Yeah, I'd be right there with you *if* it wasn't an error to make the root record for a DNS zone a CNAME (which would apparently break mail services, among other things - I'm not a DNS *or* E-mail expert, ymmv)
So if your hosting infrastructure is managed separately to your customer's DNS records, they can either only point HTTP requests at your entry point (load balancer du jour) or they have to statically configure it as an A (or A6) record - and then it becomes *your* problem when you retire an old uplink and their website doesn't work anymore.
Also, a redirect is at *least* one extra round-trip; so if your brain-dead clients (see: 'Webmins') put the 'www' in their phpbb or Gallery configuration - adding extra round trip to every resource in a request - they start complaining about hosting performance...
I suppose you're going to blame the people behind the tailgater for not following at a safe distance? Are you always far enough back to safely stop if the car ahead of you suddenly rolls or spins out?
you have no right to be offended by jokes on this subject.
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If you invent the knife and then tell me I can only use it if I don't draw blood, why give it to me? I can decide if I am fighting off a wild beast to save my children or carving art with it.
Perhaps I think it is the wild beast's right to eat your children. Would you still rather carve your art with a splintered rock? The point at hand, however, is not what you may or may not use the knife for; it's how you can modify it, and if you need to show other people how to do that if they think your modifications are useful.
If I come up with an easier way for making knives, and show you how - I'm sharing my idea with you, for whatever reason; but let's just say that in whatever society or tribe this is, we live better if more people can have knives. What would piss me off, in this situation, is if you came up with a way of strapping my knives to a stick to fight with less danger to yourself; but wouldn't show me how.
If you then start selling your 'my-knife on a stick' (okay, let's call it a spear) because you can make knives easily using my process; but hide how the knife is reliably attached, you've created a competitive advantage for yourself based on my work.
Lets say that a third person comes up with a stronger, lighter stick. He wants to put a knife on it, to make Spear 2.0, and I show him how to make the knives; but he doesn't know how to attach them. I don't know how, either. In fact nobody does; but you.
Now, we have the opportunity to make a better weapon for everyone, but nobody wants to ask you how to bind the knife to the stick, because you're likely to rip off the new stick idea as well, and you probably wouldn't show us the right way, anyhow, because you want to be rewarded for other people's work.
The rest of this really hinges on you. You could share the information, and we'd all live better because we'd be the best armed tribe in the region. There'd still be work making the spears; and since you've been doing this the longest you can probably still make the most money or whatever if you want.
You can derive whatever moral from this you like; but the upshot is that ultimately we're going to rally the tribe to snatch you in your sleep and torture the information out of you with blunt sticks and short knives; err, I mean, get everybody to use a system of interoperating open source software components.
That is, they would be paid for generation of the power but would not be paid for transmission of it because they did not themselves pay for transmission.
Yes, but this is recouped by the usage of the power that is put into the grid on the local level.
The neighbours of the power-generating solar home will be paying the full 'generation + transmission' rate for their power, even where there is effectively zero transmission cost for the kWh generated locally.
Firstly: You're not that interesting - nobody wants to read your E-mail, and the 'important' stuff (like your PGP keys) are individually passphrase protected, aren't they.
Secondly: You're not that interesting - the thief either wants the device for themselves, or to fence it for $50 worth of crack (or food, depending on where you travel). If they want it for themselves - chances are they'll just wipe it with a clean Windows install (you even leave the registration key on that little sticker on the back, don't you...) to get past your login/resume password. If they don't whoever fences it will.
That's an interesting position, because apparently Tasmania is a net importer of power across the Basslink cable - so you aren't actually 'partially fueled by hydro power' so much as 'distributing fossil power to a state that doesn't have the hydro resources to fuel itself'.
http://www.basslink.com.au/ cites: In its first year of operation Basslink supplied 1920GWh to Tasmania and 450GWh to the National Electricity Market.
In response to your signature, I wish to inform you that the logical '&&' operator, when executed on two integral operands is defined to result in the Boolean evaluation of their equivalence. Please, allow me to demonstrate with some rudimentary code:
#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() {
cout << (int)(-1 && -1) << endl;
return 0; }
As we can plainly see that '-1' is in fact equal and equivalent to itself (without some peculiar paradox of identity), and thusly '-1 && -1 == 1'; I am somewhat perplexed by your need to assert that '-1 && -1 != -1', and by reduction; '1 != -1'.
My question to you is this; who is it that you wish to correct on this matter, and how do they continue to exist in the scope of whatever singularity or particle experiment which so separates them from our laws of mathematics and logic?
Lastly, while they are there, can they pick me up a new flux capacitor?
Would it be a better idea to just reward players experience points for time spent in-game doing active quest-like stuff; rather than the number of quests done or mobs killed.
Scaled properly, it'd make for an interesting reward trade-off, perhaps an incentive for higher-level players to help out random lowbies; and also potentially one less abuse/spam avenue for 'power leveling' services...
The GSM codec popularized by mobile phones, and commonly used by VoIP packages actually tolerates bit and packet loss quite well.
It uses a progressive refining encoding, and a probabilistic packet layout to keep the core 'shape' of the sound through all but the most severe conditions, so that losses are likely to only affect the details.
It also specifies protocols for 'looping' previous datagrams in a way that makes it easier to understand what was being said through such losses.
Keeping in mind that there's actually extremely little temporal detail in human speech, it's possible (and in my mind, hopeful) that what you were experiencing is the result of the airline deliberately choking known VoIP providers, in order to not end up with a plane full of jerks yelling into their laptop for a six hour flight.
Or they could be counting the savings in time and stress from not having to drive in peak hour?
And driving to the train station? Walk, or catch the bus.
Here, (suburb-side) train station parking is free, to encourage more people to catch the train; and the ticket you buy covers the local buses for getting to and from the station, and trams for getting around the city as well.
So, as a utility, you think the Internet should be usable by anyone, for anything; but you'd need a licensed 'engineer' to come over and plug your xDSL modem into the wall socket? Would there also be the need to give them an admin account on all your systems to make sure they were properly locked down, with firewalls and self-updating anti-virus?
I think this 'utility' analogy has fallen apart enough, now. All the above examples require licensing for installation, not usage. Once my other utilities are installed to the premises, there's nothing to stop me throwing the phone and a hairdryer in a big pot of water and trying to boil them down while they're plugged in.
After the physical risk to my neighborhood is mitigated, I can do all sorts of unsafe things with my own equipment.
There's also nothing stopping me from plugging malicious devices into the power point to send damaging HF interference along the lines, or connecting a compressor to the gas or water pipes and slowly blowing air down the pipes. It's a bad idea, and I could expect to be caught... perhaps that's the difference?
Get a Justice of the Peace to witness and sign a statutory declaration that the laptop was in good working order when you checked it into luggage. Fax a copy to the airline, with a written letter of demand that they accept the cost of the replacement of the screen. If they still won't replace it, take them to (small claims) court.
If they busted $400 worth of my stuff, I'd be pissed even if I had a replacement. Is it okay to slash all the tires on my neighbors SUV because he's also got a sedan? I think not.
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Thr's a diffrnce btwn bing drivative and bing an attmpt at a 1:1 copy.
I disagr.
Chrs,
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And twice the temporal resolution - so it works out the same.
Yeah, I'd be right there with you *if* it wasn't an error to make the root record for a DNS zone a CNAME (which would apparently break mail services, among other things - I'm not a DNS *or* E-mail expert, ymmv)
So if your hosting infrastructure is managed separately to your customer's DNS records, they can either only point HTTP requests at your entry point (load balancer du jour) or they have to statically configure it as an A (or A6) record - and then it becomes *your* problem when you retire an old uplink and their website doesn't work anymore.
Also, a redirect is at *least* one extra round-trip; so if your brain-dead clients (see: 'Webmins') put the 'www' in their phpbb or Gallery configuration - adding extra round trip to every resource in a request - they start complaining about hosting performance...
What's wrong with being a communist?
Am I missing something here?
Perhaps the 'sort by price' option in the link you provided?
In related news, scientists at the LHC are studying the possibility of creating Skynet by typing 'Google' into Google.
Fortunately, their Internet is down due to a bagel-related hardware fault.
especially with the Shortscreen Monitor Proliferation we've seen in the past decade.
FTFY
Which would be fine, if Chinese students were allowed to have political opinions.
Please elaborate; what is a superdon and why would I want to cut one with a magnet?
I suppose you're going to blame the people behind the tailgater for not following at a safe distance? Are you always far enough back to safely stop if the car ahead of you suddenly rolls or spins out?
Yes. And I take a lot of aggression for it.
Just search for physics or math on any torrent site and see what you get.
Most likely physics porn or math porn, respectively.
I agreed with you right up to:
you have no right to be offended by jokes on this subject.
If you invent the knife and then tell me I can only use it if I don't draw blood, why give it to me? I can decide if I am fighting off a wild beast to save my children or carving art with it.
Perhaps I think it is the wild beast's right to eat your children. Would you still rather carve your art with a splintered rock? The point at hand, however, is not what you may or may not use the knife for; it's how you can modify it, and if you need to show other people how to do that if they think your modifications are useful.
If I come up with an easier way for making knives, and show you how - I'm sharing my idea with you, for whatever reason; but let's just say that in whatever society or tribe this is, we live better if more people can have knives. What would piss me off, in this situation, is if you came up with a way of strapping my knives to a stick to fight with less danger to yourself; but wouldn't show me how.
If you then start selling your 'my-knife on a stick' (okay, let's call it a spear) because you can make knives easily using my process; but hide how the knife is reliably attached, you've created a competitive advantage for yourself based on my work.
Lets say that a third person comes up with a stronger, lighter stick. He wants to put a knife on it, to make Spear 2.0, and I show him how to make the knives; but he doesn't know how to attach them. I don't know how, either. In fact nobody does; but you.
Now, we have the opportunity to make a better weapon for everyone, but nobody wants to ask you how to bind the knife to the stick, because you're likely to rip off the new stick idea as well, and you probably wouldn't show us the right way, anyhow, because you want to be rewarded for other people's work.
The rest of this really hinges on you. You could share the information, and we'd all live better because we'd be the best armed tribe in the region. There'd still be work making the spears; and since you've been doing this the longest you can probably still make the most money or whatever if you want.
You can derive whatever moral from this you like; but the upshot is that ultimately we're going to rally the tribe to snatch you in your sleep and torture the information out of you with blunt sticks and short knives; err, I mean, get everybody to use a system of interoperating open source software components.
That is, they would be paid for generation of the power but would not be paid for transmission of it because they did not themselves pay for transmission.
Yes, but this is recouped by the usage of the power that is put into the grid on the local level.
The neighbours of the power-generating solar home will be paying the full 'generation + transmission' rate for their power, even where there is effectively zero transmission cost for the kWh generated locally.
Firstly: You're not that interesting - nobody wants to read your E-mail, and the 'important' stuff (like your PGP keys) are individually passphrase protected, aren't they.
Secondly: You're not that interesting - the thief either wants the device for themselves, or to fence it for $50 worth of crack (or food, depending on where you travel). If they want it for themselves - chances are they'll just wipe it with a clean Windows install (you even leave the registration key on that little sticker on the back, don't you...) to get past your login/resume password. If they don't whoever fences it will.
WHALE FLU?! We're dooooomed!
Indeed, but you may need a more robust keyboard for the strongly-typed ones.
That's an interesting position, because apparently Tasmania is a net importer of power across the Basslink cable - so you aren't actually 'partially fueled by hydro power' so much as 'distributing fossil power to a state that doesn't have the hydro resources to fuel itself'.
http://www.basslink.com.au/ cites: In its first year of operation Basslink supplied 1920GWh to Tasmania and 450GWh to the National Electricity Market.
In response to your signature, I wish to inform you that the logical '&&' operator, when executed on two integral operands is defined to result in the Boolean evaluation of their equivalence. Please, allow me to demonstrate with some rudimentary code:
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main() {
cout << (int)(-1 && -1) << endl;
return 0;
}
As we can plainly see that '-1' is in fact equal and equivalent to itself (without some peculiar paradox of identity), and thusly '-1 && -1 == 1'; I am somewhat perplexed by your need to assert that '-1 && -1 != -1', and by reduction; '1 != -1'.
My question to you is this; who is it that you wish to correct on this matter, and how do they continue to exist in the scope of whatever singularity or particle experiment which so separates them from our laws of mathematics and logic?
Lastly, while they are there, can they pick me up a new flux capacitor?
Would it be a better idea to just reward players experience points for time spent in-game doing active quest-like stuff; rather than the number of quests done or mobs killed.
Scaled properly, it'd make for an interesting reward trade-off, perhaps an incentive for higher-level players to help out random lowbies; and also potentially one less abuse/spam avenue for 'power leveling' services...
I never thought I'd say this on /. - but you need more windows.
(pun intended, here's an explanation if you don't get it)
The GSM codec popularized by mobile phones, and commonly used by VoIP packages actually tolerates bit and packet loss quite well.
It uses a progressive refining encoding, and a probabilistic packet layout to keep the core 'shape' of the sound through all but the most severe conditions, so that losses are likely to only affect the details.
It also specifies protocols for 'looping' previous datagrams in a way that makes it easier to understand what was being said through such losses.
Keeping in mind that there's actually extremely little temporal detail in human speech, it's possible (and in my mind, hopeful) that what you were experiencing is the result of the airline deliberately choking known VoIP providers, in order to not end up with a plane full of jerks yelling into their laptop for a six hour flight.
Or they could be counting the savings in time and stress from not having to drive in peak hour?
And driving to the train station? Walk, or catch the bus.
Here, (suburb-side) train station parking is free, to encourage more people to catch the train; and the ticket you buy covers the local buses for getting to and from the station, and trams for getting around the city as well.
So, as a utility, you think the Internet should be usable by anyone, for anything; but you'd need a licensed 'engineer' to come over and plug your xDSL modem into the wall socket? Would there also be the need to give them an admin account on all your systems to make sure they were properly locked down, with firewalls and self-updating anti-virus?
I think this 'utility' analogy has fallen apart enough, now. All the above examples require licensing for installation, not usage. Once my other utilities are installed to the premises, there's nothing to stop me throwing the phone and a hairdryer in a big pot of water and trying to boil them down while they're plugged in.
After the physical risk to my neighborhood is mitigated, I can do all sorts of unsafe things with my own equipment.
There's also nothing stopping me from plugging malicious devices into the power point to send damaging HF interference along the lines, or connecting a compressor to the gas or water pipes and slowly blowing air down the pipes. It's a bad idea, and I could expect to be caught... perhaps that's the difference?
Get a Justice of the Peace to witness and sign a statutory declaration that the laptop was in good working order when you checked it into luggage. Fax a copy to the airline, with a written letter of demand that they accept the cost of the replacement of the screen. If they still won't replace it, take them to (small claims) court.
If they busted $400 worth of my stuff, I'd be pissed even if I had a replacement. Is it okay to slash all the tires on my neighbors SUV because he's also got a sedan? I think not.