As another non-English speaker I can tell you that I've had more trouble with Unicode which is supposed to solve problems than I've ever had with ASCII, latin1, and latin15 exponentially combined.
Where I live there's been 200mbps DOCSIS2 for a while. Since I'm cheap I only have 100mbps DOCSIS2, but I've had it for 2 years now, and I can't really complain with downloads ranging between 4Mb/sec and 9Mb/sec. Before the upgrade I had a 20mbps DOCSIS2 connection. Makes me laugh when competing technologies are on their toes to offer the same that cable has been offering for so long without any of those constraints. I can still recall the arguments that I had on IRC 10 years ago about the superiority of cable and the communications experts telling me that copper was better...
You will only have made a move once you completely disconnect yourself from IPv4, everything else is irrelevant. IPv6 networks tend to be neglected because they aren't considered "production" networks, all the serious business runs on IPv4, and migrating everything costs money.
I predict that long before the address space is exhausted we will continue to use IPv4 primarily because everyone is getting used to having a NAT already and that's an easier solution.
After 3 months in the beta trying to explain what's wrong with the stupid design that they came up for Protection Paladins and being literally ignored by the developers who are now posting to the live forums as if nobody had warned them about the class' issues I couldn't be any more annoyed. Worse than that is the fact that as an EU player I can't post to the US forums, and Ghostcrawler not giving a crap about the beta forums really makes me wonder what their purpose really is.
> That would be like me saying I can't put a GPS on my car to keep tabs on where it goes when my son drives it.
Even though the vehicle is your property, your adult son's privacy is not, so no, you can't legally keep tabs on them in the European Union.
> If you're on facebook at work when you should be working, I think the employer has a right to know about it.
No they don't. Their inability to monitor their workers' performance is not an excuse to walk over their privacy rights.
> Also, no cameras? So they can't utilize technology, but they're still allowed to stand behind you and watch you work, right? The only difference between the two is the technology behind the first one.
And the fact that recorded information can very easily be taken out of context.
> Now, back to the topic in question. So I own a company. I pay for the computer. I pay for the internet connection, electricity, desk, and even for the time you are there, supposed to be working. And I can't check on you ?
That's right, my privacy is not your property.
> Does that strike anyone else as utterly ridiculous ?
Only to any idiot who doesn't understand the relation between privacy and freedom.
> Ok, I will accept (not agree) having to inform the employees the company will be monitoring.
Not only inform, you have to ASK for their free consent, and if they REFUSE you can't condition them!
Let us try an analogy: just because someone invaded your property doesn't make it legal for you to kill them. You might get an attenuation for doing it in self defense, but killing people is always a crime.
It wasn't until recently when I had issues with Microsoft Virtual PC because my BIOS (which had already been upgraded once) was bugged and would not enable hardware virtualization that I realized that my CPU (an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600) was one of the very few with hardware virtualization back when I bought it, as the processor models directly above and below this one did not have it, and I bought this CPU assuming that any "nodern" (2007) quad core CPU would have it, I chose this particular model based on price alone.
Reply to All doesn't mean "reply to everyone who ever sent you an E-mail", it means "reply to all the disclosed senders and recipients of the original message", which I'm sure was not comprised of all those E-mail addresses.
Was coming to report the same. How sad... My 100mbps Internet connection streams the whole thing just fine, but my 8800GTS grinds to a halt attempting to play it... Never thought I'd see the day when the bottleneck would be on my computer rather than on my Internet connection...
I wish I could make my phone just answer all unidentified calls with the message:
Greetings! First of all please do realize that you're talking to a computer that is not listening back because your number is not identified, and secondly I'm only answering this call to make you waste money.
You can prevent that with public key fingerprinting if you control both end points, which you do assuming you are using your own laptop at the internet cafe. If you aren't using your own laptop, then there's a lot more to worry about than the communication channel.
The worst is when they even force users to add exceptions just to watch random websites (Firefox, I'm looking at you). Now not only do I have to deal with the annoying warning blown out of all imaginary proportions, but I'm also adding an exception to a random website just because I want to browse it once in a life time that I may never remember to remove in the future and may cause real security issues later.
I really can't understand what's so wrong with temporary exceptions...
I have lots of flying dreams like that as well. Usually, whenever I am about to fall into a chasm I just start flying in the dream and don't wake up, it just feels natural. I can't fly very fast either though, and sometimes I don't even control it very well.
This thread is interesting though, as I haven't had any nightmares since I was like 4 and I am a very calm and relaxed person in situations where most other people lose control or panic.
My motherboard's microphone connector has a DB boost setting for the microphone, and I recall my Sound Blaster 16 (first generation) having that too. These days you can pretty much set everything up using software since the hardware is a lot more dynamic than it used to be. For example, when I plug something into my desktop's front mic connector it always asks me what kind of device I've just plugged in and adjusts itself accordingly.
If you want to accuse anyone of piracy, then accuse individual users, not the site. The site itself only serves as a distribution media, acting against reported violations upon request.
The problem is that it's not feasible to request every user to demonstrate that they own the copyright or are otherwise authorize to publish content. If I want to publish movies of myself playing games (which is the only thing that I use Youtube for), the requirement to prove that the movie was in fact my property would be enough to turn me off, especially since I may well not even be the owner of those movies since they can be considered derivative works.
The BIOS that came originally with my EVGA NFORCE 680i SLI had a bug which wouldn't even allow me to enable the feature (it would remain disabled even though it was enabled in the BIOS). Before upgrading it, Virtual PC kept telling me that I had hardware support but it was disabled.
I was also lucky to buy one of the few Core 2 Quad models with hardware virtualization in 2007 (the Q6600). It wasn't until recently that I learned that most models did not have hardware virtualization at the time.
I find NoScript pretty effective for what you describe. Ad servers are usually on a specific domain, even those hosted by the content providers themselves, thus making them easy to block. It requires some tweaking at the start, including personalizing a lot of settings and teaching NoScript exactly what to block, but once you've been running it for a while you won't even remember that it ever existed, you won't have third party WSRP slowing your browser down, you will never have to run untrusted Flash content again, and your regular websites will continue to work as they always did.
You won't be indexed by search engines, so you lose more than if you don't block it. Furthermore I stay clear of any website forcing me to add exceptions to NoScript that would allow third party advertisers to run any kind of code on my browser.
But I kinda recall doing that with my VHS, which had a button on the remote specifically designed to disable its transmitter thus allowing me to watch other TV channels as it recorded a specific channel back in 1990... How come this wasn't used to invalidate the patent?
I was expecting to see the stars distort and stretch as their image approached the black hole in the rotation movie. Instead, while they "realistically" move around the hole, we don't get to see the full effect of gravity's refraction.
While fixed-width might not be recommended for text, code is not exactly regular text. In a regular essay, skipping a period or a comma is usually not an issue. In code, however, it makes a world of difference, and therefore it doesn't make sense to use a font that may cause confusion between a pair of parentheses '()' and a zero '0', an 'I' and an 'l', a single dash '-' and two dashes '--', etc. Fixed-width founts are a lot clearer, and clarity and usability are extremely important for me.
Indeed, Build was amazing, Ken Silverman was The Man in his time (John Carmack still praises him to this day). Not only did he manage to develop a very good engine but also the most usable map editor ever. I wish that modern day game developers would learn usability lessons from Build, it was truly amazing, the only editor where I did manage to translate my creativity into game content, exactly the way I wanted, and with a professional feel to it. The only engine that came remotely close from Build in this regard in my opinion was Cryengine2, where I also built some stuff, but I never got used to the lighting, atmospheric, and HDR settings, so I never really built anything worth calling a playable map with it.
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As another non-English speaker I can tell you that I've had more trouble with Unicode which is supposed to solve problems than I've ever had with ASCII, latin1, and latin15 exponentially combined.
Where I live there's been 200mbps DOCSIS2 for a while. Since I'm cheap I only have 100mbps DOCSIS2, but I've had it for 2 years now, and I can't really complain with downloads ranging between 4Mb/sec and 9Mb/sec. Before the upgrade I had a 20mbps DOCSIS2 connection. Makes me laugh when competing technologies are on their toes to offer the same that cable has been offering for so long without any of those constraints. I can still recall the arguments that I had on IRC 10 years ago about the superiority of cable and the communications experts telling me that copper was better...
You will only have made a move once you completely disconnect yourself from IPv4, everything else is irrelevant. IPv6 networks tend to be neglected because they aren't considered "production" networks, all the serious business runs on IPv4, and migrating everything costs money.
I predict that long before the address space is exhausted we will continue to use IPv4 primarily because everyone is getting used to having a NAT already and that's an easier solution.
After 3 months in the beta trying to explain what's wrong with the stupid design that they came up for Protection Paladins and being literally ignored by the developers who are now posting to the live forums as if nobody had warned them about the class' issues I couldn't be any more annoyed. Worse than that is the fact that as an EU player I can't post to the US forums, and Ghostcrawler not giving a crap about the beta forums really makes me wonder what their purpose really is.
> That would be like me saying I can't put a GPS on my car to keep tabs on where it goes when my son drives it.
Even though the vehicle is your property, your adult son's privacy is not, so no, you can't legally keep tabs on them in the European Union.
> If you're on facebook at work when you should be working, I think the employer has a right to know about it.
No they don't. Their inability to monitor their workers' performance is not an excuse to walk over their privacy rights.
> Also, no cameras? So they can't utilize technology, but they're still allowed to stand behind you and watch you work, right? The only difference between the two is the technology behind the first one.
And the fact that recorded information can very easily be taken out of context.
> Now, back to the topic in question. So I own a company. I pay for the computer. I pay for the internet connection, electricity, desk, and even for the time you are there, supposed to be working. And I can't check on you ?
That's right, my privacy is not your property.
> Does that strike anyone else as utterly ridiculous ?
Only to any idiot who doesn't understand the relation between privacy and freedom.
> Ok, I will accept (not agree) having to inform the employees the company will be monitoring.
Not only inform, you have to ASK for their free consent, and if they REFUSE you can't condition them!
Let us try an analogy: just because someone invaded your property doesn't make it legal for you to kill them. You might get an attenuation for doing it in self defense, but killing people is always a crime.
This is just the implementation of Directive 95/46/EC. Over here in Portugal we have that kind of protection the constitution itself.
It wasn't until recently when I had issues with Microsoft Virtual PC because my BIOS (which had already been upgraded once) was bugged and would not enable hardware virtualization that I realized that my CPU (an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600) was one of the very few with hardware virtualization back when I bought it, as the processor models directly above and below this one did not have it, and I bought this CPU assuming that any "nodern" (2007) quad core CPU would have it, I chose this particular model based on price alone.
Reply to All doesn't mean "reply to everyone who ever sent you an E-mail", it means "reply to all the disclosed senders and recipients of the original message", which I'm sure was not comprised of all those E-mail addresses.
So we decided to give you a hand...
Disclaimer: The reddit comment isn't mine.
Was coming to report the same. How sad... My 100mbps Internet connection streams the whole thing just fine, but my 8800GTS grinds to a halt attempting to play it... Never thought I'd see the day when the bottleneck would be on my computer rather than on my Internet connection...
I wish I could make my phone just answer all unidentified calls with the message:
You can prevent that with public key fingerprinting if you control both end points, which you do assuming you are using your own laptop at the internet cafe. If you aren't using your own laptop, then there's a lot more to worry about than the communication channel.
The worst is when they even force users to add exceptions just to watch random websites (Firefox, I'm looking at you). Now not only do I have to deal with the annoying warning blown out of all imaginary proportions, but I'm also adding an exception to a random website just because I want to browse it once in a life time that I may never remember to remove in the future and may cause real security issues later.
I really can't understand what's so wrong with temporary exceptions...
I have lots of flying dreams like that as well. Usually, whenever I am about to fall into a chasm I just start flying in the dream and don't wake up, it just feels natural. I can't fly very fast either though, and sometimes I don't even control it very well.
This thread is interesting though, as I haven't had any nightmares since I was like 4 and I am a very calm and relaxed person in situations where most other people lose control or panic.
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My motherboard's microphone connector has a DB boost setting for the microphone, and I recall my Sound Blaster 16 (first generation) having that too. These days you can pretty much set everything up using software since the hardware is a lot more dynamic than it used to be. For example, when I plug something into my desktop's front mic connector it always asks me what kind of device I've just plugged in and adjusts itself accordingly.
If you want to accuse anyone of piracy, then accuse individual users, not the site. The site itself only serves as a distribution media, acting against reported violations upon request.
The problem is that it's not feasible to request every user to demonstrate that they own the copyright or are otherwise authorize to publish content. If I want to publish movies of myself playing games (which is the only thing that I use Youtube for), the requirement to prove that the movie was in fact my property would be enough to turn me off, especially since I may well not even be the owner of those movies since they can be considered derivative works.
The BIOS that came originally with my EVGA NFORCE 680i SLI had a bug which wouldn't even allow me to enable the feature (it would remain disabled even though it was enabled in the BIOS). Before upgrading it, Virtual PC kept telling me that I had hardware support but it was disabled.
I was also lucky to buy one of the few Core 2 Quad models with hardware virtualization in 2007 (the Q6600). It wasn't until recently that I learned that most models did not have hardware virtualization at the time.
I find NoScript pretty effective for what you describe. Ad servers are usually on a specific domain, even those hosted by the content providers themselves, thus making them easy to block. It requires some tweaking at the start, including personalizing a lot of settings and teaching NoScript exactly what to block, but once you've been running it for a while you won't even remember that it ever existed, you won't have third party WSRP slowing your browser down, you will never have to run untrusted Flash content again, and your regular websites will continue to work as they always did.
You won't be indexed by search engines, so you lose more than if you don't block it. Furthermore I stay clear of any website forcing me to add exceptions to NoScript that would allow third party advertisers to run any kind of code on my browser.
But I kinda recall doing that with my VHS, which had a button on the remote specifically designed to disable its transmitter thus allowing me to watch other TV channels as it recorded a specific channel back in 1990... How come this wasn't used to invalidate the patent?
I was expecting to see the stars distort and stretch as their image approached the black hole in the rotation movie. Instead, while they "realistically" move around the hole, we don't get to see the full effect of gravity's refraction.
While fixed-width might not be recommended for text, code is not exactly regular text. In a regular essay, skipping a period or a comma is usually not an issue. In code, however, it makes a world of difference, and therefore it doesn't make sense to use a font that may cause confusion between a pair of parentheses '()' and a zero '0', an 'I' and an 'l', a single dash '-' and two dashes '--', etc. Fixed-width founts are a lot clearer, and clarity and usability are extremely important for me.
Indeed, Build was amazing, Ken Silverman was The Man in his time (John Carmack still praises him to this day). Not only did he manage to develop a very good engine but also the most usable map editor ever. I wish that modern day game developers would learn usability lessons from Build, it was truly amazing, the only editor where I did manage to translate my creativity into game content, exactly the way I wanted, and with a professional feel to it. The only engine that came remotely close from Build in this regard in my opinion was Cryengine2, where I also built some stuff, but I never got used to the lighting, atmospheric, and HDR settings, so I never really built anything worth calling a playable map with it.