"As long as all customers are treated fairly in the way they are affected, most believe that traffic shaping is a reasonable approach for ISPs (Internet service providers) to take," said the survey.
That first clause, "As long as all customers are treated fairly", is the tricky bit.
But the deal is, he paid supposed professionals to handle this for him.
I've had supposed professionals make mistakes in the past, now and then. That's why the smart money keeps an eye on the job they're doing, if that's feasible. Well, normally you don't get that option with movers...
why bother to give yourself a headache second-guessing the movers?
I don't see any place he said tracking the movers gave him a headache. It sounded like he had a blast.
There's been a couple of cases where someone took some GPL-compatible BSDL code and removed the BSDL from the files, until someone made a fuss about it.
Yes, the code *is* GPL compatible, but that's not the same as GPL, and removing the original license and attribution from the source is hijacking as far as I'm concerned. It's about the only thing you can do to a BSDL work that could be considered hijacking.
I don't know why people would do that: the license IS compatible, and with or without the advertising clause, the BSDL is all about attribution. It really boggles my mind that anyone would consider that acceptable.
After Mongrel I almost need companies to have to admit they use my software. I would actually rather nobody use my software than be in a situation where everyone is using my gear and nobody is admitting it.
Or worse, everyone is using it, and at the same time saying I can't code.
If you're worried about that, you should use the "noxious" four clause BSDL, not the GPL, because unless someone distributed the code AND people look at the copyright notice, nobody will know or care. Even the new GPL-friendly BSDL does as much to protect you from people "not admitting" they use your software as the GPL. Heck, the BSDL even protects you from GPL projects hijacking your code.:)
Heck, most of those reasons seem to be based on a misunderstanding of the GPL except for the one where you get to dual-license your GPL code and make money from corporations who want a special deal. Which is perfectly reasonable and lots of people are doing it, but hiding it in a bunch of bogus verbiage about attribution?
A lot of companies have been holding off an upgrade from Windows XP for years now, because Vista was such a dog's breakfast. So they had already planned on upgrading to whatever came after Vista if the early word was even slightly positive.
Could the server that runs these "Domain Helper" webservices detect that a connection is not attempting to get http data and send a resolution failure?
Since the actual connection never goes anywhere near the DNS server, no.
It's not like Comcast is going to be intercepting all DNS traffic and routing it through their spammy DNS servers.
I remember when I believed stuff like that. That was before all the reports of ISPs redirecting 25, 53, 80, and other usual suspects through their transproxies. Yes, there's every reason to assume that Comcast will be doing exactly that.
Sounds like time to pick some semi-standard alternate port number and start setting up some alternate recursive DNS servers, something between alt.* and TOR.
If you have a height map, use its gradient to compute the normal vector at each point on the surface. There's your normal map.
That would seem somewhat akin to converting to a PNG from a JPG; the resulting normal map is less precise and of lower resolution than one you would derive from the original data.
Calling any runtime an "operating system", whether it actually implements and exposes a full menu of OS APIs and subsystems, is worse than an error, it's a sin.
I blame Microsoft. If the DOS-based Windows could be called an OS, anything could.
Anyway, it can give any color of light so that's nice, but what isn't is that it uses four leds, like you suggest. This results in four distinct light sources, which gives really spooky shadows.
It's not designed for end users. It's designed for power users; for people who know what they are doing.
I don't think you understand the term "end user".
Not to mention the fact that if you paid me had a dollar for every time over the past twenty five years I've had to pull some so-called "power user's" ass out of the fire because he didn't know said ass from his elbow I'd be able to buy myself a nice "power user" computer system with the proceeds.
If Zone Alarm only sold their product to people who *actually* knew what they were doing, they would have gone out of business years ago.
Yep, I can't imagine what the hell he's thinking. The standard of consent for recording conversations is pretty much always "at least one side has to know". Plus, he's illegally recording the judge who's going to be ruling on his case?
The only thing that makes ANY sense at all is if he's TRYING to get the case thrown out as a mistrial. But I can't see that possibly working in his favor.
Don't blame ZoneAlarm if you haven't specified what the user is allowed to access
It ain't my computer. It was invariably some customer or contractor who installed ZoneAlarm on his own laptop and needed to print. I set our outside worker rooms up firewalled from each other and from the corporate net, with separate VPNs for each group, with their own printers and project-specific resources. There's no need at all for a client-based firewall in that environment.
Every time I had to check on a user who couldn't print and found ZoneAlarm enabled it provided the user NO feedback and NO guidance whatsoever to help them debug the problem. Since it was sold to end users to provide them personal protection that's just plain bad design.
Gibson's fictional vision to some degree shaped what has been created (e.g. Second Life)
Vinge's novella "True Names", published around the same time, was a much better depiction of virtual realities. The concept of virtual reality in SF dates back to Dan Galouye's novel "Simulacron Three", published in 1964.
Indeed I am waiting for a true hybrid system to be built. One that has the OS installed in read only flash and applications on a separate drive. you might ask why? but then stop to realize what would happen if viruses couldn't overwrite the system settings. that to clean up a virus all you had to do was to reboot.
You mean like the way I run Windows under VMware and roll back to a snapshot?
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"As long as all customers are treated fairly in the way they are affected, most believe that traffic shaping is a reasonable approach for ISPs (Internet service providers) to take," said the survey.
That first clause, "As long as all customers are treated fairly", is the tricky bit.
But the deal is, he paid supposed professionals to handle this for him.
I've had supposed professionals make mistakes in the past, now and then. That's why the smart money keeps an eye on the job they're doing, if that's feasible. Well, normally you don't get that option with movers...
why bother to give yourself a headache second-guessing the movers?
I don't see any place he said tracking the movers gave him a headache. It sounded like he had a blast.
There's been a couple of cases where someone took some GPL-compatible BSDL code and removed the BSDL from the files, until someone made a fuss about it.
Yes, the code *is* GPL compatible, but that's not the same as GPL, and removing the original license and attribution from the source is hijacking as far as I'm concerned. It's about the only thing you can do to a BSDL work that could be considered hijacking.
I don't know why people would do that: the license IS compatible, and with or without the advertising clause, the BSDL is all about attribution. It really boggles my mind that anyone would consider that acceptable.
After Mongrel I almost need companies to have to admit they use my software. I would actually rather nobody use my software than be in a situation where everyone is using my gear and nobody is admitting it.
Or worse, everyone is using it, and at the same time saying I can't code.
If you're worried about that, you should use the "noxious" four clause BSDL, not the GPL, because unless someone distributed the code AND people look at the copyright notice, nobody will know or care. Even the new GPL-friendly BSDL does as much to protect you from people "not admitting" they use your software as the GPL. Heck, the BSDL even protects you from GPL projects hijacking your code. :)
Heck, most of those reasons seem to be based on a misunderstanding of the GPL except for the one where you get to dual-license your GPL code and make money from corporations who want a special deal. Which is perfectly reasonable and lots of people are doing it, but hiding it in a bunch of bogus verbiage about attribution?
A lot of companies have been holding off an upgrade from Windows XP for years now, because Vista was such a dog's breakfast. So they had already planned on upgrading to whatever came after Vista if the early word was even slightly positive.
If you can't play the game except through their online service, I assume they're not actually charging you for the game software itself?
No, of course not. They'd never double-charge people for a game, would they?
Maybe for a machine, but it's pretty normal for us mere humans to worry about where our stuff is.
Better get in practice... start a shudder club today!
Could the server that runs these "Domain Helper" webservices detect that a connection is not attempting to get http data and send a resolution failure?
Since the actual connection never goes anywhere near the DNS server, no.
It's not like Comcast is going to be intercepting all DNS traffic and routing it through their spammy DNS servers.
I remember when I believed stuff like that. That was before all the reports of ISPs redirecting 25, 53, 80, and other usual suspects through their transproxies. Yes, there's every reason to assume that Comcast will be doing exactly that.
That's going to be really effective when your port 53 requests are intercepted by their transparent firewall and rerouted to their corrupt roots.
Sounds like time to pick some semi-standard alternate port number and start setting up some alternate recursive DNS servers, something between alt.* and TOR.
If you have a height map, use its gradient to compute the normal vector at each point on the surface. There's your normal map.
That would seem somewhat akin to converting to a PNG from a JPG; the resulting normal map is less precise and of lower resolution than one you would derive from the original data.
Bump maps are so 20th century.
The Atari ST has no relationship whatsoever to the Atari 1200 XL.
Atari ST: 68000-based computer designed by ex-Commodore engineers brought over by Jack Tramiel when he bought Atari.
Atari 1200 XL: based on Jay Miner's Atari 800 design before he left to create the Amiga.
Calling any runtime an "operating system", whether it actually implements and exposes a full menu of OS APIs and subsystems, is worse than an error, it's a sin.
I blame Microsoft. If the DOS-based Windows could be called an OS, anything could.
Anyway, it can give any color of light so that's nice, but what isn't is that it uses four leds, like you suggest. This results in four distinct light sources, which gives really spooky shadows.
Diffuser?
It's not designed for end users. It's designed for power users; for people who know what they are doing.
I don't think you understand the term "end user".
Not to mention the fact that if you paid me had a dollar for every time over the past twenty five years I've had to pull some so-called "power user's" ass out of the fire because he didn't know said ass from his elbow I'd be able to buy myself a nice "power user" computer system with the proceeds.
If Zone Alarm only sold their product to people who *actually* knew what they were doing, they would have gone out of business years ago.
Mod parent up... oh, it's already at 5. :)
Yep, I can't imagine what the hell he's thinking. The standard of consent for recording conversations is pretty much always "at least one side has to know". Plus, he's illegally recording the judge who's going to be ruling on his case?
The only thing that makes ANY sense at all is if he's TRYING to get the case thrown out as a mistrial. But I can't see that possibly working in his favor.
You wouldn't be implying that he was just using "I'm a researcher" to excuse bad behavior? Who would do that?
That way everyone will implement both, and they can compete on technical merits.
I'm pretty sure I've seen this demoed, might even have come in a demo with a Logitech camera I got several years ago.
Don't blame ZoneAlarm if you haven't specified what the user is allowed to access
It ain't my computer. It was invariably some customer or contractor who installed ZoneAlarm on his own laptop and needed to print. I set our outside worker rooms up firewalled from each other and from the corporate net, with separate VPNs for each group, with their own printers and project-specific resources. There's no need at all for a client-based firewall in that environment.
Every time I had to check on a user who couldn't print and found ZoneAlarm enabled it provided the user NO feedback and NO guidance whatsoever to help them debug the problem. Since it was sold to end users to provide them personal protection that's just plain bad design.
Gibson's fictional vision to some degree shaped what has been created (e.g. Second Life)
Vinge's novella "True Names", published around the same time, was a much better depiction of virtual realities. The concept of virtual reality in SF dates back to Dan Galouye's novel "Simulacron Three", published in 1964.
Indeed I am waiting for a true hybrid system to be built. One that has the OS installed in read only flash and applications on a separate drive. you might ask why? but then stop to realize what would happen if viruses couldn't overwrite the system settings. that to clean up a virus all you had to do was to reboot.
You mean like the way I run Windows under VMware and roll back to a snapshot?