In theory it could be made 'smart' in that it could prefer to deliver to users that are local (in terms of link metric) to you.
This would require some fairly major work with neural networks or another way of efficiently calculating best use of routes and a kick ass coordination system, so you probably won't see it for a while at least not in a very efficient form.
As a tribute and an obituary to SCO, their lawsuits and their press releases I humbly suggest that for 24 hours/. mods all on-topic comments off topic, and all off topic, redundant, troll, flamebait posts +5 interesting.
To kick off the festivities, may I just say, green wibble wibble elephant Chris Waddle cheese.
What games were original enough that you still play them 5 years after release?
Even from the golden age of games, with titles like Theme Hospital, Doom, Quake, Dungeon Keeper, Elite the only one I play on a regular basis now is Total Anihilation (from 1998) and only that because it's still the best C&C like game to play over the net.
To be honest, many of these games really were about as good as they could be in their genere, and just required regular graphics updates to keep them looking pretty (remember how much you hated it when your favourite game sequel messed with the gameplay? what if HL2 has a single player game as bad as Halo's?). Once you get to that point there isn't much room to go, except derivatives.
I'm sure that every now and again a new totally cool game will pop up, but the rate will be much slower than it was when there was so little before it.
How people can live with services like Kazaa. Turning it on literally flatlines your net connection to the point where web sites take forever to load, especially if you are the one person in 52,000,000 with actual files to share. My experience with a shared NTL 1mb cable connection was that as soon as the guy upstairs fired up Kazaa anyone else trying to use it was shafted - even e-mail was only arriving at around 2-3K/sec.
Considering how well freenet does for not infringing on your resources too much (try setting it to 10K down and 5K up on a DSL line and you won't even notice it's there) it boggles the mind why anone bothers with Kazaa at all.
There are numerious buffer overflows within mpeg itself <br><br> <b>MPEG itself is a committee.</b> <br><br> They really should look at getting a better company to cater for their working lunches.
Your example is stupid in the extreme. Runways are much bigger than airplanes. A difference of ten feet one way or the other isn't going to matter to anybody.
You haven't ever met an AW guy then? Believe me, these guys are so anally retentive it's unbelivable - they would consider 2 feet to be dangerously out of spec. This is one of the reasons why planes don't land on GPS, or INS, they do so with the Mk.1 eyeball or ILS - both of which are rather accurate and capable of landing a plane right on the centerline - which _is_ required to save your life should you have a tire go, especially in a 747 landing at a normal airport.
This is selling it below cost, which is dumping, which is illegal. The EU competition commission should take note of this (along with other infractions 1 through 97bn) and throw the book at them.
If it's a lead plated copy of War and Peace, hurled at 1,000 m/sec, all the better.
ACtually in the UK, DSL is contended at the PVC (IE your local exchange, the back end of the DSLAMs where you get pushed onto the ATM network) where you share bandwidth in a 10mb pipe with the users of up to three other ISPs.
At present not many users are contended here, but that is officially where your 50:1 takes place. You should, in theory, not be contended at all at your ISP (either at the Home Gateway or their actual internet peering connections) but the cheap bastards do it anyway.
Sure, these handsets are 14.4 odleplexes of bandwidths per second, on paper.
I have had a chance to play with a next gen DocoMo handset, and the video - while strictly geek appeal only and something I would deliberatly turn off for every day use so I don't have to shave - was watchable only until you started moving, then it just breaks up. The faster you go the worse the picture - by the time you get up to car+ speeds you are restricted to voice only calls.
They also seem to have a massive latency, far worse than my 14.4k/sec CSD dial up mobile connection, and that's only 1p/min. 3.5G might be good for the odd small file or even some streaming formats, but for SSH it blows.
It would be interesting to find out what compression they use for it - probably something that is as light on the CPU as possible, but that really shows in the transmission quality.
The telecomms industry could do with starting from the ground up (rather than building off the technologically suspect CDMA or GSM systems) with a new, open standard 100% packet based network with IP6 support - then and maybe then the internet (and related services) on a mobile level could become a killer app. Until then they would be best off sticking to voice calls and massivly overcharging for SMS.
Place a cap punitive damages, as many have suggested.
There should be no cap on punative damages - the idea is the punish the person who made a mistake and do so to an order of magnitude appropriate to the event. This is perfectly proper and correct.
What is wrong is giving this money to the victim - it should be handed directly over to charity (possibly of the victims choice) - victims are already compensated (or should be) via _actual_ damages compensation to their total loss and punative damages should not make them rich.
It would need the definition of actual damages to be modified slightly (to allow reasonable compensation for pain and suffering) but it would have the advantage of getting rid of a lot of the false claims motivated by greed, funding charities pretty well, and making damages something constructive and fair rather than a national disgrace.
The trademark for "OpenOffice" belongs to someone else. Therefore we must use "OpenOffice.org" when referring to this open source project and its software.
Since a resume shouldn't really be more than 2 sides of paper, I'm surprised that you had room for this anyway. By the time you get through name/date of birth, academic qualifications and previous jobs you are usually significantly short of space for anything else!
Well, I don't know about other MCSE's on/. but I worked my ass off to get mine.</i> <br><br> You must have an easily detachable ass then - back in the NT 4 days I had no problems with an MCP module, and I was 16 at the time. (Do MCP exams still count towards your MCSE?) <br><br> In the end I decided to stop wasting my time and do a real degree in proper engineering, and haven't regreted it since - especially when the dot com economy crashed and again some years later I realised just how pointless running Windows was:o)
This already happens (to an extent) with DSL in the UK - you have copper to your house, and then you pick which ISP you want to supply you with connectivity.
What then happens is that the big incumbents keep prices high and grab all the dumb (l)users who want the 'saftey and reliability' of a big name like BT (ha! - their network goes down more often than a young lady of questionable morals) whilst the geeks can pick a much better service from Zen or Nildram for less money:o)
Everytyhing transits over the BT ATM network* (for which you pay through the nose) but where it goes after that is up to you.
*Except those on unbundled local loops, who get things like 2mb/sec connections off peak (512k on) for the same price as I pay for 512k all the time, and also get to pick from ADSL and SDSL as well as much higher speeds - BT blow goats, they are shockingly incompetent by comparison.
Surley if the company is distributing GPL code under additional restrictive licensing agreements, the recipient can jsut ignore these and redistribute the code freely under the GPL? (Assuming he was very sure that this was the case.)
If the company does put the code online and issue a serious apology and a statement about their commitment to open source then sueing them may just send the wrong message about the open source community. However, if they show even the slightest sign of offending again the FSF should put their balls in a vice and squeeze hard - decent programmers who choose to give their work away should not be taken advantage of.
And finally since the skillset to work on these is above and beyond that which your average windows admin/coder has, I am fairly secure in my knowledge that I have job security.
Having more skills than an average Windows admin/coder doesn't sound like a very hard thing to me:o) It takes about 15 minutes to get comfortable with WSH and active directory, and a further 10 minutes to install cygwin so that you can get some real work done.
In the near future I would expect that traditional mainframes will (slowly) be replaced by distributed computing for batch jobs - and as such the skilled jobs won't be for people with mainframe backgrounds but rather those with distributed computing skills. After all, your company probably already has a couple of billion FLOPS going to waste and that could be put to good use _without_ the problems that come attached to a supercomputer (the price tag for one and incrimental ugrades for another). For real time computing mainframes were always a bit ropey anyway, and so those jobs will probably continue moving to BFO UNIX boxes. Until cetralised computing comes back into fashion again of course...
Computer still crash because consumers in focus groups (you know, those people who must have an average IQ of 11 who have their ideas intepreted by marketing types with an average IQ of 3) state that they want more features, not more stability.
Development time being finite, stability never gets worked on - hence Microsoft Clipart at the sake of a version of Windows able to hit decent uptime figures.
Thankfully free software has less of a problem with this as mostly it's designed by geeks for geeks, and users and focus groups can go p*ss into the wind for all they care:o)
Fly by wire != autopilot (although it certainly makes autopilot a lot easier). If fly by wire meant you needed no control inputs from the pilot, then why do they bother fiting it to all those planes?
So, a RC heli fitted with a FBW control system is not a contradiction.
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force-fed 15psi boost by turbo.
;o)
Is that all? Some of the marine desils I have worked with have 8 bar (160 psi) overpressure air feeds
In theory it could be made 'smart' in that it could prefer to deliver to users that are local (in terms of link metric) to you.
This would require some fairly major work with neural networks or another way of efficiently calculating best use of routes and a kick ass coordination system, so you probably won't see it for a while at least not in a very efficient form.
It takes what now? My Athlon does three hours of DVD-Xvid (two pass) in just 3 hours, when running noting but the Linux kernel and the encoder.
:o)
Seems like your box might need the spyware, viruses and trojans cleaning off it
As a tribute and an obituary to SCO, their lawsuits and their press releases I humbly suggest that for 24 hours /. mods all on-topic comments off topic, and all off topic, redundant, troll, flamebait posts +5 interesting.
To kick off the festivities, may I just say, green wibble wibble elephant Chris Waddle cheese.
What games were original enough that you still play them 5 years after release?
Even from the golden age of games, with titles like Theme Hospital, Doom, Quake, Dungeon Keeper, Elite the only one I play on a regular basis now is Total Anihilation (from 1998) and only that because it's still the best C&C like game to play over the net.
To be honest, many of these games really were about as good as they could be in their genere, and just required regular graphics updates to keep them looking pretty (remember how much you hated it when your favourite game sequel messed with the gameplay? what if HL2 has a single player game as bad as Halo's?). Once you get to that point there isn't much room to go, except derivatives.
I'm sure that every now and again a new totally cool game will pop up, but the rate will be much slower than it was when there was so little before it.
An extract from the class 'press_release':
if (subject == piracy) {
banwidth = compare_to_arpanet(bandwidth);
prices = inflate(prices);
return;
}
How people can live with services like Kazaa. Turning it on literally flatlines your net connection to the point where web sites take forever to load, especially if you are the one person in 52,000,000 with actual files to share. My experience with a shared NTL 1mb cable connection was that as soon as the guy upstairs fired up Kazaa anyone else trying to use it was shafted - even e-mail was only arriving at around 2-3K/sec.
Considering how well freenet does for not infringing on your resources too much (try setting it to 10K down and 5K up on a DSL line and you won't even notice it's there) it boggles the mind why anone bothers with Kazaa at all.
So I suppose you still can not slashdot the phone network.
My sister has been trying to DoS the phone network through overuse for many years now, so far to no effect.
There are numerious buffer overflows within mpeg itself
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<b>MPEG itself is a committee.</b>
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They really should look at getting a better company to cater for their working lunches.
Your example is stupid in the extreme. Runways are much bigger than airplanes. A difference of ten feet one way or the other isn't going to matter to anybody.
You haven't ever met an AW guy then? Believe me, these guys are so anally retentive it's unbelivable - they would consider 2 feet to be dangerously out of spec. This is one of the reasons why planes don't land on GPS, or INS, they do so with the Mk.1 eyeball or ILS - both of which are rather accurate and capable of landing a plane right on the centerline - which _is_ required to save your life should you have a tire go, especially in a 747 landing at a normal airport.
(Though MS doesn't pay any tax for other reasons)
According to opensecrets Microsoft paid $4.2m to the government this year - it just doesn't do it via the regular tax channels.
This is selling it below cost, which is dumping, which is illegal. The EU competition commission should take note of this (along with other infractions 1 through 97bn) and throw the book at them.
If it's a lead plated copy of War and Peace, hurled at 1,000 m/sec, all the better.
ACtually in the UK, DSL is contended at the PVC (IE your local exchange, the back end of the DSLAMs where you get pushed onto the ATM network) where you share bandwidth in a 10mb pipe with the users of up to three other ISPs.
At present not many users are contended here, but that is officially where your 50:1 takes place. You should, in theory, not be contended at all at your ISP (either at the Home Gateway or their actual internet peering connections) but the cheap bastards do it anyway.
Sure, these handsets are 14.4 odleplexes of bandwidths per second, on paper.
I have had a chance to play with a next gen DocoMo handset, and the video - while strictly geek appeal only and something I would deliberatly turn off for every day use so I don't have to shave - was watchable only until you started moving, then it just breaks up. The faster you go the worse the picture - by the time you get up to car+ speeds you are restricted to voice only calls.
They also seem to have a massive latency, far worse than my 14.4k/sec CSD dial up mobile connection, and that's only 1p/min. 3.5G might be good for the odd small file or even some streaming formats, but for SSH it blows.
It would be interesting to find out what compression they use for it - probably something that is as light on the CPU as possible, but that really shows in the transmission quality.
The telecomms industry could do with starting from the ground up (rather than building off the technologically suspect CDMA or GSM systems) with a new, open standard 100% packet based network with IP6 support - then and maybe then the internet (and related services) on a mobile level could become a killer app. Until then they would be best off sticking to voice calls and massivly overcharging for SMS.
The only good time to reinstall the OS is if there is something wrong with it.
If there is something wrong with it, why reinstall it when you could just install something that works?
Place a cap punitive damages, as many have suggested.
There should be no cap on punative damages - the idea is the punish the person who made a mistake and do so to an order of magnitude appropriate to the event. This is perfectly proper and correct.
What is wrong is giving this money to the victim - it should be handed directly over to charity (possibly of the victims choice) - victims are already compensated (or should be) via _actual_ damages compensation to their total loss and punative damages should not make them rich.
It would need the definition of actual damages to be modified slightly (to allow reasonable compensation for pain and suffering) but it would have the advantage of getting rid of a lot of the false claims motivated by greed, funding charities pretty well, and making damages something constructive and fair rather than a national disgrace.
It's called OO.o, according to the FAQ, because:
The trademark for "OpenOffice" belongs to someone else. Therefore we must use "OpenOffice.org" when referring to this open source project and its software.
(I imagine that business/CS will be in huge demand)
So you can be a manager with just enough knowlage to be dangerous?
Since a resume shouldn't really be more than 2 sides of paper, I'm surprised that you had room for this anyway. By the time you get through name/date of birth, academic qualifications and previous jobs you are usually significantly short of space for anything else!
Well, I don't know about other MCSE's on /. but I worked my ass off to get mine.</i> :o)
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You must have an easily detachable ass then - back in the NT 4 days I had no problems with an MCP module, and I was 16 at the time. (Do MCP exams still count towards your MCSE?)
<br><br>
In the end I decided to stop wasting my time and do a real degree in proper engineering, and haven't regreted it since - especially when the dot com economy crashed and again some years later I realised just how pointless running Windows was
This already happens (to an extent) with DSL in the UK - you have copper to your house, and then you pick which ISP you want to supply you with connectivity.
:o)
What then happens is that the big incumbents keep prices high and grab all the dumb (l)users who want the 'saftey and reliability' of a big name like BT (ha! - their network goes down more often than a young lady of questionable morals) whilst the geeks can pick a much better service from Zen or Nildram for less money
Everytyhing transits over the BT ATM network* (for which you pay through the nose) but where it goes after that is up to you.
*Except those on unbundled local loops, who get things like 2mb/sec connections off peak (512k on) for the same price as I pay for 512k all the time, and also get to pick from ADSL and SDSL as well as much higher speeds - BT blow goats, they are shockingly incompetent by comparison.
Surley if the company is distributing GPL code under additional restrictive licensing agreements, the recipient can jsut ignore these and redistribute the code freely under the GPL? (Assuming he was very sure that this was the case.)
If the company does put the code online and issue a serious apology and a statement about their commitment to open source then sueing them may just send the wrong message about the open source community. However, if they show even the slightest sign of offending again the FSF should put their balls in a vice and squeeze hard - decent programmers who choose to give their work away should not be taken advantage of.
And finally since the skillset to work on these is above and beyond that which your average windows admin/coder has, I am fairly secure in my knowledge that I have job security.
:o) It takes about 15 minutes to get comfortable with WSH and active directory, and a further 10 minutes to install cygwin so that you can get some real work done.
Having more skills than an average Windows admin/coder doesn't sound like a very hard thing to me
In the near future I would expect that traditional mainframes will (slowly) be replaced by distributed computing for batch jobs - and as such the skilled jobs won't be for people with mainframe backgrounds but rather those with distributed computing skills. After all, your company probably already has a couple of billion FLOPS going to waste and that could be put to good use _without_ the problems that come attached to a supercomputer (the price tag for one and incrimental ugrades for another). For real time computing mainframes were always a bit ropey anyway, and so those jobs will probably continue moving to BFO UNIX boxes. Until cetralised computing comes back into fashion again of course...
Computer still crash because consumers in focus groups (you know, those people who must have an average IQ of 11 who have their ideas intepreted by marketing types with an average IQ of 3) state that they want more features, not more stability.
:o)
Development time being finite, stability never gets worked on - hence Microsoft Clipart at the sake of a version of Windows able to hit decent uptime figures.
Thankfully free software has less of a problem with this as mostly it's designed by geeks for geeks, and users and focus groups can go p*ss into the wind for all they care
Fly by wire != autopilot (although it certainly makes autopilot a lot easier). If fly by wire meant you needed no control inputs from the pilot, then why do they bother fiting it to all those planes?
So, a RC heli fitted with a FBW control system is not a contradiction.