Yes, just like every game when first released, tons of complaints about this bug or that bug, video driver this, driver that. Every game/program has had issues when first released, Steam's only lasted a few hours. (I've been playing HL2 since right after release, and I never had to set foot in a store, that is a GREAT thing IMO). Steam keeps my patches up to date without me having to hunt for websites, and their online community is great.
Quite honestly, the amount of money it would cost them to support that initial influx of traffic (which would then be wasted 3 days later when normal traffic resumed) was not justifiable by the few people that would be a lost sale. Most people will grumble a little, then play the game happily.
Valve has supported a no-cost-per-play system for years that hundreds of thousands of people have been playing, they are a great company IMNSHO and they did a good job with the release of HL2.
Fact is, consumers have short memories. In a week nobody will even remember there were issues, and they will be back to a normal amount of traffic, which they can easily handle.
I happened to have the chance to have breakfast with Scott McNealy a couple months ago, and he made it perfectly clear that it would be completely open-source.
This means, Linux can instantly say they got all their code from Solaris and be perfectly safe from SVRv4 IP complaints. That's one of his intentions.
P2P networking in large networks is a horrible hack that needs to really get killed, it is a worm superhighway. If a PC could only talk to the server networks, and not to each other you would almost instantly reduce the possibility of worms wiping out your network in a matter of minutes.
Tiny sites it's fine, but people don't really understand that they just opened up their C: drive (or/) to the entire world because they just clicked a few buttons, and now Joe Schmoe can see their files.
Not quite... it's not overflowing the holding space, its just using a spare bit which happens to be the negative bit. This is what you get when this happens:
(Output of a quick C program that outputs the value of t and the binary representation.
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
Before one of my kids stepped on my Vice City CD, I actually had finished all but one event (The top level race), and had 3 tanks in different garages. It was a blast to be able to just run in, grab a tank and kill everything in your path.
Once you get the first tank, it's painfully easy to get more:)
It's primary purpose is to stop domain forgery. One of the advantages is that it also reduces spam that happens to forge domains (all these spambot owned boxes out there). Another advantage is that it stops a lot of these e-mail viruses that have been spewing outward using random e-mail addresses from the address book.
You take two systems, each created for a different reason and then compare them against each other, you end up with a lot of arguments.
Probably the best is using both, stop what you can before you have to read it, and then verify what gets through.
"But what really puzzels me, is that I have seen Dell to continuously put out the worst quality products over and over, and yet they remain a major player in the consumer computer market."
The consumer market is relatively stupid, and easily tricked with flash and glitter. The same exact question goes for Microsoft, as well as a lot of other consumer products that are sub-par, but they put enough advertising out that make it look "cool" that the consumers eat it up. If Consumers cared about quality and really cared about price, then advertising wouldn't be nearly as effective for pushing crap products.
Same here, because the big two in that market are telling people get get off of Intel's too-old designs. Sun/Oracle. They know that AMD64 is where the money is for data crunching on an non-SPARC architecture. The AMD64 data paths and memory management is a LOT cleaner than Intel's at this point. The FSB is nice and streamlined, and when it comes to pushing data around, the AMD64 is the only real choice.
Being 128bit is a trivial part, the problem with current Filesystems is that once they exceed a certain size, the performance degrades. ZFS is supposed to get around some of those problems.
UNIX Filesystem was constructed to protect data and improve performance, and still probably the best Filesystem around for multi-write systems, but it needed a kick.
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Yes, just like every game when first released, tons of complaints about this bug or that bug, video driver this, driver that. Every game/program has had issues when first released, Steam's only lasted a few hours. (I've been playing HL2 since right after release, and I never had to set foot in a store, that is a GREAT thing IMO). Steam keeps my patches up to date without me having to hunt for websites, and their online community is great.
Quite honestly, the amount of money it would cost them to support that initial influx of traffic (which would then be wasted 3 days later when normal traffic resumed) was not justifiable by the few people that would be a lost sale. Most people will grumble a little, then play the game happily.
Valve has supported a no-cost-per-play system for years that hundreds of thousands of people have been playing, they are a great company IMNSHO and they did a good job with the release of HL2.
Yes, Hyper sensitive white suburban's that think they know something about black people.
Fact is, consumers have short memories. In a week nobody will even remember there were issues, and they will be back to a normal amount of traffic, which they can easily handle.
I happened to have the chance to have breakfast with Scott McNealy a couple months ago, and he made it perfectly clear that it would be completely open-source.
This means, Linux can instantly say they got all their code from Solaris and be perfectly safe from SVRv4 IP complaints. That's one of his intentions.
All the complaints stopped when he left the Icon with a big E pointing to FireFox. Sounds like he was right...
P2P networking in large networks is a horrible hack that needs to really get killed, it is a worm superhighway. If a PC could only talk to the server networks, and not to each other you would almost instantly reduce the possibility of worms wiping out your network in a matter of minutes.
/) to the entire world because they just clicked a few buttons, and now Joe Schmoe can see their files.
Tiny sites it's fine, but people don't really understand that they just opened up their C: drive (or
Not quite... it's not overflowing the holding space, its just using a spare bit which happens to be the negative bit. This is what you get when this happens:
(Output of a quick C program that outputs the value of t and the binary representation.
T: 32766 [0111111111111110]
T: 32767 [0111111111111111]
T: -32768 [1000000000000000]
T: -32767 [1000000000000001]
Odds are, they just don't display the negative sign which makes it look like its counting backwards.
For quite a while probably... There is no real need for HTML e-mail.
I saw that happen... but most newer versions of rm detect .. and ignore it now.
Yeah, my Cisco 6509 and Checkpoint Firewall are running Windows...
Why do you send legit email about viagra, use HTML in e-mail (god, you should die) or talk about sex a lot?
If you injure someone through any form of criminal act, you can be liable for his potential income.
Potential Income is an asset that can be affected/stolen.
They have tried in the past. Remember the big stink about how VHS would destroy the movie industry?
Server Error in '/FiosForHome' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
Before one of my kids stepped on my Vice City CD, I actually had finished all but one event (The top level race), and had 3 tanks in different garages. It was a blast to be able to just run in, grab a tank and kill everything in your path.
:)
Once you get the first tank, it's painfully easy to get more
CA's are painful to deal with, unless they really cleaned up their act, this would be a nightmare.
We host only a couple hundred SSL Certs, and making sure the CA's don't screw up and we get them renewed is several full time jobs.
It's primary purpose is to stop domain forgery. One of the advantages is that it also reduces spam that happens to forge domains (all these spambot owned boxes out there). Another advantage is that it stops a lot of these e-mail viruses that have been spewing outward using random e-mail addresses from the address book.
You take two systems, each created for a different reason and then compare them against each other, you end up with a lot of arguments.
Probably the best is using both, stop what you can before you have to read it, and then verify what gets through.
I love Firefox and use it, but uhm... every browser for the past 5 years has had that, or don't you know how to enable the status bar?
Yes, but this isn't the consumer market. Heck, 80186's are still made and used today.
Also, 32bit probably drains more power and generates more heat. Staying 8bit was not generally a $$$ thing, it's that it's the right tool for the job.
"But what really puzzels me, is that I have seen Dell to continuously put out the worst quality products over and over, and yet they remain a major player in the consumer computer market."
The consumer market is relatively stupid, and easily tricked with flash and glitter. The same exact question goes for Microsoft, as well as a lot of other consumer products that are sub-par, but they put enough advertising out that make it look "cool" that the consumers eat it up. If Consumers cared about quality and really cared about price, then advertising wouldn't be nearly as effective for pushing crap products.
Same here, because the big two in that market are telling people get get off of Intel's too-old designs. Sun/Oracle. They know that AMD64 is where the money is for data crunching on an non-SPARC architecture. The AMD64 data paths and memory management is a LOT cleaner than Intel's at this point. The FSB is nice and streamlined, and when it comes to pushing data around, the AMD64 is the only real choice.
Being 128bit is a trivial part, the problem with current Filesystems is that once they exceed a certain size, the performance degrades. ZFS is supposed to get around some of those problems.
UNIX Filesystem was constructed to protect data and improve performance, and still probably the best Filesystem around for multi-write systems, but it needed a kick.
All their previous attempts at Volume management was pretty bad, hence the reason anyone that actually cared about their data ran VxFS and VxVM.
In VxVM it was already only 5 steps.
Yes, the ability to do it in your head...
Same users, Same hardware in most cases, only using 100% Signed drivers, no 3rd party software...
Even the Windows Engineers agree that XP behaves worse than 2000 did on the Desktop. (However, 2003 Server is a big improvement over 2000 server).