IF the GSP model is something that will happen - it will be interesting to see if this becomes a good marketing model.
If this proves to be good youll see things like "command and Conquer generals: EXCLUSIVELY at Verizon Internet Services"
or something like that...
but its a good idea. I mean imagine if all your opponents are on the same core ISP - the ping time average for all users would be around the same (ideally).
anyway - what if you take the SBC/Yahoo model further.
You will get ISPs and Gaming/Content companies who team up to provide you with specific exclusive offerings. A more specialized ASP - from an entertainment perspective.
Might make a small local pop-colo model viable - if you know that your local game colo is going to have close good lines for you, you would be inclined to use them.
Given these problems, would government phone-bombing be allowed here (in the US)?
Well I dont know if the Chinese Gov could legally phone bomb the guys here in the US... but i would assume that they do like they usually do and send in Jackie Chan to assist the US FBI and the like with the investigation.
You, dear sir, are one fine fool. If you were to have caused a HD overwrite in my box based on this comment - I would, quite literally, break your arms.
I have no respect for you, and all your comments past present and future shall now be defunct - for your little "joke" is the reason why people like you should not work in tech.
There should exist a code of ethics and a certain moral level with which to operate upon.
Too bad you arent here in this room with me so that I may be able to express my opinion of you with a little more enthusiasm.
Although I think thats a nice analogy - i really really REALLY hope that you are wrong in that if we look at petrol stations now we have a franchise where the price is set by a cartel and petrol is sold to the station owner who then adds a very small amount for his profit.
The problem is that the cartel sets up this system where the price keeps racheting up - and if we share the model even deeper - we will see that the bandwidth cartel will then start pricing access based on traffic load on the systems
so in times they will shut down some key hubs like mae west for "maintenance" and then charge a premium for access during those times due to increased load.
The problem is that we have to move AWAY from BOTH the lame ass system that the cell phone mafia has AND the fucked up ratched price programming that the fuckers in the oil industry use.
What we NEED is less GREED in these systems so that there is a set price for unlimited monthly access - and the price should be at 20 bux a month. period.
People should pay any carrier 20 dollars a month and no more - That price represents what a good company can sell access at and still make a profit.
change the model all together and put companies like cingular out of business.
I know that the thing is currently a big ass laser - but eventually we will be able to get something like this down to a reasonable size - where it can hopefully be built into attack aircraft - which at that point will allow a plane to fly with confidence in enemy territory.
The other aspect that makes this an interesting weapon to have on a 747 - let the 747 fly into enemy territory with an escort fighter squadron - the fighters protect the 747 - which protects the fighters and maybe bombers from enemy missles.
This would be a great thing to have in Command and Conquer: generals...
Although I wonder about the speed it can defend itself - what happens if you shoot ten missles at it?
"The edges and screen corners are easy to hit, but grossly underutilised by GUI designers"
I dont get this - what about all the drop down menus that are at the top edge of the screen.
What about the START button in the bottom left - and top left on Macs?
What about the information status bars on the bottom of web browsers?
No - I think that the biggest problems with online GUIs is the tendancy of designers to model their interfaces after traditional text based "interfaces" like newspapers and books and traditional publishing styles.
There is not much innovation (in the mainstream) to navigating an interface.
There are major problems with full GUI interfaces - one is efficiency.
I am a perfect example of this - I am a very proficient AutoCAD designer and I close every single menu thats in autocad. I can type any command with my left hand faster than anyone I have ever met can click on it...
I despise any sort of clickable GUI in this environment as it requires my cursor to travel away from my primary focus of work - which is with the lines of the drawing. I would prefer to have more flexability with the keyboard as well - there are things that GUI (interface) designers just cannot know unless they are a full time production user of an interface.
For example in AutoCAD I should be able to toggle between orthographic and free movement constraints with a key-press combo - like ctrl+shift. I also should have totally transparent zooming and panning (especially panning) with a ctrl+shift+alt or some other key combo...
GUI targets on the periphery might seem like a good idea to the casual user of them - but when having to interface with a machine for many hours each day, every day - having things either totally controlled by the keyboard, or at least as close together as possible is important.
In CAD design applications - the focus of the mouse cursor should be all manipulation of the object/information. The keyboard should be used to issue commands. This minimizes the movement of the mouse and makes drawing/designing much more efficient.
The worst is when you have to remove your hand from the mouse in order to type something.
ya - that was how the halon systems were sposed to work - but we had to remove it because it wasnt a trusted system - especially cuz it got so old. There was a big red button that was supposed to disable the Halon and open the door.
Almost all buildings have water systems. If they were not designed from the ground up to have a Data Center like room then every room will likely have it.
When a tennant leases a building the likely hood that they will use an existing room for their servers is high. The likely hood that they will actually do something about the water systems that may be in the rooms is not as high.
Many companies that dont have computers as their core business (like manufacturing) may not have the sense about them to look at all the risks to their systems in the event of even a small fire - one where the fire doesnt actually damage anything, but just sets off the sprinklers.
Maybe you arent too familiar with many many buildings in the world.
Not everyone has ARGON or halon suppression systems. Many older buildings that people have their offices setup in actually do have sprinkler systems which are not allowed to be removed.
We used to have a big mainframe room that had a halon system that would fill the room with halon in the event of a fire. But we had to remove it eventually cuz it was a risk that had it gone off while anyone was in the room they would suffocate...
but one thing that would be interesting in the logging aspect is if you could script with perl or something that the logging feature ignor all/whisper lines for example.
This would just help in the confidence of the users - knowing that they can make private comments that dont get logged - but all work related convo is recorded for posterity.
Its a great tool *especially* in an IT environment.
But rather than IM I prefer to setup internal IRC. The reason? Bots.
Your bot can learn the things that are common to your IT information environment.
Whats really nice is say you have an agreed upon standard for IT nomenclature etc...
You can the hop on IRC (which not to mention works wonders when your IT staff are geographically dispersed) and type in: PDC01-SITE1 (if that was the name of your PDC for example) and the bot can reply with info -like IP etc..
Or it can make fun of it for you....
The other really valuable thing about it is having IRC for allowing development groups to be able to hop on and ask offline questions (questions that dont require stopping in at an office - or hitting some IT person up in the hallway)....
and yet ANOTHER key feature of all this is - LOGGING.
You can log all your conversations for use in compiling great FAQs - and you can use the bot to this end as well....
Other than this specific use - I never use IRC... but you IM quite a bit for friends.
but IRC for IT - IM for users to user communication.
I would encourage both in any organization, so long as users are aware that all communications are logged on the corporate IM of choice. Whether you setup a policy regarding AIMing and IMing with ppl outside the co is up to you.
Ill sell you one - good price too.
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Totally Bare bones System BLOWOUT!!!!
For only a nice even $1000.00 !!! You get the following Barebones Laptop:
No Display! No RAM! No Battery! No Extra Battery! No CPU! No Keyboard! No HDD! (1) Laptop Carrying Case.
You get to pick all the compnents you want in your barebones system - and each can be added at an additional cost.
the other scary feature is when someone figures out how to spoof the recall and auto-delete feature.
it would require that a hash be made based on the content of the message and that checksum be the message ID. so you could only fuck with messages that you know the explicit content of....
Thats what I was thinking... but if the Jet mentioned in the slashdot story earlier uses less steam to produce the same amount of hydro-thrust than a sub being pushed by steam converted to mechanical power - or other forward motion (aside from the said Jet), then its a good thing.
It would be really awesome to see this tried - although I dont know how much peroxide would be required to produce enough for distance travelling etc....
but still no doubt a perfect match for an experiment.
Slashdot Mirror
Yay!
IF the GSP model is something that will happen - it will be interesting to see if this becomes a good marketing model.
If this proves to be good youll see things like "command and Conquer generals: EXCLUSIVELY at Verizon Internet Services"
or something like that...
but its a good idea. I mean imagine if all your opponents are on the same core ISP - the ping time average for all users would be around the same (ideally).
anyway - what if you take the SBC/Yahoo model further.
You will get ISPs and Gaming/Content companies who team up to provide you with specific exclusive offerings. A more specialized ASP - from an entertainment perspective.
Might make a small local pop-colo model viable - if you know that your local game colo is going to have close good lines for you, you would be inclined to use them.
lots of avenues to think about on these lines.
Given these problems, would government phone-bombing be allowed here (in the US)?
Well I dont know if the Chinese Gov could legally phone bomb the guys here in the US... but i would assume that they do like they usually do and send in Jackie Chan to assist the US FBI and the like with the investigation.
Did you just call my comment stupid!?
You, dear sir, are one fine fool. If you were to have caused a HD overwrite in my box based on this comment - I would, quite literally, break your arms.
I have no respect for you, and all your comments past present and future shall now be defunct - for your little "joke" is the reason why people like you should not work in tech.
There should exist a code of ethics and a certain moral level with which to operate upon.
Too bad you arent here in this room with me so that I may be able to express my opinion of you with a little more enthusiasm.
Well just to address the issue if designers are ever influenced by what the see/read - I have one word for you: ANIME!
Well, if you're in Iraq right now - I'd say that anything falling at this point definitely matters!
TRONIX TRONIX TRONIX
MAYBE!! trunix or trinix....
but c'mon get creative!
What has happened to all our "Super Heroes"?
First Superman gets paralyzed - now Spidey throws a disc!!!
Whats next - Wonder Woman gets Breast Cancer!?!?
Although I think thats a nice analogy - i really really REALLY hope that you are wrong in that if we look at petrol stations now we have a franchise where the price is set by a cartel and petrol is sold to the station owner who then adds a very small amount for his profit.
The problem is that the cartel sets up this system where the price keeps racheting up - and if we share the model even deeper - we will see that the bandwidth cartel will then start pricing access based on traffic load on the systems
so in times they will shut down some key hubs like mae west for "maintenance" and then charge a premium for access during those times due to increased load.
The problem is that we have to move AWAY from BOTH the lame ass system that the cell phone mafia has AND the fucked up ratched price programming that the fuckers in the oil industry use.
What we NEED is less GREED in these systems so that there is a set price for unlimited monthly access - and the price should be at 20 bux a month. period.
People should pay any carrier 20 dollars a month and no more - That price represents what a good company can sell access at and still make a profit.
change the model all together and put companies like cingular out of business.
no longer would it be a slashdotting - it would end up being an Elm Streeting...
Or if some script kiddie lived in the 'hood - a billying...
I know that the thing is currently a big ass laser - but eventually we will be able to get something like this down to a reasonable size - where it can hopefully be built into attack aircraft - which at that point will allow a plane to fly with confidence in enemy territory.
The other aspect that makes this an interesting weapon to have on a 747 - let the 747 fly into enemy territory with an escort fighter squadron - the fighters protect the 747 - which protects the fighters and maybe bombers from enemy missles.
This would be a great thing to have in Command and Conquer: generals...
Although I wonder about the speed it can defend itself - what happens if you shoot ten missles at it?
"The edges and screen corners are easy to hit, but grossly underutilised by GUI designers"
I dont get this - what about all the drop down menus that are at the top edge of the screen.
What about the START button in the bottom left - and top left on Macs?
What about the information status bars on the bottom of web browsers?
No - I think that the biggest problems with online GUIs is the tendancy of designers to model their interfaces after traditional text based "interfaces" like newspapers and books and traditional publishing styles.
There is not much innovation (in the mainstream) to navigating an interface.
There are major problems with full GUI interfaces - one is efficiency.
I am a perfect example of this - I am a very proficient AutoCAD designer and I close every single menu thats in autocad. I can type any command with my left hand faster than anyone I have ever met can click on it...
I despise any sort of clickable GUI in this environment as it requires my cursor to travel away from my primary focus of work - which is with the lines of the drawing. I would prefer to have more flexability with the keyboard as well - there are things that GUI (interface) designers just cannot know unless they are a full time production user of an interface.
For example in AutoCAD I should be able to toggle between orthographic and free movement constraints with a key-press combo - like ctrl+shift. I also should have totally transparent zooming and panning (especially panning) with a ctrl+shift+alt or some other key combo...
GUI targets on the periphery might seem like a good idea to the casual user of them - but when having to interface with a machine for many hours each day, every day - having things either totally controlled by the keyboard, or at least as close together as possible is important.
In CAD design applications - the focus of the mouse cursor should be all manipulation of the object/information. The keyboard should be used to issue commands. This minimizes the movement of the mouse and makes drawing/designing much more efficient.
The worst is when you have to remove your hand from the mouse in order to type something.
ya - that was how the halon systems were sposed to work - but we had to remove it because it wasnt a trusted system - especially cuz it got so old. There was a big red button that was supposed to disable the Halon and open the door.
Almost all buildings have water systems. If they were not designed from the ground up to have a Data Center like room then every room will likely have it.
When a tennant leases a building the likely hood that they will use an existing room for their servers is high. The likely hood that they will actually do something about the water systems that may be in the rooms is not as high.
Many companies that dont have computers as their core business (like manufacturing) may not have the sense about them to look at all the risks to their systems in the event of even a small fire - one where the fire doesnt actually damage anything, but just sets off the sprinklers.
Maybe you arent too familiar with many many buildings in the world.
Not everyone has ARGON or halon suppression systems. Many older buildings that people have their offices setup in actually do have sprinkler systems which are not allowed to be removed.
We used to have a big mainframe room that had a halon system that would fill the room with halon in the event of a fire. But we had to remove it eventually cuz it was a risk that had it gone off while anyone was in the room they would suffocate...
Guess what was required to put in instead?
I'd say they were more of a water risk....
If you have a smoke detection system that will set off sprinklers in the event of smoke....
then all your machines are Toast!
hmm never looked at jabber....
/whisper lines for example.
but one thing that would be interesting in the logging aspect is if you could script with perl or something that the logging feature ignor all
This would just help in the confidence of the users - knowing that they can make private comments that dont get logged - but all work related convo is recorded for posterity.
and I say to AOL - IRC is free....
And with Bots - a lot more intelligent....
does trillian IRC?
Yes and more.
Its a great tool *especially* in an IT environment.
But rather than IM I prefer to setup internal IRC. The reason? Bots.
Your bot can learn the things that are common to your IT information environment.
Whats really nice is say you have an agreed upon standard for IT nomenclature etc...
You can the hop on IRC (which not to mention works wonders when your IT staff are geographically dispersed) and type in: PDC01-SITE1 (if that was the name of your PDC for example) and the bot can reply with info -like IP etc..
Or it can make fun of it for you....
The other really valuable thing about it is having IRC for allowing development groups to be able to hop on and ask offline questions (questions that dont require stopping in at an office - or hitting some IT person up in the hallway)....
and yet ANOTHER key feature of all this is - LOGGING.
You can log all your conversations for use in compiling great FAQs - and you can use the bot to this end as well....
Other than this specific use - I never use IRC... but you IM quite a bit for friends.
but IRC for IT - IM for users to user communication.
I would encourage both in any organization, so long as users are aware that all communications are logged on the corporate IM of choice. Whether you setup a policy regarding AIMing and IMing with ppl outside the co is up to you.
Totally Bare bones System BLOWOUT!!!!
For only a nice even $1000.00 !!! You get the following Barebones Laptop:
No Display!
No RAM!
No Battery!
No Extra Battery!
No CPU!
No Keyboard!
No HDD!
(1) Laptop Carrying Case.
You get to pick all the compnents you want in your barebones system - and each can be added at an additional cost.
ACT NOW! While supplies last!!!
Why do I hear this guy yelling this article to me when I read it?
Did your wife give you that handle as well? ;)
the other scary feature is when someone figures out how to spoof the recall and auto-delete feature.
it would require that a hash be made based on the content of the message and that checksum be the message ID. so you could only fuck with messages that you know the explicit content of....
Thats what I was thinking... but if the Jet mentioned in the slashdot story earlier uses less steam to produce the same amount of hydro-thrust than a sub being pushed by steam converted to mechanical power - or other forward motion (aside from the said Jet), then its a good thing.
hmmm....
Thats really interesting. I wonder if you could use one of these types of engines coupled to the Steam Powered Underwater Jet Engine
It would be really awesome to see this tried - although I dont know how much peroxide would be required to produce enough for distance travelling etc....
but still no doubt a perfect match for an experiment.
Couple this with the Personal Organ Printing Technology and soon you can print your own Cyborg Army!!