The limit's not to do with your connection speed as such - it's to do with being polite and not putting too much drain on the server your downloading from.
1 - keepalive/pipelining connections means only 1 dns lookup is performed, often cached on your local machine means this delay is minimal.
2 - the dns lookup can be happening for the second host while connections to the first host are still downloading, rather than stopping everything while the second host is looked up. This hides the latency of the second lookup.
3 - most browsers limit the number of connections to each server to 2. If you're loading loads of images, this means you can only be loading two at once (or one while the rest of the page is still downloading). If you put images on a different host, you can get extra connections to it. Also, cookies will usually stop an object from taking advantage of proxies/caches. Putting images on a different host is an easy to way make sure they're not cookied.
We'd be looking at viruses that have to keep a computer running as long as possible in order to triumph over rival viruses; symbiotic computer viruses. Neat!
hehe, perhaps a marketting ploy, get the name Kaspersky out there, as something that a virus writer, someone who knows more about how viruses work than anybody, would use themselves to protect against infection... in fact, it's so good, that the virus itself has to make sure it installs a hacked version otherwise it would be detected:-p
Dude, you forgot the bit about global warming. You can't be the cliché anti-corporate paranoid conspiracy theorist without mentioning/something/ to do with the destruction of mother nature. But other than that, you're doing pretty well.
I'm pleased you've spent the time reading some of my past posts, it's nice to know that even on this big anonymous cereal of tubes we call "the internet", people will take the time out to follow my work and try and get to know the man behind the x2A. I guess everyone needs a hobby.
You'll be pleased to know, you are partically correct (I can say this now as I know nobody else will be reading this thread anymore). I do work for a large multinational corporation, and my posts here are in fact part of an astroturfing campaign to manipulate people into buying into our system. We make a lot of money from Microsoft's failings in the OS market, and so it is in our best interest to keep people using Windows. We even have a few people on the inside of Microsoft, putting back doors into their software for us to exploit.
For obvious reasons I can't just come out and say who I'm working for, but keep spending your time following my posts, and I'll be sure to drop some clues in for you. Being the only person looking out for them, you'll be the first to figure it out, and you'll be able to announce it first, and be held as the hero to slashdotters everywhere. Your dream will come true. You just have to believe in it.
Out of those three, I only have antivirus (I sit behind a linux masq/firewall so don't have to worry about that side of things) software. I run the free version of AVG for that, which behaves very well (I've convinced some people to switch from norton, then watched their faces as their computer speeds up loads).
I recommend anyone using norton (and possibly others) for AV to switch to it, and watch your computer get faster.
It'll be interesting to see how viruses go now that apple have moved to x86, as a virus can use the same instruction code for most of the virus, but use different vectors for the system calls depending on what OS it's running on.
Cool cheers. Downloaded kubuntu cd, will see how it looks on there, but am also building an LFS installation so might give it a go on there (that'll be fun trying!)
why, because i have a different opinion to you? Because i'm tired of the attitude of slashdotters feeding off each others cynicism with no one even pointing out any other point of views?
I already pointed out that I won't even touch windows for servers or my development, so it's not exactly what you'd call my OS of choice. I tell my clients, if they want a windows server, they'll have to go elsewhere, they're more hassle than they're worth.
How the hell do you "cheat" at making fast software? "It's against the rules to use that fast graphics algorithm, we agreed!!!"
"MS is about the worse OS there is"
...for you. Surely it depends on the metric used. Looking for ubiquitous platform, that doesn't break software (ala apple) or drivers (ala linux), a platform you can run 10-20 year old binaries, and therefore be likely to run your binaries in another 10-20 years?
"Stable" means different things to different people.
You don't like windows, and that's fine. It's okay to not like something. It's okay for something to not be useful to you. But recognise that's what's going on.
but seriously, you need less fat people to fill a billboard, which means paying less people, which means advertising is cheaper. And ya know what they say, "fat sells".
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The limit's not to do with your connection speed as such - it's to do with being polite and not putting too much drain on the server your downloading from.
There are other factors.
1 - keepalive/pipelining connections means only 1 dns lookup is performed, often cached on your local machine means this delay is minimal.
2 - the dns lookup can be happening for the second host while connections to the first host are still downloading, rather than stopping everything while the second host is looked up. This hides the latency of the second lookup.
3 - most browsers limit the number of connections to each server to 2. If you're loading loads of images, this means you can only be loading two at once (or one while the rest of the page is still downloading). If you put images on a different host, you can get extra connections to it. Also, cookies will usually stop an object from taking advantage of proxies/caches. Putting images on a different host is an easy to way make sure they're not cookied.
How well does it scale though? What if there are 20 in an office? Will it distract others in the office if they don't have it on their own speakers?
Hmm...
than scrolling the wheel???
No... that's why they had to get him back
Coming up next: why journalists failed in the 90s!
Or perhaps a journalists job is to report on what's happened, not stuff that hasn't happened.
We'd be looking at viruses that have to keep a computer running as long as possible in order to triumph over rival viruses; symbiotic computer viruses. Neat!
hehe, perhaps a marketting ploy, get the name Kaspersky out there, as something that a virus writer, someone who knows more about how viruses work than anybody, would use themselves to protect against infection... in fact, it's so good, that the virus itself has to make sure it installs a hacked version otherwise it would be detected :-p
"Why not use 'viruses' to mean 'more than one biological virus', and 'virii' to me 'more than one computer virus'?"
Becuase pseudo-latin is for kids?
Dude, you forgot the bit about global warming. You can't be the cliché anti-corporate paranoid conspiracy theorist without mentioning /something/ to do with the destruction of mother nature. But other than that, you're doing pretty well.
I'm pleased you've spent the time reading some of my past posts, it's nice to know that even on this big anonymous cereal of tubes we call "the internet", people will take the time out to follow my work and try and get to know the man behind the x2A. I guess everyone needs a hobby.
You'll be pleased to know, you are partically correct (I can say this now as I know nobody else will be reading this thread anymore). I do work for a large multinational corporation, and my posts here are in fact part of an astroturfing campaign to manipulate people into buying into our system. We make a lot of money from Microsoft's failings in the OS market, and so it is in our best interest to keep people using Windows. We even have a few people on the inside of Microsoft, putting back doors into their software for us to exploit.
For obvious reasons I can't just come out and say who I'm working for, but keep spending your time following my posts, and I'll be sure to drop some clues in for you. Being the only person looking out for them, you'll be the first to figure it out, and you'll be able to announce it first, and be held as the hero to slashdotters everywhere. Your dream will come true. You just have to believe in it.
Out of those three, I only have antivirus (I sit behind a linux masq/firewall so don't have to worry about that side of things) software. I run the free version of AVG for that, which behaves very well (I've convinced some people to switch from norton, then watched their faces as their computer speeds up loads).
I recommend anyone using norton (and possibly others) for AV to switch to it, and watch your computer get faster.
It'll be interesting to see how viruses go now that apple have moved to x86, as a virus can use the same instruction code for most of the virus, but use different vectors for the system calls depending on what OS it's running on.
Cool cheers. Downloaded kubuntu cd, will see how it looks on there, but am also building an LFS installation so might give it a go on there (that'll be fun trying!)
i don't even own a personal mp3 player *lol* i thought it was quite obvious my response wasn't meant to be taken seriously
why, because i have a different opinion to you? Because i'm tired of the attitude of slashdotters feeding off each others cynicism with no one even pointing out any other point of views?
I already pointed out that I won't even touch windows for servers or my development, so it's not exactly what you'd call my OS of choice. I tell my clients, if they want a windows server, they'll have to go elsewhere, they're more hassle than they're worth.
So basically, you're an idiot.
you're just making stuff up now.
It depends on how uninsightful everything you've heard/read before seeing that post was!
Are you suggesting that there are people on here without social skills and completely lacking a sense of spirit?
:-/ my replies are going a similar way as yours!)
(sounds like you've been reading the same posts as I have today
Maybe I should go do something else!
"Everywhere other than the U.S."
Spoken like a true american. Any reason for believing this?
"Why such the negative attitude?"
You must be new here.
How the hell do you "cheat" at making fast software? "It's against the rules to use that fast graphics algorithm, we agreed!!!"
...for you. Surely it depends on the metric used. Looking for ubiquitous platform, that doesn't break software (ala apple) or drivers (ala linux), a platform you can run 10-20 year old binaries, and therefore be likely to run your binaries in another 10-20 years?
"MS is about the worse OS there is"
"Stable" means different things to different people.
You don't like windows, and that's fine. It's okay to not like something. It's okay for something to not be useful to you. But recognise that's what's going on.
"doesn't require cash shelled out for antivirus, firewall, and antispyware software"
You get those free with apple computers?
Like there are no free versions of those for PCs, such as AVG (which doesn't exist, please move along)
"light sensitivity sensor"
wow, it can sense how sensitive to light you are?
*lol@mods* +1 informative haha
...wait
but seriously, you need less fat people to fill a billboard, which means paying less people, which means advertising is cheaper. And ya know what they say, "fat sells".
"But can it play music from the iTunes Music Store?"
No, it's perfect!
"But does it include an easy way to find the song you want to play?"
yeah, the play button... I only put music on it that I want to play... makes finding it 100% success.
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