I work at an ISP. I do all the core and edge stuff you would need to "fork the Internet" as part of my normal routine.
Wireless is not an option as it's overloaded and heavily regulated.
Wired is not an option as laying fiber is _expensive_. And even if you manage to cable your neighborhood, then what? And even if you get connected to another city, then what? Repeat until you need undersea cables.
Sure, you could just rent dark fibers or active wavelengths. Or you could have everyone chip in with a bit of money to try and fund it. But then you are back where you started. _Someone_ has to make the decisions. And if a law is passed to regulate your forked Internet, then what? If you refuse, they will simply drive over and switch stuff off.
tl;dr: a) The Internet has always been regulated by people; both via technical and policy means b) There is a reason why no one is forking roads and bridges when a toll-booth is set up: That shit is expensive
I am always wondering what prefetching does on a shitty web 2.0 site with no submit forms but normal links that actually delete/activate/whatever things.
> Firefighter operations mode on an elevator (to take absolute control of one)
Care to share the results? The "hold close button, hold target button, do not release until doors closed" thing does not work on German elevators. I tried:(
> Mostly bought through holiday sale packs at a huge discount. I've probably played less than half so far, but I'm still discovering games that I bought more than a year ago.
They are "allowed" to stay by a ruthless military force which follows Mugabe to the death:
* Single soldiers not following orders by not fleeing will be dealt with in a very public manner. * The military gets benefits from the status quo. * The military will face the anger of the people once the status quo is gone.
The "white colonial oppression" has always been a stick figure and from what I read, most people in Zimbabwe knew or learned this ages ago.
> Anything done that "annoys" Zimbabwe's leaders is well worth the effort in my opinion.
Yes, especially if you want to give Mugabe _more_ reasons to kick out the guy who won but wasn't allowed to win. The alliance over there is brittle enough, handing Mugabe more "proof" that the other side is evil is beyond stupid and will most likely help cost real people their lives. As in boom, dead. Way to go.
* About three billion people do not have the ability to travel farther than 20 or 50 km more than a few times in their lives. Have you been to _rural_ India, Turkey, etc? I have.
* As new, cheaper & more efficient transportation emerges, more people will travel more.
* In a financial crisis, both leisure and business travel takes a dip. This is obvious.
* As people work fewer physical jobs, they have the time, ability and hopefully money to travel if they want.
* People traveling to/from the USA will naturally travel less as the security theater is becoming too much of a burden. I have been on all continents except Southern America. Never, not even at the most corrupt backwater guard outpost in the middle of nowhere, have I been treated as badly as in the tourist magnets of the USA.
...is that Google is not perfect either and that they need to work on their procedures.
That bug has been living a life of perfect happiness, surviving at medium priority for half a year. A few headline stories and 700 comments later, all of a sudden it's critical. While I have to agree with n...@google.com who asked people to stop posting "me too, lol" messages and starring the issue instead, it shows that a _lot_ of people think this is ridiculous, and it is. This bug survived one major release for $deity's sake.
Part of the problem certainly is that Google is amongst the fastest-moving companies on Earth while handset manufacturers used to be really slow (one release per line & year, tops(I am not counting the gazillions of almost-identical Nokia phones)). And telcos are even slower. _And_ both manufacturers and telcos are used to releasing once and then not looking back.
Google has started to address this with separate applications which they can push via Market. They are effectively bypassing the slower companies to push out more stuff faster.
Yet, the fact remains that Google is a giant faceless moloch. Unless you pay big bucks or are somewhat lucky, your problems and suggestions you might have just will not reach anyone relevant, ever.
PS: As an aside, I am happy about every major bug in Android and similar. The bug itself is annoying, sure. But it forces people to rethink software updates for the mobile computers that used to be phones. And that is a Very Good Thing.
> I'm sure it'll have foibles of its own, but they're unlikely to be in the basic usage.
The iPhone does not have a LED to indicate missed calls/emails/etc. It's driving my cow-orkers nuts. Also, I have Swype, they don't.
I.e. if I were you, I would try and play with an iPhone _very_ thouroughly before you make the switch. The two above are deal breakers for me, you might be fine with them. But then, the same applies to all other (mobile) OSes.
> This type of traffic needs to be moved to the data plan instead of the network signaling path.
Wrong. As the Ping/Pong system the GSM base stations and GSM handsets play in order to judge their relative positions, signal to noise ratios and prepare hand-overs to other base stations needs to be played anyway and as SMS messages are simply piggy-backing onto those signaling/measurement messages, SMS is the perfect service. The messages need a certain length for proper measurement. Thus, it has literally no overhead in the airwaves. None, zero, nil.
When GSM started in Germany, SMS messages were free. No one thought you would be able to charge for a service like that.
So, I think you mean:
As Telcos are milking people dry with the help of the SMS, this traffic needs to be moved to a data plan where pricing is more reasonable.
...are this way. And that is a huge portion of what makes them awesome. Not only has the level design always been done with an incredible dedication to detail, surprises and general experience, many levels are as easy or hard as you'd like them. Just think the star (coin) system in the newer games. You can play through the game and never care for all the bonus stuff and it's still a nice experience. Or you can go after every devious bit.
There's a reason why I own both a DS and a Wii and only break them out when a new Mario or Zelda game is released. (If Square Enix were to get their act together and release a true successor of Secret of Mana or Chrono Trigger, we could talk, too).
If PC gamers work together more than console gamers, based on my very limited experience in this field, I should never ever play a co-op game on a console, I guess.
1) You need to have local mini-queues. If any of them slows down, that's tough luck for the two people in that queue, but it does not affect the others. 2) A line should feed a maximum of five cashiers. Have more cashiers than that? The system is still better.
Of course, real life issues like space-saving and people not getting the system will break it anyway. Been there, seen that.
> c] lawmakers passing laws that actually benefit a majority of people, not just a small minority.
While I am agreeing with most of what you said, and while I am pretty sure that requiring electric cars to make loud noises, let me just venture a guess:
You are male, white, able-bodied, in your 20ies to 40ies, earn/have enough money for a comfortable living and you don't have much respect or regard for the need of others who are less fortunate than you.
While I agree with most of what you said (and I lost a friend Acting Correctly to a car), I am not sure maintaining the level of noise is the right thing to do.
Assuming you live in the USA, things like educating drivers so they can do more than drive in a circle, requiring regular mandatory technical checks of all cars and other things that seem painfully obvious would do more good than a beeping car.
And if you are honest, being able to hear those cars would not have helped in situation 2 & 3. And it's not certain that it would have helped in situation 1.
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I work at an ISP. I do all the core and edge stuff you would need to "fork the Internet" as part of my normal routine.
Wireless is not an option as it's overloaded and heavily regulated.
Wired is not an option as laying fiber is _expensive_. And even if you manage to cable your neighborhood, then what? And even if you get connected to another city, then what? Repeat until you need undersea cables.
Sure, you could just rent dark fibers or active wavelengths. Or you could have everyone chip in with a bit of money to try and fund it. But then you are back where you started. _Someone_ has to make the decisions. And if a law is passed to regulate your forked Internet, then what? If you refuse, they will simply drive over and switch stuff off.
tl;dr:
a) The Internet has always been regulated by people; both via technical and policy means
b) There is a reason why no one is forking roads and bridges when a toll-booth is set up: That shit is expensive
I am always wondering what prefetching does on a shitty web 2.0 site with no submit forms but normal links that actually delete/activate/whatever things.
> Firefighter operations mode on an elevator (to take absolute control of one)
Care to share the results? The "hold close button, hold target button, do not release until doors closed" thing does not work on German elevators. I tried :(
No, you are simply unable to
a) anticipate a joke in an obvious place
b) read what your status bar says
That being said, timothy shouldn't have linked to http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=devious,+undetectable+methods+of+murder -- http://www.google.com/search?q=devious,+undetectable+methods+of+murder is a lot cleaner.
> *My Steam account alone has 300+ titles.
WTF.
> Mostly bought through holiday sale packs at a huge discount. I've probably played less than half so far, but I'm still discovering games that I bought more than a year ago.
WTF.
That is all.
Argh. Obvious trick is obvious.
How?
No, as they would have made sure the company is named correctly. Which it is not.
They are "allowed" to stay by a ruthless military force which follows Mugabe to the death:
* Single soldiers not following orders by not fleeing will be dealt with in a very public manner.
* The military gets benefits from the status quo.
* The military will face the anger of the people once the status quo is gone.
The "white colonial oppression" has always been a stick figure and from what I read, most people in Zimbabwe knew or learned this ages ago.
> Anything done that "annoys" Zimbabwe's leaders is well worth the effort in my opinion.
Yes, especially if you want to give Mugabe _more_ reasons to kick out the guy who won but wasn't allowed to win. The alliance over there is brittle enough, handing Mugabe more "proof" that the other side is evil is beyond stupid and will most likely help cost real people their lives. As in boom, dead. Way to go.
No, we will simply keep everything powered on and start anew if we lose power.
Also, we will all be mega-corps, even at home. No one will start with datasets under a few Pentabytes. Not even for photos and text.
* About three billion people do not have the ability to travel farther than 20 or 50 km more than a few times in their lives. Have you been to _rural_ India, Turkey, etc? I have.
* As new, cheaper & more efficient transportation emerges, more people will travel more.
* In a financial crisis, both leisure and business travel takes a dip. This is obvious.
* As people work fewer physical jobs, they have the time, ability and hopefully money to travel if they want.
* People traveling to/from the USA will naturally travel less as the security theater is becoming too much of a burden. I have been on all continents except Southern America. Never, not even at the most corrupt backwater guard outpost in the middle of nowhere, have I been treated as badly as in the tourist magnets of the USA.
...is that Google is not perfect either and that they need to work on their procedures.
That bug has been living a life of perfect happiness, surviving at medium priority for half a year. A few headline stories and 700 comments later, all of a sudden it's critical. While I have to agree with n...@google.com who asked people to stop posting "me too, lol" messages and starring the issue instead, it shows that a _lot_ of people think this is ridiculous, and it is. This bug survived one major release for $deity's sake.
Part of the problem certainly is that Google is amongst the fastest-moving companies on Earth while handset manufacturers used to be really slow (one release per line & year, tops(I am not counting the gazillions of almost-identical Nokia phones)). And telcos are even slower. _And_ both manufacturers and telcos are used to releasing once and then not looking back.
Google has started to address this with separate applications which they can push via Market. They are effectively bypassing the slower companies to push out more stuff faster.
Yet, the fact remains that Google is a giant faceless moloch. Unless you pay big bucks or are somewhat lucky, your problems and suggestions you might have just will not reach anyone relevant, ever.
PS: As an aside, I am happy about every major bug in Android and similar. The bug itself is annoying, sure. But it forces people to rethink software updates for the mobile computers that used to be phones. And that is a Very Good Thing.
> I'm sure it'll have foibles of its own, but they're unlikely to be in the basic usage.
The iPhone does not have a LED to indicate missed calls/emails/etc. It's driving my cow-orkers nuts. Also, I have Swype, they don't.
I.e. if I were you, I would try and play with an iPhone _very_ thouroughly before you make the switch. The two above are deal breakers for me, you might be fine with them. But then, the same applies to all other (mobile) OSes.
> This type of traffic needs to be moved to the data plan instead of the network signaling path.
Wrong. As the Ping/Pong system the GSM base stations and GSM handsets play in order to judge their relative positions, signal to noise ratios and prepare hand-overs to other base stations needs to be played anyway and as SMS messages are simply piggy-backing onto those signaling/measurement messages, SMS is the perfect service. The messages need a certain length for proper measurement. Thus, it has literally no overhead in the airwaves. None, zero, nil.
When GSM started in Germany, SMS messages were free. No one thought you would be able to charge for a service like that.
So, I think you mean:
As Telcos are milking people dry with the help of the SMS, this traffic needs to be moved to a data plan where pricing is more reasonable.
PS: Fuck you /. and your parser that eats angle brackets.
PPS: I specified J&R because Paper Mario, Inside Story etc are kinda weird. On the plus side, each of them explores a new concept, which is very neat.
...are this way. And that is a huge portion of what makes them awesome. Not only has the level design always been done with an incredible dedication to detail, surprises and general experience, many levels are as easy or hard as you'd like them. Just think the star (coin) system in the newer games. You can play through the game and never care for all the bonus stuff and it's still a nice experience. Or you can go after every devious bit.
There's a reason why I own both a DS and a Wii and only break them out when a new Mario or Zelda game is released. (If Square Enix were to get their act together and release a true successor of Secret of Mana or Chrono Trigger, we could talk, too).
tl;dr: I 3 Nintendo
If PC gamers work together more than console gamers, based on my very limited experience in this field, I should never ever play a co-op game on a console, I guess.
Easy solution:
1) You need to have local mini-queues. If any of them slows down, that's tough luck for the two people in that queue, but it does not affect the others.
2) A line should feed a maximum of five cashiers. Have more cashiers than that? The system is still better.
Of course, real life issues like space-saving and people not getting the system will break it anyway. Been there, seen that.
> c] lawmakers passing laws that actually benefit a majority of people, not just a small minority.
While I am agreeing with most of what you said, and while I am pretty sure that requiring electric cars to make loud noises, let me just venture a guess:
You are male, white, able-bodied, in your 20ies to 40ies, earn/have enough money for a comfortable living and you don't have much respect or regard for the need of others who are less fortunate than you.
While I agree with most of what you said (and I lost a friend Acting Correctly to a car), I am not sure maintaining the level of noise is the right thing to do.
Assuming you live in the USA, things like educating drivers so they can do more than drive in a circle, requiring regular mandatory technical checks of all cars and other things that seem painfully obvious would do more good than a beeping car.
And if you are honest, being able to hear those cars would not have helped in situation 2 & 3. And it's not certain that it would have helped in situation 1.
You can make Turing machines with wires, water and lava. So it's actually Turing complete several times over :)
If we remember basic CS, a Turing machine does not have to be efficient, it just needs to be _able_ to do everything _in theory_.
That's interesting, I didn't know. I guess that's one of the advantages of running XFS on a SSD :p
(Yes, yes, TRIM is still not supported. I will either re-TRIM the disk manually or cycle it out if it really starts breaking)
I will rush to execute a pre-compiled binary from a self-admitted hacker/cracker group. Sounds like a great plan ;)
Anyone with less scruples and/or more time to poke stuff: Is Fritz!Box affected? I expect them to and want to call customer support, tomorrow :)
Shady accounting to force you to upgrade does not make Dropbox any more interesting, imo.
I will check out CrashPlan, though. Thanks :)