Here's another question for you. Has your disaster plan taken into account a direct nuclear strike? I mean just because it hasn't happened before doesn't mean it couldn't happen right? What about an alien attack? Both of these were just as likely to occur as an earthquake of this magnitude followed by a tsunami of that size.
Actually yes our plan DOES take into account a direct nuclear strike/bomb attack. We have a remote disaster recovery site for just such an occurance. As for the liklihood of a tsunami of that size and a earthquake together, FFS Earthquakes are the major cause of Tsunami's, it only stands to reason that a massive earthquake would also have a high probability or a similarly massive tsunami. If you think the 2 are so unrelated that a alien invasion is more likely then there is no reasoning with you, what I don't understand is how the hell you got marked up as informative.
I work with a few datacenters, we spend a lot of time and money coming up with Disaster recovery plans for all conceivable problems we can face at each site, everything from flooding/air con failure/fire/power failure/water failure etc etc. I expect a nuclear power plant to exercise 10 times the caution we do as the consequences are obviously a lot more severe. There is nothing in this power plant that required any hindsight to predict these problems, they are by the sea, if flooding wasn't part of the basic investigation for a disaster then many engineers need to be lined up and shot.
Bullshit, Why the hell are people still trying to credit some company with the abbreviation app, it has been in use in IT for decades and certainly before NeXt even existed. No apple did not invent it, neither did NeXt, I was certainly using it pre 1985 as I have a program called dotapp, which I wrote to output text to a crappy dotmatrix printer at the time, Now while I did a lot of cool stuff in programming back then, I certainly didn't invent the abbreviation and I was using it before NeXt existed.
The cert may be tied to the name, but SSL is an encrypted tunnel and the name can only be read from it AFTER you have established your IP to IP address tunnel unless you are using SNI which is not universally implemented in all client technology currently in use. So how exactly do you propose to read the host name without first establishing a link or without removing support for a significant part of internet users?
It may be selling relatively slowly but it is if anything head and shoulders above the iphone and at least equal to any of the newer androids. Whether that is enough to come from behind is anyones guess. People seem to forget 12 months ago android was no where and even the original iphone sold at about the same rate as the current WP7 phones as similar to WP7 phones the first model had limited network support.
To be fair Tom tom threatened MS with law suits if they didn't license their patents, MS simply responded appropriately by suing their trolling arses off. If you poke a snake with a stick don't be suprised when it bites you.
food in landfills breaks down farely rapidly, plastic does not. They are turning a biodegradable product into a non biodegradable product. While it is a step up from using oil, it is also a step backwards for landfills etc.
Anybody who can't understand why some people find consoles better than computers should not be around computers at all, IT is not about a one size fits all mentality and people with that view should be stamped out of this industry. It is moronic to think there is a one size fits all answer, console are "Better" for many people, just as computers are "better" for others.
I think the point is while they might be different there is little or no innovation in the game Angry birds, it does nothing a 100 other games hadn't already done, they just managed to get lucky on market appeal. That's not to say I think EA etc are particularly innovative either, I just think this guy is blowing smoke up his own arse with no real justification.
It is not difficult to find numbers for these things at all there are loads of numbers tracking sites inclduing stuff like vgchartz.com or even NPD, unless you are trying to find numbers that prove the OP right then your right as you will have a hell of a time finding others to make up crap like that. The simple fact is current console sales are significantly larger than any previous generation
NES+ sega master sold around 75 million
then we move to the megadrive and SNES with a combined total of approximately 90 million.
PS + N64 + Saturn was about 140-150 million
PS2 (150 million) + Xbox + gamecube sold a total of around 200 million
Current gen is at about 185 million and still going strong and should easily top 220 million even if this gen ended this year which it won't.
Except the summary is deceptive (how unusual for/.). The issue is creating a site solely with the intention of linking to sites that are illegally distributing copyright material. I think the thing that compounds the issue here is he was making money from it as well.
he isn't spouting crap, I don't think it is webOS but HP's have been shipping with a fast boot OS for media playing and web browsing for sometime now. I purchased 2 pavillions early this year, I booted them a few times before I gave them the disk wipe treatment that anything from HP deserves and twice I saw it boot into whatever fast boot OS they were using, I didn't bother to investigate further though as I planned on imaging them the next day anyway.
I am with ya on that, this move is completely beyond comprehension, not only does it seem pointless but if you have dealt much with HP software over the years the last thing you would want from them is more of it.
You are living in a dream world and perhaps should consider stepping back into reality. This generation of consoles has so far sold around 200 million of them. If anything it is PC gaming that is gradually dieing, consoles offer consistency and reliability to the developers and price and simplicity to end users. Console gaming is still increasing while PC gaming while not on its last hoorah it is certainly becoming more niche and for the hardcore. If anything I think the next gen of consoles will perhaps bring about PC gamings darkest days.
Actually yeah I would, especially if it was just a novel. It would actually make the book far more useful as then once I have read it I would have at least a usable notepad as apposed to the 3 rooms of my house with wall to wall bookcases that realistically never get touched once I have read everything on it.
What I don't understand is how people that can't afford the price of a song because they earn a dollar a day can afford the devices to play these songs and movies which even at cost prices would be more than someone earning a dollar a day could ever afford.
Your spot on, the article is completely off topic as it is incorrectly using the term troll. making you take your time to respond to a troll is EXACTLY what a troll wants and by doing so he has actually achieved his end goal as a troll. ie to get a rise out of you or waste your time in a pointless response that he has absolutely no interest in. The best trolls never even need to post again after their first comment as they incite such arguments that they get to sit back watch and laugh at what they have instigated.
If it is purely a business aimed at profit this is easy, it is at the point where revenue from those users is insufficent to cover the cost of support.
because in the real world many of these sites are business's turning over millions and millions of dollars and quite frankly when it comes to a choice of breaking 10% of there users (ie stopping 10% of their revenue) or spending extra and keeping maximum revenue then the choice is not so easy. Many can prompt or push towards upgrades but ultimately if your business depends on users using you then you really want to support everyone regardless of how retarded they are.
Money is money whether it comes from a retard using ie6 or a selfrighteous idiot using firefox, for these businesses technology is secondary to making money.
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Here's another question for you. Has your disaster plan taken into account a direct nuclear strike? I mean just because it hasn't happened before doesn't mean it couldn't happen right? What about an alien attack? Both of these were just as likely to occur as an earthquake of this magnitude followed by a tsunami of that size.
Actually yes our plan DOES take into account a direct nuclear strike/bomb attack. We have a remote disaster recovery site for just such an occurance. As for the liklihood of a tsunami of that size and a earthquake together, FFS Earthquakes are the major cause of Tsunami's, it only stands to reason that a massive earthquake would also have a high probability or a similarly massive tsunami. If you think the 2 are so unrelated that a alien invasion is more likely then there is no reasoning with you, what I don't understand is how the hell you got marked up as informative.
I work with a few datacenters, we spend a lot of time and money coming up with Disaster recovery plans for all conceivable problems we can face at each site, everything from flooding/air con failure/fire/power failure/water failure etc etc. I expect a nuclear power plant to exercise 10 times the caution we do as the consequences are obviously a lot more severe. There is nothing in this power plant that required any hindsight to predict these problems, they are by the sea, if flooding wasn't part of the basic investigation for a disaster then many engineers need to be lined up and shot.
Bullshit, Why the hell are people still trying to credit some company with the abbreviation app, it has been in use in IT for decades and certainly before NeXt even existed. No apple did not invent it, neither did NeXt, I was certainly using it pre 1985 as I have a program called dotapp, which I wrote to output text to a crappy dotmatrix printer at the time, Now while I did a lot of cool stuff in programming back then, I certainly didn't invent the abbreviation and I was using it before NeXt existed.
The cert may be tied to the name, but SSL is an encrypted tunnel and the name can only be read from it AFTER you have established your IP to IP address tunnel unless you are using SNI which is not universally implemented in all client technology currently in use. So how exactly do you propose to read the host name without first establishing a link or without removing support for a significant part of internet users?
It may be selling relatively slowly but it is if anything head and shoulders above the iphone and at least equal to any of the newer androids. Whether that is enough to come from behind is anyones guess. People seem to forget 12 months ago android was no where and even the original iphone sold at about the same rate as the current WP7 phones as similar to WP7 phones the first model had limited network support.
since when did wow authenticators stop using Vasco and start using RSA?
To be fair Tom tom threatened MS with law suits if they didn't license their patents, MS simply responded appropriately by suing their trolling arses off. If you poke a snake with a stick don't be suprised when it bites you.
food in landfills breaks down farely rapidly, plastic does not. They are turning a biodegradable product into a non biodegradable product. While it is a step up from using oil, it is also a step backwards for landfills etc.
Anybody who can't understand why some people find consoles better than computers should not be around computers at all, IT is not about a one size fits all mentality and people with that view should be stamped out of this industry. It is moronic to think there is a one size fits all answer, console are "Better" for many people, just as computers are "better" for others.
I think the point is while they might be different there is little or no innovation in the game Angry birds, it does nothing a 100 other games hadn't already done, they just managed to get lucky on market appeal. That's not to say I think EA etc are particularly innovative either, I just think this guy is blowing smoke up his own arse with no real justification.
It is not difficult to find numbers for these things at all there are loads of numbers tracking sites inclduing stuff like vgchartz.com or even NPD, unless you are trying to find numbers that prove the OP right then your right as you will have a hell of a time finding others to make up crap like that. The simple fact is current console sales are significantly larger than any previous generation
NES+ sega master sold around 75 million
then we move to the megadrive and SNES with a combined total of approximately 90 million.
PS + N64 + Saturn was about 140-150 million
PS2 (150 million) + Xbox + gamecube sold a total of around 200 million
Current gen is at about 185 million and still going strong and should easily top 220 million even if this gen ended this year which it won't.
really you make the effort to work out the location and you still don't get it?
Except the summary is deceptive (how unusual for /.). The issue is creating a site solely with the intention of linking to sites that are illegally distributing copyright material. I think the thing that compounds the issue here is he was making money from it as well.
I would actually classify both acts as evil.
he isn't spouting crap, I don't think it is webOS but HP's have been shipping with a fast boot OS for media playing and web browsing for sometime now. I purchased 2 pavillions early this year, I booted them a few times before I gave them the disk wipe treatment that anything from HP deserves and twice I saw it boot into whatever fast boot OS they were using, I didn't bother to investigate further though as I planned on imaging them the next day anyway.
I am with ya on that, this move is completely beyond comprehension, not only does it seem pointless but if you have dealt much with HP software over the years the last thing you would want from them is more of it.
You are living in a dream world and perhaps should consider stepping back into reality. This generation of consoles has so far sold around 200 million of them. If anything it is PC gaming that is gradually dieing, consoles offer consistency and reliability to the developers and price and simplicity to end users. Console gaming is still increasing while PC gaming while not on its last hoorah it is certainly becoming more niche and for the hardcore. If anything I think the next gen of consoles will perhaps bring about PC gamings darkest days.
Actually yeah I would, especially if it was just a novel. It would actually make the book far more useful as then once I have read it I would have at least a usable notepad as apposed to the 3 rooms of my house with wall to wall bookcases that realistically never get touched once I have read everything on it.
What I don't understand is how people that can't afford the price of a song because they earn a dollar a day can afford the devices to play these songs and movies which even at cost prices would be more than someone earning a dollar a day could ever afford.
That is hardly a technicality, WebGL is not part of the spec full stop, hence it has no place in a test for HTML5 standards support.
Your spot on, the article is completely off topic as it is incorrectly using the term troll. making you take your time to respond to a troll is EXACTLY what a troll wants and by doing so he has actually achieved his end goal as a troll. ie to get a rise out of you or waste your time in a pointless response that he has absolutely no interest in. The best trolls never even need to post again after their first comment as they incite such arguments that they get to sit back watch and laugh at what they have instigated.
No proud Aussie would be drinking VB, it is barely a step above drinking fosters, the thought of consuming either of those makes me feel ill.
If it is purely a business aimed at profit this is easy, it is at the point where revenue from those users is insufficent to cover the cost of support.
because in the real world many of these sites are business's turning over millions and millions of dollars and quite frankly when it comes to a choice of breaking 10% of there users (ie stopping 10% of their revenue) or spending extra and keeping maximum revenue then the choice is not so easy. Many can prompt or push towards upgrades but ultimately if your business depends on users using you then you really want to support everyone regardless of how retarded they are.
Money is money whether it comes from a retard using ie6 or a selfrighteous idiot using firefox, for these businesses technology is secondary to making money.
Except that "app" is an abbreviation for "application".
A term that until very recently has only been used for describing binary executables on OS X.
Bullshit, App has been the generic abbreivation for application for 3 decades, a good 10-15 years before OS X even existed.