Nothing of what I said was to indicate a problem with C# itself. It was to showcase why HR departments would be hesitant to hire someone who presumably hasn't touched C# in a professional environment in the last 2 years; especially when you consider that going into an interview you are directly competing with people who have (supposedly) been in the thick of C# and rolling with its changes consistently for the past 5-10.
Also, you seem to misunderstand me. Just because my knowledge of the old and arcane gives me a little extra green to work with than most everyone else at my level on this side of the hall, and co-workers are more than happy to have me build a few (very few) small applications for the Mainframe to bypass some tape, doesn't mean that I am a COBOL or C++ developer. 97% of my code for the company is C#, and that's the way I like it (I'd like it better if they'd give me the 20% leeway like Google does where I can work on my own side projects...but luxuries notwithstanding). For my hobbies, that's where I like to get into the old and/or low level tech, playing around with assembly, building microcontrollers, building linux for the microcontrollers... using assembly to turn on LEDs using the microcontrollers... fixing/maintaining/accessorizing my bikes (using projects built with the microcontrollers)...building Arc reactors...robot armies. You know, the normal things for hobbies.
As far as my company's philosophies go, we tend to favor truly Legacy equipment. This is because upper IT management consists entirely of those who were promoted off of Mainframe development so they required a bit of convincing to approve of our team extending content management into a new paradigm (excuse the buzzword, but in this instance it fits best. The direction we advocated for, and now have the approval to move in, is a huge departure from the momentum and philosophy of the rest of the company). As such, as a team we decided to target the newest possible frameworks (at the time we started) for mostly brand new applications to mitigate the level of obsolescence we face when we come out of the gates with the new production systems that will still rely heavily on data stored and processed on our current(Server 2k8) and Mainframe(30 year old AIX) systems.
And I actually just got the chance to look at the code for the application (essentially a logger with email and database functionality) that we are porting from the current system to the R&D one. It turns out that it was a bad example to use in this case and for that I apologize. The application was written in VisualBasic for.NET 2.0. It was initially written at a time when the Windows side of the company had the requirements that everything had to be in VB. Our team convinced management to start permitting the use of C# and took initiative to start updating existing applications to use the language and incorporate additional features that weren't implemented in the current versions. Because the logger is stable and works perfectly to what's needed, it has thus far been overlooked, and we are probably going to re-write it to be a better fit to the new environment once everything else is in place and more time is available to put into it.
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I don't think this will be a problem in the foreseeable future. The beast must be fed; the beast knows how to get its food.
Bah. Cynical. I'm benefitting directly from this now, and I am no where's near the level of a CIO. The community at large here benefits in this college town because the bandwidth demands of the local colleges (3 within this town alone; 2 of which are part of the USG; and I'm not even including the campuses/offices for the local presence of Virginia Tech and University of Phoenix) as well as the demands of local students to be able to communicate large amounts of audio/video data (legitimate video conferencing, telephony, and video tutorial streaming for classes; not even accounting for frivolous use which pushes the demand even higher) has forced the local cable company (Cox Communications) to quadruple EVERYONE'S bandwidth allotment without raising rates (at least they haven't yet and we're going on the second month since the service upgrade). The base tier was getting advertised 6mb/s average with max speed rates roughly 12mb/s at low demand times. The base has been upgraded to 25mb/s advertised with 40-50mb/s burst/low demand. My own tier was the second best I could get for residential service: 25mb/s advertised, but because I live in an area where there's not many other people that use this tier, my average speed was in the neighborhood of 40-60mb/s (tested based on time it took to download a 16GB garbage file stored on a remote server owned and controlled by myself). After the upgrade my advertised has jumped to 100mb/s, though my average bandwidth using the same testing method above is only around 110-125mb/s. Now all they have to do is raise the soft cap and I can truly say that for a cable company they're pretty decent, at least compared to the horror stories from Comcast.
And if you want to hear about the students who benefit? If they use the campus network, or connect to it through their dorm connection, they are already benefiting from all the bandwidth available to the college... and it's only growing.
Oh, and all this bandwidth growth hasn't been paid for from the tax pool (income tax or sales tax). It's been paid for by Compulsive Gamblers and Students.
Also, considering that the Georgia Lottery profits goes to the HOPE Scholarship program that pays for the tuition of eligible students, and a good portion of Georgia Resident students are eligible providing a minimum performance level, as well as any surplus in the program that doesn't go into making a bigger pot is automatically deferred to projects such as this, means that at least a very sizable portion of this infrastructure has been paid for by the troves of compulsive gamblers here waiting to hit "the big payout." Thank you compulsive gamblers! Your vice has paved the way for better communications infrastructure for our state! So much so that Cox Communications just laid out a bandwidth boost to all its customers in this college town (if not throughout its Georgia Service Area) to try to compete (I now get 100mbits for the price I was paying for 25mbits last month).
Making certain assumptions and estimations about the size of the microSD (presuming 64GB), the number of microSD cards that could fit on the face of an average sized playing card (estimating a 10 by 7 grid of them), and basing the volume of playing cards WolframAlpha states can fit in a 5 gallon bucket (about 12k)... an estimation of the bandwidth is ~51.5 PB * speed/distance. So the bandwidth to go from one town to the next at the normal highway speed limit here is roughly 120 PB / hour or 34 TB/s
The fiber is paid for and managed/maintained by the Georgia Lottery and the "Technology Use Fees" which are in turn paid for by compulsive gamblers and Students attending University System of Georgia schools, respectively. Very little of this technology, if any of it, is paid for by taxpayers directly. Though, what I find funny is that while the high technology is provided for, teachers in public and private schools have to be the ones to purchase the Kleenex, pencils, paper, etc for the students to use during the year out of their own pockets.
There's nothing wrong with the high level stuff, reusable libraries, cut and paste from stack exchange, etc when you have deadlines on deliverables and just want to use programming as an income. If you want to actually learn and understand the underlying science of what you're doing, be it Computer Science, Electronics Science, or some blending between the two, there really is no substitute for the "bare metal" from scratch building. I agree that the "stop calling it programming" part is a disservice, because the high level quick stuff is still programming, by its very definition... but it's no where near the level of learning and understanding that comes from the core low level concepts.
Unfortunately, C# suffers from a sort of fragmentation where every year there's something new and fresh with it. Even though you and I, as developers in the wild, understand that this "fragmentation" is a bunch of hype and circumstance where the underlying base and syntax hasn't necessarily changed much over the past 3 years, the technologies around it have changed significantly.
To give an example, just today we ported an in-house app that is a tool to help with debugging that was updated at the very end of 2013 and ran on Server 2008 no problem to a new environment running Server 2012. Just about 2 weeks over a year after its last rewrite, it took about 20 minutes to install "legacy" packages on the server where it could be shoehorned in as Network Service.NET 2.0. Our other option was to take another 2 weeks (minimum) to completely rewrite (average 2 days writing and testing) and implement (the remaining time satisfying the red tape of the business) the application where it could run as Network Service.NET 4.0. Not something economical for what is essentially an R&D prototype system at this step.
Other examples are abound... Such as our desire to update several of our apps to take advantage of new features in MVC 6... but other features that we relied on in MVC 4 and MVC 5 broke, so there's a heavy need to develop work arounds or find "the new way to do it" (tm). Also, management wants us to implement Entity Framework 6 for our new database connections rather than use LINQ as we had been...and as we have time, update some of our older and more critical applications to make use of these new frameworks as well. And just wait for the next round of "Oooh Shiny" that we are going to want to make use of this year.
The technologies packed around C# and.NET in general are targets that move so fast that if you're out of the game for 2 years, even though you could probably pick up and run with the new stuff within a week or less, you're likely going to be competing with hundreds of applicants that are fresh and in the game with the current tech already and will (in theory) be off and running on the first day at their desk.
If you want to have a language background where you can take 2-5 year hiatuses from it and still maintain a decent demand with it, learn straight C/C++ and COBOL. Where I work I command among the highest programmer salaries in my department not because I'm good with the current tech and keeping up with it (my perf reviews have always indicated this to be true), but because I save my team from having to submit a WorkRequest to the Mainframe Developers for quick batches. My team can tell me what they need and I can submit my time bid and process to the Datacenter Operators in half the time with only one sheet of paper used for signoffs and approvals(instead of 5)... just because I can actually write COBOL (apparently hard to find in anyone younger than 40 these days, and our last COBOL Programmer is slated to retire in 2018).
Here's how the real world works instead of your bubble of entitlement: If I want to fill my pool using 50 Gallons/second flow instead of the 10 Gallons/minute flow that comes out of my regular tap, I'm going to be calling my Fire Department to schedule a time for them to come out and fill my pool from the Fire Hydrant(service not available in all municipalities YMMV)...WHILE PAYING A PREMIUM PRICE!
If I want to serve up Gourmet Russian Caviar coated Sushi instead of pigs in blankets at my next party, I will be PAYING A PREMIUM PRICE!
To your scenario... if I want just enough bandwidth to check email and surf a few pages, 1.5 megs is more than plenty and I'll pay for that basic service (btw, the minimum package my ISP even offers is 6 megs down for $50/mo which already blows away this whole hypothetical situation anyway). If I decide that I want to watch Netflix, then I have to weigh the added costs of the subscription plus the added bandwidth and determine if it's worth it. If it is, then I have to PAY THE PREMIUM! If not, then I don't need Netflix anyway. Because I use my Internet for occasional telecommuting when I'm on call, Gaming services for 3 people, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime subscriptions, as well as significant downloads for various projects I work on, I pay for the second highest tier that my ISP offers. Because I consume more, I PAY MORE! I'm lucky in that my ISP (Cox Cable) locally does not throttle, holds a very high soft cap (they will not cut off or throttle my connection just because I went over, but they will give me a notification that usage was a bit heavy... and instead of cutting service for continuous excessive usage, they add an additional amount to my bill for the overages (unless I opt for them cutting service at a hard limit. My choice)), and lets me manage my network in the way I want and run whatever services from home on whatever ports I want to use without a fuss, even providing me with a public IP plus the option to PAY for additional IP addresses if I wanted to have several computers fully DMZ'd.
The point of all of this is one simple fact: If you want something, you are going to have to pay for it. That's it. You Want, You Pay, or You No Get. Expecting a company to pay you for the privilege of connecting to their services is a laughable notion if I've ever heard of one and is the mentality of those who wind up on the wrong side of the law very often...and never learn. Lose the entitled attitude, jackass
I'll give you a hint: In Linux, everything is a file that can be read from with the right permissions... Including an incoming ssh session tunnel coming from servers set up behind a NAT. Scripts can be built that automate connections and the tunnel can be used as the encrypted pipeline for your web apps to funnel needed backend data through.
Who's running a web server at home? Granted my ISP provides me with full incoming and outgoing capability without blocking ports, provided I don't break my bandwidth limits... my bones are not running web servers; 2 are running as NAS serving through ssh and one is a MaraDB server with port forwarding handled by the Cisco Router provided by Cox. The bone running MaraDB also checks the public IP twice a day and will forward an email to me if it changes so I can go into Centarra (who's also running my DNS zone) and update the A record that points home. Centarra also provides APIs where I could set this up to be completely automated, but I haven't had the time to implement it (compared to the rest of the set-up, this would be relatively trivial). The web server is on my Centarra Instance out in the cloud, and it's making the direct calls to the home network that run the apps that grab the data/files and sends it back to the web server that provides the transmission of the file back to the client. If I ever required faster speed / more traffic, it would be nothing for me to fire up a couple more instances for a total of $30/mo, but I'm not even close to pinging the radar with my current setup. I do admit, to set this up securely and efficiently an in-depth knowledge of Networking, System Administration, and Programming are highly recommended. As with most things in life the following statement applies: Cheap, Secure, Easy; pick 2.
Depends on how big your initial budget is. If you're running PHP web apps that are so lightly hit that you can't warrant provisioning a dedicated server instance or PC for them, use a Pi or BeagleBone or similar low powered/cheap option. If you're getting more traffic than 2 or three BB's in a cluster can handle, maybe you should look into a cheap VPS. There are some that provide more than enough power to run a site for less than $10/mo per instance. For my own low end hobby needs a basic VPS at Centarra for the front end and a cluster of 3 BeagleBone Blacks with a self-modified version of CentOS running the back end at my house has served me well for as much time as I have to put into it (mostly used for OwnCloud file storage so I can get around anti-thumbdrive policies when I'm out and about). All total runs me about $8/mo for the instance, $19/yr for the domain, and I don't count the Bones because they're paid for and the power and bandwidth requirements are both miniscule as well as incidental (need the electricity and internet at the house anyway).
An attacker is already going to be performing an illegal operation by generating a DDoS attack... what makes you think that they're going to use or write an already decidedly malicious program that follows the strongly worded but otherwise non-enforced conventions of a Request For Comment document? Hell, they could write it to set the flag to 0 on ALL packets going out of a system. This RFC would only work if the programmer is willing to follow it. Welcome to the honor system among the world's most cowardly.
I've seen 1 1/2 videos of hers and they put me off just on her attitude and the way she carries herself. Granted, the first video I saw was a teardown of her Bayonetta review(turn on Annotations to see the teardown). As for "well researched", I think you and I have two very different opinions on what constitutes research. If Bayonetta was an example of her "research" it apparently doesn't require her to even crack open the actual object and delve into the story as it's actually presented in the game. Granted, neither have I, though I've looked up more secondary sources in my own research to if it were even a game I'd want to play (No. I get bored with run&gun as a general rule...and the Sarkeesian teardown was actually stumbled upon as part of that research). I've known too many people who were full of shit that would try to pass themselves off as an authority without having done their homework. Just from what little I've seen of Sarkeesian's work she blew her first impression with me as being a vocally opinionated dumbass and already she's taken up a whole hell of a lot more time from me than she deserves. No. She does not deserve to be on this list, either.
And if you start going on about objectifying women in games I shall come forth with the following evidence to show that it's not just women getting objectified: God of War, Castlevania Series (especially later ones), Devil May Cry, Far Cry, Gears of War... I could go on. and on. and on.
Yep, feminist internet video bloggers have a reputation for lyching nerds in real life, then getting off scot free from a jury of like mineded feminist internet bloggers.[sic]
You know, the overboard notions in your third statement indicate that you are intending a sarcastic tone for this; however, figuratively speaking...this statement is not far off from the truth. Let me change the sentence to make it more like how it really has become (with spelling corrections):
Yep, feminist internet video bloggers have a reputation for lynching nerds in online forums, then getting off Scot free in the court of public opinion by a jury of like minded feminist internet bloggers.
Even here on/. it's difficult to make a statement to showcase just how over the top the feminist voice has become without facing ad hominem rebuttals or getting modded down into oblivion.
The feminazis have made statements that they want a discussion about sexism in gaming, but whenever someone brings up a valid point on the opposing view the feminazis return with ad hominem attacks and such great stereotyping like the stupid ass "#YesAllMen" hashtag crap.
No.
I'm sorry, that's not a discussion.
That's a War.
The feminazis don't want discussion. They have drawn a line in the sand and the voices are either for them, or they're against them. Well, I am a feminist moderate looking for true equality between men and women (which Video Games have, on the great scale, equally objectified Men and Women)... and I stand firmly against them.
If I had an antenna tall enough, I think I'd be able to get channel 2. To my knowledge CNN isn't OTA. And neither is Fox News, normally. I did some digging locally and we're a special case where the local Fox Affiliate bought rights to broadcast Fox News OTA over one of their digital segments... along with the rights to carry ABC after what was the local ABC Affiliate lost the franchise with Disney. So we have the extra special scary case where one local broadcast station has the rights to carry Fox, Fox News, and ABC.
On Cox Cable, if you go with the very basic package you only get the first 19 channels(including all the sub-channels of those 19). Fox is channel 6 and Fox News is 6.2. CNN is channel 33 and MSNBC is channel 42. Guess who's available on their minimal basic offering. Christ... Fox News is even available OTA locally since the broadcasters went digital.
No...his use of exert was correct - maybe not the best usage, but it was used correctly. His post's parent was attempting to make a mental effort to convince us that he was smarter than everyone...through an assertion. Either way, it's energy wasted.
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Nothing of what I said was to indicate a problem with C# itself. It was to showcase why HR departments would be hesitant to hire someone who presumably hasn't touched C# in a professional environment in the last 2 years; especially when you consider that going into an interview you are directly competing with people who have (supposedly) been in the thick of C# and rolling with its changes consistently for the past 5-10.
Also, you seem to misunderstand me. Just because my knowledge of the old and arcane gives me a little extra green to work with than most everyone else at my level on this side of the hall, and co-workers are more than happy to have me build a few (very few) small applications for the Mainframe to bypass some tape, doesn't mean that I am a COBOL or C++ developer. 97% of my code for the company is C#, and that's the way I like it (I'd like it better if they'd give me the 20% leeway like Google does where I can work on my own side projects...but luxuries notwithstanding). For my hobbies, that's where I like to get into the old and/or low level tech, playing around with assembly, building microcontrollers, building linux for the microcontrollers... using assembly to turn on LEDs using the microcontrollers... fixing/maintaining/accessorizing my bikes (using projects built with the microcontrollers)...building Arc reactors...robot armies. You know, the normal things for hobbies.
As far as my company's philosophies go, we tend to favor truly Legacy equipment. This is because upper IT management consists entirely of those who were promoted off of Mainframe development so they required a bit of convincing to approve of our team extending content management into a new paradigm (excuse the buzzword, but in this instance it fits best. The direction we advocated for, and now have the approval to move in, is a huge departure from the momentum and philosophy of the rest of the company). As such, as a team we decided to target the newest possible frameworks (at the time we started) for mostly brand new applications to mitigate the level of obsolescence we face when we come out of the gates with the new production systems that will still rely heavily on data stored and processed on our current(Server 2k8) and Mainframe(30 year old AIX) systems.
And I actually just got the chance to look at the code for the application (essentially a logger with email and database functionality) that we are porting from the current system to the R&D one. It turns out that it was a bad example to use in this case and for that I apologize. The application was written in VisualBasic for .NET 2.0. It was initially written at a time when the Windows side of the company had the requirements that everything had to be in VB. Our team convinced management to start permitting the use of C# and took initiative to start updating existing applications to use the language and incorporate additional features that weren't implemented in the current versions. Because the logger is stable and works perfectly to what's needed, it has thus far been overlooked, and we are probably going to re-write it to be a better fit to the new environment once everything else is in place and more time is available to put into it.
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I don't think this will be a problem in the foreseeable future. The beast must be fed; the beast knows how to get its food.
Bah. Cynical. I'm benefitting directly from this now, and I am no where's near the level of a CIO. The community at large here benefits in this college town because the bandwidth demands of the local colleges (3 within this town alone; 2 of which are part of the USG; and I'm not even including the campuses/offices for the local presence of Virginia Tech and University of Phoenix) as well as the demands of local students to be able to communicate large amounts of audio/video data (legitimate video conferencing, telephony, and video tutorial streaming for classes; not even accounting for frivolous use which pushes the demand even higher) has forced the local cable company (Cox Communications) to quadruple EVERYONE'S bandwidth allotment without raising rates (at least they haven't yet and we're going on the second month since the service upgrade). The base tier was getting advertised 6mb/s average with max speed rates roughly 12mb/s at low demand times. The base has been upgraded to 25mb/s advertised with 40-50mb/s burst/low demand. My own tier was the second best I could get for residential service: 25mb/s advertised, but because I live in an area where there's not many other people that use this tier, my average speed was in the neighborhood of 40-60mb/s (tested based on time it took to download a 16GB garbage file stored on a remote server owned and controlled by myself). After the upgrade my advertised has jumped to 100mb/s, though my average bandwidth using the same testing method above is only around 110-125mb/s. Now all they have to do is raise the soft cap and I can truly say that for a cable company they're pretty decent, at least compared to the horror stories from Comcast.
And if you want to hear about the students who benefit? If they use the campus network, or connect to it through their dorm connection, they are already benefiting from all the bandwidth available to the college... and it's only growing.
Oh, and all this bandwidth growth hasn't been paid for from the tax pool (income tax or sales tax). It's been paid for by Compulsive Gamblers and Students.
Also, considering that the Georgia Lottery profits goes to the HOPE Scholarship program that pays for the tuition of eligible students, and a good portion of Georgia Resident students are eligible providing a minimum performance level, as well as any surplus in the program that doesn't go into making a bigger pot is automatically deferred to projects such as this, means that at least a very sizable portion of this infrastructure has been paid for by the troves of compulsive gamblers here waiting to hit "the big payout." Thank you compulsive gamblers! Your vice has paved the way for better communications infrastructure for our state! So much so that Cox Communications just laid out a bandwidth boost to all its customers in this college town (if not throughout its Georgia Service Area) to try to compete (I now get 100mbits for the price I was paying for 25mbits last month).
Making certain assumptions and estimations about the size of the microSD (presuming 64GB), the number of microSD cards that could fit on the face of an average sized playing card (estimating a 10 by 7 grid of them), and basing the volume of playing cards WolframAlpha states can fit in a 5 gallon bucket (about 12k)... an estimation of the bandwidth is ~51.5 PB * speed/distance. So the bandwidth to go from one town to the next at the normal highway speed limit here is roughly 120 PB / hour or 34 TB/s
The fiber is paid for and managed/maintained by the Georgia Lottery and the "Technology Use Fees" which are in turn paid for by compulsive gamblers and Students attending University System of Georgia schools, respectively. Very little of this technology, if any of it, is paid for by taxpayers directly. Though, what I find funny is that while the high technology is provided for, teachers in public and private schools have to be the ones to purchase the Kleenex, pencils, paper, etc for the students to use during the year out of their own pockets.
There's nothing wrong with the high level stuff, reusable libraries, cut and paste from stack exchange, etc when you have deadlines on deliverables and just want to use programming as an income. If you want to actually learn and understand the underlying science of what you're doing, be it Computer Science, Electronics Science, or some blending between the two, there really is no substitute for the "bare metal" from scratch building. I agree that the "stop calling it programming" part is a disservice, because the high level quick stuff is still programming, by its very definition... but it's no where near the level of learning and understanding that comes from the core low level concepts.
Here I thought he meant the Americans with Disabilities Act...
Unfortunately, C# suffers from a sort of fragmentation where every year there's something new and fresh with it. Even though you and I, as developers in the wild, understand that this "fragmentation" is a bunch of hype and circumstance where the underlying base and syntax hasn't necessarily changed much over the past 3 years, the technologies around it have changed significantly.
To give an example, just today we ported an in-house app that is a tool to help with debugging that was updated at the very end of 2013 and ran on Server 2008 no problem to a new environment running Server 2012. Just about 2 weeks over a year after its last rewrite, it took about 20 minutes to install "legacy" packages on the server where it could be shoehorned in as Network Service .NET 2.0. Our other option was to take another 2 weeks (minimum) to completely rewrite (average 2 days writing and testing) and implement (the remaining time satisfying the red tape of the business) the application where it could run as Network Service .NET 4.0. Not something economical for what is essentially an R&D prototype system at this step.
Other examples are abound... Such as our desire to update several of our apps to take advantage of new features in MVC 6... but other features that we relied on in MVC 4 and MVC 5 broke, so there's a heavy need to develop work arounds or find "the new way to do it" (tm). Also, management wants us to implement Entity Framework 6 for our new database connections rather than use LINQ as we had been...and as we have time, update some of our older and more critical applications to make use of these new frameworks as well. And just wait for the next round of "Oooh Shiny" that we are going to want to make use of this year.
The technologies packed around C# and .NET in general are targets that move so fast that if you're out of the game for 2 years, even though you could probably pick up and run with the new stuff within a week or less, you're likely going to be competing with hundreds of applicants that are fresh and in the game with the current tech already and will (in theory) be off and running on the first day at their desk.
If you want to have a language background where you can take 2-5 year hiatuses from it and still maintain a decent demand with it, learn straight C/C++ and COBOL. Where I work I command among the highest programmer salaries in my department not because I'm good with the current tech and keeping up with it (my perf reviews have always indicated this to be true), but because I save my team from having to submit a WorkRequest to the Mainframe Developers for quick batches. My team can tell me what they need and I can submit my time bid and process to the Datacenter Operators in half the time with only one sheet of paper used for signoffs and approvals(instead of 5)... just because I can actually write COBOL (apparently hard to find in anyone younger than 40 these days, and our last COBOL Programmer is slated to retire in 2018).
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Here's how the real world works instead of your bubble of entitlement: If I want to fill my pool using 50 Gallons/second flow instead of the 10 Gallons/minute flow that comes out of my regular tap, I'm going to be calling my Fire Department to schedule a time for them to come out and fill my pool from the Fire Hydrant(service not available in all municipalities YMMV) ...WHILE PAYING A PREMIUM PRICE!
If I want to serve up Gourmet Russian Caviar coated Sushi instead of pigs in blankets at my next party, I will be PAYING A PREMIUM PRICE!
To your scenario... if I want just enough bandwidth to check email and surf a few pages, 1.5 megs is more than plenty and I'll pay for that basic service (btw, the minimum package my ISP even offers is 6 megs down for $50/mo which already blows away this whole hypothetical situation anyway). If I decide that I want to watch Netflix, then I have to weigh the added costs of the subscription plus the added bandwidth and determine if it's worth it. If it is, then I have to PAY THE PREMIUM! If not, then I don't need Netflix anyway. Because I use my Internet for occasional telecommuting when I'm on call, Gaming services for 3 people, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime subscriptions, as well as significant downloads for various projects I work on, I pay for the second highest tier that my ISP offers. Because I consume more, I PAY MORE! I'm lucky in that my ISP (Cox Cable) locally does not throttle, holds a very high soft cap (they will not cut off or throttle my connection just because I went over, but they will give me a notification that usage was a bit heavy... and instead of cutting service for continuous excessive usage, they add an additional amount to my bill for the overages (unless I opt for them cutting service at a hard limit. My choice)), and lets me manage my network in the way I want and run whatever services from home on whatever ports I want to use without a fuss, even providing me with a public IP plus the option to PAY for additional IP addresses if I wanted to have several computers fully DMZ'd.
The point of all of this is one simple fact: If you want something, you are going to have to pay for it. That's it. You Want, You Pay, or You No Get. Expecting a company to pay you for the privilege of connecting to their services is a laughable notion if I've ever heard of one and is the mentality of those who wind up on the wrong side of the law very often...and never learn. Lose the entitled attitude, jackass
I'll give you a hint: In Linux, everything is a file that can be read from with the right permissions... Including an incoming ssh session tunnel coming from servers set up behind a NAT. Scripts can be built that automate connections and the tunnel can be used as the encrypted pipeline for your web apps to funnel needed backend data through.
Who's running a web server at home? Granted my ISP provides me with full incoming and outgoing capability without blocking ports, provided I don't break my bandwidth limits... my bones are not running web servers; 2 are running as NAS serving through ssh and one is a MaraDB server with port forwarding handled by the Cisco Router provided by Cox. The bone running MaraDB also checks the public IP twice a day and will forward an email to me if it changes so I can go into Centarra (who's also running my DNS zone) and update the A record that points home. Centarra also provides APIs where I could set this up to be completely automated, but I haven't had the time to implement it (compared to the rest of the set-up, this would be relatively trivial). The web server is on my Centarra Instance out in the cloud, and it's making the direct calls to the home network that run the apps that grab the data/files and sends it back to the web server that provides the transmission of the file back to the client. If I ever required faster speed / more traffic, it would be nothing for me to fire up a couple more instances for a total of $30/mo, but I'm not even close to pinging the radar with my current setup. I do admit, to set this up securely and efficiently an in-depth knowledge of Networking, System Administration, and Programming are highly recommended. As with most things in life the following statement applies: Cheap, Secure, Easy; pick 2.
Add insult to injury, why don't ya?
Sonofa.... Where's Admiral Ackbar when you need him?
Depends on how big your initial budget is. If you're running PHP web apps that are so lightly hit that you can't warrant provisioning a dedicated server instance or PC for them, use a Pi or BeagleBone or similar low powered/cheap option. If you're getting more traffic than 2 or three BB's in a cluster can handle, maybe you should look into a cheap VPS. There are some that provide more than enough power to run a site for less than $10/mo per instance. For my own low end hobby needs a basic VPS at Centarra for the front end and a cluster of 3 BeagleBone Blacks with a self-modified version of CentOS running the back end at my house has served me well for as much time as I have to put into it (mostly used for OwnCloud file storage so I can get around anti-thumbdrive policies when I'm out and about). All total runs me about $8/mo for the instance, $19/yr for the domain, and I don't count the Bones because they're paid for and the power and bandwidth requirements are both miniscule as well as incidental (need the electricity and internet at the house anyway).
An attacker is already going to be performing an illegal operation by generating a DDoS attack... what makes you think that they're going to use or write an already decidedly malicious program that follows the strongly worded but otherwise non-enforced conventions of a Request For Comment document? Hell, they could write it to set the flag to 0 on ALL packets going out of a system. This RFC would only work if the programmer is willing to follow it. Welcome to the honor system among the world's most cowardly.
I've seen 1 1/2 videos of hers and they put me off just on her attitude and the way she carries herself. Granted, the first video I saw was a teardown of her Bayonetta review(turn on Annotations to see the teardown). As for "well researched", I think you and I have two very different opinions on what constitutes research. If Bayonetta was an example of her "research" it apparently doesn't require her to even crack open the actual object and delve into the story as it's actually presented in the game. Granted, neither have I, though I've looked up more secondary sources in my own research to if it were even a game I'd want to play (No. I get bored with run&gun as a general rule...and the Sarkeesian teardown was actually stumbled upon as part of that research). I've known too many people who were full of shit that would try to pass themselves off as an authority without having done their homework. Just from what little I've seen of Sarkeesian's work she blew her first impression with me as being a vocally opinionated dumbass and already she's taken up a whole hell of a lot more time from me than she deserves. No. She does not deserve to be on this list, either.
And if you start going on about objectifying women in games I shall come forth with the following evidence to show that it's not just women getting objectified: God of War, Castlevania Series (especially later ones), Devil May Cry, Far Cry, Gears of War... I could go on. and on. and on.
Yep, feminist internet video bloggers have a reputation for lyching nerds in real life, then getting off scot free from a jury of like mineded feminist internet bloggers.[sic]
You know, the overboard notions in your third statement indicate that you are intending a sarcastic tone for this; however, figuratively speaking...this statement is not far off from the truth. Let me change the sentence to make it more like how it really has become (with spelling corrections):
Even here on /. it's difficult to make a statement to showcase just how over the top the feminist voice has become without facing ad hominem rebuttals or getting modded down into oblivion.
The feminazis have made statements that they want a discussion about sexism in gaming, but whenever someone brings up a valid point on the opposing view the feminazis return with ad hominem attacks and such great stereotyping like the stupid ass "#YesAllMen" hashtag crap.
No.
I'm sorry, that's not a discussion.
That's a War.
The feminazis don't want discussion. They have drawn a line in the sand and the voices are either for them, or they're against them. Well, I am a feminist moderate looking for true equality between men and women (which Video Games have, on the great scale, equally objectified Men and Women)... and I stand firmly against them.
Bring the Rain.
If I had an antenna tall enough, I think I'd be able to get channel 2. To my knowledge CNN isn't OTA. And neither is Fox News, normally. I did some digging locally and we're a special case where the local Fox Affiliate bought rights to broadcast Fox News OTA over one of their digital segments... along with the rights to carry ABC after what was the local ABC Affiliate lost the franchise with Disney. So we have the extra special scary case where one local broadcast station has the rights to carry Fox, Fox News, and ABC.
The attack, dubbed Thunderstrike,
Tell me. Does it get it's own little theme song performed by AC/DC too?? That would just complete the marketing circle!
So you're saying the contractors paid for the privilege to build the house? Man...I'd love to live in your world!...
...on second thought... no I wouldn't.
Mid GA
On Cox Cable, if you go with the very basic package you only get the first 19 channels(including all the sub-channels of those 19). Fox is channel 6 and Fox News is 6.2. CNN is channel 33 and MSNBC is channel 42. Guess who's available on their minimal basic offering. Christ... Fox News is even available OTA locally since the broadcasters went digital.
No...his use of exert was correct - maybe not the best usage, but it was used correctly. His post's parent was attempting to make a mental effort to convince us that he was smarter than everyone...through an assertion. Either way, it's energy wasted.