Fixies aren't trendy if the reason you have one is because you're too poor to fix your broken ass derailer. If you do it intentionally on a perfectly functional bike or you go to some bike shop and buy one made that way, then you're a trendy fuck.
Windows has been fairly secure for awhile now. Vista/Windows 7 has DEP, ASLR, sandboxing, process and privilege separation, and a very active security team. I do not see these things in other operating systems except maybe VMS.
Yea, and don't forget the fact that OSX does it better, as does Linux and FreeBSD and probably solaris and the other unix left out there.
Yes, Microsoft is getting better, but they are still the very last ones in the race by a long fucking way. Hell, unix had DEP before windows fucking existed. x86 is just now catching up to what the rest of the CPU world has been doing for 20 plus years, and thats just in my experience, I'm sure it really goes back further than that. Different variants of ASLR were actually just the way things worked on some OSes, not for security but because thats just the way it worked. Non-randomized addressing via the hardware mmu was a freaking wanted improvement to make it easier on programmers. OSX, FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris have supported various forms of sandboxing for 15 years.
You're really trying to claim MS invented privilege separation on the desktop? Wait, I see the problem, you're unaware of the fact that their are other OSes in existence other than Windows, thats got to be it, how else could you be so silly?
Besides being a good way to get chewed out/disciplined/fired, BofH-style IT isn't very ethical.
Treating people who intentionally behave badly the same as those users on your network that comply with usage rules and ITs guidelines is unethical and unfair to all the people who do what you ask them to do.
You shouldn't let that person sit if you have no other tasks, but they damn sure go to the bottom of the list of things to do. Its not fair to punish good employees and make them wait while you deal with a repeat offender who continually does the same stupid shit to cause the same stupid problem.
Since the range of colors is really pretty fixed since we're inventing the range, then floating point is actually a dumb idea.
When you don't need a dynamic range you use fixed point which is FAR FAR faster on pretty much any computer in the real world. You get rid off all the stupid inaccuracies of floating point and dynamic range, no rounding errors at unknown precision points. Floating point gives you floating levels of accuracy. Fixed point is well defined.
We work in floating point now in graphics because its far easier on the programmer to let the CPU deal with all the details of the range and overflows and such rather than doing it ourselves, but at the cost of allowing the computer to make some inaccurate calculations to deal with unreconcilable differences in properties of two numbers in a give system./pedantic
I'd like for you to show me a Comcast data center that doesn't have an Akamai colo in it for the very reasons you state.
Comcast already allows colocation for a small (very reasonable) fee as it DOES cost SOMETHING for the power, rack space and network ports.
In fact pretty much any medium to large sized ISP does this because its good for both parties.
The only difference here is that they are doing for themselves what they already do for others, and slashdotters who know nothing about how large ISPs ACTUALLY work think they see this major conspiracy to force NBC down your throat.
I'm not denying the conspiracy, just that this particular move has anything at all to do with it.
No, because they didn't say 'GE branded toasters', they said 'the brands of toasters we already give you at our coal planets, we're now going to let you get them also from the local nuclear plant at no additional charge if you'd like'
They are still giving you access to the competition. It isn't JUST for NBC content, its also for ABC, CBS, all the other crap that you already get when you subscribe to cable television, now instead of having to watch it with a tuner card like an HDHomeRun Prime that converts it to IP datagrams, you can just get the fucking datagrams without the having to buy a HDHR Prime. They content itself is not changing, just the delivery method.
Its like UPS allowing you to switch to next day air from second day ground because they happen to have spare capacity on the aerial network rather than the ground network. Still the same package being delivered from the same source you wanted it from, its just now they fly it in instead of truck it in.
I'm fairly certain someone already does this sort of thing in their P2P setup, for exactly that reason. Assuming the same general type of node (say all cable modems) then the closer they are, the quicker they SHOULD be to work with, so even without 'free local access' its STILL in the P2P apps best interest to try to use the closest connections possible.
So the money you are no longer paying the cable company for bandwidth dedicated to providing you television, are you now paying it to them for your increased bandwidth usage? Did you think that the load on their network would magically be less if you switched to IP? It is in fact just the opposite. One stream per channel goes to EVERYONE, rather than your IP based solutions which basically result in a unique stream for each user.
Even if they wanted too, they couldn't provide EVERYONE with the ability to use netflix as the system is now. You'd need OC-192's to my street alone.
Did you seriously just imply they aren't allowed to use their own network for their own advantage?
WTF is wrong with you. You don't get to tell them how they run their business, period. Neither does the government. The government on the other hand says 'if you want a local monopoly, we're going to have some say in some things', but that doesn't translate to some random slashdotter getting to decide what happens on their network. They aren't stripped of all ability to have competing services that take advantage of the infrastructure they laid at some cost to themselves (yes, I know they got plenty of tax breaks for doing so, but they still made some investments).
Its amazing that only on slashdot can someone say something so asinine that I actually end up defending some of the most greedy organizations on the planet.
So put a server in their data center. TimeWarner allows just that, which is why Akamai is in pretty much every data center in the world of any size, its cheaper for EVERYONE to distribute the load with caching servers. You pay for the minor cost of colo provided by TWC (and the prices I heard were lower than the colo company used by my workplace) and your customers get good speeds to your data and TWC doesn't have to pay for massive amounts of external bandwidth to deal with the itunes explosion, or netflix. Likewise, Netflix doesn't have to pay for that bandwidth to individual clients EITHER, so they win AS WELL.
Its really just proper network design, sorry if you guys don't like the reality of it but it DOES cost more for Comcast to send you out of their datacenter than it does to stay inside it.
If they are reasonable about letting people directly connect to the local loop at their own expense, I don't have a problem with it, everyone wins actually.
Thats incorrect for cable modem technology, due to various technical reasons the head end can send to you much faster than your modem can send back.
Technically you can be provisioned for 50/50 speeds on a cable modem, but you'd just be cutting yourself out of downstream speeds, not increasing upstream speeds. They could also do some balancing and actually get slightly higher upstream speeds at the cost of significant drops in download speeds, but cable modems typically terminate at a point where the user is going to be downloading orders of magnitude more than uploading, so trying to balance it is not what you really want anyway.
On a circuit like a T1 and up through the various large scale trunks that carry hundreds of gigabits/second the transmissions rates are generally symmetrical by technical requirement of the tech used and thats where your ISP is cheating by paying for less upstream than downstream. That T1 is ALWAYS signalling at a rate that carries the same amount of data both directions at the same time, where your cable modem truely does have different frequencies for carrying upstream versus downstream.
Which they already do to some extent, as does Apple, Microsoft and anyone that uses Akamai. I've seen the machines that sit in the local TimeWarner data center for local distributions of iTunes content.
This is the way it should be.
An old ISP, I can't remember which one, but one of the original/early internet providers, I want to say PSI? anyway, their policy was free peering to anyone, all you had to do was pay local loop charges, no bandwidth fees, but no transiting across their network to the Internet.
This to me is fair and pushes for proper network design. Distributed links to your peers to balance load and provide redundancy is the way the Internet is supposed to work, distributing the data distribution points also falls right into 'thats how the Internet is supposed to be"
they become another propaganda organ and lose any credibility they might have.
Seriously? So you mean they've been one from the start?
When you can tell me all of Assange's private communications with his lawyers and such, then you can tell me how fair they are.
Funny how we can't see that, but we must be told that some Saudi prince drinks alcohol, or that everyone in the middle east secretly wants us to take out Iran although they don't say it publicly.
You're so busy raging against the machine to notice you're become part of it.
Thats because governments are generally a little smarter than your silly little high schooler on slashdot.
Wikileaks has a tendency to bite the hand that feeds them and has a complete and total disregard for the consequences of their actions, no one intelligent trusts them, you shouldn't either.
Even shitty little countries like you mention are smart enough to stay the fuck away from them.
Not to mention you might not want to start with a former British military outpost which is located beyond any doubt what so ever inside the territorial waters of England and has ALWAYS been considered British soil. They could of moved London on board and it wouldn't have mattered, its part of England.
What these guys did was no different than a moon shiner in the Ozarks claiming he doesn't live in America and isn't bound by American laws.
He can say it, but you're an idiot if you believe him.
But back to what you said, if they ever had any value, they'd just be overrun by someone like Somali pirates. Not them specifically, but lets face it, there are plenty of people with nothing to live for that could take out that little base with bodies alone.
Oh, c'mon! Where the frig in the Periodic Table does one find "Unobtanium"? Seriously? I heard that, and gave up on the flick from that point on.
Shrug, I was buying parts for my R/C cars back when I used to race made out of 'unobtainium'. It was a known variation on titanium and thats not the only place the name is used. I don't know that it was better, in my experience I preferred cheap aluminum because if I hit something going fast that it was going to bend aluminum than its likely going to bend titanium or break carbon fiber so the only solution was to not hit the wall in the first place, but I digress.
Freaking priceless dude, I almost fell out of my chair that was so awesome. Makes me want to go back to school:)
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Seriously? WHY are they figuring out licensing issues on Windows or OSX? JUST SUPPORT THE GOD DAMN SYSTEM CODECS YOU FUCKS.
Its hard to find a video card that doesn't have h.264 support for windows, OSX does naturally, so really all you have to consider is Linux where you don't really have a set of system codecs in the first place, and even if you did, you'd still not have most people with an h264 codec installed anyway due to the license flaming.
So again, WHY ARE YOU CONCERNED WITH LICENSING , just let people use what they already have instead of reinventing the wheel every 3 weeks.
Really? On a scale like Googles it actually works pretty well. You see one you have millions and millions of users you notice trends REAL quick. Gmail + postini seem to be pretty much perfection. I haven't used any other webmail providers but I'd imagine they can't be too far behind if at all.
I was discussing this gmail issue with my wife the otherday, they move data for a lot of people on gmail... AND a lot of completely unrelated domains including governments, schools from small to large, corps, and individuals like me with my family's email on there. It doesn't take much for a few humans to watch patterns develop and trend in real time and stop massive amounts of spam that couldn't be done otherwise. Throw in just a few helpers to narrow down what the people have to actually look at and you can process billions of messages with just a handful of staff and almost no spam.
Take that same hand full of people, same software, equipment and everything, but put them on a domain with 5k users and they won't be able to keep up. Scale makes it easier here as trends show up faster.
Every iPhone4 sold means Google looses $20 to $100 a year - every year - and Apple is selling lots of iPhones - almost neck-and-neck with Android.
How do you figure? Do you think Google (or Wolfram or any other search engine they use or might use is letting them perform millions of queries a day for no charge? I don't think so.
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Fixies aren't trendy if the reason you have one is because you're too poor to fix your broken ass derailer. If you do it intentionally on a perfectly functional bike or you go to some bike shop and buy one made that way, then you're a trendy fuck.
Windows has been fairly secure for awhile now. Vista/Windows 7 has DEP, ASLR, sandboxing, process and privilege separation, and a very active security team. I do not see these things in other operating systems except maybe VMS.
Yea, and don't forget the fact that OSX does it better, as does Linux and FreeBSD and probably solaris and the other unix left out there.
Yes, Microsoft is getting better, but they are still the very last ones in the race by a long fucking way. Hell, unix had DEP before windows fucking existed. x86 is just now catching up to what the rest of the CPU world has been doing for 20 plus years, and thats just in my experience, I'm sure it really goes back further than that. Different variants of ASLR were actually just the way things worked on some OSes, not for security but because thats just the way it worked. Non-randomized addressing via the hardware mmu was a freaking wanted improvement to make it easier on programmers. OSX, FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris have supported various forms of sandboxing for 15 years.
You're really trying to claim MS invented privilege separation on the desktop? Wait, I see the problem, you're unaware of the fact that their are other OSes in existence other than Windows, thats got to be it, how else could you be so silly?
Besides being a good way to get chewed out/disciplined/fired, BofH-style IT isn't very ethical.
Treating people who intentionally behave badly the same as those users on your network that comply with usage rules and ITs guidelines is unethical and unfair to all the people who do what you ask them to do.
You shouldn't let that person sit if you have no other tasks, but they damn sure go to the bottom of the list of things to do. Its not fair to punish good employees and make them wait while you deal with a repeat offender who continually does the same stupid shit to cause the same stupid problem.
Since the range of colors is really pretty fixed since we're inventing the range, then floating point is actually a dumb idea.
When you don't need a dynamic range you use fixed point which is FAR FAR faster on pretty much any computer in the real world. You get rid off all the stupid inaccuracies of floating point and dynamic range, no rounding errors at unknown precision points. Floating point gives you floating levels of accuracy. Fixed point is well defined.
We work in floating point now in graphics because its far easier on the programmer to let the CPU deal with all the details of the range and overflows and such rather than doing it ourselves, but at the cost of allowing the computer to make some inaccurate calculations to deal with unreconcilable differences in properties of two numbers in a give system. /pedantic
I'd like for you to show me a Comcast data center that doesn't have an Akamai colo in it for the very reasons you state.
Comcast already allows colocation for a small (very reasonable) fee as it DOES cost SOMETHING for the power, rack space and network ports.
In fact pretty much any medium to large sized ISP does this because its good for both parties.
The only difference here is that they are doing for themselves what they already do for others, and slashdotters who know nothing about how large ISPs ACTUALLY work think they see this major conspiracy to force NBC down your throat.
I'm not denying the conspiracy, just that this particular move has anything at all to do with it.
Downloading porn to view it later is not streaming video nor is it illegal in most places.
No, because they didn't say 'GE branded toasters', they said 'the brands of toasters we already give you at our coal planets, we're now going to let you get them also from the local nuclear plant at no additional charge if you'd like'
They are still giving you access to the competition. It isn't JUST for NBC content, its also for ABC, CBS, all the other crap that you already get when you subscribe to cable television, now instead of having to watch it with a tuner card like an HDHomeRun Prime that converts it to IP datagrams, you can just get the fucking datagrams without the having to buy a HDHR Prime. They content itself is not changing, just the delivery method.
Its like UPS allowing you to switch to next day air from second day ground because they happen to have spare capacity on the aerial network rather than the ground network. Still the same package being delivered from the same source you wanted it from, its just now they fly it in instead of truck it in.
Doesn't violate it at all.
Netflix isn't a network, CBS and HBO are, both of which comcast is going to stream to you for free just like all the other broadcast networks.
Just because you provide video doesn't make you a broadcast network, unless you think blockbuster stores are the same as your local TV station.
I'm fairly certain someone already does this sort of thing in their P2P setup, for exactly that reason. Assuming the same general type of node (say all cable modems) then the closer they are, the quicker they SHOULD be to work with, so even without 'free local access' its STILL in the P2P apps best interest to try to use the closest connections possible.
So the money you are no longer paying the cable company for bandwidth dedicated to providing you television, are you now paying it to them for your increased bandwidth usage? Did you think that the load on their network would magically be less if you switched to IP? It is in fact just the opposite. One stream per channel goes to EVERYONE, rather than your IP based solutions which basically result in a unique stream for each user.
Even if they wanted too, they couldn't provide EVERYONE with the ability to use netflix as the system is now. You'd need OC-192's to my street alone.
Did you seriously just imply they aren't allowed to use their own network for their own advantage?
WTF is wrong with you. You don't get to tell them how they run their business, period. Neither does the government. The government on the other hand says 'if you want a local monopoly, we're going to have some say in some things', but that doesn't translate to some random slashdotter getting to decide what happens on their network. They aren't stripped of all ability to have competing services that take advantage of the infrastructure they laid at some cost to themselves (yes, I know they got plenty of tax breaks for doing so, but they still made some investments).
Its amazing that only on slashdot can someone say something so asinine that I actually end up defending some of the most greedy organizations on the planet.
So if I can go to the local walmart and buy something for $10, or I can go to Amazon and by it for $9, plus $6.95 shipping, its walmart's fault?
Really? There are a LOT of Akamai servers sitting in Comcast data centers that get the EXACT SAME treatment now.
Perhaps, before assuming you should ask if you can put a server in their data center to reduce traffic requirements and see what their response is.
So put a server in their data center. TimeWarner allows just that, which is why Akamai is in pretty much every data center in the world of any size, its cheaper for EVERYONE to distribute the load with caching servers. You pay for the minor cost of colo provided by TWC (and the prices I heard were lower than the colo company used by my workplace) and your customers get good speeds to your data and TWC doesn't have to pay for massive amounts of external bandwidth to deal with the itunes explosion, or netflix. Likewise, Netflix doesn't have to pay for that bandwidth to individual clients EITHER, so they win AS WELL.
Its really just proper network design, sorry if you guys don't like the reality of it but it DOES cost more for Comcast to send you out of their datacenter than it does to stay inside it.
If they are reasonable about letting people directly connect to the local loop at their own expense, I don't have a problem with it, everyone wins actually.
Thats incorrect for cable modem technology, due to various technical reasons the head end can send to you much faster than your modem can send back.
Technically you can be provisioned for 50/50 speeds on a cable modem, but you'd just be cutting yourself out of downstream speeds, not increasing upstream speeds. They could also do some balancing and actually get slightly higher upstream speeds at the cost of significant drops in download speeds, but cable modems typically terminate at a point where the user is going to be downloading orders of magnitude more than uploading, so trying to balance it is not what you really want anyway.
On a circuit like a T1 and up through the various large scale trunks that carry hundreds of gigabits/second the transmissions rates are generally symmetrical by technical requirement of the tech used and thats where your ISP is cheating by paying for less upstream than downstream. That T1 is ALWAYS signalling at a rate that carries the same amount of data both directions at the same time, where your cable modem truely does have different frequencies for carrying upstream versus downstream.
Which they already do to some extent, as does Apple, Microsoft and anyone that uses Akamai. I've seen the machines that sit in the local TimeWarner data center for local distributions of iTunes content.
This is the way it should be.
An old ISP, I can't remember which one, but one of the original/early internet providers, I want to say PSI? anyway, their policy was free peering to anyone, all you had to do was pay local loop charges, no bandwidth fees, but no transiting across their network to the Internet.
This to me is fair and pushes for proper network design. Distributed links to your peers to balance load and provide redundancy is the way the Internet is supposed to work, distributing the data distribution points also falls right into 'thats how the Internet is supposed to be"
they become another propaganda organ and lose any credibility they might have.
Seriously? So you mean they've been one from the start?
When you can tell me all of Assange's private communications with his lawyers and such, then you can tell me how fair they are.
Funny how we can't see that, but we must be told that some Saudi prince drinks alcohol, or that everyone in the middle east secretly wants us to take out Iran although they don't say it publicly.
You're so busy raging against the machine to notice you're become part of it.
Thats because governments are generally a little smarter than your silly little high schooler on slashdot.
Wikileaks has a tendency to bite the hand that feeds them and has a complete and total disregard for the consequences of their actions, no one intelligent trusts them, you shouldn't either.
Even shitty little countries like you mention are smart enough to stay the fuck away from them.
As someone who grew up in a republican house, I'm not sure your statements are inaccurate. Probably not inflammatory to them either.
Not to mention you might not want to start with a former British military outpost which is located beyond any doubt what so ever inside the territorial waters of England and has ALWAYS been considered British soil. They could of moved London on board and it wouldn't have mattered, its part of England.
What these guys did was no different than a moon shiner in the Ozarks claiming he doesn't live in America and isn't bound by American laws.
He can say it, but you're an idiot if you believe him.
But back to what you said, if they ever had any value, they'd just be overrun by someone like Somali pirates. Not them specifically, but lets face it, there are plenty of people with nothing to live for that could take out that little base with bodies alone.
Oh, c'mon! Where the frig in the Periodic Table does one find "Unobtanium"? Seriously? I heard that, and gave up on the flick from that point on.
Shrug, I was buying parts for my R/C cars back when I used to race made out of 'unobtainium'. It was a known variation on titanium and thats not the only place the name is used. I don't know that it was better, in my experience I preferred cheap aluminum because if I hit something going fast that it was going to bend aluminum than its likely going to bend titanium or break carbon fiber so the only solution was to not hit the wall in the first place, but I digress.
Real things are named silly sometimes.
Or jello shots. Did they even try jello shots?
Freaking priceless dude, I almost fell out of my chair that was so awesome. Makes me want to go back to school :)
Seriously? WHY are they figuring out licensing issues on Windows or OSX? JUST SUPPORT THE GOD DAMN SYSTEM CODECS YOU FUCKS.
Its hard to find a video card that doesn't have h.264 support for windows, OSX does naturally, so really all you have to consider is Linux where you don't really have a set of system codecs in the first place, and even if you did, you'd still not have most people with an h264 codec installed anyway due to the license flaming.
So again, WHY ARE YOU CONCERNED WITH LICENSING , just let people use what they already have instead of reinventing the wheel every 3 weeks.
Really? On a scale like Googles it actually works pretty well. You see one you have millions and millions of users you notice trends REAL quick. Gmail + postini seem to be pretty much perfection. I haven't used any other webmail providers but I'd imagine they can't be too far behind if at all.
I was discussing this gmail issue with my wife the otherday, they move data for a lot of people on gmail ... AND a lot of completely unrelated domains including governments, schools from small to large, corps, and individuals like me with my family's email on there. It doesn't take much for a few humans to watch patterns develop and trend in real time and stop massive amounts of spam that couldn't be done otherwise. Throw in just a few helpers to narrow down what the people have to actually look at and you can process billions of messages with just a handful of staff and almost no spam.
Take that same hand full of people, same software, equipment and everything, but put them on a domain with 5k users and they won't be able to keep up. Scale makes it easier here as trends show up faster.
Every iPhone4 sold means Google looses $20 to $100 a year - every year - and Apple is selling lots of iPhones - almost neck-and-neck with Android.
How do you figure? Do you think Google (or Wolfram or any other search engine they use or might use is letting them perform millions of queries a day for no charge? I don't think so.