My stuff is written to XHTML 1.0 Strict standards. If it doesn't work on the iPhone, it's not my problem.
And I serve all my pages in a binary version of Morse code. If it doesn't work on the iPhone, it's not my problem.
What really confuses me is that there are ancient interfaces in the browser that are universally implemented, but never standardized. Meanwhile there are conflicting modern interface "standards" where the vast majority of people are running the evil "standard" that is to be shunned.
I know, blame Microsoft, but the use of the word "standard" when it comes to the web seems like a bit of a joke. Standards are supposed to be written to reflect common practise, preferably successful common practise. Instead it seems like the W3C grinds out idealistic documents and then waits 5 years for a few more idealists with limited market share to implement their unproven ideas.
Yeah yeah, flame away... I'm just bitter because I'm working in JavaScript and *every single thing I do* involves checking compatibility tables. And the WC3 standards show up there as an annoying recent addition of relatively unimplemented cruft. Some days I'm left thinking "for the love of god, just standardize something that IE is doing so I can actually use it some day."
Then there is the the fact that less than half of the world population speaks English. These kinds of community driven subtitling projects are the best way to reach all the different language groups. To address the "ask slashdot" question I think we need players that support third party subtitles, then we can work on building communities to provide the content. This is a rapidly growing area on the internet. My favourite right now being subscene.
Sadly it was kdawson who posted this turd. (Or did I miss the memo about trolling slashdot with misinformation that seems to be circulating.)
Summary: 2 + 49 - (49 / 2) = 26.5, not 75.5 as per the article.
I want the minutes of my life spent reading this back. The author rattles off a bunch of crap about his credentials, including math credentials, and then rolls out some bs which pretty much amounts to admitting he is trolling the slashdot submission queue.
Anyone want to refer me to less dumb versions of this site? At this point I'm just waiting for Jon Katz to start posting again.
Yes, because a file system is something that should definitely be re-designed every two years or so. You know, just to stay "current"...
Fine, I'll bite. The explosion in HD size relative to I/O bandwidth means that the file system designs we had 10 years ago are not really ready to take on terrabyte drives. Things like keeping multiple and even versioned copies of your data, doing consistency checks in less than a few *days* and automatically writing recently read data back in a defragmented layout need to be considered.
Yeah, I'm sure having your IT staff doing all of that work entails a great cost savings. I mean, it's not like they're paid employees or anything...
Not sure why this guy was modded as a troll. In this case, rolling their own may have been a win, but it is still a worthwhile question.
I have watched companies invest man-years to solve a problem quite poorly that they could have solved excellently with third party software costing much less. Programmers always gloss over use cases and overlook the cost of all the "little things" that crop up. Meanwhile, management indulges them because they look more important when they hire more people.
When I read:
the reliability of the new system frees up technical staff to do more than routine support
Sadly, my first thought was "fire a few of them." While this is a brilliant success story, I'm left wondering why on earth there wasn't an out of the box Linux solution they could have used... Why is a high-school doing this independently instead of paying into a centralized development model?
I'm not really a big fan of the default Photoshop interface, so GIMPshop doesn't help much.
At least the GIMP is free clutter.
I took the latest PhotoShop Beta for a spin recently. I couldn't figure out how to do the most basic things like use a line drawing tool. About all there seemed to be to it was a huge collection of gimmicky filters. I'm sure with professional training I'd be doing all kinds of amazing things, but seriously, for the hefty price tag I'd expect a UI that made things easy enough to figure out on my own.
It looks like major players are paying $10 USD / Mbps for backbone access.[1] (Yes that paper predicts a short term backbone supply problem.) In my case, that's actually the same rate I'm paying my ISP for 2.5 Mbps. And from the sounds of it, Americans get gouged a lot worse.
Next, I max out at 60 gigs of video in a month (and that means I would have spent all my spare time watching high-quality p2p movies and television and also downloaded a few entire seasons of tv shows and then decided not to watch them, or saved them for later) which averages to 185.19 Kbps.[2] So even as an absolute and total bandwidth whore, I'm using less than 10% of what I'm paying for in terms of backbone costs. This means the money is easily there to pay for building additional backbone capacity, and the ISP doesn't have a fundamental business model problem.
Of course the ISP has "last mile" infrastructure costs but that is something already need to have in place to meet their peak rate guarantees on a Sunday afternoon, and doesn't have additional utilization costs associated with it.
Frankly I think traffic shaping ISPs are just being greedy. At the scale they are operating at it is worthwhile trying to rip off their customers to save a small percentage of what they are raking in.
If you're not getting the service you expect form your ISP, you should call them (which by the way, really costs them quite a bit of money), and complain.
Exactly, my ISP doesn't even bother to enforce it's traffic caps, (Telus, Canada) even though I can clearly see I'm 30 gigs over when I check my account. I'm guessing the customer support call when they cut someone off isn't worth it. I actually called up when I had "misconfigured" Azureus to have enough simultaneous connections to crash Window's networking stack and they tried to help me resolve my "bittorrent problems," including recommending other clients.
You are a paying customer and backbone bandwidth is unbelievably cheap, and getting cheaper all the time. This is just a question of market forces. Pick an ISP that isn't on the Azureus Bad ISP List:
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs
Or ask your ISP what plan they have that will let you do what you want and hold them to it.
That's what we do! It isn't 1979 anymore and having to compile source code isn't something the average user should ever be expected to do....
Even more to the point of TFA is that the cost of fixing bugs that arise as a result of porting is not something that a business should be expected to pay anymore either. (Open source is different, some random guy will port it to OS/2 and BeOS because that's what does it for them.)
But what I don't get is how is this better than running VMware or any of the other virtualization technologies out there? The ability to run linux in a window under windows has been around for ever. Is it their ability to localize the apps gui? That's not really special either.
I don't get it. Why has venture capital given these people money when the market already has a number of reputable and well established players?
If it is a 6 bit panel, then you can use dithering with four pixels to achieve 253 different values in each color component
But under certain conditions I can *see* the artifacts that result from that kind of dithering and it is annoying. If these guys were using the monitors for professional applications, any kind of image distortion is unacceptable. Sure you might not know better if you weren't looking for it, but it is some people's jobs to care about image quality. And even if they don't know what's wrong, at least subconsciously, the lay person will perceive a loss in quality.
To me this is like being sold a high end sports car that should go 200mph but finding out that it only goes 100mph and when it tops out it plays canned audio recordings of a race car motor running really fast. Sure 100mph is just fine for most applications, but thats not what you paid for.
Also a big steam fan here. I bought a few titles via ign's direct2drive and when a patch was released for one of the games the only way to apply it was "reinstall". I never bothered downloading that gig of data over their slow connection, I just abandoned my account.
Steam seems to work closely enough with content developers to avoids this kind of disconnect.
Holy shit, I can see the evil oozing out of that one.
The one wee bit of evil that I'm seeing here is that Google is using the same tactics as Microsoft. Everyone uses Windows because it comes preloaded by the OEM, so now Google wants Gmail "preloaded" by the ISP. Smart tactic actually.
I'm not American. And YouTube, last I heard, doesn't enforce censorship by repressive regimes. Porn is the main thing that Western governments are hung up about. Killing people, that's just fine.
But yea, the content providers who have to "operate by the rules" will be handicapped
Or the main stream won't notice because censorship is a nerd issue. So for the last time, there are no girls surfing youtube that want to see you naked.
Also Sweden's laws allow hosting.torrents as they are not copyrighted, but tpb will have all the same headaches as anyone else if they start serving up tv rips off their servers.
After RTFA it sure doesn't look like it. StarCraft was one of the best games of all times, but I'm totally disappointed that Blizzard would roll out the same RTS (with a few new units granted) yet again. Practically all of the major RTS games have already been serving up this same tired formula, on the heels of StarCraft's success, and as a player who loves strategy games, I have to say this is pretty damn' depressing.
Blizzard is actually one of the few remaining games companies that should have the freedom to innovate and also have the time to get it right. I wonder if this is Vivendi's meddling. I totally understand why they are doing it, in financial terms, but this is just a cash grab.
Seriously. I use FF because it has a lot of handy plugins, which could be counted as a healthy form of bloat, not because it is faster or smaller than IE. I have been doing some heavy DOM scripting lately (using Javascript to procedurally generate and update web pages) and FF is actually a little slower than IE when it comes to the things that are typically expensive.
If you look at the code (painful) or read the Mozilla road map for FF, it becomes clear the current code base is a tangled mess of legacy api's and the the Mozilla team is really looking forward to the chance to rip out a lot of crap and clean things up.
No wonder America is in decline. Look at their leaders!
This is just the long term result of globalization, is all. All those years you enjoyed the third world cranking out dirt cheap products? First the crap jobs went over, then they got smart and started taking the better ones. Thing is, once hungry third world cooperations without all the costs of first world labour standards at head office, or unions and whatnot start taking over internationally, then eventually the usa is just going to be another place to outsource to. Guess that will be really "unfair."
Anyway. You know you guys are truly hurting when you begrudge foreign workers leaving after being trained at your companies. Ouch.
Again, and again, and again...., American Idol a thousand weeks running. who cares?
Sure, but if the rating system depends on reviewers that you have hand picked, as compared to middle age white men with jobs at newspapers or random internet fuck-tards, in theroy at least, you can get better reviews than what is out there right now. I'm just waiting for a movie review system that doesn't depend on a group of people who rate shit that makes them want to cry over anything else.
What happens when google absorbs doubleclick and starts sending ads from google.com instead of doubleclick.net?
Can't imagine an ad filtering tool falling for the old "it's just google, they never serve ads" trick.
I threw in "Ad Block Plus" when I installed firefox a ways back, and now days I'm actually a little shocked when I see an ad on the net. It's like what the heck is that?!?
So... Google is able to use it's purchasing power to force a state protected monopoly to give it an unfair deal compared to other customers of the utility. The politicians pass a law keeping this a secret, and in doing so they can claim to be giving their state an advantage, and at the same time avoid publicizing the embarrassingly large handout they are allowing.
Interesting. Hard cash sounds like a much more likely reason for Google chose one location over another. Although a little privacy never hurt.
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And I serve all my pages in a binary version of Morse code. If it doesn't work on the iPhone, it's not my problem.
What really confuses me is that there are ancient interfaces in the browser that are universally implemented, but never standardized. Meanwhile there are conflicting modern interface "standards" where the vast majority of people are running the evil "standard" that is to be shunned.
I know, blame Microsoft, but the use of the word "standard" when it comes to the web seems like a bit of a joke. Standards are supposed to be written to reflect common practise, preferably successful common practise. Instead it seems like the W3C grinds out idealistic documents and then waits 5 years for a few more idealists with limited market share to implement their unproven ideas.
Yeah yeah, flame away... I'm just bitter because I'm working in JavaScript and *every single thing I do* involves checking compatibility tables. And the WC3 standards show up there as an annoying recent addition of relatively unimplemented cruft. Some days I'm left thinking "for the love of god, just standardize something that IE is doing so I can actually use it some day."
So integrated backup support is not "part of the os" but the web-browser cannot be removed. That is funny Microsoft.
Then there is the the fact that less than half of the world population speaks English. These kinds of community driven subtitling projects are the best way to reach all the different language groups. To address the "ask slashdot" question I think we need players that support third party subtitles, then we can work on building communities to provide the content. This is a rapidly growing area on the internet. My favourite right now being subscene.
Sadly it was kdawson who posted this turd. (Or did I miss the memo about trolling slashdot with misinformation that seems to be circulating.)
Summary: 2 + 49 - (49 / 2) = 26.5, not 75.5 as per the article.
I want the minutes of my life spent reading this back. The author rattles off a bunch of crap about his credentials, including math credentials, and then rolls out some bs which pretty much amounts to admitting he is trolling the slashdot submission queue.
Anyone want to refer me to less dumb versions of this site? At this point I'm just waiting for Jon Katz to start posting again.
Fine, I'll bite. The explosion in HD size relative to I/O bandwidth means that the file system designs we had 10 years ago are not really ready to take on terrabyte drives. Things like keeping multiple and even versioned copies of your data, doing consistency checks in less than a few *days* and automatically writing recently read data back in a defragmented layout need to be considered.
Not sure why this guy was modded as a troll. In this case, rolling their own may have been a win, but it is still a worthwhile question.
I have watched companies invest man-years to solve a problem quite poorly that they could have solved excellently with third party software costing much less. Programmers always gloss over use cases and overlook the cost of all the "little things" that crop up. Meanwhile, management indulges them because they look more important when they hire more people.
When I read:
Sadly, my first thought was "fire a few of them." While this is a brilliant success story, I'm left wondering why on earth there wasn't an out of the box Linux solution they could have used... Why is a high-school doing this independently instead of paying into a centralized development model?
Reminds me of that spoof RIAA poster when you pirate mp3s you're downloading communism.
At least the GIMP is free clutter.
I took the latest PhotoShop Beta for a spin recently. I couldn't figure out how to do the most basic things like use a line drawing tool. About all there seemed to be to it was a huge collection of gimmicky filters. I'm sure with professional training I'd be doing all kinds of amazing things, but seriously, for the hefty price tag I'd expect a UI that made things easy enough to figure out on my own.
It looks like major players are paying $10 USD / Mbps for backbone access.[1] (Yes that paper predicts a short term backbone supply problem.) In my case, that's actually the same rate I'm paying my ISP for 2.5 Mbps. And from the sounds of it, Americans get gouged a lot worse.
Next, I max out at 60 gigs of video in a month (and that means I would have spent all my spare time watching high-quality p2p movies and television and also downloaded a few entire seasons of tv shows and then decided not to watch them, or saved them for later) which averages to 185.19 Kbps.[2] So even as an absolute and total bandwidth whore, I'm using less than 10% of what I'm paying for in terms of backbone costs. This means the money is easily there to pay for building additional backbone capacity, and the ISP doesn't have a fundamental business model problem.
Of course the ISP has "last mile" infrastructure costs but that is something already need to have in place to meet their peak rate guarantees on a Sunday afternoon, and doesn't have additional utilization costs associated with it.
Frankly I think traffic shaping ISPs are just being greedy. At the scale they are operating at it is worthwhile trying to rip off their customers to save a small percentage of what they are raking in.
[1] http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/media/InternetV ideo0.91.pdf
[2] http://web.forret.com/tools/bandwidth.asp
Even more to the point of TFA is that the cost of fixing bugs that arise as a result of porting is not something that a business should be expected to pay anymore either. (Open source is different, some random guy will port it to OS/2 and BeOS because that's what does it for them.)
But what I don't get is how is this better than running VMware or any of the other virtualization technologies out there? The ability to run linux in a window under windows has been around for ever. Is it their ability to localize the apps gui? That's not really special either.
I don't get it. Why has venture capital given these people money when the market already has a number of reputable and well established players?
But under certain conditions I can *see* the artifacts that result from that kind of dithering and it is annoying. If these guys were using the monitors for professional applications, any kind of image distortion is unacceptable. Sure you might not know better if you weren't looking for it, but it is some people's jobs to care about image quality. And even if they don't know what's wrong, at least subconsciously, the lay person will perceive a loss in quality.
To me this is like being sold a high end sports car that should go 200mph but finding out that it only goes 100mph and when it tops out it plays canned audio recordings of a race car motor running really fast. Sure 100mph is just fine for most applications, but thats not what you paid for.
Also a big steam fan here. I bought a few titles via ign's direct2drive and when a patch was released for one of the games the only way to apply it was "reinstall". I never bothered downloading that gig of data over their slow connection, I just abandoned my account. Steam seems to work closely enough with content developers to avoids this kind of disconnect.
The one wee bit of evil that I'm seeing here is that Google is using the same tactics as Microsoft. Everyone uses Windows because it comes preloaded by the OEM, so now Google wants Gmail "preloaded" by the ISP. Smart tactic actually.
I'm not American. And YouTube, last I heard, doesn't enforce censorship by repressive regimes. Porn is the main thing that Western governments are hung up about. Killing people, that's just fine.
One last thing: Can I be the first to coin the term "The Pervert Bay."
Or the main stream won't notice because censorship is a nerd issue. So for the last time, there are no girls surfing youtube that want to see you naked.
Also Sweden's laws allow hosting .torrents as they are not copyrighted, but tpb will have all the same headaches as anyone else if they start serving up tv rips off their servers.
Seriously. I use FF because it has a lot of handy plugins, which could be counted as a healthy form of bloat, not because it is faster or smaller than IE. I have been doing some heavy DOM scripting lately (using Javascript to procedurally generate and update web pages) and FF is actually a little slower than IE when it comes to the things that are typically expensive.
If you look at the code (painful) or read the Mozilla road map for FF, it becomes clear the current code base is a tangled mess of legacy api's and the the Mozilla team is really looking forward to the chance to rip out a lot of crap and clean things up.
This is just the long term result of globalization, is all. All those years you enjoyed the third world cranking out dirt cheap products? First the crap jobs went over, then they got smart and started taking the better ones. Thing is, once hungry third world cooperations without all the costs of first world labour standards at head office, or unions and whatnot start taking over internationally, then eventually the usa is just going to be another place to outsource to. Guess that will be really "unfair."
Anyway. You know you guys are truly hurting when you begrudge foreign workers leaving after being trained at your companies. Ouch.
Again, and again, and again...., American Idol a thousand weeks running. who cares?
Sure, but if the rating system depends on reviewers that you have hand picked, as compared to middle age white men with jobs at newspapers or random internet fuck-tards, in theroy at least, you can get better reviews than what is out there right now. I'm just waiting for a movie review system that doesn't depend on a group of people who rate shit that makes them want to cry over anything else.
What happens when google absorbs doubleclick and starts sending ads from google.com instead of doubleclick.net?
Can't imagine an ad filtering tool falling for the old "it's just google, they never serve ads" trick.
I threw in "Ad Block Plus" when I installed firefox a ways back, and now days I'm actually a little shocked when I see an ad on the net. It's like what the heck is that?!?
So... Google is able to use it's purchasing power to force a state protected monopoly to give it an unfair deal compared to other customers of the utility. The politicians pass a law keeping this a secret, and in doing so they can claim to be giving their state an advantage, and at the same time avoid publicizing the embarrassingly large handout they are allowing.
Interesting. Hard cash sounds like a much more likely reason for Google chose one location over another. Although a little privacy never hurt.
s/whey/why/