If you are downloading a distro, and at the same time you place a VoIP phone call, what do you do if the audio is all broken up? Do you pause the torrent client to get better phone service? I do*. Now, put the torrent client in your neighbor's house, where you don't have have the ability to pause your neighbor's download when you want to use the phone. Is it fair?
To me this is a problem with bad network management.
Lets say you have a 10 Mbit/s pipe from a neighbourhood to the internet. And you sell 5 Mbit/s connections in that neighbourhood. All is fine when 2 people are saturating their connection. All of a sudden a third person starts up a bittorrent client that makes many, many TCP connections. According to Bell, that third person is actually going to be able to hog bandwidth, since Bell will split the pipe up such that each _TCP connection_ gets it's share. So the two "normal" people will suffer an unfair degradation of service. I'd be happier with a situation where in times of saturation, subscribers as a whole were throttled to fairness. If three people are saturating the pipe, they should each get 1/3 of the pipe, max.
If the disk subsystem crashes, how exactly do you get at the on disk program to start it with? Are you going to try to restart it without actually reloading it? Would you trust it?
If you store a copy of the disk driver relating to whichever disk holds further drivers in a portion of memory marked read only, then you can restart any driver. Same would apply for the network driver on a diskless system.
The question remains, what is the value in running a system with one of its basic subsystems (disk I/O in the above example) crashed?... If the disk subsystem of an OS craps out, well, thats bad. You're probably going to have to reboot it anyway and you certainly don't want the rest of the system to run as if nbothing happened because you have no idea what the disk subsystem did or did not write to disk before it crashed. Continuing as if nothing happened would be disasterous.
Running the system as if nothing happened would be disasterous. But choosing appropriate action based on the problem of one subsystem, which may or may not be reboot it anyway. If the hardware is faulty, then no amount of software will fix it. But if a driver dies, and the system can remain usable, the driver's author could be sent debugging information. Notifiying the user may also be important. It sucks when the kernel crashes and document I'm writing gets lost. But if there was a hard drive crash, and I could still print it, or save it to a network device, that would be improvement. And if it wasn't the HDD, at the very least the system could do a clean shutdown. Both are better alternatives than just killing everything.
I recently bought a BetaMax player and entire collection of 10 tapes at a garage sale a couple days ago. I think that means BetaMax is now outselling UMD.
"Sony's game division showed strong revenue performance but lackluster profitability, with 958.6 billion yen ($8.2 billion) in revenue yielding only 8.7 billion yen ($75 million) in income"
Let me summarize. SCEx has been making money. Just a little less right now, probably due to PS3 development costs
if a machine legitimitally takes your card it will notify you on the screen, if it simply gets "Stuck" phone the bank immediately.
Which isn't always true. There have been a few fake ATMs around where I live, which just eat the card, grab the person's PIN and say that there's a bank error, and that this machine is holding your card, in the exact same way an official ATM would. My point is that you should _always_ call.
The way I see it, those that want to browse with keyboard shortcuts already have them. As an avid user of the Mozilla typeaheadfind I have usable shortcut keys that are standardized from page to page. All I do is type the text of what I want. Why would I want to learn a new way that will only only work on your page?
So essentially, the users that want this added efficiency already have it, in lynx/firefox/browser of choice, and those that don't probably wouldn't bother to learn the page specific keys anyway. Or am I missing a category of people?
Simple binding save you a couple seconds here and there, but if you can type fast you might as well use it to your advantage. The standard reply would be to learn vim/emacs/full-featured-editor.
If you have taken the time to do that, why not do the same for your window managment? No two windows are more than 3 keystrokes away. Ratpoison, or (as I would see it) better Ion, allows you to completely control and automate your window mangement. The ability to add keyboard shortcuts to tasks as you prefer it (chording and/or chaining), and scripting certain events (no more annoying dialog popups, move them to a specified portion of the screen) saves a lot of time.
Also, tabs are where they belong. In the window manager, so you can have few terminals, browsers and whatever in tabs. And Ion's tiling capabilities allow you to see the information you need to on screen, without wasting screen real estate. (Though for dual-head 1600x1200 screens that's admittedly less of a problem)
I'd concede Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh as kid fads, Magic: the Gathering OTOH just celebrated it's 10th Anniversary a few months back. Still releasing new sets, tournaments still being played. Most fads don't last that long.
This is incorrect, and the grandparent post's claim of just kinda fililng in extra time is accurate. I remember an interview with Dave Thomas (Bob McKenzie) stating that as fact.
It is a free game world. EA isn't a government, they don't govern the world in the sense that our government does. They're God to the Sims. Only EA can make a SimLife, EA can kill whoever it wants, and EA can break all the rules if they wanted to. Physics is theirs to control. What you can and can't do are written down on a sacred TOS.
The real problem here is that SimDeath is the only way to control the world. Say you put a sim in jail. Would you pay money per month to be a prisioner in your spare time? Why, when you could just create another account and kill off your old sim.
Maybe monetary punishment would be good. Fine people simoleans. It seems to me that most people are out to try to make money in the game (via whatever means), so EA could implement laws. The only problem here is that it seems that they don't care about minor infractions, such as prostitution or domestic violence, because of the game world that ensures everything is consentual. The only problems that seem to arise is when you have out of game cracking/bug exploiting, etc...
I guess the best way to solve problems like this is the way that it's been done so many times in the past (ie real rpgs) - heated debates and bitter feelings. What do YOU do when you have problems in an RPG?
Well, not having a radio station that caters to electronica fans or ska fans here, and since the radio doesn't cater to me, I don't know how anyone would find out about new music if it wasn't for word of mouth. I talk to my friends, (therefore indirectly their friends) and read fansites looking for reccomendations. Therefore in my current two main sources of information, I cannot listen to reccomended artists and be able to decide for myself if I like this or not.
This is one of the reasons why I would argue for single track downloading. Mark a track or two as a 'single' (hell maybe even distribute these 'singles' for free?) so someone can listen to what you have to offer, so you can sell your wares. This would do well in eliminating the record company's service. I feel it is a service that is close to unnessecary. However, this doesn't mean that they don't have to exist. They could be a great service for creating unique-by-person radio stations for sampling new music. I sign up for my own radio station from Sony or whatever, and after telling it about myself, have my own reccomendations.
Just a bit of rambling here really, but while I'm at it, the idea of industry standard pricing is always somewhat stupid. (I almost feel thats the way it is right now with the high cost of a cd, for some reason it seems as though cd's have been inflating in price on the whole -- but offtopic here) The artist should be able to sell their tracks for whatever they feel it should be sold at really. Where's the sense when a "3 minute pop song" is worth just as much as an 11 minute extended piece?
And well, thats about it. That I check frequently at least. I do like webcomics and strongly suggest that you check out Machall Megatokyo and Errant Story if you don't already though! And then there's also everything2 but its not news and I can't check it daily (or else I would do nothing all day but read!) its too good at just drawing you in. And the anime turnpike to go browsing through Anime fansites...
Why should 'Computer Scientists' be taught languages? Shouldn't a "true CS major" be taught the principals and therefore be able to learn what they need to on their own?
I mean, the courses offered at my current university don't center on teaching a language. What they try to do is teach you the concepts of what the course is about, and when you need to learn a language, they'll go over it in a tutorial for a few days to give you certain syntax issues and such.
Saying this, the only course that teaches a language here is first year CS. They teach Java so that people can learn the concepts of object oriented programming. After that, it should be up to the individual to learn the language that he/she will need for the situation. They should have the ability to easily adapt because they know the principles.
Sometimes, every byte counts. I'm in a University residence, where we're allowed 500MB / week...This alone can get eaten up pretty quickly when you're downloading updates to software...Or, for example a DSL provider around here charges over 5GB/month. Now in these examples 10-20 megs won't make or break you, but it does point out that these things can matter.
All first year CS courses are taught in Java here. It's the only lanugage officially taught (after that there's no dependance on one language). Maybe that could validate (in part) the why's about teaching C# for first year Engineers? (I'm not really that sure of the similarites of the lanugages) But if they feel something similar is perfectly valid for us first year CS people...
And I very honestly doubt that negative reactions on Slashdot affected this decision. Maybe all of the negative reactions on things a little more involved with the university did though (eg uwstudent.org)
Can politics really be seperated from a curriculum? If anyone has been following Ontario politics, its one of the largest political debates (or at least was) for quite a number of years.
(disclaimer -- i'm currently a Waterloo computer science student)
It seemed as though UW just hoped that this could go through without anyone really doing much. I mean, with a deal like this, having MS 'donate' $10M to the, wouldn't you want it to happen in front of all the students?
Of course not. You do it at the time when there are the least amount of people on campus (and practically no students), right before the fall term, after summer exams are over. The only reason I had heard of it beforehand was a sign on an 8x11 piece of paper when I came here to bring my sister to an interview.
But it didn't go unnoticed. It took up most of the space in the Imprint (UW's student-run newspaper) and a lot of talk among students. The University just ended up looking like a fool and having to retract to 'think' about what its doing.
But how many people think this will change the final outcome anyway?
I read (on big apple anime site I think...)that Tri-Star also picked up Cowboy Bebop. But the article also said that it was dubbed in English. They didn't bother/didn't want to dub Metropolis...but does anybody know anything about the Cowboy Bebop dub? Did they hire the great voiceactors from Bandai (who dubbed the TV series)?
I'm currently running the Ximian GNOME2 snaps, and they are working fine and dandy. (Except for official Galeon2 support, but it'll come) But as far as I believe, the GNOME2 Ximian RPM's on the GNOME project homepage are the exact same as the ones through Red Carpet.
Still though, it's working fine, it's nice and snappy, and there's a lot less bugs than there were when I used Garnome for the GNOME 2.0 final, oddly enough.
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The readership here wouldn't stand for it, because that's not what they are here for... not free expression, but validation.
I think that it is only natural that like minded people collect. I mean, similar tastes and mindsets allow for more shared experiences, feeling like more fun is being had, feeling like you're part of a community. Which then make tastes even closer to each other.
I would go and venture that since people are naturally social, we form smaller and smaller groups of people naturally, because we can only think about so many people and so many things. A community cant be a community with 2 million people in it. You have to narrow it down and narrow it down until you have people that you can actually recognize.
People generally like being part of a community. A community can't be a community unless people know each other. And people can only know a finite amount of other people.
But you always impose the filters on yourself. You can choose what to read and not to read. Like slashdot. A mass of people. A lot of posts. I cant read them all. So now I need features to shrink it back down to people that I can recognize. There's a lot more people, and therefore a lot more noise. So I browse at +2. I add people I find interesting to my buddy list. etc.
It's always up to you to choose to do that. You enforce your own restrictions.
let's hope this just makes sense to someone other than me.
The problem I see with this is that everyone can only live their own lives. Everything that we do and learn become part of what we are. I can only see the world through my own eyes. I can only hear the world through my own ears. That doesn't mean that I can't listen to another person speak his mind or read about a different religion. Everyone's existance will be limited because it's just one in a mass of billions.
The second point you bring up is that
'Face-to-face social behaviour is the only social interaction in which you are forced to consider the physical consequences of your communication'
Which is true, and isn't. It's more dependant on the other face. I mean, it would be easy to voice your opninion to a stranger you'll never see again not worrying about the concequences. And it's not like I won't think of the concequences when I'm talking to my father online. It's more dependant on whether or not you care about what the other peson thinks of you; no matter what the communication. The great part about IM is that it's easier to think about what you're going to say next, because a response isn't required as soon. I, as well as most of the people I talk to, find myself thinking about what I'm going to say more often online than in person. And I do see trolls face to face, I have to put up with them for about 5 hours every weekday. Thats what I get for attending a high school.
The question is, in a MMORPG, how would you make this work? Quake servers run by some guy with a high speed connection can go down. They aren't all connected togther - they don't need to be. If you 40 different servers holding 15 people, how would they all communicate?
(which leads to a good question -- what is going to be the max number of people for FFXI??)
It's possible that you could have servers with connections to each other, but then you have a good chance to be even laggier (needing hundreds of server to server connections), and would still need central servers run by Square for your character and other dynamic world information to be stored. So you might as well just pay Square to run central servers. Then, if you think that it's too crappy, you don't have to pay it. Right?
I never would have thought it to be true, but after reading through the (Canadian) Copyright Act it is:
Copying for Private Use
80. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the act of reproducing all or any substantial part of
(a) a musical work embodied in a sound recording,
(b) a performer's performance of a musical work embodied in a sound recording, or
(c) a sound recording in which a musical work, or a performer's performance of a musical work,
is embodied onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person who makes the copy does not constitute an infringement of the copyright in the musical work, the performer's performance or the sound recording.
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To me this is a problem with bad network management. Lets say you have a 10 Mbit/s pipe from a neighbourhood to the internet. And you sell 5 Mbit/s connections in that neighbourhood. All is fine when 2 people are saturating their connection. All of a sudden a third person starts up a bittorrent client that makes many, many TCP connections. According to Bell, that third person is actually going to be able to hog bandwidth, since Bell will split the pipe up such that each _TCP connection_ gets it's share. So the two "normal" people will suffer an unfair degradation of service. I'd be happier with a situation where in times of saturation, subscribers as a whole were throttled to fairness. If three people are saturating the pipe, they should each get 1/3 of the pipe, max.
Do you have any resources to back that up?
I recently bought a BetaMax player and entire collection of 10 tapes at a garage sale a couple days ago. I think that means BetaMax is now outselling UMD.
sony profit reports on gamespot, or go to their earnings releases themselves.
"Sony's game division showed strong revenue performance but lackluster profitability, with 958.6 billion yen ($8.2 billion) in revenue yielding only 8.7 billion yen ($75 million) in income"
Let me summarize. SCEx has been making money. Just a little less right now, probably due to PS3 development costs
RIM was founded in 1984. [ RIM ]
NTP was founded in 1992. [ NTP ]
Which isn't always true. There have been a few fake ATMs around where I live, which just eat the card, grab the person's PIN and say that there's a bank error, and that this machine is holding your card, in the exact same way an official ATM would. My point is that you should _always_ call.
The way I see it, those that want to browse with keyboard shortcuts already have them. As an avid user of the Mozilla typeaheadfind I have usable shortcut keys that are standardized from page to page. All I do is type the text of what I want. Why would I want to learn a new way that will only only work on your page?
So essentially, the users that want this added efficiency already have it, in lynx/firefox/browser of choice, and those that don't probably wouldn't bother to learn the page specific keys anyway.
Or am I missing a category of people?
If you have taken the time to do that, why not do the same for your window managment? No two windows are more than 3 keystrokes away. Ratpoison, or (as I would see it) better Ion, allows you to completely control and automate your window mangement. The ability to add keyboard shortcuts to tasks as you prefer it (chording and/or chaining), and scripting certain events (no more annoying dialog popups, move them to a specified portion of the screen) saves a lot of time.
Also, tabs are where they belong. In the window manager, so you can have few terminals, browsers and whatever in tabs. And Ion's tiling capabilities allow you to see the information you need to on screen, without wasting screen real estate. (Though for dual-head 1600x1200 screens that's admittedly less of a problem)
I'd concede Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh as kid fads, Magic: the Gathering OTOH just celebrated it's 10th Anniversary a few months back. Still releasing new sets, tournaments still being played. Most fads don't last that long.
This is incorrect, and the grandparent post's claim of just kinda fililng in extra time is accurate. I remember an interview with Dave Thomas (Bob McKenzie) stating that as fact.
well, currently FooBarWidget has been keeping his own version of the GTK+ Fileselector. It's meant as a replacement for 2.2.4 (and up I think).
There's a thread on gnomesupport.org for more information. As far as I know, it just replaces that part of the gtk library.
It is a free game world. EA isn't a government, they don't govern the world in the sense that our government does. They're God to the Sims. Only EA can make a SimLife, EA can kill whoever it wants, and EA can break all the rules if they wanted to. Physics is theirs to control. What you can and can't do are written down on a sacred TOS.
The real problem here is that SimDeath is the only way to control the world. Say you put a sim in jail. Would you pay money per month to be a prisioner in your spare time? Why, when you could just create another account and kill off your old sim.
Maybe monetary punishment would be good. Fine people simoleans. It seems to me that most people are out to try to make money in the game (via whatever means), so EA could implement laws. The only problem here is that it seems that they don't care about minor infractions, such as prostitution or domestic violence, because of the game world that ensures everything is consentual. The only problems that seem to arise is when you have out of game cracking/bug exploiting, etc...
I guess the best way to solve problems like this is the way that it's been done so many times in the past (ie real rpgs) - heated debates and bitter feelings.
What do YOU do when you have problems in an RPG?
As E2 is so handy for; PHB: Pointy Haired Boss.
Well, not having a radio station that caters to electronica fans or ska fans here, and since the radio doesn't cater to me, I don't know how anyone would find out about new music if it wasn't for word of mouth. I talk to my friends, (therefore indirectly their friends) and read fansites looking for reccomendations. Therefore in my current two main sources of information, I cannot listen to reccomended artists and be able to decide for myself if I like this or not.
This is one of the reasons why I would argue for single track downloading. Mark a track or two as a 'single' (hell maybe even distribute these 'singles' for free?) so someone can listen to what you have to offer, so you can sell your wares. This would do well in eliminating the record company's service. I feel it is a service that is close to unnessecary. However, this doesn't mean that they don't have to exist. They could be a great service for creating unique-by-person radio stations for sampling new music. I sign up for my own radio station from Sony or whatever, and after telling it about myself, have my own reccomendations.
Just a bit of rambling here really, but while I'm at it, the idea of industry standard pricing is always somewhat stupid. (I almost feel thats the way it is right now with the high cost of a cd, for some reason it seems as though cd's have been inflating in price on the whole -- but offtopic here) The artist should be able to sell their tracks for whatever they feel it should be sold at really. Where's the sense when a "3 minute pop song" is worth just as much as an 11 minute extended piece?
Then (if there's still time before class, if not just after) I generally see whats up on
And well, thats about it. That I check frequently at least. I do like webcomics and strongly suggest that you check out Machall Megatokyo and Errant Story if you don't already though! And then there's also everything2 but its not news and I can't check it daily (or else I would do nothing all day but read!) its too good at just drawing you in. And the anime turnpike to go browsing through Anime fansites...
Why should 'Computer Scientists' be taught languages? Shouldn't a "true CS major" be taught the principals and therefore be able to learn what they need to on their own?
I mean, the courses offered at my current university don't center on teaching a language. What they try to do is teach you the concepts of what the course is about, and when you need to learn a language, they'll go over it in a tutorial for a few days to give you certain syntax issues and such.
Saying this, the only course that teaches a language here is first year CS. They teach Java so that people can learn the concepts of object oriented programming. After that, it should be up to the individual to learn the language that he/she will need for the situation. They should have the ability to easily adapt because they know the principles.
Sometimes, every byte counts.
I'm in a University residence, where we're allowed 500MB / week...This alone can get eaten up pretty quickly when you're downloading updates to software...Or, for example a DSL provider around here charges over 5GB/month. Now in these examples 10-20 megs won't make or break you, but it does point out that these things can matter.
And I very honestly doubt that negative reactions on Slashdot affected this decision. Maybe all of the negative reactions on things a little more involved with the university did though (eg uwstudent.org)
Can politics really be seperated from a curriculum? If anyone has been following Ontario politics, its one of the largest political debates (or at least was) for quite a number of years.
(oh and its bourne again all the way! heh.)
It seemed as though UW just hoped that this could go through without anyone really doing much. I mean, with a deal like this, having MS 'donate' $10M to the, wouldn't you want it to happen in front of all the students?
Of course not. You do it at the time when there are the least amount of people on campus (and practically no students), right before the fall term, after summer exams are over. The only reason I had heard of it beforehand was a sign on an 8x11 piece of paper when I came here to bring my sister to an interview.
But it didn't go unnoticed. It took up most of the space in the Imprint (UW's student-run newspaper) and a lot of talk among students. The University just ended up looking like a fool and having to retract to 'think' about what its doing.
But how many people think this will change the final outcome anyway?
I read (on big apple anime site I think...)that Tri-Star also picked up Cowboy Bebop. But the article also said that it was dubbed in English. They didn't bother/didn't want to dub Metropolis...but does anybody know anything about the Cowboy Bebop dub? Did they hire the great voiceactors from Bandai (who dubbed the TV series)?
I'm currently running the Ximian GNOME2 snaps, and they are working fine and dandy. (Except for official Galeon2 support, but it'll come) But as far as I believe, the GNOME2 Ximian RPM's on the GNOME project homepage are the exact same as the ones through Red Carpet.
Still though, it's working fine, it's nice and snappy, and there's a lot less bugs than there were when I used Garnome for the GNOME 2.0 final, oddly enough.
I think that it is only natural that like minded people collect. I mean, similar tastes and mindsets allow for more shared experiences, feeling like more fun is being had, feeling like you're part of a community. Which then make tastes even closer to each other.
I would go and venture that since people are naturally social, we form smaller and smaller groups of people naturally, because we can only think about so many people and so many things. A community cant be a community with 2 million people in it. You have to narrow it down and narrow it down until you have people that you can actually recognize.
People generally like being part of a community. A community can't be a community unless people know each other. And people can only know a finite amount of other people.
But you always impose the filters on yourself. You can choose what to read and not to read. Like slashdot. A mass of people. A lot of posts. I cant read them all. So now I need features to shrink it back down to people that I can recognize. There's a lot more people, and therefore a lot more noise. So I browse at +2. I add people I find interesting to my buddy list. etc.
It's always up to you to choose to do that. You enforce your own restrictions.
let's hope this just makes sense to someone other than me.
The problem I see with this is that everyone can only live their own lives. Everything that we do and learn become part of what we are. I can only see the world through my own eyes. I can only hear the world through my own ears. That doesn't mean that I can't listen to another person speak his mind or read about a different religion. Everyone's existance will be limited because it's just one in a mass of billions.
The second point you bring up is that
'Face-to-face social behaviour is the only social interaction in which you are forced to consider the physical consequences of your communication'
Which is true, and isn't. It's more dependant on the other face. I mean, it would be easy to voice your opninion to a stranger you'll never see again not worrying about the concequences. And it's not like I won't think of the concequences when I'm talking to my father online. It's more dependant on whether or not you care about what the other peson thinks of you; no matter what the communication. The great part about IM is that it's easier to think about what you're going to say next, because a response isn't required as soon. I, as well as most of the people I talk to, find myself thinking about what I'm going to say more often online than in person. And I do see trolls face to face, I have to put up with them for about 5 hours every weekday. Thats what I get for attending a high school.
The question is, in a MMORPG, how would you make this work? Quake servers run by some guy with a high speed connection can go down. They aren't all connected togther - they don't need to be. If you 40 different servers holding 15 people, how would they all communicate?
(which leads to a good question -- what is going to be the max number of people for FFXI??)
It's possible that you could have servers with connections to each other, but then you have a good chance to be even laggier (needing hundreds of server to server connections), and would still need central servers run by Square for your character and other dynamic world information to be stored. So you might as well just pay Square to run central servers. Then, if you think that it's too crappy, you don't have to pay it. Right?