What if the car's clock doesn't work? Or it's a rental and it's clearly wrong but you haven't a clue or the time to figure out how to set it?
Ummm... If you can't figure out how to set the clock in a rental car, you're clearly under-equipped to be on here. I'm pretty sure the Slashdot user test included "can you set the time on your... VCR?... microwave?... alarm clock?... car?... computer?" I signed up here a long time ago, obviously. Are they still testing, or is any idiot allowed in?
If you can't figure out how to set the clock, you have options.
1) Check the glove compartment for the owners manual, which explains how to do it for your average consumer (read: any idiot)
2) Walk back into the rental office and say "Can someone set the clock in the car for me? I can't figure it out."
3) Go online with your phone, and search for the answer.
Most cars are pretty standard these days. Hold down "H" or "Hour" to set the hour. Hold down "M" or "Minute" to set the minutes. I haven't seen a rental car with an aftermarket radio, so I doubt you'll have to explore all the more complicated options like "hold the clock button, and use the seek buttons"
Or, since you're in a rental car, we'll assume you are out of town. I bring my GPS with me, which displays not only the time, but time and miles to my destination. It's amazingly useful, since I don't know every street in every town that I may travel to. Since it's *my* GPS, I'm already familiar with how it works, and idiosyncrasies of the way it gives turn instructions. That, and I have most of the addresses I expect to travel to already saved in it.
I mount it on the windshield, just about at the ceiling, so I barely glance up for this rather useful statistical information. Taking one hand off the wheel, looking down away from the road, adjusting your focus from many feet ahead to maybe one foot leaves a lovely gap when you will go running someone over. Please, keep your eyes on the road, or at least somewhere resembling forward instead of down.
Alternatively, like I also do, my phone goes in the cup holder or passenger seat. When I stop for a red light, I can review the call log to see if anyone important called, and notice the time. The time is displayed in a larger font on the cell, than the whole screen is on a watch. Assuming the light doesn't change 10 seconds after I reach it, I can do all of that, and still be bored watching the taillights ahead of me for 4 minutes and 50 seconds.
In the middle of the gulf, right click, and select "Directions To Here"
You'll now have a green marker in the middle of the water. Click on it. It'll say something like
Address: 27.362011, 50.886841 Save to map more
Click on "More" and then click "Edit History"
Someone made the gulf a polygon back in 2009. You'll see it in the history.:) You can do this almost anywhere in the gulf, I'd think. I just aimed for the middle.
The Arabian Gulf also has a marker, but it's just off of Kuwait. It's been there since 2009, and there is some discussion on the fact it should be the entire gulf, not just a coastal area.
Well, in your case it is best to stay with the ISP DNS. Then again, it avoids the problem of the story entirely. If you weren't using the provider DNS, and it redirected you to the other DNS servers, you'd be hit with some pretty serious fees.
I don't know for sure, but I suspect that iTunes probably uses Akamai also. Well, unless that is what a1.phobos.apple.com is.:) If they're a large provider, Akamai would have cut a deal with them. Their whole business model is to put stuff on the network, or at least as close as possible to the end users. In the case of your provider, it has an extreme financial advantage. Akamai probably pays to have it there, *and* they don't have to pay for the uplink bandwidth you'd be using for those requests.
Akamai doesn't mind in the least. They're getting paid by the companies who want their stuff mirrored.
What could be the case in this situation is that the hosts that you're resolving to with your ISP's DNS servers only resolve to those hosts if you're using them. It may not be part of their global CDN, so when it sees a request from a Google DNS server, it passes off to the public CDN servers.
If bandwidth is expensive in general in Australia (I don't know. I've never lived there nor contracted for services there), Japan may be the better location for them anyways.
I know a while back when the company I was at did global work, bandwidth in Europe cost us an awful lot more than it did in the US. Due to some pretty pathetic routing at the time most clients complained about how slow our European servers were. What it ended up being is that they were routed from their location, to New York, and back to the European servers. We decided to save one leg of the trip, and call a group of servers in New York our "European" servers. No one ever noticed where they really were, or at least never said anything about it. They did thank us for "improving" our European presence.:) It was cheaper for us, so we were good with it.
There was still some notable difference between the East and West coast of the US, so we still maintained 3 locations around the US and made everyone happy.
As best as I can tell, the UN still considers it an open topic. At least as of 2004. They wrote a letter to Japan saying that Japan should use "Sea of Japan" in it's official documents. They also wrote a letter to South Korea reaffirming its neutrality to the decision making.
Basically, if Japan wants to call it Sea of Japan, they can, and obviously will. As for the official stance of the UN, it doesn't have one. They're letting the interested parties settle it.
That may be because it's a slightly different situation. When it was named, Korea was part of Japan until 1945. Pesky world wars and all that.
Land wars in the middle east, and their adjoining waters have been in dispute... well... forever.
The best advice, or as once said by an almost wise fictional man in a fictional book...
"Never get involved in a land war in Asia" - Vizzini
That's a whole new pissing match. Why is your "Arabian Gulf" shown in our "Persian Gulf". The same could be said about the other names, "The Gulf", "Gulf of Iran", "Jama Sea", "Pars Sea", "Persian Sea".
In 2006, the UN agreed that the body of water is to be known as the "Persian Gulf". Then it becomes a question of, is Google responsible for international negotiations on naming rights and the proper name for every place? Leaving a disputed location unmarked can be problematic.
It would probably be best for known disputed locations, a mark saying "Disputed territory" followed by the names accepted by all involved parties, in alphabetical order.
Did you check out the change log? Trademark issues, spam, blah, blah.
If it wasn't locked, I'd change it to "Not Iran".:)
Added on May 10, 2012 5:33pm by Andrew Undone 1 edits Approved Comment on May 10, 2012 5:34pm by Andrew Reason for editing : Other Deleting an existing feature is not the best way to cope with spam Approved on May 10, 2012 5:45pm by Angela Deleted on May 5, 2012 1:49pm by Fahd Bahrain Undone on May 10, 2012 5:33pm by AndrewDeleted Place marked as closed Comment on May 5, 2012 1:51pm by Fahd Bahrain Reason for editing : This place is closed To many spam in this body of water, the best thing is to delete it in order to stop the spam. thanks Negative note on May 5, 2012 4:47pm by Amir2085 Reason: Good information changed for the worse thank you spamer! Marked as Bad data on May 5, 2012 6:39am Reason: Has wrong information Has wrong information Persian Gulf: Changed on May 5, 2012 3:20am by Ibn Majed Approved Name Deleted: Persian Gulf (English, type: Primary) Comment on May 5, 2012 3:20am by Ibn Majed Reason for editing : Fixing spam data should stay as unnamed body of water. To many spam in this area, I am tired of fixing all the spam. Thank you Marked as abuse on May 4, 2012 5:55pm Reason: Potential trademark violations This is persian gulf Marked as abuse on May 3, 2012 5:46pm Reason: Other Dear Google,
The whole gulf has been called "Persian Gulf" for hundred years, you do not have the right to remove it from the map. Persian Gulf: Changed on Dec 22, 2011 7:08am by Anonymous Approved Persian Gulf: Changed on May 15, 2009 8:35am by Anonymous Approved Name Added: Persian Gulf (English, type: Primary) Geometry Changed: Boundary modified Added on Mar 31, 2009 7:24am by Anonymous Approved Type of Feature Added: Water Geometry Added: Polygon added This feature has undergone total 7 changes
Are you sure it's Google, and not your local provider? Botched routing tables can do that. What is your other DNS server? Is it a temporary issue? Is it only with a1.phobos.apple.com? Anycast should get a response back from the fastest server to respond.
I'll guess that you're in Australia, since I noticed the.au router you crossed. It doesn't look like Google has a datacenter there yet. I wouldn't be surprised if they have a presence in locations that are not official "Google Datacenters" though.
The list could very likely be incomplete also. I know they had a presence in 111 8th Ave, New York, NY, and bought the whole building a couple years ago. That's not on the list at all. With the carriers that had a presence there, I'd seriously doubt they'd gut it and make it just office space.
It's working perfectly for me, and everyone that I've had switch over to it because their residential provider DNS is too slow.
Non-authoritative answer: a1.phobos.apple.com canonical name = a1.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net. a1.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net canonical name = a1.da1.akamai.net. Name: a1.da1.akamai.net Address: 208.44.23.112 Name: a1.da1.akamai.net Address: 208.44.23.98
# traceroute 208.44.23.112 traceroute to 208.44.23.112 (208.44.23.112), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets [SNIP]
4 0.xe-7-3-0.BR3.ATL4.ALTER.NET (152.63.5.129) 17.254 ms 17.248 ms 17.286 ms
5 204.255.168.222 (204.255.168.222) 16.425 ms 16.438 ms 16.407 ms
6 atx-edge-03.inet.qwest.net (205.171.21.50) 17.285 ms 17.430 ms 17.311 ms
7 208-44-23-112.dia.static.qwest.net (208.44.23.112) 20.176 ms 20.341 ms 20.287 ms
# traceroute 208.44.23.98 traceroute to 208.44.23.98 (208.44.23.98), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets [SNIP]
4 0.xe-7-3-0.BR3.ATL4.ALTER.NET (152.63.5.129) 17.287 ms 17.359 ms 17.344 ms
5 204.255.168.222 (204.255.168.222) 16.476 ms 16.440 ms 16.429 ms
6 atx-edge-03.inet.qwest.net (205.171.21.50) 51.325 ms 48.945 ms 17.179 ms
7 208-44-23-98.dia.static.qwest.net (208.44.23.98) 17.560 ms 17.553 ms 17.620 ms
# traceroute a1.phobos.apple.com traceroute to a1.phobos.apple.com (23.67.53.75), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets [SNIP]
4 0.xe-3-0-2.XL3.MIA4.ALTER.NET (152.63.4.9) 10.664 ms 10.733 ms 10.718 ms
5 0.xe-11-0-0.XL1.MIA19.ALTER.NET (152.63.85.74) 11.683 ms 11.671 ms 11.654 ms
6 0.xe-10-1-0.GW1.MIA19.ALTER.NET (152.63.81.10) 9.971 ms 10.009 ms 10.081 ms
7 akamai.customer.alter.net (63.65.188.50) 11.995 ms 11.985 ms 12.045 ms
8 a23-67-53-75.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (23.67.53.75) 10.153 ms 10.355 ms 10.355 ms
Google DNS resolved to Atlanta, which I believe is the closest Google datacenter, roughly 450 miles away and about 17.5ms.
Locally (my own DNS server on the same machine I tested from), resolved to Miami, which isn't the closest Akamai site, but may be the closest Apple mirror. That's roughly 280 miles and 10.3ms.
Using your own resolver is always an excellent choice, and will provide the best results for your location. For those who don't even know how to log into their router, much less run their own DNS server, Google's public DNS is fine.
Shit. I should have put in a buy order for Subway stock last night, so it would have been fulfilled this morning. I could have put my sell order in tonight to be fulfilled tomorrow morning, and made some quick cash.:)
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but their list could include other items like... subways are underground.
Not always true. Many have elevated sections
You know, I actually intended to say something to that effect. Most of the subways I've ridden on are mixed above/below ground, even on single routes.
Not necessarily true either. The Serfaus Dorfbahn, smallest subway in the world is free of charge.
Another exception, in actual use, is the subway system under Atlanta International Airport. It services a metropolitan need, it does have an exchange the Atlanta Marta system, so in effect it is part of the system. The airport subway does not charge for the privilege of riding the vehicles, although you can't unless you hold a ticket for a flight.
Tampa International runs multiple systems, which are similar to subways, although the entire structure is elevated or contained within upper stories of the structures. The long term parking system is on the 5th floor, and is on tracks. There are multiple vehicles going from the central hub to the terminals on elevated tracks. They consider the terminal vehicles monorails, although they are basically automated buses, tires and all, on a purpose built concrete road.
I'm sure there are others that I'm forgetting to mention, but they're probably just a Google search away.
subways have purpose built trains
The planned Luxembourg "City Tunnel" (project Schummer)
This would still be in effect purpose built vehicles. While not as custom as other metro subway systems, you're not going to drive a car or ride a bicycle in. Well, I guess you could, but it probably wouldn't be good for your health.
Thank you for your points though, they further the argument that the study is worthless other than being a piece of mental masturbation and self gratification with no real substance. The big difference is, I wasn't paid to write what I wrote, and I'm not getting publicity for publishing the piece.:)
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But did you notice the mathematical trend between the subways you visited? In every one, there was a number of bread containers for said subway. Within that container, there was a number of items which could be placed within it. And finally, and the clearest proof intelligent design is behind subway is that, at the end of the subway assembly, a numeric value was placed upon it, to which you were required to tender local currency or suitable plastic representation, to take possession of your tasty meal.
The tasty meal part isn't necessarily proven. That would depend on what you had put on it.
I could really use a meatball sub with extra sauce. Damn you, Subway, why don't you have a location near me open 24 hours? I'd even be willing to take a subway to the Subway, so I could enjoy my Subway sub, except there is no subway close to me to take to the Subway.
Subway satisfies a particular need. They move people throughout a city, and usually extend to the suburban areas. The points from the summary...
subway networks can be divided into a core and branches, like a spider with many legs.
The core of the city typically has the most people traveling to and through it. Even traveling from one side to another, the choices are to pass through a central location, or route around it. Routing around it would require an unnecessary and extensive path. Since subways are frequently underground, that's an awful lot of expensive tunneling.
The 'core' typically sits beneath the city's center, and its stations usually form a ring shape.
Amazing, the center of the travel need would be a place to put the center of a transportation system. And the article cites exceptions, so the ring shape isn't a factor.
Second, the branches tend to be about twice as long as the width of the core. The wider the core, the longer the branches.
So the bigger the city, the larger the suburban sprawl.. As there are vertical limits, that's the other choice.
Last, an average of 20 percent of the stations in the core link two or more subway lines, allowing people to make transfers.
That's not a mathematical proof that they fall into the same formula. It's an average across the sample set. If they defined the range, and it happened to be 19% to 21%, I'd be impressed. The second page of the article cites Moscow at 50%, so I'm guessing the range is 1% to 50%
'The apparent convergence towards a unique network shape in the temporal limit suggests the existence of dominant, universal mechanisms governing the evolution of these structures.'"
And the suggestion is intelligent design has guided subway design, but their list could include other items like... subways are underground. subways have stations. subways have purpose built trains. subways have ticket, coin, or other payment systems.
They missed the other huge coincidence. Transportation started as paths, then trails, then roads, then highways. And subways resemble those same systems. Not precisely, because they aggregate many routes. They also evolve as demand dictates. It's not some magic mathematical formula, and this one obviously isn't if the ranges are 1% to 50% in one part, and "some do, some don't" in another. It's "shit, this route is always busy, we need to add trains", which becomes "we are saturated with trains on this route, we need another one". Well, proper planning watches trends, and hopefully has the construction complete on the addition before the need totally saturates the available resources.
Well shit. I'm really in the wrong business. I should start doing studies. Look at subway maps, write papers, and get published. And they get paid for it?
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The only time you're going to see otherwise is if you have a commercial service with reliability spelled out in the contract. The whole CDR thing is nice. I pay for 500 Mb/s, they don't provide 500 Mb/s, I can bitch and get reimbursement for time that it isn't available. They'll jump through hoops to resolve it or lose some serious revenue.
One residential customer, one of many, with "best effort" spelled out in the contract, they don't care much if the contract is lost. More importantly, there's usually a binding contract for a period, which they did not violate. So a month into the contract, they aren't servicing as expected, you're SOL. You still owe the term of the contract or the penalty described in the contract for early termination.
The only way they care is if there is an embarrassment. Blog it, talk about it, make lots and lots and lots of noise. Then they might just do something. Not necessarily though. They may also sue.
The best choice is probably to consider other options. The range with wifi, using narrow beam high gain antennas and amplifiers is pretty good. Then he just has to figure out how to get high enough to get line of sight to somewhere that he can get service. It's not rocket science, but it does take a bit of science.:)
There are FCC restrictions to consider. I won't give further advice since I'm not an expert, and haven't had to do it lately. I'll just say that I've had good luck going miles with easily available consumer grade gear, and a strong signal at both ends. The hardest part was making sure I got the right connectors for the devices I already had.
The same still applies. If Jiffy Lube puts in the wrong oil, it voids *your* warranty. If they put on an oil filter that doesn't work properly, it voids your warranty. If they didn't put the filter or drain plug in tight enough, it voids your warranty.
My car calls for 5w10 full synthetic oil. If someone put in 60 weight recycled oil, it would suffer cylinder wall damage rather quickly. If I didn't have the oil changed from the time I picked up the car, til it stopped running, they'd try to drain the sludge, laugh, and say the warranty would be void. If it has an oil related failure, and there's no record that I used the proper oils, the warranty would be void.
I don't get my oil changed at the dealer. I do it myself. I also have driven all of my vehicles way past warranty, and I've never suffered an oil related failure. I don't feel it necessary to pay the dealer to do much of anything other than provide the occasional special part.
Telling most consumers to go back to the dealer for oil changes regularly, it helps to make sure it happens. Your average consumer is dumb, and if you don't tell them specifically to get their oil changed, they never will.
Well, they aren't in the business of selling gas. But they can require specific fuel. Low grade fuel in a high compression engine will damage it. E85 fuel is specifically forbidden in some vehicles, and will damage parts of your fuel system. Using the wrong oil or coolant will also void your warranty on related components.
They can enforce 3rd party parts and repairs. If you have 3rd party parts on your vehicle which may have caused another part to fail, the warranty will not cover it.
For example, if I go out and have a supercharge installed on my car, and due to this the clutch fails, the driveshaft is twisted and goes out of balance, and the differential gears or bearings are damaged, the dealer will show a nice quote for replacing all of the non-OEM parts plus labor.
Another example would be if you had a 3rd party shop work on it, and they broke something, it won't be covered. I have seen this with turn signals in relation to trailer hookups. Many newer vehicles use computers rather than mechanical switches to control turn signals and other lights. If the 3rd party shop hooks up the lights wrong, it will damage that computer, leaving you without turn signals or brake lights. You will have to pay for the repair. It doesn't matter that you just bought the vehicle new, and drove it 1 mile to get the trailer lighting connector attached.
The only thing that has really changed between then and now is the price. OS X 10.6 is only $29.00 with free shipping, or you can pick it up at an Apple store. It doesn't appear that you need to provide a system serial number, Team Apple badge, nor decoder ring.
I would think the difference here is that the linked site isn't selling Apple software. If anything, it's providing information (freedom of speech). There is a good chance that a common consumer may become frustrated with it, and end up buying a machine directly from Apple anyways. Because of that, it simply becomes unsolicited advertising.
I think the difference here is, Coleco had a free standing product. It was an add-on module which allowed compatibility with other cartridges.
Psystar was offering a clone of part of the product (hardware), which required part of the original product (software). Apple's license didn't allow for this, which is what the courts have upheld.
If he were to say sell the machines with *no* OS on them, he's just selling hardware, which is acceptable. He could provide information on where to get the operating system, and the EFI loader. Basically, "buy my hardware, and go here to buy the software.
I don't personally agree with it. He was just being a vendor for Apple software. They should have been happy that they were making more sales.
As the machines should work with any operating system of choice, he would not be in violation. Selling the EFI loader and OS put him in violation of the software license, DMCA, and EULA, and in direct defiance of court order. That put him in the wrong, every which way you look at it. Now, it appears he sold a handful of machines, and owes millions in fines. He made a poor choice to gamble with this, and lost.
Well, with a cube design, if the sub-cubes could be reorganized, it would be trivial to make an extension of cubes, and an engine at the end. That would allow for changes in the structure strength. If one column would be crushed, distributing the force across two or four may handle it.
In a single fixed tube design, if your force is too great, you're screwed without building a new ship.
Who's to say what the next technology would be like. Some ideas, like the ion thruster has been around for a while (invented in the early 1900's, first practical test in the 1950's), but they are low force engines. Something like the idea of blowing up nukes behind the ship has been around since the 1940's, but as far as I know it's never had a practical test. I would think that would need a structure of significant strength.
It's very likely that once we start experimenting in space with advanced propulsion, with engineers on board who can improve the design, and scientists observing the effects. Actually, that's the only way we're going to make significant progress on our propulsion techniques. Having people on hand, who can make changes on the spot is far better than proposals, meetings, committees, and then finding the budget to launch another rocket with the new test. It's years between proposal to testing, if it ever gets a chance to be tested in space at all.
Consider something as simple as a solar sail. A few have been put up. They haven't been very big. Someone on the spot could test round vs square, single layer vs double layer, changes in the support structure, paper vs mylar, etc, etc, etc.. We'll most likely find our best benefits when someone says "Hmm, I wonder what happens if....". Think of what was improvised with duct tape by the Apollo astronauts.
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Ummm... If you can't figure out how to set the clock in a rental car, you're clearly under-equipped to be on here. I'm pretty sure the Slashdot user test included "can you set the time on your ... VCR? ... microwave? ... alarm clock? ... car? ... computer?" I signed up here a long time ago, obviously. Are they still testing, or is any idiot allowed in?
If you can't figure out how to set the clock, you have options.
1) Check the glove compartment for the owners manual, which explains how to do it for your average consumer (read: any idiot)
2) Walk back into the rental office and say "Can someone set the clock in the car for me? I can't figure it out."
3) Go online with your phone, and search for the answer.
Most cars are pretty standard these days. Hold down "H" or "Hour" to set the hour. Hold down "M" or "Minute" to set the minutes. I haven't seen a rental car with an aftermarket radio, so I doubt you'll have to explore all the more complicated options like "hold the clock button, and use the seek buttons"
Or, since you're in a rental car, we'll assume you are out of town. I bring my GPS with me, which displays not only the time, but time and miles to my destination. It's amazingly useful, since I don't know every street in every town that I may travel to. Since it's *my* GPS, I'm already familiar with how it works, and idiosyncrasies of the way it gives turn instructions. That, and I have most of the addresses I expect to travel to already saved in it.
I mount it on the windshield, just about at the ceiling, so I barely glance up for this rather useful statistical information. Taking one hand off the wheel, looking down away from the road, adjusting your focus from many feet ahead to maybe one foot leaves a lovely gap when you will go running someone over. Please, keep your eyes on the road, or at least somewhere resembling forward instead of down.
Alternatively, like I also do, my phone goes in the cup holder or passenger seat. When I stop for a red light, I can review the call log to see if anyone important called, and notice the time. The time is displayed in a larger font on the cell, than the whole screen is on a watch. Assuming the light doesn't change 10 seconds after I reach it, I can do all of that, and still be bored watching the taillights ahead of me for 4 minutes and 50 seconds.
hehe. Someone labeled it again. :) Well, I'll explain how to do it without the marker. It'll still work this way.
Go to http://maps.google.com/
Search "Persian Gulf"
In the middle of the gulf, right click, and select "Directions To Here"
You'll now have a green marker in the middle of the water. Click on it. It'll say something like
Click on "More" and then click "Edit History"
Someone made the gulf a polygon back in 2009. You'll see it in the history. :) You can do this almost anywhere in the gulf, I'd think. I just aimed for the middle.
The Arabian Gulf also has a marker, but it's just off of Kuwait. It's been there since 2009, and there is some discussion on the fact it should be the entire gulf, not just a coastal area.
Well, in your case it is best to stay with the ISP DNS. Then again, it avoids the problem of the story entirely. If you weren't using the provider DNS, and it redirected you to the other DNS servers, you'd be hit with some pretty serious fees.
I don't know for sure, but I suspect that iTunes probably uses Akamai also. Well, unless that is what a1.phobos.apple.com is. :) If they're a large provider, Akamai would have cut a deal with them. Their whole business model is to put stuff on the network, or at least as close as possible to the end users. In the case of your provider, it has an extreme financial advantage. Akamai probably pays to have it there, *and* they don't have to pay for the uplink bandwidth you'd be using for those requests.
Akamai doesn't mind in the least. They're getting paid by the companies who want their stuff mirrored.
What could be the case in this situation is that the hosts that you're resolving to with your ISP's DNS servers only resolve to those hosts if you're using them. It may not be part of their global CDN, so when it sees a request from a Google DNS server, it passes off to the public CDN servers.
If bandwidth is expensive in general in Australia (I don't know. I've never lived there nor contracted for services there), Japan may be the better location for them anyways.
I know a while back when the company I was at did global work, bandwidth in Europe cost us an awful lot more than it did in the US. Due to some pretty pathetic routing at the time most clients complained about how slow our European servers were. What it ended up being is that they were routed from their location, to New York, and back to the European servers. We decided to save one leg of the trip, and call a group of servers in New York our "European" servers. No one ever noticed where they really were, or at least never said anything about it. They did thank us for "improving" our European presence. :) It was cheaper for us, so we were good with it.
There was still some notable difference between the East and West coast of the US, so we still maintained 3 locations around the US and made everyone happy.
As best as I can tell, the UN still considers it an open topic. At least as of 2004. They wrote a letter to Japan saying that Japan should use "Sea of Japan" in it's official documents. They also wrote a letter to South Korea reaffirming its neutrality to the decision making.
Basically, if Japan wants to call it Sea of Japan, they can, and obviously will. As for the official stance of the UN, it doesn't have one. They're letting the interested parties settle it.
That may be because it's a slightly different situation. When it was named, Korea was part of Japan until 1945. Pesky world wars and all that.
Land wars in the middle east, and their adjoining waters have been in dispute ... well ... forever.
The best advice, or as once said by an almost wise fictional man in a fictional book ...
"Never get involved in a land war in Asia"
- Vizzini
That's a whole new pissing match. Why is your "Arabian Gulf" shown in our "Persian Gulf". The same could be said about the other names, "The Gulf", "Gulf of Iran", "Jama Sea", "Pars Sea", "Persian Sea".
In 2006, the UN agreed that the body of water is to be known as the "Persian Gulf". Then it becomes a question of, is Google responsible for international negotiations on naming rights and the proper name for every place? Leaving a disputed location unmarked can be problematic.
It would probably be best for known disputed locations, a mark saying "Disputed territory" followed by the names accepted by all involved parties, in alphabetical order.
Did you check out the change log? Trademark issues, spam, blah, blah.
If it wasn't locked, I'd change it to "Not Iran". :)
Are you sure it's Google, and not your local provider? Botched routing tables can do that. What is your other DNS server? Is it a temporary issue? Is it only with a1.phobos.apple.com? Anycast should get a response back from the fastest server to respond.
I'll guess that you're in Australia, since I noticed the .au router you crossed. It doesn't look like Google has a datacenter there yet. I wouldn't be surprised if they have a presence in locations that are not official "Google Datacenters" though.
http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/index.html
The list could very likely be incomplete also. I know they had a presence in 111 8th Ave, New York, NY, and bought the whole building a couple years ago. That's not on the list at all. With the carriers that had a presence there, I'd seriously doubt they'd gut it and make it just office space.
It's working perfectly for me, and everyone that I've had switch over to it because their residential provider DNS is too slow.
# nslookup a1.phobos.apple.com 8.8.8.8
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Non-authoritative answer:
a1.phobos.apple.com canonical name = a1.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net.
a1.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net canonical name = a1.da1.akamai.net.
Name: a1.da1.akamai.net
Address: 208.44.23.112
Name: a1.da1.akamai.net
Address: 208.44.23.98
# traceroute 208.44.23.112
traceroute to 208.44.23.112 (208.44.23.112), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
[SNIP]
4 0.xe-7-3-0.BR3.ATL4.ALTER.NET (152.63.5.129) 17.254 ms 17.248 ms 17.286 ms
5 204.255.168.222 (204.255.168.222) 16.425 ms 16.438 ms 16.407 ms
6 atx-edge-03.inet.qwest.net (205.171.21.50) 17.285 ms 17.430 ms 17.311 ms
7 208-44-23-112.dia.static.qwest.net (208.44.23.112) 20.176 ms 20.341 ms 20.287 ms
# traceroute 208.44.23.98
traceroute to 208.44.23.98 (208.44.23.98), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
[SNIP]
4 0.xe-7-3-0.BR3.ATL4.ALTER.NET (152.63.5.129) 17.287 ms 17.359 ms 17.344 ms
5 204.255.168.222 (204.255.168.222) 16.476 ms 16.440 ms 16.429 ms
6 atx-edge-03.inet.qwest.net (205.171.21.50) 51.325 ms 48.945 ms 17.179 ms
7 208-44-23-98.dia.static.qwest.net (208.44.23.98) 17.560 ms 17.553 ms 17.620 ms
# traceroute a1.phobos.apple.com
traceroute to a1.phobos.apple.com (23.67.53.75), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
[SNIP]
4 0.xe-3-0-2.XL3.MIA4.ALTER.NET (152.63.4.9) 10.664 ms 10.733 ms 10.718 ms
5 0.xe-11-0-0.XL1.MIA19.ALTER.NET (152.63.85.74) 11.683 ms 11.671 ms 11.654 ms
6 0.xe-10-1-0.GW1.MIA19.ALTER.NET (152.63.81.10) 9.971 ms 10.009 ms 10.081 ms
7 akamai.customer.alter.net (63.65.188.50) 11.995 ms 11.985 ms 12.045 ms
8 a23-67-53-75.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (23.67.53.75) 10.153 ms 10.355 ms 10.355 ms
Google DNS resolved to Atlanta, which I believe is the closest Google datacenter, roughly 450 miles away and about 17.5ms.
Locally (my own DNS server on the same machine I tested from), resolved to Miami, which isn't the closest Akamai site, but may be the closest Apple mirror. That's roughly 280 miles and 10.3ms.
Using your own resolver is always an excellent choice, and will provide the best results for your location. For those who don't even know how to log into their router, much less run their own DNS server, Google's public DNS is fine.
Shit. I should have put in a buy order for Subway stock last night, so it would have been fulfilled this morning. I could have put my sell order in tonight to be fulfilled tomorrow morning, and made some quick cash. :)
Well, it doesn't matter anyways, they're not a public company.
Hmmmmm.. Slashdot for pump & dump. Geeknet could make some serious bank, and if they included subscribers in on it, we'd all do well. :)
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We've probably made several English majors cry, and have increased sales of Subway subs a trivial amount. I'm still hungry for a sub. :)
You know, I actually intended to say something to that effect. Most of the subways I've ridden on are mixed above/below ground, even on single routes.
Another exception, in actual use, is the subway system under Atlanta International Airport. It services a metropolitan need, it does have an exchange the Atlanta Marta system, so in effect it is part of the system. The airport subway does not charge for the privilege of riding the vehicles, although you can't unless you hold a ticket for a flight.
Tampa International runs multiple systems, which are similar to subways, although the entire structure is elevated or contained within upper stories of the structures. The long term parking system is on the 5th floor, and is on tracks. There are multiple vehicles going from the central hub to the terminals on elevated tracks. They consider the terminal vehicles monorails, although they are basically automated buses, tires and all, on a purpose built concrete road.
I'm sure there are others that I'm forgetting to mention, but they're probably just a Google search away.
This would still be in effect purpose built vehicles. While not as custom as other metro subway systems, you're not going to drive a car or ride a bicycle in. Well, I guess you could, but it probably wouldn't be good for your health.
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So, which one is going to hit us on Dec 21st? :)
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But did you notice the mathematical trend between the subways you visited? In every one, there was a number of bread containers for said subway. Within that container, there was a number of items which could be placed within it. And finally, and the clearest proof intelligent design is behind subway is that, at the end of the subway assembly, a numeric value was placed upon it, to which you were required to tender local currency or suitable plastic representation, to take possession of your tasty meal.
The tasty meal part isn't necessarily proven. That would depend on what you had put on it.
I could really use a meatball sub with extra sauce. Damn you, Subway, why don't you have a location near me open 24 hours? I'd even be willing to take a subway to the Subway, so I could enjoy my Subway sub, except there is no subway close to me to take to the Subway.
Subway satisfies a particular need. They move people throughout a city, and usually extend to the suburban areas. The points from the summary...
The core of the city typically has the most people traveling to and through it. Even traveling from one side to another, the choices are to pass through a central location, or route around it. Routing around it would require an unnecessary and extensive path. Since subways are frequently underground, that's an awful lot of expensive tunneling.
Amazing, the center of the travel need would be a place to put the center of a transportation system. And the article cites exceptions, so the ring shape isn't a factor.
So the bigger the city, the larger the suburban sprawl.. As there are vertical limits, that's the other choice.
That's not a mathematical proof that they fall into the same formula. It's an average across the sample set. If they defined the range, and it happened to be 19% to 21%, I'd be impressed. The second page of the article cites Moscow at 50%, so I'm guessing the range is 1% to 50%
And the suggestion is intelligent design has guided subway design, but their list could include other items like ... subways are underground. subways have stations. subways have purpose built trains. subways have ticket, coin, or other payment systems.
They missed the other huge coincidence. Transportation started as paths, then trails, then roads, then highways. And subways resemble those same systems. Not precisely, because they aggregate many routes. They also evolve as demand dictates. It's not some magic mathematical formula, and this one obviously isn't if the ranges are 1% to 50% in one part, and "some do, some don't" in another. It's "shit, this route is always busy, we need to add trains", which becomes "we are saturated with trains on this route, we need another one". Well, proper planning watches trends, and hopefully has the construction complete on the addition before the need totally saturates the available resources.
Well shit. I'm really in the wrong business. I should start doing studies. Look at subway maps, write papers, and get published. And they get paid for it?
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You're absolutely right.
The only time you're going to see otherwise is if you have a commercial service with reliability spelled out in the contract. The whole CDR thing is nice. I pay for 500 Mb/s, they don't provide 500 Mb/s, I can bitch and get reimbursement for time that it isn't available. They'll jump through hoops to resolve it or lose some serious revenue.
One residential customer, one of many, with "best effort" spelled out in the contract, they don't care much if the contract is lost. More importantly, there's usually a binding contract for a period, which they did not violate. So a month into the contract, they aren't servicing as expected, you're SOL. You still owe the term of the contract or the penalty described in the contract for early termination.
The only way they care is if there is an embarrassment. Blog it, talk about it, make lots and lots and lots of noise. Then they might just do something. Not necessarily though. They may also sue.
The best choice is probably to consider other options. The range with wifi, using narrow beam high gain antennas and amplifiers is pretty good. Then he just has to figure out how to get high enough to get line of sight to somewhere that he can get service. It's not rocket science, but it does take a bit of science. :)
There are FCC restrictions to consider. I won't give further advice since I'm not an expert, and haven't had to do it lately. I'll just say that I've had good luck going miles with easily available consumer grade gear, and a strong signal at both ends. The hardest part was making sure I got the right connectors for the devices I already had.
Here, here are a couple hints. :)
The same still applies. If Jiffy Lube puts in the wrong oil, it voids *your* warranty. If they put on an oil filter that doesn't work properly, it voids your warranty. If they didn't put the filter or drain plug in tight enough, it voids your warranty.
My car calls for 5w10 full synthetic oil. If someone put in 60 weight recycled oil, it would suffer cylinder wall damage rather quickly. If I didn't have the oil changed from the time I picked up the car, til it stopped running, they'd try to drain the sludge, laugh, and say the warranty would be void. If it has an oil related failure, and there's no record that I used the proper oils, the warranty would be void.
I don't get my oil changed at the dealer. I do it myself. I also have driven all of my vehicles way past warranty, and I've never suffered an oil related failure. I don't feel it necessary to pay the dealer to do much of anything other than provide the occasional special part.
Telling most consumers to go back to the dealer for oil changes regularly, it helps to make sure it happens. Your average consumer is dumb, and if you don't tell them specifically to get their oil changed, they never will.
You haven't tried, have you?
As a license, they're upgrades. If your Mac has a drive failure, you don't have to install then upgrade all the versions of OSX.
It says right in their instructions that if you want Lion, you buy Snow Leopard and upgrade.
The Hackintosh sites say to do the same thing.
From Snow Leopard, you can make a Lion disk, but as you said, they're not distributing it as a disk any more.
Well, they aren't in the business of selling gas. But they can require specific fuel. Low grade fuel in a high compression engine will damage it. E85 fuel is specifically forbidden in some vehicles, and will damage parts of your fuel system. Using the wrong oil or coolant will also void your warranty on related components.
They can enforce 3rd party parts and repairs. If you have 3rd party parts on your vehicle which may have caused another part to fail, the warranty will not cover it.
For example, if I go out and have a supercharge installed on my car, and due to this the clutch fails, the driveshaft is twisted and goes out of balance, and the differential gears or bearings are damaged, the dealer will show a nice quote for replacing all of the non-OEM parts plus labor.
Another example would be if you had a 3rd party shop work on it, and they broke something, it won't be covered. I have seen this with turn signals in relation to trailer hookups. Many newer vehicles use computers rather than mechanical switches to control turn signals and other lights. If the 3rd party shop hooks up the lights wrong, it will damage that computer, leaving you without turn signals or brake lights. You will have to pay for the repair. It doesn't matter that you just bought the vehicle new, and drove it 1 mile to get the trailer lighting connector attached.
Of course it is. The gates of heaven are fictional. Camels and needles on the other hand aren't.
You have to put on OS X 10.6 first. But still...
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A?n=osx&fnode=MTY1NDAzOA&s=topSellers
It's not quite as impossible as you think.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A?n=osx&fnode=MTY1NDAzOA&s=topSellers
The only thing that has really changed between then and now is the price. OS X 10.6 is only $29.00 with free shipping, or you can pick it up at an Apple store. It doesn't appear that you need to provide a system serial number, Team Apple badge, nor decoder ring.
Seriously, doesn't anyone check before writing?
I would think the difference here is that the linked site isn't selling Apple software. If anything, it's providing information (freedom of speech). There is a good chance that a common consumer may become frustrated with it, and end up buying a machine directly from Apple anyways. Because of that, it simply becomes unsolicited advertising.
I think the difference here is, Coleco had a free standing product. It was an add-on module which allowed compatibility with other cartridges.
Psystar was offering a clone of part of the product (hardware), which required part of the original product (software). Apple's license didn't allow for this, which is what the courts have upheld.
If he were to say sell the machines with *no* OS on them, he's just selling hardware, which is acceptable. He could provide information on where to get the operating system, and the EFI loader. Basically, "buy my hardware, and go here to buy the software.
I don't personally agree with it. He was just being a vendor for Apple software. They should have been happy that they were making more sales.
As the machines should work with any operating system of choice, he would not be in violation. Selling the EFI loader and OS put him in violation of the software license, DMCA, and EULA, and in direct defiance of court order. That put him in the wrong, every which way you look at it. Now, it appears he sold a handful of machines, and owes millions in fines. He made a poor choice to gamble with this, and lost.
Well, with a cube design, if the sub-cubes could be reorganized, it would be trivial to make an extension of cubes, and an engine at the end. That would allow for changes in the structure strength. If one column would be crushed, distributing the force across two or four may handle it.
In a single fixed tube design, if your force is too great, you're screwed without building a new ship.
Who's to say what the next technology would be like. Some ideas, like the ion thruster has been around for a while (invented in the early 1900's, first practical test in the 1950's), but they are low force engines. Something like the idea of blowing up nukes behind the ship has been around since the 1940's, but as far as I know it's never had a practical test. I would think that would need a structure of significant strength.
It's very likely that once we start experimenting in space with advanced propulsion, with engineers on board who can improve the design, and scientists observing the effects. Actually, that's the only way we're going to make significant progress on our propulsion techniques. Having people on hand, who can make changes on the spot is far better than proposals, meetings, committees, and then finding the budget to launch another rocket with the new test. It's years between proposal to testing, if it ever gets a chance to be tested in space at all.
Consider something as simple as a solar sail. A few have been put up. They haven't been very big. Someone on the spot could test round vs square, single layer vs double layer, changes in the support structure, paper vs mylar, etc, etc, etc.. We'll most likely find our best benefits when someone says "Hmm, I wonder what happens if....". Think of what was improvised with duct tape by the Apollo astronauts.