It reminds me of the word "ubiquitous". Prior to 1997 or so no one had ever heard of this word, much less used it in a computer/business setting. Now I see even my boss, someone who does not come from an IT background, using it.
No offense, but is English not your first language? Because that word has been in use for nearly 200 years, and therefore was not originally IT-specific.
I'm thinking of going for it as soon as I finish world-wide Loremaster. Because I'll want to stay at least revered with Bloodsail (Insane only needs honored, I think) if I can't stay exalted, and I won't be able to do that if I still have to turn in quests to goblins after.
I got 2^6 too, but I wonder if it is correct. 2^6=64, but the achievement system was implemented in April 1st, that mean we can get maximum 45 days read in a row. Well, maybe they have already counted before that.
I think it definitely counts from before it was implemented. I have 2^4 or something comments rated 5 as one of my achievements, with the date set in March. I haven't posted much in a while, so that has to be from before. And yet, I don't think it's from all time, because the site seems to only list my posts back to 2007.
Unless it's set to send ALL traffic over the VPN, you have to resolve the hostname in order to decide if the DNS name is on the VPN or on the Internet.
Why not use a hosts file to assign the internal IPs? That's kinda what it's for. Even Windows machines can do this. It's only a pain if you change server IPs, and that's quickly resolved, too. (Heh.)
You honestly wouldnt have a problem with microsoft bundling their own PDF reader with their OS? More to the point, dont you think that people would start yelling about bloat and whatnot if they did?
I wouldn't have a problem, as long as they weren't making it hard for people to install their own alternatives. And Apple bundles a level of PDF reading and creation with OS X.
"You already paid for it." != "free" in any sense of the word.
If you've already paid for it, and you are now choosing between multiple tools, the ones you have ALREADY PAID for are as good as free ones.
From the website: "Other proprietary alternatives to Adobe's PDF reader also exist, but like it, their internal working is a a trade secret and these programs do not respect your right to control your own privacy and data."
They're "as good" as long as these issues don't matter to you.
I worked at Babbage's (store #1! Northpark Mall, Dallas) in the early 90s, and it was required that all display copies of console games be gutted. The manager would sometimes let sales associates borrow contents, too (unless it was a title we kept running out of). Babbage's eventually became Gamestop.
I never borrowed any games (I didn't have a current console, for one thing) but I did have a lot of fun with the shrink wrap machine.:) And yes, people did steal empty boxes from display sometimes.
..a closed platform opening up brings news.. whereas other open (and closed) platforms have had this for a long time. The Apple RDF is strong..
This is a significant development for many in the the large and growing iPhone userbase. Your claim that because others did it first that it's not newsworthy is just antifanboyism dressed up as open-source cheerleading. Do we not report on China's space program, because the US did it first?
I've been buying Asimov, Analog, and S&SF for a LONG time, but I won't subscribe to them. The extra cost involved if you don't live in the US means it's the same price - or less - to buy it at the local book store. AND, unlike when I *did* subscribe, it arrives at the book store a month earlier. WTF is up with that? What are they doing - taking back the overstock and mailing it out to subscribers?
I had subscriptions two at least two of these, and dropped them in favor of picking up all three at the store. I had several reasons, but the biggest ones are 1) that the postal system tears up these cheaply printed mags, and 2) I find almost all the issues with multipart stories in them to be a waste of time, so I just skip those months unless my browse in the store turns up interesting other stories. (I guess that leads me to a third reason: the quality of the stories is not always very good. It seems that not only are they having trouble finding readers, they are having trouble finding writers.)
Best Buy has a loyalty program. I forget the name of it, but they often stick flyers for it in my bags when I buy junk there. If you have their loyalty card, there you go.
Yup. It's been totally fast enough for anything I've used it for, ever since the first MacFUSE came out. Don't forget to get MacFusion, too, if you also want to easily mount sshfs or ftpfs right in Finder. Other than screwed up space free counts (sshfs issue) it's teh sexxy.
The lead is based on sales. If they failed in warranty, the replacements would not be part of that number.
I've never had a problem with my 360. I've even moved it with a disc in it, without scratching it. It wasn't reading the disc at the time, of course. My default position for it is vertical, however. I read early on that that was a position less likely to cause thermal failure.
My first CD player had an interlock underneath it. It had all kinds of warnings not to move it without engaging the lock, and certainly never while it was on and playing a disc. I have always assumed since then that unless it's a portable player, you're not supposed to move a player while it's got anything in it or it's on.
To store 500 GB of data would be about $75 a month, plus the $50 to put it on the server in the first place.
For that price you could buy a new hard drive monthly and copy to it. Have one fail? You still have all your other drives. Remember, in this example you're talking about a steady 500GB or less of data, not something being revised monthly.
Because publishing it just encourages more of it. I'm sure by now even more of the weird mail you get is trolling by people who want to see how outlandish they have to act to get attention and mention on the front page.
That misses the point. UDP senders don't know when they're flooding the connection, so they just keep doing it. A TCP stream would back off to try to be fair, but your UDP stream is just going to keep on blasting at full speed.
Think of it this way, you have a congested router that has 1mbps of available bandwidth. Normally you have 5 TCP streams sharing it at 200kbps each. Everybody is happy. Now you replace one of the TCP streams with your UDP sender which is configured to transmit at 800kbps. It will continue to pound the router with 800kbps worth of traffic while the TCP streams all throttle back to 50kbps. Now you're not playing fair, and there's nothing the other TCP guys can do about it because they're all trying to play fair still.
Except that one of the cool things about UDP is that it doesn't have to get through, so your router can drop all it needs to if it starts saturating your bandwidth. UDP has no guarantee of reliability at all.
You could make the opposite argument: the cool thing about TCP is it automatically retries and resends any dropped packets, so your router can drop all TCP traffic if it needs to.
In the scenario where multiple hosts have the data I want, I'd rather the software decide, not the router or my PC's stack. Like you said elsewhere, it can just grab from another host. So I'd rather have the protocol with the lower overhead for my pipes/router/stack. If torrent software supports requesting the same block from multiple sources at the same time, this is even more important, because my stack will keep trying to get a good version of a mangled packet even if I really don't need it any more because someone else sent the block, whereas with UDP, the software knows it has it and won't bother.
Without some sort of flow control, you could disproportionally hurt TCP flows (which are trying to be good and throttling themselves back when they hit a bottleneck) by your big ugly UDP stream.
Except that one of the cool things about UDP is that it doesn't have to get through, so your router can drop all it needs to if it starts saturating your bandwidth. UDP has no guarantee of reliability at all.
I think going to UDP would be cool for another reason: there's not all the setup and teardown for connection. If 200 people each request the same block from me in a minute, do I really want to have to go through something like 'hi can I talk to you, what port should I use, hey here it comes, do you have it, ok, I'm done talking to you go away', or should I just shovel it out? If packets get dropped en route or mangled, do they not each already have enough hashing provided by the.torrent that should indicate they're bad, and to re-request?
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It reminds me of the word "ubiquitous". Prior to 1997 or so no one had ever heard of this word, much less used it in a computer/business setting. Now I see even my boss, someone who does not come from an IT background, using it.
No offense, but is English not your first language? Because that word has been in use for nearly 200 years, and therefore was not originally IT-specific.
It's not a basement, it's a command centre
die hard fan?
they spell out in large numbers
Shurely shome mishtake?
Have you never typed out words on a calculator by typing numbers and turning it upside down?
You kids.
I'm thinking of going for it as soon as I finish world-wide Loremaster. Because I'll want to stay at least revered with Bloodsail (Insane only needs honored, I think) if I can't stay exalted, and I won't be able to do that if I still have to turn in quests to goblins after.
I got 2^6 too, but I wonder if it is correct. 2^6=64, but the achievement system was implemented in April 1st, that mean we can get maximum 45 days read in a row. Well, maybe they have already counted before that.
I think it definitely counts from before it was implemented. I have 2^4 or something comments rated 5 as one of my achievements, with the date set in March. I haven't posted much in a while, so that has to be from before. And yet, I don't think it's from all time, because the site seems to only list my posts back to 2007.
Unless it's set to send ALL traffic over the VPN, you have to resolve the hostname in order to decide if the DNS name is on the VPN or on the Internet.
Why not use a hosts file to assign the internal IPs? That's kinda what it's for. Even Windows machines can do this. It's only a pain if you change server IPs, and that's quickly resolved, too. (Heh.)
You got me there. Didn't realize he was trying to be funny :)
Step 1: Don't buy anything with DRM protection.
Step 2: Repeat.
This is Slashdot, where we don't help you with problems you have if we can tell you you shouldn't have gotten into them. :)
You honestly wouldnt have a problem with microsoft bundling their own PDF reader with their OS? More to the point, dont you think that people would start yelling about bloat and whatnot if they did?
I wouldn't have a problem, as long as they weren't making it hard for people to install their own alternatives. And Apple bundles a level of PDF reading and creation with OS X.
"You already paid for it." != "free" in any sense of the word.
If you've already paid for it, and you are now choosing between multiple tools, the ones you have ALREADY PAID for are as good as free ones.
From the website: "Other proprietary alternatives to Adobe's PDF reader also exist, but like it, their internal working is a a trade secret and these programs do not respect your right to control your own privacy and data."
They're "as good" as long as these issues don't matter to you.
No Synthesizers!
What do you call the sound chips in the TI 99/4a and the Atari 800XL? ;)
I worked at Babbage's (store #1! Northpark Mall, Dallas) in the early 90s, and it was required that all display copies of console games be gutted. The manager would sometimes let sales associates borrow contents, too (unless it was a title we kept running out of). Babbage's eventually became Gamestop.
I never borrowed any games (I didn't have a current console, for one thing) but I did have a lot of fun with the shrink wrap machine. :) And yes, people did steal empty boxes from display sometimes.
Came for this, left happy.
Oh wait, this isn't Fark. Darn. :)
I thought Akimbo went belly-up?
..a closed platform opening up brings news.. whereas other open (and closed) platforms have had this for a long time. The Apple RDF is strong..
This is a significant development for many in the the large and growing iPhone userbase. Your claim that because others did it first that it's not newsworthy is just antifanboyism dressed up as open-source cheerleading. Do we not report on China's space program, because the US did it first?
I've been buying Asimov, Analog, and S&SF for a LONG time, but I won't subscribe to them. The extra cost involved if you don't live in the US means it's the same price - or less - to buy it at the local book store. AND, unlike when I *did* subscribe, it arrives at the book store a month earlier. WTF is up with that? What are they doing - taking back the overstock and mailing it out to subscribers?
I had subscriptions two at least two of these, and dropped them in favor of picking up all three at the store. I had several reasons, but the biggest ones are 1) that the postal system tears up these cheaply printed mags, and 2) I find almost all the issues with multipart stories in them to be a waste of time, so I just skip those months unless my browse in the store turns up interesting other stories. (I guess that leads me to a third reason: the quality of the stories is not always very good. It seems that not only are they having trouble finding readers, they are having trouble finding writers.)
Best Buy has a loyalty program. I forget the name of it, but they often stick flyers for it in my bags when I buy junk there. If you have their loyalty card, there you go.
Yup. It's been totally fast enough for anything I've used it for, ever since the first MacFUSE came out. Don't forget to get MacFusion, too, if you also want to easily mount sshfs or ftpfs right in Finder. Other than screwed up space free counts (sshfs issue) it's teh sexxy.
The lead is based on sales. If they failed in warranty, the replacements would not be part of that number.
I've never had a problem with my 360. I've even moved it with a disc in it, without scratching it. It wasn't reading the disc at the time, of course. My default position for it is vertical, however. I read early on that that was a position less likely to cause thermal failure.
My first CD player had an interlock underneath it. It had all kinds of warnings not to move it without engaging the lock, and certainly never while it was on and playing a disc. I have always assumed since then that unless it's a portable player, you're not supposed to move a player while it's got anything in it or it's on.
For that price you could buy a new hard drive monthly and copy to it. Have one fail? You still have all your other drives. Remember, in this example you're talking about a steady 500GB or less of data, not something being revised monthly.
IE also lacks a supported OSX version. So it's a non-starter for a growing segment of the market.
Because publishing it just encourages more of it. I'm sure by now even more of the weird mail you get is trolling by people who want to see how outlandish they have to act to get attention and mention on the front page.
That misses the point. UDP senders don't know when they're flooding the connection, so they just keep doing it. A TCP stream would back off to try to be fair, but your UDP stream is just going to keep on blasting at full speed.
Think of it this way, you have a congested router that has 1mbps of available bandwidth. Normally you have 5 TCP streams sharing it at 200kbps each. Everybody is happy. Now you replace one of the TCP streams with your UDP sender which is configured to transmit at 800kbps. It will continue to pound the router with 800kbps worth of traffic while the TCP streams all throttle back to 50kbps. Now you're not playing fair, and there's nothing the other TCP guys can do about it because they're all trying to play fair still.
Ok, that's a good argument. :)
You could make the opposite argument: the cool thing about TCP is it automatically retries and resends any dropped packets, so your router can drop all TCP traffic if it needs to.
In the scenario where multiple hosts have the data I want, I'd rather the software decide, not the router or my PC's stack. Like you said elsewhere, it can just grab from another host. So I'd rather have the protocol with the lower overhead for my pipes/router/stack. If torrent software supports requesting the same block from multiple sources at the same time, this is even more important, because my stack will keep trying to get a good version of a mangled packet even if I really don't need it any more because someone else sent the block, whereas with UDP, the software knows it has it and won't bother.
Except that one of the cool things about UDP is that it doesn't have to get through, so your router can drop all it needs to if it starts saturating your bandwidth. UDP has no guarantee of reliability at all.
I think going to UDP would be cool for another reason: there's not all the setup and teardown for connection. If 200 people each request the same block from me in a minute, do I really want to have to go through something like 'hi can I talk to you, what port should I use, hey here it comes, do you have it, ok, I'm done talking to you go away', or should I just shovel it out? If packets get dropped en route or mangled, do they not each already have enough hashing provided by the .torrent that should indicate they're bad, and to re-request?