That's just bad game design. The packets should be timestamped, and the effect should correspond to the time of the cause, not the time of the arrival of the packet reporting the cause (within the limits of the jitter of the clock synchronization protocol, at least).
Your ISP may be better connected to the backbone than your friend's ISP. What matters is not the latency to the AS boundary, but the average latency to your peers. Also, 8MB up with a 128k down is not going to get much better ping time than 512k up with a 128k down: The 128k down segment is going to dominate your ping time (which is bidirectional).
Yes, latency sucks. It's sucking more and more as ISPs optimize devices for b/w at the expense of latency, although the customer base would benefit more from decreased latency than increased b/w, so I appreciate your effort to draw attention to the issue.
If you are so keen to have physically small storage media that you can't tolerate a micro-CD, then SD is probably too bg for you too. I commend smart media flash cards. They don't threaten you with potentially crippling DRM bits, and they are cheaper than MMC or CF (or at least, the last time I looked, the best sale prices were on Smart Media cards).
With Mandarin you can get by almost everywhere in China that would have tech higher than an oxcart. The schooling in China is done in Mandarin. Public schooling is mandatory. As a result essentially everyone in the country below the age of 50 is fluent in Mandarin.
Street life in HK, GZ, SZ, is in Cantonese (less in SZ, since it is so heavy with migrants), but business, science, tech, will use Mandarin primarily.
> since most of the annihilation would have taken place at a stage when all the matter was condended
ah, but annihilation releases energy, and the energy would also have been extremely condensed, leading to the formation of new matter, in equal proportions of charge. this is during the period of rapid inflation, at the end of which, i speculate, equilibrium between matter creation and destruction existed. by that time, clumping had already occurred, corresponding to galatic superclusters.
hey, it's plausible. i haven't tried the numbers, though.
You don't want the drivers in distros -- you want them in Linus' kernel. Don't worry about liason with distro vendors. Worry about liason with vger.
Since understanding the device, finding its quirks, and designing protocol is the overwhelming bulk of the work of writing a device driver, a reasonable rule of thumb is that adding another platform will entail an additional 10-20% in manpower. Since the gap between a WinXP driver and a Linux driver is relatively large, the high-end of the scale is a closer approximation: Take the development time for the Windows driver and divide by 5.
Now for maintenance, the new platform cost is much higher, because each platform has its quirks, etc. You do get to amortize some stuff over the platforms (no need to diagnose protocol bugs twice, etc.), but it doesn't count for a whole lot, so I would estimate that adding a new platform will entail 80-90% again as much in maintenance costs.
However, for an open source driver, you will quickly find (if your hardware is at all useful) that the chore of forward- porting maintenance as the kernel develops will be largely assumed by the user community, so give any open-source platform a -25% maintenance cost tick, at least.
Customer support issues are an entirely different ballgame, and depend so much on your audience that I won't venture even a guess -- keep in mind that customer support for a smaller community typically is less work than is a similar level of support for a larger community -- and Linux users are accoustomed to self-support and community-support.
Just a heads-up for those who might miss the fine print:
"Written by a team of authors that includes the original J2ME technology experts from Sun, Motorola, and Nokia..." Now, doesn't that just tell you everything you need to know. Wirtten by "technologists" and "architects", who don't know how to write code and don't give a crap.
Take a look at www.sodaplay.com, or news.bbc.co.uk. Tell me again that Java applets are too slow. Try to reimplement those applets in Flash, then tell me again.
It seems redundant to provide justification for anything so bleeding obvious: Either you know it already, or it's hopeless to try to educate you.
The planners of the wars in the Middle East are overwhelmingly AIPAC and JINSA affiliates. Heck, Richard Perle was *caught* delivering classified documents to the Israeli embassy while he was an aide to "Scoop" Jackson in the 70s.
But, as Forrest Gump reports, "stupid is as stupid does". As the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. used to wage war against each other by proxy, through puppet governments in client states, so the U.S. is being used as a puppet of the Sharon government. Sharon himself has said as much.
Everything that threatens the wealthy must be eliminated, because the numbers of the poor are increasing so rapidly that a mass-extermination will be required soon in order to prevent a degradation in our quality of life. If the poor have the resources, they will, of course, defend themselves, if the extermination becomes common knowledge. It is crucial that the effective ability to defend themselves, to organize, etc., must be denied to them.
You can return it. Every sale in the U.S. includes an implied warranty of merchantability: The item sold is warranted to be fit for the purpose for which it is designed. If you were sold an item that does not work for the purpose for which it was designed, you have the unquestioned legal right to demand a full refund.
This post is not +1 informative, because it hypothesizes an absurdity: There is no copying of the firmware occuring, so no copyright violation is occuring, nor is the situation sufficiently ambiguous to make any such charge other than transparently frivolous.
Slashdot Mirror
I find that any post that I make which is contrary to
Microsoft's marketting line is vulnerable to moderation
as a troll.
It looks to me as though they;re astroturfing m1 on slashdot.
More likely they just bought the core and incorporated
it into their chip.
Oh it didn't just look bad. It was like assassination politics
for middle-eastern jihadis. Place your bets, win big by
fixing the game.
150,000 moderators on slashdot, and the only ones
smart enough to recognize such an obvious troll have
been censored by having m1 turned off.
That's just bad game design. The packets should be timestamped, and the effect should correspond to the
time of the cause, not the time of the arrival of the packet
reporting the cause (within the limits of the jitter of the
clock synchronization protocol, at least).
Your ISP may be better connected to the backbone
than your friend's ISP. What matters is not the latency
to the AS boundary, but the average latency to your
peers. Also, 8MB up with a 128k down is not going to
get much better ping time than 512k up with a 128k
down: The 128k down segment is going to dominate
your ping time (which is bidirectional).
Yes, latency sucks. It's sucking more and more as
ISPs optimize devices for b/w at the expense of latency,
although the customer base would benefit more from
decreased latency than increased b/w, so I appreciate
your effort to draw attention to the issue.
If you are so keen to have physically small storage
media that you can't tolerate a micro-CD, then SD is
probably too bg for you too. I commend smart media
flash cards. They don't threaten you with potentially
crippling DRM bits, and they are cheaper than MMC
or CF (or at least, the last time I looked, the best sale
prices were on Smart Media cards).
With Mandarin you can get by almost everywhere
in China that would have tech higher than an oxcart.
The schooling in China is done in Mandarin. Public
schooling is mandatory. As a result essentially everyone
in the country below the age of 50 is fluent in Mandarin.
Street life in HK, GZ, SZ, is in Cantonese (less in SZ, since
it is so heavy with migrants), but business, science, tech,
will use Mandarin primarily.
Problem is, the "hardware" is an emulator.
Really, it's turtles all the way down, sonny.
> since most of the annihilation would have taken place at a stage when all the matter was condended
ah, but annihilation releases energy, and the energy would
also have been extremely condensed, leading to the
formation of new matter, in equal proportions of charge.
this is during the period of rapid inflation, at the end of
which, i speculate, equilibrium between matter creation
and destruction existed. by that time, clumping had
already occurred, corresponding to galatic superclusters.
hey, it's plausible. i haven't tried the numbers, though.
You don't want the drivers in distros -- you want them in
Linus' kernel. Don't worry about liason with distro vendors.
Worry about liason with vger.
Since understanding the device, finding its quirks, and
designing protocol is the overwhelming bulk of the work
of writing a device driver, a reasonable rule of thumb is
that adding another platform will entail an additional
10-20% in manpower. Since the gap between a WinXP
driver and a Linux driver is relatively large, the high-end
of the scale is a closer approximation: Take the
development time for the Windows driver and divide by 5.
Now for maintenance, the new platform cost is much higher,
because each platform has its quirks, etc. You do get to
amortize some stuff over the platforms (no need to
diagnose protocol bugs twice, etc.), but it doesn't count
for a whole lot, so I would estimate that adding a new
platform will entail 80-90% again as much in maintenance
costs.
However, for an open source driver, you will quickly find
(if your hardware is at all useful) that the chore of forward-
porting maintenance as the kernel develops will be largely
assumed by the user community, so give any open-source
platform a -25% maintenance cost tick, at least.
Customer support issues are an entirely different ballgame,
and depend so much on your audience that I won't venture
even a guess -- keep in mind that customer support for
a smaller community typically is less work than is a similar
level of support for a larger community -- and Linux
users are accoustomed to self-support and community-support.
win_cost = win_dev + win_maint + win_support
lin_cost = lin_dev + lin_maint + lin_support
lin_dev = win_dev * 0.2
lin_maint = win_maint * 0.6
lin_support = win_support * k
Fill in k.
chroot'ed, your exposure amounts to the possibility that /home
a remote exploit can allow a cracker to write on
as root. To solve:
You could make the module run as a daemon uid, and
have it invoke a setuid program that sets uid to the
final user's.
Hop on Friendster and find someone in your social network
who lives near your temporary location.
> Coding skills can be learned.
By some people, yes.
Not by most.
What you say is true, as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough:
You discount the 54,000 people illegally prevented from voting.
Just a heads-up for those who might miss the fine print:
"Written by a team of authors that includes the original J2ME technology experts from Sun, Motorola, and Nokia..."
Now, doesn't that just tell you everything you need to
know. Wirtten by "technologists" and "architects", who
don't know how to write code and don't give a crap.
I wonder if this might be ( the smallest number which cannot be specified using less than 14 english words ) .
Trying to do gui by image maps will lead to nothing but
an unusable application.
Take a look at www.sodaplay.com, or news.bbc.co.uk.
Tell me again that Java applets are too slow.
Try to reimplement those applets in Flash, then tell me
again.
Featherless bipid. /me *ducks* the inevitable plucked chicken.
> troll
... LOG ....
,v
... using ftp ...
...problems volunteers had...
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
> rename
Bzzt. Wrong. The info page is wrong. Just move the
file on the server, problem solved.
>
FTP doesn't keep version histories and allow version control. Remember what "CVS" stands for?
>
Well, you can pick your nose, but you can't always pick
your volunteers.
It seems redundant to provide justification for anything so
bleeding obvious: Either you know it already, or it's
hopeless to try to educate you.
The planners of the wars in the Middle East are
overwhelmingly AIPAC and JINSA affiliates. Heck,
Richard Perle was *caught* delivering classified
documents to the Israeli embassy while he was an aide
to "Scoop" Jackson in the 70s.
But, as Forrest Gump reports, "stupid is as stupid does".
As the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. used to wage war against
each other by proxy, through puppet governments in
client states, so the U.S. is being used as a puppet of
the Sharon government. Sharon himself has said as much.
Everything that threatens the wealthy must be eliminated,
because the numbers of the poor are increasing so rapidly
that a mass-extermination will be required soon in order
to prevent a degradation in our quality of life. If the poor
have the resources, they will, of course, defend themselves,
if the extermination becomes common knowledge. It is
crucial that the effective ability to defend themselves, to
organize, etc., must be denied to them.
You can return it. Every sale in the U.S. includes an
implied warranty of merchantability: The item sold
is warranted to be fit for the purpose for which it is
designed. If you were sold an item that does not work
for the purpose for which it was designed, you have the
unquestioned legal right to demand a full refund.
This post is not +1 informative, because it hypothesizes
an absurdity: There is no copying of the firmware occuring,
so no copyright violation is occuring, nor is the situation
sufficiently ambiguous to make any such charge other than
transparently frivolous.