Movies ranging in the "hundreds of GB" range. Anything from 200GB to 1TB would be my guess. People simply don't have an ISP that's willing or capable of transferring that much data at a high rate of speed. Take an 8Mb/s (1MB/s) DSL connection for example. It would take 24hous just to download over 86GB worth of data. So that's what? 2 to 3 days of non-stop data transfer? By then, I would have lost interest in my impulse movie watching purchase. So why bother in the first place?
Physical media is high latency, but off set by magnitudes more bandwidth and capacity!
You know why don't you? Because management gets dibs on taking vacation during the periods of Thanks Giving, through the New Year. They talk amongst each other as to who gets what segments off for the week.
You got fucked. I can only conclude you were either not management, low in employment seniority (time with the company), or some combination of both.
SATA3 already supports 600MB/s. It's only a matter of time before SSD technology will saturate that (if it doesn't already on 'reads').
Here's a proposed solution to the problem. Create a custom SSD standard for the entertainment industry (follow me here..) using SATA3. When a user rents from Redbox or Netflix, a SSD cartridge comes preloaded with the movie in question and labeled on a digital ink window for easy visual identification of the title in question. This cartridge will only work in entertainment devices and will come encrypted. When the user returns the cartridge back to the rental place, it gets formatted and reused so that you will never waste expensive resources and never run out of that popular blockbuster hit. At worst, you just run out of SSD carts.
Now you may be wondering why the carts would be proprietary in the first place. 1. The MPAA doesn't want people rip-dumping them for pirated use. 2. Carts are expensive for now. 3. Having the user provide their own SSD cart could leave them standing in line for 10 to 20 minutes as the data is being written to the drive. My proposal solves all these issues and makes the MPAA happy too.
I wish I had mod point for you. I'd give you all +5 if I could. There's a reason Republicans were all in favor of the Starve the beast strategy. They know fully damn well that the Government exists for itself in the end under the guise of "for the people".
If only members of congress were forced to eat their own dog food... 1% screwing everyone over. Ok. But that's just a side-show bob compared to the vast amount of corruption that goes on inside politics. Not that your average voter is intelligent enough to realize that.
While not free, a much simpler option for the end-user would be to purchase a laptop with drive encryption available out of the box. Windows 7 Ultimate/Enterprise and Mac OSX respectively. Both can provide end-user support over the phone in the event of needing to recover data (OEM and Apple support). That phone call could make this the most important decision ever made. And to go a step further, you can use an online backup solution such as Mozy and backup to the cloud (both client connection and back-end storage resides in an encrypted state).
Now, you may say this is expensive. But the cost of paying the fine is much higher. It's also more expensive to society as a whole when sensitive information gets shat all over the internet. I can't speak for everyone, but I know I don't want my stuff out there.
Depends. I've seen the Intel and ATI video driver install package require a reboot. So while yes, Win Vista/7 don't require it, the install package will bitch because of locked and in use DLL files used by its utility. You can blame the vendor for that, not the aforementioned version of Windows in question.
This about supporting the end user of their product, not Linux. Blizzard doesn't want to support a platform with a bazillion permutations. The reality of it is that when a gamer calls in tech support to troubleshoot network access, they will get sucked into touching the OS to determine if it's a game library issue or a jacked up WiFi driver bug effecting only that destro with that chipset.
The do not want to get involved. Supporting Windows and over clocked flakey machines is bad enough as it is.
...provide a bootable Linux DVD or USB stick which boots into linux and starts the game.
I remember doing that back in the days of DOS. Either it was a custom boot floppy with specific changes in config.sys and autoexec.bat, or it was just one custom boot floppy that contained the game as well.
Happened to me on a domestic flight in China. It was my beard trimmer in the duffle bag that started vibrating making noise. I don't think many Chinese use an electric shaver. The looks I got when a picked my bags from the airport were that of confusion. It was awkward.
"Ya, I'm an American with something vibrating in my bag. Yes, I'm very very foreign to you!!!"
The theory holds that even if you have 100% production rate where each CPU is flawless, you still have to segment the market based on a supply/demand curve. The ability to generate as much profit as possible is necessary to pay off R&D and move on to the project all while growing the business. It's not all that uncommon to "cripple" a perfectly good CPU in order to sell it at reduced cost (loss made up at the high end segment). The idea being that reduced profit is better than no profit earned for any given product sold.
Like China? A large nation who's rapidly expanding domestic flights and automobile usage at exponential rates???
Now you see the flaw in railroads being a primary solution to public transportation. Next, you'll be in favor of horse back riding where all we have to do is shovel shit off the dirt roads.
Well yes. But once your on the shit list of many spammers, you don't get off them. So if spammers for the most part never receive NDRs, many will assume it's an active account and blow more crap your way. Filtering out this junk consumes both CPU cycles and more importantly bandwidth. If I'm going to host my own private (read small) email server, I'd rather not redirect my MX records to a 3rd party mail scrubber.
I'll play along and say you are right for the sake of argument. But if a 20 mill project approaches or goes over budget with little to show for it along the process, why keep throwing money at it when there are plenty of other super computers to purchase a time-slice from?!
It will work headless using a bunch of random APs with the same SSID, but reliability is iffy at best. The point of a wired controller managing APs is so it can intelligently manage WiFi channel allocation and load based on all sorts of factors including SNR levels and channel usage overlap.
In all seriousness, I don't use a catch-all. Because none of the messages bounce back as undeliverable, it just builds up a worthless legitimate list for spammers around the world. Unless things have changed and you can both receive via catch-all and forge a false undeliverable, I'd rather not pollute my domain.
Iranians got pissed off at this, overthrew the Shah (which the US is still mad about), and installed a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy.
That's their fucking problem, not ours. They CHOSE to read the book of a pedophile, not us. They can suffer the very hell spawn pit they created...and like it!!!
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Ya, and when the next JRE update prompts the user to install from the system tray, the browser plugin gets re-enabled (re-installed really).
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." -John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton - 1887
Movies ranging in the "hundreds of GB" range. Anything from 200GB to 1TB would be my guess. People simply don't have an ISP that's willing or capable of transferring that much data at a high rate of speed. Take an 8Mb/s (1MB/s) DSL connection for example. It would take 24hous just to download over 86GB worth of data. So that's what? 2 to 3 days of non-stop data transfer? By then, I would have lost interest in my impulse movie watching purchase. So why bother in the first place?
Physical media is high latency, but off set by magnitudes more bandwidth and capacity!
You know why don't you? Because management gets dibs on taking vacation during the periods of Thanks Giving, through the New Year. They talk amongst each other as to who gets what segments off for the week.
You got fucked. I can only conclude you were either not management, low in employment seniority (time with the company), or some combination of both.
Run Windows? No. But it will bust them out from afar!
SATA3 already supports 600MB/s. It's only a matter of time before SSD technology will saturate that (if it doesn't already on 'reads').
Here's a proposed solution to the problem. Create a custom SSD standard for the entertainment industry (follow me here..) using SATA3. When a user rents from Redbox or Netflix, a SSD cartridge comes preloaded with the movie in question and labeled on a digital ink window for easy visual identification of the title in question. This cartridge will only work in entertainment devices and will come encrypted. When the user returns the cartridge back to the rental place, it gets formatted and reused so that you will never waste expensive resources and never run out of that popular blockbuster hit. At worst, you just run out of SSD carts.
Now you may be wondering why the carts would be proprietary in the first place. 1. The MPAA doesn't want people rip-dumping them for pirated use. 2. Carts are expensive for now. 3. Having the user provide their own SSD cart could leave them standing in line for 10 to 20 minutes as the data is being written to the drive. My proposal solves all these issues and makes the MPAA happy too.
When the police are minutes away, seconds count.
Or to put it another way. You don't know what the fuck your talking about. You stupid stupid little man!!!
It's the liberal cappuccino beatnik whores beating the drum of political correctness.
I wish I had mod point for you. I'd give you all +5 if I could. There's a reason Republicans were all in favor of the Starve the beast strategy. They know fully damn well that the Government exists for itself in the end under the guise of "for the people".
If only members of congress were forced to eat their own dog food... 1% screwing everyone over. Ok. But that's just a side-show bob compared to the vast amount of corruption that goes on inside politics. Not that your average voter is intelligent enough to realize that.
While not free, a much simpler option for the end-user would be to purchase a laptop with drive encryption available out of the box. Windows 7 Ultimate/Enterprise and Mac OSX respectively. Both can provide end-user support over the phone in the event of needing to recover data (OEM and Apple support). That phone call could make this the most important decision ever made. And to go a step further, you can use an online backup solution such as Mozy and backup to the cloud (both client connection and back-end storage resides in an encrypted state).
Now, you may say this is expensive. But the cost of paying the fine is much higher. It's also more expensive to society as a whole when sensitive information gets shat all over the internet. I can't speak for everyone, but I know I don't want my stuff out there.
Depends. I've seen the Intel and ATI video driver install package require a reboot. So while yes, Win Vista/7 don't require it, the install package will bitch because of locked and in use DLL files used by its utility. You can blame the vendor for that, not the aforementioned version of Windows in question.
This about supporting the end user of their product, not Linux. Blizzard doesn't want to support a platform with a bazillion permutations. The reality of it is that when a gamer calls in tech support to troubleshoot network access, they will get sucked into touching the OS to determine if it's a game library issue or a jacked up WiFi driver bug effecting only that destro with that chipset.
The do not want to get involved. Supporting Windows and over clocked flakey machines is bad enough as it is.
...provide a bootable Linux DVD or USB stick which boots into linux and starts the game.
I remember doing that back in the days of DOS. Either it was a custom boot floppy with specific changes in config.sys and autoexec.bat, or it was just one custom boot floppy that contained the game as well.
What was once old is now new again.
Bush created this monster, and Obama plans on growing it for his control.
Happened to me on a domestic flight in China. It was my beard trimmer in the duffle bag that started vibrating making noise. I don't think many Chinese use an electric shaver. The looks I got when a picked my bags from the airport were that of confusion. It was awkward.
"Ya, I'm an American with something vibrating in my bag. Yes, I'm very very foreign to you!!!"
Funny thing about DNS. They solve just about as many problems as they solve in the world of IT. A double-edge sword of a solution.
The theory holds that even if you have 100% production rate where each CPU is flawless, you still have to segment the market based on a supply/demand curve. The ability to generate as much profit as possible is necessary to pay off R&D and move on to the project all while growing the business. It's not all that uncommon to "cripple" a perfectly good CPU in order to sell it at reduced cost (loss made up at the high end segment). The idea being that reduced profit is better than no profit earned for any given product sold.
Like China? A large nation who's rapidly expanding domestic flights and automobile usage at exponential rates???
Now you see the flaw in railroads being a primary solution to public transportation. Next, you'll be in favor of horse back riding where all we have to do is shovel shit off the dirt roads.
Well yes. But once your on the shit list of many spammers, you don't get off them. So if spammers for the most part never receive NDRs, many will assume it's an active account and blow more crap your way. Filtering out this junk consumes both CPU cycles and more importantly bandwidth. If I'm going to host my own private (read small) email server, I'd rather not redirect my MX records to a 3rd party mail scrubber.
I'll play along and say you are right for the sake of argument. But if a 20 mill project approaches or goes over budget with little to show for it along the process, why keep throwing money at it when there are plenty of other super computers to purchase a time-slice from?!
It will work headless using a bunch of random APs with the same SSID, but reliability is iffy at best. The point of a wired controller managing APs is so it can intelligently manage WiFi channel allocation and load based on all sorts of factors including SNR levels and channel usage overlap.
msmith@insert_your_domain.com is a catch all! j/k
In all seriousness, I don't use a catch-all. Because none of the messages bounce back as undeliverable, it just builds up a worthless legitimate list for spammers around the world. Unless things have changed and you can both receive via catch-all and forge a false undeliverable, I'd rather not pollute my domain.
If you're using msmith@insert_your_domain.com, you're doing it wrong!
Iranians got pissed off at this, overthrew the Shah (which the US is still mad about), and installed a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy.
That's their fucking problem, not ours. They CHOSE to read the book of a pedophile, not us. They can suffer the very hell spawn pit they created...and like it!!!