That's exactly how I see it - the iPod/iPhone platform (hardware, software, app store) is so successful exactly because there is no configuration which will lead the user into a broken install.
Apple has succeeded with the iPhone because they are taking the difficult choices away from the user. Apple are screening the apps for minimal quality control, so the user doesn't end up with a dozen half-arsed apps that chew up battery life and leave the device in odd states.
Do you really believe that "there's no guarantee that these Indian workers would be involved with the Department of Labour job" is the same as "no India workers will be used on the Department of Labour job"?
The ideal control group would, of course, be a group taking a "science-based medicine" drug which has been proven to have some effect on memory, attention, etc. Just to prove that the study is actually able to detect the thing it's supposed to be looking for.
If you truly believe that a simple reversion of a configuration will cause a reversion to a previous state, you're sorely mistaken.
Once the device you're working on starts misbehaving, other devices around it will start misbehaving too. As an example, one change to a network I'm involved with was supposed to simply prioritise VoIP traffic for one customer. The change was successful, the engineer went home. Then three hours later a major network router failed, because the higher priority voice traffic which was now flowing over the router tripped some magic number of MACs that it could remember, at which point the card had to keep referring routing decisions back to the CPU.
The router's CPU became overloaded, other routes started dropping packets, and we ended up trying to resolve the problem by rebooting that router (because that's what was broken). The router on starting up was immediately overloaded and crashed again. Overall, it took about four hours to get to the problem resolved, which required reverting the VoIP change and turning off some customer networks to allow the core router to start up without the huge packet load. The customer networks were down for about three and a half hours.
In this instance, simply reverting the change to the VoIP services would not have resolved the problem. Once the camel's back was broken, removing a straw would not have fixed it.
Any employer that chooses to judge an employee by good or bad stuff they did 10 years ago, is stark raving insane.
10 years ago, the person didn't have two children and a spouse and a house with a 30 year mortgage. That kind of change in life status changes people's priorities. 15 years ago she might have been a party animal, with photos on Facebook showing her drunken charades with a bunch of equally sillly friends, these days she might not even touch alcohol since her dedication to her children is more important to her.
Strictly speaking, the server maximum for EVE Online is about 1000-2000. Each star system is a different server, with travel between systems happening through a "loading screen" cunningly disguised as a star gate.
Effectively, each star system in EVE Online is a "continent" from WoW, with each "zone" in WoW scaling to a "grid" in EVE. Except that "grid" is a local construct, not a fixed geographic location: you can join the same "zone" as another player by simply walking over a line in the sand, to join the same "grid" as a player you actually have to warp to their ship.
The BIOS can be reprogrammed, sure. But what's to stop the "standard" chipset containing instructions that will ensure the backdoor is copied into BIOS every time it's reprogrammed?
Remember the login backdoor that was part of the standard C compiler for a long time?
We've been exposing kids to heightened levels of UV radiation for years by installing fluorescent lamps. I don't see any hue and cry about excessive UV radiation damaging our childrens' eyes and giving them skin cancer.
We've been exposing kids to chalk dust for years, I don't see any hue and cry about heightened levels of respiratory illness due to chalk dust inhalation.
We've been exposing humans to 50-60Hz EM radiation for decades, with no research into the effects of having that much electricity coursing through your body day and night.
Why should we be getting all concerned about WiFi radiation?
In the meantime we have EVE Online
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Sure, it's fishtank physics, but you have the same ability to take off from a station, choosing to either pirate your way to riches or trade valuable goods across the galaxy. Even better (or worse, perhaps?) is that you get to compete in these activities against real people (not Thargoids, as exciting as they were).
The number of communications required to keep a game with N players updated with each other is O(N!). This patent suggests a method by which the communications are sent to a central server, with the server sending regular updates to each player of all the actions taken by the other N-1 players. The server includes the ability for clients to become part of a "group" which further limits the amount of communication required to something less than O(N). The patent attempts to claim the Nagle algorithm as a unique invention (ie: hold on to outgoing messages for a short time to potentially squeeze more data into one packet).
"Group" in this context would be similar to "instance" in World of Warcraft or "grid" in EVE Online.
If someone can explain how this is not an obvious solution to the problem, as evidenced by the parallel development of this technology by every MMO out there, I'd love to hear it.
Surely Slashdot can get cracker vs hacker right?
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Surely a site dedicated to news for nerds can get the distinction between hacker and cracker right?
This certainly makes it easier for future anthropologists to study the interrelationships between contemporary reading habits and popularity of certain franchises. And think of the possibilities for collectors!
"Here we have a copy of Arthur C Clarke's 2001, print-by-demand in 2010. Note that most references to space are accompanied by real estate ads? Here in 2015 after the move by the USA from 'war on drugs' to 'harm minimisation', note how most of the references to space, and especially the iconic scene 'Oh my God! It's full of stars' are accompanied by ads for detox clinics? This was obviously a pivotal time in the culture of that country."
I use Bing every day. Every time I'm looking for some information, I'll ask Google and Bing the same question.
Bing rocks at questions like, "what is searchability?" (searchability is the marketing phrase describing the ability for people to find stuff - that is, the efficacy of your Search function). In the meantime, Google is better at answering questions such as "what is element 102 on the periodic table?" Bing answers that question with preference to marketing-style pages (what is the periodic table? here is an interactive periodic table!), Google answers "Nobelium".
So Bing is very much like the Microsoft support desk: "element 102 on the periodic table is the one you find at position 102 in the table." Google is more like the computer geek over in the back corner: "The answer is 42, but don't expect me to explain the question to you.":)
I think you'll find that WoW has greatly reduced the number of ninjas and gold-beggers in WoW. Partly because it's turned into a prepubescent "Monty Haul" style RPG, partly because it's so boring that any self-respecting griefer has gone elsewhere, but I'll leave that argument for another offtopic post.
Off-peak for most Australian ISPs (remember Australia, the land where Internet access used to be $/Mb but recently has started becoming Quota + shaping) is from Midnight to about 6am. That is, off-peak is defined as being the time that nobody is actually using the network.
Highest peak (9pm to 12pm) is actually about the time that that raids and massive porn downloads begin. That is, peak time is defined as the time that most download traffic is occurring.
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That's exactly how I see it - the iPod/iPhone platform (hardware, software, app store) is so successful exactly because there is no configuration which will lead the user into a broken install.
Apple has succeeded with the iPhone because they are taking the difficult choices away from the user. Apple are screening the apps for minimal quality control, so the user doesn't end up with a dozen half-arsed apps that chew up battery life and leave the device in odd states.
Do you really believe that "there's no guarantee that these Indian workers would be involved with the Department of Labour job" is the same as "no India workers will be used on the Department of Labour job"?
Or more to the point, only people from the Champagne region of France being allowed to use that name on their sparkling wines.
The ideal control group would, of course, be a group taking a "science-based medicine" drug which has been proven to have some effect on memory, attention, etc. Just to prove that the study is actually able to detect the thing it's supposed to be looking for.
If you truly believe that a simple reversion of a configuration will cause a reversion to a previous state, you're sorely mistaken.
Once the device you're working on starts misbehaving, other devices around it will start misbehaving too. As an example, one change to a network I'm involved with was supposed to simply prioritise VoIP traffic for one customer. The change was successful, the engineer went home. Then three hours later a major network router failed, because the higher priority voice traffic which was now flowing over the router tripped some magic number of MACs that it could remember, at which point the card had to keep referring routing decisions back to the CPU.
The router's CPU became overloaded, other routes started dropping packets, and we ended up trying to resolve the problem by rebooting that router (because that's what was broken). The router on starting up was immediately overloaded and crashed again. Overall, it took about four hours to get to the problem resolved, which required reverting the VoIP change and turning off some customer networks to allow the core router to start up without the huge packet load. The customer networks were down for about three and a half hours.
In this instance, simply reverting the change to the VoIP services would not have resolved the problem. Once the camel's back was broken, removing a straw would not have fixed it.
Any employer that chooses to judge an employee by good or bad stuff they did 10 years ago, is stark raving insane.
10 years ago, the person didn't have two children and a spouse and a house with a 30 year mortgage. That kind of change in life status changes people's priorities. 15 years ago she might have been a party animal, with photos on Facebook showing her drunken charades with a bunch of equally sillly friends, these days she might not even touch alcohol since her dedication to her children is more important to her.
People do change.
Of course they aren't. They're not counting anything, these numbers are pulled out of some marketing guy's alphabet soup in the morning.
Levitt Institute, Hungry Beast.
http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2009/09/hungry-beast-pranks-7pm-project-and-a-few-others-too.html
Strictly speaking, the server maximum for EVE Online is about 1000-2000. Each star system is a different server, with travel between systems happening through a "loading screen" cunningly disguised as a star gate.
Effectively, each star system in EVE Online is a "continent" from WoW, with each "zone" in WoW scaling to a "grid" in EVE. Except that "grid" is a local construct, not a fixed geographic location: you can join the same "zone" as another player by simply walking over a line in the sand, to join the same "grid" as a player you actually have to warp to their ship.
The BIOS can be reprogrammed, sure. But what's to stop the "standard" chipset containing instructions that will ensure the backdoor is copied into BIOS every time it's reprogrammed?
Remember the login backdoor that was part of the standard C compiler for a long time?
So what this really means is that Microsoft now owns the NSW Department of Education.
"Oh, you're not going to teach Intelligent Design like all good education departments? That's fine, we'll just turn off all those netbooks."
Our leaders came to power by being lower down the list of "politicians to put last on the vote ticket".
We've been exposing kids to heightened levels of UV radiation for years by installing fluorescent lamps. I don't see any hue and cry about excessive UV radiation damaging our childrens' eyes and giving them skin cancer.
We've been exposing kids to chalk dust for years, I don't see any hue and cry about heightened levels of respiratory illness due to chalk dust inhalation.
We've been exposing humans to 50-60Hz EM radiation for decades, with no research into the effects of having that much electricity coursing through your body day and night.
Why should we be getting all concerned about WiFi radiation?
Sure, it's fishtank physics, but you have the same ability to take off from a station, choosing to either pirate your way to riches or trade valuable goods across the galaxy. Even better (or worse, perhaps?) is that you get to compete in these activities against real people (not Thargoids, as exciting as they were).
Patent 5822523, summarised:
The number of communications required to keep a game with N players updated with each other is O(N!). This patent suggests a method by which the communications are sent to a central server, with the server sending regular updates to each player of all the actions taken by the other N-1 players. The server includes the ability for clients to become part of a "group" which further limits the amount of communication required to something less than O(N). The patent attempts to claim the Nagle algorithm as a unique invention (ie: hold on to outgoing messages for a short time to potentially squeeze more data into one packet).
"Group" in this context would be similar to "instance" in World of Warcraft or "grid" in EVE Online.
If someone can explain how this is not an obvious solution to the problem, as evidenced by the parallel development of this technology by every MMO out there, I'd love to hear it.
Surely a site dedicated to news for nerds can get the distinction between hacker and cracker right?
Nothing more to say.
See how our swimmer has her nose on the back of her head, yeah that's a rare genetic disorder.
And to think that I consciously chose to customise my EVE Online avatar to be an African-Chinese female.
This certainly makes it easier for future anthropologists to study the interrelationships between contemporary reading habits and popularity of certain franchises. And think of the possibilities for collectors!
"Here we have a copy of Arthur C Clarke's 2001, print-by-demand in 2010. Note that most references to space are accompanied by real estate ads? Here in 2015 after the move by the USA from 'war on drugs' to 'harm minimisation', note how most of the references to space, and especially the iconic scene 'Oh my God! It's full of stars' are accompanied by ads for detox clinics? This was obviously a pivotal time in the culture of that country."
If it gets more people interested in the game who cares that Slashdot is a month behind the curve?
I use Bing every day. Every time I'm looking for some information, I'll ask Google and Bing the same question.
Bing rocks at questions like, "what is searchability?" (searchability is the marketing phrase describing the ability for people to find stuff - that is, the efficacy of your Search function). In the meantime, Google is better at answering questions such as "what is element 102 on the periodic table?" Bing answers that question with preference to marketing-style pages (what is the periodic table? here is an interactive periodic table!), Google answers "Nobelium".
So Bing is very much like the Microsoft support desk: "element 102 on the periodic table is the one you find at position 102 in the table." Google is more like the computer geek over in the back corner: "The answer is 42, but don't expect me to explain the question to you." :)
I think you'll find that WoW has greatly reduced the number of ninjas and gold-beggers in WoW. Partly because it's turned into a prepubescent "Monty Haul" style RPG, partly because it's so boring that any self-respecting griefer has gone elsewhere, but I'll leave that argument for another offtopic post.
Off-peak for most Australian ISPs (remember Australia, the land where Internet access used to be $/Mb but recently has started becoming Quota + shaping) is from Midnight to about 6am. That is, off-peak is defined as being the time that nobody is actually using the network.
Highest peak (9pm to 12pm) is actually about the time that that raids and massive porn downloads begin. That is, peak time is defined as the time that most download traffic is occurring.
My girlfriend picked that one up and ran with it X(
So nowadays, when she's heading to bed, "are we having sex, or is someone wrong on the Internet?"
Sheesh... impossible decisions...
That was the first thing that popped into my mind too! News as entertainment, would you like to know more?