Macs make great servers. They just don't belong in a DATACENTER. Going back into the 80s till today, a Mac server is designed to handle a few dozen to a few hundred clients, such as in a school, small or medium business, etc.
Apple realized how stupid it was to go after the low-margin, high support cost datacenter market, and stopped doing it. The Xserve was an anomaly anyway, as before it the last server they made was that weird A/UX box, the Apple Workgroup Server.
If you want something to handle blogs, wiki, web server, email, and file serving for a small or medium sized organization, especially a Mac-centric one, a Mac Mini makes a great machine.
Since Slashdot is just basically an SEO scheme for selected articles, and because the linked articles almost never actually have anything to do with the summary anyway, my recommendation is that you simply use a search engine to find information on the story and read up on it that way, rather than generating some more page hits for another one of Dice Holding's ad partners.
Obviously Google is not going to set out to equip every home in the USA. They will string their fiber along major corridors, connecting big cities first.
They may also buy some of the dark fiber optic cabling that is currently largely unused, which already connects to most places in the USA.
Anyway, Goldman Sachs, the company that assfucked the entire USA, should not be trusted or dealt with. Shun them.
They don't care about ill-will because gamers have shown time and again that they are totally spineless and will accept any abuse dished out by game companies.
Personally I'm not complaining, these companies have no obligation to continue providing servers at their own expense for games that no longer provide revenue. I guess my scorn is reserved for the gamers that think they deserve something out of these companies.
Right, so the best course of action is to buy new stuff so the government doesn't have to buy new stuff to get ip6 working.
News flash: governments probably have shit from the 1990s sitting around, quietly humming away at some critical task, forgotten in a closet somewhere. It works, it's fine, and leave it alone, that's the attitude.
A lot of this gear probably predates the RFCs, let alone the actual devices that support ip6.
Games that rely on external MP servers are doomed. There is no incentive for a publisher to keep the multiplayer service up and running beyond the point at which it becomes an ongoing expense, and not an incentive for new purchasers of the game.
Once a game is obsolete, or superseded by a new one, the cost of maintaining a server is no longer something that a company wants to bear. If the company is purchased at some point, especially by the kinds of video game concerns that operate in this day and age, there is almost no chance of an old game retaining support.
Tribes 2 suffered this fate, but due to an extremely loyal fanbase, was patched and is now back in operation. Bitching to a company that clearly doesn't care won't help (because YOU AREN'T BUYING THEIR NEW GAMES!) so it falls upon the community, if it exists, to pick up the slack.
However, let this be a lesson to people who heavily invest their time and energy into multiplayer games as a hobby: DON'T TRUST GAME COMPANIES TO TAKE CARE OF YOU ONCE THEY HAVE YOUR MONEY! They are in it to make a sheckel, not to make you happy. Once they have their geld they're done with you.
Perhaps this is a good time for people to reflect on the idea of open-source gaming, because at least you can always start a new master server as a last resort.
Perhaps it's best when government money isn't wasted on ineptitude. Heck, if more people thought like that in the USA we could eliminate the national debt in three years.
Sadly, most of the idiots out there still equate throwing government shekels at a problem with 'doing something.'
The latest Android is still just fucking awful. Even if you go though the hassle of rooting it or installing some kind of modded OS on the thing, it is terrible.
The iPad is popular for a reason. No, not marketing or blind herd obedience, but because the thing is actually an excellent product.
I used one of the Samsung iPad knockoffs just a few days ago again, and couldn't stand it. All the while, the owner was talking about how much better the specs are on his Samsung compared to the ancient gen-1 iPad I have.
Precious metal prices are set based mainly upon industrial demand these days. Silver is unbeatable in many medical applications, and both gold and silver have wide application in radio and electronics. Additionally, they have both provided very effective insulation against inflation, which has been running rampant in the USA for decades.
Paper is cheaper by the ream down at Office Depot if you merely want to burn it.
Are you joking? Tell this to the people in Argentina, India, Brazil, etc etc. The folks who had precious metals were much better off than the losers holding carnival tickets.
Precious metals may have been simply magically valuable in the olden days, but their modern prices are based upon their uses in industry. Regardless of how the value is set, you can't argue with their being the sole known good unit of exchange, worldwide, for thousands of years.
Your argument collapses totally when you consider that you haven't provided alternatives for precious metals. You say "knowledge" is better than gold and silver? Sure, it is useful, but it's hardly an effective, known good, convenient unit of exchange.
Obviously only fools advocate precious metals to the exclusion of food, firearms, etc. but they are an essential component of both a societal collapse scenario, as well as the more mundane currency erosion that we have seen in the US dollar over the last few decades.
The problem with Bitcoins is the same problem with any fiat currency. Essentially, they have no value other than the notional one which mindshare attaches to them. This makes them unattractive in the long run. Additionally, we have little assurance about their integrity, and you can bet that various world governments and private entities are working hard to break the whole system.
I'll keep converting my carnival tickets into precious metals, and leave the bitcoins alone.
Well it appears that he chose to "employ" spies and then give them controlled technology. It's hardly sad when one is busted for near-treasonous activities.
I'm sure your lack of experience in capital letters and their proper usage increases the public's perceived veracity in your experience with this subject.
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Just because Shittleworth says that your info is anonymized, this doesn't mean you have to believe him.
That you had to respond as AC is an indication that you know your position is not reasonable, asshole.
Macs make great servers. They just don't belong in a DATACENTER. Going back into the 80s till today, a Mac server is designed to handle a few dozen to a few hundred clients, such as in a school, small or medium business, etc.
Apple realized how stupid it was to go after the low-margin, high support cost datacenter market, and stopped doing it. The Xserve was an anomaly anyway, as before it the last server they made was that weird A/UX box, the Apple Workgroup Server.
If you want something to handle blogs, wiki, web server, email, and file serving for a small or medium sized organization, especially a Mac-centric one, a Mac Mini makes a great machine.
Why is that troublesome?
Since Slashdot is just basically an SEO scheme for selected articles, and because the linked articles almost never actually have anything to do with the summary anyway, my recommendation is that you simply use a search engine to find information on the story and read up on it that way, rather than generating some more page hits for another one of Dice Holding's ad partners.
It may be the norm but we don't have to accept it. I stopped flying because I will not be treated like a terrorist.
Obviously Google is not going to set out to equip every home in the USA. They will string their fiber along major corridors, connecting big cities first.
They may also buy some of the dark fiber optic cabling that is currently largely unused, which already connects to most places in the USA.
Anyway, Goldman Sachs, the company that assfucked the entire USA, should not be trusted or dealt with. Shun them.
They don't care about ill-will because gamers have shown time and again that they are totally spineless and will accept any abuse dished out by game companies.
Personally I'm not complaining, these companies have no obligation to continue providing servers at their own expense for games that no longer provide revenue. I guess my scorn is reserved for the gamers that think they deserve something out of these companies.
Right, so the best course of action is to buy new stuff so the government doesn't have to buy new stuff to get ip6 working.
News flash: governments probably have shit from the 1990s sitting around, quietly humming away at some critical task, forgotten in a closet somewhere. It works, it's fine, and leave it alone, that's the attitude.
A lot of this gear probably predates the RFCs, let alone the actual devices that support ip6.
Every time somebody whines like you just did I will eat the closest analog to the species they are whining about, that I can lay hands on.
Tonight it's going to be quail - 4 of 'em - and you only have yourself to blame.
Games that rely on external MP servers are doomed. There is no incentive for a publisher to keep the multiplayer service up and running beyond the point at which it becomes an ongoing expense, and not an incentive for new purchasers of the game.
Once a game is obsolete, or superseded by a new one, the cost of maintaining a server is no longer something that a company wants to bear. If the company is purchased at some point, especially by the kinds of video game concerns that operate in this day and age, there is almost no chance of an old game retaining support.
Tribes 2 suffered this fate, but due to an extremely loyal fanbase, was patched and is now back in operation. Bitching to a company that clearly doesn't care won't help (because YOU AREN'T BUYING THEIR NEW GAMES!) so it falls upon the community, if it exists, to pick up the slack.
However, let this be a lesson to people who heavily invest their time and energy into multiplayer games as a hobby: DON'T TRUST GAME COMPANIES TO TAKE CARE OF YOU ONCE THEY HAVE YOUR MONEY! They are in it to make a sheckel, not to make you happy. Once they have their geld they're done with you.
Perhaps this is a good time for people to reflect on the idea of open-source gaming, because at least you can always start a new master server as a last resort.
"Objective C compilers were only GPL because RMS refused a request from Jobs to let NeXT make a proprietary fork."
You shouldn't just lie like that, especially when your lies are so easily detected.
Perhaps it's best when government money isn't wasted on ineptitude. Heck, if more people thought like that in the USA we could eliminate the national debt in three years.
Sadly, most of the idiots out there still equate throwing government shekels at a problem with 'doing something.'
Yes, in actuality, R_Dorothy now shoots scented water into befouled vaginas in order to clean them as best he or she can.
You had me up until "less performant." then I realized that not only are you wrong, but you're a douchebag too.
1) Performant is not a word.
2) Don't use it again, it literally transforms you into a douche.
The latest Android is still just fucking awful. Even if you go though the hassle of rooting it or installing some kind of modded OS on the thing, it is terrible.
The iPad is popular for a reason. No, not marketing or blind herd obedience, but because the thing is actually an excellent product.
I used one of the Samsung iPad knockoffs just a few days ago again, and couldn't stand it. All the while, the owner was talking about how much better the specs are on his Samsung compared to the ancient gen-1 iPad I have.
Despite what we are led to believe by the hit TV series Glee, drag shows are NOT culture.
How about protecting your worth over a long time scale, no SHTF scenarios included?
Precious metal prices are set based mainly upon industrial demand these days. Silver is unbeatable in many medical applications, and both gold and silver have wide application in radio and electronics. Additionally, they have both provided very effective insulation against inflation, which has been running rampant in the USA for decades.
Paper is cheaper by the ream down at Office Depot if you merely want to burn it.
Are you joking? Tell this to the people in Argentina, India, Brazil, etc etc. The folks who had precious metals were much better off than the losers holding carnival tickets.
Precious metals may have been simply magically valuable in the olden days, but their modern prices are based upon their uses in industry. Regardless of how the value is set, you can't argue with their being the sole known good unit of exchange, worldwide, for thousands of years.
Your argument collapses totally when you consider that you haven't provided alternatives for precious metals. You say "knowledge" is better than gold and silver? Sure, it is useful, but it's hardly an effective, known good, convenient unit of exchange.
Obviously only fools advocate precious metals to the exclusion of food, firearms, etc. but they are an essential component of both a societal collapse scenario, as well as the more mundane currency erosion that we have seen in the US dollar over the last few decades.
Not this shit again.
The ONLY reason for that software to exist is to spy on the phone users. There is no innocuous use for it.
The problem with Bitcoins is the same problem with any fiat currency. Essentially, they have no value other than the notional one which mindshare attaches to them. This makes them unattractive in the long run. Additionally, we have little assurance about their integrity, and you can bet that various world governments and private entities are working hard to break the whole system.
I'll keep converting my carnival tickets into precious metals, and leave the bitcoins alone.
Well it appears that he chose to "employ" spies and then give them controlled technology. It's hardly sad when one is busted for near-treasonous activities.
I'm sure your lack of experience in capital letters and their proper usage increases the public's perceived veracity in your experience with this subject.
I see you're unfamiliar with MS Azure, the cloud product that wil do all that and more!