I keep wondering, is linking/usr/share/zoneinfo/right to/etc/localtime enough to use TAI? The only problem with that is when I had to report a bug in an old version of Evolution, its calendar would do weird shit, like display the wrong day as "today."
I mean, that might be what they worked on, but it's kinda pointless; what's interesting is the # of transactions per second, and that can usually be improved at the expense of individual latency. For example, databases can be configured to wait a few milliseconds to group transactions, so as to write several to disk in one single write/sync.
You find that on entry level hardware raid cards nowadays. You usually have 256M of cache, and a battery that lasts 12h without power. That makes writing a transaction as fast as writing to RAM.
Bait and switch is against the law in many jurisdiction; at least I know it is around here. People invest time and money to go to the store and buy something, therefore if you sell them something on false pretenses, or hide an important caveat, you are basically ripping them off, even if you offer a refund. And btw, just try exercise that right to a refund; it sure as hell ain't easy to recoup the Windows tax even though it's explicitly stated in the EULA that you can get a refund if you don't agree.
I also know it's not completely "free"; my point is that ISP traffic doesn't work as assumed by the OP, ie ISP don't get charged for every bit their subscribers use. It's the same difference between, say, having your own car and taking a cab. Both cost money to operate, but you're going to go bankrupt if you commute daily by cab, and conversely you're wasting a lot of money if you buy a car to use just once a month. In any case, as far as P2P bandwidth hogs are concerned, and that is the point of this article, every ISP is holding the same kind of bottle. Every ISP will have roughly the same amount of P2P traffic inbound and outbound.
Not everyone uses akamai. And like I said someone pays the bills one way or another even if you directly don't pay. Why's that a hard concept for this forum to grasp?
It's hard to grasp because it's wrong.
Peering does not necessarily involve payment between the parties. A and B agree to exchange traffic. What goes from A to B isn't subject to a monthly fee, just like what goes from A to A doesn't. It might require bigger pipes at some point but it's not metered.
Akamai and friends. Costly service, but delivers (or is at least supposed to deliver) that much. Google has its own infrastructure to achieve the same kind of thing.
Big ISP don't pay for backbone transit, they have peering agreements. And content providers pay for the transit, in cash and service, it's spelled A.K.A.M.A.I. You've fallen prey to the corporate american bullshitocracy. They are trying to lobby and lawyer their way out of a technical problem instead of investing in network and equipment. My ISP did that, they have zero caps whatsoever, they make shitloads of money. It's not in the US, obviously.
It's probably true. Reminds me of that friend of mine who thinks that you can cure anything with homeopathy. It's probably true, too: she's not dead yet.
How do you call someone who speaks two languages? bilingual. How do you call someone who speaks three languages? trilingual. How do you call someone who speaks just one language?
My cell phone provider once offered to signed me on an "unlimited" WAP plan for €5 / month or something. I accepted at first (it was through cust. service). I was suspicious because that was veeery much lower than what any company was offering around here. So I looked on their website, turned out what they called "unlimited" was 5 MEGABYTES. So I called them back, and the dumbass telemarketer told me that 5 megabytes was a lot because you could read a thousand emails with it. No shit, you could even read 80 million emails if each of them was 1 bit long. So yeah, cell phone companies defraud customers on a MASSIVE, daily basis, esp. in Europe where many of them have been fined, repeatedly, to the tune of hundreds of millions of euros for anti-competitive practices, yet continue to violate the law.
Without a decade spent studying and practicing contract law, good luck understanding any damn contract, esp. in the US where consumer protection is minimal. Seriously, how is the average consumer supposed to understand those documents that are/designed/ to be unreadable? Even old Perl code is more readable than those things, and if I assume that 99.999% of people can't read Perl, I don't think I'm treating them as 2 year olds. And seriously, if you like "personal responsability" and big corporations so much, why don't you go have sex with them?
Too busy to find refs at this time, but IIRC: crocodilians have a remarkable immune system, due to them living mostly in swamps (moist, warm and dirty!) and hurting each other frequently in territorial battles. And they do have thick skins.
On Fedora Core nspluginwrapper also allowed them to implement SELinux protection on the Flash plugin. So far it works *extremely* well for me on this fresh install of FC9 on x86_64.
Firefox *3* is the least RAM hungry of all major browsers. Specifically it has very smart heuristics about freeing temporary object when it can (such as decompressed JPEGs), which other browsers don't seem to do. There were plenty of benchmarks posted when FF3 was released, go look for it yourself.
The great, simple thing about copy-on-write and fork is that a process can't fuck up its siblings' memory space, yet will share physical memory as long as they don't write to it. Linux is heavily optimised in this domain so that you can fork thousands of processes in no time.
Here's how a genius like yourself could save plenty of money in a similarly creative way: * Unmount seat belts and airbags in your car, and sell them at the flea market * Forego those expensive vaccinations and malaria medications next time you go near the tropics * Cancel all those useless insurance policies
Come to think of it, sounds a lot like Republican economic policies.
We have nothing to gain from funneling money into Microsoft's coffers. But here are a few facts: 1. Sarkozy is best buds with the head of MS France 2. At the national std org (AFNOR) meeting, there was an overwhelming consensus towards voting "no" 3. The day before the final ISO vote, someone at the office of the president called our rep to the ISO 4. Our vote switched to "abstain", magically. This allowed OOXML to pass.
Corruption. There is no other word for it. It's interesting that Venezuela, Brasil, and Cuba voted, basically, against corruption. That should tell you something about what kind of "truth" we're being fed about those countries. (And no, hold your strawmen, I'm not implying that Castro is an angel.)
We asked for explanations about this vote; I don't think they even bothered to respond.
Nothing's forcing any US ISP to cover more than, say, New England, which probably has a much higher pop. density than France. And covering long distances doesn't cost much. In fact, a while back Free bought a company that had deployed long distance fiber across the country; they never even used it (maybe they did recently, didn't check), because it turned out to be cheaper to buy wholesale. They were able to reach a large number of people because the regulation authority forced the former monopoly operator to open its local loop at fair prices. Free invested rapidly, developped its own DSLAM and set top boxes -- because it turned out that, despite almost a decade of hype, no vendor was actually offering an ADSL / TV set top box! And they continuously upgraded their core network, which allowed them to constantly one up the competition, from being the first on this market to offer 2M down, to free VoIP, then free DSL TV, to being the first to implement ADSL2+ on a large scale.
There doesn't seem to be any restrictions around here. It's never been verboten to run servers, or download/upload as much as you can. That's because my ISP has heavily invested in its infrastructure, and the results are... positive (pdf). If US ISPs spent half as much on lawyers and lobbyists, maybe they could afford bigger series of pipes.
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I keep wondering, is linking /usr/share/zoneinfo/right to /etc/localtime enough to use TAI? The only problem with that is when I had to report a bug in an old version of Evolution, its calendar would do weird shit, like display the wrong day as "today."
I mean, that might be what they worked on, but it's kinda pointless; what's interesting is the # of transactions per second, and that can usually be improved at the expense of individual latency. For example, databases can be configured to wait a few milliseconds to group transactions, so as to write several to disk in one single write/sync.
You find that on entry level hardware raid cards nowadays. You usually have 256M of cache, and a battery that lasts 12h without power. That makes writing a transaction as fast as writing to RAM.
Bait and switch is against the law in many jurisdiction; at least I know it is around here. People invest time and money to go to the store and buy something, therefore if you sell them something on false pretenses, or hide an important caveat, you are basically ripping them off, even if you offer a refund. And btw, just try exercise that right to a refund; it sure as hell ain't easy to recoup the Windows tax even though it's explicitly stated in the EULA that you can get a refund if you don't agree.
I also know it's not completely "free"; my point is that ISP traffic doesn't work as assumed by the OP, ie ISP don't get charged for every bit their subscribers use. It's the same difference between, say, having your own car and taking a cab. Both cost money to operate, but you're going to go bankrupt if you commute daily by cab, and conversely you're wasting a lot of money if you buy a car to use just once a month.
In any case, as far as P2P bandwidth hogs are concerned, and that is the point of this article, every ISP is holding the same kind of bottle. Every ISP will have roughly the same amount of P2P traffic inbound and outbound.
Not everyone uses akamai. And like I said someone pays the bills one way or another even if you directly don't pay. Why's that a hard concept for this forum to grasp?
It's hard to grasp because it's wrong.
Peering does not necessarily involve payment between the parties. A and B agree to exchange traffic. What goes from A to B isn't subject to a monthly fee, just like what goes from A to A doesn't. It might require bigger pipes at some point but it's not metered.
Akamai and friends. Costly service, but delivers (or is at least supposed to deliver) that much.
Google has its own infrastructure to achieve the same kind of thing.
Big ISP don't pay for backbone transit, they have peering agreements. And content providers pay for the transit, in cash and service, it's spelled A.K.A.M.A.I.
You've fallen prey to the corporate american bullshitocracy. They are trying to lobby and lawyer their way out of a technical problem instead of investing in network and equipment.
My ISP did that, they have zero caps whatsoever, they make shitloads of money. It's not in the US, obviously.
It's probably true.
Reminds me of that friend of mine who thinks that you can cure anything with homeopathy. It's probably true, too: she's not dead yet.
How do you call someone who speaks two languages? bilingual.
How do you call someone who speaks three languages? trilingual.
How do you call someone who speaks just one language?
I've had a cell phone rep lie to me, probably several times, possibly not even on purpose.
And go back to your gun-shooting, racist, militaristic theocratic cesspool.
Well without the EU they'd charge you even more; and the price is going to fall soon thanks to the EC.
My cell phone provider once offered to signed me on an "unlimited" WAP plan for €5 / month or something. I accepted at first (it was through cust. service). I was suspicious because that was veeery much lower than what any company was offering around here.
So I looked on their website, turned out what they called "unlimited" was 5 MEGABYTES. So I called them back, and the dumbass telemarketer told me that 5 megabytes was a lot because you could read a thousand emails with it. No shit, you could even read 80 million emails if each of them was 1 bit long.
So yeah, cell phone companies defraud customers on a MASSIVE, daily basis, esp. in Europe where many of them have been fined, repeatedly, to the tune of hundreds of millions of euros for anti-competitive practices, yet continue to violate the law.
Without a decade spent studying and practicing contract law, good luck understanding any damn contract, esp. in the US where consumer protection is minimal. /designed/ to be unreadable? Even old Perl code is more readable than those things, and if I assume that 99.999% of people can't read Perl, I don't think I'm treating them as 2 year olds.
Seriously, how is the average consumer supposed to understand those documents that are
And seriously, if you like "personal responsability" and big corporations so much, why don't you go have sex with them?
The problem is not what her kid's personal life.
The problem is her hypocrisy, the proof of which is in her kid's personal life.
Additionnally, the problem is also your stupidity and/or your bad faith in this matter.
Too busy to find refs at this time, but IIRC: crocodilians have a remarkable immune system, due to them living mostly in swamps (moist, warm and dirty!) and hurting each other frequently in territorial battles.
And they do have thick skins.
On Fedora Core nspluginwrapper also allowed them to implement SELinux protection on the Flash plugin.
So far it works *extremely* well for me on this fresh install of FC9 on x86_64.
Firefox *3* is the least RAM hungry of all major browsers. Specifically it has very smart heuristics about freeing temporary object when it can (such as decompressed JPEGs), which other browsers don't seem to do.
There were plenty of benchmarks posted when FF3 was released, go look for it yourself.
The great, simple thing about copy-on-write and fork is that a process can't fuck up its siblings' memory space, yet will share physical memory as long as they don't write to it.
Linux is heavily optimised in this domain so that you can fork thousands of processes in no time.
Not sure what your point is.
China is definitely more repressive than Cuba. Yet they don't suffer any kind of embargo.
Here's how a genius like yourself could save plenty of money in a similarly creative way:
* Unmount seat belts and airbags in your car, and sell them at the flea market
* Forego those expensive vaccinations and malaria medications next time you go near the tropics
* Cancel all those useless insurance policies
Come to think of it, sounds a lot like Republican economic policies.
We have nothing to gain from funneling money into Microsoft's coffers.
But here are a few facts:
1. Sarkozy is best buds with the head of MS France
2. At the national std org (AFNOR) meeting, there was an overwhelming consensus towards voting "no"
3. The day before the final ISO vote, someone at the office of the president called our rep to the ISO
4. Our vote switched to "abstain", magically. This allowed OOXML to pass.
Corruption. There is no other word for it. It's interesting that Venezuela, Brasil, and Cuba voted, basically, against corruption. That should tell you something about what kind of "truth" we're being fed about those countries. (And no, hold your strawmen, I'm not implying that Castro is an angel.)
We asked for explanations about this vote; I don't think they even bothered to respond.
Nothing's forcing any US ISP to cover more than, say, New England, which probably has a much higher pop. density than France.
And covering long distances doesn't cost much. In fact, a while back Free bought a company that had deployed long distance fiber across the country; they never even used it (maybe they did recently, didn't check), because it turned out to be cheaper to buy wholesale.
They were able to reach a large number of people because the regulation authority forced the former monopoly operator to open its local loop at fair prices. Free invested rapidly, developped its own DSLAM and set top boxes -- because it turned out that, despite almost a decade of hype, no vendor was actually offering an ADSL / TV set top box!
And they continuously upgraded their core network, which allowed them to constantly one up the competition, from being the first on this market to offer 2M down, to free VoIP, then free DSL TV, to being the first to implement ADSL2+ on a large scale.
Rumors of McCain's illegitimate black child didn't hurt him did they ... oh wait it did. Even though the child was adopted. Funny, eh.
Just saying.
There doesn't seem to be any restrictions around here. It's never been verboten to run servers, or download/upload as much as you can. ... positive (pdf).
That's because my ISP has heavily invested in its infrastructure, and the results are
If US ISPs spent half as much on lawyers and lobbyists, maybe they could afford bigger series of pipes.