You are assuming Game Developers will use Avalon and WinFS.
A very small amount of users will use Longhorn for the first 1 year or so. After that it will become more prevelant but really it's not going to ever get enough in the next 3-5 years for game devs to stop Win32 support.
Oh also, how many games need a metadata filesystem or new window drawing controls (yes I know it's more, but essentially it is just that)?
Also, with one of the court injunctions MS has had, it has to open ALL APIs up. So it will be easy to reverse engineer.
Haven't we had enough of morally deviant predators grooming little kids to turn them into compliant bitches?
Now, I'm all for teaching kids (and adults) about the consequences of their actions, but the action that the RIAA are objecting to isn't file copying, it's not buying music. There's a distinction, and I want them to be honest about what they're saying.
What these kids are really being told is: "If you don't do buy Freshy Q's new CD, the police will take your mommy away. Sorry, I mean, Freshy Q is going to die in the gutter."
Now, sure, Freshy is dead meat if you don't buy because you're downloading his m3p, but the thing is, he's just as destitute if you don't buy because you're happy listening to him on the radio, or by streamed webcast, or on MTV-a-like channels, or (shocker) if despite - or perhaps because of - the many ways that the RIAA pays to get the music to you, you simply choose not to buy a CD.
That's the message that the RIAA is giving, once you strip the bullshit away. Buy more music. Buy music, or you've killed Freshy Q. It's not our job to persuade you to pay, it doesn't matter how generic or plastic our miming meat puppets are, the fact is, Billy, it's your responsibility to pay, and frankly, you should pay whether you like the music or not. It's all about stopping poor Freshy Q from starving.
Spooky prediction? Next year, it's Driver's Ed, but first a short message from our sponsors, the Ford Motor Company Inc.
"Hello class. I'd like to tell you the story of Wally Doe. We had to lay Wally off because you selfish little bastards are walking to school instead of pestering your parents to buy you a Ford Weener. Now Wally has to give handjobs for food. Say, kids, how would you feel about choking the chicken of a 400lb trucker to make ends meet?"
I just got an arrl newsletter telling all of their members to contact their congressmen and tell them what a bad idea this is. Apparently, according to ARRL research, broadband over powerlines causes significant interference not just in ham bands but across the spectrum. Although I havn't exactly looked at the research in detail, I can't see how the power companies could avoid interference. Powerlines aren't shielded, and for any reasonable bandwidth to be passed through the powerlines, the frequency would have to be high enough that a significant amount of power would have to be used. Unshielded wire is always agood antenna, and for some situations the best. Granted it won't be well tuned, but I've seen worse situations cause a lot of interference. My home is near high voltage power lines (read a large part of San Francisco's power) and even at 60hz, I get interfering harmonics all the way up into 10 meters. Avoiding electrical grid contamination is something every ham has fought with. Hopefully I'm wrong, but unless there is some way of preventing interference, this seems like one of those thngs that will be really good for pacbell and really bad for the rest of the wireless world.
Our faculty of the university at which I work has decided on a new layout for their web pages. This was done and delivered to us by a PR agency. I feared that it might be bad, but that fear didn't even come close to what I had to witness.
Imagine having to tell our users (many of which are using GNU/Linux or Macintosh) that our web site only works reliably in Windows with Internet Explorer 6.0 and above. Just because a PR agency can't develop web pages. It's impossible. I had to do something about it.
So when I implemented the layout for our department (scheduled to go live later this month), I scrapped everything they had done. I took a printout of their page (as it looked in Internet Explorer) and marked up what colors and fonts they had used.
Then I set down and wrote the same thing using XHTML/1.0 Strict and CSS1. This was about two days work, but the finished result now validates using w3c's validate tools, and it works reliably in all browsers I've managed to try, all the way back to Mosaic and Netscape 3, with or without images (yes, Lynx, Links, w3 and other text browsers work very well indeed too).
Not only did I get the pages to validate. By using CSS, I was able to get rid of several images they had been using with their design. The overall size of a page, including graphics and CSS, now weighs in at about 35 kbytes. This is compared to around 120 kbytes with the proposed code.
And even better, most things can be cached by the browser (CSS code and images). The only thing that needs reloading when you hit subsequent pages is the dynamic XHTML code, which weighs in at around 5 kbytes, compares to 40 kbytes in the proposed code.
Now, I think our students will like us. This result is even better than the pages that we have today. They render quickly and effortlessly even on old equipment or on extremely slow links.
I havn't been able to convince the faculty to make my code the "default" yet, but they might get the idea once people start noticing that our pages load much more quickly than the rest of the faculty pages.
So, using standards isn't always about making things render nicely in all browsers. It gives you a while heap of nice side effects that isn't worth sneezing at.
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2.88MB is the standard size for rips.
15MB is the standard size for CD games/movies.
50MB is the standard size for DVD games/movies/console games.
Surely that would assume a blanket cover of WiFi whereever he went though? Personally, I Think it's a lot easier to buy yourself an itunes song for 79p.
Are you insane? I don't think NAT could work on that scale. How long before you start getting hash table collisions and routing totally fucks up with packets going all over the place. Considering Comcast probably use a more than 1TBit/sec of bandwidth, do you know the sort of routers they'd need for this?
Also, Comcasts network is very ad-hoc. I don't think they have one central place where everything is routed through. They have instead central routers for each state/region they operate in, so this would be hard to implement...
Also, comcast have a whole class A. It would be a shame to waste millions of those..
You'll be suprised. 3 words: PayPal Debit Cards. They allow you to spend PayPal funds in real life stores. You can easily send it to a different address, goto the address, say the mailman sent it to the wrong place and pick it up. You have now broke the chain -- also this is just one tiny way I thought up right now. For the experienced scammer it will be far easier to do something like this and they will have many more options.
While that does suck, you must realize that NZ is very isolated in the world and links to Europe/USA where most data is stored is very expensive.
But I'm confused why they give you 8mbit down. That would burn through your allowance it 10 minutes!
1. If you are using an ethernet connection (either to a router or straight to a modem) then you will have a 100mbit link. 30kbyte/sec uplink (because thats what we are looking at) will be less than 1% of utilization which is hard to see at least.
2. Modem lights only work if you are straight wired but even if you are it's hard to spot it against a background of random network activity that windows gives you.
While it's very easy to say 'throw more programmers at the problem' it's actually a far more challenging problem in the first place.
Usually places like these have tens, if not hundreads of different systems that need to be migrated and then new relationships written between them. 'Business' logic is my most hated section of programming because you need to confirm exactly to the old system otherwise you will get your ass whined right off, even if the old system is absolute shit.
Now you are saying you could have 600 programmers for one year. You are forgetting hardware and misc costs which eat into it. You'll also need at least 75 managers for 600 programmers, which will cost at least the same or musch higher. Then also who wants to start on a project with a tight deadline and you are going to be disposed of straight after? Temporary work usually gets much worse staff...
VB? No way. PHP is a great scripting language that does what people needs it to do: fast, simple and a great community.
The only real competitor to it is ASP, and really I'd rather use C++ for web scripting than that. Perl is way too slow and it's not designed for quickly scripting web sites. Python is promising but mod_python has not relly reached the maturity that it needs to be before I start learning it (I will however learn it eventually) and also it's not designed with web scripting in mind.
You say it is ad-hoc, but I really do like it that way. I love the fact that there is tonnes of really specific web functions that let me save so much time (strip_tags() is just one example). Of course, if you come from a very strict background of programming, you'll hate it.
In conclusion: PHP is the best web programming language out there, and hopefully it will keep growing. ASP is dying, and that means MS loses it's domanance on another sector of the industry. It's all good really.
It's a good point though. Hardware has increased over the last 6 years (since I got online) by leaps and bounds, but the DNS servers are still updating at a slow pace...
I'm just imagining a hillbilly farmer with a shotgun and chewing some straw in his mouth saying 'yea run off wid' ur damn amd-made-in-malasyia bullshit'.. 'we only use good ol' made-in-NY-ibm!'
Well lets say you have 15 Mac/PCs overall, 5 in each room. You plug an Airport Express into a local power outlet into each room. This then makes the network with no ethernet required, assuming each Mac/PC has an wireless PCI or PCMCIA card in it
Lets say you also have a server which is connected via the wireless network, but this has a cable modem attached to it and it is running internet connection sharing or some other software routing program.
You can then use AirTunes to put music in it all from one Mac/PC running itunes, with only short audio cables to the stereo from the Airport express.
It's actually a great idea, and the idea of plugging it directly into the power outlet is a great gimmick that I think Apple has used very cleverly to help people understand the simplicity of it.
FireFox 0.9 will be at max a 5MB download, and probably closer to 4MB depending on how much stuff they manage to thin out.
I do however think Opera is a very good peice of work for gettin g all that in 3.5MB, put I prefer FireFox for some reason for browsing, and I have all my mail on my iBook using Apple's mail.app (I think it's great... I don't understand why it gets such a slamming).
0.9 is going to stop all of the FF spyware in it's tracks. A new website, update.mozilla.org will sign all new extensions and themes. If you then stumble across a.xpi file on the internet, if it does not verify with update.mozilla.org then it is simply blocked. However, apparently they will let you lower your security rating (high is the default though so newbies will not see this stuff) and then it will install ok.
But, smartupdate which will automatically update your browser, extensions and themes is going to be a great feature in 0.9 and will hopefully pull a few more IE users over.
Exactly. Microsoft makes it so damn easy to copy their software. All of their games (which cost $50, max) have Securom or similar copy protection. Windows Server 2003 Enterprise ($manyK)? None whatsoever. You can make as many copies as you'd like.
Sure, their activation thing goes some way to prevent this, but ever since MS made software on CD they have made it very, very, very easy to copy.
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There is 2 ATC centers in the UK - West Drayton which is for the 4 major London airports only (Heathrow, Standstead, Gatwick and London City). This is a 70s system and is due to be replaced by 2006. This is the one that crashed, but because a large percentage of UK air traffic is destined for London, then it caused the other one to go to a standstill.
The other one at Swanage handles the ATC for everywhere else. This was replaced with a new system in 2002.
But, by 2006 hopefully all ATC in the UK will be running on new systems.
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You are assuming Game Developers will use Avalon and WinFS.
A very small amount of users will use Longhorn for the first 1 year or so. After that it will become more prevelant but really it's not going to ever get enough in the next 3-5 years for game devs to stop Win32 support.
Oh also, how many games need a metadata filesystem or new window drawing controls (yes I know it's more, but essentially it is just that)?
Also, with one of the court injunctions MS has had, it has to open ALL APIs up. So it will be easy to reverse engineer.
Haven't we had enough of morally deviant predators grooming little kids to turn them into compliant bitches?
Now, I'm all for teaching kids (and adults) about the consequences of their actions, but the action that the RIAA are objecting to isn't file copying, it's not buying music. There's a distinction, and I want them to be honest about what they're saying.
What these kids are really being told is: "If you don't do buy Freshy Q's new CD, the police will take your mommy away. Sorry, I mean, Freshy Q is going to die in the gutter."
Now, sure, Freshy is dead meat if you don't buy because you're downloading his m3p, but the thing is, he's just as destitute if you don't buy because you're happy listening to him on the radio, or by streamed webcast, or on MTV-a-like channels, or (shocker) if despite - or perhaps because of - the many ways that the RIAA pays to get the music to you, you simply choose not to buy a CD.
That's the message that the RIAA is giving, once you strip the bullshit away. Buy more music. Buy music, or you've killed Freshy Q. It's not our job to persuade you to pay, it doesn't matter how generic or plastic our miming meat puppets are, the fact is, Billy, it's your responsibility to pay, and frankly, you should pay whether you like the music or not. It's all about stopping poor Freshy Q from starving.
Spooky prediction? Next year, it's Driver's Ed, but first a short message from our sponsors, the Ford Motor Company Inc.
"Hello class. I'd like to tell you the story of Wally Doe. We had to lay Wally off because you selfish little bastards are walking to school instead of pestering your parents to buy you a Ford Weener. Now Wally has to give handjobs for food. Say, kids, how would you feel about choking the chicken of a 400lb trucker to make ends meet?"
I just got an arrl newsletter telling all of their members to contact their congressmen and tell them what a bad idea this is. Apparently, according to ARRL research, broadband over powerlines causes significant interference not just in ham bands but across the spectrum. Although I havn't exactly looked at the research in detail, I can't see how the power companies could avoid interference. Powerlines aren't shielded, and for any reasonable bandwidth to be passed through the powerlines, the frequency would have to be high enough that a significant amount of power would have to be used. Unshielded wire is always agood antenna, and for some situations the best. Granted it won't be well tuned, but I've seen worse situations cause a lot of interference. My home is near high voltage power lines (read a large part of San Francisco's power) and even at 60hz, I get interfering harmonics all the way up into 10 meters. Avoiding electrical grid contamination is something every ham has fought with. Hopefully I'm wrong, but unless there is some way of preventing interference, this seems like one of those thngs that will be really good for pacbell and really bad for the rest of the wireless world.
Our faculty of the university at which I work has decided on a new layout for their web pages. This was done and delivered to us by a PR agency. I feared that it might be bad, but that fear didn't even come close to what I had to witness.
Imagine having to tell our users (many of which are using GNU/Linux or Macintosh) that our web site only works reliably in Windows with Internet Explorer 6.0 and above. Just because a PR agency can't develop web pages. It's impossible. I had to do something about it.
So when I implemented the layout for our department (scheduled to go live later this month), I scrapped everything they had done. I took a printout of their page (as it looked in Internet Explorer) and marked up what colors and fonts they had used.
Then I set down and wrote the same thing using XHTML/1.0 Strict and CSS1. This was about two days work, but the finished result now validates using w3c's validate tools, and it works reliably in all browsers I've managed to try, all the way back to Mosaic and Netscape 3, with or without images (yes, Lynx, Links, w3 and other text browsers work very well indeed too).
Not only did I get the pages to validate. By using CSS, I was able to get rid of several images they had been using with their design. The overall size of a page, including graphics and CSS, now weighs in at about 35 kbytes. This is compared to around 120 kbytes with the proposed code.
And even better, most things can be cached by the browser (CSS code and images). The only thing that needs reloading when you hit subsequent pages is the dynamic XHTML code, which weighs in at around 5 kbytes, compares to 40 kbytes in the proposed code.
Now, I think our students will like us. This result is even better than the pages that we have today. They render quickly and effortlessly even on old equipment or on extremely slow links.
I havn't been able to convince the faculty to make my code the "default" yet, but they might get the idea once people start noticing that our pages load much more quickly than the rest of the faculty pages.
So, using standards isn't always about making things render nicely in all browsers. It gives you a while heap of nice side effects that isn't worth sneezing at.
2.88MB is the standard size for rips.
15MB is the standard size for CD games/movies.
50MB is the standard size for DVD games/movies/console games.
But they gave a free upgrade to 10.1..
Surely that would assume a blanket cover of WiFi whereever he went though? Personally, I Think it's a lot easier to buy yourself an itunes song for 79p.
What, like the WMP9 Video Codec? It is now technically a standard...
Nope.
Are you insane? I don't think NAT could work on that scale. How long before you start getting hash table collisions and routing totally fucks up with packets going all over the place. Considering Comcast probably use a more than 1TBit/sec of bandwidth, do you know the sort of routers they'd need for this?
Also, Comcasts network is very ad-hoc. I don't think they have one central place where everything is routed through. They have instead central routers for each state/region they operate in, so this would be hard to implement...
Also, comcast have a whole class A. It would be a shame to waste millions of those..
You'll be suprised. 3 words: PayPal Debit Cards. They allow you to spend PayPal funds in real life stores. You can easily send it to a different address, goto the address, say the mailman sent it to the wrong place and pick it up. You have now broke the chain -- also this is just one tiny way I thought up right now. For the experienced scammer it will be far easier to do something like this and they will have many more options.
While that does suck, you must realize that NZ is very isolated in the world and links to Europe/USA where most data is stored is very expensive. But I'm confused why they give you 8mbit down. That would burn through your allowance it 10 minutes!
Totally insufficent.
1. If you are using an ethernet connection (either to a router or straight to a modem) then you will have a 100mbit link. 30kbyte/sec uplink (because thats what we are looking at) will be less than 1% of utilization which is hard to see at least.
2. Modem lights only work if you are straight wired but even if you are it's hard to spot it against a background of random network activity that windows gives you.
While it's very easy to say 'throw more programmers at the problem' it's actually a far more challenging problem in the first place.
Usually places like these have tens, if not hundreads of different systems that need to be migrated and then new relationships written between them. 'Business' logic is my most hated section of programming because you need to confirm exactly to the old system otherwise you will get your ass whined right off, even if the old system is absolute shit.
Now you are saying you could have 600 programmers for one year. You are forgetting hardware and misc costs which eat into it. You'll also need at least 75 managers for 600 programmers, which will cost at least the same or musch higher. Then also who wants to start on a project with a tight deadline and you are going to be disposed of straight after? Temporary work usually gets much worse staff...
VB? No way. PHP is a great scripting language that does what people needs it to do: fast, simple and a great community.
The only real competitor to it is ASP, and really I'd rather use C++ for web scripting than that. Perl is way too slow and it's not designed for quickly scripting web sites. Python is promising but mod_python has not relly reached the maturity that it needs to be before I start learning it (I will however learn it eventually) and also it's not designed with web scripting in mind.
You say it is ad-hoc, but I really do like it that way. I love the fact that there is tonnes of really specific web functions that let me save so much time (strip_tags() is just one example). Of course, if you come from a very strict background of programming, you'll hate it.
In conclusion: PHP is the best web programming language out there, and hopefully it will keep growing. ASP is dying, and that means MS loses it's domanance on another sector of the industry. It's all good really.
It's a good point though. Hardware has increased over the last 6 years (since I got online) by leaps and bounds, but the DNS servers are still updating at a slow pace...
Agreed. Maybe not $500 but certainly $1000-$1500.
Hahaha, processor racist. That is very funny.
.. 'we only use good ol' made-in-NY-ibm!'
I'm just imagining a hillbilly farmer with a shotgun and chewing some straw in his mouth saying 'yea run off wid' ur damn amd-made-in-malasyia bullshit'
Well lets say you have 15 Mac/PCs overall, 5 in each room. You plug an Airport Express into a local power outlet into each room. This then makes the network with no ethernet required, assuming each Mac/PC has an wireless PCI or PCMCIA card in it
Lets say you also have a server which is connected via the wireless network, but this has a cable modem attached to it and it is running internet connection sharing or some other software routing program.
You can then use AirTunes to put music in it all from one Mac/PC running itunes, with only short audio cables to the stereo from the Airport express.
It's actually a great idea, and the idea of plugging it directly into the power outlet is a great gimmick that I think Apple has used very cleverly to help people understand the simplicity of it.
FireFox 0.9 will be at max a 5MB download, and probably closer to 4MB depending on how much stuff they manage to thin out.
I do however think Opera is a very good peice of work for gettin g all that in 3.5MB, put I prefer FireFox for some reason for browsing, and I have all my mail on my iBook using Apple's mail.app (I think it's great... I don't understand why it gets such a slamming).
Who modded the parent flamebait? It's true.
FireFox is a good product, yes, but not so good that they can just throw people around like trash.
0.9 is going to stop all of the FF spyware in it's tracks. A new website, update.mozilla.org will sign all new extensions and themes. If you then stumble across a .xpi file on the internet, if it does not verify with update.mozilla.org then it is simply blocked. However, apparently they will let you lower your security rating (high is the default though so newbies will not see this stuff) and then it will install ok.
But, smartupdate which will automatically update your browser, extensions and themes is going to be a great feature in 0.9 and will hopefully pull a few more IE users over.
Exactly. Microsoft makes it so damn easy to copy their software. All of their games (which cost $50, max) have Securom or similar copy protection. Windows Server 2003 Enterprise ($manyK)? None whatsoever. You can make as many copies as you'd like.
Sure, their activation thing goes some way to prevent this, but ever since MS made software on CD they have made it very, very, very easy to copy.
One word: Dependencies.
There is 2 ATC centers in the UK - West Drayton which is for the 4 major London airports only (Heathrow, Standstead, Gatwick and London City). This is a 70s system and is due to be replaced by 2006. This is the one that crashed, but because a large percentage of UK air traffic is destined for London, then it caused the other one to go to a standstill.
The other one at Swanage handles the ATC for everywhere else. This was replaced with a new system in 2002.
But, by 2006 hopefully all ATC in the UK will be running on new systems.