Plastic frames hide the lens thickness and support the weight of glass lenses. They require more care in the choosing stage as they are less easy to shape. Personally, I go for optical quality over pure vanity and plastic frames allow me to have large area, low aberration lenses. Having said that, they have to look acceptable and I always had a problem with thick lenses in metal frames looking like glass bottle bottoms. Plastic frames+glass comfortably hide a 4-5mm edge thickness.
As for the strength the pairs I have now have metal running through the arms.
The vast majority of Sony's customers have no idea of the company's moral and ethical standing. They buy a PS3 because it plays games or a TV because it got the best reviews. Those who oppose Sony should spend their time educating Sony's customers of the company's ill will rather than create problems for them. The crackers are the ones who will get the bad name and the public baying for their blood meanwhile Sony play the victim.
Comparing Sony to the Mafia is a bad analogy too - Sony haven't killed anyone, they don't extort money with menace. If people don't agree with Sony's practices they don't need to spend their money with them.
The 'cloud' in this case is the LastPass database where the levels of security are far higher than a desktop users PC or a general file storage service. Sure, there is an increased exposure due to all of those passwords being in the same place, but even if the entire LastPass database was stolen if users have strong passwords it is unlike their data would be exposed, especially now they've introduced PBKDF2 with 100,000 rounds of 256 bit salting. That's at least as good as KeePass with password only encryption with a suitable number of rounds. In addition to a password, LastPass support OTP, single use passwords and other secondary mechanisms. They also noticed a potential issue and acted immediately. If someone stole a password file off a users desktop would they even notice?
So you store you password encrypted file in the cloud on a service that isn't quite so security sensitive and therefore heavily protect as LastPass? Unless you're using a large key file I'd say your password security is worse, not better, than the LastPass solution.
Ok I'm replying to myself I should have read the parent. Regarding the maximum bandwidth rules, I see what you're saying. Strategies for that are either more expensive MB units or increasing costs per MB depending on usage.
Back to the original story and what is being shown is that some (all?) providers cannot provide the service at a price point palatable to the general user. A different approach may prove more sustainable.
That cost can be divided over a time period to produce a 'true' cost and add that to the cost per MB. So to provide the infrastructure costs X. The company decides it wishes to recoup that cost over time period and predicts Z MB of data over than time period. So cost per MB becomes X/Z. Add the maintenance, profit margin, support overheads etc. in the same for the cost.
Charge per use. Stop the 'unlimited' bundles and charge per MB downloaded. Low usage users aren't subsiding high usage users and the price paid reflects the benefit from the service. 'Free' and 'unlimited' are anything but on these contracts.
They have a pretty straight forward price/usage calculator. I'm fortunate enough to be on the 21CN.
To my mind, if Internet access is a core requirement of a business isn't is worth paying for the best level of service?
How is 1GB per month enough for anything except a few emails? Here in the real world we use streaming audio and video, download software updates, and buy games on Steam at 10GB a time. Get back to us when that costs less than £100 per month with Andrews & Arnold.
A&A are the sort of company I would have through/. would want to encourage, yet an ignorant and misinformed post that would potentially deter someone for investigating them further gets a +4. Great moderating:/
To reiterate, Iga's post is completely inaccurate. For £18 pcm you get 2GB 0900-1800 Mon-Fri, 100GB to use at all other times. Unused units are carried over. For a home user is at work and therefore not using their connection, this affectively means a 100GB cap. You want 200GB? It's a few extra £ a month.
Did you even both to try and understand how their usage works?
It's 2GB a month, 0900-1800 Mon-Fri, or 100GB off peak (all other hours) or a combination there of. It's measured in units of which up to 2 carry to the next month (or if you have a higher tariff more are carried) . In the 6 months I've currently been a member I've not gone over my use and yes, I use Steam, stream movies from LoveFilm and iPlayer, download demos and so on. So far this month I've downloaded 35GB data.
I see your point now and don't agree that issues with AAAA records is one of the reasons things move slowly. If that were the case they'd be seeing problems now - Google, for instance, deal out AAAA records and broken AAAA lookup would hamper requests to them where the client OS thought it should try the IPv6 route.
On the whole migration to IPv6 should be transparent to the end user. The firmware on the (admittedly ISP controlled) router is upgrade to support IPv6, the router than starts to emit and respond to NDP requests. Most end user machines will pick these up, sort itself out with a native IPv6 address get on with it.
In the cases where the ISP doesn't control the router it's more difficult but there are methods of dealing with those cases in ways that are not too onerous for the end user.
I think the reason ISPs haven't migrated yet, on the whole, is they lack the motivation and, perhaps more likely as motivation should follow, expertise - both from a technical and managerial perspective.
I don't get this - the obstacle to native dual stack on end users network that the routers do not support IPv6 at all. They have no ability to get IPv6 addresses or route IPv6 packets. While the end user can use 6to4 and other methods that's not native. Firmware upgrades may be an option, or may not if the routers are already short of free RAM/ROM.
Not without firmware upgrades which are so far not forthcoming. I currently terminate the ADSL link via PPPoE to Linux server because I was unable to find a reasonably priced ADSL modem/router combo for home use that support IPv6.
Not true. I get IPv6 straight out of a PPPoE connection (would be PPPoA if my ADSL modem/router supported IPv6). This is via Andrews & Arnold and costs £18 pcm.
I, somewhat sadly, have to agree with this. Sun support used to be, up until a few years ago, some of the best around. First is was the cutting of the real music from on hold, replacing it with adverts. Then then shipped silver and gold support out to Eastern Europe. At that point a call that previously took a hour or two to resolve suddenly became several hours, if it was ever resolved. Solaris is really not what it should be by now. Patching is still an absolute pain. Command line tools are either archaic or not at all UNIXy (zonecfg, svcs, svcadm etc.). ZFS is largely worthless to the Enterprise space: VM & FS in one so not worth using on hardware RAID platforms and SANS. Zones are handy in dev, and on light installations but of no used in large deployments (Oracle in a zone? No chance). The thing is, SMEs don't generally use Solaris and it's not going to make inroads into that space at this late stage. Linux has done that already if they want UN*X(alike). DTrace is nifty, I'm sure, but has a heck of a learning curve and so far I've not met anyone who's used it in earnest. So, the features that 10 offers to the Enterprise market are what 8 and 9 have - good performance and reliability. But Linux, largely thanks to RHEL 5.x, can do that too now and on cheaper hardware. It's all a great shame. I really enjoyed working with Solaris. It was an easy buy-in for managers and worked beautifully on Sun's hardware. But since Sun turned into a buzz-word crazed marketing machine (what ever happened to xVM Server..?) under Schwartz it's become a shadow of it's former self. A great, great shame.
It could be said that Google has a vested interest in IPv6; everyone has unique IP addresses. No more NAT. Further, a large percentage of these IP addresses will be generate from the MAC address of the device. Great for tracking^W targeted advertising.
Andrews & Arnold (http://www.aaisp.net.uk/) have been excellent for me. IPv6, as many IPs as you need, excellent customer service, free domain with a standard ADSL account, unlimited downloads in the evening, IMAP/POP/webmail access with antispam & virus. I've been with them for a few months now and they have been by far the best ISP I have come across in the UK. They do limit usage during the day (I'm on 1GB a month during 0800-1800 Mon-Fri), but over usage is charged in small increments, should you go over it. I'm a pretty heavy user, and I've still not managed to hit my usage limit. If you look on the web site they have an IRC channel where users and staff are happy to help out and answer any questions about the service.
For client end point on UNIX you boot over the net to a predetermined image. Centrally managed, there is nothing more simply managed. No HD to fail and data to be lost, no horrible policy management issues. Pure bliss.
NBD part shipment is just not good enough for 24x7 systems in any case. I would expect sub 1 hour diagnosis, 4 hours part and engineer to site to replace a faulty part. Anything less is just not going to wash in a business critical enterprise environment. If Apple can't offer that then no big corporation is going to have them in their datacentre.
If your talking in terms of desktops, then there should be swap outs available at site anyway to avoid the inconvenience to the staff so NBD or no is not an issue there.
And yeah, hu hu, penetration.
I keep reading this DRM stuff. Yeah, it mean Joe Blow can't pirate his music, or download the latest film via Kazaa, but at the end of the day it's EMI's, AOL TW's, Fox's etc. property. How they choose to disemminate it is up to them. You don't like it? Don't give them your money.
How would you feel if you knew hundreds of thousands of people where ripping of your stuff?
I'm gonna speel. It's been building up for a while now and hell, someone might read it...
I'm currently running Gentoo/i386 1.4 RC 1. Now, I was quite happy with 1.2. Nice and quick, latest bells and whistles. 1.4 is nice and quick. And as unstable as you like.
I keep up to date with my emerges, avoid masked packages and the like. It still breaks. kdebase has problems. Mozilla 1.0 is still in the main tree and the default seems to be to compile it against gtk2. Snort was broken for a while.
They seem to want to avoid standard ways of doing things. Where are the rc?.d directories. Do I really want to spend time trying to understand a new system?. The --help for the gentoo tools is pages long. The speil you get when Linux boot has gone in favour of a black screen.
Flexibility is one thing, but I do have things I want to do with my systems. I don't want to have to build huge swathes of system again to fix a niggling bug.
I admire the philosophy behind gentoo, and I admire the skill with which the portage system has been crafted, but at the moment they're only good for geeks with, as the initial poster said, clock cycles to burn.
Having said all that, I've just been running RH 8.0 on my laptop and getting used to RPMs after have the flexibility is a bit of a slap in the face.
I would say that source based distributions are the way to go, sort of, but only when they're properly QA'd, meaning the time it takes for the latest packages to get to stable takes a long time (but heh, not Debian long!). And can they ever really be QA'd when you do what Gentoo does - heavy optimisations for a wide range of processors, building with the options you want?
What I'd like to see is a hybrid system. RH/Mandrake/Suse + a portage a like. Stuff compiled using portage can go to/usr/local, the rest is in the main/usr tree. Stability for the bulk with the flexibility you need without going trawling freshmeat/google for the program.
The release of SoF in England also received an 18 certificate by the British Board of Film Censors. This means that you have to be 18 to buy or rent the film. SoF isn't the only game to be affected, with Perfect Dark also getting an 18 certificate. Unlike the ELSA certs we have here, the BBFC classifications are enforcable by law. To my mind this is fair. Games are getting closed and closer to reality and such savage portrails of violence should come under some form of censorship. Even though it has not been proved that violence in games or in film has an side effects, it has not been disproven either.
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Plastic frames hide the lens thickness and support the weight of glass lenses. They require more care in the choosing stage as they are less easy to shape. Personally, I go for optical quality over pure vanity and plastic frames allow me to have large area, low aberration lenses. Having said that, they have to look acceptable and I always had a problem with thick lenses in metal frames looking like glass bottle bottoms. Plastic frames+glass comfortably hide a 4-5mm edge thickness. As for the strength the pairs I have now have metal running through the arms.
The vast majority of Sony's customers have no idea of the company's moral and ethical standing. They buy a PS3 because it plays games or a TV because it got the best reviews. Those who oppose Sony should spend their time educating Sony's customers of the company's ill will rather than create problems for them. The crackers are the ones who will get the bad name and the public baying for their blood meanwhile Sony play the victim. Comparing Sony to the Mafia is a bad analogy too - Sony haven't killed anyone, they don't extort money with menace. If people don't agree with Sony's practices they don't need to spend their money with them.
The 'cloud' in this case is the LastPass database where the levels of security are far higher than a desktop users PC or a general file storage service. Sure, there is an increased exposure due to all of those passwords being in the same place, but even if the entire LastPass database was stolen if users have strong passwords it is unlike their data would be exposed, especially now they've introduced PBKDF2 with 100,000 rounds of 256 bit salting. That's at least as good as KeePass with password only encryption with a suitable number of rounds. In addition to a password, LastPass support OTP, single use passwords and other secondary mechanisms. They also noticed a potential issue and acted immediately. If someone stole a password file off a users desktop would they even notice?
So you store you password encrypted file in the cloud on a service that isn't quite so security sensitive and therefore heavily protect as LastPass? Unless you're using a large key file I'd say your password security is worse, not better, than the LastPass solution.
Ok I'm replying to myself I should have read the parent. Regarding the maximum bandwidth rules, I see what you're saying. Strategies for that are either more expensive MB units or increasing costs per MB depending on usage. Back to the original story and what is being shown is that some (all?) providers cannot provide the service at a price point palatable to the general user. A different approach may prove more sustainable.
That cost can be divided over a time period to produce a 'true' cost and add that to the cost per MB. So to provide the infrastructure costs X. The company decides it wishes to recoup that cost over time period and predicts Z MB of data over than time period. So cost per MB becomes X/Z. Add the maintenance, profit margin, support overheads etc. in the same for the cost.
Charge per use. Stop the 'unlimited' bundles and charge per MB downloaded. Low usage users aren't subsiding high usage users and the price paid reflects the benefit from the service. 'Free' and 'unlimited' are anything but on these contracts.
They have a pretty straight forward price/usage calculator. I'm fortunate enough to be on the 21CN. To my mind, if Internet access is a core requirement of a business isn't is worth paying for the best level of service?
How is 1GB per month enough for anything except a few emails? Here in the real world we use streaming audio and video, download software updates, and buy games on Steam at 10GB a time. Get back to us when that costs less than £100 per month with Andrews & Arnold.
A&A are the sort of company I would have through /. would want to encourage, yet an ignorant and misinformed post that would potentially deter someone for investigating them further gets a +4. Great moderating :/
To reiterate, Iga's post is completely inaccurate. For £18 pcm you get 2GB 0900-1800 Mon-Fri, 100GB to use at all other times. Unused units are carried over. For a home user is at work and therefore not using their connection, this affectively means a 100GB cap. You want 200GB? It's a few extra £ a month.
Well, the turtle does it for me.
There was an attempt to offer free porn via the theipv6experiment.com but that didn't take off.
Did you even both to try and understand how their usage works?
It's 2GB a month, 0900-1800 Mon-Fri, or 100GB off peak (all other hours) or a combination there of. It's measured in units of which up to 2 carry to the next month (or if you have a higher tariff more are carried) . In the 6 months I've currently been a member I've not gone over my use and yes, I use Steam, stream movies from LoveFilm and iPlayer, download demos and so on. So far this month I've downloaded 35GB data.
I see your point now and don't agree that issues with AAAA records is one of the reasons things move slowly. If that were the case they'd be seeing problems now - Google, for instance, deal out AAAA records and broken AAAA lookup would hamper requests to them where the client OS thought it should try the IPv6 route.
On the whole migration to IPv6 should be transparent to the end user. The firmware on the (admittedly ISP controlled) router is upgrade to support IPv6, the router than starts to emit and respond to NDP requests. Most end user machines will pick these up, sort itself out with a native IPv6 address get on with it.
In the cases where the ISP doesn't control the router it's more difficult but there are methods of dealing with those cases in ways that are not too onerous for the end user.
I think the reason ISPs haven't migrated yet, on the whole, is they lack the motivation and, perhaps more likely as motivation should follow, expertise - both from a technical and managerial perspective.
I don't get this - the obstacle to native dual stack on end users network that the routers do not support IPv6 at all. They have no ability to get IPv6 addresses or route IPv6 packets. While the end user can use 6to4 and other methods that's not native. Firmware upgrades may be an option, or may not if the routers are already short of free RAM/ROM.
A dancing turtle is not enough?!?
Not without firmware upgrades which are so far not forthcoming. I currently terminate the ADSL link via PPPoE to Linux server because I was unable to find a reasonably priced ADSL modem/router combo for home use that support IPv6.
Not true. I get IPv6 straight out of a PPPoE connection (would be PPPoA if my ADSL modem/router supported IPv6). This is via Andrews & Arnold and costs £18 pcm.
I, somewhat sadly, have to agree with this. Sun support used to be, up until a few years ago, some of the best around. First is was the cutting of the real music from on hold, replacing it with adverts. Then then shipped silver and gold support out to Eastern Europe. At that point a call that previously took a hour or two to resolve suddenly became several hours, if it was ever resolved.
Solaris is really not what it should be by now. Patching is still an absolute pain. Command line tools are either archaic or not at all UNIXy (zonecfg, svcs, svcadm etc.). ZFS is largely worthless to the Enterprise space: VM & FS in one so not worth using on hardware RAID platforms and SANS. Zones are handy in dev, and on light installations but of no used in large deployments (Oracle in a zone? No chance). The thing is, SMEs don't generally use Solaris and it's not going to make inroads into that space at this late stage. Linux has done that already if they want UN*X(alike).
DTrace is nifty, I'm sure, but has a heck of a learning curve and so far I've not met anyone who's used it in earnest.
So, the features that 10 offers to the Enterprise market are what 8 and 9 have - good performance and reliability. But Linux, largely thanks to RHEL 5.x, can do that too now and on cheaper hardware.
It's all a great shame. I really enjoyed working with Solaris. It was an easy buy-in for managers and worked beautifully on Sun's hardware. But since Sun turned into a buzz-word crazed marketing machine (what ever happened to xVM Server..?) under Schwartz it's become a shadow of it's former self.
A great, great shame.
You're not all for an anonymous web really are you?
There are many ways to hide tracks already that are more effective than this offering (Tor, Open wireless access points, anonymous proxies and so on).
Organisations that have significant risk from being hacked either improve their security or get the hell of the Internet.
It could be said that Google has a vested interest in IPv6; everyone has unique IP addresses. No more NAT. Further, a large percentage of these IP addresses will be generate from the MAC address of the device. Great for tracking^W targeted advertising.
Andrews & Arnold (http://www.aaisp.net.uk/) have been excellent for me. IPv6, as many IPs as you need, excellent customer service, free domain with a standard ADSL account, unlimited downloads in the evening, IMAP/POP/webmail access with antispam & virus. I've been with them for a few months now and they have been by far the best ISP I have come across in the UK. They do limit usage during the day (I'm on 1GB a month during 0800-1800 Mon-Fri), but over usage is charged in small increments, should you go over it. I'm a pretty heavy user, and I've still not managed to hit my usage limit. If you look on the web site they have an IRC channel where users and staff are happy to help out and answer any questions about the service.
For client end point on UNIX you boot over the net to a predetermined image. Centrally managed, there is nothing more simply managed. No HD to fail and data to be lost, no horrible policy management issues. Pure bliss.
NBD part shipment is just not good enough for 24x7 systems in any case. I would expect sub 1 hour diagnosis, 4 hours part and engineer to site to replace a faulty part. Anything less is just not going to wash in a business critical enterprise environment. If Apple can't offer that then no big corporation is going to have them in their datacentre. If your talking in terms of desktops, then there should be swap outs available at site anyway to avoid the inconvenience to the staff so NBD or no is not an issue there. And yeah, hu hu, penetration.
You don't like it? Don't give them your money.
How would you feel if you knew hundreds of thousands of people where ripping of your stuff?
I'm currently running Gentoo/i386 1.4 RC 1. Now, I was quite happy with 1.2. Nice and quick, latest bells and whistles. 1.4 is nice and quick. And as unstable as you like.
I keep up to date with my emerges, avoid masked packages and the like. It still breaks. kdebase has problems. Mozilla 1.0 is still in the main tree and the default seems to be to compile it against gtk2. Snort was broken for a while.
They seem to want to avoid standard ways of doing things. Where are the rc?.d directories. Do I really want to spend time trying to understand a new system?. The --help for the gentoo tools is pages long. The speil you get when Linux boot has gone in favour of a black screen.
Flexibility is one thing, but I do have things I want to do with my systems. I don't want to have to build huge swathes of system again to fix a niggling bug.
I admire the philosophy behind gentoo, and I admire the skill with which the portage system has been crafted, but at the moment they're only good for geeks with, as the initial poster said, clock cycles to burn.
Having said all that, I've just been running RH 8.0 on my laptop and getting used to RPMs after have the flexibility is a bit of a slap in the face.
I would say that source based distributions are the way to go, sort of, but only when they're properly QA'd, meaning the time it takes for the latest packages to get to stable takes a long time (but heh, not Debian long!). And can they ever really be QA'd when you do what Gentoo does - heavy optimisations for a wide range of processors, building with the options you want?
What I'd like to see is a hybrid system. RH/Mandrake/Suse + a portage a like. Stuff compiled using portage can go to /usr/local, the rest is in the main /usr tree. Stability for the bulk with the flexibility you need without going trawling freshmeat/google for the program.
God damn, I've gone way off topic. I'll stop now.
The release of SoF in England also received an 18 certificate by the British Board of Film Censors. This means that you have to be 18 to buy or rent the film.
SoF isn't the only game to be affected, with Perfect Dark also getting an 18 certificate.
Unlike the ELSA certs we have here, the BBFC classifications are enforcable by law.
To my mind this is fair. Games are getting closed and closer to reality and such savage portrails of violence should come under some form of censorship. Even though it has not been proved that violence in games or in film has an side effects, it has not been disproven either.