I may have had the word order wrong, but I definitely meant that NFS is the meeting of a statless protocol and a problem that inherently deals with state. Basically, magic cookies are a dirtry dirty kludge, IMO.
No argument on the other two, but I really want to know why NFS is better than SMB.
I mean, really. From a personal file-sharing standpoint, NFS is retarded.
"Here, connect to my computer. Have a magic cookie or two. Let's cram a stateless protocol into a state-filled paradigm. While we're at it, I trust your computer has not been compromised, and will do all proper authentication. It's only polite, after all."
NFS sort-of works for a pack of servers operating in a firewalled area of the network, but putting one in the DMZ is suicide. When you want to share files from your workstation to mine, it absolutely fails.
Remember patents and copyrights are not the same thing.
Now, a trade secret is just that - a secret. Your company knows something, and doesn't want to let anyone else know about it. Can you patent it? No, because then it wont be a secret any more, as part of the patent process involves you disclosing the exact workings of your invention.
Now, copyrights are another matter - something that is considered "speech" or a "creative work" are copyrighted from the moment they are first published, ad infinitum as the current laws have been going. (It's supposed to be a limited time, but Disney's killing that old tradition. That's another topic, though...) I don't know that data being leaked counts as publishing, but I would assume so.
No, you're looking at the wrogn target market - they're not after those who run Linux servers and might be willing to add game serving to the mix.
They're going for those people who want to set up a cheap, effective dedicated server. Many gaming clans will run a server with two or three games running servers in the background, but since it's a dedicated server there is no need for a GUI - and no need for Windows. If the game has a Linux version of the server, it's much easier on the clans than shelling out a few hundred dollars for a Windows license. These groups like to build a cheapie rack-mount box and lease space at a colo at the end of a fat pipe. For gaming. Gaming is the primary requirement, Linux just makes it cheaper for them.
It also helps that Linux has a reputation for being a "good server" that's stable, and has good remote-admin capabilities.
As far as I know, the only relationship is that one ended about the same time the other began.
I think they figured out that grafting Linux over Mach was a little weird, to say the least, and didn't really gain many advantages over either the microkernel or monolithic kernel approaches on their own.
This has been explained, but I think maybe I can do better.
Say you have a 44 kHz carrier reproducing a 22 kHz signal. That's all well and good - if the 44 kHz happens to be in sync with the crests and troughs of the 22 kHz wave. What happens when the sampling period is more in sync with the points in teh wave where amplitude nears zero? You will be sampling near silence every time, though much goes on between samples. Now, what happens if you have a signal near the magigal 22 kHz, but not exactly at? Say, 21 kHz or so. You have a signal that drifts in and out of alignment with the sampling frequency, giving the illusion of volume rapidly increasing and decreasing.
That's why much higher sampling rates are worthwhile.
Which reminds me, we need a new standard for measuring bandwidth. Wasn't the old one something along the lines of a van full of (DATs/CD-R/DVDs) hurtling down the interstate? I move we switch to the much more convenient (neigh, logical) units of "Bigger-Disk-filled-VWs" for all bandwith from now on.
The difference is it's not WordPad doing it. It's WordPad dying a painful implosive death, and WinXP recognizing that and forcefully terminating the program.
A program should fail gracefully, especially one that is to be used to open text documents of arbitrary size. After all, what's one to use to open such documents when one doesn't *have* a full-fledged word processor installed? For me, I have two basic choices: Notepad or WordPad. We all know Notepad's not an option for a document of serious length, but at least it usually fails gracefully by throwing up an error stating that the document is too large.
Also, WordPad's not so old. It's been updated with Unicode support lately, and supports the latest Word documents for opening. Why doesn't it fail gracefully instead of letting Windows terminate it?
If there's something I would improve about the iPod, it's RAM. Bumping up the memory to 64MB would mean even longer battery life and better support for really long tracks. If an iPod were available for $100 more that doubled the memory, I would definitely trade up.
Ir would probably lower battery life, actually. RAM is expensive (electricity-wise) to keep active. As it is, the iPod can spin down its hard drive for ~30 minutes with the current memory, then spin it back up momentarily when it needs to re-fill the buffer. The power drawn by the drive for that short period of time is miniscule compared to the power required to keep double the RAM active for a half-hour.
Try reading at something besides +4, you'll see the context a lot better. There are a few replies in there you missed. He's not bashing on blind folk, honestly.
QuickTime is installed because that's how iTunes plays back media.
An exercise for the reader: Download the QT extension for Ogg support, then try adding an Ogg file to iTunes. It's slow, but it works.
The QT software itself does not have any streaming ability that I know of; that is actually handled in-application by iTunes. (And/or the iTunesHelper.exe program)
DVD-RAM has been available for a long time, since before DVD-RW or DVD+RW. It was more or less a stopgap measure to get high-capacity optical storage out of a DVD-based medium. Other than the DVD name, though, it's really not that similar.
I am not aware of any DVD-RAM drives that don't require the disc storage cartridge, and all of the (admittedly old) cartridges I have seen were sealed. DVD-RAM was basically an advanced "PD-ROM" drive that happened to be able to read CDs and DVDs as well.
It's a dead format, and a dead-end technology. Nobody wants it any more than they want Bernoulli drives.
That's why the only game mentioned is Animal Crossing. It's tiny, so it fits in the GCN's RAM. The game reads istelf off the disc when you play it normally, and never has to access the disc again - so there are no calls like what you're mentioning.
A bigger game will not work with this method.
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Most drives (there has been some hubbub lately about certain drives) allow you to read the encrypted data in the encrypted form - and CSS has proven relatively trivial to crack, so that's what some players such as VLC do.
The region-locked drives just prevent you from reading the title key (or...one of the keys. I don't remember which) itself. As I mentioned before, some drives have started showing up that don't allow you to read the encrypted content if you're of the wrong region, but those drives are in the definite minority.
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I think you're upset that your PC doesn't have a Velocity Engine, while mine has three.
And a Flux Capacitor.
JETS is now WYSE, from what I understand. Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering.
People always called it the "JETS Team" but we competed in WYSE, so I think they were just slaves to routine.
I may have had the word order wrong, but I definitely meant that NFS is the meeting of a statless protocol and a problem that inherently deals with state. Basically, magic cookies are a dirtry dirty kludge, IMO.
No argument on the other two, but I really want to know why NFS is better than SMB.
I mean, really. From a personal file-sharing standpoint, NFS is retarded.
"Here, connect to my computer. Have a magic cookie or two. Let's cram a stateless protocol into a state-filled paradigm. While we're at it, I trust your computer has not been compromised, and will do all proper authentication. It's only polite, after all."
NFS sort-of works for a pack of servers operating in a firewalled area of the network, but putting one in the DMZ is suicide. When you want to share files from your workstation to mine, it absolutely fails.
>>Insightful?? WTF?? Who are you people?!?
>Ironically enough, the parent to this topic was modded as "Insightful" as well...
Instead of "fair" and "unfair," we need a way to meta-mod the moderation as "funny."
Remember patents and copyrights are not the same thing.
Now, a trade secret is just that - a secret. Your company knows something, and doesn't want to let anyone else know about it. Can you patent it? No, because then it wont be a secret any more, as part of the patent process involves you disclosing the exact workings of your invention.
Now, copyrights are another matter - something that is considered "speech" or a "creative work" are copyrighted from the moment they are first published, ad infinitum as the current laws have been going. (It's supposed to be a limited time, but Disney's killing that old tradition. That's another topic, though...) I don't know that data being leaked counts as publishing, but I would assume so.
Interesting? This is a joke/troll/retarded post.
You're not controlling anything - it's an ID system. It's not RFControl. It's RFID.
No, you're looking at the wrogn target market - they're not after those who run Linux servers and might be willing to add game serving to the mix.
They're going for those people who want to set up a cheap, effective dedicated server. Many gaming clans will run a server with two or three games running servers in the background, but since it's a dedicated server there is no need for a GUI - and no need for Windows. If the game has a Linux version of the server, it's much easier on the clans than shelling out a few hundred dollars for a Windows license. These groups like to build a cheapie rack-mount box and lease space at a colo at the end of a fat pipe. For gaming. Gaming is the primary requirement, Linux just makes it cheaper for them.
It also helps that Linux has a reputation for being a "good server" that's stable, and has good remote-admin capabilities.
Look again.
They fixed up your complaints to my satisfaction, at least.
I can rent DVDs (not new releases, though) for two nights for $1. God bless Family Video.
As far as I know, the only relationship is that one ended about the same time the other began.
I think they figured out that grafting Linux over Mach was a little weird, to say the least, and didn't really gain many advantages over either the microkernel or monolithic kernel approaches on their own.
Hackers the movie and Hackers the book are entirely different.
This has been explained, but I think maybe I can do better.
Say you have a 44 kHz carrier reproducing a 22 kHz signal. That's all well and good - if the 44 kHz happens to be in sync with the crests and troughs of the 22 kHz wave. What happens when the sampling period is more in sync with the points in teh wave where amplitude nears zero? You will be sampling near silence every time, though much goes on between samples. Now, what happens if you have a signal near the magigal 22 kHz, but not exactly at? Say, 21 kHz or so. You have a signal that drifts in and out of alignment with the sampling frequency, giving the illusion of volume rapidly increasing and decreasing.
That's why much higher sampling rates are worthwhile.
A 'second' is way too...metric. ;)
Bah, I was trying (unsuccessfully, apparently) to draw a parallel to how we measure large amounts of data in LoCs (Libraries of Congress.)
Which reminds me, we need a new standard for measuring bandwidth. Wasn't the old one something along the lines of a van full of (DATs/CD-R/DVDs) hurtling down the interstate? I move we switch to the much more convenient (neigh, logical) units of "Bigger-Disk-filled-VWs" for all bandwith from now on.
This is slashdot. Nobody's going to be doing any exercise, and no one's going to be using their testicles.
The difference is it's not WordPad doing it. It's WordPad dying a painful implosive death, and WinXP recognizing that and forcefully terminating the program.
A program should fail gracefully, especially one that is to be used to open text documents of arbitrary size. After all, what's one to use to open such documents when one doesn't *have* a full-fledged word processor installed? For me, I have two basic choices: Notepad or WordPad. We all know Notepad's not an option for a document of serious length, but at least it usually fails gracefully by throwing up an error stating that the document is too large.
Also, WordPad's not so old. It's been updated with Unicode support lately, and supports the latest Word documents for opening. Why doesn't it fail gracefully instead of letting Windows terminate it?
You forgot the Quicken folks.
If there's something I would improve about the iPod, it's RAM. Bumping up the memory to 64MB would mean even longer battery life and better support for really long tracks. If an iPod were available for $100 more that doubled the memory, I would definitely trade up.
Ir would probably lower battery life, actually. RAM is expensive (electricity-wise) to keep active. As it is, the iPod can spin down its hard drive for ~30 minutes with the current memory, then spin it back up momentarily when it needs to re-fill the buffer. The power drawn by the drive for that short period of time is miniscule compared to the power required to keep double the RAM active for a half-hour.
Try reading at something besides +4, you'll see the context a lot better. There are a few replies in there you missed. He's not bashing on blind folk, honestly.
QuickTime is installed because that's how iTunes plays back media.
An exercise for the reader: Download the QT extension for Ogg support, then try adding an Ogg file to iTunes. It's slow, but it works.
The QT software itself does not have any streaming ability that I know of; that is actually handled in-application by iTunes. (And/or the iTunesHelper.exe program)
DVD-RAM has been available for a long time, since before DVD-RW or DVD+RW. It was more or less a stopgap measure to get high-capacity optical storage out of a DVD-based medium. Other than the DVD name, though, it's really not that similar.
I am not aware of any DVD-RAM drives that don't require the disc storage cartridge, and all of the (admittedly old) cartridges I have seen were sealed. DVD-RAM was basically an advanced "PD-ROM" drive that happened to be able to read CDs and DVDs as well.
It's a dead format, and a dead-end technology. Nobody wants it any more than they want Bernoulli drives.
That's why the only game mentioned is Animal Crossing. It's tiny, so it fits in the GCN's RAM. The game reads istelf off the disc when you play it normally, and never has to access the disc again - so there are no calls like what you're mentioning.
A bigger game will not work with this method.
Most drives (there has been some hubbub lately about certain drives) allow you to read the encrypted data in the encrypted form - and CSS has proven relatively trivial to crack, so that's what some players such as VLC do.
The region-locked drives just prevent you from reading the title key (or...one of the keys. I don't remember which) itself. As I mentioned before, some drives have started showing up that don't allow you to read the encrypted content if you're of the wrong region, but those drives are in the definite minority.