Make the correction, and screw Boeing. They can't patent physics, nor mathematics.
No, wait! Hold on! I have this great idea, how one would bring an airplane from flight down to the ground to disembark passengers and cargo! It's called "landing" (TM, patent pending).
I wonder if Boeing would be interested in licensing it?
Totally agree. If I don't want to pay for something, I won't (and I won't get it either, but that's understandable). It's my money, my stuff, my access: let me pay for what I want and need.
Of course that means you must give me a little flexibility, some choices. Not the current "broadband 1 or broadband 2, both of which are liars and frauds".
"Although the multi-flow unfairness that P2P uses remains, flow management gives us a simple solution to this: Control each flow so that the total traffic to each IP address (home) is equally and fairly distributed no matter how many flows they use. This eliminates the need for peering into everyoneâ(TM)s data to stop P2P and creates a fair distribution of Internet capacity."
Therein lies the rub. The bandwidth hogs will simply acquire more "flows" so they won't be throttled, and they'll get a wider bandwidth no matter what.
What needs to happen is to identify packets for what they are. Flows that can tolerate delay better (e.g., P2P file transfers) should be delayed (by dropping packets or whatever). Packets with more immediacy (e.g., human, game, machine interaction) should get priority.
I personally could give a damn about people sharing or downloading music or video, realtime video or TV, etc. I specifically could give a damn about someone's phone call quality! That's not what the Internet was built for, and I'm oldfashioned that way. Delay that crap all you want.
"Galinvosky explains that the software creates specific time slots in which each of the two radios listens and talks, so there's no extra data being sent confirming transmissions. 'We're not taking up all the bandwidth waiting for acknowledgments,' he says."
Doh.. Huge difference in the later early modem data transfer protocols was (1) variable packet size (if noise went up, packet size would drop down) and (most important): No ACK/NAK! Sender just sent as fast as its little chips could push the data out. Receiver would just receive and stuff the data away. It was only when the receiver did NOT get a good packet that it would do a NAK (and send the number of the bad / required packet). The sender would stop what it was doing, drop back to the bad packet number, and retransmit from there. (With more memory and speed, it would've been better to buffer packets so sender only had to send the single bad packet, and then could resume where it was further down the data stream. But I digress.)
So signal conditions are so lousy with wireless data transmit protocols that they're still doing ACK/NAK for every single steenking packet? That's pretty dumb, eh?
Yep, I like that just fine. It's sort of like a claim race for horses. You state the value of the horse (or it's set by the racetrack), and anyone can buy the horse for its stated value.
Don't like the idea, don't want to lose your horse if it wins? Hey, don't enter the race.
Tch.. no sense of humor whatsoever.
Or maybe it was that funny cartoon about Osama bin Laden's outtakes while making an inspirational video?
Or did someone post something horrific about The Prophet? (Muhammed, not Kahlil Gibran's book.)
Toad-san
"Endeavor to persevere"
Re:Micro-Transactions and game balance
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Agreed. "Twinking" (loading a lower-level character with expensive, usually unaffordable or unobtainable, weapons, armor, etc.) is a definite negative. It totally unbalances things, makes the playing field anything but level. So you end up with some uber-character, undefeatable, simply because the bastige was willing to spend the money.
Pay for leveling? I never had a problem with that. If the moron ends up with a level 70 character he doesn't know how to play, tch, it's his embarrassment, not mine. He'll stumble around, but that has no effect on me; I'll just go on using the skills and equipment I worked to learn to use.
So I've had no problem with third-party "leveling" offers. Let the fools spend their money. But I strongly disagree with gold sellers (earn your own gold, you lazy bastige), because excessive gold ruins the game's economy and produces "twinks."
Sometimes people make things too bloody complicated. Yeah, it's tough the guy lost his legs. No replacement will ever be the same. But do multi-million dollar legs (with all sorts of support problems, like that stupid battery problem) really seem appropriate?
He may just be a testbed, sure.. and I suppose development in this area would be good. But I think this needs to stay more solidly in the "We're just experimenting here, folks; don't get your hopes up!" category.
(Yeah, I'm a vet, and yeah, I know all numbers of crippled guys: arms, legs, the works. Luckily I still have all of mine.)
Darned right! I've been offline for a while (something went wrong with my BOINC configuration). But the new install (just done) was totally painless, and I'm up and running!
I1: I have no problem with two (or more) Internets.
I2: One for the original intention (legitimate email, web browsing, perhaps online gaming, minor file transfers).
One for the massive data transfers (to include streaming): video, file sharing, online or internet backups, etc.
Take your steenking music and video downloads to the overloaded one, and leave the _real_ internet clear for my WoW, if you please.
Oh.. and I have NO problems with my ISP filtering all the crap from I2 that tries to cross over to my I1 link. Or with my ISP providing me with "white list" or "black list" filter facilities (which would take care of the spam, thank you verra much).
I just tested an update today (Friday 7 Dec). Eve's appallingly named boot.ini is still there, but it's going into the Eve install directory (in my case C:\Program Files\CCP\Eve). That's harmless enough.. if I followed standard install procedures.
Shame on the damned fool who installed his Eve in C:\ root though. He's still munged.
This happens during the Premium update, by the way; the update that's available _after_ the main update. I didn't test to see what installed during the main update (which didn't bother my C:\boot.ini either).
"After all, without copyright, what would become of the next Shakespeare, Michaelangelo, or da Vinci?"
We'd be able to look at or read their works (70 years after their deaths) without having to pay their entirely untalented descendents (or the greedy scum they sold the copyright to) for the privilege?
After about 2 minutes of use, 2 or three different pages online.. the new 3.0 slowed down my entire system to a crawl, and finally to a lockup. Had to pull the plug.
Rebooted (Win2K, 2.8 MHZ Pentium 4, 1GB RAM), manually fired up ye olde Firefox, went to same pages, ran fine.
Yep, me too, several times. One actually tried to grab everything I'd ever program (I was a programmer) _forever_.. in that particular area of programming. Forever. Yeah, right, fat chance. I responded with my own nondisclosure agreement (very limited, very much to the point), and several insults about lawyers. The decision makers were embarrassed at the horribleness of their boilerplate employment and nondisclosure agreements, and ended up rewriting them all.
Yep, bunch of crap. They didn't communicate millions of KM.. they communicated 144 KM, and faked the rest.
Which means if I "exactly reflect" the conditions of 1.5 million kilometers of string between two tin cans.. I'll have demonstrated its feasibility as well?
When they send an actual signal 1.5 million KM through space, I'll be interested. Until then, fageddaboudit.
"The real truth here is that what the hdd makers did was attempt to deliberately create a false impression of size by relying on the fact the for computers mega meant 2^20 and yet changing what they meant by it (after years of using the de-facto standard)."
Exactly. Of course the requirements for refund are so stringent that damn-all people are going to submit claims. Seagate will get away with a slap on the wrist (financially), and I'm sure they can live with being called g*dd*mned liars (since only lawyers will be talking to the public, and lying is their profession).
I've submitted my half dozen claims for some old Seagates lying about. We'll see. Meanwhile the 4 brand new 80GB Seagates we just bought yesterday.. are NOT within the period permitted, we can NOT claim money or software, yet they still say "80GB", and Seagate continues to lie.
Yeah, I love free T-shirts (even though I didn't plan a party, and just found out about the tenth anniversary today, although I've probably been hanging around this bloody place the whole time)...
But then you'd spam me (as you so politely warned), and then I'd have to kill you. Or call my cousin Vinney in Joisey.. or at least hit you with a DOS attack.
"Oh, there's a bomb? In our store? How nice! Have a nice day."
"Oh, it's you again? Yeah, right, like you said.. a bomb. We got that. Good day!"
"What? Again? Money? Are you crazy? Man, we'd rather have the bomb! Now go away!"
"Look.. I know, it's probably a very nice bomb. Noooo, we're not looking for it. We don't really care, see? We figure one of our customers will probably buy it. Hmmm.. there's a thought.. got any more? Maybe we can work something out here.. hello? Hello?"
It worked a few centuries ago: "Millions for defense, not one penny for tribute."
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"Screw you and the horse you rode in on.
Sincerely,
Katherine Seidel"
Feel free to use this, Katherine.
Toad-san
Make the correction, and screw Boeing. They can't patent physics, nor mathematics.
No, wait! Hold on! I have this great idea, how one would bring an airplane from flight down to the ground to disembark passengers and cargo! It's called "landing" (TM, patent pending).
I wonder if Boeing would be interested in licensing it?
Morons.
Toad-san
Totally agree. If I don't want to pay for something, I won't (and I won't get it either, but that's understandable). It's my money, my stuff, my access: let me pay for what I want and need.
Of course that means you must give me a little flexibility, some choices. Not the current "broadband 1 or broadband 2, both of which are liars and frauds".
Toad-san
They shriek of a problem, they offer no solution.
What the hell good is that?
Chicken Little did better.
Toad-san
"Although the multi-flow unfairness that P2P uses remains, flow management gives us a simple solution to this: Control each flow so that the total traffic to each IP address (home) is equally and fairly distributed no matter how many flows they use. This eliminates the need for peering into everyoneâ(TM)s data to stop P2P and creates a fair distribution of Internet capacity."
Therein lies the rub. The bandwidth hogs will simply acquire more "flows" so they won't be throttled, and they'll get a wider bandwidth no matter what.
What needs to happen is to identify packets for what they are. Flows that can tolerate delay better (e.g., P2P file transfers) should be delayed (by dropping packets or whatever). Packets with more immediacy (e.g., human, game, machine interaction) should get priority.
I personally could give a damn about people sharing or downloading music or video, realtime video or TV, etc. I specifically could give a damn about someone's phone call quality! That's not what the Internet was built for, and I'm oldfashioned that way. Delay that crap all you want.
Toad-san
"Galinvosky explains that the software creates specific time slots in which each of the two radios listens and talks, so there's no extra data being sent confirming transmissions. 'We're not taking up all the bandwidth waiting for acknowledgments,' he says."
.. Huge difference in the later early modem data transfer protocols was (1) variable packet size (if noise went up, packet size would drop down) and (most important): No ACK/NAK! Sender just sent as fast as its little chips could push the data out. Receiver would just receive and stuff the data away. It was only when the receiver did NOT get a good packet that it would do a NAK (and send the number of the bad / required packet). The sender would stop what it was doing, drop back to the bad packet number, and retransmit from there. (With more memory and speed, it would've been better to buffer packets so sender only had to send the single bad packet, and then could resume where it was further down the data stream. But I digress.)
Doh
So signal conditions are so lousy with wireless data transmit protocols that they're still doing ACK/NAK for every single steenking packet? That's pretty dumb, eh?
Toad-san
Yep, I like that just fine. It's sort of like a claim race for horses. You state the value of the horse (or it's set by the racetrack), and anyone can buy the horse for its stated value.
Don't like the idea, don't want to lose your horse if it wins? Hey, don't enter the race.
Toad-san
"Endeavor to persevere"
Tch .. no sense of humor whatsoever.
Or maybe it was that funny cartoon about Osama bin Laden's outtakes while making an inspirational video?
Or did someone post something horrific about The Prophet? (Muhammed, not Kahlil Gibran's book.)
Toad-san
"Endeavor to persevere"
Agreed. "Twinking" (loading a lower-level character with expensive, usually unaffordable or unobtainable, weapons, armor, etc.) is a definite negative. It totally unbalances things, makes the playing field anything but level. So you end up with some uber-character, undefeatable, simply because the bastige was willing to spend the money.
Pay for leveling? I never had a problem with that. If the moron ends up with a level 70 character he doesn't know how to play, tch, it's his embarrassment, not mine. He'll stumble around, but that has no effect on me; I'll just go on using the skills and equipment I worked to learn to use.
So I've had no problem with third-party "leveling" offers. Let the fools spend their money. But I strongly disagree with gold sellers (earn your own gold, you lazy bastige), because excessive gold ruins the game's economy and produces "twinks."
Toad-san (a big WoW fan)
"Endeavor to persevere"
Sometimes people make things too bloody complicated. Yeah, it's tough the guy lost his legs. No replacement will ever be the same. But do multi-million dollar legs (with all sorts of support problems, like that stupid battery problem) really seem appropriate?
.. and I suppose development in this area would be good. But I think this needs to stay more solidly in the "We're just experimenting here, folks; don't get your hopes up!" category.
He may just be a testbed, sure
(Yeah, I'm a vet, and yeah, I know all numbers of crippled guys: arms, legs, the works. Luckily I still have all of mine.)
Darned right! I've been offline for a while (something went wrong with my BOINC configuration). But the new install (just done) was totally painless, and I'm up and running!
I, for one, welcome our new SETI overlords!
Toad
A huge step forward for science!
Or not.
Never the less, I still intend to faithfully stay current with all that improbabability. Probably.
Toadsan
I1: I have no problem with two (or more) Internets.
.. and I have NO problems with my ISP filtering all the crap from I2 that tries to cross over to my I1 link. Or with my ISP providing me with "white list" or "black list" filter facilities (which would take care of the spam, thank you verra much).
I2: One for the original intention (legitimate email, web browsing, perhaps online gaming, minor file transfers).
One for the massive data transfers (to include streaming): video, file sharing, online or internet backups, etc.
Take your steenking music and video downloads to the overloaded one, and leave the _real_ internet clear for my WoW, if you please.
Oh
I'd pay for that. Yes, I would.
I just tested an update today (Friday 7 Dec). Eve's appallingly named boot.ini is still there, but it's going into the Eve install directory (in my case C:\Program Files\CCP\Eve). That's harmless enough .. if I followed standard install procedures.
Shame on the damned fool who installed his Eve in C:\ root though. He's still munged.
This happens during the Premium update, by the way; the update that's available _after_ the main update. I didn't test to see what installed during the main update (which didn't bother my C:\boot.ini either).
"After all, without copyright, what would become of the next Shakespeare, Michaelangelo, or da Vinci?"
We'd be able to look at or read their works (70 years after their deaths) without having to pay their entirely untalented descendents (or the greedy scum they sold the copyright to) for the privilege?
Gee, what a concept! A dead guy not making money!
After about 2 minutes of use, 2 or three different pages online .. the new 3.0 slowed down my entire system to a crawl, and finally to a lockup. Had to pull the plug.
.. same problem.
Rebooted (Win2K, 2.8 MHZ Pentium 4, 1GB RAM), manually fired up ye olde Firefox, went to same pages, ran fine.
Closed, re-ran 3.0
Sorry boys, not ready for Prime Time IMHO.
Yeah, I was gonna say .. (until you did).
Somewhere, some paleontologist is laughing his ass off.
Could be worse: imagine what THIS creature looks like:
SELDEN, P A. 1986. A new identity for the Silurian arthropod Necrogammarus. Palaeontology, 29(3):629-631.
A giant turtle? A giant _dead_ turtle?
Yep, me too, several times. One actually tried to grab everything I'd ever program (I was a programmer) _forever_ .. in that particular area of programming. Forever. Yeah, right, fat chance. I responded with my own nondisclosure agreement (very limited, very much to the point), and several insults about lawyers. The decision makers were embarrassed at the horribleness of their boilerplate employment and nondisclosure agreements, and ended up rewriting them all.
Yep, bunch of crap. They didn't communicate millions of KM .. they communicated 144 KM, and faked the rest.
.. I'll have demonstrated its feasibility as well?
Which means if I "exactly reflect" the conditions of 1.5 million kilometers of string between two tin cans
When they send an actual signal 1.5 million KM through space, I'll be interested. Until then, fageddaboudit.
"The real truth here is that what the hdd makers did was attempt to deliberately create a false impression of size by relying on the fact the for computers mega meant 2^20 and yet changing what they meant by it (after years of using the de-facto standard)."
.. are NOT within the period permitted, we can NOT claim money or software, yet they still say "80GB", and Seagate continues to lie.
Exactly. Of course the requirements for refund are so stringent that damn-all people are going to submit claims. Seagate will get away with a slap on the wrist (financially), and I'm sure they can live with being called g*dd*mned liars (since only lawyers will be talking to the public, and lying is their profession).
I've submitted my half dozen claims for some old Seagates lying about. We'll see. Meanwhile the 4 brand new 80GB Seagates we just bought yesterday
Pity. But there never was any money in honor.
Yeah, I love free T-shirts (even though I didn't plan a party, and just found out about the tenth anniversary today, although I've probably been hanging around this bloody place the whole time) ...
.. or at least hit you with a DOS attack.
...
But then you'd spam me (as you so politely warned), and then I'd have to kill you. Or call my cousin Vinney in Joisey
T-shirt, huh? Hmmmm
I never trusted those guys in funny hats either.
And god damn zango!
I mean that in the nicest possible way, of course.
Oh, and god damn their lawyers too.
"Oh, there's a bomb? In our store? How nice! Have a nice day."
.. a bomb. We got that. Good day!"
.. I know, it's probably a very nice bomb. Noooo, we're not looking for it. We don't really care, see? We figure one of our customers will probably buy it. Hmmm .. there's a thought .. got any more? Maybe we can work something out here .. hello? Hello?"
"Oh, it's you again? Yeah, right, like you said
"What? Again? Money? Are you crazy? Man, we'd rather have the bomb! Now go away!"
"Look
It worked a few centuries ago: "Millions for defense, not one penny for tribute."
That's the message to Viacom.