Maybe I'm being to picky, but while you do need a license to watch the bbc live the iplayer service is for catching up rather than watching live tv, so you don't need a license for that.
While that's true, most people in the UK who watch TV at all watch the BBC at least some of the time. After all, the tax is already paid and the programmes are not interrupted by ads. There's also plenty of good content; what person with a Y chromosome doesn't like Top Gear?
private space companies rely on "unsubstantiated claims" and need to overcome major technical hurdles before they can safely carry astronauts into orbit.
That's true enough. Why let private companies blow your astronauts up when you can get the government to do it for you for many times the cost?
NASA: the best astronaut-killing rockets that money can buy!
That's mitigated by sending random data at a constant rate, so there are no spikes in usage when you are actually using it.
Actually, you want to introduce white noise in the rate at which you send the data too. Without that, it's possible to see when you're sending traffic by looking for spikes above the background rate.
mbone+vic (+rat) pretty much describes AccessGrid. AG works, scales, but is not great and definitely not convenient the way a web client with java or flash would be.
At work, we've developed a portalized version of AccessGrid that is effectively install-free (it does something complex with delivery of applications via JWS) and which works through most normal firewall configurations and doesn't require router upgrades or clients installing complex security. It's pretty neat, though not quite ready for heavy hammering on by the whole world so I'll not give out the URL here. And no amount of clever coding will get around the fact that video conferencing requires plenty of low-latency bandwidth to really work.
OTOH, if you're just doing screen sharing then there's some very good services on the web.
I remember getting my first programming job. I noted to my family almost exactly this: I'm doing what I love, and those fools are paying me to do it. These days I'm a little more mercenary (if they stop paying me I'll go and find some other employer) but I still love programming. Best. Gig. Ever.
So, the first one builds a friend, then each builds a friend, and each of those builds a friend. Soon enough there will be millions, and they will be able to invade your blood cells!
Replying to myself: if testing the UA or the IP in the httpd itself was too much load, you could have also just nullrouted the IP blocks the Bing spider was coming from, either in the kernel table, or in your router.
I know of one site where this has been done for years (both with Bing and its predecessors). Sure it ruins the site's searchability for anyone using Bing, but like we care; that's better than having the site itself unreachable due to load and Google doesn't cause the same level of problems.
Let's see, I'm a celebrity making millions. Do I A) Pay $1000 to fly first-class on a public airline and risk my career being ruined by a horny airport scanner operator stealing my "naked" image, or B) Realize I have enough "ah, fuck it" money lying around to lease my own NetJet where I don't have to deal with the bullshit of either scanners or the pubic.
We need the TSA to run "proper" security for General Aviation! Quick, write to your congresscritter!
SQLite is not a multi-user database, but a web app is a single user
A TRIVIAL web app is single-writer. You could run a single blog on sqlite, you could not run slashdot or even reddit on it.
[citation needed]
Seriously, do you have any evidence for that assertion? In our testing we've found SQLite to be very fast indeed, and it's much easier to configure than a full DB server. (I also happen to know someone who's used it to replace Oracle in a production deployment; he just wrote the network wrappers to turn it into a remote-accessible database server. I think this guy is a little crazy, but it's definitely amusing that it was possible at all.)
It's fundamentally a chicken-and-egg problem. Until ipv6 starts getting deployed, it's useless. But until ipv6 appears useful, it won't get deployed. It sucks, but that's the simple reality of the situation.
That's why governments are pushing it; to get things from one meta-stable state to another (hopefully more stable) one.
Didn't they use a different calendar 400 years ago?
They did indeed use a different calendar 400 years ago in some countries, but the Italian states (where Galileo did his observations) had already adopted the Gregorian calendar by then.
Seems like an interesting idea, replacing the tall tower with an air vortex. But I think the risks have to be researched beforehand. What you create here is a giantic tornado, so how is it guaranteed that this tornado won't suddenly rip off the base and start wandering around?!
Pack trailer parks around the base. That'll keep that tornado fixed firmly in place.
So it's a good bet that MS has even now not yet recouped the losses from developing the xbox.
You don't know for sure that their booking all the income generated from the xbox through their entertainment division. If some of what they count to be benefit derived from being in that game gets accounted for elsewhere, the division could be run at a huge loss and yet still be a success. It's tricky and devious, but you can bet they've got accountants and lawyers capable of arranging such things.
Hey that reminds me, electrons and quarks don't have a size, they're singularities.
You fail at quantum mechanics.
Electrons aren't particles in any truly useful sense, they're waves. If they weren't, we wouldn't have electron orbitals and absolutely none of organic chemistry could work. (OK, they're quantized waves, which gives them some particulate characteristics, but not ones like "position" in any sense that matches the concept used for singularities.)
1. The concept of the "suicide bomber" makes this less than 100%, however having the practice in place would certainly reduce incidents resulting from the inverse.
The key point here is Pan Am Flight 103. Preventing remote attacks via luggage stops enormous amounts of trouble. ("Enemy present" attacks require different techniques to thwart.) There's no point in only defending against the last attack to get through. That would be... well, idiotic.
Just because it costs $100/month to distribute them online, it probably cost tens of thousands to produce it, and that's not including the cost of personal instruments.
If they're personal instruments (as opposed to ones hired for the sessions) then their cost has got to come out of your profit. Otherwise you wouldn't own them. There's also the expectation that you'll be able to reuse the instruments for multiple recordings, and so the correct thing to do, accounting-wise, is to amortize the cost of the instrument (and any associated loans) over its expected use-life; trying to recover its total value from each recording you make is greedy and your (potential) customers instinctively know it.
And it's not only the killing of native Americans that this movie is about, but ALL the atrocities the Western people have inflicted upon the peoples they colonized and exploited over the centuries.
Remove "the Western" from that and I'd agree. Don't think that other imperialist cultures have been fundamentally nicer; there's no evidence for that whatsoever.
Avatar isn't just "not a new story". It's a completely fucking ripoff of Dune, Dances with Wolves, and any other "noble savage" tale you've ever come across
Separate "story" and "message" from "script".
There's not that many basic stories out there (really!) but that's been true for thousands of years. Stop whining about it. The message is a bit hokey and thick, but it's not too sucky. (Or are you the kind of guy who cheers on the oppressors?)
The biggest problem with Avatar is the script. It's the poorest element of the whole film because it plays very safe. OTOH, given the level of risk elsewhere I can see why they played safe. But now it's made a mountain of money, I hope Cameron will get a better scriptwriter for the sequel. (Yes, he's said that if it made enough he'd do another one. If fifth biggest grossing movie of all time within under a month of opening isn't "enough money" I don't know what is.) The advantage of that is that they'll be able to share a lot of the art assets.
What it doesn't address is the fact that if he'd really wanted to truly keep the commercial people onboard while a change of ownership is going on, the GPL was not the best license to use in the first place. But too late for that now; the MySQL community is screwed unless Oracle turn out to be a nicer owner than expected (or it gets blocked by the Commission, but I doubt Monty's pathetic whining will help there).
He got a big payoff when he cashed out and now he wants to double dip by getting back for free what he has already been compensated for.
He could offer to purchase the proprietary parts off Sun using some of that money he got paid for selling out in the first place. Otherwise, well, it's now Sun's (and so Oracle's if Larry Ellison can stop himself from insulting the European Commission even further) and Monty will just have to console himself with looking whiny and sniveling. Or he could try hookers and blackjack.
There is always the chance that IPv6 may die a well deserved death to be replaced by a viable solution based on extending the IPv4 stack.
That extension is IPv6. The roll-out of support to core OS platforms is now about done. There's still quite a bit of work to do to make it work with applications (there are some very messy details when you get to the specifics) and there are many devices that need conversion too, but moaning about it won't help.
For reference, at my organization we're really constrained for IP addresses. It's got to the point where we need to write business cases to get a public IP because those we have are needed for systems that need to be routable (as they host services). We already NAT most desktops and all wireless devices. We can't expand our allocation with IPv4 (I think we already have several/16s). In short, v6 looks good to us even though we know it's going to be horribly painful to get there from here.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe I'm being to picky, but while you do need a license to watch the bbc live the iplayer service is for catching up rather than watching live tv, so you don't need a license for that.
While that's true, most people in the UK who watch TV at all watch the BBC at least some of the time. After all, the tax is already paid and the programmes are not interrupted by ads. There's also plenty of good content; what person with a Y chromosome doesn't like Top Gear?
Luckily such a widely known example will make this never happen again.
It'd be nice if that was true, but the general theory of human stupidity says otherwise. Maybe we'll get a few years without a repeat though.
Apparently, they can get plenty of news (or at least stuff that matters) just by following slashdot's twitter feed. They should be just fine!
private space companies rely on "unsubstantiated claims" and need to overcome major technical hurdles before they can safely carry astronauts into orbit.
That's true enough. Why let private companies blow your astronauts up when you can get the government to do it for you for many times the cost?
NASA: the best astronaut-killing rockets that money can buy!
That's mitigated by sending random data at a constant rate, so there are no spikes in usage when you are actually using it.
Actually, you want to introduce white noise in the rate at which you send the data too. Without that, it's possible to see when you're sending traffic by looking for spikes above the background rate.
mbone+vic (+rat) pretty much describes AccessGrid. AG works, scales, but is not great and definitely not convenient the way a web client with java or flash would be.
At work, we've developed a portalized version of AccessGrid that is effectively install-free (it does something complex with delivery of applications via JWS) and which works through most normal firewall configurations and doesn't require router upgrades or clients installing complex security. It's pretty neat, though not quite ready for heavy hammering on by the whole world so I'll not give out the URL here. And no amount of clever coding will get around the fact that video conferencing requires plenty of low-latency bandwidth to really work.
OTOH, if you're just doing screen sharing then there's some very good services on the web.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing at all.
I remember getting my first programming job. I noted to my family almost exactly this: I'm doing what I love, and those fools are paying me to do it. These days I'm a little more mercenary (if they stop paying me I'll go and find some other employer) but I still love programming. Best. Gig. Ever.
So, the first one builds a friend, then each builds a friend, and each of those builds a friend. Soon enough there will be millions, and they will be able to invade your blood cells!
You mean, like a bacterial or viral infection?
Replying to myself: if testing the UA or the IP in the httpd itself was too much load, you could have also just nullrouted the IP blocks the Bing spider was coming from, either in the kernel table, or in your router.
I know of one site where this has been done for years (both with Bing and its predecessors). Sure it ruins the site's searchability for anyone using Bing, but like we care; that's better than having the site itself unreachable due to load and Google doesn't cause the same level of problems.
Let's see, I'm a celebrity making millions. Do I A) Pay $1000 to fly first-class on a public airline and risk my career being ruined by a horny airport scanner operator stealing my "naked" image, or B) Realize I have enough "ah, fuck it" money lying around to lease my own NetJet where I don't have to deal with the bullshit of either scanners or the pubic.
We need the TSA to run "proper" security for General Aviation! Quick, write to your congresscritter!
SQLite is not a multi-user database, but a web app is a single user
A TRIVIAL web app is single-writer. You could run a single blog on sqlite, you could not run slashdot or even reddit on it.
[citation needed]
Seriously, do you have any evidence for that assertion? In our testing we've found SQLite to be very fast indeed, and it's much easier to configure than a full DB server. (I also happen to know someone who's used it to replace Oracle in a production deployment; he just wrote the network wrappers to turn it into a remote-accessible database server. I think this guy is a little crazy, but it's definitely amusing that it was possible at all.)
It's fundamentally a chicken-and-egg problem. Until ipv6 starts getting deployed, it's useless. But until ipv6 appears useful, it won't get deployed. It sucks, but that's the simple reality of the situation.
That's why governments are pushing it; to get things from one meta-stable state to another (hopefully more stable) one.
Didn't they use a different calendar 400 years ago?
They did indeed use a different calendar 400 years ago in some countries, but the Italian states (where Galileo did his observations) had already adopted the Gregorian calendar by then.
Seems like an interesting idea, replacing the tall tower with an air vortex. But I think the risks have to be researched beforehand. What you create here is a giantic tornado, so how is it guaranteed that this tornado won't suddenly rip off the base and start wandering around?!
Pack trailer parks around the base. That'll keep that tornado fixed firmly in place.
Pharmacists arent Chemists
In the UK they are called that.
Only by laymen who don't know better.
So it's a good bet that MS has even now not yet recouped the losses from developing the xbox.
You don't know for sure that their booking all the income generated from the xbox through their entertainment division. If some of what they count to be benefit derived from being in that game gets accounted for elsewhere, the division could be run at a huge loss and yet still be a success. It's tricky and devious, but you can bet they've got accountants and lawyers capable of arranging such things.
It could even be that way for tax reasons.
Hey that reminds me, electrons and quarks don't have a size, they're singularities.
You fail at quantum mechanics.
Electrons aren't particles in any truly useful sense, they're waves. If they weren't, we wouldn't have electron orbitals and absolutely none of organic chemistry could work. (OK, they're quantized waves, which gives them some particulate characteristics, but not ones like "position" in any sense that matches the concept used for singularities.)
1. The concept of the "suicide bomber" makes this less than 100%, however having the practice in place would certainly reduce incidents resulting from the inverse.
The key point here is Pan Am Flight 103. Preventing remote attacks via luggage stops enormous amounts of trouble. ("Enemy present" attacks require different techniques to thwart.) There's no point in only defending against the last attack to get through. That would be... well, idiotic.
Just because it costs $100/month to distribute them online, it probably cost tens of thousands to produce it, and that's not including the cost of personal instruments.
If they're personal instruments (as opposed to ones hired for the sessions) then their cost has got to come out of your profit. Otherwise you wouldn't own them. There's also the expectation that you'll be able to reuse the instruments for multiple recordings, and so the correct thing to do, accounting-wise, is to amortize the cost of the instrument (and any associated loans) over its expected use-life; trying to recover its total value from each recording you make is greedy and your (potential) customers instinctively know it.
(IANAAccountant. Or a lawyer.)
And it's not only the killing of native Americans that this movie is about, but ALL the atrocities the Western people have inflicted upon the peoples they colonized and exploited over the centuries.
Remove "the Western" from that and I'd agree. Don't think that other imperialist cultures have been fundamentally nicer; there's no evidence for that whatsoever.
Avatar isn't just "not a new story". It's a completely fucking ripoff of Dune, Dances with Wolves, and any other "noble savage" tale you've ever come across
Separate "story" and "message" from "script".
There's not that many basic stories out there (really!) but that's been true for thousands of years. Stop whining about it. The message is a bit hokey and thick, but it's not too sucky. (Or are you the kind of guy who cheers on the oppressors?)
The biggest problem with Avatar is the script. It's the poorest element of the whole film because it plays very safe. OTOH, given the level of risk elsewhere I can see why they played safe. But now it's made a mountain of money, I hope Cameron will get a better scriptwriter for the sequel. (Yes, he's said that if it made enough he'd do another one. If fifth biggest grossing movie of all time within under a month of opening isn't "enough money" I don't know what is.) The advantage of that is that they'll be able to share a lot of the art assets.
The article addresses the forking issue.
What it doesn't address is the fact that if he'd really wanted to truly keep the commercial people onboard while a change of ownership is going on, the GPL was not the best license to use in the first place. But too late for that now; the MySQL community is screwed unless Oracle turn out to be a nicer owner than expected (or it gets blocked by the Commission, but I doubt Monty's pathetic whining will help there).
He got a big payoff when he cashed out and now he wants to double dip by getting back for free what he has already been compensated for.
He could offer to purchase the proprietary parts off Sun using some of that money he got paid for selling out in the first place. Otherwise, well, it's now Sun's (and so Oracle's if Larry Ellison can stop himself from insulting the European Commission even further) and Monty will just have to console himself with looking whiny and sniveling. Or he could try hookers and blackjack.
the explosive growth took every ceo or pundit in the tech sector with their pants down.
hell, win95 shipped originally without a web browser.
Win3.1 shipped completely without networking. And boy, do I remember the nasty third-party implementations that everyone used.
There is always the chance that IPv6 may die a well deserved death to be replaced by a viable solution based on extending the IPv4 stack.
That extension is IPv6. The roll-out of support to core OS platforms is now about done. There's still quite a bit of work to do to make it work with applications (there are some very messy details when you get to the specifics) and there are many devices that need conversion too, but moaning about it won't help.
For reference, at my organization we're really constrained for IP addresses. It's got to the point where we need to write business cases to get a public IP because those we have are needed for systems that need to be routable (as they host services). We already NAT most desktops and all wireless devices. We can't expand our allocation with IPv4 (I think we already have several /16s). In short, v6 looks good to us even though we know it's going to be horribly painful to get there from here.