As with any Linux product, by the time I've finally worked out what all the config options do, a new version will be out that deprecates all of them in favour of newer, shinier options.
Vesterbacka also pointed to the major concern over the price model for console games. Compared to mobile titles like Angry Birds that run for 99 cents, games on large consoles hover around fifty dollars.
Yes. In the same way that I can get a Ford Focus for £16k, but a Bugatti Veyron SS will set me back ~£1.25m.
It's ludicrous to argue that things with totally different development costs, marketing costs, distribution costs, target audiences and, let's not forget, content are priced differently and that this is somehow bad for the more expensive thing.
Because any game that treats sex "properly" is going to end up with an AO rating in the US because of the absurd level of puritanical outrage about boobies, which means Walmart and the like won't stock it, so it won't sell as many copies and most publishers won't want to touch it.
Personally, I'd welcome deeper relationship modelling in games, especially RPGs, but I know it's unlikely to happen as long as people are so scared of AO ratings and their impact on US sales. A simple solution is to stick it on the PC, slap an 18 rating on it and sell it primarily in the UK/Europe; job done.
Firstly, they've been doing this since before Christmas and it doesn't just affect uploads but does appear to be largely port-based throttling. It's pretty poor at "identifying" P2P traffic and a lot of people have had problems with gaming performance since they started trialling it.
Secondly, this is what happens when you have a race to see who can claim to have the "Fastest home broadband", as has happened in the UK. When Virgin's top package was 10MBit, they didn't have any traffic management in place, but as soon as they jumped it to 20MBit to "beat" the ADSL providers offering 12MBit, they introduced their "STM" system for management and it's only got worse as they've jumped to 50MBit and now 100MBit. Yes, they've been upgrading their network infrastructure, but not fast enough to cope with the "upgrades" in speed that they're offering their users.
Finally, and probably sadly, they still offer one of the better broadband connection packages in the UK because, while they are increasingly crippling your connection for large parts of the day, at least they're open about it and when it's *not* being crippled it's better that 99% of the ADSL alternatives.
All the technology in the world won't fix staff who don't want to do what you tell them. All this will do is piss off people who have to keep going to and from their desk while in sight of their machine to get files or talk to visitors until they figure out a way to trick the keyboard into thinking they're always at their machine, at which point you've spent a lot of money for nothing.
Put reasonable security policies in place, punish your staff proportionally if they repeatedly violate them and don't try to fix people with gadgets.
To be fair, that applies to most people in most areas of life; people like the things that they're used to, that they know how to use and don't have to spend ages thinking about.
Or are you saying that if I took your Linux machine away and gave you a Mac instead, you wouldn't find it annoying that not all the apps were the same and that things didn't quite work the way you wanted them to? I know I find it annoying when I switch between OS's and something I'm used to isn't there anymore.
Linux as a desktop doesn't do everything I want it to, so I still run Windows; as a server, on the other hand, it does everything I want it to for some tasks, so I use it and where it doesn't, I use something else that does.
Not really, if only one atom is normal matter then it will annihilate with one atom of anti-matter - the rest of the anti-matter will continue to exist without posing a mortal threat to anyone nearby.
The same argument can be applied to Windows servers; sometimes rebooting will only make things worse, or at least no make things any better. Unfortunately, these days the trusty reboot is often the first option instead of last resort; at the very least some basic troubleshooting needs to be done to identify potential causes before you likely erase half the evidence.
I suffer from a desktop variant of this issue at work, whereby re-imaging has become the "troubleshooting" tool of choice, to the point that all thought has now left the support process so that I've witnessed an engineer re-image a PC 3 times (at 30+ minutes each time) before someone else identified that the issue was being caused by a BIOS setting and that re-imaging was a complete waste of time.
Let's face it, if your admin/support staff are lazy and/or stupid, then it doesn't matter which approach they take because they're not going to fix the problem anyway.
Jumping the Shark requires a pinnacle of awesomeness, a point beyond which is it only possible for the show to go downhill because it can never again equal such an event.
Otherwise it's just a show that's dropped off in quality.
Just wait until ICANN starts rolling out the custom TLDs, it's going to be an anti-phishing nightmare. Did you want p.aypal, pa.ypal, pay.pal, payp.al or paypa.l?
I don't think it's really about the rights or wrongs of invading your childrens' privacy; look at it this way:
If I found out that my parents had been keylogging my computer use, I'd find somewhere else that I could use a computer that wasn't being logged, at a friend's house or library, school, whatever and then they wouldn't have *any* idea what I was doing on it. On top of that, I wouldn't feel that I could trust my parents with anything that *did* happen, computer or no, because of that.
Here's a tip; when trying to make what is actually an otherwise reasonable point, the use of phrases such as "sandy 3rd world shitholes populated by diaperheads that hate us?" doesn't really help your case.
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You should never include a scale when you're referencing numbers in a news article, otherwise the statistics might become meaningful.
Published by EA, which isn't.
TLS supports virtual hosts and has done for quite some time (though IE, as usual, took some time to catch with the rest of the world). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#Support_for_name-based_virtual_servers
When every site you visit is serving multiple Flash banner adverts then yes.
As with any Linux product, by the time I've finally worked out what all the config options do, a new version will be out that deprecates all of them in favour of newer, shinier options.
I think you need to work on your spambot; advertising designer handbags and purses on Slashdot isn't exactly marketing genius...
Vesterbacka also pointed to the major concern over the price model for console games. Compared to mobile titles like Angry Birds that run for 99 cents, games on large consoles hover around fifty dollars.
Yes. In the same way that I can get a Ford Focus for £16k, but a Bugatti Veyron SS will set me back ~£1.25m.
It's ludicrous to argue that things with totally different development costs, marketing costs, distribution costs, target audiences and, let's not forget, content are priced differently and that this is somehow bad for the more expensive thing.
It's like having Firefox but without all the shitty UI changes!
Because any game that treats sex "properly" is going to end up with an AO rating in the US because of the absurd level of puritanical outrage about boobies, which means Walmart and the like won't stock it, so it won't sell as many copies and most publishers won't want to touch it.
Personally, I'd welcome deeper relationship modelling in games, especially RPGs, but I know it's unlikely to happen as long as people are so scared of AO ratings and their impact on US sales. A simple solution is to stick it on the PC, slap an 18 rating on it and sell it primarily in the UK/Europe; job done.
Firstly, they've been doing this since before Christmas and it doesn't just affect uploads but does appear to be largely port-based throttling. It's pretty poor at "identifying" P2P traffic and a lot of people have had problems with gaming performance since they started trialling it.
Secondly, this is what happens when you have a race to see who can claim to have the "Fastest home broadband", as has happened in the UK. When Virgin's top package was 10MBit, they didn't have any traffic management in place, but as soon as they jumped it to 20MBit to "beat" the ADSL providers offering 12MBit, they introduced their "STM" system for management and it's only got worse as they've jumped to 50MBit and now 100MBit. Yes, they've been upgrading their network infrastructure, but not fast enough to cope with the "upgrades" in speed that they're offering their users.
Finally, and probably sadly, they still offer one of the better broadband connection packages in the UK because, while they are increasingly crippling your connection for large parts of the day, at least they're open about it and when it's *not* being crippled it's better that 99% of the ADSL alternatives.
If you're having to do that then you've got bigger issues than Firefox.
Sadly, it doesn't run on the current Seamonkey nightlies, so I can't use it.
Traditionally, the UK & Northern Ireland aren't considered as "Europe" in a similar way to Norway/Sweden/Finland
In addition to being an initialism for European Union, EU is also a shorthand for Europe.
All the technology in the world won't fix staff who don't want to do what you tell them. All this will do is piss off people who have to keep going to and from their desk while in sight of their machine to get files or talk to visitors until they figure out a way to trick the keyboard into thinking they're always at their machine, at which point you've spent a lot of money for nothing.
Put reasonable security policies in place, punish your staff proportionally if they repeatedly violate them and don't try to fix people with gadgets.
To be fair, that applies to most people in most areas of life; people like the things that they're used to, that they know how to use and don't have to spend ages thinking about.
Or are you saying that if I took your Linux machine away and gave you a Mac instead, you wouldn't find it annoying that not all the apps were the same and that things didn't quite work the way you wanted them to? I know I find it annoying when I switch between OS's and something I'm used to isn't there anymore.
Linux as a desktop doesn't do everything I want it to, so I still run Windows; as a server, on the other hand, it does everything I want it to for some tasks, so I use it and where it doesn't, I use something else that does.
Not really, if only one atom is normal matter then it will annihilate with one atom of anti-matter - the rest of the anti-matter will continue to exist without posing a mortal threat to anyone nearby.
Not to mention the joy of snapshots.
The same argument can be applied to Windows servers; sometimes rebooting will only make things worse, or at least no make things any better. Unfortunately, these days the trusty reboot is often the first option instead of last resort; at the very least some basic troubleshooting needs to be done to identify potential causes before you likely erase half the evidence.
I suffer from a desktop variant of this issue at work, whereby re-imaging has become the "troubleshooting" tool of choice, to the point that all thought has now left the support process so that I've witnessed an engineer re-image a PC 3 times (at 30+ minutes each time) before someone else identified that the issue was being caused by a BIOS setting and that re-imaging was a complete waste of time.
Let's face it, if your admin/support staff are lazy and/or stupid, then it doesn't matter which approach they take because they're not going to fix the problem anyway.
Of course not, that would be communism.
Jumping the Shark requires a pinnacle of awesomeness, a point beyond which is it only possible for the show to go downhill because it can never again equal such an event.
Otherwise it's just a show that's dropped off in quality.
Just wait until ICANN starts rolling out the custom TLDs, it's going to be an anti-phishing nightmare. Did you want p.aypal, pa.ypal, pay.pal, payp.al or paypa.l?
I don't think it's really about the rights or wrongs of invading your childrens' privacy; look at it this way:
If I found out that my parents had been keylogging my computer use, I'd find somewhere else that I could use a computer that wasn't being logged, at a friend's house or library, school, whatever and then they wouldn't have *any* idea what I was doing on it. On top of that, I wouldn't feel that I could trust my parents with anything that *did* happen, computer or no, because of that.
...I don't think any parent would sacrifice anything to make sure nothing happens to their children...
Great argument there, really supporting your cause.
Here's a tip; when trying to make what is actually an otherwise reasonable point, the use of phrases such as "sandy 3rd world shitholes populated by diaperheads that hate us?" doesn't really help your case.