Have to agree. I had just moved back to Canada when Clinton was on his way out and Bush was on his way in. It seemed like overnight the media went from TMI on US news to a black hole. Then Obama got in and we again started having more US news on Canadian News sites than actual Canadian news. Then again, when Harper (our PM) got a majority government he took the same route as Bush did and basically black balled any reporter that didn't report what he wanted or asked questions that weren't previously vetted and approved at press conferences.
And you don't think Akamai wouldn't have to invest in additional infrastructure for a system that's intended to handle well over 100,000,000 people?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I highly doubt they just happen to have the required hardware, software, data centers, licensing agreements for a system of this size sitting around not being utilized just waiting for a project of this magnitude to come along. Maybe they still did a poor job of setting up the system, and maybe they underestimated the initial demand on the system, but this isn't a case of just creating a simple web page. There are going to be very complex operations taking place across a very complex system taking place in the background. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not there.
Way to over simplify website design, there's a completely lack of understanding of the system here. There's a huge amount of infrastructure that has to be put on the back end to make this work (Servers, Database licensing, Maintenance agreements, Security, Data Centers etc...)
For a system of this size, It's expensive. I agree with GP, $600 million is pretty cheap for a system intended to serviced over 100,000,000 people. Less than $6 a user is a pretty good deal.
Depends on the contract. We have maintenance due to contractor activity built into most of our contracts. So if the contractor has done something that caused issues, that affects the system after delivery, they're legally responsible for fixing the issues at their expense. Unfortunately they often just weren't competent to do the work in the first place so they just don't have the expertise to fix the issue after the fact anyway.
There are far too many requirements on government that actually often forces them to pick the lowest bidder rather than the best suited to do the work. It's unfortunate because in either case the government gets the blame. Either they spent too much to get a competent contractor, or spent too little and ended up with a bad system, then end up spending more than it would have costs to do it right in the first place. It's really a lose-lose for the gov.
No, it's just a ball in the middle with six rotatable pegs, one for each side of the cube, sticking out.
It's an incredibly simple design with an easy algorithm of simple steps for solving it. It's the person that complicates the process of solving the cube by over thinking it.
Simplicity is the sign of a genius while fools stay lost in complexity.
Sigh, I didn't think it was necessary to specify we were talking about US pints which is 473.18mL as opposed to UK pints which is 568.26mL. My mistake, this is part of the reason we moved to metric, the imperial system isn't even consistent from one region to another.
Guy is so dense and immutable that he could probably be sliced into thin layers and used as armor plate.
I don't think there's a laser, or any other tool, powerful enough to slice material that dense. Your best bet would be to tie him to the front of a tank and use him to ram things.
I'm not sure that would have mattered. This is a browser issue, not an OS issue. TFS also states IE10 is included in the problem, which to my knowledge only runs on windows 8.
I've seen what the "majority of people" want and two words come to mind, Reality TV.
The fact that Jersey Shore was even aired for one episode makes me believe the best thing to do when the "majority of people" decide the like/don't like something is to run the other way.
I had someone tell me I was an expert with computers because I discovered their USB mouse wasn't plugged in. It's funny what people consider an expert these days. I certainly wouldn't want a doctor doing surgery on me because I know he can pick up a scalpel.
No problem, if I read the word "moron" or similar as a reference to something I or someone else posted I usually just skip to the next post, but other wise I try not to assume everyone is a troll until they start repeatedly acting like d-bags.
I don't think I can agree wit that. Many tenured professors do research, it's their life and they do it because they enjoy it. I work at research institute and we have tons of researchers that get forced into retirement that beg to come back and continue research. Emeritus, they come back and work for free, why bother hiring, training and paying new researchers when you can have extremely skilled and knowledgeable ones practically pay you for the privileged of doing what they've been doing for 40+ years.
I could see profs giving less of a damn about teaching since it's basically a necessary evil for them. They have to teach as part of their agreement in order to continue research, but time spent teaching is time spent away from doing what they want to be doing. Kind of like sitting in meetings is time away from coding and development for most of us. It's a pain in the arse and normally not beneficial to what we actually do, maybe even harmful (I can't count the number of times just sitting in a meeting ended up changing the direction of an unrelated project because someone not related to the project said, "wouldn't it be cool if...?", I'm sure we've all been there), but it has to be done to please the higher ups.
I haven't had mod points in over a year, but if I had 'em, you'd get 'em.
Not that I think older people make bad professors, but certainly I could see them becoming more jaded over time. It's like giving someone a fork, we just assume it's intuitive and everyone will know how to use it, but give a fork to a two year old and watch them try to use it. Hilarity ensues.
I guess chopsticks would be a better analogy. The longer you've been using them the harder it is to understand why others just can't get it right. My dad always had that, "I'm hungry and have better things to do than explain the process, figure it out for yourself or starve." attitude. Which was kind of the same attitude I got from some of my profs in university.
I think he's referring to the power supply in the machine, not just a right out all the lights in your house go off. I've had power supplies that just before they die altogether will flicker on and off repeatedly, that would cause the SSD to flicker as well, causing the issue outlined above.
No I shortened it because it's a long story with details people don't care about and many have already read dozens of times.
I didn't say the update was automatic, just that I wasn't in the room so I couldn't confirm it one way or the other.
In either case it doesn't matter because the argument is in one situation I get to keep using the Other Os, in the other situation I get to play games and use the BluRay player. I bought the system to do both, not one or the other.
My friends (cousin in this case) had no idea about what was going on and isn't a tech person, not everyone is. Like most people who don't understand or care about technical things, he just ran an update because that's what the system told him to do. Suggesting he sucks simply because he didn't understand what was happening shows a level of maturity I'd expect from a 10 year old on a playground.
Maybe you're more suited to monkey bars than playing in/. with the big boys. Come back when you're older and I'd be happy to have a discussion with you, until then don't expect another response from me.
Someone needs to pop some gamers into brain scanners and see what brain difference if any and what activation differences between keyboard people vs controller people.
While I don't doubt IBM would have preferred to sell cell processors to the air force without them being purchased on discount through Sony, there's nothing to indicate IBM in anyway influenced the Other OS removal.
The Other OS allowed GeoHotz (or whatever his name was) to print "Hello world!" on his screen after ripping they system apart and soldering stuff to the motherboard, it wasn't something anyone with a PS3 could do, there was a lot of technical knowledge involved, and he ultimately failed to do anything beyond that initial hack. The PS3 wasn't hacked into oblivion until after the other os removal and the reason it was possible was because instead of using a random seed number for the zero ring security hash some Sony engineer seeded the hash with '3'. That alone was all hackers need to break the system and had Sony not removed the Other OS feature it most likely wouldn't have happened. No one with the skill to do so was interested in hacking the system until after the removal, which was pretty much Sony throwing down the gauntlet and challenging the hacker community.
Yeah, I remember trying to play Kings quest and Space quest with a joystick. It was better with just the keyboard, which you needed up to KQ5 anyway. Or did you mean games in the time frame between text adventures and FPS/RTS. Because I'm of the opinion that Commander Keen and similar side scrolling platforms were just as good with a keyboard as with a joystick. Damn now I have an urge to go and pull out some old games.
I actually don't mind adventure games with a stylist. I recently picked up a copy of broken sword, which I originally played on PC, it was pretty good on the DS. Not sure if King's or Space Quest would scale as well with the man eating plant maze or fall off cliffs and stairs and die challenges.
I personally did not like Civ on the PS3, at least the demo version I played, was very dumbed down and limited. Simcity on the SNES was an atrocity compared to the PC version, but that's just my opinion.
The gamepad has essentially been unchanged ever since, unless you count Nintendo, which finds a way to get by with less buttons.
The new generation console controllers for XBOne and PS4 have new buttons and features. You'd pretty much have to exclude all of Nintendo consoles, every system had a different controller with different buttons and layouts. The Sony controller kept the same layout for the PS2 and PS3, however the PS3 controller also had accelerometers in it, but the only game I've played that takes advantage of that is Folklore.
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Have to agree. I had just moved back to Canada when Clinton was on his way out and Bush was on his way in. It seemed like overnight the media went from TMI on US news to a black hole. Then Obama got in and we again started having more US news on Canadian News sites than actual Canadian news. Then again, when Harper (our PM) got a majority government he took the same route as Bush did and basically black balled any reporter that didn't report what he wanted or asked questions that weren't previously vetted and approved at press conferences.
And you don't think Akamai wouldn't have to invest in additional infrastructure for a system that's intended to handle well over 100,000,000 people?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I highly doubt they just happen to have the required hardware, software, data centers, licensing agreements for a system of this size sitting around not being utilized just waiting for a project of this magnitude to come along. Maybe they still did a poor job of setting up the system, and maybe they underestimated the initial demand on the system, but this isn't a case of just creating a simple web page. There are going to be very complex operations taking place across a very complex system taking place in the background. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not there.
Way to over simplify website design, there's a completely lack of understanding of the system here. There's a huge amount of infrastructure that has to be put on the back end to make this work (Servers, Database licensing, Maintenance agreements, Security, Data Centers etc...)
For a system of this size, It's expensive. I agree with GP, $600 million is pretty cheap for a system intended to serviced over 100,000,000 people. Less than $6 a user is a pretty good deal.
Depends on the contract. We have maintenance due to contractor activity built into most of our contracts. So if the contractor has done something that caused issues, that affects the system after delivery, they're legally responsible for fixing the issues at their expense. Unfortunately they often just weren't competent to do the work in the first place so they just don't have the expertise to fix the issue after the fact anyway.
There are far too many requirements on government that actually often forces them to pick the lowest bidder rather than the best suited to do the work. It's unfortunate because in either case the government gets the blame. Either they spent too much to get a competent contractor, or spent too little and ended up with a bad system, then end up spending more than it would have costs to do it right in the first place. It's really a lose-lose for the gov.
Already exists. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAZNPfxuwXg
And get this, you fire the weapons, by Laughing. If this wasn't designed for someone from the league of super evil I don't know what was.
You forgot step 4) Laugh manically
No, it's just a ball in the middle with six rotatable pegs, one for each side of the cube, sticking out.
It's an incredibly simple design with an easy algorithm of simple steps for solving it. It's the person that complicates the process of solving the cube by over thinking it.
Simplicity is the sign of a genius while fools stay lost in complexity.
Sigh, I didn't think it was necessary to specify we were talking about US pints which is 473.18mL as opposed to UK pints which is 568.26mL. My mistake, this is part of the reason we moved to metric, the imperial system isn't even consistent from one region to another.
395 ml for a standard bottle, I'd like to know how they came up with that number as it's not a pint. A pint is almost half a litre, about 475 ml
Guy is so dense and immutable that he could probably be sliced into thin layers and used as armor plate.
I don't think there's a laser, or any other tool, powerful enough to slice material that dense. Your best bet would be to tie him to the front of a tank and use him to ram things.
I'm not sure that would have mattered. This is a browser issue, not an OS issue. TFS also states IE10 is included in the problem, which to my knowledge only runs on windows 8.
Of course, it all makes sense now!!
I've seen what the "majority of people" want and two words come to mind, Reality TV.
The fact that Jersey Shore was even aired for one episode makes me believe the best thing to do when the "majority of people" decide the like/don't like something is to run the other way.
I had someone tell me I was an expert with computers because I discovered their USB mouse wasn't plugged in. It's funny what people consider an expert these days. I certainly wouldn't want a doctor doing surgery on me because I know he can pick up a scalpel.
Windows 8 is hell on Earth in UI form but at least it functions properly.
I don't really consider something as "functions properly" when it's "hell on Earth" to use.
We're migrating to windows 7 in my office as well. Win8 is being highly discouraged.
No problem, if I read the word "moron" or similar as a reference to something I or someone else posted I usually just skip to the next post, but other wise I try not to assume everyone is a troll until they start repeatedly acting like d-bags.
I don't think I can agree wit that. Many tenured professors do research, it's their life and they do it because they enjoy it. I work at research institute and we have tons of researchers that get forced into retirement that beg to come back and continue research. Emeritus, they come back and work for free, why bother hiring, training and paying new researchers when you can have extremely skilled and knowledgeable ones practically pay you for the privileged of doing what they've been doing for 40+ years.
I could see profs giving less of a damn about teaching since it's basically a necessary evil for them. They have to teach as part of their agreement in order to continue research, but time spent teaching is time spent away from doing what they want to be doing. Kind of like sitting in meetings is time away from coding and development for most of us. It's a pain in the arse and normally not beneficial to what we actually do, maybe even harmful (I can't count the number of times just sitting in a meeting ended up changing the direction of an unrelated project because someone not related to the project said, "wouldn't it be cool if...?", I'm sure we've all been there), but it has to be done to please the higher ups.
I haven't had mod points in over a year, but if I had 'em, you'd get 'em.
Not that I think older people make bad professors, but certainly I could see them becoming more jaded over time. It's like giving someone a fork, we just assume it's intuitive and everyone will know how to use it, but give a fork to a two year old and watch them try to use it. Hilarity ensues.
I guess chopsticks would be a better analogy. The longer you've been using them the harder it is to understand why others just can't get it right. My dad always had that, "I'm hungry and have better things to do than explain the process, figure it out for yourself or starve." attitude. Which was kind of the same attitude I got from some of my profs in university.
I think he's referring to the power supply in the machine, not just a right out all the lights in your house go off. I've had power supplies that just before they die altogether will flicker on and off repeatedly, that would cause the SSD to flicker as well, causing the issue outlined above.
No I shortened it because it's a long story with details people don't care about and many have already read dozens of times.
/. with the big boys. Come back when you're older and I'd be happy to have a discussion with you, until then don't expect another response from me.
I didn't say the update was automatic, just that I wasn't in the room so I couldn't confirm it one way or the other.
In either case it doesn't matter because the argument is in one situation I get to keep using the Other Os, in the other situation I get to play games and use the BluRay player. I bought the system to do both, not one or the other.
My friends (cousin in this case) had no idea about what was going on and isn't a tech person, not everyone is. Like most people who don't understand or care about technical things, he just ran an update because that's what the system told him to do. Suggesting he sucks simply because he didn't understand what was happening shows a level of maturity I'd expect from a 10 year old on a playground.
Maybe you're more suited to monkey bars than playing in
Someone needs to pop some gamers into brain scanners and see what brain difference if any and what activation differences between keyboard people vs controller people.
I would find that a very interesting read.
While I don't doubt IBM would have preferred to sell cell processors to the air force without them being purchased on discount through Sony, there's nothing to indicate IBM in anyway influenced the Other OS removal.
The Other OS allowed GeoHotz (or whatever his name was) to print "Hello world!" on his screen after ripping they system apart and soldering stuff to the motherboard, it wasn't something anyone with a PS3 could do, there was a lot of technical knowledge involved, and he ultimately failed to do anything beyond that initial hack. The PS3 wasn't hacked into oblivion until after the other os removal and the reason it was possible was because instead of using a random seed number for the zero ring security hash some Sony engineer seeded the hash with '3'. That alone was all hackers need to break the system and had Sony not removed the Other OS feature it most likely wouldn't have happened. No one with the skill to do so was interested in hacking the system until after the removal, which was pretty much Sony throwing down the gauntlet and challenging the hacker community.
Simple fact, there were games before FPS and RTS
Yeah, I remember trying to play Kings quest and Space quest with a joystick. It was better with just the keyboard, which you needed up to KQ5 anyway. Or did you mean games in the time frame between text adventures and FPS/RTS. Because I'm of the opinion that Commander Keen and similar side scrolling platforms were just as good with a keyboard as with a joystick. Damn now I have an urge to go and pull out some old games.
I actually don't mind adventure games with a stylist. I recently picked up a copy of broken sword, which I originally played on PC, it was pretty good on the DS. Not sure if King's or Space Quest would scale as well with the man eating plant maze or fall off cliffs and stairs and die challenges.
I personally did not like Civ on the PS3, at least the demo version I played, was very dumbed down and limited. Simcity on the SNES was an atrocity compared to the PC version, but that's just my opinion.
The gamepad has essentially been unchanged ever since, unless you count Nintendo, which finds a way to get by with less buttons.
The new generation console controllers for XBOne and PS4 have new buttons and features. You'd pretty much have to exclude all of Nintendo consoles, every system had a different controller with different buttons and layouts. The Sony controller kept the same layout for the PS2 and PS3, however the PS3 controller also had accelerometers in it, but the only game I've played that takes advantage of that is Folklore.