You say that the people of the USA would not stand for this and that... well they apparently don't have any problem at all with Free Speech Zones, warrant-less search and seizures without probable cause, secret prisons, and indefinite detentions without trial
Other than that... you're singing to the choir, brother. Why don't they seem to have a problem with the items you mentioned? My thinking is it has to do with the dumbing of America. If one doesn't know what their rights are, they won't miss them. And a general lack of knowledge of history means past lessons are lost.
Americans have lost their self-reliant spirit. They're like a junkie, completely hooked on government "protection".
My argument is that a well educated & politically active populace would not have allowed the atrosicities above to happen. The final solution is not found with a gun but thru words. You can only lead from the point of bayonent for so long.
So let's say the president shows up himself in an armored car, ostensibly to talk to with the protestors (in reality, he never leaves the vehicle) and the secret service uses that neat law they've discovered which lets them appropriate the land around the president and arrest anyone arbitrarily who is in it (remember, this part has ALREADY HAPPENED. If you walk up to the president and tell him you disagree with his civil rights policies, the secret service can arrest you,
I am unaware of the "neat law" you speak of, could you provide a link?
Yes, the SS generally doesn't like anyone walking up to the president. Maybe you're new to interacting with "the authorities" but they can arrest you at any point for anything. An arrest really just has to follow some real basic rules; like don't kill the guy. They might later decide they don't want to charge with you anything and simply let you go; usually they'll just give you a bullshit ticket and leave you to find a way home.
One needs to know their rights and know to keep their mouth shut. Name, Rank, Serial #.
Agreed, tho in today's environment an arrest can mean a long wait for charges to be pressed. Always best to let a few people know where you're headed... just in case you get "disappeared".
Let's say that a group of students do eventually come out to protest. Do you really think that a Tianamen-style smackdown is out of the question?
Why do you think it is a possbility?
I think it is out of the question for a couple of reasons. First off I don't think a US politician would risk the backlash from supporting or ordering such an action. Second I don't think US Soliders could open fire on large crowds of Americans and I don't think US Generals would allow it. I think the Miltary has learn from Kent State.
Even the Chinese had problems finding soliders to take their orders. And when finally flew in soliders from outside the area, those soliders were worried about being attacked by other soliders. Note: from outside the area bit. Community ties are an important part of fighting tyranny. The soliders from the area knew a violent crackdown against their community was wrong.
Interestingly US Police officers are told they should not live in the community they serve in. The reasoning I was told was so they can avoid situations where they are interacting with their neighbors in an offical capacity. Which I can understand but I think the community as a whole & the officer have more to gain if he lives in the community he serves. For one he would have a better understanding of the community beyond just the crime he deals with as part of his job.
Neither the Watts riot or the Rodney King riots received a Tianamen-style smackdown, why would a peaceful pr
You might want to ask David Koresh how that worked out for him... or the folk at Ruby Ridge
Violence only begets more violence. A well educated populace that is active in their community and politics is the only long term defense against corruption & tyranny. Teach your children well.
Or maybe more to the point a violent uprising to gov't only plays into their hands by justifying their use of overwhelming force. The US people would not stand for a Tiananmen Square style crackdown on US soil. Look to the civil rights movement of the 60s. Freedom Riders being attacked on National TV forced JFK to send in the troops. Or look at the Kent State Massacre.
What does those bombings have to do with the (off-topic) subject at hand? Is this simply a non-sequiter, or did you have something in mind?
Nothing really.
Heinousjay saidFeel free to continue somehow believing that people that commit horrific acts are justified because someone else committed a horrific act.
And the atomic bombings of WWII came to mind. It was a horrific act but it was an act most Americans believe was justified. (note: I am *not* implying or saying it was or was not justified) Believing Heinousjay to be an American, I was curious to his view on it. I guess I was attempting to check the consistency of his beliefs.
I didn't say a country's actions don't have consequences. That's inferring words that don't exist.
Your statement "Haha yes, failed foreign policy is to blame for terrorists" implied you didn't believe failed foreign policy was a root cause of terrorism.
I wasn't looking to fix blame, I am interested in what you think is/are root cause(s) of terrorism. Your statement implied it isn't foreign policy. Is it your belief that terrorism "just exists" there is no underlaying cause or reason? Or is it just one act of retaliation after another? Wouldn't that mean a country's policy of continued retaliation isn't working, perhaps even flawed?
Feel free to continue somehow believing that people that commit horrific acts are justified because someone else committed a horrific act. That'll lead us all into hell, because that means that retaliation is just as justified.
I believe Ghandi said it best: An eye for an eye, leads to a blind world.
I never said or implied that horrific acts were justified. What are your feelings on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
I have a feeling this will be interpreted to mean a million things I don't mean at all Yes, that is a weakness of language... it isn't always the precise instrument that it needs to be. Its still an analog world.
The cause of terrorism is religious zealots. They're all the same.
That goes for whatever side of the coin you happen to be viewing. All are a bunch of total fools if you ask me.
Agreed, religious extremism is a dangerous thing. It can make it easier to prevert "the faith". Could it not also be argued that a state's interactions with an overly religious state would have a factor on the "production" of terrorists?
I guess what I'm saying is terrorism looks to be the reaction part of the "for every action there is an equal an opposite action" equation aka Blowback.
Was/Is the IRA terrorists or how about the Chechen rebels? Are either of them religious zealots? Were the terrorist in the 1972 Munich Olympics tragedy religios zealots? Is the insurgency in Iraq terrorists and religious zealots?
Is Bin Laden's real goal to spread Islam or get USA out of Saudi & Middle East. Islam happens to be the dominant religion in the region, so wouldn't it make recuiting sense to appeal to them? Look at what the GOP has done by appealing to the religious right in the US.
Its not that religion is the cause of terrorism, but it has been used to recuit people to terrorism.
Secondly, about WoW and other services. I have had a distinct impression that WoW is outnumbering the others by a degree or two at least, in terms of subscribers and actual players.
Yes, I agree that WoW subscribers currently outnumbers other MMORPGs by quite bit.
What I am speculating is that it may happen that the potential connection congestion as well as other issues arising from the high numbers may require nontrivial solutions.
Well, yes & no.
Trival; multiple connections to the internet thru multiple ISPs or housed in a data center that has multiple feeds. Per the article Blizzard is using AT&T as their sole connectivity provider and has previously blamed outages on their ISP.
This would be an example of the management deciding not to spend money to improve their service. It is also an example of Blizzard ignoring industry best practices for a high bandwidth, high availability application.
Non-Trival; would be code fixes and tweaks to improving clustering & reduce transaction overhead. Not to mention bug fixes. Again this is where management makes the call as to what is a priority and what isn't.
And somewhere in-between would be the in-house network providing connectivity between the boxes making a cluster/shard and the outside world.
You are defending WoW on the basis that it is a heavily used application. I am arguing that as a heavily used application they have both the revenue and other real-world examples to use & learn from.
Your counter-point is that they can't learn anything from other heavily used application, they are in virgin terrority. While I agree they are current record holder number of subscribers/users for a MMORPG, they can still learn something from other heavily used application(e.g. connectivity to the internet). Things can be improved and without having to re-invent the wheel.
Remind me why artists need companies like Sony? Especially known bands.
Chicken, egg. How did the known band come to be known? Probably because they signed with a major label and the label did marketing for them.
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
Now that you are enlightened, give me a couple examples of systems that do that, smug guy.
Lighten up , Francis. 1) this is slashdot, people here(some more than others) have an idea of what's involved and 2) you just regurgitated the parent's comment. Is WoW your first or second MMORPG?
- track data constantly (whenever user moves in game, whenever he attempts to do anything, only interface and macro windows can be processed locally) - process it and send results back real-time - analyze who of the 100+ other poor buggers are in "vicinity" and should "see" the action too, and send them an update too, also real-time, please - multiply it by 10'000 simultaneous connections and try to avoid any cascade effects
Excellent job of narrowly defining the scope, only missed the minor requirement of system availability. Ironically system availability happened to be the meat of the article/rant for this thread.
Other examples which fit your requirements above would be other MMORPGs(EQ, AC, CoH, etc). So again I'll say Blizzard isn't doing anything novel, they simply lack the commitment to improve the system. The revenue numbers are being met, so there is no financial incentive to spend time, money & effort to improve the system.
Going slightly outside of your "requirements", I can find examples of systems with much better uptimes under just as heavy traffic & processing load... Stock exchanges; Nikki, Nasdaq, NYSE, etc. PayPal Ebay Nuclear Physics simulations Particle Physics experiments (e.g. CERN) Weather Prediction&Modeling Japan's Earth Simulator
10,000 simultaneous connections really isn't very many, I would guess even Blizzard handles more than that. But 10,000 was the threshold you set.
Ummmm, just what extactly is "Apple", if not a non-living entity?
As for superceeding your rights. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" and it's implicit granting of privacy doesn't superseed your right to free speech.
I'm not sure what you're going for with that statement, so I'll just quote an Amendment for you.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
You can still say what you want, just that you may have to suffer the consequences for spying on people.
Who said anything about spying?
On the off chance you didn't actually read the article Apple is suing a blogger to find out who his source is. They are in effect saying only journalists can keep their sources hidden and a blogger isn't a journalist. This in effect elevates the value of Apple's trade secret over the blogger's freedom of press(free speech) rights.
I understand Free speech has very narrow limits. You should visit Cryptome some time and get idea on just how broad Free speech is. Mildly related & interesting reading is the US case against Phil Zimmerman & PGP.
If you sign a legal document promising not to talk about something and you then go and do exactly that, you can expect to be sued unless you are revealing illegal behaviour,
The problem is the person being sued didn't sign an NDA with Apple or anyone else. They simply wish to keep their source confindental, like any journalist would. Apple is suing to find out who the source of the leak is. A journalist isn't required to reveal their source, Apple's agrument is the blogger isn't a journalist and therefore isn't entitle to protect their source. (did you even read the intro, much less the article?)
Not neccessarily. Yes, the volume of subscribers/sources is much bigger. Howevever, each transaction contains only a small dataset.
Ok, maybe CC systems were a questionable example. Stock exchanges would have been a better example. The point was to suggest that parent poster broaden his view of the world.
Blizzard isn't doing anything novel and excusing the downtime on excessive load is a cop out. Others are capable of handling similar and greater loads.
In WoW you would not only need to pass along more information, but you would need to pass part of that information to other players who are affected, too. Constantly. For hours.
WoW! They have to pass along information to other players? And they have to do it constantly for hours? That just crazy. I never realized that. Thanks for the enlightenment.
What I am saying is that Blizzard has to administer two or more dozen server clusters being continually accessed 24/7 by resource intensive users (save for a usually brief repose on Tuesdays). Unless you work for Google (and even then) there's no comparison.
Particle & Nuclear Physics are probably fair comparisons. Massive amounts of data and processing required. Processing typically being done on very large grid clusters and supercomputers(same thing?).
From the Wikipedia on CERN This accelerator will generate vast quantities of computer data, which CERN will stream to laboratories around the world for distributed processing. In April 2005, a trial successfully streamed 600MB per second to seven different sites across the world. If all the data generated by the LHC is to be analysed, then scientists must achieve triple this before 2007.
Other examples of large data sets would include surveillance networks ran by governments.
Or look to credit card systems for huge data sets and processing(transactions). Visa alone probably handles a magitude more traffic and processing per day than WoW.
Large datasets & processing aren't really new and I don't think Blizzard is doing anything very novel. They just lack a commitment to provide a better uptime. The numbers are being met, so the powers that be don't see a reason to spend money to improve/stablize the service.
Journalists should receive protections for when the information is in the public interest, which is different to whether certain (fanatic) members of the public are interested.
Why just "journalists"? Why not extend that protection to anyone who might have some information that is in the public interest?
Hint: Whistleblower laws
Trade secrets leakage are probably NOT covered by first amendment freedom of speech. If the general public are protected by leakage, then yes. But if the only people this serves are self-interested, then should the laws designed to protect the public apply
Really? A trade secret is more important than the Right of Free Speech? Really?
Try this on for size..... The general public is protected by the leakage or the leakage is in the general public's interest because the ability to leak re-affirms the general public's Right of Free Speech.
Granting non-living entities rights&priviledges that superceed my rights is a bad&dangerous thing to do.
Whats the chance that they'll make more money on the advertising and just give the game away.
See Anarchy Online. You can play their "base" game for free, in exchange you get in-game ads. If you want to play the expansion packs, you need pay the monthly fee.
The in-game ads aren't all bad. The ones in town aren't too distracting and I've even stopped to watch the full motion(ie. video) ones. The annoying ads are the posters in the missions(dungeons). But for free it ain't all bad.
Nova in HD uses a litle over 8GB of disk space for a one hour show. NFL Football games in HD use between 25GB and 30GB, depending on if the game was in 1080i(cbs) or 720p(fox). A NFL Football game is typically around 3 hours.
My ATA133 RAID-5 array was able to handle the stream. I've since move the MythTV dump to a serial ATA RAID-0 array; needed more space, disk space just keeps getting cheaper and didn't really the data protection(raid-5) for recorded tv. Access to both arrays is across a 100mbps switch. No bandwidth problems writing to the array and reading from the array across the same port, i.e. start watching a show a few minutes after it started recording; front-end(machine with capture card) is writing out to the back-end with the disk array.
The HD stream is over the air broadcast, the capture card is a pcHDTV-3000... HD stream is written as the raw mpeg2 stream.
Whoa, cowboy. Just because you believe you were born a sinner, doesn't mean that I was or that a hell even exists. Much less that is where I'm going. You walk your path, I'll walk mine.
The creator grants you certain rights anyways because it suits his purposes, not because in any way outside of him you deserve anything.
Ahhh, and there's the rub. I am given certain rights but under your theory I can't be worthy of them, so I must have them because it suits the creator's "grand plan".
The problem with that is it implies you know my creator's intentions. Which kinda elavates yourself to deity status. No offense but I'm just not buying the deity act. I might be going out a limb here but I'll guess your creator doesn't take kindly to his creations thinking they are a god.
And what of Free Will and a soul? I suppose I'm not deserving of those either? More things given to me just because my creator need a tool to complete a scheme?
What if there is no god, no creator? Then the simple act of being alive entitles me to certain rights. So it wouldn't it follow that being alive means I deserve certain rights?
To secure your rights involves giving up the idea that you inherently deserve anything
Huh? Why does defending my rights mean I must I give up the idea that I am worthy of those of rights?
that what you want is to be gained soley by virtue of acting solely upon the designation of the creator.
That sentence is too wordy for me, I don't understand it. Can you simplify it? I'm not sure it has much to add anyways....
You made the statement "over several centuries a case has been made that nobody on this miserable, wretched, planet deserves anything other than a toasty spot in hell."
I disagreed by pointing out a few people thought people deserved more than a toasty spot in hell. Turns out a few others agreed with them and they went ahead and started a new country based on the idea.
On a side note, I'm sorry you think this is a miserable, wretched, planet. You should take some time to enjoy the beauty of the world around you... smell some flowers, enjoy a sunrise, listen to the birds, have a beer and relax. Let go of your hate.
I deserve certain unalienable Rights, among those are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness because my Creator endowed me with them. To deny me those rights would be to deny me something I deserve.
What one has a right to and what one deserves are not always mutually exclusive or completely different things.
But feel free to believe to otherwise... you have that right, however undeserving you might be to have that right.;)
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
Some where a group of people made a case that people deserve more than a toasty spot in hell. Maybe you're heard of them
Username and Password must be entered before the bank authenticates itself
If the login page or better yet entire website is in https, then the site authenticates itself first. If there is a doubt, double check the SSL cert. Of course only the paranoid(sane) folk are going to double check the SSL cert when banking online.
Commercial-free and uninterupted: Time to dust off the rabbit ears, and check out Public Television (available over the airwaves in every populated US region)
The filesystem standard has been designed to be used by Unix distribution developers, package developers, and system implementors. However, it is primarily intended to be a reference and is not a tutorial on how to manage a Unix filesystem or directory hierarchy.
The LSB specification is made up of several components, known as modules. The base specification consists the of Core, Graphics and CXX (C++) modules. The specification is further extended with the Desktop set. Each module might be subdivided into a common document plus architecture-specific documents (in some cases the subdivision is not needed). A complete binary standard for a particular processor architecture consists of the set of necessary common documents plus the matching set of architecture-specific documents.
Because there are ~2000 legit users of his ntp server. But in the end that is probably the solution he'll have to do... rename his ntp server, allow legit users to update their config and then point gps.dix.dk at a collection of boxes on D-Link's network.
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Actually its from a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song
You say that the people of the USA would not stand for this and that... well they apparently don't have any problem at all with Free Speech Zones, warrant-less search and seizures without probable cause, secret prisons, and indefinite detentions without trial
No, I only said they wouldn't stand for a Tianamen-style crackdown
Other than that... you're singing to the choir, brother. Why don't they seem to have a problem with the items you mentioned? My thinking is it has to do with the dumbing of America. If one doesn't know what their rights are, they won't miss them. And a general lack of knowledge of history means past lessons are lost.
Americans have lost their self-reliant spirit. They're like a junkie, completely hooked on government "protection".
My argument is that a well educated & politically active populace would not have allowed the atrosicities above to happen. The final solution is not found with a gun but thru words. You can only lead from the point of bayonent for so long.
So let's say the president shows up himself in an armored car, ostensibly to talk to with the protestors (in reality, he never leaves the vehicle) and the secret service uses that neat law they've discovered which lets them appropriate the land around the president and arrest anyone arbitrarily who is in it (remember, this part has ALREADY HAPPENED. If you walk up to the president and tell him you disagree with his civil rights policies, the secret service can arrest you,
I am unaware of the "neat law" you speak of, could you provide a link?
Yes, the SS generally doesn't like anyone walking up to the president. Maybe you're new to interacting with "the authorities" but they can arrest you at any point for anything. An arrest really just has to follow some real basic rules; like don't kill the guy. They might later decide they don't want to charge with you anything and simply let you go; usually they'll just give you a bullshit ticket and leave you to find a way home.
One needs to know their rights and know to keep their mouth shut. Name, Rank, Serial #.
Agreed, tho in today's environment an arrest can mean a long wait for charges to be pressed. Always best to let a few people know where you're headed... just in case you get "disappeared".
Let's say that a group of students do eventually come out to protest. Do you really think that a Tianamen-style smackdown is out of the question?
Why do you think it is a possbility?
I think it is out of the question for a couple of reasons. First off I don't think a US politician would risk the backlash from supporting or ordering such an action. Second I don't think US Soliders could open fire on large crowds of Americans and I don't think US Generals would allow it. I think the Miltary has learn from Kent State.
Even the Chinese had problems finding soliders to take their orders. And when finally flew in soliders from outside the area, those soliders were worried about being attacked by other soliders. Note: from outside the area bit. Community ties are an important part of fighting tyranny. The soliders from the area knew a violent crackdown against their community was wrong.
Interestingly US Police officers are told they should not live in the community they serve in. The reasoning I was told was so they can avoid situations where they are interacting with their neighbors in an offical capacity. Which I can understand but I think the community as a whole & the officer have more to gain if he lives in the community he serves. For one he would have a better understanding of the community beyond just the crime he deals with as part of his job.
Neither the Watts riot or the Rodney King riots received a Tianamen-style smackdown, why would a peaceful pr
Guns. Lots of guns.
You might want to ask David Koresh how that worked out for him... or the folk at Ruby Ridge
Violence only begets more violence. A well educated populace that is active in their community and politics is the only long term defense against corruption & tyranny. Teach your children well.
Or maybe more to the point a violent uprising to gov't only plays into their hands by justifying their use of overwhelming force. The US people would not stand for a Tiananmen Square style crackdown on US soil. Look to the civil rights movement of the 60s. Freedom Riders being attacked on National TV forced JFK to send in the troops. Or look at the Kent State Massacre.
What does those bombings have to do with the (off-topic) subject at hand? Is this simply a non-sequiter, or did you have something in mind?
Nothing really.
Heinousjay said Feel free to continue somehow believing that people that commit horrific acts are justified because someone else committed a horrific act.
And the atomic bombings of WWII came to mind. It was a horrific act but it was an act most Americans believe was justified. (note: I am *not* implying or saying it was or was not justified) Believing Heinousjay to be an American, I was curious to his view on it. I guess I was attempting to check the consistency of his beliefs.
I didn't say a country's actions don't have consequences. That's inferring words that don't exist.
Your statement "Haha yes, failed foreign policy is to blame for terrorists" implied you didn't believe failed foreign policy was a root cause of terrorism.
I wasn't looking to fix blame, I am interested in what you think is/are root cause(s) of terrorism. Your statement implied it isn't foreign policy. Is it your belief that terrorism "just exists" there is no underlaying cause or reason? Or is it just one act of retaliation after another? Wouldn't that mean a country's policy of continued retaliation isn't working, perhaps even flawed?
Feel free to continue somehow believing that people that commit horrific acts are justified because someone else committed a horrific act. That'll lead us all into hell, because that means that retaliation is just as justified.
I believe Ghandi said it best: An eye for an eye, leads to a blind world.
I never said or implied that horrific acts were justified. What are your feelings on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
I have a feeling this will be interpreted to mean a million things I don't mean at all
Yes, that is a weakness of language... it isn't always the precise instrument that it needs to be. Its still an analog world.
The cause of terrorism is religious zealots. They're all the same.
That goes for whatever side of the coin you happen to be viewing. All are a bunch of total fools if you ask me.
Agreed, religious extremism is a dangerous thing. It can make it easier to prevert "the faith". Could it not also be argued that a state's interactions with an overly religious state would have a factor on the "production" of terrorists?
I guess what I'm saying is terrorism looks to be the reaction part of the "for every action there is an equal an opposite action" equation aka Blowback.
Was/Is the IRA terrorists or how about the Chechen rebels? Are either of them religious zealots? Were the terrorist in the 1972 Munich Olympics tragedy religios zealots? Is the insurgency in Iraq terrorists and religious zealots?
Is Bin Laden's real goal to spread Islam or get USA out of Saudi & Middle East. Islam happens to be the dominant religion in the region, so wouldn't it make recuiting sense to appeal to them? Look at what the GOP has done by appealing to the religious right in the US.
Its not that religion is the cause of terrorism, but it has been used to recuit people to terrorism.
Haha yes, failed foreign policy is to blame for terrorists
So you believe a country's actions on the world stage are without consequences?
Not trolling, just curious to what you think are root cause(s) of terrorism... religion?
Secondly, about WoW and other services. I have had a distinct impression that WoW is outnumbering the others by a degree or two at least, in terms of subscribers and actual players.
Yes, I agree that WoW subscribers currently outnumbers other MMORPGs by quite bit.
What I am speculating is that it may happen that the potential connection congestion as well as other issues arising from the high numbers may require nontrivial solutions.
Well, yes & no.
Trival; multiple connections to the internet thru multiple ISPs or housed in a data center that has multiple feeds. Per the article Blizzard is using AT&T as their sole connectivity provider and has previously blamed outages on their ISP.
This would be an example of the management deciding not to spend money to improve their service. It is also an example of Blizzard ignoring industry best practices for a high bandwidth, high availability application.
Non-Trival; would be code fixes and tweaks to improving clustering & reduce transaction overhead. Not to mention bug fixes. Again this is where management makes the call as to what is a priority and what isn't.
And somewhere in-between would be the in-house network providing connectivity between the boxes making a cluster/shard and the outside world.
You are defending WoW on the basis that it is a heavily used application. I am arguing that as a heavily used application they have both the revenue and other real-world examples to use & learn from.
Your counter-point is that they can't learn anything from other heavily used application, they are in virgin terrority. While I agree they are current record holder number of subscribers/users for a MMORPG, they can still learn something from other heavily used application(e.g. connectivity to the internet). Things can be improved and without having to re-invent the wheel.
cheers
Remind me why artists need companies like Sony? Especially known bands.
Chicken, egg. How did the known band come to be known? Probably because they signed with a major label and the label did marketing for them.
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
Now that you are enlightened, give me a couple examples of systems that do that, smug guy.
Lighten up , Francis. 1) this is slashdot, people here(some more than others) have an idea of what's involved and 2) you just regurgitated the parent's comment. Is WoW your first or second MMORPG?
- track data constantly (whenever user moves in game, whenever he attempts to do anything, only interface and macro windows can be processed locally)
- process it and send results back real-time
- analyze who of the 100+ other poor buggers are in "vicinity" and should "see" the action too, and send them an update too, also real-time, please
- multiply it by 10'000 simultaneous connections and try to avoid any cascade effects
Excellent job of narrowly defining the scope, only missed the minor requirement of system availability. Ironically system availability happened to be the meat of the article/rant for this thread.
Other examples which fit your requirements above would be other MMORPGs(EQ, AC, CoH, etc). So again I'll say Blizzard isn't doing anything novel, they simply lack the commitment to improve the system. The revenue numbers are being met, so there is no financial incentive to spend time, money & effort to improve the system.
Going slightly outside of your "requirements", I can find examples of systems with much better uptimes under just as heavy traffic & processing load...
Stock exchanges; Nikki, Nasdaq, NYSE, etc.
PayPal
Ebay
Nuclear Physics simulations
Particle Physics experiments (e.g. CERN)
Weather Prediction&Modeling
Japan's Earth Simulator
10,000 simultaneous connections really isn't very many, I would guess even Blizzard handles more than that. But 10,000 was the threshold you set.
Cheers
Who said anything about a non-living entity?
Ummmm, just what extactly is "Apple", if not a non-living entity?
As for superceeding your rights. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" and it's implicit granting of privacy doesn't superseed your right to free speech.
I'm not sure what you're going for with that statement, so I'll just quote an Amendment for you.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
You can still say what you want, just that you may have to suffer the consequences for spying on people.
Who said anything about spying?
On the off chance you didn't actually read the article Apple is suing a blogger to find out who his source is. They are in effect saying only journalists can keep their sources hidden and a blogger isn't a journalist. This in effect elevates the value of Apple's trade secret over the blogger's freedom of press(free speech) rights.
Ridiculous. Free speech is not an absolute...
I understand Free speech has very narrow limits. You should visit Cryptome some time and get idea on just how broad Free speech is. Mildly related & interesting reading is the US case against Phil Zimmerman & PGP.
If you sign a legal document promising not to talk about something and you then go and do exactly that, you can expect to be sued unless you are revealing illegal behaviour,
The problem is the person being sued didn't sign an NDA with Apple or anyone else. They simply wish to keep their source confindental, like any journalist would. Apple is suing to find out who the source of the leak is. A journalist isn't required to reveal their source, Apple's agrument is the blogger isn't a journalist and therefore isn't entitle to protect their source. (did you even read the intro, much less the article?)
Not neccessarily. Yes, the volume of subscribers/sources is much bigger.
Howevever, each transaction contains only a small dataset.
Ok, maybe CC systems were a questionable example. Stock exchanges would have been a better example. The point was to suggest that parent poster broaden his view of the world.
Blizzard isn't doing anything novel and excusing the downtime on excessive load is a cop out. Others are capable of handling similar and greater loads.
In WoW you would not only need to pass along more information, but you would need to pass part of that information to other players who are affected, too. Constantly. For hours.
WoW! They have to pass along information to other players? And they have to do it constantly for hours? That just crazy. I never realized that. Thanks for the enlightenment.
What I am saying is that Blizzard has to administer two or more dozen server clusters being continually accessed 24/7 by resource intensive users (save for a usually brief repose on Tuesdays). Unless you work for Google (and even then) there's no comparison.
Particle & Nuclear Physics are probably fair comparisons. Massive amounts of data and processing required. Processing typically being done on very large grid clusters and supercomputers(same thing?).
From the Wikipedia on CERN
This accelerator will generate vast quantities of computer data, which CERN will stream to laboratories around the world for distributed processing. In April 2005, a trial successfully streamed 600MB per second to seven different sites across the world. If all the data generated by the LHC is to be analysed, then scientists must achieve triple this before 2007.
Other examples of large data sets would include surveillance networks ran by governments.
Or look to credit card systems for huge data sets and processing(transactions). Visa alone probably handles a magitude more traffic and processing per day than WoW.
Large datasets & processing aren't really new and I don't think Blizzard is doing anything very novel. They just lack a commitment to provide a better uptime. The numbers are being met, so the powers that be don't see a reason to spend money to improve/stablize the service.
Journalists should receive protections for when the information is in the public interest, which is different to whether certain (fanatic) members of the public are interested.
Why just "journalists"? Why not extend that protection to anyone who might have some information that is in the public interest?
Hint: Whistleblower laws
Trade secrets leakage are probably NOT covered by first amendment freedom of speech. If the general public are protected by leakage, then yes. But if the only people this serves are self-interested, then should the laws designed to protect the public apply
Really? A trade secret is more important than the Right of Free Speech? Really?
Try this on for size..... The general public is protected by the leakage or the leakage is in the general public's interest because the ability to leak re-affirms the general public's Right of Free Speech.
Granting non-living entities rights&priviledges that superceed my rights is a bad&dangerous thing to do.
Whats the chance that they'll make more money on the advertising and just give the game away.
See Anarchy Online. You can play their "base" game for free, in exchange you get in-game ads. If you want to play the expansion packs, you need pay the monthly fee.
The in-game ads aren't all bad. The ones in town aren't too distracting and I've even stopped to watch the full motion(ie. video) ones. The annoying ads are the posters in the missions(dungeons). But for free it ain't all bad.
Nova in HD uses a litle over 8GB of disk space for a one hour show. NFL Football games in HD use between 25GB and 30GB, depending on if the game was in 1080i(cbs) or 720p(fox). A NFL Football game is typically around 3 hours.
My ATA133 RAID-5 array was able to handle the stream. I've since move the MythTV dump to a serial ATA RAID-0 array; needed more space, disk space just keeps getting cheaper and didn't really the data protection(raid-5) for recorded tv. Access to both arrays is across a 100mbps switch. No bandwidth problems writing to the array and reading from the array across the same port, i.e. start watching a show a few minutes after it started recording; front-end(machine with capture card) is writing out to the back-end with the disk array.
The HD stream is over the air broadcast, the capture card is a pcHDTV-3000... HD stream is written as the raw mpeg2 stream.
Whoa, cowboy. Just because you believe you were born a sinner, doesn't mean that I was or that a hell even exists. Much less that is where I'm going. You walk your path, I'll walk mine.
Ahhh, and there's the rub. I am given certain rights but under your theory I can't be worthy of them, so I must have them because it suits the creator's "grand plan".
The problem with that is it implies you know my creator's intentions. Which kinda elavates yourself to deity status. No offense but I'm just not buying the deity act. I might be going out a limb here but I'll guess your creator doesn't take kindly to his creations thinking they are a god.
And what of Free Will and a soul? I suppose I'm not deserving of those either? More things given to me just because my creator need a tool to complete a scheme?
What if there is no god, no creator? Then the simple act of being alive entitles me to certain rights. So it wouldn't it follow that being alive means I deserve certain rights?
Huh? Why does defending my rights mean I must I give up the idea that I am worthy of those of rights?
That sentence is too wordy for me, I don't understand it. Can you simplify it? I'm not sure it has much to add anyways....
You made the statement "over several centuries a case has been made that nobody on this miserable, wretched, planet deserves anything other than a toasty spot in hell."
I disagreed by pointing out a few people thought people deserved more than a toasty spot in hell. Turns out a few others agreed with them and they went ahead and started a new country based on the idea.
On a side note, I'm sorry you think this is a miserable, wretched, planet. You should take some time to enjoy the beauty of the world around you... smell some flowers, enjoy a sunrise, listen to the birds, have a beer and relax. Let go of your hate.
I deserve certain unalienable Rights, among those are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness because my Creator endowed me with them. To deny me those rights would be to deny me something I deserve.
;)
What one has a right to and what one deserves are not always mutually exclusive or completely different things.
But feel free to believe to otherwise... you have that right, however undeserving you might be to have that right.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
Some where a group of people made a case that people deserve more than a toasty spot in hell. Maybe you're heard of them
Username and Password must be entered before the bank authenticates itself
If the login page or better yet entire website is in https, then the site authenticates itself first. If there is a doubt, double check the SSL cert. Of course only the paranoid(sane) folk are going to double check the SSL cert when banking online.
Commercial-free and uninterupted: Time to dust off the rabbit ears, and check out Public Television (available over the airwaves in every populated US region)
Please remember to support your local PBS station... the only TV actually worth paying for.
PBS also has podcasts freely available.
Every single distro does its own thing and there is no standardization whatsoever.
I humblely disagree.
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
The filesystem standard has been designed to be used by Unix distribution developers, package developers, and system implementors. However, it is primarily intended to be a reference and is not a tutorial on how to manage a Unix filesystem or directory hierarchy.
Gentoo FHS
RedHat FHS
Suse FHS&LSB
And for binary distros there is Linux Standard Base (LSB)
The LSB specification is made up of several components, known as modules. The base specification consists the of Core, Graphics and CXX (C++) modules. The specification is further extended with the Desktop set. Each module might be subdivided into a common document plus architecture-specific documents (in some cases the subdivision is not needed). A complete binary standard for a particular processor architecture consists of the set of necessary common documents plus the matching set of architecture-specific documents.
Latest LSB Spec 3.1.0
Laugh with the sinners and cry with the saints
Because there are ~2000 legit users of his ntp server. But in the end that is probably the solution he'll have to do... rename his ntp server, allow legit users to update their config and then point gps.dix.dk at a collection of boxes on D-Link's network.