Their stuff does NOT work fine. VoIP, VNC/RDP, media sharing services, all of those are broken with more than a single level of NAT. NAT is a well understood hack, it is NOT a solved problem.
NAT is only the solution when the users are simply consumers. If you want to do anything other than use the Internet as a replacement for cable TV, you need more than NAT. Multiple levels of NAT kill any kind of participation in the Internet and make everyone behind them a second-class Internet citizen.
Assuming you don't want to use VNC, VoIP, IM file transfers, bittorrent, access your home DVR remotely... sure, it's workable! It's as workable as a backup to the Internet as candles are a backup to electricity.
The problem is that once it's taken, it's hard as hell to get it back. Taxes almost never go lower. They always trend higher. Same thing with the executive powers granted by the PATRIOT act, and so on. Hell, Bush's tax cuts are being removed because they were only temporary.
I went to school in Golden, CO and I know that the Coors brewery there actually heats the dorms and a number of the CSM buildings with their "waste" heat. It's not common or municipal, but it's not totally unheard of in the USA.
It's actually not. It's a bullshit excuse to pass protectionist policies, of the same kind that New York used to pass a law saying every automobile needed to be preceded by someone carrying flags to warn people it was coming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_laws
The proof is that there are not mass casualties across the world from gasoline pump accidents as compared to Oregon and New Jersey.
I'm not worried about a nuclear weapon accidentally malfunctioning. The reason we have them and very few other countries do is because it's fucking HARD to make a nuke explode. If anything, be worried if they accidentally function.
Or perhaps they were proving to the public that you didn't lose anything if they went away. You still had everything you purchased from them. That's huge, what with various DRM servers shutting down and removing content people thought they purchased.
Really? I'm thinking that having a firewall on a machine to detect rogue application activity is a good thing. As a techie, I like knowing what programs are requesting access to the network. As an administrator, I'd want my desktop firewalls to prevent non-approved programs from accessing network resources.
I wasn't saying that they failed because they were shitty. I was simply saying that they didn't succeed because of Apple, there were other forces at work. The ones you described.
Just like the PS/2 ports died because Apple had ADB, and the way USB died when Apple introduced Firewire... oh, wait.
The fact that Apple had USB had jack and shit to do with its prominence. The fact that USB was liberally licensed and cheaply added to machines, as well as being massively useful for new devices like webcams and digital cameras was the reason USB succeeded. Note how many PC models from the mid-90s had both USB and PS/2 ports.
The 3200 is not a discrete card. It's barely above Intel's integrated graphics, even if it has its own memory. By "plays many games well", you have to mean games that are 4-5 years old on lower settings.
Civ5 is a modern game. If you want to play modern games, you will need more modern hardware and performance. A 3 year old laptop with graphics that were already severely sub-par at the time the machine was released will not cut it.
And economics gets thrown a screwball by things with infinite supply like bits and ideas. When you try to artificially regulate those into "classical" models and try to think of them in economic terms, you run into problems.
It's not the fructose. It's the enzymes and other shit that comes with that fructose as a by-product of processing the glucose in the natural corn syrup into fructose.
Food producers also have an interest in getting government kickbacks for growing too much corn. Cry me a fucking river. There was NO complaint about this for 4 decades until HFCS started being linked to cancer and other undesirable things. This is PURELY a political move. Saying otherwise is lobbyist bullshit, and yes, I am calling you out on that.
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Sorry. I was speaking as an end payer of taxes, not as a corporate "citizen" with massive access to our politicians to buy laws.
Their stuff does NOT work fine. VoIP, VNC/RDP, media sharing services, all of those are broken with more than a single level of NAT. NAT is a well understood hack, it is NOT a solved problem.
NAT is only the solution when the users are simply consumers. If you want to do anything other than use the Internet as a replacement for cable TV, you need more than NAT. Multiple levels of NAT kill any kind of participation in the Internet and make everyone behind them a second-class Internet citizen.
Assuming you don't want to use VNC, VoIP, IM file transfers, bittorrent, access your home DVR remotely... sure, it's workable! It's as workable as a backup to the Internet as candles are a backup to electricity.
The problem is that once it's taken, it's hard as hell to get it back. Taxes almost never go lower. They always trend higher. Same thing with the executive powers granted by the PATRIOT act, and so on. Hell, Bush's tax cuts are being removed because they were only temporary.
Whiteboard archival. That's the biggest use for a good camera in a phone in pretty much every office I've worked in.
Wait... Java is dying? Shit. Someone better tell pretty much every Fortune 500 companys back office software stack...
Libber? Like them liberals? I ain't usin' no commie software
I went to school in Golden, CO and I know that the Coors brewery there actually heats the dorms and a number of the CSM buildings with their "waste" heat. It's not common or municipal, but it's not totally unheard of in the USA.
It's actually not. It's a bullshit excuse to pass protectionist policies, of the same kind that New York used to pass a law saying every automobile needed to be preceded by someone carrying flags to warn people it was coming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_laws
The proof is that there are not mass casualties across the world from gasoline pump accidents as compared to Oregon and New Jersey.
I'm not worried about a nuclear weapon accidentally malfunctioning. The reason we have them and very few other countries do is because it's fucking HARD to make a nuke explode. If anything, be worried if they accidentally function.
Or perhaps they were proving to the public that you didn't lose anything if they went away. You still had everything you purchased from them. That's huge, what with various DRM servers shutting down and removing content people thought they purchased.
If you didn't know what it meant, can you be offended?
s/You can just/You have to
Really? I'm thinking that having a firewall on a machine to detect rogue application activity is a good thing. As a techie, I like knowing what programs are requesting access to the network. As an administrator, I'd want my desktop firewalls to prevent non-approved programs from accessing network resources.
I agree. I just wish we Americans had more of the colorful insults of the Queen's English: http://septicscompanion.com/showcat.php?cat=insults http://www.labnol.org/internet/insult-anyone-in-shakespearean-english/7251/
Great! Maybe we'll all be forced to learn how to communicate instead of being shocked senseless by a word someone says.
Sucks and blows were originally euphemisms for oral sex, specifically homosexual acts. Saying "he sucks" was pretty insulting back in the day.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=suck
I wasn't saying that they failed because they were shitty. I was simply saying that they didn't succeed because of Apple, there were other forces at work. The ones you described.
Just like the PS/2 ports died because Apple had ADB, and the way USB died when Apple introduced Firewire... oh, wait.
The fact that Apple had USB had jack and shit to do with its prominence. The fact that USB was liberally licensed and cheaply added to machines, as well as being massively useful for new devices like webcams and digital cameras was the reason USB succeeded. Note how many PC models from the mid-90s had both USB and PS/2 ports.
The 3200 is not a discrete card. It's barely above Intel's integrated graphics, even if it has its own memory. By "plays many games well", you have to mean games that are 4-5 years old on lower settings.
Civ5 is a modern game. If you want to play modern games, you will need more modern hardware and performance. A 3 year old laptop with graphics that were already severely sub-par at the time the machine was released will not cut it.
Valve so far has always kept it's promises to it's customers. I'm more worried about my OS not supporting the game in 10 years than Steam.
How much value do you get from the air you breathe? How much is it worth, in a monetary sense?
And economics gets thrown a screwball by things with infinite supply like bits and ideas. When you try to artificially regulate those into "classical" models and try to think of them in economic terms, you run into problems.
It's not the fructose. It's the enzymes and other shit that comes with that fructose as a by-product of processing the glucose in the natural corn syrup into fructose.
Food producers also have an interest in getting government kickbacks for growing too much corn. Cry me a fucking river. There was NO complaint about this for 4 decades until HFCS started being linked to cancer and other undesirable things. This is PURELY a political move. Saying otherwise is lobbyist bullshit, and yes, I am calling you out on that.