We have other protocols, like FTP for example, that handle things besides web pages. HTTP is a pretty wide open protocol and allows all sorts of things to be jammed in to it, which is why it's worked so well in the past.
Also, as they say, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Ah, fantastic, this was the response I was hoping for, and the reason I visit Slashdot. Any chance you could convert this post in to a (well linked) Wikipedia Article? I've dug around for similar information before, but I think the reason why articles always are so vauge about the CME's classifications are that reporters have so little information to research from, in particular Wikipedia.
This will be an interesting precedent if they extradite someone for a civil violation. Extradition is generally for things like capital murder and significant money laundering operations, not copyright violation.
If you go to Plano (suburb of Dallas, Texas), there are tens, if not a hundred buildings scattered all over the city that look like houses, with roofs, centrally located doors (like houses), manicured "lawns" and even a tree in the "front yard". They typically occupy less than a quarter acre and only have parking for one or two cars (particularly Verizon trucks).
They have no windows.
Typically 1,000 sq feet or so they look like a small house, or a detached garage (rare in the area) and have brick exteriors (matches the houses in the area) with roof overhangs. No two are exactly alike, but they're generally near the entrance.
So yes, it's not uncommon to see telecommunications buildings (I guess mansions would be the next logical step) in neighborhoods disguised as "houses". They're easy to pick out if you know to look for them. I'm sure other cities have them too (particularly in the DFW area).
Those sorts of gross situations are more of an exception, rather than the rule. Yes, humans are capable of gross things, but we're also capable of putting a man on the moon. People, for the overwhelming majority, just want to live peacefully and watch their kids grow up safe and be as successful. This means being generally nice and cooperating with other people for the greater good. You'll note that most conquerors who were wildly successful only dealt with the military - they left cities and farms intact. Wars in most cases are just to determine who gets to sit at the top. If you destroy the family unit everything devolves in to chaos (see also: Africa). If you get away from the tourist traps while traveling you'll find that people are generally very kind and happy to share their lives with strangers. People are generally good. Those in charge however, sometimes are not.
Did you miss any of the bullet points on apple's webpage about displayport? Maybe you should consider working at the Apple store. If people wanted ultra high resolution 30" displays in the home, they would exist already. Ultra high resolution displays exist, but expect to pay north of $20K for one. The problem with super high resolution displays is that your eye can't resolve that kind of resolution beyond 12" or so. It's the same argument for why you don't need more than a 40" 720p display if you're sitting more than 12' from the display -- you just can't resolve that kind of information. It gets worse once you hit age 30 and start considering reading glasses.
Just like when hiring a new employee, you look for certifications and credentials. When trying to separate the legitimate companies from the fly-by-nights, seeing audits every year going back 2, 3, 4 years can help verify that they've been around for a while. Datacenter space isn't cheap, and if you find a good deal you want to make sure that your server with all the company data on it is still there on monday morning, and not on a plane to China.
You put your money in an FDIC-insured bank account because it's registered with someone who's taken the task of keeping an eye on their registrants and staked their reputation on it. If you don't agree with that, I have an offshore bank account you can transfer some money in to for the International Bank Of Hadlock, we just opened yesterday, but we offer 3000% interest daily and don't keep money laundering records.
There are more trees on earth since the advent of modern forestry than before it. I am all for "save the forests" in Brazil and whatnot, but the wood used in home construction is grown as a crop (a 13-30 year crop, but a crop nonetheless). Home building materials are about as green as green can get. Even brick is made with 2-3% ash from coal power plants.
Hyundai was offering 10 year warranties for a few years in 2000-2003, or in that period at least. I think they realized that even for really well built Korean cars, american users still tear the snot out of them over the course of a decade and it's not economically viable to continue with 10 year warranties.
I think, perhaps some homes come with a 10 year warranty, but I can't think of anything else people are willing to stand behind for 10 years. Maybe cowboy boots or horse saddles, perhaps? And lead bricks. Definitely lead bricks.
Nobody cares about 3D stuff. At least, not the people old enough to have jobs to waste on 3D crap. Stop bringing up 3D games so that we can let that manufactured hype die a peaceful death already!
Furthermore, I think it's absolutely incredible that people could buy these miniature supercomputers (they're still on par with a 2010 PC computer) and expect them to run flawlessly for a decade. I mean, sure, electronics technology has come a long ways in the last 20 years, but you're talking about a device that is going to pump literally half a million cubic feet of air (10 years * 80cfm) through it, dust and all, and function guaranteed , without service for a decade. That's mind blowing.
Sure, some of us went off to college with mom's old toaster, but it only functions for about 3 minutes at a time, 3-4 times a week, and has four moving parts. Most consoles have many, many fans, constant temps of 50C+ and all sorts of moving parts in the optical drive, hard drive and more.
There are occasional outliers, like that Gameboy that survived a bomb attack in Iraq in 1991 and still works, but you need to take with a pinch of salt that when they say they are going to support a product line for a decade, you need to put that in to perspective. That means they will continue to sell the PS3 until 2016, not build them to last that long. That's just unrealistic, and your demands are too.
You're buying a piece of consumer electronics. It's not ruggedized military hardware, despite what the commercials might lead you to believe. It doesn't even have a real metal case, for goodness sake.
2 years is generous for bleeding edge technology. You can't even get a 10 year factory warranty from asian car makers. Just buy a 10 year warranty through a third party. The cost of a 10 year warranty for a $600 console would probably cost you $400.
If you wanted a launch PS3 with 10-year durable components, you should have expected to pay $1200 or more, to be honest. You get what you pay for.
Given the current global economy I think $250-$350 at launch is realistic.
People could get away with $600 sale prices because:
a) really low yields on bleeding edge tech made widespread distribution nearly impossible b) lax regulations on credit laws pumped a bunch of cash in to western markets (and households)
Now we're paying the price for those boom years, die fab tech has come a long ways in the last 6 years (the last 6 years represent nearly 20% of the entire lifespan of the modern semiconductor industry); there's no need for exorbitant production costs anymore, and the world economy can't afford it.
I think all bills should have to be read aloud by the party leader in full immediately before it goes to vote on the floor. This does two things, it forces congress to effectively read every bill they vote for (currently they don't) , and keeps the party leader from promoting 900 page legislation that really should be split into multiple bills.
That, and they have the best display technology in the business. Much like glossy screens sell laptops, amoleds make phones pop compared to old lcd tech.
Having CLI only potentially means that someone could administer the server from abroad, so long as there is someone in the building who the admin can call to cycle the power and swap the backup tapes every so often. My buddy does this via linux for two 50+ person non profits in Seattle.... from his sailboat in Houston. The only reason he's not doing this for more groups is that the market is fairly saturated with guys like him already... working from the CLI.
You've got to draw the line somewhere though. I would be very nervous to have a bunch of untested updates running around on my network, especially if my job/performance review/bonus depended on the quality of someone elses' untested code.
I'm not especially keen to answer my boss about a security exploit in a new feature that ruined the company by saying "yeah we just let it update itself, i don't really get involved in all that. it seems to work ok most of the time, I'm sure we'll catch it in time NEXT time". At least in the real world if something happens you can fall back on "we're using the secure version that we've tested against known exploits; this new exploit was out of our hands. Since we're familiar with the software we have, we were able to reduce the damage by X".
I would assume LTS would include security fixes, but would be a feature freeze with only security updates (improvements)? Did I mis-read the blurb when it said "providing these organizations with a version of Firefox that receives security updates but does not make changes to the Web or Firefox Add-ons platform"?
Honestly I could care less about most new features, 99.99% of the time features add extra clutter and are better executed as plugins anyways.
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We have other protocols, like FTP for example, that handle things besides web pages. HTTP is a pretty wide open protocol and allows all sorts of things to be jammed in to it, which is why it's worked so well in the past.
Also, as they say, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Ah, fantastic, this was the response I was hoping for, and the reason I visit Slashdot. Any chance you could convert this post in to a (well linked) Wikipedia Article? I've dug around for similar information before, but I think the reason why articles always are so vauge about the CME's classifications are that reporters have so little information to research from, in particular Wikipedia.
They have a designated ranking system for CME/EMP effects on earth. It goes from C or M all the way up to X5 I believe.
I'm pretty sure the scope of the discussion in the thread entitled, "How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work" is fairly specific to Apple products.
This will be an interesting precedent if they extradite someone for a civil violation. Extradition is generally for things like capital murder and significant money laundering operations, not copyright violation.
Sooo... a $199 iPhone would cost $299? $350? Are you saying consumers wouldn't pay $350 for an iPhone?
If you go to Plano (suburb of Dallas, Texas), there are tens, if not a hundred buildings scattered all over the city that look like houses, with roofs, centrally located doors (like houses), manicured "lawns" and even a tree in the "front yard". They typically occupy less than a quarter acre and only have parking for one or two cars (particularly Verizon trucks).
They have no windows.
Typically 1,000 sq feet or so they look like a small house, or a detached garage (rare in the area) and have brick exteriors (matches the houses in the area) with roof overhangs. No two are exactly alike, but they're generally near the entrance.
So yes, it's not uncommon to see telecommunications buildings (I guess mansions would be the next logical step) in neighborhoods disguised as "houses". They're easy to pick out if you know to look for them. I'm sure other cities have them too (particularly in the DFW area).
We're capable of faking it and fooling 99% of the population, then
Those sorts of gross situations are more of an exception, rather than the rule. Yes, humans are capable of gross things, but we're also capable of putting a man on the moon. People, for the overwhelming majority, just want to live peacefully and watch their kids grow up safe and be as successful. This means being generally nice and cooperating with other people for the greater good. You'll note that most conquerors who were wildly successful only dealt with the military - they left cities and farms intact. Wars in most cases are just to determine who gets to sit at the top. If you destroy the family unit everything devolves in to chaos (see also: Africa). If you get away from the tourist traps while traveling you'll find that people are generally very kind and happy to share their lives with strangers. People are generally good. Those in charge however, sometimes are not.
Did you miss any of the bullet points on apple's webpage about displayport? Maybe you should consider working at the Apple store. If people wanted ultra high resolution 30" displays in the home, they would exist already. Ultra high resolution displays exist, but expect to pay north of $20K for one. The problem with super high resolution displays is that your eye can't resolve that kind of resolution beyond 12" or so. It's the same argument for why you don't need more than a 40" 720p display if you're sitting more than 12' from the display -- you just can't resolve that kind of information. It gets worse once you hit age 30 and start considering reading glasses.
Just like when hiring a new employee, you look for certifications and credentials. When trying to separate the legitimate companies from the fly-by-nights, seeing audits every year going back 2, 3, 4 years can help verify that they've been around for a while. Datacenter space isn't cheap, and if you find a good deal you want to make sure that your server with all the company data on it is still there on monday morning, and not on a plane to China.
You put your money in an FDIC-insured bank account because it's registered with someone who's taken the task of keeping an eye on their registrants and staked their reputation on it. If you don't agree with that, I have an offshore bank account you can transfer some money in to for the International Bank Of Hadlock, we just opened yesterday, but we offer 3000% interest daily and don't keep money laundering records.
There are more trees on earth since the advent of modern forestry than before it. I am all for "save the forests" in Brazil and whatnot, but the wood used in home construction is grown as a crop (a 13-30 year crop, but a crop nonetheless). Home building materials are about as green as green can get. Even brick is made with 2-3% ash from coal power plants.
Hyundai was offering 10 year warranties for a few years in 2000-2003, or in that period at least. I think they realized that even for really well built Korean cars, american users still tear the snot out of them over the course of a decade and it's not economically viable to continue with 10 year warranties.
I think, perhaps some homes come with a 10 year warranty, but I can't think of anything else people are willing to stand behind for 10 years. Maybe cowboy boots or horse saddles, perhaps? And lead bricks. Definitely lead bricks.
Oh, ok. I'll just ignore the Navy buying hundreds of PS3s at launch for cryptographic studies.
Nobody cares about 3D stuff. At least, not the people old enough to have jobs to waste on 3D crap. Stop bringing up 3D games so that we can let that manufactured hype die a peaceful death already!
Furthermore, I think it's absolutely incredible that people could buy these miniature supercomputers (they're still on par with a 2010 PC computer) and expect them to run flawlessly for a decade. I mean, sure, electronics technology has come a long ways in the last 20 years, but you're talking about a device that is going to pump literally half a million cubic feet of air (10 years * 80cfm) through it, dust and all, and function guaranteed , without service for a decade. That's mind blowing.
Sure, some of us went off to college with mom's old toaster, but it only functions for about 3 minutes at a time, 3-4 times a week, and has four moving parts. Most consoles have many, many fans, constant temps of 50C+ and all sorts of moving parts in the optical drive, hard drive and more.
There are occasional outliers, like that Gameboy that survived a bomb attack in Iraq in 1991 and still works, but you need to take with a pinch of salt that when they say they are going to support a product line for a decade, you need to put that in to perspective. That means they will continue to sell the PS3 until 2016, not build them to last that long. That's just unrealistic, and your demands are too.
You're buying a piece of consumer electronics. It's not ruggedized military hardware, despite what the commercials might lead you to believe. It doesn't even have a real metal case, for goodness sake.
2 years is generous for bleeding edge technology. You can't even get a 10 year factory warranty from asian car makers. Just buy a 10 year warranty through a third party. The cost of a 10 year warranty for a $600 console would probably cost you $400.
If you wanted a launch PS3 with 10-year durable components, you should have expected to pay $1200 or more, to be honest. You get what you pay for.
Cheap. Quality. Durable. Pick any two.
Given the current global economy I think $250-$350 at launch is realistic.
People could get away with $600 sale prices because:
a) really low yields on bleeding edge tech made widespread distribution nearly impossible
b) lax regulations on credit laws pumped a bunch of cash in to western markets (and households)
Now we're paying the price for those boom years, die fab tech has come a long ways in the last 6 years (the last 6 years represent nearly 20% of the entire lifespan of the modern semiconductor industry); there's no need for exorbitant production costs anymore, and the world economy can't afford it.
I think all bills should have to be read aloud by the party leader in full immediately before it goes to vote on the floor. This does two things, it forces congress to effectively read every bill they vote for (currently they don't) , and keeps the party leader from promoting 900 page legislation that really should be split into multiple bills.
Last time I checked, even $5 billion can't resurrect the dead after being buried alive in a boiling mud flow.
That, and they have the best display technology in the business. Much like glossy screens sell laptops, amoleds make phones pop compared to old lcd tech.
Having CLI only potentially means that someone could administer the server from abroad, so long as there is someone in the building who the admin can call to cycle the power and swap the backup tapes every so often. My buddy does this via linux for two 50+ person non profits in Seattle.... from his sailboat in Houston. The only reason he's not doing this for more groups is that the market is fairly saturated with guys like him already... working from the CLI.
Yeah, I miss sipping cocktails out of coconuts with little umbrellas in them on the beach in Alaska, in January too.
Wait, what?
You've got to draw the line somewhere though. I would be very nervous to have a bunch of untested updates running around on my network, especially if my job/performance review/bonus depended on the quality of someone elses' untested code.
I'm not especially keen to answer my boss about a security exploit in a new feature that ruined the company by saying "yeah we just let it update itself, i don't really get involved in all that. it seems to work ok most of the time, I'm sure we'll catch it in time NEXT time". At least in the real world if something happens you can fall back on "we're using the secure version that we've tested against known exploits; this new exploit was out of our hands. Since we're familiar with the software we have, we were able to reduce the damage by X".
I would assume LTS would include security fixes, but would be a feature freeze with only security updates (improvements)? Did I mis-read the blurb when it said "providing these organizations with a version of Firefox that receives security updates but does not make changes to the Web or Firefox Add-ons platform"?
Honestly I could care less about most new features, 99.99% of the time features add extra clutter and are better executed as plugins anyways.