Most traffic throttling algorithms are based on the idea that the router will say "hey, slow down" if a client overloads it -- but when the router has lots of RAM, there is a tendency for it to just keep accepting and accepting, with the client happily pushing data at full speed, while the router is queuing up the data and only moving it upstream very slowly. Because the queues end up being huge, traffic going through that router gets lagged.
After a one-sentence random guy's opinion of "google sucks" being posted as front page news, and now this, I wonder if the editors would publish the short story of their own demise -- slashdot turns from a geek news source to a political flamebait blog, posting articles based on how many page hits it'll get them rather than how interesting they are...
Who cares what the W3C says? WHATWG are the people who are actually getting stuff done -- and they're getting it done with real world implementations too.
The preview includes improved 2D and 3D graphics [...] complete with a 3.0 emulator
Any word on the speed of this emulator? Running the 2.2 emulator 1.6GHz box, it takes several minutes to start, and then crawls so slowly that the screen is filled with "I can't tell whether the app is running slowly or is just dead" warnings -- If there haven't been improvements, I dread to think what the performance would be like for 3D graphics on a tablet-size screen...
I wouldn't bother with ISO; microsoft would just buy all the voters so that they can have an obfuscated binary blob as the standard "hello world" packet
If you were complaining that graphic novels should be called comic books, you might have a point (though IMHO they are sufficiently different -- most graphic novels aren't really comical enough to be called "comic"; and most comics aren't novel enough to be called "novels" -- arguing that they should be one is like suggesting we get rid of "novel" and "film script" and just call both "stories"); but then visual novels are actually something different entirely -- see Phoenix Wright for an example of one that's gained popularity in the west.
Why does every feature sold as a security enhancement involve increasing the amount of personal info you hand over?
Because an authentication system based on "I honestly am Bob X, here is some public and widely known information to prove it" wouldn't be quite so effective
If you don't want anyone to know your IP address, just stick 0.0.0.0 into the IP "source" field. Just as realistic, and far more effective than spamming your details then politely asking people to forget them.
A remake of FF7 would require to rewrite the entire engine for the PS3 or XBox (or both)
A non-high-def release is out on the playstation network already, I presume that means the code still works. Although because that's already sold well (fastest seller on the PSN, and still near the top), that's probably filled half the market, so demand for an updated version is less:-(
and then to redo all the art.
IIRC the backgrounds were a mix of 3D renders and hand-drawn scenes (This is why I particularly want FF7-9 and not FF6 or chrono trigger -- for pixelly games, big pixels still work; for hand-drawn backgrounds, they look beautiful (better than 3D) at their native res, but scale up horribly) -- I would hope they still have the originals somewhere that could be re-rendered / re-scanned at a higher res.
The 3D character models would need redoing, but the characters have appeared in enough other modern squeenix games that they should have most of them updated already...
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I see a lot of data, but no organisation -- all I really want is a simple table like this one
The first one was the control group, which sat in front of blank computer screens for three minutes.
"I'm such a moron for volunteering for this boring study :-("
The second group of individuals had mirrors propped up against their computer monitors and spent their three minutes looking at their own reflections.
"I am here because I am too ugly to hang out with friends :-("
The third group was allowed to surf their own Facebook profiles and its associated tabs for the allotted time.
"Oh hey, something to distract me from the pain of my own existence :-|"
Eyes? You pussy. I lick an unterminated ethernet cable and *taste* the binary.
Most traffic throttling algorithms are based on the idea that the router will say "hey, slow down" if a client overloads it -- but when the router has lots of RAM, there is a tendency for it to just keep accepting and accepting, with the client happily pushing data at full speed, while the router is queuing up the data and only moving it upstream very slowly. Because the queues end up being huge, traffic going through that router gets lagged.
Did anyone else think "armoured core" before they thought "anonymous coward"?
I do wish there was a domain for giant stompy mechs, as that would imply that they were more than theoretical :(
After a one-sentence random guy's opinion of "google sucks" being posted as front page news, and now this, I wonder if the editors would publish the short story of their own demise -- slashdot turns from a geek news source to a political flamebait blog, posting articles based on how many page hits it'll get them rather than how interesting they are...
If you want it to be slow, just hash password + salt + 10 gigabytes of pseuo-random noise
It isn't supposed to look like anything; it's a visual representation of some data, and any patterns are up to the viewer to see
Who cares what the W3C says? WHATWG are the people who are actually getting stuff done -- and they're getting it done with real world implementations too.
Cheap gadgets not being future-proof I can understand, but this is a $180 gadget not being 10-years-ago-proof...
external combustion engine
This can only end well.
Here's a comment from someone more in-line with the work I do
And here's a comment from me: "what a load of balls".
If we're going to start taking anecdotes as evidence, then I can prove that every OS sucks, and we're back to square one :-P
while the character of the use is one consideration in determining whether a copy is fair use, personal use is not a mitigating use
True, according to our current legal system it isn't -- but I fail to see how people are hypocrites for suggesting that it should be
Making copies of data for personal use is slightly different to claiming you created it and selling it on for profit
Or is it only me that cannot find the Ubuntu 'Stable' Repo for running things like NGINX?
How to install nginx on debian: apt-get install nginx
How to install nginx on ubuntu: apt-get install nginx
So yes, it is only you.
The preview includes improved 2D and 3D graphics [...] complete with a 3.0 emulator
Any word on the speed of this emulator? Running the 2.2 emulator 1.6GHz box, it takes several minutes to start, and then crawls so slowly that the screen is filled with "I can't tell whether the app is running slowly or is just dead" warnings -- If there haven't been improvements, I dread to think what the performance would be like for 3D graphics on a tablet-size screen...
I wouldn't bother with ISO; microsoft would just buy all the voters so that they can have an obfuscated binary blob as the standard "hello world" packet
Because you generally have to run your own servers
What's wrong with a private channel on a public network? (Or several for redundancy)
which means you need your own domains
What's wrong with a list of IP addresses?
If you were complaining that graphic novels should be called comic books, you might have a point (though IMHO they are sufficiently different -- most graphic novels aren't really comical enough to be called "comic"; and most comics aren't novel enough to be called "novels" -- arguing that they should be one is like suggesting we get rid of "novel" and "film script" and just call both "stories"); but then visual novels are actually something different entirely -- see Phoenix Wright for an example of one that's gained popularity in the west.
Why does every feature sold as a security enhancement involve increasing the amount of personal info you hand over?
Because an authentication system based on "I honestly am Bob X, here is some public and widely known information to prove it" wouldn't be quite so effective
While the Focus is "transportation," it's lacking wings
So? I'm not in the market for a plane, I'm in the market for some form of personal transport
By that logic, walking is free, a private jet can be up to $50mil, so a mid-range form of personal transport should be around $25mil
If you don't want anyone to know your IP address, just stick 0.0.0.0 into the IP "source" field. Just as realistic, and far more effective than spamming your details then politely asking people to forget them.
Good idea:
revolutionize the action genre like the first "Matrix" film did
Bad idea:
They are planning to make the films in 3D
A remake of FF7 would require to rewrite the entire engine for the PS3 or XBox (or both)
A non-high-def release is out on the playstation network already, I presume that means the code still works. Although because that's already sold well (fastest seller on the PSN, and still near the top), that's probably filled half the market, so demand for an updated version is less :-(
and then to redo all the art.
IIRC the backgrounds were a mix of 3D renders and hand-drawn scenes (This is why I particularly want FF7-9 and not FF6 or chrono trigger -- for pixelly games, big pixels still work; for hand-drawn backgrounds, they look beautiful (better than 3D) at their native res, but scale up horribly) -- I would hope they still have the originals somewhere that could be re-rendered / re-scanned at a higher res.
The 3D character models would need redoing, but the characters have appeared in enough other modern squeenix games that they should have most of them updated already...