Most of internet slowdowns are due to viruses AND antiviruses. I disabled the McAffee antivirus the other day at work, and EVERYTHING i was doing got a huge speed up.
As for viruses slowing down both the machine and the internet, you're absolutely right.
I have on occasion used Firefox plugins that filter out most banner ads. I've found my pages load about 70% faster. I watch the little status line at the bottom of Firefox and I've found that most of my "waiting" time is for advertisements.
I've also found DNS to be slow for some reason. Things that aren't cached on the local machine slow browsing down significantly (something else adverts contribute to).
Of course the people who just leave P2P applications running non-stop are a bit of a pain.
One problem I've got with ISPs is that their bandwidth is asymmetrical. You get half (or even a quarter) to upload compared to what you can download. And if your download capacity is nearing its max, you can't upload at all. This gets even worse: You can't even browse webpages even if you're using your download capacity to half, because your uploads eat all the bandwidth you need to send a freaking HTTP GET request.
So as a result, I need to use only 10% of my upload capacity, hindering P2P transfer as a whole.
WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - A tropical storm - shhhhhhhhhhhht - To view this warning announcement, please purchase a digital TV in your local retail store.
I was just thinking the same thing. By keeping their data centers on international waters, they need to stop worrying about DMCA takedown letters, in a way. They'll just filter the corresponding country's IPs from accessing the corresponding content.
Alright, mateys, let's Go on the account and raise the Jolly Roger. Yarrr!!
Right idea, but you're doin' it wrong. Bravo for the car analogy though:)
You should have said:
If you secure your car doors with duct tape and string and someone steals your car without your knowledge, runs someone down, leaves no evidence in or on the car and parks it back outside your house, you're not liable.Why should it be different in this case?
I think the answer is, "There is no difference". You're not "liable" in either case, but you'll have to try pretty hard to make anyone but your mother believe you.
The problem isn't about duct tape. The problem is that in this case, manufacturers give the users cars with EXTREMELY WEAK padlocks that could be opened with a mere clip.
According to them that's no excuse. You're responsible for your own equipment.
How can you f***ing be responsible for something you don't even know how it works? We do know, but what do the poor joe-users know? And why do manufacturers don't use a much stronger encryption so that only the users' machines will be able to access the network?
What we're dealing with is corporate negligence, and as usual, they blame the end user.
Anyway, Tennis is a relatively trivial example but things that happen in the physical world where physical forces are in play do not tolerate internet like latency very well. You cannot send xon/xoff like flow control signals to reality.
But if you can have sense-realistic telepresence, why need reality in the first place?
How about this? Put flash in a separate process, and problem solved. 99.99% of all my crashes in Firefox are due to the Flash plugin for Firefox (most of them in youtube)
Normally I don't reply to people who reply to my comments, but I really must know:
Why in the world would you start your quest to prove me wrong on a corrolary point by quoting an article about a man-made structure constructed some 2 million years after the geologic event I was referring to?
Well, it looked like you tried to imply that global warming was caused partially by the building of the Panama Canal, specially after you mentioned the troglodites and industry.
If I was mistaken, forgive me, but you never know what people really try to say when in slashdot. Oh well. I guess I got too paranoid of Global warming skeptics.
Are you serious? MMORPG's can't "Save" like a traditional game can (in reality they "save" every instant you're playing the game, as essentially what happens, happens. There is no returning to a previous save), nor can they be paused. The reasoning is simple: you're not playing alone.
I know, but perhaps you could train for "solo" missions, or maybe purchase "abort mission" tickets (which would only apply for team missions) that could take you to a safe point in the game, keep your experience and items, save the game, and log you out automatically.
And my friend most of the time trains alone, so at least there should be a "quick save" feature for people like him. Or how about this? A cooperative "save dungeon state" that would only apply to the current mission/dungeon. You know, like Virtualized PC's but with dungeons instead. What happens in the dungeon stays in the dungeon.
Surprise! IT'S A BETA! Not a release candidate, not a final release. Stupid sensationalist headlines.
Which puts me to think: Does Microsoft release Beta so that the public will catch bugs that they didn't, or to indicate them which bugs THEY KNEW ABOUT get discovered by the public?
Please, spawning a 100 threads is NOT a bug. It's a FLAWED DESIGN. Perhaps this is why we came to the joke "it's not a bug (as in 'unexpected'), it's a feature (as in 'designed that way')".
Punctuated entertainment that doesn't try to consume every second of every day of your life.
Maybe what MMORPGs need is a "quick save" feature (how they implement it, is not my problem). A friend of mine has had countless arguments with his mom because he doesn't get on the dining table when he should. He always answers "I'll go when I can save".
Game designers need to understand that we weren't born to just play games.
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it's really heart-warming generally, but the OS/2 community I somehow never really understood.
Fanboys, perhaps?
Most of internet slowdowns are due to viruses AND antiviruses. I disabled the McAffee antivirus the other day at work, and EVERYTHING i was doing got a huge speed up.
As for viruses slowing down both the machine and the internet, you're absolutely right.
I have on occasion used Firefox plugins that filter out most banner ads. I've found my pages load about 70% faster. I watch the little status line at the bottom of Firefox and I've found that most of my "waiting" time is for advertisements.
I've also found DNS to be slow for some reason. Things that aren't cached on the local machine slow browsing down significantly (something else adverts contribute to).
Of course the people who just leave P2P applications running non-stop are a bit of a pain.
One problem I've got with ISPs is that their bandwidth is asymmetrical. You get half (or even a quarter) to upload compared to what you can download. And if your download capacity is nearing its max, you can't upload at all. This gets even worse: You can't even browse webpages even if you're using your download capacity to half, because your uploads eat all the bandwidth you need to send a freaking HTTP GET request.
So as a result, I need to use only 10% of my upload capacity, hindering P2P transfer as a whole.
WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - A tropical storm - shhhhhhhhhhhht - To view this warning announcement, please purchase a digital TV in your local retail store.
Thank you.
I was just thinking the same thing. By keeping their data centers on international waters, they need to stop worrying about DMCA takedown letters, in a way. They'll just filter the corresponding country's IPs from accessing the corresponding content.
Alright, mateys, let's Go on the account and raise the Jolly Roger. Yarrr!!
is available here.
Right idea, but you're doin' it wrong. Bravo for the car analogy though :)
You should have said:
If you secure your car doors with duct tape and string and someone steals your car without your knowledge, runs someone down, leaves no evidence in or on the car and parks it back outside your house, you're not liable.Why should it be different in this case?
I think the answer is, "There is no difference". You're not "liable" in either case, but you'll have to try pretty hard to make anyone but your mother believe you.
The problem isn't about duct tape. The problem is that in this case, manufacturers give the users cars with EXTREMELY WEAK padlocks that could be opened with a mere clip.
And with this, your honor, I rest my case.
According to them that's no excuse. You're responsible for your own equipment.
How can you f***ing be responsible for something you don't even know how it works? We do know, but what do the poor joe-users know? And why do manufacturers don't use a much stronger encryption so that only the users' machines will be able to access the network?
What we're dealing with is corporate negligence, and as usual, they blame the end user.
Anyway, Tennis is a relatively trivial example but things that happen in the physical world where physical forces are in play do not tolerate internet like latency very well. You cannot send xon/xoff like flow control signals to reality.
But if you can have sense-realistic telepresence, why need reality in the first place?
Don't forget satisfied girlfriends.
Imaginary conversation between a geek and a girl:
- So where do you work?
- I'm a computer programmer.
- Oh! Maybe you can help me. See, I'm having a technical problem with my "boyfriend"....
No, he's right. He got the first post... in China's Timezone.
Probably it never came to this exactly but I'm sure the message was clear: You don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Nope. You bite the OTHER hand.
And after commercial break: Criminals give new uses to existing technology! :(
How about this? Put flash in a separate process, and problem solved. 99.99% of all my crashes in Firefox are due to the Flash plugin for Firefox (most of them in youtube)
Normally I don't reply to people who reply to my comments, but I really must know:
Why in the world would you start your quest to prove me wrong on a corrolary point by quoting an article about a man-made structure constructed some 2 million years after the geologic event I was referring to?
Well, it looked like you tried to imply that global warming was caused partially by the building of the Panama Canal, specially after you mentioned the troglodites and industry.
If I was mistaken, forgive me, but you never know what people really try to say when in slashdot. Oh well. I guess I got too paranoid of Global warming skeptics.
I find it incredibly arrogant that people attribute symptoms that are several levels removed from the "cause" to a model like global warming.
Um... if global warming is real, don't you think it's a little too... low-IQ to assume that the ice sheets WON'T melt?
You know what caused the onset of the iceages? North and South America connected at Panama, cutting of the Pacific-Atlantic currents,
Ah, it seems you have some information that is not mentioned in wikipedia. Oh, wait. Citation needed. Too bad.
the DMCA is laughable too, and we're not laughing
We are. HAR HAR HAR!
Sincerely yours,
the R.I.A.A.
Can you copyright a copyright law?
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! You've opened a universe paradox! WE'RE GONNA DIEEeeeeeeeeee
Can't rip it, can't archive it, can't move it to my HDD without the dongle. And if the flash drive gets damaged, who you gonna call?
DRM Buster!!
(Disclaimer: Don't know if the site is legitimate, but at least it rhymes with the song ;-) )
Mine was "STAY PUFT".
What you need to do is a background check on them. "Looks legitimate" is a pretty naive way of thinking.
Are you serious? MMORPG's can't "Save" like a traditional game can (in reality they "save" every instant you're playing the game, as essentially what happens, happens. There is no returning to a previous save), nor can they be paused. The reasoning is simple: you're not playing alone.
I know, but perhaps you could train for "solo" missions, or maybe purchase "abort mission" tickets (which would only apply for team missions) that could take you to a safe point in the game, keep your experience and items, save the game, and log you out automatically.
And my friend most of the time trains alone, so at least there should be a "quick save" feature for people like him. Or how about this? A cooperative "save dungeon state" that would only apply to the current mission/dungeon. You know, like Virtualized PC's but with dungeons instead. What happens in the dungeon stays in the dungeon.
I also misread the summary...
Consuming twice as much RAM as Firefox and saturating the CPU with nearly six times as many execution threads, Microsoft's lamest beta...
and found it quite insightful :P
Surprise! IT'S A BETA! Not a release candidate, not a final release. Stupid sensationalist headlines.
Which puts me to think: Does Microsoft release Beta so that the public will catch bugs that they didn't, or to indicate them which bugs THEY KNEW ABOUT get discovered by the public?
Please, spawning a 100 threads is NOT a bug. It's a FLAWED DESIGN. Perhaps this is why we came to the joke "it's not a bug (as in 'unexpected'), it's a feature (as in 'designed that way')".
Punctuated entertainment that doesn't try to consume every second of every day of your life.
Maybe what MMORPGs need is a "quick save" feature (how they implement it, is not my problem). A friend of mine has had countless arguments with his mom because he doesn't get on the dining table when he should. He always answers "I'll go when I can save".
Game designers need to understand that we weren't born to just play games.