For a significant downtime across all realms, yes, Blizzard will give a free day credit for the time (not necessarily a refund). I'm pretty sure they've already done things like this, especially in the early days of the game.
As for rollback, thankfully today is the weekly maintenance day, and conveniently they were already in maint when it hit Slashdot. There may be some dupes, but the joy of the WoW economy is that it can self-stabilize fairly quickly due to the NPC vendors and soulbinding - it'd probably just be better to search down and ban the most extreme cases, and for anyone who bought their items at auction, well, hey, Merry Christmas.
When a computer is largely idle, most of the processes are BLOCKED. By definition, if the processor is not at 100% usage, there is time (hint: most of the time) where the OS literally has NO process/thread/schedulable-whatever to put on the CPU, and just spins the CPU in some sort of low-power state.
If I'm spending most of my time with no process running, the ready queues will be empty. And who will care about context switches if there's nothing better to do anyways?
Multi-whatever is only an advantage (there are exceptions... not many) when the system's loaded enough to use the additional processing power.
In fact, the lawsuit against HP is probably modelled largely after an almost identical lawsuit filed against Microsft a few years ago (which M$ lost, unfortunately).
I'll post one use of Bittorrent that is: - Perfectly legitimate - Backed by a large corporation - Had heavy usage.
World of Warcraft.
Their open beta (over a gig) was distributed by BitTorrent. The larger patches are all BitTorrent. This alleviates pressure on their patch servers for that rush on the first day after a patch, so we can all get back to our addiction faster.
First point: even without correctional beacons, GPS is still accurate within a few meters (and in favourable conditions, better than that). I'm assuming the restrictions are on the order of kilometers, so not an issue.
Secondly, if you're smart enough to construct a faraday cage and design a GPS simulator, you're probably smart enough not to get caught in the first place. If you can afford to pay a smart person to do this for you, you can afford to buy off the grunts assigned to enforce your parole in the first place.
Really, it only applies to the intersection of 3 sets: the set A {all those convicted of crimes} with B {all those capable of circumventing the system} with C {those with any motivation to circumvent it). I'd predict that this set would be very small indeed.
Costco can cope with it's easily-abused warranty returns because it inspires customer loyalty. I've returned stuff to Costco from time to time, and they've never questioned it, always giving me the full price back in cash.
And you know what? I appreciate that so much that I buy more. When I buy my next appliance or electronic gadget, or even some bulk foodage for a party, I go rushing out (despite a long drive) to Costco, because I know any problem and they'll take care of me.
Also, the one simple fact is that the greatest volume of stuff they sell is consumable or something you'd not be likely to return.
COME ON! It may be a slow day, but how is this news? There's only one link, and it's to Sun's marketing info.
Can someone please provide a link to some technical details other than it being 128-bit? What does this file system actually do that is even remotely special? What's under the covers? And, more importantly, does it actually work as described?
It's the right of the studios to release their movies how and when they want by whatever means they want. It's the right of Tivo to, within the confines of the law, put whatever bloody restriction enforcement they want inside their products. The right we have here is to buy or not buy, that's about it.
We have the right to simply not buy a DVR that enforces such restrictions, or not rent movies that are encumbered by such restrictions. Of course, they're trying to craft laws to change that, but that's an entirely different story.
Certainly a huge understatement, but not as much as people are thinking.
It's the difference between how many addresses can be addressed in 128 bits and how many will actually be available. Remember, some of those bits simply indicate unicast traffic, and some of them are reserved. On top of that, much like IPv4, there'll be a lot of wasted addresses as groups classify themselves as high-level providers and grab and dramatically underutilize trillions of IPs for their network.
Well the biggest part was the trade secrets claims. SCO rewrote their claims, dropping the pretense that SysV has any trade secrets, instead making the primary issue that of contract infringement.
IBM has two motions for partial summary judgement in the queue. The first is for a declaration of copyright non-infringement. If this passes (to be evaluated in September), then the courts will declare Linux to be free from copyright issues from SCO. The second, this recent one, is for partial summary judgement against SCO's contract claims, which is what saves IBM.
Linux wants the first. A lot. It effectively kills SCO's legal threat against Linux. The latter is what nails the most important part of SCO's case vs. IBM, and probably kills SCO in the process.
The formal definition changes depending on who you ask, but in this case, the key attribute that defines this as a worm instead of a virus is that viruses embed themselves in other programs. This program doesn't infect other programs, it just runs as a separate program placed in your Windows\system directory.
Yes, that's what I meant; by imperative languages I meant languages like Prolog and Make. Rule-based, logic programming, whatever you want to call it. The commonality of these languages is that you state what you want rather than how to get it. Oh wait, do I mean 'intentional' instead of 'imperative'... well whatever. Prolog rocks, but maybe not for Mommy.
Bad choices: anything web related. PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript all that is the WORST way you can start. The complications of badly-designed programming languages compounded with the whole saving and refreshing bit, various browser quirks, and things that look almost nothing like an IDE.
Functional, imperative, and probably even object oriented languages in general will be nearly impossible on a conceptual level. They're designed to be useful for someone who thinks that way, which normal people really don't!
The best idea I've seen here is QuickBasic (or QBasic will do in a pinch). Instantly complains when you make a mistake, so you can fix it. A 'command' window, which allows you to execute single statements, allows you to start with hello world without even the concept of 'running'. Automatically takes care of case, and downright intuitive in terms of runtime errors. Basic procedural language.
Basic is definately the place to start. Once Mommy's mastered qbasic, then you can start with some more interesting languages.
Some brokerages will allow investors to place an "expression of interest" in a stock, meaning you can grab the stock the second it issues at the issue price (assuming your brokerage can get enough of the shares to fill your order).
Not quite sure how that'll work if they use an auction though.
According to Apache's incubator project listing, it's a "J2EE container".
Though the descriptive article link to a wiki saying nothing but "LOL JEWS" sure didn't clarify that for me. Hope their J2EE implementation is more secure than their website.
Yeah sure if you were projecting radiation in all directions, there would be an inverse square law. But you'd also be bathing half the planet in microwaves, which would be rather stupid, hence why they would not do it that way.
Same thing with helicopters. They aren't gonna bathe the countryside in energy just to get a whirlygig in the air.
It's simple conservation of energy. If you transmit X joules of energy, it all has to go somewhere. And odds are they're going to spend a lot of time to ensure most of it goes towards the thing consuming (or at least distributing) that energy.
I move every few months. And I have an affinity for tech hardware. I have yet to have a problem with rebates, and have always received them in the allotted amount of time. Though I have heard plenty of stories of people who haven't.
One was for a M$ sidewinder game pad... check came. Never got any form of spam.
One was for Covad to refund my installation ($100!!). Of course, the agent said it was still valid when the rebate clearly said it expired months ago. However, wrote a false date on the form, sent it in, got my cheque.
There's probably a few others. I'll never COUNT on them, but it'll definately sell me on some item that is otherwise equal with the competition.
Doesn't rebuilding the Internet in Iraq require other critical resources first?
You know.... like ELECTRICITY?
Seriously, this is pathetic! Basically some company trying to profit off selling country code domain names to sites not in the country, while there's still too much chaos for anyone inside the country to take notice!
Okay, so he broke a newspaper's rules and was fired. So what? He adjusted the photo for composition; that is quite different than adjusting for content.
Just like taking two photos and stiching them together to get a wider shot. Sure, it may not be an exact pixel-for-pixel representation of reality, but I wouldn't call it deception.
Basically this is the scenario they must have tired of:
Employee: Yay! We've got our low-end-Sun-box-with-Sun-Linux! Time to put it to use! Manager: But all our software was for Red Hat!!! What good is that... Employee: *calls Sun* We need Red Hat Linux supported on our box so we can run our software. Sun: We only support Sun Linux. Employee: But we don't have any good apps for Sun Linux! Sun: Well... just run your Red Hat apps on Sun Linux. It'll work. Employee: That's can't possibly work! Our software says "Operates with Red Hat Linux" on the box! Sun: Trust me, it'll work.... Employee: You're insane! My MSCE certificate taught me one thing (and only one thing), and that's every minor revision of every OS is inherently incompatible! I'm buying Dell...
So instead of confusing people needlessly, they just give people Red Hat. People know what Red Hat is. Who the hell ever heard of Sun Linux?
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For a significant downtime across all realms, yes, Blizzard will give a free day credit for the time (not necessarily a refund). I'm pretty sure they've already done things like this, especially in the early days of the game.
As for rollback, thankfully today is the weekly maintenance day, and conveniently they were already in maint when it hit Slashdot. There may be some dupes, but the joy of the WoW economy is that it can self-stabilize fairly quickly due to the NPC vendors and soulbinding - it'd probably just be better to search down and ban the most extreme cases, and for anyone who bought their items at auction, well, hey, Merry Christmas.
No. Wrong.
When a computer is largely idle, most of the processes are BLOCKED. By definition, if the processor is not at 100% usage, there is time (hint: most of the time) where the OS literally has NO process/thread/schedulable-whatever to put on the CPU, and just spins the CPU in some sort of low-power state.
If I'm spending most of my time with no process running, the ready queues will be empty. And who will care about context switches if there's nothing better to do anyways?
Multi-whatever is only an advantage (there are exceptions... not many) when the system's loaded enough to use the additional processing power.
Used to exist at Microsoft.
In fact, the lawsuit against HP is probably modelled largely after an almost identical lawsuit filed against Microsft a few years ago (which M$ lost, unfortunately).
I'll post one use of Bittorrent that is:
- Perfectly legitimate
- Backed by a large corporation
- Had heavy usage.
World of Warcraft.
Their open beta (over a gig) was distributed by BitTorrent. The larger patches are all BitTorrent. This alleviates pressure on their patch servers for that rush on the first day after a patch, so we can all get back to our addiction faster.
Blizzard is pretty damned mainstream.
Ummm, wasn't it the MEPs who asked for the restart? They already agree it would seem. The issue is that they're being ignored.
First point: even without correctional beacons, GPS is still accurate within a few meters (and in favourable conditions, better than that). I'm assuming the restrictions are on the order of kilometers, so not an issue.
Secondly, if you're smart enough to construct a faraday cage and design a GPS simulator, you're probably smart enough not to get caught in the first place. If you can afford to pay a smart person to do this for you, you can afford to buy off the grunts assigned to enforce your parole in the first place.
Really, it only applies to the intersection of 3 sets: the set A {all those convicted of crimes} with B {all those capable of circumventing the system} with C {those with any motivation to circumvent it). I'd predict that this set would be very small indeed.
.... seriously people, when describing some new feature of some obscure software package, can you PLEASE tell us WHAT IS IS!?!??!one!!?
"And now, Fronzo v2.1.e, now 21% more secure!"
Costco can cope with it's easily-abused warranty returns because it inspires customer loyalty. I've returned stuff to Costco from time to time, and they've never questioned it, always giving me the full price back in cash.
And you know what? I appreciate that so much that I buy more. When I buy my next appliance or electronic gadget, or even some bulk foodage for a party, I go rushing out (despite a long drive) to Costco, because I know any problem and they'll take care of me.
Also, the one simple fact is that the greatest volume of stuff they sell is consumable or something you'd not be likely to return.
COME ON! It may be a slow day, but how is this news? There's only one link, and it's to Sun's marketing info.
Can someone please provide a link to some technical details other than it being 128-bit? What does this file system actually do that is even remotely special? What's under the covers? And, more importantly, does it actually work as described?
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Does Yahoo own other online music shops already? Otherwise, how is this narrowing the market?
We're not losing any rights at all!
It's the right of the studios to release their movies how and when they want by whatever means they want. It's the right of Tivo to, within the confines of the law, put whatever bloody restriction enforcement they want inside their products. The right we have here is to buy or not buy, that's about it.
We have the right to simply not buy a DVR that enforces such restrictions, or not rent movies that are encumbered by such restrictions. Of course, they're trying to craft laws to change that, but that's an entirely different story.
Certainly a huge understatement, but not as much as people are thinking.
It's the difference between how many addresses can be addressed in 128 bits and how many will actually be available. Remember, some of those bits simply indicate unicast traffic, and some of them are reserved. On top of that, much like IPv4, there'll be a lot of wasted addresses as groups classify themselves as high-level providers and grab and dramatically underutilize trillions of IPs for their network.
Well the biggest part was the trade secrets claims. SCO rewrote their claims, dropping the pretense that SysV has any trade secrets, instead making the primary issue that of contract infringement.
IBM has two motions for partial summary judgement in the queue. The first is for a declaration of copyright non-infringement. If this passes (to be evaluated in September), then the courts will declare Linux to be free from copyright issues from SCO. The second, this recent one, is for partial summary judgement against SCO's contract claims, which is what saves IBM.
Linux wants the first. A lot. It effectively kills SCO's legal threat against Linux. The latter is what nails the most important part of SCO's case vs. IBM, and probably kills SCO in the process.
The formal definition changes depending on who you ask, but in this case, the key attribute that defines this as a worm instead of a virus is that viruses embed themselves in other programs. This program doesn't infect other programs, it just runs as a separate program placed in your Windows\system directory.
Yes, that's what I meant; by imperative languages I meant languages like Prolog and Make. Rule-based, logic programming, whatever you want to call it. The commonality of these languages is that you state what you want rather than how to get it. Oh wait, do I mean 'intentional' instead of 'imperative'... well whatever. Prolog rocks, but maybe not for Mommy.
Bad choices: anything web related. PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript all that is the WORST way you can start. The complications of badly-designed programming languages compounded with the whole saving and refreshing bit, various browser quirks, and things that look almost nothing like an IDE.
Functional, imperative, and probably even object oriented languages in general will be nearly impossible on a conceptual level. They're designed to be useful for someone who thinks that way, which normal people really don't!
The best idea I've seen here is QuickBasic (or QBasic will do in a pinch). Instantly complains when you make a mistake, so you can fix it. A 'command' window, which allows you to execute single statements, allows you to start with hello world without even the concept of 'running'. Automatically takes care of case, and downright intuitive in terms of runtime errors. Basic procedural language.
Basic is definately the place to start. Once Mommy's mastered qbasic, then you can start with some more interesting languages.
Some brokerages will allow investors to place an "expression of interest" in a stock, meaning you can grab the stock the second it issues at the issue price (assuming your brokerage can get enough of the shares to fill your order).
Not quite sure how that'll work if they use an auction though.
According to Apache's incubator project listing, it's a "J2EE container".
Though the descriptive article link to a wiki saying nothing but "LOL JEWS" sure didn't clarify that for me. Hope their J2EE implementation is more secure than their website.
Yeah sure if you were projecting radiation in all directions, there would be an inverse square law. But you'd also be bathing half the planet in microwaves, which would be rather stupid, hence why they would not do it that way.
Same thing with helicopters. They aren't gonna bathe the countryside in energy just to get a whirlygig in the air.
It's simple conservation of energy. If you transmit X joules of energy, it all has to go somewhere. And odds are they're going to spend a lot of time to ensure most of it goes towards the thing consuming (or at least distributing) that energy.
I heard of a place that evaluated Mr Project. Said it was buggy and lost a lot of data.
I move every few months. And I have an affinity for tech hardware. I have yet to have a problem with rebates, and have always received them in the allotted amount of time. Though I have heard plenty of stories of people who haven't.
One was for a M$ sidewinder game pad... check came. Never got any form of spam.
One was for Covad to refund my installation ($100!!). Of course, the agent said it was still valid when the rebate clearly said it expired months ago. However, wrote a false date on the form, sent it in, got my cheque.
There's probably a few others. I'll never COUNT on them, but it'll definately sell me on some item that is otherwise equal with the competition.
Doesn't rebuilding the Internet in Iraq require other critical resources first?
You know.... like ELECTRICITY?
Seriously, this is pathetic! Basically some company trying to profit off selling country code domain names to sites not in the country, while there's still too much chaos for anyone inside the country to take notice!
Okay, so he broke a newspaper's rules and was fired. So what? He adjusted the photo for composition; that is quite different than adjusting for content.
Just like taking two photos and stiching them together to get a wider shot. Sure, it may not be an exact pixel-for-pixel representation of reality, but I wouldn't call it deception.
This is definately Stuff That DOESN'T Matter
... to impress the clueless PHBs who will be the ones deciding what their teams of developers will be writing their next major application in.
Basically this is the scenario they must have tired of:
Employee: Yay! We've got our low-end-Sun-box-with-Sun-Linux! Time to put it to use!
Manager: But all our software was for Red Hat!!! What good is that...
Employee: *calls Sun* We need Red Hat Linux supported on our box so we can run our software.
Sun: We only support Sun Linux.
Employee: But we don't have any good apps for Sun Linux!
Sun: Well... just run your Red Hat apps on Sun Linux. It'll work.
Employee: That's can't possibly work! Our software says "Operates with Red Hat Linux" on the box!
Sun: Trust me, it'll work....
Employee: You're insane! My MSCE certificate taught me one thing (and only one thing), and that's every minor revision of every OS is inherently incompatible! I'm buying Dell...
So instead of confusing people needlessly, they just give people Red Hat. People know what Red Hat is. Who the hell ever heard of Sun Linux?