It might be habits but IMHO www.example.com looks much natural than com/example on any media, from business cards to tv commercials. We use dot in normal writing and not slashes.
And what's better at highlighting a brand: org/slashdot or slashdot.org?
Luckly B-L got it right the first time. Maybe the web wouldn't have add all this success if he designed the addresses in the other way.
And it's pronunced voo-voo-voo in others, but still slower than web. However typing www is definitely quicker than typing web: one finger hitting three times the same key vs three fingers of two hands hitting three keys. Not having to type neither www nor web is even quicker and luckily this is what we can do in most cases nowadays.
How does BSG not use plot devices? They resurrect characters (Starbuck), do a one shot "stealth" viper to fill a plot hole which is destroyed and never duplicated, Cylon resurrection ship etc.
And don't forget that all the plot is run by god. BSG is the ultimate deus-ex-machina show.
Right. That's why I hate to go through all those driving licenses stuff in every single new GT game I buy. I've already done it years ago and they force me to do it again and again. It works against building my motivation for buying new titles of the series. I'd pay them 10 more Euros to unlock all the tracks and all the cars. I'll enjoy the game a lot more, believe me.
I'm pretty good at racing games so I hate it when computer cars catch up with me with impossible lap times. On the other side I appreciate it when I make a mistake because I know that I'll eventually catch up even if it feels like cheating. So, if the goal of a game is fun, rubberbanding should only help the player and never the computer. If the game pits two human players against each other there should be no rubberbanding: if I'm better than my pal I have to win and he has to train more.
Racing games need the rubberbanding - if it were like real life, one crash and you're toast- hopelessly unable to catch up with those who haven't crashed, where's the fun?
The fun is driving a race car as fast as you can, not winning. Granted, if you're good enough winning is better than just racing but I usually disable rubberbanding now. If I fall behind I restart or race against the time and enjoy the track and if I do well I enjoy winning with a large margin on the second. I see no problem with that.
I don't play FPS a lot and I usually go for "easy" setups because I don't want to have to worry too much about staying alive. Rubberbanding might be as good as that, but I don't care about the genre very much. The rule might be that good players want a fair contest and casual gamers appreciate being helped.
... they should have waited the end of his presidency, some more years to assess the results of his actions and then decide what to do. What they did is detrimental to the authoritativeness of the Nobel Peace itself.
Yeah for now. I remember my first PC that had a 520 mb hard drive
My first computer's storage was a 60 minutes cassette tape recorded at a little less than 1000 bauds. That was 25 years ago.
128 bits (16 bytes) were 1/64th of the total RAM of that machine. The world is getting better quickly.
Most people who have Linux PC (either as a server or a desktop) probably have a Windows PC too because you can't really do everything with Linux.
I used to have a Windows notebook but I turned it into a Linux notebook now because it's easier for me to do everything I need with Linux than with Windows. I still have a couple of Windows virtual machines that I fire up sometimes to test web apps with IE but that's it. My netbook is a Linux machine too.
I never considered buying a Mac, not because of the price (who cares!) but because I never liked the way menus work on Macs. That has been aggravated by the invention of the docking bar. The Mac is probably a good machine but IMHO it has a really bad GUI despite all those shiny things they put in it. There might be a day when I'll have to buy a Mac to tests web apps on it but I'd be much happier to be able to run OSX in a VM without being forced to buy some hardware. Unfortunately Apple is not in the business of selling software but in the one of end-to-end solutions. I'm probably hoping that Apple doesn't get more success that it's having now;-)
A lot of people here would like to know which shop to avoid and which NAS not to buy. Maybe you don't want to disclose the name of the shop because they could retaliate with legal actions but please post here at least the negative review of the NAS.
Corporations might have a right to corporate privacy but not to personal privacy.
If they are people give them a right to vote. I mean by pencil, not by money;-)
And jail them if they do something wrong and make them stop operating until they get out. Would they accept?
I spend more on support than I do on software and there's almost no support even purchasable for opens source so I'd save a bundle!
Hire the developer when you need assistance on the software. You might want to check that s/he's willing to be paid for assistance before starting to use his/her software.
That's what gangsters used to do but large criminal organizations have been expanding their business into legal activities for many years.
For example more imaginative gangsters start legal waste processing companies and increase profit by not processing waste but dumping it into the sea. Other ones have companies that sell counterfeit goods such as movies, designer cloths and bags, perfumes, etc. Or they win public bids to build houses and roads by using cheaper and unsafe materials and/or by bribes.
Basically any legit business can be run in a gangster-like way and they do it because when you add breaking the law and weapons to your business methods you definitely have an edge on your competitors, until you get caught or you get shot down by another business run in that way.
Basically the mobs in Italy (and I believe all around the world) are a conglomerate of enterprises (some regularly registered) that make a profit by bulling customers into buying from them or providing them with illegal services. By breaking rules they are more profitable than legal enterprises so they slowly put them out of business, maybe even using physical coercion. Their only competitors are the police which jails them (when not on their pay book) and, more threatening to them, other mobs or younger and career-oriented guys inside their own organization. This latter kind of competition usually ends up with somebody dying an unpleasant death. That's why sometimes key figures of the mob start collaborating with police, to save their lives.
There were a few. Democratic People's Republic of Korea comes to mind. Also Democratic Kampuchea.
That long introduction to say that those two countries actually are mob-like (were, in the case of Pol Pot's regime). They are saying to their citizens: "do what I say; if you don't you'll get punished and if you really piss me off, you die". This is the basic business method of any mob and this is the way totalitarian countries are run. They didn't defeat the mob, they are the mob and there are many other countries like them in the world right now.
I'm sure Italy would be delighted if you could provide them an example of any country that has been able to clean out its own local mob so they could copy their methods. Do you know one?
How about using phones and notebooks manufactured in China? Is that ok or do we have to assume they are bugged-at-factory? Are the US starting to move their production lines back to home?
I agree with you but we're confronted with this fact that people are not willing to pay for news. I understand the concern of everybody working in the news industry but they can't make a living out of something that has free competitors that people thinks are good enough. I'm thinking about blogs, search.twitter.com, youtube and even the TV. The news industry will get downsized. Some newspaper will survive (paper or web based) but a lot of people will have to find a new job.
The music and news industries as we know them are quite new. When I think at how the world will be after all those new industries will be downsized by the digitalization I think at how music and news were transmitted centuries ago. We'll end up with artists making a living out of their live performances (and maybe out of some other jobs) and news will travel freely on blogs or tweets. Search engines will find them. There will be very few middlemen which is good for everybody as they'll have to contribute to the human kind with something really useful or starve to death.
Considering the price of a paper copy of a newspaper and the number of articles in it, the right price of a single piece of news could be 0.01 cents or less (EUR or USD, it's about the same if we look at the order of magnitude). However if we think that the same piece of news can be replicated infinite times with zero marginal costs of production, the price of a single copy goes down quickly to zero. Surprisingly, the more interesting is the piece of news (and so more read/replicated), the less it should cost. Basically newspapers are facing the problems of the music industry: they found themselves selling a product with suddenly no costs of reproduction and they are resisting the urge of finding a new business model or disinvest and move to another market (I mean the labels/editors, the artists/writers are locked into doing what they can do).
I use USB keys to exchange data with other people, so using FAT32 can't be helped. I use a USB hard disk for my backups, so ext3 is best (it's the file system I use on my PC). I attached that HD once to another Linux pc where I had a different uid and used sudo to be sure to copy all files. If I had to do this routinely I guess I'd make sure to save files with read permissions for all users. Note that using FAT32 won't preserve permissions (most important: exec).
Tagging posts here in./ is clearly associating a piece of data (the post) to multiple categories (the tags). CmdrTaco, prepare yourself to disclose all./ source code and to pay a hefty check to Leader Technologies.
The article you linked was very interesting, thank you. On the Braidwood side, I think that data won't touch the Braidwood chip until the OS decides to commit it to permanent storage so that chip won't impact data loss issues. It will just speed up the machine at a lower cost than extra RAM for buffer caches, but I might have missed some parts of the picture.
I'd answered yes, but one doesn't control the fsync behavior of every application running on his/her system and the OS/file system can take a lot of time (even tens of seconds or more) before deciding to commit changes to the hard disk. Furthermore, a fsync may take seconds to complete and disaster can strike at any time.
There was quite a commotion about those matters when somebody filed a data loss bug against the new Linux ext4 file system in January 2009. It turned out that ext3 commits changes at least every 5 seconds and ext4 does it less often. Some applications that got lucky with Linux crashes on ext3 exposed their poor design when running on ext4. Comments #45 and #54 in the linked page are quite explanatory.
By the way that was a sloppy application coding problem (if you want your data safe on HD you fsync and wait as long as it takes to write them down) but they eventually issued some patches to the file system code to mitigate it.
No matter how many layers you add or remove, there will always be a chance of data losses when the OS crashes (Win, Mac, Linux, anything) because there is a finite time before changed data are permanently stored even on this new SSD menory. Furthermore that time can be quite large depending on the OS and file system design.
Anyway, adding one more layer adds one more point of failure, so these new machines could be faster but also for sure a little less reliable than what we have now. What happens when the Braidwood SLC NAND cells starts failing? Will it fail silently or bring down the system like an HD failure? Can I replace it or just throw it away or should I replace the whole motherboard?
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It might be habits but IMHO www.example.com looks much natural than com/example on any media, from business cards to tv commercials. We use dot in normal writing and not slashes.
And what's better at highlighting a brand: org/slashdot or slashdot.org?
Luckly B-L got it right the first time. Maybe the web wouldn't have add all this success if he designed the addresses in the other way.
And it's pronunced voo-voo-voo in others, but still slower than web. However typing www is definitely quicker than typing web: one finger hitting three times the same key vs three fingers of two hands hitting three keys. Not having to type neither www nor web is even quicker and luckily this is what we can do in most cases nowadays.
How does BSG not use plot devices? They resurrect characters (Starbuck), do a one shot "stealth" viper to fill a plot hole which is destroyed and never duplicated, Cylon resurrection ship etc.
And don't forget that all the plot is run by god. BSG is the ultimate deus-ex-machina show.
Right. That's why I hate to go through all those driving licenses stuff in every single new GT game I buy. I've already done it years ago and they force me to do it again and again. It works against building my motivation for buying new titles of the series. I'd pay them 10 more Euros to unlock all the tracks and all the cars. I'll enjoy the game a lot more, believe me.
I'm pretty good at racing games so I hate it when computer cars catch up with me with impossible lap times. On the other side I appreciate it when I make a mistake because I know that I'll eventually catch up even if it feels like cheating. So, if the goal of a game is fun, rubberbanding should only help the player and never the computer. If the game pits two human players against each other there should be no rubberbanding: if I'm better than my pal I have to win and he has to train more.
Racing games need the rubberbanding - if it were like real life, one crash and you're toast- hopelessly unable to catch up with those who haven't crashed, where's the fun?
The fun is driving a race car as fast as you can, not winning. Granted, if you're good enough winning is better than just racing but I usually disable rubberbanding now. If I fall behind I restart or race against the time and enjoy the track and if I do well I enjoy winning with a large margin on the second. I see no problem with that.
I don't play FPS a lot and I usually go for "easy" setups because I don't want to have to worry too much about staying alive. Rubberbanding might be as good as that, but I don't care about the genre very much. The rule might be that good players want a fair contest and casual gamers appreciate being helped.
... they should have waited the end of his presidency, some more years to assess the results of his actions and then decide what to do. What they did is detrimental to the authoritativeness of the Nobel Peace itself.
Yeah for now. I remember my first PC that had a 520 mb hard drive
My first computer's storage was a 60 minutes cassette tape recorded at a little less than 1000 bauds. That was 25 years ago. 128 bits (16 bytes) were 1/64th of the total RAM of that machine. The world is getting better quickly.
+2 to parent. How most games could be co-op back when boys were playing them on consoles with no network connections?
Most people who have Linux PC (either as a server or a desktop) probably have a Windows PC too because you can't really do everything with Linux.
I used to have a Windows notebook but I turned it into a Linux notebook now because it's easier for me to do everything I need with Linux than with Windows. I still have a couple of Windows virtual machines that I fire up sometimes to test web apps with IE but that's it. My netbook is a Linux machine too.
I never considered buying a Mac, not because of the price (who cares!) but because I never liked the way menus work on Macs. That has been aggravated by the invention of the docking bar. The Mac is probably a good machine but IMHO it has a really bad GUI despite all those shiny things they put in it. There might be a day when I'll have to buy a Mac to tests web apps on it but I'd be much happier to be able to run OSX in a VM without being forced to buy some hardware. Unfortunately Apple is not in the business of selling software but in the one of end-to-end solutions. I'm probably hoping that Apple doesn't get more success that it's having now ;-)
A lot of people here would like to know which shop to avoid and which NAS not to buy. Maybe you don't want to disclose the name of the shop because they could retaliate with legal actions but please post here at least the negative review of the NAS.
Corporations might have a right to corporate privacy but not to personal privacy.
If they are people give them a right to vote. I mean by pencil, not by money ;-)
And jail them if they do something wrong and make them stop operating until they get out. Would they accept?
I spend more on support than I do on software and there's almost no support even purchasable for opens source so I'd save a bundle!
Hire the developer when you need assistance on the software. You might want to check that s/he's willing to be paid for assistance before starting to use his/her software.
Same logic applied, no need to say more.
That's what gangsters used to do but large criminal organizations have been expanding their business into legal activities for many years.
For example more imaginative gangsters start legal waste processing companies and increase profit by not processing waste but dumping it into the sea. Other ones have companies that sell counterfeit goods such as movies, designer cloths and bags, perfumes, etc. Or they win public bids to build houses and roads by using cheaper and unsafe materials and/or by bribes.
Basically any legit business can be run in a gangster-like way and they do it because when you add breaking the law and weapons to your business methods you definitely have an edge on your competitors, until you get caught or you get shot down by another business run in that way.
Basically the mobs in Italy (and I believe all around the world) are a conglomerate of enterprises (some regularly registered) that make a profit by bulling customers into buying from them or providing them with illegal services. By breaking rules they are more profitable than legal enterprises so they slowly put them out of business, maybe even using physical coercion. Their only competitors are the police which jails them (when not on their pay book) and, more threatening to them, other mobs or younger and career-oriented guys inside their own organization. This latter kind of competition usually ends up with somebody dying an unpleasant death. That's why sometimes key figures of the mob start collaborating with police, to save their lives.
That long introduction to say that those two countries actually are mob-like (were, in the case of Pol Pot's regime). They are saying to their citizens: "do what I say; if you don't you'll get punished and if you really piss me off, you die". This is the basic business method of any mob and this is the way totalitarian countries are run. They didn't defeat the mob, they are the mob and there are many other countries like them in the world right now.
I'm sure Italy would be delighted if you could provide them an example of any country that has been able to clean out its own local mob so they could copy their methods. Do you know one?
How about using phones and notebooks manufactured in China? Is that ok or do we have to assume they are bugged-at-factory? Are the US starting to move their production lines back to home?
They're using SLC NAND flash which has a lower wear than MLC NAND but that doesn't mean there is no wear at all. It looks like a nice drive anyway.
I agree with you but we're confronted with this fact that people are not willing to pay for news. I understand the concern of everybody working in the news industry but they can't make a living out of something that has free competitors that people thinks are good enough. I'm thinking about blogs, search.twitter.com, youtube and even the TV. The news industry will get downsized. Some newspaper will survive (paper or web based) but a lot of people will have to find a new job.
The music and news industries as we know them are quite new. When I think at how the world will be after all those new industries will be downsized by the digitalization I think at how music and news were transmitted centuries ago. We'll end up with artists making a living out of their live performances (and maybe out of some other jobs) and news will travel freely on blogs or tweets. Search engines will find them. There will be very few middlemen which is good for everybody as they'll have to contribute to the human kind with something really useful or starve to death.
Considering the price of a paper copy of a newspaper and the number of articles in it, the right price of a single piece of news could be 0.01 cents or less (EUR or USD, it's about the same if we look at the order of magnitude). However if we think that the same piece of news can be replicated infinite times with zero marginal costs of production, the price of a single copy goes down quickly to zero. Surprisingly, the more interesting is the piece of news (and so more read/replicated), the less it should cost. Basically newspapers are facing the problems of the music industry: they found themselves selling a product with suddenly no costs of reproduction and they are resisting the urge of finding a new business model or disinvest and move to another market (I mean the labels/editors, the artists/writers are locked into doing what they can do).
I use USB keys to exchange data with other people, so using FAT32 can't be helped. I use a USB hard disk for my backups, so ext3 is best (it's the file system I use on my PC). I attached that HD once to another Linux pc where I had a different uid and used sudo to be sure to copy all files. If I had to do this routinely I guess I'd make sure to save files with read permissions for all users. Note that using FAT32 won't preserve permissions (most important: exec).
Tagging posts here in ./ is clearly associating a piece of data (the post) to multiple categories (the tags). CmdrTaco, prepare yourself to disclose all ./ source code and to pay a hefty check to Leader Technologies.
The article you linked was very interesting, thank you. On the Braidwood side, I think that data won't touch the Braidwood chip until the OS decides to commit it to permanent storage so that chip won't impact data loss issues. It will just speed up the machine at a lower cost than extra RAM for buffer caches, but I might have missed some parts of the picture.
I'd answered yes, but one doesn't control the fsync behavior of every application running on his/her system and the OS/file system can take a lot of time (even tens of seconds or more) before deciding to commit changes to the hard disk. Furthermore, a fsync may take seconds to complete and disaster can strike at any time.
There was quite a commotion about those matters when somebody filed a data loss bug against the new Linux ext4 file system in January 2009. It turned out that ext3 commits changes at least every 5 seconds and ext4 does it less often. Some applications that got lucky with Linux crashes on ext3 exposed their poor design when running on ext4. Comments #45 and #54 in the linked page are quite explanatory.
By the way that was a sloppy application coding problem (if you want your data safe on HD you fsync and wait as long as it takes to write them down) but they eventually issued some patches to the file system code to mitigate it.
No matter how many layers you add or remove, there will always be a chance of data losses when the OS crashes (Win, Mac, Linux, anything) because there is a finite time before changed data are permanently stored even on this new SSD menory. Furthermore that time can be quite large depending on the OS and file system design.
Anyway, adding one more layer adds one more point of failure, so these new machines could be faster but also for sure a little less reliable than what we have now. What happens when the Braidwood SLC NAND cells starts failing? Will it fail silently or bring down the system like an HD failure? Can I replace it or just throw it away or should I replace the whole motherboard?