- If you wanted to play any of the games online, you had to have a PSN account. Which meant you had to provide a credit card whether you were ever going to buy anything or not.
Wrong. This is not true at all. You can play games without ever providing a credit card. On the other hand, they do require a name, birthdate, and mailing address.
Or whoever wrote the SPECIFICATION he/she was implementing. Coders are about the last person the company lawyer is going to spend their well funded time talking to.
Multi-cast uses just as much bandwidth as uni-cast (regular connections). It war INTENDED to be implemented in a way that allowed less bandwidth, but is now nothing more than an easy way to establish multiple uni-cast connections.
Disclaimer: The above is true on the *internet*, local networks may act differently!
So children with parents that don't know how to change a tire or balance a chequebook are just SOL then huh? That explains a LOT!
For the record, I war lucky enough to have parents that DO know these things and DID teach them to me, but I know a LOT of my pears were not so lucky and I don't even live in an underprivileged area.
I know exactly what you mean. I live in Canada where we informally use millimetres, inches, feet and kilometres, just try doing *those* conversions in your head. This is mainly because over half of the stuff we get/use/observe (groceries, tv, radio, building supplies, etc) comes from the US with Imperial.
You mean the same education system that forces subjects down your throat that 90% of the population will only ever use when helping their children with *their* homework (astronomy, chemistry, trigonometry, history, etc) while completely neglecting to even MENTION the things that 99% of the population is struggling to figure out on their own (changing a tire, checking your oil, simple computer security, balancing a chequebook, taking out a mortgage, cooking something other than Mac&Cheese, DRIVING, etc)?
I'm guessing it's a simple "Dr. John is on shift from 10:00-20:00 on Tuesday" and "Dr. Doe is on call all Wednesday". Hospitals are notorious for confusing and ever-changing work schedules. I highly doubt they'd have patient names on it.
That being said, such a server should NOT be on the same network as anything related to patient data, company data (payroll) or equipment. DMZ the sucker or host it elsewhere!
Not sure where you live, but EULA's have been legally classified as UNENFORCEABLE in Canada since they are not presented at the time of purchase. Oh yeah, and if you pirate Windows, you are NOT violating the EULA since you were never presented with it. The person who uploaded it is violating their EULA (though that legally means nothing) and you are both violating *copyright*.
With new phones (and even regular cameras) having "send to Facebook/Youtube/etc" buttons, a lot of people just empty their memory cards when they get full and never have a local copy to begin with.
Really, never had that happen to me with OpenOffice *or* LibreOffice. And I ran both on XP, Ubuntu and Arch Linux. Biggest difference I've seen is a VAST improvement of.doc compatibility.
I guess you don't live in one of the many countries that don't recognize software patents in the first place. Then again, I like having copyrights on software. It means that big companies can't steal a smaller company (or invididual)'s work and profit from it. Copyrights are also VERY different in that if you can show that you developed your software with no prior knowledge of someone else's software implementation, then you are in no way infringing on their copyright. Patents on the other hand can get you sued even if you had no idea that patent even existed.
I got a blu-ray movie for Chirstmas to play in our PS3 (we don't own a regular blu-ray player). Pop the disk in and it followed almost *exactly* what that diagram shows except for a few differences.
The movie was fullscreen, but formatted for widescreen (black bars on left/right), so playing it in our fullscreen TV produced black bars ALL THE WAY AROUND
The fastforward/rewind was EXCRUCIATINGLY painful, and I'm used to streaming off a P3 server with 320MB or ram and a 100MB network card
The "pause" button (which I hit to try to read some text in a scene) produced an UNMOVABLE playback visual that COVERED what I had paused to movie to see
It *did* come with one of those "play anywhere" disks, but those are lower quality (I PAID for high-def) and I *seriously* doubt I will EVER get them to work on my linux machine. BTW, my laptop (running linux) HAS a blu-ray drive, yet because sony thinks I'm a thief, I can't watch the blu-rays on my laptop.
That may be because other linux-based web servers (lighttpd, etc) are starting to take some share. People *already* on linux servers are eyeing lighter and/or more specialized alternatives (apache is a "does everything" type of server), but I'm sure VERY few places are replacing their linux servers with windows ones.
I'm not saying it's not easy to do (detecting large amounts of SMTP traffic ALONE would cut spam by 90%). What I'm saying is that as soon as they START, every copyright-oriented company (RIAA, MPAA, etc) will start going "hey, while your filtering those packets..."
You'll notice the parent didn't mention anything about locked down app-stores, just bare simplicity. Nokia had it right on their tablets (n770-n900) when they implemented linux's repository system. There were free apps available instantly and you could add ANY repository you felt like. It gave the simple users something simple to use for installing apps, yet still left it wide open for the curious ones to experiment.
Except that then the ISP's become gatekeepers and they end up being force to monitor other stuff such as bittorrent, voip, IM, etc. I have no problem with ISP's sending an email or making a phone-call to users who's traffic suddenly changes, but they shouldn't be taking immediate action unless their customer asks them to.
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I'd say the REALLY hard part is walking next to it while being shot at because your "buddy" got the long straw.
- If you wanted to play any of the games online, you had to have a PSN account. Which meant you had to provide a credit card whether you were ever going to buy anything or not. Wrong. This is not true at all. You can play games without ever providing a credit card. On the other hand, they do require a name, birthdate, and mailing address.
FTFY.
Or whoever wrote the SPECIFICATION he/she was implementing. Coders are about the last person the company lawyer is going to spend their well funded time talking to.
The further correction makes it even MORE not libel.
Multi-cast uses just as much bandwidth as uni-cast (regular connections). It war INTENDED to be implemented in a way that allowed less bandwidth, but is now nothing more than an easy way to establish multiple uni-cast connections.
Disclaimer: The above is true on the *internet*, local networks may act differently!
So children with parents that don't know how to change a tire or balance a chequebook are just SOL then huh? That explains a LOT!
For the record, I war lucky enough to have parents that DO know these things and DID teach them to me, but I know a LOT of my pears were not so lucky and I don't even live in an underprivileged area.
It is if the sudden disappearance of some server in another country causes your game to stop working.
I know exactly what you mean. I live in Canada where we informally use millimetres, inches, feet and kilometres, just try doing *those* conversions in your head. This is mainly because over half of the stuff we get/use/observe (groceries, tv, radio, building supplies, etc) comes from the US with Imperial.
If a bank goes bankrupt, the "receivers" would be bound to the same restrictions as the original bank.
You mean the same education system that forces subjects down your throat that 90% of the population will only ever use when helping their children with *their* homework (astronomy, chemistry, trigonometry, history, etc) while completely neglecting to even MENTION the things that 99% of the population is struggling to figure out on their own (changing a tire, checking your oil, simple computer security, balancing a chequebook, taking out a mortgage, cooking something other than Mac&Cheese, DRIVING, etc)?
Exactly. Before the iPod touch there were no such things as touch screen PDA's with App Stores. Oh, I'm sorry, you meant making them shiny and "hip"!
I'm guessing it's a simple "Dr. John is on shift from 10:00-20:00 on Tuesday" and "Dr. Doe is on call all Wednesday". Hospitals are notorious for confusing and ever-changing work schedules. I highly doubt they'd have patient names on it.
That being said, such a server should NOT be on the same network as anything related to patient data, company data (payroll) or equipment. DMZ the sucker or host it elsewhere!
Not sure where you live, but EULA's have been legally classified as UNENFORCEABLE in Canada since they are not presented at the time of purchase. Oh yeah, and if you pirate Windows, you are NOT violating the EULA since you were never presented with it. The person who uploaded it is violating their EULA (though that legally means nothing) and you are both violating *copyright*.
AHA, so black is my computer!!!
With new phones (and even regular cameras) having "send to Facebook/Youtube/etc" buttons, a lot of people just empty their memory cards when they get full and never have a local copy to begin with.
Really, never had that happen to me with OpenOffice *or* LibreOffice. And I ran both on XP, Ubuntu and Arch Linux. Biggest difference I've seen is a VAST improvement of .doc compatibility.
No, then we'd have to put up with *silent* jackasses waving their arms about without the *slightest* idea of what they are going on about.
I guess you don't live in one of the many countries that don't recognize software patents in the first place. Then again, I like having copyrights on software. It means that big companies can't steal a smaller company (or invididual)'s work and profit from it. Copyrights are also VERY different in that if you can show that you developed your software with no prior knowledge of someone else's software implementation, then you are in no way infringing on their copyright. Patents on the other hand can get you sued even if you had no idea that patent even existed.
It *did* come with one of those "play anywhere" disks, but those are lower quality (I PAID for high-def) and I *seriously* doubt I will EVER get them to work on my linux machine. BTW, my laptop (running linux) HAS a blu-ray drive, yet because sony thinks I'm a thief, I can't watch the blu-rays on my laptop.
GOD I miss the good old DVD days...
That may be because other linux-based web servers (lighttpd, etc) are starting to take some share. People *already* on linux servers are eyeing lighter and/or more specialized alternatives (apache is a "does everything" type of server), but I'm sure VERY few places are replacing their linux servers with windows ones.
Visible to what? Human eye, easy. Cheap modified camcorder, not so easy...
I'm not saying it's not easy to do (detecting large amounts of SMTP traffic ALONE would cut spam by 90%). What I'm saying is that as soon as they START, every copyright-oriented company (RIAA, MPAA, etc) will start going "hey, while your filtering those packets..."
Exactly, fog, smoke, dust and "waving a stick in the air" are the only things capable of detecting a laser...
You'll notice the parent didn't mention anything about locked down app-stores, just bare simplicity. Nokia had it right on their tablets (n770-n900) when they implemented linux's repository system. There were free apps available instantly and you could add ANY repository you felt like. It gave the simple users something simple to use for installing apps, yet still left it wide open for the curious ones to experiment.
Except that then the ISP's become gatekeepers and they end up being force to monitor other stuff such as bittorrent, voip, IM, etc. I have no problem with ISP's sending an email or making a phone-call to users who's traffic suddenly changes, but they shouldn't be taking immediate action unless their customer asks them to.