Eh? My brother's in the Navy. When he was relocated, they gave him two options. Use the military's shipping and transport capability to get him and his stuff from point A to point B, or take a check for what it would cost the military, and do it himself.
Sounds like Squid's going to be getting some upgrades.:)
Seriously, content caches at each end of a high-latency link can solve a lot of the problems without wholescale modification to existing software and hardware infrastructure. Content streaming systems might need post-link buffers, though, to hold the data until the user has been notified that his data was ready.
The high-latency link ought to be an interesting engineering challenge, though, with plenty of oppertunity for advancement of high-throughput data-quality systems like hamming codes and retransmission of data without nonconfirmation. Forget checksums. If your data were to fail one, you'd be screwed, anyway.
...how globalizing the Internet can be. It can take localized conflicts and expand them to influence a much wider area.
This suggests that decentralization of popular services is even more important than ever before, both on a technical and social level. If someone has a monopoly on something that has a widely-spread fan base, and they give it a common address (DNS, IP, postal, conceptual, whatever), then individuals or groups from anywhere can disrupt that product everywhere.
I wonder how this is going to drive uptime-maintaining technology for MMORPGs. My impression is that existing systems aren't very good at failover. Virtualizing server systems and spreading them over clusters in a failover-compatible way would be a good start.
You might as well start get in a fist fight with a five year old, man.
Should be, "You might as well start get in a fist fight with a five-year-old, man." At least you remembered the comma.:)
If you do it because you feel like you're doing anyone a service, you must be new here.
Should be, "If you do it because you feel like you're doing anyone a service, then you must be new here."
People have been bitching about editor incompetence for eight years now, and look where it's gotten us.
Should be, "People have been bitching about editor incompetence for eight years now, and look at all it's accomplished." Not sure whether or not "gotten" is a word. Just trying to be on the safe side.
The editors are well aware that their grasp of the English language and keyboard skills are subpar, and they have shown that they have no intention of changing.
Should be, "The editors are well aware that their grasp of the English language and keyboard skills are sub-par, and they have shown that they have no intention of changing."
Give it up already.
Should be, "Give up, already." Note that appending "already" to a sentence isn't necessarily proper, either.
I think the typos, the sixth grade grammar, and the general idiocy around here are so ingrained in slashdot culture that fixing them would in fact be deleterious.
Should be, "I think the typos, the sixth-grade grammar, and the general idiocy around here are so ingrained in slashdot culture that fixing them would, in fact, be deleterious."
Can you imagine a slashdot that didn't suck? It would suck.
Should be, "Can you imagine a Slashdot that didn't suck? It would suck." And add some emphasis to "should." Oh, and this is closer to sixth-grade grammar than your average Slashdot comment.
Overall grammar score: "B" Primary areas needing attention include hyphenation and punctuation.
You might consider the possibility that you don't know what funny is.
Sure I do. By both your standards and mine. You might want to consider the possibility that some people appreciate thought in humor. If you go through that comic's archives expecting to think, some of the strips can be down-right hilarious.
As for why jonabbey was modded funny...I think someone figured he was slightly more intelligent than most in his analysis, then couldn't understand why nobody else got it.
Slashdot Mirror
Not to mention it works great for printing home-written documents at school.
Saving to Word format from OOo is an annoyance...I prefer a one-way conversion process so I don't accidentally edit the wrong document.
Recieving a bill for your manditory relocation.
Eh? My brother's in the Navy. When he was relocated, they gave him two options. Use the military's shipping and transport capability to get him and his stuff from point A to point B, or take a check for what it would cost the military, and do it himself.
Sounds like Squid's going to be getting some upgrades. :)
Seriously, content caches at each end of a high-latency link can solve a lot of the problems without wholescale modification to existing software and hardware infrastructure. Content streaming systems might need post-link buffers, though, to hold the data until the user has been notified that his data was ready.
The high-latency link ought to be an interesting engineering challenge, though, with plenty of oppertunity for advancement of high-throughput data-quality systems like hamming codes and retransmission of data without nonconfirmation. Forget checksums. If your data were to fail one, you'd be screwed, anyway.
...how globalizing the Internet can be. It can take localized conflicts and expand them to influence a much wider area.
This suggests that decentralization of popular services is even more important than ever before, both on a technical and social level. If someone has a monopoly on something that has a widely-spread fan base, and they give it a common address (DNS, IP, postal, conceptual, whatever), then individuals or groups from anywhere can disrupt that product everywhere.
I wonder how this is going to drive uptime-maintaining technology for MMORPGs. My impression is that existing systems aren't very good at failover. Virtualizing server systems and spreading them over clusters in a failover-compatible way would be a good start.
Warning: troll.
And a plagiarist.
(And that's a link to a Wiki. Call me paranoid, but I expect it to change.)
Warning: troll.
Mods, he's just telling you what you want to hear.
Positive example: OpenQuartz. They made a Free replacement for Quake I's content.
You think you have a problem? One of my cats was sitting in my lap.
We still meet weekly after almost 15 years. (The address on that page is incorrect. See this page for the correct address.)
On a Linspire machine, he might be right.
No, I don't. They're still around. :)
(Worldgroup-based BBS, if anyone's curious.)
As a friend of mine's character said, "He's pretty dumb. All he can do is walk point and take the first hit."
Probably a quote, but I don't know from where.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Eraser Bots for Quake II. Quake IV might actually entice me to upgrade my hardware.
On second thought, don't. Tin foil around every article of clothing can lead to cuts in the most painful of places...
Try tin foil...
If you make eye contact, they'll typically leave you alone. Avoid eye contact on entrance, and they keep an eye on you, one way or another.
My mother, who explained this to me, worked in loss prevention at a Meijers. Now she avoids the eye contact, just to irritate the door gaurds.
Worst experience for me was in the HS library. Some joker took the RFID tag out of a book on the shelf and stuck it in a book in my backpack.
I was 20 minutes late to my next class as the librarian and I dug through the pack looking for what was setting off the alarm.
That's how even- and odd-parity modem connections work. :)
Your username describes your position succinctly.
I knew I missed something. I'm not an English major... :)
Only when it hasn't been cleaned recently. But I took care of that today, so I'll be allowed to go to the D&D game I'm DMing next week Saturday.
As far as I'm concerned its only failing lay in its restricted availability. Of course, their entire policy prevents that from changing.
You might as well start get in a fist fight with a five year old, man.
:)
Should be, "You might as well start get in a fist fight with a five-year-old, man." At least you remembered the comma.
If you do it because you feel like you're doing anyone a service, you must be new here.
Should be, "If you do it because you feel like you're doing anyone a service, then you must be new here."
People have been bitching about editor incompetence for eight years now, and look where it's gotten us.
Should be, "People have been bitching about editor incompetence for eight years now, and look at all it's accomplished." Not sure whether or not "gotten" is a word. Just trying to be on the safe side.
The editors are well aware that their grasp of the English language and keyboard skills are subpar, and they have shown that they have no intention of changing.
Should be, "The editors are well aware that their grasp of the English language and keyboard skills are sub-par, and they have shown that they have no intention of changing."
Give it up already.
Should be, "Give up, already." Note that appending "already" to a sentence isn't necessarily proper, either.
I think the typos, the sixth grade grammar, and the general idiocy around here are so ingrained in slashdot culture that fixing them would in fact be deleterious.
Should be, "I think the typos, the sixth-grade grammar, and the general idiocy around here are so ingrained in slashdot culture that fixing them would, in fact, be deleterious."
Can you imagine a slashdot that didn't suck? It would suck.
Should be, "Can you imagine a Slashdot that didn't suck? It would suck." And add some emphasis to "should." Oh, and this is closer to sixth-grade grammar than your average Slashdot comment.
Overall grammar score: "B" Primary areas needing attention include hyphenation and punctuation.
'Cause the implication would be that Slashdotters would go to jail.
Que the +5 Funnies.
You're free to think that...until someone you know winds up in that situation.
You might consider the possibility that you don't know what funny is.
Sure I do. By both your standards and mine. You might want to consider the possibility that some people appreciate thought in humor. If you go through that comic's archives expecting to think, some of the strips can be down-right hilarious.
As for why jonabbey was modded funny...I think someone figured he was slightly more intelligent than most in his analysis, then couldn't understand why nobody else got it.