The fact that they took half a year to deliver this cluster**** could be an indicator that no true "fix" is possible or that the performance losses of a true fix would have a far worse overall impact than just accepting random reboots.
You're assuming they spent half a year working on a fix. I think it's far more likely that:
2 months were wasted by engineers trying to convince management that the problem really was potentially very serious
2 months waiting for management to try to figure out who to blame and how to make sure it wouldn't reflect negatively on them or impact their departmental budget or personal performance bonuses
1.5 months for PR to come up with the best possible language to make sure they could paint the entire industry as being equally affected, while simultaneously the lawyers tried to find the largest possible scraps of TP to cover their corporate *sses
People who don't have Amazon Prime get to pay regular shipping cost without having to buy $25 worth of stuff they don't need, so why do people who are paying $80 extra have to get screwed over every time?
Open a second Amazon account and don't add it to your Prime membership. Problem solved.
However, the real beauty of VMS wasn't so much it's architecture (though that had a lot of good points) but the incredible quality of DEC's implementation. Bugs were for the competition.
While I used VMS extensively and liked it in many ways, this is just silly.
When VMS 4.0 was released (the first version to include DCL command line editing), we had some unexplained crashes in our cluster. We eventually tracked it down to a bug in the command line editor (yes, it ran at least partially in kernel space). We had a local "competition" to see who could find the shortest number of keystrokes that would crash the system. The winner: 4. Yes, you could crash VMS 4.0 by getting an unprivileged command prompt and typing 4 characters (didn't even need to hit RETURN).
Ah, remember well when Full Throttle was released. I devoured LucasArts games in those days and picked it up on release day. CompUSA was offering a special bonus; initial copies came with a soundtrack CD of music from The Gone Jackels.
Still have the box on my "classic games" shelf. Interestingly, that shelf is probably over 50% LucasArts.
I too honor the brave and ethical stance made by the WV leadership 150 years ago. However zero of that honor is conveyed to people simply because they happen to currently inhabit the same geographic area.
You can patent the method all you want, you just can't patent the extracted compound if it's naturally occurring.
If the extraction method is the most practical way of extracting the substance, and the substance has sufficient value, you've got a nice business there.
Nope. As seen in [i]First Contact[/i] the Queen was supposedly present at Picard's assimilation.
But regardless of how the Queen's existence was explained by the writers, introducing a central intelligence to the Borg completely undermined the one thing that made them formidable. It was idiotic. In one stroke they castrated the signature opponent for that generation of Trek.
Traditional military strategy has been to go for the command and control infrastructure. The morons in DoJ just don't realise that its a useless strategy when dealing with the internet. Your enemy is far more mobile than you are, and they will simply relocate, or re-distribute to overcome the assault.
It took The Federation some time to figure out how to defeat The Borg. In fact, they were only able to do it when the writers got stupid and decided The Borg needed a centralized Queen, for a wonderfully convenient single point of failure.
This was known well ahead of time. A few friends of mine paid dearly to attend this con solely because Nimoy had already revealed that this would be his last.
The "announced at the con" language is not in TFA; just bad reading by the submitter.
I'm preordaining this so I can have a chance at finding a mistake and getting a reward check.
You don't have to race to find errors in Dr. Knuth's books. He's certainly detailed and careful, but no volume as large and complicated as his can escape small errors.
I got two checks from him (back when they were real checks) just from Digital Typography (a book I highly recommend).
I think the Kindle is the alternative (though I wouldn't call it open). From my research it is definitely the best ebook reader currently on the market.
The key is to use it the way you want rather than the way Amazon wants you to use it.
Load up calibre and find the freely available plugins which allow you to strip the DRM from your legally purchased ebooks. You can then back them up to your computer, as well as convert them to any format you like. Should Amazon pull a "we don't want you to have that" on you and delete a book, you simply restore a DRM-free version from your backup.
Legal under the DMCA? I don't know and I don't care.
Another advantage: you can convert to the open EPUB format, edit the HTML to correct mistakes, and then convert back to MOBI format for use on your Kindle. I've done that several times (typos and formatting errors in books drive me nuts).
I finally purchased a Kindle about two months ago once I was satisfied that the DRM/lock-in was easily defeated and I love it. I've loaded it with books I'd previously purchased for Microsoft Reader in LIT format (again only after knowing that the CLIT program would allow me to strip away the DRM) by converting the LIT files to MOBI.
Like all those crappy Barney songs, they just added a few trivial lyrics to a PD song ("This Old Man" in this case).
They also used "Yankee Doodle" and others. One of the reason I used to detest Barney; Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood used real original songs.
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You're assuming they spent half a year working on a fix. I think it's far more likely that:
2 months were wasted by engineers trying to convince management that the problem really was potentially very serious
2 months waiting for management to try to figure out who to blame and how to make sure it wouldn't reflect negatively on them or impact their departmental budget or personal performance bonuses
1.5 months for PR to come up with the best possible language to make sure they could paint the entire industry as being equally affected, while simultaneously the lawyers tried to find the largest possible scraps of TP to cover their corporate *sses
.5 months working on a fix
What's to "announce"? I've been running F-Droid for years.
Yeah, that's pretty sloppy. From the original article, the number dropped was "30".
Depending on which side of the religious divide you occupy, people buy Apple because:
You've always been able to get more performance for less money, and yet they still sell. So what's the news here?
People who don't have Amazon Prime get to pay regular shipping cost without having to buy $25 worth of stuff they don't need, so why do people who are paying $80 extra have to get screwed over every time?
Open a second Amazon account and don't add it to your Prime membership. Problem solved.
However, the real beauty of VMS wasn't so much it's architecture (though that had a lot of good points) but the incredible quality of DEC's implementation. Bugs were for the competition.
While I used VMS extensively and liked it in many ways, this is just silly.
When VMS 4.0 was released (the first version to include DCL command line editing), we had some unexplained crashes in our cluster. We eventually tracked it down to a bug in the command line editor (yes, it ran at least partially in kernel space). We had a local "competition" to see who could find the shortest number of keystrokes that would crash the system. The winner: 4. Yes, you could crash VMS 4.0 by getting an unprivileged command prompt and typing 4 characters (didn't even need to hit RETURN).
The bug was fixed in 4.1.
Seriously - there are only two in existence, so they're displayed side by side in the same museum?
The summary makes that claim, but the linked article does not, stating only that it "will likely be displayed in a museum as well."
Ah, remember well when Full Throttle was released. I devoured LucasArts games in those days and picked it up on release day. CompUSA was offering a special bonus; initial copies came with a soundtrack CD of music from The Gone Jackels.
Still have the box on my "classic games" shelf. Interestingly, that shelf is probably over 50% LucasArts.
I too honor the brave and ethical stance made by the WV leadership 150 years ago. However zero of that honor is conveyed to people simply because they happen to currently inhabit the same geographic area.
What model of Ethernet controller was tested. What Firmware version are they using? Has the problem been reported to Intel?
I realize you found the article difficult to read, but it wasn't that long. 2/3 of your questions were addressed in the article.
"I'm not an expert on the technical side," [Gianato] said
This from the man "who's leading the state broadband project".
West Virginia. Wild and Wonderful.
something no other DVR has
My ReplayTVs have had this for well over 10 years.
The only reason it isn't dead yet is that Microsoft can afford to keep throwing money at it. On any other company it'd be dead already.
So that's where the idiot patent royalty they're extracting from Samsung, HTC, etc. on their Android phones goes!
Forget patenting extractive distillation methods.
You can patent the method all you want, you just can't patent the extracted compound if it's naturally occurring.
If the extraction method is the most practical way of extracting the substance, and the substance has sufficient value, you've got a nice business there.
Learned INTERCAL from Guy Steele in the Comparative Languages course at CMU.
He could have copyrighted his source code (in fact it was automatically copyrighted as soon as he wrote it)
Nope. The US didn't pass the Berne Convention Implementation Act (which made copyright automatic) until 1989.
Nope. As seen in [i]First Contact[/i] the Queen was supposedly present at Picard's assimilation.
But regardless of how the Queen's existence was explained by the writers, introducing a central intelligence to the Borg completely undermined the one thing that made them formidable. It was idiotic. In one stroke they castrated the signature opponent for that generation of Trek.
Traditional military strategy has been to go for the command and control infrastructure. The morons in DoJ just don't realise that its a useless strategy when dealing with the internet. Your enemy is far more mobile than you are, and they will simply relocate, or re-distribute to overcome the assault.
It took The Federation some time to figure out how to defeat The Borg. In fact, they were only able to do it when the writers got stupid and decided The Borg needed a centralized Queen, for a wonderfully convenient single point of failure.
Â¥1 billion may sound like a lot, but it's only about $13M. Not exactly a major commitment.
This was known well ahead of time. A few friends of mine paid dearly to attend this con solely because Nimoy had already revealed that this would be his last.
The "announced at the con" language is not in TFA; just bad reading by the submitter.
You mean like Kubrick did in 2001?
I'm preordaining this so I can have a chance at finding a mistake and getting a reward check.
You don't have to race to find errors in Dr. Knuth's books. He's certainly detailed and careful, but no volume as large and complicated as his can escape small errors.
I got two checks from him (back when they were real checks) just from Digital Typography (a book I highly recommend).
So what's the open alternative?
I think the Kindle is the alternative (though I wouldn't call it open). From my research it is definitely the best ebook reader currently on the market.
The key is to use it the way you want rather than the way Amazon wants you to use it.
Load up calibre and find the freely available plugins which allow you to strip the DRM from your legally purchased ebooks. You can then back them up to your computer, as well as convert them to any format you like. Should Amazon pull a "we don't want you to have that" on you and delete a book, you simply restore a DRM-free version from your backup.
Legal under the DMCA? I don't know and I don't care.
Another advantage: you can convert to the open EPUB format, edit the HTML to correct mistakes, and then convert back to MOBI format for use on your Kindle. I've done that several times (typos and formatting errors in books drive me nuts).
I finally purchased a Kindle about two months ago once I was satisfied that the DRM/lock-in was easily defeated and I love it. I've loaded it with books I'd previously purchased for Microsoft Reader in LIT format (again only after knowing that the CLIT program would allow me to strip away the DRM) by converting the LIT files to MOBI.
Like all those crappy Barney songs, they just added a few trivial lyrics to a PD song ("This Old Man" in this case).
They also used "Yankee Doodle" and others. One of the reason I used to detest Barney; Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood used real original songs.