince a large company to buy them out.
I, personally, think that one of the best ways that I could get better is to contribute to OSS projects. However, I can't lie, reading stories about the abusiveness of the community is a huge turn off.
You post comments on/. You're probably used-to much WORSE abuse here on/. than you'd ever see on a project's mailing list.
The internet is different than real life. This extends to how two people communicate with each other, so you either adapt to the internet, or you stay away from it.
And finally, I, and I expect most others here, aren't going to be too sympathetic to someone who knows what they need to do to improve their abilities, but chooses not to because it might be difficult or slightly embarrassing, as you said above. And WORSE, making that decision from second-hand rumors and innuendo rather than actual facts and knowledge of that being true.
It's fine to be blunt and explain why the idea proposed will not work, it saves time and energy.
Bull! A statement like:
"Your (code/idea) is HORRIBLE, and you're smart enough to know better than to push this crap."...is infinitely faster and easier, while still getting the point across, than meticulously explaining everything that is potentially wrong with what was offered.
FWIW, I went through the corporate environment for years, and learned the fake little pleasantries and BS politics involved. It *can* work in organizations that have strong management oversight and a vertical structure. But when I moved to a mid-sized startup that was pretty flat and mostly unmanaged, that learned behavior served me quite poorly, as NO amount of politely complaining to superiors (their or yours) gets ANYTHING done, EVER. This obviously matches the Linux community (e.g. Linus can't force RedHat's kernel developers to work on something else, make sure they meet his standards, or fire those who are doing poorly).
In such cases, calling out and publicly shaming bad actors is one of very few ways you (or Linus) have to get things to change. Several times I had to basically insult company directors in large conferences, in order to get major issues addressed. Counter-intuitively perhaps, every year I'd get significant pay raises, bonuses, and then a promotion, before I eventually decided I'd had enough of that crazy environment and walked away.
As per the folks over at #squid, this is only true if the primary goal is to reduce data usage
Source? It's true for disk cache because you're limited to random seek and read speeds, but shouldn't be for SSDs.
Storing those same files onto a typical USB thumb drive would likely decrease the performance.
Yes, but I'm not talking about any old POS thumb drive. If you want to use it for caching, you'd shop around for one of the extremely fast models that are available out there.
all on an underclocked ARM with 32MB of RAM, you're going to be disappointed.
Routers are overwhelmingly MIPS-based devices, not ARM, and benefiting from the much better performance that comes along with that.
You wouldn't want to do caching onto USB storage for most things, you'd want that data sitting in RAM.
There's no reason to cache to RAM instead of a fast USB thumb drive for a home user. USB2 will be considerably faster than most people's internet connection, and probably faster than some of their LAN connections, so you'll still see just as nice of a performance increase, and you've got virtually unlimited cache to work with as you see fit. Any caching proxy worth its salt supports disk caching as well (or at least utilizing SWAP as an extension of RAM).
I disagree that sites using AJAX must necessarily be slower than reloading the whole page for every little piddly action.
That's been *almost* exclusively my experience.
Every time you expand or collapse a thread, the article and all 100 comments reload.
That's assuming you WANT the threads loaded by your browsers, but hidden from your view for some reason. Instead, if you had the threads expanded, you wouldn't have to worry about it.
But if you're talking about JS loading each comment...
Every time you begin, preview, or submit a comment, the article and all 100 comments reload.
But see, you're still making the same number (or perhaps MORE) HTTP requests with JS as you would with plain HTML. Latency is in no way reduced, and you're not really saving time on the client side, as they've got the latency, and THEN the browser has to essential re-render the whole page after the content change in the middle. However browsers handle that kind of change, I've never seen it done FASTER than loading another static page.
I don't see how that'd be so convenient for people on slow and/or metered Internet connections.
As I said, the mod_gzip your HTML page is only 1/10th the uncompressed size, and all the CSS, images, etc., are all cached locally, so I say you're saving VERY, LITTLE bandwidth, and you're causing more client side delay and unresponsiveness.
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It would be infinitely more convenient if I could just add them to my hulu queue and go. Videos scattered all over the web are a no go for a multimedia PC. HuluDesktop, meanwhile, works pretty well, despite the bugs
Except with crowd funding, you don't find out if you "like and want" the product until AFTER you've spent your money on it, when it's too late. You're just throwing money at a name...
With crowd funding, there's no motivation to make a good product, just one that barely meets the promised specifications, while spending as little of that advance money as possible.
The only places crowd funding make sense is where the traditional investment or bank loan options don't work... Products with a very small following that will only barely turn a profit NEED crowd funding to reduce the risk of a failure.
So did the Village People... The Navy and the YMCA.
It's very easy to spout stupid crap, and only aggravated by announcing that you're completely ignorant of the topic and hand, having no experience, and yet believe yourself to be an expert.
It's terribly time consuming to do point-by-point rebuttals. Nobody is paying me to do so, and I can't see any reason why your run of the mill stupid comment is important or noteworthy, and therefore somehow worth the effort.
The teachers with the easiest curriculum will be the most highly rated, while those who challenge their students will get very poor marks by a number of students, along the lines of "I'm not really learning anything" even when quite the opposite is visibly true.
One of the best teachers I had did almost nothing but play movies every day. A friend of mine transferred out, saying they felt they weren't learning anything. Yet the movies were all on topic, and a much faster way to convey that information than assigning dry text book reading on the subject. Despite never having use for that subject, I've still got much of that info burned into my brain, decades later, and sound like an expert to most people... I firmly believe subjects you HATE should still be fun, entertaining, and easy to comprehend.
I don't get it...
Youtube is pretty light on full-length movies and TV episodes, and it's still not extremely common that their videos are available in high definition.
Netflix and Hulu both have much more multi-hour content, higher-quality content that more people are likely to want to watch, and they have most of it in highdef, eating up the pipes. I've ever considered Hulu as a free, viable replacement for live TV, now that their offerings are so extensive, and even includes nightly news programs (only glaring exception is up-to-date PBS programming like NOVA, Frontline, American Experience, Secrets of the Dead, Nature, This Old House, etc.), but both myself and my ISP are quite happy that I find an OTA antenna a superior option for the foreseeable future.
I find it very hard to believe that Youtube is so massively beating out all the higher quality video providers, and can only conclude that the data is massively flawed, as TFA starts suggesting about half-way through.
Except you're massively wrong, and showing your ignorance.
Yes, all the comments about pouring hot grits on a naked and petrified Natalie Portman had really superb mathematical proofs backing them up...
FWIW, you're absolutely correct. Before /. tried to become digg, and then reddit, and then a flamefest of AGW/evolution/etc. supporters and deniers, there was a much more vibrant community with a tremendous number of experts in fields from mathematics and physics to biology and psychology, always chiming in on the topic of the day, and providing incredible insight into the field and the specific topic that one wouldn't find anywhere else.
It seems that model didn't result in enough ad impressions and profits for the parent company, so flamefests it is. /. has only recently backed off of editors posting complete and total crap, so my belated plans to drop this site entirely were aborted, and I remain. These days, there really are only a handful of folks who provide real insightful comments across many articles. It's easy to spot them if you read this site regularly, and it's such a small group I could rattle off a list of names from memory.
The only reason /. has any relevancy today, and the audience hasn't completely disappeared, is that all other tech sites have HORRIBLE comment/discussion systems that make it hard to follow the discussion, and do not really promote good comments to a wider readership than the first-post crap.
Your ignorance does NOT make you correct. Quite the opposite, really.
Don't bitch at me just because you don't know what a common term actually MEANS.
There's no magic about it. Having lower-level, centralized control of network equipment can be a huge improvement over the current mess. A fringe benefit is that works the same from vendor to vendor, across different models of equipment from the same vendor, and eliminates the need for all the higher-layer crap, bypassing a huge number of those firmware bugs.
Imagine running your company's entire IT infrastructure off of a random assortment of Android cell phones... That's basically the job of a Network Administrator.
Despite running the most critical piece of infrastructure, they can't peer into the base system at all, to see how it's going to behave in edge cases. The monitoring and management tools available are shockingly poor, and offer little utility.
They're forced to use a random mix of different network hardware, which all behaves differently, and each has a list of errata 100 pages long. Updates are huge monolithic firmware blobs, guaranteed to have bugs, leading you to choose between dealing with the awful but barely manageable bugs you have now, or updating and dealing with a whole new set of bugs, and potentially some so bad they'll take the system down, and there's relatively little you can do to test this, even if you have a rather large testing network (which most do not).
Software Defined Networking and OpenFlow look like they might finally start changing this, and Network Admins will be able to understand how these complex systems work, and even define the behavior they want. But in the mean time, your Network Admin remains the Prime Minister of the insane asylum.
Too small to call it a moon, huh? Well... how about a "planet-orbiiting object" or "poo" for short?
As in, Neptune has a bit of poo right over there... Scientists suspect it came out of the moon.
Except that's not a RAM limitation at all. They call it "memory" and I would get more specific and call it "virtual memory". You don't need to use any RAM for the job if you have fast enough swap, and a swap file or partition on an SSD will do.
It's time for Google to engage in some "malicious compliance".
They should have done as requested, and taken down all links to hbo.com, mtv.com, and the rest, and refuse to relist them until the guy who signed the DMCA takedown was successfully convicted of perjury for the incident (the stated legal penalty for a false DMCA takedown notice).
Sun, SGI, and the rest, didn't go from massive profits to massive losses in less than 2 years, either. It's a ridiculous complaint.
No, they're actually legit. They want to ensure you only print one copy of each, and local, invasive software is the only way to do it.
I don't like it, but it's reality.
Elderly folks are going to be more likely to need to use the Windows-only coupon printing software some coupon sites require, and boy will they be confused when they click the link, and their downloaded exe doesn't print out their coupons for them.
AMD's x86-64 and Linux are what killed Sun. Their hardware and OS was the core of their business, and that got undermined at exactly the same time as all the other proprietary Unix vendors. When the Itanium and AMD's x86-64 came out, proprietary hardware crashed big time, and only those with other massively profitable businesses were able to survive the crash. Namely, IBM and HP, though HP has been discontinuing proprietary platforms and OSes left and right ever since then.
SGI, like Sun, had all their eggs in that one basket, and nothing valuable enough in their portfolio to convince a large company to buy them out.
It means they're screwing their customers, but expect to be *thanked* for doing so.
You post comments on /. /. than you'd ever see on a project's mailing list.
You're probably used-to much WORSE abuse here on
The internet is different than real life. This extends to how two people communicate with each other, so you either adapt to the internet, or you stay away from it.
And finally, I, and I expect most others here, aren't going to be too sympathetic to someone who knows what they need to do to improve their abilities, but chooses not to because it might be difficult or slightly embarrassing, as you said above. And WORSE, making that decision from second-hand rumors and innuendo rather than actual facts and knowledge of that being true.
Bull! A statement like:
"Your (code/idea) is HORRIBLE, and you're smart enough to know better than to push this crap." ...is infinitely faster and easier, while still getting the point across, than meticulously explaining everything that is potentially wrong with what was offered.
FWIW, I went through the corporate environment for years, and learned the fake little pleasantries and BS politics involved. It *can* work in organizations that have strong management oversight and a vertical structure. But when I moved to a mid-sized startup that was pretty flat and mostly unmanaged, that learned behavior served me quite poorly, as NO amount of politely complaining to superiors (their or yours) gets ANYTHING done, EVER. This obviously matches the Linux community (e.g. Linus can't force RedHat's kernel developers to work on something else, make sure they meet his standards, or fire those who are doing poorly).
In such cases, calling out and publicly shaming bad actors is one of very few ways you (or Linus) have to get things to change. Several times I had to basically insult company directors in large conferences, in order to get major issues addressed. Counter-intuitively perhaps, every year I'd get significant pay raises, bonuses, and then a promotion, before I eventually decided I'd had enough of that crazy environment and walked away.
Source? It's true for disk cache because you're limited to random seek and read speeds, but shouldn't be for SSDs.
Yes, but I'm not talking about any old POS thumb drive. If you want to use it for caching, you'd shop around for one of the extremely fast models that are available out there.
Routers are overwhelmingly MIPS-based devices, not ARM, and benefiting from the much better performance that comes along with that.
There's no reason to cache to RAM instead of a fast USB thumb drive for a home user. USB2 will be considerably faster than most people's internet connection, and probably faster than some of their LAN connections, so you'll still see just as nice of a performance increase, and you've got virtually unlimited cache to work with as you see fit. Any caching proxy worth its salt supports disk caching as well (or at least utilizing SWAP as an extension of RAM).
That's been *almost* exclusively my experience.
That's assuming you WANT the threads loaded by your browsers, but hidden from your view for some reason. Instead, if you had the threads expanded, you wouldn't have to worry about it.
But if you're talking about JS loading each comment...
But see, you're still making the same number (or perhaps MORE) HTTP requests with JS as you would with plain HTML. Latency is in no way reduced, and you're not really saving time on the client side, as they've got the latency, and THEN the browser has to essential re-render the whole page after the content change in the middle. However browsers handle that kind of change, I've never seen it done FASTER than loading another static page.
As I said, the mod_gzip your HTML page is only 1/10th the uncompressed size, and all the CSS, images, etc., are all cached locally, so I say you're saving VERY, LITTLE bandwidth, and you're causing more client side delay and unresponsiveness.
He was already convicted before he admitted anything, and revealed the location.