Wow, I just think it is awesome to see my local news here on/. for a change! I've been a Click customer since pretty much when they started in the '90s, have had plenty of ups and downs with them over the years, but glad that they've at least put pressure into competition in our local market that otherwise would just be Comcast. Yes, we have Centurylink too, but they honestly will only serve my location with 4mbps service, which in this day in age is just utter bullshit. So thank you Click for being the second pillar against Comcast here in Tacoma!
Serious question: When T-Mobile first did this with a handful of music streaming services, where were these same questions about fairness? Then T-Mobile opened up to more and more steaming music services over time. Any questions or complaints then? This continued until they eventually decided to do the same practice with Video. But for some reason, freely streaming video is controversial whereas freely streaming music is not? If the video streaming goes anything like it does for the unlimited music streaming bandwidth they already provide, there will be more and more companies on board over time.
Also, about that whole idea of just having a slower pipe for streaming unlimited for free? T-Mobile already has this, too. Just disable the 4G/LTE connection on your phone. T-Mobile has unlimited 3G data already, and only charges for 4G/LTE.
I'd put my vote up for HHVM. Yeah, I know, the majority of the/. community absolutely hates Facebook and PHP. But for some odd reason, when you put engineers inside of Facebook on the task of attempting to fix the longstanding issues with PHP, such as performance and having a sane language spec, they actually seem to do a pretty damn good job of improving things.
Seconding this one big time. A client of mine had Comcast Business setup for their business (sadly, the only option available other than the T1 line we were replacing). When the installer was there, he wanted to show off, so he ran the Comcast speed test and it showed somewhere in the neighborhood of 50mbps. Once he left and we tried our own speedtests, we were lucky to pull 20mbps from any other source.
This is why you don't leave important scientific "facts" to high schoolers to "discover"
Cool, the kid analyzed some existing data, but what about the truth to said data? How do we know the transit period of a planet around a star? We measure the dimming light of the star on a periodic basis. After three transits, we can determine with an amount of certainty that it is indeed a planet, and not just other objects obscuring the star.
Jupiter transits Sun aprox every 12 years. This would mean at a bare minimum of 24 years from initial discovery to confirmation using the transit in front of star method. The first planet discovered outside of our solar system was in what, 1992 I do believe? This is only 23 years ago.
So think about this. It would take 24 years to confirm a Jupiter orbit planet, and the first confirmation is only 23 years ago? So the fact that 3% of the studied stars have this confirmation, personally, I believe to be extremely high and common, not rare at all.
Not just 10/100 without gigabit... This thing has USB 3.0 and no gigabit! Even USB 2.0 is basically half-gigabit speeds. Totally agreed, what's the point of something this expensive in this day in age with this major limitation? If we wanted a cheap limited toy, we've already got Raspberry Pi and plenty of over low powered tinker toys for far cheaper.
For that last note: on Facebook, "Most Recent" isn't actually the most recent posts at all. A couple things are happening. Firstly, it is the "Most recently interacted with", meaning if something is commented on, it jumps to the front of the line. Next, Facebook selects aprox 320 posts to show each user, with new content appearing every now and then, and content being removed after about 24-72 hours. Even if you follow 1000 pages posting once a day, Facebook will only select the aprox 320 that it thinks you want. From here, "Most Recent" then only becomes the most recent of this smaller selection, not all posts from your potential feed. So when Facebook switches between "Top Stories" and "Most Recent", you're honestly not getting anything new/different between the two, just sorting smaller segment of your feed that it deems you should be able to view.
No, instead of selling the data directly, he instead acts more like a mafia leader in a shakedown by intimidating people with the fear of retribution if they don't tithe!
I looked at the article and didn't see a definition of "MB" anywhere. Are they talking flaws per megabyte of code? If that's the case, then yeah, PHP and ASP are going to be a fuckton higher than C++/Java, because they don't require all the boilerplate code of classes. Yeah, classes are available, but so is a simple 1-liner "hello world".
However, totally agreed that their testing methods are bullshit in one way or another when it comes to Javascript. 86% of PHP apps have XSS exploits? Wouldn't this be JavaScript at fault on the client side, not PHP on the server side? It looks like they're bundling tons of code under a single "language" based solely upon only the primary language used. Which means the only REAL "JavaScript" test they're running is probably Node.js applications.
If they don't fit your needs, vote with your dollars. You're more that free to pay for certs from another organization!
On that note: I initially had some issues with part of their implementation, too. But I'm working through it now by having a dedicated VM just for renewing my certs, and then that VM's cron script pushes the cert files to the actual web servers.
It isn't that difficult to work around the limitations on their system right now if you just put a little thought into it.
Does PostgreSQL have decent geologically diverse multi-master replication yet? This is honestly the #1 reason why my projects all use MariaDB right now with Galera Cluster. Having the database on multiple servers in each region, it has been a dream when something like hardware failure or a power outage has happened. There is no longer a need or worry about master-slave with fail over and new master election, because all nodes act as masters in the cluster, and nodes can join and drop freely at any time without disrupting the rest of the cluster.
I've been benchmarking the PHP 7 RCs against HHVM and PHP 5.6 for quite some time now with my own framework. I'm still perplexed as to why they are claiming it is faster than HHVM. Maybe in some specific benchmark? On my in-house framework, HHVM pushes nearly twice the requests-per-second performance compared to PHP 7. However, on the command line, PHP both 5.6 and 7 have a significantly faster startup time, but this point is mostly irrelevant for web servers.
The biggest advantage for USB is for uncommon hardware configurations. For instance, I recently started using Yubikeys for authentication. Instead of getting a smartcard adapter for my desktop, laptop, and cell phone (god, just image carrying all that around!), I just have the one USB dongle that can plug into any computer or NFC to the cell phone.
I also do quite a bit of photography. Prior to USB, I honestly can't even remember a time when tethering a digital camera to a PC for remote shutter or instance image transfer upon capture even existed.
"Mass Storage" is one of those all encompassing things that USB does quite well these days. Need a boot device for a server? BAM, USB drive. Need to move just a couple GB of files from one building to the next where they don't have direct gigabit+ network links? BAM, another USB drive. Need to quickly access tools or drivers to fix a computer? Those are all on the micro SD card on my cell phone, which acts as a USB mass storage device when plugged into a computer.
No, I was personally questioned quite a bit longer than just 90 minutes. I was detained for the entirety of the school day more once, even after switching schools multiple times.
This has happened to TONS of us, but it was back in the day before the internet was really the internet we know and love today. Mine happened in the days of AOL dialup, so it was hard to spread information other than for televised, mass print, or radio media. We didn't have court of public opinion via social media to help stand up for us back then. We were all simply labeled as "hackers" which Hollywood did a damn good job of painting us all to be criminals regardless of what we were all actually doing.
For me, I use stack overflow for library related issues, not language related. Dealing with bullshit subtleties of things like jQuery, instead of fucking around for hours trying to figure out why a particular function has a weird ass edge case, someone else has already figured it out and documented it. It just so happens that said documentation is the comments within StackOverflow.
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Wow, I just think it is awesome to see my local news here on /. for a change! I've been a Click customer since pretty much when they started in the '90s, have had plenty of ups and downs with them over the years, but glad that they've at least put pressure into competition in our local market that otherwise would just be Comcast. Yes, we have Centurylink too, but they honestly will only serve my location with 4mbps service, which in this day in age is just utter bullshit. So thank you Click for being the second pillar against Comcast here in Tacoma!
Serious question: When T-Mobile first did this with a handful of music streaming services, where were these same questions about fairness? Then T-Mobile opened up to more and more steaming music services over time. Any questions or complaints then? This continued until they eventually decided to do the same practice with Video. But for some reason, freely streaming video is controversial whereas freely streaming music is not? If the video streaming goes anything like it does for the unlimited music streaming bandwidth they already provide, there will be more and more companies on board over time.
Also, about that whole idea of just having a slower pipe for streaming unlimited for free? T-Mobile already has this, too. Just disable the 4G/LTE connection on your phone. T-Mobile has unlimited 3G data already, and only charges for 4G/LTE.
I'd put my vote up for HHVM. Yeah, I know, the majority of the /. community absolutely hates Facebook and PHP. But for some odd reason, when you put engineers inside of Facebook on the task of attempting to fix the longstanding issues with PHP, such as performance and having a sane language spec, they actually seem to do a pretty damn good job of improving things.
Seconding this one big time. A client of mine had Comcast Business setup for their business (sadly, the only option available other than the T1 line we were replacing). When the installer was there, he wanted to show off, so he ran the Comcast speed test and it showed somewhere in the neighborhood of 50mbps. Once he left and we tried our own speedtests, we were lucky to pull 20mbps from any other source.
This is why you don't leave important scientific "facts" to high schoolers to "discover"
Cool, the kid analyzed some existing data, but what about the truth to said data? How do we know the transit period of a planet around a star? We measure the dimming light of the star on a periodic basis. After three transits, we can determine with an amount of certainty that it is indeed a planet, and not just other objects obscuring the star.
Jupiter transits Sun aprox every 12 years. This would mean at a bare minimum of 24 years from initial discovery to confirmation using the transit in front of star method. The first planet discovered outside of our solar system was in what, 1992 I do believe? This is only 23 years ago.
So think about this. It would take 24 years to confirm a Jupiter orbit planet, and the first confirmation is only 23 years ago? So the fact that 3% of the studied stars have this confirmation, personally, I believe to be extremely high and common, not rare at all.
Not just 10/100 without gigabit... This thing has USB 3.0 and no gigabit! Even USB 2.0 is basically half-gigabit speeds. Totally agreed, what's the point of something this expensive in this day in age with this major limitation? If we wanted a cheap limited toy, we've already got Raspberry Pi and plenty of over low powered tinker toys for far cheaper.
For that last note: on Facebook, "Most Recent" isn't actually the most recent posts at all. A couple things are happening. Firstly, it is the "Most recently interacted with", meaning if something is commented on, it jumps to the front of the line. Next, Facebook selects aprox 320 posts to show each user, with new content appearing every now and then, and content being removed after about 24-72 hours. Even if you follow 1000 pages posting once a day, Facebook will only select the aprox 320 that it thinks you want. From here, "Most Recent" then only becomes the most recent of this smaller selection, not all posts from your potential feed. So when Facebook switches between "Top Stories" and "Most Recent", you're honestly not getting anything new/different between the two, just sorting smaller segment of your feed that it deems you should be able to view.
BATCH files are DOS you n00b, and they're written in EDIT for DOS!
"What's next, different cost based on the amount of RAM installed?"
VMWare has been doing this for years, actually! They're ahead of the game!
No, instead of selling the data directly, he instead acts more like a mafia leader in a shakedown by intimidating people with the fear of retribution if they don't tithe!
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I looked at the article and didn't see a definition of "MB" anywhere. Are they talking flaws per megabyte of code? If that's the case, then yeah, PHP and ASP are going to be a fuckton higher than C++/Java, because they don't require all the boilerplate code of classes. Yeah, classes are available, but so is a simple 1-liner "hello world".
However, totally agreed that their testing methods are bullshit in one way or another when it comes to Javascript. 86% of PHP apps have XSS exploits? Wouldn't this be JavaScript at fault on the client side, not PHP on the server side? It looks like they're bundling tons of code under a single "language" based solely upon only the primary language used. Which means the only REAL "JavaScript" test they're running is probably Node.js applications.
$45+ billion is juuuuuuust a tad bit more than a "multi-millionaire"
"Trust me, it wont work, I know from experience!" - Ballmer
Obligatory XKCD reference: https://xkcd.com/323/
If they don't fit your needs, vote with your dollars. You're more that free to pay for certs from another organization!
On that note: I initially had some issues with part of their implementation, too. But I'm working through it now by having a dedicated VM just for renewing my certs, and then that VM's cron script pushes the cert files to the actual web servers.
It isn't that difficult to work around the limitations on their system right now if you just put a little thought into it.
Does PostgreSQL have decent geologically diverse multi-master replication yet? This is honestly the #1 reason why my projects all use MariaDB right now with Galera Cluster. Having the database on multiple servers in each region, it has been a dream when something like hardware failure or a power outage has happened. There is no longer a need or worry about master-slave with fail over and new master election, because all nodes act as masters in the cluster, and nodes can join and drop freely at any time without disrupting the rest of the cluster.
I've been benchmarking the PHP 7 RCs against HHVM and PHP 5.6 for quite some time now with my own framework. I'm still perplexed as to why they are claiming it is faster than HHVM. Maybe in some specific benchmark? On my in-house framework, HHVM pushes nearly twice the requests-per-second performance compared to PHP 7. However, on the command line, PHP both 5.6 and 7 have a significantly faster startup time, but this point is mostly irrelevant for web servers.
Chromebooks and Android are both Linux based. Just sayin. ;)
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The biggest advantage for USB is for uncommon hardware configurations. For instance, I recently started using Yubikeys for authentication. Instead of getting a smartcard adapter for my desktop, laptop, and cell phone (god, just image carrying all that around!), I just have the one USB dongle that can plug into any computer or NFC to the cell phone.
I also do quite a bit of photography. Prior to USB, I honestly can't even remember a time when tethering a digital camera to a PC for remote shutter or instance image transfer upon capture even existed.
"Mass Storage" is one of those all encompassing things that USB does quite well these days. Need a boot device for a server? BAM, USB drive. Need to move just a couple GB of files from one building to the next where they don't have direct gigabit+ network links? BAM, another USB drive. Need to quickly access tools or drivers to fix a computer? Those are all on the micro SD card on my cell phone, which acts as a USB mass storage device when plugged into a computer.
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2) Post about cows
3) ???
4) PROFIT!
I think you mean COX? ... because Comcast *IS* said big media.
No, I was personally questioned quite a bit longer than just 90 minutes. I was detained for the entirety of the school day more once, even after switching schools multiple times.
This has happened to TONS of us, but it was back in the day before the internet was really the internet we know and love today. Mine happened in the days of AOL dialup, so it was hard to spread information other than for televised, mass print, or radio media. We didn't have court of public opinion via social media to help stand up for us back then. We were all simply labeled as "hackers" which Hollywood did a damn good job of painting us all to be criminals regardless of what we were all actually doing.
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For me, I use stack overflow for library related issues, not language related. Dealing with bullshit subtleties of things like jQuery, instead of fucking around for hours trying to figure out why a particular function has a weird ass edge case, someone else has already figured it out and documented it. It just so happens that said documentation is the comments within StackOverflow.