The main use is that it's a new area to explore. It's a growing application, that doesn't have many uses today, but you never know when it'll finally have a good use. As webos's develop, people might find new innovative ways to use them.
Imagine a company that had a Webos, and hundreds of thin clients, which would probably be a operating system whose user interface is only the web browser window pointed at the the webos. You could probably load it up all to ROM and have no hard drive, making the boot up take all of about a second.
While I think there are probably already things that do this today(that is, thin clients), that's only one random idea I had, maybe one day someone will have a truly great idea on how to apply a Webos.
Or it might just never take off and be a flop, who knows, but the point is, it's worth a shot to see if it's any good later on.
I can answer from my perspective on why character transfers are discouraged. In the game I play, economy is very important, and different servers have very different economies, for example, my server has traditionally been in the middle of the pack, but lately it's one of the cheapest servers. This means I could buy "expensive" items, move to an expensive server, make triple the money I spent, and move back. (or other weird economy tricks like this).
Also reputation is something else, back when new servers were added, you could be transfered to the new server quite easily, what happened is all the bad people went to the new servers to start fresh, and now they're some of the worst servers with issues like hacking and buying money online.
Finally is the naming issue, if there's a "Bob" on server A and he moves to server D which also has a "bob" in it which means constant name changes for people.
I don't understand why they need so much downtime, I play another mmorpg, and downtime is rare, usually once every other month, and never for too long.
Unless they add a significant amount of content every week, they shouldn't have to do that, and if they add a minor amount of content, they should do it once a month instead as a bigger package. While wow has several times the amount of subscriptions as the mmorpg I play, there are less people per server at any given time in a wow server, so it can't be a scaling issue, unless several "servers" run off the same set of machines. I also hear from my friends things like servers being full, wait lists and such. I think this shouldn't happen in any mmorpg, especially one that probably has a higher budget and profit than most.
While wow may be superior than most in content/game play, from my point of view, the handling of servers could of been done better, but in the end it only really matters to addicts, not the casual player (blizzard's target market I hear).
I'm not knocking wow, from the looks of it, it's an excellent game, and aside from the minor technical issues with downtime and servers being full, it does look like a good game, planning on using a 15day trial dvd during winter break after new years to give it a whirl.
Here's the difference. If I secure my car properly it will not get stolen, and if it does then it truely wasn't my fault.
If I leave the key in the ignition, then I was negligant
If a corportaion has sensitive information inside a secure file, with high security, encryption, not easily accessible, behind secure firewalls, and it gets stolen then yeah, not their fault.
If one of their employees decided to download something while at work and it turned out to be a trojan, and eventually led to compromising private information, then it is the company's fault for not being secure.
Stolen information should be rare, not commonplace.
No, it's more like you set up your tv by the window, and get upset when someone changes the channel to see whatever he wants.
If you monitor the connection, then it's no problem, but in order to actually use the interent you have to send information back to the store, which would be tresspassing.
I know the parent is marked as a troll but if you look at this image (WARNING: 26.7mb image) parts of the rocks and sand (notice the wavy ones near the middle) look a bit rendered and not natural, though it's porbably due to some software enhancing to make the image look better (it's already passed through a filter to give it color, it might as well be touched up even more) or maybe my eyes playing tricks on me.
I've never heard of gigablast either, but it seems to have some intresting features, it links to the wayback machine's page on the site so you can see past versions of the site. And it also says the most common phrases in which the search term was found. It also archives pages like google and goes as far as to link to OTHER search engines to help out your search
And right under the poll results, bullet number 3:
"This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."
1. Cisco routers suck at IPv6. Cisco routers will get better when IPv6 is used by everyone
2. There are too many addresses. you claim there are 4billion adresses in IPv4, there are 6billion and growing people, in a few years not only will a bigger percent of the population have a connection, but there will more population aswell, and you NAT solution isn't so great, since a computer on the outside has no idea what is in the network inside the NAT, if a program needs to connect to a port on a specific computer inside a NAT, the router would have to already be configured to route the connection, oh wait what if 2 computers need to accept unsolicted connections from the outside?
3.IPv6 addresses are too large
extreme amounts of memory to store routing tables? A few years ago I spent $300 on a 60GB hardrive, today I can probably find a 120GB one for under $200.
4.The IPv6 header is too large
3.4% longer downloads, so what? it's the price that must be paid, considering that 95% of my downloads take less than 10 seconds, I think a 3.4 second wait won't be that bad. what about my 12 hour long downloads? well I'll have to deal with it, it's sure alot better than running out of IP addresses
imagine an email from your friend with a file called "me_at_beach.jpg", and the message saying somthing about his vacation, and you open the file thinking it is only an image file, it can't be a virus since it can't be run, the headers however say it is a program, and it launches a virus into the system. I think having.exe,.com, and so on is a GOOD thing for the average joe, and face it it's about the average joe, and not about the average slashdot reader.
IMPORTANT, READ CAREFULLY ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS lICENSE AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT") WHICH HAS BEEN PROVIDED TO YOU AND IS INCLUDED WITH THE CERTIFICATE OF LICENSE AUTHENTICITY ("COLA").
Hello, I am the CEO of Coca-Cola, SCO please pay use $699 for use of the word "COLA", thank you.
I suggest linking to it from a site visited by google alot, you know one like slashdot.
Step 1: complain about not being visit by google
Setp 2: post a link on a site that gets almost every page spidered by google
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!
Right... and there's no way to work around this, huh? For someone with a user id under 700k, you ain't so bright.
Of course there is a way to work around it, just like there is a way to work around world hunger, just like there is a way to send a man to pluto, and like the way that it's possible to cure AIDS.
Come back to me when you find a way around it, then you can insult my intelligence.
Your brain is made mostly of water, when you freeze water expands, when water expands and is frozen, the brain dies. Cryogenically freezing yourself isn't going to work.
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Curiosity has a CPU that's rated a maximum of 200mhz and 256MB of RAM. It's better than a 68040 but not comparable at all to an iphone.
Let the "This is SPARTA!" jokes begin.
5 years felony charge, and $10,000 fine???
This is madness!
The main use is that it's a new area to explore. It's a growing application, that doesn't have many uses today, but you never know when it'll finally have a good use. As webos's develop, people might find new innovative ways to use them.
Imagine a company that had a Webos, and hundreds of thin clients, which would probably be a operating system whose user interface is only the web browser window pointed at the the webos. You could probably load it up all to ROM and have no hard drive, making the boot up take all of about a second.
While I think there are probably already things that do this today(that is, thin clients), that's only one random idea I had, maybe one day someone will have a truly great idea on how to apply a Webos.
Or it might just never take off and be a flop, who knows, but the point is, it's worth a shot to see if it's any good later on.
I can answer from my perspective on why character transfers are discouraged. In the game I play, economy is very important, and different servers have very different economies, for example, my server has traditionally been in the middle of the pack, but lately it's one of the cheapest servers. This means I could buy "expensive" items, move to an expensive server, make triple the money I spent, and move back. (or other weird economy tricks like this).
Also reputation is something else, back when new servers were added, you could be transfered to the new server quite easily, what happened is all the bad people went to the new servers to start fresh, and now they're some of the worst servers with issues like hacking and buying money online.
Finally is the naming issue, if there's a "Bob" on server A and he moves to server D which also has a "bob" in it which means constant name changes for people.
I don't understand why they need so much downtime, I play another mmorpg, and downtime is rare, usually once every other month, and never for too long.
Unless they add a significant amount of content every week, they shouldn't have to do that, and if they add a minor amount of content, they should do it once a month instead as a bigger package. While wow has several times the amount of subscriptions as the mmorpg I play, there are less people per server at any given time in a wow server, so it can't be a scaling issue, unless several "servers" run off the same set of machines. I also hear from my friends things like servers being full, wait lists and such. I think this shouldn't happen in any mmorpg, especially one that probably has a higher budget and profit than most.
While wow may be superior than most in content/game play, from my point of view, the handling of servers could of been done better, but in the end it only really matters to addicts, not the casual player (blizzard's target market I hear).
I'm not knocking wow, from the looks of it, it's an excellent game, and aside from the minor technical issues with downtime and servers being full, it does look like a good game, planning on using a 15day trial dvd during winter break after new years to give it a whirl.
Here's the difference. If I secure my car properly it will not get stolen, and if it does then it truely wasn't my fault.
If I leave the key in the ignition, then I was negligant
If a corportaion has sensitive information inside a secure file, with high security, encryption, not easily accessible, behind secure firewalls, and it gets stolen then yeah, not their fault.
If one of their employees decided to download something while at work and it turned out to be a trojan, and eventually led to compromising private information, then it is the company's fault for not being secure.
Stolen information should be rare, not commonplace.
No, it's more like you set up your tv by the window, and get upset when someone changes the channel to see whatever he wants. If you monitor the connection, then it's no problem, but in order to actually use the interent you have to send information back to the store, which would be tresspassing.
I know the parent is marked as a troll but if you look at this image (WARNING: 26.7mb image) parts of the rocks and sand (notice the wavy ones near the middle) look a bit rendered and not natural, though it's porbably due to some software enhancing to make the image look better (it's already passed through a filter to give it color, it might as well be touched up even more) or maybe my eyes playing tricks on me.
Nonlinear Neural Nets Smooth Wi-Fi Packets
You don't know what nets are??
How do you catch stuff?
Chances are it's already on dozens of spam lists, since it was posted on slashdot, ebay, and countless other sites.
$200 for a spam account!
"there doesn't seem to be a form you can fill in like Google's "advanced search" form."
except of course, for the advanced search form
I've never heard of gigablast either, but it seems to have some intresting features, it links to the wayback machine's page on the site so you can see past versions of the site. And it also says the most common phrases in which the search term was found. It also archives pages like google and goes as far as to link to OTHER search engines to help out your search
And right under the poll results, bullet number 3:
"This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane."
1. Cisco routers suck at IPv6.
Cisco routers will get better when IPv6 is used by everyone
2. There are too many addresses.
you claim there are 4billion adresses in IPv4, there are 6billion and growing people, in a few years not only will a bigger percent of the population have a connection, but there will more population aswell, and you NAT solution isn't so great, since a computer on the outside has no idea what is in the network inside the NAT, if a program needs to connect to a port on a specific computer inside a NAT, the router would have to already be configured to route the connection, oh wait what if 2 computers need to accept unsolicted connections from the outside?
3.IPv6 addresses are too large
extreme amounts of memory to store routing tables? A few years ago I spent $300 on a 60GB hardrive, today I can probably find a 120GB one for under $200.
4.The IPv6 header is too large
3.4% longer downloads, so what? it's the price that must be paid, considering that 95% of my downloads take less than 10 seconds, I think a 3.4 second wait won't be that bad. what about my 12 hour long downloads? well I'll have to deal with it, it's sure alot better than running out of IP addresses
Now when I defeat the DRM I can keep the same filename and not have to update my playlist!
That was a satellite, skylab was a station, you're comparing apples and oranges
I for one Welcome our new unstable likely to crash and overated tablet overlords
reasonably free? as opposed to unreasonably free?
"That search engine was unreasonably free, I mean It was over 100x more free than other free search engines"
imagine an email from your friend with a file called "me_at_beach.jpg", and the message saying somthing about his vacation, and you open the file thinking it is only an image file, it can't be a virus since it can't be run, the headers however say it is a program, and it launches a virus into the system. I think having .exe, .com, and so on is a GOOD thing for the average joe, and face it it's about the average joe, and not about the average slashdot reader.
IMPORTANT, READ CAREFULLY ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS lICENSE AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT") WHICH HAS BEEN PROVIDED TO YOU AND IS INCLUDED WITH THE CERTIFICATE OF LICENSE AUTHENTICITY ("COLA").
Hello, I am the CEO of Coca-Cola, SCO please pay use $699 for use of the word "COLA", thank you.
Movies never live up to the books, I predict critics will give this a SIX * NINE out of a hundred rating.
I suggest linking to it from a site visited by google alot, you know one like slashdot.
Step 1: complain about not being visit by google
Setp 2: post a link on a site that gets almost every page spidered by google
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!
Yeah I kept going to googles.com and finding some wierd kids site. Slashdot saves the day again!
Right... and there's no way to work around this, huh? For someone with a user id under 700k, you ain't so bright.
Of course there is a way to work around it, just like there is a way to work around world hunger, just like there is a way to send a man to pluto, and like the way that it's possible to cure AIDS.
Come back to me when you find a way around it, then you can insult my intelligence.
Your brain is made mostly of water, when you freeze water expands, when water expands and is frozen, the brain dies. Cryogenically freezing yourself isn't going to work.