You have to have privacy (i.e. data encryption with managed keypairs) and you have to know that the (sub)domain has the NAPTR records for communications. Having a.tel ensures that your data in the.tel is properly set up..tel has nothing to do with other TLDs except for the fact that you can buy your domain. It uses the DNS infrastructure in a totally different way: you don't connect computers to computers via A/CNAME records, but you connect people to people with NAPTR records.
Privacy is very simple yet very powerful: Essentially you 1024-bit encrypt your phone number with your friend's public key and store it in a unique subdomain for your friend. So only your friend knows where to get the info, and only he's got the private key.
You can call it half-assed and crap, but I would contend that DNS is actually totally wasted today. It's a phenomenal distributed data store that's barely used to point a name to a couple of IP addresses. With.tel we're actually starting to use the DNS for what it was build for.
I really don't care about the domain name itself. You can have it. (in fact it is available right now). The point is that I don't want people to have obsolete info about me. So I need to store it somewhere it's always easily accessible by anyone. Thus the Internet. But I also need to make sure no one stops that service, as this is critical to me. It needs to stay with me hopefully till I die. Thus the need for a TLD.
Tools? totally unnecessary. You'd just punch a hole with the standard paper hole puncher thingie. It was round, but no problem. Worst case, you punched 2 concentric holes and you were done.
I don't recall it being so hard to kill the Kikimore queen. The one baddy that hurt me many times until I got strong enough to waste it was the red plant eater thing that jumps off the ground. Overall I found the witcher to be really good balance-wise.
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hehe. nice trolling at the end. let me add fuel to the fire and contend that since Perl became ubiquitous, shells have lost most of their programming importance.
If you are doing in parallel file downloads, torrent sharing, movie watching, etc... then you should be able to nail 60 gigs in a day. Tough to do, but possible, on a 15Mbps connect. The OP was talking about 22 days, but 5 days is probably more the norm on very heavy use.
Jokes aside, you're mostly right - 60GB is a ton of usage, even on a fast pipe. Consider at 15Mbps, which is roughly the fastest speed you can get regularly* across the country, that's 22 days of straight downloading every second. Umm... I think your numbers are a bit off: 15Mbps should give you a sustained max of well over 10. Let's take 10Mbps as an example.
10Mbps -> 36,000Mb per hour, which is 4,500MB per hour, so definitely more than 4GB per hour.
See how your numbers are off? In less than a day, very conservatively, you can move 60GB on a 15Mbps line.
I wish we could put this thing to rest once and for all. And I wish so-called "experts" in the field actually were.
Rule of thumb: - you use row dbs for OLTP. They're great for writing. - you use column dbs for data mining. They're amazing for reading aggregates (average, max, complex queries...)
The major problem with column dbs is the writing part. If you have to write one row at a time, you're screwed because it needs to take each column, read, insert into it and store. If you can write in batch, the whole process isn't much more expensive. So writing a single row could take 500ms, but writing 1000 rows will take 600ms. Once the data's in, column dbs are the way to go.
The VC is generally trustworthy on that particular subject, because it's in his/her best interest not to be known as someone who leaks sensitive info.
It's a pretty small community of people who know each other rather well. If the VC leaks or misuses confidential info, he'll lose trust and won't get in on the juiciest deals, which is what he's aiming for.
Generally the entrepreneur worries too much about people stealing his ideas, and not enough about how good the idea is, and how well it can be implemented.
A lot of VCs said rude/stupid/wrong/bulling/snide/nasty/thoughtless things during the dot-com boom because they could get away with it, such as one of my all-time-favourite turn-offs as a serial recipient of VC money: "We don't do NDAs", ie "Your ideas are not important so me might be careless with them"... There's a very valid reason why VCs do that. I've had my share of working with VCs, and while I despise them in general, the "We don't do NDA" reasoning is sound:
put yourself in a VC's shoes for a minute. Your job is to look at business plans and invest in ones that look interesting to you. So you will read hundreds of plans, speak with thousands of people who all come to tell you their idea. If you were to sign an NDA with every single one of them, you statistically are guaranteed to either infringe on it, or be perceived as infringing.
Take the following example: X comes to you with an idea. You reject X because the management team is weak (another perfectly valid reason). A few months later, Y comes to you with a very very similar idea. You like Y's management team and invest in it. As Y grows and becomes publicized, X reads about it, sees that you invested in it, and gets pissed off that "you stole X's idea!" Lawsuit.
Another example: You've been focusing on a certain field, say the Web 2.0 crap. You've by now gotten so much info, you've discussed it with so many companies, that when you're talking to X that came to pitch its idea, when you tell them why it'll fail you're probably going to say something that was covered under one of the dozens of NDAs you signed in the past year, but how are you going to know?
Signing NDAs would completely obliterate a VC's ability to operate. The problem is that most entrepreneurs are so obsessed about their idea being the one-and-only greatest thing ever that they aren't able to see the issue from a VC's perspective.
I picked up Heatseeker the other day. I am a flightsim fan, and obviously this isn't a flightsim, so my opinion is probably skewed.
I started the game in "simulation" mode, not arcade, regular difficulty. It's basically an exercise in frustration. The controls are absolute garbage, totally imprecise. The wiimote and nunchuck just can't compete with a standard flightstick, since you can't tell how far you've gone on any one side. And I often find that if I go too far to the side, Heatseeker gets "stuck" there when I move my hand back to the center, sending me in an unrecoverable death spiral.
Add to that the fact that even the first mission has you fighting something like 30 planes in 4 waves, it's a joke: come in on a frontal attack, slow down as much as possible to increase the first engagement time, lock/shoot/lock/shoot/lock/shoot and then hope you can clean up the rest.
Thats part of the problem with many gamers behavior. If you set up a giant world, filled it with fun things to do, and just happen to put the finish line a little too close to the start line, then a number of gamers will make a mad dash to a finish then cry that the game was too short and boring.
The trick to solving this, ladies and gentlemen, is to show the gamer what she can do.
Simply put, have a quest log that shows the main and optional quests. Show the gamer what she's missing if she's going so fast that by the last battle she's got 15 unsolved optional quests. Next time around, she'll be back to try them out and will never bitch about the game being short or boring.
Example of the above: Knights of the Old Republic.
Cars like the Bugatti with 1001HP, can you imagine driving that without ABS, 4WD, various driver assists like traction control, etc.? I'm sure a pro driver would have no problem controlling it, but why let only the pros have all the fun?
Actually I can imagine driving that without ABS, 4WD and other driver assists. Look at the Ford GT: theoretically, it's 550HP. Practically it's more like 620-640HP. Not bad, right? Well that car has absolutely ZERO driver assists, except for the mandatory ABS. And trust me, that car drives and handles like a dream. Totally stable, perfectly balanced.
In my opinion, it is too often that driver assists compensate for poor car engineering in the first place.
Stored procs don't completely shield you from injection exploits either. They're better, but you absolutely always have to carefully screen any user input. An example of stored proc injection potential is when a stored proc has dynamic sql in it.
But then who would pay $1.99 to download an episode of 'Lost' from iTunes if the iPod could also hook up to your television and record that same episode free?
They totally missed the point. Who would pay? I tell you who would pay. Those who don't have a TV, that's who! Oh yes, it's not a big market today, I understand that. But years from now, when we think of when the TV started dying, that's the date everyone will agree on.
Anonymous methods can also make use of the local variables and parameters in whose scope the anonymous method lies. This is a somewhat complicated, and we don't yet have a clear idea of when one should exploit it. So to illustrate it we'll borrow the example from the documentation.
I've seen OTA digital myself, and it's pretty awesome. I would have never imagined being able to pick up full-resolution HDTV with a set of rabbit-ear antennas.
I suspect that these new broadcasts will lead to a mass exodus (or at least a minor exodus) from the cable and satellite networks as people realize they can get better quality with no monthly fee.
Granted, you won't get as many channels, but there are a lot of people who only really watch the network channels anyway, and switched to cable/satellite because they think the fuzzy analog TV only belongs in trailer parks.
I am one of those who generally never used to watch TV but I am very much into movies. So I use a projector that can do HD with a big (100"+) screen. At some point last year I decided to get digital cable for the kids and see if it was worth it. I cancelled after 2 weeks: 100 channels of crap (hasn't changed in years) and only a few HD channels (for now), and they're compressed HD anyway. You can definitely see the compression artifacts in such a large screen.
So then I went and got an OTA HD receiver and an HD antenna, putting me back by $300 ($250+$50), but for all this I get more than a dozen channels including 7 PBS channels, 2 of which are in uncompressed perfect HD. And ABC,CBS and NBC have their shows in digital uncompressed if I ever feel the need to show that off to a visiting friend. In fact, I use the HD OTA broadcast to show people how bad DVD quality is.
Being in the LA area, I get the LA, Long Beach and San Diego channel on a small indoor HD antenna that is 100% blocked by a building wall about 30 feet away. Pretty damn impressive, I never thought it would work.
All in all, I am very happy with this setup, and it's great for the kids.
While many of Cringely's comments may well be correct, I am very suspicious of the one regarding the Cell processor:
If Apple was willing to consider a processor switch, moving to the Cell Processor would have made much more sense than going to Intel or AMD, so I simply have to conclude that technology has nothing at all to do with this decision.
The Cell processor is not at all geared towards desktop/laptop use for a couple of reasons:
It's currently very hard to program the Cell efficiently
The Cell is not a general purpose CPU, it works very badly with out-of-order execution. Comments around the web abound as to how badly the Cell performs in general purpose programming.
So I think that the switch to Intel is at least partly technological, especially if you consider how critical the laptop market is for Apple, and how badly IBM screwed the pooch on that. Pentium M to the rescue!
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You have to have privacy (i.e. data encryption with managed keypairs) and you have to know that the (sub)domain has the NAPTR records for communications. .tel ensures that your data in the .tel is properly set up. .tel has nothing to do with other TLDs except for the fact that you can buy your domain. It uses the DNS infrastructure in a totally different way: you don't connect computers to computers via A/CNAME records, but you connect people to people with NAPTR records.
Having a
No auctions.
Also no 2-letter domains (ICANN rule).
slashdot users need a bit more technical info:
http://rikkles.blogspot.com/2008/05/privacy-in-tel.html
Privacy is very simple yet very powerful:
Essentially you 1024-bit encrypt your phone number with your friend's public key and store it in a unique subdomain for your friend. So only your friend knows where to get the info, and only he's got the private key.
You can call it half-assed and crap, but I would contend that DNS is actually totally wasted today. It's a phenomenal distributed data store that's barely used to point a name to a couple of IP addresses. .tel we're actually starting to use the DNS for what it was build for.
With
(I work with Telnic)
I'm the henry.tel there...
I really don't care about the domain name itself. You can have it. (in fact it is available right now). The point is that I don't want people to have obsolete info about me.
So I need to store it somewhere it's always easily accessible by anyone. Thus the Internet. But I also need to make sure no one stops that service, as this is critical to me. It needs to stay with me hopefully till I die. Thus the need for a TLD.
Tools? totally unnecessary. You'd just punch a hole with the standard paper hole puncher thingie. It was round, but no problem. Worst case, you punched 2 concentric holes and you were done.
Agreed. It's on my shelf.
But I think the snap ring notebook was a special edition. I believe the regular edition had a standard glue-bound book.
I don't recall it being so hard to kill the Kikimore queen.
The one baddy that hurt me many times until I got strong enough to waste it was the red plant eater thing that jumps off the ground.
Overall I found the witcher to be really good balance-wise.
hehe. nice trolling at the end. let me add fuel to the fire and contend that since Perl became ubiquitous, shells have lost most of their programming importance.
It's not " Borne Again Shell", but "BOURNE Again Shell".
Stephen Bourne created sh from which bash is derived.
If you are doing in parallel file downloads, torrent sharing, movie watching, etc... then you should be able to nail 60 gigs in a day. Tough to do, but possible, on a 15Mbps connect. The OP was talking about 22 days, but 5 days is probably more the norm on very heavy use.
15Mbps should give you a sustained max of well over 10. Let's take 10Mbps as an example.
10Mbps -> 36,000Mb per hour, which is 4,500MB per hour, so definitely more than 4GB per hour.
See how your numbers are off? In less than a day, very conservatively, you can move 60GB on a 15Mbps line.
I wish we could put this thing to rest once and for all. And I wish so-called "experts" in the field actually were.
Rule of thumb:
- you use row dbs for OLTP. They're great for writing.
- you use column dbs for data mining. They're amazing for reading aggregates (average, max, complex queries...)
The major problem with column dbs is the writing part. If you have to write one row at a time, you're screwed because it needs to take each column, read, insert into it and store. If you can write in batch, the whole process isn't much more expensive. So writing a single row could take 500ms, but writing 1000 rows will take 600ms.
Once the data's in, column dbs are the way to go.
The VC is generally trustworthy on that particular subject, because it's in his/her best interest not to be known as someone who leaks sensitive info.
It's a pretty small community of people who know each other rather well. If the VC leaks or misuses confidential info, he'll lose trust and won't get in on the juiciest deals, which is what he's aiming for.
Generally the entrepreneur worries too much about people stealing his ideas, and not enough about how good the idea is, and how well it can be implemented.
Take the following example: X comes to you with an idea. You reject X because the management team is weak (another perfectly valid reason). A few months later, Y comes to you with a very very similar idea. You like Y's management team and invest in it. As Y grows and becomes publicized, X reads about it, sees that you invested in it, and gets pissed off that "you stole X's idea!" Lawsuit.
Another example: You've been focusing on a certain field, say the Web 2.0 crap. You've by now gotten so much info, you've discussed it with so many companies, that when you're talking to X that came to pitch its idea, when you tell them why it'll fail you're probably going to say something that was covered under one of the dozens of NDAs you signed in the past year, but how are you going to know?
Signing NDAs would completely obliterate a VC's ability to operate. The problem is that most entrepreneurs are so obsessed about their idea being the one-and-only greatest thing ever that they aren't able to see the issue from a VC's perspective.
Maiden sucky? Maiden US-centric?
You gotta be kidding me.
I picked up Heatseeker the other day. I am a flightsim fan, and obviously this isn't a flightsim, so my opinion is probably skewed.
I started the game in "simulation" mode, not arcade, regular difficulty. It's basically an exercise in frustration. The controls are absolute garbage, totally imprecise. The wiimote and nunchuck just can't compete with a standard flightstick, since you can't tell how far you've gone on any one side. And I often find that if I go too far to the side, Heatseeker gets "stuck" there when I move my hand back to the center, sending me in an unrecoverable death spiral.
Add to that the fact that even the first mission has you fighting something like 30 planes in 4 waves, it's a joke: come in on a frontal attack, slow down as much as possible to increase the first engagement time, lock/shoot/lock/shoot/lock/shoot and then hope you can clean up the rest.
Firefox works as a Gopher client.
I just clicked on a Gopher link from Safari, and it opened Firefox, which duly went and grabbed the gopher 'page'.
Ah the memories.
The trick to solving this, ladies and gentlemen, is to show the gamer what she can do.
Simply put, have a quest log that shows the main and optional quests. Show the gamer what she's missing if she's going so fast that by the last battle she's got 15 unsolved optional quests. Next time around, she'll be back to try them out and will never bitch about the game being short or boring.
Example of the above: Knights of the Old Republic.
Actually I can imagine driving that without ABS, 4WD and other driver assists. Look at the Ford GT: theoretically, it's 550HP. Practically it's more like 620-640HP. Not bad, right? Well that car has absolutely ZERO driver assists, except for the mandatory ABS. And trust me, that car drives and handles like a dream. Totally stable, perfectly balanced.
In my opinion, it is too often that driver assists compensate for poor car engineering in the first place.
Stored procs don't completely shield you from injection exploits either. They're better, but you absolutely always have to carefully screen any user input.
An example of stored proc injection potential is when a stored proc has dynamic sql in it.
They totally missed the point. Who would pay? I tell you who would pay. Those who don't have a TV, that's who! Oh yes, it's not a big market today, I understand that. But years from now, when we think of when the TV started dying, that's the date everyone will agree on.
That's funny. They should have read the standard Perl article on closures: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/closure.html
Here's a quote from it:
So then I went and got an OTA HD receiver and an HD antenna, putting me back by $300 ($250+$50), but for all this I get more than a dozen channels including 7 PBS channels, 2 of which are in uncompressed perfect HD. And ABC,CBS and NBC have their shows in digital uncompressed if I ever feel the need to show that off to a visiting friend. In fact, I use the HD OTA broadcast to show people how bad DVD quality is.
Being in the LA area, I get the LA, Long Beach and San Diego channel on a small indoor HD antenna that is 100% blocked by a building wall about 30 feet away. Pretty damn impressive, I never thought it would work.
All in all, I am very happy with this setup, and it's great for the kids.
The Cell processor is not at all geared towards desktop/laptop use for a couple of reasons:
So I think that the switch to Intel is at least partly technological, especially if you consider how critical the laptop market is for Apple, and how badly IBM screwed the pooch on that. Pentium M to the rescue!