You're right that enterprises (for the most part) won't support large numbers of boxes with ancient software. But having large amounts of similar boxes you can start tuning your software and kernel to those boxes (some large datacenters do it) or you can support a specific driver much better or longer.
With closed source operating systems you can't do that. You get what the manufacturer gives you and they don't give a heck whether you have 100 or 10,000 boxes of it running, if it works (somewhat) it ships and the rest of the functionality or specific issues is done by (if you're lucky) weekly/monthly/bi-monthly patches.
There have been instances at a place I worked where issues crop up after the system has been running for a very long time (Broadcom drivers) which only impact the performance under specific circumstances (bonded ethernet links with lots and lots of traffic). If you're on a closed source platform, tough luck, maybe you can try rebooting regularly.
You don't. First of all dollar apps are not a big threat to the big $60 games. What is threatening those big $60 games is the $60 + paid DLC. If I pay $60 it should be all-included with free DLC like StarCraft 2. Portal 2 is a bad example of that as well - a full priced game ($50) but every little outfit I want costs $1-5 and the game isn't all that big and very linear. The rest like Dead Space is again linear and just another zombie shooter. It has some cute concepts in it but it's not worth my money. Then the rest doesn't want me to resell their discs so they'll charge somebody another $10-15 just to unlock the game which is a big no-no to me, I won't buy something if those are the conditions.
Indie developers like FrozenByte develop some very good quality (graphics, engine etc.) games on a budget and charge $10-20 for it and make a profit. Buy the Humble Indie Bundle and get Trine, ShadowGrounds, ShadowGrounds Survivor, the sound track to those games, the source code and art to a canned game and they promise they'll give you one of their upcoming games as well. Choose what you want to pay and download it without DRM for Windows, Mac AND Linux and link it to your Steam account if you want. I paid $50 for the bundle even though I really don't care that much for ShadowGrounds but Trine is definitely worth it.
Another good game is MineCraft, no DRM, 'bad' graphics but fun gameplay. It's a mix of WoW, LEGO, SimCity and the like. EUR 15 right now in beta or EUR 20 when it's released. Those are the games that those big companies are fighting against and they'll have to either adapt or go extinct.
The metric system imho requires you to convert everything to a fraction of 32 as I think 9/32 is one of the common sizes so the common denominator is 32. Given that many people can't do basic fractions I would say a lot of mistakes are made without a calculator. Also the different units depending on measurement is difficult to learn and requires you to multiply and divide by 12, 3, 36 or 1760 depending on the measurement.
I would think that working in metric would be much easier and less error prone especially in engineering and construction:
Off the top of your head which set is faster: 1/4" + 3/16" 24" + 6.5' 7/8" + 1/2" - 1/4"
Or 6.5mm + 4.5mm 60cm + 2m 2.2cm + 1.2cm - 63mm
Given that you can convert millimeters to centimeters to meters by just moving the comma or adding 0's I would recon it's much faster than calculating/remembering how many inches is in a foot, how many foot is in a mile or how many miles in a hogshead.
Iron Mountain is just an excuse for the risk-averse to comply with certain regulations (HIPAA, SOX,...). The wording in those regulations make it so that if you go through the motions of encryption and destroying your data, it's ok, you don't have to disclose your losses. "Your data got leaked through paper documents" -> No, we have a certificate from Iron Mountain all documents are shredded. "Your data got leaked through a hard drive" -> No, we have a certificate from Trustwave that we do full disk encryption. "Your server was hacked" -> We are PCI-compliant so we can be sure nothing important was leaked, here's a certificate.
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And how big is the corn lobby? They get subsidies over $7B/year for growing corn. I rather believe the non-subsidied scientific studies on HFCS which show a link to higher obesity with HFCS than the corn lobby's advertising machine.
They don't have to match ALL games to real players. Sometimes players don't chat at all and could technically be a 'house' bot. There have even been bots on those sites from other players so it's not that difficult to do. All they have to do is win 'some' of the games while still profiting of the transaction and game entry fees or leftover funds that people never play with or that's under a certain payout limit, the hard part is figuring out how much you can do this without people starting to notice - is it 5% of the players, 10%?
1) Unless you explicitly set the setting to never require the password, you are required to enter the password. 2) You can explicitly disable all in-app and iTunes Store purchases 3) You do not have to link your bank account to iTunes Store, you can also unlink it. 4) You can always refute your charges with the iTunes Store people (who usually don't fuss over it) or with your bank if that doesn't help. 5) After any purchase you get an e-mail with your charges.
Yes, these are neglectful, idiotic parents that basically spoil their child by giving them full access to not only a smartphone or expensive MP3 player that has easy-to-use parental controls but also give them free reign to their credit cards. Kids do stupid shit like that all the time, your job as a parent is to keep track of it and guide or punish them when they do stuff like this. If I would have done that not only would I have gotten a beating but I would have to pay back every cent from my hard earned "good report" and "chores for grandma" money.
One of my exes wanted it 2-3 times a day. She needed to get looked into as that is really tiring. Once ever 2 or 3 days is a good rhythm for a healthy male.
I rather support HTML Strict and recommend whatever browser renders it best. I know IE doesn't always render HTML Strict correctly but that's not my problem really, there is no reason to rely on IE for anyone period. If you still rely on ActiveX not only is ActiveX your problem but most likely the app you're supporting requires you to run it on an equally ancient platform that is a security nightmare, you're doing it wrong. If you think you need to secure your browser through an LDAP attribute instead of relying on the system to be secure, you're doing it wrong. If you think you can rely on your directory system to enforce users' behavior, you already lost, your users are doing whatever they want already on unregistered, unprotected personal systems.
RAID is not there to protect anyone from data loss, it doesn't matter if you buy the disks at different times from different countries or let dwarven blacksmiths cast you a new mythril case for it.
RAID is there for: 1) Better performance -or- 1) More continuous drive space 2) Potentially less downtime on the occasional 1 (or 2 if you're using RAID6) disk failure. 3) Potentially a higher MTTDL (Mean Time To Data Loss)
RAID is NOT there for: 1) Backup (a mirror, even geographically distanced is not a backup) 2) Protection against bit rot and corruption (although ZFS and certain controllers can mitigate a lot of it) 3) Protection against Catastrophic Failure
Most likely they will go to Juniper, Foundry Networks and them (the ones specializing in ISP-size network gear) or HP and Netgear for their datacenters (Google supposedly builds their own switches but why spend $5,000 on a gigabit switch if $1,500 will do). Cisco is imho overpriced, has major licensing issues and doesn't deliver on their promises of either product or support but still tries to sell you their whole product line for each problem. Cisco is the Microsoft of network equipment - all the bigwigs have heard of it and want it because they believe the sales people, all the techies know the sales people are lying and that there are better alternatives out there.
Depends on where you live really, AT&T/T-Mobile and Sprint seem to collude to exclusively cover certain areas whereas Verizon simply doesn't want to cover it.
At least with Blizzard you can say they put effort in their games and they continue developing it even after they're finished especially hen you compare it with eg. EA who just releases patches every year and brands it as a new full-price game.
Starcraft 1, Warcraft 3 and now Starcraft 2 are all great games and they continue being fun and playable 10 years down the line without needing to purchase again and again. The Activisioning of Blizzard certainly had it's downsides with SC2 being released in 3 parts but their various online levels and user content are definitely worth the price and the collector's edition doesn't just include a DVD and a metal case (looking at you Halo).
You can't return it under warranty? I will never buy any Blu-Ray device and thanks to you I will avoid Samsung (I don't have any of their devices right now). Maybe you should make a blog post on it and post it as much as possible and forward it to one of their VP's.
Lunatics can still win in court. It doesn't matter whether something is reasonable in front of a judge, it matters what the law says about it. The law says you can't make a copy of a Blu-Ray or DVD (as you would be breaking the encryption) so save your $40 and put it in a fund for either bribing the lawmakers for change or for your lawyers.
AirTunes (the predecessor to AirPlay) was also 'hacked' and released with even a commercial distributor of software that would work with it (Rogue Amoeba I believe). Apple doesn't so much care about the hacking of their systems, they're probably happy somebody finally did while on the other hand they can claim to the **AA - we implemented your precious DRM so we can keep selling your crap.
Somebody needs to write up that knowledge though for you to find it on your iPhone. The calculator on that thing doesn't work without a programmer and probably a mathematician, a web translator from Greek to English doesn't work without a programmer as well as a very good linguist, statistician etc.
Latin back then was viewed as a base language on which to build to learn other languages such as French and a lot of scientific books were still being written in Latin and Greek (Greek especially in medical school). These days you could probably replace that with Latin and well-written English (which is a problem these days as well). I see a lot of history, geography and mathematics that should be known or derived even today by kids coming out of high school or maybe a year of community college.
I couldn't do it either. I lack the Latin and have no idea about Greek and have been out of school too long to remember the Mathematics. Some of it seems to basically be a 'show us that you're learned and have been bred for this type of school' kinda question while others are high school knowledge (What's the difference between Sparta and Athens - a classic history question).
The problem is that currently there is still a difference between the voice network and the data network. The data network just takes up multiple fixed-size voice channels to transfer data. This is off course changing with 3G/4G where voice will also be packetized but there is still a historical reason for it to be different. The pricing difference however is based on corporate greed and the fact that regulations were effectively abolished when AT&T was split up.
YouTube is large enough to have the big content producers jump aboard this streaming platform. I like that you can stream YouTube over a simple MPEG4 stream so maybe finally we'll have a real IPTV provider in the US that can replace my overpriced cable TV.
That's why they said partners in good standing. It's not your random dweeb posting emo videos of himself, partner channels have thousands of viewers already and no legitimate reports against them.
It's basically triangulation with TCP or ICMP packets. It's not based on a single measurement from a single location. Let's say Google (Because they like to play where is waldo with their customers) has 100 datacenters. They measure a couple of times the time it takes from each datacenter over routers with known locations and average delays to your ISP's IP you connect from. They just keep drawing circles and the area that overlaps the most times is most likely the area you're in. Given that you or the router before you are not actively trying to obfuscate those things, on average they will be able to triangulate your location within a 1 kilometer squared (1.5 sq miles). There will always be mistakes but given that most large routing centers have a known, fixed location and an average delay between the large data centers and those routing centers plus most if not all of the wires to your house are publicly documented, you can calculate it pretty well.
I don't know about you but usually there's about 300 houses in that area, not enough to identify you but enough to either send you a local ad or send a nuclear bomb to clear you out. If you're connecting through TOR you will be originating from different IP's anyway but they could triangulate those IP's individually.
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You're right that enterprises (for the most part) won't support large numbers of boxes with ancient software. But having large amounts of similar boxes you can start tuning your software and kernel to those boxes (some large datacenters do it) or you can support a specific driver much better or longer.
With closed source operating systems you can't do that. You get what the manufacturer gives you and they don't give a heck whether you have 100 or 10,000 boxes of it running, if it works (somewhat) it ships and the rest of the functionality or specific issues is done by (if you're lucky) weekly/monthly/bi-monthly patches.
There have been instances at a place I worked where issues crop up after the system has been running for a very long time (Broadcom drivers) which only impact the performance under specific circumstances (bonded ethernet links with lots and lots of traffic). If you're on a closed source platform, tough luck, maybe you can try rebooting regularly.
You don't. First of all dollar apps are not a big threat to the big $60 games. What is threatening those big $60 games is the $60 + paid DLC. If I pay $60 it should be all-included with free DLC like StarCraft 2. Portal 2 is a bad example of that as well - a full priced game ($50) but every little outfit I want costs $1-5 and the game isn't all that big and very linear. The rest like Dead Space is again linear and just another zombie shooter. It has some cute concepts in it but it's not worth my money. Then the rest doesn't want me to resell their discs so they'll charge somebody another $10-15 just to unlock the game which is a big no-no to me, I won't buy something if those are the conditions.
Indie developers like FrozenByte develop some very good quality (graphics, engine etc.) games on a budget and charge $10-20 for it and make a profit. Buy the Humble Indie Bundle and get Trine, ShadowGrounds, ShadowGrounds Survivor, the sound track to those games, the source code and art to a canned game and they promise they'll give you one of their upcoming games as well. Choose what you want to pay and download it without DRM for Windows, Mac AND Linux and link it to your Steam account if you want. I paid $50 for the bundle even though I really don't care that much for ShadowGrounds but Trine is definitely worth it.
Another good game is MineCraft, no DRM, 'bad' graphics but fun gameplay. It's a mix of WoW, LEGO, SimCity and the like. EUR 15 right now in beta or EUR 20 when it's released. Those are the games that those big companies are fighting against and they'll have to either adapt or go extinct.
The metric system imho requires you to convert everything to a fraction of 32 as I think 9/32 is one of the common sizes so the common denominator is 32. Given that many people can't do basic fractions I would say a lot of mistakes are made without a calculator. Also the different units depending on measurement is difficult to learn and requires you to multiply and divide by 12, 3, 36 or 1760 depending on the measurement.
I would think that working in metric would be much easier and less error prone especially in engineering and construction:
Off the top of your head which set is faster:
1/4" + 3/16"
24" + 6.5'
7/8" + 1/2" - 1/4"
Or
6.5mm + 4.5mm
60cm + 2m
2.2cm + 1.2cm - 63mm
Given that you can convert millimeters to centimeters to meters by just moving the comma or adding 0's I would recon it's much faster than calculating/remembering how many inches is in a foot, how many foot is in a mile or how many miles in a hogshead.
Iron Mountain is just an excuse for the risk-averse to comply with certain regulations (HIPAA, SOX, ...). The wording in those regulations make it so that if you go through the motions of encryption and destroying your data, it's ok, you don't have to disclose your losses.
"Your data got leaked through paper documents" -> No, we have a certificate from Iron Mountain all documents are shredded.
"Your data got leaked through a hard drive" -> No, we have a certificate from Trustwave that we do full disk encryption.
"Your server was hacked" -> We are PCI-compliant so we can be sure nothing important was leaked, here's a certificate.
And how big is the corn lobby? They get subsidies over $7B/year for growing corn. I rather believe the non-subsidied scientific studies on HFCS which show a link to higher obesity with HFCS than the corn lobby's advertising machine.
They don't have to match ALL games to real players. Sometimes players don't chat at all and could technically be a 'house' bot. There have even been bots on those sites from other players so it's not that difficult to do. All they have to do is win 'some' of the games while still profiting of the transaction and game entry fees or leftover funds that people never play with or that's under a certain payout limit, the hard part is figuring out how much you can do this without people starting to notice - is it 5% of the players, 10%?
1) Unless you explicitly set the setting to never require the password, you are required to enter the password.
2) You can explicitly disable all in-app and iTunes Store purchases
3) You do not have to link your bank account to iTunes Store, you can also unlink it.
4) You can always refute your charges with the iTunes Store people (who usually don't fuss over it) or with your bank if that doesn't help.
5) After any purchase you get an e-mail with your charges.
Yes, these are neglectful, idiotic parents that basically spoil their child by giving them full access to not only a smartphone or expensive MP3 player that has easy-to-use parental controls but also give them free reign to their credit cards. Kids do stupid shit like that all the time, your job as a parent is to keep track of it and guide or punish them when they do stuff like this. If I would have done that not only would I have gotten a beating but I would have to pay back every cent from my hard earned "good report" and "chores for grandma" money.
One of my exes wanted it 2-3 times a day. She needed to get looked into as that is really tiring. Once ever 2 or 3 days is a good rhythm for a healthy male.
I rather support HTML Strict and recommend whatever browser renders it best. I know IE doesn't always render HTML Strict correctly but that's not my problem really, there is no reason to rely on IE for anyone period. If you still rely on ActiveX not only is ActiveX your problem but most likely the app you're supporting requires you to run it on an equally ancient platform that is a security nightmare, you're doing it wrong. If you think you need to secure your browser through an LDAP attribute instead of relying on the system to be secure, you're doing it wrong. If you think you can rely on your directory system to enforce users' behavior, you already lost, your users are doing whatever they want already on unregistered, unprotected personal systems.
Or IE runs natively on the OS, no sandboxing going on here.
RAID is not there to protect anyone from data loss, it doesn't matter if you buy the disks at different times from different countries or let dwarven blacksmiths cast you a new mythril case for it.
RAID is there for:
1) Better performance
-or-
1) More continuous drive space
2) Potentially less downtime on the occasional 1 (or 2 if you're using RAID6) disk failure.
3) Potentially a higher MTTDL (Mean Time To Data Loss)
RAID is NOT there for:
1) Backup (a mirror, even geographically distanced is not a backup)
2) Protection against bit rot and corruption (although ZFS and certain controllers can mitigate a lot of it)
3) Protection against Catastrophic Failure
Most likely they will go to Juniper, Foundry Networks and them (the ones specializing in ISP-size network gear) or HP and Netgear for their datacenters (Google supposedly builds their own switches but why spend $5,000 on a gigabit switch if $1,500 will do). Cisco is imho overpriced, has major licensing issues and doesn't deliver on their promises of either product or support but still tries to sell you their whole product line for each problem. Cisco is the Microsoft of network equipment - all the bigwigs have heard of it and want it because they believe the sales people, all the techies know the sales people are lying and that there are better alternatives out there.
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Depends on where you live really, AT&T/T-Mobile and Sprint seem to collude to exclusively cover certain areas whereas Verizon simply doesn't want to cover it.
The ability to keep in contact with certain Mexican friends might however lead to some financial well being (temporarily).
At least with Blizzard you can say they put effort in their games and they continue developing it even after they're finished especially hen you compare it with eg. EA who just releases patches every year and brands it as a new full-price game.
Starcraft 1, Warcraft 3 and now Starcraft 2 are all great games and they continue being fun and playable 10 years down the line without needing to purchase again and again. The Activisioning of Blizzard certainly had it's downsides with SC2 being released in 3 parts but their various online levels and user content are definitely worth the price and the collector's edition doesn't just include a DVD and a metal case (looking at you Halo).
You can't return it under warranty? I will never buy any Blu-Ray device and thanks to you I will avoid Samsung (I don't have any of their devices right now). Maybe you should make a blog post on it and post it as much as possible and forward it to one of their VP's.
Lunatics can still win in court. It doesn't matter whether something is reasonable in front of a judge, it matters what the law says about it. The law says you can't make a copy of a Blu-Ray or DVD (as you would be breaking the encryption) so save your $40 and put it in a fund for either bribing the lawmakers for change or for your lawyers.
AirTunes (the predecessor to AirPlay) was also 'hacked' and released with even a commercial distributor of software that would work with it (Rogue Amoeba I believe). Apple doesn't so much care about the hacking of their systems, they're probably happy somebody finally did while on the other hand they can claim to the **AA - we implemented your precious DRM so we can keep selling your crap.
Somebody needs to write up that knowledge though for you to find it on your iPhone. The calculator on that thing doesn't work without a programmer and probably a mathematician, a web translator from Greek to English doesn't work without a programmer as well as a very good linguist, statistician etc.
Latin back then was viewed as a base language on which to build to learn other languages such as French and a lot of scientific books were still being written in Latin and Greek (Greek especially in medical school). These days you could probably replace that with Latin and well-written English (which is a problem these days as well). I see a lot of history, geography and mathematics that should be known or derived even today by kids coming out of high school or maybe a year of community college.
I couldn't do it either. I lack the Latin and have no idea about Greek and have been out of school too long to remember the Mathematics. Some of it seems to basically be a 'show us that you're learned and have been bred for this type of school' kinda question while others are high school knowledge (What's the difference between Sparta and Athens - a classic history question).
The problem is that currently there is still a difference between the voice network and the data network. The data network just takes up multiple fixed-size voice channels to transfer data. This is off course changing with 3G/4G where voice will also be packetized but there is still a historical reason for it to be different. The pricing difference however is based on corporate greed and the fact that regulations were effectively abolished when AT&T was split up.
YouTube is large enough to have the big content producers jump aboard this streaming platform. I like that you can stream YouTube over a simple MPEG4 stream so maybe finally we'll have a real IPTV provider in the US that can replace my overpriced cable TV.
That's why they said partners in good standing. It's not your random dweeb posting emo videos of himself, partner channels have thousands of viewers already and no legitimate reports against them.
It's basically triangulation with TCP or ICMP packets. It's not based on a single measurement from a single location. Let's say Google (Because they like to play where is waldo with their customers) has 100 datacenters. They measure a couple of times the time it takes from each datacenter over routers with known locations and average delays to your ISP's IP you connect from. They just keep drawing circles and the area that overlaps the most times is most likely the area you're in. Given that you or the router before you are not actively trying to obfuscate those things, on average they will be able to triangulate your location within a 1 kilometer squared (1.5 sq miles). There will always be mistakes but given that most large routing centers have a known, fixed location and an average delay between the large data centers and those routing centers plus most if not all of the wires to your house are publicly documented, you can calculate it pretty well.
I don't know about you but usually there's about 300 houses in that area, not enough to identify you but enough to either send you a local ad or send a nuclear bomb to clear you out. If you're connecting through TOR you will be originating from different IP's anyway but they could triangulate those IP's individually.