Dude, they call it "Smart-Minimise" - that alone should tell you it's going nowhere fast. I wonder what it's patent reads like?
16096092562: A method for not closing a window when a user clicks the close button
Nothing makes me feel more alone in the world than techies who actually like Windows Mobile. Nothing has made me want my Nokia 101 back from 1994 more.
A packet is not the same thing as a byte. And although technically a transmitted byte should be called an octet, nobody does.
Wow, really I didn't know that. Here's me, obviously aware of the subtleties between bytes and octets and I didn't know a packet isn't the same as one. Anyway, surely the GGP meant metering actual traffic regardless of number of packets. Why would you want to do that?
But with the Internet, most consumers have no way at all of measuring their byte count. The ISP can make up any numbers they like, and most people have no way at all of knowing whether the numbers are accurate, or if the ISP is just making them up.
Not particularly ISP-ish, but with an NZ Vodafone Prepay - you've got no way of looking at how they've charged what, and will charge you a dollar just to check your balance via SMS (five times the ordinary txt charge). It's cheaper to check my bank balance via SMS.
I've often wondered why we can't have packet meters. Too difficult to implement? Too intimidating to customers?
Nah man, metering traffic to the octet is so 1995. (That's when I worked for an ISP who dropped it in favour of five "free" megabytes built into an increased monthly cost).
My previous (New Zealand) ADSL connection had to supply me in 10 GB blocks (11GB transfer == 20GB price), apparently due to the difficulty in supplying me with such huuuuge amounts of data and figuring out how to charge for it at the same time. The even called them "10 GB packs" on the invoice.
You're only highlighting his point: that car analogies are generally disastrous when applied to computing, and read-into even slightly since so many things apply some many different ways.
My God that's three people I've seen refer to Gentoo as some kind of powerful, professional distribution. I have to break my silence now.
Take it from me as a six year Gentoo user - it's the flakiest, poorly tested, badly maintained (if at all) out of date package tree you can get! It's been dead for months, and I've taken months too long to realise it. Unsurprisingly, infighting and factionism cause the community to rot from the inside out. If only the two people still on the team could agree on a definition of "dead" they'd have announced it by now.
I'll give you that sometimes the maintainers of packages for Gentoo do lag behind...
Yeah, it's ironic given the whole point of Gentoo / Portage is (well, was) access to bleeding-edge releases. But there's a reason, and it took me a long time to face: Gentoo has been dead for years.
Warning: The comments are disappointing. 49% are bickering over the date format used in the summary, 49% about the Irish Potato Famine, and the remaining Conflicker-related comments are predictable.
(I get the impression that they have the algorithm, rather than doing some sort of playforward attack as is being discussed here)
Yes, the Conflicker Working Group have extensively researched and reverse-engineered most components of the worm, including the routines that generate the domain names that it will scan.
Here in New Zealand they legislated to ban incandescents a while ago, but didn't account for the 45% of the population on methamphetamine, who were using the bulbs to smoke the stuff. They ended up reversing it.
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No kidding!
Nothing makes me feel more alone in the world than techies who actually like Windows Mobile. Nothing has made me want my Nokia 101 back from 1994 more.
..or in the words of my good friend Paddy, "If you don't like it, fork off!"
Wow, really I didn't know that. Here's me, obviously aware of the subtleties between bytes and octets and I didn't know a packet isn't the same as one. Anyway, surely the GGP meant metering actual traffic regardless of number of packets. Why would you want to do that?
Not particularly ISP-ish, but with an NZ Vodafone Prepay - you've got no way of looking at how they've charged what, and will charge you a dollar just to check your balance via SMS (five times the ordinary txt charge). It's cheaper to check my bank balance via SMS.
Nah man, metering traffic to the octet is so 1995. (That's when I worked for an ISP who dropped it in favour of five "free" megabytes built into an increased monthly cost).
My previous (New Zealand) ADSL connection had to supply me in 10 GB blocks (11GB transfer == 20GB price), apparently due to the difficulty in supplying me with such huuuuge amounts of data and figuring out how to charge for it at the same time. The even called them "10 GB packs" on the invoice.
They should leverage new synergies and look into NZ Vodafone's 'heads-I-win-and-eat-your-baby / tails-you-lose-and-get-fisted' approach.
Still, not as bad as rain on your wedding day.
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Take it from me as a six year Gentoo user - it's the flakiest, poorly tested, badly maintained (if at all) out of date package tree you can get! It's been dead for months, and I've taken months too long to realise it. Unsurprisingly, infighting and factionism cause the community to rot from the inside out. If only the two people still on the team could agree on a definition of "dead" they'd have announced it by now.
Yeah, it's ironic given the whole point of Gentoo / Portage is (well, was) access to bleeding-edge releases. But there's a reason, and it took me a long time to face: Gentoo has been dead for years.
I would also venture that the OS X slow Expose etc., being not very well hidden - are features, not easter eggs.
Should really include a youtube link
Invisible throws, handcuffs, the lot. Made the game a bit more fun when you got bored with it.
Warning: The comments are disappointing. 49% are bickering over the date format used in the summary, 49% about the Irish Potato Famine, and the remaining Conflicker-related comments are predictable.
...and using 4096-bit signing to authenticate anything tossed in the windows.
Yes, the Conflicker Working Group have extensively researched and reverse-engineered most components of the worm, including the routines that generate the domain names that it will scan.
And how do you propose they might do that? Reroute power through the main deflector dish?
Here in New Zealand they legislated to ban incandescents a while ago, but didn't account for the 45% of the population on methamphetamine, who were using the bulbs to smoke the stuff. They ended up reversing it.
No they're in the business of predicting 'gnashing of teeth' according to my research.
Now, we'll be able to utilise an multiple-targeting anti-avian geological-based projectile system.
These guys are taking good care of that for ya'. Grow your own corn and fleece a company out of a buck will you, you commie bastard.
Since at this stage not one person other than you has mentioned it, maybe you're not as smart as you think you are.
I'm glad you're not bitter :)
Maybe the point of using a quote from "damn near a century ago" was to illustrate that such things have been going for, at least "damn near a century"