Not necessarily. There are numerous wifi transfer apps for the iPad that turn your iPad into a shared hard drive on the network, making it just another networked computer that you can drag and drop files to. Some of them support every protocol imaginable, including WebDAV, Google Docs, and other cloud providers.
I have an iPad and I've been sitting in the opposite corner of my 2,000 sq. foot house, through 6 walls, an elevator shaft, and numerous electronic devices, and have had no problems with wifi whatsoever. In fact, I downloaded 1GB of music and it was fast, easily maxing out my 20 megabit cable Internet connection, while sitting in the opposite corner of the house from my wifi router.
I'm using an Airport Extreme base station (the original, not improved new version), with WPA2, wireless-N enabled, so YMMV. My anecdotal experience is that the iPad actually got a strong, usable signal, sitting in the same spot of the house where my Windows 7 gaming laptop drops due to a weak signal and too many walls.
I don't think he is the visionary that Warren Spector or Peter Molyneux became, but he got pretty filthy rich off of those "shitty" games, and influenced a whole new generation of game development.
Seriously? Peter Molyneux? Peter Molyneux made one good game in his life: Populous. Then he proceeded to make tons of terrible games like Fable afterwards. Now he seems to have mastered the art of bullshit: "our game will let you experience real human emotions blah blah blah"
I wouldn't put Lord British's original Ultima II game up against any of Molyneux's "moral dillema" crap. At least in the Ultima games, the character development through doing good or evil acts was actually unique and creative. In Peter Molyneux's games they are just rehashed versions of things he copied from Lord British back in the 80s.
Although, Lord British has gone downhill significantly. Look at the crapfest that was his failed MMO.
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If you really want to fix healthcare, do tort reform first. Then break up the AMA cartel. Then look at other things that may need to be changed.
Is there anything that the government runs that really functions correctly/efficiently?
First of all, tort reform would only provide a 3% reduction in costs to the healthcare system. It sounds nice, but it's just a diversionary tactic and doesn't really solve the problems causing spiraling high insurance costs. The main issue causing insurance increases is that more healthy young people are opting not to be insured, whether it's because they lost their job, or for whatever reason, couldn't afford it and aren't that sick. This leaves only an older generation of rapidly aging baby boomers, which means the insurance companies can't spread the risk around sufficiently, so rates go up. The healthcare bill, which mandates coverage for all, aims to solve this problem by creating a larger risk pool so hopefully more healthy young people can subsidize older unhealthy people.
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that the government is taking over healthcare, which couldn't be further from the truth.
This is one example of why, for me, current "climate science" and the idea that the "debate is over" don't pass the smell test.
Your argument seems to be centered around the motivations of the people supporting climate change, and how much money they stand to make from selling carbon credits.
By this same logic, you should be looking pretty harshly at critics of climate change, and where their funding comes from.
From where I sit, the critics of climate change have a lot more to gain financially from denying. Trillions of USD more...
Your arguments against climate change don't pass my "smell test."
It's funny that people always complain about DRM, locked-down consoles and proprietary standards and want more open and free, but when it's about Apple then it doesn't matter anymore. btw, you can blame Apple for HTML5 video never going to happen - they're pushing hard towards H.264, which is never going to be reality for Firefox because it can't be distributed in the source code.
Wow, troll much? HTML 5 is an open standard. HTML 5 video just requires a codec to function properly. Right now, there is H.264, which is a patent encumbered codec (you must pay to license it) and is bundled with Chrome and Safari, or Ogg Theora, a free codec bundled by Firefox.
I know I'll probably get downmodded into oblivion, but I would rather have an open standard that is relatively cheap to implement and just works like H.264, than a closed standard like Flash for video on the web. Mozilla can harp all they want about how they are trying to free web standards by using Theora, but there may be submarine patents that come to bite Theora implementations, and personally, when I want to watch Hulu or something on the web, I don't want to worry about whether I have the right codec installed. I'll just use Chrome and let Google pay the $1.50 or whatever it costs to license the H.264 codec.
H.264 also has the advantage that there are hardware accelerated decoding chips in most mobile devices and a lot of new netbooks, so I don't have to drain my battery in 30 minutes of watching video.
Sorry, free software is a great thing in theory, but in practice, I just want to be able to watch video that actually works, and doesn't drain my battery too fast.
What is with all these crazy people suggesting that you should shift into neutral? With a floored accelerator, that's a great way to completely destroy the engine. How about you do what you always do when you want to slow down? Push the fucking brake!
I'd rather shift into neutral and blow the engine than blow myself all over another vehicle or a guard rail at 100 mph... Brakes don't work as well when you're at wide open throttle. Don't be an idiot. A blown engine is easy to replace; in fact, I bet Toyota would give you a free one if you experienced this problem. They'd rather pay for an engine than pay death benefits to your family.
Bottom line, don't try to be a hero. Let the engine blow if it's gonna, put it in neutral, brake to a stop, and turn off the ignition.
Also, I should point out that Android seems to have all of the disadvantages of a closed system, and all of the disadvantages of an open system at the same time. For example, app developers on Android can publish without approval, but so can malware developers. There has already been one app pulled because it was a phishing app. Then, Google has complete control over what can be released, and can even uninstall apps that were previously downloaded.
So Google has basically built an App store that lets malware through without impediment, but can ban any software they want. How is that more open than Apple? It sounds to me like a much worse system.
Not to mention, Android limits the amount of disk space for installable apps to something less than 256MB. You can forget about apps that require a large local database, or other large apps like games.
The average car on the road is about 9.5 years old (and growing), implying that the average expected lifespan of a vehicle on the road today is 19 years (and growing). The average driver drives 12,000 miles a year. Even the first-gen Volt would break even at 11 1/2 years.
Unfortunately, the battery pack is only warranted for 100K/10 years, and you'd most likely have to replace it before 140,000 miles and 11.5 years, so you will never reach the break even point.
Also, your calculations assume that you will always be within electric only range. Do you ever drive more than 40 miles in one day? I know I sure do.
8kWh to fully recharge the pack (it's a 16kWh pack, but only half of it gets used so that it lasts longer). At 90% net charging efficiency, and the US average of about $0.10/kWh, that's $0.89.
Electric cars are cheap to run.:)
Not really. I live in CT, and pay $0.125/kWh for electricity, plus a $0.125/kWh "delivery charge", so effectively pay $0.25/kWh for electricity. This means it costs me $2.00 to travel 40 miles. Meanwhile, I can buy an economy car that will get 40 mpg and it only costs me ~$2.50 a gallon for fuel.
Am I supposed to pay $40K for an economy car just to save $0.50 a gallon? Somehow this math doesn't make sense. Wake me up when the plug-in hybrid option only adds $2K to the vehicle purchase price. Then it might be reasonable to consider it. Until then, this is yet another expensive early adopter vehicle for people that want to feel smug about "being green."
A toy that lets us develop our own datacenter management tools and deploy them to our employees without having to suck Apple's App Store dick.
Dude, you can do this already without having to suck Apple's dick. All you need is a $99 iPhone app dev kit and you can deploy all you want to your own employee handsets.
an important part of the announcement is that they are selling an unlocked, GSM phone for $530. sounds like a lot, but depending on the plan you chose you can end up saving money over the course of what would be a 2-year contract. if you are complaining about being tied to GSM networks, you can hardly blame google for that.
People act like this is some new thing, that Google came down from the sky like Jesus and offered unlocked phones.
It's not new. In 2006 I bought an unlocked Palm Treo 650 running PalmOS for almost exactly the same price, $549, took it to T-Mobile, said I didn't want a contract because I had my own phone, popped my SIM card in, and started using it right away.
So far I see nothing new at all about Nexus One, other than the fact that they're advertising it pretty heavily with an unlocked option. Most phone companies don't advertise; they let the carriers do it for them. Apple is the one big exception, and even they also offer an unlocked option.
For an easier solution, if you find an article that is indexed by Google bot, but stuck behind a paywall, just hit the back button and view Google's cached copy. It will have the text that the crawler indexed. This really helps for those annoying "Expert's Exchange" articles that seem to be the top hit for a lot of computer troubleshooting terms.
I have worked for large companies in the past, and SOX is seriously undermining the ability to make changes, or indeed for rational process to take place in the daily operation of IT.
Yeah, but you need to look at the bright side of SOX for us (educated security geeks). When someone wants to do something really dumb like put a web app into production with no logging and no security, you can just tell them to fuck off, because of SOX. Also, if you're a security consultant with half a brain and know how to setup auditing on *nix related systems you can make a lot of money consulting.
SOX is worth it just for being able to tell a stupid developer that he can't do something that puts the security of my systems in jeopardy.
"Running Linux" isn't necessarily the reason. It's most likely that your system is properly set up. I used to work as a developer at a Linux shop that went cheap on everything, and DAMN was that a lot of coming in in the evenings.
True, our shit is properly setup, so that makes the difference between 1 call a year and 1 call a night.
My company has a great on-call system. You're on call 1 out of 8 weeks, and get paid $50 a day to carry the pager, which really means "forward SMS monitoring messages to your cellphone." It's also nice because we run Linux so our systems rarely have issues. It's basically like getting an extra $350 every other month for nothing.
Better yet, Setup ZFS on a opensolaris box, export the ZFS volume as NFS/Samba share or as an iSCSI target, access from Linux,Solaris,Windows etc.
None of those protocols were designed to work well over the public internet. Sure, NFS/SMB/iSCSI are IP protocols but they don't work well over high latency and low bandwidth connections.
I'm not arguing with your choice of ZFS; I would just look at something more simple like rsync over ssh to a ZFS volume instead of sharing NFS/CIFS/SMB/iSCSI out to the Internet.
I don't know if Source Safe was originally DOS based, UNIX based, or both but I do recall seeing the UNIX version of Visual Source Safe variant and it really sucked.
VSS is a terrible product indeed. My company still uses VSS 2005 and it has a 4GB repository size limit! Increasing beyond 4GB causes repository corruption. This is especially frustrating because business types have access to it and seem to like to use VSS like a USB hard drive to back up their important documents, home pictures, and music. I think the Windows admins have to take the thing down weekly just to repair the corruption.
It's absolutely terrible. Anything, even CVS or SVN, would be light years ahead of VSS. I'm just glad I'm not a developer forced to work on it.
I've found HP's ProCurve Switches to be great with a lifetime warranty and free software updates compared to the Cisco equivilents which need SmartNet (maybe smart on Cisco's part) and cost 2-3 times as much.
Funny, I've found HP ProCurve switches to be absolute trash. We purchased a few gigabit and 10 gigabit ProCurve switches because they were cheaper than Cisco, but then we found out they don't fully support such standard features as VLAN trunking, or say they support it but have strange incompatibilities when trying to work together in a Cisco environment. They also have terrible bugs in their firmware, which manifest themselves in production network outages.
Never again. Cisco might be expensive, but if you want some enterprise, you better purchase the name brand. If you're looking for low cost and still want quality, go with something like a Force 10. ProCurve, on the other hand, are garbage.
And actually I haven't ever seen MS patent trolling, they've even gave their patents to organizations which purpose is to keep them open.
This is demonstrably false. Microsoft has used the threat of patent litigation to keep large customers away from Linux. Microsoft has hinted publicly and through deals with partners like Novell that Linux infringes on patents, which are never specified, in order to give companies using or considering Linux fear of patent litigation. This is the very definition of patent trolling. They've only sued Tom Tom so far, but they use their patent arsenal as a weapon.
Patents are like nukes, even the threat of using them carries a lot of force.
That content had development/testing deadlines that came AFTER the cert date of the game itself. It was developed separately. I'm not a fan of DLC either and find it jarring that it's not handled entirely outside the game, but I don't believe that anything was hacked out of the game to facilitate it.
I know they said this, and I can believe it, knowing how the software dev lifecycle works, and how different content teams can have different schedules, however, they still had to have someone QA the quest-giver that hawks the DLC, and they had to know that it would be ready on launch day, or the quest-giver would have to be removed.
So you see, this story is not completely true. How can you certify the quest-giver is in the game and working properly unless you're confident the DLC he links to is working properly as well?
It's a shame this game has no coop or multiplayer. I know a lot of you will say there is nothing wrong with a well-done single player game, and I agree with you in spirit. But, in practice, a part of me looks at a game like this in 2009 and can't help but see it as, well...old-fashioned.
Coop or multiplayer only works in a game where the story is completely linear. This game has so many different plot twists and the story can change so dramatically that there is no real way you could do coop; the story would have plot holes all over the place. Also, what would happen if two people tried to play completely different in the same game world? One person could go around killing NPCs that the other person wanted to keep alive. It would be complete and total chaos.
If you played the game you would understand why coop wouldn't work. Also, the combat in this game, while it can be played in realtime similar to WoW, is deep enough that it requires pausing the game to give command to your party members. Have you ever seen a coop game that allowed one person to pause the game? It would be a nightmare because one person would be pausing the game when then other wanted to play it.
I don't fault Bioware at all for not having multiplayer in the game. This game is meant to be played like a well run pen and paper RPG, or a great fantasy novel. You need to take the time to read Codex, immerse yourself in the game world, and that just doesn't come through in a "twitch" oriented action RPG.
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Not necessarily. There are numerous wifi transfer apps for the iPad that turn your iPad into a shared hard drive on the network, making it just another networked computer that you can drag and drop files to. Some of them support every protocol imaginable, including WebDAV, Google Docs, and other cloud providers.
I have an iPad and I've been sitting in the opposite corner of my 2,000 sq. foot house, through 6 walls, an elevator shaft, and numerous electronic devices, and have had no problems with wifi whatsoever. In fact, I downloaded 1GB of music and it was fast, easily maxing out my 20 megabit cable Internet connection, while sitting in the opposite corner of the house from my wifi router.
I'm using an Airport Extreme base station (the original, not improved new version), with WPA2, wireless-N enabled, so YMMV. My anecdotal experience is that the iPad actually got a strong, usable signal, sitting in the same spot of the house where my Windows 7 gaming laptop drops due to a weak signal and too many walls.
Seriously? Peter Molyneux? Peter Molyneux made one good game in his life: Populous. Then he proceeded to make tons of terrible games like Fable afterwards. Now he seems to have mastered the art of bullshit: "our game will let you experience real human emotions blah blah blah"
I wouldn't put Lord British's original Ultima II game up against any of Molyneux's "moral dillema" crap. At least in the Ultima games, the character development through doing good or evil acts was actually unique and creative. In Peter Molyneux's games they are just rehashed versions of things he copied from Lord British back in the 80s.
Although, Lord British has gone downhill significantly. Look at the crapfest that was his failed MMO.
There's nowhere close to 1.3B Internet users in China.
Your argument seems to be centered around the motivations of the people supporting climate change, and how much money they stand to make from selling carbon credits.
By this same logic, you should be looking pretty harshly at critics of climate change, and where their funding comes from.
From where I sit, the critics of climate change have a lot more to gain financially from denying. Trillions of USD more...
Your arguments against climate change don't pass my "smell test."
Is anything like L2ARC available for Linux? I would love to have something like this in our database servers.
Wow, troll much? HTML 5 is an open standard. HTML 5 video just requires a codec to function properly. Right now, there is H.264, which is a patent encumbered codec (you must pay to license it) and is bundled with Chrome and Safari, or Ogg Theora, a free codec bundled by Firefox.
I know I'll probably get downmodded into oblivion, but I would rather have an open standard that is relatively cheap to implement and just works like H.264, than a closed standard like Flash for video on the web. Mozilla can harp all they want about how they are trying to free web standards by using Theora, but there may be submarine patents that come to bite Theora implementations, and personally, when I want to watch Hulu or something on the web, I don't want to worry about whether I have the right codec installed. I'll just use Chrome and let Google pay the $1.50 or whatever it costs to license the H.264 codec.
H.264 also has the advantage that there are hardware accelerated decoding chips in most mobile devices and a lot of new netbooks, so I don't have to drain my battery in 30 minutes of watching video.
Sorry, free software is a great thing in theory, but in practice, I just want to be able to watch video that actually works, and doesn't drain my battery too fast.
I'd rather shift into neutral and blow the engine than blow myself all over another vehicle or a guard rail at 100 mph... Brakes don't work as well when you're at wide open throttle. Don't be an idiot. A blown engine is easy to replace; in fact, I bet Toyota would give you a free one if you experienced this problem. They'd rather pay for an engine than pay death benefits to your family.
Bottom line, don't try to be a hero. Let the engine blow if it's gonna, put it in neutral, brake to a stop, and turn off the ignition.
Also, I should point out that Android seems to have all of the disadvantages of a closed system, and all of the disadvantages of an open system at the same time. For example, app developers on Android can publish without approval, but so can malware developers. There has already been one app pulled because it was a phishing app. Then, Google has complete control over what can be released, and can even uninstall apps that were previously downloaded.
So Google has basically built an App store that lets malware through without impediment, but can ban any software they want. How is that more open than Apple? It sounds to me like a much worse system.
Not to mention, Android limits the amount of disk space for installable apps to something less than 256MB. You can forget about apps that require a large local database, or other large apps like games.
Unfortunately, the battery pack is only warranted for 100K/10 years, and you'd most likely have to replace it before 140,000 miles and 11.5 years, so you will never reach the break even point.
Also, your calculations assume that you will always be within electric only range. Do you ever drive more than 40 miles in one day? I know I sure do.
Not really. I live in CT, and pay $0.125/kWh for electricity, plus a $0.125/kWh "delivery charge", so effectively pay $0.25/kWh for electricity. This means it costs me $2.00 to travel 40 miles. Meanwhile, I can buy an economy car that will get 40 mpg and it only costs me ~$2.50 a gallon for fuel.
Am I supposed to pay $40K for an economy car just to save $0.50 a gallon? Somehow this math doesn't make sense. Wake me up when the plug-in hybrid option only adds $2K to the vehicle purchase price. Then it might be reasonable to consider it. Until then, this is yet another expensive early adopter vehicle for people that want to feel smug about "being green."
Dude, you can do this already without having to suck Apple's dick. All you need is a $99 iPhone app dev kit and you can deploy all you want to your own employee handsets.
People act like this is some new thing, that Google came down from the sky like Jesus and offered unlocked phones.
It's not new. In 2006 I bought an unlocked Palm Treo 650 running PalmOS for almost exactly the same price, $549, took it to T-Mobile, said I didn't want a contract because I had my own phone, popped my SIM card in, and started using it right away.
So far I see nothing new at all about Nexus One, other than the fact that they're advertising it pretty heavily with an unlocked option. Most phone companies don't advertise; they let the carriers do it for them. Apple is the one big exception, and even they also offer an unlocked option.
For an easier solution, if you find an article that is indexed by Google bot, but stuck behind a paywall, just hit the back button and view Google's cached copy. It will have the text that the crawler indexed. This really helps for those annoying "Expert's Exchange" articles that seem to be the top hit for a lot of computer troubleshooting terms.
Yeah, but you need to look at the bright side of SOX for us (educated security geeks). When someone wants to do something really dumb like put a web app into production with no logging and no security, you can just tell them to fuck off, because of SOX. Also, if you're a security consultant with half a brain and know how to setup auditing on *nix related systems you can make a lot of money consulting.
SOX is worth it just for being able to tell a stupid developer that he can't do something that puts the security of my systems in jeopardy.
True, our shit is properly setup, so that makes the difference between 1 call a year and 1 call a night.
My company has a great on-call system. You're on call 1 out of 8 weeks, and get paid $50 a day to carry the pager, which really means "forward SMS monitoring messages to your cellphone." It's also nice because we run Linux so our systems rarely have issues. It's basically like getting an extra $350 every other month for nothing.
None of those protocols were designed to work well over the public internet. Sure, NFS/SMB/iSCSI are IP protocols but they don't work well over high latency and low bandwidth connections.
I'm not arguing with your choice of ZFS; I would just look at something more simple like rsync over ssh to a ZFS volume instead of sharing NFS/CIFS/SMB/iSCSI out to the Internet.
VSS is a terrible product indeed. My company still uses VSS 2005 and it has a 4GB repository size limit! Increasing beyond 4GB causes repository corruption. This is especially frustrating because business types have access to it and seem to like to use VSS like a USB hard drive to back up their important documents, home pictures, and music. I think the Windows admins have to take the thing down weekly just to repair the corruption.
It's absolutely terrible. Anything, even CVS or SVN, would be light years ahead of VSS. I'm just glad I'm not a developer forced to work on it.
Not to rub it in or anything... but iPhone does this.
Funny, I've found HP ProCurve switches to be absolute trash. We purchased a few gigabit and 10 gigabit ProCurve switches because they were cheaper than Cisco, but then we found out they don't fully support such standard features as VLAN trunking, or say they support it but have strange incompatibilities when trying to work together in a Cisco environment. They also have terrible bugs in their firmware, which manifest themselves in production network outages.
Never again. Cisco might be expensive, but if you want some enterprise, you better purchase the name brand. If you're looking for low cost and still want quality, go with something like a Force 10. ProCurve, on the other hand, are garbage.
This is demonstrably false. Microsoft has used the threat of patent litigation to keep large customers away from Linux. Microsoft has hinted publicly and through deals with partners like Novell that Linux infringes on patents, which are never specified, in order to give companies using or considering Linux fear of patent litigation. This is the very definition of patent trolling. They've only sued Tom Tom so far, but they use their patent arsenal as a weapon.
Patents are like nukes, even the threat of using them carries a lot of force.
I know they said this, and I can believe it, knowing how the software dev lifecycle works, and how different content teams can have different schedules, however, they still had to have someone QA the quest-giver that hawks the DLC, and they had to know that it would be ready on launch day, or the quest-giver would have to be removed.
So you see, this story is not completely true. How can you certify the quest-giver is in the game and working properly unless you're confident the DLC he links to is working properly as well?
Coop or multiplayer only works in a game where the story is completely linear. This game has so many different plot twists and the story can change so dramatically that there is no real way you could do coop; the story would have plot holes all over the place. Also, what would happen if two people tried to play completely different in the same game world? One person could go around killing NPCs that the other person wanted to keep alive. It would be complete and total chaos.
If you played the game you would understand why coop wouldn't work. Also, the combat in this game, while it can be played in realtime similar to WoW, is deep enough that it requires pausing the game to give command to your party members. Have you ever seen a coop game that allowed one person to pause the game? It would be a nightmare because one person would be pausing the game when then other wanted to play it.
I don't fault Bioware at all for not having multiplayer in the game. This game is meant to be played like a well run pen and paper RPG, or a great fantasy novel. You need to take the time to read Codex, immerse yourself in the game world, and that just doesn't come through in a "twitch" oriented action RPG.