Well, if you read the title and read the abstract, they're describing two utterly different things.
I wasn't commenting on the abstract. I was commenting on the title. It really amazes me that people like you read so much into things. I quoted that section because that was the section I was commenting on. Maybe you shouldn't jump to conclusions?
OH MY GOD.
I loved LOD.
I used to go through and hack the maps and weapons and create my own scenarios, it was TOTALLY customizable! Thanks for the link to the new work!:)
LOD was vastly ahead of it's time... Kind of amazing...
Getting the money now is what matters to companies.
If you've got a bill coming tomorrow for $15million and you've got a product that can make you $15million by tomorrow guarenteed or 20$million a month from now, you're going for the money now. That's how a lot of companies seem to work these days.
The cost of a bug fixed after a product released is hundreds of times more than a bug fixed in development or design.
That's the way it is.
I'm not saying that's the way it should be.
Honestly it pisses me off.
But the most I can do about it is spend extra $ and go for whomever has the product with the least faults. Unfortunately that means buying just about every competing item and testing it. I don't have that time. Very few people do. Those that do run sites like [H]ardOCP or whatever. And still there's nothing that's exceptional from a quality standpoint.
It's pretty sad.
*hheeehh*
that'd be fine except it there's no UI. It's strictly a data translation function. And the requirements are coming from people who have no clue about programming. They know *their* stuff, but they have no idea about the language, about the source of the data, and about how hard it is to go back and change 2 functions and expect the thing to work flawlessy the first time.
They also have no clue about seperating your test and development environments. *wince*
Something similar to this happened at my Highschool. There wasn't a large budget for the tech program at the time so he recruited students to learn and set up the network and computer systems in the district. He got it to the point where students could receive credits for doing it. He taught the 'Tech class' on his own time for no pay. The district ended up driving him away when he asked for some compensation and replaced him with 3 people who knew less and *each* were paid more than what he was asking for.
Where I work biggest problem comes from requirements not being solid and changing from day to day. Sometimes without even being informed of these changes. It's a moving target... Luckily I'm not so shabby at sniping...
Other issues include the constant re-organizations and endless meetings. People not taking responsibility for their actions. Idiotic contractors... The list goes on. People are coming and going so fast no one even remembers who or what they did.
Miscommunication across the board. People going around finding out who didn't do what instead of just doing it and getting it out of the way.
It's a mess.
And I don't doubt these things happen elsewhere as well. Time is wasted in misunderstandings rather than planning things out at the beginning and saving everyone the time at the end.
oops, I didn't mean divide by 2.5, I meant more like divide by 1.25 or some such figure to accomodate for registrations covering all 3.com/.net and.org
Of course this doesn't count.gov,.edu,.mil, etc. which are more likely to be up anyway...
I'd say likely not as each page is not necessarily located on an entirely different server. How many registered domains might be a better indicator, and even still not all of those are necessarily on seperate machines.
Whois.Net claims "27,845,575 com/net/org domains registered". Now I'd say that some of those are duplicates (blah.net, blah.com, blah.org all reg'd to the same person and all resolving to the same thing, or something like that). So maybe divide that number by 2.5 for a extremely rough figure. Certainly more that 10k - 30k, but still not quite 1.3 billion.
You never know... I hear in AOL 7.0 they're adding Global Disaster Recovery...
Yes it probably is a moot point as there are far more reliable methods of communication. If it were a supervirus I'd imagine most people would be turning their machines off as fast as possible rather than hunting the 'net for the latest news. As for Nuclear war, well, who would give a damn anymore anyway?
Well, if it's exactly 1%, then there's still a lot left if you go by how many actual servers there are, I mean, come on, there's how man millions of sites out there? 1% of a million is still 10,000. I'm sure you could find *something* to do with 10k - 30k sites... Though I guess the effectiveness of DDoS attacks would be significantly reduced...
the load on the few remaining servers if most of the/. community was included in the 1% that remained standing?
I've thought about this a few times and wondered what effect the portalization of various markets would have on the stability of the 'net as a whole.
Some companies pay $$ to have traffic routed across their networks, what happens if their network gets toasted by some super-malicious script kiddy or some super-malicious asteroid? How redundant is the 'net now-a-days? A lot of traffic routers through LA and San-Fran (I ran a tracert on my home connection from work, [I live in Washington State] and it seems my packets route through california... You'd think there'd be a shorter way to travel 20 miles...). What happens when Cali slides into the ocean after a 9.99 quake? Then again I think there'd be more important concerns if that happened, but still, in the aftermath I'm sure some of us would be jonesin' for our 'net connection.
Slashdot Mirror
750Ghz CPU! right on! Will my 133mhz FSB support this? How will my 128kb of L2 handle that? Will it have SMP and DDR support?
And the most burning question of all...
How many KKeys/sec?
Well, if you read the title and read the abstract, they're describing two utterly different things. I wasn't commenting on the abstract. I was commenting on the title. It really amazes me that people like you read so much into things. I quoted that section because that was the section I was commenting on. Maybe you shouldn't jump to conclusions?
ummmmmmmmmm like, SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE DATA LIKE '%SOMETHING%'?
I'm surprised Oracle, MS and every company that uses SQL isn't in an uproar over this.
OH MY GOD. :)
I loved LOD.
I used to go through and hack the maps and weapons and create my own scenarios, it was TOTALLY customizable! Thanks for the link to the new work!
LOD was vastly ahead of it's time... Kind of amazing...
It's more expensive than QA, actually.
But that's not what matters.
Getting the money now is what matters to companies.
If you've got a bill coming tomorrow for $15million and you've got a product that can make you $15million by tomorrow guarenteed or 20$million a month from now, you're going for the money now. That's how a lot of companies seem to work these days.
The cost of a bug fixed after a product released is hundreds of times more than a bug fixed in development or design.
That's the way it is. I'm not saying that's the way it should be. Honestly it pisses me off. But the most I can do about it is spend extra $ and go for whomever has the product with the least faults. Unfortunately that means buying just about every competing item and testing it. I don't have that time. Very few people do. Those that do run sites like [H]ardOCP or whatever. And still there's nothing that's exceptional from a quality standpoint. It's pretty sad.
Quality control is expensive. Just slap on a warranty and let the user test it for you.
*hheeehh*
that'd be fine except it there's no UI. It's strictly a data translation function. And the requirements are coming from people who have no clue about programming. They know *their* stuff, but they have no idea about the language, about the source of the data, and about how hard it is to go back and change 2 functions and expect the thing to work flawlessy the first time.
They also have no clue about seperating your test and development environments. *wince*
Something similar to this happened at my Highschool. There wasn't a large budget for the tech program at the time so he recruited students to learn and set up the network and computer systems in the district. He got it to the point where students could receive credits for doing it. He taught the 'Tech class' on his own time for no pay. The district ended up driving him away when he asked for some compensation and replaced him with 3 people who knew less and *each* were paid more than what he was asking for.
Where I work biggest problem comes from requirements not being solid and changing from day to day. Sometimes without even being informed of these changes. It's a moving target... Luckily I'm not so shabby at sniping...
Other issues include the constant re-organizations and endless meetings. People not taking responsibility for their actions. Idiotic contractors... The list goes on. People are coming and going so fast no one even remembers who or what they did.
Miscommunication across the board. People going around finding out who didn't do what instead of just doing it and getting it out of the way.
It's a mess.
And I don't doubt these things happen elsewhere as well. Time is wasted in misunderstandings rather than planning things out at the beginning and saving everyone the time at the end.
Okay. I *think* I'm done ranting...
Oh I know. We're due for a monster, but it just doesn't seem to come. In the mean time we can listen to all the little shake ups CA has...
:)
I never liked the Space Needle anyway. Hopefully it'd land on the horribly ugly EMP building.
I'm not in brick.
If an Earthquake is gonna happen, it's gonna happen, no sense worrying or being afraid. Just be prepared and stay calm.
oops, I didn't mean divide by 2.5, I meant more like divide by 1.25 or some such figure to accomodate for registrations covering all 3 .com/.net and .org
.gov, .edu, .mil, etc. which are more likely to be up anyway...
Of course this doesn't count
I'd say likely not as each page is not necessarily located on an entirely different server. How many registered domains might be a better indicator, and even still not all of those are necessarily on seperate machines.
Whois.Net claims "27,845,575 com/net/org domains registered". Now I'd say that some of those are duplicates (blah.net, blah.com, blah.org all reg'd to the same person and all resolving to the same thing, or something like that).
So maybe divide that number by 2.5 for a extremely rough figure. Certainly more that 10k - 30k, but still not quite 1.3 billion.
You never know... I hear in AOL 7.0 they're adding Global Disaster Recovery...
Yes it probably is a moot point as there are far more reliable methods of communication. If it were a supervirus I'd imagine most people would be turning their machines off as fast as possible rather than hunting the 'net for the latest news. As for Nuclear war, well, who would give a damn anymore anyway?
(har har)
Well, if it's exactly 1%, then there's still a lot left if you go by how many actual servers there are, I mean, come on, there's how man millions of sites out there? 1% of a million is still 10,000. I'm sure you could find *something* to do with 10k - 30k sites... Though I guess the effectiveness of DDoS attacks would be significantly reduced...
the load on the few remaining servers if most of the /. community was included in the 1% that remained standing?
I've thought about this a few times and wondered what effect the portalization of various markets would have on the stability of the 'net as a whole.
Some companies pay $$ to have traffic routed across their networks, what happens if their network gets toasted by some super-malicious script kiddy or some super-malicious asteroid? How redundant is the 'net now-a-days? A lot of traffic routers through LA and San-Fran (I ran a tracert on my home connection from work, [I live in Washington State] and it seems my packets route through california... You'd think there'd be a shorter way to travel 20 miles...). What happens when Cali slides into the ocean after a 9.99 quake? Then again I think there'd be more important concerns if that happened, but still, in the aftermath I'm sure some of us would be jonesin' for our 'net connection.