Lots of companies that offer demos are moving to bittorrent. The only problem is there are zero seeds and zero peers. For something like this, a full game being given away for free, I could see using bittorrent.. One existing problem, though, is most people who are downloading have upload speeds that are just a fraction if their download speed. And there's no real motivation (other than "You Just Should") for sharing after your download is done.
I don't know if this is supported by the bittorrent protocol, but combining bittorrent with freecache.org would be ideal. The freecache service allows for caching of files over 5MB in size, and works by prefixing your URL like so:
After the freecache system downloads it itself and seeds it to multiple other high-speed servers, an end-user can click on the link and their browser will get redirected to one of the other servers.
If bittorrent allows for HTTP redirects to be used in combination with the URL for download, this would be a perfect solution.
I believe he wants to get rid of the wire lines all together. Forwarding the cell phone to the wire lines wouldn't accomplish this...
Of course, he could always get a second cheap cell phone and then forward the calls from one to the other. That way, all he needs to do is plug the second cell into... oh wait, never mind.
Get up out of the chair. Leave the building. Walk half a mile or more. Look at the horizon, or at birds, or clouds -- at things far away.
See your boss in the distance, gently waving wondering why you're not at work. Come back and find several boxes neatly packed with the contents of your former office. Ahh... bliss.
No problem. You sue the guy who hires the spammer to spam. They advertise, they have to have a way to collect the money.
Okay, so I anonymously snail-mail some spammer schmuck a few hundred bucks in cash to spam a few million email addresses from California with *your* URL. Enjoy your bankruptcy.
the average employee was out sick seven days a year
Oh really. The average Scandinavian is out thirty days a year...
Out *sick* 30 days per year? 50 working weeks, 5 days a week, that's 250 working days. That's 12% of the year that they're sick. You're saying that they're sick 1 day out of every 8 days? That IS sick!
Okay, not bad. But it looks like you're lifting on the diagonal, both to the front and the right. Which means you're using two of the three deltoid heads. Try lifting that same mass straight out to the side, so that your arm is parallel to the plane of your torso. If you can do *that* with 20 pounds, I'll be very impressed!
A lack of myostatin would more than likely mean a quick deterioration of the skeletal muscle system...
Unless I've misunderstood what you mean, don't you have this backwards? Myostatin inhibits muscle growth. So a *surplus* of myostatin would lead to deterioration of muscle tissue.
Considering the fact that you have to pay $50 for the latest title, I don't think too many people would enjoy playing a game littered with advertisements.
People happily fork over $50 for a Nike shirt which has a huge Nike advertisement plastered on the front -- the swoosh logo. Why people pay a premium effectively to advertise company logos is beyond me, but I honestly don't see the average consumer caring. If it distracts from the gameplay, then people will take notice. However, for games which integrate advertising in a real-life way (eg: billboards along a city street, ads along the boards in a hockey rink, Smith & Wesson shotguns in Doom...) I think people will happily accept it because it's what they're accustomed to.
The EROS project (Extremely Reliable Operating System) is an attempt to achieve this -- continual persistence with fine grained capability-based security. Essentially, *everything* is serializable to disk and is done so periodically (eg: every 30 seconds). This has the benefit that you can have the power go out unexpectedly, reboot the system, and only lose half a minute worth of work as all your apps will be restored to their last state. An amusing anecdote about the predecessor to EROS, KeyKOS, from this page... true story:
At the 1990 uniforum vendor exhibition, key logic, inc. found that their booth was next to the novell booth. Novell, it seems, had been bragging in their advertisements about their recovery speed. Being basically neighborly folks, the key logic team suggested the following friendly challenge to the novell exhibitionists: let's both pull the plugs, and see who is up and running first.
Now one thing Novell is not is stupid. They refused.
Somehow, the story of the challenge got around the exhibition floor, and a crowd assembled. Perhaps it was gremlins. Never eager to pass up an opportunity, the keykos staff happily spent the next hour kicking their plug out of the wall. Each time, the system would come back within 30 seconds (15 of which were spent in the bios prom, which was embarassing, but not really key logic's fault). Each time key logic did this, more of the audience would give novell a dubious look.
Eventually, the novell folks couldn't take it anymore, and gritting their teeth they carefully turned the power off on their machine, hoping that nothing would go wrong. As you might expect, the machine successfully stopped running. Very reliable.
Having successfully stopped their machine, novell crossed their fingers and turned the machine back on. 40 minutes later, they were still checking their file systems. Not a single useful program had been started.
Figuring they probably had made their point, and not wanting to cause undeserved embarassment, the keykos folks stopped pulling the plug after five or six recoveries.
Yes, it would be great. Have you tried to dd a disk image onto a CF card? They are solid state, yet they have awfully slow writing cycles, compared to good old HDDs.
Is there not a limit to the number of times you can write to a CF card? I've heard the figure of a few hundred thousand write cycles tossed around. I don't know if this is on the whole, per memory location, or simply an estimate based on typical usage and expected media lifespan. However, it might come into play depending on how write-intensive your apps are.
on the contrary -- web browsing and email reading has become so efficient that I could surf the web on my treo 180 (you know the one with the 33mhz proc) and read my email from a eudora email client. if you need more than a standard computer to surf the web and more than a 28.8 modem, your computer is in terrible shape.
Sure, and 640K is enough for anyone. Some people enjoy having web pages download fully in 2 seconds rather than waiting 15 seconds for it to load. It's great when you're doing web searches and need to visit a lot of links to find *just* the right information you wanted. But I guess if you have unlimited patience and time doesn't mean much to you, it doesn't matter if it takes longer. For myself, I'd rather pay an extra $20 a month, not tie up a phone line with dialup, and not waste my time waiting.
Hmm... wouldn't that mean Gmail is decoding attachments too? I would have expected to hear about that before now, since that seems much worse for privacy than just reading the text of the email.
Every email provider that scans for viruses inside of zip files decodes attachments as well. This is not the privacy issue you're looking for... move along.
One of my pet peeves with Hotmail is how it changes every web link to put a Hotmail frame around it. If you have a long email and you spend a lot of time reading it, then click on a link, it tells you that your message has expired and that you need to reload the message. WTF??? They probably just want more ad impressions.
Gmail, on the other hand, opens links up in a new clean window without any extra crap around it -- as should be the case. That's what I find a lot with Gmail, as with Google in general... it just feels right and works intuitively.
Currently, attachments can be up to 10MB in size and cannot contain executable files, even if they're zipped. While it's still possible to rename Cracked_Photoshop.exe to Cracked_Photoshop.tmp and zip it up, it'll certainly cut down on the amount of warez/viruses passed through Gmail.
Same here. Two incorrect email accounts from the same IP blackholes the IP address. Combine that with sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, blocking all of China and Korea, various cable/adsl blocks, subject-based blocking (eg: for common virus email subjects), and blocking any IP address which dares to identify itself as being my domain and the spam gets cut down *very* dramatically.
To manage spam client-side, I use POPFile. All spam gets tagged with [spam] in the subject and is moved to the junk folder. It usually runs at 99.7%+ accuracy rate. A quick scan through the junk folder to see if it missed anything and I select all and delete. Very effective.
I call bullshit, learning more specifics does not somehow negate your general purpose knowledge.
Did you even read the post you were replying to? I've included the full paragraph for your enlightenment:
If you study to the level of RHCE (or whatever) you can't ever transfer your skills to anything else. In fact, you sign in blood not to ever touch a Gentoo system and working with Suse is likely to land you a jail term (not much of a risk if you take the optional lobotomy provided at the exam center)
Did the signing in blood, jail term, and lobotomy references not give it away that the poster wasn't serious? But enough joking... here's a completely serious statement:
Getting RedHat certification changes your brain to read-only so that you can never learn anything ever again, EVER!
Ok let me put it in other words - if the banks biggest concern was customer happiness, then the bank would give each customer a 0% loan, no matter their credit rating. They would give each person a free checking account that gives them free checks, internet access, etc. DOesn't charge them any fees and pays all bounced checks. The bank doesn't do this, why? Because it is not profitable. That is all there is to it.
You're right, in a way. But a customer who expects free service from a company is mistaken. Some restaurants offer a satisfaction guarantee, saying that they promise you'll be satisfied with your food. Does this mean that customers are only satisfied if the meal is free? Of course not. People expect to pay for a service... whether it's banking or getting a meal served to them. Within that expectation of payment for services, the customer can still be very happy. But once a bank crosses the line of charging reasonable money for services and they start screwing over the customer, then a happy customer becomes bitter and will take their business elsewhere.
I know what you mean though -- it's somewhat of a sham to say that any business wants a happy customer. What they really want is money in their pockets. But in order to get more money, it requires more customers doing more business. So businesses are really forced to make customers happy. If they could charge you money and you're required to pay no matter what, then they'll gladly screw you over. An example of this is when you pay income tax. The government couldn't care less if you're happy about it. You're required to do it and that's that, so the government happily screws you over.
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(Ow, I think my head hurts now.)
Must be the iocaine.
I know we're on slashdot, but a little brain helps from time to time, combined with the preview button.
A little bit of brain also helps to detect sarcasm, something you might wish to try from time to time.
Lots of companies that offer demos are moving to bittorrent. The only problem is there are zero seeds and zero peers. For something like this, a full game being given away for free, I could see using bittorrent.. One existing problem, though, is most people who are downloading have upload speeds that are just a fraction if their download speed. And there's no real motivation (other than "You Just Should") for sharing after your download is done.
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I don't know if this is supported by the bittorrent protocol, but combining bittorrent with freecache.org would be ideal. The freecache service allows for caching of files over 5MB in size, and works by prefixing your URL like so:
http://freecache.org/http://gamez.com/HalfLife2De
After the freecache system downloads it itself and seeds it to multiple other high-speed servers, an end-user can click on the link and their browser will get redirected to one of the other servers.
If bittorrent allows for HTTP redirects to be used in combination with the URL for download, this would be a perfect solution.
I believe he wants to get rid of the wire lines all together. Forwarding the cell phone to the wire lines wouldn't accomplish this...
Of course, he could always get a second cheap cell phone and then forward the calls from one to the other. That way, all he needs to do is plug the second cell into... oh wait, never mind.
Get up out of the chair. Leave the building. Walk half a mile or more.
Look at the horizon, or at birds, or clouds -- at things far away.
See your boss in the distance, gently waving wondering why you're not at work.
Come back and find several boxes neatly packed with the contents of your former office.
Ahh... bliss.
No problem. You sue the guy who hires the spammer to spam. They advertise, they have to have a way to collect the money.
Okay, so I anonymously snail-mail some spammer schmuck a few hundred bucks in cash to spam a few million email addresses from California with *your* URL. Enjoy your bankruptcy.
- the average employee was out sick seven days a year
Oh really. The average Scandinavian is out thirty days a year...Out *sick* 30 days per year? 50 working weeks, 5 days a week, that's 250 working days. That's 12% of the year that they're sick. You're saying that they're sick 1 day out of every 8 days? That IS sick!
Think about it. His sig is self-referential.
This article describes the quite fundamental differences between what each OS does. It's a very interesting read.
http://www.cloudmaster.com/cloudmaster/lift-21.5lb .mpg
Okay, not bad. But it looks like you're lifting on the diagonal, both to the front and the right. Which means you're using two of the three deltoid heads. Try lifting that same mass straight out to the side, so that your arm is parallel to the plane of your torso. If you can do *that* with 20 pounds, I'll be very impressed!
A lack of myostatin would more than likely mean a quick deterioration of the skeletal muscle system...
Unless I've misunderstood what you mean, don't you have this backwards? Myostatin inhibits muscle growth. So a *surplus* of myostatin would lead to deterioration of muscle tissue.
Considering the fact that you have to pay $50 for the latest title, I don't think too many people would enjoy playing a game littered with advertisements.
People happily fork over $50 for a Nike shirt which has a huge Nike advertisement plastered on the front -- the swoosh logo. Why people pay a premium effectively to advertise company logos is beyond me, but I honestly don't see the average consumer caring. If it distracts from the gameplay, then people will take notice. However, for games which integrate advertising in a real-life way (eg: billboards along a city street, ads along the boards in a hockey rink, Smith & Wesson shotguns in Doom...) I think people will happily accept it because it's what they're accustomed to.
Now one thing Novell is not is stupid. They refused.
Somehow, the story of the challenge got around the exhibition floor, and a crowd assembled. Perhaps it was gremlins. Never eager to pass up an opportunity, the keykos staff happily spent the next hour kicking their plug out of the wall. Each time, the system would come back within 30 seconds (15 of which were spent in the bios prom, which was embarassing, but not really key logic's fault). Each time key logic did this, more of the audience would give novell a dubious look.
Eventually, the novell folks couldn't take it anymore, and gritting their teeth they carefully turned the power off on their machine, hoping that nothing would go wrong. As you might expect, the machine successfully stopped running. Very reliable.
Having successfully stopped their machine, novell crossed their fingers and turned the machine back on. 40 minutes later, they were still checking their file systems. Not a single useful program had been started.
Figuring they probably had made their point, and not wanting to cause undeserved embarassment, the keykos folks stopped pulling the plug after five or six recoveries.
Yes, it would be great. Have you tried to dd a disk image onto a CF card? They are solid state, yet they have awfully slow writing cycles, compared to good old HDDs.
Is there not a limit to the number of times you can write to a CF card? I've heard the figure of a few hundred thousand write cycles tossed around. I don't know if this is on the whole, per memory location, or simply an estimate based on typical usage and expected media lifespan. However, it might come into play depending on how write-intensive your apps are.
You upgrade hardware with the power on?
Your hardware upgrade is a daily ritual?
on the contrary -- web browsing and email reading has become so efficient that I could surf the web on my treo 180 (you know the one with the 33mhz proc) and read my email from a eudora email client. if you need more than a standard computer to surf the web and more than a 28.8 modem, your computer is in terrible shape.
Sure, and 640K is enough for anyone. Some people enjoy having web pages download fully in 2 seconds rather than waiting 15 seconds for it to load. It's great when you're doing web searches and need to visit a lot of links to find *just* the right information you wanted. But I guess if you have unlimited patience and time doesn't mean much to you, it doesn't matter if it takes longer. For myself, I'd rather pay an extra $20 a month, not tie up a phone line with dialup, and not waste my time waiting.
You should really be asking, "What the hell is Spotted Dick?"
Hmm... wouldn't that mean Gmail is decoding attachments too? I would have expected to hear about that before now, since that seems much worse for privacy than just reading the text of the email.
Every email provider that scans for viruses inside of zip files decodes attachments as well. This is not the privacy issue you're looking for... move along.
Soon Linux will become the bailiff, judge, jury, court illustrator, public defender, janitor, and CourTV anchor.
So what role does that leave for Microsoft? The executioner?
One of my pet peeves with Hotmail is how it changes every web link to put a Hotmail frame around it. If you have a long email and you spend a lot of time reading it, then click on a link, it tells you that your message has expired and that you need to reload the message. WTF??? They probably just want more ad impressions.
Gmail, on the other hand, opens links up in a new clean window without any extra crap around it -- as should be the case. That's what I find a lot with Gmail, as with Google in general... it just feels right and works intuitively.
Currently, attachments can be up to 10MB in size and cannot contain executable files, even if they're zipped. While it's still possible to rename Cracked_Photoshop.exe to Cracked_Photoshop.tmp and zip it up, it'll certainly cut down on the amount of warez/viruses passed through Gmail.
Same here. Two incorrect email accounts from the same IP blackholes the IP address. Combine that with sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, blocking all of China and Korea, various cable/adsl blocks, subject-based blocking (eg: for common virus email subjects), and blocking any IP address which dares to identify itself as being my domain and the spam gets cut down *very* dramatically.
To manage spam client-side, I use POPFile. All spam gets tagged with [spam] in the subject and is moved to the junk folder. It usually runs at 99.7%+ accuracy rate. A quick scan through the junk folder to see if it missed anything and I select all and delete. Very effective.
I call bullshit, learning more specifics does not somehow negate your general purpose knowledge.
Did you even read the post you were replying to? I've included the full paragraph for your enlightenment:
If you study to the level of RHCE (or whatever) you can't ever transfer your skills to anything else. In fact, you sign in blood not to ever touch a Gentoo system and working with Suse is likely to land you a jail term (not much of a risk if you take the optional lobotomy provided at the exam center)
Did the signing in blood, jail term, and lobotomy references not give it away that the poster wasn't serious? But enough joking... here's a completely serious statement:
Getting RedHat certification changes your brain to read-only so that you can never learn anything ever again, EVER!
In other news, the Army plans to deploy Quad Damage by 2009.
Ok let me put it in other words - if the banks biggest concern was customer happiness, then the bank would give each customer a 0% loan, no matter their credit rating. They would give each person a free checking account that gives them free checks, internet access, etc. DOesn't charge them any fees and pays all bounced checks. The bank doesn't do this, why? Because it is not profitable. That is all there is to it.
You're right, in a way. But a customer who expects free service from a company is mistaken. Some restaurants offer a satisfaction guarantee, saying that they promise you'll be satisfied with your food. Does this mean that customers are only satisfied if the meal is free? Of course not. People expect to pay for a service... whether it's banking or getting a meal served to them. Within that expectation of payment for services, the customer can still be very happy. But once a bank crosses the line of charging reasonable money for services and they start screwing over the customer, then a happy customer becomes bitter and will take their business elsewhere.
I know what you mean though -- it's somewhat of a sham to say that any business wants a happy customer. What they really want is money in their pockets. But in order to get more money, it requires more customers doing more business. So businesses are really forced to make customers happy. If they could charge you money and you're required to pay no matter what, then they'll gladly screw you over. An example of this is when you pay income tax. The government couldn't care less if you're happy about it. You're required to do it and that's that, so the government happily screws you over.