last week I _upgraded_ my mum from PIII733 to PIII933 (nice me. My media center is at PIII933 as well. My primary PC (for devel) obviously is capable of running STALKER at 1920x1080). All with 512mb of good ol' SDRAM.
She noticed that pages render faster immediately. Obviously in FF w/ ABP.
Actually this is good strategy against parents - ancient hw and immediate slowdown when they do/request something stupid:)
I think it might be the way around - they had it all in the place already, for full scale proper rip-off and somehow it turned out that their bill generating software was easier to update just by including a class of traffic charged at 0.00 per anything than instead omit it being 'registered' or 'reported'...
One more thing where USA is waaay behind the rest of the world - most operators in europe has whitelists of data destinations that will be served, recorded but not exposed/charged to the user long time ago. What happens in the third world countries where the [billing] systems are relatively new (when compared to the 'established' world) is an even more interesting thing... (cutting edge stuff like networks supporting both EDGE and UMTS, just for sake of doing so...)
at the same time: 1) message to existing customers: Sorry, we know. We are doing our best and we are honest about it. 2) message to new prospects: We are humans, we try. Hard.
Marvelous move. One of the best PR stunts of the decade, actually, I would say...
people are getting pretty fed up by being FORCED on the receiving end of the advertising. All is fine when you expect to see some ads and they are in moderate amounts. The frustration comes when someone is constantly calling you with some stupid ads or you are forced to sit thru 40 minutes of ads/warnings/shit before seeing your movie.
Google, so far, seems to understand this little tiny detail well. Their 24feet containers of cash just seem to confirm that whatever that is that they do - it works.
well, to start with - first thing I have done on my last few cellular contracts - disabled voicemail. Outright. Call waiting can remain, but if you fucking want to reach me - be so kind and call me during reasonable hours when I am picking up my phone. See, no need to listen to voicemail systems or try to decipher what somebody on a bad line speaking mandarin tries to say ether.
Yes, you are talking that CPU intense background tasks are running nicely. Good. Exactly the same thing that the guy has complains about (and so do I).
Now, just fire up some basic stuff you need to interact with. Or, gasp, do anything that involves some guaranteed delivery time to any particular IO pipe...
Remember BeOS? Niftly little thing. By firing everything interaction-related to insane priority they somehow nicely managed to convey that they rock. And if it cost you a.5% reduction while your downloaded vc1 movie transcodes to H.264 for PSP - who notices or gives a fuck?
uh. now, since you are, apparently, writing code same way as I do... BAD DOGGIE, STOP THAT 3 char indentation! (and appending space after comment token is really no way to go. Learn to use C style comments only (in Fortran))
Ok, big deal. All just because Microsoft decided to push microcode update thru windows update.
Any, _ANY_* CPU manufactured under the sun for quite a few years already has had some issues in the silicon. Some of those are more publicly announced, some not, but regardless almost any of them has had the issues fixed by means of pushing CPU software update with the help of the bios. Ugly, yes, why do you think, your BIOS [update] is the size it is, but it works and generally there is no fuss about it.
Also, quite a few operating systems know about the most critical/unfixable bugs and work around them. Simple as that, see 'cat/proc/cpuinfo | grep bug' if you don't believe me.
nonissue.
And all that fuss just because M$ decided that they could actually try to push it forwards as it probably was affecting windows. Not everyone updates bios on a daily basis.
What exactly is a security hole and what exactly is a feature?
Simple truth is - for any software with sufficient amount of users there will be users that will manage to find even most strange "features" and often exploit to their advantage (as in - it benefits them actially). As long as you are facing the unknown (users that might actuall think that any particular issue is a feature and use them) versus known ("yes, there seems to be a problem with IP parsing if using nonstandart syntax, but nobody has complained") those two has to be weighted quite carefully.
Because as soon as anyone in congress will even hear that you are doing two, in fact, your budget will be cut in half, sharp and now, and your boss will receive angry call to stop wasting taxpayers money. Unfortunately.
I don't think that MIT or IT Manager has anything to do with this (except for the possibility that he really could write a reasonable description of what is wrong and what he would expect to be done) - simple truth is that any real management will react in one and only one way when receiving such an e-mail - automatic Forward to the head of CS and ether "make it happen" or "fix it" written as first line (body of original e-mail included). Making it an order.
Granted, you have to make sure that: a) you have a genuine problem or issue that has to be fixed (just whining will go to dustbin) b) first few sentences states the issue and expected/offered resolution so that one can grasp the core of the issue w/o reading for 2 a4 pages. c) everything is written in a reasonable language.
wish you were here or time, any time (well, ok, I probably have them and quite more in up to 10 different releases/formats/mediums lying around already, but that is exactly the point). of course not in crappy mp3 or aac with some stupid 'oooh, we are actually only licensing it to you' crap. no way.
Slashdot Mirror
ahem...
:)
last week I _upgraded_ my mum from PIII733 to PIII933 (nice me. My media center is at PIII933 as well. My primary PC (for devel) obviously is capable of running STALKER at 1920x1080). All with 512mb of good ol' SDRAM.
She noticed that pages render faster immediately. Obviously in FF w/ ABP.
Actually this is good strategy against parents - ancient hw and immediate slowdown when they do/request something stupid
I think it might be the way around - they had it all in the place already, for full scale proper rip-off and somehow it turned out that their bill generating software was easier to update just by including a class of traffic charged at 0.00 per anything than instead omit it being 'registered' or 'reported'...
One more thing where USA is waaay behind the rest of the world - most operators in europe has whitelists of data destinations that will be served, recorded but not exposed/charged to the user long time ago. What happens in the third world countries where the [billing] systems are relatively new (when compared to the 'established' world) is an even more interesting thing... (cutting edge stuff like networks supporting both EDGE and UMTS, just for sake of doing so...)
erlang queues?
at the same time:
1) message to existing customers: Sorry, we know. We are doing our best and we are honest about it.
2) message to new prospects: We are humans, we try. Hard.
Marvelous move. One of the best PR stunts of the decade, actually, I would say...
people are getting pretty fed up by being FORCED on the receiving end of the advertising. All is fine when you expect to see some ads and they are in moderate amounts. The frustration comes when someone is constantly calling you with some stupid ads or you are forced to sit thru 40 minutes of ads/warnings/shit before seeing your movie.
Google, so far, seems to understand this little tiny detail well. Their 24feet containers of cash just seem to confirm that whatever that is that they do - it works.
ever changed cam-belt while doing 120mph on a highway?
well, to start with - first thing I have done on my last few cellular contracts - disabled voicemail. Outright. Call waiting can remain, but if you fucking want to reach me - be so kind and call me during reasonable hours when I am picking up my phone. See, no need to listen to voicemail systems or try to decipher what somebody on a bad line speaking mandarin tries to say ether.
Hitler would be proud!
Yes, you are talking that CPU intense background tasks are running nicely. Good. Exactly the same thing that the guy has complains about (and so do I).
.5% reduction while your downloaded vc1 movie transcodes to H.264 for PSP - who notices or gives a fuck?
Now, just fire up some basic stuff you need to interact with. Or, gasp, do anything that involves some guaranteed delivery time to any particular IO pipe...
Remember BeOS? Niftly little thing. By firing everything interaction-related to insane priority they somehow nicely managed to convey that they rock. And if it cost you a
in soviet russia a beowulf cluster blends YOU!
uh. now, since you are, apparently, writing code same way as I do...
BAD DOGGIE, STOP THAT 3 char indentation!
(and appending space after comment token is really no way to go. Learn to use C style comments only (in Fortran))
Could you be more specific - "switch over"?
Existing At&T simcard worked just fine w/o all itunes crap?
Ok, big deal. All just because Microsoft decided to push microcode update thru windows update.
/proc/cpuinfo | grep bug' if you don't believe me.
Any, _ANY_* CPU manufactured under the sun for quite a few years already has had some issues in the silicon. Some of those are more publicly announced, some not, but regardless almost any of them has had the issues fixed by means of pushing CPU software update with the help of the bios. Ugly, yes, why do you think, your BIOS [update] is the size it is, but it works and generally there is no fuss about it.
Also, quite a few operating systems know about the most critical/unfixable bugs and work around them. Simple as that, see 'cat
nonissue.
And all that fuss just because M$ decided that they could actually try to push it forwards as it probably was affecting windows. Not everyone updates bios on a daily basis.
Ever heard of spectrum auctions?
Or UK where networks have paid government what, ~15bn USD (ish) for rights to have their UMTS services running?
Try that thing with cheques and come back later. You seem to be under some kind of illusion (using linux, perhaps?)
What exactly is a security hole and what exactly is a feature?
Simple truth is - for any software with sufficient amount of users there will be users that will manage to find even most strange "features" and often exploit to their advantage (as in - it benefits them actially).
As long as you are facing the unknown (users that might actuall think that any particular issue is a feature and use them) versus known ("yes, there seems to be a problem with IP parsing if using nonstandart syntax, but nobody has complained") those two has to be weighted quite carefully.
Because as soon as anyone in congress will even hear that you are doing two, in fact, your budget will be cut in half, sharp and now, and your boss will receive angry call to stop wasting taxpayers money. Unfortunately.
But the point is valid, true.
ROT13 does not cover punctuation, capitalization or numbers... by definition...
Liar!
Yes, USA, that believes that one world of freedom* justifies one world in war.
China and the _TALIBAN_?
You voted republican, didn't you?
I don't think that MIT or IT Manager has anything to do with this (except for the possibility that he really could write a reasonable description of what is wrong and what he would expect to be done) - simple truth is that any real management will react in one and only one way when receiving such an e-mail - automatic Forward to the head of CS and ether "make it happen" or "fix it" written as first line (body of original e-mail included). Making it an order.
Granted, you have to make sure that:
a) you have a genuine problem or issue that has to be fixed (just whining will go to dustbin)
b) first few sentences states the issue and expected/offered resolution so that one can grasp the core of the issue w/o reading for 2 a4 pages.
c) everything is written in a reasonable language.
I hope you nicked the 2 wasted gig?
aussies?
I think he meant his computer.
sad days, when even FOSS is only Licensed for you to use...
wish you were here or time, any time (well, ok, I probably have them and quite more in up to 10 different releases/formats/mediums lying around already, but that is exactly the point).
of course not in crappy mp3 or aac with some stupid 'oooh, we are actually only licensing it to you' crap. no way.