If I remember rightly, its not the speed of signal transmission, its the distance travelled.
Both could use laser, and both travel at ~SOL, but because one has to travel thousands of miles further than the nice straight(er) fibre, it takes longer.
With super high speed broadband available to every geek in the world, the increase in heat output from friction alone is enough to melt the polar ice caps.
In years gone by, adventurers and missionaries used to set out travelling the globe, and they wouldn't return for months or years at a time. They seemed to cope reasonably well without the problems the grandparent mentioned.
It will be a return to those days once we start flying out into the great unknown.
Besides, with modern communication techniques, near realtime video messages can be bounced around.
An aspect which supports the grandparents concerns however, prisoners or hostages go through similar relationship deprivation, but respond less well to those who prepared and planned for a seperation.
Don't worry, after 3 years hibernation, your extra flab wouldv burnt off, and if things get really scary, you could pull your spare belly skin over your head like a blanket!
Take away the porn, riaa poisoned music tracks, dodgy cam rips from the cinema, users documents or system folders, and your left with approximately 47kb of actual free publically accessible "legal" information;)
I should clarify that apart from deleting all my mail and closing my account I can do nothing about it. I don't want to lose my account though, I *like* gmail, and certainly don't want to go back to the hotmail wasteground.
(and also look sheepishly at the grammatical screwup in my previous post)
Hes got a damned good point. I would personally like to see some options for highlighting recent comments and reducing the font for older ones. I dont think however we can work it based on whether we have displayed them before. Theres been lots of occasions where I have closed the page of comments without reading every one, then later going back to read the rest.
I read that as something completely unintentional I'm sure:
upgrade from one version of Windows to a newer release and nine out of 10 enterprise customers said that such a change wouldn't provide any tangible business gains.
Its been rolling around my head for a while since, and I've been playing with a few different algorythms and templates.
The problem comes partly from the rendering preferences for every single user. It will be difficult and slow to impliment paging exactly as we want. I am certain that some(lots?) of users don't notice this problem, either because (as you say) they don't go over page 1, or the algorythm actually works for AC/default view settings.
I don't doubt however that there is an eligant solution waiting to be discovered.
One option might be to not worry about anything else, and no matter what else is added to a page, the first commentID that was chopped to make a page becomes the first comment for the next page. Viewing in threaded mode means you may miss the newest comments, but they were on a thread you had already passed anyway.
A further simpler option may be to allow us to read the entire conversation (within reason, say when threshhold>2 or 3, view everything). That would save the servers still, since most topics have ~100 moderated comments.
Its amusing to note peoples reactions when they hear that XYZ is suffering a DDOS attack. They invariably open the browser and attempt to open the site. Its natural human instinct, they open it, say "Yup, its still down" and either click refresh a few times, or close it.
Watching how slash/fark folks handle flooding a site is similar.
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If I remember rightly, its not the speed of signal transmission, its the distance travelled.
Both could use laser, and both travel at ~SOL, but because one has to travel thousands of miles further than the nice straight(er) fibre, it takes longer.
With super high speed broadband available to every geek in the world, the increase in heat output from friction alone is enough to melt the polar ice caps.
In years gone by, adventurers and missionaries used to set out travelling the globe, and they wouldn't return for months or years at a time. They seemed to cope reasonably well without the problems the grandparent mentioned.
It will be a return to those days once we start flying out into the great unknown.
Besides, with modern communication techniques, near realtime video messages can be bounced around.
An aspect which supports the grandparents concerns however, prisoners or hostages go through similar relationship deprivation, but respond less well to those who prepared and planned for a seperation.
Don't worry, after 3 years hibernation, your extra flab wouldv burnt off, and if things get really scary, you could pull your spare belly skin over your head like a blanket!
Go onto wikipedia and examine a single article.
The entire history of every modification is available, and changes and evolution can be seen.
This is the ideal way to handle database systems, and IMHO all databases should be designed in this manner.
Be thankful it goes to the wrong place.
;)
What you were doing clicking on a Microsoft link in the first place I dunno.
Take away the porn, riaa poisoned music tracks, dodgy cam rips from the cinema, users documents or system folders, and your left with approximately 47kb of actual free publically accessible "legal" information ;)
I've already got a gmail account, can I have a free iPod instead ;)
Sorry, google only allows usernames with 6 characters or more.
Please enter a longer name, or choose from the following selection:
Dodiddleyoh@gmail.com
Dangdiddleydoh@gmail.com
ArghhhhDoh@gmail.com
I should clarify that apart from deleting all my mail and closing my account I can do nothing about it. I don't want to lose my account though, I *like* gmail, and certainly don't want to go back to the hotmail wasteground.
(and also look sheepishly at the grammatical screwup in my previous post)
Its not like a local exploit where we can stop using it, or update ourselves.
This SHOULD get maximum exposure. Maybe then the heads in google will jump on this with all their PHDs.
As for not fixing it, I doubt thats an option. Such a monumental failure so start in their public offering will be devistating to them.
Its a shame the poster was AC.
Hes got a damned good point. I would personally like to see some options for highlighting recent comments and reducing the font for older ones.
I dont think however we can work it based on whether we have displayed them before.
Theres been lots of occasions where I have closed the page of comments without reading every one, then later going back to read the rest.
Do we care who shoots first in this one?
Dictionary.com says the correct spelling is: SHIT.
You need the government in this case because the person dialing the number can impersonate any of your already trusted numbers.
Ring Ring.
"Ahhhhh good its my girlfriend...Hello......."
I don't wanna find a pizza shop, I want broadband fast enough to deliver hot pizza via email.
I read that as something completely unintentional I'm sure:
upgrade from one version of Windows to a newer release and nine out of 10 enterprise customers said that such a change wouldn't provide any tangible business gains.
Balmey wouldn't have meant it that way, would he?
Error 503: Stop fucking refreshing you Firefox fanboy!!!!
Only joking, I use FFox as well, and have been known to refresh occasionally
I'm convinced this is half of the reason for the 503s.
I put a bug request in about this yonks ago.
Its been rolling around my head for a while since, and I've been playing with a few different algorythms and templates.
The problem comes partly from the rendering preferences for every single user. It will be difficult and slow to impliment paging exactly as we want. I am certain that some(lots?) of users don't notice this problem, either because (as you say) they don't go over page 1, or the algorythm actually works for AC/default view settings.
I don't doubt however that there is an eligant solution waiting to be discovered.
One option might be to not worry about anything else, and no matter what else is added to a page, the first commentID that was chopped to make a page becomes the first comment for the next page. Viewing in threaded mode means you may miss the newest comments, but they were on a thread you had already passed anyway.
A further simpler option may be to allow us to read the entire conversation (within reason, say when threshhold>2 or 3, view everything). That would save the servers still, since most topics have ~100 moderated comments.
How about allowing every extension to run, and mailbombing the extension author if it fucks up?
I think fully wireless local level nets are sneaking up on governments and ISPs.
Its not going to be long until wireless is *so* common in lots of places that linking over the public phone lines won't be necessary.
Will this be the only place left after palladium hits?
[/tin foil beany]
Its amusing to note peoples reactions when they hear that XYZ is suffering a DDOS attack.
They invariably open the browser and attempt to open the site.
Its natural human instinct, they open it, say "Yup, its still down" and either click refresh a few times, or close it.
Watching how slash/fark folks handle flooding a site is similar.
It seems to layout correctly, but the font is all screwed up, it just looks like gibberish ;)
Excellent. Thanks for the insight.
It certainly makes sense.
(As you can probably tell, I haven't had any experience of big rigs)
No, I asked this because this machine cannot be active and at 100% cpu usage all the time.
:)
During the times of no activity what does it do?
Now, since you answered my question (running on x allows any of the screensavers), I will have to thank you Mr AC.
A secondary follow on question now springs to mind, how quickly would the SETI saver run on one of these boxes, has anybody benchmarked it?