In Blizzard's case, they have millions of customers conencted all the time, so that was probably a good idea. Plus, they tend to release patches to the entire population at the same time, which MASSIVELY favors the distributed P2P model...
From a financial perspective, absolutely. Blizzard saves a ton of money by not providing their updates through companies like Akamai, who are capable of handling that level of load.
World of Warcraft already uses Bittorrent technology as a way to distribute large amounts of content at a lower cost to the company and faster speeds to all of their clients
Lower cost, for sure, but it is not faster. The fastest download is when you're downloading from a single server that is able to fully saturate your connection. Even better if this server is situated directly within your ISP as is the case for some content delivery networks (Limelight I think does this). Having to negotiate individual connections with hundreds of peers around the world and incurring the associated lag and protocol overhead can't even compare.
i'm the 'e' in stem and am about to grad and get a job. What evidence do you have of IBM "discarding" employees? may you point me in the dir. of some news articles or the like?
I guess you don't keep up with the latest news from your future colleagues at EE Times India (Electronics Design & Engineering).
"IBM is reportedly laying off about 400 U.S.-based engineers who have been working on the development of components for one of IBM's most important hardware products, according to sources familiar with the company's plans."
"IBM has publicly stated its intention to invest $6 billion over the next three years developing its high-tech workforce in India. Engineers and programmers in India are paid less than half of what their U.S. counterparts earn."
Yup, because an other statistic in The Fine Article puts the usage at 60.03%. Surely 2 digits are more accurate than 0 digits, so you know which one is more accurate...
Or, you could always try getting the "666" joke the AC made.
Your big whoop amounts to someone data mining more stuff about you. You give up too easily protecting your information particulars. If you don't sweat them, they'll steal more.... and maybe already have.
So if this unique hardware device ID didn't exist, my app could generate a GUID (random 128 bit number) the first time it's run and use that as the unique ID on every internet request to my server? What's Apple going to do... prevent apps from using numbers?
As long as no "who" information is transmitted to the advertiser, it's not personal. It's just some unknown device at coordinates X,Y at time T.
Are you braindead? "Hey, this guy goes to the same spot every day at 5:30 PM and remains there until 7:30 the next morning. That must be his home. Hey, here's the address. Hey, I got his name now."
What part of "no 'who' information" is difficult to understand? With only location and time, there is no "this guy". Your data looks like this:
Sure, you could group together similar coordinates and look for patterns in the time. And if you're willing to go to such lengths to try and locate random residences... I have a better idea. It would be far easier to drive around the city in a black van and discover all these wonderful things called "houses" where far more of these unknown people live, and you didn't even have to serve them advertising. Their houses are just RIGHT THERE in plain sight, man! Or launch Google maps and go into satellite view. Wow, look at all the houses! People LIVE THERE man! You don't need lat/long/time to find those either!
Being able to know where you are and when isn't personal information?
As long as no "who" information is transmitted to the advertiser, it's not personal. It's just some unknown device at coordinates X,Y at time T. Add on a unique identifier, then it starts getting personal as they can start building a profile of person P.
At that point the only rational choice is to not participate online at all, or allow pictures to be taken, comments to be made, anything that relates to you. What a sad life that seems.
Yeah. It would be just like life before 1995.
He already said it was sad, no need to be redundant.
When I first read that, I thought he said it would be just like life before 1985. Or well, the year before, by George!
Well, after ruling this planet for 35 million years or whatever, the dinosaurs just up and disappeared. Obviously they developed space travel and decided to migrate to a better part of the galaxy.
No, linguistic correctness is a function of accepted common practice. If it wasn't you'd still be grunting and claiming that all properly formed words were wrong. Grow up.
If you were as grown up as you would like to believe, you would have ignored my whimsical "Laughing out loud out loud out loud out loud?" reply or you could have replied with something like "Yeah, isn't it funny how we use words sometimes?"
Instead, you've called me out of date, admonished me to grow up, and who knows what immature insult you will hurl in your reply to this message.
Yes, grammar does change over time. So call me old fashioned, but despite popular usage I will never use should of instead of "should've" or their going instead of "they're going" or your welcome instead of "you're welcome". I will continue to use "its" and "it's" correctly, despite widespread ignorance of their correct usage. I'm sure a grownup such as yourself can understand.
A wonderful gallery of multiple representations of the "illegal" DeCSS DVD decryption code presented with artistic merit. For example, the DeCSS code can be represented as a prime number. Does this make that prime number illegal?
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In Blizzard's case, they have millions of customers conencted all the time, so that was probably a good idea. Plus, they tend to release patches to the entire population at the same time, which MASSIVELY favors the distributed P2P model...
From a financial perspective, absolutely. Blizzard saves a ton of money by not providing their updates through companies like Akamai, who are capable of handling that level of load.
World of Warcraft already uses Bittorrent technology as a way to distribute large amounts of content at a lower cost to the company and faster speeds to all of their clients
Lower cost, for sure, but it is not faster. The fastest download is when you're downloading from a single server that is able to fully saturate your connection. Even better if this server is situated directly within your ISP as is the case for some content delivery networks (Limelight I think does this). Having to negotiate individual connections with hundreds of peers around the world and incurring the associated lag and protocol overhead can't even compare.
We should encourage this: we can hope they'll fight each other to death, and we can disbar the survivors.
And, for good measure, we can then rebar them.
i'm the 'e' in stem and am about to grad and get a job. What evidence do you have of IBM "discarding" employees? may you point me in the dir. of some news articles or the like?
I guess you don't keep up with the latest news from your future colleagues at EE Times India (Electronics Design & Engineering).
"IBM is reportedly laying off about 400 U.S.-based engineers who have been working on the development of components for one of IBM's most important hardware products, according to sources familiar with the company's plans."
"IBM has publicly stated its intention to invest $6 billion over the next three years developing its high-tech workforce in India. Engineers and programmers in India are paid less than half of what their U.S. counterparts earn."
I hear the kids are saying it's pretty rad.
The kids are certainly curieous about it.
Good thing he woke up to allow comments on this story.
It's actually 66.6%
Yup, because an other statistic in The Fine Article puts the usage at 60.03%. Surely 2 digits are more accurate than 0 digits, so you know which one is more accurate...
Or, you could always try getting the "666" joke the AC made.
Hey, look! She's on FB again, and just ordered something from Amazon. Upload to the mothership analytics engine NOW!
Right, so the risk is cross-app and cross-site correlation, not the fact that a single app can uniquely identify each device it's installed on.
Your big whoop amounts to someone data mining more stuff about you. You give up too easily protecting your information particulars. If you don't sweat them, they'll steal more.... and maybe already have.
So if this unique hardware device ID didn't exist, my app could generate a GUID (random 128 bit number) the first time it's run and use that as the unique ID on every internet request to my server? What's Apple going to do... prevent apps from using numbers?
It was Dyn-O-Mite!
As an anti-poopsocking measure
I feel this term needs some clarification... and no, I won't google that.
Replace "mom" with a sock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfAttFN8kjM
Goes to show you that kdawson + roblimo make an awesome combo.
Atlassian is a corporation, not a code repository.
physically handed out by genuinely bemused Nobel laureates
Is bemused the right word here? It isn't synonymous with "amused". (Sorry for the pedantry, but I am the penultimate prescriptivist.)
Does that make me the ultimate prescriptivist? Follow your own link or try this one: http://www.google.com/dictionary?q=bemuse&langpair=en|en
which means he can say any old bullshit he once and, well, he's Stephen Fucking Hawking
That's a seriously amazing typo in a how-the-brain-works kind of way. "once" == "wants"
Am I the only one that read that as "flying dildos"?
And right you are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lkER8R9Hx8
As long as no "who" information is transmitted to the advertiser, it's not personal. It's just some unknown device at coordinates X,Y at time T.
Are you braindead? "Hey, this guy goes to the same spot every day at 5:30 PM and remains there until 7:30 the next morning. That must be his home. Hey, here's the address. Hey, I got his name now."
What part of "no 'who' information" is difficult to understand? With only location and time, there is no "this guy". Your data looks like this:
latitude longitude time
52.82191183 23.49163528 9/30/2010 18:40
49.31389364 41.23847416 9/30/2010 18:46
46.95183108 63.59308896 9/30/2010 18:50
62.72546603 34.30812174 9/30/2010 18:52
28.17931819 26.4772956 9/30/2010 19:01
28.62210586 64.75609574 9/30/2010 19:03
28.70329191 55.00591516 9/30/2010 19:04
61.39666698 55.71977184 9/30/2010 19:04
50.32201953 56.79666622 9/30/2010 19:14
32.4023539 47.37164783 9/30/2010 19:19
39.42559201 44.07647876 9/30/2010 19:19
60.60999337 51.13458741 9/30/2010 19:24
46.70337949 34.68462047 9/30/2010 19:25
51.09737975 64.94909826 9/30/2010 19:31
42.18390336 21.16306122 9/30/2010 19:35
56.65477433 63.48741398 9/30/2010 19:38
32.35623029 63.67496442 9/30/2010 19:40
34.55327381 24.66248065 9/30/2010 19:44
43.53629806 63.71148868 9/30/2010 19:46
Sure, you could group together similar coordinates and look for patterns in the time. And if you're willing to go to such lengths to try and locate random residences... I have a better idea. It would be far easier to drive around the city in a black van and discover all these wonderful things called "houses" where far more of these unknown people live, and you didn't even have to serve them advertising. Their houses are just RIGHT THERE in plain sight, man! Or launch Google maps and go into satellite view. Wow, look at all the houses! People LIVE THERE man! You don't need lat/long/time to find those either!
No, but it could be made to create indestructible ballet dancers.
Think of it. No more sprained ankles...no more broken toes...it would revolutionize the culture!
Yeah, but people will still be unable to agree which way her silhouette is spinning!
Being able to know where you are and when isn't personal information?
As long as no "who" information is transmitted to the advertiser, it's not personal. It's just some unknown device at coordinates X,Y at time T. Add on a unique identifier, then it starts getting personal as they can start building a profile of person P.
How long until some uses this for erectile dysfunction? Lol
Hey baby, check out my huge glowstick!
At that point the only rational choice is to not participate online at all, or allow pictures to be taken, comments to be made, anything that relates to you. What a sad life that seems.
Yeah. It would be just like life before 1995.
He already said it was sad, no need to be redundant.
When I first read that, I thought he said it would be just like life before 1985. Or well, the year before, by George!
I take it this screening company dont mind a few lawsuits for deformation and libel ?
Most likely they'll provide a series of risk factors with a score for each on a scale of 0 to 100.
Drugs: 30
Violence: 6
Judgment: 45
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Overall: 27 (risk: moderate)
Huge difference between that and "this person is a druggie with lousy judgment".
Well, after ruling this planet for 35 million years or whatever, the dinosaurs just up and disappeared. Obviously they developed space travel and decided to migrate to a better part of the galaxy.
I remember seeing that Star Trek episode too: http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Distant_Origin_(episode)
No, linguistic correctness is a function of accepted common practice. If it wasn't you'd still be grunting and claiming that all properly formed words were wrong. Grow up.
If you were as grown up as you would like to believe, you would have ignored my whimsical "Laughing out loud out loud out loud out loud?" reply or you could have replied with something like "Yeah, isn't it funny how we use words sometimes?"
Instead, you've called me out of date, admonished me to grow up, and who knows what immature insult you will hurl in your reply to this message.
Yes, grammar does change over time. So call me old fashioned, but despite popular usage I will never use should of instead of "should've" or their going instead of "they're going" or your welcome instead of "you're welcome". I will continue to use "its" and "it's" correctly, despite widespread ignorance of their correct usage. I'm sure a grownup such as yourself can understand.
The only real question is, can anybody figure out how to fit the source on a T-shirt? If yes, the case is moot, right?
I take it you're referring to this?
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
A wonderful gallery of multiple representations of the "illegal" DeCSS DVD decryption code presented with artistic merit. For example, the DeCSS code can be represented as a prime number. Does this make that prime number illegal?