I was always taught that rate-limiting *causes* congestion on networks. A properly configured network uses QoS to determine priorities, and with the modern equivalents of FECN/BECN, you can end up with a fast, useful, uncongested network with the same traffic flows.
I heard there was no Java to C++ translator, but there is a Java to Python converter, and a Python to C++ compiler. Transliterate the C++ to either C or ObjC (not for any reason other than C++ is nasty) and insert some calls to ATI's programmable GPU and wham - your Java programme requiring a cluster of Teraflops can be outperformed by one desktop PC with a couple of middle-range GPUs.
Oh, it's a Government funded thing... Run atc from bsdgames on one CPU then Seti@Home on the rest, and take some meat to barbecue over the top of the exhausts;)
I don't use DNS knowingly. Seriously, I don't - a server I administer is on an IP, it has a domain name, but it's actually quicker to type in the (decimal, not dotted decimal) IP than the domain name.
And for other DNS queries? Google - type it in the search bar, hit search. Or it's in a bookmark/del.icio.us link.
And before some wise-ass cracks, yes, my MSN client will probably contact a server using DNS to get it's IP, but that's cheating;)
Apparently the same thing has happened in Japan...
This is in reference to the UK, if you are not the intended party to receive the transmission, you may not listen. Listening to Bluetooth would be out of the question unless it was within the normal parameters of a bluetooth connection for legitimate reasons.
You are receiving a broadcast you have not been authorised to listen in on. Specifically, if they actually inspect the packets and determine the IMEI number (assuming it's not encrypted these days) then you're DEFINITELY breaking the WTA(R) Act and these guys will be in serious trouble unless they've obtained an exemption or explicit authority from the mobile networks.
Not only that, but if they store the IMEI numbers, I'm fairly sure they wouldn't be able to sell that data, under the Data Protection Act.
I do love living in the UK, we have all these laws preventing crap from happening, and no-one but a few nut-jobs (myself included) takes a blind bit of difference.
Oh, and IANAL. I'm not a lawyer either, this does not constitute legal opinion, it's my interpretation of the facts presented to me yadda yadda yadda.
I have that with Vodafone business, but it's £15/month, free calls to all landlines all the time, free calls to all Vodafone business customers, and best of all - I get to use any spare minutes from the bosses stash.
Nexenta works fantastically - I love it. I would definitely use it for any storage servers, or high availability servers that do your normal Apache/SQL/P* stack.
However, for desktop and non-standard services, it still sucks. If it's not a web server, and it's not a storage server, don't use Nexenta, use Ubuntu Server. Or Debian if you know what you're doing:)
I am usually a UK net consumer. My mother is on ADSL2+ and gets a line speed of about 4.5Mbits, for which she can download from a typical European (read: EU, not UK) site at about 400kB/s. She pays £18/month, but could be paying £14/month if she was on standard ADSL.
Friends in Loughborough, UK, get 20Mbit Cable. They download at 2Mbit/s from sites all over the UK and the Netherlands, including the occasionally P2P traffic.
Two weeks ago, I was in San Francisco. Not only does DSL suck over there, cable isn't THAT much better, and the quality of service DROPS during busy periods. Speeds were often far below that of my mother's cheap connection, and I'm not just using public wi-fi, I tried on residential connections too. Mobile net sucked too - I don't think I saw a single 3G signal anywhere.
I'm currently on a connection at Newark, NJ, and to be quite honest, it sucks here too. Sure, it's public wifi, but speeds of 10kB/s and below are substandard to say the least.
What I'm getting at is - people complain about UK bandwidth... And they're mostly factually incorrect. I assumed the US were just whining as US (and other) geeks do. Personal experience tells me different... The US telecomms structure sucks - and the net sucks bigger. I can't believe I'm saying this but... Take a hint from the UK, from France, from the Netherlands... From SWEDEN! Fix your internet!
People moved from watching on TV to watching the VHS because you could watch it when you want. People moved from watching on VHS to watching on DVD because you didn't have to bother with rewinding etc, and it didn't degrade over time. (ish - most people believe their CD-Rs will last for ever, let alone DVD-R) People moved from Analogue to Digital (in the UK) because Sky and Virgin (was NTL was whatever) gave you more channels and it was free-ish.
Why would people move from DVD to BluRay? Seriously - why? My mum watches Sky TV in a low bitrate MPEG-2 from Sky TV and can't see the difference on her 42" TV versus the crystal clear analogue signal, versus one of the HD-DVDs I have.
People don't care about quality - as long as it's "good enough". Why else would people dump CDs - the ultimate in digital formats of the 20th century, for crappy 128kbit MP3s?
Well, negating the "that's all that's available" and the "they're all that they can pirate" arguments at least.
DVD is good enough. It'll be here for a long while yet. And when it does die - we'll have storage nodes in every DSLAM to handle digital downloads of all the big films.
You can do whatever the hell you like with GPLd software, you just can't distribute it as part of a non-GPL project.
ie/ Unless it's LGPL, you can't put the CDDL (ZFS) software in the same download as Linux (GPL). You can, however, download them separately and use them like that. That's what the ZFS-FUSE project is trying to do.
Personally, all my music is paid for - either on CD (which then has been ripped, 9/10 times) or from the Audible/iTMS facilities.
In the UK, we don't pay the blank media tax. In Finland, they do, in Canada, they do. If I was paying that tax, or even a tax on my internet connection, I'd feel ok about downloading as much music from the recipients of those funds as I liked - as I'm paying them for it already.
Look, crazy music peoples, if you're going to treat me like a criminal, I'm going to act like one. Don't give me shit about "it's illegal to copy this disk" on DVDs, CDs, cinemas, whatever - it's a smack in the face.
If it hits the UK, that's it - I ain't buying any more music. Period. (Well, full stop anyway)
Surely, the best way to do it is to get you to the highway, at which point you join a lane (similar to the US carpool lane) that has a weak AM transmitter down the middle. Your car has a couple of sensors on the bottom, to make sure it stays in the middle, and just accelerates to it's highest economy setting.
Better yet, it could slip behind another cars slipstream and take the energy savings for granted. Half-second gaps between cars, with sensors in front and narrowbeam transmitters on the back to alert for stationary vehicles up ahead. Modulate that AM transmitter, and you've got yourself traffic information to plot a better route, and could be encrypted to prevent mis-use.
Why hasn't this been done? And if it has (even if a different system than AMRF) why hasn't it been implemented for economy long-distance driving?
You have the code? Do you have the code to the compiler?
Ok, it's GNU C Compiler. Do you have the blueprints for the chip so that you can tell it's not doing it's own routines whenever an interrupt is generated?
Oh, it's SPARC. Ok, here's one that'll get you - have you got at least two independant sources checking through the stack from top to bottom, making sure everything is ok? That's a shit-ton of code, I bet no-one does.
Trust no code you didn't write yourself. And even then, did you write *everything* - hardware included?
I'd consider myself a liberal, a libertarian and an agnostic. In no way do I want the government intruding on my life - but I expect them to help when asked.
If I get stabbed (let's face it, I'm in the UK, I'm not going to get shot), I want there to be CCTV and police at a moments call.
If someone commits a crime, I hope that person is dealt with in a fair manner - be it rehabilitation or incarceration.
Individuals generally *don't* know what's best - if you left it to the general vote, there would likely be ethnic cleansing, a fascist state and people would be miserable. Society needs rules, boundaries - and an end zone. And when things go wrong, there has to be something to protect us from those that choose to exploit us.
Liberty is a fantastic thing, but there is such a thing as "too much liberty". Getting the balance is something that (afaict) no country has acheived.
Read my post again. Free at the point of *need*. That means that if you break your leg, you don't have to worry about paying for it. Sure, it comes out of general taxation, but I'd rather it be spunked away within Government than have to deal with the typical corporation attitude.
At the end of the day - if you get seriously injured, there is no competition, you go to the first hospital and get fixed. You don't phone your insurer and get taken to a pre-approved doctor, and get pre-approved treatments - you go and get fixed. And to hell with the costs.
"Isn't it nice that all those doctors are willing to put in 10 hour days for absolutely no pay, and the medicine companys give away all of their products for free, and the power/gas to run the hospital just magically appears, not to mention the maintenance and construction costs."
Doctors get paid mighty fucking well in this country. GPs get an average of $200,000 per year. And few get 10 hour days - if they do, they certainly don't do 6/7 days a week at any rate!.
And medicine companies SHOULD give products away at near cost. I'm a firm believer in the nationalisation of pharmaceutical industries, because the US system has been *proven* to be wasteful, harmful and in some cases negligent of their duties to their patients. It's less of a factor in Europe, but you can bet your bottom dollar it still happens.
Seriously though, do you think that because I implied you don't pay for something at the point of use that you don't pay for it? Did you pay for the road outside your house? No - it came out of general taxation (well, I presume it does, it happens in the UK like that)
The US is either a third world country or at best similar to pre-war England when it comes to health. Which is such a shame, because apart from health, the US excels in so many other areas.
If I were a US citizen, the only candidates both similar to my interests and aren't a wasted vote (in that they stand no chance, thanks to the electoral college system) are Ron Paul and Mike Gravel. Neither are likely to pass the primaries/caucasses, but hey, going to support them either way.
At least you don't have to listen to sodding Hazel Blears whinge her way up to deputy Prime Minister. Gahd, she's a twat.
To be honest, I'd prefer to save a lot of cash through outrageous amounts for some drugs/vaccines.
The cervical cancer vaccine costs pennies to make and costs the NHS ~£300. Seems a *little* unfair, considering they recommend *all* girls to have it at the age of 12.
Plus, there's the whole bowel cancer drug that fixes eye problems that was refused to be licenced - but that's enough for one day.
For me, I don't see him as lying, I see him as bending the truth.
I've watched this movie, and he's glossed over the fact that our (the UK) NHS infrastructure is a bit shoddy. Sure, it's one of the best in the world, but it's a giant money hole.
Also, it appears to be an advert for Clinton. Would have been nice to see this party-neutral. Ah well.
If you ignore the partisan politics, this is a fantastic film with one important message: Societies are not judged by how they treat their heroes, but how they treat the bottom rung. Only with universal healthcare, free at the point of need (that's need, not want - no free boobjobs, obviously) can the US elevate it's status as one of the worst infant mortality rates, poor general health and positively narcissistic health corporation which have done nothing but bolster corporate profits.
The US is a fantastic place, but I'd never want to live in a country that didn't care about everyone - regardless of whether they're a billionaire or a meth-addict in dire straits.
It's your code that you've written. GPL it, then re-licence it for your boss to use. Nothing stopping a dual-licence. LGPL allows others to do things "less free" with it.
This site uses *23* pages. Does anyone else hate pagination? Sure, it has it's uses (decreasing bandwidth consumption) if you're planning on using it as a reference, but if it's an ARTICLE meant for one-off reading, please, for Pete's sake, just use single page format and save us all the hassle of waiting 5 annoying seconds as the next page loads with all your shitty design!
At the end of the day, if you want to use a "quick link" system to quickly get someone to the conclusion, use this handy thing invented back in "the day". It's called Hypertext - use a hyperlink, use it in a table of contents, and save us all a crapload of wasted time.
"Stop rationalizing - you're breaking the law to benefit yourself. It's that simple."
Actually, he's rationalising quite well. If I buy something, and it gets destroyed, and for me to get a digital copy of those original works without detriment to the original artist or recording label, then that's fine from a moral standpoint, or it is at least with me.
I've never bought anything from AllOfMP3, but you can get your bottom dollar that if I lost _all_ my music in a fire/theft situation, I sure as hell would consider putting $$$ towards the pockets of AllOfMP3, for the simple reason that they have what I want, how I want it. The price is a bonus to me.
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I was always taught that rate-limiting *causes* congestion on networks. A properly configured network uses QoS to determine priorities, and with the modern equivalents of FECN/BECN, you can end up with a fast, useful, uncongested network with the same traffic flows.
This is so incredibly messy, BUT!!!
I heard there was no Java to C++ translator, but there is a Java to Python converter, and a Python to C++ compiler. Transliterate the C++ to either C or ObjC (not for any reason other than C++ is nasty) and insert some calls to ATI's programmable GPU and wham - your Java programme requiring a cluster of Teraflops can be outperformed by one desktop PC with a couple of middle-range GPUs.
Oh, it's a Government funded thing... Run atc from bsdgames on one CPU then Seti@Home on the rest, and take some meat to barbecue over the top of the exhausts ;)
I don't use DNS knowingly. Seriously, I don't - a server I administer is on an IP, it has a domain name, but it's actually quicker to type in the (decimal, not dotted decimal) IP than the domain name.
And for other DNS queries? Google - type it in the search bar, hit search. Or it's in a bookmark/del.icio.us link.
And before some wise-ass cracks, yes, my MSN client will probably contact a server using DNS to get it's IP, but that's cheating ;)
Apparently the same thing has happened in Japan...
This is in reference to the UK, if you are not the intended party to receive the transmission, you may not listen. Listening to Bluetooth would be out of the question unless it was within the normal parameters of a bluetooth connection for legitimate reasons.
You are receiving a broadcast you have not been authorised to listen in on. Specifically, if they actually inspect the packets and determine the IMEI number (assuming it's not encrypted these days) then you're DEFINITELY breaking the WTA(R) Act and these guys will be in serious trouble unless they've obtained an exemption or explicit authority from the mobile networks.
Not only that, but if they store the IMEI numbers, I'm fairly sure they wouldn't be able to sell that data, under the Data Protection Act.
I do love living in the UK, we have all these laws preventing crap from happening, and no-one but a few nut-jobs (myself included) takes a blind bit of difference.
Oh, and IANAL. I'm not a lawyer either, this does not constitute legal opinion, it's my interpretation of the facts presented to me yadda yadda yadda.
I have that with Vodafone business, but it's £15/month, free calls to all landlines all the time, free calls to all Vodafone business customers, and best of all - I get to use any spare minutes from the bosses stash.
Nexenta works fantastically - I love it. I would definitely use it for any storage servers, or high availability servers that do your normal Apache/SQL/P* stack.
:)
However, for desktop and non-standard services, it still sucks. If it's not a web server, and it's not a storage server, don't use Nexenta, use Ubuntu Server. Or Debian if you know what you're doing
I am usually a UK net consumer. My mother is on ADSL2+ and gets a line speed of about 4.5Mbits, for which she can download from a typical European (read: EU, not UK) site at about 400kB/s. She pays £18/month, but could be paying £14/month if she was on standard ADSL.
Friends in Loughborough, UK, get 20Mbit Cable. They download at 2Mbit/s from sites all over the UK and the Netherlands, including the occasionally P2P traffic.
Two weeks ago, I was in San Francisco. Not only does DSL suck over there, cable isn't THAT much better, and the quality of service DROPS during busy periods. Speeds were often far below that of my mother's cheap connection, and I'm not just using public wi-fi, I tried on residential connections too. Mobile net sucked too - I don't think I saw a single 3G signal anywhere.
I'm currently on a connection at Newark, NJ, and to be quite honest, it sucks here too. Sure, it's public wifi, but speeds of 10kB/s and below are substandard to say the least.
What I'm getting at is - people complain about UK bandwidth... And they're mostly factually incorrect. I assumed the US were just whining as US (and other) geeks do. Personal experience tells me different... The US telecomms structure sucks - and the net sucks bigger. I can't believe I'm saying this but... Take a hint from the UK, from France, from the Netherlands... From SWEDEN! Fix your internet!
Let's look at the history of media, shall we?
People moved from watching on TV to watching the VHS because you could watch it when you want.
People moved from watching on VHS to watching on DVD because you didn't have to bother with rewinding etc, and it didn't degrade over time. (ish - most people believe their CD-Rs will last for ever, let alone DVD-R)
People moved from Analogue to Digital (in the UK) because Sky and Virgin (was NTL was whatever) gave you more channels and it was free-ish.
Why would people move from DVD to BluRay? Seriously - why? My mum watches Sky TV in a low bitrate MPEG-2 from Sky TV and can't see the difference on her 42" TV versus the crystal clear analogue signal, versus one of the HD-DVDs I have.
People don't care about quality - as long as it's "good enough". Why else would people dump CDs - the ultimate in digital formats of the 20th century, for crappy 128kbit MP3s?
Well, negating the "that's all that's available" and the "they're all that they can pirate" arguments at least.
DVD is good enough. It'll be here for a long while yet. And when it does die - we'll have storage nodes in every DSLAM to handle digital downloads of all the big films.
Let the flamewar begin.
You can run it - nothing illegal about that.
So many people misunderstand the GPL...
You can do whatever the hell you like with GPLd software, you just can't distribute it as part of a non-GPL project.
ie/ Unless it's LGPL, you can't put the CDDL (ZFS) software in the same download as Linux (GPL). You can, however, download them separately and use them like that. That's what the ZFS-FUSE project is trying to do.
Personally, all my music is paid for - either on CD (which then has been ripped, 9/10 times) or from the Audible/iTMS facilities.
In the UK, we don't pay the blank media tax. In Finland, they do, in Canada, they do. If I was paying that tax, or even a tax on my internet connection, I'd feel ok about downloading as much music from the recipients of those funds as I liked - as I'm paying them for it already.
Look, crazy music peoples, if you're going to treat me like a criminal, I'm going to act like one. Don't give me shit about "it's illegal to copy this disk" on DVDs, CDs, cinemas, whatever - it's a smack in the face.
If it hits the UK, that's it - I ain't buying any more music. Period. (Well, full stop anyway)
Surely, the best way to do it is to get you to the highway, at which point you join a lane (similar to the US carpool lane) that has a weak AM transmitter down the middle. Your car has a couple of sensors on the bottom, to make sure it stays in the middle, and just accelerates to it's highest economy setting.
Better yet, it could slip behind another cars slipstream and take the energy savings for granted. Half-second gaps between cars, with sensors in front and narrowbeam transmitters on the back to alert for stationary vehicles up ahead. Modulate that AM transmitter, and you've got yourself traffic information to plot a better route, and could be encrypted to prevent mis-use.
Why hasn't this been done? And if it has (even if a different system than AMRF) why hasn't it been implemented for economy long-distance driving?
World War Eleven you say? I know the Irish stayed Neutral officially for WW2, but WW11? Yeesh.
Hardy Heron? Hungry Hippos is such a better name - if only it wasn't 'marked...
You have the code? Do you have the code to the compiler?
Ok, it's GNU C Compiler. Do you have the blueprints for the chip so that you can tell it's not doing it's own routines whenever an interrupt is generated?
Oh, it's SPARC. Ok, here's one that'll get you - have you got at least two independant sources checking through the stack from top to bottom, making sure everything is ok? That's a shit-ton of code, I bet no-one does.
Trust no code you didn't write yourself. And even then, did you write *everything* - hardware included?
I'd consider myself a liberal, a libertarian and an agnostic. In no way do I want the government intruding on my life - but I expect them to help when asked.
If I get stabbed (let's face it, I'm in the UK, I'm not going to get shot), I want there to be CCTV and police at a moments call.
If someone commits a crime, I hope that person is dealt with in a fair manner - be it rehabilitation or incarceration.
Individuals generally *don't* know what's best - if you left it to the general vote, there would likely be ethnic cleansing, a fascist state and people would be miserable. Society needs rules, boundaries - and an end zone. And when things go wrong, there has to be something to protect us from those that choose to exploit us.
Liberty is a fantastic thing, but there is such a thing as "too much liberty". Getting the balance is something that (afaict) no country has acheived.
Read my post again. Free at the point of *need*. That means that if you break your leg, you don't have to worry about paying for it. Sure, it comes out of general taxation, but I'd rather it be spunked away within Government than have to deal with the typical corporation attitude.
At the end of the day - if you get seriously injured, there is no competition, you go to the first hospital and get fixed. You don't phone your insurer and get taken to a pre-approved doctor, and get pre-approved treatments - you go and get fixed. And to hell with the costs.
"Isn't it nice that all those doctors are willing to put in 10 hour days for absolutely no pay, and the medicine companys give away all of their products for free, and the power/gas to run the hospital just magically appears, not to mention the maintenance and construction costs."
Doctors get paid mighty fucking well in this country. GPs get an average of $200,000 per year. And few get 10 hour days - if they do, they certainly don't do 6/7 days a week at any rate!.
And medicine companies SHOULD give products away at near cost. I'm a firm believer in the nationalisation of pharmaceutical industries, because the US system has been *proven* to be wasteful, harmful and in some cases negligent of their duties to their patients. It's less of a factor in Europe, but you can bet your bottom dollar it still happens.
Seriously though, do you think that because I implied you don't pay for something at the point of use that you don't pay for it? Did you pay for the road outside your house? No - it came out of general taxation (well, I presume it does, it happens in the UK like that)
The US is either a third world country or at best similar to pre-war England when it comes to health. Which is such a shame, because apart from health, the US excels in so many other areas.
If I were a US citizen, the only candidates both similar to my interests and aren't a wasted vote (in that they stand no chance, thanks to the electoral college system) are Ron Paul and Mike Gravel. Neither are likely to pass the primaries/caucasses, but hey, going to support them either way.
At least you don't have to listen to sodding Hazel Blears whinge her way up to deputy Prime Minister. Gahd, she's a twat.
To be honest, I'd prefer to save a lot of cash through outrageous amounts for some drugs/vaccines.
The cervical cancer vaccine costs pennies to make and costs the NHS ~£300. Seems a *little* unfair, considering they recommend *all* girls to have it at the age of 12.
Plus, there's the whole bowel cancer drug that fixes eye problems that was refused to be licenced - but that's enough for one day.
If only pharmaceuticals could be nationalised...
For me, I don't see him as lying, I see him as bending the truth.
I've watched this movie, and he's glossed over the fact that our (the UK) NHS infrastructure is a bit shoddy. Sure, it's one of the best in the world, but it's a giant money hole.
Also, it appears to be an advert for Clinton. Would have been nice to see this party-neutral. Ah well.
If you ignore the partisan politics, this is a fantastic film with one important message: Societies are not judged by how they treat their heroes, but how they treat the bottom rung. Only with universal healthcare, free at the point of need (that's need, not want - no free boobjobs, obviously) can the US elevate it's status as one of the worst infant mortality rates, poor general health and positively narcissistic health corporation which have done nothing but bolster corporate profits.
The US is a fantastic place, but I'd never want to live in a country that didn't care about everyone - regardless of whether they're a billionaire or a meth-addict in dire straits.
It's your code that you've written. GPL it, then re-licence it for your boss to use. Nothing stopping a dual-licence. LGPL allows others to do things "less free" with it.
I'm British. I shop at Tesco. My microwave has a dial. It has no clock on it. We have a radio-synchronised clock on the wall. I win :)
This site uses *23* pages. Does anyone else hate pagination? Sure, it has it's uses (decreasing bandwidth consumption) if you're planning on using it as a reference, but if it's an ARTICLE meant for one-off reading, please, for Pete's sake, just use single page format and save us all the hassle of waiting 5 annoying seconds as the next page loads with all your shitty design!
At the end of the day, if you want to use a "quick link" system to quickly get someone to the conclusion, use this handy thing invented back in "the day". It's called Hypertext - use a hyperlink, use it in a table of contents, and save us all a crapload of wasted time.
But can you get Terry Wogan and Jeremy Vine? No? American radio sucks ;)
DAMN YOU - NTL WEB CACHE!!!
"Stop rationalizing - you're breaking the law to benefit yourself. It's that simple."
Actually, he's rationalising quite well. If I buy something, and it gets destroyed, and for me to get a digital copy of those original works without detriment to the original artist or recording label, then that's fine from a moral standpoint, or it is at least with me.
I've never bought anything from AllOfMP3, but you can get your bottom dollar that if I lost _all_ my music in a fire/theft situation, I sure as hell would consider putting $$$ towards the pockets of AllOfMP3, for the simple reason that they have what I want, how I want it. The price is a bonus to me.