Don't say things like that, you just scared me half to death. Don't worry folks, he must not have disabled the Automatic Updates. Nothing to see here, move along.
I probably have one of the fastest download speeds you can get on Cable modem (DOCSIS 3.0 - limited to 107 megabits down!) but the 21:1 disparity between the upload and download bandwidth makes me a sad panda:(
I pay $120/US a month for 107 megabits down, and 5 megabits of upload in East Texas.
I never have any problems downloading from the "right places" at 12.5 megabytes/sec. Amazon Web Services being one of the few places that can actually saturate my pipe with an HTTP download. Use your imagination for the other places I'm able to max it out:)
Also I believe they are only gathering the MAC (and maybe SSID) of the wireless in order to increase the accuracy of your android device's location abilities when you have the GPS radio off, and the WiFi radio on.
Or I'm just crazy. It's not like they are trying to hack WEP enabled APs and listen in on the traffic. Google hasn't fallen that far. Yet.
People *used* to primarily treat good games like books, after you read it, on the shelf it goes. Sure you might not read it again anytime soon, but knowing you have the option is comforting.
With more and more "casual" gamers buying more and more "awful but severely marketed" titles that offer no lasting replay value, the idea of a "long-term rental" utilizing GameStop as a middle-man, means EA can sell the downloadable content to 5 or 10 different people per disc instead of just 1! Burn-out Paradise is a prime example of this. Sure you can snag the disc for $15-$20 at your local used disc dealer, but after you install and update the game, you'll discover huge sections of the world closed to you (and cars unattainable) until you fork over $20 here and there for download-able expansions!
Even better, if you buy all these trinkets and ever lose the disc/sell the game then EA still has a bunch of your money for bits you can no longer use, and the chance to sell them all over again to someone else!
Build an identical one and keep it far enough away that you need to feel safe? Ideally at least a few blocks away, sync them over a short-haul wireless link. (encrypted of course!) and take the same precautions as you would with anything else?
Oh yeah don't do a flat fire store, make it a SVN repository of course.
I did someting some years ago with 200GB (and later 500GB) drives:
10 drives in a chieftec Big tower. 6 drives go into the two internal drive cases, 4 go into a 4-for-3 mounting with a 120mm fan. Controller: 2 SATA on board and 2 x Promise 4 port SATA conroller 300 TX4 (a lot cheaper than Arcea and kernel native support). Put Linux software RAID 6 on the drives, spare 1 GB or so per drive for RAID1 (n-way) system. Done.
I say you've got it close, except use ZFS instead. Solaris on x86 isn't that bad, especially if you don't plan on doing anything else with the hardware beyond file-serving duties!
The same passive tech built into Door Cards and anti-theft stickers is woven into the material of the ball, with the weight and consistency difference taken care of by the manufacturer to keep the balls feeling as "true" as possible.
Maybe even give each tournament sanctioned ball a unique serial number, should make for a much hotter collector's market:)
Then you could put RFID transmitter/receivers in/under the out of bounds paint itself, and perhaps further away, to get as many readings as possible to track the ball.
Ok, so they need to man-up and put a 3.5 inch drive in the thing somehow (make it bigger, thats fine with me) because that amount of drive space is simply inadequate, IMHO.
With the drives now RETAILING for around $100, I can't imagine why 40 gig drives are still being made. What is the point where the overall cost of the materials reaches the floor and the drives can't get any cheaper? Seriously, a 40 gig hard-drive is just laughable, they must be using up over-stock or putting refurbs in. Are single platter drives with that little capacity even being produced anymore in the 3.5" form factor?
This is totally off-topic, but I really want to hear this, but I don't run Windows at work. Can anyone tell me how to listen to these streams on Linux? Does "Real Alternative" work for Linux in Firefox?
You need one of those ancient "greeters" as gate-keepers on the system. I don't even let people post comments on *my* lowly page without approving them first, how can they be so naive?
Precisely what I was going to post. The problem with SPAMMING the list of proxies is you've made the list ubiquitous and easy to come by. It only takes *one* government official to see the list and forward to the right place before all those proxies cease to function for the everyone they were meant to help, the users in China!
I hate to burst your bubble, but writing software, especially large complicated packages is *nothing* like building a bridge. Sure you can have quality control in place, testers and QA and all that non-sense.
Just because a program *appears* to be doing what it is supposed to do does not mean it is doing so in a correct and easily maintainable fashion. I think its still important to hire Expert Programmers (TM) to oversee the work of the "builder monkeys" to review their code and architecture, point out their shortcomings, and help them to someday become *gasp* Expert Programmers (TM) themselves.
Anyone who can't learn from their mistakes after they've been pointed out and a better way explained shouldn't be working in any industry.
I think part of the reason these sites are so popular is because they are *not* open. People like feeling as if they
art part of a group, no matter how open that group may be in reality, if there is even a hint of the "velvet rope"
effect its generally enough to make people feel special.
And the general public likes to feel special.
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I'm sure both users are going to be really upset.
Don't say things like that, you just scared me half to death. Don't worry folks, he must not have disabled the Automatic Updates. Nothing to see here, move along.
I probably have one of the fastest download speeds you can get on Cable modem (DOCSIS 3.0 - limited to 107 megabits down!) but the 21:1 disparity between the upload and download bandwidth makes me a sad panda :(
I pay $120/US a month for 107 megabits down, and 5 megabits of upload in East Texas. :)
I never have any problems downloading from the "right places" at 12.5 megabytes/sec. Amazon Web Services being one of the few places that can actually saturate my pipe with an HTTP download. Use your imagination for the other places I'm able to max it out
Better still, wait for Internet 2.1 - we all know x.0 releases just aren't up to snuff.
Also I believe they are only gathering the MAC (and maybe SSID) of the wireless in order to increase the accuracy of your android device's location abilities when you have the GPS radio off, and the WiFi radio on.
Or I'm just crazy. It's not like they are trying to hack WEP enabled APs and listen in on the traffic. Google hasn't fallen that far. Yet.
TF2 has infinitely more replay value than WoW as well.
Give them the handle and make a fortune on the blades...
People *used* to primarily treat good games like books, after you read it, on the shelf it goes. Sure you might not read it again anytime soon, but knowing you have the option is comforting.
With more and more "casual" gamers buying more and more "awful but severely marketed" titles that offer no lasting replay value, the idea of a "long-term rental" utilizing GameStop as a middle-man, means EA can sell the downloadable content to 5 or 10 different people per disc instead of just 1! Burn-out Paradise is a prime example of this. Sure you can snag the disc for $15-$20 at your local used disc dealer, but after you install and update the game, you'll discover huge sections of the world closed to you (and cars unattainable) until you fork over $20 here and there for download-able expansions!
Even better, if you buy all these trinkets and ever lose the disc/sell the game then EA still has a bunch of your money for bits you can no longer use, and the chance to sell them all over again to someone else!
Build an identical one and keep it far enough away that you need to feel safe? Ideally at least a few blocks away, sync them over a short-haul wireless link. (encrypted of course!) and take the same precautions as you would with anything else?
Oh yeah don't do a flat fire store, make it a SVN repository of course.
I did someting some years ago with 200GB (and later 500GB) drives:
10 drives in a chieftec Big tower. 6 drives go into the two internal drive cases, 4 go into a 4-for-3 mounting with a 120mm fan. Controller: 2 SATA on board and 2 x Promise 4 port SATA conroller 300 TX4 (a lot cheaper than Arcea and kernel native support). Put Linux software RAID 6 on the drives, spare 1 GB or so per drive for RAID1 (n-way) system. Done.
I say you've got it close, except use ZFS instead. Solaris on x86 isn't that bad, especially if you don't plan on doing anything else with the hardware beyond file-serving duties!
Now *this* guy is old - and yet quicker than the rest of us. Ouch.
Morgan Freeman is God right? I think that puts him above suspicion in my opinion.
The same passive tech built into Door Cards and anti-theft stickers is woven into the material of the ball, with the weight and consistency difference taken care of by the manufacturer to keep the balls feeling as "true" as possible.
Maybe even give each tournament sanctioned ball a unique serial number, should make for a much hotter collector's market :)
Then you could put RFID transmitter/receivers in/under the out of bounds paint itself, and perhaps further away, to get as many readings as possible to track the ball.
Just an idea.
But does it take a beowulf cluster of these play GLQUake?
Downloading for uhhhhh research purposes. Are these divided up and tagged as to the myspace user profile they originated from?
Ok, so they need to man-up and put a 3.5 inch drive in the thing somehow (make it bigger, thats fine with me) because that amount of drive space is simply inadequate, IMHO.
With the drives now RETAILING for around $100, I can't imagine why 40 gig drives are still being made. What is the point where the overall cost of the materials reaches the floor and the drives can't get any cheaper? Seriously, a 40 gig hard-drive is just laughable, they must be using up over-stock or putting refurbs in. Are single platter drives with that little capacity even being produced anymore in the 3.5" form factor?
This is totally off-topic, but I really want to hear this, but I don't run Windows at work. Can anyone tell me how to listen to these streams on Linux? Does "Real Alternative" work for Linux in Firefox?
That shouldn't even be legal.
You need one of those ancient "greeters" as gate-keepers on the system. I don't even let people post comments on *my* lowly page without approving them first, how can they be so naive?
DUH.
Just because a program *appears* to be doing what it is supposed to do does not mean it is doing so in a correct and easily maintainable fashion. I think its still important to hire Expert Programmers (TM) to oversee the work of the "builder monkeys" to review their code and architecture, point out their shortcomings, and help them to someday become *gasp* Expert Programmers (TM) themselves.
Anyone who can't learn from their mistakes after they've been pointed out and a better way explained shouldn't be working in any industry.
I think part of the reason these sites are so popular is because they are *not* open. People like feeling as if they art part of a group, no matter how open that group may be in reality, if there is even a hint of the "velvet rope" effect its generally enough to make people feel special.
And the general public likes to feel special.
I can get a copy of the source for Half-Life 2?