The downside to braking hard is more what your not doing instead. If I don't brake hard I'm letting the car slow itself purely with 'engine braking', which in a modern (ie EFI/computerised fuel system - this might not be the case with Automatics, but it sure is with Manual 'stick' gearboxes) car uses 0 fuel instead of trying to hold the car at a steady speed until I slam the brakes on which uses >0 fuel. Also coasting (as in no acceleration or braking just letting the car slow naturally) up to a bunch of stopped traffic or a red light gives a much bigger window of time where the traffic can move or the light go green so I don't have to stop, I just slow down a bit and any speed I keep is a bit of speed I don't have to waste fuel getting back.
Any system accepting connections from the public internet may be vulnerable, this isn't specifically a windows problem - you can run Apache on Windows if you really want to. IPv6 makes it so all systems will be able to accept connections since there won't be any NAT to mess things up.
NAT implies firewalling, in a way, because you have to specifically tell the NAT device where to send incoming connection requests (as in port forwarding) otherwise it doesn't know what to do with them (which of the X computers in the private LAN behind the NAT gets the incoming request?) and drops the packets by default. This is what Ars is talking about, without a NAT the default process of dropping any incoming connection requests goes away too and the responsibility falls back to each of the computers on what was the pravate LAN behind the NAT box.
However I don't see why its a big problem, most OS's already come with firewalls that I assume can/will handle IPv6 so the firewall isn't going anywhere. It's just moving the firewall from a single box thats handling all internet traffic to all the systems on a network - configuration hell maybe but not an EVERYBODY PANIC situation.
Blizzard aren't just angry at the un-attended leveling offered by WoWGlider style bots. It also effects the WoW economy, which impacts their 7 to 8 million paying customers. If gold farmers, or players using bots have more gold* then prices go up, which makes it harder for the honest players to get enough gold to purchase items in-game.
Half-Life 1 had this feature and it kinda worked, all you had to do was click on a small icon next to someones name in the scoreboard and it would mute/unmute their voice comms. It was a pretty nice system apart from it occasionally muting/unmuting other people as well as the person you clicked on....
Didn't a University student use some uni equipment to snoop on the high speed bus in the original XBox where microsoft were banking on it requiring special (ie expensive) hardware to make it harder? How many hardware engineering students at university would find this kind of thing interesting? It only takes one with access to the hardware and the will/ability to crack the system wide open.
The hard thing about coming up with a way to deal with spam is not requiring 'all mail servers' to do something. As soon as a prevention method requires all mail servers to start doing something at the same time it becomes too difficult to implement because people/companies hate missing emails and if they stopped receiving email from non-verified servers emails would be missed/lost.
There are a few ways the deal with most spam already deployed but because they require all mail servers to do the same thing (and it's very hard to get ALL mail servers, even the legitimate ones, to do something) they have to allow the standard SMTP protocol to function as normal otherwise they will lose emails.
I personally wouldn't have much of a problem with being injected with a normal cold virus (Flu is a different matter) because at worst it's going to cause me to have a runny nose/headache/fell a bit shitty for a few days. As a healthy 24 year old I don't think colds pose much of a health risk to me (I could be wrong tho as I'm not a doctor) apart from the symptoms I mentioned before which I wouldn't even need medication to deal with.
If it's not going to cause healthy 20-30 year olds any serious problems and the subjects agree to be given the virus I could see this trial getting past an ethics committee.
Isn't there going to be an exception to allow non-GPL code to link with the Java standard libraries? If I'm remembering that right, it would mean they can't included the 'or later version' clause because it would move to the normal GPL so anything written in (that GPL3 licensed version of) Java would also have to be GPL.
Lets assume 1200x4800 dpi, 24bit colour can be printed and recognised by a printer/scanner with 0 errors. That gives 1200x4800x24x8.5x11 = 12,925,440,000 bits per page = 1,615,680,000 bytes per page = 1540.83 MB per page.
To get to the claimed 256GB per page he needs to have found some way to compress 256GB into 1.5GB (a ratio of 170:1 !) of data into 1 bit (on average across the whole page). Forgive me if I find that a little hard to believe.... But if it's true my 1.5 mbit DSL line could carry more data than an OC-3 line.
Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. Leviticus 19:15 In righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour
versus:
Most of the book of Galatians deals with this specific point. To summarize, though, in the OT covenant people are judged by works. In the NT covenant, that has not been contradicted, but replaced. Since everyone fell short, people are judged not by their works but by Christ's. If you attempt to judge someone who is standing in the new covenant according to the old law, you're really judging Christ by the old law... and He comes up perfect. But now you yourself must be judged according to the same criteria, under which you... don't come up perfect. And you don't need 50% to pass, but 100%.
And leap years? And anything else neither you nor I have thought of?
I suspect they don't do a 5-second fix up because it's a space shuttle and they do far more testing and documentation for their code than any other project in existence.
But if the Universe was made out of (what we now call) anti-matter wouldn't we simply call that substance matter instead? There may be differences between anti-matter and matter, but the names assigned to them are arbitrary; the first 'stuff' scientists observed is matter and its opposite is anti-matter.
What if the RFID serial number is the decryption key for the disk? Destroying the tag (or replacing it with a seperate RFID chip) won't work. This would make mass manufacture of disks harder since each one would be at least partially unique.
Disable the page file completely. It's an option in the same screen where you set the page file size.
I've had Windows ignore my first request to disable the page file before, but as is the way with Windows telling it twice actually got the message through.
I really like how the question being answered specifically related to UDP nothing about TCP. Games generally don't use TCP anyway, so there isn't much point in optimising it for better gaming performance...
I'm involved with a sizable (400-500 people) LAN party that runs every 2 months and regularly someone suggests using a wireless for it. It's no where near feasible and they end up getting smacked down by myself and/or a couple of other people.
Heres why:
Reading the review, the best bandwidth they got from this monster AP was 240Mbps combined across 15 clients. Put simply that is pathetic, a single full-duplex 100mbit connection could out do this $12,000 AP as far as bandwidth and latency is concerned.
Put 50 or so clients onto it even spread evenly across the channels and you're probably looking at around 4mbps per user. Trying to shove 500 people on this thing and it would be down to 400kbps which may not even be enough bandwidth for some games (doom3, bf2 any 30+ player DM). Anyone copying a patch, demo, frag video etc would cause that channel to come to a crawl.
The big problem is wireless networks are not switched, its like suggesting a lan go back to using hubs instead of switches; shared bandwidth + large number of users == pain. It always sounds like a nice idea to not have to worry about cables, but at the moment a wired network is so much better than wireless for any network with a large number of users and/or where reasonable amounts of bandwidth are required.
How is this insightful? The system in the article barely even runs IE, has messed up networking support and in general is almost useless. It's not something a normal person would ever want to do because it leaves their system in a barely functional state. MS do know how their OS works and thats why they have sanity checks in place to stop people doing this to their systems, just because there are ways around those checks doesn't mean MS don't understand their OS.
Do you get upset because I can kill X on my linux system getting rid of any GUI's and still be able to browse the web in lynx? No, you'd call that a feature and claim how robust Linux is, but when Windows does it somehow it's a bad thing?
So Darwins theory made a prediction that turned out to be true and your saying the theory of evolution is weaker because of that?
If evolution can't explain something then either the theory will be changed to fit with the new and existing observations or a completly new theory will replace it.
Whats going to happen when those touting Intelligent Design realise their theory is full of holes? Oh thats right, it's already been done and they went with the ostrich method of ignoring anything they can't make fit their theory.
And I could randomly plot the elements onto a table and call it a new layout. But that doesn't help at all with understanding, it doesn't show any new relationships between the elements.
So sure it's a new layout, but as far as I can see it's not worth the effort since it doesn't show anything better than the current table of elements. I think thats the point the grand-parent poster was trying to make.
When talking about how ready GNU/Linux is for Desktop user, there is no point in saying it's better because the source is available since no desktop user is going to care (hell most won't even know) what the source code is.
Desktop in this context means "clueless users who want it to do what they think they want", not a kernel hacker who is using a GUI.
I'm pretty sure I've posted about this before and I've been called a troll in some #linux channels for voicing my opinions on the state of Desktop distributions. It all comes down to what definition of Desktop User you want to use, for me a Desktop is something that works with very little effort on my part - recompiling anything is far too much work. Having to manually edit config files, mounting drives, stupidly named options and difficult to install programs are all too much work for a Desktop user.
Unfortunately most of the people who are good with linux don't understand this because they use a command line for everything (ie what do you need a GUI for?!?). They tell the user complicated bash commands to change the desktop background....
I run Slackware on my local server and WinXP on my desktop, I've tried many distribution as a desktop system and none have even come close to the simplicity and functionality of Windows XP. Don't believe me? Thats because your not me and your needs are different.:) Most of the time I'm not doing anything more complicated than internet/music/movies/games on Windows and Linux (at present) has trouble doing those things in a fashion I find acceptable.
Ubuntu has come a long compared to Redhat 7 I first started using but it is not an acceptable desktop OS for me at this time. On a server I wouldn't run anything but Slackware (certainly not Windows) since its what I know and perfectly usable over SSH and does everything I need in a server.
PS: I realise I indirectly called myself a "clueless user":) and thats what I want to be when using a Desktop OS, I shouldn't have to think about anything I'm doing. It should just work.
I actually didn't know that distribution of software mp3 decoders required a license, I just checked http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/index.html and found out that it does. License costs are $0.75 per user or $50,000 to $60,000 for an unlimited license for software decoders.
From memory I installed some mp3 package from the Debian repository so I can now play mp3's with Ubuntu. I agree its easy to do (as long as you know the name of the thing you need, which is another small-yet-annoying thing with Linux based systems), but my point is why do I have to? In this case it's license restrictions which I can accept when I'm spending $0 on the product.
Of all the distros I've tried none have been sufficient for my usage. I'm not a typical web/email person and when I try to do something a bit harder than that the distros become hard to use.
The best distro I've found so far is Ubuntu but the whole "we don't like MP3 because it's patented" is the first problem. I know this is more of a GNU/Gnome issue but it would be easy for Ubuntu to solve and is something that most normal people would like to use at some point. But you dont have any MP3's in your music collection because you've moved over to ogg, well good luck trying to play the vast majority of movie files that still use MP3 as the audio... The error you get isn't even very clear as to the problem.
Only the more recent versions of Gnome have been able to stream music across my windows file share/samba network, nothing else has even found my samba enabled (Slackware-based) server. Windows has never had any problems, as far as its concerned any samba share is a local disk, just how I want it to be.
Last time I tried I still couldn't get Gnome's standard file dialog to open/save files across the network. When I realised this I gave up and booted into windows, there was no point in me using Ubuntu for writing code (my intended use) if I couldn't save/load on a network share.
I know I could hard-mount the share as/mnt/network/whatever but why do I have to?
What if I wanted to open a file on a non-permanent system, do I have to mount that share so the standard file dialogs can see it? Sounds like pain to me, so I'll use something easier (ie Windows).
My problem with Linux desktops now is they are not at a point where I can't use them how I want. I'm still being forced to do things in other ways. The basic functionality is there, like web, email, office etc but the semi-advanced things like network file shares is not complete yet.
Because it's still Linux I can do things the hard way (ie smbmount and a command line) to get the functionality I want but it's not the easiest option, so I'll use something else for now and keep checking back on the more popular distros every 6 months until one gets it right.
P.S. This post is a general rant and not directly tied to the parent post. Comments and suggestions welcome - it's about time I tried a new distro.:)
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The downside to braking hard is more what your not doing instead. If I don't brake hard I'm letting the car slow itself purely with 'engine braking', which in a modern (ie EFI/computerised fuel system - this might not be the case with Automatics, but it sure is with Manual 'stick' gearboxes) car uses 0 fuel instead of trying to hold the car at a steady speed until I slam the brakes on which uses >0 fuel. Also coasting (as in no acceleration or braking just letting the car slow naturally) up to a bunch of stopped traffic or a red light gives a much bigger window of time where the traffic can move or the light go green so I don't have to stop, I just slow down a bit and any speed I keep is a bit of speed I don't have to waste fuel getting back.
Any system accepting connections from the public internet may be vulnerable, this isn't specifically a windows problem - you can run Apache on Windows if you really want to. IPv6 makes it so all systems will be able to accept connections since there won't be any NAT to mess things up.
NAT implies firewalling, in a way, because you have to specifically tell the NAT device where to send incoming connection requests (as in port forwarding) otherwise it doesn't know what to do with them (which of the X computers in the private LAN behind the NAT gets the incoming request?) and drops the packets by default. This is what Ars is talking about, without a NAT the default process of dropping any incoming connection requests goes away too and the responsibility falls back to each of the computers on what was the pravate LAN behind the NAT box.
However I don't see why its a big problem, most OS's already come with firewalls that I assume can/will handle IPv6 so the firewall isn't going anywhere. It's just moving the firewall from a single box thats handling all internet traffic to all the systems on a network - configuration hell maybe but not an EVERYBODY PANIC situation.
Blizzard aren't just angry at the un-attended leveling offered by WoWGlider style bots. It also effects the WoW economy, which impacts their 7 to 8 million paying customers. If gold farmers, or players using bots have more gold* then prices go up, which makes it harder for the honest players to get enough gold to purchase items in-game.
*Gold being the WoW in-game currency.
Half-Life 1 had this feature and it kinda worked, all you had to do was click on a small icon next to someones name in the scoreboard and it would mute/unmute their voice comms. It was a pretty nice system apart from it occasionally muting/unmuting other people as well as the person you clicked on....
Didn't a University student use some uni equipment to snoop on the high speed bus in the original XBox where microsoft were banking on it requiring special (ie expensive) hardware to make it harder? How many hardware engineering students at university would find this kind of thing interesting? It only takes one with access to the hardware and the will/ability to crack the system wide open.
The hard thing about coming up with a way to deal with spam is not requiring 'all mail servers' to do something. As soon as a prevention method requires all mail servers to start doing something at the same time it becomes too difficult to implement because people/companies hate missing emails and if they stopped receiving email from non-verified servers emails would be missed/lost.
There are a few ways the deal with most spam already deployed but because they require all mail servers to do the same thing (and it's very hard to get ALL mail servers, even the legitimate ones, to do something) they have to allow the standard SMTP protocol to function as normal otherwise they will lose emails.
I personally wouldn't have much of a problem with being injected with a normal cold virus (Flu is a different matter) because at worst it's going to cause me to have a runny nose/headache/fell a bit shitty for a few days. As a healthy 24 year old I don't think colds pose much of a health risk to me (I could be wrong tho as I'm not a doctor) apart from the symptoms I mentioned before which I wouldn't even need medication to deal with.
If it's not going to cause healthy 20-30 year olds any serious problems and the subjects agree to be given the virus I could see this trial getting past an ethics committee.
Isn't there going to be an exception to allow non-GPL code to link with the Java standard libraries? If I'm remembering that right, it would mean they can't included the 'or later version' clause because it would move to the normal GPL so anything written in (that GPL3 licensed version of) Java would also have to be GPL.
Lets assume 1200x4800 dpi, 24bit colour can be printed and recognised by a printer/scanner with 0 errors. That gives 1200x4800x24x8.5x11 = 12,925,440,000 bits per page = 1,615,680,000 bytes per page = 1540.83 MB per page.
To get to the claimed 256GB per page he needs to have found some way to compress 256GB into 1.5GB (a ratio of 170:1 !) of data into 1 bit (on average across the whole page). Forgive me if I find that a little hard to believe.... But if it's true my 1.5 mbit DSL line could carry more data than an OC-3 line.
versus:
And I'm still not sure what your point is....
And leap years? And anything else neither you nor I have thought of?
I suspect they don't do a 5-second fix up because it's a space shuttle and they do far more testing and documentation for their code than any other project in existence.
Minimize, yes. Eliminate totally, no.
It's still easy to have memory 'leaks' in a language with a GC.
But if the Universe was made out of (what we now call) anti-matter wouldn't we simply call that substance matter instead? There may be differences between anti-matter and matter, but the names assigned to them are arbitrary; the first 'stuff' scientists observed is matter and its opposite is anti-matter.
What if the RFID serial number is the decryption key for the disk? Destroying the tag (or replacing it with a seperate RFID chip) won't work. This would make mass manufacture of disks harder since each one would be at least partially unique.
So you're a giant tortise?
I love how the 3 different 'versions' on that page all point to the same file.
Disable the page file completely. It's an option in the same screen where you set the page file size.
I've had Windows ignore my first request to disable the page file before, but as is the way with Windows telling it twice actually got the message through.
I really like how the question being answered specifically related to UDP nothing about TCP. Games generally don't use TCP anyway, so there isn't much point in optimising it for better gaming performance...
I'm involved with a sizable (400-500 people) LAN party that runs every 2 months and regularly someone suggests using a wireless for it. It's no where near feasible and they end up getting smacked down by myself and/or a couple of other people.
Heres why:
Reading the review, the best bandwidth they got from this monster AP was 240Mbps combined across 15 clients. Put simply that is pathetic, a single full-duplex 100mbit connection could out do this $12,000 AP as far as bandwidth and latency is concerned.
Put 50 or so clients onto it even spread evenly across the channels and you're probably looking at around 4mbps per user. Trying to shove 500 people on this thing and it would be down to 400kbps which may not even be enough bandwidth for some games (doom3, bf2 any 30+ player DM). Anyone copying a patch, demo, frag video etc would cause that channel to come to a crawl.
The big problem is wireless networks are not switched, its like suggesting a lan go back to using hubs instead of switches; shared bandwidth + large number of users == pain. It always sounds like a nice idea to not have to worry about cables, but at the moment a wired network is so much better than wireless for any network with a large number of users and/or where reasonable amounts of bandwidth are required.
Do you get upset because I can kill X on my linux system getting rid of any GUI's and still be able to browse the web in lynx? No, you'd call that a feature and claim how robust Linux is, but when Windows does it somehow it's a bad thing?
So Darwins theory made a prediction that turned out to be true and your saying the theory of evolution is weaker because of that?
If evolution can't explain something then either the theory will be changed to fit with the new and existing observations or a completly new theory will replace it.
Whats going to happen when those touting Intelligent Design realise their theory is full of holes? Oh thats right, it's already been done and they went with the ostrich method of ignoring anything they can't make fit their theory.
And I could randomly plot the elements onto a table and call it a new layout. But that doesn't help at all with understanding, it doesn't show any new relationships between the elements.
So sure it's a new layout, but as far as I can see it's not worth the effort since it doesn't show anything better than the current table of elements. I think thats the point the grand-parent poster was trying to make.
Desktop in this context means "clueless users who want it to do what they think they want", not a kernel hacker who is using a GUI.
I'm pretty sure I've posted about this before and I've been called a troll in some #linux channels for voicing my opinions on the state of Desktop distributions. It all comes down to what definition of Desktop User you want to use, for me a Desktop is something that works with very little effort on my part - recompiling anything is far too much work. Having to manually edit config files, mounting drives, stupidly named options and difficult to install programs are all too much work for a Desktop user.
Unfortunately most of the people who are good with linux don't understand this because they use a command line for everything (ie what do you need a GUI for?!?). They tell the user complicated bash commands to change the desktop background....
I run Slackware on my local server and WinXP on my desktop, I've tried many distribution as a desktop system and none have even come close to the simplicity and functionality of Windows XP. Don't believe me? Thats because your not me and your needs are different. :) Most of the time I'm not doing anything more complicated than internet/music/movies/games on Windows and Linux (at present) has trouble doing those things in a fashion I find acceptable.
Ubuntu has come a long compared to Redhat 7 I first started using but it is not an acceptable desktop OS for me at this time. On a server I wouldn't run anything but Slackware (certainly not Windows) since its what I know and perfectly usable over SSH and does everything I need in a server.
PS: I realise I indirectly called myself a "clueless user" :) and thats what I want to be when using a Desktop OS, I shouldn't have to think about anything I'm doing. It should just work.
I actually didn't know that distribution of software mp3 decoders required a license, I just checked http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/index.html and found out that it does. License costs are $0.75 per user or $50,000 to $60,000 for an unlimited license for software decoders.
From memory I installed some mp3 package from the Debian repository so I can now play mp3's with Ubuntu. I agree its easy to do (as long as you know the name of the thing you need, which is another small-yet-annoying thing with Linux based systems), but my point is why do I have to? In this case it's license restrictions which I can accept when I'm spending $0 on the product.
Of all the distros I've tried none have been sufficient for my usage. I'm not a typical web/email person and when I try to do something a bit harder than that the distros become hard to use.
/mnt/network/whatever but why do I have to?
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The best distro I've found so far is Ubuntu but the whole "we don't like MP3 because it's patented" is the first problem. I know this is more of a GNU/Gnome issue but it would be easy for Ubuntu to solve and is something that most normal people would like to use at some point. But you dont have any MP3's in your music collection because you've moved over to ogg, well good luck trying to play the vast majority of movie files that still use MP3 as the audio... The error you get isn't even very clear as to the problem.
Only the more recent versions of Gnome have been able to stream music across my windows file share/samba network, nothing else has even found my samba enabled (Slackware-based) server. Windows has never had any problems, as far as its concerned any samba share is a local disk, just how I want it to be.
Last time I tried I still couldn't get Gnome's standard file dialog to open/save files across the network. When I realised this I gave up and booted into windows, there was no point in me using Ubuntu for writing code (my intended use) if I couldn't save/load on a network share.
I know I could hard-mount the share as
What if I wanted to open a file on a non-permanent system, do I have to mount that share so the standard file dialogs can see it? Sounds like pain to me, so I'll use something easier (ie Windows).
My problem with Linux desktops now is they are not at a point where I can't use them how I want. I'm still being forced to do things in other ways. The basic functionality is there, like web, email, office etc but the semi-advanced things like network file shares is not complete yet.
Because it's still Linux I can do things the hard way (ie smbmount and a command line) to get the functionality I want but it's not the easiest option, so I'll use something else for now and keep checking back on the more popular distros every 6 months until one gets it right.
P.S. This post is a general rant and not directly tied to the parent post. Comments and suggestions welcome - it's about time I tried a new distro.