Similar analogy can be applied to virus infected computers which are often referred to as zombies. All they are doing, once infected, is trying to spread the infection. Depending on how aggressive the virus is the computer will become incapable of doing anything else. Which seems like a fair description of zombie behaviour.
Should probably have specified - I'm on a 32bit system and the machine only has 4gb of ram. (custom software at work which is not currently 64bit friendly at all)
Also have adblcok, ghostery, gmail notifier and a few other random things installed.
Running on linux mint I currently have 2 windows and a combined 29 tabs. Current memory footprint for all processes is 2256mb. Each tab seems to consume a minimum of 30mb uo to a max of 112mb.
For specifics this page is using 31.1mb
I personally don't have a problem with that given ever tab is a separate process.
Intel Enterprise grade SSD 800gb - I can find them for about $1800 HGST Ultrastar - Enterprise grade with Helium - 6tb - $865.
I currently have a 21tb Nas machine in this office. I don't need speed I need capacity. The cost differential is MASSIVE. So yes people buy spinning platters all the time.
Completely agree that there is no technical requirement for streaming to have the problems that it does. Unfortunately I have no access to a connection that can sustain 17mbs and I am also on a monthly data cap so I would want to avoid downloading something more than once if I could.
As for the other two points unless I have missed an option I haven't come across a DRM free stream that can be nicely incorporated into XBMC which carries main stream content. There is no technical reason we can't have it but it also doesn't seem to be happening.
Thank God! I thought it was only me! I've been trying to find a slashdot setting that had suddenly changed to make this stop.
Guess what guys! I like to read slashdot at work. What I don't need if my laptop TELLING everyone I'm on slashdot in a creepy robot voice. (and yes I know I could mute the laptop)
This isn't quite correct. The new legislation proposes that speech that may be arguably racist cannot be prosecuted if that speech is used in political discourse or debate. So if you were to abuse a person based upon their race then you would fall foul of the anti-racism laws. Just like the two girls who abused the Aboriginal man on the bus on the Gold Coast recently found out.
However if you wished to push a view that a particular race should be discriminated against in a defined context, ie that you believe a certain race should not be allowed to migrate, own property, or other argument then you can make that statement heard. Under the current legislation you cannot.
While they are a Government body the Australian Law Reform Commission is almost completely powerless. They are "commissioned" by the government in power to look at a particular concept and they then report back. In this case the previous Labor government commissioned them to look into "What can we do to protect people's privacy!?!?!?!?" this was political grandstanding at the time and given each state is the one that determines the rules when it comes to privacy has absolutely no chance of being rolled out.
For example it is legal to record a telephone call you are involved in, without telling the other person, in Queensland. But it's not if you are in NSW. NSW has the tightest privacy laws so basing their study on them is logical from that perspective but also means the starting point for every other state is further along than the article would make it appear.
Even if you only watched it once why would you stream it? Nothing requires you to keep the content once you have watched it. You are downloading it anyway so it's not a bandwidth saving. Having an offline copy as opposed to streaming has the benefits of not requiring as much system resources, the ability to shift device mid show, no weird ass player requirement and the ability to work if your internet goes offline while watching it.
The only advantage streaming has over downloading, outside of the legality part, is instant gratification. So if you never know what you are likely to want to watch and you can't plan for it then streaming will work better for you. That said if you have a decent internet connection you could grab a 1gb rip pretty quickly. Certainly quickly enough to watch that evening.
I think you missed what I meant about sports. Sports is the only thing, that I can think of anyway, where you really want to watch it while it's happening. I know that if I know the result of a match I don't really care about watching a replay. Also, even though I know this isn't the case, psychologically when you are watching it live you can feel like you can influence the result if you scream at the tv.
You are absolutely correct about the Jammie Thomas. But Jammie is an aberration. Laws obviously differ country to country so outside of the US (currently) there is no risk of ending up in the same position as her. Most people don't get caught, and when they do get caught there is usually an amount that can be settled for. If that amount is less than a couple of years of cable + netfixs + other rental, then you are in front. Am I wrong in thinking this is civil law in the US so no recorded conviction?
People make the same call on multiple areas of their life, from moonshine to untaxed tobacco to jaywalking.
Why would anyone want to stream something outside of sports?
From my own experience the quality of streamed services available to me, frankly, suck. They are either low quality, embedded in some kind of stupid player, or system resource hungry. Why would I want that when I could queue something up on a torrent, get a high quality rip that is encoded in a way that my raspberry can play it happily and it sits nicely into the lovely media centre interface I'm running?
I pay my money every year to get access to the motogp streams from motogp.com Every race I have to stuff around plugging my laptop into my tv and then making sure ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE is touching the internet. That way I can get their 720 stream and usually it doesn't have too many buffering pauses in it. If my wife decides to surf the internet on her phone at the same time then bam, buffering. It sucks. But it is the only option to watch the races realtime outside of a foxtel connection which I would never use for anything else.
I am a recruiter who recruits in the engineering spaces and in particular the Oil & Gas space in Australia.
So while not IT it probably crosses over in that we see a significant difference in attitude to years of experience between Australia and the US. For example a Senior Drilling Engineer with 20 years of experience can find it hard to get a job in the US. There seems to be a real preference for people with less experience ie younger.
In Australia the attitude is the opposite. Here the attitude is a 10 years of experience they haven't seen enough to know what not to do and that 20 is what you need to be useful.
Makes my life easier I guess, as we bring a load of skilled people over to Australia but the difference in attitude is interesting.
It's more than that. I simply don't believe that $50 Billion would buy all the mines. Market cap for BHP Billiton is $300b alone. Glencore is pushing $110b, Rio is 215b. Anglo c$100b.
Also US is number 2 in the world for coal production. Last year your dug up 922.1 million tonnes of coal. Current price is c$60/tonne for thermal which is the cheapest stuff. So basically the economic value of the coal dug up last year alone was $60 billion. And that is coal prices at basically a 10 year low.
I don't know about $50 billion in assets. I think they may be undervaluing by more than just a smidge. BHP Billiton just posted a first half profit of $9 Billion dollars, now that is spread across multiple resources of which coal only plays a part but that is still just one company. Market cap for BHP is $300 billion.... I think they might need to add some zeros.
The other issue I though of afterwards is to do with NAT table overflows. I have manage to crash every consumer grade router I have used if I run loads of torrents over it. Would be kinda annoying if you router would lockup due to other peoples torrenting.
I was in the UK last year and you can pick up loads of BT open wifi hotspots you can connect to. These then piggy back on a home consumers network connection.
I'm very suss on this as I would have thought contention alone would be a hell of an issue but I assume it is rate limited in some way. I had a play for a couple of minutes trying to compromise my sister-in-laws setup and couldn't manage it but I am far from skilled in that area.
If the break is below the half-way point it will go up if the break is above the half-way point it would come down.
Also the process that seems to most likely for construction would be to deploy from the mid point of the cable and then spool in both directions at once. This way the overall forces remain in balance.
Also everything I have read about planned space elevators has it based in the middle of an ocean. This allows some movement if necessary to avoid something large in space but also gives some safety in the event of a failure. If the cable broke below the mid point controlled explosions all the way along the cable would reduce most of the damage with the a large % of the resultant bits burning up in the atmosphere or landing in the ocean. It would probably be much worse for things in orbit than things on the ground.
Taking space elevators to their logical conclusion though would see them being the bases of super towers that reach into space. The cables end up being the foundation supports of the tower.
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Similar analogy can be applied to virus infected computers which are often referred to as zombies. All they are doing, once infected, is trying to spread the infection. Depending on how aggressive the virus is the computer will become incapable of doing anything else. Which seems like a fair description of zombie behaviour.
Ok. I've never managed to have that happen but that just means I was lucky (even with a browser open for week+). Also I've always had arrows....
Should probably have specified - I'm on a 32bit system and the machine only has 4gb of ram. (custom software at work which is not currently 64bit friendly at all)
Also have adblcok, ghostery, gmail notifier and a few other random things installed.
I have arrows on both my Linux and windows installs.
The installer does ask you if you want it installed for all users or just this user. Potentially you had the wrong box marked.
Running on linux mint I currently have 2 windows and a combined 29 tabs. Current memory footprint for all processes is 2256mb. Each tab seems to consume a minimum of 30mb uo to a max of 112mb.
For specifics this page is using 31.1mb
I personally don't have a problem with that given ever tab is a separate process.
Download the crx file from where ever you want and drag & drop the file into the extension tab in settings. Done.
In what usage case does this happen? I always get the url appear as a status bar along the bottom.
Hmmm Let me think about this
Intel Enterprise grade SSD 800gb - I can find them for about $1800
HGST Ultrastar - Enterprise grade with Helium - 6tb - $865.
I currently have a 21tb Nas machine in this office. I don't need speed I need capacity. The cost differential is MASSIVE. So yes people buy spinning platters all the time.
Completely agree that there is no technical requirement for streaming to have the problems that it does. Unfortunately I have no access to a connection that can sustain 17mbs and I am also on a monthly data cap so I would want to avoid downloading something more than once if I could.
As for the other two points unless I have missed an option I haven't come across a DRM free stream that can be nicely incorporated into XBMC which carries main stream content. There is no technical reason we can't have it but it also doesn't seem to be happening.
THANKS! Didn't know I could do this.
Thank God! I thought it was only me! I've been trying to find a slashdot setting that had suddenly changed to make this stop.
Guess what guys! I like to read slashdot at work. What I don't need if my laptop TELLING everyone I'm on slashdot in a creepy robot voice. (and yes I know I could mute the laptop)
This isn't quite correct. The new legislation proposes that speech that may be arguably racist cannot be prosecuted if that speech is used in political discourse or debate. So if you were to abuse a person based upon their race then you would fall foul of the anti-racism laws. Just like the two girls who abused the Aboriginal man on the bus on the Gold Coast recently found out.
However if you wished to push a view that a particular race should be discriminated against in a defined context, ie that you believe a certain race should not be allowed to migrate, own property, or other argument then you can make that statement heard. Under the current legislation you cannot.
While they are a Government body the Australian Law Reform Commission is almost completely powerless. They are "commissioned" by the government in power to look at a particular concept and they then report back. In this case the previous Labor government commissioned them to look into "What can we do to protect people's privacy!?!?!?!?" this was political grandstanding at the time and given each state is the one that determines the rules when it comes to privacy has absolutely no chance of being rolled out.
For example it is legal to record a telephone call you are involved in, without telling the other person, in Queensland. But it's not if you are in NSW. NSW has the tightest privacy laws so basing their study on them is logical from that perspective but also means the starting point for every other state is further along than the article would make it appear.
I guess however my thoughts are on the comparison between torrents and streaming. Cost and legality will push towards streams.
Even if you only watched it once why would you stream it? Nothing requires you to keep the content once you have watched it. You are downloading it anyway so it's not a bandwidth saving. Having an offline copy as opposed to streaming has the benefits of not requiring as much system resources, the ability to shift device mid show, no weird ass player requirement and the ability to work if your internet goes offline while watching it.
The only advantage streaming has over downloading, outside of the legality part, is instant gratification. So if you never know what you are likely to want to watch and you can't plan for it then streaming will work better for you. That said if you have a decent internet connection you could grab a 1gb rip pretty quickly. Certainly quickly enough to watch that evening.
I think you missed what I meant about sports. Sports is the only thing, that I can think of anyway, where you really want to watch it while it's happening. I know that if I know the result of a match I don't really care about watching a replay. Also, even though I know this isn't the case, psychologically when you are watching it live you can feel like you can influence the result if you scream at the tv.
You are absolutely correct about the Jammie Thomas. But Jammie is an aberration. Laws obviously differ country to country so outside of the US (currently) there is no risk of ending up in the same position as her. Most people don't get caught, and when they do get caught there is usually an amount that can be settled for. If that amount is less than a couple of years of cable + netfixs + other rental, then you are in front. Am I wrong in thinking this is civil law in the US so no recorded conviction?
People make the same call on multiple areas of their life, from moonshine to untaxed tobacco to jaywalking.
Why would anyone want to stream something outside of sports?
From my own experience the quality of streamed services available to me, frankly, suck. They are either low quality, embedded in some kind of stupid player, or system resource hungry. Why would I want that when I could queue something up on a torrent, get a high quality rip that is encoded in a way that my raspberry can play it happily and it sits nicely into the lovely media centre interface I'm running?
I pay my money every year to get access to the motogp streams from motogp.com Every race I have to stuff around plugging my laptop into my tv and then making sure ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE is touching the internet. That way I can get their 720 stream and usually it doesn't have too many buffering pauses in it. If my wife decides to surf the internet on her phone at the same time then bam, buffering. It sucks. But it is the only option to watch the races realtime outside of a foxtel connection which I would never use for anything else.
I am a recruiter who recruits in the engineering spaces and in particular the Oil & Gas space in Australia.
So while not IT it probably crosses over in that we see a significant difference in attitude to years of experience between Australia and the US. For example a Senior Drilling Engineer with 20 years of experience can find it hard to get a job in the US. There seems to be a real preference for people with less experience ie younger.
In Australia the attitude is the opposite. Here the attitude is a 10 years of experience they haven't seen enough to know what not to do and that 20 is what you need to be useful.
Makes my life easier I guess, as we bring a load of skilled people over to Australia but the difference in attitude is interesting.
It's more than that. I simply don't believe that $50 Billion would buy all the mines. Market cap for BHP Billiton is $300b alone. Glencore is pushing $110b, Rio is 215b. Anglo c$100b.
Also US is number 2 in the world for coal production. Last year your dug up 922.1 million tonnes of coal. Current price is c$60/tonne for thermal which is the cheapest stuff. So basically the economic value of the coal dug up last year alone was $60 billion. And that is coal prices at basically a 10 year low.
I don't know about $50 billion in assets. I think they may be undervaluing by more than just a smidge. BHP Billiton just posted a first half profit of $9 Billion dollars, now that is spread across multiple resources of which coal only plays a part but that is still just one company. Market cap for BHP is $300 billion.... I think they might need to add some zeros.
The other issue I though of afterwards is to do with NAT table overflows. I have manage to crash every consumer grade router I have used if I run loads of torrents over it. Would be kinda annoying if you router would lockup due to other peoples torrenting.
Though it would probably be a small usage case.
I was in the UK last year and you can pick up loads of BT open wifi hotspots you can connect to. These then piggy back on a home consumers network connection.
I'm very suss on this as I would have thought contention alone would be a hell of an issue but I assume it is rate limited in some way. I had a play for a couple of minutes trying to compromise my sister-in-laws setup and couldn't manage it but I am far from skilled in that area.
Sorry that was what I meant - just put it terribly.
If the break is below the half-way point it will go up if the break is above the half-way point it would come down.
Also the process that seems to most likely for construction would be to deploy from the mid point of the cable and then spool in both directions at once. This way the overall forces remain in balance.
Also everything I have read about planned space elevators has it based in the middle of an ocean. This allows some movement if necessary to avoid something large in space but also gives some safety in the event of a failure. If the cable broke below the mid point controlled explosions all the way along the cable would reduce most of the damage with the a large % of the resultant bits burning up in the atmosphere or landing in the ocean. It would probably be much worse for things in orbit than things on the ground.
Taking space elevators to their logical conclusion though would see them being the bases of super towers that reach into space. The cables end up being the foundation supports of the tower.