I have had great success with OpenWRT on a TP-Link wireless router (don't remember the exact model). I looked into DD WRT but that project has a history of GPL violations so OpenWRT it is.
I have DLC for the first Mass Effect. If I want to play that DLC now I have to install Origin and accept its terms of service. Its completely unreasonable to be forced to agree to additional terms and conditions to play stuff you've already paid for.
The only time Steam fucked me was about 5 years ago when I moved into a new house and didn't have the internet for about 6 weeks. The playing offline functionality didn't work so I couldn't access any of my games. Apart from that, its been fine... well maybe it takes too long to log in...but apart from that, fine.
What's going to be important is the encoding and decoding process at either end - they could have more of an impact than the network delay if done badly. Also if people use wifi I expect they may see much less consistent performance.
Yeah their tech support guys strongly suggested they would charge me if I sent my hard discs back under warranty so I said screw them and have avoided them since. If they are not getting into the ssd market proper it suits me as I'll mainly only buy SSDs from now on.
Is the fundamental issue that people are sick of using shitty computers with shitty locked down versions of windows all day at work, so they don't want more of the same bullshit for their personal devices?
It is simulating a few more objects than those muds though. For example, each player is likely to have 5 drones (mini robot spaceships), which takes the number of moving entities that have to be simulated up to 24000...
If you are an intermediate level programmer as you say then you can easily learn to use a new programming paradigm. There is a coursera course https://www.coursera.org/course/hetero which is ok and should do for your purposes.
VP8 implementation in chrome is a bit buggy and periodically crashes a tab - I suspect it doesn't get widely used or these issues would get solved more quickly.
I just tried to find some more info about it and found this page (http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs) which doesn't really answer my question, but it amused me how much they're at pains to point out that you might have problems if you use unofficial codecs (3 times in a few cms of text).
At the bottom of that document is http://www.debian.org/legal/patent, which says "Debian will not knowingly distribute software encumbered by patents". But debian apparently distribute mp3 and h264 codecs and I'm completely certain that these are encumbered by patents, which is in direct contradiction to that statement.
It irritates me that Microsoft, having consistently failed to innovate a phone that anybody wanted to use, is now able to extract money out of other people's efforts. Its an innovation tax. Don't bother innovating, as failed innovators will help themselves to the profits of your innovation.
The X application that you run remotely has no clue that it is going over an ssh connection. It looks at the DISPLAY variable as normal, then it finds that it points to a particular local port. This port has been opened by ssh which also set up the DISPLAY variable in your shell. ssh -X does the magic but it wouldn't be possible without a network transparent protocol.
Arthur Scargill is currently gets an expensive house in London paid for by the dwindling numbers of the mine workers union so there is no doubt some truth in what you say.
On the other hand the unions are the only real prospect of wage negotiation available to the majority of employees so regardless of their faults they provide a necessary role that doesn't otherwise exist. Sure its possible to leave your job if you don't like your salary, but there are many reasons you might not want to, such as commute distance. I see employers as price-setters and employees mostly as price takers which pretty much means the wage will tend to be on the low side.
I see it as no coincidence that wage inequality has increased over the last 30 years while union membership has decreased. Basically in most instances employers are price setters and employees are price takers (take it or leave it). Unions, whatever other faults they my have, ensured some realistic negotiation on wages.
Text selection sometimes works better with the mouse, and arranging split windows usually works better with the mouse. Also I don't necessarily have to log into two terminals if I wish to have the code open and the command line, when I can have the code open in gvim. I expect I could set something up with screen but that is more effort than using the existing windowing system.
My experience of remote desktop is that it is a remote desktop virtualiser rather than a window virtualiser. Other commenters have stated that since a recent version of Windows it supports application virtualisation as well. This was helpful. Your comment on the other hand didn't contribute.
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I have had great success with OpenWRT on a TP-Link wireless router (don't remember the exact model). I looked into DD WRT but that project has a history of GPL violations so OpenWRT it is.
If you live in a block of flats and several other residents each use their own wifi networks you will not get 10Mb/s
I have DLC for the first Mass Effect. If I want to play that DLC now I have to install Origin and accept its terms of service. Its completely unreasonable to be forced to agree to additional terms and conditions to play stuff you've already paid for.
Blizzard games also take a very long time to reduce on price.
The only time Steam fucked me was about 5 years ago when I moved into a new house and didn't have the internet for about 6 weeks. The playing offline functionality didn't work so I couldn't access any of my games. Apart from that, its been fine... well maybe it takes too long to log in...but apart from that, fine.
What's going to be important is the encoding and decoding process at either end - they could have more of an impact than the network delay if done badly. Also if people use wifi I expect they may see much less consistent performance.
corporate pcs are typically rather locked down
Yeah their tech support guys strongly suggested they would charge me if I sent my hard discs back under warranty so I said screw them and have avoided them since. If they are not getting into the ssd market proper it suits me as I'll mainly only buy SSDs from now on.
Is the fundamental issue that people are sick of using shitty computers with shitty locked down versions of windows all day at work, so they don't want more of the same bullshit for their personal devices?
Many of those players would have had 5 drones (mini robot spaceships) so that's potentially 24000 moving entities.
It is simulating a few more objects than those muds though. For example, each player is likely to have 5 drones (mini robot spaceships), which takes the number of moving entities that have to be simulated up to 24000...
If you are an intermediate level programmer as you say then you can easily learn to use a new programming paradigm. There is a coursera course https://www.coursera.org/course/hetero which is ok and should do for your purposes.
VP8 implementation in chrome is a bit buggy and periodically crashes a tab - I suspect it doesn't get widely used or these issues would get solved more quickly.
Lets deal with protocol fragmentation by introducing another protocol.
Industry is irrelvant, if your customers are being actively exploited you are or ought to be liable if you don't fix it as fast as possible
Its exactly that kind of stuff that got me into chemistry in the first place
I just tried to find some more info about it and found this page (http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs) which doesn't really answer my question, but it amused me how much they're at pains to point out that you might have problems if you use unofficial codecs (3 times in a few cms of text).
At the bottom of that document is http://www.debian.org/legal/patent, which says "Debian will not knowingly distribute software encumbered by patents". But debian apparently distribute mp3 and h264 codecs and I'm completely certain that these are encumbered by patents, which is in direct contradiction to that statement.
So who knows what they're up to?
Have they finally come up with a free solution for media playback? Or have they compromised on their principles?
It irritates me that Microsoft, having consistently failed to innovate a phone that anybody wanted to use, is now able to extract money out of other people's efforts. Its an innovation tax. Don't bother innovating, as failed innovators will help themselves to the profits of your innovation.
Incorrect.
The X application that you run remotely has no clue that it is going over an ssh connection. It looks at the DISPLAY variable as normal, then it finds that it points to a particular local port. This port has been opened by ssh which also set up the DISPLAY variable in your shell. ssh -X does the magic but it wouldn't be possible without a network transparent protocol.
Arthur Scargill is currently gets an expensive house in London paid for by the dwindling numbers of the mine workers union so there is no doubt some truth in what you say.
On the other hand the unions are the only real prospect of wage negotiation available to the majority of employees so regardless of their faults they provide a necessary role that doesn't otherwise exist. Sure its possible to leave your job if you don't like your salary, but there are many reasons you might not want to, such as commute distance. I see employers as price-setters and employees mostly as price takers which pretty much means the wage will tend to be on the low side.
I see it as no coincidence that wage inequality has increased over the last 30 years while union membership has decreased. Basically in most instances employers are price setters and employees are price takers (take it or leave it). Unions, whatever other faults they my have, ensured some realistic negotiation on wages.
Text selection sometimes works better with the mouse, and arranging split windows usually works better with the mouse. Also I don't necessarily have to log into two terminals if I wish to have the code open and the command line, when I can have the code open in gvim. I expect I could set something up with screen but that is more effort than using the existing windowing system.
My experience of remote desktop is that it is a remote desktop virtualiser rather than a window virtualiser. Other commenters have stated that since a recent version of Windows it supports application virtualisation as well. This was helpful. Your comment on the other hand didn't contribute.
because I find it quicker to use a mouse to perform some actions when I am dealing with split windows - for example moving a dividing bar.