Also Starcraft II and WoW also use TCP for their gameplay. Which is the important part.
I needed to check myself after you asserted they weren't... was sure they were but they use UDP for their voice chat functions which is where you got mixed up I imagine.
Theres an extra step you're skipping on the TCP. You're correct on the packet header size my emphasis had nothing to do with size and everything to do with how tcp vs udp work. TCP based games always have higher latency due to the correction and retransmission factor. Thats where UDP being much better for lower latency operations comes in, and its why shooters have been using it for years. Better to not have the packet transmit than to cause someone that may or may not have been shot to lag for a half a second while crap is verified and resent.
Can't. Their equipment only, and purchasing from them is exorbitantly expensive, not to mention they dont warranty their equipment. This is also the 3rd modem I've had from them and its been the same story each time.
That doesn't actually matter. They have significant enough samples to piece together a working dna sequence. Even if no single strand is complete they can make a neanderthal baby, it just won't be an exact clone of any one neanderthal.
The cells are all long, long dead, so they're already going to be forced to piece it together into an embryo via genetic modification... once they're already forced to do that the fact that the specific genes may come from multiple sources is irrelevant.
A steadily overheating CPU is more likely to blow the main board than one that overheated badly once and fried. Have had overheating CPUs go through two mobos before the real problem was identified and the CPU was replaced.
I have the same issue with video cards, though the extreme heat that some holder high end ATI cards were designed to run at caused the problem without the card ever even batting an eyelash. Bled heat into the mainboard and eventually the mobo died after a month or so.
I should also note that up to 6 players is just fine for most games.
Also they're not protocol agnostic, some games transit more frequently than others, and the protocol used can add extra load... Starcraft is one of those games that sends craploads of packets constantly. They're tiny, so the bandwidth usage is miniscule, but the time required to move a one kbit packet out of the modem is nearly the same as a 1024kbit packet as the bandwidth is high enough that the packet handle/xmit takes 75%+ of the packet xmit time in the tcp... and starcraft I and II use TCP.
Most online shooters don't use TCP and use UDP and don't have this problem because UDP basically has no handshake. You can get upwards of 100x the udp packets through in the same time frame. We all play planetside 2 for instance and this isn't a problem. Of course Planetside 2 is an MMO and free to boot so we're much more forgiving about the "always online" bit.
Packet xmit demands on a single serial connection increase load disproportionate to the bandwidth usage. My router is just fine, its the modem thats choking and theres absolutely nothing I can do about it.
Its Rogers in Canada... my old 10mbit aliant connection used to be able to handle it, but thats not the point really. The point is my internet connection SHOULDN'T MATTER when all of the players are inside my LAN.
Rogers sees any kind of fast packet transmits as bit torrent traffic basically and throttles it.
Thats actually one of the things I've always liked about AMD and ATI. They both tend to not fuck around about failing. If its dead, its dead, none of this half way bull.
Just finished replacing a 560ti from nvidia with a spare 6870 I had kicking around... should be around the same speed except the 6870 was actually twice as fast due to some issue or other that had cropped up in the nvidia card but thanks to it not failing properly it just hung on and made the computer owner think he had a pile of viruses and blame basically everyone in his family for his computer being slow when his video card was just half-cooking itself on a daily basis.
I've had video cards and cpus from all 4 of the major vendors over the years... with a few noteable exceptions the rule of thumb has been that the AMD processors and the ATI cards would simply FAIL when they failed, or at least give some VERY clear indications of a hardware problem(usually significant artifacting in the case of the video cards).
Meanwhile I've seen an nvidia card quite literally melt the fan onto the heat sink without the computer even shutting down. Guy came in complaining about viruses slowing his WoW down...
Same thing happened with a couple of the old P4 dells I repaired.
no lan ability is honestly why I haven't bought Starcraft 2. We still play Starcraft 1 at LANs and for a more modern strategy game it usually falls to Sins of a Solar Empire... Starcraft II doesn't even enter into the list due to the connection requirements. My house connection can't handle the retarded protocols with 8 computers going at it even with a 75mbit connection just due to the latency increases. My internal LAN doesn't even bat an eyelash at it though.
It was also a result of overclocking the CPU to all unholy hell and wasn't possible to achieve under normal operating conditions, even while yanking the heat sink off. You would damage the processor by yanking the heat sink yes, but it wouldn't smoke more than a very small amount or in any way explode.
The thermal sensor was not included on-die as it was included in the heat sinks of the time for cooling report purposes and was not seen as necessary... which it wasn't.
CEOs are scarce because you need to have experience being a CEO in order to get hired as a CEO. This means working your way up through another department usually, or VP/COO jobs or some such at the very least. Usually this means the person is really good at ass kissing, and probably good at picking someone else to do his work for him. Alternately you're just related to someone that is or used to be really important. Hell that one can take you all the way to the oval office.
Unfortunately this system has progressed right down to middle management in most corporations and the majority of the CEO stock that didn't build a company from the ground up on their own are pretty much completely fucking useless. That particular pool of people is internationally extremely thin.
Making it less desirable to bullshit your way through a corporation may see some of the folks that have a brain becoming entrepreneurs themselves in order to earn that massive payout by building their own company. There is a lot of talent going to waste in middle management and lower positions in the form of people smarter than their bosses that won't get promoted purely because of that.
I can only see this as a good thing to promote competition and to promote more decentralized businesses and less "too-big-to-fail" corporations/banks.
This isn't even terrible socialist. A true socialist country would just enact a tax on the bonus that takes 75%+ of every dollar above x amount then throw it into public works projects etc....
Oh wait, that sounds familiar... where did that happen again?
Oh, right. In one of the biggest and best economic turnarounds in history right after the great depression, in the United States of America.
Do you know how much money it cost to buy into the program originally? Just shy of $700m. With no further commitment to financing other than buying 20 planes(with no real restrictions as to how LONG it took us to buy 20) at the end of the project at the preferred price.
Back when those were the terms, everyone was for it, and rightly fucking so. When they came back for the next 9 billion we should have cut our losses and fucking ran. It was Harpers government that said yes.
What you are saying happens on both sides, but disagreeing with the effectiveness of a single payer health care system is about as pants-on-head retarded as it gets. There is so much proof for its greater effectiveness WITH lesser costs that arguing against it is... frankly clinging to an ideology thats been totally disproven in multiple countries by multiple different types of government, presiding over multiple different cultures.
All it boils down to is "We can't do that becuz thats the cumminists. If we do that they win!"
Additionally conservative media in the U.S. can't even back up its crazy lines anymore without generating extremely biased(or in some cases completely fabricated) studies. Its gone beyond the point of retardation to the point where it seems like the conservative movement in the U.S. is actually trying to do as much DAMAGE as possible to the U.S.
Reality check: Cold war is over. Both sides lost. Get over it. Merits to be found in both forms of government. Take the best of both sides and be happier.
It really fucking is. The reason for NOT teaching intelligent design is written right into the fucking text of the law.
"(2) "Biological evolution", a theory of"
"(3) "Biological intelligent design", a hypothesis"
Amazing how they got that right then got the entire text of the law wrong.
I also like how they added "biological" to the front of intelligent design. It both makes it oh so obviously more legitimate and less pseudo science and also suggests we were created by aliens instead of god/gods/pigdemons/whateverotherrandombullshitpeoplearegullibleenoughtoswallow at the same time.
Because they want to push "home entertainment system" so that folks don't have to buy both an xbox and a blu-ray player etc.
Part of the reason I bought an original xbox was for the dvd capability. From my perspective the system didn't cost me $400 it cost me $400 minus the cost of a dvd player, so it ended up costing at the time a net of around $250.
No reasonable person would expect nuclear war to result from two ordinary cars from russia and the US crashing into each other with no fatalities.
This is something similar. He took things that he wanted to make free, as most(I believe all, but I could be missing something) of them aren't licensed with anything to prevent copying and distribution. The only thing preventing it is the only easily accessible copies are stored on that particular database. The retaliation of 20 years in jail for things that can only be considered crimes because the law as written is ridiculously broad.
Under your(extremely flawed) world view no one who isn't a millionaire *at least* several times over is capable of standing up to these goons.
The system is sick. Swartz isn't exactly a hero, but he has made himself a martyr because his only other option was attempting to flee the country, and his face had been too widely publicized to make that an option. He downloaded a ton of files he had been given legal right to access. No one ever said he couldn't download them all. He's been prosecuted for things that aren't even crimes. MIT even acknowledged that and MIT has a history of being vindictive about these types of crimes, if they are in fact "crimes".
Besides that, even if he had ran, where would he go? You can run as far as Canada and just stay there for murder charges a lot of times. You can run to Canada, The U.K., Germany... most any european country for murder crimes, rape charges, etc, and while they may end up extraditing you if you're found in that country, they will at least examine the charges and potentially fight on your behalf to keep you there.
Copyright infringement on the other hand... the RIAA and co just prosecute you in the country you go to, which usually constitutes being subjected to laws just as bad. You'll end up with some copyright conglomerate strong arming the local government into using its full authority against you. Its absolutely insane. The copyright conglomerates wield more international influence than any country in the world.
You are the exception, not the rule. I've talked to people that are IN the sweat shops I'm talking about. The H1-B program does get a few folks like you in, but if your skills are that desirable there are other programs they can bring you into the US under. Specifically programs more focused on keeping you in the US.
Filming the execution of Jar Jar as a main side-plot and zapping to scenes of his slow disembowelment every so often could make the movie a smashing success on its own.
I have a 3400 sqft house with a single Asus router running the whole deal.
I also went through 2 WRT54G's in as many years. I find both stories believeable, but of the people I know, no one is actually still using their WRT54G for anything other than one guy is using it for a small wired subnet. The wireless generally loses range on them as they get older for some inexplicable reason.
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Also Starcraft II and WoW also use TCP for their gameplay. Which is the important part.
I needed to check myself after you asserted they weren't... was sure they were but they use UDP for their voice chat functions which is where you got mixed up I imagine.
Theres an extra step you're skipping on the TCP. You're correct on the packet header size my emphasis had nothing to do with size and everything to do with how tcp vs udp work. TCP based games always have higher latency due to the correction and retransmission factor. Thats where UDP being much better for lower latency operations comes in, and its why shooters have been using it for years. Better to not have the packet transmit than to cause someone that may or may not have been shot to lag for a half a second while crap is verified and resent.
Can't. Their equipment only, and purchasing from them is exorbitantly expensive, not to mention they dont warranty their equipment. This is also the 3rd modem I've had from them and its been the same story each time.
That doesn't actually matter. They have significant enough samples to piece together a working dna sequence. Even if no single strand is complete they can make a neanderthal baby, it just won't be an exact clone of any one neanderthal.
The cells are all long, long dead, so they're already going to be forced to piece it together into an embryo via genetic modification... once they're already forced to do that the fact that the specific genes may come from multiple sources is irrelevant.
A steadily overheating CPU is more likely to blow the main board than one that overheated badly once and fried. Have had overheating CPUs go through two mobos before the real problem was identified and the CPU was replaced.
I have the same issue with video cards, though the extreme heat that some holder high end ATI cards were designed to run at caused the problem without the card ever even batting an eyelash. Bled heat into the mainboard and eventually the mobo died after a month or so.
I should also note that up to 6 players is just fine for most games.
Also they're not protocol agnostic, some games transit more frequently than others, and the protocol used can add extra load... Starcraft is one of those games that sends craploads of packets constantly. They're tiny, so the bandwidth usage is miniscule, but the time required to move a one kbit packet out of the modem is nearly the same as a 1024kbit packet as the bandwidth is high enough that the packet handle/xmit takes 75%+ of the packet xmit time in the tcp... and starcraft I and II use TCP.
Most online shooters don't use TCP and use UDP and don't have this problem because UDP basically has no handshake. You can get upwards of 100x the udp packets through in the same time frame. We all play planetside 2 for instance and this isn't a problem. Of course Planetside 2 is an MMO and free to boot so we're much more forgiving about the "always online" bit.
Packet xmit demands on a single serial connection increase load disproportionate to the bandwidth usage. My router is just fine, its the modem thats choking and theres absolutely nothing I can do about it.
Its Rogers in Canada... my old 10mbit aliant connection used to be able to handle it, but thats not the point really. The point is my internet connection SHOULDN'T MATTER when all of the players are inside my LAN.
Rogers sees any kind of fast packet transmits as bit torrent traffic basically and throttles it.
Thats actually one of the things I've always liked about AMD and ATI. They both tend to not fuck around about failing. If its dead, its dead, none of this half way bull.
Just finished replacing a 560ti from nvidia with a spare 6870 I had kicking around... should be around the same speed except the 6870 was actually twice as fast due to some issue or other that had cropped up in the nvidia card but thanks to it not failing properly it just hung on and made the computer owner think he had a pile of viruses and blame basically everyone in his family for his computer being slow when his video card was just half-cooking itself on a daily basis.
I've had video cards and cpus from all 4 of the major vendors over the years... with a few noteable exceptions the rule of thumb has been that the AMD processors and the ATI cards would simply FAIL when they failed, or at least give some VERY clear indications of a hardware problem(usually significant artifacting in the case of the video cards).
Meanwhile I've seen an nvidia card quite literally melt the fan onto the heat sink without the computer even shutting down. Guy came in complaining about viruses slowing his WoW down...
Same thing happened with a couple of the old P4 dells I repaired.
no lan ability is honestly why I haven't bought Starcraft 2. We still play Starcraft 1 at LANs and for a more modern strategy game it usually falls to Sins of a Solar Empire... Starcraft II doesn't even enter into the list due to the connection requirements. My house connection can't handle the retarded protocols with 8 computers going at it even with a 75mbit connection just due to the latency increases. My internal LAN doesn't even bat an eyelash at it though.
It was also a result of overclocking the CPU to all unholy hell and wasn't possible to achieve under normal operating conditions, even while yanking the heat sink off. You would damage the processor by yanking the heat sink yes, but it wouldn't smoke more than a very small amount or in any way explode.
The thermal sensor was not included on-die as it was included in the heat sinks of the time for cooling report purposes and was not seen as necessary... which it wasn't.
No. No it wouldn't have.
CEOs are scarce because you need to have experience being a CEO in order to get hired as a CEO. This means working your way up through another department usually, or VP/COO jobs or some such at the very least. Usually this means the person is really good at ass kissing, and probably good at picking someone else to do his work for him. Alternately you're just related to someone that is or used to be really important. Hell that one can take you all the way to the oval office.
Unfortunately this system has progressed right down to middle management in most corporations and the majority of the CEO stock that didn't build a company from the ground up on their own are pretty much completely fucking useless. That particular pool of people is internationally extremely thin.
Making it less desirable to bullshit your way through a corporation may see some of the folks that have a brain becoming entrepreneurs themselves in order to earn that massive payout by building their own company. There is a lot of talent going to waste in middle management and lower positions in the form of people smarter than their bosses that won't get promoted purely because of that.
I can only see this as a good thing to promote competition and to promote more decentralized businesses and less "too-big-to-fail" corporations/banks.
This isn't even terrible socialist. A true socialist country would just enact a tax on the bonus that takes 75%+ of every dollar above x amount then throw it into public works projects etc....
Oh wait, that sounds familiar... where did that happen again?
Oh, right. In one of the biggest and best economic turnarounds in history right after the great depression, in the United States of America.
Do you know how much money it cost to buy into the program originally? Just shy of $700m. With no further commitment to financing other than buying 20 planes(with no real restrictions as to how LONG it took us to buy 20) at the end of the project at the preferred price.
Back when those were the terms, everyone was for it, and rightly fucking so. When they came back for the next 9 billion we should have cut our losses and fucking ran. It was Harpers government that said yes.
What you are saying happens on both sides, but disagreeing with the effectiveness of a single payer health care system is about as pants-on-head retarded as it gets. There is so much proof for its greater effectiveness WITH lesser costs that arguing against it is... frankly clinging to an ideology thats been totally disproven in multiple countries by multiple different types of government, presiding over multiple different cultures.
All it boils down to is "We can't do that becuz thats the cumminists. If we do that they win!"
Additionally conservative media in the U.S. can't even back up its crazy lines anymore without generating extremely biased(or in some cases completely fabricated) studies. Its gone beyond the point of retardation to the point where it seems like the conservative movement in the U.S. is actually trying to do as much DAMAGE as possible to the U.S.
Reality check: Cold war is over. Both sides lost. Get over it. Merits to be found in both forms of government. Take the best of both sides and be happier.
It really fucking is. The reason for NOT teaching intelligent design is written right into the fucking text of the law.
"(2) "Biological evolution", a theory of"
"(3) "Biological intelligent design", a hypothesis"
Amazing how they got that right then got the entire text of the law wrong.
I also like how they added "biological" to the front of intelligent design. It both makes it oh so obviously more legitimate and less pseudo science and also suggests we were created by aliens instead of god/gods/pigdemons/whateverotherrandombullshitpeoplearegullibleenoughtoswallow at the same time.
Because they thought they could get away with it. For a long time they were right.
Because they want to push "home entertainment system" so that folks don't have to buy both an xbox and a blu-ray player etc.
Part of the reason I bought an original xbox was for the dvd capability. From my perspective the system didn't cost me $400 it cost me $400 minus the cost of a dvd player, so it ended up costing at the time a net of around $250.
No reasonable person would expect nuclear war to result from two ordinary cars from russia and the US crashing into each other with no fatalities.
This is something similar. He took things that he wanted to make free, as most(I believe all, but I could be missing something) of them aren't licensed with anything to prevent copying and distribution. The only thing preventing it is the only easily accessible copies are stored on that particular database. The retaliation of 20 years in jail for things that can only be considered crimes because the law as written is ridiculously broad.
Under your(extremely flawed) world view no one who isn't a millionaire *at least* several times over is capable of standing up to these goons.
The system is sick. Swartz isn't exactly a hero, but he has made himself a martyr because his only other option was attempting to flee the country, and his face had been too widely publicized to make that an option. He downloaded a ton of files he had been given legal right to access. No one ever said he couldn't download them all. He's been prosecuted for things that aren't even crimes. MIT even acknowledged that and MIT has a history of being vindictive about these types of crimes, if they are in fact "crimes".
Besides that, even if he had ran, where would he go? You can run as far as Canada and just stay there for murder charges a lot of times. You can run to Canada, The U.K., Germany... most any european country for murder crimes, rape charges, etc, and while they may end up extraditing you if you're found in that country, they will at least examine the charges and potentially fight on your behalf to keep you there.
Copyright infringement on the other hand... the RIAA and co just prosecute you in the country you go to, which usually constitutes being subjected to laws just as bad. You'll end up with some copyright conglomerate strong arming the local government into using its full authority against you. Its absolutely insane. The copyright conglomerates wield more international influence than any country in the world.
Not quite, a better metaphor would be that he was invited into a house to take pictures of *anything* he wanted.
They then called the cops because he took pictures of everything.
You are the exception, not the rule. I've talked to people that are IN the sweat shops I'm talking about. The H1-B program does get a few folks like you in, but if your skills are that desirable there are other programs they can bring you into the US under. Specifically programs more focused on keeping you in the US.
Theres a seperate program for these people, like the german immigrants, who get in with green cards much faster.
H1-Bs are the IT equivalent of on-shore sweat-shops only they're legal.
This could also be the problem for me and my buddies. Why the hell does it do this?
Filming the execution of Jar Jar as a main side-plot and zapping to scenes of his slow disembowelment every so often could make the movie a smashing success on its own.
I have a 3400 sqft house with a single Asus router running the whole deal.
I also went through 2 WRT54G's in as many years. I find both stories believeable, but of the people I know, no one is actually still using their WRT54G for anything other than one guy is using it for a small wired subnet. The wireless generally loses range on them as they get older for some inexplicable reason.