It was very poorly written and exaggerated antispam_ben's ignorance. "Italy's President Berlusconi appears to be a cantankerous character" - sounds like he hasn't even heard of the Italian PM. How can that be possible? He's been around for years constantly in the news for his dodgy dealings and making high-level diplomatic gaffes.
Useful assembly language (i.e. beyond the concepts) that you learn in first year will be useful four years later when you hit the job market? What happens if you stay on for a postgrad? It becomes even more obsolete. If you're going to keep your assembly skills up-to-date (across multiple architectures???) from the point of learning it to the time of employment after university, is no different to learning real assembly outside of the course, but with the disadvantage of having learnt fewer concepts or not learnt them as well. From my 12 years postgrad experience as a software engineer, languages are languages and I can learn them as I need them. The ideas that I'm trying to express in whatever language/framework/class library are the important bit.
Why is fake assembly and fake OS cruel? It's computer science, not a vocational tech course. They've presumably tried to bypass the issues of real-world systems that distract you from learning the point. Once you've got the basic concepts, any OS and any language become approachable - why would you want to learn something specific that would be out-of-date in short measure? Seems rather myopic to me.
along with an OS that allows that sort of compromise to be so easy
Well that's almost any OS out there. I've never had a Windows system compromised, but I have lost a Linux box. Anything connected to the internet has to be fully patched (good passwords, minimum services, etc, etc), and preferably behind a NAT box if it's a home-computer
The fire-arm related deaths page doesn't list the UK, although it does list the province of N. Ireland in the developing countries list! Most of the numbers are old and would be interesting to see where they are now.
"Some veterans of the technology fear that the video cam has started to substitute, rather than supplement, actual time together."
Maybe for some families, time together is impractical. Webcam time is better than no time.
I've always been sceptical about the benefits of a webcam and thought it a bit of a gimmick. I've just spent four months living overseas and on a whim thought I'd try webcams out with my partner back home. It made a huge difference. I suspect that for people who are using it as a substitute, they're probably people who don't make much of an effort with relationships anyway. They have more to fear than the tech issues.
Yeah, a lot of modems aren't very good at handling a marginal line. They'd be better off negotiating a lower sync rate, but quite often they don't resulting in front loss of sync (which is worse than running at a slower rate IMHO).
SNR isn't completely useful by itself. At 6dB you'll probably start having problems. You need more information. What's your theoretical max rate, or the line occupation? Some modems tell you this, some don't. Maybe DMT will work with your modem. It's a fantastic diagnostic tool.
Hmm, maybe I can't ping the BAS itself. That doesn't seem right. Maybe it's the first hop latency, which puts the problem somewhere either on the BAS or the connection for it to the ISP. Definitely not the link from the home to the BAS as that would vary at such predictable times.
It seems to be common eh? My mum uses Tesco and their service is shit during peak times too. I work from home, with colleagues in California. I can't use my Vonage Canada VoIP phone and often Skype between 6pm and 10pm when I visit her due to the quality of the internet connection. It's fine during the day, but in the evening the latency shoots way up. Traceroute reveals latency to the broadband access server is fine, but it's after that that it jumps by 500-750ms or more. I guess that means either the BAS or the ATM network from the BAS to the ISP are over-subscribed. That's assuming wholesale DSL is implemented in the UK in the same way as it is in Canada.
How experienced are you? It sounds like you don't have much experience and are thus having trouble gauging others. Is there anybody more experienced in your company who would be able to make better choices? Or are you trying to hire yourself a new boss or lead to report to?
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Narcissistic? Self-absorbed? Insecure and needing validation?
Part of what you're describing is an assumption that people will be harmed and will then have to go through the effort and cost of a legal battle for compensation or to affect change. That sounds great! Don't you think that reality should really be somewhere in-between?
And how is that different to a normal landline? They interrupt too. They demand immediate attention too. They have voicemail too.
What bugs me about mobile phones are all of the annoying and overly loud ring tones. I keep mine on vibrate. Too bad if I miss it. And also, how ignorant and unaware of their surroundings the phones make people. It's joyous going to Tokyo where people have decent mobile phone etiquette and one doesn't have to listen to and be interrupted by everybody's yelled banal conversations, or even have to put up with slow moving, oblivious, meandering idiots on their phones. If people walk like that on the phone, how the f**k can anybody claim they can drive safely too?
VMWare have more stability worries than this on their plate. I've just upgraded Fusion on the Mac to version 2 and it's still very unstable. First use the guest OS locked up, forcing me to reboot the host so I could try again, only to find that, like with Fusion 1.1, the Mac hangs on shutdown. *sigh*
VNC better than RDP? I disagree! What environment? I've been working from home for nine years, remotely controlling NT4->Win2K3 systems from 3-12 time zones away. VNC is a frustrating last resort, which I thankfully I barely have to use these days. If I'm trying to remotely control a non-Windows machine (e.g. a Mac), I will RDP to a Windows machine on the same subnet, then nested VNC to the final machine, as that works better than long-range VNC (believe it or not!)
Sounds about right. The thing that would kill me was launching IE to get some patch from MSFT's web site and end up on a page with animated images or some scrolling Silverlight/Flash bollocks. I'd have to resize the IE window down and/or disconnect, and various other tricks. Still works way better than VNC or pcAnywhere (latter I haven't tried for years as it was so poor; typical Symantec crap)
There's a surprising amount you can do from the command line within Windows these days. For UI access, RDP beats the common alternatives hands down, even if you log in just to use a command prompt remotely and thus have console state stored between sessions if the connection goes down. Have you actually tried this?
I wonder if anybody can put some numbers on the latency and bandwidth? I spent four months in China maintaining Windows servers in California via RDP. With latency often around 600-750ms and packet loss, it was painful but still usable. I was even contending with nested RDP sessions (RDP over the VPN to a machine in an office in CA, and then RDPed from there to a colocation facility).
If people are writing software with the sole aim of having it used by others, then there are licences for that too. People publish under the GPL because it represents what they believe in. There's obviously demand for it, which is why its used.
But not half as cheap and simple as using paper and pencil, and having thousands of volunteers counting in parallel. Oh I know, sometimes the electoral ballots are huge in the US, but really, why does it have to be such bloody rigmarole every time there's an election there?
Dunno about green tea (I imagined it to be the same), but most teas I drink are meant to be made with vigorously boiling water. In fact, at a temperature higher than that used for coffee. Most places in the US only use hot water (and offer creamer/cream, not milk - yuck!), and coupled with the ubiquitous shit from Lipton, makes for disgusting tea. The breakfast time tea from Starbucks ain't bad actually, but could be made better with hotter (boiling) water.
As for the drinking coffee in the car... you get what you deserve. You're not in complete control of your vehicle, nor the cup of coffee apparently. Definitely agree with your moron comment.
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It was very poorly written and exaggerated antispam_ben's ignorance. "Italy's President Berlusconi appears to be a cantankerous character" - sounds like he hasn't even heard of the Italian PM. How can that be possible? He's been around for years constantly in the news for his dodgy dealings and making high-level diplomatic gaffes.
They have been updating it over the years - hence the term "amendment", and this being a "second amendment" issue.
Useful assembly language (i.e. beyond the concepts) that you learn in first year will be useful four years later when you hit the job market? What happens if you stay on for a postgrad? It becomes even more obsolete. If you're going to keep your assembly skills up-to-date (across multiple architectures???) from the point of learning it to the time of employment after university, is no different to learning real assembly outside of the course, but with the disadvantage of having learnt fewer concepts or not learnt them as well. From my 12 years postgrad experience as a software engineer, languages are languages and I can learn them as I need them. The ideas that I'm trying to express in whatever language/framework/class library are the important bit.
Why is fake assembly and fake OS cruel? It's computer science, not a vocational tech course. They've presumably tried to bypass the issues of real-world systems that distract you from learning the point. Once you've got the basic concepts, any OS and any language become approachable - why would you want to learn something specific that would be out-of-date in short measure? Seems rather myopic to me.
Well that's almost any OS out there. I've never had a Windows system compromised, but I have lost a Linux box. Anything connected to the internet has to be fully patched (good passwords, minimum services, etc, etc), and preferably behind a NAT box if it's a home-computer
The fire-arm related deaths page doesn't list the UK, although it does list the province of N. Ireland in the developing countries list! Most of the numbers are old and would be interesting to see where they are now.
Haven't heard that term since really since the dot-com bomb. Nobody really seems to be worry about it these days it seems.
Maybe for some families, time together is impractical. Webcam time is better than no time.
I've always been sceptical about the benefits of a webcam and thought it a bit of a gimmick. I've just spent four months living overseas and on a whim thought I'd try webcams out with my partner back home. It made a huge difference. I suspect that for people who are using it as a substitute, they're probably people who don't make much of an effort with relationships anyway. They have more to fear than the tech issues.
Yeah, a lot of modems aren't very good at handling a marginal line. They'd be better off negotiating a lower sync rate, but quite often they don't resulting in front loss of sync (which is worse than running at a slower rate IMHO).
SNR isn't completely useful by itself. At 6dB you'll probably start having problems. You need more information. What's your theoretical max rate, or the line occupation? Some modems tell you this, some don't. Maybe DMT will work with your modem. It's a fantastic diagnostic tool.
Hmm, maybe I can't ping the BAS itself. That doesn't seem right. Maybe it's the first hop latency, which puts the problem somewhere either on the BAS or the connection for it to the ISP. Definitely not the link from the home to the BAS as that would vary at such predictable times.
It seems to be common eh? My mum uses Tesco and their service is shit during peak times too. I work from home, with colleagues in California. I can't use my Vonage Canada VoIP phone and often Skype between 6pm and 10pm when I visit her due to the quality of the internet connection. It's fine during the day, but in the evening the latency shoots way up. Traceroute reveals latency to the broadband access server is fine, but it's after that that it jumps by 500-750ms or more. I guess that means either the BAS or the ATM network from the BAS to the ISP are over-subscribed. That's assuming wholesale DSL is implemented in the UK in the same way as it is in Canada.
How experienced are you? It sounds like you don't have much experience and are thus having trouble gauging others. Is there anybody more experienced in your company who would be able to make better choices? Or are you trying to hire yourself a new boss or lead to report to?
Narcissistic? Self-absorbed? Insecure and needing validation?
Really: why are you posting all this stuff on /.?
Part of what you're describing is an assumption that people will be harmed and will then have to go through the effort and cost of a legal battle for compensation or to affect change. That sounds great! Don't you think that reality should really be somewhere in-between?
Thriving on life. I've just lived there for four months and wish I could go back.
Consequences of the NT4/Win2K source code leak a few years back? Didn't that happen via VPN?
And how is that different to a normal landline? They interrupt too. They demand immediate attention too. They have voicemail too.
What bugs me about mobile phones are all of the annoying and overly loud ring tones. I keep mine on vibrate. Too bad if I miss it. And also, how ignorant and unaware of their surroundings the phones make people. It's joyous going to Tokyo where people have decent mobile phone etiquette and one doesn't have to listen to and be interrupted by everybody's yelled banal conversations, or even have to put up with slow moving, oblivious, meandering idiots on their phones. If people walk like that on the phone, how the f**k can anybody claim they can drive safely too?
VMWare have more stability worries than this on their plate. I've just upgraded Fusion on the Mac to version 2 and it's still very unstable. First use the guest OS locked up, forcing me to reboot the host so I could try again, only to find that, like with Fusion 1.1, the Mac hangs on shutdown. *sigh*
VNC better than RDP? I disagree! What environment? I've been working from home for nine years, remotely controlling NT4->Win2K3 systems from 3-12 time zones away. VNC is a frustrating last resort, which I thankfully I barely have to use these days. If I'm trying to remotely control a non-Windows machine (e.g. a Mac), I will RDP to a Windows machine on the same subnet, then nested VNC to the final machine, as that works better than long-range VNC (believe it or not!)
Sounds about right. The thing that would kill me was launching IE to get some patch from MSFT's web site and end up on a page with animated images or some scrolling Silverlight/Flash bollocks. I'd have to resize the IE window down and/or disconnect, and various other tricks. Still works way better than VNC or pcAnywhere (latter I haven't tried for years as it was so poor; typical Symantec crap)
There's a surprising amount you can do from the command line within Windows these days. For UI access, RDP beats the common alternatives hands down, even if you log in just to use a command prompt remotely and thus have console state stored between sessions if the connection goes down. Have you actually tried this?
I wonder if anybody can put some numbers on the latency and bandwidth? I spent four months in China maintaining Windows servers in California via RDP. With latency often around 600-750ms and packet loss, it was painful but still usable. I was even contending with nested RDP sessions (RDP over the VPN to a machine in an office in CA, and then RDPed from there to a colocation facility).
If people are writing software with the sole aim of having it used by others, then there are licences for that too. People publish under the GPL because it represents what they believe in. There's obviously demand for it, which is why its used.
Sorry, I know I should feed the trolls.
But not half as cheap and simple as using paper and pencil, and having thousands of volunteers counting in parallel. Oh I know, sometimes the electoral ballots are huge in the US, but really, why does it have to be such bloody rigmarole every time there's an election there?
Dunno about green tea (I imagined it to be the same), but most teas I drink are meant to be made with vigorously boiling water. In fact, at a temperature higher than that used for coffee. Most places in the US only use hot water (and offer creamer/cream, not milk - yuck!), and coupled with the ubiquitous shit from Lipton, makes for disgusting tea. The breakfast time tea from Starbucks ain't bad actually, but could be made better with hotter (boiling) water.
As for the drinking coffee in the car... you get what you deserve. You're not in complete control of your vehicle, nor the cup of coffee apparently. Definitely agree with your moron comment.