While you are correct in your claim that these problems do not affect TCP/IP packet routing, you're forgetting that you can route all the packets you want with no lag and no lost packets, but what people want the packets FOR is content. The internet doesn't exist just to move data around - there is a point to it: move the data I need around. These anomalies end up degrading the quality of the internet without affecting the infrastructure per se.
I see you have never run into "This content is not available from your area".
Whooosh to everyone in the US. The internet IS splintered. I live in Central America - care to explain to me why a major online retailer keeps insisting - no matter what option I select - on charging me in Pound Sterling? I am entered in Oracle's database since I downloaded MySQL. Despite setting everything as English when I signed up (I am a native English speaker), they insist on sending me email in Spanish. There are countless other examples (like customer service and product returns to a major manufacturer whose equipment was purchased in the US, has never left the US, was billed to my US address (I have a condo in Fla), and yet because my IP is from Central America, they refuse to honor the return. And let's not get into the fact that my country has 8 digit telephone numbers (how many times do I get errors because of this?) and no zip code (00000 doesn't always work).
I wouldn't go so far as to call it Web 3.0, but there are some serious issues being caused by shoddy/lazy programming and erroneous assumptions and these are affecting the usefulness of the internet for a HUGE market.
Actually grown ups share food with babies - in fact share too much food considering the amount of obese children. I've never yet seen a 1 yr old have to put on a tie and earn his keep.
Yeah, forget about the other 200 or so carcinogens present in tobacco smoke. One article will not turn me into a believer. Especially since I think the dose of polonium could be considered homeopathic. I disagree until I see double blind clinically controlled trials that prove this. We never will, however, for ethical reasons.
Agreed. As a physician I am well aware that the body has compensation mechanisms for virtually everything, and they work fine so long as you don't overwhelm those mechanism (it usually always boils down to the rate of reaction of some enzyme or other). But was trying not to get too technical.
The Sievert is a measure of ACCUMULATED dose. Time is a factor. Therefore being exposed to 1 Sievert for a second (the real unit behind the sievert is the J/s, which is equivalent to Watts) is the same as being exposed to 1 milisievert for 1000 seconds, or 1 microsievert for 10^6 seconds.
This is also why many measurements are done on a "per hour" basis. 400 milisieverts per hour (near the pool between reactors 3-4) is not harmful to you if you are going to be there for 5 minutes. If you stay there for 2.5 hours, however, you could experience signs of acute radiation sickness.
I find it laughable, however, how the press a) fails to understand this and b) has obvious trouble converting between micro and mili.
Finally one must bear in mind that radionuclides will decay over time (Iodine-131 being the main culprit here, has a half life of 8 days). So in 5 half lives (40 days), most of it will be gone. And also that the chronic health risk of radiation is usually overestimated, especially for such small doses as currently seen in Japan. It's statistical roulette, just like smoking. It just takes one cigarette to unleash the chain of events that will eventually lead to cancer. However the odds of it being the cigarette you are currently smoking are quite small. But if you smoke all your life, you're likely to buy the winning ticket eventually. The same with radiation. There are still living survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and these people were exposed to far more (and more harmful) radiation - gamma rays vs. beta particles. And yet not that many of them have "grown a third arm". Yes, there have been cancer deaths, but considering the population exposed, it wasn't all that much.
Yeah, poor me, I only get 1 hr battery life out of my quad core i7 laptop with the 17 inch screen, 1GB GeForce 360M video card that will pretty much run everything at lightning speed. That, and my laptop is now a year old. But hey, I'm never more than 1 hour away from a plug, either. And I guess if I'm just answering email or something I can turn on the power-saving mode. Oh and guess what - this machine is around half the price of a MacBook... and you had to wait a whole year to get it. Starting from $2499 at the Apple store...
Ad heavy forum post? There is not one single ad on the website (which happens to be the official Apple support forum) or in the posts I saw. You sure you clicked the right link?
Honestly - do you think the US government would release anything if it had happened in the US? It would take months and Freedom of Information Act requests to get hold of it. And since it's a nuclear plant with strategic and national interest value, anyone wanting to see such video would probably be called a "terrorist". Remember when they were arresting people for taking pictures of federal buildings? Now imagine a nuclear plant...
Because people stopped caring about politics. They're too busy surfing for porn or playing with their video game consoles or watching their big-screen TV's. Nowadays the masses get their politics in a can - abortion/no abortion. Gay rights/No gay rights. Don't Ask Don't Tell. Republican vs Democrat. It's become a chant, a litany, and nothing more. Actually sitting down and thinking about the world is only done by those very few of us who are much smarter than the rest. And of THAT group, a good chunk have decided to run things for themselves - with the results you see today. The rest of us see the world as an academic exercise among countless other academic exercises.
Meh, I think it's a bad idea but Khaddafi has had it coming for a long time. I remember Lockerbie. There's nothing like celebrating the death of innocent people on a transatlantic flight for making others remember you. I was scheduled to fly across the Atlantic on Pan Am a week after the tragedy. It could just as easily have been me.
I'm sorry for the Lybians who will die, however. On both sides. My understanding is that the "rebellion" is not exactly run by "nice people" either.
Seriously, I don't know what the French motivation is,
Payback from Chad. Also, are you Americans going to continue to make surrender jokes now? "It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly" -- JRR Tolkien. France and the US did not agree on Iraq, but how about now? Want some French Fries again?
That depends on your definition of literacy. Reading the TV guide or Reader's Digest whilst sitting on the toilet is not necessarily an indicator of heightened cognitive ability, although it might allude to constipation.
Microprose was an awesome company and I had all of their games from Silent Service up to and including Falcon 4.0. It's too bad that the company got swallowed whole and recycled so many times.
I agree that developer laziness is behind many development problems and it's not just limited to DirectX. Look at that steaming pile of horseshit called Bink, which was very popular at one point despite being a festering abscess of sloppy code. Look at some current (cough Miles cough) sound drivers that cause popular (cough TotalWar) titles to crash or have weird sound bugs.
The old saying "if you want something done right, do it yourself" applies here. However we have to look at the other side of the coin. Microsoft promised with Direct X to provide the magical "universal API" that would conceal all hardware issues, providing a standard interface for developers while the OS took care of the problem of hardware drivers. Microsoft failed to deliver - suddenly when the OS was shipped, it was no longer a priority to keep drivers up to date - this now became the responsibility of the hardware OEM.
Developers used to maintain their own in-house tools for the popular brands of sound/video cards (Select 1 for Sound Blaster, 2 for Ad Lib, etc) but now the list of hardware has grown so large that it's impossible to stay current, let alone try to innovate.
And finally hardware manufacturers have pursued a "trade secret" approach (until very recently) towards their hardware, releasing very little information to developers let alone the public.
All of these factors, and not just laziness on the part of developers, have contributed to the current situation where we are entirely dependent on Microsoft to provide the API that works.
I think that some huge developers (like say EA) could and should use their clout to improve the situation "improve the following bugs in your drivers or we go with someone else" with the more popular tools that are used in today's games, unfortunately it's usually the finance/marketing department that ends up having their way and buggy games get shipped. They know that we suckers will still buy them - because every other game from everyone else is buggy too. Honestly nowadays I am surprised to get a game that actually runs without first applying a 300+MB patch.
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While you are correct in your claim that these problems do not affect TCP/IP packet routing, you're forgetting that you can route all the packets you want with no lag and no lost packets, but what people want the packets FOR is content. The internet doesn't exist just to move data around - there is a point to it: move the data I need around. These anomalies end up degrading the quality of the internet without affecting the infrastructure per se.
And for exactly this reason the whole world celebrated the new millennium a year too early, in 2000.
I see you have never run into "This content is not available from your area".
Whooosh to everyone in the US. The internet IS splintered. I live in Central America - care to explain to me why a major online retailer keeps insisting - no matter what option I select - on charging me in Pound Sterling? I am entered in Oracle's database since I downloaded MySQL. Despite setting everything as English when I signed up (I am a native English speaker), they insist on sending me email in Spanish. There are countless other examples (like customer service and product returns to a major manufacturer whose equipment was purchased in the US, has never left the US, was billed to my US address (I have a condo in Fla), and yet because my IP is from Central America, they refuse to honor the return. And let's not get into the fact that my country has 8 digit telephone numbers (how many times do I get errors because of this?) and no zip code (00000 doesn't always work).
I wouldn't go so far as to call it Web 3.0, but there are some serious issues being caused by shoddy/lazy programming and erroneous assumptions and these are affecting the usefulness of the internet for a HUGE market.
Exactly. And when you say "App Store," everyone knows you are talking about the one operated by Apple.
Er no. I don't know that, and I would be willing to testify in court.
Surely you mean Microsoft Windows (tm).
Have we gotten to "Four legs good, two legs better" yet?
Actually grown ups share food with babies - in fact share too much food considering the amount of obese children. I've never yet seen a 1 yr old have to put on a tie and earn his keep.
Yeah, forget about the other 200 or so carcinogens present in tobacco smoke. One article will not turn me into a believer. Especially since I think the dose of polonium could be considered homeopathic. I disagree until I see double blind clinically controlled trials that prove this. We never will, however, for ethical reasons.
Agreed. As a physician I am well aware that the body has compensation mechanisms for virtually everything, and they work fine so long as you don't overwhelm those mechanism (it usually always boils down to the rate of reaction of some enzyme or other). But was trying not to get too technical.
it would be more useful to learn of the radiation levels in the evacuated areas
You can get more info here.
The Sievert is a measure of ACCUMULATED dose. Time is a factor. Therefore being exposed to 1 Sievert for a second (the real unit behind the sievert is the J/s, which is equivalent to Watts) is the same as being exposed to 1 milisievert for 1000 seconds, or 1 microsievert for 10^6 seconds.
This is also why many measurements are done on a "per hour" basis. 400 milisieverts per hour (near the pool between reactors 3-4) is not harmful to you if you are going to be there for 5 minutes. If you stay there for 2.5 hours, however, you could experience signs of acute radiation sickness.
I find it laughable, however, how the press a) fails to understand this and b) has obvious trouble converting between micro and mili.
Finally one must bear in mind that radionuclides will decay over time (Iodine-131 being the main culprit here, has a half life of 8 days). So in 5 half lives (40 days), most of it will be gone. And also that the chronic health risk of radiation is usually overestimated, especially for such small doses as currently seen in Japan. It's statistical roulette, just like smoking. It just takes one cigarette to unleash the chain of events that will eventually lead to cancer. However the odds of it being the cigarette you are currently smoking are quite small. But if you smoke all your life, you're likely to buy the winning ticket eventually. The same with radiation. There are still living survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and these people were exposed to far more (and more harmful) radiation - gamma rays vs. beta particles. And yet not that many of them have "grown a third arm". Yes, there have been cancer deaths, but considering the population exposed, it wasn't all that much.
Yeah, poor me, I only get 1 hr battery life out of my quad core i7 laptop with the 17 inch screen, 1GB GeForce 360M video card that will pretty much run everything at lightning speed. That, and my laptop is now a year old. But hey, I'm never more than 1 hour away from a plug, either. And I guess if I'm just answering email or something I can turn on the power-saving mode. Oh and guess what - this machine is around half the price of a MacBook... and you had to wait a whole year to get it. Starting from $2499 at the Apple store...
Ad heavy forum post? There is not one single ad on the website (which happens to be the official Apple support forum) or in the posts I saw. You sure you clicked the right link?
You don't get a sandy bridge i7 in a Mac for 1000 pounds, either. Your point?
You get what you pay for. Oh wait. Defend this one, Apple fans.
The reason is simple - this time international law has been followed and things were done properly.
Honestly - do you think the US government would release anything if it had happened in the US? It would take months and Freedom of Information Act requests to get hold of it. And since it's a nuclear plant with strategic and national interest value, anyone wanting to see such video would probably be called a "terrorist". Remember when they were arresting people for taking pictures of federal buildings? Now imagine a nuclear plant...
but "we" (the West, the Arabs, everyone else) didn't start any war in Libya.
Oh come on - you know that at the end of the day all of this is going to get blamed on Julian Assange and Wikileaks...
Because people stopped caring about politics. They're too busy surfing for porn or playing with their video game consoles or watching their big-screen TV's. Nowadays the masses get their politics in a can - abortion/no abortion. Gay rights/No gay rights. Don't Ask Don't Tell. Republican vs Democrat. It's become a chant, a litany, and nothing more. Actually sitting down and thinking about the world is only done by those very few of us who are much smarter than the rest. And of THAT group, a good chunk have decided to run things for themselves - with the results you see today. The rest of us see the world as an academic exercise among countless other academic exercises.
Meh, I think it's a bad idea but Khaddafi has had it coming for a long time. I remember Lockerbie. There's nothing like celebrating the death of innocent people on a transatlantic flight for making others remember you. I was scheduled to fly across the Atlantic on Pan Am a week after the tragedy. It could just as easily have been me. I'm sorry for the Lybians who will die, however. On both sides. My understanding is that the "rebellion" is not exactly run by "nice people" either.
Seriously, I don't know what the French motivation is,
Payback from Chad. Also, are you Americans going to continue to make surrender jokes now? "It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly" -- JRR Tolkien. France and the US did not agree on Iraq, but how about now? Want some French Fries again?
They're called rebels and freedom fighters because we will sell them weapons on credit, in exchange for oil.
What are even several hundred thousand, or millions, of civilians going to do against just a few tanks and bombers?
You obviously haven't heard of Afghanistan, huh? 9 years and counting...
That depends on your definition of literacy. Reading the TV guide or Reader's Digest whilst sitting on the toilet is not necessarily an indicator of heightened cognitive ability, although it might allude to constipation.
Microprose was an awesome company and I had all of their games from Silent Service up to and including Falcon 4.0. It's too bad that the company got swallowed whole and recycled so many times.
I agree that developer laziness is behind many development problems and it's not just limited to DirectX. Look at that steaming pile of horseshit called Bink, which was very popular at one point despite being a festering abscess of sloppy code. Look at some current (cough Miles cough) sound drivers that cause popular (cough TotalWar) titles to crash or have weird sound bugs.
The old saying "if you want something done right, do it yourself" applies here. However we have to look at the other side of the coin. Microsoft promised with Direct X to provide the magical "universal API" that would conceal all hardware issues, providing a standard interface for developers while the OS took care of the problem of hardware drivers. Microsoft failed to deliver - suddenly when the OS was shipped, it was no longer a priority to keep drivers up to date - this now became the responsibility of the hardware OEM.
Developers used to maintain their own in-house tools for the popular brands of sound/video cards (Select 1 for Sound Blaster, 2 for Ad Lib, etc) but now the list of hardware has grown so large that it's impossible to stay current, let alone try to innovate.
And finally hardware manufacturers have pursued a "trade secret" approach (until very recently) towards their hardware, releasing very little information to developers let alone the public.
All of these factors, and not just laziness on the part of developers, have contributed to the current situation where we are entirely dependent on Microsoft to provide the API that works.
I think that some huge developers (like say EA) could and should use their clout to improve the situation "improve the following bugs in your drivers or we go with someone else" with the more popular tools that are used in today's games, unfortunately it's usually the finance/marketing department that ends up having their way and buggy games get shipped. They know that we suckers will still buy them - because every other game from everyone else is buggy too. Honestly nowadays I am surprised to get a game that actually runs without first applying a 300+MB patch.