It's a common tactic to introduce bills like that to make your opinions known on certain topics to the wider House/Senate body, even when the bills have no chance of being passed ever.
That comic had a good story at first, and slowly degraded over time into utter absurdity. I think this was because he had IRL issues he was dealing with. So yes, it was good he finally ended the main story, and got back to the randoms that just make fun of life in general.
Technically, they can, but the developers of the device drivers do silly things like hard-coded checks for the operating system version, and refuse to install if the one you're running doesn't match the one that they programmed the check against.
So, let's say Valve goes full-steam ahead on this project and starts actually selling these consoles, and presumably implements Wine to get DirectX games to run. What is going to prevent Microsoft from suing the shit out of them under the DMCA for using Wine (which at best, is in an extremely gray area legally when used on US computers)?
The way the Wine devs develop and implement their code is not "clean", and they pretty much admitted they violate the DMCA in their own posts.
It's abysmal. The sound quality is mediocre at best, and you better hope whomever hosts the call (if you do a group voice chat, the host becomes the "node" everyone else in the group goes through) has good upload bandwidth. If not, the entire thing sounds like shit.
I can see it now, how miserable it would work on XBox Live, with 30+ users and the "host" has a 768kb DSL upload rate.
Wrong, the government only has the right to do what is delineated for it in the Constitution. All other rights are exclusive to the states and the citizens.
Also, the US is not a democracy, it is a Constitutional Republic.
Google is useful for this kind of stuff. I found program listings from Oregon State, University of Illinois-Springfield, and MANY others.
Online baccalaureate programs. Several with the option to complete in as little as 1-3 years depending on your ability. And yes, real programs with real degrees, not just those hokey certificates from Coursera or the like.
No offense, but you're a Senior Software Engineer and didn't use at least a Google search first?
GMOs, GMOs... leading producers of such, like DOW Chemical and Monsanto...yes, we should really be trusting such to not harm the food supply or hold it for ransom. Right.
Monsanto is still trying to claim Dioxin/Agent Orange doesn't harm humans, thus they have no responsibility for cleaning up the production sites in the southern USA or the results of that production in Vietnam.
They however, lost a class-action suit in WV this year (one of the production sites for AO amongst many other nasty chemicals).
These are not the people we should be allowing anywhere near this type of research, let alone be granting them patents on organisms.
I am all for doing it in an ethical manner, with reasonable testing, etc. Many of these corporations doing this though, have proven many, MANY times over that they are not in the least bit ethical, and love skipping corners to boost share prices.
Silly me, and here I thought they'd need that $65k or more just to pay the licensing fees for things like libdvdcss. And yes, I know it is not just that one and that there are other free codecs they also use. But to be legal in the USA or France for that matter, unless they pony up the license fees for the codecs (mainly to MPEG-LA).
Microsoft is not about to let a media "app" without the license fees paid for those particular codecs into its appstore.
As we all know anyhow, the VLC people kind of ignore some laws anyhow. Microsoft, however, can't get away with it (at least not with the EU watching for the slightest stumble).
Do you drink, and how often? Do you smoke, or use smokeless tobacco products? When was your last physical? Do you use intravenous drugs? Have you ever had dialysis or a blood transfusion?
My answers got me insured in record time. Which was funny. Then again, I only drink socially (and by socially, I mean 3-4 times per year), and smoke.
I did ask them about the workout thing, and other "health discount" stuff, and my agent said they don't use any of that stuff because it's a bunk way for companies to charge people more for the same service.
Not only that, but arguably China's economy is more capitalist than the one in the United States.
Sure, the State dips its fingers in to keep an eye on what is going on in there, but there's far more useless dos and don'ts in the US system, with not just one government sticking its nose in, but several, from the local level all the way to the federal.
I don't know what to even call the mess in the US anymore, it's not capitalist, socialist, etc. It's something altogether different.
Microsoft tried that with the first gen 360s. The damned things overheated and killed the chipsets (infamous RROD). Rev 2 and later all included fans inside of the case.
Heat sinks on anything more powerful than a "passive" machine won't cut it.
Once again, we have a State making a law that is essentially ignorant of how technology works and the loopholes and evasions around and through any such restrictions as having to tell the State one set of online credentials while having several sets of other credentials the "offenders" actually use, but don't tell them about.
SWTOR for one, people experience this issue with. Dead Space 2 is another example, along with Saint's Row the Third.
Those are just some of the games, but yes, it has to do with this problem.
Average framerates are telling you nothing, because when being monitored, the framerates never drop. There's just stuttering in the rendering of certain objects.
In the case of SWTOR: The animation when people mount/dismount from speeders, certain casting animations and particle effects, shadowed text enabled - all examples of when you will see this happen, and this is with the framerates holding at a steady 60 FPS (V-Synch enabled).
The "Metro" UI pushed out on XBoxLive is not even quite the same as the one in WinRT or Win8. It's been stripped down considerably, and seeing as how the previous recent versions of the software already used tiles (movie browsing, etc), it was not much of a change other than "new shiny".
For instance: There's no hidden ridiculous "charms" or other such nonsense in the XBoxLive version.
And yes, the paradigm change was horrendously wrong. They took two completely separate paradigms, and crunched them together into a mushy slop of a mess, that doesn't work right for either one.
Marketing and accounting take over the company. It's really that simple. The real innovators and engineers are pushed way out of the loop and the greedy fuckers take their places, and we have plenty evidence of that just by looking at Microsoft and HP, let alone Nokia, etc.
I use a multi-monitor setup, using multiple graphics cards, with multiple windows open at a time, as well as a VM or two, or three, or four.
This is impossible to do under Windows 8. The OS simply refuses this configuration. This was on Win8 "Pro".
I won't even get into the hot mess that was that stupid "Metro/Modern" UI shoving it's unwanted face in at the most inopportune moments.
I can even live without the Start button, but it's not worth the trade-off when I have two user interface paradigms fighting each other tooth and nail for attention, when all I want to do is open a new application in a new window and place it on monitor three.
I WILL grant Win8 this: It is faster and consumes fewer resources for the OS than Win7.
This being said, I still reverted to Win7, and will take another look at upgrading when Windows 10 or 11 rolls around.
Sounds to me like two things you could have done to remedy this problem.
The discovered and known-to-work fixes:
1) "Overclock" the CPU of the router. They were quite capable of having the CPUs clocked up to 250 Mhz with passive cooling. With active cooling, some users had 300 Mhz or higher. One enterprising individual had his clocked to 500 Mhz with watercooling.
2) Change your ip-conntrack settings. The default settings were too low, even for non-torrent/slow connection use. I think you needed to update the number to track at minimum 2400, but the higher the connection speed, the more you needed. The optimal for fast lines was 4096 maximum ports, 600s TCP timeout, 120s UDP timeout. http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Router_Slowdown has a good explanation of this.
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It's a common tactic to introduce bills like that to make your opinions known on certain topics to the wider House/Senate body, even when the bills have no chance of being passed ever.
That comic had a good story at first, and slowly degraded over time into utter absurdity. I think this was because he had IRL issues he was dealing with. So yes, it was good he finally ended the main story, and got back to the randoms that just make fun of life in general.
That's because they changed the latest VS to match Windows 8 in theme. Yes, stupid, I know.
Technically, they can, but the developers of the device drivers do silly things like hard-coded checks for the operating system version, and refuse to install if the one you're running doesn't match the one that they programmed the check against.
So, let's say Valve goes full-steam ahead on this project and starts actually selling these consoles, and presumably implements Wine to get DirectX games to run. What is going to prevent Microsoft from suing the shit out of them under the DMCA for using Wine (which at best, is in an extremely gray area legally when used on US computers)?
The way the Wine devs develop and implement their code is not "clean", and they pretty much admitted they violate the DMCA in their own posts.
I do believe I read somewhere in the Steam forums that Valve is actively working right now to have the L4D games work on Steam for Linux.
It's abysmal. The sound quality is mediocre at best, and you better hope whomever hosts the call (if you do a group voice chat, the host becomes the "node" everyone else in the group goes through) has good upload bandwidth. If not, the entire thing sounds like shit.
I can see it now, how miserable it would work on XBox Live, with 30+ users and the "host" has a 768kb DSL upload rate.
"Reed Hundt said he wants the FCC to focus on getting better, faster, cheaper internet to 100% of the population."
All of the above is absolutely useless if it is crippled by capricious and artificially low data caps.
They won't hit anything, they are no longer being monitored by the FTC.
Wrong, the government only has the right to do what is delineated for it in the Constitution. All other rights are exclusive to the states and the citizens.
Also, the US is not a democracy, it is a Constitutional Republic.
This makes you ignorant of civics.
Dear AC who submitted this:
Google is useful for this kind of stuff. I found program listings from Oregon State, University of Illinois-Springfield, and MANY others.
Online baccalaureate programs. Several with the option to complete in as little as 1-3 years depending on your ability. And yes, real programs with real degrees, not just those hokey certificates from Coursera or the like.
No offense, but you're a Senior Software Engineer and didn't use at least a Google search first?
Oh my.
GMOs, GMOs... leading producers of such, like DOW Chemical and Monsanto...yes, we should really be trusting such to not harm the food supply or hold it for ransom. Right.
Monsanto is still trying to claim Dioxin/Agent Orange doesn't harm humans, thus they have no responsibility for cleaning up the production sites in the southern USA or the results of that production in Vietnam.
They however, lost a class-action suit in WV this year (one of the production sites for AO amongst many other nasty chemicals).
http://wvgazette.com/News/201202230090?page=1
These are not the people we should be allowing anywhere near this type of research, let alone be granting them patents on organisms.
I am all for doing it in an ethical manner, with reasonable testing, etc. Many of these corporations doing this though, have proven many, MANY times over that they are not in the least bit ethical, and love skipping corners to boost share prices.
Silly me, and here I thought they'd need that $65k or more just to pay the licensing fees for things like libdvdcss. And yes, I know it is not just that one and that there are other free codecs they also use. But to be legal in the USA or France for that matter, unless they pony up the license fees for the codecs (mainly to MPEG-LA).
Microsoft is not about to let a media "app" without the license fees paid for those particular codecs into its appstore.
As we all know anyhow, the VLC people kind of ignore some laws anyhow. Microsoft, however, can't get away with it (at least not with the EU watching for the slightest stumble).
Put it this way...
Comcast has the most compromised user systems on their network in the USA every year since the late 1990's.
I would appreciate it if they actually WOULD do something about it.
I take it these idiots don't even comprehend that now criminals have a nice map to all kinds of legally licensed and owned weapons to steal.
The dipshit who came up with this....ugh.
Interestingly enough, my insurer asked these:
Do you drink, and how often?
Do you smoke, or use smokeless tobacco products?
When was your last physical?
Do you use intravenous drugs?
Have you ever had dialysis or a blood transfusion?
My answers got me insured in record time. Which was funny. Then again, I only drink socially (and by socially, I mean 3-4 times per year), and smoke.
I did ask them about the workout thing, and other "health discount" stuff, and my agent said they don't use any of that stuff because it's a bunk way for companies to charge people more for the same service.
That depends on your opinion of iOS and iTunes, does it not? :)
Not only that, but arguably China's economy is more capitalist than the one in the United States.
Sure, the State dips its fingers in to keep an eye on what is going on in there, but there's far more useless dos and don'ts in the US system, with not just one government sticking its nose in, but several, from the local level all the way to the federal.
I don't know what to even call the mess in the US anymore, it's not capitalist, socialist, etc. It's something altogether different.
Microsoft tried that with the first gen 360s. The damned things overheated and killed the chipsets (infamous RROD). Rev 2 and later all included fans inside of the case.
Heat sinks on anything more powerful than a "passive" machine won't cut it.
Once again, we have a State making a law that is essentially ignorant of how technology works and the loopholes and evasions around and through any such restrictions as having to tell the State one set of online credentials while having several sets of other credentials the "offenders" actually use, but don't tell them about.
SWTOR for one, people experience this issue with. Dead Space 2 is another example, along with Saint's Row the Third.
Those are just some of the games, but yes, it has to do with this problem.
Average framerates are telling you nothing, because when being monitored, the framerates never drop. There's just stuttering in the rendering of certain objects.
In the case of SWTOR: The animation when people mount/dismount from speeders, certain casting animations and particle effects, shadowed text enabled - all examples of when you will see this happen, and this is with the framerates holding at a steady 60 FPS (V-Synch enabled).
The "Metro" UI pushed out on XBoxLive is not even quite the same as the one in WinRT or Win8. It's been stripped down considerably, and seeing as how the previous recent versions of the software already used tiles (movie browsing, etc), it was not much of a change other than "new shiny".
For instance: There's no hidden ridiculous "charms" or other such nonsense in the XBoxLive version.
And yes, the paradigm change was horrendously wrong. They took two completely separate paradigms, and crunched them together into a mushy slop of a mess, that doesn't work right for either one.
Simple:
Marketing and accounting take over the company. It's really that simple. The real innovators and engineers are pushed way out of the loop and the greedy fuckers take their places, and we have plenty evidence of that just by looking at Microsoft and HP, let alone Nokia, etc.
I was greatly hampered by it.
I use a multi-monitor setup, using multiple graphics cards, with multiple windows open at a time, as well as a VM or two, or three, or four.
This is impossible to do under Windows 8. The OS simply refuses this configuration. This was on Win8 "Pro".
I won't even get into the hot mess that was that stupid "Metro/Modern" UI shoving it's unwanted face in at the most inopportune moments.
I can even live without the Start button, but it's not worth the trade-off when I have two user interface paradigms fighting each other tooth and nail for attention, when all I want to do is open a new application in a new window and place it on monitor three.
I WILL grant Win8 this: It is faster and consumes fewer resources for the OS than Win7.
This being said, I still reverted to Win7, and will take another look at upgrading when Windows 10 or 11 rolls around.
Sounds to me like two things you could have done to remedy this problem.
The discovered and known-to-work fixes:
1) "Overclock" the CPU of the router. They were quite capable of having the CPUs clocked up to 250 Mhz with passive cooling. With active cooling, some users had 300 Mhz or higher. One enterprising individual had his clocked to 500 Mhz with watercooling.
2) Change your ip-conntrack settings. The default settings were too low, even for non-torrent/slow connection use. I think you needed to update the number to track at minimum 2400, but the higher the connection speed, the more you needed. The optimal for fast lines was 4096 maximum ports, 600s TCP timeout, 120s UDP timeout. http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Router_Slowdown has a good explanation of this.