One obvious difference is that the content they are providing is served from within the cable companies network. While "normal" internet traffic must travel through their network links to/from other networks. Typically ISP's share the maintenance cost of these links based on the ratio of data that travels in each direction.
Paying for bandwidth used was the norm in Australia, and initially there usually wasn't an explicit limit on the price. As people complained about getting $2K+ monthly bills the ISP's swapped to monthly limits, after which point your connection was throttled to modem speeds (these days 128kbps is about the norm) without charging you any extra or disconnecting you completely. And with most ISP's you can probably upgrade your monthly allowance or buy a one off block of data when you run out.
And it works out fairly well. You still get people who don't use all their data allowance. You don't get enormous unexpected bills. The ISP's actually get paid for the bandwidth you use and have an incentive to add capacity to their networks. Competition between ISP's helps to push consumer prices down. And the people who download heaps all the time pay more than the people who don't.
The block size of flash chips that must be erased all at once is typically larger than the block size of the filesystem. When the filesystem overwrites a logical address, the SSD will relocate that data to a new location and leave the old block in place. Eventually the SSD must reclaim that wasted space by moving all the other remaining blocks to a new location so the entire area can be erased and reused. Unfortunately this process is usually called defragging, leading people to assume it has something to do with normal filesystem defragging.
The Bittorrent protocol does include sending messages to attached peers to indicate which parts of the file you have. By logging these messages they could certainly claim that your client application is downloading the content. But you're right, the protocol does not include any p2p messages about uploading, nor would they be trusted anyway. And it's uploading that infringes copyright.
aka, what the world just experiences in 2008 (on a much smaller scale so far)
FTFY. In the early 1930's the world had no idea how far their economy would fall before it could be rebuilt. We've had our crash like in 1929, but it's going to take a few years for the true reality of our current situation to set in.
Only 2 hours? What are they scared that this thing will be crackable in 3? Seriously, if you are buying one of these to keep something secret on, and you lose it. It will have to remain resistant to attacks for way longer than that.
True, the recording of time can be easy enough. However I wouldn't be surprised if in this case the system requirements have been moving to include all kinds of higher level management functions.
I've seen quite a few math homework assignments that don't describe the question well enough. Mainly I believe because the written homework makes assumptions about how it was taught on the blackboard. For example when you're learning about subtraction, and you need to learn the trick of moving a "ten" into the "units" column so you can take away a larger number. The homework questions often focus on this one step, asking something like "43 = [ ]" where you are supposed to give an answer of 3tens and 13units. But most people are left scratching their heads as to how 43 can be anything other than 43.
Certainly I can see the appeal of not forcing children to learn math that they can't cope with yet. But I believe in some cases the issue is that math isn't taught early enough to the children who can learn it easily. In my case I was doing reasonably difficult algebra in my own time, while still in my fourth year of schooling.
All children are different, have different abilities and will learn math at different rates. Personally I think we need to get out of this whole classroom at once style of teaching at find a way for each student to learn at their own pace.
Nope, still wrong. Cutting usage might result in a small delay in building new plants, since even if we can cut 30% from our usage right now, 20-30 years from now we'll still be using more energy that we are today.
The content for higher level characters doesn't feel complete to me, it feels like they could have done more. Not that I'm complaining, I think the price was about right for what I got from the game. It just feels like they depend too much on randomised content, especially when you compare it to the old Diablo games.
Which leads to another interesting point. Put all your standard linux system binaries in the same exe and they can share all that boilerplate startup and runtime library code.
But didn't that start the other way around? Apple first used their near monopoly in the hardware music player business to push their iTunes music store...
For another real world example. An application I have been involved in maintaining would call a stored procedure in the database in order to round a number. And when one form was loading it would step through each record in the result set and call this db proc (and 13 others). Of course when this result set grew to 1900 records, and the users wanted to access the system from a different city with an additional 30ms of network latency, opening this screen could take an additional [1900 records * 14 db calls * 0.03 ms / 60 = 13.3] minutes.
In developing this application, almost everything was written as a stored procedure, and all batch jobs were stored procedures. So I can understand the mentality, that I need to do this thing that is also done by this batch job... I know I'll just call this procedure.
That's the kind of thinking that leads to batch jobs taking an hour, that should be done in 5 minutes or less. I've seen way too many "programmers" that don't understand what their high level language is doing being their backs, so they end up copying memory around all the time. Or going off to ask the database the same question over and over in a loop because they couldn't be bothered to refactor the code so it cached the answer.
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it took the crackers 4 weeks to write a fully working emulator
And most of that was building the challenge / response database from volunteers who bought the game and were running a proxy to capture them.
"Do not look into scanner with remaining eye"
Now if she was claiming to have a blind spot burnt into her retina she might potentially have a case. You don't need very much energy for that.
One obvious difference is that the content they are providing is served from within the cable companies network. While "normal" internet traffic must travel through their network links to/from other networks. Typically ISP's share the maintenance cost of these links based on the ratio of data that travels in each direction.
Paying for bandwidth used was the norm in Australia, and initially there usually wasn't an explicit limit on the price. As people complained about getting $2K+ monthly bills the ISP's swapped to monthly limits, after which point your connection was throttled to modem speeds (these days 128kbps is about the norm) without charging you any extra or disconnecting you completely. And with most ISP's you can probably upgrade your monthly allowance or buy a one off block of data when you run out.
And it works out fairly well. You still get people who don't use all their data allowance. You don't get enormous unexpected bills. The ISP's actually get paid for the bandwidth you use and have an incentive to add capacity to their networks. Competition between ISP's helps to push consumer prices down. And the people who download heaps all the time pay more than the people who don't.
The block size of flash chips that must be erased all at once is typically larger than the block size of the filesystem. When the filesystem overwrites a logical address, the SSD will relocate that data to a new location and leave the old block in place. Eventually the SSD must reclaim that wasted space by moving all the other remaining blocks to a new location so the entire area can be erased and reused. Unfortunately this process is usually called defragging, leading people to assume it has something to do with normal filesystem defragging.
"My face burned off and all I got was this stupid tatoo"?
Or via failbook...
Uninstall the font from your filesystem?
The Bittorrent protocol does include sending messages to attached peers to indicate which parts of the file you have. By logging these messages they could certainly claim that your client application is downloading the content. But you're right, the protocol does not include any p2p messages about uploading, nor would they be trusted anyway. And it's uploading that infringes copyright.
aka, what the world just experiences in 2008 (on a much smaller scale so far)
FTFY. In the early 1930's the world had no idea how far their economy would fall before it could be rebuilt. We've had our crash like in 1929, but it's going to take a few years for the true reality of our current situation to set in.
Only 2 hours? What are they scared that this thing will be crackable in 3? Seriously, if you are buying one of these to keep something secret on, and you lose it. It will have to remain resistant to attacks for way longer than that.
This is (of course) just a cheap publicity stunt.
Which is where SSD's come in...
True, the recording of time can be easy enough. However I wouldn't be surprised if in this case the system requirements have been moving to include all kinds of higher level management functions.
I've seen quite a few math homework assignments that don't describe the question well enough. Mainly I believe because the written homework makes assumptions about how it was taught on the blackboard. For example when you're learning about subtraction, and you need to learn the trick of moving a "ten" into the "units" column so you can take away a larger number. The homework questions often focus on this one step, asking something like "43 = [ ]" where you are supposed to give an answer of 3tens and 13units. But most people are left scratching their heads as to how 43 can be anything other than 43.
Certainly I can see the appeal of not forcing children to learn math that they can't cope with yet. But I believe in some cases the issue is that math isn't taught early enough to the children who can learn it easily. In my case I was doing reasonably difficult algebra in my own time, while still in my fourth year of schooling.
All children are different, have different abilities and will learn math at different rates. Personally I think we need to get out of this whole classroom at once style of teaching at find a way for each student to learn at their own pace.
Nope, still wrong. Cutting usage might result in a small delay in building new plants, since even if we can cut 30% from our usage right now, 20-30 years from now we'll still be using more energy that we are today.
The content for higher level characters doesn't feel complete to me, it feels like they could have done more. Not that I'm complaining, I think the price was about right for what I got from the game. It just feels like they depend too much on randomised content, especially when you compare it to the old Diablo games.
Personally I was thinking of C4... but then I watch far too many action flicks.
Just because something is over 30 doesn't mean it's not relevant.
Yes it does.
... wait for the deposits to clear ...
I think I've found your problem... The whole point of cashing a fake check is that you don't need to wait for it to clear.
Which leads to another interesting point. Put all your standard linux system binaries in the same exe and they can share all that boilerplate startup and runtime library code.
The better of the more recent file system designs will pack multiple small files and other filesystem meta data into that 4k page.
But didn't that start the other way around? Apple first used their near monopoly in the hardware music player business to push their iTunes music store...
For another real world example. An application I have been involved in maintaining would call a stored procedure in the database in order to round a number. And when one form was loading it would step through each record in the result set and call this db proc (and 13 others). Of course when this result set grew to 1900 records, and the users wanted to access the system from a different city with an additional 30ms of network latency, opening this screen could take an additional [1900 records * 14 db calls * 0.03 ms / 60 = 13.3] minutes.
In developing this application, almost everything was written as a stored procedure, and all batch jobs were stored procedures. So I can understand the mentality, that I need to do this thing that is also done by this batch job... I know I'll just call this procedure.
That's the kind of thinking that leads to batch jobs taking an hour, that should be done in 5 minutes or less. I've seen way too many "programmers" that don't understand what their high level language is doing being their backs, so they end up copying memory around all the time. Or going off to ask the database the same question over and over in a loop because they couldn't be bothered to refactor the code so it cached the answer.