As one who's ran the slashcode in it's various iterations would know, there are different classes of users. Some who have moderation access distributed quasi-randomly, and those who always have it.
I had trouble visiting any sympathy on the above article, because who is to say what arbitrary moderation takes place on these forums. The moderation system is ambiguous when it comes to *who* rated something. A dileniation between user moderated and moderator moderated might go leaps and bounds towards this. Still, not that it would have to be followed, someone with sufficient access could just modify the DB to appear as though a user did it anyways.
But I digress. I dissagree with the parent; Frustration surrounding the "unjust" arbitrary decisions of game companies has been the attitude of just about every gamer at one point or another. Just because CmdrTaco has a larger shoebox than most to tout his frustration from doesn't mean he's any less frustrated than millions of gamers who've experienced similar circumstances.
I myself have been aggrivated by the arbitrary decisions of the OWNERS of these products. Their physical property used to be where I spent my virtual playtime. No longer is that the case. Comments like CmdrTaco's are not few and far between, but more often than not lead to childish tit-for-tat comments down the road.
You may pay for the service, but it is their service that you are leasing the right to use. Nothing is stopping them from giving adequate notice and shutting the service down for everyone. Nor could you do much if they decided to ban you.
Sure, a bit simplistic a viewpoint, but nonetheless when you pay for an online game you aren't given the guarantee of access, nor data retention. As such deleting/banning your account is perfectly within their rights.
Not that I agree with the position they are in, but I've seen it from the user side too many times to let the entitlement theme linger unanswered. Those who hold the power to destroy something, control it.
There's nothing forcing you to use *their* servers, yet.
Although the internet has always been about freedom of choice the fact that DNS has been under the iron fist of one entity has been a big reason the naming structure HASN'T collapsed. This is what we call a natural monopoly. It doesn't make sense to have a redundant, fail-over, heirarchichal planetwide system run by multiple independently controlled entities. It doesn't really work well for IP routing *COUGH*COGENT*COUGH* and it certainly wouldn't for DNS.
If multiple regulatory comissions in charge of multiple root structures were the ideal we would already have it. (IMHO) Still, I seriously doubt ISPs will deliberately segment their *customers* from *services* they are no doubt expecting regardless of this regulatory stupidity. SLA's/guarantees/contracts for uptime, intelligent Network Admins/Engineers and business decision makers won't let this happen anyways.
There is one thing that could slaughter this... And that would be for China to do the equivilant: "iptables -A FORWARD -p udp --DPORT 53 -j BLOCK" on their "great firewall" network. If they blocked DNS at their perimeter and only provided the *New* rootservers as alternatives things would certainly break. Then again, maybe it'd be good for the rest of the world's spam filters if China dropped off the map.
The whole situation stinks of personal motives. Whoever proposed this was surely green, in regard to the internet, or with envy. It doesn't make sense to do so for the greater good of the internet as a whole. But that doesn't mean there couldn't be potential for certain individuals to profit greatly in the event of a major shift.
Which is all well and good until the first genious logs into a non-virus filtered SSL Web based proxy and starts surfing finaldownloads.com. User education and management policy are just as important (if not moreso) than software solutions.
Ok maybe the athens is overkill, maybe just the 4 monitor rig. With enough ram and nice video cards you could have your flowcharts/diagrams on one screen, your debugging on another, your actual code on another, your Gui/IDE tools in another... well you get the point. This is considering you'd actually use those pixels for work, if you have trouble keeping on task this would be the worst thing you could buy.
Paper is for people who like tangible things, as others have listed, if you like paper then a decent HP laser should be on your list.
I like to think of F/OSS developers as comissioned artists. Creating a work of art for a specific individual (or organization) but on display to the world. You may be able to make a copy of the artwork, but creating it to begin with takes an artist's vision.
The more types of code "on display" as it were the more shared inspiration other artists have to draw upon the better the art as a whole develops.
Perhaps a flawed analogy but it seems the most apt to me.
'cause you know, wifi access points never move or die.
'creating an "inventory" of every Wi-Fi access point in the United States,
We (enterprise) have a hard enough job tracking our own and our rogue points. And it's not like users ever want to have a mobile access point for presentations at non-wifi locations.
And what about every laptop that is automagically converted into a wireless bridge/access point with a few clicks?
On top of which, what is it really necessary to track every wap? To "triangulate" a connection they'd still need to trace the origins of a voip call over the IP connection to figure out where the call was made. A wifi access point map doesn't give you much if you haven't got a way of sourcing the call.
Bill: The VCR is a good example of a standards-based product that allowed any video tape* to play on any player - providing a marketplace of competitive VCR implementations, competitive tape media suppliers, and commercial opportunities.
Although I am appreciative of the response, the major concern of F/OSS advocates (and anyone having to integrate those systems with Microsoft products) is that of compatibility between products.
In as much as Open Document Formats and Open Standards go, there are various implimentations of "Open Standards" that Microsoft quite regularly deviates from. My question was aimed generally to get any response, but I was dissapointed nothing of the infamous Office/XML debacle was mentioned. These end user issues are real... and I'm sure the various companies who use competitive OSS alternatives to office would still like to know Microsoft's position in their regard.
Will we have to re-write/re-create our documents in the future? Or will the VHS ideal hold true? Will there be a standard for compatability released for Office Documents, or will OSS continue to be behind due to the time consuming Reverse engineering that must take place to provide compatibility?
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Accepting the obvious fact that IT was created as a method for increasing productivity, and has evolved into a conduit for providing customers services, sales (websales anyways) and a good portion of customer service (telephony.)
Without Phones (voip/pbx), email (presales/sales), digital documents (fileservers), and the network to run these things for users all of a sudden business grinds to a halt.
Unless you're running POTS/Typewriters/filecabinets instead of modern solutions you're going to have time re-adjusting if all geeks suddenly disappeared. Don't kid yourself. We're needed.
A business air conditioner is very rarely a conduit for making business happen. Unless you're selling them that is.
My SL-5000d has worked well since the beta release. Doing some of the more "advanced" hacks like installing compat libs and updating large portions of the QT would often times bork the install forcing a flash. However, since the flash is just a set of files on a CF card you can keep 4-5 different images on a disk with a little shell script to swap the files around for quick re-purposing.
I had an image for Kismet sniffing, an image for E-Book reading and the stock Sharp image on a CF for quick swapping between. Since the OS is linux I wrote a few quick tar -cvf;gzips and was able to back the system up to my SD card... but the fact that it was pretty much necessary to keep rather simplistic images in order to keep the crashes to a minimum was frustrating.
The battery life is horrendous. I purchased a second battery and charger but it just doesn't help enough to leave the charger behind.
Still, GCC and a ssh environment in a pocket is nice.
It does say much to the integrity of the entire shuttle that something as small as a thin-plastic window cover can damage the shuttle's heat shielding. What if, oh I don't know, a seagull hit the shuttle during liftoff?
... Only the airwaves in question are for public use (as all are supposed to be) and the access point in questiton was broadcasting the equivilant of a repeating cq call. Basically inviting users to join the wifi access point. An Win32 system out of the box will automatically join most open wireless networks withou even prompting because of this very nature.
The physical property analogy is not really relevant. The previously mentioned light out the window, or wireless speaker analogy is more apt.
The only thing close to the lockpick analogy is if you placed a giant sign that says "This door is open" and subsequently left it unlocked.
Post acquisition, Syabri becomes a Microsoft subsidiary focusing on marketing anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-*nix propaganda
Yeah so it's a big no-duh as it seems to step in line with the general attitude to M$ towards competition.
Too bad the US government only pretends to be anti-monopoly. Maybe someone can continue bringing suits against them in the EU. The more they're out due to being asses, the less they'll tend to be asses (at least outwardly.)
As has been said by many much wiser than myself, all computer problems are fundamentally a people problem. Exploitable applications are the fault of developers, exploited applications are the fault of intruders.
Why is the blame always pushed in one direction OR the other and not both?
Books might be a bad example, if you don't care too much about the physical book after you have a digital copy, it's pretty easy to scan with the right gear.
Back in the dark ages I used to surf primarily with Links since even images at that speed are unbearable.
Satelite internet could be an alternative but that's only marginally better if you're expecting the responsiveness and throughput of DSL/Cable etc. Typical satellite instalations are latent anywhere between 800ms~1200ms. I've seen a couple under 600ms regularly but these were rare. Not to mention 500kbps is about as high as you can get with it.
Direcway have been at it for a while, Starband Provides similar service as well as automated trackers aimed towards mobile installations (RVs/Vans etc.)
The obligatory read the service contracts carefully applies to both.
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As one who's ran the slashcode in it's various iterations would know, there are different classes of users. Some who have moderation access distributed quasi-randomly, and those who always have it.
I had trouble visiting any sympathy on the above article, because who is to say what arbitrary moderation takes place on these forums. The moderation system is ambiguous when it comes to *who* rated something. A dileniation between user moderated and moderator moderated might go leaps and bounds towards this. Still, not that it would have to be followed, someone with sufficient access could just modify the DB to appear as though a user did it anyways.
But I digress. I dissagree with the parent; Frustration surrounding the "unjust" arbitrary decisions of game companies has been the attitude of just about every gamer at one point or another. Just because CmdrTaco has a larger shoebox than most to tout his frustration from doesn't mean he's any less frustrated than millions of gamers who've experienced similar circumstances.
I myself have been aggrivated by the arbitrary decisions of the OWNERS of these products. Their physical property used to be where I spent my virtual playtime. No longer is that the case. Comments like CmdrTaco's are not few and far between, but more often than not lead to childish tit-for-tat comments down the road.
You may pay for the service, but it is their service that you are leasing the right to use. Nothing is stopping them from giving adequate notice and shutting the service down for everyone. Nor could you do much if they decided to ban you.
Sure, a bit simplistic a viewpoint, but nonetheless when you pay for an online game you aren't given the guarantee of access, nor data retention. As such deleting/banning your account is perfectly within their rights.
Not that I agree with the position they are in, but I've seen it from the user side too many times to let the entitlement theme linger unanswered. Those who hold the power to destroy something, control it.
www.root-servers.org/204.152.184.66
There's nothing forcing you to use *their* servers, yet.
Although the internet has always been about freedom of choice the fact that DNS has been under the iron fist of one entity has been a big reason the naming structure HASN'T collapsed. This is what we call a natural monopoly. It doesn't make sense to have a redundant, fail-over, heirarchichal planetwide system run by multiple independently controlled entities. It doesn't really work well for IP routing *COUGH*COGENT*COUGH* and it certainly wouldn't for DNS.
If multiple regulatory comissions in charge of multiple root structures were the ideal we would already have it. (IMHO) Still, I seriously doubt ISPs will deliberately segment their *customers* from *services* they are no doubt expecting regardless of this regulatory stupidity. SLA's/guarantees/contracts for uptime, intelligent Network Admins/Engineers and business decision makers won't let this happen anyways.
There is one thing that could slaughter this... And that would be for China to do the equivilant: "iptables -A FORWARD -p udp --DPORT 53 -j BLOCK" on their "great firewall" network. If they blocked DNS at their perimeter and only provided the *New* rootservers as alternatives things would certainly break. Then again, maybe it'd be good for the rest of the world's spam filters if China dropped off the map.
The whole situation stinks of personal motives. Whoever proposed this was surely green, in regard to the internet, or with envy. It doesn't make sense to do so for the greater good of the internet as a whole. But that doesn't mean there couldn't be potential for certain individuals to profit greatly in the event of a major shift.
Sounds like about 30 more lines or so of python and you're halfway there.
TinyP2P
A bit of checksumming, some automated distribution of indexed files based on some arbitrary weight (Important 1-kinda 5-YOU BET), and you've got it.
You would have to install Python for windows... (Or OSX if they're using AutoCad and not Softplan.) Setup some login/boot-time scripts etc.
Still, more for the "fun" kind of thing to do, and not something for a production environment. But everything has to start somewhere.
Or put simply for all us redneck hackers:
"You can outrun Ford, but you can't outrun Motorola."
Which is all well and good until the first genious logs into a non-virus filtered SSL Web based proxy and starts surfing finaldownloads.com. User education and management policy are just as important (if not moreso) than software solutions.
Money is noobject?
:P
Ok maybe the athens is overkill, maybe just the 4 monitor rig. With enough ram and nice video cards you could have your flowcharts/diagrams on one screen, your debugging on another, your actual code on another, your Gui/IDE tools in another... well you get the point. This is considering you'd actually use those pixels for work, if you have trouble keeping on task this would be the worst thing you could buy.
Paper is for people who like tangible things, as others have listed, if you like paper then a decent HP laser should be on your list.
Still that would look nice on my desk
I like to think of F/OSS developers as comissioned artists. Creating a work of art for a specific individual (or organization) but on display to the world. You may be able to make a copy of the artwork, but creating it to begin with takes an artist's vision.
The more types of code "on display" as it were the more shared inspiration other artists have to draw upon the better the art as a whole develops.
Perhaps a flawed analogy but it seems the most apt to me.
We (enterprise) have a hard enough job tracking our own and our rogue points. And it's not like users ever want to have a mobile access point for presentations at non-wifi locations.
And what about every laptop that is automagically converted into a wireless bridge/access point with a few clicks?
On top of which, what is it really necessary to track every wap? To "triangulate" a connection they'd still need to trace the origins of a voip call over the IP connection to figure out where the call was made. A wifi access point map doesn't give you much if you haven't got a way of sourcing the call.
Although I am appreciative of the response, the major concern of F/OSS advocates (and anyone having to integrate those systems with Microsoft products) is that of compatibility between products.
In as much as Open Document Formats and Open Standards go, there are various implimentations of "Open Standards" that Microsoft quite regularly deviates from. My question was aimed generally to get any response, but I was dissapointed nothing of the infamous Office/XML debacle was mentioned. These end user issues are real... and I'm sure the various companies who use competitive OSS alternatives to office would still like to know Microsoft's position in their regard.
Will we have to re-write/re-create our documents in the future? Or will the VHS ideal hold true? Will there be a standard for compatability released for Office Documents, or will OSS continue to be behind due to the time consuming Reverse engineering that must take place to provide compatibility?
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Because of a large number of requests, registered Cisco.com users may experience delays in receiving the new passwords.
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How does Microsoft internally deal with Open Standards and Open Document Formats?
I suppose more generally: In your testing is it solely relegated to Linux in the Server role, or do you address End-User issues as well
Accepting the obvious fact that IT was created as a method for increasing productivity, and has evolved into a conduit for providing customers services, sales (websales anyways) and a good portion of customer service (telephony.)
Without Phones (voip/pbx), email (presales/sales), digital documents (fileservers), and the network to run these things for users all of a sudden business grinds to a halt.
Unless you're running POTS/Typewriters/filecabinets instead of modern solutions you're going to have time re-adjusting if all geeks suddenly disappeared. Don't kid yourself. We're needed.
A business air conditioner is very rarely a conduit for making business happen. Unless you're selling them that is.
My SL-5000d has worked well since the beta release. Doing some of the more "advanced" hacks like installing compat libs and updating large portions of the QT would often times bork the install forcing a flash. However, since the flash is just a set of files on a CF card you can keep 4-5 different images on a disk with a little shell script to swap the files around for quick re-purposing.
I had an image for Kismet sniffing, an image for E-Book reading and the stock Sharp image on a CF for quick swapping between. Since the OS is linux I wrote a few quick tar -cvf;gzips and was able to back the system up to my SD card... but the fact that it was pretty much necessary to keep rather simplistic images in order to keep the crashes to a minimum was frustrating.
The battery life is horrendous. I purchased a second battery and charger but it just doesn't help enough to leave the charger behind.
Still, GCC and a ssh environment in a pocket is nice.
It does say much to the integrity of the entire shuttle that something as small as a thin-plastic window cover can damage the shuttle's heat shielding. What if, oh I don't know, a seagull hit the shuttle during liftoff?
I haven't even seen a glimpse of these things in cali and for all the searching it was worth I couldn't find anyone selling them online...
... Only the airwaves in question are for public use (as all are supposed to be) and the access point in questiton was broadcasting the equivilant of a repeating cq call. Basically inviting users to join the wifi access point. An Win32 system out of the box will automatically join most open wireless networks withou even prompting because of this very nature.
The physical property analogy is not really relevant. The previously mentioned light out the window, or wireless speaker analogy is more apt.
The only thing close to the lockpick analogy is if you placed a giant sign that says "This door is open" and subsequently left it unlocked.
And it might come crashing down on our heads. So, how is this idea any worse or better than fission?
Yeah so it's a big no-duh as it seems to step in line with the general attitude to M$ towards competition.
Too bad the US government only pretends to be anti-monopoly. Maybe someone can continue bringing suits against them in the EU. The more they're out due to being asses, the less they'll tend to be asses (at least outwardly.)
As has been said by many much wiser than myself, all computer problems are fundamentally a people problem. Exploitable applications are the fault of developers, exploited applications are the fault of intruders.
Why is the blame always pushed in one direction OR the other and not both?
http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_monad_msh_tips 629.html
Da Bears.
Books might be a bad example, if you don't care too much about the physical book after you have a digital copy, it's pretty easy to scan with the right gear.
lynx even
P.S. If satellite is out of the question 2 and 3 phone line bonded dialup is also possible in windows and linux.
Back in the dark ages I used to surf primarily with Links since even images at that speed are unbearable.
Satelite internet could be an alternative but that's only marginally better if you're expecting the responsiveness and throughput of DSL/Cable etc. Typical satellite instalations are latent anywhere between 800ms~1200ms. I've seen a couple under 600ms regularly but these were rare. Not to mention 500kbps is about as high as you can get with it.
Direcway have been at it for a while, Starband Provides similar service as well as automated trackers aimed towards mobile installations (RVs/Vans etc.)
The obligatory read the service contracts carefully applies to both.
I'd figure any number of different shorts could cause the phone to stop functioning/lose function