Not that I advocate such things, but it makes me wonder what kind of epiphany the public would have if there were to be a massive DDoS attack against the authentication servers of these companies.
Even though 99% of your company is behind a firewall, are you going to number your headquarters, plants, and sales offices using 10.0.0.0 - 10.2.255.255? Or... use those three Class B's you have registered to make them truly unique?
Which way is more likely to be mergeable *immediately* with your new 4 billion dollar acquisition?
>> "I'm not sure about this. But he's the expert so I'll accept his claim. But wouldn't it be easier to add UDP management capabilities to the existing structure than any of the alternatives?"
He's correct. UDP doesn't have any kind of window size scaling (since it's not session-oriented). So, if a lot of packets are being dropped, it would be up to the application layer to throttle itself. Since UDP non-guaranteed anyway, apps won't generally do that.
Sure, you can just discard the UDP packets in the network, before they get to the client... but they've already wasted your upstream bandwidth.
What exactly do you find frightening about an automatic safety system doing exactly what it's supposed to in response to unusual input? The part where a reboot was required. That makes me worried that they were using Windows.
The chemical company I work for has VAX/Unix systems that haven't been rebooted in over four years... and only then because of power outages.
When I was building my latest system, several months back, I initially wanted to go with DDR3. Money wasn't an inhibiting factor for me. But, I ended up going with DDR2 anyway. Here's why:
I couldn't find DDR3 memory confirmed to work with the motherboard I wanted!
There are so many stories in the reviews sections of NewEgg and other sites with people complaining that boards like the Asus Maximus fail to work with many and various brands of DDR3 memory.
The only brands I could confirm to work, were "out of stock" at every online shop I could find (apparently everyone was doing the same research and wanted their systems to actually work).
Short suppy, high price, spotty compatibility. This led me to decide to just build a system with double the memory @1066, instead of going for 1600 or 1800. Hopefully DDR3 will mature before I want to build another.
You don't get it: Now that he's made a (very crappy) movie for each of the franchises he's touched, there's no hope that anyone else is *ever* going to make a movie for that franchise again.
If he would stop making movies, we'd see fewer video-game related movies, but they'd almost certainly be of higher quality. Avoiding movies he's directed is not enough: he's turning the whole genre into a laughing stock.
You need to consider the real cost associated which showing every potential unmerited claimant that you'll pay them off, even "cheaply", rather than fight.
A reputation for fighting fraudulent claims (and winning), has to scare those that would try to extort from you.
Ever? If not, as a driver of 25 years, I would say you're a liar.
If you've driven in the north and south, as I suspect a tractor-trailer driver has.. you've ran into some damned short yellows and made a couple of "abbreviated" stops thereafter.
The real lesson is that intellectual property is a completely bullshit and made-up concept that only works in countries that want to prop-up such industries. And, that if this were not immediately and obviously wrong human behavior, those who implement software DRM like this would not feel so much shame when it was later realized that they are charging large monetary sums for changing a single bit of data in their product..
This guy's on crack. Nothing will change from the way it's been the last decade or so. There will always be console gaming for the economics/simplicity factor, and there will always be PC gaming where the latest 3D card blows consoles away... at the expense of economics/simplicity.
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Not that I advocate such things, but it makes me wonder what kind of epiphany the public would have if there were to be a massive DDoS attack against the authentication servers of these companies.
Companies buy and merge with companies.
Even though 99% of your company is behind a firewall, are you going to number your headquarters, plants, and sales offices using 10.0.0.0 - 10.2.255.255? Or... use those three Class B's you have registered to make them truly unique?
Which way is more likely to be mergeable *immediately* with your new 4 billion dollar acquisition?
No - HP did (for their calculators), way before there "was" an Apple.
Also, I don't even think Apple marketing would agree with you - or they wouldn't have "I'm a Mac... and I'm a PC" adverts.
Whooosh.
No, her parents named her Moon Unit. What kind of fucking name would "Quantum G" be?!?!
Compare the price to try the incomplete software too, while you're at it.
And hopefully the story wont be posted 4/1/2009.
-J
Apparently, the grandparent poster never heard of the "Oh my god, it's coming right for us!" rule.
>> "I'm not sure about this. But he's the expert so I'll accept his claim. But wouldn't it be easier to add UDP management capabilities to the existing structure than any of the alternatives?"
He's correct. UDP doesn't have any kind of window size scaling (since it's not session-oriented). So, if a lot of packets are being dropped, it would be up to the application layer to throttle itself. Since UDP non-guaranteed anyway, apps won't generally do that.
Sure, you can just discard the UDP packets in the network, before they get to the client... but they've already wasted your upstream bandwidth.
Let me guess... Microsoft made the other components? And, at one time, they used to have competitors.... but no longer?
That's true. Being the third largest international company in our field, we've enjoyed this benefit many times.
But... Linux vendors let you do it, no matter who you are.
The chemical company I work for has VAX/Unix systems that haven't been rebooted in over four years... and only then because of power outages.
When I was building my latest system, several months back, I initially wanted to go with DDR3. Money wasn't an inhibiting factor for me. But, I ended up going with DDR2 anyway. Here's why:
I couldn't find DDR3 memory confirmed to work with the motherboard I wanted!
There are so many stories in the reviews sections of NewEgg and other sites with people complaining that boards like the Asus Maximus fail to work with many and various brands of DDR3 memory.
The only brands I could confirm to work, were "out of stock" at every online shop I could find (apparently everyone was doing the same research and wanted their systems to actually work).
Short suppy, high price, spotty compatibility. This led me to decide to just build a system with double the memory @1066, instead of going for 1600 or 1800. Hopefully DDR3 will mature before I want to build another.
You don't get it: Now that he's made a (very crappy) movie for each of the franchises he's touched, there's no hope that anyone else is *ever* going to make a movie for that franchise again.
If he would stop making movies, we'd see fewer video-game related movies, but they'd almost certainly be of higher quality. Avoiding movies he's directed is not enough: he's turning the whole genre into a laughing stock.
You need to consider the real cost associated which showing every potential unmerited claimant that you'll pay them off, even "cheaply", rather than fight.
A reputation for fighting fraudulent claims (and winning), has to scare those that would try to extort from you.
I prefer the term "American-American".
Ever? If not, as a driver of 25 years, I would say you're a liar.
If you've driven in the north and south, as I suspect a tractor-trailer driver has.. you've ran into some damned short yellows and made a couple of "abbreviated" stops thereafter.
Posting this to remove accidental moderation caused by middle mouse wheel. Arghh.
I thought T-Mobile was Mr. T's van.
Engadget should let Mr. T know, so that he can sue T-Mobile for infringing his trademark.
-J
>> ...replace "if greater then 100" with "if greater then or equal to 99"...
Ummm... that's not going to work like you think.
The real lesson is that intellectual property is a completely bullshit and made-up concept that only works in countries that want to prop-up such industries. And, that if this were not immediately and obviously wrong human behavior, those who implement software DRM like this would not feel so much shame when it was later realized that they are charging large monetary sums for changing a single bit of data in their product..
248 Kessel Runs.
This guy's on crack. Nothing will change from the way it's been the last decade or so. There will always be console gaming for the economics/simplicity factor, and there will always be PC gaming where the latest 3D card blows consoles away... at the expense of economics/simplicity.
-J
>> The four pledges (which are not numbered 0 through 3)
Oh man... what did they do? Put the pledges in a Lua table or something?!?!