A month of spotify premium is 99 NOK. CDs commonly cost anywhere from 159 to 249.
Now... which are you going to chose if you have a limited allowance?
With music-discovery services getting raped a while back I moved to just downloading mp3-packs on various sites.. But that is cumbersome and not that flexible. Then spotify came along and I've been a premium subscriber since it was available.
I would -still- be a subscriber if the price doubled, or maybe even tripled. It is just THAT damn convenient and flexible.
Make it so easy that I wont bother pirating. Steam did this to me... I used to pirate every single game...
Now I have a handful of pirated games left, mostly because they're actually hard to buy now due to age:p 80+ games in my steam list now... scary.
Every time I see one of those "Get all the games from X publisher 70% cheaper!" I go 'squeee' and end up blowing 30-50 euro on the pack if it has a few games I used to like or have played in the past. Especially if they are multiplayer so that I can have everything when friends want to play 'something' but haven o clue what we all have:p
Make it cheap, and make it easy. If both those are satisfied I wont bother pirating.
Does sacret 2 have an auction house? Real money one at that?
When what you do in your single-player game can affect other players, it becomes an issue. This is the case with the auction house. It is not about everyone doing it, but if just a few asshats abuse it, the system gets broken. (dupe, clone whatever)
Unfortunately the fix for this has the effect of killing the single-player option.
They could of course have gone the Diablo 2 route and had separate Singleplayer and Multiplayer characters... That is a pain in the ass though...
At the point where they decided to go with a real-money auction house they were committed to having their own servers dictate loot. Duping is just too easy without it. One dupe-hack and the auction house would most likely be dead.
While I do not like the "always on internet" requirement, I do see why they did it.
Then again I rarely if ever play single-player anymore. I usually play with friends or get bored fast.
The DC-Loop resistance of cat5 is specified as below 0.188 Ohm per meter. Wire maximum current is 0.557 A.
Assuming a 100 meter length of wire this would be 18.8 ohms. This is a significant amount of resistance for DC power. Even with 0.5A current you would end up with 9.4 volts worth of drop in the wire alone... You would need some power regulation at the other end to clean it up incurring further loss of efficiency.
Power over Ethernet use anywhere from 44 to 57 volts but can still only transfer about 350ma/600ma (two standards).
Nope, batteries are still the way to go for now... Though you could probably implement some sort of trickle-charging into the umbilical to avoid having to nab the device up from that spiffy thing you found to re-power if you run out. Not sure if it would even be possible to do with any kind of efficiency though... Powering these suckers has been an issue for quite some time..
That dude across the hallway talking loudly to some indian programmer over a bad connection? Quite distracting... The three people discussing the latest fad? Also quite distracting... The loud whine of the AC, yet again.. distracting.
What Facebook brings is all of those different things in one place, with one list of contacts.
Since Facebook hit 'critical mass' it has been a useful tool for keeping in touch with people. Amusingly it is easier to keep up with people during house-moves, changes of phones through facebook than even through email...
Having that "one place" to do all of it is why I use it at least. For specifics things I have the tools you mention.
Sometimes the old stuff will have drive-by downloads months after being published (assuming the tracker has that old files). If I still have the archives, I keep it seeded. Doesnt matter that you have 50 torrents seeding if only 2-3 are active.
I have yet to have an issue gaining ratio on any site using this way of thinking.
My spotify subscription is well worth the money. I suspect I would still pay it if the fee doubled... (100 NOK a month is the current fee)
I have 70+ games on Steam because it is just so easy and convenient... Buying games on Sale is always great.
Cut the hassles of buying content and people will pay for it. It is impossible to get rid of all the piracy, but damnit, you can regain a huge market share by selling people the content they want, the way they want it.
But sadly it is minute compared to the draw of the machine you're running...
If I switched I'd save something like 12 watts (3 displays).
The computer, when running most of the time heats the whole apartment by 4-5C.
The displays are not the power-hogs here. While savings are good, perhaps it would be a good thing to focus on where the major power draw happens instead of the minor savings in the display.
If nobody else can pick up and maintain the code without having access to YOU but only your code and documentation... the code is a disaster waiting to happen.
There is no internet access on the critical system.
There is however a theoretical path between the secure system and the internet through several layers of individually firewalled networks.
Control network Server network Plant network Office network internet.
You would have to compromise a firewall and/or a machine on each network to get to the control network. Be it that both operating system, vendor and configuration differs on all of them this is a fairly big task.
The risk is evaluated as acceptable by those with the responsibility. Functionality and risk has to be weighted in the real world.
Hell, even IF you got that far into the system the most real harm you could do is shut down the plant into 'fail safe'. Shutdown controllers will not accept programming requests without a physical key being turned in the field cabinet;)
Some reasons a major oil company requires networked access to the control system on oil rigs from onshore networks:
* Exporting backups. This is a big one. * Exporting logging data, done through a 'data diode' luckily. * Remote troubleshooting. ("Integrated Operations" is the new buzzword for having a team onshore to help offshore without flying out..) * Remote auditing.
There is a theoretical network path (through about 6 layers of firewalls) from the internet to the controllers running the emergency shutdown system on most rigs these days. Getting there would be a monumental task due to the security in place. Several different vendor firewalls to avoid a security flaw in one allowing access. Very strict firewall rules. Temporary firewall allowances during certain time periods for exporting backups and such. Constant monitoring and flagging of suspicious activity. List goes on.
At the core though, the HMI runs on winxp sp2 workstations and the servers run server2003.
While it would be awesome to have isolated systems, they get just too cumbersome to use. As always functionality and usability versus security is the tradeoff:(
But when the raid is on an oil rig in the North Sea, swapping a drive gets quite expensive... it involves a helicopter ride and a lot of paperwork.. Having a testing bed BEFORE shipping stuff offshore is quite useful.
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A month of spotify premium is 99 NOK.
CDs commonly cost anywhere from 159 to 249.
Now... which are you going to chose if you have a limited allowance?
With music-discovery services getting raped a while back I moved to just downloading mp3-packs on various sites.. But that is cumbersome and not that flexible.
Then spotify came along and I've been a premium subscriber since it was available.
I would -still- be a subscriber if the price doubled, or maybe even tripled. It is just THAT damn convenient and flexible.
Make it so easy that I wont bother pirating.
Steam did this to me... I used to pirate every single game...
Now I have a handful of pirated games left, mostly because they're actually hard to buy now due to age :p
80+ games in my steam list now... scary.
Every time I see one of those "Get all the games from X publisher 70% cheaper!" I go 'squeee' and end up blowing 30-50 euro on the pack if it has a few games I used to like or have played in the past. Especially if they are multiplayer so that I can have everything when friends want to play 'something' but haven o clue what we all have :p
Make it cheap, and make it easy. If both those are satisfied I wont bother pirating.
Does sacret 2 have an auction house? Real money one at that?
When what you do in your single-player game can affect other players, it becomes an issue. This is the case with the auction house. It is not about everyone doing it, but if just a few asshats abuse it, the system gets broken. (dupe, clone whatever)
Unfortunately the fix for this has the effect of killing the single-player option.
They could of course have gone the Diablo 2 route and had separate Singleplayer and Multiplayer characters... That is a pain in the ass though...
At the point where they decided to go with a real-money auction house they were committed to having their own servers dictate loot. Duping is just too easy without it. One dupe-hack and the auction house would most likely be dead.
While I do not like the "always on internet" requirement, I do see why they did it.
Then again I rarely if ever play single-player anymore. I usually play with friends or get bored fast.
Preventing phone from sleeping is to avoid the phone going dark in 10-30 seconds.
Phone calls is to gracefully terminate on a call so you are not holding up a beacon to the side of your head.
hardware controls (take pictures, videos) is for access to the actual flash ahrdware which is part of the camera 'permission'.
The issue is way too coarse permission groups in order to make it "easy" to handle.
The DC-Loop resistance of cat5 is specified as below 0.188 Ohm per meter.
Wire maximum current is 0.557 A.
Assuming a 100 meter length of wire this would be 18.8 ohms.
This is a significant amount of resistance for DC power.
Even with 0.5A current you would end up with 9.4 volts worth of drop in the wire alone... You would need some power regulation at the other end to clean it up incurring further loss of efficiency.
Power over Ethernet use anywhere from 44 to 57 volts but can still only transfer about 350ma/600ma (two standards).
Nope, batteries are still the way to go for now... Though you could probably implement some sort of trickle-charging into the umbilical to avoid having to nab the device up from that spiffy thing you found to re-power if you run out. Not sure if it would even be possible to do with any kind of efficiency though... Powering these suckers has been an issue for quite some time..
That dude across the hallway talking loudly to some indian programmer over a bad connection? Quite distracting...
The three people discussing the latest fad? Also quite distracting...
The loud whine of the AC, yet again.. distracting.
The music is there to cover worse distractions.
Project mailboxes that everyone can access work fine for keeping track of such communication.
Several oil rigs would have gone into shutdown had there not been an update to the timestamping of data before the change-over.
That nothing happens is not a case of 'there was no problem' it is a case of 'almost all shit got fixed'.
I'm sure you would get really far trying to make that point in court ;)
And signal to every camera that they're up to no good :p
Obscuring the license plate is illegal ;)
By behaving in a way that makes 99.9% of the population go "Heh, a zealot" and ignore the post.
Congratulations ;)
People no, the military yes :p
What Facebook brings is all of those different things in one place, with one list of contacts.
Since Facebook hit 'critical mass' it has been a useful tool for keeping in touch with people.
Amusingly it is easier to keep up with people during house-moves, changes of phones through facebook than even through email...
Having that "one place" to do all of it is why I use it at least.
For specifics things I have the tools you mention.
Keep the stuff seeded for longer.
Sometimes the old stuff will have drive-by downloads months after being published (assuming the tracker has that old files).
If I still have the archives, I keep it seeded. Doesnt matter that you have 50 torrents seeding if only 2-3 are active.
I have yet to have an issue gaining ratio on any site using this way of thinking.
Make it easy to spend money.
My spotify subscription is well worth the money. I suspect I would still pay it if the fee doubled... (100 NOK a month is the current fee)
I have 70+ games on Steam because it is just so easy and convenient... Buying games on Sale is always great.
Cut the hassles of buying content and people will pay for it. It is impossible to get rid of all the piracy, but damnit, you can regain a huge market share by selling people the content they want, the way they want it.
Except they're 212-500 bucks here in Norway.
25% sales and services tax tend to drive price up a tad.
http://omglolbah.net/ksh/mobilkamera/random/triplehead_setup.jpg
Short answer: It is the best operating system for my current needs.
Personally I find Win7 to be good enough that I am ok with shelling out the 165 USD it cost here in Norway.
Each to their own and all that though. I use ubuntu on my file/media/web server and find that to be the best solution for me there.
My family's first computer was a 25mhz 486sx.
Running North & South at 25 made it exceedingly hard to do anything at all due to the speed of everything.
Turning off the 'turbo' button slowed it down to 10mhz and made it playable.
But sadly it is minute compared to the draw of the machine you're running...
If I switched I'd save something like 12 watts (3 displays).
The computer, when running most of the time heats the whole apartment by 4-5C.
The displays are not the power-hogs here. While savings are good, perhaps it would be a good thing to focus on where the major power draw happens instead of the minor savings in the display.
And if you're hit by a bus on your way to work?
Where does that leave your customer?
If nobody else can pick up and maintain the code without having access to YOU but only your code and documentation... the code is a disaster waiting to happen.
There is no internet access on the critical system.
There is however a theoretical path between the secure system and the internet through several layers of individually firewalled networks.
Control network Server network Plant network Office network internet.
You would have to compromise a firewall and/or a machine on each network to get to the control network.
Be it that both operating system, vendor and configuration differs on all of them this is a fairly big task.
The risk is evaluated as acceptable by those with the responsibility.
Functionality and risk has to be weighted in the real world.
Hell, even IF you got that far into the system the most real harm you could do is shut down the plant into 'fail safe'. Shutdown controllers will not accept programming requests without a physical key being turned in the field cabinet ;)
Some reasons a major oil company requires networked access to the control system on oil rigs from onshore networks:
* Exporting backups. This is a big one.
* Exporting logging data, done through a 'data diode' luckily.
* Remote troubleshooting. ("Integrated Operations" is the new buzzword for having a team onshore to help offshore without flying out..)
* Remote auditing.
There is a theoretical network path (through about 6 layers of firewalls) from the internet to the controllers running the emergency shutdown system on most rigs these days. Getting there would be a monumental task due to the security in place. Several different vendor firewalls to avoid a security flaw in one allowing access. Very strict firewall rules. Temporary firewall allowances during certain time periods for exporting backups and such. Constant monitoring and flagging of suspicious activity. List goes on.
At the core though, the HMI runs on winxp sp2 workstations and the servers run server2003.
While it would be awesome to have isolated systems, they get just too cumbersome to use. As always functionality and usability versus security is the tradeoff :(
Which is of course also implemented...
But when the raid is on an oil rig in the North Sea, swapping a drive gets quite expensive... it involves a helicopter ride and a lot of paperwork..
Having a testing bed BEFORE shipping stuff offshore is quite useful.