There is a convention. With the exception of.arpa which is used for infrastructure, there are country code TLDs and generic TLDs. Country code TLDs most often follow the two letter code assigned by the ITU. Generic TLDs, the type in question, have had three letter codes since the 80s. They added.info,.biz and others in 2001 and 2002. So just because they broke convention four years ago doesn't mean there isn't a convention.
Anyway, we can agree to disagree. Besides, these people aren't worth the headache. We're not dealing with the sharpest tools in the shed here. These idiots used the whole word for.museum, but truncated.mobile to.mobi, and they're both the same length. Why? God only knows.
If they're going to break convention and not use a three letter TLD, why not avoid the eccentric abbreviation and just call it.mobile?
This sort of crap reminds of when I read people's code and they name variables things like "condvar". Just use the real name or use a clear abbreviation. Would ".mbl" have been that freakin difficult for the average person to decipher?
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Does that ring highly inconvenient with anyone else? Unless you have a dedicated 3G SIM card just for your laptop, you have to reboot each time you put in or take out the card.
2. NTP is a timing protocol. You do not want to do expensive and timeconsuming filtering on the packets because that disturbs your timing performance.
Poul-Henning, this reason is only slightly correct. Your timing performance, or accuracy, will not be disturbed simply because filtering is expensive or time-consuming. It will only be disturbed if the filtering takes a non-deterministic amount of time to complete. That's a big distinction, because it means you may be able to filter to help solve your problem.
If you recall David Mills' logic, drift is calculated based on the exchange of two messages, and a simple calculation. There are four local time variables involved in synchronising two hosts. These are the departure time of message 1 from host 1 (t1), its arrival time at host 2 (t2), the departure time of message 2 from host 2 (t3), and its arrival time at host 1 (t4). The calculation essentially figures out the transmission delay of a message, and uses that to figure out the drift between the clocks at host 1 and host 2 (your NTP server). The delay is calculated as (t2 - t1) + (t4 - t3) / 2, and th drift is then t2 - t1 - delay. NTP will exchange these message pairs more than once to amortise out differing propagation delays (because of different IP routes, different delays at routers, etc).
Now say you add filtering. You have two options. You can either filter before the incoming message 1 at host 2 (your NTP server) gets timestamped, or after. If you do it before, t2 will increase by the filtering amount. If the amount of time spent filtering is a fixed quantity, as well it should be on a low load system, this will not affect precision. If it's non-deterministic, then accuracy will in fact suffer. This is where option 2 comes in. If you filter the packet after you calculate t2, the precision is not affected at all, even if filtering time is non-deterministic. Then, if the filter fails, you just ignore the request and don't bother sending message 2.
The above thoughts can help you save on outgoing bandwidth. There's nothing you can do about incoming bandwidth unless D-Link get their act together, though, right?
Hope this helps. Reply to this post if you have any questions.
We don't use OpenBSD, and the only part of it that is useful to us is OpenSSH. Why should we pay to support an entire operating system that we have no use for?
Did you bother reading my post? You should pay to support the entire operating system because the part that is useful to you wouldn't exist without it. It's that simple. By your logic, why pay taxes if the money is going to be used to fix somebody else's street? Because if you don't, your street won't get fixed either.
You can now purchase individual shows or movies, and not have to pay for things you don't want.
So say you purchase a movie you want to watch. The money goes to the cable company to do with as it pleases, including the purchase of rights to broadcast shows you don't want to watch. So yes, you're paying for things you don't want.
OpenSSH works fine on Linux or other flavors of Unix and could easily stand alone as it's own product with it's own management team. You might even get a corporate sponsor like IBM or Sun to 'adopt' the project.
It works fine on Linux and other platforms because it is written very well and can be easily ported. What do you think will happen to OpenSSH if it ends up in the hands of separate management, and god forbid, separate developers? Have you seen the mess that is SunSSH?
The bottom line is that OpenBSD has clever and dedicated internal developers writing very good code. Some of the good code they write is OpenSSH, which you can support by supporting its developers. Whether or not those developers work on other things is completely irrelevant. Either reward the developers or don't.
Then people wonder why de Raadt behaves the way he does. When I read this post, my first reaction was to send you to hell with enough bad language to put you in a first class seat. Maybe that's why de Raadt gets his stigma, by not taking a pause from his first reaction.
So you want to know that the money you give would go directly to support OpenSSH? According to de Raadt, there are six developers that focus on OpenSSH. These developers also work on other aspects of OpenBSD. What exactly do you want them to do? Divide your money between the six of them according to how many hours each works on OpenSSH? Do you want them to have separate network connections and hardware, and pay for it with your donation? How do you compensate the other OpenBSD developers when their ideas and contributions inevitably end up in the OpenSSH codebase?
The OpenBSD developers are a group of people working together. OpenSSH is the fruit of their work. The way to contribute directly to OpenSSH is to contribute funds to its developers. That's exactly what contributing to OpenBSD does, because the developers of OpenBSD and the developers of OpenSSH are one and the same.
So contrary to your second sentence, you have every interest in supporting OpenBSD. Saying otherwise is a disingenuous and pathetic attempt at justifying your reluctance to reward the people whose work you claim to respect.
Yup. The PS3 angle will definitely help them push players, and should bring down construction costs for the drives. And given the added uncertainty surrounding which HD-DVD movies will ship when, the PS3 will have an advantage in market penetration. But you have to wonder, will people buy Blu-ray movies because they have a Blu-ray player in their PS3? If you consider that the vast majority of households already have a DVD player already, and given the inevitable price difference between a movie on a regular DVD and a movie on a Blu-ray disc, do you think people will get the movie on Blu-ray?
I just don't think it's that clear cut. Being the first to market and having more penetration helps, but I think content may be more pivotal. If movies aren't out on Blu-ray or if the discs are too expensive, I don't think having PS3s in people's living rooms is going to help Blu-ray too much. But if HD-DVD movies are in the same situation, I agree, the PS3 will give Sony an edge. I just don't know whether it will matter.
This format war is turning into a twisted modern day version of the parable of King Solomon. In that parable, two women both claim that a baby is theirs. Solomon guilefully says the only way to resolve the issue is by cutting the baby in half and giving a half to each woman. The first woman agrees, but the second woman pleads with the King to spare the baby's life and let the other woman have the child. Solomon knew the second woman was the real mother.
Today, that baby is high definition DVDs, and unfortunately for us, both women would rather see that baby slaughtered than give up potentially lucrative royalties from it. The HD-DVD and Blu-ray camps are trying to compete with each other for money, and their greed is about to kill what could be the successor of the DVD. So what happens now? Well, as other people have pointed out, most will wait for one format to beat out the other. Or wait for players that play both formats, assuming such a thing would be made. I don't see it happening. After this whole battle, why would you license a player if it will decode the competition?
In a way, we are Solomon. I think the only smart thing to do is to keep the baby ourselves and leave them both empty handed, by not buying the players or the discs. If the two camps could just get past their greed and see that their actions mean both of them will lose revenue, they might rethink their strategies.
Remember when you could go back to work on Monday and find a disaster that would take you three weeks of painstaking work to fix because you had no way of knowing a fan died?
Strangely enough, Sony Ericssons are there already. Take a look at the W950, where the W is nomenclature from Sony's Walkman brand. This phone is both UMTS (3G) and GSM tri-band (900/1800/1900MHz) and has not only a 4GB drive for storing music, but also a gorgeous 240x320 256K colour touchscreen for navigating through it. Throw in an FM radio, USB2, Bluetooth 2, and support for MP3, MPEG4, and, yes, AAC, and why would I want to buy a Nano?
I love Apple as much as the next guy writing a post on a PowerBook. But as the parent points out, there is not going to be an iPod killer. You can't beat someone at their own game, you can only change the game. And to change the game, you have to offer something Apple doesn't. You can't make a better iPod, you can only make something that works as well as an iPod for playing music, but does something an iPod doesn't do.
Mobile market penetration rates are spectacular in some countries, and in some of those markets, the rate of people changing their mobiles is known to pass 50% per year. That means on average, everyone in those markets changes their phone every two years. Come out with a phone like the W950, and all of a sudden, people no longer need to buy an iPod.
Does anyone have any idea what the battery life of these things are? It was previously unannounced because they were still testing pre-shipping versions. Well, now they're shipping. And the only thing on the technical specs page is a footnote that says
When I was six, my parents bought an Amstrad 128K. This technological marvel only had volatile storage, so to save something, you had to use 3" floppies that could kill a man if thrown at him. Its other media type was a normal audio cassette. When I wasn't busy copying game code verbatim from magazines, my sister and I would play a game from those audio cassettes, like Green Beret.
But it wasn't easy. A game on an audio cassette would only load successfully a third of the time, and the external cassette deck used to even be sensitive to vibrations. I have very fond memories of putting a cassette into the deck, pressing play, tip toeing out of the room, and closing the door behind us... keeping it slightly ajar so we could peek at the monitor and see if the splash screen came up.
*Cue joy and laughter if bouncing blob with green head appeared*
And just to further confuse the crap out of people, at 11:25pm Eastern Daylight Time, Europe will be in Winter time, having changed its clocks just a few hours before. So 23:25 EDT will be 03:25 GMT, not the typical 04:25 GMT.
Either way, it's on Saturday night. I'll have trouble seeing my feet, let alone Mars.
Uhh, and how exactly do you propose to write a mobile phone operating system? Do you think the APIs for everything from the embedded processors to the radio chips to displays are just given out by Motorola, Nokia, SE, etc? Just because the OS is software doesn't mean you don't have to interact with the hardware. It's a Sisyphean task.
As previously mentioned, just unlock the phone and forget about it. It's your property. The only carrier I know that wouldn't unlock phones was AT&T, and I'm not sure what Cingular's policy is. Buy a Nokia or an SE. and unlocking is simple. And you can buy unlock codes online for less than $20, sometimes less than $10. Hell, just get your new provider to unlock it for you. It's in their interest to use their service.
Combined with the latest in pneumatic brakes, it is quite possible to stop these trains within very short distances.
For those lucky buggers who have ridden these trains, do they have have seatbelts or are they unnecessary? I imagine that when coming into a station, the operators bring the train to a gentle stop. But in an emergency, what happens when you slam the brakes at 230mph? That's some serious inertia.
"I do believe that Google will hit a wall eventually, and it will hit it spectacularly," said the book author Moore. "The real question is: What will it do then?"
I think Moore's missing the point. The reason a company hits a wall is that it stops being innovative, and instead tries to keep milking past success (ahem, SCO, cough). I don't recall Yahoo! making anything innovative recently, but correct me if I'm wrong. Google, on the other hand, is creating useful services left and right. It's already dominated search, and its webmail system is vastly popular and not even out of beta. Google Scholar needs some work, but Google news and Google maps are making good headway. Google isn't going to hit a wall as long as it keeps encouraging its innovative employees.
Google is like the annoying smart kid that sits in the first row of class. Yahoo's in that class too, watching the smart kid get all the glory, and it can do nothing about it. It's time for Yahoo to either change classrooms or start studying.
Why do I have the sinking feeling that we're all going to be sitting here in ten years time, reading about the Godzilla Foundation dispute over ScorchedBadger and LightningParakeet?
For example, the 128mb creative muvo that my 1 year old uses is great for him.
From: The law offices of the MPAA.
Dear Mr. Belial6's 1 year old son,
It has come to our attention that you are listening to MP3s. Since you do not have an IRS verifiable source of income, we have reason to believe that you are either downloading music illegally or that you are sharing music with your father. This is causing a financial loss to both ourselves and to our client, Mr. T.M. Elmo.
We therefore ask you to cease and desist this practice, or we will have to prosecute you to the fullest extent of toddler law. Your crime is punishable by a diaper sanction and cookie confiscation. Should you be found guilty in the first degree, you may also be put under house arrest and forced to wear black and white striped jumpsuits until you are four.
If you need any further assistance, do not hesitate to contact us. Our address and phone number can be found on the enclosed Etch-A-Sketch.
I'm curious what they said, but that can't be right. When you rip a DVD you're just transferring, and often decrypting, its contents to a different medium. The quality stays the same.
As my sibling post rightly points out, get over yourself. There are idiots playing with cellphones on the road, and there are idiots with both hands on the steering wheel. Just because you have two hands on the wheel doesn't make you a better driver.
By your same logic, don't you dare touch that radio when you're driving. I don't care if you look at it or not.
I drive a stick and I only ever have one hand on the wheel. And it just saved my skin a couple of months ago. A woman blatantly ran a red light and was about to smash into me. I had to downshift with one hand and swerve with the other. If I didn't already have my hand on the shifter, I would have been sitting in a twisted pile of metal. Admittedly, if I were using my phone, I may not have had the concentration to pull it off. So I'll agree with you in that I hope the grandparent does this on straight highways.
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There is a convention. With the exception of .arpa which is used for infrastructure, there are country code TLDs and generic TLDs. Country code TLDs most often follow the two letter code assigned by the ITU. Generic TLDs, the type in question, have had three letter codes since the 80s. They added .info, .biz and others in 2001 and 2002. So just because they broke convention four years ago doesn't mean there isn't a convention.
Anyway, we can agree to disagree. Besides, these people aren't worth the headache. We're not dealing with the sharpest tools in the shed here. These idiots used the whole word for .museum, but truncated .mobile to .mobi, and they're both the same length. Why? God only knows.
If they're going to break convention and not use a three letter TLD, why not avoid the eccentric abbreviation and just call it .mobile?
This sort of crap reminds of when I read people's code and they name variables things like "condvar". Just use the real name or use a clear abbreviation. Would ".mbl" have been that freakin difficult for the average person to decipher?
Does that ring highly inconvenient with anyone else? Unless you have a dedicated 3G SIM card just for your laptop, you have to reboot each time you put in or take out the card.
Poul-Henning, this reason is only slightly correct. Your timing performance, or accuracy, will not be disturbed simply because filtering is expensive or time-consuming. It will only be disturbed if the filtering takes a non-deterministic amount of time to complete. That's a big distinction, because it means you may be able to filter to help solve your problem.
If you recall David Mills' logic, drift is calculated based on the exchange of two messages, and a simple calculation. There are four local time variables involved in synchronising two hosts. These are the departure time of message 1 from host 1 (t1), its arrival time at host 2 (t2), the departure time of message 2 from host 2 (t3), and its arrival time at host 1 (t4). The calculation essentially figures out the transmission delay of a message, and uses that to figure out the drift between the clocks at host 1 and host 2 (your NTP server). The delay is calculated as (t2 - t1) + (t4 - t3) / 2, and th drift is then t2 - t1 - delay. NTP will exchange these message pairs more than once to amortise out differing propagation delays (because of different IP routes, different delays at routers, etc).
Now say you add filtering. You have two options. You can either filter before the incoming message 1 at host 2 (your NTP server) gets timestamped, or after. If you do it before, t2 will increase by the filtering amount. If the amount of time spent filtering is a fixed quantity, as well it should be on a low load system, this will not affect precision. If it's non-deterministic, then accuracy will in fact suffer. This is where option 2 comes in. If you filter the packet after you calculate t2, the precision is not affected at all, even if filtering time is non-deterministic. Then, if the filter fails, you just ignore the request and don't bother sending message 2.
The above thoughts can help you save on outgoing bandwidth. There's nothing you can do about incoming bandwidth unless D-Link get their act together, though, right?
Hope this helps. Reply to this post if you have any questions.
I read the topic and I thought "What? They're turning a profit?"
Did you bother reading my post? You should pay to support the entire operating system because the part that is useful to you wouldn't exist without it. It's that simple. By your logic, why pay taxes if the money is going to be used to fix somebody else's street? Because if you don't, your street won't get fixed either.
So say you purchase a movie you want to watch. The money goes to the cable company to do with as it pleases, including the purchase of rights to broadcast shows you don't want to watch. So yes, you're paying for things you don't want.
It works fine on Linux and other platforms because it is written very well and can be easily ported. What do you think will happen to OpenSSH if it ends up in the hands of separate management, and god forbid, separate developers? Have you seen the mess that is SunSSH?
The bottom line is that OpenBSD has clever and dedicated internal developers writing very good code. Some of the good code they write is OpenSSH, which you can support by supporting its developers. Whether or not those developers work on other things is completely irrelevant. Either reward the developers or don't.
Then people wonder why de Raadt behaves the way he does. When I read this post, my first reaction was to send you to hell with enough bad language to put you in a first class seat. Maybe that's why de Raadt gets his stigma, by not taking a pause from his first reaction.
So you want to know that the money you give would go directly to support OpenSSH? According to de Raadt, there are six developers that focus on OpenSSH. These developers also work on other aspects of OpenBSD. What exactly do you want them to do? Divide your money between the six of them according to how many hours each works on OpenSSH? Do you want them to have separate network connections and hardware, and pay for it with your donation? How do you compensate the other OpenBSD developers when their ideas and contributions inevitably end up in the OpenSSH codebase?
The OpenBSD developers are a group of people working together. OpenSSH is the fruit of their work. The way to contribute directly to OpenSSH is to contribute funds to its developers. That's exactly what contributing to OpenBSD does, because the developers of OpenBSD and the developers of OpenSSH are one and the same.
So contrary to your second sentence, you have every interest in supporting OpenBSD. Saying otherwise is a disingenuous and pathetic attempt at justifying your reluctance to reward the people whose work you claim to respect.
Yup. The PS3 angle will definitely help them push players, and should bring down construction costs for the drives. And given the added uncertainty surrounding which HD-DVD movies will ship when, the PS3 will have an advantage in market penetration. But you have to wonder, will people buy Blu-ray movies because they have a Blu-ray player in their PS3? If you consider that the vast majority of households already have a DVD player already, and given the inevitable price difference between a movie on a regular DVD and a movie on a Blu-ray disc, do you think people will get the movie on Blu-ray?
I just don't think it's that clear cut. Being the first to market and having more penetration helps, but I think content may be more pivotal. If movies aren't out on Blu-ray or if the discs are too expensive, I don't think having PS3s in people's living rooms is going to help Blu-ray too much. But if HD-DVD movies are in the same situation, I agree, the PS3 will give Sony an edge. I just don't know whether it will matter.
This format war is turning into a twisted modern day version of the parable of King Solomon. In that parable, two women both claim that a baby is theirs. Solomon guilefully says the only way to resolve the issue is by cutting the baby in half and giving a half to each woman. The first woman agrees, but the second woman pleads with the King to spare the baby's life and let the other woman have the child. Solomon knew the second woman was the real mother.
Today, that baby is high definition DVDs, and unfortunately for us, both women would rather see that baby slaughtered than give up potentially lucrative royalties from it. The HD-DVD and Blu-ray camps are trying to compete with each other for money, and their greed is about to kill what could be the successor of the DVD. So what happens now? Well, as other people have pointed out, most will wait for one format to beat out the other. Or wait for players that play both formats, assuming such a thing would be made. I don't see it happening. After this whole battle, why would you license a player if it will decode the competition?
In a way, we are Solomon. I think the only smart thing to do is to keep the baby ourselves and leave them both empty handed, by not buying the players or the discs. If the two camps could just get past their greed and see that their actions mean both of them will lose revenue, they might rethink their strategies.
Remember when you could go back to work on Monday and find a disaster that would take you three weeks of painstaking work to fix because you had no way of knowing a fan died?
Strangely enough, Sony Ericssons are there already. Take a look at the W950, where the W is nomenclature from Sony's Walkman brand. This phone is both UMTS (3G) and GSM tri-band (900/1800/1900MHz) and has not only a 4GB drive for storing music, but also a gorgeous 240x320 256K colour touchscreen for navigating through it. Throw in an FM radio, USB2, Bluetooth 2, and support for MP3, MPEG4, and, yes, AAC, and why would I want to buy a Nano?
I love Apple as much as the next guy writing a post on a PowerBook. But as the parent points out, there is not going to be an iPod killer. You can't beat someone at their own game, you can only change the game. And to change the game, you have to offer something Apple doesn't. You can't make a better iPod, you can only make something that works as well as an iPod for playing music, but does something an iPod doesn't do.
Mobile market penetration rates are spectacular in some countries, and in some of those markets, the rate of people changing their mobiles is known to pass 50% per year. That means on average, everyone in those markets changes their phone every two years. Come out with a phone like the W950, and all of a sudden, people no longer need to buy an iPod.
Does anyone have any idea what the battery life of these things are? It was previously unannounced because they were still testing pre-shipping versions. Well, now they're shipping. And the only thing on the technical specs page is a footnote that says
Yeah, that helps.
When I was six, my parents bought an Amstrad 128K. This technological marvel only had volatile storage, so to save something, you had to use 3" floppies that could kill a man if thrown at him. Its other media type was a normal audio cassette. When I wasn't busy copying game code verbatim from magazines, my sister and I would play a game from those audio cassettes, like Green Beret.
But it wasn't easy. A game on an audio cassette would only load successfully a third of the time, and the external cassette deck used to even be sensitive to vibrations. I have very fond memories of putting a cassette into the deck, pressing play, tip toeing out of the room, and closing the door behind us ... keeping it slightly ajar so we could peek at the monitor and see if the splash screen came up.
*Cue joy and laughter if bouncing blob with green head appeared*
Those were the days.
Your analogy does not hold. Slashdot is a high latency site. By the time I've read a few comments, I've usually forgotten what the story was about.
Wait, why am I posting this comment again?
And just to further confuse the crap out of people, at 11:25pm Eastern Daylight Time, Europe will be in Winter time, having changed its clocks just a few hours before. So 23:25 EDT will be 03:25 GMT, not the typical 04:25 GMT.
Either way, it's on Saturday night. I'll have trouble seeing my feet, let alone Mars.
Uhh, and how exactly do you propose to write a mobile phone operating system? Do you think the APIs for everything from the embedded processors to the radio chips to displays are just given out by Motorola, Nokia, SE, etc? Just because the OS is software doesn't mean you don't have to interact with the hardware. It's a Sisyphean task.
As previously mentioned, just unlock the phone and forget about it. It's your property. The only carrier I know that wouldn't unlock phones was AT&T, and I'm not sure what Cingular's policy is. Buy a Nokia or an SE. and unlocking is simple. And you can buy unlock codes online for less than $20, sometimes less than $10. Hell, just get your new provider to unlock it for you. It's in their interest to use their service.
For those lucky buggers who have ridden these trains, do they have have seatbelts or are they unnecessary? I imagine that when coming into a station, the operators bring the train to a gentle stop. But in an emergency, what happens when you slam the brakes at 230mph? That's some serious inertia.
Google is like the annoying smart kid that sits in the first row of class. Yahoo's in that class too, watching the smart kid get all the glory, and it can do nothing about it. It's time for Yahoo to either change classrooms or start studying.
Why do I have the sinking feeling that we're all going to be sitting here in ten years time, reading about the Godzilla Foundation dispute over ScorchedBadger and LightningParakeet?
Me two.
From: The law offices of the MPAA.
Dear Mr. Belial6's 1 year old son,
It has come to our attention that you are listening to MP3s. Since you do not have an IRS verifiable source of income, we have reason to believe that you are either downloading music illegally or that you are sharing music with your father. This is causing a financial loss to both ourselves and to our client, Mr. T.M. Elmo.
We therefore ask you to cease and desist this practice, or we will have to prosecute you to the fullest extent of toddler law. Your crime is punishable by a diaper sanction and cookie confiscation. Should you be found guilty in the first degree, you may also be put under house arrest and forced to wear black and white striped jumpsuits until you are four.
If you need any further assistance, do not hesitate to contact us. Our address and phone number can be found on the enclosed Etch-A-Sketch.
Sincerely,
the MPAA
I'm curious what they said, but that can't be right. When you rip a DVD you're just transferring, and often decrypting, its contents to a different medium. The quality stays the same.
I wasn't slowing it down, I dropped gear to get more acceleration to get out of her way.
As my sibling post rightly points out, get over yourself. There are idiots playing with cellphones on the road, and there are idiots with both hands on the steering wheel. Just because you have two hands on the wheel doesn't make you a better driver.
By your same logic, don't you dare touch that radio when you're driving. I don't care if you look at it or not.
I drive a stick and I only ever have one hand on the wheel. And it just saved my skin a couple of months ago. A woman blatantly ran a red light and was about to smash into me. I had to downshift with one hand and swerve with the other. If I didn't already have my hand on the shifter, I would have been sitting in a twisted pile of metal. Admittedly, if I were using my phone, I may not have had the concentration to pull it off. So I'll agree with you in that I hope the grandparent does this on straight highways.